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THE WAR.

AN AMERICAN PRO-GERMAN OBSTRUCTION

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS; WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7m,

IMPASSE:

IN THE SENATE.

THE PRESIDENT'S RESOLVE.

INSPIRING ECHO OF ·THE JUTLAND

BATTLE.

ALLIES INTENTIONS IN THE BALKANS: REFERENCES IN COMMONS.

General.

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CAPITOL.{ PRESIDENT WILSON ON THE SITUATION.

WASHINGTON, March 6th. Wilson, in his eloquent inau gural address from the steps of the Capitol, dealt at length with the present situation, He said-We have been deeply Wronged upon the seas, Soine of the injuries done us have become intolerable. We wished fair dealing and justice, with freedom to live and be it ease, against organised wrong. With this thought we have grown more and more certain that the part we wished to play was the part of those who mean to vindicate and fortify peace. We have been obliged to

arm ourselves to make good our claim to certain minimum of

of right and freedom of action. We stand firm in armed. neutrality. We may even be drawn on by circumstances to more immediate association in the great struggle itself.

AMERICA AND ARMED NEUTRALITY.

THE BOILING POINT REACHED

WAGRINGTOK, March 8th,

President Wilson emphasises that the whole nation supports the Government with unprecedented unanimity, and saya the impression may be created abroad that other Governments may do so they piense without the fear of America doing anything. The great Government of the United States ang been rendered helpless and contemptible, and the only remedy is to alter the rules of the Senate. The country can be relied upon to draw tho needful moral,

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BRITAIN'S MAN-POWER.

MR. CHURCHILL'S IDEA...

LONDON, March 5th In the House of Commons, in the course of a debate on the Amy Estimates, Mr. Churchill declared that in order to achieve a decisive result at Balonika, larger armies were required, while our tonnage from various causes would steadily diminish. He admitted that our honourable obligation,go M. Venczelos

could not be brushed aside. Referring, in this connection, to the possibility of

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

DISCUSSION THIS WEEK

LONDON, March 6th.

Interest in the Parliamentary week centres in Mr. T P O'Connor's motion on Wedacaday demanding immedinte Home Rule,

Mr. Reid has placed on the table an amendment deprecating such legislation during the ward

Mr. Lloyd George is expected to par ticipate, although at present confined to his bed with a cold.

THE ALLIED CONFERENCE.

LORD MILNER'S OPINION.

LONDON, March 5th.

gian Fron

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[THEQUOM{EBUYER'S AGINOY.]

THE BRITISH LINER

A BIG EXTENSION.

LONDON, March th The communique reveal that the Bri. ish ling now extends as far south as Roye

which is the nearest point to. near Noyon, s

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1917.

QUREREST CRAFT IN THE

* WORLD. ~

HOW OUR MESOPOTAMIA FORCE IS FED

DYING SOLDIER'S MESSAGE.

WINNING A LEGACY FOR OUR CHILDREN:

NO GERMAN PEACE

* A corporal who, mertally ill, lay ăn hospital on Christmas Day sent, a com- munication to a friend, thus he had an

important message of some kind ta give, nad when seen he told of many of the adventures he had passed through as for his death took place on New Year's

front, and added, as his dying words, the

Eve, message on the peace groposals.

As

BY EDMUND CANDLER.} For the difficult river navigation of this flat country we have built 133 henvy teak timbered craft, which the Arah describes *s* chias. ". These carry about forty tos, though three top the hundred many can take fifty tous, but very many spoil the

suren God is in Heaven, he sald average by ranging between thirty-seven then all the tens of thousands of hits that if our people are deceived it this suger and thirty tons. They have short, stubby have been done by our moves and by inaste and just a bit of sail and love to

the hundreds of thousands of Allied sol pole up river along the bank and drift diers who have gone West with a sure gently down to a steamer, get loaded by faith in their hearts, all will be made s galings of cargo craned out to them over mockery, and a waste the most tremend- the ship's side, wait for ebb and flow of ous, vain Sacrifice of life and faith tho the tide, and gently drift to shore, some world has ever seen. No massacre of the ins times requiredriking the very place they are nocents that history has ever known could

at-but just by accident, Chias can be brought quite close inshore Five be devil so much pleasure as that, at high tide and very near at mid-obb, to's all this foggy cloud of peace vapour Finge that strikes 2 chill into my heart, hear that a plank twenty suches wide, two Any man who is able to claim that he inches thick, and anything up to thirty bases his theories on kindness, mercy, feet long, can be placed from chin to shore the desire to spare others is alway sure of for Persian coolies to carry supplies to the A.S.C. depots ou shore, • The space, between shore and chin bridged by these planks is black squashy and of the coo- sistency of renele, and with a bouquet almost

equal to our old friend, fish oil.

the German line to Paris. The British line from Ypres to Rove is 130 miles.

