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THE

WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,

ODE 16гm,

RAIDS AND ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.

THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN GERMANY.

COALITION GOVERNMENT FOR CANADA.

Franco-Belgian Front,

EARLIER CABLES.

(THROUGH REUTERʼN AGENCY.]

BRITISH FRONT.

SUCCESSFUL RAIDS.

SIR EDWIN MONTAGU AND

INDIA,

STRONG CRITICISM BY A LONDON NEWSPAPER.

Apart from the Morning Post, there has been no comment hitherto on the Indian situation. An article in the Past on the 10th, inst., hended" Mischief in India," violently attacked the appoint- ment of Sir Edwin Montagu owing to his family connections, and animadverted |

LONDON, October 14th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports: Artillery was active during the night, to the north-east of Ypres,

We repulsed reconnaitrers to the west of ↑ strongly - upon his political programine, Becelnere and north of Poezappelle. We successfully raided in the neighbourhood

of Halluch.

GERMAN REPORT. German wireless official message: A states:- Five French counter-attacks to the north of Vauchere mili failed.

PRISONERS CAPTURED.

LoxBox, October 14th.

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Jaig e ports-Eastern County, troops success- fully raided to the south-east of Monchy le-Preux Friday's prisoners now num. ber 843, including forty-one officers.

thich is some form of Home Rule for Imlia, as rash, and probably disastrous nt any time, but certainly now when the sitaation demands inost delicate, firm, and careful, handling. The article" fur- ther condemns vehemently Sir Edwin: Montagu's treatment of the Annie Besant question. - He as she

ix the innocent tool of agitators, who desire the expulsion of British JIOWAT from India. whose sims are violent, and Whose means are unscrupulous and sublle, though their hers are small. Sir Edwin Montagu, desiring to give a shining example of his sympathy with the agitatore, dramatically liberated the lady The Foxt protests with all its force against this policy of attempting to court popn. larity and conciliate hostility. the inischief dye in Russia by toe potent draughts of the heady liquors of democracy. Such tipple might reduce the unicetes toned heads of the Indian people to a state of raging tury.

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DR. MICHAELIS MUST GO. ECONOMIC SITUATION IN

ZURICH, October 15th.

GERMANY.. The Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung, the organ CONDITIONS BECOMING WORSE. of the German Social Democrats in Aus tria, says that Dr. Michaelis must go, 12

LONDON, October 14th. Fresh information regarding the econo his position is untenable. During his mic situation in Gerniany indicates that short term of office he has heaped disaster the position is becoming worse. The corn upon disaster and the position in Gererope have failed and the outlook for tats many to-day is one of unprecedented and barley is bad. Investigations show difficulty, needing a great personality to that the 1917 harvest is forty-five per deal with it.

cent, below normal years. A certai FAMOUS NOVELISTS KILLED anount is expected from the Roumanian LONDON, October 15th. granaries. The failure of fodder crops Chande and Alice Askew, the well-known is seriously affecting the breeding in- novelists, have been killed through enemy dustry and the milk supply. The price action, at sea..

of bread is generally beginning to double. The weekly ment ration is reduced again to hall a pound. Trade and industry. excluding munitioning, are practically at a standstill. The shortage of raw material is growing, as is also the tran- aport difficulty. The publication of births and deaths statistics is suppressed, owing to the alarming figures. The con- ditions in Austro-Hungary are infinitely

THE FINNISH DIET:

PETROGKAN, October 10th The Finnish Diet will be convoked ca November 1st.

EARLIER CABLER.

THE COTTON POSITION.

worse.

SIR JOHN SIMON'S POST.

LONDON, October 14th.

LONDON, October 14th. The Manchester correspondent of the able cotton continues to improve and it The says the position as regards avail

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is believed that at the end of the prescrib ed period of curtailed production the| It is expicted that Sir John Simon restrictions will be removed or greatly will be appointed to a high non-comïimtent modified. The new census is expected to post in the Army in France, show that stocks are still large and with importations equal to requirements.

