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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH,

RUSSIA ACCEPTS GERMANY'S PEACE TERMS.

BRITISH CAPTURE JERICHO.

THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA.

INTER-ALLIED SOCIALIST CONFERENCE.

Franco-Belgian Front.

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BRITISH FRONT. ENEMY RAID REPULSED.

LONDON, February 24th, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haigre ports: A large enemy party raided two of our posts in the neighbourhood of the Ypres-Roulers railway. A few of our men are missing.

The Belgians repulsed an attempted raid in the Marckem sector.

BRITISH COIGN OF VANTAGE.

LONDON, February 22nd.

Mr. Philip Gible, the well-known. cor- respondent, at British Headquarters, writes:-Since we took over a part of the French line about St. Quentin a few weeks ago we have gradually extended -our front towards the right. One can

look from points straight across to the German lines, where the river Oise and ita canal are in flats and marshes beneath the slopes. Here No Man's Landis sometimes a thousand yards wide, owing to the swamps due to the breaking of the canal bank. Behind the German outposts is a formidable French system forming part of the Hindenburg Line between St. Quentin and Laon. The ground south east' of the Oise rises to St. Gobain ridge, which is a high rampart in the German Jines. The whole country cast and south of St. Quentin is wild and rugged and

is covered with great forests,

SUCCESSFUL RAIDS.

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ENEMY'S PREPARATIONS FOR OFFENSIVE:

PARIS, February 22nd.

A semi-official report states:-Although reciprocal raiding is increasing, denoting that preparations for an offensive are becoming more marked, and the artillery duck has also increased, nothing yet. indicates that the enemy is on the point of launching bis offensive.

HOSTILE ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.

LONDON, February 2413.

Herial Activities.

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Rowe, February 22nd.

A British chaser-plane, which left London yesterday, has arrived, having completed the journey in six stages.

FRENCH DIRIGIBLE

DESTROYED.

GERMAN REPORT

LONDON, February 22nd.

report

A wireless German official states-Our troops in Estonia are pressing ontwards.

We occupied Wark, Livonia and Dubno. A wireless German official report states:We occupied Hapsal Esthonia

The First Eathonian Regiment placed iteclf at the disposal of the German Command.

We are beyond Ronneburg, Wolmar and Spandau.

PARIS, February 22nd, Le Temps states that a French dirigible, scouting near Havre on February 20th,

We entered Riezītza, amidst the rejoic accidentally collided with a cliff.

ings of the inhabitants. Thence we ad Bombs exploded, wounding a number of vaned to Liuzin, and have occupied

Minsk

civilians.

The commander and one of the crew were killed, and the dirigible was de stroyed.

„Naval Activities.

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SPANISH STEAMER.

TORPEDOED.

SURVIVORS PICKED UP

CADIZ, February 22nd. Twenty-eight survivors of the

1918.

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA:

THE BESIEGED STUDENTS.

STOCKHOLM, February 23rd The besieged students in the Helsingfors, district mentioned yesterday number

3000. They are stranded on the Pellinge archipelago.

-- The Swedish Minister of Marine has

announced that a naval expedition is

impossible, owing to the ice Represents tions are being made to Helsingfors.

TO SAVE THE REPUBLIC.

PETROGRAD, February 22nd. The Commissaries of the People have appointed a special General Staff for the District of Petrograd.

Martial law has been established under which the counter-revolutionary Our assistance in the Ukraine struggle elements will be extirpated without diff for medom as progressing.

culty,

We have effected a junction with the Ukrainich detachments at Novo. Grad-

rolynsk, and other columns are marching on Dubno.

General,

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GERMANY AND ROUMANIA CONFERENCE AT BUKHAREST.

AMSTERDAM, February 2nd. The Roumanian Premier and General- jesimo Averescu have arrived at Buk barest to meet Baron von Kuchlinan,

Count Czernin is expected.

AMSTERDAM, February 22nd. A message from Berlin states that 36 38 officially announced that Baron von Kuchimann is leaving for Bucharest

AMSTERDAM, February 23rd, The German Press is most truculent as

and are of opinion that owing to the regards the negotiations with Roumania

hopelessness of her military situation ahe will not expect too much.

While the Hungarian Premier was re- plying to an interpellation in the Lower House he forecasted the military and

The whole population is mobilised for economic subjugation of Roumania,

defence works.

An extraordinary sesion of the Soviet Parliament considered recent events.

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PEACE TERMS ACCEPTED. LONDON, February 24th. A wireless Russian official report Field-Marchal Sir Douglas Haig, re-

*** | podoed Spanish steamer Marcaapso, which states:-MM Lonin and Trotsky have porte:We repulsed raiders in the neigh was proceeding to New York, have been despatched a message to Berlin intimating port the Soviet authority.

