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THE

WAR.

AMERICA

AND

AUSTRIA.

SECOND NOTE TO BE SENT.

GERMA'N NAVAL LOSSES.

CRUISER AND TORPEDO BOAT SUNK.

HEAVY BOMBARDMENTS IN WEST.

GREEK PROTEST AGAINST ALLIES' ACTION,

THE BALKANS

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MASTERLY FRENCH

RETIREMENT.

\NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20TH, 1918,

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AMERICA AND AUSTRIA.

SECOND NOTE BEING DRAFTED.

WASHINGTON, December 19th. President Wilson in drafting a secon 1] Note Jo Austria, which it is expected will be despatched in, a few days. It is under

stood that the Note asks for an immediate reply and will dearly state the conse quences if the reply is unsatisfactory.

RECRUITING IN ENGLAND. ANTI-COMPULSION DEPUTATION

"A BIG MISTAKE,"

LONDON, December 18th. Numerous members of the House of Commons, Unionist, Liberal and Labou?

WAR NEWS.

ATTEMPT TO DESTROY HORSES

FOR ALLIES.

Three different fires were started among some freight cars in the railway station yard at Weehawken (New Jersey, USA., last month, only 100ft, away from a oorral containing 500 horses intended for the Allies. It is believed that German spies were responsible for the fires,

GERMANY'S GENEROSITY.

The Bucharest correspondent of the Stampes téligraphs that Von Mackensen hug informed the Bulgarian General Staff and Austrians in Serbia will be handed that the booty captured by the Germans over to the Bulgarions. King Ferdinand has replied, thanking General von Mac kusen for this generous act,

FERMENT IN ROUMANIA,

alike, express their resentment at the month stated that interventionist meet- A telegram from Geneva to Paris last forty anti-compulsion members for waitings continued in Roumania. A journa- on Mr. Asquith. They consider "that list delivered at Galatz a violent speech, attacking the King and the Government, it was an outrageous breach of privi.and declaring that a revolution was lege: especially after the Premier mid the streets, and the offices of the Ger becessary. Demonstrations followed in given his word to the married men," manophil newspaper Nusul were stoned.

Seventeen persons were arrested.

The moderate Liberals affirm that no body has any right to try to anticipate Mr. Asquith's statement. His pledge wa seriously meant and will be honourably carried out. Single men should enlist at

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GERMAN CRUISER ANDnce.

TORPEDO BOAT SUNK.

AMSTERDAM, December 19th, LONDON, December 19th.

A Berlin official announcement states Renter's correspondent at the Head- that the small cruiser Bremen, and r quarters in the Balkans describes the arcompanying torpedo hont have been final phase of the French retreat as sunk by a submarine in the eastern Baltis. masterly. A new bridgehead was estabA considerable portion of the crews wer lish at Gradett, where there was severescued. fighting, and where there was an enor Rolling mous accumulation of stores.

stock and heavy guns were sent to the rear before the retirement of the troops had begun, The French lost three hundred yards of trench and the advance line avered, but the men callied and held their ground further in the rear, while the bridgehead remained intact. When the troops were ordered to retire their Left, which was the most vulnerable, was strengthened, and the retreat to Govgheli wag carried out without foss. The evac nation of the hospitals and stores at Govgheli, which has been a base, and also the fog, delayed the retirement for: 18. hours, but the movements were carried out normally. All the attacks were res puised. Altogether the French lost 2,000 killed and wounded in the retirement.

GENERAL SARRAIL'S VIEWS

GERMAN HYDROPLANE

CAPTURED.

PARIS, December 19th.

A Naval communiqué says than a tor pide-boat pursued two hydroplanes which vere resting on the water near the Outratel Bank off Nieuport, “One of them eepped, and the other, which was hit, was captured with two naval men. FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT

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ARTILLERY ACTIVITY,

PARIS, December 18th. There has been an intense-hombardment

in

M.P'S WAR STORY.

Major Page-Croft told a good story the House of Commons recently,

distinguished Four days ago, he said, a general addressed his battalion, and said that the war might last five, ten or thirty years, but the men must stick it. The Conservativea and many Labouri-It's all right, cheer up, mates," a man tes describe the deputation as: big was overheard saying when going off parade. I've always heard that the mistake. They do not believe that the arst thirty years of war were the worst.?! Government will give in to the slackers," (Laughter.)

