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A DESPERATE BAYONET

FIGHT. VYKOTA

TOPPETROGRAD, April 17th.

PREMIER'S STATEMENT

THE WAR.

BRITISH ROUT TURKS.

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ATTACK ON BRITISH TRANSPORT.

THE HỒNGKUNG DAILY PRESS

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THROUGH BEUYER'S AGENCY.]

BULGARIA AND THE ENTENTE.

GOOD

FRENCH PROGRESS.

SULTAN'S SORROW AT A RASH POLICY,

THE CONDITIONS OF PEACE.

RUSSIAN BOOTY AT PRZEMYSL,

MORE AIRSHIP ACTIVITY.

AVAL ACTIVITIES.

THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.]

ATTACK ON A BRITISH

TRANSPORT.

TURKISH TORPEDO BOAT REAL DESTROYED, S

LONDON, April 17th,

that the The Admiralty announces British transport Manitou, carrying Proops, was attacked by a Turkish torpedo-boat which fired three torpedoes

GREEK STEAMER TORPEDOED.

THE HAGUE, April, 18th. The Admiarity have learnt that the Greek steamer Ellis Pontos, from Ymui

A communique states:-

LONDON, April 17tä. We consolidated our positions between The Daily Mail's Sofia correspondent Telephotsch and Zaella after a desperate says that the Premier of Bulgarid, M. bayonet fight in which we captured the

Eadoslavoll, has acknowledged the pos bad sibility of Bulgaria joining the Entente

SWATOW NOTES.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

SWATO, April 14th.

EGED MURDER ATTYTAM.

A Chinese woman, said to be the wilg

tho. nove of sub-contractor cagnged.

at Tylam, was murdered on Thursday afternoon. Deceased's bris FEELING AGAINST THE JAPANERE The chief topic of conversationis

band, a man named Wo Kow, is stated Japan and her cavalier treatment of her to be a confirmed gambler. It is alleged neighbour. Feeling is undoubtedly very that upon his wife rcmonstrating with strained. The youthful spirit favourslam on his failing in this direction, he war rather than submit to the over-

became incensed and attacked his wife bearing attitude of the Japanese. The m

with some instrument, the woman expir The more responsible people do not expect

husband has since disappeared, and it is believed that he has left the Colony.

hoights which the Aurisoners, owing to Germany's refusal to deliver that war will come at present.In busi.ing from fracture of the skull."

We took 1,140

(organised.

including 24 officers, and three machine

gund wor

The enemy'suffered great losses in making abortive counter-attacks.

We aucoessfully repulsed the enemy in the region of Stry

GENERAL

THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENOZ.j THE SULTAN'S SORROW INEXPERIENCE AND A RASH POLICY.

PAE19, April 17th. The Temps states that at a Council of the Imperial Family, at Constantinople,

munitions paid for, or to make in April ness quarters opposition is very s n loan advance as agreed, bus

THE DEATH OF MR GLADSTONE,

MESSAGE FROM FRISH LEADER LONDON, April 17th

Mr. Redmond, leader of the Irish Nationalists, has telegraphed to the rola tives of the late Mr. W. G. Gladstone MP., who was killed in action at the Front. The whole Irish people mour the tragic and heroic end of dus who worthily carried on the great tradition of devotion and freedom #

lthough officials have warned people in authority to be careful of their speech; and although the press havo, bet

been cau- tioned against inciting language, yet Japancas goods are tabooed everywhere. The patrotic spirit is manifesting itself now in one way and again in another At present there is a patriotic lengus ri foot to got the 400,000,000 of "Chizes to subscribe fen cents each to help the war chest.

CHINA'S COAST DEFENCES.

