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THE WAR.

VALUABLE

FRENCH

GAIN

GROUND.

GERMAN MASSED ATTACKS FAIL,

PORTUGAL AT WAR

WITH

GERMANY.

ACTIVITY ON RUSSIAN FRONT.

INTRIGUE TO INVOLVE JAPAN AND AMERICA,

FRANGO-BELGIAN FRONT.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

GERMANS WELL HELD.

BIG ATTEMPTS ON BOTH BANKS OF MEUSE FAIL,

PARIS, March 9th.

3.15 p. To-day's communiqué says:-West of the Meuse the Germans in the sight made several attempts to repair their failures yesterday. Two attacks against Bethin court which were preceded by, an intenso bombardment, were stopped by the French curtain of fire.

THE BONGKONG DAILY PREM. SATURDAY, MARO

(THROUGA. REUTER'S AGENCY.] Furious assaults against the village of Vaux were also repulsed with heavy loss, Finally the Germans launched violent massed attacks against our trenches bor- dering the bottom of the ridge on which staud, Fort de Vaus. These were repulsed, our curtain of fire indicting enormous

losses.

The activity of opposing arti'kries was most violent on both banks of the Meuso,

There was an interusitten lombardment

in Woerre.

We captured a trench in upper Alsace after a grenade fight. Our artillery in Belgium and Champagne shelled the ene

The Germany were unable to debouch | my positions. "

from the Corbeaux Woods,

Renewed German efforts failed to dis lodge us from the wide traet which we re-captured and are consolidating.

The obstinate struggle continued east of; the Meuse, between Douaumoot and Vaux The Gorman mado several attacks, but were completely repulsed, despite the in-

MINOR FIGHTING.

LONDON, March 5th.

11.5 p. A communique states:-Last night we repulsed a small attack near the Hohen. zollern Redoubt. To-day the enemy sprang a mine near Givenchy, but there was no

THE NEAR EAST.

(THBOUGH REUTER'S ADENDY.]

AN EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION.

NOT NOW TALKED OF.,

LONDON, March 10th, A letter from Constantinople has been received at Athens stating that all taik of an Egyptian expedition has ceased since the fall of Erzerum.

MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS AT ERZERUM.

PETROGRAD, March 9th.: There were 10.000 Armenians at Erzerumi before the fortress was captured, but only 18-were found alive when the Russians entered. The others had been driven out before the fall of the fortress and mas spered by the Kurds. TURKS' STUBBORN DEFENCE. GENERAL AYLMER UNABLE TO

DISLODGE THEM.

LONDON, March 9th.

[THROWER BUTIK'S “AGENUT.)

DOMINIONS AND WAR PROBLEMS.

LONDON, March 9th.' The Morning Post says that Mr. W. M. Hughes (Premier of Australia) emphasised that he is not empowered to represent any

Dominion except Australia, though

Caonda, New Zealand, and Australia, aro agreed on certain matters. It is under stood that the Imperial Government will eaufer with the Dominions Premiers separately.

WELLINGTON. March 9th. The Hon, Mr. Massey (Premier) says it is impossible for either him or Sir Josepit Ward to be in London in May.

WHAT THE EMPIRE HOPES TO GAIN.

LONDON, March 10th.

At a luncheon given in honour of Mr. Hughes at the House of Commons Mr. Bonur Law said the Dominions had given so much in the war that things cannot re- main the same after the war. We hoped to gain by this loathsome war. The E-

It is officially announced that Major- General Aylmer, advancing on the right bank of the Tigris, attacked the Espire would be one in structure for all time. position, seven mileg east of Kut-c-Amara In his belief the country depended upon the action of the Dominions because the on the 8th inst,, but was unable to dislodge

Mother Country would welcome any He states that the enemy. the enemy.

scheme approvel by them, suffered severely, and beyond strengthening his position, has shown no activity: Our casualties were not heavy, the majority of the cases being very slight,

TURKS CALLING UP MEN OF 50.

LONDON, March 9th. The Turks are calling up man of 50 AUSTRALIAN - years of age, GENERAL

[THROVON RXUTER'S AGENCY.]

MARRIED MEN PROTEST. ASSOCIATION TO GUARD THEIN INTERESTS.

LONDON, March 10th

At a meeting at Cardiff of attested married men it was resolved to form an

tease artillery preparation and the violence infantry attack. There has been consider association to protect their interests. The able artillery activity on both sides aboutmoeting declared that the pledge given by Ypres.

Mr. Asquith and Lord Derby had not boca kept, and they urged a revision by a judicial tribunal of the list of exemptions,

of their assaults.

Some disments of derman infantry momentarily penetrated to Vaux, but wero driven out by the bayonet.