Special correspondents describe the appalling, state of the evacuated German ground. Every possible gun and stores have been removed, but the whole battle field is matted with bodies which have Lord Milner, interviewed by Reuter, remained unburied for months. Many of said the results of the Allied Conference the enemy were drowned in mad through at Petrograd had exceeded his expecta-which they were unable to wade tions. These results were largely owing to the support of tha Tsar, who had been particularly gracións,

His Lordship insisted that the war spirit in Russia was unanimous; the only controversy regarding the waging of the was dealt with the most effective form of administration.

ROUMANIAN OIL WELLS. HONOUR FOR DIRECTOR OF THEIR DESTRUCTION,

JAEST, March 5th. The king has conferred the Order of Commander of the Star of Roumania on Colonel Norton Griffiths, who directed the destruction of the Roumanian oil welis.

MADE IN GERMANY,

PRISONERS EXPOSED TO FIRE.

AMSTERDAM, March 6th,

In the Reichstag, the War Minister

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FRENCH FRONT, VIOLENT GERMAN ATTACK.

LONDON Earch 6tli.

المحبة

hearing with our folk, and they not having been up against the realities I sen the danger of their being betrayed from the very kindness of their hearts into the cruellest, most devilish sort of sacrifice of their own flesh and blood and their own future, and the future of their childfod and children's children,

that the 1 has ever known

A French communiqué states: Aftort forty-eight hours of each trip from AT PRICE VAPOURINGS, O

an intense bombardment in the region of Couriers Wood, on the right bank of the Mcust, the enemy violently attacked on a front of three kilometres between Chambrettes farm and Bezonraux, Re- peated -asanulta between Caurieres Wood

and Bezohvaux failed.

The enemy gained a footing in our advanced elements to the north of

Caurieres Wood, but our fire smeshod all

attempts to penetrate the wood, inflicting heavy enemy losses.

GERMAN REPORT.

CLAIMS AND ADMISSIONS.

LONDON, March 5th. A German official wireless message of similar states: The English attacked to the

alleged that the prisoners in the hands of the Allies were exposed to fire, and he

announced the institution

TRAP TRANSIT The boatmen earn a sovereign for the first: chore to ship and back to sacre, with s crown and fourpenice for every subsequent twenty-four hours detention, and have a skipper and three lightermen to feed on hat When a chia bas a hut for the crew built on the stern, steps & mast from 60ft. to 80ft, in length, with a yard of about the same length, and is given great white sail, she becomes a saffara (Arabic saffar to travel), and voyages up river to Bagdad on the Tigris, or Noor in the Karan d

I understand there are a dozen clever follows like, who are going up and down the country helping to thicken the fog of peace vapourings, and thereby playing Germany a game for her as surely as though they drew weekly wages from Berlin. Perhaps some of them do. don't know. But it would almost seem that our authorities will allow anything in the name of the freedom of speech which God knows, I hele upheld all my There are 130 larger 180 smaller life But what I want you to feali is saffaros, making a total of 310 booty for that this handful of misguided orators freight, and yet it is difficult to keep the go up and down the country repeating all timber we want constantly in work and this cruel and mocking rubbish to thou to shift the requisite tonnage per month sands of simple hearted men and women, To the Three vented 190 157 miles up stream, who are very likely to be deceived by it. powerful light draught tugs for It should be the first business of the people Selping binches of six saffaras in the

who Ingy better to undeceive them, and worst part of the river would double their

to let the cold light of truth in through utility, but the right class of tug would the misty vapourings of peace talk. They Fave to come thousands of m

miles by een should be told that the only real league under her own steam. of nations to enforce peace was established.

