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“MONDAY, MAY 6, 1918.

TELEGRAMS.

(Continued from Faqe 1.)

THE EX-TEAR AND TEARINLA

TRANSFERRED TO EKATERIN BURG.

Losnoy, May 6.

CRUBBER RESTRICTIONS IN AMERICA.

THE CHINA MAIT

THE ITALIAN FRONTSCCT" "SATURDAY'S GYMEHANA.

BRITISH AVIÀTOES" WORK,

TRAINING TIMES.

LONDON, May 4: An Italian official messagu, my's 2. British and Italian avistors were im-active in bringing down twelve-hostile

machines on the 3rd instant....

THE IMPENDING AUSTRIAN.

OFFENSIVE

WAR TRADE BOARD'S ACTION.

WASINOTON, May 5, A Reiter message from Moscow,

The War Trade Board has placed GERMANY AND RAW MATERIALS.dated the ith, state the ex-Tear and erade rubber on the restricted

Tearina and one daughter, accord-ports list, PREPARATIONS FOR FOST-WAR ing to the Soviet-announcement, have

The pries then May 1st will be been transferred k Ekaterinburg. cents per pound for standaril Tasos, May 4.

Towing to the alloged efforts of the quality, 3 cents per pound smoked, Aluets and standard quality first (peasants and monarchists in the With reference to the cables neighbourhood of Tubolk to promote Fara ca.f. New York!!

crepe, aml 69 conta per pound fire connection willı Geriana ronomercial their esenpe. preparations for after the war, enemy newspaper are featuring that Ger-

SHORTAGE.

The Trevitch is not inentinize.

Ekaterinburg jus a town in Prem, uf Awiting

mau dependence on raw materials is Russia in the centre controlled by the Allies und the con-district.) sequent necessity of runking the ques tion of raw materials one of the most) important at the perice uegotiations.

POLITICAL CRISIS IN AUSTRIA.

THE SILVER-MARKET.

ANOTHER FURTHER RISE.

LONDON, May 5.

Silver is quoted at 40d. There is no detrand and the Market

PARTY LEADERS OPPOSE POST- Janiet.

PONEMENT, OF REICHSHAT SITTINGS.

LONDON, May 4.

Herr Bettum, an ex-Gieriger | Consul, adroentes plying off the Alles against one another by telling Ameren that she can't have potash unless supplies of cutton and copper |

The chaotic political situation on tinues in Austria The Premier, Dr. are guaranteed angl influencing Aus tralia thingh her interest in main Seiftler, usileessing, the Reichsrat parry lemler, admitted that the entire military and political position had, reached delimax.

faining the German wel narket.

RUTHLESS METHODS

ADVISED.

THE WEEKLY REPORT.

LONDON, Mag 6.

A wireless Austria official message

There was activity of considerable violatice on the 2nd inst along the Italian front from Gindicaria valley to the Adriatis,

THE EMPEROR'S VISIT TO ·

THE FRONT.

The soncancement from Vienna. that the Emperor Karl, sccompanied by General von Art, Chief of the Genarsi Staff, and a high German military representative, has gone to the Italian front is regarded, in some quarters as foreshadowing

early Austrian offensive.

Messes. Samuel, Montagu and THE RENEWED PEACH OFFENSIVE, Co., in their weekly Silver Report, Suy

The command price is now practic- ally establishedī,

The Shanghai exchange has eased The economic, somewhat, and is now much below expecially xxl, conditions were very parity with silver. The German Reichsbank return issued on April 23rd states that its silver holding is now over £8,000,000 compared with about £800,000 a year ago.

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Her Zamunemann, a well-know! Ferions. colonial enthusiast, in the coinse of Apparently alluding to the offen- Temarkable articles, goes farther and [sive in Italy, he said the next few says the remedy is a vast "Dolonial months would bring big decisions, cmpire. He says: We shall have It was necessary that the Govern to make our deductions ruthlessly,nent should not be hampered by from our military superiority, after Parliamentary troubles. Therefore, farther great events in the West, he recommended that Parliament; -Opr colonial demands must not be should not resnine at present. confinal to the Belgan and French) -Cungo."