WHAT THE BUTLER SAW.” On

Saturday evening the Theatre Royal was crowded to excess by expect ant theatregoers eager to learn what the butler really did see. The climax of the comedy is the visit at midnight of an inconsequent husband, who had

a bachelor, to

tho masqueraded as apartme

expected to be occupied

by his wife in a hydropathie establish Ching is growing alive to the fact that me

www.mist fester meat, where the guests were both namer her coast defendes are by no means what they should be. Her vaat littoral is alous and eccentric, and where two ladies hed exchanged rooms, of which the said most everywher exposed to an enemy's attack. General Liang Tiang Rida has

husband was ignorant. For the purpose

the Sultan, who appeared to be greatly BOMBS DROPPED IN SWISS been offering his opinions on. the state of of the farce the husband blundered into

TERRITORY.

LONDON, April 17th

the wrong apartment, and was observed the Swatow defences. At

by the ubiquitous)

us butler, Pink- (Mre we present they are in a hopeless condition. His idea Wheeler Dryden). The comedy—ia ex- that Masu, on which there are two trenely amusing throughout, and the old useless defences, should be fortified audience were frequently in shrieks of

overcome, said that he owed his accession to the Young Turks, but he would have

It is announced that German air proferred never to have reigned than to deni for Montevideo, was torpedood in see the misfortunes which their inexper- men have again dropped bomby on Swiss with modern forts, and that engineers laughter, In the part of the butler. Mr. Lience and a rash policy had brought upon territory near Bournevisin. Switzerland should examine the coast between Swatow Wieler Dryden was a great success, and

the North Sen.

The crow were saved and are returning the country to Holland.

PROTEST FROM THE HAGUE,

THE HAGUE, April 17th.

The Government has sent a protest to al her. All missed their mark, Germany against the sinking of the however. The torpedo boat retired but | Katwiji. was chased by the cruiser Minerva and destroyers and foolly was run ashore and destroyed on the cast of Chios, the craw being made prisoners,

It is reported that about one hundred men aboard the transport lost their lives through drowning, but full particulars have not yet been received.

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH ERUTKO'S ACENCE,

FRENCH PROGRESS.

PARIS, April 18th.

12.35 m The evening communiqué states: We LONDON, April 18th.have made appreciable progress in the There was great excitement at Chios Vosges and also on both banks of the at the chase of the Turkish destroyer by Becht. We seized a spur on the north bank, weet of Metzoval, On the southern The southern to Allies warships,

bank Chausseurs brilliantly carried a viramit at Bobalpfourleskopf, which

The weather was of the roughest, and the destroyer, emerged from the ɖulf of Smyrna and succeeded in cluding the was the culmination of a massif separat vigilance of the "Allies. She swung ing two valleys meeting at Metzeval around Chios hotly pursued, and came

with the Manitou at which she Jaunched torpedoes. These missed and the Manitou proceeded. The destroyer then tried to dodge among the stan}}

The the observer

A British aeroplane brought down German seroplane at Boesinghd, pilot was killed and captured.

Three German counter-attacks at Notre

ROUT OF THE TURKS AT SHAIBA

is sending a protest to Germany,

STRASSBURG BOMBED.

¡AMSTERDAM, April 17th

and Amoy and report to Peking.

HOKLOS AND THEIR QUEUES. In the full of opium suppression the soldiers occupy their time in depriving THE BRITISH BOOTY.

A telegram from Strasburg says that a the Hokio population of their queues. hostile airship dropped twelve bombs They were the last to adopt the Manchu LONDON, April 17th. The Press Bureau announces that the and disappeared northward. The air pigtail, and and new out of sheer actions in the vicinity of Shalba were ship was seen by the aid of searchlightscossedness, they want to be the last tu The enemy is and was bombarded by anti-craft air give it up. Among the Hoklos there are complete y successful.

still whole villages where the people grow retreating beyond the point previously guns.

queues and will not have them cut. reported.

Knowing that soldiers with big shears waylay them in the market place, they stay at home so much so that shop. koepere have to buyers of their goods.

