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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH, 1916.

IMPROVED ROUMANIAN OUTLOOK.

ENEREY MINISTERS DEPORTED FROM GREECE.

MORE SERBIANS SUCCESSES.

'BRILLIANT ATTACK BY NAVAL

"TANKS TO THE RESCUE.

DIVISION:

BRITISH WINS IN EAST AFRICA.

The Balkans:

Franco-Belgian Front,

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THE BRITISH FRONT.

ENEMY HAVE SLIGHT SUCCESS.

LONDON, November 23rd. General Bir Douglas Haig, in a com

trench muniqué saya:-After heavy mortar bombardment last night the enemy raided our front south-west of Cite-Saint-Elie. Part of our front line trench was obliterated There twenty-six of our force missing.

railway Our seroplanes attacked atations and transports. All machines returned,

are

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LONDOK, November 22nd.

General Sir Douglas Haig reports that the enemy has been engaged in artillery fring against the right of the new British.front south of the Andre

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FRENCH FRONT. INTERMITTENT ARTILLERY FIRE.

PARIS, November 22nd.

An official communiqué sintes:-There has been intermittent artillery fire on the greater part of the front, particularly at Vaux and Douaument.⠀⠀⠀ ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION. GALLANTRY UNDER TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES

LONDON, November 23rd. The find qualities displayed by the Royal Naval Division, ander trying sircumstances, in the first fight on the 13th instant, is told by Reuter's Correa pondent at Headquarters. The Naval men-mainly north country men-went

over the trenches near the Ancre at dawn in a dense mist and picked their way across a barbed wire area & feet high and 40 feet deep, through which our artillery had torn a jagged track. They

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GERMAN CLAIMS. PROGRESS NEAR ORSOVA

LONDON, November 23rd. The German evening communiqué claims progress near Orsova,

GROUND WON.

LONDON, November 22nd. A German communiqué states:-North of Campolong the Roumanians made In the repeated fruitless attacks. Roterturo Pass and Sidi Valleys on the Alt we won ground,

DEPORTATION OF ENEMY MINISTERS.

DEPUTY FALSELY CHARGED. Africa.

ATHENE, November 22nd.

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It is officially announced that the charges against the Deputy, M. Calli | BRITISH WINS IN AFRICA. masiotis, mentioned on November th, SMALL POST S GALLANT DEFENCE. have been proved to be false, the inorii- nating letters being the work of a forger, who has confessed.

[The letters in question were found in the house of M. Calimasiotis They acemen to point to the Deputy having given orders whereby the Goeben and Breslau were cosled and enabled to rench the Dardanelles.]

LONDON, November 22nd. British East Africa official report states:--An enemy force numbering four

hundred, with thres guns and eight machine guns, which attacked a small post at Lupembe from the 19th to the 14th inat. was ropulsed with heavy casualties. On THICK FOG AT MONASTIR. the 18th instant, while two British

ENEMY STRONGLY RESISTING.

LONDON, November 22nd.

columns were enveloping Lupembe, the enemy fled north-eastward, abandoning a heavy gun. There were 47 of the enemy killed..

A French communiqué. states:A thick fog in the region of Monastir has Italian Front. hindered operations.

The enemy is strongly resisting on a line of heights from Bnegovo, four

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{THEGUGH ZHUTER'S AGENCY.]

kilometres north of Monastir,, to Hill ITALIAN CAMPAIGN.

1050, south-west of Makovo. taken 500 more prisonerà,

We have

Our troops on the west bank of Lake Prespa are continuing their advance northward.

Naval Activities.

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BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK.

FIFTY LIVES LOSTY

FEEBLE ATTACKS REPULSED.

LogDON, November 22nd.. An Italian official report states:-The weather has been bad. We repulsed deoble attacks in the Astico Valley.

General

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FOOD ECONOMY.

CONFERENCES AND

PROPAGANDA.

LONDON November 23rd. LONDON, November 22nd. The Admiralty announces that the An official report states:-Mr. Runci- hospital ship Britannis was sunk by a man has conferred with Hotelkeepers PRECAUTION AGAINST TORPEDO mise or torpedo on November 21st in with regard to the economising of food. He subsequently had a conforenoo with the Aegean Sea.

There are 1.106 survivors, 28 of whom Manufacturing Confectioners as to the

consumption of sugar, are injured.

ING,

ATHENS, November 22nd:

The enemy Ministers and Staffs left for Kavalla on board a Greek steamer, flying all enemy Hags to obviate torpedo

ing.

