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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1918.

TELEGRAMS.

(Continued from Pags 1.3.

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

'DRUNKEN BAYAGERY" IN PETROGRAD.

Loxboy, Feb. 8. The Time Petrograd Correupon- THE TORPEDOING OF THE dent states that there was an out

burat of drunken savagery Petrograd. after the great religious demonstration.

"TUSCANIA.”

HOW THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED IN AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Feb. 8.

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Five hundred armed hooligans looted the wine cellars of a church and a house. The riot spread to the streets and numerous jewellers' The torpedoing of the Tuscanic has and other shops were plundered evoked universal execration und pro-Regular. mops were brought up to mixes to wake the nation up to "the quell the disorder un there was nctuality of war as nothing has yet fighting all night. Joue.

The newspapers generally, hail the lost Americans as heroes who perish. -ed in a noble canse.

The Evening Sun valousN iba general sentiment, in saying: “The American people entered the war knowing from two veurs of watching what it means, Now that its dread obligations are brought home to thein they do not blanch with fear. This misfortune will steel their courage;

It is estimated that 120, people were killed. W

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WESTERN FRONT.

GENERAL ACTIVITY.

LONDON, Fab. 7. Mield Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reporia:-

We miced a post south-eastward of Queant, killing and taking prisoners

serseal of the gatzison. 1.

Wa repulsed raiders westward of La Bustes.

The enemy's artillery was active north-westward of St. Quentin, and eastward of Macchy-le-Freuc

Our seroplanes dropped over a ton of bombs on targets behind the enemy's lines. Two hostile machines brought down and two of cure are

missing..

were

'ARTILLERY ACTIVITY ON FRENCH FRONT.

LONDON, Feb. 7."

A French communiqué repects- There was very lively reciprocal artillery activity in the Chavigny, Porgny ALEXIEFF ORGANISING AN ARMY and Filein regions, north of the Aisne the rector of Samogneur, Hill 344,up the right of the Messe and at Hartmann wailer."

TO FIGHT BOLSHEVIKS.

GENERAL KALEDIN "DISAPPEARS.“

Lastos, Feb. 8...... The Times Petrograd Correspon- dent states that General Kaledin has and resolution to exact a just retribu-linquished the leadership of the tion from the enemy of Civilisation."

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Mr. Baker, Secretary for War, in s statement, says that losses likh the

Cossucks in favour of General Alexióff, who has organised a separate any of 30,000 to murah against the

Bolsheviks.

There has been a disagreement

After violent artillery preparation the Germans unsuccessfully attempted to penetrate our lines an Baaholzt, in Alsace, in two places.

UNFAVOURABLE WEATHER HINDERS OPERATIONS.

LONDON, Fab. 7. Renter's Correspondent at the British Headquarters says→

During the twenty-four hour spell, ef fner weather there was heavier hostile

Tuscania unite the country in a mote between General Kaledin and Genar! soaking rain with a westerly galarwhich

determined purpose

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press on.

*** We must and will win this war.'

LATEST DETAILS.

Loxtos, Feb. 8. Reater learns that the Tuscania was torpevined teh miles off the coast. The discipline was magnificent. No otlur vessel of the convoy was bit.

Alexief, and the former has dis- appeared.

It is estimated that 40,000 of the younger Cossacks are now in favour Lof the Bolsheviks.

A DEPUTATION OF RUSSIAN. TROOPS

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 8.

The Kolnische Zeitung states that

Bukhovina is proceding to Brest- litovsk..

Survivors state that the Americana députation of Russian troops from soldiers lined up on the deck and sang their national air, and the crew "God Save the responded with King"

The work of lowering the boats was hampered by the tremendous list, and a number of lives were lost by the capsizing of one of the first two boats.

DEATH OF THE EX-GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS DENIED.

LONDON, Feb. 8. The report of the death of t'e and a raft being thrown on top of ex-Generalissimo, the Grand Duke Nicholas, was issued by German

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artillery activity, but today there is again lessened the astivity..

