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THE WAR.

(Continued from page 3.)

Franco-djelgian Front.

Irenouan akuTRE'S AGENCY.).

ASUCCESSFUL WITHDRAWAL

ONE CASUALTY ONLY.

LONDON, December 7th.

British Reuter's Correspondentat Headquarters, telegraphing to day, says Probably the most important news-

this..

TEH HONGKONG DAILY

PRKES

Italian Front

General

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. I

ITALIAN RESISTANCE,

EXTRAORDINARY GERMAN

LOSSES"

LONDON, December 7th. An Italian official message says:-The battle continues on the Asingo Plateau, where our artillery prevented the ad. vance of the enemy's masses, enabling our withdrawal from the Meietie adient

THROUGH REUTER A, IGENOY |]

RUSSIAN CHAOS.

KORNILOFF JOINS KALEDIN FORCES.

MONDAY DECEMBER 10.8.

rights of Roumania and Serbia as much anthone of Great Britain and the Em pire.

Aun

Also, the same applies to the girl who has Then various cheerful people impressed seen the leave train steam out of Vic upon me the unenviable position of my toria of grey

daw

and kept a amilo on wife in the event of my death. It is, of Addressing the Roumanian Minister, her face while she waved her handkerchief course, quite true that the lot of a war he asserted if there is to be any com until the taco at the window vanished widow or any other kind of widow. is promise outside what I have laid down from sight very probably for ever, She not a happy one, but it is equally tru at will not be the present Government who has gonenbour for months on ead feel that the lot of the maid bereaved of her which will make me an ignominious in her blood freeze at the sight of a lover is no happier. Also, the widow peace. He believed the British would telegraph messenger is the capable of gets her pension. It is further frequent never withdraw from the wax until, with making a decision for herself? If not, itly argued that the ma PETROGRAD, December 7th:

man who is constantly The Bolsheviks announce that they are the Allies" concurrence, they had attained would be interesting to know who, in in danger should not marry on account

accordance with the best mid-Victorian of

of its b conventions, is more capable of making event of her becoming a widow hor being unfair on his wife in the a satisfactory end.

it for her. Granted one and twenty (that chances of spending the later years of is the age of both of us) is very young, I her life happily married are reduced. am yet of the opinion, that any one of Now I have always noticed that this argu- that age who has experienced even

sure of five acats, the Cadete four and the Revolutionary Socialists one in Moscow. Despite bad weather and great. distances 75 to 80 per cent of the electors the Government aver polled mostly for the Bolsheviks, who promiss most.

Korniloff has joined Kaledin. Armed sailors have arrested forty of the State Bank employes, who neverthe les, refuse to serve the

morning is the threatened break of the Machine gun fire drove back the enemy regime.maximalist the seriousness of the world's food short-lo for himself or herselflect.

But

TONNAGE SCARCITY. MORE SHIPS WANTED AS FOOD CARRIERS,

small number of the harrowing incidents ont is brought up only by men-gen- so well known to all who have takon an erally bachelora. It is a matter of some LONDON, Decerober 7th. active part in this lamentable upheaval than a man, but I would ask my reader delicacy," and better handled by a woman and is yet not capable of reaching a decito discuss it with his womenfolk. Ther Bir A. Yapp, in a speech re-emphasised

is possessed will tell him what they think of the age. It was useless to have a great wheat of an exceptionally weak

Now I can hear some of my elderly woman who hesitates to marry the man she loves because of the off-chance of his ge in disorder from Trenzels Valley The It is stated that Korniloff with four crop in Australia if we had no ships to

that is so many would render the German positions before enemy attempted to break through with Botnias, avoiding the railways, is riding bring it Altogether 690 big ships had readers saying to themselves getting killed and her falling in love &

young subalterns who Are in spite of similar to that which rules among large forms southward of Gallio, but our announces that several detachments of America must very soon choose between

what they have been through, still little Fakirs, Cambrai semekbing more than dismal resistance enabled, us to link up the line. Red Guards and sailors have been seut using ships as food carriers or troopmore than irresponsible schoolboys." My Then there was the mosting of money.

transports.

reply to that

is that it shows a complete whilst abundantly justifying our with arresting the enemy's advance at Monte to Tobolsk to guard the ex-Tear.

lack of understanding drawal towards the extraordinarily Sisemol after repulsing six assaults.

