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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, - THURSDAY, MARCH TEA

GERMAN RETREAT IN THE WEST.

RESULT OF BRITISH PRESSURE.

GERMANY'S

PEACE TERMS.

REPARATION FOR ALL WRONGS”

AMERICA NEARING WAR.

Franco-jelgian Frone.

EARLIER CABLES, (THROUGH BEUTABʼB AGENCE.) THE GERMAN RETREAT. BIGGEST SINCE MARNE BATTLE

LONDON, February 27th,

General.

LATEST CABLES.

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„AMERICA AND GERMANY.

ARMED NEUTRALITY.

WASHINGTON, February 27th, President Wilson's speech foreshadow- The enemy's retreat on the Ancre is the most considerable since the battle ofed that his action will probably be a the Marne, and is undoubtedly the result of British pressure. But experts, though they rejoice at the bloodless capture of some of the strongest German fortresses,

warn as against exaggerating the signi- fcance of the German movement, which was well timed as regards the weather. that enabling them to remove their guns

declaration of armed neutrality.

SPECIAL BOND 18SUE.

The Bill mentioned on the 27th inst. as introduced in the House of Represen tatives, provides for a special bond issue

of a hundred milion dollers.

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LATEST CABLES.

GERMANY'S PEACE TERMS.

REPARATION FOR ALL

WRONGS

AMETERDAM February 27th

In the Reichstag the Chancellor said he had not been tempted to follow the example of hostile lenders and to make preatises and detailed conditions regard.

ing pence which were unproductive and

Naval Activities.

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THE * LACONTA OUTRAGE.

PRACTICALLY ALL ON BOARD.

SAVED

LONDON, Februay 27th The Cundri Company announces that practically, all those on the Laconia have

been saved.

precarious The German aim" he

added is to terminate the war by a

lasting pence, which grant, us repara tion for all wrongs suffered, and guaran tees existence in the future to a strong Germany" Ho characterised the Allies neply to the peace proposals as a docu- ment of barbarina hatred, a joor which ONE DEATH SOME MISSING.

was more rude and more mptioj

LONDON, February 27th, thum say sensible perrou could have imagined

AMERICANS ON BOARD,

LONDON, February 27th, A telegrama from, New York says that there were twenty Americans among the crew and six American passengers on the Laconia,

THE ADVANCE IN

MESOPOTAMIA.

TURTHER PROGRESS AND CAPTURES.

LONDON, February 27th, In the House of Lords, Lord Curzon road a telegram from General Maude stating that on the morning of the 25th enst, our cavalry and infantry moved

The Laconia was torpedoed at 10.50 on

Bunday night.

It is known that one person has died

and that some are missing.

TWICE TORPEDOED.

LONDON, February 27th. The Daily Chronicle's correspondent at Queenstown says that the Laconia was twice torpedoed, in comparatively calm weather. She listed heavily and her boats werd lowered with difficulty. There was no panic among the passengers. The

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GRAVEYARD GOSSIP.

ENEM RESPECT FOR MR. OUT IN THE DOVER PATROL.

LLOYD GEORGE.

GREAT STATESMAN AND IDEALIST.

[BY THE DAILY MAIL' SPECIAL

EN OORRESPONDENT. ]'

Mr. Lloyd George has suddenly With lights out and everything batten- acquired enormous prestige in Germany, ed down we were cutting through the A few weeks ago he was in chemy eyes a dzrknes over a having sen with the worthless demagogue, a mere phrase | Choruh alone (and himself invisible) to anaker, a figure of contempt; to-day he is watch over us, and a hundred hidden perhaps the most formidable being in Befort Night had shut her black wings.

dangers encircling, us Europe, the miraculous organiser, the over two had met many ships riding. strong man of the hour. Whatever drunkenly in the swell, with such a sickening roll to them that you could see other reasong that may be for the change, every inch of their sloppy decks with it may at all events be taken as sympto-furred spectres of men hanging on at matic of the new and still growing impossible angles, everything awash in recognition of Great Britain's unexpected They're the Newfoundlers," said the

superlative discomfort and drench and alarming military power.

captain, as the Mary Mother tossed by A leading National Liberal Deputy, like a ridiculous cork and the arms of Herr Stresemann, frankly, confessed at her semaphore waved and wagged comi- Cologne that we have tinder-estimated cally. Cod-fishermen from the Banka Mr Lloyd George. This had been wonderful chaps picked to stand any. brought home to Germans by the weight thing They've got their net out and of steel that has been raining for months their gropers down now.

