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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 518, 1917.
THE VATICAN'S PEACE ACTIVITIES.
SWEDEN'S NEUTRALITY.
AIMS AT KEEPING OUT OF THE CONFLICT.
GERMAN
DENIAL OF SEPARATE PEACE
PROPOSAL.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND REPRISALS.
Franco Belgian Front.,
LATENT CABLES.
THROUGR BEDIER'S AGENCY.] WHAT WE TAKE WE KEEP."
LONDON, Detoler Brik, - Remer's Correspondent at Headquar- ters emphasises the importance of the fact that we retain all our gains in the
Aerial Aetivities.
NOT THE TIME TO TALK
OF PEACE. -
LONDON, October 3rd.
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HINDENBURG'S BIRTHDAY.
AN MALL-HIGHEST WAR-LORD
BUST..
AMSTERDAM, October 3rd. In connection" with Cineral von Hin- denburg's birthday celebrations at the German Headquarters, the Kaiser called at his house and presented him with "a bust of the All-Highest War Lord."
The road froin General von Hinden- urg's house to Headquarters was lined with children: strewing Bowers. Aimmen dropped flowers and laurel leaves.
Mr. Winston Churchill, Minister of Munitions, speaking at a huncheon given "by_the_Aldwych" Club, said :----We are at this moment actually in the sterncat phase
of the war. We are netually entering the phasis in which the convulsion of the|
nations will be most intense and when the fruits which has been gathered and gained may he won for evermore or shaunc- fully and improvidently cast away. This is not the time-tó talk of praee: this is the time to talk of British will British power and British day. There
General Ludendorff and Staff were is no difference whatever befwerk the received by General von Hindenburg at kind of peace Mr. Asquith called for in Headquarters. Effusive speeches were his speech last work and the pence which unde, including one from the Kaiser, who President. Wilson demands. Both their praised the bern of the German people. expositions pointed to the same conele| THE CABINET CRISIS IN ONsion, namely, die decisive overthrow of
SWEDEN.. Prussian militarism. Both pointed to that KING OF SWEDEN'S WAR POLICY. as the supreme aim of our present eger time and the sole and indisponísable j settlement of Europe to a basis of right. The King, addressing party lenders, them and consideration of the law of said Since the beginning of the war
nationality as cauticing to the future permanent security of the sivilised world. Our war aims have seen soberly restated bus not yet achieved. Pission i tarisnu has not yet been overthrown, and it is no extravagaure of speech to say that the leaders of the militarist are the
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THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE SIXTH AIR RAID
LONDON.-
VERDICT OF CORONER'S JUBY.
LONDON, October 3rd, Moonlight raids have intensified demand for reprisals, a Coroner's jury passing a verdict to this effect yesterday.
PRIME MINISTER ASSURES
REPRISALS.
reeft ingles. This is the true test of military rengti, for in this war the taking of a position is one thing and retaining it is quite another." A propos
Mr. Lloyd George, visiting the bombed of which the following incident is charac teristic Following a great burst of gun. district, gistyrday morning, was greniesł tre in Germans savesedil in rushing a by te ry of Reprisals on little outpost of ours in the Scarpe towns," anal the Premier way understund, Valley, where there was much bitter Right-te reply "We hall do that,"
ing in the Spring. It was a small affair, garrisoned by a mere handful, but The Germans made a great fag over it, as hey, do over any of their rare snevesses nowadays.
Their Muntings, lonkever, were prima-
ture,
on the following night our lads returned and cleared out the post. The moralna " What we take we keep " nowa. days, even though the enemy effects a temporitry, ge-entry. The side which is Calways steadily losing and never recovers its losses is the benten side.. The Germang are being surely defeated on the Western;
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enciries of the human race,
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STOCKHOLM, October 3rd.
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE " CHOYO Nooi
SẢN P
CHINA AND THE ECONOMIC ALLIANCE.