Lloyd's Nerk says that he will be on Intelligents Officer in the Air Service. BriKAISER

AND

KING FERDINAND I RATERNISE. AMSTERDAM, October 14th..

The United States has exported to tain 400,000 bules since August 1st, which exceeds the consumption in England dur ing that period. The Control Board aims at socuring the importation of two hales At Sofa King Ferdinand and the

Liverpool stocks reach a satisfactory quau- to every single bale consumed, until the

Kaiser nude effusive sprecher at a ban- quet wcleansing the latter. tity. The removal or modifcftion of the HOME TROOPS, AS GOOD AS

above-mentioned restrictions will be wel- comed, especially as business in cloth has improved.

GERMAN LANDING ON

A British air patrol on Saturday-en- .countered

12 formation double inter strength and a determined light ensued.

Four of our machines have not returned. Allied machines arriving too late to participate saw several enemy machines falling ancontrolled.

BRITISH OFFICER'S AUDACITY. LANDON, Delober 15th. Renter's Correspondent at the British Beadquarters states! The wrather has CANADA'S COALITION

GOVERNMENT COMPLETED. Loxnox, October 15th. The Timex Ottawa Correspondent states that Sir. R. L. Borden has completed theat Oesel Island continues. The enemy is Coalition Government.

pressing us back in a south-westerly direc tion.

cleared up, renewing the opportunities for aerial activity, - battle zone is a vast weltering panorama

Nevertheless, the

of mud islets and countless green shell pools. A remarkable instance of the coolest individual daring is being told of an officer.

Following the British precedent, it is A nest of Ger-proposed that the Inner War Cabinet man snipers were firing at our stretcher shall he composed of four Conservatives, bravers, although the enemy stretcher and three Liberals

bearers working alongside for a consi- derable time were not molested. After anion, is strongly in favour of the new

Public opinion, throughout the Dom amber of ours had been shot down, an Coalition Government, as it most likely officer carrying the Red Cross flag walked means the sinking of differences and the boldly to the snipers hiding place and uniting of the followers of both parties proceeded in the most vigorous German as cu people, while the war leats, to tell the saipers, what he thought of them and their barbarity. Thereupon he tribute to Sir R. L. Borden's indomitable The Times, in a leading artiele, pays a returned safely. Afterwards not a single patience and good faith in securing this triumph, and says there is now good hope that Quebec will cease its attitude of isolated hostility.

shot came from the snipers' nest.

FRENCH FRONT.

ARTILLERY STRUGGLE.

PARIS, October 14tl

A communiqué, states:-The artillery

struggle is fairly lively on the Aisne front, especially in the Pantheon district and the Vaucler and California plateaux.

PARIS, October 15th.

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REDUCING THE RUSSIAN ARMY.

FIGHTING STRENGTH NOT WEAKENED.

PETROGRAD, October 15th. The Minister of War stated that the forthcoming disbanding of the 1895, 1956

A communiqué states that there is lively and other classes of men would not weaken artillery activity on the Aisne front, the fighting strength of the Army. especially in the plateau region on the right bank of the Meuse.

Aerial Activities.

EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH EXUTER'S AGENCY.] WEATHER RESTRICTS

OPERATION.

LONDON, October 14th.

The Admiralty announces that the weather restricted the naval aircraft operations yesterday, but one of our fighter patrols at Ostend shot down an enemy machine in flames. General.

LATEST CABLES, (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENGI.] THE SWEDISH CABINET. STOCKHOLM, October 15th.

M. Eden, the Liberal leader, has been requested to form a Cabinet owing to the failure of M. Widen to do so.

THE PRELIMINARY PARLIAMENT

PETROGRAD, October 15th.