Л

THE PREMIER'S PLEDGE.

LONDON, December 18th, Lord Derby, speaking at Bolton, said that. Mr. Asquith will keep his plodge both in the lotter and in the spirit, with prac tically the whole of the country behind

him,

GERMAN CONSPIRACY IN AMERICA.

་་་་་

IMPORTANT ARRESTS EFFECTED

New Yonk, December 19th. Paul Koenig, stated to be the head of the German Secret Service in the United Etates, and Richard Lyudecker have bee arrested on a charge of conspiracy to blow up the Welland Canal.

FIVE HUNDRED HORSES

PLY DROWNED. Five hundred horses have been drowned in the North River owing to the sinking

ANOTHER MUNITION WORKS

FIRE IN AMERICA.

A fire, the origin of which is still un certain, broke out last month at the wills of John A. Roeblings, Sons, & Co., a Trenton, New Jersey, who are manufac turing barbed wire chains for the Allies. The fire at one time threatened the whole plant in the neighbourhood, but is now under control,

The damage is estimated at over £200,000. The rope mill and n dozen dwellings were destroyed and the gun barrel factory was damaged.

TALES FROM TURKEY.

DJEMAL PASHA TO LEAD REVOLT AGAINST ENVER.

Mail advices received by the fessuger d'Athènes report that Diemal Pasha, Commander of the Expedition against Egypt, ha incited the Druses tribe in

MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENT AT HAPPY VALLEY, EUROPEAN LADY BADLY

INJURED.

As the result of being knocked down by a motor-car at Happy Valley yesterday sternoon, a Mrs. Turner sustained such severe injuries to the head that she w removed to the French Hospital in an unconscious condition. At a late hour last night she had not recovered constirames.

WAR AND COMMERCE, PROPOSAL FOR MEETING GERMAN COMPETITION AFTER THE WAR. Writing to The Times last month "Civis Britannicus said

CANTON NOTES.

[FROM OUR OWN CORBESPONDENT.}

CANTON, December 18th.

- ESVOLUTIONARY, ACTIVITIES,

Reports have been received by Genera stealthily returning to the interior with Lung that numerous rebels have been

a view to creating trouble. Owing to the

ties, they are confronted with the greatest careful precautions taken by the authori

difficulty in smuggling arms and ammuni tion, but in spite of this, they are still

devising monng of attaining their object, Their Invest plan, the report says, is to

bottles and revolvers in soap chests and have explosive powder packed in beer-

to ship them from Hongkong by cargo junks to the Sha Cheng market, near tho Tigers Forts, from which place the ship- Surely it is high time that we in Eng land took some thought to meet the hosts are to be distributed amongst tile measures that our suemies will pre differens towns in small lots by women pare against us when peace oioses the specially employed for the purpose. period of military warfare.

What are these?

Urgent instructions were immediately The committes of the two associations given to the East River military com [.e. the Federation of Merchants and inanders to take special pains, to guard' the Central Union of German Mer- chant] are of opinion that the numerous against these designs. attempts made by foreign countries Another report is to the effect that the systematically to strangle and exaude officials of the Canton-Samahin Railway Gerran commercial competition after Company have been instructed by the the war will require an intelligently Board of Communications to watch care- organized expansion of German ex-fully that all shipments of pulitary and ports, as well as of the German world's police uniforms forwarded by rail are commercial interests

altogether in accompanied by a permit issued jointly order to remove the injuries brought by the Board and the War Office, as it about by the war. Translation of the has been discovered that large supplies report of a meeting held in Germany to of such uniforms have been thakle promote export trade, at the termine Japan to the order of Sun Yat-sen and tion of the war, from Engineering, Huang Hsing for distribution amongst October 20th.].

their followers in the interior of China, so that they may disguise themselves.

To

YUAN

in

SHIH-KAI'S ACCEP TANCE OF THE THRONE. THE CHANGE NOT FOR PLEASURE

BUT FOR PROGRESS.