There was an intermittent bombardiment ia Woovte. The French effected a clover little coup-de-nais at Bois le Pretro, taking a number of prisoners.

The French bombardment of Argonne

continues.

EIGHTEENTH DAY OF VERDUN BATTLE.

FAVOURABLE TO THE FRENCH. PARIS, March. Oth.

3.15 p..

A semi-official announcement says:-The eighteenth day of the battle has been -We lave gained favourable 10: us, most valuable ground north of Verdun, bringing our line through Bothincourt and Coricaux Wood, northward of Camieres and Oie Hill, thus establishing new posi- tiang northward of the solid lines from Morthomme to South Cumieres, improving the position of the whole secter,

The complete defeat of two violent German assaults at Bethiacourt and Douaumont was a severe check for the enemy. The engagement at Douaumont has been fluctuating up to the present Anyhow, it is a trivial episode,

The German claim of the capture of thousands of prisoners and tou gune in the region of Douaumont is denied. Only 600 French troups and some french en gines were lost."

FRENCH CONTINUE TO PROGRESS.-

FURIOUS MASSED GERMAN

"ATTACKS FAIL

PARIS. March 10th.

12.40 a...

The evening communiqué gays:-West of the Meuse, we continued to progress dur ing the day in the wood of Corbeaux. almost all of which is in ony handy.

The Germans east of the Meuse made

- several attacks on our front from Douau-

mort to Faux. One attack from the.

village of Deusumout was shattered by our fire,

U881AN FRONT.

• (THROUGH ROUTER'S AGENCY:]

ISOLATED OFFENSIVE

MOVEMENTS.

GERMAN ATTEMPT TO ́OROSS.

DVINA FAILS.

PETROGRAD, March 10th.

A communiqué records isolated offensive avement, from both sides along the whole front from the Dving to Galicis,

An attempted crossing of the Dvina is of Friedrichstadt by the Germans was repulsed.

The Russians at daylight stormed a trench near Olyk, bayonoting or capturing the defenders. NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

[THEDUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

FOUR GERMAN SUPPLY SHIPS SUNK.

LONDON, March 10th. Four German steamers with coal and munitiong have been sunk jo the Black

Sea.

SBY SHIPPING.

ROTTERDAM, March 9th. Only thros steamers have entered the waterway in forty-eight hours, apparently owing to the activity of German warships

CRUISE OF HELIGOLAND BAY.

AMSTERDAM, March 9th. The German Fleet has returned to its

-base

ITALIAN FRONI.

[TAXOUGH KUTIE'S AGENCY.]

ITALIAN OPERATIONS

-HAMPERED.

AN AUSTRIAN ARTIFICE.

ROME, March 10th. A compouniqué says that the continuance of bad weather is hampering operation, in the moutain zone, The enemy sought to turn the weather to account by firing high explosives, bringing down avalanches on the Italian positions, but these were not damaged

The Italians succeeded in advancing their lines in the rugged Totam country in the Isonzo zone.

JAPAN AND AMERICA.

RELATIONS BETTER THAN EVER,

LONDON. March 10th'

Reuter learns that the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs declared on the 6th inst. that despite the efforts of an European Power to cause conflict, Americo-Japanese 'relations' are better than they have ever been, and with the elimination of this srurce of intrigue would grow yenly more cordial.

GERMAN PRISONERS IN BRITAIN.

LONDON, March 9th," In the House of Commons Mr. H. J. announced that there were

Teanaut

Mr. Hughes, who was accorded an ova tion, said-We are heart and sout in this war. Nothing must stand in the way of complete victory! He emphasised that we must strive as all costs to destroy Cer

wan trade,

PREMIER

ATTENDS CABINET.

LONDON, March 9th. The Australian Premier (Mr. W. M. Hughes) attended a meeting of the Cabinet.

SITUATION IN SOMALILAND.

[YSKOUGH, KAUREN'S KUNNOT.]

FIRST LORD CRUSHES MR..

CHURCHILL.

SUGGESTIONS OF SLACKNESS REPUDIATED.

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]. NEW RUSSIAN MINISTER TO

PEKING.

PERING, March 9th, Príuca Koudscheff will succeed M. Krupenski, Russian Ambassador to Pek-

LONDON, March Oth In the House of Commons Mr. Balfour warmly repudiated the suggestion of ing. slackness and indifferenco, "Let us dis mies vain and empty fears." he mid,

Mr. Belfour's rebuke to Mr. Churobił is regarded as one of the severest ever de- livered in the House of Commons. Hia tore when referring to Mr. Churchill's previous attacks en Lord Fisher was particularly scornful.

Mr. Churchill's explanation is described as lame The papers uonnimously praise Mr. Balfour and express the opinion that Mr. Churchill has only succeeded in hurt- ing his own reputation and increasing the confidence in the Admiralty.