OVERSEAS, JUSTICE TO BRITISH TROOPS,

Loxox, October 14th. The Duke of Connaught, addressing ISLANDS IN RIGA GULF, Volunteers at Birminghard, said he was FOUR ENEMY DESTROYERS SUNK.

anxions to remove the impression that LONDON, October 14thDominion, troops, without full justice special praise had been meted out to the A Russian offiein wireless message being done to the Home troops. Well as states:-We repulsed an attempt to capthe Dominions troops had fought, the ture the pier at Moen. Island. The fight Home troops had fought with equi

distinction. casualties, amongst the latter showed that The larger proportion of

ne troops could have done more excellent

the FOOD SCARCITY IN LONDON

barkation

The Germans continued their disein work.

D Saturday under protection of very large naval forces,

gaged the shore batteries. Simultaneously, several enemy ships en-

At Dago Island our batteries sank four torpedo destroyers, and an enemy cruiser went aground.

Overwhelming gunfire destroyed a bat-] which was unable to maintain its position tery, enabling a small detachment to land

and returned to its ships.

Since yesterday morning our ships pret vented the enemy entering the waters be tween Dago Island and Desel Island.

Our ships did not suffer appreciably Our torpedo-destroyers in the Baltic destroyed eleven schooners.

TWO TOWNS AFLAME.

A German wireless official message states:We are advancing south-east of Orsel Island, and the towns of Zerel and Arensburg are aflame. PETROGRAD NOT IMMEDIATELY

MENACED,

PETROGRAD, October 14th. The Minister of Marine learns that

Losos, October 14th.

Yesterday was described as the most difficult day of the war up to the present for week-end shoppers in Londvu, tea, sugar, rice, butter and margarine were practically unobtainable.

THE EFFECT OF ASSISTING GERMANY.

DUTCH SHIPPING TO ENGLAND STOPPED.

AMSTERDAM, October 14th.

of the Anglo-Dutch difference all Dutch According to nay Bode, in conSOQUENCH

shipping to England is stopped.

UNITED STATES ACCUSED. The President of the Netherlands Over-

Trust. interviewed, referred to the seriousness of the British action, cabled on the lith instant It particularly Indies, and he foreshadowed the poa affected communication with the Dutch

sibility of Germany considerately discon tinuing traffic, which, however, was pro- mised until November 15th. He cryptical-

PATCHED-UP PEACE NOT WANTED.

MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD'S

BELIEF.

LONDON, October 14th. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, speaking to the

did not want a patched-up peace which workers at Loughborough, said that they

would only bring about another war ten

years hence.

CAPTAIN CLYDE

[BY NEIL MUNRO.]

Child of the hills, and innocent,- Hearing the curlew's evening plaint,

I played among the glens, The morning bleat of pens: The only burden that it bore, Blown petals of the whin, Its only passion but the zor

Of cataract and linn.

Uprose a sudden wind that pried Clyde hung at portals of the tide,.

Imploring from the sen; And felt its witchery;

Only one water clings up The circle of the world,” The same that lisps to Lamington,

On Labrador is hurled.

Ocean and river, we are one; Art but a part of floods that run

Thou, freak from mountain wells,

Through the cleft of the Dardanelles. The sulted sens are thine estate.

Wake from thy pastoral dreams; Bear is no more dead leaves for freight,

Bo Captain of the Streams

Forget the linns among the whins,

Where the yellow troutlet leaped,. Pools where, to clease them from

sins,

The stays of evening steeped. Into the sure crimson-barred.

The wakened river stole, And in the dirt of dork and yard,

Found its immortal soul!

their

No more the bees from the linden trees-

Hummed to the Clyde at-morn;

Day broke in tumult on its quays

At the sound of the shipyard horn; No more the sedge by the water edge.

Bent o'er it as in prayer: Girder and gantry and building-stage

Towered giddily in air.

Petal whin, between the neaps

No more went down is weirs.

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

BY COURTESY OF THE

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LUK WING-TING'S CONDITIONS.

·SHANGHAI, October 14th. The President and the Premier dis cussed General Lak Wing-ting's condi tions that Fu Liang tso be dismissed and that the Northern troops be withdrawn. The Premier did not approve of the con- ditions.

