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THURIDAY, MAY 30, 1918.

"EARLIER `TELEGRAMS.

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THE

GREAT BATTLE.

AISNE BATTLE ONLY A DIVERSION.

PARIS, May 28,

A semi-official statement says The enemy has gained an initial advantage in the new battle north, of the Aisne, but the battle continues desperately. While the Allied troops are contesting the ground foot by foot our reserves are arriving and will prevent the enemy exploiting his first success and hold him on the final line of resistance.

AL Clemenceau, in a conversation with a member of the Chamber of Deputies, indicated that this battle is only a diversion from the main attack which is still to come.

ENEMY STRATEGY .....

OPPORTUNIST.

is VON HINDENBURG. DEAD?

LONDON, May 1. In connection with recent unconfirmed rumours of the death of Field Marshal von Hindenburg, it is interesting to sea that the German newspapers are now allowed to publish that Field-Harshal von Hi- denburg had been ifl for several weeks and that Gaberal von Mackenson is co-operating with General Ludendorf at German Headquarters in Belgium."

ANOTHER ITALIAN SUCCESS...

LONDON, May 23.0

An Italian official message says:—~ defences at Caposile to a depth of 750 We penetrated the enemy's successive metres and maintained the positions won despite violent enemy resetion, inflicting considerable losses. We took, 10 prisoners and mach booty.

The Italian Navy co-operated. Our loges were slight.

THE, RUMANIAN PEACE.

NOT RECOGNISED BY ALLIES.

LONDON, May 28.

In the House of Commons, Lord

TILE CHINA MAIL,

TEEASON TRIAL, IN PARIS.

COMMUNICATING SECRET REPORTS RECEIVED FROM :.

GENERAL SARRAIL,

PARIS, Mar 28. Another treason trial bas ended with

the sentence of Sergeant Paixsrailles to one year and Captain Mathieu to three months imprisonment. Both will

OUR LITTLE BIT SOCIETY,

SIR W. ROBERTSON TO PEOPLE AT

HOME.

BACKGROUND."

The above Society has sent to Mesara Showan, Tomes & Cp. two KEEP YOUR TROUBLES IN THE cases War Comforts as below to ba forwarded to Mr. A. E. Barton, Hoa. f Secretary, Rod Cross Fund, Rawalpindi, India. The contents are: leave less sweaters, 14 muffers, 488 rolled bandages, 120 eye and ear banlages,

benefit under the First Offenders Act.

Mathieu had communicated to Paix 10 suita priamas 10 mops 4 face aalilas secret reports he had received cloths, 3 bags awabe, I lot of books and from General Sarral! from Salonica magazines, 20 meat covers, 30 pairs Paixsenilles communicated them Almereyd, the proprietor of the Bonnet in Spain. The question was whether pairs cloth slippers and '8 paim atretcher Roure, who sent them to German agenta bandages, 96.anite pyjamas, 36 vests, 30 the prisoners acted with treasonable boots intent.

The following letters have recently

33rd General Hospital,

to socks, 73 milk»'covers, 300 rolled

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FOOD PRODUCTION OF UNITED KINGDOM.

LARGER AUREAGES UNDER WHEAT, BARLEY, ETC.

LONDON, May 18. The Press Bureau states that the April sensus shows that the total acreage of whest in England and Wales is the highest recorded since 1882, the area of barley and oats is the highest recorded by 20 per cent, and the ares under potatoes is the highest recorded by 27 per cent..

Although experta generally are of Robert Cecil sunounced that the Allied opinion that the battle on the Aisne is Ministers at Jassy had officially notified not the main thrust, it is recognised Rumanis that the Allies regarded the that the enemy strategy is probably peace terms forced upen Rumania as largely opportunist, hence he will cer null and void because they violated the tainly develop his Aisne success to the rights and interests of the Allies and tmost if he thinks he has found a weak the principles for which they were spot in the Allied line and can push on fighting. More specific protests adduction states that the net saving of towards Villers Cotteret and the road reservations had been formulated regard to Paris. However the Allies haveing the German abolition of the shipping resulting from the increased excellent ommunications here, so that European Danube Commission which production of corn and potatoes in England and Wales alone should amount! they can rapidly send up reinforcements, was instituted by international treaty.

in the coming rear to a million-and-a-half

AMERICANS REPULSE ATTACKS.