Herr von Gross, President of the

MANCHESTER COTTON OPERATIVES.

DEMAND HIGHER WAGES.

Losos, May 6. Representatives of all the Cotton

NEUTRAL EMMISSARIES ARRIVE IN ENGLAND.

LONDON, MAY 4.

The newspapers, discussing Ger maar's next peace offensive, reflect and the Allies to see the war through the determination of the British nation and the impossibility of their being. duped into a peace which does not faltil the principles for which they are fighting

The Times eays the general expecta tion that the failure of the Gorman. offensive to secure a crubing victory would be followed by a peace offensive in Allied countries, seem likely to be fulfilled. German speakers and agents are showing suspicions readiness to dilate upon food shortage and general discomfort in Germany with the obvious intention of lending & ring of sincerity to the German profession of anxiety

.

The following times were taken on Saturday morning. The track was in flooded state while the gallops were ir progress

WAIF, I mile, 37, 1.12, 1.48.8, 2.19.1. Stan, 11 last inile, 30, 1.11. 140,

9.90.2.

+

cers, 14, last mile. 39, 1.10.8,

1.38, 2.33.

ARNE, 11 miles 10, 1.49,

2.4.2,56

DIVIDEND, 14 miles, 88, Era, 1.-48,

2,95, 8.00,

M. GLORY, 17 miles, 41, 115, 1,45:3,

2.31, 9.07.

GREEN CLOTH, 14 miles, 44, 1.80,

2.00, 244, 3.20.

ANTICIPATION, 14, kust 3, 8--1.12.3.

1.15.3.

PREE SKILL, 14, Inst mile, 40, 1,18,

1.55.2, 2.29.1.

BusaLESAND, 14 miles, 40, 1.18.

1.58, 2.80, 8.06.2.

EIDGEWAY, 13 miles, 58, 1,44, 2.34,

8.15.2, 8.49.

HostsMan, 4 mile, 49, 1.18, 1.50.2. CAMFORD, 1 mile, 47, 1.80, 2.08.1. GENTLE CAT, 17 miles, 40, 114,

1.51.4, 2.35.2, 2.59. Cauncuts, 17 mikes, 43, 1.21, 1.59,

2.65.2, 8.11.

..

WINDSOR DAHLIN, 1 mile, 38, 1.17,

1.51 2.27.2.

SNUFFROX, 14 miles, 39, 1.19 1.58,

Brows Morse, 14 miles, 42, 1.30,

2.88.1, 8.00.2.

1.55, 2.93, 3.06.8. SIAMESE CAT, 38, 1,16; 1:52.2, 3.20. Essex Cumr, 14, last mile, 39, 1.19,

1.55, 2.28.2. 2ND VIOLIN, 14 miles, 40, 1.18, 1.55,

2.32.4. 8.06.4: Caxerest, 17 miles, 40, 1.15, 1.40,

2.24, 2.57.1.

eichsrat, refused to feather post- Trade Unions at a meeting at Man- for peace. At the same time, neutral HAGGIS 1 miles, 45, 1.28, 2.00, Prooding, he draws attention to pone the sittings, while oven a see-chester. on Saturday decided to eminaries of well-known antecedents

2.46, 3.20.

Nigeria's exports of pain keels ainetion of the German Party was 20forinulate a dermand for a further and tendencies, are understood to hava BLACK CAT, 14, last. —, 12, 144)

palm oil, and says the Nigeria, keen in the elimination of. Purlia- Cameroon and Congo territories are ment.

in a position to deliver immediately. Herr Adler, the leader of the Social Over 300,000 ton of pain, kernels Decerate, and also other party i and pains oil, and he mull equceive leadein, including the Pules, warned; A Gennan Colonial Empire in Central the Premier against a postponement! Afries and the South Seas which of the wittigs.

would supply immediately, 400,000 Further developments are awaited tons of oil fruits and more than with the greatest interest. million tons at an early date, making

Genuany almost entirely indepen-PROFOUND PRUSSIAN DISAPPOINT- ...dent.

MENT.

