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THE WAR.

BATTLE OF

HEAVY

THE

VERDUN.

BOMBARDMENTS.

MALOJA " TRAGEDY.

BEREAVED GENERAL'S GRAPHIC STORY,

ENORMOUS TURKISH LOSSES.

GERMANY AND PORTUGAL'S COUP,

HANCO-BELGIAN FRONT. [THROUGH REUTER'S AOMWOW.] THE VERDUN BATTLE. THREATENED ENEMY ATTACKS

STOPPED.

PARIS, March 1sk. The evening communiqué says;--In tho, Verdun region the bombardment has con- sinued on the northern front less intensely than on the precaling days. No infantry action was reported in the course of the

day.

The Germans are entrenching on the northern slopes of the Poivre Ridge, the first crest of which is occupied by our

advanced troops..

We violently bombarded Samognanx, where an enemy battalion had assembled.

Our artillery fire of different points in Woevre stopped attacks which were in preparation.

There was great actllery activity in the Yonges. A counter-attack drove the enemy from a portion of the tranches east of .Beppois, which we occupied in the morn

ing.

Our artillery,between Soissons, and Rheims, bombarded important points behind the enemy's front and wrooked

Gorman defences near Hill 193.

GERMANS BOMBARDED. SURPRISED AT ALARM EXERCISES..

[THROWGK REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE MALOJA" DISASTER.

À GENERAL'S GRAPHIC STORY.

LONDON, March 1st..

At the inquest on the victims of the Maloja disaster at Dover, the Coroner said that only 14 bodies had been identified.

The King has commanded Captain Irvine to come to London.

Brigadier General Melood, in a graphic story of bis efforts to save his wife, says" that both rushed to get their lifebelts. He assisted in launching a boat, but the Maloja listed after about five minutes, so the lifebosts on that side could not be launched. He threw his wife into the water and jumped after and supported her for half an hour until they were pick- ed up by a travler, the crew of which did their utmost to restore his wife to con- sciousness, but she was too exhausted by

the shock.

Everything pos

At the inquest Brigadier-General Mc. Leod said he had no complaint about the behaviour of the crew aviour of the crew Bible was done to save life, but the falls seemed to jam, preventing the launching of the boats.

The inquest was adjourned until Thurs-

day.

TORPEDOING- OF FRENCH TRANSPORT.

SINKS. IN FOURTEEN MINUTES.

PARIS, March 186

PARIS, March 1st. North of Verdun and in Woevre there. has been no important avent. There has been an

intermittent bombardment eti

Two hundred and ainety-six of the men different points on our front. We bom- barded the German frst and second lines aboard the torpedoed French muxiliary westward of Pont-a-Monsson, where the Provence have been landed at Malta, and Germans appeared to be carrying out 400 have been landed at Mils by British alarm exercises. We also bombarded the and French patrole vessels which were German lines of communication at Cernay.summoned by wireless,

A French double-engined aeroplano felled a German aeroplane at La Bassee, which burst into flameg on landing.

GERMAN BALLOUN AND AEROPLANES LOST.

LONDON, March 1st,

A British communiqué Baya :-Our artil- Jary bombarded the trenches about Ovil- lera, Authuille, and Fremelios.

Survivors state that no periscope, only the torpedo track, was seen. The weather was clear, and there was a slight ses The ship sank in 14 minutes. The crew behaved heroically, and remained at the gans to the last moment. The search for survivors contingee.

A Naval communiqué says that there are now 489 of the survivors of the Provence

THE HONGKONG DAILY PREAN, FRIDAY, MARUH Sun- 1918.

GENERAL.

THEDUGH REUTER'É-ACENOT.]

CAPITAL AND WAR. MUST BE DIVERTED FROM PEACE BERVICES.

LONDON, March ht

A great meeting at the Guildhall; uk- borted national economy,

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

[ROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]|

THE REBELLION.

REBEL ATTACKS REPULSED.

PERING, March 2nd,⠀

It is ofheially announced that rebel Mr. Asquith was not able to be present attacks on the 25th February at Nashi owing to a ebill.

were ropulsed,

Mr. McKenna forecasted increased tax-

Permission has now been granted to

GERMAN NAVY ON THE WATCH.

