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THE WAR.

MEAGREREPORTS FROM FLANDERS.

ROUMANIA SIGNS PEACE TREATY.

THE PALESTINE OPERATIONS. REQUIRE FULLER OFFICIAL EXPLANATION.

Branco-Belgian Front.

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BRITISH FRONT.

SUCCESSFUL RAIDS,

LONDON, May 7th.

12.25 p... Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haigre ports:-We captured a few prisoners and three machine-guns in a successiul raid in the neighbourhood of Neuville St. Vaast. Our casualties were slight.

We repulsed a ruid near Boyelles

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 9ra, 1918.

THE ATTACK ON ZEEBRUGGE, "A FANTASTICALLY AUDACIOUS

STROKE."

LONDON, May 7th. The Frankfurter Zeitung, commenting upon the British attack at Zeebrugge, sage: "It would be foolish to deny that the Britishs Fleet scored a great success through a fantastically audacious stroke in penetrating one of the most important strongholds over which floats the German flag. However unpleasant it may be, we may frankly admit that enemy ships actually entered the part of Zeebrugge, and that being so, there is no reason why they should not achieve during the night in the neighbourhood of fore behoves our Naval Command to be a similar leat it other times. It there Morlancourt we captured over 200 prison the alert, for we have to deal with

an antagonist of remarkable boldness."!

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SUCCESSFUL LOCAL OPERATION.

Losnos, May 6th. 10.20 p.m.. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- ports:In a successful local operation

oners.

The French repulsed attempted raids southward of Locre.

Reciprocal artillery Bring continued all day on the battlefronts.

Our artillery caused several fres behind the enemy's lines northward of. Lys.

LATEST CABIES. ENEMY PREPARING ANOTHER BLOW;

LONDON, May 7th. 4.10 p.m.

to-dny,

Was

TORPEDOED.

BARCELONA, May 7th.

The survivors of the torpedoed Spanish steamer Jaisa have arrived. The vessel attacked while following armed Allied vessels. The Luisa seak in three minutes. Three stokers were killed. The British patrol-bonts picked up the survivors.

Reuler's Correspondent at British The Near East, Headquarters, telegraphing statesThere was a terrific bombard- ment for two hours last night.

In

connection with two raids one by the enemy WIK. unsc- cessful, and the other, by the Cana dians, is reported by Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. The raiders reported that many of the enemy were killed and wounded. hand-to-hand lighting. Great destruction was wrought on the defence works.

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THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN. BRITISH ADVANCED TROOPS WITHDRAWN.

LONDON, May 6th, A Palestine official report states: Our advanced troops holding Essalt have withdrawn. Subsequently the bulk of our troops were withdrawn over the Heavy rains are rendering the ground Jordan. Strong detachments remain on very bad for fighting,

the eastern bank, securing the crossings. Whilst there is no doubt that the We captured eastward of the Jordan enemy is preparing another violent blow, between April 20th and May 4th one We are correspondingly rendy to meet it. German and 45 Turkish officers and 42

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GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON, May 6th.

report

A wireless German ofheinl states

focal enemy attack southward-

of Locre Eniled. We captured some pris oners during reconnoitring engagements near Hangard and south-westward of, Brimont also with the Americans south-

westward of Blamont, and with the French at Hartmannsweilerkopf.

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FRENCH FRONT.

UNIMPORTANT OPERATIONS,

General.

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ROUMANIA SIGNS PEACE!

TREATY

LONDON, May 7th

A Roumanian communiqué states: The Peace Treaty between Roumania and Austria, Germany, Turkey and Bulgaris was signed at Bucharest this morning. The text of the Treaty will be published shortly

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA

REMARKABLE RESTORATION OF

ORDER

LONDON, May the

REAT UNREST IN AUSTRIA MODIFIED SIEGE PREVAILS.

LONDON, May 6th.

A telegram from Vienna shows that the crisis is more acute.

THE LOST CITY OF

CONSTANZA.

ROUMANIA NATIONAL PORT. Under the conditions now imposed on Roumani by the Central Powers the

tho Great unrest continues owing to the city of Constanza, together with

whole

province of the Dobrudja, will be adjournment of Parliament.

ceded to Bulgaria. The Slay members of the Cabinet-have resigned.

GERMAN TREATMENT OF WAR-PRISONERS.

