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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 34CA, 1917.

REPORTED REJECTION OF RUSSIAN PEACE TERMS.

FORTHCOMING TEUTONIC OVERTURES

O THE ALLIES.

ITALIAN SITUATION STILL CAUSES ANXIETY

RHEIMS SHELLED AGAIN.

THE PREMIER'S MASTERLY REVIEW.

Italian Front

LATEST CABLES. {TUROUGE" REUTER'S AGENCY.)

ITALIAN FRONT.

AN ANXIOUS SITUATION.

LONDON, December 21st. Reuter's Correspondent with the French Headquarters in Italy, wiring yesterday, says:-The situation is still anxioue, but further snowstorms may any day stabilise the front for the winter. -enemy's recent gains were dearly bought

by the Jaegere.

The

The capture of Monte Asalone on the 18th inat may enable the enemy to em barrass our communications in the plain, notably towards Bassano, where two rall

RAILWAY DISASTER IN

AMERICA

MANY KILLED AND INJURED,

SHEPHERDSVILLER (Kentucky),

December 21st

Bixty persons were killed and 70 in- jured in a collision between a Louisville

CHINESE TELEGRAMS. UNIVERSITIES AND THE WAR

BY DOUBTESY OF THIS '^ CHUNG NGGI

S BAY PORI

THE QUESTION OF DOMESTIC

PEACE

Shanghai, December 91st, The declaration to stop was had been and Nashville passenger train and a local drafted but at yesterday's Cabinet meet

ing some Ministers opposed it and there. fore it has not been issued.

train last night,

CAILLAUX'S ITALIAN INTER- MEDIARY

Hoxe, December 21st,

and

DEATH AFTER BURIAL.

REMARKABLE STORY OF A

From the beginning of the war the universities of England organized for peace, and closely bound to the inter- national commonwealth of letters research-have undertaken an over- developing series of tasks in the national defence. Looking back on their records fessor is after three years of warfare, one realizes how greatly the country would have the Daily suffered, how much it would have

lost,

HYPNOTIST

An astonishing story of a young com- positor who was hypnotised and practi- tally buried alive by a self-styled pro- or is disclosed in the latest West Indian newspapers to reach

London, says Express, Professor Talbert, Benton was re- in the absence of their services, TAX Cently arrosted at Bridgetown, Island of With the introduction of the territorial Barbados, on a charge preferred by army system, in 1908, the universities were Lance Corporal W C. Wharton, of un- given opportunity Lauk Wing-ting bas, wired to the Pre military units, called of forming special lawfalls, and feloniously killing and

training slaging This they readily with

A compositor Boden, aged twenty. in Queen's Park, Bridge- sident stating that he is old and will corult that many their wudents town, on Coptember 18th.

graduated on to the list of the army It appears that the Professor retire.

who is reserve of officers. Their chief service, a native of Trinidad, and has for some Chen Ping-kun has wired to Li Chan however, was the creation of a numerous years been touring the West Indies a hypnotist and illu- stating that he approves of the cancellareserve of trained men eminently suited giving displays

for commissions, who could be drawn sionist, are he would hypnotise and bury with the usual fan- tion of self-government,

upon for such a purpose in the ovent of fare, that he any national emergency.

CHINA AND THE ALLIES' ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.

The

In the Chamber, during the debate an the case of Signor Cavallini, who is alleged to have been the intermediary

between M. Caillaux and the Germans, Deputy Pirolini described Caillaux as theGioletti of France." An uproar

President has telegraphed to In the Heartmannweiterkoff region ensued, and subsequently Signor Gioletti

Teo Kun, Chan Hwaitsee Li Chun, the enemy, after a very big raid, occupied | declared that he could not accept Deputy

Chen Kwang yuan, and Wang Chien the advanced elements of our front line, Pirolini's comparison, Iecause he never

Lisk Wing-ting. guan about but was completely ejected after hand supported and never would support a Chi yao's opinions on the subject to hand fighting, in which he

separate pence or any action not absolute, heavily..

ly loyal to the Allies. He appealed for One hundred and oighteen shells were parliamentary immunity at a time when

the energy was in Italy. (Loud cheers.)

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

thrown into Rheins. The Near East.

lout

LATEST UA BLES. (THROUGH KRUTER'A AGENCY.] THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN.

TURKISH DETACHMENT AND GOLD CAPTURED.

