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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12TH, -1917.

ALLIES AND PRESIDENT WILSON'S

NOTE:

REPLY HANDED TO AMERICAN AMBASSADOR.

THE KING AND FOOD PRODUCTION.

GREECE ACCEPTS ENTENTE'S

ULTIMATUM.

SPAIN AND THE TORPEDOING OF SPANISH STEAMERS,

TURKEY AND THE PEACE PROPOSALS.

General.

LATEST CABLES. [THROUGH REVISE'S ACHENOT.) ENGLAND'S HISTORIC ACRES.

TO BE PLOUGHED UP FOR FOOD PRODUCTION,

SWISS NEUTRALITY. AN INTERESTING STATEMENT.

PARIS, January 9th. General Wille, the Swiss Com- mander-in-Chief, interviewed at Borno, stated that Germany had assured them that Logoox, January 10th.

she would not invade The King has consented to the imme- Switzerland, but, in the event of an diate ploughing up of several hundred invasion, the Swiss Army would act seren of Richmond and Bushey Parks for in close conjunction with the adver the onltivation of a cereal fodder crop,saries of her enemies. Switzerland's with the object of increasing the food action would, so to speak, be automatic. supplies. Allotments will also be selected in Kensington Gardons, Hyde Park and Regent's Park. which will be wvailablete the public, for the cultivation, by the park staffs, of vegetables suited to the London oil and atmospheric con ditions. There will be a responsible per eon to instruct enquirers.

ALLIES' REPLY TO WILSON'S NOTE.

HANDED TO AMERICAN AMBASSADOR.

PARIS, January 11th. M. Briand, this afternoon, handed the American Ambassador the Allies' reply to President Wilson's Porco Note,

TURKEY AND THE PEACE NOTE,

SULTAN'S # HUMANITARIAN " REGRETS.

REVOLT IN SUMATRA.

BATAVIA, January 9th. The Java Bode reports that a new re volt has been fomented by a new religious sect in North Sumatra, in which a Gor ernment official named Muller has been killed. The military are suppressing the movement.

ALLIED REPLY TO AMERICAN NOTE.

TERMS OF PEACE.

LONDON, January 10th. Router in informed that the Allied re ply to President Wilson is being deliver- ed to the American Ambassador'in Paris to-day, or to-morrow, It is a fairly long document, and there is reason to believe that it will indicate generally the terms on which the Allies will bà prepared to discuss peace. It will be published in France forty-eight hours after President Wilson has received it,

AMSTERDAM, January 10th. A Constantinople telegram states that the Sultan, in Proclama tion to bis troops, regrets that the humanitarian proposal for peace MR, LLOYD GEORGE HAS AN Regotiations has been disdainfully rejested by the Entente, who therefore responsible for the continuance

are

AUDIENCE.

Loxion, January 10th.

of the bloodshed henceforth. Together Mr. Lloyd George has had an audience

of His Majesty the King.

with their allies, the Turks would re- double their efforts to achieve fipal|SPAIN'S POLITICAL TROUBLES

victory.

DEATH OF “BUFFALO BILL”

Denver, January 10th.

The death is announced of Colonel Cody, "Buffalo Bill.”

SPANISH INDIGNATION.

TORPEDOING OF SPANISH STEAMERS.

FARIS, January 10th. The Tempa, correspondent at Madrid stazes that Signor Alvarez, head of the Reform Party, referring to the torpedo ing of Spanish steamers, said that Spain

an

OPPOSITION TO GERMAN

PRESSURE..

RUSSIAN MINISTERIAL

CHANGES,

LONDON, January 10th.

RUSSIAN CAPTURES.

RIGA BATTLE `CONTINUES,

London, January 10th. The Ministerial changes in Russia

A, wireless Russiau: official mosange were wholly unexpected. Up to the pro-states-The battle west of Rigs con sent they have not been explained.

LONDON, January 10th The Tunes correspondent at Petrograd states that there are growing indications of another change in the Promtership. The names of M. Pokrovsky and Count Bobrinsky are mentioned,

MË. LLOYD GEORGE.

CENTRAL FIGURE AT ROME. CONFERENCE.

