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THE WAR.
GERMAN ATTACKS AT VERDUN.
NEW COMMANDER'S SUCCESS IN MESOPOTAMIA.
RUMANIA ON THE BRINK.
GERMANY'S SUBMARINE WARFARE.
BRITISH GUNS DEFEAT ZEPPELINS,
FRANDO-BELGIAN FRONT,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
SANGUINARY FIGHTING AT
VERDUN.
THE NEAR EAST
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MAJOR-GENERAL AYLMER.
LONDON, April 6th.
It is officially announced that Lieut..
THE HONGKONG. DAILY PREEK, SATURDAY, APRIL 8TMa, 16,
[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGETUY, 1
SUBMARINED STEAMERS.
LONDON, April 7th.
The Americas Consul at Cork states that four Americans were aboard the Berta-
dule.
[XHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.];
THE BUDGET. / OPENING FOR SMALL BRITISH MOTOR-CARS
LONDON, April 70.
The British steamer Clan Campbell and the Norwegian steamer Baus have been sunk. Four of the crew of the Band aro. The morning papers state that more missing.
unture consideration does not appear to aber the general approval of the Budget, It is opined that the increase in the taxa- tion on
motor care shove sixteen bors pawer will lead to increased sales of the smaller British cars in place of American, which mostly come under the new taxation, The cimona tax. alone is expected to pro ducm £15,000 daily. The new proposals met with little opposition is Labour cir eles, where the tax on railway tickets alone
[The Clan Campbell is a steel vessel of 2.000 gross tonnago. She was built at Bar- row in 1894, and was the property of the Clan Lino Steamers, of Glasgow.)
TORPEDOING
OF
* MINNEAPOLIS,”
PART OF CREW THROWN INTO
SEA.
[TERÖUGA, BLUITER'S ACHEGY.)
JAPAN AND THE CHINESE REBELLION.
"A SERIOUS STEP."
PERING, April 7th. Japan has taken a serious step, with holding from Chinn the surplus sait revenue amounting to 81,000,000 deposited in the Yokohama Specie Bank, on the plea that the critical situation in China is endanger
ing
the sali revenuce
It is understood that the British, Rus- sian, French, and German Banks have not refused to hand over their amounts in accordance with the Loan Agreement.
NEWS FROM BERLIN.
MEATLESS DAYS,
[FROM A TIMES "SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT]
A neutral lady of some distinction who arrived hero from The Hagus to-day, while providing on with extremely interesting news from Berlin, complained bitterls of the rough treatment she received at tho lands of the German authoritics at Bon- theim, the frontier town,
She says that, although she was provided with special letters of recommendation, she was stripped, the soles of her feet washed in case of invisible writing, the hots of ler shoes were removed in search for gold or ducuments, the handle of a new nubrekin destroyed for a like purpose; her hair taken down and the lining from the inside of her hat examined. The recen, exploit of a reprcscntative of a London newspaper who succeeded in getting into the presence of the Karer at Vish and escaping to Eng. land with number of documents, together with the speed with which other German news is now reaching England, has render-
courteous extremely vigorous
is quest ered. It is understood that effort. CHINESE TELEGRAMS.ed the German officials ne no time very
will be made to withdraw this.
LONDON, April 6th!: Eighty survivors of the Minneapolis |- NO DELAY IN NEW TAXATION. arrived in London on the 27th and 30th March They state that the liner was for- podood amidships, the explosion killing twelve in the engine room. The ves el sank
"
us that the
in 40 hours. Many of the crew were thrown into the sea and were picked up
LONDON, April 7th, In the House of Commons, Mr. McKenna said that in order to avoid deby, involving a loss of £3,000,000 in revome, the per jokes will be embodied
on Finance Bill and the old taxes in another, which might
in
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
THE CHINESE REBELLION.
KWANGSI'S INDEPENDENCE,
PERING. April 6th,
The reported cancellation of the indepen
dence of Kwangsi is believed to be likely but the report is premature, as the condi-
ENEMY'S TERRIBLE SACRIFICES General Sir G Gorringe will succeed after several hours. The submarine was be delayed for the discussion of such subtions have not yet been arranged,
PARIS. April akk.