All of upon the Somme front. Mr. Lloyd a sudden the net strains and teutons, Google mats in England at present. He what they've hooked,

he added, is perhaps the most and the Lord only knows they don't capable

Maybe a sub bad to his credit an achievement with marine (you never know) maybe one of out parallel he had made England a Frita's Christmase plum-puddings, full greater arsenal even then Germany; her of high-explosive plums may be one of output of ammunition bad for a time our own dittoor maybe nothing more exceeded the German production.

then a big fish, Tho floor of this bit of sen is strewn with all sorts of funny things Sets you thinking hard when you scoop some of 'em up a bib of one of Julius Caesar's fast battle cruisers, perhaps, or something chucked overboard by Francis Drake, or a petri- fied rolic of the Armada, or thing !

Just

As with Chamberlain in the past, so how

British

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and escape without greas loss from post PRESIDENT WILSON'S ATTITUDE. westwards in pursuit of the retreating number of drowned persons is variously Great Britain is the government in think of it," he went on, the English: enemy. Strong Turkish rearguards, sun stimated at from ten to twenty-two, He is said to be ambitious, aggressivo years! Night after night, on this de-.

tions threatened with envelopment, while possibly causing a revision of the plans for the Allied offensive. Some critics think that the Germans (who are report ed to have secured more troops as a result of compulsory civilina service and the enslavement of subject popula tions) are aiming to secure a delay for the delivery of a stroke in anticipation of the Allied offensive,

RETREAT CONTINUES,

A correspondent at Headquarters states that the withdrawal of the enemy continues, pressed by British infantry Occasionally there is determined resist ance by detachments, especially in the vlomity of Bapaume, bhe without its delaying the general British advanc Trees are piled across the rond to Bapaume, which is also obstructed by fresh craters and massee of stones and wire. The underground galleries and water supply at Bapaume have been

blown up.

The Germans have again been favoured by the weather in their retreat. The sloppy ground precludes a vigorous pur suit, chumpers the bringing up of heavy guns, and may enable the Germans to make good their new defensive line and to avoid being rushed.

It is still impossible to determine how far the retreat will contidas. The two natural lines of country affording a erong position are, firstly, the Bapaum, ridge, and, tehind it a longer lins be tween Cambrai and Arras, The British

are already in close touch with enemy positions south-west of the Bapaume ridge, and it is not unlikely that the enomy inay be compelled to withdraw to the Cambrai-Arros position,

FRENCH RAID.

LONDON, February 27th. A French communiqué says:We raid ed the German lines south-east of Vailly and brought back prisonera. There have been patrol encounters in the region of Begonvaux and the Vosges,

GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON, February 27th.

cluding two Americans.

AMERICAN LADIES DIE FROM EXPOSURE.

ported by artillery, occupied a trench portion 15 miles west and north-west of Kat, evidently covering the withdrawal from Baghailak. After an intense bon- bardment our infantry assaulted the It is confirmed that two American enemy's position and obtained a footing ladies, passengers by the Income, died

from exposure in a host.

LONDON, February 27th President Wilson, in his speech before Congress, asid --** It would be foolish to deny that the situation is fraught with the gravest dangers The necessity for definite action may come at any time, if we are to defend our elementary rights therein, while our cavalry operated as a neutral. Therefore it would be most round the Turkish northern flank. At imprudent to be unprepared. I wish to least 60 prisoners were taken,

and feel that I have the authority of Con-numerous fleeks, equipment and stores gress behind me in whatever may

were captured. necessary for me to do. I am still a friend of peace, and do not contemplate war, or steps loading thereto, hat merely request authority to safeguard the rights of people anxious to live in peace. War is only possible through the wilful acts of

* others, and the people can trust me to act with restraint, and prudence."

PRESIDENT'S POWERS.

WASHINGTON, February 27th.

be

After President Wilson's speech, the Chairman of the Foreign Relutions Com mittee announced that he would imme diately introduce a Bill granting Pre sident Wilson power to arm ships, and other necessary authority, including credit.