That is to say, after the war, the Ger- man Government will (if it is able) en courage German production by a system of bounties, fixing the price of various commodities at a rate which will allow of 6 small profit in the home market, and ducer to dump his goods on foreign will, at the same time, enable the pro- markets at a figure long below the cost price of production, the deficiengy being made good to him by a State bounty. The

The second petition of the Council of temptation of cheapness will be held

State to President Yuan Shih-kai pointed. out as a bait to foreign, and especially out that his inauguration oath would not English, merchant, and consuțiers. meet this; ought there not to be 4D Throne, or the outh was based on the be broken by his acceptance of the lente, between the Powers allied against position of the Chief Executive, that Germany, of Customs duties at least position was based on the form of the equivalent of the Teutonic bounty; the state, which in turn was based on the duties besing". pooled accepting the Entente with a view to de- wish of the people. If the wish of the fraying the expenses caused by the war people were for a Republic then the oath In this way we should make some advance would be valid, but, as tho wish of the towards the desirable ideal of enabling the outh would constitutional monarchy. the Powers in favour of Freedom

would be invalidated only come self-supporting, and we should douan refused to accept the Throne and something reasonable towards meeting the thereby punged the country into au

abyss. intolerable financial burden caused by the war.

The President, after quoting the me morial of the Lilayuan, says:

ia every country

to

Syria to revolt against the Government SHANGHAI KLEBANG RUBBER of people is one of extraordinary magni-

and has taken the leadership of a revolu tionary movement, which the Arabs in general will support.

It is added that Djemal's action is con-

of the German trenebes in the region be of a barge, which was possibly scuttled by revenge against Enver Pasha, who suc

tween the Somme and the Oise, and be tween Boissons and Rheims, The enemy's batteries in the datter district were silenced.

PARIS, Decembor 19th

A communiqué says that there has been a general bombardment, which was most intense in Artois, where aerial torpedoes

SALONIKA, December 19th, General Sarrail is quoted by a corres pondent as having said Events will find us ready to resist any attacks. Mean-ate in use. time the Greek mobilisation continues, in- dicating that the Government is alive to any contingency that may still be dragged into the conflict.”

AT SALONIKA.

PARIS, December 10th, The organisation of the entrenched camp at Salonika continues.

GREECE PROTESTS.

LONDON, December 19th. Rentor is informed that Greece has ad dressed to the Entente a formal protest against the fortification of Balonika,

BETTER FACILITIES FOR THE

ALLIES.

SALONIKA, December 19th. A prominent Greek official has arrived, with a view of assuring better railway and telegraph facilities for the Allies.

RUSSIAN FRONT

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RENEWED ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA.

PETROGRAD, December 19th. A communiqué reports a series of minor reconnaissances and artillery engagements. on the German front, all being favourable to the Russians,

THE NEAR EAST,

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·LULL IN THE EAST.

German agents,

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, December 19th.

Messrs. Montagu's silver report says the fobust appearance of the market has been somewhat balied by the sale on account of Clins, Purchases are still being made for

coinage, but there is a

The French blew up a German wholed ill probably be short, in the Continental transport, in the neighbourhood of Chaul- ncs.

LATER.

The day has been generally quiet. As it was misty it was unsuitable to the artil- lery, but the Anglo-French artillery, has silenced the hostile guns north of Ypres,

GERMAN MUNITIONS, FACTORY · DESTROYED.

PARIS, December 19th. A French cruiser bombarded aut entire ly destroyed a German wer

material fretory at Boifa.

GENERAL.

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SMUGGLING RUBBER INTO

GERMANY.

EIGHT THOUSAND POUNDS. SEIZED IN POST.

LONDON, December 18th, The Foreign Office announces that of 300 bags of parcel mail, seized aboard the Swedish steamer Helligolay 109 con- tained nothing but rubber, the estimated weight of which was 8,000 lbs. All these parcels were consigned to a well-known enemy forwarding-agent in Sweden, ⠀⠀ UNIVERSITIES AND THE WAR,

LONDON, December 19th, The changed conditions at the Universi tes are attested by the fact that the er aminers in Ireland for the Craven Echolarships declined to award them, but R-P..Dutt has been honourably mentionel for his work in the examination,

PURSUIT OF ENEMY IN

-PERSIA.

demand Meanwhile there is insufficient competition to animate the market, even though America is only a small soller, PLEA FOR DUTCH EDITOR'S

ACQUITTAL.

