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TELEGRAMS.

INDIA'S ASSISTANCE IN THE WAR.

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In the House of Commons, in reply to questions by Mr. J. C. Wedgwood. Mr. Chamberlain stated that the question of an Indian War Loan had been care- fully considered in India and at Home. He not ser his way to advise its issue. The money available in India for Government loans was limited, and the war had stopped Mr. McKenna and he hal Indian borrowings in London. agreed that the most effective help India could give wa to avoid recourse to the London market.

India had paid off £7,500,00 of her floating debt in Lam don this year and had bought since the beginning of tim was £7,000,000 worth of Imperial securities.

There Wis

reason to believe that there had been considerable private subscriptions from India to British issues. He doubted whe ther more money would le obtained in India by means of a War Loan,

If Indian volunteers were removed from their provinces other woops would have to perform their duties. He was not disposed at prosent to give a return showing the mun ber of volunteers employed.

The Raj was already giving all the assistance in its power in the provision of military supplies of all kinds. He recalled that since the beginning of the war India, gave large supplies, which Britain could not provide and which were urgently needed. He believed a detailed statement of India's sasistence in the war would be supplied to the Mesopotamian Commission. He assured Mr. Churchill that the question of a War Profits Tax was considered when the last Indian Budget was framed, but he declined to anticipate future Budgets.

In replying to Mr. Rees, Mr. Chamberlain stated that he viewed with grave concern the delays in Indian litiga tion disclosed in recent judgments of the Privy Council. He wrote to the Raj in May requesting it to consult the High Courts on the subject, and report their views and proposals as early as possible.

GERMAN PRINCE DIES OF WOUNDS,

November 9 11.50 a.m. Bouter's correspondent at Amsterdam ar that accord- ing to a message from Munich Prince Heinrich of Bavaria has died of wounds.

KEARST NEWSPAPERS BANNED.

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SERIOUS POSITION IN AUSTRALIA.

November 9.11.50 a.m Beuter's correspondent at Melbourne says that if the strike lasts every industry will be paralysed.

Many thousands of workers in the Commonwealth are idis and the cargo steamer service at Melbourne in disor ganised. Several big factories are closing.

The railway men at Sydney refused to handle coal and the miners at Brisbane have gone on strike. It is suggested in some quarters that the Commonwealth may take over the

mines.

THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE.

Ablaincourt Captured.

November 9, 11.FJ 1,m. Beuter's correspondent at Paris etates:-The French attacking Ablaincourt on November 11 easily carried two linos built in with concrete facing, a great trench; but in the centre the enemy organised two villages formidably and defended them forcely. They sheltered in deep cellers dur the bombardment and then re-appeared with a great number of machine gun when the waves of assault advanced.

A desperate struggle ensued in a cluster of ruined houses, near the cross roads, which changed hands thrice.

The Bavarians The Church was stubbornly contested within refused to surrender and all were annihilated.

Ablaincourt was entirely captured, after cleven and a "half"hours" struggle,

Violent Reciprocal Bombardment

November 10. 12:45 a.m.

An official message from Paris states:-There was no important action on the Somme.

There were artillery duels and a small infantry bagage- ment near Bailly-Saillisel and south of Pressoir, in which we deared out positions and took prisoners. The latter con- firmed the enemy's severe losses at Saillisel.

There is a violent reciprocal bombardment at Donau- mont and the Vaux sector.

Enemy's False Claim Exposed.

November 10, 1.35.m.

General Bir Douglas Haig in a communique reports:- There was considerable bostile shelling on the front south of the Ancre.

Wa bombarded the area east of Regins trench. The enemy falsely claimed to have repulsed our troops with huge and sanguinary losses on Sunday, in a battle' which the first rank delivered with powerful forces. The facts aro, as stated in the British comunique of Sunday, that our attacks were local and made with a few battalions · to gain some advanced trenches at ibres points, in order to improve our front line. Most of these trenches were taken and the casualties were proportionate for the small force employed.

A MONEY-SAVING INVENTION.

November 10, 6 40 a.m.

