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THE

WAR

THE HONGKONG DAILI

NO PROSPECTS OF IMMEDIATE

PEACE."

NEW CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH IN THE

REICHSTAG,

BRITISH ENTER VALENCIENNES.

ALLIED TROOPS FIRM ON THE DUTCH

General

FRONTIER.

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(TERDUGS LEUTOR'S. AGENCY.)

MEETING OF THE REICHSTAG.

UHANCELLOR'S SPEECH.

„Copenhagen, October 23rd,

The Reichstag has re-assembled. The Chancellor, in his speech, said that the whole German people were anxious to hear the Government's views regarding the prospects of the success of the pence effort.

President Wilson's first answer to the German Government's peace move brought the question of a FI peace of justice" or "peace of violence" to the forefront in all countries.

THE NEW TURKISH CABINET.

LONDON, October 24th... Rautar learns that Izzet Pasha's new Cabinet in Constantinople is apparently trying the German triek of attempting to bargain with the Allies.

GERMAN LEVY ON BELGIAN ́

TOWNS.

LONDON. October 22nd,

In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Hall, Lord Robert Cecil said that he was unable to specify the total amount the Germans had levied on the cities and towns of Belgium and France, but full reparation formed a part of the war aims of the Allies.

SHIPPING LOSSES, GOVERNMENT TO SELL VESSELS TO SHIPPING COMPANIES.

LONDON, October 2nd.

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THE CONTROL OF THE SORELDT. HOLLAND'S RIGHT QUESTIONED.

LONDON, October 2918.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER

*STE, : 1918

We are within two miles of Valenciennes and have reached the general line Statinelle--St. Amand. Rongy, Tain-

tignies

Wa hold the west bank of the Scheldt Fartschin, north-west of Tournai. (als and for several miles to the north of

"ENEMY'S RESISTANCE

INCREASING.

LONDON, October 22nd.

In connection with the arrival of the Allies in the region of the Scheldt. French nawspapers, point out that the Alfie never admitted the right of Holland to on. control the mouth of the Schelde. They declare the time has now come for theField Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- Allies to speak.

parts:As a result of local fighting dur-1 ing the night we advanced our line to the left bank of the Ecaillon river, to the south of Thiant, the western portion of which is in our possession.

COTTON AND RUBBER PROPOSED GOVERNMENT

MEASURES,

BELGIANS PROGRESS

LONDON, October 22nd..

LONDON, October 3rd, In order to help maintain the balance ciennes and Tournai. The enemy's re We further progressed between Valen- between the production of cotton yargsistance on this front is increasing. and the requirements of the looms, then the Tournai sector, as a result of Cotton Control Board has ordered the sharp fighting at night, we expelled the entire stoppage of all looms for the week

from the village of Oreq and from beginning October ist.

The Pres

Bureau nanounces that in Froyennes. We are within a mile of the who, woods in the neighbourhood of view of the necessity of saving ocean town. Freights it is considered desirablo, to notify the Rubber Trade that the Minister of Munitions has appointed a Committee. with Sir Claredon Hyde as chairman, to advise him regarding thu control of rubber. Meanwhile it is deem- ed necessary to issue a warning that it may be necessary to fix maximam prices for rubber transactions and that the Minister may be compelled to make ardere rendering inoperative any forward, Contracts or transactions entered into after the publication of this notice. Franco-Belgian Front,

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The Chancellor hoped that Presidant Wilson's next answer would set doubts at rest. Until then the German people must The Press Bureau announces that the prepare for both eventualities either that Government has decided to sell a limited the enemy Governments were anxious for Faumber of Government owned vessels to war, in which case the Germans would owners who have lost ships by submarining fight defensively with all the force of a in order to replace the losses. The deci people driven to the list extremity, or aion will not affect the use of the vessels for going to the Conference table." In the during the war emergency. Tatter case the Gerraan people were THE SMYRNA COMMISSION. states antitled 10 ask what a peace based on f President Wilson's conditions meant for -Germany's future.

The Chancellor continuing, stated that it was a question of stupendous import, for not only would Germany's strength decide 'what was right, but the decision would result from what was thought to be right, in: free discussion with her opponents. That was great effort for a proud people, accustomed to victory. It had been repre- seated to,

him that the acceptance of President Wilson's conditions would mean the submission of questions of legality to an anti-German Court of Justice. If that was so, why, asked the Chancellor, did the extreme apostles of force in the Entente fear the Council Chamber as the guilty feared the Court of Justice, "NO

PROSPECTS OF

IMMEDIATE PEACE."

OPINION IN WASHINGTON,

WASHINGTON, October 23rd On the receipt of the German Note President Wilson conferred with Mr. Lan. sing until midnight.