SHANGHAI, October 4th. The Diplomatic Conference discussed
question of China's entry into the Paris Economic Alliance and proposed a Bit for submission to the Cabinet,
COMMUNICATIONS, LOAN.
The agreement for the Communications Lont has been signed for the sum of $26,000,000 on the security of the Exchs quer Lunds, the interest to be 71 per cent. and three Japanese advisers to be engloyed.
THE, TIENTSIN FLOODS,
HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.
DYNAMITE FOR FISHING,
A Chinese fisherman was fined $15, with the alternative of 21 days' hard Inbour, for having in his possession three sticks of dynamite without a police permiti
THEFT AT KOWLOON DOCKS.?
....
A Chinese copper-smith employed by the
Kowloon Docks, was charged before Mr. Dyer Ball this morning with, staling sundry pieces of copper the property of the Kowloon Docks
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I was stated thuit the copper was found in prisoner's boots as he was in the act of bearding a launch with a working
party..
Prisoner, who had a previous conviction) recorded against him, and had also served a terus of banishment, was sentenced to six weeks hird labour and four hours. stocks, the last to take place on the Kow- loon Dock prenias,
The U.S.A, has paid $250,000 and ROOM-HOY PAWNS HIS MÄSTER'S Japan $500,000 to help, the sufferers -hý:
WATCH.
the Tientsin flood.
A Chinese employed as a réou-bay to
Government asking for $3,000,000 from charged with illegally pawning a gold The Tuchun of Chili has wired to thủ | MTI Wr, Jas. Currie, in Mrs. Hickie's. establishment at Queen's Gardens, wasi
the Customs towards the relief of distruse, waten belonging to Mr. Currie and giving:
a false address to the pawn-broker. caused by the food.
The pawii-broker stated that the prison- er had alrendy pawned the watch, which he said was his own property, three times. He gave his address as 15, Des Vanx Rund. Witness advanced 5 on The pledge.
AMERIC.
GERMANY'S DARLING DESIGN,
LONDON, October 3rd,
my policy has always aimed at kreping THE JAPANESE MISSION TO Selen out of the conflict and to folles strictly impartial neutrality. Our difi- culties are increasing daily and the greatest prudence is necessary so that we
The Tower, in an editorial esment on may maintain the position we have adopt, the success of the Ishit Mission to Ameri. ed once and for all, I am armiy convinced ca, dwells on the failure of long-standing that the best way to solve the question will German intrigus to set up enmity According to the Baily Madl, de Pre- 14, said Mr. Churchill, the war visded be to form a Coalition Cabinet, which between the United States and Jan. It to-morrow in 하기 beanclusive peace,will show by its composition in Swedinners to the obtuseless with which the quier said.
Brussian militaria, would claim that if and abroad with whit, unanimity the with compound interest. 25
It was on rouching a street where the had sayed (iermany from, invasion, and Swedish people have acupied the policy bodies of four-youth, a mother and five defent, and the German Poker Beaders of neutrality, which I have pursuel. 1 children had been dragged out of huble weld the German people that they beg of you carefully to consities the pro And saved them, and they would appeal posal and to inform me of the result of dwellings that Mr. Lloyd George's anger
for their future supjairt. They would' your deliberations." thus blazrd forth.
lavite us on the marrow of such
" fatal pence to becoor fricede and to cultivate compoercial relations. I say it is our 'opinion, at the end of three years of
We shall haub - Germany |
Dr. Addison and General · Francis LloydFaddressed a meeting in the severely beinheil district. The former said that the output of neroplanes had increred gigantically. We had mastered sub marinism and before long we would achieve equal, supremacy in the air, from. Defeat on the field is the one right-whether here or in the enemy's country. bure from which Prussian militarism Geral Lloyd dwelt on the success of shrinks. Ton' trouble about th the barrages, and said that if the meeting We have done all we wanted in the way passed a resolution demanding reprisals we wanted, and that is what really he would forward it in the proper quar- mattifrs
A resolution was passed accordingly,
GERMAN REPORT.