The weather and the state,

of the ground are still unfavourable for grand operations.

SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAID. LONDON, Feb. 7. Field-Marshal. Sir Douglas Haig

reports:

We successfully carried out a raid eastward of Armentieres, taking prisoners. There was hostile artillery activity at Cambrai and Lens

THE IMPRISONED BRITISH AIRMEN.

NOTICE OF REPRISALS CONFIRMED.

LONDON, Feb. 7, The Daily Mail states that the Foreign Offee has informed Germany, through Holland, that if Lieutenants Scholtz and Wookey, the imprisoned British sirmen, are not released immediately and treated a ordinary prisoners of war the British Gorernment will take reprisala

It is pointed out that International Law does not sanction imprisonment and that German airmen frequently

An American officer, interviewed, paper. stated: "The Huns only drowned a The French papers state that it fraction of our fine fellows, but they we Nicholy Constantinoviteli that bave put the iron into our souls which died. He was a cousin of the ex-distributs leaflets. they will repent when the chance Generalissimo. offers."*

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As an instance of the order prevail- ing, two typhoid and two pneumonia eases were landed safely.'

An engineer, who has arrived in Glasgow, says that many lives were

FOOD CONTROL IN THB UNIRIŲ

KINGDOM.

LONDON, Feb. 8 The Food Controller has prohibited lost by drowning and exposure. He the use of oatmeal, ont four and Raw a mit picked up on which there rolled or flaked onto for any purpose were inshed five men, only two of except human food.

whom were alive. He himself was

in a leaky collapsible boat with 30

other and they were up to their waists in water before they were found.

The majority of the casualties were probably due to men leaping from the decks of the ship into the sea. with lifebelts, but were lost in the darkness.

LESS THAN 150 MISSING.

LATER + It is now unofficially estimated that Jess than 150 people are missing from the Tuscania.

The skipper, Captain McLean, was --Baved.

HONGKONG POLICE, RESERIE:

EARLIER TELEGRAMS,

AMERICAN TRANSPORT

TORPEDOED,

A

OVER 2000 AMERICAN TROOPS SAVED.

LANDON, Feb. 7. /

The Admiralty announces that the Tuscania was torpedoed, on Tuesday night, off Ireland, while carrying American troops, of whom 2,011 soldiers, 141 of the crew, and 35 others were anved out of a total of 2,397 aboard.

The missing number 210.

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THE CHAOS IN RUSSIA.

A REIGN OF TERROR

LONDON, Feb. 7.

THE VERSKILLES COUNCIL.

PAN-GERMAN PRESS ANGRY.

AMSTERDAM, Fob 7.

The Berlin pan German newspapers are most angry at the Versailles Council communique which is described as the Entente's answer to the German strikers. They accuse the strikers of prolonging the war by exciting hopes in enemy countries, je

The Tins Petrograd Correspondent says that the Soviet Congress passed, in a few minutes, lawa involving the most fundamental land changes sad the most complicated social reconstruction. The proooodings' were punctuated by the of Internationalə " And singing "Marveźliaise."

Hauger riots continue and life is The Rod extremely nerve racking Guards are more feared than the ex, Tear's police, and everyone dreads arrest. reform

There have been searches, seizures

VARTA PAN

A meeting of Socialists was addressed by Herr Scheidemann, and a resolution was passed demanding a dadnite de claration By the Government jön WAT sims, and the acceleration of domestic

"TO PARIS.

and confiscations of money and jewellery, BRITISH LABOUR LEADERS TO GO and those conducting domiciliary arrests | 0.05) are often thieves in disguise. Wo, caa- not caab chequer, amateur elérks maddle

LONDON, Feb. 5. the banks accounts and the bank directors The Times states that preparations have either escaped to Sweden or bare been arrested. All financial business are being made for British Labour at a standstill. The latest decree limit Members of Parliament, including Mr. deposits to 25,000 roubles and requires Thomas, M.P., Mr. Will Thorne, M.P., proof that the money was honestly and Mr. Henderson, M.P; to visit Paris cared. It is proposed to destroy all to secure an Anglo-French Labogr. shares rubbish. Fooe English Socialist agreement preparatory to the governesses are running about trying to International Congress in London en presade hind friends to take care of Fabranzy 20 and ultimately another their smelt vitigios tenor | ekst

? Congress in Switzerland. GENERAL ALEXEIEFE |

MARCHING NORTH.

