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The Hongkong Telegraph

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November 22, 1916,

7519 日七十月十

(ESTABLISHED Copyright 1916, by :

NOVEMBER

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WEDNESDAY,

TELEGRAMS.

POST-WAR PROBLEMS.

The Position of the Crowa Colonies,

(Beater's Service to Tha * Telagraph,""]

November 21, 12.00 p.m. Mr. A.HD. Ramany Stool Maitland, M.P. for Eut Birmingham, speaking at Birmingham, submisted four problems in connection with the question of Imperial organisation after the war. They

:

1. That any form of Central Government must be ormpatible

with the most absolute Icoal freedom.

2. India's advanos in population, manufacture, production and education was so exceedingly rapid that we were faced with the demand for the recognition ibareof.

3. The settlement of the position of the Crown Colonies.

4. The question of defanos, the cost thereof, and the conserva- tion of the 'Empire's nentral resouroM.

IN THE BALKANS.

Serbians Pushing Ahead.

November 21, 1.36 p.m..

A Bathian communiqan says:-The Serbians continned their pursuit from Monastir, exptäring more villages,

The memy, who has been reinforced, is cffering a serious resistance.

POLISH INDependence "A MERE PRETENCE."

November 21, 1.35 p.m Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam msys thai à debata has taken place, on the Polish Proclamation, in the Prussian Diet. The majority of the speakers emphasised their anxiety to exclude Prassian Poland from any connection with the new State. A Polish Deputy apprehended that the new conditions meant that the suggested independence was a mere pretence.

Herr Stroebel, Socialist, declared that the project was equivalent to annexation.

THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE.

Britisk Hanylly Shelled.

November 21, 1.10 p.m.

General Sir Douglas Haig reports :--The enemy heavily shelled

ma to the month-west of Grandcourt,

We raided trenches si Gommecourt, Boclinccurt and Ypres,

NEW WHEAT REGULATIONS.

- November 21, 1.40 p.m. · The Board of Trade has issued a regulation which requires that the percentages of flour that must be extracted from the -various qualities of wheat shall range from 73 to 78, the latter ir oluding ́Âustralian and choice Bombay,

INDIAN ASPIRATIONS,

The Viceroy's Outspoken lavitation.

November 21, 1.40 pm. According to Reater's correspondent at New York, Mr. Mackenzio, an Associated Press correspondent, bas had an interview with the Viosray of India, who said that the war, by giving India an opportunity to show its practical importance to the Empire, had stirred Indian aspirations for development politically and economically, and it would be his endeavour to secure a practical response to this new desire for progress.

GREEK STEAMER TORPEDOED.

One Hundred Lives Lost.

November 21, 3.10 p.m.. Reuter's correspondent at Athens says the Greek steamor Spetsais has been torpedoed not far from the scene of the submarin ing of the Angeliki. One handred have been drowned, and it is feared there are more victims.

TELEGRAMS.

IN THE BALKANS.

How Monastir Was Entered.

(Reuter's Servios to The "Talagraph."]

November 21, 5.15 am.

Reuter's correspondent at French Headquarters in Mase- donia reports ander date 19th inst-Bulgarian nonvVOJS, WHE seen retreating from Munsstir all yesterday. The rearguard hold the trenches till late at night. Daybreak revealed their disappearance.

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French cavalry entered at 9 am, as the Bulgarian patrol left the other end of the town, the Russo-Italians- following. The French captured a few hundred Bulgarians in the hills south of the town. The latter is little damaged. The inhabitants were suffering from scarcity of food; but they gave the Allies an ovation. Flowers and Serbian Baguappeared magically, also British flag which its owner had hidden in a quilt during the Bulgarian occupation. French infantry formally entered at noon, headed by bands and flags.

A deputation of the inhabitants asked permission to hoist the French flag, but the Franco-Russians, în paying tribute to the tireless advance of the Serbiaza, who were responsible for the capture, told the deputation to hoist the Serbian fig.