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BRITISH FRONT. RECIPROCAL ARTILLERY FIRING,
LONDON, October 3rd.. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig saya -There is reciprocal artillery, fring to the east of Ypres
GERMAN REPORT.
A German official wireless ng says:---We repulsed an attempt to recap- thén ground to the north of the Ypres Menin cordl
LATEST CABLES.
FRENCH FRONT. COMPARATIVELY QUIET.
PARIS, October 3rd.
A communiqué states ;--There was artil dery activity north of the Aisne and on bolli banks of the Meuse. Otherwise there was comparatively quiet.
A.
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TOWN OF BADEN BOMBED,
vet.
De
that under no circumstances will us repta sointion of that kind. 11⁄2 world
an unmeasured and unmeasurable blunder, worse than any crime, to make Peace before our vital objects have won
nghieved,
LATEST CAKLESTA
Germans persisted, in hugging this dar ling design, notably by a shower of Giri- -man Press articles seeking to prove that an American-Japanese · friendship was impossible, and the recent invitation to Japan to join Mexico against the United States. The Japanese have long observed German methods will, patient vigilance, and it was really stapid of the Germans to suppose that Americans could be filled with suspicion and enmity by the Power Perrosusi, October 3rd.
which seized Tsinglaw. The paper wars ly eulogises Viscount Tahfi, particularly The Government he dissolved the
for his exposition of Japan's whole, Seamen's Committee of the Baltic Flestar ed attitude towards the war and his owing to the despatch of an ultimatum. broad-minded enunciation if views re and has ordered the election of a new
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. BALTIC FLEET SEAMEN'S COM”-
MITTEE DISSOLVED.
Coramitiéo.
garding the development and protection of China. The latter contrasted with the THE KORNILOFF "MOVEMENT. Germain policy, whose Far Eastern aspira After
Dentouratie Conference tions and intentions were not entirely Mr. Churchili contiqued: If the Ger had passed a resolution by 756 votes to alteristic. mans decatae, tos iz were, # grown-up nation, like the liberated, enunciated
1636 in favour of n Coasilion Govérninent, i amendments were carried excluding from A German official wireless message: demoerncies of the world, as a result of
participation the bourgeois elements on says:thas given on Monday night the hard lessons of the war, then there beeted with General Korailoff's movement borbed London, Margate, Sheerness and would be peach again in the world and also the Cadets., The Coalition reso- Dever, with good offret.
real, enduring peas---but if the wration was subsequently rescinded by $43 ended in an inconclusive peace England!
never rest under the prevailing PROVISIONAL PARLIAMENT TO BE cunditions. Everyone would say:This matter muss das finished," and equally the United States would never rest until a definite decision our way or the other was obtained.
GERMAN BASES BOMBED.
LONDON, October 3rd.
The Admiralty announces Navel aircraft, on Monday night, bombed the lork-gates at Zeebrugge, dropped a quantity of explosivee yesterday morning on sheds and machines at St. Denis Westrem aerodrome, and shot town two eney aireraft.
All our machines returned.
Italian Front,
EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH BIOTER'S AGENCY.]
ITALIAN FRONT.
FAILURE OF ENEMY ATTACK.
LONDON, October 3rd. An Italian official message states: An
enemy attack on the western slopes of Monte San Gabriele completely failed We took eighty' prisoners.
Our air squadrons yesterday bombarded
would
votes to 180,
SUMMONED.
TYPHOON SWEEPS OVER TOKYO.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND HOMELESS.
Tokyo, October 3rd.
A typhoon of unprecedentaḍ, violence: swept over Tokyo in October, fst, ducting for four hours.
One hundred thousand people are hon less and three hundred and fly-five
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1 Mr. Carrie deposed that the watch lo
longed to him, and bore his initials bath inside and outside the cover a cost him £12 10s. The prisoner land been a good boy. titt Jately, when he joined a gambling: crowd and got into bad ways.
and said the five dollars advanced on tha After further evidence his worship passed sentence of six weeks' hard labour, watch would vot be repaid to the pawn- roker, as he had not exercised reason- shte precautions,
CHAUFFEUR CHARGED WITH
MANSLAUGHTER.