PETROGRAD, Feb. 7. General Alexie, with shock troops.. is reported to be marching northwards and to have occupied a number ele stations in the direction of Kharkoš and Boroncsh.

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THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, Feb. 9. The Silver Markat. is quiet.

OBITUARY,

CANON-ENOX LITTLE

LONDON, Fab. 8.

The death is announced, of the Rev. W. J. Knox Little, M.A., Canon of Worcester.

RED GUARDS FIGHT FIERCE®

BATTLE IN FINLAND.

PETROGRAD, Feb. 7. The Bolshevik Agency reports that the Red Guards captured Timmerfors The decessed clergman acted as Chap

Finland after a fierce battle on laia to the Household Cavalry during February 4, in which 10,000 White part of the Bouth African War. He was author of many theologics) and ather Guarda, commanded by General Man | works] nerheim, were defeated and forced to retire to the west coast of the Gulf of

Bothnia.

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GERMAN METHODS IN RIGAA

PETROGRAD, Feb. 7.

THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN

LONDON, Feb. 7. The death is announced of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava

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The Marquis of Duterin entered the Diplomatic Bervice in 1891, and served at Constantinople, Paris and Stockholm.]

The Bolshevik News Agency states that the Germans' in Rign frandulently collected 63,000 votes for the incorpora tion of Riga with Germany and imprison- ed 200 suspected. Socialists. Many prisonera, even women, wers beaten in order to fores them to betray their comrades. Some women were imprison- ||-

A SEA ROMANCE.

ed in a den with robbers and pro- ENEMY SHIPOWNER BELIEVED TO

HAYE DIED IN X “U-BOAT.

stitutes.

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The economic situation is terrible and the workers are starving. PETROGRAD SOVIETS MESSAGE

TO GERMAN WORKERS. MAS PUTIAL PITROGRAD, Feb. 8. The Soviet storagend has issued a grandiloquent appeal to the workers of Berlin and Vienna, hailing them a brothers across the barbed wire barrier, and announcing that the German Router's Agency confirme the Daily Socialists, Herr Liebknecht and Herr Meil statement cabled this morning Adler, have been elected Honorary that, in accordance with the arrangement Presidents of the Petrograd Soviet reached by Lord Newton's recent Mission to The Hague, one month's notice will be given of reprisals.

LATE.

A RECENT AIR RAID ON -ZEEBRUGGE.

BARRACKS DAMAGED.

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AMSTERDAM, Feb. 2. · The Telegraaf states that during A recent aerial attack on Zeebrugge forty bombs were dropped near the Kom mandantur and others greatly damaging

the barracks.

The Germans at night time, on

NO NEWS FROM BRESTLITOYSK.

LONDON, Feb. 7.

The position of the negotiations at Brestlitovsk is most mysterious,

The Bolshevik Headquarters at Petrograd has received no news from Brestlitoval for several days.

Assuming that the Russian delegates were prevented from communication with Fetrograd, M. Lenis ordered the disconnection of the wire used by the Austro-German delegates in Petrograd. Messages from Berlin tend to support the belief that the Central Powers will conclude a peace with Ukraine and break off negotiations with the Bolshs

a state of war.