Ruskin's acceptance of Germany's peace conditions and that Russie is sending a delegation to Brestlifovsk,

bourhood of Broodscinde.

There was hostile artillery firing in the Fasschendaele sector.

The Near East.

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THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN.

GENERAL ALLENBY'S POSITION.

LONDON, February 231d.

Reuter's Agency is authoritatively in formed that much importance is attached to the British advance on the banks of the Jordan. The advance will greatly help m establishing touch with the Arabs, thereby greatly encouraging the Allies, who have fought a long and tough fight against overwhelming numbers.

General Allenby's position is now well defined His right flank rests on the Dead Sea and his left flank on the Medi terranean. Hence, a frontal attack alone is possible for the enemy aa we Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re-control the Dead Sea and have access to ports: --Scottish troops carried out a the rich territory on the eastern sides,

LONDON, February 23rd.

successful raid last night at Monchy,

le-Preux.

There was hostile artillery firing in the neighbourhood of the Menin road southward of Houthulst forest. RAIDS, CAPTURES AND HOSTILE

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.

and menace the railway to Damuscus, Ahead we have casier country and better roads

COMMANDING

POSITION

ENSURED. LONDON, February 22nd. The capture of Jericho is of consider. able military importance, because it LONDON, February 24th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re

ensures to us a commanding position at. the head of the comparatively level portsWe repulsed, with enemy losses,

ground parallel with the Jordan valley, an attempted raid on Hill 70.

We drove off raiders northward of while it also constitutes another severe Poolcapelle.

Our patrols captured some prisoners on different parts of the front.

Hostile artillery were active between Gouzeaucourt and the Scarpe Valley, at a

blow for the Turks, who, unless they are far more disorganised than there is rea son to hope, will probably bring up formidable reinforcements to oppose our further advance.

picked up at sea and landed here. Africa.

tor-

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LONDON, February 22nd. An East African official report states: -We dislodged the enemy, from Lujenda Valley and forced his retirement south- wards towards the upper Lurio river. We captured some prisoners in the vicisi ties of Mtariks and Luvesobulaboma.

The

Maloktera.

Portuguese again occupied

The British forces are following up the main body of the enemy along and north

ward of the Lurio, Russian Bront,

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RUSSIAN FRONT.

GERMAN REPORT.

INTELLIGENT ANTICIPATION.

AMETZEDAM, February 23rd.. The Vouche Zeitung states that the probable terms of peace with Russia will be the complete evacuation of Livonia and Esthonia, the immediate release of oll Germans, Esthonians and Letts held as prisoners by Russia, the recognition of Finnish independence, the Ukraine

Finland and Ukraine. peace, and the complete evacuation of

GERMANY ADMITS RECEIPT OF DOCUMENT.

AMSTERDAM, February 22nd, Germany admits the receipt of a docu- ment enfrming Russia's peace offer, which is signed by MM. Lenin and

Trotzky,

It is semi-officially stated that Ger- many will not reply immediately, Baron von Kuchlmann, meanwhile being other vise engaged at Bukharest.

GERMANY'S TERMS.

LONDON, February 24th.

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INTER ALLIED SOCIALIST

CONFERENCE.

LONDON, February 22nd.

AL Sverdloff who presided, said that

now that the mask had been torn from, Germany, nothing remained but to save Albert Thomas presided at the Republic.

terday's Inter-Allied Socialist Confer- ence in London. He said that discus Parliament resolved approving the actions at Paris had assured the certainty of the Executive, and relying upon the of agreement in the common policy based worknien, soldiers and peasants to sup upon the British Labour war aims momorandum, which was so international ORDER TO BRITISH SUBJECTS IN and human that the enemy Socialists

PETROGRAD.

would be able to accept it LONDON, February 23rd, The British section of the Conference The Times Petrograd Correspondent refused to allow the Independent Labour states: British Military Order has Party and the British Socialist Party to been issued to all British subjects of be separately represented, military age in Petrograd hitherto ex- empted to be ready to start for home within six hours' notice.

Other British subjects able to go, especially women and children, are advised to leave Russia without delay,

THE RUSSIAN FLEET.

PernoGuan, February 22nd. The Naval Authorities have kivan up hope of active operations by the Fleet, which is completely disorganised:

RUSSIAN FLEET ICEBOUND

PETROGRAD, February 22nd. The Russian fleet, including a number

There is a movement on foot to form a British Trade Union Labour Party-

M. Vandervelde, the Belgian delegato, presiding at the inter-Allied Socialist Conference, said they could not ignore what the Bolsheviks had done to discredit International Socialism. Democracy had made an irretrievable mistake in laying down ormą – before imperialism tres

defeated.

