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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1918.

TELEGRAMS.

ARMISTICE WITH AUSTRIA- HUNGARY.

Continued from Page 1.)

-The existing "blockade coach Bion tablished by the Allies and The Associated Power shall remain.

THE CHINA MAIL

BIG GERMAN "RETREAT IN PROGRESS.

· WORST" HIMMERING - GERMINA EYER RECEIVED:

LONDON, NOT. S Retter learns that the Germans. arp retreating on a 70-milə front frock the Scheldt to the Aisne,

the whole

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Barsi, captured Mormal Forest except the eastern unchanged. All Austro-Hungarian edge, reached the western edge of Nouvion Forest and an two miles merchant ships found at een shall remain liable to capture, save ex-south of Marle from where the line custward of Gume uu? two miles ceptions which may be made by a

rime straight to Chateau Porclenc *Commission to be nominated by the

Allies' and the. United States.

› EULOGY OF ARTILLERY

WORK IN WARD*

LONDON, Nov.

BRITISH SHIPPING.

RUMOUR OF SENSATIONALF

MERGER IN LONDON

CHINA'S MORAL DEBT TO ORBIT

BRITAIN AN

~ China's moral dabt to Great Britain

4% FRENCH GOVERNMENT LOAN 1918 PRICE OF ISSUE: Frs. 70.80

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Not to be redeemed for 25 years, Subscription list will be closed on the 20th November 1918. Bills and Bonds of the National Defence bought before

October 29th are accepted. in Payment

Applications will be received by :

Acoiter hugs shipping merger invals: began in 1863, when General Gordon Bearing interest from the 16th October 1918, payable 5ing some of the biggest British Beets, le was lent to the Government to organisa

| being discussed in London fluancial Reuter's Correspondant at British circlesines mentioned are the P. and C, lion, which raged from 1880 to 1864, the Army and quell the Taiping rebel We crossed the Fruceo-Belgian Headquarters, telegraphing to-day,

The frontier between Valenciennes and Says

Royal Mail Packet,. Cunard, and the International Marine O of New Jersey, and is estimated to have cost from The Germans yesterday got one of fo Condon it is believed that the F. and 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 lives, in ad the worst hammeringe they have ever O, and Card, either jointly received. It has become habit of Royal Mail Packet, ill take over the dition to causing incalculable monetary

with the speech to say that the enemy is still British interests of the International loss. It was also during this rebellion unbroken and unbeaten, but if things Marine Co. Since the war commenced that the reorganisation of the Customs

'there bea boan Mo

an inclination on the part realisation that this statement has the holders Big deals have taken Chinese Government. This was indon continue much longer at the present of British shipowners to combine potis service was undertaken by British rate, we will suddenly awake toá for the benefit of the Empire and the tabjects, who entered the service of the censed to be truesve

place, with the result that the British taken at Clima request,, and, it is on The Correspondent pays a great inercantile marida is now controlled by the efficient manairement of this interne tributa to the artillery, whose share fewer people than before the war tionally controlled service this her in the battle deserves to be recorded in Services engaged in the Australian trade credit rests. Further, to British gold. The tireless devotion with which have been included in the mergers the obstinacy and enterprise Chins owis they have followed up the infantry and most important of which was that of the the inception of railways and modera the extraordinary efficiency with which

mining they galloped into setion, unlimbered,

often under shell-fire and spon gassed | ground, was gloriously fine."

The Americans, although within six miles of the Montmedy-Mezieres inlay, which is the enemy's rain

tho muin Gorman forces. Interal line, are out of touch with

It appears that a retreat on

VL--All Naval aircraft shall een centrate and be immobilised Austro-Hungarian buses to be de- signated by the Allies and the United States.

VIL.The evacuation on all the Italian st of ports occupied by

scale is in full swing.

POINT.

a

large

Austrių - Hungary outside their THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. national territory, and the abandon- ment of all floating craft. Naval GREAT BRITAIN CONCEDES A material, equipment and materials for. inland evacuation of all-kinds.

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 3. VHL--The Allies and the United

While Germany has mitified the States shall copy the land and sea Exchange of Prisoners Agreement, fortifications and the islande form-she unbounces that she is unable to ing the defences and dockyards and the usenal at Pola.

IS-Austria-Hungary shall return all merchant vessels belonging to the Allies and the Associated Powers.

X-No destruction of ships or material shall be penuitted before evncinition, surrender or restoration. XI-All Saval and Mercantile (Marine prisoners of war of the Allies · and Associated Towers in Austro- Hungarian hands shall be retumed withont reciprocity.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TERMS.

