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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
GERMAN EAST AFRICA. CONQUERED.
ENEMY'S LAST COLONY SECURED BY ALLIES:
British Political Officers Belog Appolated.
London, December 4.
Beuter's correspondent at Ndands, German East Africa, estes that 3,500 blacks balanging to Colonel Tafel's force have now surrendered. There are no German military or civil authorities now north of Rovams. Our occupation is complets and political officers are being appointed in all districts. Oar patrols have .penetrated considerably south of Rovams.
The German Remnant.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS,
THE BATTLES IN THE. WEST.
An Ambitious Gercian Offensive,
London, December 4.
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE RUSSIAN peace movE.
A Colllion Expected.
General Koralloff Escapes.
London, December 2. Reater's correspondent at the British Headquarters says that Beater's correspondent at Petrograd"" Blaten" that General saptured German objetive maps sbow that the scheme of the Krylenko's adjutant has telegraphed that @sneral Krylenko has offensive was most ambitious. For exemple, certain troops had set arrived at Vilebek with detachments of the Petrograd garrison. them as the first day's objective a line which would have carried Cossacks are gathering on their flanks and, reading between the their left ink two miles to where our front line rested prior to the lines of the despatch, a collieion is momentarily possible. According great drive on November 18. These same troops" actual gain is to other sources, the first email clash has already occurred and
cat slight. As far as definite newe is available, we are still there were some casusities, standing firm at Lix Vaoquerie, which can be described as the centre of the German attack, and the enemy has nowhere progressed. A Lull in the Fight. An Esat African cficial message states-General Van
London, December 4. Davanter on the 1st instant reported that reconsissances definitely. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Hsig reports that the artillery Was show that Garman Eset &frica has been completely cleared of the active last night in the neighbourhood of Boarion and Moeuvres. enemy. Thus the whols of the last of the German overseas There had been no further infantry action. possessions has passed into our hands and those of the Belgians. A small German remnant has taken refuge in Portuguese territory and messures are being taken to deal with them. The captures during November were 1,115 Germans and 3,382 native fighters. We have captured, or the enemy has destroyed, aix guns, 73 -machine-gans and several thousand rifles.
London, December 4.
A Great Imperial Achievement.
Later.
General Van Deventer's report of the expulsion of General ron Lettow's force is hailed as marking the disappearance of Germany'e Colonial Empire. Toe conquest is tributed as. a great Imperial achievement by two Boer Generals and British, Indisa and South African troops. The German treatment of the natives is recalled and it is arged that the Tenton must never be allowed to rule Africa again.
Two Monthr" Captures.
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London, December 4.
Reuter's correspondent at Ndanda asya: We have concluded
two months of the most severe and most successful fighting in Esat Afrios. The whole of what may be called the south-east quadrant of the country, of a size of 300 by 500 miles, bsa been cleared of the enemy. During October and November, we sccounted for 59 whites and 289 Askarin killed, excluding the bodies which the snemy carried off. There were 1,343 whites and 3,975 Askaris taken prisoner." The Askaris do not include porters or armed levies. We captured 54 machine-gans, two 4-inch gune, nine field-gana and one Howitzer.
THE TEA SUPPLIES.
London, December 3. There are 5,894,000 lbs. of Indian and Ceylon tea being offered at sales this week, which is equivalent to eight daya' apply for the civilisa popalition.
CHINESE POLITICS,
London, December 3. Beater's correspondent at Peking says that the resignations of the Acting Premier, Wang Tah-sieb, and the Ministers of the Interior, Jantice, Finance, Education and Agriculture have been accepted. Wang Shin-chen, at present Chief of the General Staff, has been appointed Acting Premier.
THE MAN-POWER QUESTION.
Combing Out in the Collieries,
London, December 4.
Aviators' Work.
London, December 4. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, reporting on aristion, says :— Low flying machines on Sanday bombed and fired with machine- guns on villages occupied by German reserves northward of Bourlon, alec on the enemy's active batteries. On the Ypres battle front there were a few fights. One German machine was brought down and fire of our macbines are missing.
