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WEATHER

FAIR

March 3, 1916,

5157 日十三月正

Temperatr 30 Humidity

TELEGRAMS,

CONDENSED.

RUSSOPHIL FEELING IS GROWING IN BULGARIA.

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THE GERMANS ARE DENUDING BULGARIA OF FOODSTUFFS. THE GERMAN MARK STILL CONTINUES TO DECLINE IN VALUE. TRADE IS ONE OF OUR CHIEF WAR WEAPONS R. BONAR LAW. THE GERMANS CLATI 16,800 PRISONERS IN THE VERDUN BATTLE. MARRIED KEN WILL REPLACE SINGLE IN RESERVED OCCUPATIONS. A. SECRET TREATY BETWEEN GERMANY AND HOLLAND IS DENTED. PRESIDENT WILSON IS EXPECTED TO SECURE VOTE OF CONFIDENCE." NO NECESSITY EXISTS AT HOME TO EXTEND AGE-LIMIT FOR SERVICE BULGARIAN DESERTERS COMPLAIN OF HARDSHIPS AND LACK OF FOOD. ALLIED CONFERENCE REGARDING THE TRADE WAR IS TO MEET IN PARIS. THE US. PARLIAMENT IS TO DEBATE ARMED MERCHANTMEN QUESTION.

DEARNESS OF FLOUR HAS LED TO GENERAL STRIKE AND RIOTS IN MAIND. GERMANS CLAIM CAFTURE OF 78 GUNS AND S&MACHINEGUNS AT VERDUN

THE TSAR SAYS BRITISH AND RUSSIANS WILL SOON FIGHT SIDE BY SIDE. FLIGHT SUB, LIEUT, SIMMS HAS SHOT DOWN A HOSTILE AEROPLUE

THE WAR AND TRADE.

No More German Exploitation.

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FRIDAY,

MARCH 3,

1916.

TELEGRAMS.

THE MARK STILL DECLINING.

Boutar'a Service to the "Telegraph.”] =

March 1, 12:50 p.m. Telegrama from Scandinavia and Holland show that the German alsims of successes have not arrested the fall in the value of the mark; on the contrary, the depreciation is accentuated,

MOLLAND RETAINS LIBERTY OF ACTION.

March 1, 12.50 p.m.. According to Reuter's correspondent at the Hague, the Foreign Minister, speaking in the Chambar, denied the existence of any ret understanding between Germany and Holland. The latter had in no wise abandoned her liberty of zotion.

FINE FEAT BY BRITISH AVIATOR.

March 1, 6.00 am.

March 3, 1915,

Temperature 6 am 63 2 pa Humidity

BJAR SINGLE COFF 10 CENTS.

$36-PER ANNUM

TELEGRAMS.

五拜禮

TELEGRAMS.

RUSSIA'S FINANCES.

[Realer's Service to The "Telegraph."]

March 1, 205 pm.

COTTON ESTRITATES,

Increase Reduced.

Renter's correspondent at Petrograd says the Badget deficit is thirty seven millicas sterling. The war is coating three millions day and the drink rovanne has fallen from sixty-eight millions to Reader's Service To The Telegraph less than a million. The Minister of Finance emphasises that Russia must have full economic independence and he is confident that after the war a rich and powerful Russia will arise.

THE FIGHTING IN FRANCE.

March 1, 500 p.m.

Lombon, Received, March 3,

The Civil Service Estimates show the following reduction in the incrsese în satton cultivation

Reuter a sorrespondent at Paris says:-North of Verdun and within the Empire: 1,000 as in Woevre there has been no important event. There has been an compared with 10,000, but in intermittent bombardment at different points on our front. We Somaliland statistics are $5,000 as Mousson, where the Germans appeared to be carrying out alarm bomlarded the German first and second lines west of Pont-a-compared with 82,000. exercises. We also bombarded the German lines of communication at Cernay. A French double-engined seroplane felled a German seroplane at La Bassee, which was ablaze on landing.

ANOTHER GERMAN OUTRAGE IN CANADA.

March 1, 5.30 p.m. The Admiralty saronnces that Flight Sab-Lieutenant Simms:

Beuter's correspondent at Ottawa says the Grand Trank to-day attacked and shot down a hostile aeroplane which fell in fames a short distance in front of the Belgian lines. The combat | Railway station at Montreal has been burned down.

March 1, 6.55 pm and its result were viewed by Belgian soldiers in the trenches.

Reuter's correspondent at Montreal says German incendiarism lis suspected. The main building a consumed in less than an

hour The damage is estimated at $300,000.

BULGÁRIANS FEELING THE GERMAN YOKE.

March 1, 1.45 p.m..

[Renter's Service to the Telegraph."]

March 1, 7 25 p.m. Speaking at the meeting in the Guildhall to urge national Sconomy, Mr. Boner Law said trade was one of our chief war weapons, Germany had plonged the world into misery, beliering it would pay.