PROTECTION OF AMERICAN RIGHTS.

WASVINGTON, February 27th. President Wilson will ask Congress to day for authority to use the forces of the United States to protect American rights on the high seas.

GERMAN CHANCELLOR ON BÜB- MARINISM.

AMSTERDAM, February 27th

Lord Curzon added that our seroplanes bombed a atramer, which was towing a Turkish pontoon bridge up-stream, with the result that the tow slipped and the pontoons floated down-stream. He added that it was evident that the scene of operations had shifted considerally, up- stream beyond Kut, and the success an- nounced yesterday had been followed, he believed, by the taking of several thou- sand prisoners. It was clear that the star on our arms, if that phrase was applicable, which had been caused by the events of last year, had now been entirely wiped out. (Cheers)

30,000 SOLDIERS.

FOR AGRICULTURAL WORK.

LONDON, February 27th. Sir B, Winfrey has announced that the War Office has proposed to supply 30,000 soldiers for agricultural work, of whom 15,000 would be temporarily re- leased from the home defence army for Spring cultivation, and others would

work under m2 tary control.

LowDow, February 47th. Photographs show that Sir Charles Madden is second in command of the Grand Fleet and that Sir William

Speaking in the Reichstag, the BRITISH FLEET COMMANDS Chancellor accused President Wilson, variously, of favouring the Entente and of acting detrimentally towards Ger- many. He entered on a long polemical statement in regard to exchange of views, and an indictment of the American Pakenbarn commands the Rattle Cruiser attitude, secking to prove that it was Floet.

dictated by partiality and selfishness Russian Front. He argued that it was not the first time in history that the British had tried the

starvation policy. He declared that the

A Gorman wireless official message submarine successes much surpass the says-There have been tumerous Eng navy's expectations, even though reports bish advances between Ypres and the Somme, but only one reached the trenches from many sources have not yet been east of Arras and a counterattack drove received. The success won was due partly to the sinkings and partly to the dise it out.

couragement of neutral shipping.

The Balkans,

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ROUMANIAN ACTIVITY.

LONDON, February 27th.

A Roumanian communiqué saya. —Wo

Dwelling on the tassity for the popular remodelling of German internal. life after the war, he derided M. Briand's and Mr. Lloyd George's declaration as to the sim to free Germany from Prussian

militarism and to confer democratic

repulsed with enemy losses, strong enony liberties on Germans Mr. Lloyd George reconnaisances on the north-western from knew before the war our geographical

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GERMAN CLAIM.

LONDON, February 27th A Germ wireless official message: save-The activity on the Eastern front has increased with the decreasing cold,

RUSSIAN REPORT.

EIGHT GAS WAVES IN SEVEN

BOURS

LONDON, February 27th.

OFFICIAL REPORT OF CASUALTIES,

LONDON, February 27th. It is officially stated that three Laconia passengers are dead and three missing Six of the crew are missing and six in

LONDON, February 27th

But a still more remarkable tribute to the new Prime Minister is Herr Bern hard's character-sketch in the Fossische Zeitung. It is not unsympathetic attempt to solve the riddle of a baffing, yet extraordinarily powerful personality

We must be careful;"" he said, "not in look at events and personalities through the spectacles of our own wishes,"

My young skipper smiled through the with Mr. Lloyd George, prejudice led to alii in lis Arctic vizor, revealing a flash distorted judgment. Yet the man who has of white teeth,When you come to Just taken the reins

Channel has been the Kensal Green of BtateBroan since Chamberla

I ships and saformen for a thousand hungry for power. But when has there ever been a born politician who did not count among the peculiarities of his character ambition, aggressiveness and Just for power! 1 Is it a fault ? It all depends upon whether the politician aims solely at the gratification of his own selfish ambition and hunger for polver, or whether he also serves his fatherland; whether, in short, he is a demagogue or statesman. And Lloyd George is a states man, Moreover, he is a statesman with ideals, and these he has pursued answery ingly despite apparent inconsistencies,