Rowe, January 10th. Mr. Lloyd Gorge was the central figure at the Conference.

The Italian papers state, that it was he who suggested it at the end of Dec. ember, and the arrangements were com ploted in a few days."

TRADE IN

DOMINIONS.

BRITISH

SCHEME FOR ORGANISATION.

LONDON, January 10th.

An Advisory Committee of the Board

of Trade on Commercial Intelligence, over which Sir Albert Stanley (Presi- dent of the Board of Trade) presided, considered proposals for a large exten- sion of the trade commissioner service in the British Dominions; also cocamer cial missions and other matters relating

tinues: We captured a position between. Tirul Marsh and the river. Since the 5th inst. we have captured twenty-one heavy and eleven light guns.

Eight attacks on the heights north of Kasino failed. The enemy pressed back the Roumanians south of Rekoza. A counter-attack regained the position and 170 Gerbang were taken prisoner,

GERMAN MESSAGE.

KUSSO-ROUMANIAN FAILURES,

Amsterdam, January 10th.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE BRITISH POST OFFICE AT CANTON.

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{TO THE EDITOR OF THE KONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

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STRONG LANGUAGE BY WOMEN.

DO WAR TIMEB LOOSEN MANNERS

AND MORALS I

(BY: JANG RAMBAY- KORN.}

Sra. With referenes to the increased How does war affect the tone and the postage sow in force, I would like to manners of society, In the Napoleonie draw your attention to the excollent sys-wars, the morals and manners of Franco tem of the British Post Office at Canton. became notoriously free, and a state of war is supposed to tend towards a lax

The theory is an interesting one, and the and unrestrained atmosphere generally.

changes in English society during the last two and a half years seem to bear out the truth of it.

The other day, a certain lady in Sha-

office stating that 22 cents would have to moen received a form from the Post

be paid before she could receive a or tain letter. Usually a coolie was sent with the requisite amount, This time, however, the lady horself decided to take delivery of the letter when passing the Post Office. On presenting the form and the amount, a letter was handed to her, stamped to the value of 2d, and of the correct weight which may be sent for that

A wireless German official message sum. On asking the reason why she should

states:-The Russo-Roumanians failed to recapture positions in the Susita Valley. We pressed back the enemy north and south of the Casire Valley, taking prisoner, in two days, six officers and 900 men. We gained a foothold on the left bank of the Putna. North of Focsani we progressed behind the Putns, between Focsani and Fundoni, and forced the caemy beyond the Boreth, and took 550 prisoners. We have continued to pro grass at the mouth of the Rimnical Sarat. Franco-Belgian Front.

BABLIER CABLES. (THROUGH ROUTER'S AORNOT.)

to the organisation of British Overseas MINOR BRITISH SUCCESSES. trade.

The Balkans.

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH: 2KUTRE'S AGKĘCY;}

GREECE YIELDS.

ENTENTE'S ULTIMATUM

ACCEPTED.

Aruena, January 11th, Grece last night replied, accepting the Entente's ultimatum.

KARLIER CABLES.

ALLIES AND GREECE,

ULTIMATUM ENDS AT MIDNIGHT.

PARIS January 10th. As an evidence of the determination of the Allies to act in the most rapid manner, M. Briand, in an interview, said that the Rome conference was neces sary to clear up the difficulties of detail which had cropped up since the last conference. These, and attempts to con fase issues and to disturb the relations between the Allies, had been settled in & most satisfactory manner. /-

WHAT WILL CONSTANTINE DO PARIS, January 10th

A Pirens telegram anticipates that King Constantine will yield, but at first he will merely undertake to liberate the! he will never resign under foreign pres-imprisoned Yenezilists, and re-establish

Madrid, January 10th. Signor Romanones has declared that

Bure.

GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO BE

REPLACED.

It is reported that the German Åm- bassador will shortly be replaced.

SPANISH PRIDE AND GERMAN PRESSURE.

The fact that the Cabinet are remain-

ought to adopt energetic measures, and ing in office after receiving an assurance the Government ought to decree

of the King's confidence, demonstrates embargo on German vessels seeking refuge in Spanish ports, and cut off that Spanish pride has revolted against the grants enjoyed by the thousands of German pressure. All the Parties ap strangers whom Spain was generously pear to have combined to support the abeltoring.