We were united in saying that Germany would Beater's correspondent at the Headquarters at Slonies says never be allowed to the We after daily, Bulgarian deserters of lack of war, thoroughly examine the problema, in conjunction, with the food, while the Germans are well-fed and are denading the country Dominions, who were as entitled as we were to say what the future of foodstafa. Russophil feeling is growing în Bulgaria policy should be.

An Allied Conference.

March 1, 7.25 p.m. Speaking to the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Bonar Law announced that there will be an economic Allied Conferene in Pazin regarding the trade war after the war.

Britain's Determination.

March 1, 12:10 pm Daring his speech in the Guildhall, at the meeting held to urge national economy, Mr. McKenna laid the greatest emphasis on the inter-dependence of trade and victory. He said we were different from the Allies in this respect, because the ultimate burden of supply falls on Britain, which could only bear it if trade wasially Taintained. Amid cheers, Mr. HcKenna declared that we must never again be dependent on Germany for the things essential to our trade, and he said the Government were prepared tɔ give assistacce to our foreign trade in order to ensure that car better enemies ball not have the control they had had in the past.

BRITISH AND RUSSIANS SOON TO FIGHT SIDE BY SHE

March 1, 7.45 p Reater's correspondent at Petrograd states that the Ter, in thanking King George for the Field Marshal's baton, expressed the ssurance that the British and the Russians would soon be fighting side by side.

General Sir Arthur Pages presented the baton, and said it was a token of the King's affection and a tribute to the heroism of the Russian Army.

A ROYAL AUDIENCE.

March 1, 12.10 p.m. General Sir John Nixon has had an audience with His Majesty

the King.

THE POSITION OF MARRIED MEN.

March 1, 12.10 p.m: In the House of Commons, Mr. Walter Long mid the Gorro- mert was considering the question of a moratorium in regard to the liabilities of married men ander Lord Derby's scheme.

Mr. Tennart ssid avery andicavour would be made to unsfer married men who were liable to service to reserved occupations in place of single men. The power reserved to extend the age-limit for enlistment was not at present considered necesszTY.

GERMAN CAPTURES AT VEROUN.

March 1, 12.50 p.m. A Berlin official message claims the capture, during the whole battle of Verdun, of 16,800 prisoners, 18 guns (some heavy) and 86 machine-guns.

DUTCH GOVERNOR GENERAL ENTERTAINED,

March 1, 12.50 pm.

THE WORK OF GERMANS.

March 1, 1.45 pm. Beater's corespondent at Rio de Janeiro states that the police have ascertained that two Germans caused the explosion on the steamer Tennyson.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S POPULAR POLICY.

March 1, 145 p.m. Renter's correspondent at Washington Maya the armed mer chantmen question will be debated in Parliament,

confidence in President Wilson will be passed.

It is expected that, with the support of the Republicans, a vote

of

STRIKE RIOTS IN MADRID.

March 1, 145 patt Beater's correspondent at Madrid states that a bakers' strike, owing to the dearness of flour, has led to a general strike and riots, Some arrests have been effected, and a few people wounded. The Mayor bas resigned.

ENLISTMENT AND "FRIGHTFULNESS."

مجھے

March 1:12.50 p.m.

REPORTED GERMAN ULTIMATUM TO PORTUGAL

March 1, 6.10 p.m. Renter's correspondent at Madrid mys it is reported that Germsey has cent an alimkram in Portugal to return, the seized

vessels within 48 hours.

NATIONAL ECONOMY URGED.

March 1, 6.20 p.m.

the weapons of science and culture, it was none the less bar- barogs.

On the subject of the possibili-

ty of industrial trouble at home.. Mr. Lloyd George said: "I refuse to believe that such a thing will

I am convinced that those who would entertain for a mo ment the idea of thus hampering our gallant troops at the front are but a

workers." He added that the

dustrial compulsion was merely a boger employed by those who would crests trouble, în order to furtiner their object.

Hemp from Yucatan.

A great meeting at the Guildhall exhorted national economy. Mr. Asquith did not attend owing to a chill. Mr. McKenna forcast- ed an increase in taxation and said that capital and labour must be diverted from peace services in order to win the war. All mast economise to the atmost and postpone expenditore until after the war. Mr. Barnes (Labour) indicated that the country was divided up into districts for the purposes of local economies. Earl Kitchener

The shipments of jute and made a splendid appeal. He said Britain wanted all the men coarse hemp from India have been possible for the army and unceasing supplies of munitions. The almost entisely cut off by the war. problem was how to take millions of men from the workshops, farma, These fibre substances were used etc, and still supply war material. There must be the utmost economy and thus civilians, men and women alike, could help to achieve victory. Mr. Balfeur said that every man must regulate his

personal expenditure so as best to help national interests.