LONDON, December 21st,

FIRAINIAN REVOLUTIONÄHT MEMBERS ARRESTED.

a woman in a gravo five feet deep in Queen's Park, bringing her back to life after interval of three days. At the The emergency came, and the students last moment, however, the woman begged filed their applications for commissions by to be excused, and Soden, a coloured the thousand. Those already on the man, volunteered to take her place. A reserve of officers were called up, and crowd of 300 spectators was admitted at many went to France with the first 6d, head to witness the new twentieth expeditionary force.

The

now battaliona, century-miracle," received their they were raised,

quote of af

and as

ers who play student officers,

Soden, acc prominent

of part in their training; and the steady inquest, mounted and sat on a canvas-

peace..

The question of entering the Paris Economic Conference is being discussed by the Ministries of War, Foreign Affairs, Agricuture, and Finance.

CANTON NEWS. (HY COURTERY ĐE THE PHONG NGÔI

BÀN ĐỎ M

PETROGRAD, December 21st.

The Red Guards at three o'clock in the

CANTON, December 23rd. morning surrounded and invaded the GENTIAL LUNG'S MOVEMENTS. premises of the Ukrainian Revolutionary General Lung Chai-kwong has sent one Staff and arrested four members. At of his supporters, Li Kar-pan, with a present a search is being instituted for force of 2,000 strong to Yeung Kong, who

TER-BURIAL ding to the evidence at thes according to streero of recruits to the C.T.C.'s doubled covered table when the burial moment and trebled their ranks in spite of the arrived, removed a portion of his cloth- demands which the daily Gazette made ing, a and donned a sleeping-suit handed example, supplied the army with nearly attired himself in a on their establishments: Cambridge, for to him by

who, in tuch, professor owered cere 4,000 officers from its O.T.C. alone, in mouial robe. The professor then pro- addition to over 3,000 other graduates ceded to make the familiar passes

Who and under-graduates

received with his hands over Soden's face and forehead, the young man's eyes slowly

their commissiong through other sources, geterally by enlisting

ta closing and his body gradually becoming

privates first. Nor were the younger and rigid under the treatment, smaller universities a whit behind; to mention only one, Bristol, founded in 1009, und

and having an average roll of barely 1,000 students, even including women, yet with

proud record of over 700 coal missioned collegiates.

So highly did the War Office value the

Soden's body was now placed in the coffin, which had a glass panel in the lid at the head, and the coffin was lowered and covered with earth, a wooden shaff or periscope running from above the glass panel to three feet above the ground. The spectators were thus able to see the and shoulders of the hynotized man."

training capacities of these Corps and rock next day was bunday, and as the

The War Offico announce that Arabs, under King Hodjar's son, destroyed ways meet, which also threatens Monta troop train southward of Tehnk, killing other members of the Staff, which con- arrived there on the 17th instant. It is commissions. Thus Oxford, from a very teen hours burial when it was o

or capturing the whole of a Turkish stituted the sole official representatives believed that General Lung is in com courses of instruction, where the averagej

Grappa in being turned from the west.

ITALIANS RE-CONQUER MONTE

ASOLONE.

ROME December 22nd. In the Chamber, the Minister of Muni tions announced that the Italians to-day re-conquered Monte Asolone

BITTER SNOW AND HARDSHIPS.

LONDON; December 22nd. Router's Correspondent at. Italian Headquarters sends a thrilling descrip tion of the intense winter conditions that the Italians are undergoing in the long drawn-out duel against the over-rising flood of the enemy. The Austro-Germans have accumulated a tremendous number, but cannot make a mand on the moun

detachment totalling 300 rifles with much ammunition and T.£24,000 in gold.

General

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LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.)

THE FORTHCOMING GERMAN PEACE OFFER.

LONDON, December £lat. In connection with the forthcoming German peace offer, the French news papers suggest that Germany may endea vour, under threat of a great offensive

of the Rada at Petrograd.

FOOD CATASTROPHE

GERMANY PREDICED.