Premier in this international matter.

IN MESOPOTAMIA.

DASHING INDIAN DIVISION.

EARLIER UABLES.

THE BRITISH WAR LOAN.

SOME NOVELTIES EXPECTED.

LONDON, January 10th

LONDON, January 11th.

A Mesopotamia official message states: Secrecy is maintained regarding the Indian Division dashingly cap war loan, but it is not doubted that tured, on Tuesday, 1,000 yards of trench there will be two distinct issues, long on the Tigris, on the bead of the right dated and short dated, and fres of in bank north-eastward of Kut, taking come tax. Probably the big banks will

162 prisoners. bjavited to co-operate in affording novel facilities to would-be investors by advances for immediate purchase. The issue has been postponed until the 12th inst. A meeting in furtherance of the long will be held at the Guildhall on the

ROME CONFERENCE.

QUESTION OF MACEDONIA.

Boaz, January 10th. A telegram states that a complete

the Allies' control.

LONDON, January 10th:

LONDON, January 30th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports:-We seized and consolidated a section of a trench castward of Beaumont Hamel, taking 140 prisoners. In a raid eastward of Loos we entered trenches opposite Armentieres, killing many of the

enemy.

Russian Front.

EARLIER CABLES. [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

·RUSSIAN CAPTURES.

PETROGRAD, January 9th. A message says that the Bussinug have captured a thousand prisoners and a score of guns, including some of heavy calibre, south-west of Bigs.

Naval Activities..

EARLIER CABLES.

(INROUGE ERUTER'S AGRIFOT,]

MADE IN GERMANY.

SINKING OF "SHANNON "

DENIED.

The Admiralty demise the German

claim that the cruiser Shannon

mined and sunk off the south coast in November.

MANY SINKINGS,

BRITISH CAPTAIN PAKEN PRISONER.

have to pay for a correctly stamped. let tor, the Chinese clerk bastled round (at the excessive speed for which they are noted), looked at several forms, etc, and returned the 22 cents. The public, as a rule, do not mind paying the correct amount for an understamped letter, but they do not want to pay the salaries of those who issue the forms.-I am, sir, yours faithfully.

X, Y, Z.

Canton, January 10th, 1717.

BUKAREST.

“THE PARIS OF THE EAST.”

A MEETING POINT OF EAST AND WEST.

The old and rather attractive idea of woman as some delicate creature to be shielded from contact with unpleasant, sordid, or orucl reality still lingered in men's minds. There was such a thing de a "drawing room story, an opposed to the amusing tales which went "round with the port after dinner, or which

raised guffaws in the smoking room late at night. If a man swore before a woman, he apologised. If he was in the company of some one who was emphatically” “ no lady," he effaced himself as much as pos- sible, and certainly did not attempt to how to any of his woman friends whom he might be unlucky enough to meet.

LESS RESTRAINT.

Things, however, have changed since the outbreak of war. Women no longer expect or desire as much restraint from their men friends because they them- selves have thrown aside a good deal of restraint, and the criterion of what was "good form" two and a half years ago no longer applies to day,

Strong language, the kind of language which in polite printing is rendered by dots and dashes, may now be heard in drawing-rooms, for war work has taught women to relieve their feelings in the masculine way. Thousands of women are doing men's work, and they are learning men's habits and tricks as well as their trades. One cannot be surprised that treedom of speech is one of the things they are assimilating,

Modern Bukarest is a city of contrasta, where the eye is continually struck by the antithesis between East and West. It has been called the City of Pleasure"

Not long ago a well-known woman of and the Paris of the East"-a descrip society was telling a few storice of her. tion which it owes to its boulevards and work among the men in canteens. Ita public buildings and the outward aspect relating her tales, she twice used a of its society. But the place is essentially | " soldier word" which is best translated cosmopolitan, where all the tations of by "blinking," and with a smile of self- Turks and keen Greek and Albanian a bit odd using that word. Eastern Europe mingle; where turbaned excuse she said, "You know, I don't feel I hear it merchants jostle in the streets with so often that it has lost any unusual Austrians, Germene, and Frenchmen, sound to my earn. In fact, I almost ex- while the gipsies and Rumanes in their pect to hear myself use it on