A DEMOCRAT BY INSTINCT The continuous thread in his career is his sympathy for the bottom dog As a boy and in carly manhood says Herr Berhard, he knew what need and poverty meant **Lloyd George's dream has been to fight misery out of a land that glitters with wealth. And to t this drehm he

moralisin bridge, I stand and stare, and stare, and sture at nothing. It's a haunte graveyard, this, my son, and if sou let yourself go, you'd see all sorts of uncanny, goblin things. But, luckily for us, there's no time in this Destroyer Flotilla for scein visions or dreamin' dreams. We have to keep our eyes skinned for solider things

We've heard a gentle whisper from some of our sit-by-the-fire critics that we're not pulling our weight in the Dover Patrol. Well, maybe If anybody. imagines the Chamel job's all max- malade and marischino, let him bear this in mind: First of all, Ostend and the Hun base are nerer to Dover thân Brightona little matter of geography that prople are opt to overlook; and, secondly, that any ships we may ruh up against in the dark and midde of the

enemics, and we can't shoot until we're dead sure

I transpires that eight out of nine with Liberal methods which bore There Fritz, out on the marauder

of the missing from the Laconiu, died in a boat from exposure. There were six American passengers and 15 of the crew of the Laconia saved, except two ladies, who were buried at sca

RAID ON THE ENGLISH

COAST.

St.

in And, as you know--or ought to know a few seconds in a midnight scrap is everything. If ever

of Parliament, and a Miniser. He

a Liberal, fought for his social policy He carried through his famous Budget, s most heavily on incomes, property, and has a little the pul of us? Ha known successions, and be made an honest effort that when he makes a run every ship ho to show that England has the means to meets is an enemy, and he can let fly deal with social evils even without pro with a clear conscience--if bo's over tective duties. Hence he was denounced had such a thing. On the other hand, and reviled by the City and the Conserva- we have to challenge every crait we meet tives as no Minister ever was before." and wait for the reply before pitching

The war has come, aur though perhaps may make a difference in his methods, it will not affect his aim. The war has enhanced and strengthened the cover of

A gentle voice at my elbow-the sooth pre-eminent

organiser who ing invitation of the chief engineer- twinkling has organised the production of broke the spelled de Munitions in the State, as previously le

If you'd like to or unfreeze your studied, almost overnight, the

taxation

sef, sit, murmured this hooded monk systems of all countries Lloyd George has not accepted the

of a man, it will be a great pleasure sup port of the Labour party on merely for me to take you down below and show scatimental grounds. English working you the works. So, in the utter block- men know that in his soul there still glows ness we crawled aft, hanging on to the as brightly as ever a burning desire to guide-rope tooth and nail, and saw all alleviate all the misery and poverty which the works and the hairy-chested, half- once obscured his childhood days Lloyd naked gentlemen who worked them. George will continue to remain the Social Above the whine of the turbines he shout- in which a family of nine were living-Reform Minister And he will, if Liberal ed the most entertaining shop for

methods:

fail;

lave The mother rushed upstairs to fetch a

MOTHER AND BABY MÜRDERED.

LONDON, February 27th. The brunt of the bombardment by Ger man destroyers was suffered by a hamlet between Margate and Broadstairs

The worst experience befel a cottage,

this

ten-anonthe infant, but a shell killed the methods resort to conservative his engine-room is all the world to him,“

that have Herz Bernhard thinks that "Mr. Lloyd he talks of it as a mother croons over her babe. I can remember nothing of the his George now, as always, has luck on conversation" but one scrap: 3:2 side. It is lucky that England after This, yelled the C.Eis the con the war will have to go over to protective denser, and he banged his fist upon at tariffs. During the war State control of bulging steel dram, explaining that the industry has been found necessary.

mother and morally injured the baby. Two other children were seriously injured,

WAR NEWS. GERMANY'S FUTURE OLONIAL EMPIRE.

Later on ho will be unable to oppose water for the boilers bad to be so many State monopolies, and with a smile of degrees purer than the fresh water for satisfaction he will use the funds derived the crew" And that's why he bel- therefrom for his social policy. After the lowed above the roar of the works, we war English Liberalism, like Liberalism have to keep the handle of the drinking- in nearly every other country,

win become water pump pad ocked!

