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WEATHER FORECAST

FAIR-

Barometer 30.02

March 15, 1916.

Tamparatura Humidity

6.

March 15, 1915,

Temperature 6 sin. 57 P Humidity

9:1

7166 日二十月二

TELEGRAMS.

CONDENSED.

NORTH OF VERD-IN THE BOMBARDMENT HAS INTENSIFTED. A GERMAN ATTACK IN UPPER ALSÁCE WAS QUICKLY STOPPED. IRELAND DESIRES GREATER FACILITIES FOR MUNITION-MAKING. FRENCH AEROPLANES DROPPED 130 BOMES ON STRATEGIC POSITION. AFTER BITTER FIGHTING GERMANS ARE RETREATING IN EAST AFRICA. BRAZIL. GOVERNMENT IS CONSIDERING CHARTERING GERMAN VESSELS. MR. LLOYD GEORGE DOES NOT THINK THE WAR WILL END BEFORE JULY.

WEDNESDAY,

MARCH 15, 1916.

TELEGRAMS.

THE ALLIES IN THE WEST:

Aerial Activity on British Froot.

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TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

MARRIED MEN'S PROTEST.

[Reater's Service to The Telegraph.”]

March 13, 1.10 p.m.

PUNITIVE EXPEDITION TO MEXICO.

Large protest meetings of attested married men ware yesterday (Renter's Sarvios to Tha "Telegraph.") held at Coventry, Leicester, Sheffield, and Wigan at which a re-j Landen. Received, March 14 Mirch 14, 1250) 15.

sciation was passed, demanding that all single man be called up According to Reuter's corres- General Sir Douglas Haig reports as follows: The enemy before married men are summoned. It is understood that a compondent at New York, the news exploded mines at Carmoy and near the La Bamez-Bethune road,mittee of the Cabinet has been considering the matter, and has papers report that a punitive Brigadier We euccessfully bombarded the region of Hamets, on the decided to delete large batches of industries from starred liste and to expeditioner

eliminate single men in other trades.

General Pershing has entered Mexico. The War Department is silent, but it is announced that three cavalry regiments have been. ordered to the barder.

doing no damage. GERMAN ARTILLERY PLAN AT VERDUN WAS WRECKED BY FRENCH SHELLS. Lille-Armentieres Railway, and Hooge.

There was considerable artillery activity about Loca BULGARIA WILL NOT OPPOSE ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTONOMOUS ALBANIA,

Considerable serial activity was shown by bath sides, Thirty- FRENCH AND BRITISH HAVE EACH BROUGHT DOWN TEREE AIRSHIPS. two hostile machines were engaged and three brought down.

IRELAND AND MUNITION MAKING.

{Reuter's Service to The Telegraph."]

March 13, 1.10 p.m. A deputation of Irish business men, headed by Mr. John Bedmond, waited as Mr. Lloyd George to arge greater facilities for munition-making in Ireland and the equipment of national stell and fuse factories. The deputation declared that Trade Unions would help in the work.

Mr. Lloyd George replied, saying he was anxious to utilize the reserves of Ireland to the utmost, but it could not be ignored that at the moet Ireland was not an industrial country. He pointed cat that Belfast's contribution to the conduct of the war was second to mone in the United Kingdom. He was not sanguine enough to hope that the war would be ended before July, and therefore he could not make plans for the delivery of machinery on such an sasumption. There was no reason why Ireland should not become more prosperous industrially, and he would seize the opportunities afforded by muniton-making for industrially developing Ireland.

The depatation agreed to form a permanent Committee to make definite suggestions to the Ministry of Munitions.

CHARTERING GERMAN VESSELS.

French Aviators Do Good Work

March 14, 200 p.m. A Paris communique states:— North of Verdun the bombardment has intensified. West of the Meuse, against Mort Homme and in the BR Bourras region, our batteries shelled enemy gatherings between Forges and Crows wood.

There was moderate artillery activity on the right bank of the Mense and in Woerre.

There was no infantry action during the day.

The German attacked the trenches which we recently recaptured east of Seppois, in Upper Alaca, but artillery and infantry fire quickly drove them back to their trenches.

UNIONIST AND LIBERALS CONFER.

March 13, 110 p.m. Unionist and Liberal War Committees will confer for the first time to-day in view of the deliste on the Army Estimates.

MAJOR-GENERAL LONG RESIGNED.

March 13, 1.10 p.m. The Daily Exprasa saya that Major-General Long has resigned the Directorship of Sapplies and Transport at the War office.

AN OVERSEAS MISSION.

March 13, 1.10 p.m.

At the request of Mr. Lloyd George, Brigadier-General Minekin has undertaken a special mission overseas.

GERMAN SEAPLANE CHASED.

March 13, 110 pm

Our artillery corth of the Aïsue wrecked eatmy organisations at several points on the Vandlere Plataan, and our heavy guns

A. German seaplace sighted at North Foreisad at noon on bombarded German werks in Champagne and Eastern Argonne.

Our aviators were remarkably active to-day. Six machines Sunday did not reach land, British aeroplanes chasing it seaward. dropped 130 bombs on a strategic station at Brenlles, while north of Verdan numerous actions were fought, in which we indisputably had the advantage. Three German aeroplanes were brought down and others were seen falling, but the destruction of these is not

verified.

