St. John's Daily Star, 1917-01-18

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 111 3.00 per annum thursday january 18 1917 price ne cen no 15 german ship raids atlantic commerce sinks seven ships and captures nine allies make gains in new western offensive allies secure big gains in new drive in the west nsive movement by british troops e in'the occupation of important enemy tions—german attempt at counter-attack fails—canadian troops conduct successful daylight raid fondon jan 17.—a report from headquarters in france is iught reads i a heavy preliminary bombard on wednesday morning we occu pied a line of enemy posts north of be.uicourt-sur-ancre the whole of ectives were gained on a front some six hundred yards with hialties the position gained ' nsiderably improved our ob tion in this area this afternoon the enemy counter id which was broken with loss : r artillery barrage consolid ! of our new positions i.s proceed we had complete success yestcr id today in the neighborhood o f in the afternoon yesterday tions south of isle colonne e.e entered under cover i > bombardment our troops re iched the enemy's support line bombed and destroyed their dugouts and infiicted many casualties our losses were small we successfully blew a mine in connection with an operation this morning another successful j daylight raid was carried out by the canadian troops north-east of cite cal onne the attacking parties entered the enemy's trenches on a front of seven hundred yards and penetrated this to a depth of three hundred yards as far as his second line here also vy losses were inflicted on the en emy and all his dugouts completely a recked we captured one officer and ninety nine of other ranks two machine gun and a trench mortar our artillery and machine guns co-operated very effec itively with the infantry and our cas ualties were again light are rough on slackers military eligibles have to do much explaining in britain of absence from the ranks v . i by j w pegler ihe st john's daiiy star correspondence j ondon jan 16 by united press why aren't you i;i the army next to calling a man a german that is the favourite insult amounting to fighting words now in use in london the civilian hasn't much chance of a come-back except with his fists so if he retorts at all it is usually with his right the waiter with a little gold or silver stripe on his sleeve meaning that he ' has been shot or gassed ihrows a sneering glance at the civilian diner the soup is cold and the diner says so the soup isn't cold in the army is the waiter's come-back why aren't you there as the conscription act exempts no body without reason the civilian has a good legal right to be a civilian but he can't go into details about his tri bunal hearing so he scrapes the waiter's head with a ketchup-bottle but the civilian usually gets the worst of it regardless cf whether he j succeeds in punishing kis tormentor public opinion just naturally drifts against him it is the same on the street if he accidently bumps another pedestrian ! he may apologize but if resentment isn't appeased the injured party reels off the crowning insult m to to to to to i disturbances at cologne troops have to bs called on to quell disorders new york jan 17-—a news agency despatch from london to-day says — grave disturbances were quelled only by the use of troops who forced the cosing of the railroad station at cologne the closing has been in effect three days it was said to to to to to to to - hun attacks repulsed failure of enemy movement against french lines paris jan 1 7.—after bombardment last evening german troops attacked the french lines east of clery and south of biaches in the somme region they were repulsed the war office announced to-day a minor atactk by the germans at les eparats south east of verdun also was repulsed af ter hand to hand fighting french patrols penetrated the ger man lines at several points on the ■ heights of the meuse in the verdun re '< gion and in apremont forest tototototototo \ sixty three americans aboard two steamers sunk by raider \ philadelphia perm jan 17.—the , british consul general here said to • day that at least 63 americans were j aboard the british steamers georgic , and king george which sailed from • here and which are reported sunk by • a german raider \ the sixty americans on the georgic , had shipped as horsemen foremen and • assistant foremen most of them came ' i from new york the holy land is expected to be the scene of extensive fighting between the belligerent countries the map shows the valleys of the tigris and euphrates rivers allies give pres wilson more straight peace talk entente powers amplify their recent reply to pres wilson's peace note by explaining in detail why they believe it impossible at pre sent to attain a peace which will be secured by ample guarantee washington jan 17.-1 he en ter.te in a note addressed by ar thur falfour british foreign minister to ambasador spring rice and deliv ered to the state department amplify their reply to president wilson's peace note by explaining in detail why they believe it impossible at present to at tain a peace whicrf will assure them such guarantees as they consider essen tial the note also explains why the allies demand the expulsion of turkey from europe the restoration of alsace lorraine to france the italian irriden ta to italy and other territorial changes set forth treaties no guarantee those who think the future peace of the world may be insured by interna tional treaties and laws the note says have all learned lessons taught by recent history after charging fliat german influ ence in turkey had resulted in condi tions barbarous and more aggressive than were known under the sultan abdul hamid and that it had been shown that germany cannot be ex pected to respect treaty obligations mr balfouasays — so long as germany remains the germany which without the shadow of justification overran by barbarity and ill-treated a country it was pledged to i defend no state can regard its rights jas secure if they have no better pro tection than a solemn treaty hun victim asserting that belgium was not ger many's only victim and that neutrals were intended to note the outrages which accompanied its conquests the note recites the reign of terror attend ant upon germany's method of war fare in that connection it says the war staffs of the central powers are well content to horrify the world if at the same time they can terrorize it the people of britain balfour says share