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What the Attorney General, Sir For derick Smith, B.C., described as the kaleidoscopic history of a ship which adhered to the German Nary, and the tragic story of her director, a German, were told in the Prize Court recently, when the Crown asked Sir Samuel Evans to condemn the sa. "Edna asa prize of was on the grounds alternatively of unneu,

The Attorney-General said" Jebson, a German, was a prominent man circles of San Francisco,

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VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

February 3, brought down one of their viks. They may possibly even resume with its head office at Hamburg anded to carry troops and while communicated from time to time with

owa machines near Heyst, killing the pilot..

THE ITALIAN FRONT,

AERIAL ACTIVITIES.

Loxtos, Feb. 7.

An Italian official message states: Our airships dropped a ton of ex- LATK.plosives an an aviation ground south-

The Tuscania was sunk at 7 o'clock eastward of Vittorio. on Tuesday evening..

The Allies have brought down 56 She was one of a convoy of troop and aeroplanes during the past eleven provision ships Two torpedoes were days. fred one missed; but the other hit the raasal amidshipa. The Tuscania listed

Ordaza. Issued by Mr. P. C. Jenki lowering of the boats impracticable

"D.S.P. (R.)..

SPECIAL SERVICE ÉQUAD.

Members except those on duty will meet at. Headquarters lah at 5.20 p.m. on Thursday, Februny 14th.

Names of applicants are to be sub itted by Inspectors on Wednesday the 13th instant.

MUSKIZAY COURSE PART 1.

heavily to starboard, making the proper THE OPERATIONS IN PALESTINE. Some men jumped into the sea and ARABS ROUT ELEVEN TURKISH

others were thrown into the sea whan the boats were lowered. The survivors:

were takes off or picked up by British destroyers and landed.

The Tuscania floated for two hours after being torpedoed.

The condition of some of the survivors

BATTALIONS.

LONDON, Fab.-7. An official message from Palestine

atates:-

Our Beroplanes, on Sunday, bombed

A pitiable. They threw off the camps at Miskeh obtaining forty-seven

clothes and had been swimming for two The whole of No. 3 Company is hours before being rescued Three provisionally warned to flee Part 1 on men died from exposure in a bonit.. Sunday February 17th.

An American officer survivor stater EQUIPMENT

that an escorting destroyer claims to have sunk the attacking submarine,

Only two women were aboard the Tuscania and they ware saved.

Equipment Officers are requested to ́se d ́in an estimate of the number of

pairs of boots likely to be requisitioned by members of their respective units.

Ey Orders

T. P. HUGE. A.9.P. (B.) and Adjutant: |

direct hits On Monday they dropped

in the shy engaged in trade with and wes the Pacific Coast of Mexico. He had ben in the German Favy, and was in the Naval Reserve some time after the date of the unneutral services which ware of the grossest character of any of which he had heard since he had prae tised in that court. Jebson fluslly returned to Germany disguised as a commission in the Royal Naval Air Smith secretly put the inner and outer with the circuita out of tune and altered the Scandinavian seaman, and was believed Service. Smith behaved to have obtained command of a sub, gren test presence of wind during this wave length, so that the spark would voyage, in which the vessel was doing sound in the wireless room, but would marine and to have perished in her.

Jabor was the son of a German ship German work as surely as if accredited not radiate from the serial, so over, and there was great reason for an auxiliary of the German Navy to be picked up by another strip. believing that he was closely associated

Counsel said that in her next vic-The German wireless operator spent with Jebsen and Jebson, a shipping firm, issitude, the vessel fell victim to the three nights and daga trying to bad up disorders of Mexico and was the "Leipzic. Incidentally Smith branch at Hongkong. The ship was built at Bergen in 1903, sad sailed the carrying then she was seized by the the Leipzic. so that she could not sens as the Jason in those far away opposite side ja Merican politics and be told the wireless was wrong. The daya." She was chartered by Jebson for war. For this offence she was not wirelew was always out of gear when the bis Mexican business, and the profits released until the payment of a ransom German wanted to use it, and at La Paz

apparently, so considerable that of 15,000 dols.