LORD FISHER AND THE WAR COUNCIL.

LONDON, March 9th. The Daily Telegraph says the reason Lord Fisher was summoned to the War Council was in order to ascertain his views concerning the progress of the building of warships,

PORTUGAL AT WAR WITH GERMANY,

AMSTERDAM, March 10th.

The Portuguese Minister at Berlin has received his pasports, and the German Minister at Lisbon has been ordered to ask for a passports,

NAVAL RESERVISTS CALLED OUT.

LISBON, March 10th,

A Dooree calls out the Naval Reservists immediately,

OBITUARY.

MR. FRED JANE.

LONDON, March 10th. The death is announced of Mr. Fred T. Jano, naval suther and journalist...

LOYAL TROOPS' SUCCESS. Official reports show that the success of the loyal troops at Nachi was aust portant. The amount of munitions cap. tured and the number of prisoners taken have not yet been ascertained,

There is a report from Sci Yuen, Shansi, that over 600 bandits have been

*killed.

AND

"PUPPETS

SATELLITES.”

MORE STRONG STATEMENTS IN

YUE HING APPEAL.

82,000,000 MISSING.

Mr. Sharp again addressed the Appoal Court yesterday in connection with, the Yue Hing appen ease. He has now been addressing the Court for three days, and when the adjournment hour was renched yesterday he had not concluded his address, Referring to the constitution of the Yuo Hing Company, wounsel contended that there was never any independent voting. Tho shareholders were grouped undoy the directors. It had been stated that but one shareholder attended the statutory meeting which they said had not been held. He was one of the satellites of Ma Cheo Lung, and, as Mr. Jenkin said, was very uppropriately called Hung. (Laughter.) "All these shareholders," added Mr. Sharp. were the creatures, puppets and autellites of the directors, and they had no voice whatever in the conduct of the Company's affairs, and to talk about independent voting in Company can- trolled and conducted in the way this one way it, as the Chief Justice so well put it idle." At another portion of his address Mr, Sharp said that he claimed thas this was a caso in which the Court could exercise its jurisdiction and wind up the Company, There were cases, in which a Company was found to be in such a rotten condition that the Courts would existence, altogether independently of what ita members might say. They (the members of the Company) might be unanimous in deciding that the Company should go on, but if it was found to be in a really rotien stato the Courts could wind it up. He thought, in connection with thiạ case, that they had shown such a state of things that the Company should be wound up.. whether the members of the Company, wero content with the swindle or not. That would make no difference. If auch 岛 rotten comern was shown as this one ho thought it would be the duty of the Court to wind it up, whatever the shareholders said.

LONDON, March 9th. In the House of Commons Mr. D. Steel-. Maitland said the situation in Somaliland was extraordinarily favourable. There had been less trouble in the past, 18 moutha than for many years. The tribes in the KING CONSTANTINE'S APPEAL not tolerato its continued

north, which fargely cause trouble, are gradually desorting the Mullah, while the Abyssinian raids have temporarily in- The capacitated the southern tribes. Mullah's inactivity is due partly to obesity and partly to the decrease in his followers and camels.

OPERATIONS IN EAST AFRICA.

CROSSINGS OF LUMI RIVER SEIZED.

LONDON, March 9th.

A communiqué states that in East Africa the troops under General Smuts advanced against the German forces in the Kiliman. jars area. General Smuts on the 7th geized the crossings of the Lumi River with in

significant, lessca, Soveral counter-attacks by the enemy were successfully repelled.

TO THE U.S.A. POINTED AMERICAN COMMENT.

For the second time within a few months the King of Greece has appealed to public opinion in the United States against the high-handed treatment of the country by the Allies. Af King Constantine is really so well informed about America ag his alusion to our own Mexican War of seventy years ago would indicate, he must bu aware that bis appeal will miss its effect He must know enough of how this country teels about Begium to recognize how fulle is his attempt to draw & paralle between the toruns at Liego, aft Nagur, at Louvain, and at Dinant, and the Allies at Salasike 'anu in Corry, The reply to Constantino's protest eman ting from the "highest authority" in Paris, for all its quiet tone, is conclusivo enough, The Allies did not come into Greece with fire and sword, They came virtually at the invitation of the Greek people, whose sympathies, the King admits, were 80 per cent, in their favour, and at the request of the Greek Government as embodied in Venizelos, the idolized states man and the creator of New Greece. The

The Puisno Judge inquired who would ho the petitioner in such a happening.

Mr. Sharp replied that if every share holder was against the winding up he presumed it would not be a shareholder who would petition; he supposed it would

13,621 German prisoners in Britain, and GERMAN SEAPLANE FELLED. Allies went into, Gallipoli on the under- be a creditor, or perhaps it would be the

|32,181 interned aliens.