A small safora is described as a suffins, by the Allies in August, 1914. Its task of and these pretty little craft cover the enforcing peace was begun then, in tho over with their bright sails. They are

the any offzet upon a people saturated as entall enough to rn up ang creek and only manner which can possibly produce across the waste of flood waters, but with people of Germany have been for nearly crews of at least three men and a capacity tour decades in the principles of the

und in the philos RABS phy of aggressive ARTISTIC ARARS,

other nation, in the interests of humidnity, The word ballam mears ennoe of aivilisation, and of secure peace, desires and there are bollams of over 100 tons to join and to strengthen the League of burden nut down the gamut to the tiny Nations 20 Enforce Pence, is not the way craft (three-quarters of a tan), which open to them? They will never accom-

the

making cloquent

will

supplementing our man-power from India reprisals and other restrictions on pri- south of St. Pierre Naast Wood and of twelve tons and under, the cost of run- supermar blasphemy. If ally

and elsewhere, he recalled that last year he urged the Government to form from tea to twelve fadian divisions for use 10

Sobers

The Press Bureau exposes many of the Minister amisstatements, and demonstrates that the allegation was s made to dis

captured a trench sector on the Bouing them is very high chavesnes-Moialains road,

We stormed and captured a French

The fact that the Armed, Neutrality 1917 If that suggestion had been adopted guise the fees they the prisonerà in Ger Position in Caurieres Wood, on a front causes Basra to be described as much

we would now have relieved for service man hands were employed in the fangaro 1500 metres, and repulsed nocturnal site of the Eastle large ballams or by writing, Speeches and writing y

Bill was talked out in the Senate by the filibusters in nowise affects. President Wilson's position, since it merely incans that a handful of Obstructionists balked against the clock until noon, when Con- gress automatically expired.

President Wilson then took the path for the new term, and he will inaugurally

ex

address the new Senate to-day, when a most important pronouncement is pected

Meanwhile German insolence," for example, the Mexican intrigue, is stirring up American feeling to boiling point. Attention is called to the fact that Gor- many calmly bartered the American States of which Texas alone is larger than the whole of Germany.

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AMERICA AND GERMANY, THE DEADLOCK IN THE SENATE.

WASHINGTON March 5th, President Wilson, in a statement lust evening, informed the country that he was without power to arm merchantmen or to take other steps to meet the sub marine menace without the authority of Congress, An extra session was required to give him the authority, but that would be useless while the Senate works under the present rule, permitting a small minority to keep an overwhelm ing majority at bay. He proposes to call a special fession of the Senate to-day to revise the rules and supply the means for retion to save the country from dianator

CIRCUMVENTING PRO-GERMANS

WASHINGTON, March 8th

ordinary circumstances.

in France 80,000 British troops from zone long before the French employed counter-attacks. Egypt Salonika and, possibly, Meso- German prisoners on their front

potamia.

In conclusion Mr. Churchill declared that the tardy action taken by the India Office, after immense pressure, in adopt- ing compulsion for Europeane in India And enabling India to bear a share of the cost of the war, was still inadequate.

Greater effort was necessary and possible. What applied to India also applied to Africa, where measures were now being taken which could easily have been taken a year ago with immenso benefit to our selves.

BRITAIN'S INTENTIONS IN THE

BALKANE

In replying to the debate on the Army Estimates, Mr. Bonar Law said it was quite impossible for the Government to

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AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

DISSOLVED.

FORCED BY OBSTRUCTIVE TACTICS OF LABOURITES.

SYDNEY, March 5th. Owing to the obstructive tactics of the Labourites, the Federal Government has suddenly nanounced the dissolution of Parliament, entailing the indefinite post- ponement of Mr. Hughes visit to Eng- land.

SENTENCE ON A SPY

London, March 5th,

The Press Bureau announces that in the case of a prisoner who was court- martialed in London and sentenced to

We captured an important position

taking prisoner 578 and capturing

are flat-bottomed, rectangular boxes, with not separate an armel and pointed and drexed over ends, and many burglar hom his swag, and secura peace- of them ait made beautiful with a coat ful householders, against his further de of vivid green paint from stera te etern, predacions. That can only be accomplish- pictures of birds, beasts, and fishes, flowed by farce and it audit

is open to any nation in the south-east corner of Fosses wood,ers, and as the pursery artist profity quota to the strength and so the heroic QURIL scrolls white--such that truly desires to secure peace to add duces, those with fire-toed legs growing sacrifice of the existing League of Nations Firds and

teen machine-guns and twenty-firo quick out of their stomachs and chests, and to Enforce Fence, which as a matter of

beasts with four legs

сотраду loading guns,

plain fact, has been fighting the battles # column from Deck to curly LLARENA of the other

much a te countries Just Small ballams our gondola-are just own

CIVILISATION AT STAKE curly stem and stern post picked out in What I feel about this thing makes brass or a louder colour then the body every other feeling of my life seem little or not painted at all.