The British on the 14th inst, captured 200 prisoners, and, several machine-guns. The Turks, hurriedly retreating, abar- doned largo quantities for tents equip

of rife ment stores, 10000 ammunition, and 450 boxes of gun ammunition, f

Prisoners state that the enemy consist- ed of two Divisions of regular infantry and 32 gung, irrespective of Arab tribes. mea,

GERMAN OFFICER'S CRIME. TROTEST AGAINST MURDER OF BRITISH SCHOOLMASTER.

LONDON, April 17th Great Britain, through the American

Two persons were wounded by the

considerable damage done, bombs and

EPSOM RACES.

LONDON, April 17th, There will be no telegraphing facilities at Epsom rates next week. Telegrams will have to be carried a mile,

SOUTH AFRICAN FINANCE

CAPETOWN, April 17th The Government has decided to double

the Income Tax

GREEK POLITICS,

ATHENS, April 17th. noteworthy change has taken place the attitude of the Government and the Press, under the influence of a

in

established himself as a pronounced Chas. Howitt and favourite, and Mr. Miss Gertrude Godart were ably sup- ported by the entire company.

Tonight the Company produce" Those Terrible Twins,"

CANTON CUSTOMS. Mr. F. W. Maze, Commissioner of Customs, Canton, has been transferred to Tientsin, and will be succeeded by Mr. H. F. Merrill, lately Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai, who is now returns, ! ing from home leave.

GET RICH-QUICK WAR. WEALTH FOR MORIBUND GERMAN FIRMS.

NEVERE STORM.IN. We have haft an unusually severe storm. of rain, wind hail, thunder and lighten- ing It was the most severa experienced for a long time. The hail was as large as starling's cage, and they played havoc with all the standing crops Buckwheat The Berlin correspondent of the Am has been almost entirely rendered worth sterdam Telegrauf, a recent letter to his less, and garden flowers have been abso-newspaper, deals with the war from a lutely destroyed. There was a strong point of view which has not hitherto

been brought to public notice wind accompanying the Bail, in-well as

He says: "For some business run the lightening and loud thunder. Boat war has decidedly a pleasant side. Many of the people are making big profits nat covers were corried right away, and

of the universal unrest, and are thriving, boats were upset in the river, drowing, while millions are sacrificing themselves in some cases, the human freight. WeThus an engineering concern at Dus- have rarely esen such a raging,, furious aldorf which never paid a single cent.in dividend made a profit surplus of £75,000

Maletas ambassador at Berlin, has protested in general feeling in the country. 1 18. storm. We have also had heavy rain.during the first two months of the war. islands trusting in a, knowledge of the Dame-de-Loretle were stopped short the strongest possible terms against the believed that this foreshadows a modifica The Han river has been very high. The good many milis, after writing off

ground won,

by

shooting of a British schoolmaster named channels, but soon realised that the game our troops who solidly organised tholey in a train between Berlin and

was up.

The Captain beached the ship on the

cut the shi rocks.

Twenty five Turks and five Gormous, including the Captain, were captured by the Greek authorities, and will be interned until the end of the war. DARDANELLES OPERATIONS, ALLIES' IMPORTANT PROJECT. LONDON, April 17th. The Tints correspondent at Mytilene says that ten battleships approached Enoa. Two entered the bay and destroyed a Turkish camp.

It is believed that the vocupation of

Mytilene and Soio is imminent."

Cologne on the 3rd August by a German

Hovy artillery bombarded the caress

ve officer who was afterwards ewart- at Pasly, in Aisne, where the Germaus martialed and acquitted. Tom protest sheltered. Explosions indicated that that whatever provocation the officer several of them collapsed.

revered, the shooting can only be describ ed as murder.

Artillery entobate wore continued at Bois Mort Maro, but they were not followed by any infantry actions.

A French dirigible bombarded the station and aviation sheds at Freiburg. and Broisgau.

CASUALTIES.

CONDITIONS OF PEACE.

LONDON, April 17th.

tion of the policy of the Cabinet. TSAR GOES TO THE FRONT.

PETROGRAD, April 17th.

