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. 't fc . v" Honolulu, Hawaii territory, Friday januAr'y.a I9is: , e w i-w e ek l y. .

' WHOLE NUMBER 3970,

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. Cong Statement Issued By French

v War Office Says Germans Have

V Lost Generally In Almfst Coii-

.tinuous Fighting From Alsace

CASUALTIES OF. TEUTONS

HEAVIER THAN ENEMIES'

Jroops xA Kaiser HaVe "Made

Some Progress But These Are

m ; Claimed To Have Been More

v,' .Than ' Offset J By ? Reverses

. v (AmmUU4 YrtM'tay rml Wtrdan)

' 1) ABI8, January Tba war pfflca

JL lat Big&t lamea .ft long tuta-

f ' mnt coTerlnf th graeral turn-

nanta of the rranch force and their

alllaa between December 25 and 9aa-

. ary 4, whlck declares tiat tha AUlet

haf been (ener&lly tnceatafut la the

' almoet eonUnaooa - flgbtlna tnat haf

been to progreaa from Alaaca to Mian

'v': QEEMAK OAIKS OrrSET ,

. ' Tn Oermaas Jtav gained at Umaa

aa cartata polnta aay Ua official, gnm-

tnarr. 1ut their aaiaa are not to be

; compared with tha almost general ad

ranee of tha AUlea, wUle la tha fight-

V . . inc. tha aormaaa har. loat mnch aioro

'! IhtU; in killed and captured and la

I ' , tha ntunber of field plecea and macalna

i , gnna taken than have the rranch, Brit

, ' ! ' THE EE TEUTON REPULSES

Tha official communiqua for tha 4a

1 1 .. aays that 4ha Oarmana made three yla-

! ; lent attacka upon tha French positions,

J on In tha " Argonna, ana against , the

' : I lines north of Verdun and one against

7, , tha Una which has been asUbllahad oa

-l A the rldga dominating StaUbach, la IXp-'.-

par Alaaca. 2a acU of these attacka

, . the Oannana war repulsed. . t

BARD riOHTIKQ;. HONORS EVEN

' . j Thar haa been hard fighting, too,

V '- along tha line In Northern Franca, from

- , v Bolaaoa to . Arraa, with v honors eTen,

aalther Una being able to adraaca.

'. Very satisfactory, progress 'has beea

made la the Upper Alsace; fampalgn,

r '.. .. the French adranca now reaching south

of and aeyond Altklrch, within fifteen

alias of tha German Swiss fine.

BLUNTJNO GERMAN WEDGE

- The early official report gave the re

sult of an attack upon . tha German

wedge which now extends (o Bt. Mlhlel,

a portion of the first line trenches of

tha Germans northwest of Fliery hsr

ing beea 'taken. .' - ,.k

SPIRIT IS EXAUFED

Delegate Quezon Thinks His Peo

'pie Soon Could Prevent For;'

eign Invasion of Islands . '

(AwMcUte Ttm br reiersl Wiretau)

WASHINaTON'January'S. Manuel

Queson, one of the Delegatea to Oon

grass from the Philippines, - appeared

'before the Philippines committee of the

' aenate yesterday to advocate the pas

saga of the Jones Bill.'; which enlarges

tha seli goTornment of the Philippines

as a step towards final independence,

Delegate ; Queson admitted, la re

sponse to questions concerning the abil

ity of tha Filipinos to presenre their

; independence, if grsated it, ' that at

present the Filipinos could not prevent

the conquering of the Inlands by Oer

many, Japan or. Great Brluin, but that

"It would b possible soon for tha gov

eminent of the Philippines to establish

some military system similar to that la

. force la Swltserlaud, whereby a defense

force could be established that would

- make it difficult for any nation safely

t lnl tha TalatllU ' V. 1 '.

FILIPINO

flGIIJIilb

Ccrlih Says That This ' Covert

Total Casualties Including .