$.05 p.m. Great enemy activity in the region of Verdun is recorded in to-day's French com muniqué, which says that went of the Meuse following a most violent bombard- ment in the region between Avocourt and Bethincourt, a series of attacks with the largest numbers were made on the two prin- cipal salients on this front, All the enemy attempts against the vitinge of Bethincourt wore broken by the French fire.
The enemy, after repeated reverses and body sacrificus, gained a footing in the village of Haucourt, which the French are keeping under fire from their dominating positions.
Major-Generi Ayhner.
[Major-General Aylmer was in command of the force despatched to relieve Major-Gen eral Townshend at Kut-el-Amara, but he has been unable to break through, despite several efforts.},
MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN. NEW COMMANDER'S SUCCESS.
LONDON, April Bth.
The War Offers amourecs that the Tigris Corps, under the command of Lieut.. General Garsage, who has succeeded Major-General Aylmer attacked Unel hannah. Our trenches had been pushed forward be saps to within 100 yards of the enemy's positions. The leading battalions of the 13th Division thence rushed the enemy's first and second lines
The third line was captured by six
The French effected a successful attack north of Avoort, and took much ground'clock in the morning. Under the sup-
and numbers of prisonera,
East of the Mouse two enemy attacke north of Bois Chillette were repulsed with Beribus losses,
A French coup-de-main in Argonne inflict ed considerable losses on the enemy,
AN INTENDED ATTACK PREVENTED..
HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING AT
•DOUAUMONT,
PARIS, April 7th,
-3.10 ..
The evening communiqué mays: The Germans persistently bombarded the Bethin. court salient and Foivre Hill, This fore- told an attack, but our curtain of fire pro vented the enemy from emerging.
Hand-to-band fighting south-west of Donaumont Fort enabled us to advance to enemy trenches at a distance of 200 yards en a front of 500 yards,
There was artillery activity in Lorraine and in Woevre,
·A MONTH'S AERIAL RECORD.
GERMANS LOSE 35 AND FRENCH 13.
PARIS. April 7th.
A communiqué says that during March the French aviators were most, active and brought down 31 German machines, mine of which were in our lines, and four others were brought down by anti-aircraft guns, The French lost 13 machines, 12 of which felt in the German lines. The German: aviators were ordered to fly as little as possible over the French ines,
STRUGGLE" AT ST. ELOI.
CONTINUES THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
port of contrated artillery and machine-gun fire, the 13th Division von tinued its victorious advance, and drove the Turks from their fourth and fifth lines
by seven o'clock in the morning,
Aeroplanes reported that the enemy. War strongly reinforcing his entrenchments at Fakhiyah and Sanaay Yat, respectively 6,000 and 12,000 yards from Umelkannab. As these positions could only be approach. ed over the most open ground General Gorringe ordered further attack to be de- ferred until the evening.
In the meantime General Keary's ard Division had captured the trenches opposite Falah yah.
"The enemy's counter-attack in the after- noon with infantry, cavalry, and guns, was repuked,
not seen,
BATTLESHIP ENCOUNTERS
** BRESLAU,”
RUSSIAN SUBMARINE'S GOOD WORK,
PETROGRAD, April 7th.
In the Black Sea a subquarino sunk a
· The chief topic of conversation in Berlin at the moment among the middle class is at the war but the fact that on March 27 butter cards? will be issued, entithing every one to a quarter of a pound weekly. This good news, which will relieve thon- sands from the task of waiting on queue in a half-frozen condition outside ships, bas been somewhat neutralized by the fact that two more ventless days have boen added to the Berlin régime making lour
in all classes are con
So far as the upper
cerned, they are looking will after them selves in this matter, but se all public restaurants and among the poor who layo
jects as the excess profita tax.
Later in the sitting the former was intro- GENERAL TSEI AO ASKS FOR not the wherewithal to lay in store the
doerd.
AIR BKVICES. RESIGNATION OF LORD DERUM.
LONDON, April 7th.
