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contrives to live! Possibly just as it customary in many parts of China for the merchant, the shopkeeper and the wealthy rooident to pay periodical contributions to Thieves Guilds in order to ensun iramanity from robbery, it may be that the people of the Walchow distric pay the robber gangs who are nos
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We do not know what special reasons induced President YUAN Tuay have SHIK-KAI to issue a Proclamation the other day denouncing Sun YAT-SEN charlatan, but it secras very much like
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so he remains a rovolutionary, and there is doubtless good ground for the belief that, though understood te bo absent from the country, he is still the fuunt and inspiration of the unrest which from time to time manifests itsdi in various parts of the country. So long, however, as the Government is able to ensure the loyalty of its troops the danger of revolution on a large scale is remoto: The people of the country have seen the futility of it and are acquainted only too, well, with its disastrous economic results.
REVOLUTIONARY DISTURBANCES.
IN EAST RIVER.
Ou Canton correspondent writes:- News has been received that fighting has taken place between the Government troops and revolutionary gangs at a place named Ma On, which is some 15 or 20 iniles above. Waiehow. The majority of the rioters are pirates who have been infesting the Waithow district, and it is reported that they have been employed by the revolutionists to create disturbances.
Arrivals from Sheklung report that, though the rioters have fought several skirmishes with the Government troops, no looting has taken place, and traders are allowed to move their goods away as they please. Beyond this, information is very meagre concerning the trouble, but it seems that the situation has developed, as shopkeepers in Waichow have wird to their correspondents in Cantan requeting the suspension of shipment of all goods that had previously been ordered. Unless they have received news of the approach of the rioters, it is not unreason- able to assume they would not have taken these measures.
flogging a dead horse. It is true that China is far from settled ". yet: revolutionary disturbances are frequently being reported from various parts of the country, but they do not appear to be of such a character as to justify any anxiety, These sporadic outbursts such as that in the Waichow district, reported in another
Bomb explosions and rioting are also, columen are unlikely to develop into widespread revolution. If these disturb reported to have taken place in Pot Lo, but so far no confirmation has come to ances by the criminal classes
hand, It appears that the principal instigated, as alleged, by revolutionaries, they are carried out with no political leader of these troublesome gangs is fang object, except to create difficulties for the Hang, who, it will be remembered, Government. The general character of occupied the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Land Army, when Wu Hoi-man these disturbanees is pure brigandage, and by no stretch of imagination can the and Chan Kwing-ming were succesively
Tutah of Kwangtung. groups who engage in these enterprises be regarded as patriots. But if the report we publish in another column from our Canton correspondent is correct, the rising near Waichow is of a different type, for the account tells us that though the majority of the rioters are pirates--who infest this particular district-no looting has taken place, traders being allowed to move their merchandise as they please without molestation: One wonders how in these circumstances an army of pirates
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THE WAR.
[THROUGH REUTER'S (AGENOVĄ)
THE GREAT BATTLE.
GERMANS GREATLY DISCOURAGED BY FAILURE TO BREAK THE BRITISH LINE.
LONDON, November 4th.
3.18 a.m.
A Paris communiqué issued at 11 o'clock in the evening says (~~-~ The only information received this evening concerns the region north-east of Vailly, where we counter-attacked, and recaptured the farm of Metz, and the region of Four-do-Paris and St. Hubert in Argonne, where a German attack was repulsed, and we also gained ground.
LONDON, November 4th.
7.40 p.m.
To-day's Paris communiqué says:- The situation on our Left is unchanged. The enemy on the right bank of the Yser retired. We re-captured Lombardzwd (sie). The Germans on the left bank hold only one bridge-head between Dixmude and Nieuport They abandoned large quantities of material and gune. enghifed by the floods.
to Lys with alternate. the Allies have made
The battle continues from Dixmudo
whole advances and retirements, but on the appreciable progress.
Between Lys and Arras there has been a cannonading action in
detail.
