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the st john's daily star heuifotmdland volume 11 3.00 per l annum saturday january 22,1916 price one cent no 18 held up by hurricane storm of wind and rain hinders opr liens ot british force march ing to ihe relief of the army at kut-01-amara nature of ground opposes many difficulties to an ach j 22 the chief dif l v of the british forces marching to the it-el-amara has been despatch from a , re the british pjess with ion ' the last lew days ndent has made navi et operations most dif ris has risen lour leel iis the color of a ed 1 *'■\ ol the annual rain oui inches has fallen ravating the hard . nevertheless active with heavy enetny ed including a turk * my bey former nemy are made nature of the ground io protection being i es roads trees or ihe british losses been heavy sitototototo r!s released wa . jan 22 through ihe good the united states the genua ian turkish bulgarian salonika who have been viclci i by the allies on rshjp in harbor arc to be . constantine abuses the entente a hies declares they have treated him and his nation as if they did not exist at all — have been too high-hand ed ," he says and have cone about things in the wrong way i ondon jan 22—an interview with king constantine of greece appears in the daily mail today when the correspondent asked king constantine whether he would admit there was justification for the recent actions ol ihe entente allies the king as quot ed replied yes and no i fail to see any rea son for the occupation of corfu and castelorizo if you want to reform the serb army there surely are places you could choose rather than violate neutrality to which you yourselves have subscribed desirable action as iar as salonika is concerned i as a soldier quite understand that the presence of enemy consuls was unde sirable and under certain circumstanc es i appreciate the necessity for the i tion of the demirhissar bridge what i object to strongly is the way you hive roughshod over us and treated us as il we did not exist there seems to have been a studied at tempt to do everything in an unplea sant manner if you had notified my govern ment of a desire to rid salonika of these consuls we would have advised them that we could no longer guaran tee their safely and they would have cd within twenty-four hours most of their archives already had been remov ed and i do not think you will dis cover sufficient compromising evidence o justify the methods employed military necessity i recognise also that the destruc tion of the bridge would become a mil itary necessity m the event of a hostile advance from the east but at present it is without object its only effect is o cut our communications with the drama and kavala provinces where as you know a large part of our army is mobilised this has caused us unlimit ed inconvenience without rendering you any conceivable service m we cannot do anything to demon strate more clearly our desire to accord you every facility in our power i therefore feel that the treatment met ed to us is in every way unjustifiable i have given my personal word that we will not commit no act of hostility to wards the entente powers and i dc not see that any further assurances need be demanded as neither the gov ernment nor the army will do anything without my authority the correspondent says that the king is much improved in health and that the wound from the operation the king underwent some time ago is caus ing him no trouble british vice-consul at sofia is arrested by bulgarians london jan 22.—a despatch to the exchange telegraph co from rome says a message received from sofia by way of bucharest says brit ish vice-consul heard has been arest cd by the bulgarian authorities de spite the protest of the american charge d'affairs in whose rooms he had taken refuge don't sympathise with constantine american press condemns greek king's betrayals and treacheries jjew york jan 21.—king constan tine's appeal for the sympathy of the united states made through the medium of newspaper interviews finds no response in the american press on the contrary the new york press em phatically condemns the course of the greek monarch nowhere on earth it says is con stantine's policy of defaults and be trayal more bitterly condemned and more strongly despised than here in the united states the king of greece s as wide of mark as he possibly could shoot when he thinks there is or can be american sympathy for his betrayal of serbia and in the face of his default upon his country's bond to die allies when greece begged them to come into her territory and do for her what she could not do for herself meet a grave difficulty shoriarje in coal supplies holds up proposed german drive on egypt and turks arc now opening up some old roman mines in syria to secure the necessary fuel | ondon jan 22--the german cam paign in egypt is meeting with un expected obstacles it is announced due to the lack of coal to operate the railroad they have constructed south ward through syria to the edge of the jcsert approaching the suez canal the construction of the railroad has been largely facilitated by rails and material for a similar line partially constructed but the absence of coal prevents the actual opening of tthe road to transportation by the lack of ial led the germans to reopen the old turkish mines in syria need by the romans but abandoned by them a housancl years ago the capacity of these mines is lim ited to five hundred thousand tons an nually and a large force of turkish laborers