* Daily Chronicle minies that as the result of a new ntion the Ministry of Munitions is considering the ntilisa: Frusak deposita for the manufacture of charcoal for the 5 bost of 30% per ton, compared with: 210, the

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SATURDAY,

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TELEGRAMS.

GUILDHALL SPEECHES.

'Mr. Asquith's Views on Peace.

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

November 9, 9.45 p.m. At the Lord Mayor's Banquet at the Guildhall, Mr. Asquith delivered a lengthy speech.

At the outset he referred to Turkish misrule in Europe, and mentioned the messacre of the Armenians under Ger- many's eyes as an example of the real meaning of a Ger manised Turkey.

He proceeded to refer to the Fleet's maintaining an ever tightening grip on the inlets of the enemy's supplies, ! and being more than ready to try conclusions.

He continued: Our gallant armies are ever gaining ground on the Somme sad never yielding an inch. Their splendid record in the same at Salonica, in Egypt, Meso potamia and East Africa France is fighting shoulder to boulder with us on the Somme and in little more than's fortnight has annihilated eight months of the enemy's pro- digious and most costly effort at Verdun. Italy is steadily Bussis maintains her but surely advancing on Trieste. colossal task with undiminished energy, and we should offer a special tribute of admiration and gratitude to Rumania for her splendid and tenacious stand. The Serbians are playing a worthy part and Portugal is contributing her share.

With regard to Grenze I speak with hope. I wish i could say with confidence. We Allies have never had any quar rel with Greece, but on the contrary there has been sincere and traditional friendship. As one of the Powers guar anteeing ber independence and freedom, we desire both to prevent her being enmeshed in the Germanic net and to save her from the calamities of internal strife. Whatever apparently drastic measures the Allies have taken, they have bean dictated solely by the necessity of preventing Athens continuing to be a centre of German progaganda and in- trigue. I say frankly that we are in hearty sympathy with the great Greek patriot, M. Venizelos. He has assured us that his efforts at organisation are in no wise anti-dynastic and that his sole object is that Greece should play a worthy part on the side of freedom, with a view to progressive dere- lopment on lines of independence and liberty.

This war is for the emancipation of the smaller nations How can Groece keep aloof when the one aim of the Allies

is that we shall be again in the position in which we were when M. Venizelos wax Premier and we went to Salonics.

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Europe Hella

the first among the WAN who lit the torch of liberty and withstood the inrush of castern barbarism and tyranny. May she rokindle the s lamp and show herself worthy of her immortel past.

Dealing with German propaganda in neutral countries, Mr. Asquith said it had been suggested that in those countries the Allies had a sinister design, that after the war they would combine against them and build up an impenetrable stone wall against their trade. It was childishi fiction and if true would mean that one and all were bent upon economic suicide. Nothing was are essential to the Allies after the war than to maintain the best industrial and financial relations with neutrals. The real purpose of the German propaganda was to influenze opinion in each of the belligerent countries in favour of a separate peace, with different argumente for different countries. He in- stanced that in Great Britain it was insinuated that Germany was prepared to restore and compensate Bel- giam, and thus meet the British casus belli, and that we were being dragged on in order to secure the special aspirations of France, Russia, and Italy. But we wers equally pledged to the restoration of Serbia, which it was never suggested that Germany was prepared to concede,

Be (Mr. Asquith) emphasised without hesitation or reserve that the Allies were fighting a common cause and their interests were ours.

"An essential condition of a lasting peace is victory and the securing of them all." German propaganda work in Russia was just the reverso, There we were re- presented as a Power anxious to continue the war and pre- vent the possibilities of a separato or general pesos. We were represented as lending the Allies money usuriously and making huge munitions and shipping profits, fulfilling the traditional role attributed to us by Napoleon of being A nation of hucksters and shopkeepers.

It was difficult to imagine that this could be regarded as aplausible, or even credible hypothesis.

Mr. Asquith dwelt upon our terrible sacrifices of wealth and lives, and asked whe had greater reason than we to long and pray for peace. "Pesce, yes, but on one condition only, namely that this war with waste, sacrifices, untold suffer- ings, and glorious examples of courage and unselfishness abali not have been in vain."

