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WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2, 1916.
THE
LATEST
WAR.
TELEGRAM S.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.j
THE WESTERN FRONT.
ALLIES, PUSHING ON.
LONDON, Aug 1. General Sir Douglas Haig reports that the general situation is unchanged. North of Basentin-le-Petit we repulsed
a hostile attack. Heary mutual artillery Bring continued the night long.
PARIS, Aug. 1.
THE PROGRESS OF THE RUSSIANS.
PURSUING THE RETREATING ENEMY.
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RUSSIANS SWIM ACROSS A. EIVER AND CAPTURE PRISONERS.
LONDON, Aug i The Times Correspondent at the Rus A correspondent says the Allies are now attacking on a front d right milessian Headquarters of the Stokhol sys from Delville Wood to the river near the Russians, are six miles beyond the the village of Clory. The Germans ara River and are meeting with stubborn fighting most desperately to hold resistance, but this is probably a rear: positions which they know to be most guard action-as lalloons report that the Important. Their situation is critical, roads towards Eovel are black with especially at Guillemons where picked retreating troops. The country is flat troops we ordered to be killed to the and marshy, and the sluggish Stokhod Jaat man" rather than vich their oozes midit water lillies. Yet the Rus- sions forded through mazes of barbed positions.
Alfie! resulta The first
are wire sunk in the water. most satisfactory. The railway from Combles to Peronne which supports the Germans' main defence has broken down
PETROGRAD, Aug. 1.
An official statement says: Our gallant troops swam across the river
enemy having destroyed the bridges and, captured upwards of a thousand Austrians and Germans.
EARLIER
THE CHINA MAIL.
TELEGRAMS.
THE ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE.
THE FRYATT MURDER.
> TROOPS HORRIFIED.
THE MANILA CIGAR TRADE.
GREAT DEVELOPMENT IN TRADE
WITH UNITED STATES.
The Philippine sigur trade with the United States is looking up, developing rapidly beyond our greatest expecta
"London, Aug. ha Router's correspondent at Britiab MANY AIR-FIGHTS ON BRITISH
Handquarters reports:-The murder FRONT.
of Capt. Fryatt has horrified the British LONDON, "Aug. 1- soldiers. Everywhere the correspondent General Sir Dougha Haig reports: went he found the unanimous sentiment,tiqna stated Collector Rafferty in an• There has been no infantry fighting andƒ»We will make the Germans pay." nothing of importance to-day,
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DEMAND FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION
LONDON, Aug. 1. Mr Asquith's "declaration on the
remarkable consensus of opinion in the Press on the desirability of an immediate Allied pronouncement that retribution will be exacted for the murder of Capt Fryatt and the Lille outrages and other
crimes.
lysing the figures for the first six months of this year. "Over last year," he con-
tinued, we show an increase for six months of over 10,000,000 cigars. This means not only increased business for the factories but increased, revenue for
Our avistors made several raids. They dropped seven tons of bombs on “enemy communications" and "billets. A train was blown upah ammunition depot was set on fire, and a hostile execution, of Capt. Fryatt has evoked the government. aeroplans on the ground was destroyed
There were many air fights, and several enemy machines were falled damaged.
Three British machines are missing.
ENEMY'S FRUITLESS ATTEMPTS ON THE FRENCH FRONT.
PARIS, Aug. 1. A communiqué states: The Germans north of the Sorame continued their counterattack on the Hem wood and fousen farm, but all their attempts were fruitiese.
then this Bureau began its investig tion into the question of the failure of the tobacco trade with the United of the Manila factories that the cause of States, we were assured by the managers. the trouble was due to those handling our cigars in the United States. Our Various suggestions regarding the investigations of the
cigar trade in methods of punishment are made. These the United States. int and
year instance the seizure of German property at the failure of the cigar trade was
this
clearly year demonstrate in the Empire naming high-placed that Germans, from the Kaiser and Bethmann not due in any great measure to dif
Healties Hollweg downwards, to be tried, but the States, but rather to the unfair competi encountered in the United papers are mostly content to await the tion of the factories amongst themselves decision of the Allies, though they warm in that territory and their most an the Government that the nation is not fiquated methods of distribution in a mood to be atisfied with a pro
is that due to the danger now The We hold the grond won,
crastinating policy which would postpone advertising campaign in the United efforts of the Governments extensiva There was a feres artillery, duel enat punishment. It is taken for granted ady
that the Kaiser will be brought to trial States that the demand for Manilas will exceed the supply, unless the factory of the Meuse
managers here perfect their organization und to the other things necessary to. prepare to meet the reasonable demand of the trade.