It is reported that Lord Derby has re signed the Cha runnship of the Air Com
stewmer and eleven sailing vessels laden with coal. A battleship bombarded the mittee. Brestau, which fled,
#881AN FRONT,
[THROUGH MKUTAH'S AGENCY.]
GERMAN AIRSHIP BROUGET DOWN,
RUSSIANS OCCUPY GALICIAN VILLAGE
PETROGRAD, April 7th,
A comuniqué soya-A Bussiau avistor brought down a German dirigible south-
TRUCE.
ment rules are strict y kept. The Germans in general, and the Berliners in particuing, are beginning to suffer from a number iatorzo niliments which are generally abe tributed to the abscuce of any fatty admis ture in their diet,
PEKING, April 0th, Cheng-yi, the Chiang Chun of Szechuan, telegraphs to the Government that General Tsai Ao (the rebel lender) asks for a seven days true, pending negotiations. Cheng
has been instructed to grant the roquestling in the same train with my informant,
He fools that as Director of Rei crafting he is unable to devote adequate time to the work; also, that the powers of the Commitace, which aimed at co-ordinat ing the Naval and Military air services, ara 100 small,
It is stated that the post may be offered to Earl Curzon.
ZEPPELIN BAULKED.
BEATEN OFF BY ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS:
LONDON, April oth
west of Dvinak
A Zeppelin appeared over the north There has beeu some fighting in the eastern coast at 9,40 p.m. The night was Upper Strypa region,
The Russians occupied a village in which they sized land mines and much ammuni
figu
GENERAL,
[HROUGH REUTER'S ALENCY.}
RUMANIA ANNOYED WITH
BULGARIA-
REPRESENTATIONS TO THE
ENTENTE.
BUKHAREST, April 7th, Rumania is amoyed at the persistent anti-Rumanian campaign in the Bulgarian Presa. The Bulgarian Minister at Buk
clear and startit, and searchlights immedi ately located the nurship. "A heavy fire was opened with excellent aim, The Zeppelin wade numeroje unsuccessful efforts to avali the searchlights, and after les minutos smil. ed off in an easterly direction, after drop ping a few bombs. The sinhip was n doubtedly driven off by the guns.
NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN'S
FEAT
PROPOSED RECOGNITION
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), April 6th.
The Minister of Munition is opening a Inad to present au aeroplane to Lieut.
General Gorringe in the evening ad barest is accused of provoking agitation Brandon, the New Zealander who recently
vanged on the left bank and carried Falakiyah positions,
#AVAL ACTIVITIES,
(THROUGH RELTER'S AGESOX.)
GERMANY'S SUBMARINE
WARFARE.
ANOTHER NEUTRAL JOINS PROTESTING NATIONS
the
MADEID, April 6th, Spain bas protested to Germany against the terpedoings of the Sussez-in which several Spaniards were lost-and of the Spanish merchantman Figo in the Bay of Biscay,
MORE GERMAN CALLOUSNESS,
LET TORPEDOED STEAMER'S
CREW DROWN,
LONDON, April 6th. The unarmed Manchester steamer Zent was torpedoed without warning and sunk, The Captain and ten of the crew were rescued; 49 were drowned and two died of injuries sustained in the explosion, Bosta A British communiqué says that early inere launched, but enpaired owing to the the morning, after a very heavy bombard headway. The submarine's crew did not ment, the enemy, attacked our new trenches
at St Eloi. There was fighting all through the day, and it still continues. A small hoshile raiding party entered one of our trenches at Hooge but was promptly ejected.
LONDON, April 7th.
Both artilleries have been active about Lieven. Leus, and south of Bossinghe,
attempt to rescue them,
GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK.
OFFICERS AND CREW CAPTURED.
**_*__*__*_Paris, April 6th
A communiqué says that an Anglo- French fotilla on the 5th April ssak a German submarine. The officers and rew were captured.
agains, Premania's lately acquired territory at Dobradja, and news is also published to the effect that six Bulgarian divisions have been despatched to threaten Dob rudja.
