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Show Our Sword Will Force Peace, Kaiser Says on Birthday Emperor Sends Message From Army Headquarters to Berlin in Reply to Congratulations. By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE. BERLIN, Jan. 27. "Our Sword will force peace." This was the keynote of a message sent by Emperor William today from army headquarters to the Berlin Academy of Science in expressing his thanks for congratulations on his fifty-eighth birthday anniversary. "The unshakable will to victory of the German people," says the kaiser s message, who xvrji fJJi are prepared for every sac- jf1' rifice of blood and treasure, if i fjss willi 1 trust God, preserve fVt W the fatherland from the V '4 contemplated by its in f A jSuIji, 11 W'V enemies, and will force, by I sword, the peace neces- J ' iSfj'" V 41 sary for the blessed develop- C fv&7$ty ment of the people." 5-. A1l Germany celebrated "f? V, tbe monarch's birthday to- j-riL day' A simPle celebration grZ- l X took place at army he&d- L o( quarters attended by the ff C A kaiserine, Emperor Charles 1' t't SPV' of Austria-Hungary, Prince H t'S Henry f Prussia' the Pv Sh,5 j'lr tjfisX4 kaiser's brother, . Prince i; , Waldemar, Field Marshal VV von Hindeilburg'. General If M St LUdenl0rf 0ther f 1 f - ' f JBiiax7 and naval chiefs. J(tL" , J I According to an old , .jl j custom, the emperor issued V-, ' ' S-M I an order 01 general am- jv Jf J nesty. Schools, high schools mvSL Xs v y and universities throughout CJT . vs the empire celebrated the "" day with impressive services. "The emperor's birthday," says the Overseas News agency, "was celebrated in a dignified fashion appropriate to the particular circumstances of the war." BRITISH ATTACK ON S0MME MARKS KAISER'S BIRTHDAY LOXDOX, Jan. 27, S:27 p. m. Thel British army, says a Reuter's correspondent at Britis"h headquarters head-quarters in France, shared the emperor's .birthday in the Somme area in characteristic fashion. j "While the frozen snow," says the correspondent, ' was beginning to glisten glis-ten like crystals in the broadening dawn, the British guns thundered out a message, mes-sage, not of greeting, but of death. A whirlwind bombardment rolled shrilly down the long northern and eastern lines. The troops suddenly sprang from the British trenches and" went across 'Xo Man's Land' with that deliberate precision which has formed such a feature fea-ture of these recent operations. "The enemy seems to have made but a poor fight of it. Although it is too early yet to get full details of the affair', af-fair', heavy losses were inflicted on the enemy and about ooO of them surrendered surren-dered to the British. It is understood the British casualties were very light. The machine gun fire of the enemy was kept under control well by the British gunners. "While the general features of the attack were similar to several recent operations, much gratification was expressed ex-pressed by officers at the evidence of spirit bv the troops, who were unaffected unaf-fected by the terribly severe frost. 'Manv happy returns of the day' has been the trench slogan all along the British front." The official statement says: A successful operation was carried car-ried out bv our troops on the Somme battlefield early this morning in the neighborhood of Le Translov. All of the objectives attacke'd were gained and a commanding portion por-tion of the enemy's position was captured. We have taken over 3o0 prisoners, including six officers. Vigorous counter-attacks were made by the enemy during the day to regain lost ground. These were all driven back by our fire with heavy losses. Our total casualties were very slight. The enemy's positions were . raided by us at daylipht this morning morn-ing northeast of Neuville St. Vaast. Prisoners were secured and dugouts containing some fifty Germans were destroyed. We had no casualties. Enemy trenches were also entered last night by one of our patrols northeast of Vermelles and a number num-ber of casualties inflicted on the hostile garrison. We bombarded the enemy's positions posi-tions today in the neighborhood of Serre (Somme front) and gTeatly damaged his defenses. North of Htilluch a body of enemy infantry was caught by our artillery in the open and suffered many casualties. There was considerable artillcrv activity on both sides in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of Armentieres and Ypres. Hostile aircraft showed less enterprise en-terprise yesterday. Much useful work was done by our aeroplanes and two enemv machines were destroyed. de-stroyed. Another enemy machine was forced to land in a damaged condition. Two of our machines are missing. Of the enemy's machines ma-chines destroyed since the 23rd six fell on our side of the line. WILLIAM THANKS HIS MEN FIGHTING IN EAST AFRICA LONDON, Jan. 27, 9:15 a. m. The emperor of Germany, on the occasion oc-casion of his birthday today, according ac-cording to an official statement issued in Berlin and transmitted by Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent, sent the following order to Dr. Solf, the colonial secretary: "For thirty months the colonial troops in East Africa, cut off from all regular communication with home, have been fighting uninterruptedly against an enemy far superior in numbers and weapons. Fichting in a tropical climate cli-mate and equipped only sith the most simple means, the colonial troops under their brave commanders have performed per-formed deeds which are worthy to rank (Continued on Page Three.) . Our Sword Will Force Peace, Kaiser Declares (Continued from Page One.) beside the achievements of the- forces at home. "Under the most difficult conditions imaginable, they have beaten in numerous numer-ous battles and actions English, Belgian Bel-gian and Portuguese forces, placed in the field against the colonies and for a long time carried war into the enemy country. In the further course of the fighting they have relinquished to overwhelming superiority German soil, only after the most stubborn resistance, PRESIDENT WILSON CABLES FELICITATIONS TO KAISER WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. President Pres-ident Wilson today cabled Emperor Em-peror William formal congrat-j congrat-j ulations on the fifty-eighth anniversary an-niversary of his birth, as is the custom on the birthdays of all foreign sovereigns. sover-eigns. Secretary Lansing and his three chief assistants left their congratulations at the German embassy. The state department did not make public the text of the president's congratulations con-gratulations to the emperor. It has and today they protect the German flag in East Africa. "Whatever fate the Lord God may have in store for. the small band of heroes, the fatherland remembers with profound consciousness the sons fighting fight-ing in distant Africa. I declare my imperial im-perial thanks and my high recognition of the troops for their heroic perseverance persever-ance in unequal battle. I charge you to communicate this order to my colonial troops as soon as possible." adopted the policy of not making public pub-lic such messages during the war. BERLIN, Jan. 27, bv wireless to Tuckeiton, N. J. The birthday of Emperor Em-peror William was observed today with manifestations in keeping with war conditions. con-ditions. The empress and Prince Henry of Prussia and his eldest son, Prince "Wal-demar, "Wal-demar, attended the celebration at German Ger-man great headquarters. The emperor issued an order of. general gen-eral amnesty. Celebrations were held in all tho schouls, high schools and universities. |