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THE WAR.

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General

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NEW YEAR HONOURS.

Tom

Monmouth

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY

Labor MP for BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'S

BARONETUIKS The twenty Baronetcies following

Office

nolade the

Sir George Riddell, newspaper

MESSAGES,

LONDON January 1st Mr. Lloyd George, Prime Minister, in The Right Hon. Ar Ellis Gritt, New Your messages to the President of former Under Secretary for the Il me the United States the Prime Ministers

of Japan, Italy, Serbia, Roumania, Por pro-tugal, Belgium, Greece and France, om phasises that the hopes of humanity The Right Hon. Sit F E Smithcentre in the triumph of the Allied cause Attorney General,

Mutual friendship and respect are becoin- ing more and more the ceme Alliance which is the guardian and the liberty of the world

BOME WELL-KNOWN RECIPIENTS. prietor

LONDON, December 31st.

The New Year Honours include the following:

BARONB

Lieutenant Colonel James Crois Unionist, M.P. for East Division

Mr. Almeris Pagat, Unionist M.P. for County Down Cambridge.

Sir Frederick Cawley, Liberal MP. for the Prestwich Division of Lancashire.

Bir John Lonadale, Conservativo M.P for Mid-Armagh,

Bir James Woodhouse, one of H.-M. Hailway: Commissioners and formerly Liberal for Huddersfield.

AMERICA AND THE WAR,

WEEKLY WAR REVIEW.

of

WASHINGTON, Decomber 31st, The Secretary of War's weekly state- mont says New Year finds the British troops dominant in the Flanders plain The Afty-two Knighthoods include the The battle of Cambrai proves that the

Mollowing

ENIGHTROODE

German defences can be broken and

CHINA GREETS FRANCE.

PARIS January 1st. The President of China hag dispatched a message to President Poincare on the occa sion of the New Year, sending best wishes for the happiness of the gallant Franch people, and expressing the firm convic tion that, the heroic efforts of the French troops will triumph in the struggle for the defence of right and justice.

President Pomcare replied, thanking the President for his greatings

BRITISH LABOUR'S MESSAGE TO THE SOVIET

The Prime Minister thanks the individual Armies and Navies for their fortitudo fast year, and for their readi

STOCKHOLM. January 1st. ness to continue the struggle until the Mr. A. Handerson, MP., has tele world is rid of the domination of graphed to M Huysman, secretary of military autocracy, whose discredit and the Dutch and Scandinavian Committee defeat are casential to a lasting peace which organized the Stockholm Confor-

The Prime Minister expresses his full confidence in victory and the freedom of Sorle

ence, asking him to communicate to the the world in the new year

Soviet ht Potrograd the strong desire of British Labour for Russia not to con- clude a separate peace.

The Prime Minister tells President

1918

GUATEMAL

CITY VIRTUALLY DEVELOPMENT OF GERMAN DESTROYED,

FAST AFRICA.

WASHINGTON December 31st. The Central Africans have lately Another earthquake on Saturday been reinforced in their Press campaign virtually destroyed Guatemala City by a certain Dr. Krenkel, Leipzig

geologist who happened to be in East

in the fighting, was made prisoner, was Ons Africa at the outbreak of war, took part

says that everything is in ruine.

The report by the Navy Department hundred and twenty-five thousand people aro homeless.

The Nary has been ordered to render assistance,

TERRIFIC SHUCKS CONTINUE": NEW YORK, December 31st.

One thousand persons were killed at Guatemala.

Martial law was proclaimed. Several The inhabitants were ordered to eva

looters were shot.

cuate the city

interned in France, and was then sent to Switzerland. Ho recently published in the Cologne Gazette a striking artida on the militarist possibilities of Africa, and in the Tagliche Hundeckau ha

Ceu-

(ermany needs a great strong frontiers and good sea routes countreat tral African colonial Empire,

good

vals of five minutes.

Terrific shocks are continuing at inter. and from Mo

A MOLDAVIAN REPUBLIC

LONDON, December 31st.

The Times' Correspondent at Petrograd

Our

it with the Gorman Empire. A great Power in Germany and a great Power in Africa that will make any attack future oolonial Empire must stretch from upon as impossible in the future. Cameroon to the const of the Indian Ocean

Mozambique westwärds But apart from these ambitions. He

Herr Kronkel giver us the brat account of the economic developments which have made it

the Germans to carry on possible for the war in German East Africa. He declares that the economic effort has been as remarkable in East Africe us in Ger- many, and he claims that the natives

judge by his grim eniark that much resistance and much lazines had to be broken, but we did not

lot so we succred He says that the Germans have Lo able to grow immense quantities of alco and also of wheat, no

and that the meat supply was unlimited-apart from the tories produced almost white transport

difficulties. New sugar fae

of While sugar quality, and abundant supplies of good quality

were produced and transported in and

Mr Robert Bruce, Editor of the taken though full advantage has not Wilson, We are relying upon the great M. Huyaman replied, urging the con-

been taken of the early Buccesses. ever addition of strength of the young Ameri- rocation of a Socialist Congress to pre says that Besarabia has proclaimed itself are been greatly impressed Well they

Glasgow Herald,

Mr Ensley, Carr, editor and part these, the British troops in this battle

proprietor of News of the World.

