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March 7, 1916. §4 Humidity
7159 DAI
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1916.
TELEGRAMS.
March 7, 1915,
Temperature 6 min. Fiumidity
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A GERMAN ARMY IN CON STANTINOPLE.
TELEGRAMS.
CONDENSED.
A GREAT MUTINY IS REPORTED FROM SKYRNA.
THE BRITISH STEAMER ROTHESAY HAS BEEN SUNEL.
A POLITICAL CRISIS IS CONSIDERED INGMINENT AT ATHENS. THE GERMANS HAVE EVACUATED GROUND WON AT THLAVILLE M. VENEZELOS HAS BECOME RECONCILED TO KING CONSTANTINE THE FRENCH LINE AT VERDUN FORMS A 7-KILOMETRE RECTANGLE THE COLDLANDER OF THE MOEWE HAS BEEN GIVEN THE IRON CROSS THREE ZEPPELINS HAVE VISITED ENGLAND AND DROPPED 40 BOMBS. ZEPPELIN RAIDERS DAMAGED A BLOCK OF ALMSHOUSES IN ENGLAND. TURKISH ENVOYS ARE VISITING SWITZERLAND TO NEGOTIATE PEACE. ZEPPELIN RAIDERS KILLED 3 MEN, 4 WOMEN & 5 CHILDREN IN ENGLAND. IT IS REPORTED THAT TURKEY IS CONSIDERING PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
THE ALLIES IN THE WEST,
The French Line at Verdun...
[Beuter's Service to The "Telegraph."]
March 6, 2.25 pan. Beuter's correspondent at Paris says the line on which the French are so brilliantly holding up the Germans is the first of three lines covering Vardun.
It starts from Vacher-su-Ville and crosses the Poivre crest, the Donaumont plates and the villages of Vaux and Damloups forming practically a rectangle, over seven miles deep.
The Germans have wrecked regiment after regiment on this
solid mses of deferices.
Germans Evacuate Positions Won.
March 6, 1.25 pm:
TURKEY TIRED OF THE WAR.
Said to be considering Pesce Negotiations.
[Beuter's Servion to the "Telegraph."]_
March 6, 1.25 p.m.
Beuter's Paris correspondent says that, according to the official daily review, it ie reported that Turkey is co- sidering pesce negotiations, on the initiative of Talast Bey.
Envoys Seat to Switzerland.
March 6, 1.25 p.m. The Corrier Dalla Sera says that two Turkish Envoys have been sent to Swizz rland to negotiate with the Allies.
Great Mutiny at Smyrna.
March 6, 125 p.m.
A Salonica telegram states that a great mutiny is reported from Smyrna, owing to the hardshipa baing' suffered by the troops and their hostility to the Gurinams,
IMPORTANT. DEVELOPMENTS IN GREECE.
March 6, 1.25 p.m.
· THE ALLIES IN THE WEST.
Freach Confiderice In the Verdun Issue.
March 5, 3.00 p.m.
Riveting the Yoice on Turkey,
Salonica, January 22.-Ware it not for the excellence of its source," (writes the Tissa corres-
Renter's Service to The "Telegraph."
According to Bexter's correspondent at Paris the battle at pondent) I should feel inclined to Verdan was most furious throughout yesterday, but the evening doubt the scenracy of the report found the position of our adversaries unchanged. The enemy con- that reaches me to-day to the tinued their maximum efforts against the village of Dousumont and effect that no fewer than 50,000 tried every expedient of frightfulness, bat were powerless against German troops have lately arrived the heroic French reaistance. The losses of the enemy were most at Constantinople, and that for- disproportionate to the expenditure of energy, far exceeding those ther German forces are expected of the French, whose reserres of men and munitions are smple for there shortly. There can be little all emergencies: The two days' auslsught in the second phase of doubt, however, that the news is the battle was not marked by the slightest advance, and, moreover, true.
This sudden and unexpected the enemy had no longer the advantage of a warprise, while the ground is so tom up by the ceaseless bombardment, that it cannot descent of a German army on the be organised scientifically. The German survivors are fatigued and Turkish capital is viewed with the fresh troops are demoralised by the sight of the mounds of deep distrast and resentment by all corpses, of which 50,000 are lying in front of the French lines. Turks save Eaver Psaba and a small band of adherents whose Hence the issue is awaited in Paris without the alightest anxiety.
vary lives depend upon the zasin- tenance of German domination at "Stambul. My informant does not believe that the Kaiser's troops are intended for the munch"adver- tied Egyptian expedition. On the contrary, he states that while the Young Turks still hanker after | that adventure, the Greymans have set their faces against it, realising the virtual impossibility of saccGES in that direction.
Another German Cislı,
March 5, 3.10 p.