ROUMANIA

character The irresponsibility referred strong and comparatively comfortable

Rénter's Correspondent at

Italian Hindenburg trench system. If the Ger

Headquarters, wiring yesterday evening, mans recognise this we may see a some-

says:-Despite his boasting, the enemy

weather, for a spell of wet and mud

AND THE ARMISTICE.

AN AWKWARD SITUATION.

PARIS, December 7th

VOTES FOR WOMEN. FRANCHISE BILL PASSES THIRD STAGE.

LONDON, December 7th.

the British baltern's pay is, it is true

his

the

not a

what wide belt of no-man's-land here: has ouly gained a pyrrhic victory and his The newspapers continua to emphasise The House of Commons has passed the spell does not assume the for a brief What could be worse for her nerves than

abouts. The enemy may yet have an op portunity of flinging masses against his own Hindenburg wall.

We withdrew all our guns and ammuni- tion and every scrap of military material without mishap after blowing up the

The

losses have been extraordinary in com- parison with the territory gained cuemy succeeded in gaining a footing on the sharp salient east of Asiago. Despite an extraordinary preparation of artillery and of asphyxiating, emetic and

bridges of the canal. As far as is known lachrymal gases the Italians resisted the Allies andere we are faithful to treated as a separate Bill, which will be

there was only one casualty in evacuating Bourlon Wood.

GERMAN REPORT.

peace.

IN SELF-DEFENCE.

fBY A WAR BRIDEGBLON.}"

course,

that

we intend

A

It is also true that undor normal conditions one should not ask his is a mere veneer-the Englishman (and wife to go into employment; yet at the particularly the

mat)

Who would his

fellow creatures went this does not apply A simply will not let School see what is at the back of his head of the onew during this perilous voyaget wife a passenger instead of one Thank God 1 the soldier home

of

lack of occupation? Moreover, if the the difficulty of the situation of the Hon third reading of the Representation of ness to which he is justly entitled, or

pension. I was also asked how monian army. Owing to the Russian con- the People Bill under which women have another horror would be thrust upon this went helpens, she must be able to aug- tingents participating in the armistice the

been entranchised. The question of Irish country. But ninety per cent of these win

to sustain life when, at the Rounianian troops are thus in a most awk redistribution has been remitted to a conman of forty. I have worked with them commission.

young men have the mind of the pre-war com

completion of hostilites, resign my ward plight. It is pointed out that they ference, to be held in February, of

To this I replied that, in strest into Russia; therefore they Nationalists and Ulstermen, the Speaker elsewhere for years in fact, I am one of has made, I cannot conceive that oven and d lived among them in the tronches and spite of all the blunders that this nation cannot ret have apparently resigned themselves to an presiding The recommendations will be them, so know it would make such a gross one as to keep armistice

Although They ar

vão nob desire

another argument to which we were any appreciable number of young men 11 separate treated as an agreed measure.

was this If you get mar idle at such a time. People do not seem desperately, their artillery and machino

ried, you will not, so long as the war con generally to realize the prodigious natares Awireless.

official ma

message

tinues and you have to spend most of of the work that will have to be under- guns mowing down unending waves of says: The Roumanianz have decided t

Your time in France, bencht accept an armisties and hostilities have

appreciably thereby. is true, of

taken if the ravages of war are to ho humanity. Our Alpini finally fell fight-bear suspended on the whole front.

The

will hardly be on the same plane as mar at once an urgent call for young men. It repaired. When war broke out there was A wireless German official messageing and surrounded by heaps of Austrian enemy hus applauded the decision but the

ried life under normal conditions, yet the is the young men of the nation who count Roumanians have maintained a dignised says:We stormed La Justice Farm, be dead..

that the advantages are inap-who do things. Make no mistake tween Graincourt and Marcoing, and,

isation.

parents, grandparents, relations, friends, present-day conditions. In the first place, and public opinion generally, we've done one's fiancée bas no official status in the haps even more urgent than it was when

down, the call for young pien will be per cleared out the enemy from the latter."

