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TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
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THE PEACE PROPOSALS.
America and the Alllès.
December 28, 2.55 p.m. According to Reuter's correspondent at New York, the newa- papara declare that the United States cortainly will not ask the Entente to enter a Peace Conferanos on the terms proposed by Germany, which are obviously evading the inene,
The Tribuna, however, anys President Wilson's Note is intended to prevent new German submarinism, and soke:-Will he be black- mailed further into endorsing the German proposal for a Pesce Conference?
Sweden's Efforts.
December 28, 3,55 p.m. Bouter's correspondent at Copenhagen says Sweden is weemingly endeavouring to induce other Scandinavian nations to send a frint Kota in favour of peace, but Denmark and Norway are hanging back.
What Russia Thinks.
December 28, 5.25 p.m. Benter's correspondent at Petrograd states that all the news- papar agree that the Tear's message to the foress is the best reply to the German and neutral peace proposals.
The Novos remys says the Tear's words faithfully reflect the sentiments of the entire Bassian people.
THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.
More Vessels Sunk.
December 28, 2.55 p.m. The sisamera Sno (Norwegian) and Friggs (Swedish), as well as the sailing ships Agnes (British) and Johan (Danish) have been sank.
Germans Seize Norwegian Steamer...
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December 28, 5,25 p.m.
Eater' correspondent at Amsterdam states that the Germans have taken the Norwegian steamer Aamɔt, bɔand for Eugland with a ergo of artificial manure, to Hamburg se a priza.
AWKWARD FOR TURKEY.
Possibilities from Egyptian and Mesopotamian Successes.
from other fronts.
BELGIAN LABOUR.
How Germany Uses It.
December 28, 3 55 p.m. Reater learns that the Gerrano authorities in Schleswig Holstien ere offering farmers and other emplosere Belgian servants, both men and women, whose ages range between 18 in 38 years. The pay in 30 per cent. below the rate current in the distriot,
Employers must pay the Government half the travelling expenses, but they are entitled to deduct this from the wages,
WAR STRATEGY.
Expert's Views on Future Plant.
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THE BALKAN STRUGGLE.
Most Violent Fighting Reported.
·December 28, 9 45 p.m. A Berlin communique recorda most violent fighting in the wooded Carpathians. The results are not stated.
The communique-adde:-Strong Ravian aɔuaMA KÜLADET 15 regain ground at Rimnicul Barat failed. We farther progressed. Over 10,000 prisoners were taken in the fighting at Runnion! Sarat.
British Armoured Cars' Useful Work..
December 28, 19.85 p.m.
Beater's correspondent at Petrograd quotes a communique which statan :-Our socuta crossed the Narajarks and drove off the enemy's patrol guard, and carried back construction material and barbed wire entanglements,
The enemy pressed back detsol ments and cccupied a series of heights on the Moldavian frontier
Enemy attempts to cross the Daiester were checked. Enemy attacks south of the Danube ware heavily rapulesd. British armoured molar asra participated in basting book the attacks. The enemy was put to flight.
in the event of telegrams arriving too late for insertion on this page they will be found on an Extra).
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE PEACE QUESTION.
Germany's Alms Correctly Gauged.
December 28, 2 55 a.m.
French opinion is that the German reply shows that Germany wants a peace which will be wrenched from the Allies by a rass in default of strength to obtain it forably. The deceitful machinations justify the Allier' determination to fight on.
SLAVE-TRAINS IN BELGIUM.
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TELEGRAMS.
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THE PEACE QUESTION.
The Allies' Reply.
December 25, 431)m... "Daily Telegraph" "mys that the text of the Allies reply to Germany has been approved by all the Allies, who make it clear to belligerants and neutralivalike that no hope need, be entertained of over persuading the Allies to surrender a potential victory for the sake of a poa-which would be only's German-peace--so long as German mili tarism is unbroken.
THE WESTERN FRONT.
British Bomb Trenches and Dug-Outs.
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Disember 28, 2.35.
General Sir Douglas Haig reports --
We searched and bombed a few hundred yards of trenches and dugouts to the north-west of Lens, greatly damaging them without incurring any casualties.
Our positions northward of the Somme and near Lo Sara. were heavily shelled at intervala.
We successfully bombarded defences and trench-mortar plagements in the neighbourhood of Hulluch and westward. of Messines.
There have been a number of air-fights. An onomy nero-. plane was destroyed and five damaged. Three of ours are missing.
French Captura Prisuaurs.
December 23, 1.45 a.m.
A Paris communiqus stabes There is marked artillery activity in some sectors south of the Somme, where an enemy battery was exploded.
We successfully fired several mines in the region of Beausigns, south of the Avre, and then raided the enemy lines, capturing prisonSTI.
Wads In Germany.
Result of Merve Strain.