A Berlin communique claims the capture of another 37 go A Csiro telegram states that, according to private information and 75 machine guns at Verdun and a thousand prisonera at from Athens, H. Venerals has had several interviews with King Dousament. Constantine, with whom he is now reconciled.
A political crisis in Athens is considered imminent.
CONTROLLED MUNITION WORKS.
March 6, 1.25 p.m.
Mr. Lloyd George announces that there are now 3,052 controll- According to Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam, Berlined munition establishment. communique admits the evacuation of a portion of the ground won at Thisville "before the massed encircling fire of the enemy."
Violent Bombardment on, the Meuse.
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March 6, 3.30 pm A Paris official message asya:-We bombarded important points in Argoune. There has been no infantry action north of Verdun, but there has been a violent bombardment on the left bank of the Mease, together with an intermittent action at Donanmont. We bombarded the enemy's communications at Woerer
A Review of the Verdun Battle.
March 6, 4.45 pm. Lord Northcliffs, who is visiting Verdan, pablishes & striking review of the battle in the Times. He states that the French losses are insignificant, whereas it is known that the German 3rd and 18th Corpe were entirely spent, and that the 7th Reserve Corps had lost half, and the 15th Corps three quarters, of their available strength by the evening of March 3. The Germans likewise spent part of the 113th Division and the 5th Reserve Corps of the Bavarian Ersatz Division.
The prisoners come from all parts of the Empire. One re- Intee that, on February 21, his company was two hundred rifles and four officers. By February 22 it numbered seventy rifles and one
officer. None of the prisoners estimated the losses at less than third of the total effectives, and it can safely be assumed that the German losses are at least a hundred thousand.
The prisone have horror and misery so clearly depicted on their countenances that no other evidence is required of the tragedy through which they have passed.
ANOTHER BRITISH STEAMER SUNK.
March 6, 2.25 p.m. The British steamer Rothesay has been sank. [The Rothesay was a vessel of 2,007 toàn, built in 1891 by Mesars, W. Gray & Co., of West Hartlepool, for the Rothesay Steamship Co., Ltd.]
THE MOEWE'S ADVENTURES.
March 6, 1.25 p.m: A Berlin telegram says that Commander Count Dohns is aboard the Moewe, and that there are 103 Indians among the captured sailors,
Count Dohna has received the Iron Cross (1st Class), while the ozew receive the 2nd Class Crosa.
Count Dohna has been ordered to meet the Kaiser to report on his adventures.
THE ZEPPELIN RAID CASUALTIES.
March 6, 3.35 p.m.
A BRITISH LOAN IN'AMERICA. -
March 625 p According to the Daily Telegraph's New York correspondent, arrangements have virtuady been concluded for a new big British loan.
PORTUGAL SEIZES MORE GERMAN SHIPS,
March 6, 125 pm. Portugal has seized four German steamers si Madeira.,
FRENCH NEWSPAPER SUSPENDED.
March 6, 1.25 pm. Renter's correspondent at Paris saya that M. Clemencsan's newspaper L'Homme Enchains has been suspended for a week.
RUSSIANS BOMBARD TREBIZOND.
March 6, 1.25 p.m. Renter's correspondent at Petrograd says that Russian de stroyers bombarded Trebizond and destroyed several vereels in the harbour. The Turkish batteries replied, but unavailingly.
THE DISCOVERY OF SHELLS AT SHANGHAI.
Heavy-Bombardment.
March 6, 1.25 am.
A Paris communique states :-There is a heavy bombardment
the
The foreign legions now being poured into Turkey are prim arily intended to first yoke under which Turkey I grüaning. There haTS in Woere in the region of Fresnes and east of Esa-biomont, Our been several plots against the artillery is most active on the whole front and cannonaded the
present hated oligarchy, and they enemy marching north of Vsober-at-Ville near Bois Fosses and the have been stamped out with rathe outskirts of Louvement. A French aeroplane last night dropped le savagery. Fast willing and several bombs on the station at Conflans, where there is the greatest capable adept in German right- activity.
Brilliant Rocapture of “International Trench."
March 6, 1.25 8.10.
fulness. Esvg Pasha, goricum i by terror alone, and my inform ant states that swift and secret execations, or rather assassination, are of daily occurrence. In one night lately 21 Turkish officers According to Reater's correspondent at Headquarters the suspected of disaffection were recapture of the "International Trench" on the blaff of the Ypres dropped with stones round their salient on March 3 was even more brilliant than was at first thought the arrival of the German Army necks into the Bosporas. Before The Germans had feverishly consolidated therein. The British infantry sasanit was delivered at 430 in the morning and the there had been many broils be tween the Turks and the Gter- Germans were discovered packed in dagoats and craters, hiding mans, and in one of these 10 from the terrible artillery preparation Five officers and 250 men Tarkish and fire Grezsan officers were taken prisoners. Our casualties were surprisingly light,
Henceforward. lost their lives. Several counter-attacks have since been attempted but hare bloodily there is little likelihood of such failed. The ever-increasing power of our resources was clearly signs of hostility to Germany be manifested in the two days' fighting which has been more costly to
ing repeated until we and our the enemy than any recent action on the British front.
