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THE

WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY DECEMBER

PROPOSALS. RUSSIA AND PEACE FAVOURABLE RECEPTION BY GERMAN CHANCELLOR,

LORD LANSDOWNE ON ALLIES' WAR AIMS. OUTSPOKEN LETTER SEVERELY CRITICISED.

SLIGHT BRITISH ADVANCE IN THE WEST.

General.

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GERMANY AND RUSSIA. CHANCELLOR ON QUESTION OF PEACE

He said 16 de nov

WAR AIMS OF THE ALLIES IMPEACHMENT OF M. MALVY

CHAMBER ADOPTS COMMITTEE S REPORT

LONDON, November 28th: Lord Lanstowne in a long letter to the Daily Telegraph, urges the co-ordina tion of the war aims of the Allies: Ho says that the prolongation of the war will WE ruin the civilised world and that, ay immense stimules would probably be given to the peace party in Germany fo it were understood that the Allies do not

PARIB November 29th The Chamber by 12 votes to two adopt ed the Report of its Committee, directing. Dyrld the impeachment of M. Malvy, mentioned on the 27th November before the Benate, after a long debate, in which M, Malvy said that he wished to be tried by the

desire the annihilation of Germany as i Great Power that the Allies do not scek to impose on the Germans a form of Government they do not desire that, excope as a legitimate way measure the Allies do not désire to deny Germing a place among the great commercint com munities of the world that the Allies are prepared after the war to examine the problems connected with the freedom

of the sear; and that the Allies are pre- pared to enter into na International pact for the peaceful settlement of interna tional disputes,

LONDON, November 29th. A German wireless message gives an extract from the Chancellor's specch LONDON, November 30th Reuter learns that an important mest relating to the Russian proposal for and ing has been held at the Russian Embassy negotiations concerning a truce in London at which leading Russian | general peace diplomats and military and civil officials hesitate to declare that it is possible to at present stationed it Englund unanim recognise in the Russion proposals A ously passed a resolution strongly con- for ng they are at present known, debate. demning the Maximalists, whom they able principles on which the opening of denounced a crimina! faction of usur- negotiations may be based, 1 am ready the doctrines of Prussian militarists,

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Later:"

Ford Lansdowne letter is everywhere discussed, and all the evening papers, reproduce it. The Westminster Gatelte generally endorse it but points out that the spirit of the letter wholly conflicts

Senate

INTER-ALLIED CONFERENCE

OPENS

BUPPLY SND BLOCKADE PROBLEMS

L'ABIS, November 29th, The Inter-Allied Conference operis fo- day, as the principal task is to settle practical problems of supply and block ade, the work will be divided, amonget various Technical Commissions.

LET US WORK

PARIS, November 29th

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ENEMY TROOPS FROM RUSSIA AND ITALY

THE ONE MAN

throu

history it has always -the eternal triumph one man. “Ons than in his time plays ita

Barts So Shakespeare said, and it the One Man in his time plays only one part, the leading part, his acts being to

Just on Nature abhors a vacuum, do would she recen to idolise concentration There would be no lightning if the forces did not unite in one stroke, no, thunder If the thousand echoes did not coal CACO

one dominating voLCE. without & God; no flock of sheep without its leader.

LONDON, November 20łu.

Hea

Reuters Correspondent at the British Headquarters Buys We are improving the strength of our now gains, giving:

There is evidence the enemy no rest, that enemy troops are being hurried from Russia and even, frota Italy to try fo

One name has often stood for an epoch, just na que Dame stands for an achieve restoro the situation around Cambrai.ment in science in art, in industry. It is never a combination that achieves the, The weather continues favourable and glittering goal Forces swny and sweep

and drive, but

is always ono unifying, troops and transports are able to moye

conglomerating,

atom absorbing being fairly easily.

who sweeps up the whole torch, und, pping it as a garment about him, wrapping t

been

LINE SLIGHTLY ADVANCED.

marches forward as the Pioneer LONDON, November 29th.