ANGRY COMMENT OVER DEFEAT OF SUFFRAGE

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AMSTERDAM, May 5. The Prussian Lower House's

Concluding, Herr Zimmerman said. Today this colonial empire is not firmly in our hands. We must Latrais coming events and then W

shall talk further; then. we shall speak of the security of permanent conections between this colonial rejection of the equal Buffrage Bill, empire and Charmy. Recently enbled on the 2nd, which was, pro- Herr Stoustunt the Foreign mised by the Kaiser and strongly supported by the Government. has provoked: angry comment in the German ladicul and Socialist newa-j papers, which declare that the dis appointment of the great mase of the Prussian people is we profound that it constitutes a danger which should not be under-estimated.

-Office said that a free Ireland would

mean freedom of the seas. A Ger- : mai afliance with a free Treland

·would permanently secure the coD- vection between Germany and her colonial possessions in Africa.

advance in wages.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE GREAT BATTLE.

recently come to England and other Allied countries. for the purpose of anggesting that if the Allies only show pasifle disposition they will find Germany ready to meet them on moderata terma. In some instances these emissaries are believed to have submitted proposals regarding the best policy for the Allies to follow relative

SHANGHAI BANKER'S DOMICILËZ

Our Scottish correspondent writes In the Outer House of the Scottiäb Ceart of Session, before Lord Ormidale,

to the internal situation in Germany: judgment was pronounced in an action

It need hardly be said the origin of of mutiple-pinding brought to decide a

INTENSE ENEMY BOMBARDMENT. these manoeuvres is as well understood question regarding succession to the

ACTIVITY NEAR YPRES.

LONDON, May

Field Marshal Sir Douglas reports We slightly improved ou position north-eastward of Hinges, capturing two machine guns.

The French 'secured prisoners in successful local operation in the L'Ocre sector.

of the 4th, apened an intenss bombard The enemy's artillery, on the morning ment of the French and British posi tions from the neighbourhood of L'Oere to southward of Ypres and they have shown great setivity in the Foret-de Nieppe and Meteren sectors.

as the purpose of the military offensive in March and the Allied Governments will present a equally frm a front to the peace intrigue as the armies have presented to the railitary attacks.

GREAT BRITAIN NOT TO BE

DUPED.

estate of the late Wm. Murray, who died on 11th April, 1915, unmarried and-in- testate, and who for many years was manager of the Hong-Kong and Shang- hal Bank at Shanghai The fand in melia amounted to £46,000. The pizz- suer, Robert Simpson Murray, retired bank agant, Rutherglen, who is a consta and one of the surviving next-of-kin of The Daily Hail says: The irruption of the deceased, was appointed his execu amiable neatrala into England with no totdative, and the fund was claimed by including the arrival of a pro-German paternal and maternal side, Oring to visible business he already begun, relatives of the deceased, both on the friend of. Dr. von Kuhlmann's who is the deceased's residence abroad, a ques- not charged with any official mission, tion was raised as to his domicile at the so far as his London Legation is sware date of his death. Afr. Murray was These neutral emissaries could save born of Scottish parents at Dalquburn, themselves much trouble and some in the parish of Cardross, lumbarton- personal danger if they clearly recognisshire, in June 1841. If he retained ed that Great Britain will not be duped his Scottish domicile of origin at hin like the Bolshevika and the Ukraine death his estate would fall to be divided dupes.

necording to the Scottish lan of intestate The Daily Exprest says the first of succession if he had abandoned that the, peace offensive agents has been to domicile and acquired a domicile of London and has laid proposals, seal choice in England, then the estate officially, before various oficials. He is would be divided according to These papers insist that the

