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THE HỤNGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1918.

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Here is a Questory, neter published, of the arrest, conviction and o French women who puniminent of two

corbatsi of ffermy's international Wurster of espionage. The incident is here "Bat down to illustrate the importance of these sexgruciating examinationsthat

THE

WAR

Barly morning Extra yesterday.

of

When general demobilization does bigtit priority will be given to officers and max who have definite employment awaiting them. However, a strictly limited „num- ber of men may be released before general

The following Cobles vera resment

Saturday night and issued in our demobilisation for "pivotal industrien and professions which include, agrioni- teral machine makers, agriculturalists. boot makers, brick makers, Comans makers, builders, miners, food-makars, paper-makers, railwayman, shipbuilders, shipbrokers, oversea commercial agenta accountants and architects.

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{THROUGH ZEUTRE'S AGENOT.]

now take place without respect of per- THE KING'S VISIT TO PARISLUK ips, whethby the officials of France and to the England satisfy themselves identity of those

"enter these coun tries.. Perhaps some who have chafed andon the restrictions will understand

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AN ENTHUSIASTIO RECEPTION

AT BOULOGNE.

Aovember 87th BOULOGNE,

RETURN OF WAR PRISONERS

GOVERNMENT'S FIRM ATTITUDE.

..LONDON, November la The Press Bureau announces, that the HM the King, the Prince of Wales Inte Departmental Committee on Was tessional women thieves well-known to the and Prince Albert arrited from London at Prisoners reports that since the Armin French police. They made & practice of mid-day en route to Paris. The Boys tice, 17,173 officers and other ranks have

them better after reading the story.

Mime, X and Mlle. were two pro

engaging rooms at hotels and sneaking thence into the rooms of the other guests is

to rob them

The two women decided that Paris was getting too hot to hold them. They aross led the border into Spain, going on foot through Andorra, and reached Barce lons.

were.

mere

by visited

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party travelled on board the destroyer

every mast

LONDON, November 26th. The War Prisoners' Department: an- that 494 and ment

Broke which was scored by six simbips, reached England; 6,105 officers and man and a squadron of seroplanes. The and 9,233 civilians are expected im- Replying to the Government's protect Royalties were enthusiastically received. mediately.

After the usual ceremonials had been

war prisoners are being released, - the fulfilled the party motored to Montreuil against the shocking condition in which

LouDos, November 28th

German Authorities stated that the A Havas message states:--- While travelling in Spain, they noticed Testerday Faria pute the Anishing Higher Command is doing its utmost to [of the Armistice. terine presente difficul- under a car seat a paper package and touches to her toilet in readiness for King alliate the conditions but the verity managed to parloin it. It

George's derival fo-depolis 7,300 francs.

The entire nation is eagerly awaiting ties. His Majesty's Government replied The theft, was traced to L them.

They were arrested and kept

the Champe Elysera neatly will be accepted and fall reparation will Jail from January, to June, 1916. That him "arrival: Two thousand captured to the Higher Command that no exer

many prominent on line

If re- and-window. It is intended the part of British prisoners. Sperlards-among these a number of aligned; "and" batiniers are fving from be exacted for unnecessary, suffering ou to celebrate. Great paration in kind cannot be made it will by & military day to

be made in persons by the officials who When they were released they ware & Britain's share in the wari

He told proached by a German agent.

The splendid reception prepared for are responsible. then they were entirely too good to baKing George is a proof of the sympathy

THOUSANDS RETURNING HOME. "second story artists, and gave uniting the two great nations of western them 4,000 francs to buy clothes for af Europe. The Alliance has survived, in new role he proposed to them. They were. told to go back to France and there under Pite of sil the efforts of 15 years of Ger

the end to an intriguard laid the foundation for take a two-fold service. travel from town to town as propagandists close understanding between Britain and of anarchy. They were also to procure France. The official visit of King George

will be more than sa event, of State information for, Germany.

them pass-will be a solemn bonsecration of the It was necessary to get ports Birth certifiates for the purpose Allianos which will endure in peace as in

They were made out as War. were, falsified. coming from districts invaded by the Germans, where the parish records that might contradict them had been estrog- ed. They were to send messages by code to a certain address. The alphabet, was to begin at the sixth letter; that is to

its A would be F. Certain stocking, speaking at the Elysee banquet, ex-The Belgians are feeding and sheltering- 323, phrases were devised Thus, Have en

villa, not too dear, gaged a charming would mean "Troopships are expected off the port of M. to-night"

These women were told that England was Germany's worst enemy and that France was a mare tool of England, they were hidden to travel up and down the coast, gathering information as to the landing of troops and supplies. nalis ware to gain the confidence of English officers and even to marry them in order to be taken to England

But these ladies already had a long, red. police record. in the game of

£

were amateurs Their соттен

UNION OF HEARTS AND IDENTITY OF INTERESTS..

LONDON; November 27th, The Press Bureau announces that the

pressed the pleasure it gave him to be the guest in the midst of the great nation with whom the British bad mingled years which had now been triumphantly sorrows and joys during the past four crowned by the overwhelming victory over the common enemy. Thanks to the bra very of the splendid French Army and Marshal Foch's skilful strategy the re- pented desperate German efforts to reach aris had been defeated and the enemy had been hurled across the frontier and compelled to sue for peace.

His Majesty congratulated the noble French nation on the great victory. The

havarrived from Germany and Holland 5,841 are expected to arrive this week from Germany, Holland. Denmark, and Norway and 9,500 civilians from Ger- many and 2,045 soldiers from Germany, Bulgaria and Turkey are arriving in Dover:

Reliable information received states. that the prisoners escaping from the Get- man lines into Belgium are not in $ They are in good serious condition. spirits, though dirty and badly clothed. them.