Smith sent a message to the Admiral of His Lordship: And in these vie-the D. 8: ersiter California. He a in a short time he found himself in a position to purchase her. The ship issitudes to that point from the outbreak sartained the position of the " Leipsic.” became vested in the Lloyd Mexicans of war she pretended to be tiring, the Captain Zur Steamship Corporation, formed in a Sir Frederick Smith said the obtained and went down with her at the bktiin of Helle, who was on the "Mazatian," transferred to the Leipsic 1915. the company Jebaon 'owaci 1,950 of the 1.250 shares. Ho managed registre was sound, she was's Germen to shoot Smith and throw him over- Mexic but if his view of Falkland Islands Officers threatened and controlled the ship from 260 The Times Petrograd Correspondantcisco, and she now flew the Mexican ship pure and simple, and added to the

as "Mazatlari”

send to the "Leipzic" Smith pretended By the Peoples Commissioners are

Crown suging to masquerade as an innocent new to send it, and worked the key so that, discussing the proposal to jupport thegested she incerts ability of forfeitere tra Her history must have been the wpark could be seen and heaFor autonomous movement of Southern by the most fagrant acts conceivable of notorious on the Mexican coset, and her Afterwards the captain demanded the Chins against the Cantral Government. unneutral service so extreme indeed versatile career known to everybody message, tore it up and threw it over

that it could only be described an aber he was sold to the executive company | board.. This pantomime was repeated on The Commissioners propose to aceding to the enemy-she beame a German dummy company, counsel suggested, another occasion, but all Smith art to the Commissary to Chins for this purpose.

The object is to produce a. Socialistio/hip. Early in' 1914 'there were consider. I controlled by E. Bien, of an Francisco Leipzic" was an inquiry hich elicited

shie disturbances in Mexicu. The vessel payment to be on the ship's arrival, and

that a

t shin was hanging around waiting for Revolutionary agitation which will was recalled to San Pedro, in America, was given American registry and she the Bastian's message, in these break down China's refusal to allow by the German cruiser "Nurnberg Shaman of Eda. She was at length unpleasanteiraumstances the "kata

had received authority to By the Maxi- captured of the Falkland Islands by was commandeered by Kolicam. After foodstuffs to come to Razzia.

can flag in March-rald. eleven months H.M.3. Newcastle," a vessel that by that, said Smith, she took on board a after the formation of the company, but carious coincidence had been told off to cut of aftor: bar: arrival, at 6an Pedro her pursue her in 1814

CONFLICTING REPORTS.

LONDON, Feb. 7. Yesterday's Busian wireless taessage regarding Ukraine conflicts with reports from other sources ATTEMPT TO EMBROIL CHINA.

DISCUSSED.

LONDON, Feb. 7.

DEATH OF EX-GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS..

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During this period the axiousness of that character by attempt. / board, and gave him a code messigo to",

TRE "WIELLIK" FEROE JRATI The affidavit of Guy Descan Smith,

tuloza ware more com-

owners received permission to fly the German fing She did so to the oat break of war, when she again changed her flag to Mexican: On the outbreak of war the loaded ow! which had bad a fight subfieutenant in the RNA tensen, wgainst whom the Crown bad.

1,900 pounds of explosives on the same MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. better of its own at Ball Francisco. The stated that his home was in San objectives, securing thirty-seven direct hits. All our machines returned.

The Arabs, at Hodjaz, routed eleven battalions of Turks, eleven miles northward of Tatile, on January killing 400 and capturing 800 man, two mountain guns, eighteen, machine gun and 800 rifles. The Arabs on January 28, auccessfully attacked a Turkish post on the eastern shore of the Dead Besk Only forty Turks essaged and sixty Turks were captured

BRITISH DESTROYERS TU THE RESCUE

The

was a 14,000-ton Tuscania Anchor liner and was hailt 19142

An American officer în a narrative of BEWARE OF COLDS.

the adventure mid that after the vessel HILDREN are much more likely to was struck, ruegaphone calls were circu Contract the contagione discrets isted that there was no danger of the when they have colds. Whooping cough, ship sinking before all were taken off. diphtheria, scarlet fever

British. ** destroycra, antwared the sumption are diseases that are often 6.0.S. with remarkable celerity. It is contracted when the child has a cold believed that a couple of lifeboats were That is why all medical authorities as smashed in launching The narrator with food

Beware of colds' For the quick cure

THE MACHAY DISASTER.

