St. John's Daily Star, 1915-11-20

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 1 3.00 per annum saturday november 20 1915 price one cent no 182 ask china to enter entente c by china from a repub ■' monarchy leads the entente o consider a possible alliance the reconstructed chinese rnment djidn't affect course of the european war but would safeguard interests of the entente allies in the far east and would prevent any further inter ference by japan in chinese affairs 11 i!ngton nov 19v==fhe change china from a rrefoubhc to a - been the srabject ol con fexchan§fes between tbe allied . dining me last week but it i ame known here to-day ■<• far as is known has not nulled the comersations avihg been confined to the an entente allies and the pe overnment h~,kno\ys v jthe plans unof tere is nothing here to indi ct position will be although france and russia joined japan in representations to china to pompone tlie establishment of the morarchy because it was thought that a cl ance during the present disturbed condition.of affairs might provoke rev hit ion and international compli cations in self-defence , esl f.ep by the allies is here to have been initiated <>! tbe inonarchial situation aloi c ii considered essential by the al e thai such arrangements be made in t le far east as would permanently ird their interests the im pending change in china's from of lenl has rendered the situation icute , pi revolution in china and ihility of japanese interference peace has been impressed ipanese people and to an attracted wide attention european diplomats possible effect l!y joining , the entente alliance non oi china's derations could not af feci lie course jf the wai in europe but the move'would afre:t'veiy guran tee japanese abstinence from interfer ence in china j ipan's attitude is not clea as yet bur two possibilities are considered oiausible firs tkat japan he n the theory - : paramount interests in china not suffer a abridgement ie iuturc actions of the al i i second japan will remain aloof from any entrance of china as an ally as not altering japan's right to independent action in die far east wherever her interests are affected near-crisis in the east european powers fearing that japan would take advantage of any dis turbances incidental on chinese governmental changes propose to make china an ally and ward off this danger washington nov 20.—efforts are being made by britain france and russia to include china in the member ship of the entente now aligned against the germanic powers disclosure of this fact directed atten tion of official washington today to the complicated situation in the far east the seriousness of which had not hith erto been realized it became known that in order to insure friendly relations between japan and chma conversation exchanges had been proceeding between peking nd european capitals looking to the lormal entrance of china on an equal looting with japan into the alliance that now includes britain france rus sia italy japan and serbia the military participation of chma in the war would not be expected but the political necessity of adding china to the allies was looked upon by them as of vast importance it was learned today that recently several japanese warships were placed in strategic positions along the chinese coast and that possibly an internal re volution in china through the proposed change from a republic to a parlia mentary monarchy had caused some japanese officials to believe munition's of war should be husbanded for emer gencies when the recent chinese-japanese negotiations were in progress japan similarly felt compelled to hold her am munition supply a development of cir cumstances that is thought to have em barrassed russia considerably so far as is known here most of the conversations have been conducted with peking and it is not clear how far the proposal has been discussed with the japanese government at tokio belief is general however that brit ain on account of her obligations to her allies and with japan probably consulted the tokio government freely china's attitude has not yet develop ed but in some quarters here the view is held that the peking government is favorably inclined to the entente pro posal since the move would guarantee the integrity of china during the pre sent disturbed state of world politics and safe-guard her political interests in the peace conferences in fact some rumors have reached officials recently that the plan actually originated with the chinese who saw in it the means of checkmating the possibility of japan's aggression the island in the panama canal is now an isthmus here you see how the island th\t formed in the panama canal at the tims of the latest landslide has widened until it has blocked the passageway from bank to bank there's more dirt in the canal now than there was when thfy started to shovel it away all-irish brigade ready to leave for the balkans includes catholics nationalists and ulster protestants and says red mond will show the kaiser his mistake in counting upon irish hostility toward great britain mew york nov 20.