Moslems Are

Herding Fifteen

.Thousand Russian Prisoners ;

I VI WVIIIIIIl.llll.llt

.

(Aeelate Press ky Feaerst WlreleM.1

B'

EBXtN, v aauary B. Among tae

Items lncladed la the official atata

meat iasnad yesterday la a quota-

Uoa ; from tha Brussels newspapers,

which states that tha French officially

admit that up to December g the Freaea

losses la killed, wounded and" missing

exceeded . on . million enea, laoladiag

twenty thouaaad ameers. "s !

TURKS TAKB BANT BLAVB

Aa attclal ' report from Constanti

nople, Included also la tha Oerama oa

clal report of yesterday, eayt that flf.

teen thouaaad Russian prisoners, take!)

by the Turka, are now being taken Into

the territory of Turkey for confinement.

; ! ' SITUATION IN WAR XONjla :

In the two war tone the situation

la described as follow ,by tt fflcui

report:. .. i ' -

- "Severe fighting eaatiauea north at

Arraa ta gala possesaloa of the trenches

we . captured yesterday. Tha Freack

have beea repulse la tha wester for.

eat of Argonne from' all tha positions

they . took On ,Tueeday. . ' Their losses:

war heavy.. aura alight, (".-.'."- '

FRENCH ATTACK IB BROKEN

; ; "The French agaia yeeterday made

a hard attempt to capture the hill wesf

of tannhelm, .aa. important' poslUon.

Their attack broke under our fire. " The

hill remains oure la. sgdt f their strong

effort vVv'4's "V -v-: '-; ..

EASTERN' SJTUATIOlT'DEVEWFS

-rii: tae at. the sltostljn is un-

ahanged.. Our attacka are developing

slowly.- ta apiEe ..f the 'unfavorable

weather, though . the ' movameat , of

troop is hampered by . tha ' heavy

snows.': , . ;. y; 4

JtUSSXAN BASS OCCUPIES

; xne 7 Turaiaa official buuetla says

that the Ottoman army ha ooouplad

Urn ml h, aa important Russian base la

FersUa Armaala. ;. ' ' ):;'

Special Federal Court Declarer

Initiative Measure Adopted In

November Unconstitutional

lAsseeUted Frees ay rederal Wireless)

, BAN FRANCISCO, January . A

special eourV .presided vver by .three

federal circuit court judge, which has

beea la session here to hear the avi

deuce and arguments touching tha coa-

stitutioaallty of the AnU-aliea Zaw of

Arlaona, yesterday rendered. a decision

declaring the legislation unconstitution

al and yoid. ,

i The Arlsona lar wu adopted It U

November election aa aa inltlatlv

measure and we promulgated early la

December by Governor Hunt, to go into

effect on January, I, over the proteat

of tha state department, which request

ed a tatpansloa af tha law vattt it

could be luveetigated,' formal protest

against It having been lodged at Wash

ington by tha representatives of Great

Britain and'Ital. ;V' i.V.i'

. The law made it. Illegal to employ

more than twenty pr cent of. aliens

on any contract within the State. .Tha

court ruled that thia violated the pro

visions of the Fourteenth Amendment

of the Constitutloa.;. , " ' :

PILOT EVADES BREMEN

' ON ACCOUNT OF MINES

(AiMllui Press br rederal Wireless)

ESBJERO, Denmark, JaaUary f De

claring that ha-would not risk attempt

ing to Pilot the ahlp through the mine

fields protecting the entrance to Bremen

harbor, the pilot brought, tit Amerlcaa

steamer uaroiya into, por aerf yester

day. The steamer la -carrying cotton

for German mills. The cargo probably

Will be unloaded here and transshipped

Warship of .Great Britain Doing Scptit Duty In

ITALIANS ORDERED TO REPORT FOR DUTY

ENEVAnSwhzerlandJan

W ;xhte city

dered :, to report to their consulate for a medical iex

amiriatiori to d their fitness for the field. It

is likely- a similar order has Qoricout fromltdlian con

sulates in all S wiss tbwnsCwhere there are many Italians.