RELIEF PARTY ARRIVER.

BRISTANE, Feb

Bir Frederick Smith subsequently an nounced that he had made a proposal to Sir Erle Richards, who appeared fors claimants, Messrs. Budden, und Chris- nothing to Allege and should be glad

United Bates authorities had refused | Francisco, and he was twenty-one year the case might be postponed for a woole the German craiser "Leipzio”, access to the of age. He was on the “Mamilan; when to enable Bir Erio Ricbarde to" com- coal, and there was friction between the the war broke out · Be awoke at mid municate with his clients. The lordship LONDON, Feb. 8.

German and American authorities overnight in the wireless room, put the acquiesced in that course, A telegram from Petrograd reports. The latter made it clear they would receiver to his ear, and heard the Pacife the death at Taschkend, on Fabecary not let the Leipzie have the cosminil steamier Aztec announce that

of the Grand Duke Nicholas, formerly Bonda were eventually given that the war had been declared between Hania Commander-in-Chiet under mysterious coal should be delivered to consignee and Germany At this time they were

reamstances

CIVIL WAR IN FINLAND:

PROMINENT CITIZENS

MURDERED.

家

by the Edos" or the Mazatlan The sailing with Hamborg painted on the authorities permitted it to sell in the stern, and Jebson was a captain in the The Carnegis Trust bas offered to meet month the war broke out. The ship German Naval Reserve La Par was the cost of erecting and equipping st reached a Mexican port and later the painted in "again and the Mexican flag Shoreditch one of four model welfare cargo as loaded into lighters which run up. He (Smith) learned that the centres in England and Waler Locat passed it to the Leiprice delivery coal they received was intended far the moting the physical welfare of mot

and children. Ora condition, is that to Jabson's agents was obviously dust Leipzic, so he told his father of it. thrown in the eyes of the authorities and in this way information was convey scheme should be made part 02 On this voyagaout the Haratien fooked to the British Consul, and bend comprehensive systear of physical we on board at San Pedro wireless and gun- | was required that the Midlan

under the control of notedal the LerpricÀ council and be apprived by sighting apparston, which the Crown atb would mitted were afterwards transferred to German wireless operators taken on Government Board for the pu

ovat se She also carried board for four Smith would refuse the imperial graha The White Gourde at Wam report the Leipzio that civil war is in full swing in Finland overal German reservins and she al doties aid the affidavit showed how the tempted for a considerable periet to deponens pot the apparatuszont of A relief party has reached Mackay Twenty prominent Helsingfors men communicate to the Lelprie tlie posis actiba, and withheld messages which or have been murdered, and properties and tons and dates of asiling of certain | Cuptajn Jebeon told him to send, Jebeon, alds you will find nothing better than decided to follow the salon advice to There are numerous instances of farms are daily being barned and British abips, an attempt which was who apparently had had some drink Chamberlain's Cough Remody: 14 can stick aboard and trust to John Bull's terrible pri especially in the laged. Unarmed people have boen only defeated by the ingenuity, recune to tmith and told him to get into always be depended upon end is plens destroyers instead of ting a life surmounding

killed, especially in the wooth west. The sourcefulness, and (the Attorney General touch with the Leipsic, whose code ant and safe to take: ufor sale by all | boat." A torpedo was Bred at a rescuing The

plotely and capture of hemi and Tornes gives ledy the course may any of the call was DAN 8 Smith referat Chernista and Storekeepers.

destroyer, but missed.; -

indescri

great advantage to the White Garda Wireless operator, one Smith, en English as a Britons and the

and com

STOCKHOLM, Fob.

since then

popularity ore recommendation