Why do soldiere südler_na much "from_-week hearts ? The phenomenon has been particularly e notioenble during the present war, and a good deal about it has been rinted in the medios) journału, The doctors do not warns on the cause. Sir James' Barz, in an article conkibuted to American Medicina, sister”, hla belief thai. it in due to ovar-levelopment of the thyroid gland. Other authorities regard its esus M
| etesin of the heart-muscle, Sir
James Mackenzie and Dr. Robert :- D. Badalf, a Canadian military surgeon, believes it to be dna ta general instability of "circulation, ^osused" by neurai- thacin. Alt agres --that the modern methods of warfare are responsible for it. Dr. Budolf given his views in the Canadian Medical Aarvetation : Journal and they are epitomised in GE editorial appearing in the Melinal { Resord (Naw Tock), _ We road :
Dr. Rudolf points out that soldier's heart, so witnessed at the French front, ona bardly be dus to strain of the heart-munnle to which it has · bonu largaty attributed, for the resson that traneh warfare does not girs rizs to strain sufficient to darange a previously healthy heart-musola. On the other hand, the strain to which the nerves are subjsotad hy the mode of warfare in France no
doubt has mech infinence. ` All kinds of faustion- al nerve-conditions are empounter Some Said to be Acting as Spies, ed, including nervous instabilition
of the circulation. The heart. and resuela are very largely under
ENEMY SUBJECTS IN JAPAN.
"Generally with su little| “ABTICLES DE PARIS.” | bratality as possible, but always Bestnally, the Käspe's moldinra crashed all opposition. "Houses were searabed by armed men from Women Fling Themselves on cellars to roofs. No discrimination
Paris, November 1-Artioler the Track.
| was made between employed and de Paria" used to be Parisian toys A Tokyo paper states that in the control of the nervous system, unemployed. Only one object or knick koscks which everybody view of the fact that the Allies and the rate of the polas is per plainly was in view, to obtain the bought in the confident belief be have decided to prosecats the warhaps a better index of the state December 28, 5.20 p.m. The following cable of Norm. Igest possible number of strong was he'ping on the amali Pa isian until victory is achieved, it has of this system than anything elas. According to Better's correspondent at Paris, the Matin saye ber 19 to the Chicago Daily News hands..
An artisan exhibition just opened become necesary for the Imperisi | Moreover, as Dr. Rudolf points out, the British successes in Egypt and Mesopotamis may imperil the from its London representative "When the train had been in the Tuileries andessives as. Government to change its policy when the whole nervous gjuteen. Hodjez Railway and, with the help of Indis, lead to a systematic gives & vivid account of the loaded the women and children It consists of a collection of am- toward enemy.States and their is under such tension it will attack on Bagdad, thus forcing Turkey to recall important forces slave-raiding methode employed standing about in the huge crowd ples in the possession of Garman subjects, and the Foreign Office visid, if at all, at its weakest by the Germans in the occupied anddenly ran on the line in front commercial travellers in Paris, has been conducting the necessary point, and the woskest point territorien of Belgium and Franos. of the Ipcomotive, threw them- which was seized at the out investigations theresnent, Hith-varies in different individuali. Il Germany intends to deport selv on the rails, and clung break of the war. The collection ezto (we avail of the Japan a person's circulation is his and imprese into her labour ranke there, shutting their eyes and includen #pecimens of every Gandte's translation) Jupan has weakest point, then that is where the whole of Belgium's available attering load lementations, imaginable so called "article de given protection to the subjects it is most likely to give way. manhood," said an American D-tachments of soldiers prised Paris," from musical instruments of enemy States resident within Radolf's amuelusions are as fol- business man to me this morning them loown with bayonets, and to pocket combe from cheap her borders, if they behave lows: The condition called This man, whose integrity and forced them clear of the track, jewellery to aboup art parcelsin, themselves. But it has frequently." "soldier's heart" is not an entity, judgment ere esteemed both in when the train moved off towards German traders imitated every been discovered of late that some but includes merely the worst Europe and Americs, and whose the German frontier.
thing that the smell Parisian of them are carrying on the work examples of a circalstory instab name in due course will be com
"Another distressing feature of artisans made. They assiduously of spies and in other ways are|ility that grades op from the municated to the editor of the the situation in Belgiam arises produced souvenirs of every doing all they can against the nearly normal to a degree so great News reached London alter from the forcible importation of French seaside resort and bathing interests of Japan and her Allies, that it may completely incap- witneming deportation coense in Frenchmen from the provinces of place with suitable inscriptione. Es has also been discovered several acitate the patient. Tos circula- Belgiam that he describes a France ocoupied by Germany. It they made dolls with the dress of times that Gorman and Austrian tory instability has often brea "incredible and heartrending" appears that the policy of the every French province, and prisonsra of "war who have there beicre and is merely brought "Alrandy," he continued, "he German Government is to work especially Alsatian, paper lao-acceded in escaping from into prominence or exaggerate tween 39,000 and 40,000 men the Belgians in Germany and torns with patriotic French in- detention camps in Siberis haveled by the unusual physical and have been torn from their homes, work the Frenchmen in Belgian, seriptions for Jaly 14, the gene to Shanghai, forged passen al surroundings of a soldier's forced into onitie-tracks, and "Incidents of the most painful national fate. They did more, porta and got away to America or life; The very same condition conveyed to Germany. La Gernatore are resulting from the Some time before the war a Gor-lather December 29, 5.05 a.m.