"Great Artillery Activity.
Landon, December 4.
A French commanique states:-There is great artillery sctivity in the sectors north of the Chemin des Dames. There are inter mittent artillery actions on the right bank of the Meuse. The enemy, after a violent bombardment in Woevre, attacked positions north of Flirey. Ogr fire drove him back, inflicting beavy losses.
A French communique states:-There is great mutual artillery ring in Champagne, especially in the regions of Tahure and Maisons de Champagne.
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Germans Report Violent Fighting.
London, December 4.
A German wireless official message states:-We threw bsok the English in many waves north of Ghelarelt. Taste is violent fighting between Mstoring and the Peronne-Cambrai Road, where we captured a section of the trenches. We stormed Le Vacquarie and repulsed counter-attacks, taking five hundred prisoners.
London, December 1.. It is circumstantially reported that General Korniloff escaped on December 2.
General Staff Surrenders.
London, December 2 According to a Petrograd message, the Maximalist Newe Agency states that e alegram from General Krylenko from Vitebek announces that the General Staff has surrendered to the Maximalists. The Russian Peace Delegates.
TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to The * Talsgraph.")
THE SILVER MARKET,
London, December 3, The, silver market is quiet,
KAISER A DEMOCRAT, satirical derman Comments on
1905 Telegrams. Amsterdam, d-pt. 16.-The German Foreign Office has, by the publication of the dispatch from the Kaiser to the Tearin. August 1905, struck a heavy blow at the pan German campaign against the Reichstag, and put a -- highly serviceable weapon at the disposal of the Majority partise of that body.
This dispatch was sent at the time of the peace negolistions London, December 2.- between Rassia and Japan, The Daily Chronicle representative at Petrograd states that when the Tear was about to call the peace delegates to the Germsne number four. They are the Doma to set before it the accompanied by two Colonele who do not sympathise with the idea question of peace or a continus- of an isolated peace but are going to protect the military interests tion of the straggle. In the of the Rasaian and Allied Fronte during the negotiations. M.message, William IL representa Trotzky informed the American Attache that every stage of the bimself as a strong and en- negotiations would be published and discussed.
thusiastic advocate of popular government.
Ukralnia Resents Peace Move.
London, December 2. The Soviet Ukrainian War Secretary has ordered Ukrainian involving a risk of a break on the Russian front and the invasion troops not to support the Bolshevik peace manoeuvres, se they are
fing
Maulfesto for Enemy Troops.
London, Desember 2.
The Daily News correspondent at Petrograd states that the People's Commissary has issued a Manifesto to German soldiers which will be thrown broadosat to the German and Austrian armies by aeroplanes.
Lynch Law Condemned.
Peace Delegates Meet.
The Frankfurter Zeitung in [a comment on this interesting: item among the flood of revela published document, we have tione, enye, that in that officially
the opinion of the Ksieer on the right of the people and the people's representatives to take war," and it calls for the realiza part in the decision of pazos and tion of this policy in Germany.
Vorwaerts says the terms of
the message simply club the pan. German agitation against the Reichetag. Those agitstora das clare that if the Kaiser gave each
"The
Amsterdam, Sept. 16.—Reply- ing to a message from the econo- mio sad industrial associations of
London, December 2.- Graphic Description of German Attack.
- A Russisa wireless official message states:-General Krylenko, London, December 4; in a Proclamation, state that General Mohile, the bend of the Reator's correspondent at the British Headquarters, tele- Revolationary troops, to day surrendered the Headquarters without a right to the Reichstag, adde graphing to-day, says: The result of yesterday's great German effort fighting, thaa'removing the last obstacle to peace. He strongly the journal, he would degrade at La Vacquerie has been left to him, and our line has been slightly condemns the set of lynok law practised upon General Dakhonin himself to a "shadow Kaiser," beat back on a mile front. Weet and south-west of Masnieres we have and adds that popular hatred surpassed all the limits of reason. but now Germany has the Im withdrawn alightly, while it is understood that our line at Marcoing Despite all efforts to save General Dakhosio, he was thrown out of perial answer to thatthat no now does not include the whole of the sopse of that name. This is railway train and killed. It W48 General mortal ruler can draw on himself, practically the sum total of the German recovery of territory effect. Korniloff's flight on the preceding day which caused this excess. the reproach that he sacrificed the ed at a truly appalling price. His effort was admittedly undertaken General Krylenko urges his comrades to be worthy of their seicured Fatherland's sons without con to recover the lost fifteen miles of the Hindenburg Line and to free freedom and not to stain the people's authority. Revolut onsry salting the country, Cambrai from the present threat. The situation at Bourlon Wood, people are fearful in a struggle but must be soft after victory. telegram of 1905" Vornaerta which domiastes Cambrai, is unchanged.