ATHENS, October 22nd. The Smyrna Commission, to which re ference was made in the cables on the ath inst

has returned to Smyrna without landing or consulting anyone.

of Smyrna, whom the Germans recently The Commission was sent by the Governor, denounced as a Pre-Ententist, to enter into contract with the Allies.)

213 LIVES LOST ON THE "TICONDEROGA.”.

WASHINGTON, October 23rd.

It is officially announced that the total of soldiers and crew lost on the Ticon- deroga, the sinking of which was cabled, on the 12th inst., was 213

that 401 lives had been lost.]

(Fears were expressed in the first telegrams

FRANCE'S FOURTH LIBERATION LOAN.

LONDON, October 21st.

A Havas message states:--- France's Fourth War Liberation Loan was indugurated on Sunday.

America has subscribed 14 million franca token of her confidence in France. Thousands of Parisians visited the Place La Concorde and the Tailleries in honour of "the little tigers of the Tailleries and to inspect the collection of 1,500 Cernan guns, aeroplanes, sausage

Reliable circles declare that there are no prospects of immediate peace, and that there will be no armistice except upon conditions that destroy for ever the balloon, and a big tank. "power of German militariam.

REPARATIONS. TO BE INSISTED

UPON.

LYONS, October 3rd.

A double demonstration occurred on Tuesday in the Chamber and the Senate on the occasion of the return of repre sentatives from the liberated districts.--

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, October 24th, Silver is steady..

LONDON, October 24th Mesere Samuel Montagu's report

states:

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENÒX.]

BRITISH FRONT. PROGRESS IN BELGIUM:

LONDON, October 23rd.

Belgian communiqué

A British

The enemy, throughout the day, enden voured to maintain his positions on the Lys" derivation" canal. “

Beveral counter-attacks, with a view to retaking our bridgehead, were repulsed

canal at several points.

The Belgians, crossed the

derivation

The retreating Germans threw 200 vehicles into the Bruges Ghent Canal

The French improved their bridgeheads south of Deyorze and advanced three kilometres.

A Belgian communiqué statesis We continued our advance, driving the enemy to the eastern bank of the Durwa- near Eede and south of Meerendre. Wa tion canal between the Dutch frontier'

captured 206 prisoners

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PRESSURE MAINTAINED ON..

WHOLE "FRONT.

LONDON, October 22nd. A British Belgian communiqué states that pressure is being maintained on the whole of the front. The Germans in their burrjed retreat in the north abandoned all their coastal guns, some of them in

tact.

The Frenchs, across the Lys, repulsed violent counter-attacks and improved their bridgeheads. The British reached the Scheldt between Bailleul and Selle- hip and advanced a mile between the Scheldt and the Lys despite lively resist ance.

ADVANCE TOWARDS GHENT,, LONDON, October 22nd. Beataris Correspondent at British Headquarters, telegraphing on the end French forces serving with the Belgian instant, says: This morning, strong

Second Army in the direction of Ghent, army attacked to the north of the British

making excellent progress.

ALLIED TROOPS FIRM ON THE DUTCH BORDER.

LONDON, October Slot..

Fresh advances are recorded on A Havas xesage states:--

whole frons, from, Flanders to the Meuse region.

the

DECREASING CRIME..

REMARKABLE FIGURES.

Some remarkable figures regarding the

chairman of the Prison Commissioners, at great decrease in crime since the war were given by Sir Evelyn Ruggles. Brise,

a lecture at the Overseas Press Centre, la Flanders, the French, Belgian and recently. Previous to the war, he said, British troops, fighting in grand unison, there were sixty-nine penal establishments, have combined to throw back their adverfive convirt prisons, fifty-six local prisons, sary, who is in front of the Bruges Canal.four Borstal, institutions, two preventive on the left flank of the Dutch border.

King Albert's troops are firmly fixed

detention institutions for habitual criminals, and twis State reformatories The capture of Thielt, by the French crime was shown by the daily average

for inebriates.

The grent decrease in troops, in spite of the Germans deter-population of "thew places before the war mined resistance, constitutes, a decisive and now pain phase in the grent operation.

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A French communiqué states: -To-day

Oise and the Serve we resumed the advance between the On the right, we carried Nesbrecourt and Richtecourt capturing 50 prisoners. We advanced on the felt between Lucy and Villers-le-See despite vigorous resistance The Ger maas frequently counter-attacked heavily

positions were maintained. on the plateaux cast of Veuxieres. All

AMERICAN LINE ADVANCED..

LONDON, October 2nd..

An American communiqué states:--In the course of stubborn fighting to the north of Verdun we advanced our line at several points We captured Hill 207, ejected the enemy from Rippes wood and took 261 prisoners and a namber of machine guns. We improved our posi tions further west- The Balkans.

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Losnox, October 23rd.

A French Eastern communiqué states: The French captured a convoy of load- ed enemy lighters at Lampalanka on the Danube.

cavalry, east of Parachin, captured a part The Serbians, north of Aleksinat advanced despite strong resistance. Their

of the baggage of the beadquarters of the 217th German Division, including General von, Gallwitz's archives and Ing gige.