IN

AMSTERDAM December 22nd: The Yorwaerts, in a sharp attack on the Food Controller, declares that agri-

their staffs, that many of them were extended to include schoole of instruction authorities refused to permit the pro- for young officers, who were sent there fessor to charge admission on that day, for short periods after receiving their he decided to disinter Baden after seven-

stage of the war, bad monthly even that the

condition was

on was f Dr. T. G. mand of about twenty regiments and attendance approximated to nearly 400.

senior resident It says much

for

the type of our English physician at the General Hospital, and will also be assisted in his invasion by students and the character of the training other doctors testified at the inquest that should the disinterred man was pulseless and Government a number of gunboats. The route taken they receive, that the

have at once turned to the universities roasting hot, his nails and lips were pur- will be by way of Ke-chow and Lui-chow.

for a goodly proportion of the officers

a vein in his arm refused to bleed required for the new armiese office

when oper

and

particles of sand wore did not confing the lodged

his ere Various drugs wer scives to

them

A few of General Lung's gunboats have, lying men for commissiona; vainly infected in an effort to save his

Fare wanting.

many of their students enlisted directly life He died two hours after entering into the ring as privates, and some the hospital without recovering con encourage this form of enlistment. Thus HOW AIX W the

it is said, been captured by the 1st Squadron in the Young Kong waters.

It is reported that fighting took place cultural producers and rich townsmen between General Lung's troops and Can are living in plenty, while the middleton troops on the 20th inst, but details class maintains itself precariously. The

General Lung nanounces that he has masses are not only hungry, but are

entered into agreements with General literally starving.

Luk Wing-ting to cancel the indepen At dence of the two Kwangs, which will henceforth chey the Peking Government,

the

HOW AIK WAS OBTAINED. Mr. H. W. Reece, K.Ch the Solicitor- General

Further

of the York and Lan at the incared on behalf of the

authorities of were largely responsible of a new battalion of

evidence show caster regiment, and the whole Welsh that the aiding glass covering on the lidh at the head of the coffin could be left division was permeated by recruits

of Wales from

partially opened the professor apparent our battalion of a regiment, y r relying on this camouflage to permit. In

e fame its recruiting district a the patient to obtain air, but at the town,

boast of ita

to whoxo arrangement waS beard troops swinging along

The medical evidence, none-the-less, in the West, to create an atmosphere many within a month, and the collapse

the dusty roads to the lilt of a rollicking showed that Soden's death was due to the Peking Government, stating that he varsity chorus, or going into action with asphyxiation caused by imperfect ven- will be even more serious than in Russia has sent the Inspector-Commissioner's studente rallying cries on their lips, tifadion, although the jury brought in t verdict of Death due to misadventure." tains dominating the field of attack sur under which something like a status quotes rounding the Grappa mountain and the ante bellum will be restored in the West entire loss of the war."

a result a German defeat and seal to General Lung Chai-kwong in MANY DECORATIONS, DEN

favourable to acceptance of the terme

in return for the restoration of the Gẹr-

man colonies, and a free hand for the Central Powers and Bulgaria in the

East

valleys leading to the plain It is necessary to dynamite artillery treaches In consequence of the hardness of the frozen ground. The gunnors are often obliged to place their cannon unsheltered b According to the French view, Ger while the snowy background makes them many will keep the question of Turkey an easy target. Field telegraphists and in the background, hoping thereby to stretcher bearers face almost certain interest England in this proposal.

The paper, is of opinion that there might be an absolute catastrophe in Ger-

and as

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, December 21st. - - Silver is quoted 43jd. per ounce. There are small offering, and the market is steady.

WEEKLY REPORT

LONDON, December 22nd. - Messrs Samuel and Montagu's weekly

Studente

General Luk Wing-ting has wired to France mpany and so out into deceive the spectators, o

King-chow.

Beaton left the court amid loud cheers The number of decorations awarded is from a large crowd, and perhaps not the best criterion by which Curiously enough, on October 20th, 190

Express reported from Kings.

the case of

of Professor

It is reported the Peking Govern- to arrive at a

satisfactory estimated coloured hypnotist,

General

his white wife and kept for 104 hours in a coffin

worth, but even so, the honours ton, military ment has consalted with

lists of the universitits are certainly | W. A Luk Wing-ting, and Tong Kni-yew impressive Distinctions conferred on who (Yunhan Tuchun) as to the mode of Oxford men include 12 V.C. 218 her dealing with Dr. Sun Yat-sen,

Drage have af Students. two sit shafts

2 D.S.O. A feet of earth at Rockport Gardens, THE TUCHUN'S DENIALS,

and 978 M.G. 3. Even so recently founded Kingston, M. Barola, however, aras 12 modest pence-time roll of lete than 1,000 she had lost eight pounds in weight. a university as Liverpool (1903), with a perfect health when disinterred, although male students, cau boast of four st

The Tuchun, Mok Wing son denies that he has resigned and also that the province will cancel its independence,

death is carrying out their duties. GERMANY REFUSES RUSSIAN silver report is as follows:-As uSUR GUNBOATH TO SUPPORT CANTON.

hours infantry are obliged to lie down for ours on the utterly exposed ground, awaiting the moment of attack, while the snow in a melled form penetrates their

bones.