We advanced between Arras and the Oise eastward of Quesnoy, as far as the heights of Parilliers.
The enemy's attack on our Centre in the region of Vailly has not. been continued, and we recaptured part of the lost ground.
There has been a violent cannonade und vigorous attacks on the heights of Chemin-des-Dames and around Rheins, but they were repulsed. There is nothing of importance to report in the region Rheims to the Meuse, nor in Weevre and Lorraine.
BRILLIANCE OF THE BRITISH.
· CAVALRY GAIN ADMIRATION OF THE WHOLE ARMY.
LONDON, November 4th.
1.15 p.m.
The Official Press Bureau says that violent attacks were made on the 30th October against our First Army Corps and Cavalry by the enemy, who had evidently been largely reinforced.
We inflicted very heavy loss on the enemy, and the Commander of the Corps is confident that his men will hold their ground,
The Cavalry have fought, whether mounted or in trenches, to the admiration of the whole of the Army.
Indian troops were brought into the fighting line.
LONDON SCOTTISH DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES,
The Press Bureau adds that Field-Marshal Sir John French sent a telegram of congratulation to the London Scottish for a brilliant chargo at Messines.
Our troops on the 1st November were attacked all along the line, but repulsed the enemy everywhero with the heaviest loss.
Germans.
Our artillery continues to do prodigious slaughter, The maintenance of an unbrokes line has greatly discouraged the
OPERATIONS AGAINST TURKEY.
RUSSIANS IN CONTACT WITH TURKS ON
TURKISH SOIL.
LONDON, November 4th.
4.30 p.m.
A telegram from Petrograd says that the Caucasian General Staff announces that the Russian troops crossed the Turkish frontier, and repulsed the Turkish advance guards, the Turks retreating, abandoning their dead.
RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP REPORTED SUNKI
LONDON, November 4th..
1.15 p.m.
A telegram from Sofa saya that the Turks have suck the Russian
battleship Sinope.
(The Siuppe was launched at Sebastopol in 1897, and was completed three years later, being thus nearly 25 years of age. Her displacement was. 10,180, her speed only 10.75 knots, and her armament six 12-inch, twelve 6-inch, and a number of smaller guna Her complement was 325.)
TURKISH FINANCE MINISTER RESIGNS.
LONDON, November 4th.
1.15 p.m.
A telegram from Amsterdam states that Djavid Boy, the Turkish Minister of Finance, has tendered his resignation.
TURKISH AMBASSADOR TO LONDON RECEIVES HIS
PASSPORTS.
LONDON, November 4th. The Turkish Ambassador to Lon don has received his passports And
leaves to-morrow,
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FINAL ASSAULT ON
TSINGTAU.
TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT PREPARES WAY
FOR INFANTRY.
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LONDON, November 4th,
3.20 p.m.
A telegram from Tokyo says that a vigorous assault on Fort Iltis, the strongest fortifications at Tsingtau, has begun. The way for the infantry has been prepared by a most terrifie bombardment, which almost
reduced the fort to atoms.
EIGHT HUNDRED PRISONERS AND TWENTY-SIX GUNS TAKEN.
LONDON, November 4th.
10.10 p.m.
A Tokyo telegram states that the Japanese have captured 800 prisoners before Tsingtan and destroyed 20 guns.
FLOATING DOCK SUNK: REPORTED FOUNDERING OF "KAISERIN ELISABETH.”
Mr. Imai, Consul-General for Japan, has forwarded the following official report which was received by him yesterday, but which was published on Wednesday by the Naval Department:--
"On the 1st November, a party of the second squadron, together with the British ships, bombarded all day long the Hoi Chuan Chuc, Chan Shan and Iltis forts, the effect being satisfactory. It seems that the Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth foundered by exploding herself in the Kiauchau Bay, at 3 a.m. on the 2nd inst. On the 3rd inst., the Tsingtau floating dock in the Great Port' listed and sank"
CANADIANS REVIEWED ON SALISBURY PLAIN,
LONDON, November 4th.
