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THE WAR.

FRENCH PROGRESS AT VERDUN.

GERMANY AND AMERICAN NOTE.

BRITISH RAID ENEMY TRENCHES.

ATTACK ON TIGRIS FAILS.

FRANDO-BELGIAN FRONT,

[THBOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) FURTHER FRENCH PROGRESS.

·PABES, April 23rd.

4 pim. Further French progress is the feature ] of the communiqué today. It says:-W zepul-ed the Germans and took prisoners westward of Yauquos, and the enemy did not renew his efforts in the Deadman

region.

(Traction EKOTER'S AGENCY.] AMERICA'S RELATIONS WITH GERMANY.

NOTE PUBLISHED IN BERLIN.

AMSTERDAM, April 23rd.. The American Note was published ́in Berlin on Saturday after the text had been sent to Headquarters for the consideration of the Kaiser, the Imperial Chanelor, and Find-Murghal Falkenhayn

AMERICA PREPARING FOR A

BREAK.

THE HONGKONG DAILI PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 15en 1910,

[TRIDUOR BEUYER'S AGENCY.} THE SITUATION IN CHINA. NEW CABINET BEING ORGANISED.

Peixe, April 93:1. Tuan Chỉ Jui has accepted the Premier, ship and the War portfolio, and is organis." ing a new Cabinet, to which Presient Yuan Shi-kai has ægrid to surrender all civil authority.

DECORATIONS FOR BRITONS

IN THE FAR RAST,

The King hai granted pertaisson for the andormentioned gentlemen to wear derorn- tions which have been conferred upon them in recognition of valuable services rendered by then; —

CHINESE DECOLATIONS.

Second Clary of the Order of the Sriped Tiger: Wiliam Ferdinand Tyler, E.,

•Coast Insprelor in the Chines Marit Customs Service, Shanghai.

The folowing members have been proe Crop: Ardon Henry Hyland, Esq., Posta

Third Clas of the Order of the Exc tically selected Foreign Affairs, Lu Chen Commissioner to Chill Proving

Fourth Chis, of the Order of the Excel Hsing; Finance Minister, Chan : Cous,

Et Crop Herbert Dixon Enners, Minister of Interior, Wang Yi Tang

and John Burling. Est Postal Commissioners, Peking Min stor of Novy, La Kuan Hoog; Firth Clans of the Order of the Exerl'eng

Crop: Minister of Communications, Tsan JL.Postal Commission Peking; Frank Daniel McLorn, Esq., Deput

The Government hopes that the Prenter shịp of Tun Chí Jui, who is a stannel Pepublian wil recovelo th... South.

Brice Tolliday, Esq., Deputy Posial- Commissioner. Tinenfu, and George Ed- ward Opend Hill, Esq. Deputy Postal Cotuissioner, Kaifengfu. Honan.

Sixth Class of the Order of the Excellent Crop Thomas Norman Manner Esq., Acting Deputy Postal Commissioner, Seventh Class of the Order of the Excel lent Crop Gordon O'Neil MR.CS, L.RO.P.. Professor of Olete tries in the Peiyung Medical College, Tientsin.

TRANSPORTING THE SERVIAN Canton

APMY

ITALIAN NAVY'S ARDUOUS FEAT.

vien forces st. Corfu is complete it may be of interest to note how it is that results 10 ́atisfactory have been brought

"Now that the concentration of the Ser-

about. That they are satisfactory wil be admitted by anyone who can throw his

THE GERMAN ATTACK

ABOUT PHALANXES:

STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS,

[BY THE TIMES MILITARY O RRESPONDENT.]

WIDOWS ON STATE PAY,

40.000 DRAWING PENSIONS,

Some importsat figure, myraling the tall of life and limb the war has taken and the sorowing that follows in its trail were Thỏ fniture of the Gerinas Army, after communicated to the House of Commons a month of frenzied effort, to oust the recently by Mr. Haye, Fisher in explain- French from the Côtes de House, is recog-ing the Nava, and Military War Pensione Aired all over the world as a triumph for Bill: French arms. Even wore the Germans now, by bringing up every spare Jean and gun

in force the French from the, right

bank of the Meuse, it would equally bo reengines that the price paid for mich success would be out of all proport or to Fits vang.