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REASONS FOR EXPULSION,

ATHENS, November 22nd. Apart from ospionage, one of the rea sons for the expulsion of the enemy Minis ters was a statement by the German Minister that vessels taking Nationalists to Salonika would be torpedoed. This in regarded as o declaration of war against the pro-Ally section of Greece GREEK GOVERNMENT PROTESTS

ATHENS, November 22nd.

The Austrian, German, Turkish and Bulgarian Ministers, and the whole of the staffs of the Legations, will be con veyed to-day aboard a steamer which will landi them at Dedeagatch. Admiral Fournet has notified them of their in tended removal, charging the personnel with espionage detrimental to the Allies The Greek Government has protested,

It is estimated that 50 lives have been

lost.

(The Britannic was of 48,000 tons gross one of the largest Vessels Afloat-and

Messrs was built by Harland and Wolff in 1014 for the White Star Line.]

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ANOTHER REPORT,

ATHENS, Notember 22nd. The Britannic was apparently troka Saloniku. She lowered all her boats, numbering 35. It is reported that few lives have been lost. Details are lacking VESSEL SUNK BY SUBMARINES.

ATHENS, November 23rd, The Britannic was attacked it 10 o'clock in the morning 50 miles distant from Athens, Submarines attacked her on both sides simultaneously, One torpedo missed. The vessel sunk in 55 minutes. Thirty or forty of the crew were wounded by the explosion. The nurses and army doctors on board lined the deck in the most orderly manner. The women were saved first. A number of Allied ships

It has been arranged that Members of the Cabinet shall address • meetings throughout the country. The following have been already fixed--Lord Robert Coell, Bristol, M. Tennant, Edinburgh; Mr. Mackinnon Wood, Leicester; Lord Curzon, Liverpool; Mr. Herbert Samuel, Newcastle; Mr. Arthur Henderson, Northampton.

VALOROUS LANGUAGE BY ME. RUNCIMAN.

NORWEGIAN CRISIS BREWING A NEWER AND HAPPIER

SIGNIFICANT NEWSPAPER

COMMENT.

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STOCKHOLM, November 22nd. The Dagblad is of opinion that every- - thing points to a Teuton Norwegian ribis. The journal saya:→→ Sweden, se- membering the tragedy of 1885, certainly will not follow Norway in her policy of adventure."

JAPANESE STEAMERS FOR SALE,

EXORBITANT PRICES ASKED.

BRITAIN." VIEWS OF AUSTRALIA'S PREMIER.

The Commonwealth Prime Minister (Mr. W. M. Hughes) in a series of three articles in the Sunday Herald, makes & stirring appeal to all classes to com- bine in making a new and happier Bri- tain after the war. The first article includes a vivid comparison between Britain in peace and Britain in war time. Mr. Hughes says that he sees the sun-lit peaks of a New England, where the pelf and profit will count for less: thaa half starved children.

He continues: It will be the verdict of the world that the British people have risen nobly to the supreme hour of Laspor, November 22nd. their trial. They have done wonders, though I feel that they might have done The Times says new Japanese steamers much more. The war will not add any- are now being offered on the London thing to the British character, but there will be a radical change in the outlook market, but British owners are not dis upon life, The Briton now sees every posed to pay £40 per ton, which is do thing in a clearer and softer light. Ho. is at once humbled and exalted, contrito manded, and which is five times the pre-and proud, if ashamed of his former war price.

THE KING AND HIS SERVANTS.

narrow views and neglect of his duty to his neighbours and his country.

"If he pades so he looks down the pit which so nearly engulfed him, the Briton is also uplifted, and filled with rapture as he contemplates the soul of his coun

ELIGIBLE BACHELORS TO REFORT try, now clearly visible. Some Britons

AT ONCE.

LONDON, November 22nd. It is understood that His Majesty the King has ordered every eligible bachelor employed in His Majesty's establishments to report immediately to the military authorities. GERMANY'S LATE FOREIGN MINISTER.

LONDON, November 22nd. The Berliner Tageblatt states that Herr von Jagow, who has resigned the office of Foreign Minister, is to be Ambassador in Vienna,

AUSTRALIA REJECTS CON

SCRIPTION."

REFERENDUM FIGURES.

MELBOURNE, November 22nd. The final conscription referendum figures are:-

Yos

No

1,035,000

1,140,000

THE LATE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR. NEVER POPULAR IN BERLIN.

AMSTERDAM, November 2nd.

A Berlim telegram says that the death

have no vision and still wear the blinkers of self-interest These dread a change. These seekers of pelf and creatures of routine hope, when the madness of war has died down, that all will be as it was. They hope that Bri be murderer and again be willing to be tain will grasp the palm of her would- the host of the foul parasite. They will welcome the German trader, greedily: absorb the products of murderers, and nourish again the cancer which was cating the very vitals of the Empire. These people want the return of 'Merrie England, where all went very well for them before the war."