VALUE OF HELIGOLAND

A correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, who has been seeing the Navy," begins his article thus

They can't get through hore, those English, said the young naval officer to me. He pointed out to sea, and added, And if they tried it, it would be a stroke of desperation the last thing perhaps that would give them! So here at the water they would ever do What & reception we edge also. I said, they are not loved," He answered, 'Oh no, but the people to not talk so much about it. The people here are not at all foud of talking about big towns many people now curse England just because they themselves used to be the worst Anglo-maniacy, “

ENGLISH LABOUR PROBLEMS

AFTER THE WAR

MR SNOWDEN'S PROPOSALS FOR PAYING THE COST OF THE CAMPAIGN.

Mr. P. Snowden, M.P., who was accom." panied by Mrs. Snowden, gave an address

Some Labour problems after the war" at a crowded meeting in the large

of the Nelson Independent Labour Party. His speech was delivered without a single discordant interruption,

|ation, and said that capital must be General Li Yung-ting, Governor of their feelings, whereas among you in the sad been at any time since the outbreak

diverted from peace services. In order to win the war all must economise and do their utmost to postpone expenditure until after the war.

Mr Barnes, the Labour MP., indicated

Kwangsi, to lead a punitive expedition.

Another volunteer whose request has boon granted is Lieut. Nick, brother of General Nick Military Governor of Anhui,

that the country would be divided up onto The main Government forces in Hunan population in the. North-West rightly he had worked so long-housing reforms,

districts for purposes of local economies,

have reached Shen Chi. An engagement Lord Kitchener, made a splendid appert, with the rebels is expected immediately.

to Britons. He wanted all the men posl ble for the army, and unceasing supplies| of munitions. The problem was how to take millions of mon from the workshops, forms etc. and stil supply all the war material. There must be the utmost econo- my. Thus, civilians, men and women alike. must help to achieve victory.

Mr. Balfour said that every man must regulate his personal expenditure as best to help national interests.

RUSSIA'S FINANCES. A SUBSTANTIAL DEFICIT

Government victories are reported in Szechuan at Nachi.

CHINA'S PARLIAMENT.“

PEKING, Marah 2nd. The Tranchengyuan cluses on Tuesday and the Lilayton is convoked for the las May.

The scting Lifayuen assembled on Satar. day to consider a despatch from the Government suggesting that the elections of the Citizens' Convention should be con- verted into an election of the Lifayuen.

The writer then discusses the various methods of hating Eugland, and says that, while a good many ignorant Germans would like to swallow the whole island like chopped beef steak," the seafaring estimates sot only the malice but also the Engasinan, an incorrigible blood strength, of the enemy." They regard the relation" of their own. After a sketch of the appearance of Bremen and Hamburg in war time, the article continues:

"Whenever one looks at our two proud cities of commerce in the North, one asks what would have happened to as and the whole coast if Germany had been involved in this way with a naval armament and coat defence such as we had 60 years ago. The consequences are nathioŁable. The possession of Heligoland alone, which was procured for is by our Kaiser's foresight secure the freedom of the German Right. The English may boast as much as they please to neutrals that they have blockaded the German coast. Anybody who has the chance to do so can even now see trading ships coming inte and going out of our river mouths every day, and can convince himself that our coastal trade is by no means dead

"If the English Fleet lay between

Mr. Snowden began by saying that al- lough from some points of view this was the darkest hour of the war, he was more hopeful to-day of an early peace than he of the war. To remove the causes of future wars the ultimate settlement would have to be one not for those who made the war

of whom delighted in peace. but by the peoples of the different nations. He had now given up all hopes of seeing realised in his own lifetime those great schemes of social reconstruction for which education, development of child life, un- that of their children's children would be payment, and the like, Their task and to save what they could of the wreckage left by this appalling catastrophe," and minimise as much as possible the evils that were to follow. One of the problems to be faced was that of women's labour in come petition with that of men in the industrial and commercial markets. Another was the introduction into machine shops of hundreds of thousands of men hitherto unskilled, A third was that of trade union rights, re- gulations, and customs. There was far more in the legislative enactments for the sholition of those rules and regulations than the desire to increase the output of

unitions.

