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大鄰纖 餓三十月二英街

LATEST WAR TELEGRAM

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS.

GERMANS COMPLETELY FAIL IN POLAND.

FORTY THOUSAND MEN KILLED.

America's Note to Germany.

UNRESTRICTED PASSAGE OF VESSELS DEMANDED.

[Renter's Service to The"“ Telegraph,”}

Sir Joha Jellicos Honoured.

Feb. 12, 9.5 p.m. The Gazette announces that the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath has been conferred on Admiral Sir John Jellicoe for meritorious services.

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Russian Stock Issue.

Feb, 12, 8 p.m. There has been an issue to-night of ten million Russian Treasury Yearly Stock, quoted at 95 per cent.

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German Stock Decfines.

Dealings, the first since the re-opening of the Stock Exobango in German Imperial Tares Per Cent. Stock are at 55.1-2 against 74 at the end of last July,

America's Demands. a

Fab. 12, 4.50 a.m. Beater's Washington correspondent says the Note to Germany declares that Americin vessels must have unrestricted passage on the high seas and in anblooked waters, adding that the destruction of an American ship might lead to a change in the hitherto friendly German-American relations.

Artillery Engagements.

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Feb. 12, 4.50 p.m. A Paris communique says there have been, for the most part, artillery engagements.

The enemy exploded a mine in the end of a trench at La Bois- selle. We maintained our ground,

ville.

We bombarded the railway stations at Thiancourt and Arna-

Huge Carman Losses.

Feb. 12, 0.35 p.m.

A Bemi-official communique issued in Paris states that the failure of the German attacks in Polaod appears complete. The German losses are unprecedented. It is reported that they exceed 40,000 dead.

[sa the event of telegrams arriving too late for Insortion on this

page they will be found on the Extra.]

·BARLIBR TELEGRAMS,

Shattered by Allies' Fire.

Feb, 12, 1.5 a.m. A Paris evening communique" staten:The enemy strongly bombarded Nieuport and the banks of the Year, but only alightly damaged property. Our astillery replied elfactively.

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In the Argonae region, at Bagatelle, after a violent fight with french mortare all the morning, the Germans at onno'olock attacked the Maria Theross work, advancing in columns of four on a front

'Labourite's Premature Question,

Feb. 11, 6 p.m.. In the House of Commons, Mr. F. W. Jowels (Lab.-M.P. for to Weat Bradford) asked whether the Government war prepared to state on what terms Great Britain and the Allies would discuss pence, with a view to ending the terrible loss of life.": -

Sir Edward Gray replied that recent public atterances in Gera many gave no reason to suppose that the purpose Mr. Jowott had ia view would be promoted by adopting the course suggested (loud cheers).

Sixty Per Cent, of Wounded Agala Fit.

Mr. Asquith announced that about 60 per cent. of the wounded had recovered and become fit for service. Arrangements had been made by which Field Marshal French would shortly send a bulletin twice a week as to the doings of the British.

Enemy's Trade-More Stringent Measures.

"CONDENSED

His Majesty the King ha sanotioned the formation of a Welsh Guard Battalion.

British wounded have recovered

About 60 per cent of the sad become fit for service.

Text of America's Note to Germany,

Feb. 12, 6.50 a.m. Great Britain and Germany have been published.

A message from Washington states that the texts of the Notes

belligerents is limited to the visiting and searching of vessels, unless The Note to Germany reminds her that the sole right of

blockade is effectively maintained, which the American Nute declare or exercise the right to attack and destroy any vessel, with understands is proposed. In this oase, the Nota continues, to out firat certainly determining its beligerent nationality and the from the line of the Mazarian The Bassian troops are retiring contraband character of its cargo, is an act so unprecedented in Lakes towards the frontier, but naval warfare that this Government is reluctant to believe that the are Lolding the enemy. Imperial Government of Germany, in this case, contemplates it as Field-Marshal Sir John French possible. The Note reminds Germany that the United States is will shortly send a balletin twins German warships act on the presumption that the flag of the forces. now open to oriticism for anasutral acts if the commanders of a week of the doings of the British United States is not used in good faith. Should they destroy, on

Lord Charles Beroford suggests

the high seas, American vessels and the lives of Ameriosa eitizens,

it would be dificult for the Government of the United Statda to that German raiders by sea and view the act in any other light than that of an indefensible violation land, when captured, should be of neutral rights, which is very hard indeed to reconcile with the treated as pirates and publicly

hanged.

