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The Hongkong Telegraph

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TUESDAY,

March 14, 1916,

7165 日一十月二

TELEGRAMS.

CONDENSED.

THE GERMANS LOST AT LEAST 200,000 AT VERÐUN.

LAST GERMAN ATTACK ON FORT VAUX, WAS TERRIBLY COSTLY.

A FRENCH AIR SQUADRON DROPPED HEAVY BOMBS ON CONFLANS. GERMAN STAFF ARGUES THAT THE LOSSES AT VERDUN WERE SLIGHT. JAPAN FEELING STRONGLY SUPPORTS THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE

(ESTABLISHND

1881.)

Copyright 1918, the Proprietor.

MARCH 14 1916.

TELEGRAMS.

THE ALLIES IN THE WEST.

Two More German Aeroplanes Destroyed.

[Renter's Service to The **Telegraph."]

March 13, 130 B..

A Paris communique saye-There has been no infantry action

March 14, 1915,

WEATHER FORECAST

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Barometer 30.08

Temperature 6 B Humidity

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TELEGRAMS.

THE RUSSIANS, -

Russian Torpedo Boat Suak.

Beater's Service to" The "Telegraph.”]

March 12, 1100 p.m.

A Petrograd communique reports that an enemy submarine

$36 PER ANNUM

THE LATE MR. A. G. APCAR.

Head of a Famous House Dead.

MAJOR-GEN. LONG, DIRECTOR OF SUPPLIES AND TRANSPORT, HAS RESIGNED north of Verdun.. Darize the day the bombardment was rather sanka Russian torpedo bost eff Yama. Part of the crew were saved. rosident in Calcutts, and one of

vinlent on both banks of the Mense. Our heavy artillery shelled enemy troops that were assembling in a ravine north of Poivre Hall, 3nd the German batteries west of Louvement. We destructively barabarded enemy works south of the Somme and between the Oise

JAPANESE INSISTS TEAT GERMANY MUST BE CRUSHED, SAYS THE PREMIER FRENCH BATTERIES EAST OF VERDUN ARE DISPLAYING GREAT ACTIVITY. THE FRENCH HAVE CLEARED A GERMAN TRENGEL, TAKING SOME PRISONERS. FRENCH CRITIC SAYS “WE ARE DESTROYING GERMANY'S FINEST ARMY.-and the Aisce. We demolished several German observatiiratations

says:--

THE FIGHTING IN THE WEST.

Franch Clear a German Trench.

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Beuter's Service to The Telegraph.”

Persian Town Occupied.

March 12, 11.00 pm. in Cheppy Wood, Argonne, and wrecked hostile, trenches in the A Petrograd communique states: The Russians have occupied Sezones district,

At Bandesspt two German seroplanes were the Persian town of Karins, which is 130 miles north-east of Bagdad brought down in our lines to-day, all their occupants being killed. Our battle air squadrons to-day fought sighteen actions in the region of Etaio, putting the enemy to fight

BAD WEATHER ON ITALIAN FRONT.

March 13, 13.25

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Russian Success in Galicia.

March 12, 1100 p.m. The Russe attacked the Galicis village of Latache captured trenchee.

ROUMANIANS FIRED ON.

March 12, 5.20 am.

Calcutta, February 3- The death is announced of Mr. A. G. Apcar, head of the wealthy Apar family, at the age of 82. Ha wAR probably the oldest Armenian

the wealthiest citizens, having ExtensĪTS landed

property in Calcutta. Joining his uncle's firm of Apear and he became partner. He was a Company early in life as assistant; well known raming owner.

Sir A. A. Apcar was hĩa no- phew, and had joined the partner- ship. After his death, deceased and which furished during the most became sole owner. The firm,

prosperous period of the opium trade with Chius, possessed a line of shipping to the Far East which was said to the British India Company some four

March 13, 4.10 p.m.

A Rome communique says: Bad weather is seriously interfering According to Benter's correspondent at Paris, a communique with the operations on the Upper Lonzo, where the snow, in places,

The Daily Mail's correspondent at Odesss reports that a five years ago. Its managing is ten metres deep. There in intense artillery activity from the Bulgarian frontier guard near Bahoro fixed on a Roumanian ship agencies in Jute Mills and collary There has been no infantry action north of Verdan, bat the middle Isonzo to the sea. The enemy has been repeatedly silenced which was loading from barges in the Roumanian zone. bombardment has continued at Betbincours, Donaumont and in by grenade attacks which were carried out by infantry who Austrian gunboat ordered the ship to the Balgarian abere and, on ferred during recent years.