IN THE VIRÐUN BRIDGE-HEAD.

Number of Army widows (non-com.

officers and mìón), "............. In reeipt of pensions *Receiving separation. Je«kul j*nન

Number of Naval widows. Beccaring, pensione *Reediving separation Tiefused pens

20, 206

19,094

BUR)

4,64b

4,18

420

Separation allowances are continued during first : 20 weeks after · husband's death, Dependents other than widows and

DINABLED SOLDIKES, Awarded, pensions or grants

30,255

Refused pensions or gonts18105) These cases will be reviewed under the now conditions allowing pensions to be granted when the disease was aggravated." by. La

Cases of unqutation. Blind soldier,

People wonder why the Garinans at'ick- | ed Vordun, but the French position tå re form a salt nt, the scars on the right bank were to sque extent isolated, from The rest; and behind them was the Me, swollen to 1.000 yards hrand in places, and with many of the bridges exposed to the fire of the German 2-cenbinustre and naval 380 atimetre guns, It was a bridge-bead

Wor Esq. that the Germans assailed, and though its all would have had, and would have now, ne serous consequences, it must be ad- mitted that the conditions favoured the German attack in some ways, and render The great de once of our Allies all the more glorious to them, and all the more damaging to German proví get t

JAPANESE DECORATION. Third Class of the Order of the Rising Sun :: Creil Arthur Verne, Bowm. Eng., Comamissioner of Customs, Chief Becretary in the Inspectorate General of the Mariline Customs of the Chinese Republic Chon Klan Francis Henry Giles, Esq. Director-General of the Royal Siamese Revenue Department.

.4.818

200

State pensions will be supplemented by allowancis granted by the Statutory Com-

uitteet.

Mr. Hayes Fisher claimed the1 the scale of pensons adopted was the most generous Against this bridg:-head the Germens

in the world. A widow received 10% with brought up as many men as the ground corresponding additions according to the brought in action, à vast array of key you come to think of the class of men you chikirer received 18s. 6d. Still, when cannon formed the framework of the phare enlisting into the present Army, mon lanx, and the cream of the Prussian troops such as your bave never before called on to

It is expected that the answer will be mind back three months and reco ket what Second Class of the Order of Chula ould hold and as many guns as could ba najmber of the Family. A widow with two Sucesful coups-de-main enabled the layed by requests for further information little prospot there then was of the Ser French to take enemy advanced posts in

vinn Arny emerging from the order of a retreat through the Albanian mounts as in Avecourt, Wood and further prisoners,

the depth of winter "hirassed by numerous There was an intermittent cannonade in

Alban'an tribes, That the Army has suffered tertible losses no one will deny, the Watyre.

but it has retained its original format ons, fud day 160,000 tried Servian troops re- quire nothing but repose, reequipment, and a certain amount of reorganization to present once more a force capable of phy- ing a role in the Ba kans which only those who know the magnificent, hero am of the Servinn solier can properly cstituate

ARTILLERY WORK.

PARIS, April 24th.

1.15 a.m.

A communiqué gays:-West of the Meuse, there was a volent bombardment

• K 11 304,

Fast of the Mouse, and in Woevre, there were artillery salves, but no infantry

actor.

WASHINGTON, April 23rd. The Government is tentatively arrangleg to cope with the possible severies with Germany, and al representative abroad have received the necessary instructions

The general feeling in official circles is not at all optimistic..

GREAT GERMAN WAR COUNCIL.

Ausreinam, April 23rd,

WAR AFTER THE WAR.

LORD HALDANE ON DEFENCE AGAINST GERMANY.

Weighty works on coming after the war were uttored by Lord the war that in

Haldane, when delivering the foundation

NEARLY AS MUCH DEFORE-

if there is any cream left-was: to'd off for the assault, The 25 divisions, of some fight for you, it was clear that a flat 200,000 bayonets, selected for the honour sale of pensions was inadequate, of the assault, had been taken out of the dine weeks before probably about the inidd'e of January. They had ben 616 up with the young levy of 1016 which had been esrefully nursed for the occasion, and slaughter. all this infantry were fed up ilke cattle før

.

THE TEUTON PHALANK.