THE GREEK SITUATION.

New Demand by the Allies.

November 20, 7.65 p.m. Beuter's correspondent at Athens states that the Allies have demanded that the Austrian, German, Turkish and Bulgarian Ministers be granted passports and leave the country by 22nd inst

The Government considers the demand unacceptable, The King has summoned the Crown Council, Great neaxi- ness prevails.

Forcible Removal Threatened.

November 21, 3.30 a.m. Reuter's correspondent at Athens states that the Austro- German and Turco-Bulgarian Ministers must board the steamer placed at their disposal, otherwise they will be removed forcibly:

Admiral Fournet has communicated with them direct. The King has disavowed responsibility.

The Spanish legation will protect German subjects and the American legaliou the others.

·

The Nationalist Movement, 297 (J-

November 21, 5.00 .30.

M. Venizelos, in a message to the "Times," denies that the Nationalist movement is anti-dynastic because it opposes despotism at Athens.

It does not intend to settle the conflict regarding the throne by force with the army, as its entire attention is absorb. ed with the country's enemy; but the Nationalists are con- vinced that the Allies will, after the war, belp them to obtain a free verdict of the people, and to restore constitutional government without civil war.

HOW BRITISH TOOK EAUCOURT,

Heroic Dash Through Germza Barrage,

void the ever-shifting sandbags and the "throw-back"" from our own shells.

The Attack,

November 22. 1915,

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TELEGRAMS.

"THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE.

British Capture More Prisoners,

- {Rester's Service to The * Telegraph.”]

November 21, 12.05 a.m.

General Sir Douglas Haig reports the capture of 80 more prisoners.

A Paris official annomoemtat – reports

· hostile artillary setivity north of the Bomame, at

Battle in a Snewstorms.

November 21, 5.00 a.m. Correspondents at Headquarters state that British and Canadian troops delested the enemy in a snowstorm on 18th Inak, beyond Grandoourt.

The prisoners, "freezing in their dugouts, wem glad to surrender.

There was force; hand to hand fighting in the German" trenches in the darkness, amid fumes of exploding shells and whirling snow flakes.

PORTUGAL AND THE PARIS CONFERÈNCE.

November 30, 7:50 pm: Beater's correspondent at Lisbon states that the Govern-. ment has ratified the Paris conference resolutions.

THE FOOD QUESTION.

Control of Milk Prices,

November 21, 12,05 ■.m.

The Board of Trade has imued a regulation the general effect of which is to prohibit any increase of the price of milk abore present prices. It does not apply to condensed milk.

Mr. Lloyd George and the Food Controllership. November 21, 5.00 a.m.

The "Times" states that Mr. Lloyd George's heart is in the War Office and he is unlikely to consider the Food Con- trollership.

BRITISH AEROPLANB'S FLIGHT.

November 21, 6.60 s.m.

A message from Vicienss states thee the" aviator Beau- champs used » British scroplane in his flight to Munich.

· HONOURING INDIAN FIGHTERS,

November 21, 12,20 paz. Queen Alexandra will on Thursday present a silk Union Jack and a silver shield to representatives of the .....Indian forces now fighting.

The ceremony will take place in the Marble Hall at the India Oca The colours will be taken to Delhi at the end of the war.

The fag and shield are the gift of the women, and " children of the British Isles.

into the hugs vaults which served WOMEN AS PREACHERS. sa luxurious dog-outs and dining

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TELEGRAMS.

OBITUARY.

Lieut.-Gem, Sir Benjamian Gordon,

(Becker's Berries to The "Teleprez

London, Bavetrail, Kovasshår $2, The death in -annouvoed. Ident Gen. Bir Benjamin Gən K.0.2. Jok

Artillery in - 1852

the Indian Mutiny and through the "Afg He retired in 1891. De 83 years of age.

overlooked thas it bu wait to

DIY ressil it in order that the pablis

may compare it with"the" pam- phlets and statements publis

To urge upon the bishope the importance of giving definitu direction sɛ to the best ways of ating the services and remixing the manage of wanan apaskame whether in church or sheewhere.