penical countries by occurs, only more rarely, in The military correspondent of the Timer says that in order choose between siding the Central Many of them decline to work, a mustard manufacturer at each thing takes plaas, the dition appears to be caused or many they will be compelled to impremment of these Frenchman. man commercial traveller went to Japanese staimers. Whenever civil life. In many osas the oor- to gain the necessary superiority on the Western Front in Powers in the war and suffer declaring, like the Belgians, it is Dijon and offered a tender for owners of the ateamora get into precipitated by info'ion, also by 1917 18 every possible white division frota Salonios, Egypt, and Mesopotamia should be withdrawn, the native armise from India and ing penaltion of the severest intolerable they should be forced mustard pote The mustard trouble. The Imperial Govern-nerve-shock or strain." Africs replacing them. In Egypt, the artillery could be provided by doubt will refuse to work, regard their own country.
Many of them beyond to support a Teutonis war against manufacturer, annoyed at being ment has therefore decided to Ia asuolusion, the writer re the Dominions. The preservation of the Egypt base intact is as much
pestered, maid: "Deliver medal first with this latter question, marks that the question is of very "In ons case some 35 Franob 2,000 mustard pote in the design and then take measures in regard considerable importanse, as the ideal offensive base for operations on the Eastern shores of the country, and thus will land men, for refusing to work, were of a pig with a Prussian belmet, to other problems, to the Australis as to the English and Indian interest. Egypt is the ing such labour as treason to their Mediterranean. The breaking down of the Turkish military power themselves in straits 100 harrow-tied to trees for 24 hours and and I will buy them."
more. This punishment failed to thought he had
got rid by combined sction on the part of the Alliee in Armenis, ing to think about. Mesopotamia and Egypt is the best means of accomplishing the droed to abandon her present were released.
Unless Germany can be in break their will, and at last they of the German bagman, No investment of the Austro-German, armies and checkrasting policy, between two and three
at all. Two thousand mustard Germany's Eastern movek,
"But how can they live? The pots according to specification hundred thousand Belgians will Germana won't give them daly arrived, sad he had to bay
The Lyons Fair. be deported. The Americas monthful of food unless they them. The present exhibition Relief Commission ban thrown work. The American Relief Com-givas the prices at which "articles Sample Fair promise to be an American exhibits at the Lyons around hundred thousand Belmission cannot undertake the de Paris" made in Germany were usasily large in namber, due to gians the protection of certificates feeding of these people, because offered by German travellers, the awakened interest in expart of employment on relief work, bat of its rale denying food to all They are lower than any Parisian irade in the country-and to the this hundred thousand is a small engaged in warlike sotion. How makes could ask, and are also anuanal opportunity offered to part of the total population anb- this will and God only knows, lower, as has been ascertained, exhibit merchandise to bayers jret to impressment,
"The German authorities have than the same goods fetobed in congregaad from all parts of the **Naturally, the scenes attend- their_argument. They assert Germany, Some such similar world. The Lyons Fair is strictly ing the forcible removal of fathers the Belgians and French in the exhibition might perhaps be sad sons wring the hardest of occupied territories szadegenerat asefally held in London. (Ex) -- for foreign buyers and basineer
a business - exhibisioa, pleaned --9,15 p.m. bearts, I saw one long train of ing from idleness, and claim the caitle tracks loaded with pro- best thing for them is to be spective deporises. Many had deported and forced to labour at resisted, only to feel the German good wages, and so enabled to difficulty arising from the strong and demonstrati bayonet. Women and children preserve their own moralobaraptar Belgian and French sense of had fought for their menfolk and send money to their families, nationality.”“ Those mirited peo with desparate froenem-olother “But this slilitarian segamenti rla alaim that what they are asked
THE GREEK SITUATION.
Alfina' Demands Likely to be Conceded.
December 28, 5'20 pm. Telegrams from the Piraens states that the transport-of Greek troops to Mores in proceeding,
It has been decided that the artillery shall not be sent to Peloponnesus nutil the Allies have formulated their demands,
It is believed that the Greek Government is disposed to comply with the claims of the Allies in order to obtain à raising of the -blockade.
ABRIAL SUCCESSES IN TURKEY;
December 25, 9.50 p.m...
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