Notwithstanding the hardships, the spirit of the troops, notably that of the Alpini, is undaunted.

Franco-Belgian Front.

LATEST CABLES.

[THROUGH REDFER'S AGENCY.]

PEACE TERMS.

PETROGRAD, December 21st. It is unofficially reported that the Ger- mans have refused the Russian peace terma.

AMERICA AND THE WAR,

LIQUOR PROHIBITION IN THE ARMY IN FRANCE,

LONDON, December 21st. Reuter's Correspondent with the Amer ican Army in France reports that Gener- al: Pershing has issued a proclamation to the troops inviting them to liberally Field-Marchal Sir Douglas Haig re-subscribe to the French War Loan, ports:Wo repulsed a raid north-east General Pershing has issued stringent

BRITISH FRONT.

PATROL ENCOUNTERS.

LONDON, December 21st.

11 D.S.0, and 21 M.C proofs, however, of

the

Pat best

of our

class Poorns of the

the empty students: aty now 28 from beginning of

for

the

amen

SIR J. SIMON,

Admiral Ching Pik-kwong has received universitie the war! The work of caring WHY HE HAS JOINED THE ARMY. this season the trade demand is inactive.

telegram stating that the Northern for the wounded has absorbed much of Sir John Bimon, M.P. has addressed So, pending fresh developments regarding

gunboats Hot-Fung, Kong-Hang end the effort of the universities. important purchases projected by the Chor-Him will come to the support of heen given up to the care of the wounded, stow Liberal Association in the course aDiversity buildings, themselves, have a letter to the chairman of the Waltham- British and American Governments. the the 1st Squadron in Canton. Admiral The technical, as distinct from the of which he explains the reasons which market remains quiet.

medical, war-work of our

our university

en have induced him to join the Army. Am Ching has ordered that a fitting welcome

obvious reasons can only be hinted to what has at lost the rulers of achieved by the Allies Shanghai exchange has strengthened shall be accorded them, and the masterat; but it is no exaggeration to say that in the war he

scheme of further. The latest official quotations has been reported to the Tuchuns

after the War some startling factum Germany, who planned ted on its emerge. The schools of forestry and conquest confidently 4/4 per tael

agriculture, have provided experts to deal success, are disillusioned, I do not doubt, with the problems of the greater home but the peace of the world cannot be The Indian silver holding continues to MINERALS OF THE EMPIRE. Cultivation which the war has forged on socused by accepting premises from states

us, and the best meane of

who hold

promins are made in naing our order It is understood that a definite decision valuable timber

Munition

that

they may be broken whenever has been arrived at to provide the neces works have recruited largely from the

their

military plans make it convenient sary machinery for the protection and departments of engineering and applied to do so. And in spite of all that has advancement of the elonomic welfare of sciences, and university men have been the certainty which Sir Douglas Hag's been accomplished by the Allies, and af the metal and mineral industries of the responsible for many of the most subtle

strategy RIVER us that the enemy is being Empire. Last year the Iron and Steel inventions for use in war

overthrown, I

myself to cannot bring Institute, representing the iron and GAS COMPANIES. A believe in the possibility negotiating steel industries, the Institute of Motale,

Immediately after poison-gas was intro an immediate and satisfactory representing the users and manufacturers duced by the Germans, scores of trained The of non-ferrous metal and alloys, the more qy heads we want a peuce which wil Instication of Mining Engineers repre- toris to form the British gas companies,

prevent a war like this over happening enting the coal and iron ore mining and and to study the best neaug of com-

Finally, Bir John says: I can imagire bating this new weapon of War

while the only one crime which is to be con

compared to

shrink.

MOTHERLAND'S SHARE.

FICTION OF MILLIONS IN-

IDLENESS.