He concluded by saying that there could be no question of a separate pence, but he did not disguise the conviction that the struggle would tax all our resources, our whole stock of patience and resolve. When peace came it must be such as will build upon 's sure and stable foundation the security of the weak, the liberties of Europe and a free future for the world.

Mr. Herbert Bannel, in proposing the toast of the Alles said they formed the greatest league recorded in history, ten states, comprising 760 millions, half the whole of mankind. The extent of the German menace was men- sureable therefore

He paid tributes to the nations severally and is we were fighting to save what was best in Germany herself. The deterioration of the German spirit dated from the suc cess of her three aggresive wars half a century ago. We were fighting for the ultimate interests of the neutrals. The Allies were a league to enforce prace, punish aggression and maintain law among the nationa.

Mr. Balfour, who preceded Mr. Asquith, replying for the Navy answered the critica who thought the Navy waS condemned to a passiva role and acquiesced therein. It wa assuring our vital communications, and maintaining in fair and foul weather the blockade which had so impaired the atomy's resources. He could promise that its duties both offensive and defensive were being carried out successfully as in the past; but, be was not going to promiás; any so»: cumulation, of force so na to make it impossible for the enemy to carry out transient and ineffectual raide. The recent raid in the Channel could doubtless be reposted, but be did not think the risk was worth the enemy's while. He was gou

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TELEGRAMS.

GUILDHALL SPEECHES.

[Reater's Service to Tue “ Telegraph."]

Sident that if the Channel raids were repeated undor similar circumstances the enemy would be unable to get out with- out disaster.

The German fleet believed it was going to rival, the historic days of the British, French, and Dutch Beets, when it entered the war; they gave up that view and then took an interest in submarining unbelligerente.

He road' a passage from the German prize code issued on the day prior to the declaration of war, instructing that if nestral vessels were stopped and searched their route should not be diverted more than was possible, and that least inconvenience should be caused. He pointed out that this had been interpreted by the torpedoing of ships and leaving the crews to the mercy of the elements The German object was frightfulness, and everyone knew that the Brit- ich mariner was showing that he was not to be terrorised. He thought that Germany had abandoned the idea of flest actions. It was safer to sink merchantmen. What Ger- many was now doing at sen to weak neutrals like Norway wa simply a repetition of what she had done to Belgium.

He concluded by paying a warm tribute to the British mercantile fleet,

FRENCH FINANCE,

Successful" Lozu.

November 9, 9.20 p.m.

Reuter's correspondent at Paris says that M. Ribot bas announced that the loan subscriptions total 11,980,000,000 -francs.

The Total Vote.

Nember 10 5 40 x m.

M. Ribot said the subscription was mostly small Four ffths were paid in full, and nearly 55 per cent in cash, com- pared with 47 in the last loan.

Altogether 22,880,000,000 had been outbreak of the war.

voted since the

AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

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Nicotr 13. 35 × m. Reuter's correspondent at New York, wiring at noon says that Mr. Wilson has 251 votes and Mr. Hughes 943.

The Presidency depends on California, New Mexico, Minnesota and North Dakota, in some of which the votes of the militia on the Mexican border may decide the issue. There they would probably be uncounted for some days.

The closeness of the context is evidenced by the fact that Mr. Hughes was slightly leading in New Hampshire Another factor yesterday, but Mr. Wilson is now ahead.

in the delay is lack of communications in the unpopulated and mountainous districts of the doubtful States.

A Recount Probable.

Later.

According to Reuter's correspondent at New York, the Republican National Committee announces that a recount is probable in the States where the voting is close, including California, North Dakota, Minnesota, New Mexico and New Hempshire.

The American Riddie."

November 10, 455 am. "The American riddle" is the name applied to the Pre- sidential election by the English newspapers, which admit that they, like the rest of the world, were stampeded on Wednesday morning by the admission of the New York leading Democratic organ that Hughes was elected.

of the Democratic vote is The subsequent recovery described as one of the queerest things in the history of American politics, and the official declaration of the solu- tion of the riddle is now patiently awaited.

