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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG

DAILY

RUSSIAN PEOPLE DENOUNCE THE

ARMISTICE.

PROTESTS AGAINST A SEPARATE PEACE.

FRANCO-BRITISH TROOPS IN ITALY.

AMERICA'S NAVAL PROGRAMME.

Franco-djelatan Pront,

LATEST CABLES. THROUGH REGINA'S AGENCY)

BRITISH FRONT.

ENEMY RAID REPULSED.

LONDON, December 10th Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports:-There were outpost encounters westward of Graincourt to-day.

An attempted raid southward of Lons last night was successfully repulsed, and we captured a few prisoners.

BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY POSITIONS,

TEST CABLES.

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. RUSSIAN MASSES AGAINST PEACE

LONDON, December 10th. There are indications that the Russian masses are increasingly disgusted with the Bolsheviks methods All parties, except the Maximalists have boycotte the municipal election in Petrograd. The Constituent Assembly meets this week bus it will be a farce as the Maximaliste. will certainly dissolve it unless they have a majority.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 11mm, 1017.

RUSSO GERMAN TRUCK. MISTICE DELEGATES ARRIVE

ATPETROGRAD

PETROG ID, December 8th. The Bolshevik Agency announces that meeting of the Petrograd Soviet has the armistice delegates, who a report, Its discussion was

resente

REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL PROVISTONAL GOVERNMENT

CREATED

MADRID, December 10th,

TRUE FREEDOM OF THE SEA. SIR JOHN MACDONELL ON GERMAN CLAIMS.

Bir John Macdonel! lectured at Univer

On The True The Oporto revolution has been successity College recently c

Freedom of the Sea - Chapter in Inter- national LOW

ful,

The Government has resigned, and Senhor Alfonso Costa has formed a Provis sional Government, including Senhor Sidonio Paes, ex-Minister at Berlin.

TESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.

Drawing attention to the persistent use of the phrase freedom of the sea" by the Central Powers as a justification of ihoir conduct and their future policy, he examined the history of the

rase, and conflicting showed the great variety LISBON, December 9thi After three days fierce fighting between meanings attached to it by statesmen and Governmente. As used by Grotius E troops faithful to the Government and meant freedom to navigate and fish in the revolutionaries under General Paes, the

open sen without let or hindrance; his Preetatement of the Government, in order to avoid disastrous exposition was dissensions in the Army, tas proposed a Roman law, Of that freedom England,

newspapers, commenting on cause the Bolsheviks of willing to negotiate at all points. The Boviet press replies to these at tacks, declaring the Government Soviets have not concluded an armistice nor Meanwhile, the Central Committees and

peace contrary to the Russian or Allied most of the Socialist Peasant parties

peoples interests. bave sent a manifesto declaring against CONDITIONS OF THE ARMISTICE coation of hostilities and hag resigned LONDON, December 8th,

separate peace and denouncing the

PETROGRAD, December 9th. Maximalists high handedness in negot the Maximaliete announce that a twelve

essay

aeparate armistice without the approval of the people or consulting the Allies. The armistice, therefore, is not

binding.

Reuter's Correspondent at the Italian Headquarters states that the British and French troops have now cecupied their assigned positions in the front line

Montello Hills, which the British strongly hold extend for ten miles and are situated in the curve formed by the Piave, where it debouches from the mountains to the plain, The Montello region commands thirty miles of the Valley of Piave, and overlooks two makes main roads by which the enemy can The enemy's artillery is more active in invade the country on one side of the

the Messines Bector.

Piave, coming from the Feltre Hills, which form the last bulwark in the way of the Austro-German descent from the eastern side of Monte Grappa.

Our aeroplanes on Saturday bourbed rounds at hostile billets and fired many ground targets.

Two of our machines are missing. LIVELY ARTILLERY ACTIONS,

PARIS, December 10th

A communiqué reports fairly lively artillery actions at Sapegneul, Maisons- de Champagne, and on the right of the Meuse

EARLIER CABLES.

FRENCH FRONT.

ENEMY ARTILLERY ACTIVE.

LATEST CABLES, THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.] AMERICA AND THE WAR. AMERICA'S NAVAL PROGRAMME.

