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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10rw.

THE WITHDRAWAL AT CAMBRAI.

EFFECT OF DRAIN ON BRITISH RESERVES.

RUSSIAN DECREE ANNULS FOREIGN LOANS.

THE HALIFAX HOLOCAUST.

A THIRD OF THE CITY IN RUINS.

ROUMANIANS DECIDE UPON ARMISTICE.

AMERICA TO PROVIDE TWO MILLION MEN.

Branco-Belgian Front

LATEST CAHLES.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BRITISH FRONT.

BRITISH AERIAL ACTIVITY Field-Marshal Sir Douglas. Haig, re- porting on aviation, station-There was great activity in the air on both sides on Wednesday. We carried out long-distance

reconnaissanGER,

ENEMY ARTILLERY ATTACK OUR We bombed and machine-gunned targets

during the day.

POSITIONS.

LONDON, December 9th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re

Two direct hits by heavy bombs were

AERIAL FIGHTING, TIVE MACHINES BROUGHT DOWN.

LONDON December 8th.

Field Marshal Bir Donglas. Hnig re- portsWe carried out a succesful local operation at dawn, northward of La Vacquerie. The Ulmers aptured the trenchce constituting their objectives. We are considerably improving our line of patrols south-eastward of Ypres. Last night we successfully attacked hostile working parties. A hostále roid was repulsed north eastward of Ypres. A number of casualties was inficted on the enemy. In these encounters prisoners were taken. The aeroplanes bombed hostile billets throughout Thursday. There was a particularly successful raid against Valenciennes railway station and sidings and fires were started. Every opportunity was takes of machine gun ning the infantry in the trenches. There wes inuch fighting in which live of the hostile machines were brought down and three were driven down. One of ours is missing.

ENEMY ARTILLERY ACTIVITY. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports: The enemy's artillery was active during the night in the neighbourhood of lesquieres and northward of the Menin road.

THE WITHDRAWALES.

EXPLAINED..

We bombed Gont rode aerodrone fast TOURLON WOOD SHELLED AFTER night.

EVACUATION.

LONDON, December 8th, ports There was local fighting this after obtained on an aeroplano shed and others telegraphing this evening

Reuter's Correspondent at Headquarters states |--The burst among the buildings around the British withdrawal, an account of which was cabled carlier to-day was carried out in a masterly fashion between Tuesday and late yesterday afternoon. The

yanelled

Wood Bourlon

noon eastward of Boursice

On the remainder of the front there was no infantry action,

There was hostile artillery firing on our positions in the neighbourhood of the Flequieres-Monchy-le-Preux- Passebendacte sector.

One German machine was brought down, and another landed intact behind our lines Four of pur machines are

mising of Dur

PRESS VIEW SETBACK.. SERIOUSLY

The majority of the papers regard the setbuck, at Cambra as sericus.

The Daily Chronicle says that practi- cally the whole drain of Auglo-French reinforcements for Ipaly seems to have been drawn from Field-Marsha Sir Douglas Haig's reserves, for Field- Marshal Sir Douglas Haig had taken

apparently to enable the French also to

nerodrome.

Bomb were dropped on St. Denis

Westrem aerodrome and Douai Railway enemy a

Station.

There has been fighting all day long. Five German machines were brought down and driven down. Five of ours are missing.

RAID IN GERMANY TERRITORY.

Another successful reid was carried out in Germany to day.

All our machines safely returned. Details of the raid are awaited

GERMAN REPORT

A German wireless official message states: We have cleared the English our of Marcoing.

BOURLON WOOD A LOATHSOME PLACE

Mr. Parry Bobinson, the war corre

on

Aerial Activities.

LATEST CABLES. THROUGH REUTERS AGENCE

ENEMY AERODROME BOMBED MANY PATROL FIGHTS

LONDON, December 9th. The Admiralty natiounce that Naval aircraft dropped many bombs on the Aertrycke aerodrome this morning,

The weather was cloudy, and the enemy scouts attacked the bombers. The latter. damaged. drove down two machines apparently

There were many patrol fights, in shot down one. which we destroyed two machines and

All our machines returned.

EARLIER CARLES.

AERODROMES BOMBED.

LONDON, December 7th An Admiralty report states Naval aircraft on Wednesday and Thursday bombed Ustkerke, Et. Denis-Westrem and Engel acrodronies, Bruges Dock and vari- ous railway traffic, causing fres

All

our machines returned.