MISCHIEVOUS PEACE TALK. it. After being at the front since the Army-she is

she is ineligible for The

penetrated British temporarily pene

pension, is it began. The only breakdown that may autumn of 1914, the golden opportunity not informed of a wound or death croccur will be in the organizing Even BRITAIN'S AIMS REITERATED in the form of a slight wound with its sent for in case of emergency. But far then, I can see some very jolly times northward of Lavacquerie, but we threw

socompanying sick-leave has arrived The more important in one's status on those reasons urged for waiting until that glori brief ten days in England The restric meet so many of one's pals there, them back, maintaining the positions

the local workhouse-one Bpent LONDON, December 7th.

will Sir Edward Carson speaking at the ously vague period known as after the tions imposed upon engaged couples by In conclusion, let me against bitter and hand-grenade attacks.

inaugural meeting of the Anglo war were many and various. We

out how Old convention are then ap simple it is for the inexperienced to apply Roumanian Society, at the Mansion fold that we were young and inexperta

is compelled to spend all one's timal destructive criticism House, scouted the idea of a League enced did not know our own minds: of Nations of which we had had experi-is difficult to refute such a purely per- ence in disregard of the Treaty to pre-ind, but let it suffice for ple to state enfance people. Nowadays, of course, sent-day conditions in the least.

sonal allegation in an open article

this ment of

either of one's own or one's as chillrienced in a matter of this kin

They do not understand pre serve Belgium Roumania entered the war to maintain her very existence. He phatically that we did, and had for some the couple are free enough for one day only people whose opinioni really counts denounced the recent developments of considerable time. While on this subject, at a time, but going off for a quiet little one thee, who have Pentru peace talk as most mischievous and most if there is one man in the world who is incur the work would most certainly dings and they all have the same tale 10

too, might well

to air the view that week-end tog of Mrs. Grurath that given by Mr. Panch 8o. that is Their advice is the very opposite to carefully weighed that we who are accustomed to the capable of making a decison, it is he who for months, if not of the Hun care much about the at the hands, he who pays for an error of time, it is a different matter. Our ex you are in love. That really is most im- has had a few score lives on his for the girl, who is in England all the my advice to you young people -Get married soon as possible, provided that judgment, not with cash, hor even with perience as the result of numerous leaves portant. It is a great pity that it has his own life, but with the lives of others, spent together is that it is quite impos- not been more universally recognized, or any of whom have the heaviest family sible to get anything like the maximum the world we live in would now be a responsibilities, of a by no means entirely value from them while unmarried. The very much happier one than it is monetary nature, on their shoulders, experience, too, is quite general.

(Corin," in Ex.):

attitude and rejected attempts at fratern In the teeth of a fierce opposition from table shows considerable ignorance of that When this show is finally close

MORE AIR RAIDS.

LONDON, December 7th.

A French communiqué says: On the right of the Meuse, after a violent bom- bardment, the enemy twice attempted to reach our lines in the diretion of Beton- vaux and Beaumont, Our fre smashed up the attacks and drove back the assail ants on their own trenches. There has been considerable reciprocal artillerying at Maisons de Champagne on the right of the House Our aviators bombarded the

railway stations at Fribourg and Thio

vile and various enenty tippets and canton, ments behind the front.

GERMAN REPORT.

A German wireless official report says:We have captured Monte Sisemol. Our Italian prisoners now number 15,000.

The Near East.

ITEROCOR BRUTER'S AGENCY.]

NEARING JERUSALEM.

HEBRON OCCUPIED

LONDON, December 7th

An official message from Palestine saya that General Allenby has occupied

Hebron

misleading. No one nation could end the wer by attaining its own selfish ends, We were fighting for a great ideal, namely the establishment of freedom and the right to live without everlastingly contem- Plating & renewal of hostilities and to onable the whole world to live peacefully He did not know how it was possible to end this wat if it did not maintain the

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