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THE WAR.

VIOLENT FIGHTING IN

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, YEIDAY, FEBRUARY 251a 1818.

WEST.

RUSSIAN ENTHUSIASM.

THE DAWN OF VICTORY.

MORE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS.

EFFICACY OF BRITISH BLOCKADE.

JAPAN AND THE ALLIES.

SAILORS MAKE MUNITIONS FOR THE SOLDIERS.

FRANCO-BELOTAN FRONT..

ĮTAKOSOW REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BATTLE RAGING

VERDUN.

ROUND

VIOLENT INFANTRY FIGHTING.

PARIS, February 22nd.

A violent battle to the north of Verdun

GENERAL.

(THROUGH REUTER'S MOENCY.]

BRITAIN'S BLOCKADE.

LORD LANSDOWNE ON GOVERN-. MENT'S DIFFICULTIES.

LONDON, February 22nd.

(THROUGH BRUTED'S AGENDY.]

FIRST RAYS OF DAWN OF VICTORY.

UNPARALLELED ENTHUSIASM IN THE DUMA,

PETROGRAD February 23rd. Never before have thero bain such scenes

{WHROUGH REUTER'S. AORNOY ]

SAILORS MAKE MUNITIONS FOR SOLDIERS.

VOLUNTARY SPARE-TIME

-LABOUR.

LONDON, February 23rd. Mr. Lloyd George, in a letter 10 Admiral Sir David Beatty warmly thanking the Fleet for the splendid work of the officers

OUR LONDON LETTER, [FROM OUR OWN COLRESPONDENT.}

LONDON, January 10th, EFFECT OF WAR ON THE NATION'S HEALTH.

One of the interesting facts of this way, according to one of our great surgeons, is that fewer people among our civilian population are needing the doctor's care er the surgeon's skill. Even the danger- ous surgical cases, attributable to serious

of enthusiasm in the Dums as on the and man in making munitions for the organic troubles, have decreased to occasion of the re-opening yesterday. The Army, ssid that the output was already House was packed, and all the Allied Aof most striking value. Their work was -bassadors and Ministers attended,

enhanced because it was done in their spar Lime, on their own initiative and because they did not receive any remuneration, JAPAN AND THE ALLIES. FORTUNES INSEPARABLE.

The President, in an opening speech which was cheered to the echo, affirmed that the Tsar's historic visit showed the direct communion between the Tsar and his people thenceforward, (Loud cheering.) With the fall of Erzerum came the first rays of the dawn of victory, rising in the East. The President greeted Russin's gallant Allies, and his remarks were drowned in outbursts of cheers. The Ambassadors, on rising in acknowledgment, were ovated, The President concluded that Russia's duty is to ensure the resurrection of Ser- bía. "I express my firm hope in victory, without which there shall be no peace," he said, amid thunders of applause,

PRUSSIANISM MUST DE CRUSHED.

The Foreign Minister, M. Sazonoff, in a great speech, cimphasised the unshakeable. determination of Russia and her Allies to. conquer. This war, he said, was the Lard Sydenham, in the House of Lords,reatest crime against humanity, and Ger- many's responsibility was how thoroughly binned all night long. Wo vigorously moved a resolution urging the possible masked. The German people were in use of Our Fleets for more effec replied,

tively Violent infantry fighting is preceding

preventing supplies reaching creasingly realising that they had been duped, and were now expressing open dis- the cuemy. With reference to the sug along a frout of fifteen kilometres from

forms the feature of a communiqué, whích adds:The German bombardment con

PARIS, February 23rd. The newly-appointed Japanese Ambassa- dor, M. Matsui, in the course of an inter- view, said the fortunes of Japan and her Allies are inseparable. He was convinced of the final victory of the Allies, NAVAL AVIATORS

an

extraordinary extent.

"But," one of the auditors of the great man exclaimed, excitement over the war, or even the difficulty of paying for a delicate surgical operation in these straightened times, cannot surely prevent cases of cancer and such like from being ag numerous as ever.""

for a measure of compulsory saving that will compel the masses of the people to set Laside part of their increased earnings in

support of the national finances,

The fact is that not only are our Anan-

increase still further for, perhaps, two cin) burdens increasing, but they will

years after the war. When the Army is disbanded many businesses and many trade developments may require financial sup port from the Government.