During the fighting of patrols we destroyed two machines, and shot down four, of which probably three were destroyed:

Italian Front

EARLIER CABLES, (THROUGH DEUTZR'S ADENCY.) ITALIAN RESISTANCE. MASSED AEROPLANES BOMB ENEMY LINES.

There

AFFAIRS IN

AUSTRALIA

THE REFERENDUM

MELBOURNE, December 7th. că all enlisted men under twenty one to The Federal Council has now authoris vote in the Referendum, although they have not yet served abroad

AN AMERICAN BOXERS ADVICE.

has onlisted, and advises all American Jimmy Clabby, the well-known boxer, boxers in Australia to do likewise,

THE DIVA'S APPEAL, Madame Melba has called from to vote for the Government, rica appealing to the women of Australia

APPEAL BY MR, HUGHES

|

HALIFAX IN FLAMES. SEVERAL HUNDREDS KILLED.

nire as u result of the collision of two

LONDON, December 8th A part of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is steamers, one of which was an American vessel containing umunition. The oz plosion has severed wire communications at from eight hundred to one thousand. with Halifax The dead estimated The explosion occurred in the harbour nt cight in the morning opposite the lock- ingham suburb of Halifax

The crows

Amee hundred buildings were destroyed er of the colliding ships were all killed. damaged and the Halifax cables were in terrupted, the station being dumaged.

SYDNEY, December 7th.. Mr. Hughes addressed a stirring appeal to an enormous and enthusiast audience of women at Her Majesty's Theatre. He stated that he intended to organise the women of Australia with a view to free ing men.

AMERICA AND AUSTRIA HUNGARY.

WAR DECLARED,

WASHINGTON, December 7th. The Senate has adopted a resolution declaring war against Austria-Hu

[ungary. LATER President Wilson has signed s declara tion of war against Austrin. Ar

WASHINGTON, December 9th. The House of Representatives adopted the war-resolution against Austria by 503

notes to one. The declaration

LATER

operates from tonight.

FIRE CONTROLLED.

killed and many hundreds injured ne The latest estimate is three hundred Halifax. The fire was controlled in the afternoon. No one house in Halifax has escaped damage. Relief trains are speeding to Halifax from New York, Beston and Portland, Maine. COMMUNICATION WITH HALIFAX ESTABLISHED.

Communication with Halifax was re- established in the afternoon. One half of the north end of the city was destroy streets. The hospitals are 80 overcrowd- ext The dead are lying thick in the ed that many injured have been compel led to go untreated.

DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

HALIFAX, December 9th. The first account says that a third of the city is in ruins. estimated at a million dollars.

The domaze İs

THE KING'S SYMPATHY

LUNDUN, December 9th. His Majesty the King bus telegraphed pressing a true sympathy with the people to the Governor-General of Canada ex- of Halifax in their grievous colante

The Senate's vote was unanimous. The minority in the House of Repre sentatives consisted of a New York Socialist. The members walked out in a body when he rose to

Flood, the Chairman of the For

speak Relations Committee of the House, that the unanimous, passage of the resolution Was essential for the welfare

UNITED STATES SYMPATHY. of the Allies,

Senator Lodge urged war against. Tür-

WASHINGTON, December 8th, and Bulgaria. He said that the $5,000,000 for the relief of the strickon Joint resolutions appropriating Christendom. Their country was the birthplace of countless mussacres and the House of Representatives, cruelties, especially since Turkey had Halifax as follows In the presence of President Wilson has telegraphed to been under German domination.

LONDON, December 8th, An Italien official message states ——

were patrol encounters, restoran day on the Asiago Plateau.

hundred and fifty peroplanes. machine gunned and bombed the enemy is causing damage and losses. Bomis

causing explosions,

heavily attacked A Wedive They were also dropped on ammunition dumps, Turks were a scourge to Europe and people of Halifax wore introduced into

put ting down a tremendoits kombardment. They

advanced in infantry 4 devastating artillery iry waves under only to find the place deserted and recking in in tolerably asphyxiating fumice. The enemy dith not appear to have thoroughly grasped our action until: yesterday after. noon. Then they pushed out a number of strong patrols in an unsuccessfir effort to keep in touch with our line

General,

EARLIER OABLES. THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY!] THE RUSSO GERMAN ARMISTICE.