From Napoleon, to Lloyd George it has Boxfrom Julius Casar to Douglas Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re Haig from Drake to Beatty from Moses ports: There was considerable reciprocal (the kosher Controller of the Jews) to

Lord Rhondda;

Ide from Peter the Great to from Nero, who artillery firing this morning in the neigh Kerensky (let us hope);

was burn played the fiddle while Rome was bourhood of Bourlon Wood. A successfuling, to the Kaiser, who has playel every M. Clemenceau, addressing the Interlocal operation alightly advanced our line instrument in the Concert of Europe and Allied Conference, declared that the west of the Wood, Allies must win on the battlefeld the right to a real penco for humanity, Hence all

LAS HERANA were agreed upon the sacrifices demanded by the Allied Command, which no intri- gue or weaknew would ever shake. We must translate our high passions into acts

per). The assemblage, pledged to resist is enter upon them as soon as the Russian whose appetites are whetted by the profet er motto bo Let us work

as far as possible the treacherous forces Government sends fully empowered re seeking to destroy Russia'

EX-COMMANDER INTERNED.

PETROGRAD, November 30th General Choremisoff, the ex-Commander of the South Western and Northern fronts, has been interned in the fortress of St. Peter and Paul and that a private soldier

specia of results from the collapse of presentatives. I hope and wish these

Russin Hence it is not over sanguine efforts will soon assume a definite shape y

* of the effect of mure threats on Germany, and bring peace.

at Jenst for the present. The Star regards The letter as a thunderbolt in the camp, and says it 18 Never Enders, who The War Cabinet has appointed a Com-brow-beat everyone who thinks about

A LABOUR QUESTION,

LONDON, November 29th-

has been appointed Military Commander mitte including Mr. G. Barnes, Mr. Peace The Avening Standard says that

of the Moscow district,

EARLY ELECTION RESULTS

PETROGRAD, November 29th The Constituent Assembly elections in 110 of the 194 districts of Petrograd give the Maximalists 220,000 votes, the Cadets 380,000 votes, and the Social Revolution- artes 20,000 votes,

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Auckland Geddes, and Mr. Askwith to deal with the questions of wages end the co-ordinate settlement of labour questions affecting Government Departments..

AN INDIAN SEDITIONARY.

LONDON, November 28th. In the House of Commons Mr. Fisher stated that Laj Patrai was in the United

States. So far da was known he was at large and as far as Mr. Fisher was aware the United States had not been communis cated with regarding his interament,

THE SILVER MARKET-

LONDON, November 28th. The price of silver is

ver is stondy

We repnlted raids in the neighbourhond of Avion and Hollebecke The enemy's artillery is more active in this sector,

and also cast and north-east of Ypres

Dar acroplanes on Wednesday dropped 130 bomby on Courtrai, Roulers, Menit, and Thourout railway stations and other targets in the pres battle area, Seven teen heavy bombs were dropped at night an Roulers station

played them all in the wrong key

The tightest corner I ever found my self in, said one

one of the repatriated

د کا گیار

Contemptibles" the other day, was some weeks after Mons which we were

were twenty of us awaiting

eith fortements or the order to re-

tire. Ouy scouts told us that it was im- possible withstand the German forces drawing 2179.

One

the situa

were

all evidently doomed beyond a doubt. short, and the Germans were moving en Our ammunition was running desperately

restive as if for an advance. We took it all philosophically, after g

a few grumbies, began to joke about our last night on earth, vowing that we should make a very. costly exit for the enemy, Bill Perdue chiefly

about the complained of a rum-ration The said he always red dying warm, and in every other camheng

was an old soldier he had

dying

The Conference afterward, divided into sections representing

and Finance Imports, Transport, Armament Munitions Avia tion, Food Supply and the Blockade. ARRIVAL OF GENERAL CADORNA.

General Cadorna has arrived

BRITAIN AND THE

KHALIFATE,

Lord Lansdowne expresses the views of thoughtful men. The Pall Mall Garette

LONDON, November 29th. says that unless we defeat Germany in the

In the House of Commons Lord Robert. held the war must end in German

Cecil-stated that since the war Russia had victory. The Evening News says the let

Communicated with Britain regarding ter will be read with great satisfaction in F

viravi proposals that the Sultan of Turkey. should no longer be recognised us the Germany is weak point is that it disregards the fact that Germany's word

Khalil Britain had never, departed cannot be trusted. The Globe says that

Neste unnt from the attitude that the question of the Dard Lansdowne z programme, which

***** Khalifate was one for Moslem opinion

alone to decide. {Chears.) means trust of the Hohenzollerns, scarcely enhances his reputation for statesmanship

and patriotism.

WITHOUT THE GOVERNMENT'S KNOWLEDGE.

THE RESOURCES OF CHINA.

NEW YORK November 28th.

· Baron Megata, the head of the Japanese

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PRISONERS TAKEN IN PATROL ENCOUNTERS.