Lihour did not need to ba dragooned in order to do its best at such a time at this. All that the Government need have done way to have appealed to the chivalry and the highest patriotism of the men. Measures for the restitution of those rights and privileges after the wor would not be worth the paper they were would be such industrially with millions of unemployed tramping the streets, that all paper agreements would be torn up and thrown away.

PETROGRAD, March 1st The Bill was passed after half an hour's Heligoland and the coast, the situation printed upon. The condition of things The Budget revenly a deficit of £37,000, discussion, and a favourable reply was juz would be quite different from what it is.

000 sterling. The war is costing £3,000, 000 daily, and the daily drink reverue has fallen from 68,000,000 roubles daily to less than a million. The Finance Minister

emphasises that Russia must have full economic independence, and he is confident that after the war a rich and powerful Russia will arise,

MONTREAL DISASTER.

GRAND TRUNK STATION

DESTROYED.-

OTTAWA, Maret lat. The Grand Trunk station at Montreal has been burned,

LATER German incendiariam is suspected The main building was consumed in lesa |than an hour.

The damage is put at $300,000.

WAR AND COMMERCE.

MINISTRY OF COMMERCE ADVOCATED.

mediately drafted.

MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC:

ROADS.

PEKING, March 2nd.

A Mandate instructs the Provincial authorities to ensure the maintenance of the public roads.

Not a fahing boat could slip in or out, There could be no question for us of an advance or of a distribution of our navad and other resources for the protection of the coast, all the splendid fortifications of which date from the last few years. From the nature of the fairway and from the experience of history it is pretty well impossible that the English could in any case enter the mouths of our rivers them selves. But the injury they could do as would be quite different, and the political menge would be much greater then it is now. They know very well why they do not dare to approach the big gung at

A HONGKONG OPIUM CASE, Heligoland. For hard by is drawn the

SEQUEL AT SAN FRANCISCO,

The appended extract from a San Frau- cisco paper of January 28th will interest many in Hongkong:-

Two smartly gowned women were strip ped by women inspectors and searched aboard the Shinyo Maru on her arrival here yesterday because of reports reaching the Federal authorities that they had been LONDON, Merah let The Chambers' of Commerce have passed involved in an attempt to smuggle opium a resolution unanimously urging the Corinto Chinese ports. The shipment was ernment to take immediate steps to create a Ministry of Commerco with a seat in the worth $300,000 in Hongkong and would Cabinet, aided by a permanent Advisory have brought $1,000,000 here. Council, with the Dominions and the India Office represented, MAHARAJAH'S GIFT OF GUNS.

LONDON, March 1st.

His Majesty the King inspected at Buckingham Palace a battery of twelve machine-guns, presented by the Maharajah of Jaipur.

UNOPPOSED M.P'S.

LONDON, March 1st. Sir Owen Philipps (Unionist) has been returned unopposed for Chester, and Captain William Edge (Liberal) for Bolton, the latter in accession to Mr. Taylor, who resigned owing to ill health.

**BARALONG” CASE SUBMARINE CREW "NO STOMACH FOR FIGHTING."

LONDON, January 11th, A gunner of the Barulmy states that August 19th and went full speed to her assistance. An hour later they sighted, the Nicosian being shelled by a submarine while the crew were getting into the life bosta, per

There was considerable mutual artillery at Mila, end 85 more are expected shortly, they received the Vicnsion's wireless con

activity about Ypres.

In the morning a German Albatross was brought down south of Merville, behind our lines, and another turned completely over, burst into flames, and fell behind the German lines in the vicinity of La Bassee. In the afternoon a German captive balloon broke loose and drifted northwards, pass: ing over our lines cast of Bethune.

MAYAL ACTIVITIES,

{THROUGH" REUTER'S AGHNUT.) PORTUGAL'S COUP. GERMANY PROTESTS AGAINST SEIZURE OF HER SHIPS.

AMSTERDAM, March lat. A Berlin telegram says that Germany has strongly protested to Portugal against

RUSSIAN FRONT,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

GERMANS FIRST TO FLEE

FROM ERZERUM.