Indeed, it is said in the precincts of tha. House that a special commilteo to assist the Board of Trade in an advisory capacity in this matter will shortly be appointed, A writer in the Liverpool Daily Post, touching on this point, says," "At the same time, bank managers, who feel the financial pulse more than any practitioners in the money market, are to a man cheerful: the tone of the strict-

!! I can only deal with facts" was theed business on the stock exchange bears emphatic reply," and the facts are as I have stated.-

The

reason baffles me," STRANGE STORY OF A FORMER HONGKONG

MAN

Nevertheless, the unseasonably wild wea- ther, coupled with the stress of the war, has affected the health of numerous men atid women, especially those advanced in KILLED-years. It may have been the ciuse of the complete breadown of a former Hongkong LONDON, February 23rd.

marine engineer named Joseph Chapman, Casualties announced show that five

who suddenly collapsed in the City a few naval avintors have been killed and drown-

days ago and is now regarded ng past com ed, including the well-known fliers Complete recovery, his state being complicated mander. Neville Uiborue and Lieut Commander De Caurry, Ireland, who were killed,

MINISTER FOR BLOCKADF.

LONDON, February 23rd.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith announced that Lord Robert Cecil bad nccepted the duties of the new Cabinet, Minister to deal with blockado questions,

by symptoms of mental trouble. A mer- chant who knew him tells me that he was a remarkable man, well-known in China ports, and formerly associated with the coastal trade run by leading native mer. chants.

He had haunted several City offices for a long time past, having sundry schemes for the development of China trade that he fondly hoped would materialise when the war ended. His economy in the mat ber of clothes and living expense, did not- make him an ideal ambassador for big

the right of the Mouse to the south-east of gestion that the relations with neutrals content. He dwelt on the co-ordination of AMERICAN CONSULATE AND schemes in London City, but he had a

Herbe Bois. We cyacuated the village of Haumont, of which we now hold the nut skirts. after a desperate engagement in which we inflicted very heavy losses on the enemy. We recaptured the greater part of the wood occupied by the Germans yesterday.

might be endangered, he said he believed it was only necessary for the Allies to tako a firm stand,

Lord Charles Beresford supported the resolution.

the Allies, and said this co-ordination would

EVIDENCE.

be particularly necessary when peace came. AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION AT assured that he got further than many a

SUMMARY COURT.:

-

At the Summary Court yesterday, Mr. P. W. Goldring asked: Are Consular Officers privileged from attending a Court to give evidence!" The question arose in

in a case where a coolie sought to recover from a Chinese firm the sum of $500 de- posited with them and a further $130 under a note of acknowledgement from another defendant. the claim arising out of an alleged false certificate of entry into America,

vivid and forceful porsózality, and I am

better-groomed emissary might have done.

He lived in a small room in a tenement

out their opinion. So far the lottery idea bas got no furer than being a topic of conversation,

WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH. There seems to be an idea both at homo and abroad that directly the order is given. te "Cease fire" in the various theatres of

allowed to crowd homewards. war. all the millions of soldiers will be This. I believe, is quite wrong. The peace

negotiations are likely to last several months, and when a settlement is reached aceptable to all parties it will take some time to carry it into operation.

Only then can the first of the army corps on, foreign service he allowed to be dis banded, and thenceforward there will be a gradun releuse, so as not unduly to disturb the labour market, and all along there will be a national attempt to read- just the conditions of the labour market so as to effect a minimum of congestion and inconvenience. It is quite likely that thereafter there will be a burst of manu facturing the world and that

netivity to make up the depleted stocks will radually the the labour val able. How long that will last no one can tel at this moment. The difficulty will not be lessened by the present widespread employment of women. To what extent that employment will be continued is the question, which is agitating many & mind.

in the East End. Just before Christmas and 4rkable degree of understanding

THE NEW BRITISH COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, Officers-from the front tell me that there - is n

Douglas between Bir

Haig the front, and Sir William Robertson the new British Commander in Chief at

who has been such a splendid

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he left his room in the evening and later was found seriously ill in the street. As he was a total abstainer, there was no of Staff. It is a very creditable under- especially as Haig went through he was hurried to the infirmary, whore ho cavalry regiment, while Robertson rose grew worse, and mental symptoms develop. from the racks. ed, so that he has been removed to a mental institution in Kent, and his rela tives have now arranged for his detention there as a paying guest.