Before war. 1918.

2,704 1,393 14,352 7.335 928 720

A1

Convict prisons, ................ Local prisons Borstal institutions ........ State inebriate reformu

tories

In 1903 one person in 173 of the com. unity was imprisoned, in 1913 it had. fallen tot in 271, and since then it had' fallen to 1 in l. The fall since they war might to some extent be, explained by the social conditions arising out of a state of war-by the call upon the man- hood of the

nation, thus diverting

many from an idle and unprofitable life; and also to the endless opportunities for cm- ployment. For many years before the war there had been manifest symptoms of of serious crime dealt with on indictment, sease of crime in this country, ta

morily. Thus, of this category, in 1903 or of the more serious offences tried sum-

in 370 were imprisoned, in 1913 t in 696, and size the war it had fallen, to 1 in 1,3%. He believed that, apart from the special conditions of the war the great.

arising out was being gradually shed by the

of offenders polier which had been actively pursued of concentrating attention on the young 21. They tried to catch ho'd of the inci offender the juvenile adult from 16 to pient criminal of this age, and this they did effectively by the. Borstal system. Twenty years ago nearly 20,000 of thes lads arrived at prison; now the number was about 4,000 Owing to the admirables work of the After-Care Societies from 70 to 60 per cent, were saved from a fe of crime. A striking result of the salvage work among the young was seca, in a steady decrease of those convicted under thirty years of age, and the remarkable falling-off in the graver forms of crime. Thus, sentences to penal servitade dur ing the ten years before the war fell from 1,000 to 590, and the longer sentences of imprisonment from about 3,000 to 2,000. It was probable also that a considerable part of the decrease since 1914 might be Attributed to the new facilities provided by the Criminal Justice Administration Act, which permitted the Courts to give a defendant time up to seven days in which to pay the fine.

WAR WORK IN PRISON.

The reduction in the principal crimes and offences had been remarkable. average for the ten years prior to 1914 The showed that the figures for

Burglary and housebreaking

from 2,400 to 800, Larceny from 22,400 to 900, Assaults from 11,300 to 1,600, Drunkenness from 62,000 to 3,700.

bad failen.

Other French troops, farther south, Thaint yesterday morning bat atstrong The British First Army captured crossed the Lys,

counter-attack caused us to withdraw FRENCH TROOPS REACH THE the number of convictions had fallen from

A

The French have taken 1,100 prisoners. The Second British Army advanced mile between the Lys and the Scheldt and established a bridgehead on the right bank of the Scheldt east of Peoq.

BRITISH TROOPS ENTER VALENCIENNES,

Lyons, October 23rd...

from a portion of the village to the east of the Ecallion river. The weather is good.

GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON, October 21st. A pireless German official, mesange states--The enemy on both sides of Solesties was brought to a standstill at the heights to the east and south of the

In spite of the resistance of the enemy in Flanders, the French succeeded in town. enlarging their bridgebend at Deyors."

The British made fresh progress between Tournai and Valenciennes and took Froyennes They are now, only 1,500 metres from Tournai, and have occupied Aazin and entered the suburbs of Valen

ciennes.

The Tenth Army again advanced on the bette front and reached the banks of the

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FRENCH FRONT.

GERMANS EVERYWHERE,

REPULSED.

DANUBE. ́:

LYONS, October 23rd. The French arrived on the banks of the Danube at Loopalanka and captured a convoy of barges.

The fall in the number committed for drunkenness was one of the most remark- able results of the war. Thus, in Lon- don and thirty-six of the largest boroughs, 118,000 since the war broke out to 30,000- a decrease of over 70 per cent. This result was due, no doubt, to a very large extent, to the drastic restrictions on the ed, the principal being the facility of em liquor traffic. Other causes had

co-operat ployment. The general conclarion to which the Prison Commissioners had arrived was that when employment was easy and

#pportunities for spending wages in in- there was a severe restriction of the plentiful, and where, at the same time,

toxicating drink, there was the prob ability that the records of trime would be very low in the community.

The appeal made to the patriotism of the prison workers, said the speaker, had met with splendid response..

Binco August, 1914, more than 17,000,000 articles A Havis message states:—

had been distributed to the Admiralty, War Office, General Post Office, etc., for The advance of the Serbian and French war purposes. Over 70 per cent of the in troops in Northern Serbia is being watch tirely to war work. Only 2 per cent of

mates of

prisons had been allocated ed by the entire Romanian nation. It the prisoners were employed on low

55 kilometres north of Alexinatz-French The Serbian cavalry reached Parachin, Wireless.

RUMANIA'S HOUR OF

DELIVERANCE,

LONDON, October ist.

tes of the

is locked upon as the hour of deliverance grade industries, such as oakum picking, frour General Mackensen's rule.