Hester Correspondent at American 1leshpartars reports:-

The formidable German raids où -the Americans in Picardy this morning were paised, with heavy losses. After fierce hand-to-hand Sghting we took a mode of prisoners sut many enemy dear we left in front of our trenches The Fermans captured one American audong xuen pursued the captors and released him.

BRITISH AIR-RAIDS. ·

PANICS AND ENORMOUS

DAMAGE.

THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS

QUESTION.

GERMANS SUGGEST FRESH MEETING.

LONDON, May 28. Reuter learns that almost simultane ously with the British decision to exchange all war prisoners a communica tha was received from Germany through the Dutch Government to suggest fresh meeting to discuss this question The British Government is now awaiting an assurance that bases already ubmitted by Great Britain are accepted by the Gerican representative.

NEGOTIATIONS OPENED.

LONDON, May 24, In the House of Commons, replying to Rede reports continue to show the question, Mr. Bonar Law confirmed immense damage done and the great that the Government had already eater pati reated by British air-mids. For ed into negotiations with a view to example, in the recent raid on Liege a arranging a wide scheme for an exchange Bom fell on an important military of prisoners broadly following the recent railway station killing many soldiers Franco-German agreement. Thu nego- and atting the milway buildings. tiations were not limited and would Another fell 150 yards from the Mouse include civilians as well as prisoners of from works, which manufacture an enor-war, but be could not say whether the nions quantity of rolling stock and occation of prisoners interned in neutral counsel'a padie among the workers. Countries would be raised.

Bombs also dropped on paper works at

Hetal, where thousands are employed

The Director-General of Food Pro-

tona,

TREATY-MAHING AND THE

DOMINIONS.

RIGHT TO BE CONSULTED IN FOREIGN PROBLEMS.

| bean reveïred pres

REF France

We have every right to be of good "We have done great things already courage-and be confident." General Sir W. Robertson delivered This was the inspiring message which in speeches at Lincoln recently. This

not a war between armies and payies, pointed out, but between loos. Ec added:-

The war will be won by the side which shows the greatest ataying power. Evdry moral of the nation. It is comparatively effort, must be made to stain, the

Easy thing to sustain the moral of an the moral of a nation, consisting of peo- army: It is far more difficult to sustain ple of all ages, living their ordinary lives

under very unusual conditions.

I suggest therefore that this is a matter which ought to be definitely and

DEAR HAL GE-Wil you please systematically taken up by representa- convoy to the Meers of the Little Bitives of authority in all parts of the Society my very grateful thanks for the country. It is a business that needs to two cases of garments which I received be done.

We have every ground, for confidence

on Saturday last I have been

HONGKONG WAR

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PRIZES.

in the result of the war if we only make torily that the Committee is now able to indicate

The sale of tickets has proceeded so satisfao-

through to a proper finish, and to gaisa provisional allocation of the 3 big prizes and the

100 smaller prizes. that kind of peace we want

Do not think I am either a blasphemer or a Fharises when I as

ing them for weeks, as I was satided in October, but they could not have come our minds to continue, as before, at a more opportune moment as we are resolute and determined to see this thing very busy and everything in the cases will be most useful. The pyismas are so nice and after your last gift I hoped the cases would contain suits of 13jamas, and I was so pleased to get those

Yery many thanks for this very generous gift to us, which we all appre ciste greatly Yours sincerely,

N. 8. RIDDEL Matron

British Red Cross & Order of St. John

Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. Office of the Red Cross Commissioner,

55, Strand, Basrah.

April 18th, 1918 DEAR MADAM, I am very griteful to you for the kind help which you are giving to the Red Cross in Mesopotamia

Let us never forget in all wo do that |·

will be

The prizes given below are, as already advised,

the measure of our ultimate success subject to the amount available for distribution

guverned largely, if not mainly, by the strength, with which we put our religious convictions into our actions, and hold fast firmly and fear- lessly to the faith of our forefathers.