Gp.m.
Intense enthusiasm was shown when His Majesty the King, accompanied by Earl Kitchener (Secretary of State for War), reviewed the Canadian troops on Salisbury Plain."
BRITISH TREASURY BILLS.
LONDON, November 4th. The applications for £18,000,000 Treasury Bills totalled £27,000.000,
the average rate being 311-16 per cent,
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GERMAN TRADING UNDER ENGLISH NAMES.
FRENCH AND BELGIAN, PROTEST AT HANKOW.
PEKING, November 4th.
The French and Belgian Consuls at Hankow have profested to the
British Consul against British subjecta carrying on trade with German
Firmis.
Arnold, Karberg & Co now carry on their export trade under the name of H. E. Arnold, and the Consuls state that two other German firms
are restarting under the names of British employes.
The French also complain that the Germans are enabled to block
the market.
WAR ITEMS.
Letters received at Stockholm show: that startling disillusionment has begun M. Gabriele d'Annunzio, the distin-in Berlin. The newspapers attempt to guished Italian author, visited the battle minimise the reverses by long stories of fields of the Marne and the Aisne, and he hands of the Germans, but the procession an enormous number of prisoners in the asserts that the things he saw were so of trains of wounded is telling another terrible that no vengeance inflicted upon the Germans could be too harsh.
story.
A Paris communiqué on October 7th re- lated that the active forces engaged against the Allies consist of 23 active army corps and 18 reserve army corps. This does not include a number of divi- sions of the Landwehr and Landsturm,
The Petrograd Svet states that the Austrian officers attended the service at Shabatz Cathedral, and ordered the priest to pray for the Emperor Francis Joseph The priest recited the usual prayers for King Peter, and the Austrians thereupon hanged him.
Maurice Maeterlinck, the famous Bel- gian, speaking at a meeting at Newcastle on October 10th, received a great ovation, and remarked of the latest eventsIt is pitiful. It is a story of a little kingdom which kept its pledge and died for it." There were loud cries from the audience of " Never!"
The inhabitants of Berlin (Ontāriv), af whom 12,000 are Germans or of German descent, have collected £15,000 for the National Patriotic Fund, and cabled to Lord Kitchener expressing the hope that German militarism will be emashed for good, and the people set free to create a greater and a better Germany.
The New Zealand corps which has been raised in London has gone into camp at Salisbury Plain. There was an enthu siastic scene at the Victoria Street offers
M. Chretien, a San Francisco lawyer, who visited the villages in the Vosges, bas furnished a terrible report of German barbarities inflicted on civilians of all ages and sexes, Abominable atrocities were committed on women, and nearly all of the High Commissioner, where the the villages were burned
The submarine which torpedoed the Pathfinder tried to get through 400 miles of sea patrolled by British ships. The latter just watched for her, and seven of them put shots into her periscope as soon as she appeared. She went to the bottom with her crew.
Two French divisions, with a territorial division, held positions at Arras for overwhelming odds,
Dominion soldiers were rapturously cheered. They are a fire body of men. Many possess South African medals
A piquant story is circulating concern
The story ing the German War Council. is to the effect that before the Kaiser went to Prussia some members of the staff aharply criticised the Crown Prince's methods of operations, and arged evacua- tion in order to maintain a defensive posi-. tion. A stormy scene is said to have. occurred.
several days, against overhough The conduct of the King of the Belgians
the losses were heavy, the Germans were throughout the siege of Antwerp was an soundly beaten. Reinforcements nearing inspiration to his troops. He wore the Arras encountered a large force of unfform of a private, shared meals with Germans, and, a frontal attack failing, the men in the trenches, and only left large force of French went for the flank the city when it was impossible to do while the centre was engaged. They more. Some of the refugees from Antwerp rushed the trenches, and took 900 state that they saw the King of the
Belgians with one arm in a sling prisoners.
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