FRONT

Mr. Stone said it was difficult to find in history & meaner or baser figure than King Ferdinand of Bulgaria

AMERICA AND THE WAR. THE LATEST WAR DECLARATION

of

the awful disaster at Halifax, the people brethren of the Dominion their heartfelt the United States offer their noble sympathy and grief, as is fitting at this time when, to the tics of kindship, com," munity, speech and material interesta, are added the strong bonds of a union in the common cause of the devotion to the

FIERCE STORM DURING COLLISION.

ber 2nd, says: have returned from in Inter if he deemed it expedienty an outward-bonnd Belgian

tion was satisfactorily clear yesterdock pre Gurmans, who formed, mostly by

accom- The

great reconnaisance probably of BOLSHEVIKS ON THE ROUMANIAN three battalions,

engaged in skirmishing, but fell back into a little gulley,

when

WASHINGTON, December 7th.preme duties of national existence.” The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs our artillery, excellently served by air men, is believed to have knocked out t

LONDON, Deember 7th.

Committee of the House of Representa least two thousand men.

The Times Correspondent at the Fou tives, submitting a resolution declaring Moeuvres and La Vacquerie where the manien Headquarters, writing on Decem war on Austria-Hungar said, smid

around fighting is progressing, our whole post visit to the Russian armies in Roumania.

men. Except

that President Wilson would mak

NEW YORK, December 8th. to declare war on Turkey and hour when the collision occurred. It was

There was a force storm in the har sunset. We still retain the high a

Committees have ben near La Vacquerio, where

got hold of a but he thought that at present such notion which collided with the munitions ship. the guns are

relief ship of the rank and le. The towns would be invize

The concussion broke windows sixty mies most favourably placed and are

a most devastating firin

near the front are

are overcrowded with rol tion o

The House agreed to take up the resola distant and killed a telegraphist four effort has been stupendons ANY SONG

The the trenches listening to

on Friday, probably for immediate miles away. Freight-cars were blowm over a large piece of the French front pondent, at British. Headquarters, five divisions had been employed to try The Division next it fired on the German paaying the resolution reeds nets of hee says that burning was rescued...

estimated that no fewer than twentyingmatory spectres One Division of passage, the Committer off the tracks for

the Sixth Army signed an armistice. The Report of

distance of two states We have surrendered nothing and restore the broken Hindenburg in General and his Staff who came to discuss Austrian naval force which have used forepart of the ship after the collision.

pilot

miles of the relief vital of our gains. The breach in the lines of reserve support and front line Bakovina fraterused German and Bus The resolution refers to the Italian inga of the homeless, the fire swept arra

we still have three wonderful

oil Tread to the send a large army to Italy. Comprehen Hindenburg Line remains as wide as it trenches behindhaviources dined together yesterday blow against Italy which threatens the dantial quarter of the town escaped the terms. The Army in Meldavia and a state of war to exist for months The bitter cold adding to the suffer- sive policies must ba adopted to restore

was. Pourlon Wood, as an acute angle in

wore besian

situation, where it says there is a serious beong cheatbed with ice. The best rest yond praise

They cleary compre hand on the whole

The Bolsheviks are gaining the upper Allies cause, which is equally the cause fire, though it was damaged by the ex- the salient, was 'a loathsome place, full of hended the position. The correspon. Rogues, commanding the Fourth Army, of the United States, and says the United plosion.

Front General stagnant poole. The copse was conting situation in almost untenable in a con has been arrested...

dent's own impression is that the end

enemy's

States in ously drenched with gas until the garsiderable area of the country which he is

plies

The greatest loss of life was at Rich- for Italy, a chipe, money and exp

and probably it send troops, rison had almost to live in gas masks

BOOrmond, which was a place mostly of small wooden houses. No tray of them is left, The hill on which the word is situated in

have been misled by German propaganda tion at the time.

This declaration of or of many families, except burned bones. war will hearten the Italian people who Thore were no troops awaiting embarka side as it does that boyond. It was essen- no way commands the country on our

Allied caused tha and will militarily strengthen the whole tial to us for our advance, and its less might be serious to the Germans, but in their hands it is unimportant as a threat to us.

Sir Douglas Haig's superiority in men and guus

The Times says that prompt decisions on the question of man-power is most im perative. Great Britain must husband and develop her military resources to the atmost and stand in the breach so that civilisation and freedom say he saved. We have renched that stage of the war when no man or woman is justified in remaining in occupations that are not essential.