Fu Liang-lio has wired to Peking stating that his troops occupied Heng- shanbeien on the 11th, inst,

CHAIRMAN OF SENATE.

Wang Chu-hsiang 'or Chen Knoh-sining will be appointed Chairman of the Senate

THE GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL

LUK

SHANGHAI, October 15th.

The Government has sent a telegram to Luk Wing-ting stating that they will order Fu Liang-iso to leave Honen and will appoint a successor who can mediate between Peking and the South-West, and demanding that Luk cancel the Provinces independence. If he refuses the condi- tions the Government will send troops to Attack him.

The rumour that Esung Shi-ting will be appointed Tuchny of Hunay is uncer tain, but the Government will appoint Lia Cheng-un-

Wa Kwang-shin has wired to the Premier that Fu Liang-tso has asked him to return to Hunan.

THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS AN UNREPORTED SPEECH.

THY SEETON DELVER, LATE EXOLISH LECTURER AT BERLIN UNIVERSITY.] What do the Germans mcán by the

But every spring-tide launched its ships freedom of the sens As their states- Never a port in all the earth. For over a hundred years.

Where merchantmaar could ride, But spoke the name and knew the worth

Of old bold Captain Gyde!

Came

there a day when terror woke, As in the Apocalypse:

A moment mourned the engineers The seventh scal of the Book was broke And the sea-Roor strewn with ships.

and then, at the taunt of the buccaneers,

The wrecked things of their craft, Turned to old Clyde and laugher!

From their mountain groins they plucked

the pines

And splintered them into's

spars

men, their pablicists, and their· Press systematically refrain from defining it, we cannot but conclude that the real virtue of the phrase lies in its intentional indefiniteness and elasticity,

Accurate definition," said the greatest dialeclician of the ancient world," is onc of the first requirements of good speak- of this ambiguous German doctrine should ing," and it is a thousand pities that the Pope in making himself the protagonist During my recent stay in Berlin I heard have forgotten this.

the words "Freiheit der Meere "bandied about often enough, and reams of news-

On their furnace fired they poured their paper sermons were preached on the text.

wines.

And quenched the night of stars, No more as men, but gods they, toiled,

Like magic wands their tools, They stretched out keels as though uncoiled

Like cotton-thread from spools.

In a Socratic vein I asked various Ger- mans of my acquaintance what the ex- pression really meant, but I could never get a satisfactory answer.

In England the man in the street" takes the term to mean freedom for the Germans to coal at our ports in times of peace and to run in and out of our har- bours in the same uncontrolled fashion as before the war. The jurist, on the other hand, says that the tern can evid- mitently not apply to times of peace, but

As great cliffs pried from Scotland's side.

And rendered animate Their new armadas caught the tide

In one continuous spate.

If they emptied of ships the ocean And the very sea-plain dried, By God. I could fill them both again!"

Cried bold old Captain Clyde.

Glasgar Heráld.

A FEARFUL PHOBIA.

DREAD OF DUG-OUTS DISPELLED BY DREAM MEMORY.

The Preliminary Parliament will com-eight Dreadnoughts, a dozen light crui- ly accused the American Government of prise 398 representatives of the Demo-sers, forty torpedo-boats and thirty nine-playing a big gane. oratio Parties and 387 representatives of sweepers participated in the German BRITISH MERCHANT SAILORS so great that he often spent a great part

the bourgeoisie.

can only mean that the German wishes us to forfeit our right of search and blockade in time of war.

Count Reventlow, however, at a great public meeting in March, 1917, in the Berlin Philharmonie Hall, gave quite a different interpretation, and as every- thing he said that evening had been me morised from a carefully censored manu- script, not a word of which he would have been allowed to ulter unless his explana tion had been, iri harmony with the ideas of the Government, I think I am justifie in calling the following defuition the official one.