FUTURE OF GERMAN COLONIES IN THE TROPICS.

LONDON, February 23rd, The French amendment, to the British Memorandam, which the Inter-Allied Hocialist. Conference has adopted,

of modern dreadnoughts, la iccbound at declares that as the German declaration.

Reval and Helsingfors. It is feared that unless the fleet in destroyed it may fall into the hands of the Germans, as the crews will not fight.

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of war in 1914 déliberately broke the treaty of Frankfort it would be open for the League of Nations to reconsider the whole question of Alsace Lorraine,

The Conference further declared that the future of the German Colonies in the tropics be left in the hands of the League of Nations, due regard being paid to the wishes of the people of the neighbouring

APPROACHING AGREEMENT.

A Russian wireless report states :— LONDON, February 24th Replying to the Russian proposals of

February 18th, Germany, on February PROCLAMATION OF DESPERATION British Commonwealths.

PETROGRAD, February 22nd. 1st, intimated her readiness to conclude peace as follows

The Council of Commissaries, in a Firstly, Germany and Russia to de proclamation, says the Republic is in the clare the state of war ended.

A wireless German official report states: We advanced by forced marches in Esthonis The enemy is resisting at Bome points

We are approaching Reval, We have captured 1,000 prisoners, and liberated 600 Austro-Germons at Wark,

We captured Ostrov and captured 1,000

gravest danger, and calls upon everyone to defend the positions to the last drop

Secondly, the regions west of the line indicated at Brestlitovsk to the Russian Delegation formerly belonging to Russia of blood, to remove the rolling-stock and are no longer under Russian territorial destroy the railways behind them, even protection In the region of Dvinsk this the provisions which are in danger of

hine must be advanced to the eastern

of the p

LONDON February 23rd. 16 is stated that the Inter-Allied Socialist Conference is approaching which endorses practically without change agreement on the wax nims memorandum the Letgue of Nations and economic rela tions proposals of the British Meno randam. The Conference made progress werritorial adjustments, and revised and with the more difficult subject of strengthened the paragraph, relating to prisoners at Balbinovo,

of claim Frontier of Courland Germany and falling to the enemy; and to raise battu Alapce Lorraine in the direction of We occupied Borrissov

Austria Hungary will define further the

provinces to France. The Italian Socialiste attended yester General Linsingen's troops have enter their populations include all the bourgeoise classes, men and fate of these regions in agreement with lions to dig trenches. These battalions

day and submitted' a memorandum in ed Iskorost.-

and favour of the League of Nations declaring Thirdly, Livonia and Esthonia must immediately be cleared of Russian women, under the surveillance of the that the breaking up of Austria-Hungary

t was indispensable to peaca *- troops and Bed Guarda, and be occupied Red Guards. Resisters will be shot, it by Germany to police till their securityAll the bourgeoise class, male and is guaranteed by their Constitutions.

Fourthly, Russia will conclude peace female must be made to carry out the de with Ukraine and evacuate Ukraine and fence work under the Red Guards. Foreign LONDON, February rd, Finlandia to secure the orderly return of the Eastern revolutionaries and German spies must carrying of keeping of firearms, mani Fifthly Russia to do her utmost to agente, speculators, literers, counter been gazetted at Dublin' prohibiting th

An order by General Bryan Mahon has

be shot at sight. The local Soviets must tions, and explosive, within the counties.

of Galway and Tipperary.

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LORD MILNER ON THE PRUSSIAN MENACE,

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GERMAN ARMY'S PROGRESS.

LONDON, February 22nd. The Germans have advanced on an

A noteworthy fact is that the whole of number of points between Lens and the newly captured district was the average afty miles in Russia since they

Armentieres, and north-east and north of

Xpres

Owing to the bad weather only a fow fights were possible.

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FRENCH FRONT,

LIVELY ARTILLERY DUELS.

Panis, February 2nd.

A communiqué states-There were lively artillery duels on the whole front, especially in the regions of the Forest Pinon, Chevreux, Californie, Butte du-Mescil, Hartemannveiler and La Doller, but there was no infantry action. GERMAN POSITIONS?

PENETRATED;

PARIS, February 24th. A communiqué states:-There is fairly great artillery" fring in the regions of Vauxaillon, Chavignon and Butte-du- Mesnil and on the left of the Meuse.

private property of the Bultan.

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CAPTURE OF JERICO.

LONDON, February 22nd. Jerico has been captured. BRITISH FOSITIONS EXTENDED.

LATER

A Palestine official report states Our forces advancing on Thursday morning encountered mall opposition, and at 9.20 the Australian mounted troops entered Jericho and established themselves on the line Jordan-Wadiauja

The weather is bad.