Mr. Hughes continues: The old. days must never come back when mil- lions of free-born Britons lived God knows how, men half-starved and clad in filthy rags, with bodies stunted and souls attened to the slums in which they existed. The death knell has been rang on that England which mumbled, Lord, Lord, but abased itself unashamed be fore the golden calf, which made wealth, not worth, the standard whereby men would be measured. For nearly s cen- tury Britnin had what men call peace broken only by the distant rumblinga of war, which hardly reached the ears. of the great mass of the people, aghting desperately for the means to live. Now they had had two years of war und despite the frightful horrors it had brought to all save the negligible few. there was a great exaltation of soul and peace of mind.

A people who had been dividod among themselves had become united; an Empire that had seemed little more than a name had become a great and living reality. The people of Britain are like men with vision dwarfed and stunted by a long dwelling in a thick fog, upon whom buret a great hurricane, sweeping away miasmic vapours and LONDON, Novembor 23rd.

bringing resalvation. The war has re- vealed their common heritage and glory, Runciman, addressing Hotel-

of the Emperor Francis Joseph was cr-their means of salvation. The war has keepers, said he had seen a Christams pected and the news was received with sees that he has duties to other men and revealed his country to the Briton. He

menu which was wasteful even in peace indifference, as he was never popular in to the state

wheresa formerly he devoted himself to self-aggrandisement due, but scandalous in war time. Such

Duty now beckons the Brizon to self- Berlin. situation could not be allowed. Menus

sacrifice. Such a change is a miracle, and it is due to the ennobling influence of s great idea.

Mr.

Much is expected of his successor, who must be drastically cut down. There is described as a pro-German and as a must be one or two meatless days weekly tool in the hands of his German advisers.

A Member of the Deputation pointed out that fish was costlier.

Mr. Bunciman end they might have days that were both fishless and wealdes They most decrease imported foods. It was impossible to exempt ten-shops, where expenditure on cakes and con

gained the first German line speedily and the Minister of Justice has resigned. quickly responded to the wireless messages fectionery was too lavish He advised throat, and died a second later.

baut were thereafter exposed to fire from

a formidable German redoubt, cunningly

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sent out.

immediate conference in their trade A stewardess who was on board the interests. If they did not take the posted on a sheltered spur on Beaucourt MORE SERBIAN SUCCESSES. Titanie says the present disaster was necessary action the Government, would Hill, which played on them from thres smouths. The Naval men gallantly passed on, but were isolated with the enemy on both sides.

"TANKS" TO THE RESCUE. The Naval men sought cover in the won trenches, and two "tanks" were sent out to rescue them at night time. One of these ascended the hill and proceeded to within a short distance of the redoubt, where the crew erected a machine gun. The troops in this redoubt, thereupon showed a white flag and surrendered by Lastorn light.

The following day the Naval Division resumed the attack and bagged 1,700 prisoners.

Russian Front:

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VILLAGE AND HEIGHTS CAPTURED.

ATHENS, November 22nd. A Berbian official report states:fle Serbs yesterday successfully pursued the enemy and attacked along the whole line. They captured the village of Radimirei and surrounding heights and inflicted heavy losses. They made prisoner 196 Germans and 300 Bulgarians.

The Allies also made progress.

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OUTLOOK.

worse than it. The first two boats were 1 do it. launched near the stern. The ship Leled, with the screw whirring in the

ACTION BY THE SAVOY. The Savoy announces the cancellation air, and the loaded boats were sucked of New Year and Christmas Eve dinners. down or smashed into matchwood Many were killed outright, other mangled. Burvivors have been landed at Phafezon, A Piraeus and Keratsini,

The Britannic was the largest British ship, accommodating 3,000 wounded.

NO WOUNDED ON BOARD. The Admiralty states that thore verg Bo wounded aboard the Britannia.

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SUBMARINE PIRACY.

GREEK STEAMER STOPPED AND HAILS SEIZED.

MARSEILLES, November 22nd. A submarine stopped the Greek steamer Elysios when making for Marseilles. The commander ordered the captain to throw the cargo overboard, and then seized the

PETROGRAD, November 22nd. It is pointed out that General von Falkenhayn's success is confined to the least important front, namely the Rou- manian left. The dangerous section is Eastern Wallachia, where victory would give the enemy the whole of West Bon- mania, including Bukharest, but here mail baga. the enemy attacks being steadily repulsed.