Our curtain of fire stopped short an they were most carefully examined, statis. stir the mosses by making them believe that regard to a deadlock that had been reached question of alcohol to account for it, and school and Oxford into a crack attack on Herbe Bois. Prisonera declare that certain German unite have been an- nihilated, There are contianal artillery duels at other points.

The French artillery is active in

Lorraine,

We recaptured in Artois, on the Somme, parts of trenches at Bois de Givenchy.. RUSSIAN FRONT.

[THOUGH REUTER'S' ADENOY.]

FALL OF ERZERUM,

· NAIVE TURKISH ANNOUNCEMENT.

AMSTERDAM, February 23rd.

He paid a tribute to the great services of France, Great Britain, and Italy.

The German Government had treated its Lord Larsdowne said the problem was people like savages who make their soldiers not so simple as it appeared, for, unless drusk before they attack. They tried to

tics might be most misleading. The filtra- the Allies aimed at the complete annihila tion of goods to the enemy through acu- tion of the German people. Such an argu. trala was far from increasing; it was ment, he said, was absurd, because who markedly diminishing. As a result of the would think of sweeping away a nation of Government's measures, practically no 72,000,000. The Allies, never had such an commodities of military importance were intention, but self-preservation demanded now imported to neutrals above their own the ending of the ruthless egoism and legitimate requirements.

passion for plunder with which the Ger- mans had not always sympathised. This

:

Lord Lansdowne gave striking figures showing the progressive diminution of important imports in the case of Holland and Scandinavia during the latter half of 1915. This, of the exports of oil from

Holland to Germany in 1915, 83 per cent.

Prussianism must, be crushed,

RE-UNION OF POLAND.

The re-union of Poland was inscribed on the Russian banner. He did not believe

A Turkish communigud says that "for was chargeable to the first six months and that the Polish people would be persuaded

military reasons" the Armag has with- drawn from Brzerum to a position west- ward of that city, Erzorum was not a fortress, and was, militarily valueless," *conoludes the communiqué,

RUSSIANS NEARING

TREBIZOND,

TURKS CHASED FOR A DAY.

17 per cent. to the last half of the year. The figures for November and December together were only one per cent. Thus this particular business had almost vanished. The figures in regard to oil seeds were similar. He did not wish to imply that there was no danger of re appearance or leakage; he feared it would never be possible to hermetically seal all channels. The greatest dificulty, he said, The Beyukdoro River, mentioned in arose from the obligation to deal fairly yesterday's communiqué, is a tributery of and considerately with neutrals, but it the Atina. between Batum and Trebizond, would be the height of folly deliberately The Russians for 24 hours chased the to start outraging neutral opinion at such Turks in the coast region for a distance of a time.

PETROGRAD, February 23rd.

90 miles, or two days' normal marching.

It is believed that the Turks have begun to evacuate Trebizond

MAVAL ACTIVITIES.

[TEROUGH MUTTEʼ15. AGENCY)

DUTCH STEAMER SUNK.

ROTTERDAM, February 23rd.

A complete blockade, said Lord Lans- downe, would mean a blockade of reutral ports, and this would raise grave legal difficulties, including the question of proof of the enemy destination of the goods, The present system, if not perfect, had killed German exports and had crippled her imports some of the most important

. . . . . .

to fight for the Geriau tryants,

Rusaia was sincerely friendly to Sweden. An icebound port in Scandinavia was use Ices to Enesia, which must obtain an outlet to a free ses in quite another direction.