Our casualtics on Wednesday were elight, and 46 Turks were captured.

We extended our positions north and north-eastward of Jerusalem.

ENEMY RETIRING.

LONDON February 23rd. A Palestine offical report atatea The

Anatolian frontiers to Turkey,

see that these decisions are carried ont. ?

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PETROGRAD, February 22nd. The Bolshevik Commissaries in a far-

resumed operations on February 18th. Sixthly, the complete demobilization of The caly point where anything resem

the Russian armyani

Seventhly, the Russian fleets, including bling resistance we encountered was at the Entente warships, must be kept in

Russian

till general peaca or Lerngal where a small body of Russian disarmed fought against overwhelming odds for a Fighthly, the Russo-German commercial treaty of 19034 comes into force, free export short time.

of pres must be guaranteed, and a new ther proclamation declare that the enemy Commercial Treaty must be negotiated.

Ninthly, legal and political relations to be regulated in accordance with the first Germano-Russian Convention.

pesce ideas are based on usurpation and violence. It denounces the German offensive as a raid of brigandege and secases the bourgeoisie of a sympathetic

ARMS PROHIBITION IN IRELAND.

* LONDON, February 2nd The following is the concluding portion of Lord Milner's speech at Plymouth

"Lord Milner foreshadowed greater efforts and much greater bardships in the immediate future Therefore, he

Lemsal is 60 miles southwest of Reval and fifteen miles from the const

Venden is 45 miles north-east of Riza Tentbly, Russia promises to end the Fon the Petrograd railway

propaganda against the Quadruplice

Eleventhly the

these conditions must be attitude to Germany in order to over-appened for a more perfect co-ordination 10 of effort by all the Allies for the sup Woniar, on

accepted within 48 hours the Russian throw the revolution. the railway, is 20 miles,

pression of domestic discord, and the Plenipotentiaries must sign at Brest-

The Commissaries renew their appeals concentration of the efforts of men and Litovsk within three days, the Peaco Treaty which must be ratified within a to the Boviets to organise the army and fortnight nee

north of Riga and 35 miles from the

coast

"Unofficial reports state that the Ger mans are advancing in the direction of Vitebsk 150 miles south-east of Dvinak and 20 miles north of Mohileff

GUERILLA WARFARE THREATENED.

LONDON,February 22nd- «A ↑ Wireless Russian report – states General Krylenko orders a revoluti mobilisation in the form

Their scouts have appeared near warfare in every street of every --Polouk, halfway between Vitebsk sud and town if the Germans refuse to con-

Dvik, while Molodetchno, 110 miles

clude penes

south of Ivinskas stated to be in the

Our datachments in Upper Alsace enemy from Jericho retired northwards hands of the Germans, whose cavalry zre valiantly penetrated Peatdampach and of the Wadisnja, leaving his posta on moving towards Mobileff. the region north-west of. Fachlehas, and

destroyed the Garman organisations and the high ground on the left bank. He

set fire to several dugouts

They inflicted losses on the enemy

• brought back prisoners

The enemy has captured Riejita, 60 miles north-east of Drinsk and is ad holding the bridgehand at El Ghoraniye, vancing on Phkoff

dalo retired eastwards across the Jordan,

The

confe

VOR

PRESS VIEW. AMSTERDAM, February, 22nd.

ger-states that after

Count Czernin and Averescu at Bucharest Baron uehlmann, who has gone Bacharest experts to renew negotiations with Russia at Breatlynesk if the Rumians undertake to accept the terms Jaid down.

exped the harmful elements, and to strain] every nerve to improve the supplies and exercise & severe discipline throughout the

country.

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women of all classes and parties upon the supreme object of national salvation. Owing to the policy of the Vermilles. Council we have now got reasonable machinery for attaining co-ordination of effort. The cssence of the new system was that we had got a permanent body of experts always sitting and ongaged in the study of war problems from the point of view of the Alliance as a whole. Concluding Lord Milner said he did not fear there would be seen in this country anything like the ollies and The Fossche Rettungshaics Dr. excessed as in Russia. Such revolutions Beidler's statement that Cholm has not destroy, not despotism, but democracy. been ceded to Ukraine has not eased the which was perhaps on its greatest final

trials situation glad to

THE DESTINY OF CHOLM.

AMSTERDAM Februar 2nd.

There were wild scenes in the Reicher rath, the Blay, and Czechs shouting down the Premier and shrieking Lies, treachery One Czech Socialist wELA fotably remorned from the Chamber

THE NAVY ESTIMATES-

LONDON, February 22nd. The Navy Estimates provide

for 450,000 men-