The Tear has left for the front, [Cables received on Saturday and pu'r lished in on "extra" yesterday, will be found pn pages 6 and 7.1

WAR NEWS. LORD C. HAMILTON ON THE LOSSES

Presiding at the annual meeting of the Kensington and Fulham General Hos papers were not giving the full lists of

north embankment of Chaschooloo was enormous profits and raising their re

Servo funds, are able to pay dividends of all but swept away Had the flood 15 and 20 per cent. For millers the war succeeded in foreing the embankment the has been an agreeable surprise. A hose whole city would have been sunk in factory in Berlin, which bad not paid a several feet of water, and the loss of life dividend for the last six years, has dur ing five months of war made a profit of would have been grout For all these £7,943, and has created, a special reserve calamities there is a reason given. The land of £1,250 and paid 10 per cent, to natives declare that a great snake that its smiling shareholders. has its abode on the Song phu-san was seen recently. Whenever it appears there follows great storms 1

SEARCHING FOR OPIUM HOARDS. Quite number of people have quan- tities of fopium in their possession, and their difficulty now is to get rid of it. Detectives are always on the look-out

A BLACKMAILING, SOCIETY

dis

Nor have private parsons been left out in the cold. Thus, the frenchener Port tells the story of a horse-dealer who mado a pront of £100,000 or the sale of 5,000 horses. The Schoeneberge Zeitung mentions wholesale potato dealer who stored sixty-eight tons of potatoes which he was willing to sell for 25-6d: a 100lb, When the Minister of Agriculture raised the price the dealer could not sell them

[Enos is a Turkish port, on the Aegean Killed: G. H. Cotter Ledger; A. R. and speak, till Serbia was rewarded for The Cameronians Bemed to have been The Three Dot" society is still alive Germany will claim from her enemies on

Ses, at the mouth of the Marits, which divides Turkey from Bulgaria,

Mr. Austen Chamberlain M.P... in moving a resolution at a Unionist meet- ing at Birmingham approving of the sup-

A lively discussion is going on n port given by the Unionist leaders to the pital, Lord Claud Thamilton said that the Recenti a man had put about £100 worth for less than 58. Od. a hundred pounds. Government in the prosecution of tho the losses in Belgiuma His own regiment, in a basket of charcoal-a very unusual Germany regarding the new taxes which Helferich, the Finance Minister With LONDON, April 17th. war, said that no posse was posthe Grenadier Guards, had lost their place certainly but the detectives will probably be introduced by Herr

-colonel and 16 officers killed and wound-

out fresh sources of income, the interest on logus cannot be paid. Some optimists The following additional list of casual-sibly till Belgium, was free and compened, and out of 1,100 men, the finest in the covered it and confiscated it.

aro reckoning on the indemnities which ties is published.----

sated, till Frames had the liberty to think Army, only 300 ad survived.

totally wiped out. Their lists of officers, and, I learn, is quite active in many the conclusions of peace. But sensible killed and woundell, were appalling places. In a true Republic such societies people do not reckon on the proceeds

The system of concealment on the part do not thrive as a rule. They have many From the tale of castles in the air of the military authorities was most adherents here. They indulge continual The municipal tages have already ridiculous, and he was afraid it would fy in blackmailing their neighbours and been increased from 20 to 40 per cent. On thus ure & great nuisanca have been Wednesday, when the Reichstag again informed that the only way to secure pro- mests, Herr Helferich will submit, his have the effec. of prolonging the war.

tection is by becoming a member of the

programme, which will cause many a Society fe

patriotic heart to turn faint. The first war loan of £200,000,000 odd requires £11,250,000 for internt, while in 1918- 1920 the Treasury Bills have to be re deemed.