The Entente was convinced that when the hour struck Rumania would know how to realise national unity and find her real support from those with whom her people naturally sympathised.

day

it

Haig on duty is lacosic, though always the gentleman. An officer Ims described big method as something on this line: Good Your business? You think so? Good

When he has

made

his mind up on anything to think there is no man to argue with him. like him for they recall how in the dan gerous rush of the Germans towards Calais Haig was "knocked out for regained consciousness he rushed right time by a German shell. but when he

most of the mea in repelling the Germans, utterly

regardless of the imminent danger of such a position to himself.

Local report credits him with having Mr. Mason, for the other side, said there left a hoard of gold in his cupboard appeared to be one misapprehension as to besides banking accounts in six banks, the interpretation of the American law, quantity of corporation and other stock, and ho had been informed by the America and the deeds of considerable house pro-into the front trenches and joined the fore-

Consulate that the only certificates that perty in Liverpool. The fow who had his could be vised by the Consulate were inconfidence declare that the final strain respect of teachers, merchants, travellers that led to his collapse came as a conse quence of the authorities declining to con- for curiosity's sake, etc.

Mr. Goldring said that he did not know why the American Consul could not come into the witness box; it would be much more bisfactory.

making London invulnerable from Zeppe sider a proposal which he submitted for lin attacks, unless he delivered full details of his scheme, and this be resolutely

declined to do.

We believe the above engineer had been employed on the steamer Laertre, plying ba tween Hongkong and Buigen. He was well- known locally, and was reputed to be possessed of considerable wealthD.]

The case has aroused the greatest in-

Mr. Mason remarked that the Consul would not come himself and would not allow anyone from his office to come. He had sent certain written matter. Mr. Sawyer and Mr. Carleton were the Vice-Consuls but Mr. Sawyer was the authority on immi-terest in the Eastern section of the City, where he was known as "miser Mike," gration,

The East, by the way, has given plenty of "human interest" to London of late, for it is only a few weeks since a Henkow merchant fel a prey to a confidence tricks. ter in a Strand hotel and suffered a loss of nearly five hundred pounds through his guilelessness.

His Lordship asked if Mr. Anderson, the American Contil, would have any objection to a round table conference in his Chambers

with the solicitors concerned,

M. Sazonoff justified the action of the Entente at Saloniks, and paid a tribute to the heroism of Serbia, Russia was indig-

Mr. Goldring said that they now had an sant at Bulgaria's action, but was willinger parte statement, with so opportunity to believe that it was taken under pressure.for cross-examination. He asked if Con- sular Officers were privileged from attend- RUSSIA'S POLIOF IN THE FAR EAST.

ing the Court. He had found nothing that Russia's relations with Persie were now prevented their being subpoenaed,

Hia lordship remarked that he did not normal, but it was diffoult to hope for the think Consular Officers were so privileged. prompt and complete restoration of order The matter, he thought, was international, and he anggested that the Registrar should in Persia, which was torn by internal frou write Mt. Anderson and point out to him that the Court had no knowledge of bles and abuse,

American law and that the solicitors ön either side were not in complete agreement. The matter formed a question of practice.

Japanese co-operation had been infinitely

EGGS TROM CHINA.

In order to meet the tremendous demand shipment of Chinese egg has arrived, packed in sawdust, and I hear that the for eggs in this country just now a trial

eggs are in good condition and are most- ing with a ready sale. A couple of years ago we could have bought a dozen eggs in England for a shilling. To-day our home-grown variety of new-laid eggs coat Canadians three and sixpence a dozen, are half-a-crown a dozen, and Chinese If the eggs are two shillings a dozen. quality and that price can be maintained I should say that the trade will develop, for there cannot be the outery against Chinese eggs that there was a year or two ago against Chinese pork.