is engaged developing these mines wh.ch are now the chief reli nce in getting the railroad to egypt n operation 50,000 men to be added to the fleet hous2 of commons authorises big in crease in personnel of the navy parliament also takes further mea sures to curtail the trading activi ties of the enemy in great britain london jan 21—after a brief de bate the house of commons to day passed the second reading of a bill amending the trading with the tmemy act empowering the board of trade to prohibit any person firm or ompany of hostile nationality or as iociations from carrying on business n this country during the war sir gecrge cave explained that the purpose of the bill was to put an end io a situation which enabled german companies to continue business here during the war hoard their profits for heir own benefit and the economic struggle which might be expected to follow ihe conclusion of peace i have reason to believe that british property in germany is being treated in a high handed way the solicitor-general con tinued while iherc is no desire to confis cate enemy property in this country it is desirable on the other hand that the state should be placed in control of such property and that it be kept safe until it is known what has happen ed to british property in germany the house of commons also passec without discussion the supplemental navy estimates authorising an addi tion of 50,000 men to the personne 1 of the navy says germans have surprise-gun ready to use against british fleet london newspap er asserts qerm an battle-fleet is now armed with 17=in guns i ondon jan 23.—the l daily news gives promin ence to an article suggesting the germans are preparing a naval surprise for great britain the article says the germans are arm ing their new battleships with 17 inch guns the daily news adds that it is believed the shells thrown into dunkirk some time ago were fired by 1 7-inch naval guns the daily mail asserts that it knows upon the highest authority that the statement made by the daily news regarding 17-inch naval guns is true the writer of the daily news article 1 expresses the fear that the british will be caught napping he recalls that germany and aus tria concealed overwhelming num bers of howitzers which demolish d belgian and russian fortress es the experts of the allied nations had pooh poohed them but the experts were proven to be wrong the writer asks anxiously whether britain has an effective answer to the german 17-inch guns he infers that the new german battleship hindenburg is armed with these guns and ex presses the conviction that there is reason and probability if not cer tainty that sooner or later a ger man battle squadron armed with 17-inch guns will appear in the north sea it is obvious he adds that a hindenburg armed with 1 7-inch guns will outclass an invincible the modern british battle-ship type armed with a smaller gun as absolutely as the invincible out classed admiral yon spec's ships | off the falkland islands tries to increase patriotic fund over 1,000,000 campaign to raise 1,500,000 in can ada in a week is opened by the duke of connaught montreal jan 21.—the duke of connaught today formally opened the 1916 whirlwind campaign to raise i 150,000 for the patriotic fund in a week his royal highness delivered an address before the canadian club at a luncheon at the windsor hotel urg ing a general support of the move ment the campaign will include tag days house to house calls and every other known form of raising the money in a hurry ' ' j . ..'/.■.„;. russians continue clean up the turks 5 pursuing the enemy s forces in the caucasus region and have captured another per sian town — small engage ments in bessarahian regions auslrians deny their u boat sank the liner persia jan 22.—considerable activity on the part of the rus sians is shtown by to-nights official statement.-°y in the caucasus the czar's forces after repulsing a turk ish attempt to drive them back pur sued and drove ihe enemy as far a the erzerum forts sabering or tak ing prisoners hi this operation over 1500 men and capturing much war material as well as the town of has san kalah twenty mile east of erzer um the turks are reported lo be retreating precipitately an earlier russian official statement records the capture from the turks of the town of sultanabad persia the taking of from germans by the british additional towns in kamerun district africa is another feature of the fighting is contained in the latesi official communication many minor activities there have also been small engage ments in russia around pinak and in the region of czartorysk artillery and mining operations along the front in france belgium a continua tion of artillery duels here and then and infantry attacks in the austro lalian thcalre in none of these hew ever have any great results been at tained v although it has been reported that he auslro-hur.g nans and the m#n enegrins again are at grips no de ails have yet come through as trre progress of fighting has been resumed however the austrians will continue 0 press the montenegrins towards the albanian frontier until they capture montenegro's principal seaport anti ari in order to prevent the entente powers from importing wheat from roumania an anglo-french corporation haf seen formed to buy all the available grain wasn't austrian u-boat the vienna government has in formed fr derick g penfield united states ambassador that no austro hungarian|submarine was concerned in the singing of the peninsular and oriental line steamer per a the persia was sunk off the island of crete and both the german and austrian foreign offices have reported hey had no information concerning he sinking of the vessel to ton to to to to albanians help montenegrins provisional president of albania to join in defence of scutari jondon jan 21.