Even what we call Large ballaans with and unimportant: for ballain saflurus, medium ballam patriotism is a small thing beside this saffinis, bantam ballams zshari are all issue for in this, believe me, the inture vory useful craft

of the civilisation of which we are a part is at stake. The peoples who are thou- sands of miles away from the carnage may Ferhaps never understand, though their thinkers must, of course, bat, truly, our

There were numerous air fights. Thethered in a coat of paint and with the MAN

enemy lost eighteen aeroplanes yesterday, We lost four.

Naval Activities.

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SEA VALOUR RECOGNISED.

ECHO OF THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND

LONDON, March 5th. The thrilling story of the Battle of Jutland is now fully revealed by an Ad-

indicate its intentions regarding their death for espionage, the finding whe con.miralty announcement of the posthumous those not born in nashoofs cannot keep or territory but for the salvation of

Elo declined to forces at Saloniki assist the enemy by saying whether these forces were intended to be offensive or defensive. Referring to the difference of opinion regarding the advisability of the Expedition, be pointed out that the War policy 18 whole could

possibly be the policy of the British Government Bolely. It would be extremely inadvisable to with draw the Expedition now. He depre cated the proposal of a secret sexion to discuss the subject, He acknolwedged that difficultice had arisen in Grocce and the Balkans because the Allies policy

differed, but said that some advance in this respect had recently been made. The

Allies wore now carrying out e common

been used to induce Roumania to enter the war, and asserted that there was no reason to condema the Allies

firmed, but the sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life The Balkans.

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BULGARIAN TRENCHES

SNOWED UP

THE CONDITION OF MONASTIR

LONDON, March 5th.

Router's correspondent at the Serbian Headquarters says that the Bulgarian trenches at Monestir are snowed up.

It is officially estimated that the enemy. has dropped 2,6% shella and bombs on Monastir during the past three months. Forty-three houses have been destroyed and three hundred damaged. Thirty- two men have been killed and

The mashoof is dear to the heart of that enemy to all men, the mah Arab Ruilt of coarse olarks, about eleven inches wide, on an extraordinary frame of in aumerable short straight ribs, it is a hol-sacrifices and our fighting are just as low wedge which looks as if it must cap much for the hundred million people in size but this it seldom does. With peak America as for the folk of these islands and stern elevated to a height equal to of our own The one mainspring of the third of the bear's length, heavily conted strength and endurance that has protected eutside with binmen and propelled by all the world west of that bloedsoaked line paddles, it pushes its way through the from the North Sea to Switzerland, where rocd-mares of the great marshes, and its so many tens of thousands of French and wedge shape is ideal for such work British lads lie dead is the sure knowledge As no one trusts the marsh Arab, and that we fight, not for this or that country award of the Victoria Cross to Comman- them from capsizing, its value for trans humanity, and the preservation of decency der Jones, of the destroyer Shark, which port is ny but its quaint black shape, and and freedom and justice, as WO understand cften quite pretty crew of black robed them and the sure faith that if we are led a division of destroyers in the at-

women, decorates the local pea soup steadfast we must triumph, that if we tack on an enemy battle-cruiser squadron, scenery. At all hours of the day sinal triumph it is for the last sacrifice, and all that this mashoofs with two girl paddlers and ghall The Shark was disabled by two shells, grandmamma, may be seen hanging on to and that, by it, we earn real safety

be the last struggle,

and when another destroyer came between the the sides of river craft bartering eggs, security for our children and for their

and dates,N

children, Morally, Germany was beaten Then there is the guffaha round basket four feet dicen and from four to me ferlitary erase she is not yet beaten, and in diameter, made of palm frond ribs, machine is a great and terrible engine of will not be for months to come. Her war

held together by juniper wattles, and the destruction and of enforced martyrdomn, propelled by a short flat paddle It resent devilish; work. whole heavily coated with bitumen and prepared through forty years to do its Until the Boobs gyrates across rivers and up and down is beaten and broken, in the full military them in a marvellous way. The passen pense, no other reward for our sacrifices. gers crouch at the bottom of the barot and no better legacy for our children can with wondering eyes peeping over its e

for

ron-

Shark and the enemy and offered to IND': 701VDC before the end of 1914, and knows it...

der Ausistance, but Commander Jones warned the craft off, saying that if it remained it would almost certainly be sunk. Then, though wounded in the leg, he helped to man the after wheel, and

aubsequently, when the forecastle and after guss' crows were blown away, Com mander Jones assisted in keeping the mid-ship gun in action.