LONDON, May 7th.. Router's Correspondent at American Headquarters in Franco states:An esenped French war-prisoner states that bs saw at Hamelin, in Hanover, an American war-prisoner who had worked for three months in the Hara salt-mines. He was incredibly thin and so wenk that he could not cross the room without topping, repeatedly leaning on the furniture The American stated that no parcels had been sent to the mines. Primod soners received practically nothing but thin soup, sometimes

s eggs and fish

and fish which were impossible to eat, potatoes and bread were very scarce, and it was impossible

UKRAINE GOVERNMENT

The Times Correspondent at Christo work without becoming sick or weak. ened to the point of falling. Punish tianin states illat, according to, news,

nts include beating with a rifle butt from Russia through independent

or bayonet, and imprisonnrent in a dark: Swedish and Dutch channels, the rumours

super-heated cell, after whith the men of the overthrow of the Bolshevist

are forced to stand to attention for a Government are unfounded. They were certain time in the snow, Deaths were probably due to the development of the

frequent. An Englishmen and a French Soviet Administration in a moderate man whom the narrator saw at Hamelin direction M. Trotzky's advocacy of were too weak to hold a cigarette. compulsory work has resulted in the People's Commissioners being compelled THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE. to fight the anarchists, just as Kerensky's Government had to fight the Bolshevists. Next to the establishment of a new Army the most reassuring feature is

have resumed work. This has result, states that, the Ukrainian Govern that the officials of the Kerensky sége A message from Moscow, dated May in a remarkable restoration of ordement has sent to Berlin a. Note of pro- especially in the distribution of food, test, indicating that it will resign unless stuffs. Many things which no amount of the German Government recalls several exhortation___and speechifying could officials, including the Military Com. formerly induce the people to do are now mander, von Eichhorn, and Ambassador being done under the inspiration of a Ne' warzenstein, steadily growing hatred on the part of the Russian nation for the German oppressor,

ALLIES FAITH IN RUSSIA'S FUTURE

PROTESTS,

LONDON, May 7th.

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MAKING THE BEST OF A BAD JOB.

LONDON, May 7th

It is doubtful whether Premier von Seidler will be able to restore order in the Slay districts in the south, where a modified siego prevails.

von

A SIGN OF ABSOLUTISM.

LONDON, May the

telegram from Zurich states that Seidler bas ordered the prosecution of the organisers of the demonstration at Prague on May 1st in favour of the creation of a Czech-Slovak, State. One hundred thousand Czechs have since presented a petition denmading to be prosecuted.

The Socialist newspapers in Vienna say that the Commitice of the Socialist party and the Committee of the German Socialist Deputies Club, have decided to issue a manifesto to the workers u-ging them, to be in readiness to fight the re-establishment of absolutisin, of which the adjournment of the Reichstag is a sign.

The Arbeiter Zeitung warns von Seidler

that the unrest of the Southern Sines is that he is on the brink of a precipico and

due to the proposed partition of Bohemia

on national lines.

INCREASED POSTAL RATES

LONDON, May Gth.

In the House of Commons, the Bill authorising that the postal rates (hen-

ssed its second reading. Tha letter tioned on April 22nd) be inercased

rates do not apply to soldiers serving abroad. The Postmaster-General estimat ed that the extra letter charge to the Dominions and Colonies will produce $140,000 annually.

AUSTRALIA SOLVES MAN POWER PROBLEM.

It has been surmised that the Central Powers intend to offer the lost provinco of Bessarabia to Roumania in compons- tion-an intention apparently indicated

one feature of the Pescy Treaty. Such an arrangement would have beon welcomed by_the___ _past generation of Roumanians as an act of historical re-. tribution, they would gladly have sur rendered the Dobrudja, with its mod kith and kin in Bessarabin. But the population, in order to recover their lost.

Kustenje of their days was very different from the Constanza of to-day. Immenso. sums have been spent on the develop- progress has been watched with pride by ment of the national port; its rapid

the entire nation, and its loss, thôngh is felt as a bitter humiliation by all fouly regarded as a temporary sacrifice,

Roumanians. When in announced

January, 1878,––– Russia der intention to resume possession of that portion of Bessarabin by the Treaty of Paris in 1866, and to which had been assigned to Moldavia

tones the delta of the Danube and compensate - Noumania by allowing her the northern portion, of the Dobrudja, Bukharest. Every effort was maile to no little indignation prevailed at obtain a reversal of their decision, which, however, received the sanction of Europe at Berlin in the July.

diollowing

abte, and Roumania had to make the

It was necessary to accept the inevit

considerable extent of sca-coast with the best of her new acquisition, which at least brought her the advantage of a

start, and Mangalls. Of these Bulina as yet undeveloped ports of Sulina, Con-

was soon to become a place of consider able importance owing to the grot engineering works in the central armn of the delta designed by the genius of Sir Charles Hartley, and carried out with its large and deep inlet, was cap under his superintendence. Mangalia,

able of being transformed into a great naval port affording accommodation for was ever likely to possess of the a more numerous, Heet thon Roumanja

tion of the Dobrudja, was little more -Constanza, at the time of the annexa

than a fishing village with a population Greek colony, and owed if former name of about 5,000. It was originally a

terrible crime of the enchantress edes of Tomi, according to the legend, to the

who, flying across the Binck - Trüm the Court of her father, King

of Colebis, murdered her young brother Absyrtus, whom she hati brenght, with her, and, cutting his body 14 ptors, scattered the fragments on the waves in order to arrest her father's pursuit. The Daily Mail's Correspondent at The King, overwhelmed with horror, Sydney telegraphs that the Military stopped the course of his ship in order Authorities have decided to cease employ-on the neighbouring shore.