400 OF WITH YOUR TANKS Speaking at a meeting at which re- presentatives from an ironworks were present, Sir William sid

Go on with your Tanks, for every bált in a Tank is a bolt in Hom coffin. (Cheers. You cannot do without the But mechanical

through your gifts through our Base man behind, the sinus and cone

Depot at Bowrah. I need hardly assure you how greatly they are appreciated by; the sick and wounded men in Hospital.

Yours very truly,

S. M. Moze, Lt-Col. Red Cross Commissioner, Mes. Exped. Force.

(Address as above)

15th April, 1918. DEAR MADA-Please accept my

LONDON, May 28. Professor Sir John Macdonell, in a Rholes Lecture at the London Univer sity College, dealt with the Dominions grateful thanks on behalf of this Society and treaty-making, especially in relation for the comforts you have so kindly sent to future foreign policy. He said the out. They will be immensely appra question was simplified because theciated by the sick and wounded in Dominions enjoyed the advantages of Hospitals. Imperial sympathy with their aspirations I shall be glad if you will express to and because of the new sense of unity of your fellow workers the Society's and the Empire caused by common wary own grateful thanks for all they suffering Reconciliation of the unityYours truly,

have done and are doing on our behalf. of the Empire with the autonomy of

H. HOWELL Capt the Dominions was a unique problem

Asst. Commissioner. B.R.C.S. which was approachable in hope mther

For Red Cross Commissioner. than lear.

After showing that the Dominions were absolutely autonomous commercial ly, the lecturer, referring to political treaties, said the Dominions would assert their right to be cousulted in reference to decisions which might call on them) again to make supreme sacrifices. The problem of foreign relations was in-

federaticus, which attempted to define exactly the limits of treaty making of the central authority and individual members or by any system of checks sense of the value of the Empire would and counter-checks. The deepening probably ensure a general uniformity of

in the manufacture of munitions, THE BOMBED BRITISH HOSPITALS. soluble by imitating the constitutions of

and also on the national arsenal.

On

the same day, a squadron bombed, with great success, large factories at Aix-la Chapelle which took fira.

Further reports regarding the raid au Cologne on Whit Sunday confirm that the town was panic-stricken.

Protein

A GERMAN ADMISSION.

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AMSTERDAM, May 28. message from Berlin admits that the recent air-raid on Landan "slightly damaged the garrison headquarters."

GERMAN PRISONER'S STATEMENT.

As an instance of the great effective- ness of the continuous British air-raids, day and night, on different points behind the German lues where there are dense concentrations of troops, a German prisoner states that in the recent air- raid by a British flying squadron on Dousi 100 soldiers were killed and 300 wounded, in addition to a great deal of material damage.

ANOTHER ATTEMPTED AIR-RAID ON PARIS.

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PARIS, May 28, An official message.enys:—— Ten enemy aeroplanes were reported to be proceeding to Faris at 10.30 last night. Several bomb were dropped in

FULL REPORT ASKED FOR.

LONDON, May 28 In the House of Commons, replying to a question regarding the enemy'i bombing of hospitals on the West Front, Mr. Bonar law stated that in the raid of the 19th at Estaples, where there a a large number of hospitals, there were over 300 casualties among hospital cases.

A full report has been asked for. EMPLOYMENT OF GERMAN PRISONERS.

LONDON, May 25,

In the House of Commons, Mr. Macpherson stated that there were great dificulties in the way of employing German prisoners in coal mines in Great Britain. Out of 65,000 prisoners 42,000 were employed in agriculture.

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AMERICA'S ENTHUSIASM FOR THE WAR-

WASHINGTON, May 38.

treaties.

FLUKES AT BILLIARDS.

contririnces may

better than Tanka.