"Secondly, the Bishop's pro- posals. The Bishop of London and myself acted upon the 19- solution, and stated that we would allow women'. under. certain conditions to speak in ohurch. "We atter` proposed to lioenos them to presch or to give them the same facilities m are given to lay readers. They were not to | speak at any ordiasty servioss of of the church nor from the palpli, lectern, or chancel ataps, The gatherings at which they spoka wers to be strictly conned to Women and gitle. That WSS all. Knowing, a. the Bishop of Londen "and I do, the-saph –dification of par oshial work, and the frequent in« adequacy, and noise of parochial baskli

during the mition, to meours

| far as possible a spirit of rève begotten by such gatherings be- ing held in the church, and that thers, in the quiet of God's Home“ #women should #peak, ta ber sistars of the love of their ocHMBOR Lord. I would", sak anyoUS thoughtfully to consider whether this would have been scorp'ad and blessed by the Lord of the Church Himself as He looked down at that gathering.

halls for the officers. One of the Bishop of Chelmsford's Decision. plainly that Church people may "I put the matter simply and zsddest nights I saw down there

The Bishop of Chelmsford has know what was really "proposed. After a while our barrage of sight that prompted our

**It seems incredible that wash. His Excellency spoke warmly of the loyalty of India and of the

fying stel was lift about three or fellows to take off their capseven sent to the Press the following alacrity with which the Prinoes and people had identified themselves The following vivid story of the hour hundred yards and the points in thore strenuous moments-was letter, in which he announce the course could have been opposed, with the cause of Empire. He emphasised his own deep interest storming of Eaccourt L'Abbaye of flame fished out of the fog the body of a woman who had withdrawal of the sanction he bad bat so it is. Party passions have woman addressing been aroused, controversy · en- in India's problems.

is related by a corporal who took of rain beyond the Abbey. Atapparently been killed by shell given to The Viceroy referred to the "highly-coloured articles in part in the battle

* given signal oar men jumped fire, and that of a little fair-haired gatherings of women and girls incouraged, and all this on the eve American papers purporting to depict India as labouring under For the past few days it haver the parapet into what looked by about 5 years old. They were churches during the national of the great movement which has

been in our thoughts and prayers. oppressive tule and as shaken by revolutionary activities. He told been raining mercilessly. The like portain death, while the lying in corner of one of the musion

"While endorsing ail that the for months. Surely this has been the correspondent:-" Go everywhere; no sentry shell bar your sky is overcast with a grey pall of German gunners threw hundreds outer vaults with their arms way. Talk to everybody write what you please. We have threatening, impenetrable cloud of shells of all calibres at their clasped tightly round each other Bishop of London bes said in bis the work of the Devil,

"Yet what is to be dons ? -The nothing to conceal. My task is to guard India from the cramping against which the blobe of advancing lines, and peppered and the expressions of agonised letter. I think that before this influences of undus conservation and from equally unpractical shrapnel, searahing the heavens them with machine-guns. The terror on their dead face was controversy, closes it may be natural man would say, · Ravins well to restate, and thus the anfsir agitation, largely be- revolutionary tendencies."

for scouting seroplanes, look mad was thick and sticky, and it terrible to see.”

Then he went on to tell me pat on reard, what was really gotten of ignorance and prejudice." virgin white. And the seroplanes clung round their saklom all are almost invisible, for they are too affectionately, making their how our troops fought the Ger- szoposed by the Council of Bat sach spirit would surely mans from cellar to pellar. These the National Mission and by wreck the mission, for no blessing the same colour as the sky. Lines progress extremely difficult, of trenobes are lost to the eye în The German barrage, though subterranean fank-holes sheltered the Bishop of Landon and myself could rest upon it cɔnducter on whole battalion of in order that no mistaka may be ach lines. I have therefore the chaos of slime and paddles thick enough," said the corporal, nearly a and the erstwhile landmarks are "was nothing like the awful car. Bavarians, who bid in dark made in future references to the decided that during the miniɔn 'ain of concentrated shell-fire in corners and crevices, waiting for marter, and, farther, that each I shall not sauction any woman abrouded in a grey mist.