—a despatch from rome states that eshad pasha pro visional president of albania has ar rived at scutari with albanian forces o join the montenegrin troops which re retiring to that point the despatch says that these mea sures are being taken with a view of defending scutari it was reported from paris last nonth that eshad pasha had declared var on austria and bulgaria and that he was said to have 20.000 armed men vvho would assist the allies russians take a tov.n • in persia from tho turks teheran persia jan 21.—russian olumns operating in persia have push ed forward and occupied the town of sultanabad one hundred and fifty niles southwest of teheran about an jqual distance northwest of ispahan the garrison and german consul have fled to bouroudjir fifty miles west cf sultanabad munitions minislry takes over ons ot london's big hotels london jan 21.—a flurry of ex citcment in the hotel district was creat ed today by the announcement that the spacious hotel metrbpole on northurr berland avenue which is well-knowr to tourists has been commandeered by the ministry of munitions for adminis trative offices totototototo artillery activities reported at many points in the west london jan 22 official the enemy this morning exploded three mines west of fricourt but no damage was done we exploded a mine east of festubert and during the day cvi artillery disposed of four hostile work ing parties there has been reciprocal shelling north of albert north of loos and near givenchy southeast of fleur baix we successfully bombarded enemy gun positions and trenches the ss prospero arrived at king's cove at 5.30 a.m and left at 10 evacuating kameruns french forces are driving the huns out of their last remaining col ony on west coast of africa and are now trying to capture germans fleeing towards spanish territory jondon jan 22.—a british official statement issued tonight on the op erations in the kameruns on the west coast of africa follows after the occupation of jaunde on jan 1 the entente allies columns which were despatched in an endeavor to cut off the enemy's retreat reached keimaka on the nyong river on jan 8 they released a number of allied pris oners jdoth military and civilians and by the 18th the reports received from colonels mayor and hayward state the germans had evacuated ebolowa md akono linga and that the german governor ebermaier and the german commandant zimmerman had escap ed into the spanish territory of muni fighting is also reported further south close to the german-spanish border where two small french col umns advancing from coast and from the french congo are trying to pre vent the escape of the germans into muni to to to russian offensive aimed at relieving balkan pressure * london jan 22 a despatch to the daily mail from petrograd says that recent russian offensive in bessara bia and gahcia was carried on in ac cordance with a plan prepared by the entente allies war council to relieve pressure on the entente forces while they were lortifying salonika and dur ing the evacuation of the gallipoli peninsula to to h to ipk british submarine sinks an austrian torpedo boat london jan 22.—a despatch to the exchange telegraph co from rome says a british submarine has sunk in the upper adriatic an austri an hydro-aeroplane and also an austri an torpedo boat which went to the res cue taking the crews of both craft prisoners to 11 to to to to allies to make effort to corner wheat supply bucharest roumania jan 21 an anglo-french corporation with a capital of 96,000,000 has been form ed to buy up all available grain so that the central powers will be unable to import needed supplies it is not known what use will be made by the allies of the proposed purchases bona fide reductions in ladies footwear w*bmkwkwkwkjkwkwkmkwkwkwkwkmkwkwk^kwkwkwkmmk^^kwm ladies pat d leather v v ladies vici kid e c one to three straps n c ladies bronze n and black g v all the ahove lines s to clear at h c cost price ; sj see window s bowring brothers limited the how e paper daily star . 4 the high-class quality of our tip-top sodas being beyond question the public will no doubt be pleased to know that we are putting on the market ginger snaps of tip-top qualify pa ked in tins ask your grocer for a tin of rich gin ger snaps the tin with the green label accept no ether these are wholesome crisp and delicious a.harvey co limited
Object Description
Title | St. John's Daily Star, 1916-01-22 |
Subject | Canadian newspapers--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--20th century |
Publisher | St. John's Daily Star Publishing Company |
Place of Publication | St. John's (N.L.) |
Date | 1916-01-22 |
Year | 1916 |
Month | 01 |
Day | 22 |
Description | The St. John's Daily Star was published daily except Sunday between 17 April 1915 - 23 July 1921. -- Not published: 30 May - 09 June 1918, 11-12 July 1919. In process: September-December 1919, July 1921. |
Location | Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--St. John's |
Time Period | 20th Century |
Language | eng |
LCCN | 89032054 |
Type | Text |
Resource Type | Newspaper |
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Collection | St. John's Daily Star |
Sponsor | Centre for Newfoundland Studies |