The Morning Post and Daily Hail are more optimistic. The former, anys that Sir Douging Haig deliberately abandoned the salient not because he could not have kept it, but because the salient was costly to bold. Our gains were threefold. W had broken the Hindenburg Line, inflicted, heavy losses o the enemy, and had established ourselves on the

ان بهشه

The withdrawal in no way begins to convert our victory into defeat. The German attempt to inflict that defout

us has resulted chiefy in colossal

losses to themselves. GROUND ABANDONED MILITARILY USELESS.

and spirit of

Teoccupying. Our whole withdrawal resulted in our establishing a tremendous ly strong position and current gaina that everybody on our side to-day seems were thoroughly defended. He concludes to wear a smile of quiet confidence.

LATEST CABLES. FRENCH FRONT.

GERMAN RAID FAILS.

PARIS, December 9th. A communique states that a big fir man raid on Beaumont completely failed. injured in the air-raid on Calais on the Seven persons were killed and twenty

night of the oth inst

MUTUAL ARTILLER ACTIVITY. Pinis, December 8th

Renter's Correspondent at the British great mutual artillery activity on the A communiqué states that there is

· Line If General Byng indenburg Headquarters states-Bourlon Wood ex-right bank of the feuse

operation is tends over six hundred acres. Its topo viewed in its proper perspective as a graphical conditions render it extremely, raid on a great scale, it was a brilliant Success The

The enemy had built a fortress and we occupy it

up our line and striking a blow like he did in Italy.

undesirable to attempt to hold it in wet weather. Apart from the fact that it forms an enclave into enemy territory, The Daily Mail says there is it is subject to enfilade as well as direct justification for Hindenburg's boast of fire. That the enemy did not know of the victory He failed completely in his main enterprise of breaking and rolling by the fact that during the night they withdrawal till the morning seems proved

were laying heavy barrages upon the abandoned positions. Their infantry ad vanced in the morning in large bodies but were repelled by gunners, and great losace were inflicted. The area we deemed it militarily advisable to abandon is prob- gained during the great fank drive a ably less than one-third the total amount fortnight ago.

EARLIER CABLES.

PATROL ENGAGEMENT

LONDON, December 7th: Fiold Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a report, states →Infantry actions on the Cambrai front were confined to patrcl encounters There is increased hostile artillery firing astride the Searpo River NO CHANGE IN SITUATION There is local fighting to the reighbour. hood of La Veequerie

The situation has not changed: Our astillery and infantry fire repulsed minor attacks south of Beurlon Wood. with severe enemy losses.

Hostile artillery is active at a number of points south of the Scarpe, also in the

neighbourhood of Armentieres:

EARLIER CABLES.

AERIAL OPERATIONS.

PARIS, December 7th,

in Upper: Alsace.

A communiqué statArtillery is active on the right back the Meuse and

Three chemy aeroplanes were brought down yesterday. Light were hit and forced to descend.

We dropped bine thousand kilogrammes of projectiles especially on railway Chartcmarck, cantonments at Laon, and stations and depots at Lichenfeld and de pots at Roussach

night on Dunkirk, causing several cażnal, The enemy dropped bombs during the ties and also on Calais, where there were Do casualties

The Near East

LATEST CABLEN; THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN PURSUING THE TURKS

NET GAINS STILL VERY GREAT, Mr. Percival Phillips,

at British Headquarters, states--The shortening of our front is a regrettable minor sequel. to the great advance, but our net gains A Mesopotamia official report states ---

LONDON,” December 8th. are still very great. We have still the

We pursued the Turks ar withdrawal was most deliberate. Not a was driven on Wednesday.

sprtem at our back. The of Deli Abbag E

Karatepeh village, 25 miles northward

through whi

enemy sharp single gun, rife or round of ammunition ja difficul

engagement the pursuit was was lost. All the captured German guan were withdrawn. New trenches were pre pared under concealed observation. The new front is of the strongest and the men are excellently quartered.

The British on their right flank showed great en with the Rus8212 durance is overcoming all obstacles

We captured between 3rd and 8th inat. 227 prisoners and two field gunk

ROUMANIANS ACCEPT AN

ARMISTICE.

A Roumanian official message says:- an armistice, and hostilities have been The Boumanians have decided to accept suspended on the whole Front

S

The enany applauded the decision, but the Houmanians maintained a dignified attitude and rejected attempts at frater nisation.

POST-WAR TRADE.

TARIFF ON IMPORTED MANUFACTURES.

CONSPIRACY TRIAL AT SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO, December 7th. You Brinken, formerly connected with the German Consulate here: Herr von Radick, German ex-Consul at Honolulu and Herr von Schroeder, his successor, have

pleaded guilty to conspiracy to foment a revolution In

Tadia

ing further exposures in Court and the Von Brinken said they thought they could best serve their country by avoid less said about these cases the better for Germany,”

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. NO FOOD SUPPLIES TO PETROGRAD.