Reuter's Agency received a statement regarding, the part played in the war by the soldiers of the Motherland, which dis- poses of the fable that very large numbers of trained soldiers fit for serviot overseas

TESOUTCCB.

men

ward of Mèssines and captured a few regulatione regarding liquor and immo are retained in idleness in the Unated industries, and the Institution of vincing reply which we have made the crime of permitting the war to go wa rality. All alcoholic beverages, excent Kingdom. The fact is that the fictitions | Mining and Metallurgy, representing the the later German frightfulness, has for an unnecessary hour, and that is the

prisoners in patrol encounters,

RAIDING

LONDON, December 22nd:

five and six to one

erested

considered

it has arises.

the

millions

in Great

mining of minerals other than con and | to light wings, ane prohilated, and gifts of Britain include hot only men under iron over, and the production of metals resulted in great measure from the efforts crime of dickening in our purpose, after such are forbidden. Drunkenness will wounded, training staffs, and

training and trained noen, but sick and other than fron and stool jointly adve- of professors and students who have been all the subrifices we have made, bolore a

securing of I tech labour and cated the establishment of a Departments for this purpose As a result of khat my own duty

in the government departments real opportunity of Minerals and Metals, and stivis pro-

these opinions I have very Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig rebe promptly punished, and all houses of In the actual theatres of war the pri posal was the subject of a resolution of manufacturers we up ports:-We repalsed raiders at night in ill-repute in the areas where the troops portion of troops Trom the Motherland the Imperial War Conference Arrange, and manufacturers we have built up ist, and though it is but little that a ma the neighbourhood of the Bapaume disembark or are stationed have been to those from the Dominions is between ments are now being made for the formal war industry in technical and of my age and training can contribute

tion of a body called the Imperial chemical products the manufacture of by joining the Army in Cambrai road castward of Monchy-le declared out of bounds.

It is sometimes thought that the troops Mineral Besourous Bureau, which will be which was formerly almost a German have come to the epactasion that I ought monopoly. This co-ordination will at this time to take that courte. It in Freux and south eastward of Armen-

from the Dominions are used more freely representative of the different parts of incrense, rather than diminish. Germany not that I do not estiraste as important GERMAN PEACE OVERTURES.

than those from the Motherland. The the Empire. There are highly organized can best reckon for herself what it will the

work

which Parliament in doing, tieres.

WASHINGTON, December 22nd. figures in the four series of battles on the geological surveys, and departments of cost her in future commercial competi- and will have to do

Somme, around Aras and Ypres, and at mines it nearly all foreign countries, and tion

will have to do. On the contrary, the time is coming when the task of

Parlia Mr. Lansing, commenting upon the Messines, speak for themselves there are milar well-organized depart

mont in restoring and

and enlarging our purported German Christmas peace over

Divisions Engaged. Casualties par

ments in some of the British Dominions,

peaceful- liberties, and División,

applying to but there is no connecting link or central

the life of our community tures circulated here through neutral land.

Mother Domi- Mother Domi-

clesing-houte to on-ordinate information The Fantastic Stars appearance at undertaking the war, will

which have bound the nation aions,

and

Bions. channels,” said that no information Somme 8 to 1

to

on the mineral resources of the Empire, the Victoria Theatre last night proved so pled importance. It is for that reason regarding them had reached the State Arras

quired, and to safeguard Imperial in these talented artists to appear at the framing and Department.

es to 111 to 13 The attitude of the Messines

Francise Rill. teresta. The serious results to the Bijou Theatre forthrights-Wed But that bill is. I trust, secure, and peace. These figures prove that, taking these national interests of this hence of conesday Thursday Friday as week will come all the sooner if the who care United States was not changed, being in series of battles as a whole, the casualties ordination in the past have been amply Owing to the Victoria Theatre being most ardently for the traditions and accord with the Allies' terms for restora among the troops of the Motherland have demonstrated by the war, and the new already heavily booked with Christmas practices of peace remember end show

been proportionately higher than those body is designed to make good this attractions it was impossible to play & that they remember, for tion and reperation by Germany.

among the Dominion troops

deficiency.

longer time there-

fighting

THE FRENCH FRONT.

RHEIMS SHELLED.

PARIS, December 22nd. A communque states:-Artillery firing was active in the region of Courieres Wood

In Alsace an attempt to - TuSİ - Our trenches west of Cernay was repulsed.

to 1

“FANTASTIC STARS””

NOAA ARA preguses to to stimulate their development as successful that it has been arranged for that I have done utmost to help in