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Description
Title | St. John's daily star, 1916-01-22 |
Subject | Canadian newspapers--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--20th century |
Publisher | St. John's Daily Star Publishing Company |
Date | 1916-01-22 |
Year | 1916 |
Month | 01 |
Day | 22 |
Description | The St. John's Daily Star was published daily except Sunday between 17 April 1915 - 23 July 1921. -- Not published: 30 May - 09 June 1918, 11-12 July 1919. In process: January-March 1918, September-December 1919, July 1921. |
Location | Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--St. John's |
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Language | Eng |
LCCN | 89032054 |
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Source | Microfilm held in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies. |
Rights | Public domain |
Transcript | the st john's daily star heuifotmdland volume 11 3.00 per l annum saturday january 22,1916 price one cent no 18 held up by hurricane storm of wind and rain hinders opr liens ot british force march ing to ihe relief of the army at kut-01-amara nature of ground opposes many difficulties to an ach j 22 the chief dif l v of the british forces marching to the it-el-amara has been despatch from a , re the british pjess with ion ' the last lew days ndent has made navi et operations most dif ris has risen lour leel iis the color of a ed 1 *'■\ ol the annual rain oui inches has fallen ravating the hard . nevertheless active with heavy enetny ed including a turk * my bey former nemy are made nature of the ground io protection being i es roads trees or ihe british losses been heavy sitototototo r!s released wa . jan 22 through ihe good the united states the genua ian turkish bulgarian salonika who have been viclci i by the allies on rshjp in harbor arc to be . constantine abuses the entente a hies declares they have treated him and his nation as if they did not exist at all — have been too high-hand ed ," he says and have cone about things in the wrong way i ondon jan 22—an interview with king constantine of greece appears in the daily mail today when the correspondent asked king constantine whether he would admit there was justification for the recent actions ol ihe entente allies the king as quot ed replied yes and no i fail to see any rea son for the occupation of corfu and castelorizo if you want to reform the serb army there surely are places you could choose rather than violate neutrality to which you yourselves have subscribed desirable action as iar as salonika is concerned i as a soldier quite understand that the presence of enemy consuls was unde sirable and under certain circumstanc es i appreciate the necessity for the i tion of the demirhissar bridge what i object to strongly is the way you hive roughshod over us and treated us as il we did not exist there seems to have been a studied at tempt to do everything in an unplea sant manner if you had notified my govern ment of a desire to rid salonika of these consuls we would have advised them that we could no longer guaran tee their safely and they would have cd within twenty-four hours most of their archives already had been remov ed and i do not think you will dis cover sufficient compromising evidence o justify the methods employed military necessity i recognise also that the destruc tion of the bridge would become a mil itary necessity m the event of a hostile advance from the east but at present it is without object its only effect is o cut our communications with the drama and kavala provinces where as you know a large part of our army is mobilised this has caused us unlimit ed inconvenience without rendering you any conceivable service m we cannot do anything to demon strate more clearly our desire to accord you every facility in our power i therefore feel that the treatment met ed to us is in every way unjustifiable i have given my personal word that we will not commit no act of hostility to wards the entente powers and i dc not see that any further assurances need be demanded as neither the gov ernment nor the army will do anything without my authority the correspondent says that the king is much improved in health and that the wound from the operation the king underwent some time ago is caus ing him no trouble british vice-consul at sofia is arrested by bulgarians london jan 22.—a despatch to the exchange telegraph co from rome says a message received from sofia by way of bucharest says brit ish vice-consul heard has been arest cd by the bulgarian authorities de spite the protest of the american charge d'affairs in whose rooms he had taken refuge don't sympathise with constantine american press condemns greek king's betrayals and treacheries jjew york jan 21.