The Rumanian publie demand the Bul- garian Minister's recall.
dropped several bouts on a Zeppelin that raided England.
UNIVERSAL SERVICE.
GOVERNMENT CONSIDERING
IMPORTANT STEP.
LONDON, April 6th. The fact that the Government, are con The Rnaanina Government has called the sidering the adoption of universal service attention of the Enterta Cabinets to the
is ovidenz from s atstoment by Mr. Asquith sentiments of Bulgaria,
in the House of Commons to-night. The "BULGARIA'S MENACING TONE, Prunier announced that the Government
BUEHAREST, April 8th.
are examining figures of retraits obtain. The Rumanias Parliament is remaining | able under the present system and sro ati in semien owing to the critical situation mating the further number that will be which has arisen with Bulgaria, The lacessary. The Government will pay full ter is adopting a menacing tone. The Rumanian Government are taking a mea sures to deal is the quickest manner with any possible surprise by Bulgarian troops, AEROPLANES FROM THE
STRAITS.
LONDON, April 7th,
In the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law, announced the gift of six mora sero-
regard to all the factors in the situation. He would anounce the decision before Easter
WAR MATERIAL PRICES
FIXED
LowDos, April 7th. It is officially announced that the Minis. tor of Munitions has been considering the
prices of the materials przed and produced in the iron and steel industries, and has now fixed maximum prices for all classes p of pig-iron, based on the almurical condi-
proveiling..
planes from the Straits Settlements and the Malay States, making 16 in all and also a second machine from the Hom Mr.
Alma Baker, the organiser of the Fund.
INTERNED GIVILIANS IN
BRITAIN.
LONDON, April 7th. In the House of Commons Sir Herbert Samuel said that there were now 32,149 enemy civilians internad
BHODES, SCHOLARSHIPS.-
GERMANE TO BE EXCLUDED.
LONDON, April =tb Reuter learn that it is hoped to pass this somon a private Bill excluding fer, mang from participation in the Ehodas scholarships, providing Doolmion scholar ships instead
LOYALISTS' SUCCESSES.
It is officially announced that Brigade Commander Lu Ching Shan recapture Pachowtang, Hunan, on the 31st March, and Chiking on the 1st April.
TO HOLLAND FOR FOOD, For this reason some of the wealthier is- valias beyond wihtary: age are seeking a variety or diet in visits to Holland, Den-
mark, and Sweden, several were travel-
who records Lng their alloy to taste once wore good white bread will unlimited but- ter and fried or roasted-1ather than boiled meat was amusing, Neither Dutch nor English people, she te me, can imagico the effect of jack of butter upon Geriuang-- the poor state that it has reduced their Vitality in the recent cold weather.
Asked us to Zeppelin activity, she replied that the new. *** Spitzondo Zeppelin (poisted at each end) was swiftly MDGUV-
GRAVE CONDITION IN HUPEH. over Berlin last week eather for
PEKING, April 6th,
The Chiang Chun of Hupeh telegraphic ally urges peace as conditions in the Pro- viuće are grayə
KWANGTUNG INDEPENDENT,
GENERAL REJOICING IN CANTON.
A telegram from our Canton correspondent yesterday announced that Kwangtung de clored its independence last night. The con duct of the people and the soldiery is most orderly. There is general rejoicing, and cracker-firing galore,
OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION. H.E. the Governo, has received informs tion from HM's Consul General at Can. tonto the effect that the Province of Kwangtung has declared its independ
COPPER ON THE S.S. “ MIYAZAKI MARU.”
DECISION OF THE PRIZE COURT.
practice or for demonstration before the peopic Everywhere is Zeppelin tak There is unusual activity at Jonannisthat, the aeronautical headquarters near Ber lin, and aeroplanes are practising every- where, especially in the Doberitz district.
The
poorer classes love unlimited faith in the air warfare, and bajieve that eventually the Cformans will be able to land large bodies of troops in England by this means.
Councillor Rudolf Martin issued some time ago some foolish notes on this project.
