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THE WAR.

FHR HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14ru,

FURTHER PROGRESS IN PALESTINE.

GENERAL ALLENBY'S TELEGRAM.

INCREASES IN BRITISH ARMY EXPENDITURE.

THE EVILS OF GERMANY'S PEACEFUL PENETRATION.

General..

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GENERAL ALLENBY'S

MESSAGE.

MARTIAL LAW IN JERUSALEM;

Mr. Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons that the following tele gram was received from General Allenby

Jerusalem, two o'clock in the after noon, December 11th. I entered the city officially at noon to-day with a few of my Staff Commanders, the French and Italian detachments, and the Military Attaches of France, Italy and the United States. The procession was all

BRITISH VOTE OF CREDIT

LONDON, December 12th.

In the Honte of Commons, ir. Bonar Law, in moving & Vote of Credit for £580,000,000 said it was estimated that the Vote of Credit for £100,500,000 moved on October 30th, would cover expenditure antil January 9th. The new Vote would bring the total voted for the year to £2,450,000,000. The average daily expen diture for 63 days preceding December 1st was £6,784,000 exceeding the Budget estimate by £1,383,000 daily.

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS,

SENATE DISSOLVED FORCIBLY.

ME. ASQUITH'S SPEECH.

LONDON, December 12th, The following additional portion of Mr. Asquith's speech was received too late for publication in our yesterday's

PETROGRAD December 13th The Maximalists have forcibly disgus solved the Senate. The Red Guards have arrested more Government officials

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Branco Belgian Front.

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BRITISH FRONT.

LONDON, December 13th.

A French communiqué states that there was lively reciprocal, artillery activity on the varians sectors.

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ANTAGONISTE DIGGING IN

LONDON, December 19th.

"OCEAN TO OCEAN THROUGH CANADA"

LECTURE AT THE HELENA MAY INSTITUTE. DESCRIPTION OF THE PORT OF HALIKAN

Last night ant, the Holana May Institate, Mr. F. 3. Turnbull delivered an interesting lecture on Ocean to Ocean through Canada: There was a fairly large audience despite the incle mens weather. The Hon Mr H. E. Pollock, KC presided.

Mr. Asquith thought that Lord Lans Terestchenko and other Ministers who

BEREK O downo's main argument was that the aro interned at the Peter Paul fortress Allies, while warring vigorously, should have addressed n declaration to the Pres us

PHOBIA PALOMA endeavour to make it increasingly clear sident of the Constituent Assembly pre-

to the world that our war nima were testing against the Bolshevik usurpationer

rational and unsclish, that they were: of authority.

the aims for which we entered the war and that by the attainment thereof wo

* states ---The comparative full continues thousand miles over three great ranges were convinced that we might look for a darable peace, safeguarded by the con

on the Cambroj front. Favoured with of mountaing, a thousand miles across iniot authority of an international cold weather both sides are busy digging rolling prairies, more than a thousand in wiring and generally improving their miles along lakes, great and small, a respective positions.

A Petrograd news agency states that a decree was issued ordering the arrest and trial of the principal Cadet leaders, also requesting the Sovieta to exercise surveillance over of the Cadet organisa tions with a view to prevent the latter from conferring with Generals Kaledin und Korniloff.

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DEMOBILISATION COMMENCED.

AMBTERDAL, December 12th.

A German Bemi-official-statement re-

parts that the Russian demolisation has already begun.

MAXIMALISTS COURTING THE

COSSACKS.A

PETROGRAD, December 12th. The Maximalists have issued a man The total cxcess over the Budget estimate was £300,000,000, but £225,000,000 feste beginning Brother Cossacks," by thereof were recoverable. Therefore, the promising to hand over to them the excess over the Budget estimate of our estates of landowners, also an immediate, daily expenditure was £350,000. One of Armistice and peace, urging them to ar-

league.

FAVOURABLE PRESS COMMENTS

LONDON, Deceraber 12th, The interest with which Mr. Asquith's speech was awaited is reflected in tho comments of the newspapers, which are relieved to find that he does not support Lord Lenschowne, though some – take Exception to his explanation of the lat-- tera letter.

· Reuter's correspondent at British Headquarters, telegraphing

Mr. Turnbull said he intended to to-day make his audience travel with him a

The sound of heavy shelling comes from the vicinity of Bullecourt and Lagni court, the significance of which at pre

seat it is impossible to say

SUCCESSFUL RAIDS.

LONDON, December 12th. Field Marchal Sir Douglas Hoig re ports:-We successfully raided last night | in the

neighbourhood of Pontruct andreas north-westward of St. Quentin.

We repulsed a Iceal attack northward of Le Vacquerie.

THE REVERSAL OF FORTUNE AT CANBRAL

The Timer, which accuses Lord Lans downe of deliberately stabbing the Gov in the back, Kays it is exceed ernment ingly glad that Mr. Asquith is firm against all temptation to support it.