The straggle for peace receives new strength by the fall of the conclades, "shows the way the The Germans made prodigions preparations for yesterday's Beadquarters. General Krylenko, in the name of the Evolution, Reichstag must take in 1917." efforts, bringing many train-loads of troops from the Eastern calle for unity and discipline., Front. The weather throughout wae perfect, enabling our gunners and riflemen to make the best possible markmanship. It may be
London, December 4.. sampated that no fewer than twelve Divisions were thrown into A Russian wirelese official telegram from M. Skliansky, the the 8sar district and Lorraine, the attack, coming on in endless waves across the rolling country. President of the Congress of the Fifth Army, states that a peace denouncing President Wilson, the Oar advantageously-posted field batteries caught the Germans at delegation from the Council of the People's Commissaries, at the Kaiser, according to a Berlin ahort ranges with devastating effects. Yet at one time sheer weight invitation of the Congress, arrived at Drinsk on Sunday, and the telegram, wired his hearty thanks of numbers carried them through our line south of Marcoing. A speeches of the delegates, provoked rounds of applause. The for the association's anergatio spendidly spirited counter-attack sent them reeling back.
Congress solemply, promised to destroy all the wasps' rojsation of" the insolent attempt Again and again we either best back the Germans after swait-nests of the counter-revolution which are obstacles to peace, partito separate the German, people London, December 4. ing the clash in car own lines, or advanced to meet them in a band- cularly the nest of General Dakhonin, M. Gatz, M. Avkeentieff and from its Kaiser and Government The newspapers point out that the strength of the German sed conflict. Our airmen did their work magnificently. Tasy other traitors to the Bevolation sitting with General Mobileff. The and to undermine the roots of ita attack at Cambrai enggests that Field Marshal Sir Douglas Hsig spotted a large concentration of German gone and directly contri. delegates then departed, the German delegates receiving them in invincible strength," was out manned, and that this raises once more the question of bated to the destruction of many of them. Whether the Germans the evening in a central zone. There was a demonstration at The Kaiser's telegram cons man-power. The Times anderstands that a Government Committee will renew their most colossal and costly attempt remains to be Drinsk when bannere were displayed inscribed "Long Live the tinted Loyalty upon loyalty with executive power will be established to overhaal the use made seen. Personally I do not believe the rumour that they Council of the People's Commissaries" "Osatrol Froduction;"
**(that is the firmi materia! which of man-power by the different Departments.
have massed cavalry ready to
from old has formed an unbreak- break through. We still "Abolieb Secrecy;" and "In the Trenches Spirits are High.' retain high country north of La Vacquerie, which considerably
able bond between Germany's· minimises any tactical advantage of the German re-occupation of
princes and peoples. Kaiser and THE LATE GENERAL MAUDE, the ruine and village. Very methodical activity prevails at the reST
Empits that is the watchword of our battle-front, where the exceptional dryness of the roads is
London, December 4.
with which in the hard wrestle facilitating transport and other operations. I think it can be safely A memorial service to the late General Mando, was held in St. Germany with blood and treasure said that we are quite ready to deal with any further projets the Paul's Cathedral at noon. There was a large and distinguished con has victoriously defended her enemy has in mind.
gregation present, including General Sir W. Robertson, representing freedom and her position of power B.V. the King; Lord Islington sad Mr. Walter Long, representing against hostile assulf whether the Tadis Office and Colonial Offios respectively; the Dake of waged by force of arms or by Connaught, Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Darby, General State, calumny and cunning."--Beuter. membara of the Army Council and Members of Parliament, The Lord Mayor and Sheriff attended in atate.