A remarkable case of claustrophobia the lear of being in an enclosed space--~ Rivers, M.D., the patient being a doctor is told in the Lancet by Captain W. F. R.

who joined the R.A.M.C. early in the war

the tube, to sit in a theatre or be in any All his life he had been afraid to pass

place from which it was difficult to get through a tunnel in a train, to travel in

out quickly. In France his terror of being in a dug-out, where he was safe, was of the night walking, abuat the trenches, where he was in charge, Dr. Rivers found that this state of mind in a man of thirty undergone as a child and completely for- gotten, Man

And in fact he had taken something one that the enemy had gained possession of and firemen, to

A great meeting at Cardiff of sailors day at the age of four to an old rag-and bone merahant, for which he got a half the north-eastern part of Oesel, had ar punishments for the Germans for their it was brown spaniel. Having received must be not only to keep what our arms

devise after-the-war penny." He had been admitted through rived near Arensberg, but had only de Coat crimes, passed a resolution asking his reward, the child came out alone to a dark, narrow passage. At the end of monstrated against Dago,

Janding at Oesel Island.

The first sitting has been fixed for November 18th.

EARLIER CABLES.

APPEAL

Experts recognise the seriousness of the move, but do not consider that Petrograd AFTER-THE-WAR PUNISHMENT OF four was due to some terrible experience is immediately menaced.

The Naval General Staff, telegraphing

at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, reported

M. Kerensky has sent a message to the Baltic Fleet imploring it to do its duty. WINTER ON ITALIAN FRONT

UDINE, October 14th,

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS,

CRIMINALS, GIVE TROUBLE.

PETROGRAD, October 14th. Bands of criminals and deserters began to pillage Kharkoff on October 10th They were fusilladed by the troops, who are checking the excesses.

Martial law was proclaimed in the evening after all-day fighting.

A premature winter has begun, with Similar disorders, provoked by the snowstorms and gales in the Trentino. various towns in the provinces of Bessa the Carso, transforming valleys into lakes scarcity of food, have taken place in Rain has caused floods on the Ironzo and rabia, Padolin, Kherson and Astrakhan, of mud, and torrents, rendering them im- but these have been speedily suppressed. passable.

GERMANS PROPOSED..

LONDON, October 14th.

their employers to refuse to employ Ger- mans on land and sea; requesting the and desiring master mariners to refuse public to refuse to buy German goods; to salute the German flag, the boycott continue for at least two years, and a future crime. additional month to be added for every

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, October 14th. Silver is quoted at 4id, per ounce. The market is dull

fair

course we do not mean by it that free- "What do we Germans understand by the freedom of the seas!" he said. "Or use of the sea which is the common privi lege of all nations in times of peace, the right to the open highways of inter- national trade. That sort of freedom of the sea we had before the war. What we understand to.day by this doctrine is that

the outbreak of a war we should be able, Germany should possess such maritime territories and such naval bases that at with our navy ready, reasonably to guarantee ourselves the command of the for our navy as would give us seas. We want such a jumping-off places chance of dominating the seas and of being free of the seas during a war. (Cheers) The inalienable possession of the Belgian seaboard is therefore a matter of life and death to us, and the man is traitor who would faint-heartedly re-

or later to extend our staboard to the inquish this coast to England. Our aim have already won on this coast, but sooner open the door, and the dog at the other south of the Straits of Calais." find the door shut. He was too small to end of the passage began to grow. The reports of the meeting, including Revent Next day I searched the newspaper child was terrified."

This incident had vanished completely reference to this passage, the most inter

low's own Deutsche Tageszeitung, for > when under the care of Dr. Rivers, he spiring speech, but, significantly enough, from his memory, until, a short time ago, esting in an otherwise dreary and unin dreamed of it. Curiously, it was the fact I found not the slightest allusion to it. of forgetting this narrow passage incid ent which had left him a prey to the interpret "freedom of the seas" to mean To sum up the world at large will phobia for nearly thirty years and made him dread enclosed spaces As soon at peace the German, with his peculiarly freedom for everybody in times of he had recalled it vividly in his dream constructed mind, will interpret it: tow the claustrophobis vanished, and he is mean "freedom for Germany in times of now quite free from his fear.

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