Then he lugged me through a series of Baron Von Rechenberg, a former Gov- Social and Imperialist in the widest sense ernor of German. East Africa, writing in |—or it will cease to be. And it will mankoles and up dizzy perpendicular the Berlin North and South states: The depend upon English Liberalism and not steel ladders into his own private best Fatherland must have a colony which it upon Lloyd George whether in the future where he lives and sleeps and tarditates van defend is the next war. Australia is this stalesman who has to-day formed his in a temperature (he is intoediately over suitable because she is becoming too Cabinet with conservatives will belong to the boilers) of about 120deg. Fahr. And strong, and she would be a menace to the Conservative or Liberal politics i in here he told me, no longer in the tones German colonies. He advocates the estab England

of art: Epsom bookmaker shouting the lishment of a colony consisting of a vast

odds, but softly and dreamily, how when portion of French and Belgian Congo, and Herr Hernhard, so far from thinking the war broke out he was surveying and the

exchange

of Kiao-Chau, New Guinea, liko most of his countrymen that the exploring the bed of the sea of the the Australasian islands, and Togoland British Prime Minister is a ruthless Jingo Guinea Coast, where the temperature was for British East Africa, Uganda, North and bitter-ender, funds comfort in Mr. never lower than 78 and very often 110. ern Rhodesin, and Nyassaland. Such a Lloyd George's very strength and prestige, colonial Empire, he says, could be easily Once his Fatherland had entered into From Guinea straight to the North defended from the sea, and it would be the struggle he held it his duty to main worthy of Germany's enterprising spirit,tain the national moral and to devote all as it would yield all the raw material the energy he possesses to rendering cor required.

vice to his country. He may or may not believe in victory, But he knows that in the final outcome he who shows himself

LUXURIES AND MUNITIONS,

THEIR COMPARATIVE VALUES.

It is pointed out by a London paper that the epicure, at a sitting, may eat, drink, and smoke the equivalent of muni- blous to a startling amount, the following

equits

STRONG ENOUGH TO MAKE PRACE

pen in mid-December he murmured. At this moment an alle seamnau (non- drously able, to judge from the look of him) popped his head through the cubby. doors If the gentleman could spare z moment, sr, said he the crew would will reap the greatest advantage like to have a word with him!" firmness and confidence in victory, and is ting under an electric light playing the support of those who in the hour of auction bridge My newest friend, the danger need to be comforted by others very able looking AB (1 discovered Perhaps he will push on the war to the later that he was a B.A. of Loody Uni- extreme end.

Therefore he talks ostentatiously of his So aft once more to find the crew squat.

of fashion may nete still more on dress, may sound to day he leads is veraity, ex-H.M.B. Crystal Palace), had already a fried taught them this heathen pastime, and a and a yet greater indictment can be level of peace In any

base peace can be

- great game they played. Then they sang led against luxurious indolence. A series brought about for all countries only by to me and yarned to me, all chattering of comparative values has been worked that kind of statesman, in whose strength together, like schoolboys. They declared out, broadly, thus:108. saved, say on his own countrymen who are fighting have that the life was hell; but admitted in nis 90 cartridges; bottle of confidence. The weakling might bring the next breath that there was nothing in feasting

•LONDON, February 27th, A Russian wireless offered message † cigurs equals 400 bor of back to his people the very best peace that the wide world to beat it,"

champagne equals 100

lady's new could be got, yet he would always be in hat equals says:In the region of Smorgon the equals font service rides, diamond tiara to ouvain what might have been obtained among them confessed to me, as bo four steel helmets new dress danger of being suspected of having failed only Fritzy'd come out. The youngest enemy discharged eight gas waves in equale, one field gan mootor-car equals But he, 20 whose strength people have blashed modestly, that, he had just gob Beroplane piALO, 100 shells; and & lap faith, will alone be in a position to make engaged to a pesch of a girl in Harwich dog, 20 shells. The injunction is pressed quite considerable concessions. His fellow on the strength of a possible job in a We repulsed & Turkish attack north of home, first to save and then to invest in countrymen will believe that, however submarine-five years service and two

war loan, as the highest patriotism short much or little he gots, no man could have bob a day extra hard-lying" money. Sivassky

of personal national serviss.

got more.

假酒

tier of Molcavia, and bombarded enemy situation, which always reminds us of seven hours. trenches on the Bareth dispersing their Trederick the Great's words: "Toujours ttroops and supply columns,

en vedetta "

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