THE ADVANCE OF THE RUSSIANS. GERMAN FICKED TROOPS_FIGHT. ING TO THE DEATH
U.B.A. PRESIDENCY.
JUDGE HUGHES ON BRAVE WORDS WITHOUT ACTION.
at several points. The fewness of the Koropetz, porth-west of Brody, the ght to the death. They lost most hail not saved American lives, owing to factory manager whether or not |
German prisoners testifies to the fury
of the battle.
LATER
A communiqué ay-The enemy made no new attacks north of the Somme.
Two enemy attempts in the region of Litou after a violent bombardment failed under our fire.
There has been a most violent artillery combat at Thiaumont, and a bombard ment with heavy shells at Finin Wood
.and La Lâufee.
Two German aeroplanes were brought
down.
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THE LIQUIDATION OF ENEMY FIRMS.#
GERMAN REPRISALS.
AMSTERDAM, August 1.
TURKISH ADVANCE ON SUEZZ CANAL.
A PUTILE ENTERPRISE.
LONDON, Aug. 1. Renter's Correspondent in Egypt says the Turks are advancing cautiously towards 'Kanatra on the Suez Canal They number 12,000. It is difficult to understand the object of the advance, 110 miles from their base. They are not likely to get much farther The Australian Light Horse are doing aplendid work. driving. in the Turkish outposts and capturing prisoners.
THE. ITALIAN · FRONT.
LONDON, Aug. 1- Bouter's Correspondent at British Headquarters reports-There was a grilling heat when the Anglo-French
NEW YORK, Aug. 1. troops again advanced. The fighting Fulge Hughes, the Republican can was of the fiercest description. The fdidate for the Presidency, in a speech Germans are stronger sast of Trones accepting nomination, said that he stood Food, where they have masseul their unflinchingly for American rights.cigar that we export-and expressed a picked troops who are prepared to There had been brave words, hut they tha manifest lack of any disposition to terribly from our hurricane cannonade.
back the words with action. If there had been direct and decisive representa tivas, instead of the equivocal conver sations, po American lives would have been lost through the sinking of the Lusitania. As regards the Teutonic plots he accused the Administration of fading to have taken prompt and vigorous measures to check the utterly intolerable alien intrigues.
HUNGARIAN REGIMENT
CAPTURED
PETROGRAD, July 31. A communique states:-The Fussian troops have advance. In the fighting on the Stokhol they captured at the bend of the river the whole of the 31st Hungarian Regiment, including the Commander and the Regimental Staff.
Elsewhere they captured 21 officers and 914 mea and four machine-guns.
The troops are parsuing the enemy in the direction of Brody. They have reached the rivers Ivka and Seret..
GREAT ENEMY EFFORTS
LATER.
A "conmensput states:-In the Stok hod area the advance contianes. The enemy's heavy guus bombarded Brody and the fords of the Boldtrorka.
There has been desperate fighting va the greater part of the front.
The enemy is everywhere making and is calling up troops from every great efforts to retain its line of defence, direction, even single battalions. RUSSIAN INVASION OF HUNGARY.
LONDON, August 1 A telegram from Berlin states that'
An Italian communigud · states as a reprisal for the British liquidat- "ing German enterprises, the Cann. Enemy attacks at Monte Cimone and cellor is arrunging for the compulsory Cetti Communi and in the Tosaza We have been repulsed. liquidation of enterprises whose aren
Tossna and capital is mostly British or which counter-attacked are managed and supervised from inflicted heavy loss.. Great Britain. The liquidations can extend to Erm's branches and to PENSIONS FOR CAPTAIN FRYATT's are invading Hungary.
its ground and property, as well as to the investments of British sub- jects.
THE AIR-RAID ON ENGLAND.
LUDICROUS GERMAN
FABRICATION.
There
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at
WIDOW.
LONDON, August 1, The Government has granted Mrs Fryatt (widow of Captain Fryatt whom the Germans have executed) £100 a year in addition to the pen- sion to which she is already entitled under the Government compensation scheme...
BRITISH INTERNED IN NEUTRAL COUNTRIES.
BERNE, Aug. 1 Court Tisza, the Hungarian Premier, has returned to Budapest from the Car pathians. He admits that the Russians
THE OPERATIONS IN EAST AFRICA
LONDON, July 31.
It is officially announced that General Van der Venter has occupied Dodoma,
on the Central Railway.
"AIRSHIPS RAID ENGLAND.
|
·FOREST FIRES IN CANADA.
OTTAWA, Aug. 17 The main has quenched the forest fire, after á hundred square miles had been burned:
SIDELIGHTS FROM GERMANY.