I wax brightly-coloured native costumes give a eminently unsuitable cons ca touch of picturesqueness to the daily playing golf the other day, and swhen scene. Even the climate. is no exception my opponent made a good drive, do you to the rule of contraste. In winter the know I just stopped myself in time from cold can be as intense as in Russia, while remarking, 'Whas a blinking good summer brings the hot and arid tempera shot!" ture of Southern Italy,

ВОЛО

The spoken word has now a licence which is amazing, and every one talks with a frankness which recalls the days of a bygone ago, before Victorian refine- ment ? put its seal on English home life. Young girls are now amused by stories which their grandmothers would not have understood, and mixed audiences of well- bred people in theatres and music-halls laugh loudly at jokes which are undoubt- edly coarse in flavour.

CRAVING FOR PLEASURIL War work and the consequent know- ledge of the more brutal and sordid side of life may be accountable to a certain degree for these changes, but the feverish desire to throw off responsibility and to snatch any moment's pleasure is the root of the alteration in English manners since the outbreak of war. Men ard women are impatient of any restraint, because they feel that rules and prin wiples may hinder them from extracting the full toll of pleasure from each hour as it flies past.

The same contradictions are presented by the city's architecture, which is modern in the centre, but of a somewhat Oriental type in the suburbs. Probably Da European capital has seen such remarkable changes in the last 60 years, When Moltke travelled through Wallachist in 1833 he acted everywhere the fright ful trace of a long servitude," sad the same influences. were apparent in the capital 30 years later when Prince (after- wards King) Carol came to the Throne An incident is told of the Prince's arrival in Bukarest in 1866, when the State pro- cession drew up before a plaio, que storeyed house, dignified with a guard of honour, What is this house?" asked the Prince "That," said his embarrassed guide," is the palace." But the impressive buildings, the unpaved and insanitary streets, and the general air of waste were shortly to be greatly changed. With the incursion of strangers from the west Bukarest awoke from its lethargy, and the gradual reforms of the The Booting mature of all amusement next half-century under King Carol's in war time drives men and women to impulse much altered the outward aspect | seek distraction wherever. and whenever When the men come of the city, its civic government, and the they can find it, eway-going life of its people.

back on leave they have so little time

"force the that they must

» and pace," the women, whoss nerves are worn and frayed by the strain of waiting at home, need all the excitement possible to "keep going"- at all. This frame of mind drives away all sense of responsibility or thought of the future, leaving nothing but the fixed determination to have a "good time."

LONDON, January 10th. The following sinkings are reported:-hotels, The Allied ultimatum to Greece expires The steamers Lesbian (British), Alphon

The city lies in a hollow of the Walla- chian plain, traversed by the sluggish Dimbovitza. What the foreigner admires most about it is its gardens, which gre responsible for the extensive ares which it occupies more than 20 square miles, The palace which so grievously dis appointed Prinos Carol in 1988 was rebuilt in 1885; and the other public buildings include the Catholic Cathedral, The attitude of revolt from conventions a fine edifice of 1875-84, some handsome shows in a thousand small changes of cupolas give to the place a picturesque drank spirits and it a girl sed

and the city's innumerable manners, dress, and speech. Before the churches, which with their metal-plated war, for instance young women seldom Le Conseil (French), Chinto Maru, aspect. A favourite resort of the people drink? the refreshment in question (Japanese), Borgholm and Markland which is a rainiature Hyde Park or Bois or water. Women now ask for a "drink" is the Chaussée or public promenade, was understood to be a glass of lemonade

(Norwegian).

de Boulogne,

--and they mean whisky and nods, or With the uplifting of the country and a brandy and soda, and this partiality Captain Fry, of the Lesbien, was taken the rapid growth of the grain and oil for masculine drink is not considered to prisoner by the Germans,

trade, the size of Bukarest has increased | be “bad form." Tiss manner of dressing rapidly. The population, which 60 yosts which is at present fashionable is also The Norwegian steater Lupus, the since was only 120,000, rose to 272,000 in very typical of the war-time attitude of Danish steamer Svend, both on their way