ENORMOUS TURKISH LOSSES.

PETROGRAD, March 1st,

A communiqué says the stubbornness of the Turkish defence of Erzerum is proved by the enormous number of corpses found in the fortifications. Some of the demora lised, retreating Army Corps have now only 5,000 to 5,000 men oach, with a few guns, The remainder have either been captured or have perishel in the fighting

the seizure of the 36 ships detained in and from the cold. Portuguese ports.

MADRID, March 1st,

Prisoners state that the Turkish Army are very resentful at their headquarters

It is reported that Germany has sent an ultimatum to Portugal asking for the being in the hands of the Germans. The return of the seized vessely within forty latter were the first to fee on the assault eight_bourn

en Erzerno

The women are Mre. Ethel Rearden, 37, widow of a captain in the British army and a native of New York; and Mme, Emelie Delcsirre of Paris, said to be the wife of a man high up in French official life

Edmund Walter Hickrath, claiming to be a diamond merchant of London and the Rand, accompanied the women, and was also subjected to search by inspectors and to a lengthy examination by Justus S. Wardell, surveyor of the port

NO CONTRABAND FOUND,

sentry line of the great Fleet which pro tects Germany like a frontier wall on the water side a constant series of chains one behind the other, like the trenches out there in the enemy's country, which to day constitute our frontier protection,

SPORET WEAPONS.

After some description of local scenery the writer returns to the coast defences and anys

He believed women should have, equally with men, the fullest opportunity to do any work they felt they had the intellig- ence and capacity to discharge, but there would be great danger in this unless ade- quate safeguards were taken. This could be done by encouraging trade unionismi among them, and enacting a law that they should be paid men's wages for men's work. (Hear, bear.).

THE FINANCING OF THE WAR.

He

From some points of view the country was enjoying considerable prosperity, targely owing to the longer bours worked but this prosperity was quite artificial and unreal, and due not to the fact that. we were producing wealth, but to the fact that we were destroying wealth, did not think there was the slightest hope of any considerable reduction in the price after are war. of the necessaries of life for a long time. All municipal and State enterprise would be absolutely necessary, "To-day the country does not rely solely and it seemed likely that to the other upon the great Fleet which is close at horrors of the war would he added the hand for its protection. It has equipped horrors of an all-round Protective system, itself with weapons which are secret, financing of the war was almost criminal The policy of the Government for the cunning, and ubiquitous, like modern was from the point of view of its disastrons fare generally An enemy who gos in would have such a reception that he would effects on the future. The people of this not risk the attempt a second time. Every country had paid in interest on the debt thing which has not to do with the war of the Napoleonic wars 3,000 millions of [ has vanished from this neighbourhood, bus pounds. In other words, we had paid the weapons of war have hidden themselves the debt four times over, and the debt still deep in the earth or under the water, and remained. To avoid a repetition of this can at any unment begin their concert of We should stop borrowing, and raise as

·Hell,"

The article ends with a description of the work of the airships, in which it is remarked.

uch as possible by the taxation of capi- tal. At a time like this no man should have command of an income more than sufficient to provide him with the neces

"Their value for ovest defence cansaries and reasonable comforts of life. All hardly be rated high enough,

the surplus above that should be taken They save us quite a number of light cruisers. This before the Government taxed the poverty is why most naval officers are specially of the people. A graded scale of taxation enthusiastic about them, and talk in the did not exceed £1,000, beginning with 1 of capital, relieving those whose total warmest terms of this alliance betweeper cent, for sums of £1,000 to £2,000 and land and sea erms.

LONDON AND THE ENEMY.

No contraband. drugs were found upon HOW FINANCIERS ARE PROLONG the trio,

ING THE WAR.

All three vigorously protested their innocence and said they were the victims of an opinn ring extending from London to the China const. Hickrath declared that the British police authorities in Hong kong, were in league with this ring and that he intended to have the arrest and trial of himself and the women in the Chinese port made the subject of an investigation by Parliament when he re- turned to London.

From the cable advices received here yesterday by the Federal authorities, the luggage of the trio was filled with 900 pounds of opium when they reached Hong- kong on the fishima Maru.