Amsterdam, December 18th. The Public Prosecutor Fas appealed for the acquittal of Dr. Schroeder, the Chief Editor of the Telegraaf, who is charge with endangering neutrality by publish ing an article in which it was said that it was a group of conscienceless scound rels in Central Europe who caused the

war."

| INDIAN AMBULANCE CORPS

·FOR EUROPE.

DURBAN, December 19th, A contingent of the Indian Ambulance Corps is leaving for Europe. PRESIDENT WILSON

WASHINGTON, December 19th. President Wilson was married to Mrs Salt yesterday. After the ceremony, which as of the simplest character, Mr and Mrs. Wilson let for the South, where the heneymoon is to be spent. They will be aray for a fortnight..

sidered by the Young Turks as an act of

ceeded in sending him away from Con stantinople. This news is without con firmation.

The same journal reports from Con- stantinople, that active preparations are going on there for the reception of the Germans after a complete Serbian defeat, and that General von Mackensen will take

command at the Dardanelles.

STRAIN ON THE GERMANS IN

RUSSIA

top are a longer of the first order, In the north of Russia the German

and their discipline is bad.

A Saxon goldier before Dvinsk has been shot for complaining of exhaustion and criticising the dispositions of the higher command. In the Army Order referring to this matter it is curtly

aid Puff 6 As for exhaustion, the fault is your own. You have been told already that there will be no rest for you except at Dvinsk

ESTATE. LTD. EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL

MEETING.

An extraordinary general meeting of the Shanghai Klebang Rubber Estates, Ltd., was held at Shanghai, last week, Mr. Hugo Reiss presiding.

The following special resolutions, passed at the meeting held on November 20th were carried and confirmed

1. That it is desirable to reconstruct the Company and accordingly that the Com- pany be wound up volutarily and that Charles James Lindsay Stewart be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purposes of such winding up.

The task imposed on me by millions tude. it is, therefore, impossible for one without virtue like myself to shoulder thai burdens of State involved in enhancing the welfare of the people, strengthening. the standing of the country, relorsiing the administration and furthering the advancement of civilization.

Aty former declaration was, therefore, the expression of a sincere heart and not a mere expression of modesty. My tears were such that I could not uttera words that i expressed. The people, how- ever, have viewed with increasing im patience that declaration and their ex- pectation of me is now more pressing than ever; thus I find myself unable to offer further argument, just as I am unable to escape the positions.

2. That the said Liquidator be and he Laying & great foundation is, how- gistration of a new Company to be named and must not be done in a hurry There is hereby authorized to consent to the re-ever, a thing of paramount importance The Shanghai hlebang Rubber Estate, fore I order the different Ministries and Ltd., with Memorandum and Articles of Bureaux to take concerted, adion. Association which have already bem pre making the necessary preparations in paced with the privity and approval of attar in which they are concerned, re- the Directors of tuis Company, and with a porting the same when completed for pro- capital of Tis, 316,000 divided into 315,000 mulgation."

shares of one tael each.

3. That the druit agreement submitted to this meeting and expressed to be made between this Company and its Liquida tor, of the one part, and The Shanghai Bimilarly, stories are current of an ex Klebang Rubber Estate, Ltd., of the other change of amenities between General part, be and the same is hereby approved. Below and Field-Marshal von Hinden And that the said Luquidator be and he of the latter, who is successfully charged 185 of the Companies Ordinancs 1911 to burg, which has lowered the reputation is hereby authorized pursuant to Section with laying upon the present German enter into an agreement with such new complements such tasks as would have Company (when incorporated) in the been beyond the power of execution by terms of the said draft and to carry the equal numbers of the German active same into effect with such (if any) modi- armies at the outset of the war.

floations as he thinks expident..

THE CENSORING OF SOLDIERS" LETTERS.

AN AFFAIR OF THE HEART.

PANAMA CANAL. NOT LIKELY TO BE REOPENED FOR SIX MONTHS.

iri

President Yuan Shib-kai concludes by urging citizens to go on peacefully with their daily vocations while all officials shund be faithtal to their posts and maintain to the best of their ability peaco La order in their localities, so that the ambition of a grest President to work for the welfare of the people may be realized. PROGRESSIVE POLICY TO BE PURSUED, Later the President called the heads of departments together and in a strong, impassioned speech emphasized that the change of government was not being made for pleasure but to enable reforms to be carried out which would justify the recent action of the people and place the nation upon the plane it should cccapy in the

world.