The Daily Chronicle says nabody who appreciated the straightness and con-

The Time, urges a prompt and tearch sistency of M Asquith's statesmanship could have expected the recantation of ing enquiry into the reversal of fortune

he heirl a Cambrai. the principles be defined when

Daily News Bays Mr. Asquith has

The paper says that Field Marshal Sir the most preciso and considered Douglas Haig possesses the undiminished

thousand miles down a mighty river,

from ocean to ocean through Canada. and by then they would have travelled He thought there should be spread broadcast amongst those who were yet unfamiliar with the opportunities Canada offered an accurate knowledge of the industrial possibilities, the sccnic beauties, the agricultural and mineral wealth, and the boundless oppor. tunities offered to the home-seeker, the investor, the agriculturist and the manu facturer. Canada was almost as large as Europe and was a land of fertile fields, splendid forests, lofty mountains, great rivers and wide spreading lakes, and its widely varied climate was hoth stimulating and healthful

Referring to the part Canada is play

on foot. At Jaffa Gate I was received by the causes of the increased Army expen. reat General Kaledin and General. Kur declaration of our war aims yet, made by confidence of the Army and Nation, but ing in the present war, Mr Turnbull the guards representing England, Scot- diture was the increase in our aviation/lot and their associates and to hand them any European statesman.his position largely depends upon the said that she occupied an enviable posi

Tand, Ireland, Wales, Australia, New programme. Zealand, India, France and Italy.

Another was the large number of Indian troops employed in Mesopotamia, and the largest amount was due to the advances of oir Aries in France and Palestine. The

· The Daily Teltyraph says the speech over to the Maximalists for public trial.

shows that the resolution of the British choice of his subordinates. His weakness, tion in the eyes of the world. Since the People is utterly unmoved by the recent in German military successes.

GENERAL NEWS.

PETROGRAD, December 11th.

The incendiary manifesto issued by the Military Revolutionary Committee, last

The population received me well, Guards have been placed over the Holy Places My Militray Governor is in touch with the Latin and Greek representatives, estimates of advances to the Dominions "ght, was withdrawn at the last moment.

The Governor detailed an officer to super-

A number of procesiona celebrating the fa have not been exceeded.

Referring to Russia, Mr. Banar Law opening of the Constituent Assembly con

vise the Christian and Holy Places The mosque of Omar and the surrounding area have been placed under Moslem con- trol, and a military cordon of Indian litary co Mohammedan officers and soldiers will be established round the mosque. Orders have been issued that no non-Moslem should pass this cordon without the per- mission of the Military Governor and ZARA

the Moslem in charge of the mosque.

The following proclamation was read in my presence to the population i Arabic, Hebrow, English, French, Italian, Greek, and Russian from the steps of the Citadel and posted on the walls inside:

THE PROCLAMATION TO THE

PEOPLE.

"To the inhabitants of Jerusalem the

that no state had ever entirely repudiated its debts. It is almost cer- tain that sooner or later there will be a stable Government, and ho believed responsible Government would be ulti mately established in Russia. If there were a stable Government, Russia knew that the development of her resources and prosperity would be imposible with out financial assistance from other coun. tries, and financial assistance would be impossible unless the previous debts were accepted by that Government. Therefore, he believed that the money would he recoverable sooner a later..

Fourteen vessels over and even under 1,000 tons were sunk, and 11 vessels were

unsuccessfully attacked.

BRITISH SHIPPING.

LONDON, December 12th. Blessed and the people dwelling in its The Admiralty announce-The arrivals vicinity The defeat inflicted upon the for the week were, 2,420, and the sailings Turks by the troops under my command 2384. has resulted in the occupation of your city by my forces. 1, therefore, here end now proclaim it to be under martial law, under which form the administration of it will remain so long as military con- siderations make it necessary. However, Jest any of you should be alarmed by reason of your experience of the hands of the enemy, who has retired, I hereby inform you that it is my desire that every person should pursue his lawful

ITALIAN SHIPPING.

ROME, December 13th.

In the Italian shipping returns for the week ending December 8th the number of arrivals is not specified. There were 360

departures

tacked.

verged at the Tauride Palace, outside which a succession, of ex tempore meetings were held, but up till four o'clock in the afternoon there were no disorders,

ROUMANIA SIGNS ARMISTICE

LONDON, December 12th.

Wes

» signed an armistice with the enemy. Roumanian official report states

HELPING OURSELVES FIRST

LONDON, December 19th.

il it be a weakness, lies in his inveterate devotion to those sirving him the longest

some perhaps too long. Aerial Activities.

