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THE WAR.

ALLIES AND BALKANS.

CAMPAIGN TO BE PROSECUTED VIGOROUSLY.

GREEK SITUATION EASIER.

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY IN WEST.

"GERMAN MUNITIONS

FACTORY BLOWN UP.

ANTI-WAR RIOTING IN SOFIA.

THE BALKANS.

(THROUGH REUTEE'S AGENCE.)

ALLIES AND THE BALKAN CAMPAIGN.

TO BE PROSECUTED ENERGETICALLY

ATHENS, December 5th. The conviction now prevails that the Allies will prosecute the. Balkan campaign. most energetically in order to check the German advance towards Constantinople Reinforcements are continually arriving at the Anglo-French lives, which are now extremely strong,

ALLIES PROTECTING

RAILWAY,

ATHENS, December 5th The entire Allied line from Corns to Krivolak is being continually reinforced. The positions on the east bank of the Var dar are being strengthened with a view to extending the zone for the protection of the railway,

BROKEN RAILWAY COM-

MUNICATIONS.

AMSTERDAM, December 5th.

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRON Y.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY ]

ALL QUIET.

PARIS, Decomber 5th. Today's communiqué says there is no-

thing to report.

INCREASED ARTILLERY

ACTIVITY.

PARIS, December 6th The evening communiqué saya that there has been increased artillery activity on both sides, Movements of enemy troops were reported in Belgium, hence the French guns effectively shelled the coin munication trenches.

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Near Hetsar a vialent enemy bombard- ment of the French trenches south-west of Loos was vigorously answered. Fighting by mines continued in favour of the French at several points. GENERAL.

NOT

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENDE.J

SCHEME RECRUITING

WHOLLY SUCCESSFUL.

SUPREME EFFORT NEEDED.

LONDON, December 6th.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7TH, 1026.

{THROUGH REUTER'S ADEKOR-] INSURANCE SECRETS, IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT

WARNINGSI

LONDON, December. Oth

The Admiralty warns Insurance Com ponies than they will be liable to proseon

tion if they communicate partionlars of risks on Government work to foreign companies with which they have been in the habit of effecting re-insurances, and says that more than one insurance Com pany has been already removed from tho list of those eligible to participato in

Government insurance owing to want of due precautions regarding secreop

GERMAN

CONSPIRACY IN AMERICA.

NEW YORK December 8th, It is generally thought that the Govern ment has finally decided to rout out the rest of German conspirators in the United States, regardless of the official position of those concerned. Officials believe that there is direct connection between the man Eray a conspirator implicated in bomb plota in New York, and Brincken Weso, said to have figured prominently in plots against munition works, railways, and ships, for which a man named Crowley was recently arrested at San Francisco,

↑ [THROUGH BAUTES'S AGENCE]

POPE AND WAR HORRORS.

JUST AND SPEEDY PEACE DEMANDED.

Rose December 6th,

His Holiness the Pope, in Consistory to-day, will deliver an allocation again de

THE GURKHA.

A CHARACTER SKETCH

[BY AN ANGLO-INDIAN,]

Moore, of the 19th Gurkha Rifles, was dining with me last night. His wounds and he is going back to France, where he have been patched up for the second time,

will and none of the original officers of his own battalion left, save possibly the

VALUE OF TRUTH, LORD MILNER'S CONFIDENCE. THE GREAT RESERVES OF EMPIRE

Lord Milner, speaking at Canterbury recently, denounced the policy of conical, have to be prepared for efforts and sacri ing the truth about the war. He said, we

fors far, far beyond anything we ever imagined when tie war began. How are

ploring the horrors of the war and demand-colonel a bit pipped," he said, we to brace our nerves and steel our hearte

ling a speedy peace which shall be just and durable, not favouring one side only, SWEDISH STEAMER BLOWN UP.

COPENHAGEN, December 6th. The Swedish steamer Nordvik, from Grinsky to Stockholm, laden with coal, has been blown up by a mine. Five were killed.

NEW GOVERNOR OF CEYLON

LONDON, December 5th.. It is officially announced that the date of Ser J. Anderson's departure for Ceylon has not yet been fixed. He will probably remain at the Colonial Office the end of February.