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THE PENDULUM OF WAR

LONDON, November 28th. The British armies are now advancing" towards the Rhine over scenes where the foulest German atrocities were committed and their early victories won, but the pre- sent state of the roads throughout the country-side, littered with indescribable war carelessly abandoned, is an eloquent. varieties and quartities of manitions of tribute to how completely the fateful" pen. dulum of war has swang back

In one instance, transportable electrio story worth £10,000 sterling were left on roadside while the guns abandoned already Armistice,

pondence which they put in the mall in 1.British armies wore proud to have par- the exceed the 8,000 demanded by the

the ordinary way was opened and ex amined. When of this incriminat ing

correspondench

had been assembled to mike out a clear case against them, though they had in the meantime become alarmed and had fed into Spain, they were apprehended and put to death.

Which goes to show that the taborate precautions surrounding the traveller to day have a meaning not always apparent on the surface.

TRUE TALES FROM THE SEA. A BOAT THAT "WENT WEST."

A sertain British steamer had been armed and despatched" to defend the trade routes, but one misty" seminer morning & U-boat challenged her supre- macy by discharging a torpedo at her.. It struck ber engine room near the Water line, making a large rent and filling tho boiler room, engine room and No. 5 hold; it blew the starboard lifeboat into pieces, some of which landed upon the aerials. Then the submarine appeared about 50 yards away, and so, says the captain as my guns would bear, I opened fire rand our first shot hit the

ticipated with the Anglo-French peoples during the life and death confict. The had fearned to appreciate each other and their respective ideals They had created a union of hearts and an iden- tity of interests which he trusted would ever grow closer and contribute mate rially to the consolidation of peace and the advancement of civilisation.

MARSHAL FOCH IN

S

STRASSBOURG. REVIEWS ARMY OF OCCUPATION.

LONDON, November 28th,

A French Communiqué. states that Marshal Foch, accompanied by General Castelnau, visited Strassbourg and re- viewed the troops of Occupation which made & proccasion-through the city. was given a magnificent evation,

Is

Meanwhile, streaming back, through: the advancing armies ceasing and pitiful flow of thousands of British war prisoners. Laden down with packs, stumbling over every stone and clad in the oddest garments; all are re turning like wearied boming birds. All tell a similar tale of hardships, starva tion,

overwork, and beatings when they could not work any longer. Accompanying the men are numbers of women who: sitni larly are bravely plodding, borewards They were deported from Lille, Dous and other places for forced labour in the felda.

GERMANS BECOMING. MORE AND MORE ODIOUS,

PARIS, November 25th: During the course of a debate in the Chamber of Deputies the Under-Secre Hetary for War declared that the condition of the Allied war prisoners in Germany had become more pitiful than ever since the Armistice had been signed. The Germans had become more and more

BIG HAUL OF ENEMY GUNS. - Sir Douglas Haig states :--" Our toward troops reached the Ger-odidas as they realised the magnitude of man frontier between the neighbourhood their defeat. The world would-be horri- fied when the reports of the Spanish and of Baho and Bt. Avalon of 1,400 Ger- we missions were published. Tortures

We have taken possession

were systematically perpetrated and in- man guns since November 11th.

claded ill-treatment, starvation and con- . scation of lafters, while 20 per cant, of

their "stoppage, .. all parcels despatched to prisoners in Germany were plundered, necesitating

LONDON, November 17th.

A French communiqué -itátes ----- The French Armies, completing the occupation of Luxemburg reached the German frontier cast of Weishwanpuch and Hemerscheim. 2

of the conning tower and also rs mored the two periscopes." Soon the U-boat assumed a list to port and began -to draw away slowly. Her stern was nearly underwater, oil squirted from her side, while her crew began to scram ble out of the conning tower and after- Match Then they held up their hands, so the order to cease fire whe given; but immediately afterwards the U-boat turn- ed way at full speed in an obvious attemptisto escape through the mist. During this last mad dash for mlety the men abaft her couning tower were wash- ed prerboard but meanwhile, the steamer had opened are again and presently in explosion forward ended her career. With one man still clinging to her bow, abe fall over on her side and sank, the last seen of her being her sharp bow, DEMOBILISATION NOT YET THE RECORD FOR THE FAST YEAR.

end up, protruding about a foot above the Water

"As some of the Germans were to be Been struggling through the oil that now

ADVANCE OF THE BRITISH.

Ds, November 27th. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports that on: forward march continues. The advanced forces our the night of November, 26th had reached the general line Bebo Werbomoat-Aywaille, south- ward to hege.

BEGUN.

The Germans should pay for this Marshal Foch had sent a protest as vigorous as that of the British And all necessary, steps were being taken; to put' a stop to the evil-doings.

~BRITISH AIR RAIDS ON }

"GERMANY."

Lokios, November 27th.

The Press Bareda announces that alto-

coated the waves, boats were lowered and PRIORITY FOR MEN IN DEFINITEther there were 709 Hritish air-raids

two survivors were picked up, Of these, one quickly enquired whether he captain had been saved but apparently not from

EMPLOYMENT.

Germany during the 12 months to 374 ionlargo November 11th comprising Lowas, 209 oh, Aerodromes established for other the defence of the Rhine, and 153

Alsace Lorraine and LONDON, November 57 military objectives in A

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motives of affection, since he declared he

The Admiralty, the War Office and the Germany. Altogether 880 tons of bombs would jump overboard if that officer

The number of British air-raids, into were picked up. As the U-boat com Ministry issue feminders to the pinbera dropped on a pr mander Had been previously killed by io that general decnobilisation has not grafire, this member of his crew echsent yet begin and that the Naval and Mili-Germany during 13 Months was five times. ed, to remain alive as a prisoner.taty situation does not admit of any greater than the German air-raids into

Britain during four years general release of men from the force. Ajua

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