Allies rid- the Turkish nation of its oppressors.
Satisfactory Situation at Verdin.
March 6, 6.30 p.m.
Trespassing In Government Quarters Before Mr. Wood, at the Police
Renter's correspondent at Paris quotes a semi-official message Court this morning, two Chineas which says: The situation before Verdan is stationary but astisfac- were charged with trespassing on premicn Mr. tory. The enemy is fruitlessly endeavouring to dislodge us from Government the outskirts of the village of Dousamont, which we hold strongly. Ballock said it was reported to him. The Germana plastered the sector between Bois Haumont and that there were a lot of men in March 6, 125 p.m.
on Monday Donzamont with shells of all calibres, but were unable to gain an the coolie quarter? Beater's correspondent at Shanghai says that on the French inch. The failure to make any progress justifies the incresas of morning. They did not reside Concession the police found in a well, on the premises of a German, confidence of victory.
there, and they were gambling Of Iste there had been a good. eight cases of Hotchkiss shells of a rize useful for arming merchantmen.
many petty larcanies from the office. A fire of $2 cash was imposed.
This German was recently prominent in connection with the seizure of a large consignment of small arms destined for India.
Other discoveries are anticipated.
[la the event of telegrams arriving too late for lásertion on this page they will be found on Page & or an Extra).
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
GERMAN SOCIALIST SPEAKS OUT.
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March 5, 3.10 p.m.
THE POPE'S APPEAL FOR PEACE.
March 5, 3.10 p.m.
Beuter's correspondent at Rame mays the Pope, in a new appeal for peace, says he cannot witness in silence Europe tearing itself to pieces, His Holiness repeats the proposal that each belligerant should declare its desires but should he ready to make sacrifices resulting in a lasting peace which would be just to all.
DEFENCES OF SUEZ CANAL.
March 5, 11.40 p.m.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY.
Bijou Theatre-9:15 pm. Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.
TO-MORROW.
Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria, Theatre--9.15 p.m.
Friday, March 10.4
The Currency Problem-
5.15 p.m.
Benter's correspondent at Amsterdam says:-In the Prussian
A Cairo telegram states: Members of the Assembly visited the Diet Dr. Liebknecht delivered a fierce outburst against the Censor Saex Canal defences and the great military camp. They admired ship. He said mention of the trials of peace demonstrators and the splendid dispositions and installations and returned with an Lectors by Mr. J. M. Xavier, City food rioters were prohibited and the population was ignorant of ineffaceable impression of the solidity of the defences and the Hall; how these were growing. He denounced the atrocities by the adequateness of the face should the enemy be foolish enough to German troops in the occupied territories and the release of gaol- attempt an attack. They also watched the evolutions of warships birds to join the Army where already there were masses of men of in the Canal and aeroplanes overhead. hideous lasciviousness. He dwelt on the political persecation by
An official statement esys--It is believed that three Zeppelina which hundreds who were imprisoned were not allowed to consult participated in last night's raid, and that they took various courses, lawyers and said a new police department has been inaugurated to apparently uncertain sa to their bearings. The area vixited included deal with peace propagandists. Dr. Liebknecht caused a scene by Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Rutland, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, Fever sifirming that these conditions were breeding revolutiomes. The and Feat. About forty bombs were dropped, three men, four cries for halp from the prisons and from the slaves of distress were women and five children were killed, and thirty-three persons stified to-day, but one day they would be heard to rouse mankind to injured. The material damage comisted of two terrsons destroyed, holy war for peace. Dr. Liebknecht was describing the reign of and ons affice, s pablia house, a cals, seytesi shops and a block of terror în Austris when the closum was appliede simmbonnes damaged:
SURVIVORS OF ITALIAN "SHIP.
March 5, 11.40 p.m.
in Samúrday, March II. A.D.C. Ferformance of “The Angel in the House"; 9.15 p.m.
Tuesday, March 23. Hongkong Fire Insurancs Co., Lid-Meeting of shareholder -
DOOM.
Wednesday, March 29. Chim Bagar Rafning Co, the Giara, LidMeeting of shareholders;
The fifty-four seamen landed at Athens from an Itahan shấp which had been wank in the Mediterramen were not the Jaws as previously stated..
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