Mr. Asquith informed Lord Charles Beresford that the Govern-friendly relations now happily existing between 'the two govera- ment was considering more stringent measures tɔ be taken against ments,and the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial The U. 8. State Department German trade in view of the flagrant violation by the enemy of the Government of Germany to strict accountability for snob nots and has decided that the Wiholmion ralee of war. He hoped shortly to announce the measures. - to take any steps that might be necessary to safeguard American must go to the Prize Court in lives and property. The Note concludes by mentioning that re-consequence of the German presentations have base made to Great Britain regarding the decree appropriating foodstuffs.

auwarranted use of the American flag for the protection of British The British Goverament is ships."

A Short Way With German Pirates.

Lord Charles Beresford suggested that German raiders by sea and land, when captured, should be treated as pirates and publicly hanged for the murder of women and children,

Mr. Asquith asid that he was not prepared to make a general statement, and each case must be dealt with on its merits.

Welsh Guards-A New" Regiment.

Feb. 11, 11.45 p.m.

His Majesty the King has sanctioned the formation of a battal- ion of Walsh Guards to be commanded by Lieut.-Colonel W. Murray- Thraipland, a captain in the Reserve of Offisers, and late of the Grenadier Guards, who served in the Sudin Campaign of 1898 and in South Africa:

Big Losses on Both Sides,

TELEGRAMS.

RUSSIAN POLITICS.

THE DUMA ADJOURNS.

London. Received Feb. 12.

considering more stringent mes- sures to be taken against & arman trade in view of the fligrant violation by the enemy of the

Ruroedo said to-night, accord-rulen of war. / ing to agents of the Department of Justion, who questioned bim, that whatever he had done. had been done on bis OWD

NEWS,

Farther notes on the orisa

initiative, and was inspired by appear on page 4. patriotic motives. He was held

General news sad some points

in $20,000 bail, which he was from the British reply to the U.8. Lunable to furnish tonight. With Nole appear on page 3.

"Our Contemporarica"

appeara

him were arrested John Aucher, (Renter's Service To The Telegraph." his alleged associate, who was

also held in $20,000 bail, and on page 2, commercial news on

9 and log book on page 6. Ruroede's seventeen-year-old son. page The Russian Duma has ad- The German army officer, A further instalment of the journed its sittinga till December Lieut. Arthar Wilhelm Zichse, article

on Old Hongkong” was parolled on his honour" is given on page 5. next.

an officer and a gentleman" not to leave New York City while Ago appears under the heading Hongkong Twenty-Eve Years 1890 on page 4.

Feb. 11, 5.55 p.m. Along the whole front to Champagne, says a Paris communique, there have been artillery duelsand aviation sorties. WerepulsedGerman attacks on the woods gained by na in Mesail-les-Barlas, Thỏ struggleín Argonne, around the Maria Therosa work, has been most violent CARRANZA AND SPAIN, the presont proceediaga aie The German forces were composed of a brigade, but we maintained all our positions. The enemy's loases were considerable and oura were also serious. Thick fog and heavy snow have been experienced in the Vosges, A German attack on L Fontenelle was ma lo on an intensely dark night by two battalions. We yielded some ground, bat regained it almost entirely by counter-attacks.

Feb. 12, 1a.m.

A CASE OF TIT FOR TAT,

London Received Feb. 12.

General Carranzi has ordered the Spanish Minister in Mexico to leave the country on the ground that he was refaced as a Spanish subject.

pending. The three roserviste, who recently came here from Chile, were held in $5,000 bail

each,

The arrests were the culmina tion, it is said at the Department of Jaation here to-night, of an investigation which has been in

'progresa ... · ΒΥΘΙ since the arrest in England of Carl Lody, who was subsequently executed in the Tower. of

A Petrograd communique states that the concentration of very great German forces in East Prussia has been definitely established, The Germans are developing an offensiva, especially in the directions of Wicikowiczki and Lyck. The presence of new formations from the contre of Germany having been discovered, our troops are retiring GERMANS IN AMERICA, London as a German spy. Lody

holding the enemy. There have been collisione on the right bank of the Vistula from Myechineız to Ostrolonka, Serpatz and the Skrwa river, and only a cannonade on the left bank of the Vistula.

from the line of the Mazurian Likes towards the frontier but are

Russians Take Another Thousand Prisoners.