The way to back up the man at the front is to be unselfish, and to remember that your cwn, tranbles are not to be compared with theirs. When you write to them, or zaeet them, keep your own troubles in the background and do every thing to cheer them up. There is no Earthly reason why you abould be other; wise

sing "Britons never shall be slaves." Let We want to keep a cheerful fee. We

as mean that they never shall be. Lat us ehow resolation and determination that we have exhibited in the past, and, under the hand of Providence, you may depend that we shall come out. Deter mine to stick it out to the last, and go on with your Tanks.

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The closing date for sale of tickets is 12th June and the number of tickets now available for sale is rapidly becoming less; therefore if you have not It is a pity there was not a better bought all the tickets you require, it is advisable audience at the Theatre Royal when to hurry up and tell your friends to do likewise. "The Rainbow." comedy, FUN preseited. It was abomely little story and its chief points were brought out by those taking part A unique-if not indeed a record. The story opens after the estrange sequence of flukes occurred during the inent between man and wife through billiard match between H. W. Stevenscna misunderstanding, The wife und and Tom Aire Glagow. In the champion failed to get in off the red, but until the daughter, determined to course of a fairly big brost, the Scottish daughter live a lonely life together

'middle the red itself dropped into the pocket an obvious fluke that caused a find her father, comes into his life slight titter. He played practically the

A RECORD SEQUENCE.

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bat quoted Barko's dictum to look went the red in the bottom pocket-spent in fast living, as "The Rain- The lecturer did not offer any solution same shot agnic, missed it, and down which in the meantime has been steadily at the facts before one and another fake, and every one laughed. Lov. The wife deelna it her duty be guided by the wisdom of the hour. For the third time he tried to get in

off

He paid a tributa to Sir John Macdonald, the rod for the third time the red went again to separate daughter and pocket. Only then did the imperturb father, on accourt of the coterie of down. On this occasion it chose the top able Aiken join in the chorus of laughter. questionable friends whom she thinks Stevenson remarked later that he could

and

Sir George Brown, Sir Henry Parkens Cecil Rhodes, General Botha General Smuts as among the great statesmen of the world.

MAD WOMAN CAUSES PANIC.

ROVE, May 28,

The Giornale Italia reports that while a crowd was assembling in a small church in the town of Subisso a mad woman shouted "Save yourselves." A frightful panic ensued during which seren people were crushed to death and 120 were injured.

BRITISH ORATORS IN PARLIAMENT.

not recall,, in all his experience of first her husband encourges to his home. class billiards, three successive fluken, There is a splendid dramatic cliner and certainly not three of the same

kind. Afken never saw anything lite on the third act when the bushand the dukes.

and wife are brought together again and by The Rainbow, all the misunderstandings are driven away. It was a great pleasure to see Mr. | T. Daniel Frawley in the part of Neil Sumner, the husband. By the atentines and finish of his acting in is ever a source of delight and our chief regret is that we have seen

$5,000 PENSIONS.

223,000,000 PAID LAST YEAR TO

OFFICERS AND' MEN,

As an instance of America's intere enthusiasm for the war, it is noteworthy that Americans yesterday, answered' Germany's offensive by subscribing over $32,000,000 to the American Red Cross Fund, bringing the total the outer suburbs but no machine for the week's campaign to well -penetrated the defences of the city. over $144,000,000 as against

The "all elear" signal was given at $100,000,000 required.". .11.48.

great utterance at Edinburgh offers as decrease.

sks the Daily Chronicle, Balfour's war; after which it will show a graduale many and walely differing parts LONG-RANGE SHELLING OF PARISoe clue. Conjecture is left free to range

shna played, it is a high tribute over the remainder of the Parliamentary of the Select Committee on National to ir ability to be able to say this field. Had a similar question been put Expenditure on the Ministry of Pen-Mig's plorence Chapman, as "Cynthia to the late Marquis of Salisbury he would sions, which has recently been issued Bunker de un idea!" daughter, gadnabtedly have named John Bright

The investigation, it is pointed out

From February 15, 1817, 16 February. 13, 1918, 835,500 pensions and allowances so little of his seting this time. were granted to disabled officer Miss K: Browne Lecker was the and sailors and to dependants of deceased officers and men.