—a cable to the herald from london this moraing says the daily chronicle this morning announces that the 16th all irish division commanded by general sir lawrence parsons and made up of catholics nationalists and ulster protestants have completed training and are ready to go to the front in the three brigades which form the division the officers include the brother of john redmond the irish nationalist leader captain williams i h k redmond m p and hs nep hew lieut wm raymond redmond captain d d sheehan m p cap tain stephen g winne m p captain j d esmond m p and lieut t m kettle m p the division was eager to enrolll the services of lieut robert emmett but his untimely death prevented this john redmond who returned from the western battle front and will to morrow night address a great recruit ing meeting in london for the irish rifles who covered themselves with glory at loos says the completion of a new irish div ision proves that the kaiser made a flagrant miscalculation when he count ed upon the hostility of the green isle towards britain ireland mr redmond adds for the first time in history is eager to do her full duty to the empire which no long er stands for oppression but for the independence of belgium serbia and the small nations of europe and for the freedom of the world though the men of the division if given a choice would prefer to fight in france where their forefathers made history indications are that the six teenth will bulk largely in battles to save little serbia which like ireland is a nation of galant-fighting men suicided in court after hearing adverse judgment miss kenealey british writer takes dose of poison i ondon nov 19.—"my lord i told you you were trying a woman for her life i have taken enough poison to kill five people was the dramatic exclamation made by the well known novelist miss annesley kenealey as she threw upon the floor a bottle the contents of which she had just swal lowed on hearing the court pronounce judgment against her miss kenealey immediately collaps ed and was carried unconscious to the emergency ward of the court house later she was removed to the hospital where the doctors believe she has a chance to recover miss kenealey's suit was a claim for damages against a wholesale book-dis tributing firm for alleged false and mali cious statements defamatory of her book russ millions are training men of the new russian army display excellent spirits detrograd nov 20.—russian mi litary observers are finding indica tions that the german lines on this front are growing increasingly thin these are furnished by reports from the fighting lines notably from the sec tor northeast of riga as an instance it is stated that cap turing the passage between the two marshes the russians found the sole defenders of the positions to be two germans with machine guns the drilling of recruits with which the russians expect to strengthen their own lines on the various fronts is pro ceeding rapidly on all sides the drill masters report excellent progress being made in drill work because of the will ing spirit of the new men and the ad mirable relations declared to exist be tween them and their officers not so bad as painted serbs retreating in perfect order and await help of allies j ondon nov 20.—a retteri desj patch from athens filed yesterday \ says arrivals from the front depicc the situation as less sombre than hasj been represented t c serbian are retrearin in oei fect cider have lost no prisoners and ihe : : uns captured by bu'jnrian are old r eces of little value mad thousand pieces of artillery remain ii possession of the serbs whose morale is still good the ultimate issue depends upon the timely arrival of allied forces v vk ,~ london curtails < sale of liquor london nov 20.—the threatened order curtailing the sale of intoxicants in greater london has been issued after november 29th trade will be confined to five and one-half hours on week days and five hours on sundays high seas and their seizures of contra band are limited to the work of sub marines in retaliation of the issuance of brit ish blockade orders-in-council how ever germany has promulgated a list of contraband that includes practic ally all american products consequently the state department decided a formal protest is necess ary to record the assertions of its rights by the united states nothing definite occurs in the balkan situation the position of the serbian army and the attitude of greece toward the entente still undecided—pre carious position of serb force paris is hopeful about the situation i ondon nov 20.—the position of the serbian army and the attitude of greece toward the entente powers are still the outstanding questions of interest to europe reliable informa tion on both situations is so meagre that the public are unable to judge what changes if any have taken place mt is thought possible the serbians will make a stand on the historic plain of kossovo east of the montenegrin frontier where over 500 years ago they lost their independence to turkey they must either do this or retire into the mountains of montenegro or to nor them albania where altho they would be nearer help from the adriatic it would be difficult to keep them sup plied owing to the absence of roads the austro-germans in the north are now within 30 miles of the mitrovitza pristina line of the serbians while the bulgarians in the south are said al ready to have passed monastir as to the position of greece there have been no developments altho a more hopeful feeling prevails in paris and london since denys cochin's vis it to king constantine and the greek ministers there have been lively artillery en gagements in alsace and at some other points in the west on the east the germans report no change while petrograd claims repul ses of germans on the dvina and styr rivers the italians are still hammering away at the austrian positions on the isonza but while they are gaining a little ground they have not yet suc ceeded in capturing gorizia which again has been under heavy shell fire for several days bulgarians in monastir london nov 20.