Despatches from New York 48 hours after closing the polls show that the result is still doubtful, no two authori- tiss agresing. They describe the long delay as telling on the temper of Americans

The situation is only comparable to 1878, when the coun- try was on the verge of civil war and a clash was only averted by the submission of the dispute to an extra Con- stitutional Electoral Commission.

The fact that the election was then stolen explains the warning issued by the Republican Chairman to-day that the Democrats must not steal the Presidency.

The Democratio Chairman retorted declaring that Pre sident Wilson had been elected, and the Republican cry of fraud was an imposture.

Both sides are now mobilising their lawyers in the doubtfal States, to protect their interests, watch the count and prevent fraud. The ballot boxes in California are guarded by armed marshalls.

The general opinion is that disputes may arise and contesta be begun which will keep the issue in doubt for some time. An instance his been discovered. Owing to A faulty voting machine 2,000 votes were wrongly cast for Hughes in California, where Wilson now claims the lead. The opinion is growing that Wilson is elected.

President Wilson Re-elected.

November 10, 7,05 «,m. Heuter's correspondent at New York says that President Wilson has been elooted, by carrying Califórnia.

BRITISH CONCESSIONS IN FRENCH COLONIES.

November 10, 5.40 1.m.

A Paría mejaage states that interpellation in the Cham- ber revealed the fact that a petroleum comosssion in Algeria had been granted to a British firm, t

The Minister for Works defended the sction, emphasis ing the close Anglo-French friendship.

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TELEGRAMS.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

ADVISER FOR INDIA STUDENTS.

(Reuters Service to The “Telegrapä“

London, Beserved, November 10. Er Chamberisin na appointed Dr. T. W Arnold as Educational Adviser for Indian students, in +mcoes+ion; to Mr. C. E. Mallon, who is retiring at his own request at she and of the

· DUTCH LINEr seized.

Bombs Taken on Board to Blow

up Batavier II. Rotterdam, September 28.-- Ponses gain fepun the Dutch liner | Batavier II, which see captured by « Germas su burtrine and taken to Zeebrugge, hava, been released (and huvantrived here: The give interesting detalla of their capture and treatment by the Garịuta?.

Ti- was Submouzias US which mised the routel. The Germans Fignalled the Batavier to stop pistol shots: Then '2. GrymaLUS officer,sessmpanied by yann ws aboard with bombe in red bones. These they tied to the deck zulis, and the passengers and were ardéred so be ready to leave the ship at a moment's notios.

The German officer, navigated the ship through an extensive mine field. The submarine, which was one of the oldest type of thes | vessels, was unable to keep pace. with the Batavier, which prossed- ed as a speed of only Ave miles en bour, sad which mitiha sowed the nubicatine Into Zn- brugge.

Bhots from a British manitor long way out to OE, the Batavier- und

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they entered the fortified harbour, the monitor at the time being engaged in bombarding the coset. As they entered the harbour the passengers saw a flɔtilla of 12 torpedo-bosts and destroyerE leaving the harbour. ·

Th German officers were over- bearing towards the captured crew and passengers, whilst the mea on the submarina complain-` ed bitterty of their treatment. Thay would never, they said, stay in Germany alise the war. Their fficers took all they required from the captured food boats for their own table, Fut the men got nothing.

Before the cargo of the Bat- avior, which conti«sed principally of fish, cheese, grapes and abrimps, was unloaded, or the psaengers landed, a msa sad a woman from among the passeng oru wera'taken sahore with every" ign of encsideration und allowed to make their own arrangements for their departure,

The remaining passengers and crew were then out sabors and went by train to Bruges, wberO they were interrogated by the Folios. They spent the night as refugee camp, receiving a piros of bread and butter and a cop of coffee as the day's provisions."

On Monday morning certain people were allowed to return to Holland. Amongst them were twPCI- English ladies and 24 of the crew. Four escaped Russian prisosser were detained, also the osptain, abief engineer, first officer, and-

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