—king constan tine's appeal for the sympathy of the united states made through the medium of newspaper interviews finds no response in the american press on the contrary the new york press em phatically condemns the course of the greek monarch nowhere on earth it says is con stantine's policy of defaults and be trayal more bitterly condemned and more strongly despised than here in the united states the king of greece s as wide of mark as he possibly could shoot when he thinks there is or can be american sympathy for his betrayal of serbia and in the face of his default upon his country's bond to die allies when greece begged them to come into her territory and do for her what she could not do for herself meet a grave difficulty shoriarje in coal supplies holds up proposed german drive on egypt and turks arc now opening up some old roman mines in syria to secure the necessary fuel | ondon jan 22--the german cam paign in egypt is meeting with un expected obstacles it is announced due to the lack of coal to operate the railroad they have constructed south ward through syria to the edge of the jcsert approaching the suez canal the construction of the railroad has been largely facilitated by rails and material for a similar line partially constructed but the absence of coal prevents the actual opening of tthe road to transportation by the lack of ial led the germans to reopen the old turkish mines in syria need by the romans but abandoned by them a housancl years ago the capacity of these mines is lim ited to five hundred thousand tons an nually and a large force of turkish laborers is engaged developing these mines wh.ch are now the chief reli nce in getting the railroad to egypt n operation 50,000 men to be added to the fleet hous2 of commons authorises big in crease in personnel of the navy parliament also takes further mea sures to curtail the trading activi ties of the enemy in great britain london jan 21—after a brief de bate the house of commons to day passed the second reading of a bill amending the trading with the tmemy act empowering the board of trade to prohibit any person firm or ompany of hostile nationality or as iociations from carrying on business n this country during the war sir gecrge cave explained that the purpose of the bill was to put an end io a situation which enabled german companies to continue business here during the war hoard their profits for heir own benefit and the economic struggle which might be expected to follow ihe conclusion of peace i have reason to believe that british property in germany is being treated in a high handed way the solicitor-general con tinued while iherc is no desire to confis cate enemy property in this country it is desirable on the other hand that the state should be placed in control of such property and that it be kept safe until it is known what has happen ed to british property in germany the house of commons also passec without discussion the supplemental navy estimates authorising an addi tion of 50,000 men to the personne 1 of the navy says germans have surprise-gun ready to use against british fleet london newspap er asserts qerm an battle-fleet is now armed with 17=in guns i ondon jan 23.—the l daily news gives promin ence to an article suggesting the germans are preparing a naval surprise for great britain the article says the germans are arm ing their new battleships with 17 inch guns the daily news adds that it is believed the shells thrown into dunkirk some time ago were fired by 1 7-inch naval guns the daily mail asserts that it knows upon the highest authority that the statement made by the daily news regarding 17-inch naval guns is true the writer of the daily news article 1 expresses the fear that the british will be caught napping he recalls that germany and aus tria concealed overwhelming num bers of howitzers which demolish d belgian and russian fortress es the experts of the allied nations had pooh poohed them but the experts were proven to be wrong the writer asks anxiously whether britain has an effective answer to the german 17-inch guns he infers that the new german battleship hindenburg is armed with these guns and ex presses the conviction that there is reason and probability if not cer tainty that sooner or later a ger man battle squadron armed with 17-inch guns will appear in the north sea it is obvious he adds that a hindenburg armed with 1 7-inch guns will outclass an invincible the modern british battle-ship type armed with a smaller gun as absolutely as the invincible out classed admiral yon spec's ships | off the falkland islands tries to increase patriotic fund over 1,000,000 campaign to raise 1,500,000 in can ada in a week is opened by the duke of connaught montreal jan 21.—the duke of connaught today formally opened the 1916 whirlwind campaign to raise i 150,000 for the patriotic fund in a week his royal highness delivered an address before the canadian club at a luncheon at the windsor hotel urg ing a general support of the move ment the campaign will include tag days house to house calls and every other known form of raising the money in a hurry ' ' j . ..'/.■.„;. russians continue clean up the turks 5 pursuing the enemy s forces in the caucasus region and have captured another per sian town — small engage ments in bessarahian regions auslrians deny their u boat sank the liner persia jan 22.—considerable activity on the part of the rus sians is shtown by to-nights official statement.