German Artillery Plan Wrecked.

March 13, 2.20 p.m.

A German artillery observation officer who has been captured mya that originally German artillery was missed en bloc, and

Bat everyone was convinced that Verdan would crumble to dest gradually the French shalis poured on the massed artillery, com- Renter's correspondent at Rio de Janeim esys the Cabinet is pelling it to disperse, thus wracking the whole German plan. considering the chartering of German vessels.

March 13, 2.20 pan

BULGARIAN PREMIER'S SIGNIFICANT SPEE CH.

March 13, 5.40 pm According to Reuter's correspondent at Athens, & message from Sofa says that M. Radoslaroff, speaking in the Sobranje, declareci that be would not oppose the establishment of sa autonomous Albania. He did act know what would happen in the case of Serbia, Bulgaria was not closely related to either of her neigh- bours. The agreement with Turkey could to-morrow become only

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OBSTINATE FIGHTING IN EAST AFRICA. -

German Efforts Again Fail.

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TURKEY'S DESIRE FOR PEACE.

March 13, LI0 p.m. Beater's correspondent at Athens quotes a letter from Con- stantinople which states that a numerously signed nemoir begs the Heir Apparent to, urge the Saltan to change the Government with a view to concluding a separate peace with the Entents.

A GREAT WAR COUNCIL.

March 13, 110 p.m. Council of all the Allies met at General J-fire's Headquarters.

Beater's correspondent at Paris reports that a great War

CASUALTIES AMONG CANADIANS.

March 13, 110 p.m.

A Toronto telegram reports that the total Canadian casusities

March 14, 4.45 p.m. According to Reuter's correspondent at Paris, a commanique are 13,868. says-West of the Mense the cannonade was fairly violent.

At night time, a strong German reconnaîmance a: Handremont wood was checked by our curtain of fre.

The bombardment continued to be very viclent at Vaux and Damloop, and there was also artillery activity in Woevre, notably in the sector at Eix.

The Germans attempted an attack at Bois Le Pretre, but were dispersed by rifle fire, leaving a number of desd

MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.

March 14, 10.50p.m. Major-General Heath, Director of Quartering, has been appointed Temporary Depaty Quartermaster General.

Colonel Atkins, Deputy Director of Supplies, has been appoint. Temporary Director, replacing Major General Long-

March 13, 11 20 p.m. General Smuts, in command of the East African campaign, inad a telegram dated March 12, says that the action which commenced on the morning of the 11th against the German prepared positions on the Kitoro Hills, to the west of Tareta, resplied in a most obatinate straggle, marked by wavering fortunes, till midnight.

The densely wooded, steep hills, strongly held by the enemy, proved a most formidable obstacle, and portions of the positions "were taken and re-taken several times.

In a final attack with the bayoust, between nine o'clock and midnight, two parties, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Freeth and Major Thompson, of the South African Infsutry, secured a hold, which they maintained till reinforced on the following morning, when German and native troops were seen streaming away towards Kahi, in a south-westerly direction.

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[In the event of telegrams arriving too late for insertion on this page they will be found on Page 8 oron Extra),

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE FIGHTING IN THE WEST.

German Methods of Counting.

Unless this is fully understood, attempts to regain our one-time chemical predominance are likely

INVALIDS” PROGRESS.

London. Recorreď, March 14. Mr. Chamberlain is still can- fined to his room; Lord Carson is improving.

importance, and there are sources of potash in our own conatry, or within our control, which will all the place of potash from Stassfurt There are no other monopolies in the chemical world. Every syn- thetic chemical or drag can be... made here as well as it can be made in Germany, and it must be

same

made by precisely the method. The chemist must be of originality, talent and directive power, he must have under hi some hundreds of well-trained, ̈ handrum, docile men working in squads whom he can tum at any moment to soy chemical question which promises commercial ɛDC- cese, and it must be he and not his commercial colleagues who controls the undertaking.

The Late Mrs. Passmore Edwards.

DON'T FORGET.

TO-DAY.

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

TO-MORROW,

Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m. Victoris Theatre-9.15 p.m.