LONDON, November 29th. Field Marshal Bir Douglas Haig e ports After sharp fighting an attack against the Belgian positions near Asch hoop failed. We captured prisoners dur ing the night in patrol encounters southward of the Scarpe.

always

on

It was not set

that

way dawn when a young

came up to me as the sergeant.

out scouting:

he said, I've got the relief:

and he grinned

I thought he had got touched in the

The relief? What do you head with the anxiety of it all

What do you mean?

I waked. See He

The reinforcements, pointed to a heap of soldiers' caps at the other and of the trench. RANT Powder There are plenty of them

outside," GERMAN REPORT he said, but I thought they'd be more here You know what I mean? useful in LONDON, November 28th.

They'll reinforce us, ENESEA

Acertain now that the lad was in the head, so I asked him to and lie down

A German wireless official message states There is a lull in the fighting

south-west of Cambrai....

The English shelled Cambrai.

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FO

little

Lie-down forthwith be

ex

Bays he, and sticking the peaks of the caps in the clay about a font below the top of the trench, Later, our officer

and came along, the youngs corporal PETROGRAD, November 29th.

plained Idea. It happened all right too. At down the Germans attacked as On the 28th November General Krylonko,

we had expected. We Peppered at them An order to the Army and Navy, an

Reuters Lobbyist authoritatively learns

as hot as we could, our real men being mixed up between the dummy hats. nounced that the Envoys nominated by

that the rumour that Lord Lansdowne's Finance Commission to the United States, INTENSE ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.

There were 30 or 40 dummies sticking in the trench sides. We let the Boches get him have returned with the official answer

letter was written with the Government's addressing a number of Americana pro-

quite

mear, an, if we were done of the German, Commander-in-Chief con

us when they saw all the of them were about to leap in

caps We met senting to enter into negotiations for, an NEW ZEALAND AND GERMANS knowledge in entirely without foundation minent in finance, commerce and journal.

ism, urged the development of China cal artillery firing on the whole front, them then with another volley and a armistice on all fronts Krylenko

vast resources by the United States and it belg especially intense in some sectors, os ton many. They went back and boril

frantic cheer, and they were off, deeming orders the immediate cessation of shoot-

ing on the whole of the Russian fronts The next meeting of Plenipotentiaries of both sides will be held on Sunday.

ARREST OF M. DUKHONIN'8 SUPPORTERS.

PETROGRAD, November th. Krylenko's Envoys entered the Ger- sman lines in front of the Russian Fifth Army. A companion of Krylenko telegraphs that the German Corsander- in-Chief has deputed the Commander of the Northern Army as his Plenipoten- tiary. The latter's answer was ro Ceived on official Government piper. Krylenko proclaims M. Dakhonin an enemy of the people and orders the arrest of all his supporters wwhatever therr position or record.

OLD NAMES SAID TO BE NON- RUSSIAN

LONDON, November 29th.

· It has been previously stated that the names of Lenin and Brotzky pectively are Cederblum and Braun stein It now stated that accord

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AMERICA AND THE WAR

Japan, whose joint efforts would not only

Associated Chambers of Commerce, the ECONOMIC WAR WITH GERMANY profitable to themselves but advan- Premier said that any proposal to restore

WASHINGTON November 29th. Samoa and New Guinea to Germany

President Wilson has issued a proalumą. would be bitterly resented by British people in the South Pacific. It would tion requiring the licensing of moes of mean that Samoa would be the Head the chief imports by the War Trade quarters of a German Pacific Fleet and Board, thereby cabling the Government that they would establish a wireless to control imports, as it has controlled station and a submaring base there. The th, export, since the war, thus giving British Government has been sold that the Government another powerful weapon we are not going to have the Germans which could be used to the fullest extent back in the islands of these seas it we in an economic war with Germany. can possibly help it.

GERMAN WHITE SLAVER

PHILADELPHIA, November 20th. Captain Thierichens, the interned ex Commander of the liner, Prince Eitel Friedrich, has been sentenced to fourteen months' imprisonment for violating the White Slave law

A ROTAL PATIENT.

~ CONDITION BATISFACTORY'

LONDON, November 29th. It is officially stated that the operation for a duodenal ulcer was performed un Prince Albert this morning. Hia condi- tion is satisfactory.