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have just heard that my ordeals, poor to win through! Some think it is to So old Tegh Bahadur, is dead--blown up by done by imitating the ostrich. If only a hand grenade in a night

attack He people can be led to believe that things was such a top-holo fellow.

are less bad than they really are then they will be wonderfully inspirited. Nothing of the kind; they simply remain half awake, But then it is said that to speak openly of what has gone amiss, to recognize facts, is to encourage the enemy. The way to encourage the enemy is to make him think we are afraid of the truth. Nothing. is more likely to discourage him than if we look the truth straight in the face, and still march boldly forward, head orect. Nothing in the word for instance, woult discourage him as much as our prompt acceptance of National Service. ARENA VALTE OF CRITICISM.

And he began to tell ins of the shoot ing trips they had bad together and bow Tegh Bahadur had turned a bear out of a cavo and tackled a huge wounded boar, in the forest with his Lubri

There are many reces, cistes, and creeds in the Indian Army, but every British officer, whether it be through love or conviction, sweare by his own men, This is as is should be, but, speaking as an outsider who knows a little of most of the Indian fighting stocks and not great deal of any. I have always enried the man who commands the "Gurk,'

He is first of all a soldier and a shikori, and honours his British officer as such And then, again, we are told, if we dwelt not because of his white skin, but because on some of the blunders heinous as they of the stedfast virtues of his class. There are, which have been committed on our is no sophisticated 20th-centairy race side, that we are carping Speaking feeling about the Goorkh He can for myself, I cannot imaging a more odious be porfectly at his case with his regitask than to criticize those in authority at mental officer without any encroachment the present time. They have enormous upon respect. Something of the same difficulties to contend with, some of which relations exist between the two as between no doubt are not knowa to us. If any. house master at one of our public thing is to be said in criticism of them, I schools and the big boys in his house. think it should be said in the fewest words, with perfect directness and without animus. But you may ask me, Why y anything at all I will tell you why. Because if the very worst of our laches and failures, like the delay in providing shells and the brasen-faced attempt to conceal

[FROM QUE OWN CORRESPONDENTJ HANKOW IMPROVEMENTS.

A STORY OF TEGH DAHADURA He was an ugly little devil (Moore NEW LOAN ARRANGED."

said], and a chunk had been torn out of PERING December 6th.

his face by a leopard. I didn't take to him at first until one day I was in the Thallankow Electric Light and Water-jungle at Choom, and heard woodcutting

It is stated at Washington that much works Company have concluded a loan a forest reserve where wood cutting 16 it, or the way we piled blunder upon

of the evidence upon which the judicial suthorities are acting was Arst gatheroj by British agents,

NEW YORK, December 5th. The employés of the Hamburg-Amerika Linie who were sentenced to forms of imprisonment have been admitted to ba of $10,000 each, pending appeal,- AMERICAN CRANK'S FEACE MISSION.

RIDICULED BY NEWSPAPERS.

NEW YORK, December 5th: The American motor manufacturer Henry Ford who at the time of the Bri tish Loan in the United States threatened to withdraw his deposits from any bank - subscribing, recently issued 200 invitations to prominent Americans to accompany him on a tour through Europe at his expense with a view to organising a Peace Confer enco, declaring his determination to have

with the Anderson Meyer Company of taels 2,500,000. This is an American group, The company are also negotiating with the Govorations for rights to issue a Han-room and led kow improvement loan, which was con- claded with the Samuel Company, the latter being unable to fulfil the contract. SALT GABELLE SURPLUS. PEKING, December 6th,

forbidden. It was in the lense season any everybody had cleared out and I was left in command When I appeared in the clearing I saw three pairs of heels I recognized Tegh scurrying away Bahadur called h the orderly

A $0,000,000 surplus has been handed, over to the Government as revenue from the Salt Gabelle..

STRANGE AFFAIR AT

SHANGHAI

"Yes, sahib,

You were cutting wood," I said, You know it is against orders?" Yes, sahib.

Why did you run away ?'' When we mw the captain sahib com- ing we were frightened and had te bolt

Is there any reason why you should not be punished P

Yes, sahib, it is a first offence. colonel sahib never punishes offence.

There were two others!'' "Yes, sahib."