LONDON, November 22nd. A Petrograd official report states:- Strong Turkish forces attacked south east of Oginot, where fighting continues.

At present it is Tulost The Turks took up the offensive in the direction of Bourdjir, on the morning of difficult for General von Falkenhayn to the 20th fustant, and were repulsed, advance eastwards owing to the hundreds entering enormous losses and being of mountain streams intersecting the pursued until evening.

country north and south

OTHER VESSELS BUNK.

LONDON, November 22nd. The following vessels have been sunk:- The Joachim Brincklund (Swedish), the Pins and Parnau (Norwegian) and the Dalpsiju (Dutch).

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AN INTER-ALLIED ARMY.

PARIS, November 22nd,

The Chamber has concluded a secret sitting regarding the Bill for the calling up of the 1918 class, which it has finally been decided to re-examine medically

It is understood that the question of the creation of an inter Allied army is being considered.

GERMANY AND THE PRUSSIAN POLES. UNGRATEFUL AND

IRRECONCILABLE."

AMETERDER, November 22nd, The German newspapers generally son shocked at “the ungrateful and irre concilable attitude of the Frassin Poles," se evidenced by their hope of incorporation in the future Kingdom of

Foland

The Kodische Zeitung warns Pres sian Poles of the cons tinned hostility formed Ti

of oog-

Endurance, suffering, and death are not new things. Doubtless there was THE EMPEROR'S LAST MOMENTS, more real misery and privation than before the war, but the sad spectacle The Emperor wae feverish yesterday affected fow and ennobled fewer. Now morning and was assisted to his bedroom

men are suffering and dying in a noble. canso. They die for their country, for by the Grand Duchess Valerie. He was others, sad for us This supreme bied. unable to sleep and complained of pains of the war, if laid hold of and applied. He also seked for the doctors to be sum-will regenerate not only Britain, but the mooned. The patient made a gesture to civilised world. In the purifying and the doctor at 9.20 am., pointing to his ennobling effect of great ideals lies the hope of mankind. Patriotism is the,

his invoked great ideal. The war patriotism, and peace need not lay it to rest. The nation for whom millions-of- brave men have offered their lives must consecrate itself to the great work of making itself worthy of them. We ove it to them and ourselves that they have not made the sacrifice in vain. applies not mly to the Britain within the narrow sens, but also to the Greater Britain across the oocan. Let me resolve to make the Empire worthy of the great sacrifice by which its existence has been preserved.

The Imperial family then summoned the Kaiser, who was informed by tele phone direct between the Palace and the

German Headquarters.

NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR LOST FYES,

クト

This

RUBBER INSTEAD OF GLASS. Glass eyes are notoriously uncomfort able, and often unsightly, remarks the Times. It is interesting, therefore, when the deformities of wat are so serious a subject of consideration, to learn that two French workers, MM. Lemaitre and GREAT FUTURE FOR PHILIPPINE Téuilliores, have evolved an entirely new method of replacing a lost eys. They aimed at producing substance of sufi- cient elasticity and softness to respond to the changes in the eye socket, and at the same time of sufficient, hardness to present a smooth natural effect between The eyelids natural e

Experiment led them to take careful caste of the socket in plaster and to make from these caste the body of an artificial

which should exactly fit the socket They solved the difficulty of consistence by making the front of the new era of hard caoutchoue,

THE

AMERICAN PUZZLE,””.

KAPOK.

There is a great future before the cotton industry in the Philippines (anys the Cablenews American). In order to ist the people to avail themselves of wonderful opportunity to make cotton culture a national one, Director Adriano Hernandes, of the bureau of agriculture, has brought about the installation in Cavite of a lapok cleaning machine of modem improved type.

A thorough test is to be made of Philippine cotton and, if it can be shown that it ranks with the Java product and can be produced at no greater cost, the United States Navy is in a position to It would seem that the "American make use of over a hundred tons a year. Kapok is used extensively in the manu the title aptly accorded the ican Presidential election by the facture of life-belts, cushione, life-buoys, spers, still remains an- and for other articles that are expected Mr. Wilma is generally to Boat for a cona derable time after

adidate. The immersion

hand give the The bureau of agricultum in confident A Hughes 343, that the Filipino product, if properly red by hota cared for and cleaned, can easily com- doubtful votes pete with the Java kapolr which there n03

not been any content, for the same papers contain leading naticks aumenting on for us the practical result of all the the subject of Mr. Wilson's return to Beatish discussions of pesce," says the on in the absence of final and com couche Folkszeitung, is the certainty pludve ågares, it seems only resectable, that at present, an agreement in regard been to peace sims in, even in the remotest

degree, unattainable.