WASHINGTON, December 10th. Mr. Daniels, Secretary to the Navy, in his annual report asks in the budget for the coming year for one billion dollars, but be explains that it will be neccesary to ask for additional funds as the Cen LONDON, December 9th. Ficid-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig regressional session proceeds. He quotes ports-The enemy's artillery was active the following Navy increases since Inst night southward of Cambrai, on the January stc--Naval force officers ande tight bank of the Scarpe, and mouthward men, from 195,000 to 320,000, reserve

officers and men, from a few hundreds of the Lena-Passchendaele sector.........

only to 49,000; monthly expenditure ENEMY ATTACK REPELLED,

from 8,000,000 to 80,000,000 dollars; ships in commission from 300 to over 1,000,

PARIS December 9th.

A communique says:The enemy's at tempt rear Bezonraux was repelled, with appreciable losses, after a sharp fight.

Italian Front.

LATEST CABLES. THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

ITALIAN FRONT.

FRENCH TROOPS HOLD DANGEROUS LINE.

از پرداختی و

The establishment abroad of American patrol stations has been authorised and will be operating in 1918.

He suggests an international navy after the war to keep

universal

units thereto

The chief Maximaliit delegate, who made the negotiations, announces that the Germans have agreed not to transfer troops to other fronts, but they refused to give a binding undertaking... --- The Deligate naively complaing that they dis played no enthusiasm for the Russian proposals of fraternisation with the men

in order to make arrangements for over

riding the generals,

-BARLIER CABLES.

KALEDIN FORCES GAINING

STRENGTH.

PETROGRAD, December 8th. The Bolshevik Agency announce that the newspaper un pablishes telegrams from the Don region indicating that Gen eral Kaledin is at Novakherkoak. All the other Don districts are in the hands of the Soviets and the Ukrainian Parlia ment

It is believed that General Kaledin is preparing an armed demonstration. The Government is taking the most rigorous

measures to repel him

GENERAL NATIONALISATION

LONDON, December 10th Russian message states that the Bolshevik régime proclaims all lands, live and dead stock, farm produce and build. ings to be national property

PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF LAND

ABOLISHED.

The private ownership of land is abolished and the landowners' houses, will serve as public schools hospitals, shelters and theatres Local land com

daye armistice agreement has been signed at Brestiftovsk, Aircraft flights into enemy country and also ten verste within

GAME our own lines have been stopped Troops bring a division or over may not be moved unless orders were given prior

to December 5th

The Pravda says that the Maximalists. have propceed an armistice for six months,

ORGY OF DRUNKENNESS.

PETROGRAD, December 9th.

Lisbon is militarily controlled. Parliament lacks a quorum. Bome Infantry regiments, & cavalry re- it and part of an artillery regiment

are supporting the revolutionaries.

Rocio railway station has been damaged by hand grenades,

The tramvay Ecrvice is rentirely. "sug- pended

The cruiser l'asco da Gama and, the torpedo boat Geusdiana" fired against the

town.

GOVERNMENT TROOPS LOSE

HEAVILY

Revolutionaries, entrenched in Edward the Seventh Park, repelled the Govern ment troops with heavy losses.

common calumnies to the contrary not withstanding, had been one of the earliest champions Not Grotius, as the common belief was, but Elizabeth might be said. to be the arst true defender of the prin-

pl

No one had protested more strongly than abe against the high strain of sovereignty" on the part of Princes who claimed for any State special powers. over the open sca

It was true that some of her successors,

James, asserted the doctring of s lordship of the narrow Bea that claim was early practically after significant fact, abandoned, and, Trafalgar it was formally dropped by the Admiralty. England had followed as

pilotage regards the coasting trade and policy of liberality, which few States had to exist imitated. There might be still one exception to the freedom of the scas; the claim of Turkey us to anomally. But with this exception Bosphorus and Dardanelles dom of the era existed in time of

- of peace for all but pirates.

Coming to the Kanny loose uses of the conell showed how England had struggled phrase, in time of war, Sir John Mac

the Was an

free

how

Crowds of milors on Saturday sacked the wine cellars at the Winter Palace and sold thousands of bottles of very expen- When the Vasco da Gama, on which the sive wine in the streets, Drunken soldiers Ministers pere installed, fred on the city, were lying about in the snow. The General Pues sent a wireless message cey-at the Conference at The Hague for the

of neutrale against mines, had opposed our efforte, and People's Commissaries sent the Reding that if the bombardment did not cease

representatives had predicted the which must befall neutrals if Guards, who flooded the cellars,

In consequence of soldiers looting wine cellars at the Winter Palace, the Govern ment has taken measures to destroy all stocks of alcohol.