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The widow of an agricultural labourer who had earned 20%, a week would ruive for herself and two children 158 84, a week. alumost a much ag her husband carned.

And when she reached the age of 35 the amount would be increased to 21s. Allow- asices on this scale would be quite inade- The result, so full of promise for the futurs ie das primerly to the Servians oration at the anniversary assemblage of the The Teuton phalanx, like its Macedonian qute to the wife of a man who had been Learning £3, £4, £6; or £6 week. To themselves. No people less hardy could ¦ Union Society. held in the Botanical customary battle line. It is natural, A prototype, is merely a mod fied form of s

meet these cases the Statutory Committee have endured the same privations and

would endeavour to make up the tal A great War Council at the German when the history of this war comes to be Theatre of the University College, Univer- legitimate, and often an effective menna of

incon for a widow with children to two written not the least, bright onge will be siv of London,

action in these days when trenches strichthirds of the pre-war income." But the Headquarters is deliberating over the crisis that which recounts how, under the splen,

from wes to sea and cannot everywhere be maximu pension would be £9. At this I am more afraid," he said, " of ausrongly guarded. The very latest German rate they were trending closely on the We vigorously shelled enemy works south with America. The position is viewed with did tender bp of their venerable King, engine for conniest in peace time which theory is that the artilery conquers the hews of the scale of pensions for offcers, donirably seconded by his son end his Min the German were busy preparing before of the Samme and in Lorraine,

the utmost seriousness in Government cir-isters they preferred the temporary less the war than I go of the 42 centimetre ground and the infantry occupies it. By which in the lower command ranks was WHAT THE EN MY THINKS.ries, who demand that the situation must be starvation or by Albanan attack in the modern form of continuation school is "x and trope, and then the task of the in- for the children as good an education as

of their country and the risk of death by gung of Krupp and Skodn. The most is expected to fintten out obstaces, parapet,

* prodigious expenditure of Amiuuition it 2100 a year

Efforts would also be made to ens REPORTS OF BIG GERMAN PURH. xained in all its aspects in order to mountains to making terms with the enem

teading itself over a large part of Germifantry becomes easy up to a point Bat. they would have had if their fathers lived. the test danger. No only polt emans hui the'r race

ardin designet to extend all over the though the Verdu bridge-hend had its Offers had already been received from After the Serv ́e as themselv a the German Empire.”. also military and naval officers no parti-Italians, perirps, d sarve c'0-1 credit. ** It is not like the old continuation weak points and the pha any profited from schools. The Committee thought who they

them fell the responsibilty of my dingsebes a place for extending merely neral them, it may be doubted whether the the case of sckness or severe operations

would be ablu tcome extra allowances in cipaling in the Council

naval recort for supply ships proceeding kowledge after the period of compulsory tangled hüls wine qu to the west suitable frera Italy to the allenton coast. The odions on is over. Its principle is to take theatre for the tact es pursued, There can of amputation reported to Roehamp- practical d'fheu ties noived in this live the who intend to enter a special trade, ust have ben much dead ground, much ton Hospital. Of these 1,625, had already been freely and generously acknowledged and use the goudig recairy for that tende cover for repryss, and many we'l-concealed been received xe Boehampton and 023 had as & medium for imparting both tele, flanking postions from which the numer been discharged with srsificial imbs. by Loth British and French sein, esp

for more plus a month d ́d. vend/work at

Lorpor, April a Reator's correspondent at the British. Headquarters says there has been a renewal of the reports of a big German offencivert at the Ypres salient. These rumont, are

"AMERICAN INTERVENTION

Amarendam, Apil 23rd.

The papers supporting the Goverment

ensure

Up to the present, there had been 3.818.

probably of German origin, Fighting advis enution and appeal to America'say by Admiral Tronbridge who for ski and general know.dg Its ordina! Long and erosive French machine guns There was a waiting list of 2027. Case

Ypres bâs been incessant for the pai two months and was recently more fierce but it was purely desultory, not exceding truggles for local positions. The enemy is not daring to withdraw any troops 1em Ypres for Verdun. He

probably think

.*..

that the Ypres terrain is too diffcut for the next big British push, and he is there fore trying to keep as many British as-

ble pinned to that Front.