ANEW BRITAIN.

in the manufacturing of barlap and twine. The sisal hemp or Benequan, grown in Tocatan, is being experimented with and is proving a satisfactory abstitute trained, and, what is more im- for many purposes. Yacatan was portaat perhaps, a batter dis considered practically worthless ciplined nation. In fact, we shall land by the early Spaniards and indeed be a nation and not a con- it was not until 1850 that it “We Shall Indeed be a Nation." geries of conflicting interests. began to be need for Hanequen growing. Within the Isat ten The Allies are engaged in a years this has become a valuable A correspondent forwards to a mighty effort to dig the grave of product and brings heavy profim Home paper a report of an inter- that wicked lis that, might is to the planters who grow it. view he has had with Hr. Lloyd right, and, mark you, we shall Labour is cheap in Yucatan and George on the war and kindred 20 ceasy to strive to our utter the Hencquen arowers are resping topics. The Interviewer asked most until we have dug the grave from 300 to 400 per cent, zpom the Minister of Munitions if he deep and wide, and can abandon their investments. The exports The papers state that a proclamation will be issued in a few thought England was now patting car united toil in the firm con- from Progresso, the only sexport days, calling up eight groups of married "attesteds." To-day is the her whole weight into the war, to fiction that we have insured of Yucatan, have averaged nearly last day for voluntary enlistment, and it also marks the advertised which

beyond all possible doubt against, million bales annually for George Mr. Lloyd

its returrection.

four YEATE The United opening of the new submarine frightfulness.”

at and replied

States purchased nearly $23,- The papers state that there is little evidence of any widespread

England is preparing to put her

|000,000 worth of sissi hemp dur- desire to attest, on the part of the men affected; there were hundreds whole weight into the war, and

ing the year suding June 1, 1915. of recruits in London yesterday, but no rush.

Germany will feel it in a very As regards "frightfulness," the new threat is not ridiculed, short time. It is an effort sech especially as it is not doubted that Germany has been building new as England has never made be- and more powerful sabraarines; but every confidence is felt in the form truly prodigious effort us should realise that there were Navy.

In the days before the war, she tro Germanys before the war. The Admiralty appropriately series a list of forty unarmed had the greatest fleet in the world, On the one baze there was the British merchantmen and fourteen neutral ships, which have been but now she has cae of the great- industrial, the commercial, and submarined without warning during the past year to December 31st armies, and in a very short, the intellectual Germany, and in exclusive of undoubted cases of rabmarining that have been omitted time, it will be about the best a most remarkable way she has blended the three elements. Now that Germany was rendering But that is not all; a new a great service to civilisation. It Britain is now being developed, was conquering the world by the a new industrial Britain. Under success of its methods and of its! the great pressure of the war we example, and that conquest would very genuine are increasing and improving and have proved a quickening our industrial re blessing. It would have been means of my saving sources to and extent which would the

of the terrible waste. Horticultural Society's have been impossible but for the some

from which most of the social Show at Botanic Gardent. demands of this conflict.

evils of humanity spring. As an

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in the absence of actual proof.

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THE EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN.

(Havas Telegram.)

February 29. A memage from Alexandriz saya :---British Hoops occupied Sidi Barani, on the Egyptian-Lybian coset.

[In the event of relograms arriving too late for insertion on this pare they will be found on Page 8 or on Exträ).

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

MINISTER OF COMMERCE NEEDED,

March 1, 2.05 pm.

equipped army in the world.

The Two Germanys.

I think that America and all of

DON'T FORGET.

TO-DAY-

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TO-MORROW.

In the first place we have in- ardent social reformer, I freely troduced scores of millions' worth confess that Lmyself was learning of automatic machinery, which a good deal from that side of will have an enormous effect upon Germany, particularly in the dir our industries

ies when the war is ection of municipal and national Angel in the House"; 9.30 pin. over. In addition to that, we are organisation.

adding to our already great in-

dustrial srmy of skilled workers, Eat side by side with this Ger

A. D. C. Performance of “*

Monday, March 6.

and we shall need them all in the many, „which we admired, was the A. D. C. Performance of **; future to repair the ravages of the military Germany. These two Angel in the House-7; 9.30 War. This country, therefore, so Germanys could not live together.

Wednesday, Marols 29.

Reuter's correspondent at Capetown states that Count Timburg- stirum, the new Governor General of the Dutch Indies, has been

The Chambers of Commerce bare unanimously passed a far from being impoverished, The rapid and beneficent develop- entertained to lanch by General Boths in the House of Awmbly-resolution urging the Government to take immediate steps to create will be richer in everything that went of this first Germany meant Lord and Lady Barton, members of the Cabinet, the Right Hon. Minister of Commerce with a seat in the Cabinet and aided by a constitutes real and true the permanent overthrow of the Mr... Merriman (Premier of Cape Colony) and Sir Thomas Smartt Permanent Advisory Council, with the Dominions and the India wealth. We shall be a better old bacherous Germany for in Lad Meeting of shareholders;

organised, better equipped, better spite of the fact that it employed 11.30 12. (Commissioner of Public Works) were among those per

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