10mates

the prisons had made good ins other. directions, either by enlistment in the Forces or in labour units Remark able examples had occurred of men with

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LONDON, October 23rd,

forced the enemy on the Berre front to ALLIES REACH THE DANUBE

French communiqué states-We

retrent to Afress. Wo captured Chalen- dry sad Grand-Lys despite obstinate resistance. Our line skirts the Berre to

LONDON, October 22nd.

French troops on October 10th reached A Frettch Eastern communiqué states:

river from Aussi-sur-Berre to Mortiers

It is clear that the enemy retreat has not pacate, yet reached the limit and that be, is endeavouring to maintain the pivot be fore Pass of St. Enay. If this yields the Dorliers, passes the outskirts of Frordi- the Danube in the region of Vidin and ing and was sent to England very ill.

The tendency in the market continues situation of the German army immediate In the Senate, M.Pichon declared quoted on

good. The present price of 481d has been ly becomes

fifty successive working days. Wireless.

very dangerous-French that all reparations, restitutions and This is recort duration. China ex- guantees should be enforced on the changes still vacillate Shanghai quota-

tion rose to ba 2d a tael, after dropping TWO MILES FROM VALENCIENNES,

-enemy,

我

In the Chamber, the President, M. to be for one day. Deschanel, greeted the return of his col-

leagues from Lille." He recalled the

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moral and physical sufferings they had THE WANTON DESTRUCTION

endured for four yeara

M. Delorý movingly described, the exactions and cruelties of the Germans in the deportations of men, women and children who were condemned to work

for the enemy. He declared, amis ar plause, that it was impossible to make peace without reparation French wise

IN BELGIUM. GERMANS SEND "NEUTRAL

COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE.

LONDON, October

There is much event at the day

"nentral" Commission has left Brussels nouncement from Berlin that a so-called for the Front to investigate the allega tions of wanton destruction by the Germans.

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LONDON, October 21st, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haigre- is and in the early morning for the parta:-There was sharp fighting at night.

possession of Amerval which we captured on October 20th. We repulsed determined attempts to regain the village..

The enemy this morning succesfully in the neighbourhood of the Cambrai attempted to drive în

in our advance forces

We continue to progress to the east wad Baval road. We took a few prisoners

of Denzin despite considerable op-

north

position

mont and Cobardille and then continues along the Buze canal. The Germans twice renewed attacks east of Vouriers but ware everywhere repaleed.

VIOLENT ATTACKS BY THE ENEMYA

LONDON, October 22nd.

A French communiqué states:-North

artillerying during the night. of the Cise there has been great enemy

We reached the railway north-east of Assis-ar-Barre and also St. Jacques farm north-west of Chandry.

Our the plateaux east of Vouziers the fighting which begun yesterday, has that yesterday's enemy attacks were very diminished in intensity. It is confirmed

violent. We identifed elements belong ing to seven divisioon

acts of sacrifice and gallantry, and many "gravest penal histories performing had been promoted, or decorated. violent criminal with three sentences of

other man's life by giving his blood for penal servitude, after being invalided from the Service, volunteered to save an-

preceded to stop the traffic. An enemy After recovery be obtained a first-class transfusion. Be contracted blood poison

monitor was forced ashore under our certificate as bombing gunfire

and ro instructor, turned to the front, where he won the

He is

The Serbians on the Morava are ined

The Allied forces captured Zaitchar. contact, north of Aleksinatz and Krus heyatz, with the Germans who are strong ly entrenched,

Ber-

officer reported and the DC.M., and his

vice throughout, and after three months

and has rendered splendid in the hottest part of the line." steps had been taken to

Special train

and inmates of Borstal institutions for nerviors equip BRITISH SUBMARINE'S FEAT.

in the field, and since thy beginning the war over 1,500

of af thote Inde When two hostile submarines meet the prisons, many of whom were old sol- 16 and 9 had been enlisted. The staff of between success comes to the one which is keeping diers and, sailors, bad responded with the better look-out and is the more ready splendid patriotism to the call of duty, to dive: A British and a German sab and nearly 900 out of 100 of the sub- crossed the North Bea and was looking marine met recently, The enemy had ordinate ranks had enlisted... for a ship to pounce on

to her bare after an arduous cruise, but The British submarine was returning she had been sighted by the enemy, fired she was the more alert. She dived before

came to the surface, five minutes later two torpedoes, and through her peris cope watched the explosion. When she the captain of the German submarine was swimming among the oil and wreckage, He was the oily survivoz

BRITISH CLOTHE AMERICANS. The

conte, British Government recently, issued

records, is in addition to contracts under military cloths to refit 2,000,000 American troupe. This order, which exceeds all execution for the British and Freno armies. No cloth is henceforth to be made civilizu use except under permit.