BRITISH, FRONT. RAID ON GERMAN TRENCHES.

LONDON. April 9th

A British communiqué says:-Last night we wafully maided the enemy's trenches" to the wouth-west of Thiepval Thirteen

prisoners

were captured, in addition to which number of casun ties were infic ed at the enemy by bobing his dagents Orr canalties wens very sight. There has

pute of justier” hat the majorly of the

submarine warfare, and sneers at Americ:¤ "Pros refuses to hear of abandoning the

interention as of little importia.

PARLIAMENT'S SECRET.

SESSION.

LONDON, Apr 23rd.

month.

PRAISK FOX MR. FEARSON So far the tuin care of the blinder had

feature is that fi is a work school ralberoul open at the last moment epon na suit were being not fet at he rale oë va than hook school.

Lord Jaldane felt that the day was aps

ing columns with dead'y effect prosching when the British Government were with the German attack until sucos Cetin and neutral correspondents who we'd be blamed for not having warned the rive German repulses enured thera to be industrial population and prepared it for the shock of competition with the raw and hurried'y removed told us of lang. 1 mes of formidable class of workmen which Ger-Ge guns in the open almost wheel to many was now preparing. He drew attenttack when ind'rent laying was probably wheel. It may have b ́en so in the diarent ting to the mass of elementary pupils whose the rule. But I this line of guns attempt cospulsory education in Eng and ended

San Giovanni di Medus and exe fully engnisant of the dficulties of the situs on For instance Meduni 80 miles nearer to Ca'tar the Agstrien naval base han to Brindis Consequent y very ship rent acrosa 'hart to be a corted he a free sufficient to deal with the preto mvn] fore the Austrin - were able to send out. The port, however, was "mall, and only a few hundred tons oou'd be un-about 13, leaving them free to gn incorded the same contemptuous factios in the ládod ́n a day. Fach small ship, there for until sigoumsances forced them to begin cor attack when the French 75's could fore, requ'e'd à Bres to a cort, it mean the work of adults at 17 of 18. Germnou tak to them, there was sure to B trouble, To keep an army supplied by this mean hal realised the difference it would make if and the probabity sem to be that, the for long wat ortus me being retraining in continuation schools could be the fire of the French artillery, and the she fend system andes which compulsory closer the Germans drew the hotter became Spite of the difficult ry the Italian

send the unsprtation of a sufficient anotated with the very beginning of wage less efficent the German guns. All the number of small suppy steamers to word; earping and continued down to 18.

roads behind the German-guns were held aff all danger of famina and to enable

under-fire, and the railways were well froops macing south to be provided with Germany has induced employers to co- she'ls were erected, the supply at the treat Fombel so that though mountains of rations to carry them on to the ax pat.operate," added Ford Haldane, and they Im transporting the Servim from Albanian new appear to have realized the advantages may havɔ been subjet to muc d lay ports, to Corfu the Italians, and French co- | over their competitors which they will sperated so (ffectively that the cotire ser- derive from a wide and constant inflow into vice was completed 30 days sooner than their works of youth, highly trained in the was originally est mated, although the special requirements of the ongipes, in mambers involved grent y exceeded what which they are wanted. had been calcislated for

A) Order-in-Council has been pied pro- Líbitng the publication of any sport of the proceedings of the steret sesion of

ort Parlament other than the officia

report, Nomecalations as to what Look pace may De blished.

VEHEMENT ATTACK. ON MR. LLOYD GEORG K,

AND WARM DEFENCE.

SEA BRITAIN'S SHAPE.

SCHOOL AND WORKS.