Baturday, March 25. Hongkong Rope Manufacturing

Mrs. Passmore Edwards, widow THE CHEMIST AND THE |know a little physical science and of Mr. John Passmore" Efwards,

WAR

to respect it, while the correspond the newspaper proprietor and ing public school and university philanthropist, has died in Lor- msm in this country is taught to don, aged 74 She was Eleanor, His Valse to Modern Industry, despise it, and probably calls it daughter of Mr. B. V. Humphreys, stinks The result of this the artist. Her husband died in Mr. Bertram Blount, FLC, training and attitude of mind is 1911 writes, in the Daily Chronicle easily seen. In Germany no one Few people understand that this thinks that a man trained as a present war has been made possi-chemiat is either a dreamer or a ble by chemists. May I as a chemist fool, and he takes his natura! say at once that chemists are in position as the head of any in- no sense.responsible for this war, dustrial concern dependent on his but, had not chemical science been science, with the result that such pursued for peaceful and useful undertakings fisurish amazingly. end, the conflict now raging could In our country this natural and never have been? The chemist is effective arrangement is reversed. the king pin not merely of this The "business-man" is put on top war, but of a huge part of modern and the chemist into a subordinate industry. There is not a thing place. It is needless to elaborate | made of steel, from a rail to an the argument, as the results in the aero-engine which has not had two countries speak for them its genesis in the researches of selves. the chemist, car could its manu- facture be successfully continued without his advice and control To take cement as the next largest structural material, it is a fact to be fatile and the dye scheme Co., Ltd.-Mesting of Share that cement manufacture is one of mey serve as an example. There holders; 11.30 am. the heaviest chemical industries the people who know are put on A Paris semi-cficial message states that the German method of Instances of this kind might be an advisory board which is care Co., Ltd-Extraordinary General Hongkong Rope Manufacturing the rapid British advance during the 8th, 9th and 10th inst. counting prisoners st Verdun is based on the principle of a stage tediously multiplied, and except fully regregated lest it should Meeting: 11.45 am. Movetnenie are progressing to bar the retreat of these isolated arm The Matin estimates the German losses at Verdun at in purely mechanical industries give advice, and at the same

200,000.

HKV.C.-Sergte’Mess Dinner, the ultimate arbiter is the chemist, time people of the parely Hongkong Hotel; 8 p.. and even in such as querying official class so ignorant es to mining and

the tapping of confuse nitrocellulose, the prim

Monday, March 27, petroleum the chemist's aid must sry ingredient of modern pro-

Hongkong Club.-Thirtieth Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam exyss Berlin communi-be sought, and in the case of the pals.ve explosives, with TN.T., Yearly General Meeting, 5.30 p.m. que cisima, since the beginning of events in the Mease district, last named, that said has built up a purely bursting charge, are pat

Tassday, March 28, the capture of 130 officers, 26,240 mes, 189 gans and 32 an industry the value of which is in high command. The truth is

being bitterly realised by car foee that the Government has blan Hongkong Ice Company, Ltd. machine-guns.

The national value of the dared badly. Neither that exist Meeting of shareholders; 11.30 chemist was understood in Gating in 1914 nor the present coali- a.m. many some 40 years ago the tion tody bad the slightest earlier generation some 30 years conception of the part which Ltd.-Meeting of shareholders; Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., before that included many Ger- chemists would play in this war, noon. In the House of Commons, Mr. Tennant, during the debate on The Morning Post's correspondent at Budapest reports that man chemists of renown, but the and they have been content with the Army Estimates, paid a tribute to the wonderful discipline of considerable uneasiness is felt in consequence of the disappointing breed seems to be extinct; they stereotyped procedure and pale- Wednesday, March 29. the mer, considering the short term of their training. He said a million recruita had enlisted in four days under the Derbe results of the German offensive at Verdun. A Hungarian journalist | are exploitera rather than origina olithic advice. scheme. Bachelors engaged as manition workers and in other resident in Berlin says that he has never seen Berlin people in any- tors, and the current belief in this thing like their present mood. They walk the streets wrapped country of the pre-eminence of the

I have touched on the supposed Ltd.Meeting of shareholders; national industries would be reduced to a minimum. The Govern-in thought, like men in dreams. Everything is being sacrificed to German chemist is as touching as supremacy of the German chem- 11.20 sm. ment would see that the married men were not let down.

Verdun. Austrian heavy guna have been removed from the Italian it is foolish,

ist, and there are one or two

Friday, March 31 Mr. Tennant dwelt on the enormous development of the Army front and the Bosnian front weakened. Reinforcements are con- Fart of this irrational creed is materials which are at his disposal quoting as an instance the fact that the stores used since the cuttinually going westward. Military circles in Budapest declare that due to the fact that any German and not at our, the most ob Luzon Sagar Refining Co., break of the war would have lasted for 140 normal years. He emphasised the ments of the system of purchses on behalf of all the extra million men are required on the whole Western front in who is decently educated-ak-vions being polash and bromine. Ltd Meeting of Sharehol

consequence of the Verdun effort.

ademisch gebildet is assumed to "Only the former is of national 11:30 ##..

Simultaneously, one of General Sants' mounted brigades was engaged in clearing the foot of the bills, north-west of Kilimanjaro, of the enemy forces which had been cut off from the main body by

focoes wetward.

Concurrently with the above actions, a strong column under Major-General Stewart, from the direction of Longido, appeared on the Araslia-Moshi road, to the rear of the main German concentra- tion, the energy consequently retreating southwards towards the Usamban Railway. The pursuit continues.

Alhes.

OUR NEW ARMIES.

March 14, 6.30 p.m.

March 13, 1.10 p.m.

Some Berlin Claims.

March 13, 1.10 p.m.

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Verdun's Effect in Berlin.

March 13, 1.10 p.m.

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