He ordered all officials to apply them- selves to preparations for a forward, pro- gressive policy and intimated that China was practically having her last chance to do for herself what others would forca her

to

THE CORONATION CEREMONIES,

do if her own people failed

of

It is definitely decided by the members the Commission for the Preparation of

the Grand Ceremonies that the formalities

led on those now adopted in three coun- for the expected monarchy shall be model- tries, namely Great Britain, Japan and Germany. It is also understood that the

In order that a letter to his sweetheart in England might not be read by his According to announcement made at WEDS.fficer, a South African trooper in a disashington last month it seems improh tinguished regiment in France, paid able that the Panama Canal will be re thirty shillings, at an auction among opened for traffic within the next six soldiers, for one of those little green en months. There is no change in the slides velopes which are allowed to pass Day is to remain closed for such a length

through but, in view of the fact that the Canal (says the

time, most of the employes have been given the post uncensored Sketch)

The lady describes the circumstances rations in order to reduce the expenses. which led her lover to pay so high a price A careful survey of the slide area in old manner of obsequious kneeling and for the envelope, the issue of which the Gaillard cup reveals the fact that there kowtowing, which was ridiculed by ere probably 10,000,000 cubic yards of foreigners, will not be restored. The The principal reason," she said, earth in motion, which must be taken out National Flag will be in five colours with that the men object to their dence being censored by their own cfficers, The men recognise that their letters must be censored, but they feel that the work of censorship should not be done by their The present rate of wet excavation is own officers, but those of other regiments. 1,000,000 yards per month and at this rats it would require not less than 10 mont's to remove the mass which is now sliding In other words there should be an exchange of regimental mail bags so far

into the Canal considerably fastor than censorship is concerned, unit the bidding

the dredges can take it out. It is sail fiance's Jesisrece envelope was excessively keen, and that often the Canal bottom bulges up to

OBITUARY.

SIR JOHN RHYS,

LONDON, December 19th..

The leath of Sir John Rhys

announced.

The deceased was Principal of Cllege, Oxford.]

{HAYAS SERVICL]:

FRENCH STOCK.

should be freez

14

correspon-

my

· In. for this one

dredging sperations before a pea shining sun in the middle, symbolic of tuanent channel through the cut is five different families owing allegiance to

the saing empero

probable,

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PROVINCIAL CONSTITUTIONS

response to the telegrams from the various Governors requesting the Central Government to fix the amounts to be re mitted from their provinces in order to meet the expenses which will be incurred during the change of the form of State,

has wired hack giving the province as follows: Chihli, Shantung, Kiangsu,

Chekiang, Szechuan and Kwang- tung, each $200,000; Honan. Anhui,.

Fin each $150,000; Fenghien, Shaas and Yunnan, each $100,000; Kirin, Kansu, Heilungkiang, Kuangsi, Kuei- the centre ine of the Canal prism. Jeho Kuehus, Buiyuan, and Chabar, Hanila Cahlénsur,,

each $60,000.

hought himself lucky to get it knocked a height of 15 feet above the surface of the the Goverme this connexion from each

down to him for thirty shillings,

water due to the tremendous weight of required The men fo the new armies are often the hillside, in personal touch with their officers in The area of motion is roughly calculated civil life, where their clashed. Here is one instance. At the which constitutes the side ares in the outbreak k of war a partner in a London hustory of the Cana). It extends 2,000 fee business enlisted. He now finds that [Telegrams received on Saturday, and any letters be Bends his Brm are censored banks of the waterway, with thing noteworthy to report regarding | muniqué, our troops continue to press the published in an "Extra" on Sunday, by an officer who before the war, was probaldy zu verzo of 1.500 feet back of chow and Sinkiang, each $80,000; Peking

will be found on page 5.}

discharged from the firm's employment.

PARIS, December 19th

A communiqué states that there is no

edonia or. te. Dardanelles

PernoGEAD, Desember 19th South-west of Hamadan, says a com-

vermy closely,

French stock now stands at 83.75