to pick up the proces, and b. iv. them

thing for servies in Australia men who are from whom it derived its present name In the time of Constantine the Great,

The position in Ukraine is most The Times, commenting upon the above obscure, as the reports of the happenings dispatch, says: The Allies, whose there have so far been received from faith in the future of the Russian people German sources. bas never failed, must welcome every sign of a change of feeling with gratis fication and hope. The spectacle of the German diplomatists distorting self- determination

and no annexation into a wholesale dismemberment of Rue sin and the fate of Ukraine are object lessons in German good faith and amity, which make the revulsion of feeling

General Skoropadski is pro-German, and

Tho - German

papers contend that

was a frequent visitor to Germany, but Mr. Harold Williams, the Russian expert, in an article in the Daily Chronicle, says that frome what he knows of the presonnel of the new Ukraine Government it is distinctly anti-German

LONDON, May 7th.

Bt for service abroad, and as a result of the fortunes of Constanza revived, and again in the Middle Ages it became a

kish rule its prosperity declined,

A LINK IN THE ORIENT CHAIN.

among the Russians not surprising. 1 and is trying to make the best of a boy two years public agitation a rigorous place of commercial importance under is the plain duty of the well-wishers of job. He says General Skorepadski is a comb out is now proceeding. Every man the Genoese. Under the light of Tur- Russia on both sides of the Atlantic to oldier, and is wholly innocent of who has not sech active service is being give the Russian people all the assistance politics. The new Prenier, M. Vasie în, their power in the great work of renko, is a Cader who was convinced of for general service will be sent abroad.

medically examined, and those who joined

national reconstruction. Such assist the necessity of a union with Russia.

The action of the Authorities is widely ance must have no interests in view but those of Russia herself, and the griner The Daily Jew's Correspondent at tion which bas prejudiced recruiting.

approved, as tending to remove a condi- ples for which democracies are banded Moscow, describing the scene in the Rada together. Russia is a necessary partner on April 24th, says the Germans sur-

SANCTITY OF RADA VIOLATED.

Germans and S13 Turks of other ranks, 29 machine-guns, & motor-lorries, and in the League of Nations, and it is rounded the building A German licuta | -IN A TANGLE OF RED TAPE.

flicting casualties exceeding ours.

King Hedjaz's forces on May 3rd at tacked Turkish parties working at Wadi Jerdun railway station, northward of Maan, capturing 26 prisoners and serious ly damaging the line.

REQUIRES FULLER OFFICIAL EXPLANATION.

LONDON, May 7th. The Times, commenting upon General Allenby's communiquée, says the fact remains that we have twice pushed east from the Jordan, and each time we have bech compelled to withdraw. It is clear that the enemy on this front is increas ing in strength and the whole problema of the Palestine advance requires a An enenty raid on a small post west fuller official explanation than it has. of Hangard failed.

PARIS, May 7th

communiqué States:There reciprocal artillery firing north south of the Avres

vas

and

hitherto received.

We brought back prisoners in a local Aerial Activities. operation in the same region.

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PARIS, May 6th The Germans yesterday violently

bombarded the American sector in

WHAT MR. HODGE WANTS FROM THE TREASURY. When I read, in one of Dickens'

gratifying to know that the only onenant walked to the President's chair of the Allics able to afford assistance while the troops entered. The lieutenant promptly and effectually at present is shouted Hands up. Sit still." Then also willing to afford it. Baron Goto's he called the names of certain Ministers, novels, about the Circumlocution Office, recent statement makes it clear that one of whom answered and was arrested, Japan would not refuse to undertake

to the Japanese. On the contrary, all making it unsafe for Germans to move the Allies and America are well aware about Whole trains of food en route to that if Japan undertook such a mission Germany were frequently seized by bands sho would do so under the inspiration of an elevated and far-sighted policy"

AMERICAN CONSUL-GENERAL'S

of revolutionaries.