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bada pseup rt issued to an Amer joan, and it became known to the Department of Justice that other

The Passport Fraud Uncovered. American passporta aleo were in the hands of German citi zens. This discovery was of great New York, Jan. 2nd.An concern to the State Department, Laborez and in the direction of Sablonow, east of the Usjok Pass, German army officers and re-

We have repulsed attacks in the Croathians west of Maso alleged conspir.oy to farnish as it was feared that Americans holding perfectly good passports and also the German offensive against Kozomoka heights. We servists with American passports, would be open to suspicion and captured the heights near Rabbe, east of Lupkow Pass, after a fraudulently obtained, to enable possible paril of their lives in the stubborn fight, taking a thousand prisoners.

America's Note to Great Britain.

them to return to Germany from countried belligerent to Germany; this country without danger of Philadelphia, Jan. 2nd.-Local molestation by French or English representatives of the Department authorities, was brought to light of Justice to-night took into The Note to Great Britain recites that the State Department to-day by the Department of custody Morris Daitoh, said to be has been advised of a declaration by the German Admiralty, that the Justice.

an attorney of New York, on a British Government has explicitly authorised the use of neatra! The disclosure Game with the charge growing out of alleged flags. It also mentions the Lasitanis incident and the press reports arrest, late this afternoon, of Carling of fales passports in New of the statement by the Foreign Office defending the use of neutral Raroede, a former agent for the fisge, and declares that the American Government views with North-German Lloyd Steamship anxious solicitado any general use of the flag of the United States Line, and with the removal from by British vessels traversing the waters mentioned in the German the outward-bound steamer Ber order.

United States Withdraw Ship Purchase BIN.

Feb, 12, 4.50 a.m. Reuter's correspondent in Washington states that it has been decided to withdraw the Ship Parchese Bill which has been before the Senate, and to substitute therefor a private Bill limiting Gov. erament ownership to a period of two years after the restoration of peace and prohibiting the purchase of interned vessals.

The Wilhelmias,

Feb. 12, 4.60.a.m.

gensfjord of a German army officer and three German re karviais. All of them were charged with conspiracy to doiraud the United States Government through the use of American passports.

York.

TELEGRAMS.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

CONDENSED.

A new U. S. Bill will prohibit the purchase of interned vessels. the Ship Purchase Bill from the It has been decided to withdraw

U. §. Senate, suga

The lateat donations to the

Prince of Wales' Fund are so knowledged to-day,

DON'T FORGET.

TO-DAY.

Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.15 vm. Royal-9.15 p.m.mp

"The Grotesques," Theatre

TO-MORROW,

Bijan Theatre-9.16 p.m. Victoris Theatre 9.15 p.m. Monday, February 15. Italian Grand Opera Co.-

Theatre Royal.

Tuesday, February 10. Shanghai Challenge Cup Com- petition, Fanling.

Friday, February 19, Association Smoking Concert

Diocesan School Old Boys' 30p.m.

Saturday, February 20. Humphreye Estate and Finance Co., Ltd.-Annual meeting➡➡ 11.30 am.

Half-yearly Meeting of Share- holders, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation--City Hall

Friday, February 26, The China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Ltd.—Mesting- 11.30a.m.

The four soldiers were taken of the steamer, which was bound for

Saturday, February 27, Bergen, Norway, jait er she was

Concert in aid of Allied Forces passing quarai tins, and brought back to New York on a revenue

9 pm Tobacco Fund-Theatre Royal catter. All four bore photo-

Thursday, March 5, grapbio passports issued by the A massage from Washington reports that the State Dapartment Hate Department to Americans,

Hongkong Horticultural Socis The main points of the U..y's Annual Show-Botanio Gar of five hundred yards. The attack was shattered by our artillery has decided that the sa. Wilhelmina must go to the Prize Court, in and alleged to have been furnish- Noter to Britain and Germany dens. and infantry fire. The Germans left's great number of dead. consequence of the German deores appropriating all foodstuffs. ed them by Rurcede. Other aro given in telegrams,==

The Wilhelmina is a ves

is a vessel of 8,975 tons gros, bailt in 1909 at arreats are expected in the noss Newport News and belonging to the Maison Navigation Company future, ons a prominent Germans have been considerable, and those In Argonne the enemy's legs of San Francisco.]

American in this city.

of the alli ou serious.

In the Vosges, south of Chateau Lasse and north of Sainte Maria Pass wo seized a tranch by a coup de main. There has been a violent artillery duel at several points of the front.“

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Friday March 6 Ba Hongkong Horticultural Bocio-

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