-°y in the caucasus the czar's forces after repulsing a turk ish attempt to drive them back pur sued and drove ihe enemy as far a the erzerum forts sabering or tak ing prisoners hi this operation over 1500 men and capturing much war material as well as the town of has san kalah twenty mile east of erzer um the turks are reported lo be retreating precipitately an earlier russian official statement records the capture from the turks of the town of sultanabad persia the taking of from germans by the british additional towns in kamerun district africa is another feature of the fighting is contained in the latesi official communication many minor activities there have also been small engage ments in russia around pinak and in the region of czartorysk artillery and mining operations along the front in france belgium a continua tion of artillery duels here and then and infantry attacks in the austro lalian thcalre in none of these hew ever have any great results been at tained v although it has been reported that he auslro-hur.g nans and the m#n enegrins again are at grips no de ails have yet come through as trre progress of fighting has been resumed however the austrians will continue 0 press the montenegrins towards the albanian frontier until they capture montenegro's principal seaport anti ari in order to prevent the entente powers from importing wheat from roumania an anglo-french corporation haf seen formed to buy all the available grain wasn't austrian u-boat the vienna government has in formed fr derick g penfield united states ambassador that no austro hungarian|submarine was concerned in the singing of the peninsular and oriental line steamer per a the persia was sunk off the island of crete and both the german and austrian foreign offices have reported hey had no information concerning he sinking of the vessel to ton to to to to albanians help montenegrins provisional president of albania to join in defence of scutari jondon jan 21.—a despatch from rome states that eshad pasha pro visional president of albania has ar rived at scutari with albanian forces o join the montenegrin troops which re retiring to that point the despatch says that these mea sures are being taken with a view of defending scutari it was reported from paris last nonth that eshad pasha had declared var on austria and bulgaria and that he was said to have 20.000 armed men vvho would assist the allies russians take a tov.n • in persia from tho turks teheran persia jan 21.—russian olumns operating in persia have push ed forward and occupied the town of sultanabad one hundred and fifty niles southwest of teheran about an jqual distance northwest of ispahan the garrison and german consul have fled to bouroudjir fifty miles west cf sultanabad munitions minislry takes over ons ot london's big hotels london jan 21.—a flurry of ex citcment in the hotel district was creat ed today by the announcement that the spacious hotel metrbpole on northurr berland avenue which is well-knowr to tourists has been commandeered by the ministry of munitions for adminis trative offices totototototo artillery activities reported at many points in the west london jan 22 official the enemy this morning exploded three mines west of fricourt but no damage was done we exploded a mine east of festubert and during the day cvi artillery disposed of four hostile work ing parties there has been reciprocal shelling north of albert north of loos and near givenchy southeast of fleur baix we successfully bombarded enemy gun positions and trenches the ss prospero arrived at king's cove at 5.30 a.m and left at 10 evacuating kameruns french forces are driving the huns out of their last remaining col ony on west coast of africa and are now trying to capture germans fleeing towards spanish territory jondon jan 22.—a british official statement issued tonight on the op erations in the kameruns on the west coast of africa follows after the occupation of jaunde on jan 1 the entente allies columns which were despatched in an endeavor to cut off the enemy's retreat reached keimaka on the nyong river on jan 8 they released a number of allied pris oners jdoth military and civilians and by the 18th the reports received from colonels mayor and hayward state the germans had evacuated ebolowa md akono linga and that the german governor ebermaier and the german commandant zimmerman had escap ed into the spanish territory of muni fighting is also reported further south close to the german-spanish border where two small french col umns advancing from coast and from the french congo are trying to pre vent the escape of the germans into muni to to to russian offensive aimed at relieving balkan pressure * london jan 22 a despatch to the daily mail from petrograd says that recent russian offensive in bessara bia and gahcia was carried on in ac cordance with a plan prepared by the entente allies war council to relieve pressure on the entente forces while they were lortifying salonika and dur ing the evacuation of the gallipoli peninsula to to h to ipk british submarine sinks an austrian torpedo boat london jan 22.—a despatch to the exchange telegraph co from rome says a british submarine has sunk in the upper adriatic an austri an hydro-aeroplane and also an austri an torpedo boat which went to the res cue taking the crews of both craft prisoners to 11 to to to to allies to make effort to corner wheat supply bucharest roumania jan 21 an anglo-french corporation with a capital of 96,000,000 has been form ed to buy up all available grain so that the central powers will be unable to import needed supplies it is not known what use will be made by the allies of the proposed purchases bona fide reductions in ladies footwear w*bmkwkwkwkjkwkwkmkwkwkwkwkmkwkwk^kwkwkwkmmk^^kwm ladies pat d leather v v ladies vici kid e c one to three straps n c ladies bronze n and black g v all the ahove lines s to clear at h c cost price ; sj see window s bowring brothers limited the how e paper daily star . 4 the high-class quality of our tip-top sodas being beyond question the public will no doubt be pleased to know that we are putting on the market ginger snaps of tip-top qualify pa ked in tins ask your grocer for a tin of rich gin ger snaps the tin with the green label accept no ether these are wholesome crisp and delicious a.harvey co limited |