BERLIN FORBIDS

Ban Put Upon Practice of Ger

fman troops Fraternizing With

Sqldieri .of Enemy ";

(AsMdstea ptes ar rederal WUeleta)

BERLnf, January 8. An order was

issued jrom; tha headquarter of tha

general staff last night, addressed to

all the troops in the held, which strictly

forbids any further fraternising oa the

part of -the Qermaa ' troops and tae

troops of the' enemy In the Held. Re

port which, have reached headquarter

era to r the 1 effect , that where the

trenche. parallel , each other closely

along the Belgian and prench front ta

soldier ' la thd opposite trenches have

frequently entered into 'formal truces

for' the trading . of supplies and for

friendly visits back and forth across the

disputed ground;"' ,' '

NAVY DEPARTMENT ORDERS

AFFECT., THREE OFFICERS

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AmoUU4 r hr Peatrsl Wlreliie)

SAN FRANCISCO, January 8. Or

ders froM the navy ; department re

ceived here yeatarday , detach Iieut.

'Leo Sahm front the South Dakota and

aaaiga him to. statloa at Mare Islald.

Pay Inspectof . George Brown is or

dered to . the-Asiatic station n deet

paymaster, affective Msrch 1. He if

to be relieved here by Pi y Inspector

R. r. Duboia,v ,

4, ,,. aapaajsaaaaeaea J

KlfH

(ASSOCIATED PRESS BT FEDERAL WIRELESS)

PONTIFF DECEIVES IVAR

REFUGEES IN AUDIENCE

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Hi ) v.- '

Six Hundred 'Members of Catho

lic Orders Tell of Turkish

Barbarities

( associated rrees by reenl Wireless.)

ROME, January 8. War refugees

from Aaia Minor, consisting of upwards

of six hundred member qf the' Francis

can, Benedictine, Dominican, ; Pssslon

ist, Christian Brothers and other orders,

who uad beea' expelled from Syria and

Palestine by the Turk, were received

la audience by the Pope yesterday, who

heard their varloua stories of . escape

from ever threatening danger from sol

diery and populace after the declara

tion of the Holy War. h

The official orders from the Turkish

governor were that the live of the

monk were to be spared, but that they

should be banished and their' property

confiscated. . V' '- ,' , ''

Despite these orders, A number of

the brothers were killed. Their con

vent, monasteries and other buildings

were seized and turned into barrack

for the Turkish levies. 'l ,

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BIG COLLIER PROMETHEUS

PASSES THROUGH CANAL

(AmocUUI PreM by rederU Wtrelaes.T

PANAMA, January , 8. Tha largest

vessel to make the passage of the canal

passed , through without difficulty pes.

terday, this being the United States col

lier Prometheus, of. 12,680 tou. , It

channel 1 now la tha best of condition

it haa been since the slide of October

18 and an average of six ship a day

are going through the lock. r

Waters of North Sea

-

AMEHi.HS

Gun and Ammunition Makers

Contradict Ambassador's

Charges of Supplying Allies

. (Associate' Press ? rerl Wlretoea) -WASKINOTON,

January 7. Aa em

phatic denial is mad hy Aaerlcaa fun

and ammunition Arm to tha charge

of Count voa Bernatorff, German am

bassador, that the Remington and Win

chester companies are supplying tha Al

lies with 80,000 so-called riot-guns, 8,.

000,000 buckshot cartridge and t.OOO,

000 dum dum bullets.

Secretary of State Bryan today trans

mitted the eOmpanlea' denial.

The Winchester company declare

that it made no such munitions for

anybody. The Remington - , company

says that It mad 117,000 soft-nosed

bullet cartridges for game-shooting

alone and that this munition la not suit

able for aay military ride. It aaya that

100,000 of these cartridges, were sold,

of which 900 went to Canada and 800

to British East Africa.' The remainder

were sold la small lots to American

buyers. The company la willing to sup

ply the name of all the buyer.