The case was resumed before Mr. Wood yesterday, in which a Chinese chauffeur of the Exile Garage was charged with causing the death of a little to by running his car over him in Des Voeux Rond on the 29th ultimo."
A cobbler deposed that on the evening of the 29th ult, while he was working on the toolpath in Dew Vaux Rond, he say a motor-car, which was coming from the west towards the central district, run over a child The child was standing still about Thresh or Four feet frem the side chainct on the Praya"side, waiting for his mother, who was picking up some- thing from the ground. The ear WIŁŁY travelling very fast at the time. It had The defendant made no effort to avoid no lights and the horn was not sounded. the child he went straight on, and the Some coates in the street stopped the left wheels of the car ran over the child.
car, whereupon the defendant, who was driving, and the people inside got at and ran away.
Another Chinese, a chauffeur of the Exile Garag, said that on the night of the accident he saw defendant, who told him that he had run over a child in Des Vonx Road. Witness then informed hita that he had better go to the Police Station and report the nccident, Witness went along with defendant to No. 7 Polico Station, and the accident was reported to Inspector Q'Sullivan.
The case was again remanded.
A COURAGEOUS COOLIE,
Before Mr. Dyer Ball yesterday after The Socore Fremgn states that the
noon the case was resumed in which a Chinese was charged with snatching $60. Government is willing to nespt the Con- persons are dead or missing.
in Frendis bank notes from another There are a number injured.
Chinese and also with pointing a loaded damaged.
Thou ginds of houses were demolished er Devolver at & Sanitary Board coulis with
intent to kill him.
forence's suggestion of immediately shor moning a Provisional Parliament repre Mr. Churchill proceeded to emphasisentative of all classes, to which thus the necessity of grimly sticking on, and pointed out that one might east away
Government, will be responsible, pending the prize at the moment when one would the formation of a Constituent Assembly, only have to grap it. That had happen
ISSUE OF POPE'S NOTE ed twice in his experience of war. Once
DENIED. he saw it at Spion Kop, and again in the case of the Dardanelles, when one effort more would have secured the complete results. All had been allowed to be lost in hopeless and abject rain. He asserted that if we took the mossary vigorous offensive measures there was no reason
why the dangers and privacions facing us should not be successfully overcome. He PARIS, October 3rd.
was profoundly convinced that we still communiqué states: To the east f
retain the power to solve every difficulty theims, our batteries effectively replied
and to emerge triumphantly from the to the enemy's artillery and neutralised
perils with which we are surrounded an attack which was being prepared
Mr. Churchill declared the great feu There was a violent artillery night
We carried out two raids last night thure of the last six months, had been to struggle on both brinks of the Menag particularly in the region, north of Gardropping four tons of bonis on military check the German submarine campaign objectives at Pola, greatly damaging against Great Britain. It had failed to thera.
lamper our economic life, or military
Hill.
Our aeroplanes dropped 7,000 kilogram mes of explosives on the railway station at Fribourg and nine other railway stations; also on factories at Volklingen' and Hoftenbach.
Two of our netoplanes, as a reprisal for the bombardment of Bar-le-Due, bombed the town of Baden.
GERMAN
REPORT.
A wireless German official report states: --Wo captured French trenches, on o width of 1,200 metres, on the northern slope of Hill 344.
Eight counter attacks were driven back and we took 150 prisoners.
a railway station at Grahovo.
EARLIER UKELES.
{THLOUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.]"
GERMANY DENIES SEPARATE PEACE PROPOSAL
ROME, October 3rd. The Tedang denies that the Pope has sent the Entente another Note. It is can
co cluded that he will do so, but it is im pastible to say when.
Communications were interrupted.