In recent years, however, Constanza has nude remarkable progress, especially since the establishment of railway com- chia by the construction of the great munication with Moldavia and Walla

bridge over the Danube at Tehernavoda in 1895. Since then a spacious barbour has been enclosed by long breakwaters; on the quays have arisen great silos for the storage of grain and reservoirs for for petroleum. The port will oventu ally be connected with the oilfields by pipe-line. Up to the outbreak of war Roumanian lines of steamers, as well as those of the Austrian Lloyd, con

while a fast maritime service to Con- nected Constanza with the principal ports of the Black Sea and the Levant,

I thought it was much overdrawn. Since stantinople supplemented the overland

Bofa

The Correspondent says von Eichhorn's I became one of his Majesty's Ministers Orient Express route vid Belgrade and the duty if properly approached. No

I have come to the conclusion that With the growth of its commercial order proclaiming martial-law was the Government and no people in Europe or result of a series of peasant risings, Minister of Pensions, in the course of a catcnding beyond the little peninsula Dickens was right, said Mr John Hodge, nativity the town has increased rapidly America ever dreamed of giving orders

speech at Worcester recently which formed its original site, and The Chancellor of the Exchequer is spreading along the coast to the north. a man of wide human yupathies 16 It has become a place of resort in the marked Mr. Hodge, in touching on some kummer season some fine hotels leve of difficulties of his department. I have been built oir tha promontory, as well not asked him for anythng yet that Is a large casino, which was wont to have not received--but the Treasury are provide the fashionable world with different They always turn me down, amusement in the shape of baccarat and but because of my persistency they have roulette and, like the sister establish

ment at Sinain, maintained a thriving had to turn me up,

Unfortunately, they do not see eye tzistence in the face of apparently pro- to eye with me on the question of child-hibitive taxation. For sea bathing there ren You who have any knowledge of the is & magnificent beach at Hamaia, a work of boards of guardians know that little to the north of the town, while to you cannot keep an orphan child under the south, at Tekir-Ghioul, accommoda 12s a week. Why should I not get as tion is provided for those who desire to much as that for the soldier's child? take mud baths, an excellent specific for national assets I want the children summer visitors Constanza before ita The children are one of our greatest rheumatism. Apart from the infus of looked after especially the soldiers capture in 1918 reckoned some 35,000 and Field-Marshal von Eichhorn win cellor of the Exchequer will not turn me

children. I feel confident that the Chan- inhabitants,

daily in the East

down. Politicians cannot turn me down behind me so far as proposal of this —they dare, not, the whole country is

character is concerned

DEATH

GERMANY'S DIPLOMATIC VICTORY IN HOLLAND,

AMSTERDAM, May 6th. Moscow, May 7th. The American Consul General uts died Commenting on the Foreign Minister's suddenly Russian doctors at first statement on the 5th Inst, the Moar diagnosed his death as having re- - Dagochtenblul says that German diplo sulted from poisoning, but subsequentlymacy has won in Holland a success they certified death was due to hemorrillar to that which General Hoffmann hage of the brain,

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NAVAL AIR FORCE OPERA-FRANCE RENOUNCES - SOME

TIONS.

COMMERCIAL CONVENTIONS.

FARIB, May 7th.

The Cabinet has renounced all Com- LONDON, May 6th. mercial Conventions containing & general The Admiralty announces that between

DIRECT HITS ON VARIOUS TARGETS.

The journal complains that Jonkheer Loudon's statement is obscure regarding the Dutch control over the German traffic on the Limburg railway,

GOOD TRADE AFTER THE WAR

Picardy with gas shells and high-explo-April 29th and May 5th our air force con.clause regarding most favoured Dations VISCOUNT FRENCH'S rise without going to the Treasury for booked orders for five yests” ahead.

sives. The American artillery vigorously tingents from Dunkirk carried out This is regarded as a further economize replied..

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY."

PARIS, May 7th communiqué states: There was somewhat great reciprocal artillery firing north and south of the Avre,

Zeebrugge Mole lock-gates, seaplane base menace against Germany.

bombing operations ht Ostend, Westende,

and shipping in the vicinity, and directly

hit the Mole, seaplane base and the docks

Le Matin, concerning this, emphasises

at Zeebrugge. One of our machines has the diplomatic importance of the threat not returned. During offensive patrols to exclude Germany from the we destroyed one enemy machine and drover down another.

the world.

Mr. G. H. Roberts, Minister of Labour. “I am anxious to obtain more powers speaking recently at Manchester, de I told the Chancellor of the Exchequer dared that there was every reason to that I had authority without power. I believe that trade after the war would be cannot give my typist five shillings a week good. Some industries had already sanction. If they will give me power Orders, however, were useless unless with anthority I am satisfied that the materials were available, and the aequiši. Pensions Ministry will do very much tion of material was going to be * better, work matter of extreme urgency. Great Mrs Hodge strongly denounced the Britain and her Allies controlled the Practice of doctors asking disabled men greater share of their fented the about their means and earnings. It less they took the fullest advantage of does not matter he said, if a man is their position they word be neglectful of making a hundred pounds a week that their dety to themselves to the world has nothing to do with his pension. 12. ir, general

SUCCESSOR,

LONDON, May 7th,

cipated that General Sir William Robert son will succed Viscount French in the

The Daily Chronicle, says it is anti

Home Command