—a despatch from rome to the exchange telegraph co says a telegram to the tribune from athens states the bulgarians have occ upied monastir and that the serbians are in full retreat totototototo the fisheries department had the following cablegram from oporto to day prices are unchanged since our last report the market is steady u.s spreads its protests a sending notes to whole bunch '• of belligerents a c washington nov 20.—america's protest against the placing of nearly all articles of commerce on the contraband list of european belliger ants will go to germany and austria as well as to britain and her allies .. when this note to britain is forwarded to london virtually identical notes m will be despatched to the teutonic j allies and to france and italy g so far as germany and austria are i concerned the officials regard the forth i coming protest as more or less acad :- emic in fact their commerce raiders and cruisers are no longer on the huns sink 2 gunboats | german u-boat destroys by gunfire i t in solium harbor the prince abbas . 298 tons and the abdul menem 598 tons—also sinks the tara an i armed british steamer gerlin nov 19.—two british gun boats have been sunk in the medi terranean off the egyptian coast by a german submarine an official an j nouncement to this effect was made by < the admiralty today a british aux , ihary cruiser also has been put out of action the statement follows a submarine on nov 6th in solium harbour destroyed by gunfire two anglo-egyptian gunboats the prince abbas and abdul menem each of > which was armed with two guns the same submarine silenced with its fire an armed british merchant steamer and captured its gun one of our submarines on novem ber sth on the north african coast sank by torpedo the british auxiliary cruiser para the naval record contain the names of two egyptian gun boats abdel monaym and abdas which probably are the warships referred to in the german announcement the abdel monaym is 598 tons bijilt in 1902 and the abdas is 298 toj&s built in 1891 according to the latest naval record j they were armed with one 3-pound gun the gulf of solium is on the north of africa the boundary between egypt and tripoli jhere is no british steamship named para and the auxiliary cruiser referred to'in the official german statement is apparently the small craft tara the official british report of novem ber bth said that the tara an armed bdarding steamer had been sunk in th mediterranean by german submar ines with 34 men missing big bulgar army in prilep district i athens nov 20.—the newspapers hkistia believes there are forty-five thousand bulgars in prilep and the sur reminding district where there are only sij all serbian forces paper says the french have re posed the bulgarian attacks for three days and are redoubling their efforts to occupy veles rumania is warned of danger one of her statesmen deals with re lations of the country to austro hungarian empire and points out the dangers which menace her very independence mistake to persist in austrian alliance says that if austria be victorious roumanian nationality and rouman ian aspirations will receive their death-blow—would have roum ania act paris nov 20.—take jonescu former roumanian minister of the inictiof has announced sayi a des patch to the temps from bucharest dated wednesday last that he would speak at jassy on sunday of diplomatic origin of the treaty betwe en roumania and austria hungary m jonescu asserted that without this alliance in effect it is possible austria would have attacked rouman ia as she did serbia last year he said he proposed to tell his compatri ots their duty and of the catastrophe which will result if the roumanians fail to do it surprised vienna the austro-roumanian alliance dominated roumania's po { iy aid m jonascu except two years ago when roumania sided with serbia against bulgaria and was upheld by austria this attempt emancipation surprised and frightened vienna it was one of the causes inciting austria to the folly of 1914 the great mistake of roumanian politicians had been in persisting in this alliance when it has lost its reason for existence after the conclusion of the triple entente it was evident that the equilib rium of the forces had been re-es tablished and the unnatural alliance became then a big mistake it is to this fatal alliance that we owe the big number of difficulties to-day useless to rumania so many roumanian officers thanks to it have studied in germany and austria without any benefit to our army moreover thanks to it we have no mountain artillery for fortifications in the carpathians and no gun and muni tion factories i do not want to disguise the unfav orable inactivity of my country i pro pose only to reveal a small part of 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