,

AMERICAN SUBMARINES '

BEGIN PRACTISE CRUISE

(AueetaU Press V Peters! Wireless)

COLON, January The natal ten

der Severn and tha submarine of the 0

group left yesterday for Ohirlqul La

goon for target practice,

DENY BERriSTOllFF

- k, .

CduntOkuma

Still Retains

Japanese Minister Strengthens

: Cabinet For Election By ln

eluding Hironaka Kono

New, Secretary Has. Had Sena

tionat Political Career and Is '

.-;;,Powerful Among People'

(aateefsM Prns ky FeierU Wtrelen)

TJBilO, January, Premier, Count

Okuma, wheaa government la fac

ing tha general elections la March, call

ed aa 4 result of ths defeat of the cabi

net in the diet last month on the quea

tloa, of the addition of two more dl vi

sions ta the army, has added greatly

t the popular strengtk of his cabinet

by Including la It Hironaka Kono, who

has accepted the portfolio of minister

of agriculture and commerce. .

KONO STRONO POLITICIAN -'

Mr, Kono la one of the strongest

politicians of Japan, being tha leader

of tha Doshi-ksl party, the strength of

which he probably will bring to the

Okuma standard. He haa been a mem

ber " of the Japaaase parliament since

representative government waa estab

lished, his service in tha. diet belnj

interrupted only by varloua terms in

Jail for political offenses. Ho waa one

of the ploneera of the liberal party,

having Joined, the democrstio movement

launched by Count Itagakl,' coming into

Collision with tha authorities ea several

occasions. .

'l POPUIAR WITH PEOPLE

He waa tha leader f the Fukaahlma

trou'bla. and spent several ' year in

prlsoA aa a conaeq.uenca. Jli latest at

test was aa leader of IheV ' and oeace

plottVt Hlbaya Park, f Wlug, the

aauouacement of the terms uiapac

4tatyeouclui4, JvS Runnle'Jkt lrt

mouuu i m , aaa racaa . mat several

times -for aadittoq. tuthas emerged

from- each troabla stronger la the pop

alar.reaariL. r '

.' OKUMA STILL PREMIER

Ho takea the place In the cabinet

held by Baron Our a, who now becdme

minister of tha interior, which port

folio had beta held by Premier Oknma

Tha premier resigns this portfolio, re

taining la the 'cabinet only hi premier.

chip. ' . . '

SUPPLIES EflRQUTE

ii

Steamer Mongolia Carrying Food,

Clothing. Etc For Russian De

tention Camps in Siberia

, (lUtoeiaua Press by Peserai Wtrelaee.)

1 SdN FRANCISCO, January I. The

steamship Mongolia, which sails for the

Orient, Via Honolulu," ta Saturday, will

carry $9000 worth of food, clothing and

medical . supplies to ha , distributed

among the German and Austrian prison

er of war la the various Siberian de

tention camp eetabllahed by tha stua-

' ' The money used for the purchase of

these supplies waa collected here

through the Red Cross, many reports

having beea received that the prisoners

of Russia la Siberia are ia aede af some

of the comforts which the RuaaUa gov

ernment does not supply.

; The goods will be taken by the Moai

folia to Shanghai, there transshipped

to Vladivostok, from whence they, will

be- distributed through the various

American missions in lunar Siberia.

IMMIGRATION BILL FAVORS

BELGIAN AGRICULTURISTS

, (AaaecUUd Press by Peeeral Wtraleii)

WASHINGTON, January B. The

Immigration BUI, aa amended la the

senate to exclude from the provisions

of the literacy test clause and the as

sisted Immigration clause Belgian agri

culturists entering the United States in

good faith to become farmers, wu

voted upon la the house yesterday.