· ECONOMISING IMPORTS.

BRITISH BREWERS ACTION,

LONDON, March 8th,

In the House of Commons. Mr. Runcimen said that the brewers had agreed to a re- duction in the importation of brewing materials by one-third, thus saving 200,000 tona.

GERMAN DYNAMITER.

SENT TO PRISON FOR LIFE.

TORONTO, March 9th. The German who was concerned in the attempt to blow up the Peabody factory at Walkerville with dynamite has been sen- tenced to imprisonment for life-

BLOCKADE OF GERMANY,

LONDON, March 9th..

In the House of Commons Lord Robert Cecil, the Blockade Minister, said the question of extending the list of absolute contraband so as to indude every dity vitally cessary to our enemies was being considered VALUE OF MARK DECREASING

– LONDON, March 10t...

The rate of the mark in the neutral exclufiges is now 29 per cent below normal value.

PARIS, March 10th.

The French batteries at Dunkirk felled a German seaplane. The pilot was killed, The observer. who was clinging to the floats, was saved by a French destroyer.

PERSIAN POLITICS.

TEKERAN, March 10th. Prines Firman Firon has resigned, and the Russophile, Siyah Barazam, sucecers

him as Premier and Minister of the In-

terior:

MR. CHAMBERLAIN INDISPOSED.

Lenox, March 10th. Mr Austen Chamberlain is suffering from influenzo, and is unable to keep his official engagements for a few days,

LORD CURZON.

LONDON, March 9th. Lord Curzon, who has fractured an elbow, is progressing favourably-

THE AGA KHAN.

LONDON, March 9th. HH the Aga Khan has gone to the Continent

THE TURF.

LONDON, March 9th.. The New Derby will be run on the 30th May and The Oaks on the 1st June.

standing of Greek aid. They went into Salonika at the invitation of Venizelos,. though the latter went through the mo tions of a formal protest. And today, as the Paria rejoinder points out, the Allies are financing the Greek army,

Whatever King Constantine may say, therefore, cannot explain away the fact that if the Allies are in Greece to-day it is largely because, in the memorable appeal addressed by Venicetos to his king on 11th January, 1915. words like these occur:

Un account of all these reasons 1 cond.ade that our participation in the

struggle, unser the above conditions, aboutey imperative,

Even if we fail,

We shall proserve the esteem and friend- stip powerful nations-those, indeed, who created Greece and so often since have helped and supported her. Our refusal to fulfil our obgations to our ally, Servia, would not only destroy our moral tanding us stare, but would leave us without friends and destroy all trust in us it was the sentiment of the Greek in the future.

people a year ago,··

As a

Under the influence of fear, sentirmont may have somewhat changed. That it has not changed to 80 per cent against the Allies is plain from any sign, In the recent Parliamentary elections the Venizelists abstained. result, the number of votes cast fell from amition and a quarter in the elections of the early part of the year to about a quirter of a million. Allow for difficultic arising from the mobilization, and it i still car that an overwhelming majority of the Greck nation, by their very silence, only the other day proclaimed their adhe sion to Venizelos and the Allies. Now York Fation

Registrar.

The Registrar was present, and Mr. Sharp intimated that Mr. Nesbit did not relish the idea. Dealing with the finan- cial side of the Company, Mr, Sharp said

Then

that the capital was $200,000, of which $100,000 was paid up forthwith there was some trouble with the Bank, and an effort was made to raise the remaining $100,000, of which 884,000 was raised. No dividend was over paid, the capital was gone, and there was now no opium in the Company.

There was, however, one book debt. If the opium which was for-

merly in the Company had not passed into private, or, as they said, bogus firms, there would now be close upon $2,000,000 worth. If these fraudulent sales were sot aside

than $2,000,000 and over one and a half the shareholders would be entitled to less

million dollars for division.. That was the real position.

The hearing was again adjourned,

INJURED INNOCENCE

A Chinese visited a house in Circulog Pathway, Central District, and said be had been sent to repair the roof. He was taking away a quantity of zine, saying he would bring back some new madad, when a foki became suspicious, and deaned the mad. Enquiry elicited the fact that the Iandlord had not sent anyone to the-house- to repair the roof, and defendant then as- serted that a man at Yaumati," whom Colonel (of a. very galant Colonial did not know, had sent him. At the regiment)—“ Now, hays, here's the Eng- Magistracy the defendant, maid that as h's lish general coming to inspect yon. Keep master denied a knowledge of him he standy, no spitting, and for it aven's sake, would say ng more, and was thereupon cent don't call me Alf!"

to prison for three montla