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WEDNESDAY. JULY 5, 1916.
THE
TO-DAY'S
THE CHINA MAIL.
WAR.
THE FRENCH REPORTS.
CAPTURE OF HERBECOURT.
TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
THE BRITISH OFFENSIVE.
ANEMY HEAVILY" REINFORCED OFFERS STUBBORN
RESISTANCE.
A BRILLIANT ENGAGEMENTA
PARIS, July 3.
An official communigud states:-South
LATEST EDITION.
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FUNERAL OF YUAN SHIH-KAI
AB IMPRESSIVE CEREMONT-AND
PROCESSION:
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of the Somma the struggle was cores tinued last evening and an night with complete success for us. We completely | (Reuter's Service to the China Mall) with the removal of the remains of Tusi
occupied two lines of trenches, in the Germa second line position on a front of more than dva kilometres from Bois de Marentcourt to the immediate ap- proaches of Assevillers, between which in the course of a brilliant engagement we carried the village of Herbecour which the enemy had organised defor SIX ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED.|sively. The northern and western oat-
VERDUN.
PARIS, July 4
A communiqué says Six enemy attacks north-west of the Toscos, July 1. Thiaumont work were repuloc" by
4.20 p.m.
curtain fire and ride fire with heavy General Sir Douglas Haig reports loss. that the enemy. heavily re-inforced from other parts of the line, continues everywhere to resist most stubbornly.
There was heavy fighting during the night in the vicinity of La Roselle anl the enemy recaptured a mall portion of the dofonce south of the village.
MORE INCIDENTS OF THE FIGHTING.
“ENEMY, VILLAGES A HONEYCOMB OF CATACOMBŠ.
Losts, July 4 Isis stated that in i battle of the war has the proportion of slight Masunities heen so high.
This is not heedantal, but the consequence of the deliberate and methorlieni procedure of the Allies.
Despite the wupleteness of the artillery preparation, stretches ni wire miraculously escaped desimie- tion and provat very costly to the assailants.
RUMANIA SEIZING AUSTRIAN ROLLING STOCK,
Buzbarest, July 4, The Government is seizing a quantity
of Austro-Hungarian rolling stock and ammunition sont inte Rumania, from Tukorina in order to escape capture by
the Russians.
The Government has prohibited the exportation of numerous products to Turkey, while there is total prohibition of export to Bulgaria.":
skirtoi Assevillers are in our bands.
We progressed north of Entrees and captured more prisoners and heavy guns the total of which is 'not yet ascertain-
ble
We identified 39. German battalions on the French attacking frons, of which, according to prisoners, 31 suffered heavy losses and were completely disorganised
BRILLIANT STORMING OF ASSEVILLERS.
Parus, July 4 infantry action yesterday porth of the A communiqué states There was no
Somme, where the situation ed. The French are continuing their
SUCCESSES,
1)
unchang
SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S
LATEST REPORT.
PRISONERS EXCEED 8,000.
TORRENTIAL RAINS.
LONDON, July 4, 8.10 p. General Sir Douglas Enig to-night reports that sorrential mine have interfered somewhat with the offen- Rive.
Shih-kai begun at 6 a'clock this morning, PREVENTION
OF
when, after President Li Yuan-bung had tendered his condolence, the chief mourn-
ar, Tuar Koting, announced the removal SORE FEET
of the coin,which was carried out of
the Huai-jan Hall and placed on a amáli bier carried by thirty two besten
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feanwhile the Chief Mourner placed the tablet of the decessed on a sedan. shair while servants removed the scrolls: [banner robes, decorations and wreathu,
from the Hall and also placed them Inf sedsa-chairs.
The coffin was carried car the small hier to the Esikus Meri, where' the Pre- sident bowed as it passed and then returned to his office.
The octin was then transferred to a largs biar covered with a red silk canopy The situation south of the Aner After the cofin-came a number of lady
and eurried by eighty boscura,
is unchanged.
entrance to the Presidential "quarters, a procession was formed and the Secretary. of State, representative of the Ching. beenhouse, the members of the Cabinet and
The number of prisoners exceeds 5000.
Today's operationia have chiefly minor local enterprises with
South of the Somme, east of Mereana view to retaining our gains. court Wood, the French cuptured Chapitre Wood and the village of
Fouillere, and Assevilens, the centre of a
powerful defensive organisation
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The communique continues:Wo con- quered south of Asserillers the second NO SUBSTITUTE FOR JUTE SACKS. German position to the vicinity of
LONDON, Júly: 4:
The Bremon Nachrichten states that the German experts have abandoned their attempts to produce, substitutes for jute sacks,
Estroes, and passed beyond the second! position. In the afternoon we captured Buscourt, Eat Feuillere au Flancourt. Here the ground won reaches to a depth ef fire kilometres.
Enemy, reinforcements reported in the region of Belloge Santerre, and ethers east of Flanecurt were dispersed
BRITISH MINISTERIAL CHANGES. by artillery Bre
LONDON, July 4. The Times says that Mr. Chamberlain will not leave the India Office.