At companies have also been trade- WOSVID.

ploughed through enow and slush. Enemy reinforcements were lits refusal shelled it. Boumanian troops replied and there were swept by car artillery and machine gun fire.

(many casualties on both sides.

French batteries in the sectors at Monlainville and Roavaux, to the east of Verdun, displayed great activity along the whole front. A French detachment în Bois Le Prese effected a clever coup de moin, clearing & German trench, inficting losses and taking Bonne prisoners.

A French Air Raid.

March 13, 4.20 p.m. According to Reuter's correspondent, a communique states that a French Air Squadron dropped heavy bombs in Confians, and observed five fires.

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Germans Lose 200,000 at Verdun.

BERLIN AND BAGDAD.

The Railway for Cotton, Wool and Copper.

DIRECTOR OF SUPPLIES AND TRANSPORT RESIGNS.

March 13, 4.20 p.m. Major-General S. S. Long has resigned the Directorship of mountains. bad been pierced Supplies and Transport, a position which he has held since 1914.

JAPAN INSISTS ON GERMANY BEING CRUSHED.

the

SOLDIERS

Sir Rider Haggard's Mission.

Among many acts of generosity of the deceased, were the building of a new parsonage for the clergy (at the Armenian Church and a the duty of Governmenta to lock new block in the Armenian after and provide for such men, College for extra damitàries and and to find a healthy and honour-class rooms. Mr. J. S. Apear, able cullet for their legitimate barrister, is heir.-Exchange, ambitions.

The Dominions and British

Settlers

No doubt some would be

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Then comes another stretch of SETTLEMENTS FOR railway. Mersina-Tarsus-Adannt- ben (beyond Bagiche) somee an- other Freak, which, however, says Berr Ludwig, will be finished by cow. The vast consignments of ma In its issue of December 2, the terial arrived just before war As representative of the Royal

He regarded land settlement is Manchester Guardian states the brake out, and now" by the time Colonial Institute, Sir Rider

the most vital of all the problems the importanes of the Bagdad these lines are read in Germany, Haggard has undertaken a mission Railway in the war is the subjecthe first waggons, which formerly with the object of finding suitable provided for in this country, but before us. The land treeds the of an article in the Berliner needed four days to cross the settlements within the Overseas the area was restricted and the people which in the end the cities March 13, 135 pm.

Tageblatt by Herr Emil Ladwig. munus, will be travelling at the Dominions for soldiers who will economic possibilities email. We eat" In his travels round the did not want them to go to Empire be bad come acrces eTEC According to Boater's Paris correspondent, the official review According to this article, there re-rate of over forty miles an hour retum after the war.

mains between Constantinople from Tarsus to Aleppo without a Earl Curzon, who presided at a foreign countries, but to keep

possïcilities waiting to be states that the German Staff is trying to persuade the German and Aleppo but a single gap of break. And these are no pro- tend-off luncheon in London, des them for ourselves and for our people that the German losses at Verdan wera alight, bat evidence eighteen miles on the south side Tisory measures of war, bat solid cribed the guest's leading char

We wanted these British seized. The great need is popul

least 200,000, while the last allack on Fort Vaux was terribly costly the progress of the railway was forms for express- trains, all the tion and common sense, for he wa/British Iands, to sustain the tra as a deadly doctrine. Take Aus- in daily accommulating in France showing that the Germans lost all of the Taurus. The last news of labour, based on the Prussian acteristic as a blend of imagina /citizens to rear British families in *tion. Malthusis niɛm he regarded

The review quotes a military critic, who says: We are the announcement of the operis rolling stock comes from Prussia celebrated not merely as a DO

tions and uphold the honour of tralia. At a haphazard estimate destroying Germany's finest Army, and they are not getting

on October 20 of a section of 100.

velist, bat as a practical farmer the British flag, and to add to he would say that 50 million through.

about 29 miles south of Llabie.