The employer was compel'ed by law to

Tallen on Mr. Arthur Pearson whose work a St. Dunstan's Hostel is reil v beyond all praise ( Hear, hear.") everything that human kindness and science There the blind were having done for them could do. Some 200 bad vichon pared through or would it through a period of traning there. Probably there would be a very much larger number before the end of the war, and it might be necessary

provide another 4. Damian's

Case, perhaps the most pitiful

For the work of Committee Parliament was at present voting £1.000.000. It wea not certain how for that would go, but he felt certain that it was not the only million the would be to work would

In the district the

vide, then with a home where the would As to incurables, it was the aim to pro- receive every comfort for the remaining years of their life. That work was al- ready being undertaken by those who were od Star and Garter at Richmond. Special responsible for startin- the hospital at the

:provizion would have to be made alio for The Germans apparently expected a fairly rapid enccess and when the battle of dragged on for a whole mouth without a dee's on, the continuation of the contest on the same scale for many more weeks b'came an anxious businespart to her fram red the young wage earners in his works the exhaustion of the treans high opers Mr. It is entisfactory for Great Britain to to an appropriate school for a number of) to have been grent, Ineffe the Gem through a number of focal committees,

hours, which wors taken out of the working artery have not yet commmer d the zre sines instead of the evening of the main piton and so the German ** The one practical mode of educating - Fnfantry have not yet occupied it. When

between

14 and 16 is by education wita analar eg ons of Claus teacht the old reference to print trade which the boy lesson. There is nothing new under the has been encouraged to choose this sum point, Lord Haldane drove home, amid

Apart from the mure y local aspect of the occupations which recruited unemployables attack round Verdun we must ay that we ard drained the nation of its strength, do not recognize the traditional German many had violated the moral ; strategy in all this operation. The shade as a nation and under the direction of Clausewitz must be reduced to tears I of the war party which had got the upper

know that some unall megsure of kucenis

They were being asked to make a comulte survey and in few months. I was

teen mining and artiliey activity today. News owing to 's attitude in the riced for the sleepátok of supplies from and to Cérating the major ty of youth the whelanx choose unirit-ble crnd the hoped to have a perfect record of the nam

THE HEAR EABİ

{THROUGH REUYER'S AGENCY, }

erins, Reyno'da Il'eek'y to-day delrids bim wamy, and says that if the Liberals con- in their attacks he will reign and

·DIFFICULTIES ON TAE TIGRIS: | unhsituting'y explain to the country the was able, by Improving routes and more applause, after criticism of blind alley

BRITISH ATTACK FAILS OWING

TO FLOODIS.

LONDON, April Med.. The commander in Mesopotamin tele graphs that an attack on the Sanna Yat poiton on the Tigris on the morning of the 23rd inst. failed owing to the rods Buting the at seking font to ene Brigade which penetrated the enemy's first and recond lines through a bog. The Brigade were unable to hold the ground and sup porty were unable to ctes the warshes under machine gun fire. The troops on the "ght bank vere also unable to make much, pro- gress,

GENERAL,

[TB20005 REUTER'S AGENON-}·

LONDON, April 23 d. After archement attack on Liod. George in ye ter Zay's Daily (rag due to the effor's of the Bri ish Adria

tic Mission, The Miss on pa on yʻIran,

Italian to Albanian ports, but wpis "r tangemen s for the forward ng of supplié, to various mps A party of British engineers, ferning part of the Mission, especially the means of grossing the hunter

un river, to faci state the march of the Servian for southward along the coast, It was due to their efforts that this mover ble.

e. The work of misting the Servians in their reorganization st Corfu is being undertaken by a Frach Mission under General de Mondesis, and in matters of maintenarce service his efforts are being corded by a small Critish Mission in the sand, syndr

en-ms of past blunders; RETURN OF LORD HARDINGE.

"A GREAT ADMINISTRATOR"

LONDON. April 24th...

On the occasion of Lord Hardinge's re. tari to England The Times, in a three colau review of bis work, in the editorga! columns, welcomes the return of "a great adonistrator, who has served the Empire

fully and well in the gravest anergency, India has never had a Viceroy who has

shout more buman sympathy or better peræption of national desires,

The world wil await with interest the re-entry of the gallant litte Servian Arvy into the zone of retive operations. There sro neutral States and hostile states on whom there she is about to play will have a far-reaching influence.

INDIAN PRINCE SET FREE.