Tha house voted to disagree with the

senate amendment and the bill now

goes into conference.

Premiersliip

TO WAR PniSONERS

LIKE A HUGE

TIDAL VJAVE

Prime Interest In War. At Present '

Centers In Three Great Move- , :

ments On Par , of Russia '

While Holding . Poland Secure

asMaeMessesw ... 1 1 I '

MONSTER ARMY POURS V

-JNT0 HUNGARIAN ZONE

Simultaneously Huge Forces Are

Sweeping Towards Budapest

Harrying German-Led Turks .

,and Advancing Upon Cracow

,(AiaeeUte4 Press WTederal Wlralese)

LONDON, January . The recent

decisive Victory of the forces of

the Car la the Traaacaucaaiana - "

over the German led Turkish force la

expected, to change; completely the

trend of events so far as the Near East

la concerned, while the rather remote

prospect of any attempted descent upon

Egypt is bow considered si completely '.

removed; 2 i '- '-' ') '-i-;',

TURRET IS ON THE DEFENSTVB

.- It is generally accepted that from ' '

now on until the end of the war Turkey

will have to flght a defensive campaign,

with ; Russia, ' invading her Armenian ' '

provinces,; the "I Anglo-Indiaa .force

threatening her , Syrian' aud Arabiaa

coasts and the gates of the Marmora

always to be held against; the lleets or

fte AJlioa.: V";v7 ' :j' --.

CZAR'S LEGIONS SWEEP ONWARD '

, The prime. Interest la the war at

present Is centered ia the onward sweep ''

of the Csar'a legions toward Transyl

vania for the invasion of Hungary f rout

the east, the advance ef the Russians

through the ' Carpathian to threaten

Budapest from the north and the steady

advance of the Western Oattda eorpe

from Poland against Cracow, regarded

aa the key to Eastera Germany. .

GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS .

These three great movements oa Rus

sia 'a part, while holding hack the forces

of the Kaiser la Poland and occupying

German territory la East Prussia, art '

regarded aa the great achievements of

tha war to date, overahBdowina any

thing that haa beea accomplished la the

Western theater.

FEW CHANGES. IN SITUATION ;

According to the official despatches :

from Pstrogrsd yesterday there were

few changea In the general altuation.

The Russlana eaptured a aumkar of Aua- '.,

trian trenches at Xechacsew, before '

Rlelce, and held their recent gain else

where In Poland. - .: , ; ',

BRITISH ARMY NOW IMMENSE :

Regarding the general aituatioa la .

Franco and Flanders, a British military '

observer on the Continent writes: v t

'The original small British expedi-

tlonary force haa now developed lute a

great army and la ateadily Increasing:

This' has Insured that the war struggle '

ia entering Into k fourth phase. , The

initiative haa now deftniUly passed lnte

the Allies' hands. : - ;-,

ALLIES' GAINS ARE MARKED ;

"The German offensive operations

are founded on the military axiom tha

the weaker rorce is harder pressed and ;

the more persistently , should it attack.

Nevertheless, the Alilas' galna are bow :

really marked. ,If they continuvthf

Oermaa private must gradually reallsf ,

that his role is merely to' malatala

ground already won. When be sees that

even this limited object la not obtained,

the morale of tha Oermaa armies must

insvltably be affected."

FORMIDABLE WAS TORPEDOED

larquia Crew announced today that

the British admiralty Is convinced that

a submarine torpedoed the 15,000-ton

British battleship Formidable twicer

ARMY TRANSPORT BUFORD

CLEARS PANAMA WATERWAY

(Auociated Preis by PeSerai Wireless.)

COLON, January 8. Ths army trans;

port Buford, carrying troops from Baa

Francisco, made the paaaaga through

tha canal yesterday and Bailed for New

York. . Thia is the first troopship to use

the canal. ' " i. ,

.... , 4.iM.k U S-J

to tha Bremen coaulgaeo. . T, '

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