POCH GIVEN SUPREME

"DIRECTION ON ALL FRONTS.

LONDON, Nov. 5,

agree to Great Britain's propower | amendment that non-commissioned officers and men of U-boats, interned in Holland and Switzerland, shenild not be included.

Judging by to-lay's statement in the House of xignons, Great Britain apparently has not pressed this amendment.

INFLUENZA'S HEAVY TOLL IN SOUTH AFRICA.

44,247,DEATHS.

· Care Towy, Oct. 31.

Delayed).

The "inthueriza death toll je follows:-

AS

Cape Town "Kimberley

7,500 +5000: 1,000

CA

600 47

Preterin Johannesburg Stellenbosch

"Durban

The' coloured" nopulation sufered most, but latterly anany of the Whites haver succumbed to septic | pneumonia,

In the House of Commons, after anncuring the terms of the Aus- trian armistien, the Premier eind. phasised that the most important point was that she terms give the Allies free use of Austro-Hungarian territory and communication for the purpose of operations of war. In The outstanding feature of the view of the fact that the events of epidemic has been the success of the past few weeks had liberated all the vaccine from the Govemment the Allied forces for a great omvirg-Bacteriological laboratorite, prevent Jag attack

on Germany, the fulling pneumoniu, significance of the venns would be apparent to all. (Cheers.) Fb was glad to be able to announce that by a unanimous decision of the Govern- ments concerned, Marshal Foch had keen placed in supreme direction of the forces operating against Germany. on all Fronta. (Loud chews.)

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ARMISTICE TERMS FOR GERMANY.

GERMANY REQUIRED TO APPLY TO MARSHAL FOCH.

IN USUAL MILITARY FORM.”

Loston, Nov. 5, In the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George announced that the Supreme War Council had consider.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE WESTERN FRONT.

FRENCH COMPEL FURTHER

ENEMY RETREAT.

LONDON, Nov. 5,

A Frensb communiqué states - Our repeated successes have compelled the enemy to carry out a fresh retreat at several points of the front.

With unwearying ardour wo maia- |tained-elcao. contact with the Genmana. North-east of Guise. we occupied Bergues-sur-Sambre, whers 300 civilians were fraed.

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Along the whole front of the First Army, we resumed this morning our attacks, and progressed between the

Peron and the Sarre.

We captured Bois-les-Fargy, and ed the answer they should "make to north of Sissonne we reached a line President Wilson, regarding, Ger-assing Froidmout Sugar. Refinery, west many's armistice proposals, and had of Autromancourt, Curieux, Goude

lancourt, and Machecourt. Arved at a complets agreement Our advance guards, supported by regarding the conditions, which had i artillery, are progressing,

Between Siasoune and Chateau been transmitted to President ́Wil-

Porcier, we penetrated all parts of the son, with a request that he would Hunding position where the enemy was inform the German Government that still holding out, forcing the enemy to if they wished to know these condi-withdrawa tions they should apply to Marshal of St. Quentin-le-Petit and the outskirts Our advance is general between cast Foch in the usual military form. of Herpy." (Loud cheers) If such application were made, it had been decided that British Naval Representative would be associated with Marshal Foch at the Conference.

The Fremier enid Whatever the German reply may be, the Associated Powers await the issue with perfect confidence. (Loud cheer.).

MARSHAL FOCH'S AUTHORITY.

WABINGTON, Not. 84 President Wiron has umformed Germany

Foch autho

that

terms of

AMERICAN 'ATTACK 'RESUMED.

LONDON, NOT. 5.

An American official message says: The First Army resumed the attack this morning and, despite desparate opposition, farced crossingy of the Mouse at Brieulles and Olery-le-Potit.

We are now developing a new line in heavily wooded and very difficult terrain

swung round and picked up ranges

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ITALY IN TO THE FINISH.

ROME, XOY. 3.

It is officially stated that Italy will stand by the Allica ustil Germany is defeated.

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.

GERMANY TO RATIFY.

AGREEMENT:

THE CHINA CONDITION ABANDONED.

LONDON, Nov. 5. In the House of Commons, Sir G. Cave andounced that Germany 'bad: agreed to ratify the recent Agreement for exchange of prisonera negotiated at The Hague; she having abandoned the condition regarding the Germans in Chica

P. and C. and Union 8.8. Co.

The lead in that case was taken by the

P. and O., which has apparently on out As regards sailways, Sir Mit Blac amalgamation, reg

on very extensive programme of

If the merger now talked of is com plater, the shipping of the United King, dom will be practically in the hands of one"great combine. In the last two years the P. and Uitas acquired the following lines of stemmera :—

British India19 stenmörs. -Now Zealand §. 5. Ca.—15 steamers.