Mr. Edwin Montague is now mentioned as Mr. Lloyd George's successor in the Ministry of Mapitious It is understood that Lont Derby will
NEW JAPANESE MINISTER TO
TEKING.
The Germans are still, relying one Under Secretary of State for War machine-guns for the defensive but his Lordship has refused a seat The gurs have appeared mysteri the Cabinet. busty I lug-oute, ometimes 40 foot deep, and have been handled with the greatest bravery, and sometimes femcity, playing on the British wounded lying na the ground.
Some of the latter escaped by lying in shell holes haif full of water till dusk, when they
rawled to the British lines.
At one point a number of Germans who emerged from. Hug-outs with hands up and waving white flags were placed under guid; but when the British main body passed, miore of the enemy poured out finmi burrows and the prisoners joined them, over- powering the guards.
HONEYCOME OF CATACOMBS. There is a perfect honeycomb of tacombe in villages like Thiepval | and Serre, which enables the Ger trans to still hold out
at many points.
Some of the fiercest Eghting was "at Fricourt and La Boiselle.
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The pipers of the Tyneside Scots player them to the assault af La Boiselle. There was heavy fighting in a word west of the village where grenades were mostly used.
The desperation of the struggle at Fricourt, which is the apex of the German salient, is evidenced by the fact that the village was only stormed at 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, though the British had been holding the adjoining wood and heights-since Saturday evening.
THE FRENCH FRONT,
NIGHT "CALM; CAPTURED .POSITIONS ORGANISED.
PARIS, June 4. The night was calm north and south. the Somme.
The enemy did not attempt to sounterattack the captured positions which we have organised
Three more batteries, two being heavy batteries, have been captured
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS' AT SOFIA BOMBED.
French riztman have bombed Military stablishments at Sofis.
TOKYO, July. 4.
8,000 PRISONERS.
RUSSIANS BREAK TWO
GERMAN LINES.
LARGE CAPTURES.
PETROGRAD, July 4: An official-announcement says that the Russians broke two lines of German defences at Baranovitchi and captured 73 acers,-2,700 men, elever guns and a number of machine
| SEVEN BATTERIES OF ARTILLERY KUNA,
CAPTURED.
*Timis, July 4- The number of unwounded prisoners now exceeds 8,000 Up to the present.. have been counted among the captured seven batteries, including three heavy, iniuterial. The number of unitrailleuses, trench guns and other batteries, lodged
It is officially announce that Baren Hayashi has been appointed Ministër to Peking.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE ANGLO-FRENCH
OFFENSIVE.
HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES.
BRITISH MAKE SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS.
LONDON, July 3.. General Sir Douglas Haig repurts: Heavy fighting continues, but is pro eeeting satisfactorily for us, specially in the vicinity of La Boiselle, where the remnants of the garrison surrendered.. Further progress was made in other parts. of the battlefield, and additional hostile. defences have been captured,
LONDON, fily f General Sir Douglas Haig, in a rum=" muniqué, states
LORD DERBY'S NEW ...APPOINTMENT.
LONDON, July 4 Lord Derby has been "appointed
umber of the principal officials, includ, ing were forsiguers, joined the cortage.! which proceeded eastwards as far as the Thenan Man, where the Diplomatie Corps joined it. The procession then turned southwards down the, wagnificent broad stone road to the Chunghua Men, whera the Diplomatic Corps, the representative of the Imperial Chinese houso and mang of the oficials left the procession, which passed through the Changhua Men and the Chien Men, turned to the ride and eutered the Peking-Hankow Ballway, station.
The procession was extremely pictures! que, and it may respecte a curious mixture of Chinese and foreign styles. According to Chinese oustom, thu. mourners walked ahead of the coffin, the Chief Mourner being immediately in front of it. The leading portion of the procession oasisted of baumer-bearer, military and Daval guards of bondur, segera banda, both Chinese and foreign. the latter playing thaDead 3farch |-from “Bural ** und als Chopia's "Funendi
March.
The ceremonial chair was escorted by mounted guarda.
The President's horse priests And
in ensemates and several at Herbecourt Under Seuratury of State for Warumas followed. Then came the dat have not yet been counted
THE VERDUN REGION.
DAMLOUP WORK TAKEN AND RETIKEN.
PARIS, July 3
A communiqué states :--
On the right of the lease, after a violent bombardment the enemy strong ly attacked the Damloop work, which they captured, but our counter-attack completely drove them out. The work remains in our hands.
PARIS, July 4.
POINT DUTY ON HIGH SEAS.
HOW WE KREP CEANNELS CLEAR
FOR SHIPPING, "
Describing a visit to the Fleat, the special correspondent of the Fress Association deals with the works per formed by men who pursue in silence the great national task of keeping the acas around our const free from the menace of the minefield and the ab marina
A communique state There has been no infantry action on
An ever-growing system of mine. either bank of the Meise, and the artil. lery has been moderately active. On sweeping has been in process of develop the left tank there was a violent bomment around our coasts, he writes. bardment at Foivre Hill, the Thiaumont Today in mino-aweepers, mine layers, work, and Damloup from a battery on and anti-submarine craft of all descrip the right beak, but the enemy did not tions we have a subsidiary feet of attack Damloup.
amazing dimension
THE RUSSIAN FRONT.
