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A despatch from London says:â€" Britain is preparing to settle down to period of war life approximating he conditions that have existed for y long in Germany. After New ear's there will be war bread, re- stricted travelling facilities and sugar GREEK GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS ENTENTE ALLEES’ ULTIMMUM The demands of the Entente allies presented to the Greek Government calls for all Greek troops to be with- A Reuter despatch from Copenhagen to London says that the Government of Schleswig, Prussia, has proclaimed civil conscription of school boys. They will be used particularly for railroad work and the? loading and unloading of trucks, of which there is a shortage. A despatch from London says: The Greek Government has accepted the ultimatum presented by the Entcnte ames, says a despatch from Athens to the Central News Agency. A (lespatch from_ Paris says:â€"â€"The French troops in an advance on Friday north of Douaumont and between the Mouse and Woevre Rivers captured more than 7.500 prisoners and several heavy guns, according to the French official communication issued, Friday evening. The advance was over a front of ten kilometres and a depth of three kilometres. The statement says: “After several days of artillery preparation we attacked the enemy to the north of Douaumont, betWeen the Meuse and the Woevre, on a front of more than ten kilometres. The at- tack started at 10 o’clock. The enemy’s front broke down everywhere to a depth of about three kilometres. “We have taken a great many pris- oners, whose exact number has not yet been determined. Seven thousand five hundred of them, including two of- ficers, already have been passed through our commandants’ posts. “N othwithstanding unfavorable wea- ther conditions,- our aviators took a brilliant part in the fighting. Our suc- cess is complete. The troops have given vent to great endiusimm. Our losses are slight.” SCHOOL BOYS CALLED OUT IN A PRUSSIAN PROVINCE FREFéEEâ€"H WWW AQERE’EANY WAN“ WEST CGR’EPLE’E‘E: CflNFERENEE E‘EELB “Besides numerous trenches we cap- tured the villages of Vacherauville and Louvemont, the farms of Chambrettes and, the fortified works of Hardaumont and Bezon-Vaux. “We have taken or destréyed numâ€" erous pieces of heavy and field artil- lery, and also a considerable quantity of material. Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced in the House of Commons on Thursday afternoon that the daily average expenditure of Great Britain in the war had arisen to £5,â€" 710,000. He said the actual expendi- ture had exceeded the estimate owing; to the increase in munitions and addi- tional loans to Great Britain’s allies and to her Dominions. He said that no proposals for peace had yet been received by the British Government from the Central Powers. He added that the Entente allies re- quired adequate reparation for the past, and adequate security for the future. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said: “Financially we cannot hope to go on indefinitely on the present scale, but we can go on long enough to make sure that it will not be from financial causes if we fail to secure victory.” Advance North of Douaumont on Six-Mile Front t0 Depth of Two Miles. The Chancellor said the total amount of votes of credit since the outbreak of €33? $23,9899090 A DAY All King Constantine's Troops Must Be Withdrawn From Thes- saly and Only Few Lef t in Peloponnesus. tual Expenditure Has Exceedgd Estimate, Bonar Law Statesâ€" Mentions Allied Peace Terms. Britain Will 81th Fwd Like Germany ‘a’cch l‘v’fiUfil’fifiNS AH rom ondon say First Step Necessary to Accelerate Production of Merchant Vessels. A desfiatch from London says : The Clyde Shipbuilders' Federation re- spondingto the request of the Board of Trade to consider the steps necesâ€" sary to accelerate the production of merchant vessels declares that the first essential step is the immediate total prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquor applied to all classes. The meeting considered the Government should require the nation to submit to the sacrifice. allowances. The new orders will have a beneficial effect on the country’s finâ€" ances, reducing imports considerably and thus benefiting exchange. From the steps already taken it is evident the new Government contemplates drastic changes that are bound to get the support of the people. get estimate of the financial year was exceeded by £350,000.000. Loans to al- Ued governments amounted to 35400,- 000 daily. A despatch from London says: A fog which settled over London on Satâ€" urday is described as being the most dense in fifty years. From early morning until a late hour London was a city of perpetual night. The incon- venience was greatest in the evening owing to the light restrictions. 0m- nibuses stopped gunning and taxi cabs disappeared from the streets. People on the streets carried torches. In the Strand torches were lighted and sol- diers new to the Metropolis had to be led about like blind men. drawn from Thessaly, and only a cer- tain number of soldiers are to be con- centrated in Peloponnesus. The demands for reparation for the events of Dec. 1 and 2. when fighting took place between Entente landing forces and Greek troops, are to be formulated later. “Germany does not want a cessaâ€" tion of fighting, but merely a confer- ence at which all the belligerents shall openly state their peace proposals. A conference at The Hague about Janu- ary 15 is suggested. While the con- ference is in session all the belliger- ents will be allowed to continue mili- tary operations.” Teleéraphing' to London from Copenhagen the correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company quotes the Frankfurter Zeitung as saying: MAKE PROHIBITION the war was £3,852,000,000, including $32,000,000 for extra administration expenses. is siill the policy and still the deter- mination of his Majesty’s Govern- ment." Mr. Law said that, assuming the rate of experditure was the same as at present, the vote would carry them un- til Feb. 24. The total for the) financial year would be £1,950.000,000. The budâ€" Mr. Law said the Government had taken “such actions as it considered necessary” regarding Capt. Blaikie, who was taken prisoner by the crew of a German submarine. LONDON EXPERIENCES DENSEST FOG IN YEARS. At Which All Belligerents Shall Openly State Peace Proposals. “In moving the last vote of credit Mr. Asquith USed the words: ‘They (the allies) require that there shall be adequate security for the future.’ That D WAFES HNEREASE ferring to the peace proposals of Central Powers, Mr. Bonar Law NATIONAL MEASURE NEW FRENCH CEEEEF {3m :3 Em ENfiLISEI l A despatch from New York says: Vigorous expressions of indignation were voiced at a great mass meeting held here on Friday night to protest against the “enslavement of Belgians" by the German Government. The de- portation of the Belgian populaqe was condemned in letters received from Theodore Roosevelt, Archbishop Ire- ‘la-nd, Joseph H. Choate, and other pro- minent men. Equally forceful were addresses delivered by Elihu Root, James M. Beck, former Assistant At- torney-General of the United States; Alton B. Parker, and Rev. Wm. T. Manning, rector of Trinity Church, iwho presided. tor of War, aand General Nivelle as ,successor to Jofr‘re as commanderâ€"in- lchief of the western front. All the mewspapers print photographs of Gen- eral Nivelle under the title of “One of the Wat’s Revelations." Long bio~ graphies are also. published recalling the general’s brilliant sh "e in re- capturing Forts Douaumont and Vaux on the Verdun front. The papers also lsay that the fact that General Nivelle lis half Englishâ€"his mother having lbelonged to a well known Kentish mili- tary familyâ€"makes his appointment particularly acceptable across the Channel. - I L Urge The Government to Act E Against the Enslavement of the Belgians. Gen. Jofi're’s Successor Related Aeroplams Dest Through Mother to British Military Family. A despatch from Paris says: The A AMMHL (MM 1 new Cabinet‘arouses but moderate enthusiasm in the press. The papers point out that seven Ministers and two Under-Secretaries belong to the preceding administration so that the change is not so radical as might be expected. At the same time the ap- pearance of M. Claveille and Loucheur as technical experts is welcomed. The most popular features of the reorganization are the appointments of General Hubert Lyautey, as Minis- Resolutions were adopted urging the “Government of the United States to protest with all its force and earnestness against these outrages; to emphasize the detestation with which the American people regard these abuses, and to request the Ger- man Government in the name of all neutrals to cease its policy of expatâ€" riation and slavery,” and pledging “our utmost support to the Adminis- tration in whatever way it may con- clude to act.” Jules Cambon continues in his post as General Secretary of the Foreign Office. ‘ o _ _. H.“ .0 FRANCE T8 DESCARD U. S. CITHZENS VOECE PRGTEST Government in Favor of Total Suppression of Its Con- sumption. A despatch from Paris says: Total prohibition throughout France of the consumption of such alcoholic bever- ages as whiskies, brandies and liqueurs has been decided on by the Government. This is shown by the text in the Journal Official on Thurs- day of Premier Briand‘s declaration on Wednesday before the Chamber of Deputies on the subject. The Pre- mier said: ’lIhe use of the term alcohol in this connection is understood in France not to include wines or beer. A despaich from Berlin says: Owing to the steady advance in the price of horse meat 9. maximum price of 30 cents a peund for the best cuts, liver and sausage, has been fixed by the au- thoritjies. “The Government wlll~ ask you to give it the faculty of solving by de- crees all questions of interest in re- gard to the national defences which the laws are too slow to regulate. A particularly grave question which can be regulated only in war time, on the solution of which involves the Life of the country and its salvation, is the total suppression of the consumption of alcohol." The Premier’s remarks were greet- ed with loud applause from many of the benches. Deputy Mayeras inter- jected: “In the army, also?" “Yes, in the entire country," said the Premier. ’ HORSE MEAT AND LIVER 39 CENTS A POUND ALCGHGW DRHNKS Sobialist Party Now in Open :Berlin Paper Hostfiity to the Hohenzollern S 000,000 War Party. La nesday on Sunday within thret Tigris ‘oppo “During vantage sec the previou proved," t1 CEVEL WAR NEAR WE fiESPERATE A despatch from London says :~â€" Baron Devonport, speaking for the first time as Food Controller in the House of Lords on Thursday, said the solution of the food question resolved itself into'one of a system of ration- ing. It was not enough to maintain the food supplies, but it was over- whelmingly essential that they be dis- tributed fairly. A despatch from London says :â€" That Germany is threatened with civil war and that the great Socialist party is no longer concealing its dissension to the Prussian war leaders, is the real Six-Hundred-Foot Freighters To Be Built at Port Arthur. A despatch from Fort William says: Announcement is made by officials of the Western Drydock and Shipbuild- ing Company that the concern has closed contracts for the construction of eight new steamers. Six of these will be ocean-going and the