LINGUISTIC TALENT NOT PATRIOTIC.
What the trade demands in the United States is regularity in buai- Deag methods. quality, quantity, prices, and shipments of cigars. Our investigations show that they do not get this at all times and from all factories, Quoting from a letter of our agent of one of the greatest cigar dealers in the United States stated that he was tired of selling Londres the cheapest desire to take up the higher-priced
and develop a trade in it. I asked local: he was prepared to deal with this people and to enter into a firm contract to supply them million a month. He answered that he was not prepared to do it for the reason that the supply of necessary wrapper was not certain and for other reasons. Another big factory had no regular agent in the United "Looking down impartially as the States and yet they wanted the business. head of this Bureau on the game of Winning trade in the United States knowing the minds of the eigar buyers in that country and the trade secrets of the cigar sellers of Manila, I can state. that the principal trouble with the cigar business is the unfair competition amongst the manufacturers theraet.
ives,
and that so far as the bandling of mars in the United States is concerned, they have made a bad mess, of it in the past. and it is not much better now-Manila Callenaren
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PROFILBOY OF 2 MONTHS AGO ASCRIBED TO, "K, OF K.'”.
narrates the following snodate concerne The Toulon journal Ka Din Tour
Lord Kitchener.
the Darish islands are close to Porto Fica and being situated in the approach to the Panama Canal, the acquisition of these islands would be of extreme import ance to the United States for military purposes. To Denmark they can have no other peoples. Perhaps Duschmer, value. Swiss, Sandinavians and Russians beat us States Government has tried to purchase Twice in the past the Crited
LORD DEVONPORT'S HOPEFUL by a language," hit "of the great these islands from Dermark. The last
TRADE FORECAST. nations" Germany ranka supreme time was a little over ten years ago when
The Port of London Authority has knowledge of languages. But in fact this the terms by the United States ware distinction is nus unworthy of a great accepted by the Danish Commission. The done its bis in this war," Lord Devon people, and indeed harmful to Germantower hause of the Danish Parliament port, its chairman, recently told s prestige. It is easy to understand why ratified the sale but the upper house London Society. At the beginning of the little, people like the Dutch must learn opposed it. Intimations were received by was, said his Lordship, they fited ont the speech of a great neighbour; or why the Washington Government some time hundreds of transports, and on their the Russians, dependent for almost every age that Denmark was willing to resande Fratar unloaded them thing upon the outside world, should do negotiations for the transfer of ownership special items of work they had transferred so. But for a German it is unnecessary of these islands. This is an opportimity from balk cargo boats to bags 10,000,000 It would be far better it Germans were that should not be lost by the United bags of cats, each containing 80lbs... fo
to unlearn the foreign languages they States, inasmuch as the value of the the troops. They had withdrawn from know. They should impose their own lands to us has been enhanced tenfold their rum vala, also for the trois at se magnificent speech upon the peoples that since the Praama waterway was opened 2,000,000 can-gallon jars, and they had It is officially announced that appar-have dealings with them, as the English The Danish West Indias are about 138 ao packed all the too consumed by the ently a considerable number of airships and French do. Only in that way will square miles in sees and according to New Army during their training. With took part in tonight's raid. They German make its way as a world-tongue, the gazeteer the population is approxi- their wreck raming plant they had also cruised for some time over Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex,
Every time German uses another mately 35,000. The harbors are of been able to bring into port many a mined
LONDON, July 31. It is oficially announced that number of hostie airships before mid night crossed over the Eastern and South-Eastern coasts. They dropped bombs of the Thames estuary. Their attack is proceeding
LATER.
When the War Minister came some three months ago to the British front he Among older heat-Dunkirk Commandant de Balas
court, to whom he mentioned that
Jack Johnson" bad dropped not for
The Great Eastern Railway Co. LONDON, August 1. Unofficial reports state that several gives her a life acuity of £250." Zeppelins visited Norfolk. were many explosions, but ho
coqual. ties and no damage has been reported up to the present, Two explosive and three incendiary bombs were dropped in ▸ Cambridgeshire town, bus no damage was caused. Robert Cecil stated that there were Kent, and Huntingdon, and dropped language than his own, he is injuring the strategis importance and therefore for torpedood vessel which, without their No bombs were dropped in Lincoln./1,655 British Naval men and 474] Bombs indiscriminately in localities: interests of his home country." Here the value to the United States. The prin assistance, would
were seen fired..
· Loxpos, August 1. In the House of Commons, Lord
THE COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY.
سمنة
LONDON, August 1.
THE "WILHELMINA.""