BIG BATTLE AT BARANOVITCHI.
GERMANS HURLED BACK.
PETROGRAD, July
chair ertaining the tablet, followed by the robes and decorations. Following theas, ware
en prominent offciale in frock-costs of rening-dress, military officers, The Diplomatic Corps in uniform, | the inembers of the Cabinst and the late President's sons. The latter were dressed:
entirely in white and walked under ü vinte canapy, each supported by bro attendants.
The huge coffin covered with a brand-
red silk canopy on the red bier carried. by eighty bearera dried in green presented a splendid and impressive
spectacle..
At the Esi-hua Men, which is the main mourners in chairs.
The con resched the station shot 10.30-where it was trained with the mourners, the deceased's tablet and the wreaths and decorations.
The train departed some time later
when a salute of 101 guns was fired sad. all the temples in Peking toiled their bells 101 times-Reuter.
PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF.
All ships on the East Coast are kept to a marked channel, and, like the policeman on point dity the Navy *** Vorwaerts ** publishes the following:
the regulates and is responsible for the la
• Upschoner · Medizinischen safety of traffic. On a certain part of | Wochenschift a medical councillor, the coast, since the outbreak of the war, Dr. W. Finchs writex against the pen the channel has been used by no fewer simists literally as follows:- than 21,000 ships
Those who have kept to instructions and have been damaged number only three.
**No one can escape the logical ded ser ties that peace would be a catastrophe, that war is the only remaining possibility. War, Dhis reaction on attraction, humour.
The fight fluctuated in the afternoon about La Boiselle and south of Thiepval, but generally to our advantage. Hostile
A Communique states:-North-west of The figures relating to this matter counter-attacks south of Thiepval drove some of our troops from a portion of Baranovitchi a big battle rages. The furnisha lutary reminder to those the positions they had captured, early Russians captured 50 officers 1,000 men, who would bare us believe that our as in the morning, Many hostile attacks and four guna Fighting continues mercantile rarive has been brought to One thousand prisoners and five no and a pass that it has had to elsewhere were repulsed with heavy machine guns have been taken on the surrender the bulk of the info to and
We continued to make wbstantial Lower Lipe between Daboo and Sokul, from these shores to neutral ships. progress in some places. Very con- where the Germans were hurled back siderable armament and war material watwards.
loss.
were captured. "The number of prisonera now exceeds 4,300.-
FIGHTING ALONG THE ENTIRE FRONT.
Tilo tummuniqué speaks of heavy fight- have been maintained. Fighting was EUSSIANS TAKE 2,00 PRISONERS ing south of the Anero, but all our gains.
inost severe at La Boiselle and Oilers.
PETROGRAD, July 4.
PRUSSIAN BATTALION .... SURRENDERS...
LONDON, July 4,
• A commuunique states There has been heavy fighting on the
whole front from Riga to the Cauensus
“gunaan
In the month of March, "for instance, there passed a town on the East Coast of England 1537 steamers Their nationality was determined as follows British, 1,106 neutrals, 351
TRICKY WAY WITH U-BOATS.
to an end, is now to be regarded an end in itself. The entire nation to
a must denund sternal war. In pamphlet written by the same author the concluding words are: Educa
tion towards Hatred! Education towards I love of hatred Organisation of hate
Away with the immature and false shame regarding brutality and fanaticism! The words of Marinelle (the Futurist] hold good also in política: "Mare slaps on the
of the seas yet," was the proud comment Given unto wa are Faith, Hope, and "That shown that we are not driven face, less kissing 1 We ought not to hesitate to announce blasphemously : of a naval officer who vouched for the Batrod; but the greatest of them in securacy of the figures A4
Some of our craft have been known Entred
to have a tricky way with them with
Contcillor Fuchs fi one of the chief
those gentry whe bob up out of the ses physicians. In the Baden State Lunatic It has been specially desperate between and commence an argument in shrapnel Asylump at Emmendingen. Foor lunatics! the Styr and Stethod rivers, west of in the belief that the intended victim is Bautar's correspondent at HeadquarLutzk, south of Baczacz and south of incapable of reply Canos have been tors reports. A whole battalion of Smorgon, where great enemy attacks known where the submarine has been Prussian Infantry surrendered to the were repulsed, the Russians taking worsted in the orgument, and has not
Bridge Scorers, in blocks of 50 sheets, British near Fricourt.
altogether 2,300 prisoners and numerous survived the encounter
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INTENSE FIGHTING. A
LONDON, July 3 Reuter's correspondent at Head quarters reporte from
SALONIKA, July 4 whole British front. There has been no change of importance above the Ancre river. Wo heavily bombarded Thiepal and at La Boiselle there was severe fighting. Worth of Fricourt we
SUEZ CANAL DUES TO BE RAISED, pashed forward our positions to higher
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