other two will be GOO-foot freighters for the Great Lakes. The capacity of the plant will be doubled. About six hun- dred tons of steel has arrived, and work on two steamers will commence A despatch from Madrid says: Ale- jandro Lerroux, leader of the Radical party in the Chamber of Deputies, has introduced a bill prohibiting Spanish subjects and vessels from provisioning German submarines in any way. BREAEN’S FWD CQNTRMLER LAYS WWN HHS PROGRAMME explanation for the peace proposals, is the statement that is going the rounds of the press of London on Thursday. Berlin have assumed a dangerous as- pect. The people, weary of the short- age of food at home and the distress of the men in the field, with the ma- terial costs of war piling mountain- high, and with no indications of any but a futile future struggle, are open- ly rebellious, and that the Kaiser has for many days been watching for a reasonably turn of events which Would act as a pretext for a plausible proâ€" position for peace. at once. The plant will employ be~ tween 1,000 and 1,500 men for the next three years. SPAIN PROHIBITS SUBJECTS FROM FEEDING FOE SUBS. The Food Controller said his first duty would be to ascertain the quantiâ€" ty of food stocks available and the stocks visible. There were many u‘n- patriotic people, he said, trying to get hold of supplies in excess of their wants. - 1 “My remedy," said Baron Devon- The Times says that particularly during the past month conditions in The Times says also that the Ger- man Government has been discourag- ed recently by the confirmation of re- ports that Britain was prepared for 1917 to put into the field three times as many guns and shells as Germany has been able to command even in the flush days of 1914. “One nation may.,declare war, but it takes more than one to declare peace,” is a slogan that is appearing CONTRACTS PLACED FOR EIGHT STEAMERS. i-n thé press and is being quickly seiz- by the London public. Will Adjust Supplies so That Everybody Will Have an Equal Chance of Getting a Fair Share. ltl patch atch from London says: The rmy on the Tigris front, sumed the offensive on Wed- "ws made a further advance. statement given out here y says the British are now teeâ€"quarters of a mile of the ‘posite Kut-el-Amara. g‘ Thursday the initial ad- secured by the operations of ous night was steadily im- the statement says, “our DUE stroy W YE the Enemy Pontoons Which Were Being Towed Up the Riv_er. EWQSE??? EB BANKS (BF “During Thursday night our aero- planes, flying by moonlight, success- fully Iattacked pontoon bridges on the Tigris, which the enemy had removed from their sites and was towing upâ€" stream. The material was broken up and scattered.” WE SEMEAN POTAW FAILURE A despatch from Berlin sayszâ€"The food plans for the current food year have been badly wrecked by the almost complete failure of the potato crop, of which the figures are now available. According to The Tageblatt, only 21,- 000,000 tons were harvested this year, against 51,000,000 last year. This might have proved almost disastrous, particularly as the potato crop was not only quantitatively but also qualita- tively a failure, and as a result only one-third as many potatoes are avail- able for the current food year as dur- the one ended last June. New plans have been made by Count Batocki for pulling through until next summer. The potato ration after January 1 will be three-quarters of a pound per capita per diem, and potato flour will no longer be an ingredient of the legal war bread, rye being used in place of the missing potatoes. port, “will be to adjust the supplies coming into the country so that every- body will have an equal chance of get- ting a fair shareâ€"no more and no less. On account of many people buying up supplies sugar cannot be got at all. A remedy must be found for that. Pos- sibly the only way will be by a system of rationing.” It was obvious, Baron Devonport added, that a general diminution in the‘ consumption of staple food was neees-‘ sai'y. At present this diminution A despatch to the Amsterdam Tele- graaf from Rotterdam says the Ger- man steamer Pylos, which has been in Rotterdam Harbor since the out. break of the. war, was getting ready to leave. for Germany, when a search by the river police revealed the fact that she was stocked with great quan- tities of foodstuffs and other goods, the export of which is forbidden. The correspondent adds that the vessel will not leave Rotterdam for the preâ€" sent. consumption of staple food was neces-i sal'y. At present this diminution' could only be brought about by volum: tary abstinence, but if voluntary ab-I stinence was not successfu1 it would be necessary to make abstinence compul-I sol‘y. War Makes Heavy Im'oads on the Peerage of Europe. A special cable to The New York World from London, says: The issue of Debrett’s Peerage for 1917 states that the roll of honor from families usually noticed in that volume new numbers 1,450 persons who have been killed in action or have died of wounds. The list includes one member of the Royal family, fourteen Peers, twenty one Baronets, nine Knights, nine mem- bers of Parliament, 290 Knights Bachelor, 114 sons of Peers, 110 sons of Baronets, and 150 sons of Knights. GERMAN PRINCE, DIES 0N RUSSIAN FRONT. READY TO MAKE DASH FROM ROTTERDAM. A despatch from Berlin says: Prince Henry of Reuss, was kill- ed in battle on November 29th, on the Russian front, according to the Over- seas News Agency. Prince Henry was 24 years old and a lieutenant in a Prussian cavalry regiment. MANY NOTABLES KILLED n Paper Says Crop is 30,- 000,000 Tons Short of Last Year. vancing northwards by both the Hai River and the Brit- st being within three-quar- mile_ of the Tigris south of F "FEE T16R15