The Suez Canal dues, commencing with the new year, for unloaded and loaded ships will be eight and a half francs per
Inspector Brazil stated that on-the 130th wilt. at noon complaint wenteco a tetiney changer's shop in Queen's Road) Central to change a $100 note. He res ceived Soo in French bauk mates and 840-
The damage in the country is wore. owing to devastating inundations, SUEZ CANAL DUES INCREASED Hongkong tintes. As he was picking
up the French mutes, prisoner cane be Loxios, October 3rd,"
hind him, snatched them away, and holted down Jubilee Street. The complainant and the money-changer shonte spatel money and gave chase. The Sanitary Board conlies, who were passing, joined in the pursuit. One of the coolder res took the prisoner and seized him, where- upon the prisoner drew n fonded revolver, and pointing it at the coolie, said:
If you don't let me go I'll shout you."" Prisoner pulled the trigger, but for tunately the cartridge did not explode, The coolle, then sprang upon list and boro him to the ground. At this moment the second coolic and a Chinese detective ran CHILDREN OF THE EMPIRE p. The detective wrenched the revolver
ton of forty rubic feet.
THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, October 2nd. Silver is quoted at 17), and the market is weak.
CARDINAL MERCIER TO VISIT ROME.
AMSTERDAM, October 3rd, The Pope has requested von Falkenhay sen, the Governor of Belgium, to permit Cardinal: Mercier to visit. Rome on an important political mission. A condi- THANKS KOWLOON MINISTERING tional passport has been promised,
-BRITISH SHIPPING.
LONDON, October 3rd.
PUND.
LEAGUE,
The following letter has her roceived in acknowledgment of 440 sent to the Children of the Empire Fund, being part
The Admiralty announces that the ship-of the proceeds of the entertainments ping arrivals for the past week were 2,660 given by the Children of the Kowloon and the sailings 2,742.
Branch of the Ministering League:-- Eleven yeszels over and two under 1,000
100, Eaton Square, London; S.W. tons were sunk.
July 14th, 1917. Bixteen
Dear Mrs. AliKEN, Thank you very tacked.
much for the splendid donation which I
We brought down two enemy aeroplanes.action. or to cat as off from the great
reinforcements from America. In Februst General.
ary and Murch the most elaborate surveys were made over the whole field of our epquotic and military life with a view to ascertaining what would be our capacity for continuing war on the basis of cer heavy continuona submarine sink- ings. It was found that wo should be able to continue the war if necessary and A Berlin message says Baron von carry on across the sea and fead and 30t Kueldman denies the Russian report maintain ourselves for a period so long departed, that Germany has proposed a separate that other decisions would certainly inter- peace to either France or Great Britain.vene before it expired.
AMSTERDAM, October 3rd.
Lain
were unsucessfully at-
from the prisoner and, upon searching him, found the notes in his pocket. The revolver" had six chambers and was of American make, Four chambery were loaded with ball cartridge, and the other distinct mark of having been struck by two were empty. One cartridge bore a
the revolver hammer. The coolic, added had the cartridge exploded it would prob Inspector Brazil, acted very bravely, for ably have killed him.
After evidence had been given by the complainant and the coolies, the prisoner was committed for trial:
TYPHOON WARNINGS. received this morning. Fam enclosing you received by the American Consulate The following telegrams have been General, Hongkong, from the Manits
11 p.m., 3rd Oct. Cyclone or typhoun over South China Sea, filling up
14.45 p.m., October 4th Cyclone or typhoon, East of Luson, more than 200 miles distant, direction unknown.
ITALIAN SHIPPING
a receipt for 240. I should be so much Hoxe, October 3rd."
obliged if you would convey my most Observatory During the week ending September grateful thanks to all those who have an generously contributed towards the 489
steamers arrived and 436 Children of the Empire Fund. I fest
cannot thank you enough for having help- Twe sailing ships above and three belowed us so much With many thanks- one hundred tons were lost.
(Signed) GRACE ABDT,
Yours sincerely,
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