Tell me their names."

The

first

No, sahib I cannot tell you their names. We do not betray one another

Perhaps if I talk a little to CHINESE WARSHIP BOARDED AND them in the canteen they will come to

you themselves and confess.??|

The next day the two men came and confessed and were forgiven,

SLIZED.

PERING, December 6th.;

An offcial statement has been issued

which says that at about 5 pm on Sunday a number of disreputable characters in Shanghai hired from the Settlement a

A simple story with no point in it to one unversed in the evasiveness of the more sophisticated East,

blunder in the Dardanellas or the rehdy phenomenal failure of our policy in the Balkons--if things like these are to bo glozed over and mods light of, if the nation. can be induced to regard them as just ordinary incidents of war, to be accepted with a shrug of the shoulders as inevitable and venial--then it can never expect, and. it will not deserve, to see its affairs better managed in the future.

I must say I don't understand how any- one can contemplate our failure to support derbia in time though I hope and pray that we may be able to give some support to hur even now or our belated effort to buy the help of Greece by the offer of part of our own possessions without humilia tion I for one never shall believe that we can impress our enemies, or comman the respect of neutrals or even adequately rouse our own people, if we appear to trent such matters lightly

It is only if we frankly recognise un favourable facts that we can derive any sure encouragement from the really gena inely "favourable elements in the situation, from these reserves of strength in Great Britain and the Empire, which, property used are still sufficient to bring us out. were in Waziristan, Wann way, when theness of vision, is the most fortifying thing Soon, afterwards (Moore continued] we rictorious Truth, truth all round, clear- country was disturbed. I went out after in the world. It is not by trying to make markhor one afternoon without an escort, out the defents are victories or that and I had an uncomfortable feeling all blunders are merely regrettable accidents noticed thasing straggle. It is by fixing our eyes on was in the evening when a pointed rock near me cast an un- what really is good, what really are sources with my rifle and waited Soon a voice the uttermost naturally bulging shadow. I covered it of strength, and swing upon them to came from behind it: Don't shoot, THE WISE OF THE NAVY.

The work the Navy has been magni- sahib, it is me" and after the voice there of Tegh Bahadur

A Bulgarian communiqué: says that the railwaymen at Long Eaton, said he had the boys out of the trenches at Christ Tunch on the bow of which they hoisted the while that I was being stalked. It that we ens nerve ourselves for the remain

railway communication between Nish and Sofia has been re-established. It is note communications between worthy that Nish and Belgrade are still cut,

ALLIES' FIRM STAND,

FUTILE BULGARIAN ATTACKS, PARIS, December 5th. The Bulgarians suffered heavy losses in Jain endeavours to dislodge the Allies in the Strumnitza region. Several enemy guns were destroyed.

BULGARIAN ATTEMPTS

ΤΟ

CROSS CERNA FAIL.

PARIS, December 5th.. The evening communiqué says that local actions in which the Eastern Army were engaged on the 3rd inst. were sharp, parti.

calarly in the direction of Kosturing, where a Bulgarian atinck was repulsed.

Two Bulgarian attempts to cross the Cerna River were stopped by artillery on i infantry fire.

ANTI-WAR RIOTING IN SOFIA,

PARIS, December 5th. There have been serious anti-war riot. ing in front of the Palace, and numbers were killed and wounded,

Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P addressing talked on the previous day with Lori Derby, who said that the recruiting scheme was not so successful as he antici pated or was entitled to expect. There fore, added Mr. Thomas, a supreme effort must be made in the next for days by the opponents of Conscription that would be the most conclusive answer to prema ture talk of peace.

LORD KITCHENER AND ITALIAN ARMY,

MUTUAL COMPLIMENTS.

mas. He chartered a Danish ateamer, the Obear II,

blue fag. They made straight for the The scheme was received with such Chinese men-of-war at the anchorage, a

came alongside the little Chinese training ship Chae He, which they boarded. Th.

derision and denunciation by the Ameri can papers that it was at first thought it must be killed forthwith. No promin ent person accepted the invitation:

were armed with pistole and bombs and appeared the forage cap and scarred face ficent and its strength is growing. Tho

soon get fired a few guts The whole affair laste I

control of the situation. The me

Judge Parker, ex-Democratic candidate an hour. Their intention was to create for the Presidency, replied that the Gov-a panic. The day being Sunday, the ernment ought to stop the expedition, least Ford's "antics" were taken seriously and bring the United States into contempt and even hatred,

ROME, December 5th.