sad a diligent student of ever the economic and industrial White people might well find a At that time some twenty miles of Jerusalem has been finished since

From Aleppo, a new railway to four of agrarian question. Now rangth of the British Empire. home there. He wanted to keep four people within the bounds of line between Islabie and Bagtehe war bega, ao that the journey eps the chief work of his life. Curzon thought, that in many ni

be was about to undertake per- We may be quite certain, Lrd the Empire-that was the object. was finished, although the from Constantinople to Jerusalem when the war is over," said the cutlying dominions the Go other point on which he insisted

of his immediate concer... grest tunnel through the Amuna will soon caly take five days.

Lord Carzon, "nobody know.vernments will be caly too glad Herr Ludvig believes that by Herr Ludwig cannot refrain what will happen. Indeed, when to welcome an infasion of British was, the absolate necessity of this time trains are running over from gloating over what all this it will be oraz is a question apoc settlers, provided they are of the improved communications be

tween the different parts of the this section although a map in will meza to Germany.

which none of us, and perhape right clase. the Frankfurter Zeitung jas

as little as anybody în the room, It was to investigate these prob Empire. It was said there is a to hand, gives the section still a-has been overcome and

"Since the Serbian resistance has the slightest ides. But there lems, to confer with the Declaas in the country which does "building." It may be added Danube been cleared, of Barbian opinion as to what is likely to ployers of labour, with farms, difficulties, hat he honestly be seems to be some difference of minion Governments, with em not favour emigration at all. Ee that beyond Aleppo the railway nines, artillery

was aware of this and many other goods for Renter's correspondent at Tokyo atatea that in an interview has been completed to some. Gia Germany can come from Asia back again into the old groove, form an opinion so to the selection snpervene. Some say we shall be sad agencies, and the like, to

lieved that, directly and indirect- which he had with Count Okuma, the Premier, the latter declared no great distance est. of the Minor to the Danube and then ap and that everything will be of suitable sress, that Sir Rily, his mission would be crowned that the feeling of Japan was overwhelmingly in support of the Euphrates, the bridge over that stream as far as necessary.

with some success. Anglo-Japanese Alliance, despite German mirigces. He affirmed river having been opened last portant things can be sent from There are others of whom I am his acoficial mission. It was a Im-much the BROO as before. Baggard had been entrusted with that the Japanese people insist that Germany must be crushed. April. The remaining 560 miles this wealthy Asia Minor more neho earnestly hope and great Empire duty that he was or so to Bagdad is unbuilt; it is easily, cheaper, and it greater devoutly pray that most things undertaking in all probability marked by the Frankfurter as quantity than before. Especially will be entirely different, that to the most beneficient quest in his "building"

wool from the Meanderplain and meet the new situation

long and useful public career. other parts, not first-class wool it schemes, new plans, new policies Lord D'a berson who was chair- Fair Ladwig begins by quot is trae, bat still eminently useful will have to be devised, and I man of the Dominions Royal ing the words of Talaat Bey for the needs of our campaigns. would not mind adding myself Trade Commission, upon which "Where should we have been in Then cotton from the Adans dis- that an entire readjustment will body Sir Rider Haggard also this war without the railway," trict, copper from the Euphrates be called for of many of the basic served, spoke of the latter's quali bat says that military reasons mines, and, finally, opium from principles on which our public cations for the lack entrusted to forbid him to discuss the strs-the poppsfelds of Asia Minor, for life has hitherto rested." These bip, and dwelt on the necessity tegical importance of the line the snufacture of morphia and There were two breaks between chloroform."

of encouraging the emigration of were speculative questions,.con- Contantinople and Aleppo last

tioned Lord. Cazos, but there women as well as men. spring, bat one has been joined | Herr Ladwig says that the inculd be no question there were ap now and the otter soon will most prayer of the Allies with many problems that would brook be. The importance of this regard to this railway is for no delay, and among them that accelerated transport service carcity of coal, and he calls to of the settlement of our soldiers three-fold, according to the three mind the successful attempts of who come back from the war fold centrifugal fronts in the the Eussian to destroy the coal would be one of the most import Cancazus, Mesopotamia, and transport service in the Black Ses.ant. Egypt; and there is also to be Bat he asserts that Asia Minor mentioned a fourth-namely, the has plenty of coal mines, especially applying of the Dardanelles within the west, and if those failed, there are stores of wool fuel Brain, vegetables, and meat.”

enough to last for ten years.