POPE'S INTERVENTION PREVAILS WITH THE

QER KLASE.

humanity her leaders-fund outraged

STRATEGY, AND ECONOMICE.

ber of widowe, orplans, disabled, and dependents. Localities, he prophesied, would vie one with another in doing all they could for the victims of the war Power was given to them to rate themselves for the purposes.

only see, externals the impos ng profile of is very unusual for 93 German divisions to the volcano with ever so little a fleecy

look on while other on their real, Imitate her we would not either in tack and one two-thirds of their strength, den fire burn fiercely and the hidde fres thods of this tendency, or in any feature The writer expected a violent German at- of volcano are a joke to those which burn in her chication system which weched to tack. from the north most probably, as the Army Headquarters of a military mon- prepare the ground for them. (Cheers), natural complement of the Verdun attack archy in the fied. The financiers, mer Moreover, there had been indications of a and it will be seen from the French offic tant, and shipowners are supposed mrrowness of outlook in same of die pur-story that the French Staff shared to smen à ago, to have told the Kaiser that poses of her nationa training which we opinion. It may come yet, for the attack unless the war stopped soon they would all must carefully said. We had to preserve to the west of the Mense continues to x- be ruined and the Kaser is as d' th're- the interess of what she hersef envie tead and the battle is still far from con- upon to have opted for a big blow in the in certain feature which we valued in our cluded; but if it comes now it wil not be West in the hope that it would intimidste public school life (Hear hear) the simultaneous effort which the case de France and make her disposed for an early

We will follow our own national ideals, mandel. The French were left free to deat peace on the not-kora,” exclaimed - Lord Haldane, with the Verdun attack first, and now that It has not had that effect while the de “But while we mu i always keep these this according to some French flows has very of this blow has had ils reflex action obligation, closely in mind, we dere not let exhausted itself to a great extent, the on the 150470," where our Italian friends oguselves he led into the danger of shutting French will be more fro than before to use are very busy, while in distant Russia the our eyes to the important reform sho has undertaken with a view to attainitis superi. her serves to oppose an attack from the grey costs are moving again and must be eausing their enemies some unpleasant arity over othe sations. We have to pre It may be that the Germans anticipated thought. We should all like to hear that dito ourselves in our own way to meet

why I have cure here to

acted like a magnet to draw the French we our Armies were fighting too, but, as they we doing nothing great, we must assume date serves to the Meuse, and that when the that they are helping in other ways. Those German wir spouts reported that this had who have recently returned from Gerusoy not happened the German fieff may havegree in saying that the Germans who dread the risk of going on. We are not yet now what is going on realize that they in wosesion of the cret of this German aunot win the war, but they still thi strategy, but if, as may be inferred there that they cannot be militar ly hontan and hard been wid differences of op n'en in this illusion must fually be knocked out of German circles concerning drifery by on them bo re we can obtain a lasting pence. and 122, any check to The plan Every, men and gunth the decisive, thes're ado ten would have been seized upon by our reipe for viatory, and there is no it. pyponente and made the most of. We Jothey a

GENERAL SIR IAN HAMILTON«of the Canadian Pacife Bailway, who says Rajah of Cochin, on the Malabar coast of warning to-day." (Hẹw, heap words of acted like a magnet to draw the French re

DECORATED BY THE FRENCH.

LONDON, April Ørd. General Sir Ian Hamilton has been de- corated by Generalissino Joffre with the Cross of the Leg on of Honour, in rezogas t'un of his services in the Mediterranean.

-An important propozal for the saltemant of disbanded soldiers after the var is an nowiced by Lord Shaughnessy, president Prince Raman Menon, the eldest son of the

Prince the motion of the Pop,

that the latter will.

prepare 1.000 farms in Southern India, was to be liberated from Wern Canade for occupation in the the fortress of Heidelberg, where he be spring of 1917.

These faring will be grouped in odoniesen interned since the outh-eak of the war His Royal parents are not Catholic", but will appropriate military man and a they approached the Pope through the in central instruction form under a competent termediary of the Cabolic Bishop of agriculturist. The general plan ja similar Meliapor and recent the Secretary of to lord Shaughnessy's previous scheme of State at the Vation heard that permiss on reely made a farms, which Austalia and ha♫ boen given for the Prince to return to New Zealand adopted,

India.

the shock of's new competition. That is

Side by side with rise in the grades of inruction word probably by four grades in physical training. If we had to provide a reserve organization for mili try expan jou on a large scale in the fature he thought that endet cook in the Boundary aramie, hole woull, afford a mose va table foundation and wild isist in overem ng a great difficulty (Hear, hear)