FIGHTING IN THE CAUCABUS. LONDON, December Sth. Russian official wireless message states: General Karauloff is attacking at two places in the Caucasus and at Rada Ukraine, drawing troops to the Den region and hindering the distribit tion of the Bolshevik suppressive military forces

A proclamation says the revolution in endangered and amed resistance will be offered the counter-revolutionaries. It decrces that all places where counter revolutionary detachments are di Covered shall be in a siege and that negotiations of any kind are forbidden. People and railway

state

the forts would reply, upon which the firing ceased

LISBON TRANQUIL

Madrid, December 10th, The Spanish Minister at Lisbon has sent a mesenge stating that tranquillity has been restored

PORTUGAL AFFIRMS ADHERENCE

the

Proposals were disregarded

the

many meanings attached to the phrase by Napoleon and repeated often verbatim by German statesmen, Sir John showed how England had ma

made, after concession. since 1856, concession

of Chief among the strange uses to-day the phrase was the fact that in the mouths of many

statesmen it had come German to be the conventional description of their of impatience at the extent and diversity the British Empire, and the advantages TO ALLIES CAUSE T

commercial naval, and military, incident thereto. It had also as the lecturer The revolutionary committee, In a mani-

showed from extracts, come to mean a festo, effyms the determination to stand

for paramounter at sen by Ger alongside Great Britain and the may. I was much as if the Red Cross OF → lite dag were pinced ovée anı ammani- Allies and to folfi Portugal's internation dump or gun

Bome German phics limited, that recognizing that tional obligations.

domination on land mus Weltherrschaft is impossible

without domination on sen, had in that such as

was their red,” meening purpose. The evolution was complete

bad

come to signify the

Benhor Machado will temporarily re- main President of the Republic, but Senhor Pimentado Castro will replace

him after the revolutionary Cabinet has the phra what it did originally,

been formed

Fancy, exclaimed Sir John, a dialogue between Grotins and von Tirpitz as to the THE HALIFAX CATASTROPHE freedom of the seas! It was not an necident that the United States had inter- LONDON, December 9th.

ned with armed force in Western affairs vened

thrice and always for a only twice A telegram from Montreal states that like the Istest figures show the death list at

and

the the Barbary pirater

peace, each power sesigning games mittocs have been ordered to salexmardmen assisting the counter-revolutionaries | Halifax to number over two thousand, of the phras© 199

proportionate to ite wealth and popula tion, and thereby obvieting a competitive programme of costly naval constraction.

EARLIER CABLES AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND TURKEY RACIAL TYRANNIES.

the property from destruction or pillage are threatened with the direct penalties

BOLSHEVIKS SIGNIFICANT

PROCLAMATION.

LONDON, December 10th- A Russian message gives the details of significant proclamation by the Bobbe vik regime which contains admissibas indicating the powerful counter forces now working.

Lopos, December 10th." Reuter's Correspondent with the French forces in Italy telegraphs.The first shots between the Frenchmen, command- ed by General Duchesne, and the Aus trians were exchanged in the sector which the French have taken over. It is one of the most exposed and most dangerous on was worthleez There was no hope for a excite class passions and accusing the

NEW YORK, December 9th. At the Pennsylvania Society dinner, Mr. Lodge, the Republican Leader of the Senate, said there must be no trace of Her word bargaining with Germany

GENERAL KALEDIN'S ACTIVITY:

The proclamation, after attempting to

and the leaders of the conspiracy are

declared outlaws.

COTTON SPINNERS WAGER QUESTION SATISFACTORILY.

BETTLED

LONDON, December 10th. The Federation of Master Cotton Bruners and the Bolton Master Cotton inners Association have approved and recommended the settlement which was

the whole front, and a strong hold of the final settlement except by physical guar. Cadets of lavishly mancing the counter cabled earlier. There is little doubt that i

position is of the utmost importance antees won on the battlefield.

organised on the same scale se in France, ENEMY'S AIMLESS BOMBARD MENT

LONDON, December 8th.

Italian Reuter's Correspondent at Headquarters, felegraphing to day, states:-The Austro-Germans are con tinuously

resolution, states that General Kaledin, the meetings of the operatives" organisa

eu a state of war in the Don region,

SETTLEMENT RECOMMENDED

AT MANCHESTER.