In order to release every available man for some form of military or munition work, the removal of garbage 24 Berlin is- now in the hands of russian and French prisonera, but these are in such demand dlsewhere that the work is inefficiently- done, with the result that a new and un- asurable phenomenon in the shape of flies sado life in her part of Char.ottenburg uncomfortable, be
In her particular circle opinions about the differ. The only enemy discussed is England. The compulion news a dishellovat has proved a greater shock to the masses than anything that has hop- Ponod. It cute short the elaborate peace talk that has been circulated in Berße at the suggestion so the officials averred-of the British Governinent. Most of her wo men friends are heartily sick of the war, and the obstinacy of the Alies in refrain- ing from seeking definite toring of peace is subject of great annoyance in the official and civic worlds, and the source of much depresion among the workers.
I went to pay suine bills at a number of small shops the day before I left Bar- lin, remarked my informant, “*
and when said I was going to Holland and prob
In the Prime Court before the President Sir Samuel Evans, Mr. Hugh Fraser, forably eventually to England, I was asked the Crown said he had to ask for condem.
nation of 1,023 ingots of copper, forming part of the cargo of the Japanese steamship Miyazaki Maru, on the ground that the copper was enemy property, or, alternative ly, that it was contraband of war. The 1914, bound to Marseilles London, and venel loft: China towards the end of June,
Antwerp, and arrived at London August 15th, 1914. On the arrival of the vesul certain goods were seized as prize, and the had all since been dealt with, with the exception of the copper, which was placed under detention November 5th, 1914. From the bill of lading it appeared that various ports were made optional for de livery of the cargo, and that the 1,530 ingots were landed at Port Baid for Trieste (ome of the optional ports), but, according to the shipowners' letter, the remaining 1,023 ingots were declared for Hamburg, and they were consequently brought on to London for transhipment. A MAN The President, giving judgment, snad — Information has been given which is satis- factory, coupled with the notes in the copy bill of lading itself to show that the 1,083 ingote in question were destined for Ham. burg They were to be sent to London for trazihipment to Hamburg The copper was contraband of war, and had on meny destination, and, therefore, is confiscable as prize and I pas condemnation accord ingly.
in almost every case to write and gay when:
thought the war would be over.!
FAITH IN SUBMARINES AND. ZEPPELING
The fire-eaters are not now so numerous as they were in circles of this kind a year. ago. Then they were all talking of a chain of subtosrines which would throttle John Bull and of Zeppelins that would set fire Palace. To-day there are thousands who to the Bank of England and Buckingham question whether the use of submarines and Zeppeling may not cause England to tigh- ten the blockade and thus deprive the soldiers of the necessities which are reaching them through the leakages,
Here and there she heard mysterious re- ferences to changes and new activities ati Kiel. But beyond the fact that there has bean much coming and going between tho naval beadquarters in Berlin and this great German unral centre, she was unable to fr out any particulara.-
for There has recently been a fresh copper and brass in Berlin and both the Deatsche and Dresdner Banks have yielded an elaborate quantity of brass and bronzo door-knockers, and even from the houses of
the wealthy the copper doors belonging to great china stoves have been removed to give place to those of iron,
It must not be imagined there is any lack of amusement in Berlin or any absenco of seeming prosperity. The shops appear he doing 2 good menuut of business, and in the particular coterie in which my in- formant mingled the forthcoming Shuke- The Morning Port's Petrograd correspon spearian eslebration is much discussed, this
a lecture on dens dealing the other day with the Verdaneswar in which it will be pointed out Shakespears and the attack reiterated the Bussian view that the that hud Shakespeare been alive now he really important matter is the killing of would have been a pro Geitnan Germans The Franch should defend the
In general, her opinion of the class in positions only while they afforded supe which she moved in that particular portfon Hority in killing power. In diminish of Berlin, Charlottenburg is that there is ing the German personnel lay the whole extraordinary confidence in peace that grpret of the Allies sicoss. Even this cor- } will give Germany Antwerp, a port on the respondent admitted that France lacked Adriatic, an exit in the Parsian Gulf, the Basis' depth of territory available for Belgian Congo, the return of the German khis procedure.
colonies, and the ff freedom of the reas,
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