Many other similar replies were sent Lord Kitchener, on his return to Eng-

The Government, however, confined itself land, telegraphed General Caderne, send

to neutral to refusing passports except. ing to the Italian Army his cordial greet

countries. ings and expressing his admiration of the

"Ford's Ark," as the Oscar II: is called, skill of its leaders, its general efficiency, and the tenacious bravery with which it sailed yesterday, the party of "joyriders" fulfilling a task the nature of which he numbering 140, of whom 54 were reporters, had seen with his own eyes. Lord male and female, 20 clerks, three cinemato. Kitchener concluded: "I have full con graph operators, and the rest fourth-rate fidence that the spirit shown by the Italian faddists and propagandists of all kinds, in- cluding heads of the anti-Smokers' Proto;. sollier will lead to victory"

General Cadorna replied cordially reciptive League, Single-Toxers, Socialist, ng- rooating, the greetings from the illustri tators, reformers, and their wives, and ous General who has created the formid- several members of the Women's Peace ablo English Armies with which the Allies Congress. ars fighting for the triumph of civiliza tion,"

Mr. Bryan, however, bade them farowell at the quayside. A crowd song "Onward

Christian soldiers," though the effect was

gay courage, the cheerful endurance of hardship of our men in the field is admir-· able, even in those newest lovies who, only a few months ago, were totally untrained. in which perfectly raw blooded troops

He was ashamed at being discovered He didn't want the sahib to be scuppered, he said, and seeing that I was not angry he grinned sheepishly. But just think of it! He had been shadowing me the whole afternoon and I had not twug it, and I was drawing my pay for training him, were asked, under the most discouraging conditions, to do what would have been a majority of the officers and crow, consist-teaching him to stalk, and scout!

trial for the hardiest veterans they have ing of a little over 30 persons, were gives

The fidelity of the man Moore took as a matter of course, but his story remind shown themselves first-class soldiers, And leave, and they had not returned toed me of a tradition that holds in most properly handled they will fight better and Gurkha battalions. In the attack the better and better as the months roll on abip. Hence the opportunity for the British officer always runs a little ahead. And how can we say too much of the devo attack

That is the custom whatever troops he tion to the cause of the Empire the splen Fortunately the troops and police werd but it is not always easy to keep did heroism and the rising spirit of the the lead; two men in a company of peoples of the Oversea Dominions the Gurks are told off to stand by him on great hope, the sure promise of the future prepared, and everything on land we either side Against steel at least he of our race? For years and years somo

must not fall. But, of course, this has to of us have been presching, often to deaf- peaceful

be a very furtive proceeding oars, how great were the reserves of

HIGHLANDER AND GURKHA,

In the same anchorage wereaine men-of-war, from which crews were sent to capture the attackers. Order was imme. diately restored

[TROM THE

There is a long standing alliance be tween the Highland regiments and the Gurk, The Highlander is attached to

strength which the Empire possessed in thes young nationg overseas. After the war it it surely never bo necessary to preach

that again.

him because of his cheery face, and the

And, finally there is still plenty mors face of the Gurkha is the index of his soul. He has the heart of a lion and fighting power left in this old country if * CHUNG NGOI BAN 20

the head of a child. No sepoy is so de only we can evoke it. Mer, munitions, pendent on his sahib money. We have still a greater reserve f SHAXOHAT, December 6th.