Union 8, 8. Co. steamers. Hain Line-25 steamers. Foderal Line-13 steners. Nourss Line.-6.

he number of vessel controlled by The the P. and O. is 286. The Canard Line, another included in the rumour, has also been getting into other companies, and only recently acquired the Common- wealth and Dominion Line: That deal gave the Cunard Lise a chance to trade to Australia. The number of vessels in that circle exceeds 50. and includes some of the biggest liners afloat." Another company said to be on the list is the Royal Mail Packet with a fleet of 60 steamers. ships: That gives a total of 308

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donald Stephenson attempted, in 1863 4% FRENCH GOVERNMENT LOAN 1918.

from Shanghai to Socohow, now part of to get a concession for building a railway the Shanghai Nanking Railway. This came to nothing but in 1876 & 2ft in gauge line, 10 miles long, was built between Shanghai and Wossums the mouth of the Yangtze River. This railway run for a year, but was pur cbased in 1877 by the Government,

who tore up the line and sent all the materials to Formoan, when they were probably, in part, utilised in the con struction of La Formosan railways, of which 11 miles bad been built in 1889, under the supervision of a British con sulting engineer.

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Also, in 1978, coal was discovered at Tongshan and Linsi by Mesare, R. R. Barrett and J. M. Molesworth, and the foundation, thus laid for what is now the Peking-Mukden Railway and the Kailan. Mining Administration For. out of the transport needs of the wine arose the railway. The coal, in the It is difficult to obtain the exact namnt place, was transported from the ber of ships in the British section of the mines over a mule iramway 7 miles International Marine Company, but it is long to the Latal Canal, where it was known that the Oceanic Line (87 tranehipped into janks for conveyance. steamers Atlantic Transport_ 13 steamers) and the British and North to the coast. However, by 1881, Mr. Atlantic Co. (7 steamars) form part of Kinder, who had in the meantime. the feet, After one year of war the become general manager and engineer company had on its books a fleet aggre to the mine managed to build a BOLSHEVIK GOVERNMENT WANTS | gating 1,341,519 tons.

locomotive out of the mine scrap, heap,. The capital that will be involved and also to persuade the management PEACE.

the merger is successful will create a re- that. nothing very dreadful would cord deal. The P&O Co., with its acquisition, is one of the strongest in happen, hat that, proft would secrue, the world, and all the others are ex-if this angine was allowed to tremely wealthy. The following table replace the mules. This last was a shows the positions of the companies much greater feat than the first, and, which will be concerned in the new arrangement --

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 5..

A message from Petrograd says the Bolshevik Government has banded to the neutral Minister a Note for the Allies requesting the opening of negotia tions for the conclusion of hostilities be tween the Allies and the Soviets,

The above report is not confirmed officially.

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT FOR

RUMANIA,

FARIS, Nov. 3.

A message from Geneva reports & demonstration at Jassy in favour of the occupation of Transylvania

The pro-Entents political groups are conferring...

It is reported that the Rumanian Ministry has resigned and it is expected

P. and O. Royal Mail Cubard

-Leyland Line

British India

Union 8.9. Co.

*ine: £7,833,291

19,800,000

3,500,014

2,191,40 141,500 ..:1,607,200 1,000,00 New Zealand 6.5 Co. 403,982 That list, though far from complete, gives a total of £23541:118.,*%

Some of the companies forming part of the big lines are not quoted on the London exchange, therefore their capital is not shown du the lista.

WOOD AS SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL.

of course, the locomotive proved a sound investment, and as nothing talka līks money in China, it was only a step further to eliminate the canal altogether, and by 1888 the railway had bean com. | plated "to "Tongke, a small port at the mouth_of the Peibo, about 40 miles

below Tientsin. By 1898 this milway

had been extended west to Peking sod east to 40 miles beyond the Grent Wall || by 1896. Then, in the face of Baslao. opposition, came the British loan for the Extra Mural extension completed to Newchang and Hsinminta in 1904, sites, which tims all progress, with the exception of the extension of the line ipto Mukdeo, bas cessed, very largely as a result of Japanese opposition

a national Government will be formed wood as a substitute for coal in the 100 miles of the Peking-Hankow

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, Nov. 6. The Silver Market is unchanged.

LOCAL SPORT.