Newton King

Scio (or Chios) is an island off the west coast of Asia Minor. It has an aron of 330 square miles, and the population of aboat colns). 60,000 is practically entirely Grock. Before

her horoism, and Russia accorded the Died of wounds: L. Edwards (Lin- satisfaction for her mvaged lands and outraged dignity, nor until satisfaction had been found for the legitimate aspira Vions of our fellow-citizens in Africa and the Pacific

Wounded: W. E. Henry; F. G. Drew; the Balkan War it belonged to the Turkish V. Farrell; A. M. Gordon; L. Jo Fleming Empire, but since that its possession bas

been disputed, Greece laying claim to this. N. Lethbridge; C. Littledale; Major W. island and to the island of Mytilene, 675 square miles in extent, with a population A. Main; Lieut. C. Marsh Smith (Buffs.) of over 100,000, mainly Grocks. It lies off

the Gulf

f of Edremit.

FRENCH BOMBARDMENT OF EL ARISH.

-PARIS-April 17th..

A communique states that yesterday a French battleship, supporting an aero- plane reconnaissance, successfully bom barded enemy works at El Arish where there was a concentration of Turkish troops

BABATEPEH BOMBARDED. AMSTERDAM, April 18th.

A telegram from Constantinople states that H.M.S's Majestic and Swiftsure bombarded Babatepeh on the 15th inst.

ALL QUIET.

PARIE, April 17th.

4.30 p.m. Today'a communique says: There is nothing to report,

RUSSIAN FRONT

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PRZEMYSL BOOTY.

PETEOGRAD, April 17th.

It is officially announced that the total bumber of guns captured at Przemysl was 1,010 The majority are of bronze, which are Austrias great pride.

THE AUSTRIAN ARMY. CHANGE OF AGE LIMITS.

VIENNA, April 1stb

GUNS IN BEER BARRELS.

DAS RDLY GERMAN PLUT UNMASKED The Corriere della Sera publishes a sensational artbeatitled, Germany Supplies Arms to the Tripolitans."

TIE STRANDING OF THE

MINNESOTA."

"German is now freing the second loen. It is unknown yet how much this

The article says: Yesterday morning sensational discovery was made at It is officially announced that in view Venion by the Customs authorities Two Tegrams in Shanghai papers state loan will yield, but supposing it is of the possibility of the protraction of Trucks Juden with gunstocks were sent that the UN.S. Uinnesota went ashore at £160,000,000 the interest to be paid will frem Berlin on February 20 addressed to Uw shims (Inland Sea), near the spot be another £7,500,000. The sums thus far the war, and in order to secure the aber agent at Tripoli During the re-

whee the P. & 0 Vile was lost spent for the purpose of the war havo moval of the consignment from the mari

not been published. When it is remem- necessary reserves with liability for ser time station to the boat some employees recently. One cable states that the accidentered that the income of the State has vice, the age for the untrained Land thought they heard strange sounds in the

barrels. Annination was made and scored at 11 pm on the 11th inst. considerably diminished and that the have dried up, it will be readily under- sturm will hence-forward be from 18 to 02 barrels were found to contain metallic And her despatch said she was making a import duties on agricultural products cylinders, in each of which were six French of water, por hour in the No. 1 held stood how dark is the future withs regard 50 years. Hitherto, it has been from 19andel, with their munitions

8 Eticane manufactur

passengers were transferred to the to the prospect of the new taxes. Dante, which was proceeding to Keb. hapanese cruiser Yakuu wat

to 4

WINNIEPEG, April, 17th,

These guns were sent by the Germans CANADA'S WHEAT SUPPLY: to the Arabs for service against Italy, evi-

dently with the intention to make one being by, and powerful pumps were lieve that they were delivered by France sent from Kure. I was hoped to The Germans could conceive nothing beat 84 The ship afoot shortly The Saskatchwan Government reportster to disturb de harmonious relations he Minnesote was booked to take 10,000 an increase of three quarters of a million between France and Italy

of cargo from Kobe, and consequent there was mach distress amongst ship-

acrese under wheat.

"This scandal has produced an enory mous impression in Italy.

HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.

We are informed that the men of the

No. 1 Artillery Section, and of Belcher's Section will not be on duty at Head- quarters during the thing week 246