It is announced that the combing out of all men who have sutered the collieries since the start of war has begun.
Out-Manned ?
NATIONALISATION OF MEDICAL PROFESSION.
London, December 4,
The Daily Express states that Dr. Addison has accepted the post of Minister of Public Health. It bopes that a Bill will be passed before Christmas establishing a new Ministry which aime at nationalisation of the medical profession, involving fras medical attendance for ill, without the element of charity,
Later.
It is officially denied that Dr. Addison has been appointed Minister of Public Health, but it is admitted that he is sariating to establish a Health Ministry,
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
Itaflans Repel Attacks.
London, December 4. An Italian official message states:-We repulsed attacks south of Daone Valley in the Giadiosrie region. Edemy artillery is active between Mounts Sisemol and Castel Gomberto. We carried out a powerful concentration of fire on enemy massen in Gallio Wood and *morth of Mount Tondsrecar.
THE SITUATION NEAR ADEN.
London, December 4.
ing an ard of about sleven miles from Aden. As far as was knows, In the House of Lorde, Lord Curzen stated that we were hold- the Turks in the viciniity had no direct communication with Turkey and had not received supplice or reinforcements,
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS AND THE VOTE.
London, December 4,
THE PALESTING CAMPAIGN.
Whole Turkish Garrison Captured,
London, December 4.
London, December 4.
A Palestine official message states that the situation is general- In the House of Commons, Mr. MacPherson said he regretted ly unchanged. East County troops raided and captured a whole that it was confirmed that General Maude died of cholers. He was garrison at a Tarkisk post, southward of Nahraafs. Aeroplanes glad to say that cases of cholers in Mesopotamia were few. successfully bombed Turkish communications in the vicinity of Talkersm.
Feared Loss of Sacred Treasures.
London, December
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Hongkong University Bastar and Entertainment in aid of Tientsin Flood Relief Fund 2.30 to 11 p.m.
THE WAR OUTLOOK,
Reuter's special correspondent with the Palestine Fiald Force,
Germans Apparently Seeldag a Decision,
London, December 4. telegraphing on November 29, says there seems to be good ground to believe that the Turks have removed the archives and many
According to Renter's correspondent at Washington, Mr. Baker,
Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m.. civilians from Jerusalem, and it is feared that they have not respected in his weekly aar review states: The outstanding feature is the
Bijou Theatre 9.40 pas the churches which were the repositories of eacred relica and ever-increasing mobility of action of the forces engaged. The
New Hongkong Cinemas rumoured that some of these places have been mined. The Tarks are in the West. This explains the attempt to crush laly where Friday. December 7.. inestimable treasures, accumulating through many centuries. It is enemy is apparently seeking a decision, realising he cannot endure
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the Austro-German invasion. The enemy is constantly detaching Tientsin Flood Relief Fund large contingenta from the Eastern Front, although the season in 2.30 to 11 p.m. anpropitious for big military enterprises, yst, owing to the impers- Monday, December 10. dire necessity of continuance of this mobility further enemy Helens May Institute Piano offensives are anticipated. But the Allies give the enemy na respite, Recital by Mr. Danman, Fäller and any German ofensive will be promptly met by a counter-stroke 5.30 p.m. of great severity. Helarring to Cambrai; Mr. Baker says the Beitinia now have the situation well in hand.
OBRMANY HIDING HER LOSSES.
Londen, December 4.
In the House of Commons, during a discussion on the Electoral Reform Bill, Sir George Care intimated that the Government pro- posed to limit the disfranchisement of conscientious objectors to the In the House of Commons, Mr. MacPherson stated that Clare period of the war and seven years thereafter, Objectors rendering many has prohibited the export of off sial casualty lista. Hence the valuable war servioss would be exempted from this disqualifestion, i totals could no longer be published.
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