Their defensive zone is being thoroughly Colouel Roosevelt said that Austriasisted by General Kornilot, has decir. tions tomorrow will resolve similarly,

There is general satisfaction through Hungary and Turkey, were not nations, but racial tyrannies Neither democracy hindering the supply of bread at the ont Lancashire that the wages ques

Front and the General Kaledin is the been settled for at least six months, collecting forces and is menacing Moscow and other towas; has arrested the mili tary revolutionary committee, and 19 endeavouring to cut off the supply of bread from Biberin to the Fronts RUMOURED TEACE

OVER TURES FROM GERMANY.

Lordon December 9th. The pacifists' quarters are circulating rumours of renewed peace overtures from Germany

nor civilisäden wore safe while those States existed in their present form.

DESTROYER JACOB JONES

TORPEDOED. WASHINGTON, December 8th. The American destroyer Jacob Jones occupied by the British and French was torpedoed and sunk in the war 1026 troops, especially the Montello Hill where the British troops are excamped. No particular object is apparently being

served.

bombarding the positions

EARLIER CABLES.

ITALIAN ACTIVITY:

LONDOR, December 9th.

An Italian official communique says. The batteries on the Asiago Platest heavily shelled bostila foro.

A French patrol het en Brenta and the Piave brought back prisoners.

Our aeroplanes effectively bombarded the lines of communication on the Asiago teau, mechinegunning, the troops.

opped four tons of boots

Thursday:

Many of the crew were lost, including the Commander, who is the brother in law of the Becretary to the Navy

THE COMMANDER RESCUED

It is officially announced that the Com- Amander of the torpedoed destroyer was

with of the crew. AUSTRIA'S TERRITORIAL

Address

ASPIRATIONS

DAW December 8th: Finngarian Delegation

The rumours are fliseredited, but matter will probably be debate on the Vote of Cr day.

Meanwhile, the spee

to the Hung

the

lowing

LONDON, December 9th. Anference of cotton employers and peratives was held at Manchester suggest

of the Ministry of Labonis, was agreed to recommend the bebt.icment of the wages, question an advance of 18 per cent. be pard the week ending December 15th

date there will be reek ending 10th a un SETTLEMENT CONFIRMED

delega of the card-room- pinners have confirmed the ettlement, and it is anti

Wenters will decide kimalar

ADOR SEVERS RELATION

WITH OERMANY,

GUAYAQUIL December the

axinoanted that Ecundor

dead are piled in parks and open spaces

as they are extricated from the ruins,

sigo

of the U-boat campaign. Gir John Macdonell also referred to the the mouths of those who were apprehensive of the and there are five thousand injured.

The blizzard is intensifying the suffer future position of German skipping and trade if their country, having lost her fing.

calosies, were dependent for cool, etc... Uwing to lack of accommodation, the of froodom of the seas; they meant ports belonging to the Allies. They falked acquiring rights in other nations' terri-

He pointed out that many ques tions as to international maritime law were still perilously

obocare

andan settled. He also referred to rules which had become obsolete or needed revision in view of present experience. The position of the neutral when he really existeil, merited commiseration und attention. Our law as to

was to him, when reprisals were resorted to, was somewhat. indefinite; an international tribunal might interpret the law, as on former Occasions it has done, against us

- Sir Robert Borden, who had been speak-nam ing at Amherst, went to Halifax and helped with the organisation of relief. FEAVIEST LOSS AMONGST.

CHILDREN

New York, December 1th.

A Halifax telegram states that £0,000

people are destitute.

out.

The damage is estimated at 26,000,000. The heaviest lose of life was amongst the children, some schools being wiped

tated that the mauition ship 4,000 tons of trinitro Tolual, The explosion cateed a forty-foot tidal wave, which washed over the railroad destroying four hundred cars and a score of locomotives.

carrie

THE SILVER MARKET.

WEEKLY LEPORT.

MBKASUTOR:

The lecturer concluded by pointing out that there was a possible new and import- | ent development of international law l

possible creation of a true Banction the enforcement of the terms of any treaty of peace providing for reparation on the part of Ge

art of Germany, by

policy on to the conditions upon which access to the Allien porta should be granted

necessary preliminary was the dropping of a phrase which had at least six differ

menings, and some five of them such Grotias would have repudiated; phrase which generally covered some plun for increasing the naval strength of Germ and depriving this country of incident to her belonging

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