THE END OF A GALLANT COMMANDER.

LONDON, March 5th.

The Admiralty's narrative continues.

CANADIAN CROPE

YIELD OF WHEAT ABOVE THE ESTIMATE. A drastic revision of Canadian wheat statistics is spoken of. An error of as much as 20 per cent is suggested, The telegrams received advise that the 007-

Well may they have cause to wonder for possibly be won the craft spins round quickly and is de- "pressed on the paddler's side when he is busy, or elevated on that and depressed on the other side when his pedale clears the water, with so curious an up-and-down and round and giddy round motion that each moment of the voyage has sixty thrille Guftah are employed as ferries, The Senate meets to-day under extra policy. He denied that any threats had thirty-seven, anjurad, whilst forty-fire The Shark was all this time under the as tenders to safiaras, and even as bum rection of the desirable character

boats to carry eggs, fruit, and vegetable. that is to say, the yield was under- women and children have been killed az heaviest fire of the enemy light cruisers last, there are great rafts of reeds and estimated. An immense area of newly and destroyers at short range The crew mats, those building materials beloved by settled land must make calculation ex- eighty-five injured.

of the midship gun was reduced to three, our Boyal Engineers. It is marvellous tremely difficulty co

how they ever make

their week long ponThe growth of sugar beet is being re- one of whom was soon wounded. A few ages without being destroyed by fire, for duced, the cost of cultivation proving too minubes afterwards a shell amputated Arabs keep smoking all over them, and the heavy This year's supply from. Insti Commander Jones leg above the knee, üres are kept burning on a sheet of cor October's liftings will be harely half that but, he continued to command the gun rugated iron or two kerosene oil tins open of the previous season, Prices have crew while the chief stoker improvised a ed up and hammered flat. tourniquet round his thigh. Despite his The usos to which they are put by the greably riam, but wages apparently have sgony Commander Tones, noticing that BGRE, and his battalions are even more increased at an oven greater ratio. the Ensign was not properly hoisted, marvellous We have hospitals, barracks Owing to a fine season and an increase ordered another to be hosted, then, greing offices, stabics, carpenters, sheds, farriers in the yield per sere the Canadia” that his ship was doomed, be ordered the forges, store depote, dockyard shells, of potato cron has about equalled that of drew to don life beita, Almost immecer quarters, laundries, roofs to our steel the previous year. But a grave Veclina

sank, Commander Jones being drawned.-- zizes, an R.E, mesa, and other places too circumstance and in an ordinary year

The survivors, who were picked an by numerous to westion, all with reed walls must have resulted in scarcity - Potatoe a neutral ship at night, have been award- | and mat rools and very nice too. -Dazzy on this farm, is Cauzda ara fetching 34 od the Distinguished Service Medal. Express

64 to is 74, per busbal. -Zimer. <--

President, Wilson will deliver, in the morning, his inaugural message from the steps of the Capitol, but meanwhile he has stirred up the nation to the core by manifesto denouncing the little group of wilful men, representing only their own opinion, who withstood Eve hun- drad supportors of the Government policy

NATIONAL SERVICE

VOLUNTEERS.

HALF A MILLION WANTED.

LONDON, March 6th.

Italian front.

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ITALIAN SUCCESS.

LONDON, March 5th.

· An- Italian official wirelcza message Mr. Neville Chamberlain, speaking in states:We brilliantly attacked and crisis fraught with more far reach London said that we now have 100,000 occupied a strong position on anal diately the Shark was torpedoed and barges, househosta printing shops, maga in the area cultivated is a very untowar

ing possibilities of national danger than any Government has ever experienced.

National Bervice Volunteers but we of 2,700 metres in the Costa Bella group, wanted half a million

in the Avisio sector.