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[FEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] GERMAN AVIATION

STATISTICS.

first call of the Motherland, Canada bad

field of honour, had won undying given freely of her sons, who, on the

fame for her and all things Canadian. (Applause) That she would continue to respond as long as necessity Inated was undoubted Sir Robert Borden, the Premier, had said: "Canada is fully determined to spare no effort and shrink from no sacrifice to make triumphant the cause of the Allies." Five hundred plants were working night and day, assisting in the supply of munitions. |_ Hide-tracked in the march of develop-

LONDON, December 18th. A wireless German official roport states.The enemy lost during Novem her 22 balloons and 205 seroplanes, 86 of which fell behind our lines. We lost

and two balloons LONDON, December 19th aeroplane way as ment through the nineteenth century,

In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar. Law warned enemies that the longer the war lusted the less raw material there would be to go round, and as the Allica would help themselves first the less there would be f for Germany. The Bolshevik Agency announce the establishment of Revolutionary Courts RESTRICTED SALE throughout Russia, consisting of soldiers, sailors, workmen and workwomen aleted. It is officially announced that Lord Rhondda has restricted the retail sale of ment for the four weeks ending January by the local Boviets

13th, 1918, to the sales during the tour weeks prior to October 27th, 1917

A decisive split has occurred in the Con grees of the Revolutionary Socialista be- tween the Left and Right groupe.

The Commissary of Foreign Affairs has issued a decree dismissing all Russian diplomats abroad who have failed to notify their consent to serve under the Sovicts FRICTION BETWEEN BOLSHEVIKS AND GERMANY.

LONDON, December 12th.

That friction threatens to increase be

tween the Bolsheviks and the Germans 18 indicated by the following telegram from the Petrograd Bolchevik Agency;(} The German Commead on the Russo-Ger. man Front protests by wireless against the dissemination by aeroplane of leaflets, signed by Lenin and Trotsky, addressed to workmen and coldiers calling upon them to revolt,

MEAT

O SALE OF MEAL

THE HALIFAX DISASTER. ONE MILLION STERLING GIFT TO RELIEF FUND.

LONDON, December 12th, In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonaz Law announced that a message of sym- pathy had been sent to Halifax, also that $1,000,000 had been gifted to the Relief Tund

THE SITUATION IN PORTUGAL PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC ARRESTED."

LONDON, December 12th.. The President of the Republic has been arrested owing to his refusal to resign, Italian Front

YOU MAY LATEST UABLES,

[TABODOH ZELTER'S AGENCY.] ITALIAN PRONT. The German Generals POSITIONS LOST AND RETAKEN. consider this to be an intervention in the

LONDON, December 18th, An Italian official report states :— Be- internal affairs of Germany. The

tween the Brenta and the Piave the Aus Bolshevik organ Pharda replied, declaring trigns yesterday violently attacked Cold

Berretta and Cold Dell Orso that the Bussian Delegation had not

a strong force protestatements contained in Herr me Calon Valley I pull down the Bolthevik Hag, stormed Mount

Hasse 2 spetch on the creasion of the The struggle continged

day interpellation on the subject of demon We temporarily, abandoned a few posi strations in honour of the Russian Revolutions, bat we re-occupied nearly all dur tion and a general peace raised doubtsing our counte in Russian popular ercles regarding the pacific intentions of the governing

Germany The Russian Bourgeois

des Germans, withs

One steamer of over and one under 1,000 business without fear or interruption. tons were lost. One damaged vessel was Furthermore, since your city is regard-ched. Two were specesfully at ed with affection by the adherents of the three great religions of mankind and its soil has been consecrated by the prayers and pilgrimages of multitudes of devout people of these religions for many cen- turies, therefore do I make it known to ▲ FUTURE REMEDY SUGGESTED Press, in demanding offensive action, user

you that every sacred building, Toonn

e

THE GERMAN'S SILENT PENETRATION,

LONDON, December 13th. Sir Edward Carson, presiding at 2

these statements as arguments against the armistice and peace

ment, hely spot, shrine, traditional site, endowment and pious bequest or customeeting of the Colonial Institute, where mary place of prayer, of whatsoever form of the three religions will be main, tained and protected, according to the existing customs and beliefs of those

they whose faith

are

(Cheers.)

thing astonished bit more than that Ger Guardians have been. established at Bethlehem and at Rachel's Tomb any ever went to war. She had taken The tomb of Hebron has been placed possession of three fourths of London exclusively under Moslem control, and almost every other city in the coun The bereditary custodians of the Wakf or try: If the people of the British Empire" pious Moslem foundations at the gates ever again tolerated anything approach of the Holy Sepulchre have been requesting what Wk in vogue before the wET, ed to take up their accustomed duties in the latter would have been waged rainly remembrance of the magnanimous act of People talked of a League of Nations the Caliph Omar, who protected that Let us at all events, begin with the chas sent

League of the British Nationa church. Cheers).