1900, and had now reached 248,000. A mind. It is impossible to "place to England, were seized by the Germansparatively small number of its people woman by her appearance, for in order are engaged in manufactures, but the to be amart it is necessary for women to Bukarest being the entrepot for the trade transit trade ja Tery

considerable, look what their grandmothers called

"fast" between Austria and the Balkan

WHEN BEACH · RETURNS. Peninsula,

These changes are, perhaps, very slight, Bukarest has had a chequered history, but they are ominous. Society does not pestilence in 1813, 70,000 of the inhabit ciples in war time; it will do its war and has often been ravaged by fire and want to be bothered with rules or prin

ants died of plagao ît six weeks; it has | work, and do it well, but in regard to also been several timès besieged. Its its amusements it declines to consider origin is said to have been a fortress any question except the maximum of erected on this spot to command the amusement to be extracted from the approaches to Tirgovines, formerly the strictly limited amount of time which capital of Wallachia Although its early can be satshed from fighting and work history is obscure, it is at any rate known ing. Men and women- er, at any rate, to have been burnt in 1595 by the Turks, some of them-seem rather inclined to and first became the capital of Wallachis fall into the state of being moral jelly in 1898-Times.

fish during the way.

about midnight. ENERGETIC ENEMY ACTION AT MONASTIR,

SUPPORT FOR CONSTANTINES

SALONIKA, January 10th. Everything indicates energetic enemy action at Monastir, where it is reported that a Bulgariaa regiment has arrival and taken to Hamburg and Swinemunde from the Dobrudja. The remainder of respectively. the division is coming, besides an Aus-

The following steamers have also beca brian regiment from Kalkandeli. The sunk-Poupar and Hansi (Norwegian), principal object of the enemy will be to and three sailers. support, King Constantine, and possibly some German reinforcements will attempt to work in the south, round Lake Ochrida, in order to join King Constantine's forces.

GERMAN AIMS IN ROUMANIA.

IMMEDIATE OCCUPATION.

NAVY LEAGUE AND THE ARMING OF MERCHANTMEN.

At a special meeting of the Parlin mentary and shipping members of the Executive Committee of the Navy League last month, a carefully considered state- ment relating to the aging of merchant vessels as the most effective method of dealing with submarine aggression was

A memorandum embodying the viewn of the Committee was delivered to the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, the Firat Lord of the Admiralty, and the President of the Board of Trade, and the Prime Minister was requested to receive a deputation së the earliest pon- sible moment, so that the views of the

The Times ccrrespondent" at Jassy | considered and adopted. states that there is no doubt that the Ger mans are aiming at the immediate occu- pation of the whole of Boumanis. Despite the inclemency of the weather they are bringing up new troops, and are

War, after all is an unnatural busi- RHODESIA'S PART IN THE WAR,

ness, and it is only to be expected that unnatural developments will arise dur- ing its course. One can only be surpris. Mr. Chaplin, Administrater of. Southed that the psychological condition of ern Rhodesia, speaking at the Caledonian mankind as a whole is not more distorte Banquet, at Bulawayo, said one third of by the horrors of the world conflict, the electorate of Southern Rhodesis was Happily, however, the eccentricities and on active service, which be considered a extravagances of which people are guilty fair proportion. Compulsory service had in war time sly temporary aberra been suggested, but the results of any measure of compulsion would be exceed of life. When peace is declared every tions caused by wie abnormal conditions

ingly small in comparison with the risks. thing will come back to the normal -by The best policy at present was to trust degrees, much as the hubbles die sway

believed they would not trust in vain,

the cauldron which contains it is taken off the fire-Daily Express."

31th. Mr. Booar Law and Mr. McKenan agreement was reached at the conference will be the speakers. Other Cabinet on the question of Macedonia. The Ministers will also speak in the leading Balonika front has lost none of its impressing the attacks with extraordinary League might in fuller detail be placed to the patriotism of the people, and be from the surface of boiling liquid when

provincial centres.

portance.

violence.

before him.