[UF OBWALD BPOLL:] London is the financial centre of the world. This is a high-sounding phrase, One would like to know more clearly what the fnamiel centre of the world really means, in order that one may judgo whether it is therefore but another name for London, and, if so, whither that fact has any peculiar significanes at the pro- sent time, then

ending with 10 per cent, on estates of a million sterling, would realise between 500 and 600 millious a year; but by taxe tion we should to a very considerable ex- tant avoid the disastrous consequences which inevitably followed from piling up buge debtg upon which interest had to be paid, (Cheers.)

GERMAN SPIES DISGUISED AS -

NUNS

The London correspondent of the Omka Mainichi seads to that journal an account of the arrest of two German spies" dis- guised as nuns. It seems that an English... woman who was riding on a motor-bus bound for Victoria Station noticed that when two nuns were asked by the con- ductor for their fares one of them, al, though carrying a hand-bag, unconsciously fumbled about as though trying to find a waistcoat pocket. The Englishwoman's uspicions were moused by this strange behaviour, and on cantiously but closely examining the faces of the "runs, half- hidden under their hoods she concluded that they were both mon. The English- woman alighted from the bus and, serib

The financial centre of the world is the place where more than any other inter national debts and credits are made to cancel one another. If a merchant in South America owes a merchant in China for a shipment of sea he can pay his debt with a bill of exchange payable in London The Chinese merchant will take this bill is settlement because he can sell it in China to hanker who is desirous of selling such a bill to China to some one who owes a like, amount to an English firm for goods shipped to him from America, bling details of her discovery on her card from France, the United Kingdom, or gave it to a policeman. Two weeks later from wherever else the firm may export. The lady received a registered letter in No international trade can be carried which was enclosed a cheque for £150 on without the aid of bills of exchange, which appeared to have been draws in her and any firme dependent on bills of ex favour by King George. She went to the change for the carrying on of their busi-bank, where the cheque was dul- honour- resgemust either directly or indirectly beed, and was explained that the money dependent on Londos. Age-long proctions was presented to the lady sa a reward for has made London the cross-roads over the information huren, about the “ nuns,” , which, abng one avenue of another, Inter- | who had been, turound and found to be The 27th Austrian Regiment serving in national settlements mus, inevitably take | Gorman bpies. It further became known General Mackensen's army, refused with place

that these Germans had been very badly their officers to obey orders. General von London, then, is still essential to inter- “wanted' by the police, and were just Mackenses appeared on the scene And sup- national settlements and if Germany on their way out of thy country when pressed the muting in drastic fashion by Austria, Turkey, and Bulgaria are receiv detected. The Omala Hainchi corrompn- ordering all the officers and every tenth ing supplies from other countries, it must dent says the recent newspaper report of man to be shot. The orders were duly be, with the direct or indirect help of the shooting in the Tower of two German #earried out.

London.

spies probably refers to these men.

"We had plenty of ammunition ready on the poop deck, and the marizes took shelter behind the bulwarks. The captain, by excellent seamanship, brought the Pessel to starboard of the Niesian, so that we were hidden from the submarine view for a few moments, during which we cleared for action and trained our guna We houted the White Ensign. When we appeared around the tenan's bows the i submarine fired a shot, and the marines

replied with volley which swopt the A dramaile annsaucement was made by decks of the submarine, and seemed to Mr Hampson at a meeting held at Ben- demoralise the crew who immediately left digo, Australia, the other day Mr. Hamp the guns and rushed to the conning tower, son stated that his son, who is in New Zen- unvers going overboard. We fred our land, had refused to enest. Mr. Hampson port and stern guns, and hit the subpublicly read a letter which he had written marine beneath the water-line to his son, in which he said: “As you have The second shot hit the conning tower, failed in your duty 1 will take your sending two men flying high into the air place. The annuincoming was received The submarine gradually sank, and all the with bord cheers crew were either drowned or shot. Only a few parts of the bodies and a large quan tity of oil remained on the surface. The notion lasted 4 minutes. We fired 37 rounds. The submarine was one of Ger- many's latest and largest 300 feet, and 1000 tons and had two guns fore and aft of a slightly larger calibre than the Barakony s

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