JAPANESE MANAGING. VLADIVOSTOCK PORT

Losnow, December 12th of Mr. Fisher, ex Minister of Trade and

Pondent The Pines Weshington corr Customs in New Zealand, lectured on telegraphs that the Japanese Imperial Trade, said that we were never confirms that Japanese bron

ACT rived at Vladivostock agcred to again going to have the peaceful pene Japanese engineers who

tration of the amiable Germans, No aging the port and the

for some time.

ROUMANIA'S GENERALISSIMO

LONDON, December 15th The Times corespondent 24. deeyay ports that General Prozan has beca ap pointed Romanian Generalitsing,

GERMAN TRIGUE IN

Gergiaz intrigus je ram

merals

acks,

Russian Front.

defencer

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THROUGH BUYER'S AGENCY RUSSIAN FRONT BATTLE AT TAMARROKA

PETROURAD, December 19th.

The recent fighting at Tamarroka wes between detachments of shock battalions, tho declared themelves against the Maximalist and local troops, with the sailors Red Guards, infantry and moured cars sent from Petrograd and Scoops from Klerkot.

Fighting lasted all day and night, here were many casual The Daily Chronicle Pete

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red,” and were Lucasus: front Late> Gener

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talions

BRUGES DOCKS BOMBED. BRU

"London, Devember 13th. The Admiralty reports Naval air craft on Monday night dropped many tons of bombs on the Costacker aerodrome and Bruges docks The resulta of the former attack were difficult to observe, but a fire was started at the latter."

All our machines returned.»

Naval Activities.

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Canada had watched her neighbour acrosa the border grow big and strong, winning for her great Union all the power the fame, the title of Amerion Now all that was changed. A single decade bad swept away all her diffidence and had replaced if by a spirit of boundless confidence and homing enterprise. For nearly a quar- tor of a century Canada called the men of the Old World to her, but only a few answered, her call It was only as the nineteenth century closed that the tide. begun airly to get in the direction of Canada What was the reason? Canada had at first the reputation of being frost-bound for the greater part of the year and of being a country quite achie to hire in Now that was all changed, and Danada was looked upon as one of the most important dominions of the Mother Country

LONDON, December 12th. An Italian official report states: Our light craft on Sunday night penetrated E

and above

below the obstructions

were

water and entered Trieste discharged ASTM D

Four torts of the Monarch

against two

classich

All the torpedoes exploded. The battleship es was smk. Our vessels returned safely, despite enemy torpedoings and intense fire. The Near Dast.

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THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,] IN THE HOLY LAND. CAPTURES BY GHURKAS.

Our

LONDON, December 19th A Palestine official report states line was advanced midway be

betweeft Jerusalem and Jaffa

The Ghurkas captured Budrus and Sheikh Obeidrand noriward of Midieh killing 50 Turka

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GERMANS ADMIT EVACUATION

WAS INVOLUNTARY

Mr Turnball next showed several in teresting slides, those of the Canadian Rockies being especially admired. Com-, mencing from Victoria (B.C.) the lecturer took his audience across Canada, from the Selkirks and the Canadian Rockies, prairies, and wheat-belt, to the great industrial towns of Central and Eastern Canada, namely, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal etc., finally reaching the Fort of Halifax

Referring to Halifax the lecturer said." Halifax is the chief naval station in the American Continent, and is protected by eleven forts. It has a large and finely equipped dry docks. The harbour is six miles Jong, and it, it He said, capable of accommodating the combined aval fleets of the world. It A German semi-oficial communique ad bas the advantage over other Canadian

that mits

the evacuation of ports of being so free of ice that naviga Jerusalem was involuntary, but declares tion is open all the year, and shipping at the reason why the city fell was can continue regularly through t

Turco-German desire to prevent winter. Since the beginning of the war ground sacred to all God-fearing this city has had a very important work peop becoming the scene of bloody fight to do, and has quietly gone on her way Sending thonminds upon thousands of | The communque adds that the town is Canadian soldiers and tons of ammuni-

militarily worthless,

ing

AMSTERDAM, December 12th

HOLY PLACES GUARDED."

LOON December 12th In the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George read a telegram from General Allenby announcing that be entered

alem on foot on the 11th instant, rds were placed round holy places, Mosque of Omar was placed

ammedan control

che hey on

Finder

General Krylenko arrived during

GENERAL ALLENBY ENTERS

HOLT CITY

tion across to the Mother Country, at the saine time receiving thousands of wound- od returning from the battle felda to

homen, it was, in thun serving her country that the recent appaling

has come to Halifa

forcibly

sympathies. Me learn

of the 55.000 inhabitants over lost their liver, 5.000 bETO DIET and 20,000 ESTE)

the

the ship which coll

Reports state tast the shock battalions Reuters Agency is offcially informed thousand ton were defeated, but Cossack reinforcements that General Allenby entered Jerusalem sives known ve from General Kaledin are coming up yesterday.

nder that