Who are Mr. Fisher's two orators in is £23,000,000, and for 191849 I9300 has nightly maintained her high The estimated expenditure for 1911's estranged wife in every degree. She aloud with pleasure filty years hence, in the year following the end of the Parliament whose speeches will be read The heaviest financial charge will tandard, and when one remembers

GERMANY AND BELGIUM.

AMSTERDAM, May 28. Admiral. von Tirpitz, apeaking at *Dusseldorf, reiterated that Germany must retain Belgium oconomically, militarily and politically. He made no mention of submarinism.

POENERAL TON MACKENSEN NEAR]

ANTWERP.

—

AMSTERDAM, May 18,

RESUMED..

the

These facts are taken from the report

PARIS, My 28, The long-range bombardment of for the leading place. Lord Salisbury was guided by the principle that, what but there was a perry twinkle in her Paris was resumed this morning.

had met men who had heard Pitt and ever the pet the nation will not allow

OERMAN DISCIPLINE FOR

AUSTRIAN NAVY...

LONDON, May 28..

age

Fox, and who yet awarded the palm to those who have been called upon to eye who would furdly connte bar Bright for that robust, powerful and musks the heaviest sacrifices to fall into mother's opinion in the play of her vigorous English which clone preserves destitution or to have reason to complain and makes speeches readable for later of niggardly treatment.

being are unlophisticated daughter. Hansard has done for the Parlamentare costume of much of the expend Shea pod actriar, but it is mere

that ought to have been avoided, tary oratora of our des a service unknown the committeesy, has been the admission in a part like the one she has In connection with the recent mutiny to the orators of bygode generations to the Army of men of low physical of the Austrifin Ficot, it is significantly of some of the greatest peches not a categories, who have been put to Fork It pays £ adverts that her sal reported that the Austrian Governmentstence remains. There is poor Boting for which they were fitted.

ability seen Miss Valentine

is opening a naatival school st Trieste brokek spoken eloquence, gme com Esporlence hamstown, the Committed Sidney made a goëff kister t The Telegraul's frontier Correspondent for Germans. This is taken to mean Pitt desired far more than the restora ger that, a natural sentimoné of ben-gumuer while a word of praises, is to New says that General You Mackensen and that Germar discipline will be intro tion of all that has perished of the ovalenco add sympathy may causes bit Staff bare arrived in the neighbour-duced into the Austrian Navy treasures of the ancient world. The system of war pebmons-lo expand into a due to Mise Anzori Lloyd na

sloquence of Queen Anne's time is indeed widespread system of excessiva Jans Palmer. us dead as the lady herself.

It won a difficult charitable granthat the expense of the taxpayer. It is already proposed in part for Miss Lloyd who is at her same quarter to make the present high

hood of Antwerp.'

CUBA AND MEXICO.

RELATIONS NOT RUPTURED.

HAVANA, May 38.

H.R.H. PRINCE OF WALES.

VISITS THE POPE IN ROME

ROME, May 28, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, a1000m-

HAROONS AFTER MIDNIGHT?

prices of commodities a basis for firing best in a part such as the one she the rates of permanent persions, many hue in Kick In, but she did it of which; will be payable perhaps for

There is a growing demand for maroon 40 or 61 years after prices have settled well, especially when The Cuban State Department has panied by Count de Salis, the British warnings after midnight, especially into what will be their normal level; to that she undertook the part at very cabled to the Cuban diplomatists abroad Minister to the Vatican, zisited the view of the fact that summer tine pensido all women whose husbands have that diplomatic relations between Cuba Pope and Cardinal Gasparri.

may remult in raids occurring after died while in the Army, although their short notice. We were glad to re midnight Mr. Thomas Wiles, M.E., told death been provid not to be in any Mr. Forbes on the boards. He made. The Daily Chronicles recently they in way too be rug service to prision

and Mexico have not been ruptured.

The Mexican Government has request

THE HOME RULE BILL.

ed than the Cuban Charge d'Affaires Se allowed to remain in Mexico City for LONDON, May 28. the present in order to participate in In the House of Commons, Mr. Boner free the settlement of the questions, pending Lew stated that the Home Hale Bill

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was still being drafted

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