In the trenchce of Flanders he is think able-bodied men than any other warring ing all the while This is the country nation. Munitions are coming along, Last night some sixty rebels seized the of the white man; these are the ways of and money is far from being exhausted, Chinese cruiser Sinuor and directed her the white man," and when all his ofhcers though we simply mast check the present are killed he is a little lost and bowilder- waste if it is to last. The resources Bra fire towards the Arsenal, which replied. ed. He is a cheery, but not a calculating, there. But do not let us think that the The Sinner was surrounded by other menighter. He loves a scrap, and likes to more contemplation of these resources is They must be exploited to the look into the whites of his enemy's eyes; sufficient. of war, and, being damaged, ceased firing. but an enemy composed of terrible sounds, full, We must get our whole weight on reports that the native city is quiet and whom, it is hard to cope alone. If there we are always going to follow the line of The Military Governor at the Yamen unseen shocks, and tortuous forms of to the Dar And we can't do it if n death is a manifestation of the devil with dealing with war problems here at home

MARKED CHANGE IN GREEK HUGE GERMAN MUNITIONSomewhat spoiled by someone shoutine the Intendent of Shanghai has wired to Is one place where Tegh Bahadur is the least resistance, to think more about 100

SITUATION.

ATMOSPHERE OF OPTIMISM."

ATHENS, December 5th.

FACTORY DESTROYED

COPENHAGEN, December 5th. Private information shows that there has been a big explosion in an ammunition factory at Halle, Germany, several hun- dreds of workmen being killed.

Another munitions factory at Bojden, Silesia, was prevented from being blow, up at the eleventh hour, it being discover- ed to have been undermined. -

There appears to be a marked change in the situation. The optimism noticeable in official circles in attributed to advice from London and Paris through the Legations, There was a prolonged meeting of the Cabinet, after which the Premier went to

A number of arrests were made in both the Palace and conferred with the King.

cases, as the occurrences are suspected to After this the Cabinet resumed its sitting. | be due to discontented workmen.

Ministers did not disclose any decision,

but it is understood that things are better.

and the Entente diplomatists admit thas the position has lost much of its acuteness,

[HAVAS SERVICE,

FRENCH STOCK.

French Stock now stands at 04:50.

*Gott Strafe them." Suffragette colours

and doves were prominent in the decora- tious of the ship,

ITALIAN SOCIALISTS AND

THE WAR.

Rouz, December 8th.

the provinces that quiet is restored. rebels are all in custody.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MONARCHICAL ELECTIONS.

PEKING, December 8th. The Monarchical elections by meritorious persons literaft, etc., opened this morn

Foreigners were invited to the Old Fariament House. The proceedings were decorous.

A feature of the debate in the Chambering of Deputies was the enthusiastic support which the Independent Socialists gave to the Government's policy to fight to a que cessful conclusion for the triumph of high est principles of International Justice and legitimate national aspirations. •Their leader was warmly cheered. The minority

consisted of the official Socialista.

***hetter man it is in the listening gallery The of a mine. For his ear is as good as his

eye. Here one is happiest without 2 agination as one sits waiting in the dark for sounds in the neighbouring sap. subtle as the footfall of a bear on leaves in the white man's way as a rule, in the trenches under the night flares, Tegh Bahadur is as dependent on Moore as Moore is dependent on him in the Himalayan jungle, his home badur was very lovable little man. Moore, who has And apparently Tegh Bahadur was a lost most of his pale, was sunk in de pression half the night. He was thinking of camp fires in Suru and Beitistan and his trusty litte friend squatting over the hot rhododendron sanes in his Gilgit boots and Balaclava cap blowing the embers into a flame and chattering be tween puffs, of red bear and big shep. and the monster ibes which he has marked down for sabib on the morrow. One more of the bright visions blotted out by the Hun-Times

[FROM THE ** CHUNG KODI SAN Pr--"]

SHANGHAI AND HANYANG ARSENALS.

It is proposed to amalgamate the Arsenal at Shanghar with that of Hayang

frightening people and not making them uncomfortable than of winning the war. Tindity at home, irresolution, procrastine. tion, want of foresight and of a clear- cut policy abroad can nullify and dissipata the greatest preponderance of power. Clearness in conception:" as the logisal Frenchman says,clearness in conception, vigour in execution, these are absolutely essential. There is no other way. And surely the bulk of the nation is, sound ant sacrifice to be entitled to find these enough, patient enough, ready enough for

qualities in its leaders.- Timer,

The Petit Journals Rome, correspondent states that it is understood that Italy had decided to send an expedition to Albania immediately Gorz falls. The Salonika newspapers state that the new Anglo-Ita lion force will operate from the Adriatio probably based on Valona whence Monastir is reachable in under ten days.