LONDON AND THE ZEPPELIN, There is a good deal of agitation for this and that measure of defence to be taken in preparation for the next Zeppe- liu raid on London, which we are Pro- mised when the weather is favourable for such an enterprise. There is even a candidate in the Mile End division just now who says he stands for an efficient air Bervice, and has resigned from official aviation work in order to press ite claims

THE COMPULSION, Though the anti-compulsionists are try-on the people. ing to keep their flag flying, they are not The searchlights, apparently, play a great

part in attack and defence. Our search having a good time, and it is acknowledg-lights have proved so dazzling as to blind ed that if the matter were put to the test Zeppelin operators, so the Germans are

DĚ of a general election the country would reported to be designing powerful search- vote overwhelmingly for compulsory nalights to be attached to cables from the

Zeppeling and used with the object tional service, so as to make the sacrifice

the defence parties and at the and the service equitable.

same time showing up the chief buildings. Probably this is just much more Ger- This does not mean that the country likes man bombast and bluff. It has not scared

The British steamer Ontal has arrived of which, including cotton, wool and precious to Russia, and the friendly wel He thought that he might even write to conscription; it merely indicates that in our people,, and there is ample evidence in port with the second engineer and rubber, had censed altogether. Our pres. I came given to the Grand Duko Michaelo Mr. Anderson himself, and asked the sol the hour of great crisis we can quietly that our authorities will give any serial

sailor from the Dutch steamer La Flandre, which was sunk..

STRANDED BRITISH SUB-

MARINE REFLOATED:

THE HAGUE, February 23rd.

A British submarine, recently standed

faure was increasing monthly, and he only vitch in Japan was appreciated..

wished that the people here could have a fortnight's experience of the conditions in Germany. That would put an end to the talk of Government supineness,

off Schifmmonnikoog, has been reflcated FURTHER IMPORT

and towed to Nieuwediep.

ENEMY

RELEASES

DANISH

STEAMER,

COPENHAGEN, February 23rd.

TIONS.

Russia remained faithful to the principle of non-intervention towards China-with- whom Russia's relations were those of a good neighbour China had taken all pro cautions against the violation of her

RESTRIC-|trality by German intriguers, but, in view

LONDON, February 24th, It is expected that further restrictions ir import will shortly by announced, bath

The East Asiatic Company's steamer of necessities and luxuries,

citors if they were agreeable,

Both Mr. Goldring and Mr. Mason agreed to this course,

HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LIMITED.

LARGE RACE TRAFFIC.

of the difficulties caused by China's isola.The ear miles, run and the passenges tion, the Entente were seeking a means of carried on the Race Course Route during

the three race days were as follows:- defending their intereste,

-In conclusion, M, Sazonoff remarked on the failure of German propagands in America, and expressed the hope that a

Monday Tuesday

Milee Passengers, 2,757 3.810

32,027

34.041

2,781

There werŏk-

abandon our prejudices in order to throw visitors a warm time when next they pay us a call and attempt to present us with the full weight of the country's resources explosive gifts. into the scale. All our traditions and feel. ings are against a militarist policy for

FROM DALNY QUESTION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

all time, bat, equally, all our detarmina- BEAN EXPORTS TO NEUTRALS tion is in the direction of ending the war in victory for ourselves at whatever cost. "It has proved to our Allies than we mean to carry out our pledges, no matter how great the strain and no matter how far the call goes beyond our normal policy.

THE NEED FOR THRIFT.

Thrift is the subject that follows the con. seription settlement. There is practically

32.177 43 cars in operation on the nounemployment among the working Race Course route each day, and a service classes. The only heavy sufferers now. Bundon, which was seized by a Gor The newspapers anticipate that naval Busso-American economia rapprochementined to and from the course. No accid of approximately 40 seconds was main

man trawler, has been released

and commercial advisers will be appointed

ants were reported.

might be achieved.

In the House of Commons last month, Sir E. Grey, Becretary of State for Foreign Affairs, replying to r E Cornwall (Bethnal-green, N.E., L.), who asked whether the Japanese Government had been requested to prohibit the export of beans and bean oil from Dalny, Manchuria, to neu-- (ra) countries, said: The matter has been discussed, but it was not found pract cable

adays are the professional classes. There to prohibit all export to neutral countries, and other methods of preventing these goods are many observers who are clamouring from reaching the enemy were proferred.