LATER

Prince Albert has undergone an opern-

INTENSE TIN COMPETITION tiux for a duodenal ulcer. His condition

WASHINGTON, November 29tha

The Chairman of the sub Committes of the Iron and Steel Insestute has tele

ing to the anti-Maximalist Press the graphed to the Department of Commerce real nume of Krylenko is Aaron that if the policy of commandeering tin Abram, while the name of the principal is continued there will be no tin available Plenipotentiary sent by Krylenko"

oto

negotiate any mistice Schneur. All these names are non Bus

GENERAL NEWS.

for the canning of footstuffs. He says given that the intense competition has increased the price of tin from 54 to 80 cents a pound during the past month AUSTRO-GERMAN CON FERENCE AT VIENNA

AMSTERDIR, November 29th.

______________Logous November 28th. The Timer Correspondent at Petrogred that nearly all the Provisional Gov Bays crament Ministers except M. Kerensky have been arrested

The Petrograd, Garrison has

the Balsheviks.

Some shops Ato closed sad ahots. been fired, there being several casLE. People are however, going to lusi in the ordinary anner and none. imagine that another Hevolution pregress

aro

A conference will be bein abortly at Vienna for the purpose of creating Board to utilise for Germany and ATE- tna vegetables and Truit in the Italian

hitherto has been satisfactory

DUTCH GOVERNMENT S

NEUTRALITY

THE HAGUE November 99th. The Premier, speaking in the Chamber affirmed that the Government would not. depart from ita neutrality whatever the consequences, but if Holland were attack. ed the Dutch Would defend themselves. He mentioned the Sweduh Governinent's abandonment of its intention

voking a peutzal confer economic interests.

JAPANESE FOLICE FORCES

FOR HARBIN

OKIO November 29th:

(nan) Police: Lates

tagens to Ching.

Naval Activities.

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GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT SUNK.

LONDON November 9th.

Pants, November 29th A communtyne says:-There is recipro

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VIOLENT BOMBARDMENT.

DANCE PARIS, November 20th. "A communitie says: -—An attempted enemy raid with large effectives, after a violent borabardment north of Mont Cornillet, -in Champagne, was Tepulsed

with heavy Jossos.

PARIS, November 29th,

· A" communique says -There are artil An Amsterdaus message says that s Ger-lery Actions, in various sectors, man torpedo boat, belonging to the ce

Solas amongst

ed us frantically, but ere another hour had passed we were reinforced and the situation was saved

Sared, yes the one man, as ever, had saved it.-A. E. 8.

PRISON FOR A VOLUNTEER Mr. Laurence Housman writes from Kensington to the Manchester Guardian

follows

brazge flotilla struck a mine just outside FOOD HOARDERS HEAVILY in which he has been for over fourteen-

the Dutch territorial waters and Bank. Only two of the crew were saved.

Italian bront

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ITALIAN ERONT,

Will you allow me to late in bare detail the case of an objector-not to military service but to conscription-now underging sentence at the Military Pricon, Wandsworth? Mr. Ernest Har rizon served in the Boer War, and left the army with a first-class character. Later he entered the Metropolitan Police. years Early in the war he volunteered for service, and was offered by the com- minding aficer of his old regiment the for permission to join was refured by the police authorities. Within the last. vear he was dismissed the force on refus At Proxford (Hurls) petty sessions,

ing to give up the Police Union, for which, Captain FF N. Harvey, RN (re tired), and his wife, who reside at Hamas its secretary, he was endeavouring to secara official recognition. On his dir bledon (Hante) were each aned £30 and missal he came under conscription. This costs for food hoarding

FINED.

THE WELL FILLED LARDER OF A post of dispatch rider His application ***** RETIRED NAVAL OFFICER__

DESTRUCTIVE BOMBARDMENT OF than 300lb of Hous

ENEMY BOATS

LONDON November 29th.

An Italian- ohcial message states

તમ There has been reciprocal artillery firing on the whole front, Our batteries

out a destructive bombardment of the

nemy boats on the Lower PiveTa

ulsed heavily the enemy attacks on the of the uscita, and the Vojansa

GERMAN REPORT

November 20LE

tacks on our mount

End on th

to maintat

the Brenta failed

of other foodstuffs.

A police superintendent said that there he resisted, claiming the status of was found in the defendants house more volunteer to his old regiment denied to kim byta police authorities two yearS arge quantity.

to put on khaki ho included sugar ago. For his refa

was court-martia and sentenced to nx Tey COROS COOR, potted tongue, corn tea, cofice

months, deten 1 potted

Dear Bervel spracots,

for nis con- Cheese to

defendanta stati

operat

tained to (started makuig were however,

preserv