Mr. John Galsworthy, the novelist. Mr. Anthony Hope, the novelist Mr. Leslie Wärd, the artist. Mr. John Lavery; the artist.

Mr. Edwin L. Latyns, the architect and artist

Mr. Sidney Low, Lecturer on Imperial and Colonial History at King's College University of London.

Mr. John Scott Keltic, the well-known

geographist,

Major William Northrop MeMillan, of East Africa.

Mr. Bartle Frere, Chief Justice af Gibraltar.

MILITARY HONOURS.

The Military Honours include the fol- lowing

K.C.B.-Surgeon General Sir David

Bruce

Promoted Major Genera-Brigadier Genoral E. Northey

PRIVY COUNCILLORS. There are six? Privy Councillorships, including the following:-

inflicted the most serious disaster on the Gorman arms since the Battle of the Marne

con Army.

pare a general as opposed to a separate peace

a Moldavian Republic.

The Prime Minister expresses to Signor Orlando his admiration of the WASHINGTON, January 1st-

successful Italian resistance and his con- FRENCH SOCIALISTS DENIED The French hold the key to the Laonfidence that Italy will ere long strike

PASSPORTS area through the capture of Chemin des another mighty blow at the liberation

Paris, January 1st-

tion of Socialists, including M. Albert M. Clemencean has received a deputa:

Thomas, whieh neked for passports for Petrograd with a view to preventing a separate peace.

Dames

It is evident from the repeated trans fer o pursuing an opportunist-plan of cam- fer of troops in Italy that the enemy is

paign rather than following defluite strategic operations.

HARD YEAR BEFORE THE ALLIES

PARIS December 31st. Lord Derby, in a message to Le Italia hopes that the coming year will see the troopa roturning home after a victory of right over might

Lord Robert Cecil, in a message, ad mits that the French and British have a hard year before them, but, strengthened by America, they will hold out till vie Lord Hugh Cecil, Unionist M.P. for tory. "Let us hope the war wit end Oxford University.

before next Now Year."

of Italy

PRIME MINISTER'S APPEAL

TO THE NATION.

LONDON, December 31st The Prime Minister in a message to the Nation, appeals to all to do their atmost in the Inter trying day, for the Cause which the democracies of the world are now leagued together. Recalling the privations and sacrifices of the Armies, Mr. Lloyd George says no sacrifice those at home are called on to make can faint

approach what is hourly demanded of them, and be emphasises that none are too old or too young to play a part. tant, and it is the duty of all to save Lending and saving are specially impor what they can and lend what they can to the community,

Every man, woman

and child might make it a point of họn our to increase his or her holding of national war bonds

FINLAND AND GERMANY.

LONDON, December 31st

It is reported that communications have been opened between Finland and Germany.

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, December 31st,

The silver market is firm,

M. Clemenceau replied that the situa- tion at Petrograd was too disturbed for any good result from such a mission and

NEW GERMAN HYMN OF HATE. refused the passports, as the granting The Hutin publishes from its Turin of them might induce the belief that the correspondent the text of the new Hymn Government a participating in the peace of Hate which was distributed among the pourparlers, which is not in any way German troops just before the offensive in their minds, in the absence of serious.

commenced against Italy. proposals from the enemy.

Its closing verse translated into English is as COAL

SHORTAGE

YORK

KW LORE, December 31st The unprecedented cold has aggravated the shortage of coal. Thousands stormed

IN NEW follows:-

the coal-yards for a basketful.

and

hero was suficient leather,

native women and children

into

ton which the German women turned ot stockings

gs. The Germans took gladly to navalt to keep the troops supplied with vegetables, and there was plenty of f jam The Germans developed new in-

in oils

Soap, and

kinds spirits, including a whisky made out ing presses produced quantities of naize, rice, and bananas. The print- money and sine even the African na

of paper

paper, they were given coins made of tives look with.

__with_suspicion German

brass Herr Krenkel adds -

an

START these things will disappear

are There the best prospects for produ

war, and many small industries can hardly be maintained. But tho colony has shown what it can achievo economically under vigorous leadership Sons of Germany. The great hour |

produe has come! Neither women nor children at least make the colony independent of tion of corn and rice the production will must be spared, because the children of Indian imports, and we shall be able to the vanquished may some day vanguish again become reasonable. It will also work for Germany when freight rates your country. Forward Shatter, destroy, he possible to export cattle, and the min thrust, bura, kill, kill, kill, kill, killing industry will give us good ores

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