18ociation, and he made enquiries on intestate succession paternal line Dutchman of important financial English law. By the Scottish are of Government showed a deplorable

behalf of the civil, not the military was preferred to the maternal line, and weakness by not immediately die

party, of Germany. The Murarins Neue Stenachrich-solving Parliament, which is so con

by the law of England there was no This agent told the authorities bere such preference. that our refusal to consider pases, last Lord Ormidale, decided that Mr. den indicates that General Immá vonservative that the proposed reforiri Our night-fliers dropped five and a year deprived the Civil Party in Murray's domicile at the date of bir Sanders las succeeded General seems scarcely uttuinable, except Janiville and on the railway junctions Military Party, and added that the most to the fund of the first cousins in the helf tons of bombs on Chaulnes and Germany of the chance of ousting the death was Scottish; repelled the claim Falkenhayn in commanic. of the with nullifying the qualifications at Bapaume and Caix. We also dropped we could hope for now was peace by maternal line, six in number; and A possibility exists of some com-three heavy bombs from a low height arrangement. There is no such thing sustained the chim of the first cousins promise before the third reading, on the lock gates at Zeebrugge.

in the English dictionary as peace by in the paternal line, thirty thres in AUSTRALIA TO FIGHT TO THE END. but supporters of the Reform are the railway station and siding at rangement," he was told,- and -- the number.

We successfully maided on May 3, Thionville, and again, hit the Carl be no such phrase as raw material in the speaker added:Very soon there will Shutte works. We observed bursts on German Dictionary. The paper add- the station sidings and gasworks. All There is no doubt the present peateg our machines returned.

offensive is inspired largely by Herr Ballin and other German commercial shipping magnatea.

TURCO-GERMAN ARMIES IN

PALESTINE

CHANGE OF COMMAND.

LONDON, May 0.

Turco-Genmin Aries in Palestine.

"THE GERMAN MENACE IN THE

PACIFIC.

MELBOURNE, Muy 5. Mr. W. A. Watt, acting Prime Minister, in a speech, declared that. the policy of the Australian National Party wus to fight to the end. Aus tralia's only chance of future safety was to destroy Germany's chance of getting bases in the Pacific adjacent

to Australia.

OFFICER REMOTED, FROM THE

INDIAN ARMYN

not sanguine.

AUSTRIAN REICHSRAT TO BE ADJOURNED,

EMPEROR KARL SAVES HIS FACE.

AMSTERDAM, May 5, A message frora Vienna states the Emperor has empowered Dr. von Seidler (the Premier) to adjourn the Beichstat

BRITISH AIRMEN BUSY.

LONDON, May 4,

reporting on aviation, says

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Despite haze, on May 2, we'dropped Bapauma and other targets. three-and-a-half tons of bombs (on

There was severe air-fighting. We brought down fourteen and drevs down Five of ours are missing. four enemy, machines out of control

BOMBARDMENT ON FRENCH

FRONT.

A French commauiqué reporta fairly lively bombardments in the region of the Avre

GERMAN VICTORY IN FINLAND CLAIKED.

LONDON, May wireless German evening official message states

After five days battle we defeated the enemy near Tahti and Tavastebus in Finland, taking 20,000 prisoners. THE GYLÁTEST MINE-FIELD EVER

An official journal explains the measure as due to the inability of the Parliament to find a stable policy which is necessary in a decisive phase LONDON, May 6..

of the war. The resumption of the The Gazette announces, that

Reichert will only sharpen political Colouel F. Holland, retired, Indian antagonisms and endanger the fulf! Army, has been removed from the ment of the ecotomic tack, especially re Army, His Majesty the King having the solution of the supply of food to further use of his services as an enable the nations to hold out, na

whick everything depende. A fe

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WOMEN TO BE INCLUDED.

LONDON, May 1. The Admiralty announces that description of naval servants including distinctive chevron will be aged to all

women, who began sea service in 191 and an additional chevron for each year of subsequent service. A similar military arrangement was cabled on Ambiance Buglars and Drommers im- 15th October

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INCREASES ON TOBACCO, TEA is chiefly due to the desire of the area in the North Sea will exist from AN EXCHANGE OF FOOD AND

AND COFFEE COM Crown to avoid debates on the Em M15, its base farming a line between cperor's letter and on the Members Kway and Scotland and its pak OTTAWA, May 6 of the House, The Duke of Bour- Circle. It is the greatest mine-field ever running northward within the Aretic Maclean, acting Minister of bon Parma, is concerned in that laid, the ares embracing 121,000 square

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