PETROGRAD, December 8th. list of the Ministers of the new Siberian The newspaper Narod, after giving Government, anys that the Siberians refuse to send supplies, to Russia, especial

ANNULMENT OF FOREIGN LOANS. the hands of the Germans,

arroga, e they would fall into

The Daily Telegraph suster that the

LONDON, December 8th. final report of Lord Ballour's Committee on trade after the war is now in the hands of the Premier

The Report consists of a LONG TWO MILLION AMERICANS TO BE respondent reports that a Decree WES advocates an ad valorem tariff of ten per two Minority reporte. One of the latter a Majority and

cent on imported manufactures, and a Fat Trade minority report o

report opposes a

SENT TO WESTERN FRONT

WASHINGTON, December 8th. The latest estimates of the War Depart ment provide for a fighting force of

Beherai tari 2,000,000 on the Western Front

The Majority

support ed by some of the Free Trade Committee mèn, advocates a tariff on manufacturce, with a maximum below ton per cent.

TROUBLE IN PORTUGAL. ANTI-GOVERNMENT OUTBREAKS.

MADRID, December 7th Telegrams from the frontier describe anti-Government outbreaks at Lisbon and Oparko d

From: Lisbon, there are no details, but from Oporto it is reported that the shops and bakeries have been looted.

CASUALTIES AND ARRESTS

OPOSTO, December 7th.

Two people were killed and 60 have been

Bent to hospital

The crowd cheered the goldiers, who kept at a distance.

* There were 78 arrests on December 5th

the morning of the outbreak.

Order has been re-established.

THE BOLO AFFAIR COMPLICITY OF ITALIAN EX DEPUTIES.

LONDON, December 8th. Deputies MM. Bonanno, aid Digi have been arrested of complicity in the Bolo

EX-DEPUTIES ARRESTED.

ROME December 8th. Dini have been arrested on charges of Ex-Deputies Bonanno, Brunicardi and

complicity in the Ento affair

GIFT OF A BATTLEPLANE,

SYDNEY, December 7th

speech.

BRITAIN'S MAN-POWER IMPORTANT CONFERENCE

LONDON, December 8th. The Daily Telegraph's Petrograd Cor- published on the 6th inst announcing the angulment of Foreign Loans and the Another Decree abolishes Law Courts cessation of payment of interest and and lawyers, replacing them by revo tionary tribunals

Lenin has completed a undermining

ning the Constituent Assembly ascheme for

The Government organ fruude threa

system of continual re-elections.

Mr. Hope, solicitor, of Ipoh, has pretens the endets with violence, reminding sented his second Malayan battleplane as thein of the fate of General Dukhanin.

mark of protest against Lord M Trotzky and other Commissioneru Lansdowne's

have decreed the appointment of Moses Salomonovitch Uritzky Commissioner of the election of the Constituent Assem bly, with practically autocrabić poxers.

WARNING BY GERMANY

aviators distributing Maximalist pro The Germana have warned Russire

PETROGRAD, Desember 8th

clamations that they will be shot if they are taken prisoner.

LONDON, December 8th important conferences were held vester The Times saya it is understood that day at the Ministry of National Service and at Downing Street, with reference

to man power.

RUSSIA'S FOOD FOR GERMANY

ARMY DISTRIBUTORS TO ORGANISE SUPPETES

A telegram fea

December 9th The Bagus say that Germany is preparing Army organisers to take over the task of distributing Russian food and other supplies. It is expecially, hoped fa secure & supply of

fats,

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, December 8th. The silver market is very quiet,

CREATERTE DA BLES. SILVER DEARER

dearer owing to the difficulty in satisfying

LONDON, December 9th. Silver is quoted 43d per ounce. It is

small oners

print advertisement notwithstanding the The Maximalist Commissioners bave suppressed all newspapers continuing to annoRTyment of a State monopoly.

MAXIMALISM SCOURGE IN

HIBERIA

PEKING, December 8th. Maximalism is spreading along the Biberian railway and threatens to become established at Harbin

BRITAIN DECLINES TO REPAL TREATE INTERNED MEN

PETROGRAD, December 8th, A Note from the British Government refusing to repatriate two Russ interned in Borland was delivered

Bolsheviks Headquarters on the

a among the British reside

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