CRICKET,

BONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.

KOWLOON C. CLUB...

The following will represent the Club

British engineers of the Peking- How far shall we be able to utilise Makden line also costructed the drat coming winter? To burn it in conjuhe Railway in 1897-9, so that the Chinese tion with coal will bardly prove su undoubtedly owe all their initial educa- economy, as it will tend to consumer coal tion in railway and mining matters to faster. And there are difficulties and the British, to whom they are alıb in- dangers in attempting to make it the debted for the adoption of the 4ft. 81 inigange, and for theexcellent standard. houses are quite unsuitable for burning of milway construction instituted by wood, and to employ them in such way

sole combustible. The grates in most

is to run a risk of setting the chimnes on us

fire. In countries where wood is user From 1897 onwards, Belgian, French, generally there are no grates, the hearth 00 level with the flour, and rely-provided a

with and-irong

Rugian and German capitalists began to term their attention to Chinese rail way development, but ever since then

A much better and safer substitute is chalk Take 4lb. of chalk in lumps not have taken a greater part than any above fib. each, make a clear fire of coal other nation in this field, and though and place the lumps of chalk in the money has, of course, been made out of grate, as you would lay coal.The chalk our transactions, we have never ex on their ground on Saturday. Pth becomes red hot so se to be scarcely ploited the Chiness as did the Germans November, at 2.10 p.m.-T. A. Pearceding

distinguishable from burning cindera (Captain), R. M. Austin, F. J. de Rome, few nabes or small coal thrown lightly the construction of their section of D. E. Donnelly, F. W. 9. Evans. Capt. on from time to time will keep up a clear the Tientsin-Pakow Railway In fact, H. Gray, Major Hammond, H. M. bright fire all day. The same chalk it has often been said that the British Masa. Capt. H Murray, Sutton By be used three or four days, when it in the service of China, serve her too sad E R Thomas. 4

becorace line, and manure for garden or wall as regards, ensuring that she shall allotments..

bay in the cheapest and best market.

BILLIARDS.

MOST THANELESS POST IN EMPIRE.

In addition, we played a very con- siderable part at one time in the reorganisation of the Chinese Navy, and | recently have taken the most prominent part in the reorganisation of China's altrevande. Chins, therefore, practically owes all her early education in Western matters to us, who imparted the know- lodge at considerable risk and great personal inconvenience. She should not

Entries for the Billiard Handicap at the Palace Hotel, closes on Saturday, 9th inst. A meeting will be held at the Hotel on Sunday 10th, s... when all who have entered for the Bandicap are

Mr. Edward Short, K.O as Chief invited to attend, to select Randicappers Secretary for Ireland, croes to the most and transact other business, in conner thankless post in the Empire. Such it tion therewith: The prize is a gold wrist long, has boon, says writer in the watch and band valued at $120, 2nd and Lendon Press quarter of a century 3rd prizes are to be selected ago Lord Hartington refused the be allowed to forget this, nor the power Mr. J. Parkes and Mr. J. Gibson will

An exhibition, gams: 800, up, between office, and Gladatcne sert bil brother, which the money invested in Chine Lord Frederick Cavendish, who was gives us, and the right to be considered fake place on Juplay, the 10th inst, at murdered in Phenix Park. Forster the which our great trade confuca Chins 9 pm

offered to return, but Gladstone pre country where plain speaking a dr ferred Bir Charles Dilke, who feared to

SPY-FROOF LETTERS,

A spy-proof system of handling mail matter has been introduced by the American Red Cross, the official agency through which welfate masinges are sent from Americans to persons in finemy territory.

go and did not afterwards like to retremely necemary at times, a fact which member his refusal. Bir George Treve four diplomats are either ignorant lyn went walked into his room at the are compelled by Secretary

ry's Lodge, and, on drawing arcumstances to iguo curtain found the blood stained coat of his predecessor

Boubil,300 kach letters are sent daily

BOOTS ON HIRE IN GERMANY-93 from Americk. Anyone who wishes to send a message to a relativa in Germany A gani

on the heights: esatward of the river most write in a Red Cross office in botwear theas points

America, where the writer is personally trated The enemy on the entire front is known Then the mesanger are sent in opposing our advance with heavy properly certed to the Red Cross bead-

goartons Is Washington, Artillery and machine-gas fire, cotwith letter is on down in length and a

where the ment standing which we are making excellent wording L entirely chraged. Thi

chance of the nawet a clever code We hold the west bank of the Mense invisible ink is eliminated an far northwards at opposite. Pouilly?

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