March 13, 450 p.m.

[In the event of telegrams arriving too late for Insertion on this page they will be found on Page 8 or on Extra).

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

MR. CHURCHILL RETURNS TO THE FRONT.

March 12, 4.10 p.

Mr. Winston Churchill left for the front to-day.

THE ALLIES IN THE WEST

Mutual Bombardment.

DOW

Sir Rider Haggari and Land Settlement.

DONT FORGET.

TO-DAY.

Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.15 piz

TÓ-MORROW.

Hongkong

Club. Thirtieth

Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m. Suurday, March 25. Hongkong Rope Manufacturing In a happy speech, Sir Rider Co., Ltd.Meeting of Share Haggard spoke with confidence of holders; 11.30 am. his being able to accomplish come Hongkong Rope Manufacturing useful work for the Empire. H Co., Ltd.-Extraordinary General A great host of men would that he had written works of ic-

acknowledged the impeachment Meeting; 11.45 am.

HKV0 Serg's' Mess Dinner, March 12, 410 p.m..

return to a country where almost tion-works of adventure he Hongkong Hotel : 8 p.. An official report from Paris states that the reciprocal bombard

ortamly the labour market would chose to call them, and he hoped Monday, March 27, be congested, where wegea must to write at least one more to help ment is most active at Bois des Battes and is also being carried on with

fall, and where the majority of to provide for the cost of his Yearly General Meeting, 5.30 p.m. considerable violence at Bethincourt. A small German attack west

the people for the conditions of mission. It did not follow, be of the Heuse was easily repulsed. The bombardment continues to The old line from the capital to

the moment were quite artificial claimed, that because he was s

Tuesday, March 23.7. be violent from east of Donaumont to Fort Vaux. The enemy did not Konia ja the Anatolian Bailway.

Hongkong Ice Company, Ltd.-- would be much poorer than novelist he could not understand Meeting of shareholders; 1136 made a fresh infantry attempt to reach the plateau leading to the bort, and thence to Aleppo is the A Gambling Rad now. He doubted very much and tackle practical matters. Be The Germans, after artillery preparation, took, in the course of the Bagdad Railway. The first break Before Mr. Hazeland, at the whether the great majority of the had been three times a Commis "attack, a small trench northward of Eix.

is in the Taurus, a thousand kilo Police Court this morning, a soldiers would be willing to go moner under the Crown, be Ltd.Meeting of shareholden, metres from

Constantinople Chinese was charged with keeping back to the factory, the workshop modestly reminded the audience. po There is still a cutting, over 18's gaming house at No. 81, Main or the office stool. They would The English people were too apt Wednesday, March 29. miles long, to be mide in the Street, Shankiwan, and 14 others want to settle down somewhere to decry imagination, but a sense southern slopes of the mountains, were charged with being in the on the land, where they could of imaginations, he held, is the Ltd.-Meeting of shareholder; China Sagar Refining Co., but for the present, and for the premises for the purpose of gam lead a healthy life, earn an hoa-soul of all things, and without a 1130x1 General Sir Douglas Haig in a communique sys: The enemy duration of the war, the old parbling. Some of the defendante ourable living, and bring up spice of that quality nothing great sprang four mines near the Hohenzollern Redoubt and grenade road through the Cilician Gates being absent, their bail of $5 their families, and where, as on has ever yet been dons Brussl

Friday, March 31. Ighting ensued in which our casualties and damages were very has been made into a huge was entreated. The first defendant the battlefield, although in a things are done German things Ltd Meeting of Shareholders Luzon Sagar Refining 01, light. The enemy shelled our trenches at Loos and Bois Grenier, sutomobile highway, connecting was fined $75 and the others 3 diferent way, they might do but we should never build up 11:30. s..

was also a heavy bombardment by both sides at Ypres. Bomanti with Tarsus,

some service to the State. It was without imagination.

Mine Grenade and Artillery Fighting.

March 13, 12.23 8.10.

jesch.

Hongkong Fire lasamace Co.,