The troops advanced through which we scvelop their attacking the intruders with bombe and may be compared with other telling her sisters of the Saviour a love in my ohurch in the diocese all this and a barrage of shell, wever, and it did us good to hear rifler. It must have required men statements issued to the pablis,

of no mean ocurage to explorëshe First, the Council's proposals. of Chelmsford. and machine-gun fire to boot the protecting our of our gun winding, underground passages As chairman of the committee: "I know that at a recult the ringing "Sons of the Ssa! and in the rear.“ laughing at their own joke. They posbed on through this when desperate enemies lurked which dealt with women's work, I work in some of the most difficult Zancourt l'Abbaye was their ob are blast from the Hell to within in every abadow. But they were would point out that nothing perishes will be made still more jective, and they took it in 50 yards of the Abbey, and then cqual to the task, and the party whatever was mid concerning difficult, bat in the wider intere dashing style with bombs and and orders to lie down while a that was left behind for the par- women and the priesthood of the Church and of the misian cold steel.

"tank" got astride the position, pose cleared the place in a few nothing was proposed which I take the step in order that the I dragged the story from the A number of men of the hours,

· ould for one moment be said to dicoves may concentrate again on Bapaume Next,

uturp the position or fanction of its great effort. [regiment, who had recovered. unwilling lips of a rosy-faced|

They don't seem very hope the scoredited ministry of the "Alter the mission I shall take little corporal wearing the D.C., from wounds received earlier in

the war, were with them in the ful about their obances," the Chorob. As to what the individual counsel with my spiscopal ribbon on his left breast and a bomber" badge upon his arm

attack, and they rushed the last isp corporal remarked, as he was opinions of those speaking or colleagues on the question, but (writew a correspondent). He in splendid style. They proved leaving me, referring to the Ger-voting on the matter were we had Ohuren people may be ammin made me promise not to disclose more than a match for the picked Han doctor with whom I had with the private or even public would in any degree ba donkure "A wcnnded nothing to do, any more than that nothing will be proposed that man prisoners, Bavarisan who garrisoned the for-to use his own] name, words-be had a horror of stronghold, Save for a few quite a long conversation saidatteranom of members on shy to the rules and regulations what

isolata i duels, there was not very

that he did not expect the war to other gasstion which came before conosen the priesthood,” Soms hours before they "went much bayonet #ghting, although last over Christmas. He pointed the Council. The resolution ower" our gone were pounding our men were anxious enough for out that although they had plenty actually proposed has been so

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

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

IN THE BALKANS.

A Great Enemy Movement.

November 20, 7.50 p.m. French experts estimate that 25 Austro-German divisiona are moving towards the heart of Wallachia,

The enemy is also carrying out a turning movement in the direction of Kimpolung. The latter move seeks to take in the rear the Rumanians defending the region south of the wooded Carpathians,

Helping the Rumanians.

November 20, 7.50 p.m. Beuter's correspondent at Nice states that General Putnik, the Serbian ex-Generalissimo, is of the opinion that the Balonika advance is greatly helping the Rumanianı, for “iba Balgar alone"cannot stand against ne; Germany must Kelp,"

Austro-German Thrust,

November 21, 2.45 a.m. The German evening communique states that the Austro- Gisemäng" are approaching Oraloys", the "capital of western,

important town on the railway Enoun Bukhara

Te la 75 miles south of the Valoun Park,

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the German lines to a pulp, and

the old Abbey, almost disappear-| ed from the landscape,””, Masses of metal fell inozamatly apon that ́rile of heaped-up mad and slónnä. ned fäll of files and

band-to-hand snobanters. (

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