president wilsons desire for peace but do not believe it can be durable unless based upon the success of the allied cause such a peace it lis argued cannot be expected unless these three conditions are fulfilled — that the existing causes of interna tional unrest shall be as far as possible removed or weakened that the aggres ive aims and unscrupulous methods of the central powers shall fall into dis repute among their own people and finally that behind international law behind all treaty arangements for the preventing or limiting of hostilities some form of international sanction should be devised which would give pause to the hardiest aggressor it is recognized that these conditions may be difficult of fulfilment but the belief is expressed that they are in gen eral harmony with president wilson's ideas the note declares with confi dence that so far as europe is con cerned none of the conditions can be satisfied even imperfectly unless peace is secured on the general lines indicated by the allies joint note the note was entirely unexpected by officials here but was gratifying be cause they interpreted it as a step to ward the world federation to preserve peace which president wilson in both his speeches and his peace note has pledged the united states britain justifies the continuance of hostilities it was pointed out not only for the im mediate objects of the war but also on the necessity that behind international law behind all treaty arrangements for preventing or limiting hostilities some form of international sanction should be devised which would give pause to the hardiest aggressor it was just some such arramgement it was pointed out which president wilson has been urging which is ex pected to cause a wider disagreement on american foreign policy than any other question raised in the country's history britain's answer was interpreted as her official acceptance and endorse ment of the president's proposal rt hon a j balfour british foreign secretary german commerce raider plays havoc with shipping rio de janeiro reports that a german raider operating on the atlantic has sunk seven vsssels and captured nine others — enemy ship reported to be of five thousand tons a|id to be well armed glo de janeiro jan 17.—accord ing to information received here toj day from a british official source sevjn vessels on the atlantic have been sunk and nine captured by a german raider the vessels reported sunk are british—radnorshire st theodore dramatist minehaha tredgar hah ! french—nantes asniores the v sels captured include the following : british—king george mount temple georgic voltaire yarrowdale japar ese—hudson maru all these vessels were sunk or cap lured between dec 12th and jan 13th on the route between the azores and pernambuco in longitudes varying be tween 40 and 32 west and latitudes be tween 30 nort hand 7 south the crews of the steamships sunk were j placed on the hudson maru this yes i sel was compelled to accompany the raider to a point seven degrees scuth latitude where she arrived on jan l put into pemambuco she then received permission to go so pernambuco where she arrived on monday evening with 237 men fromj the crews of the vessels which were j sunk no information is received with re j gard to the crews of the other vesesls i the raider is said to be a ship of the i moewe type the vessel referred to in the foregoing as the tredgar hall is probably the netherby hall whose sinking by the german raider was an nounced by the british admiralty there is however a tredgar hall which was last reported at cardiff on dec 2 she is a ship of 1,734 tons gross built in 1906 and owned at cardiff sent up insurance rates new york jan 17.—the news of the destruction of allied shipping in the south american trade by a german raider was followed by an advance in marine insurance rates here to-day from 2]/y to 10 p er cent for west in dian and south american ports although the underwriters awaited official confirmation of the persistent rumors still current to-day that a ger man sea-raider had been either sunk or captured it was pointed out that the steamers yarrowdale and st the odore were still at large and that the british admiralty for naval reasons might withhold the anouncement of the sinking of the german war vessel until these two ships also had been captured the opinion held by some under writers that it was improbable the raid rrs had been acounted for was strength ened by advices from london under writers that ra.es would probably im prove shortly ship of 5,000 tons new york jan 17—at the british consulate to-day it was declared that the best description the british au thorities had obtained of the german roicler they knew to be at large was that she was about 5,000 tons and had one funnel and two masts that she carried about eight guns and was also declared to be equipped with four torpedo tubes is stated in a united press buenos aires despatch shipping men here expressed the be lief that her operations may now soon terminate with her whereabouts once definitely established british patrol ships are ex pected to force the raider jq intern if she escapes destruction sank eight allied ships london jan 17.—-eight british ar.d two french meichant vessels are be lieved to have been sunk by the gei man raider allies win in balkans berlin admits that heavy assaults of russo-rumanians forced teutons to retreat derlin jan 17.—russian and rou manian forces yesterday continued violent attacks with strong forces against german lines recently captured by the germans between kassino and the suchitz valley says to-day's ger man army headquarters statement near vadeni between braila and gal atz the statement adds advanced turk ish posts were retired according to comand in face of numerically supe ior hostile forces to rhe main intercepting line nine drown in a wreck terrible tragedy attends the loss of a canadian dredge when she breaks adrift lialifax jan 1 7.—the dominion government dredge no 6 was lost this afternoon while being towed from lunenburg to sydney captain hat field and the crew of eight were drowned the dredge , was being towed by the tugs lisgar and f w robling and breaking away struck shad rock near white head guysboro county and sank immediately six of the crew were from lunenburg and two from west arichat the captain hails from st john n b hun drive slackens london jan 7 a reuter des patch from j assy the temporary rou manian capital dated jan 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