RINDERPEST IN THE PHILIPPINES.
entered dock 'gates:
never again have
Since the war there had been an Immenso cocession of business to the Port of London, resulting in a 50 per cent, increase in their warehousing business Lendon would have been in a hard way but for the extra accommodation they huf
from him.
Kitchener, because I know that I shou That did not alarm: me," said Lord
WOMEN -FOOTHEN."
PASSING OF MALE DRAPERY. HANDS
no military importance. Anti-aircraft Pary Counciller uses a quaint argument cipal experis are angar and fruits. guns at one spot came into action with, to show that the polyglot" German but humiliates Germany in the eyes of
Does anyone suppose that, after the it is believed, good effect, details are lacking.
strangers. Seldom does an outsider
war, linen drapers assistants will return succeed in acquiring a foreign tongue with
to the shops and be content to hand perfect mastery." He makes mistakes,
aceste ladies again)" The Bishop of London asked the question at the Church especially in pronunciation, and such.
House, Westminstor and answered it mistaken put the speaker in a humiliating The new cases of kinderpest, reported provided which, permanent and impro with an emphatic “Of course 10% She position. The foregaez, whose language from the 101 municipalities in 14 provised, had resulted in additional storage men in the prime of life ingerir lace its He hoped they had seen the Tent of he is mispronouncing, unless he belongs to vinces infected with the disease for the space for over 200,000 tone of goods the shops of London, and of foutien in the enlightened minority, looks upon him
Had it not been for the war, the first great houses. He had tried women dur
OBITUARY.
"with a
belonging to the Army interned in shire or Huntingdonshire.
Unofficial details of the Zeppelin neutral countries, including $1,582
Naval men in Holland. visit mention that at a South-East coast town (be residents, hearing anti-aircraft" guns firing, thronged
FLUSHING, July 31. the Areets. A Zeppelin could bel
The Wilhelmina has sunk. plainly seen lit up by searchlights,
carried 41 men and 60 women passeng Mr. Asquith proposes that Adreimal era and crew, who are now aboard but it did not approach the town. It was apparently struck. by 'a shell SWH May and Field Marshall the lightship tender. Some of these with an instinctive contempt, or at best week ending July 24,7* Manila cone part of the programme the "Authority |ing the war, and they were much better t sympathetic Indulgence" as hoperary says, being the total number of planned would have been completed by He hoped, in other words, that we abild as it descended a considerable dis- Sir William G. Nicholson shall be are injured
The Wilhelmina, although almost cit members of the Dardanelles Com-in two, was kept afloat for hours by the old-upon a child. Hacilly a role, he cares that bare occurred doce the begin sew. The gigantic Sonti Albert Dock; men who had learned to live det
lives in these glorious days refusing to tance and afterwards disappeared in the darkness. Three aèrial torpedoes i mission, and Admiral Sir. Cyprian aid of numerons barrala, which are now remarks, that is worth striving for. Ayning of the present year up to 12,402 and so magnificantly constructed, would have live anything but a man's life after the
pride that a German feels when he speaks the number of deaths resulting therefore been opened in August next, and would war Bridge and General Sir Neville carried on all the Flushing steamers
a foreign tongue should be demned by the 2009
have added to the dock quay space four Lyttleton members of the Mesopo LATER.
simple fact that overy waiter speaks: It makes the total new cases of the mies of new qunyege, more than four tamis Commission.
several foreign language fluently." o diseass for the month of July alode 3,078 times the total of Immingham, the newa lot Germans insist on their linguistia and the number of deaths 2008, and the and greatest dock. This represented COLONEL SIR W. BISSET.
righta. "Abroad, in hotels, businesa total of deaths known to have resulted merely an instalment. „LONDON, Aug 1 firm and backs, let us in the future be from rinderpent since the outbreak of the Thers, will be much to follow in the The death is announced of Colonel unconditionally resolute that we shall be disease in 1001 no less than 76,108, future, and it will be on a bigger scale," A Germay Admiralty communiqué Military representatives on the Dargir William Bienst, K.C.LE, who waited upon in our own speech." Bo will The Director of Agriculture, Adriano Raid Lord Devonport, That I promise THE DEUTSCH ASTATISCHE BANK. says that Appelins last night at danelles and Moropotamia Corazzis served in the Afghan War of 1878.00 Garman mazos conqueringly forward as a Hernandes, has cabled to Saigon to the on behalf of myself and my colleagues AUCHO tacked Lond. This is a ludicrous sions as mentioned this morning And was Government Director of Ladian world-speech. Already it exists in nucleus Pasteur Institute, asking for a supply of The North Albers Dock, when it comer THE AUCTION SALE of the L
Railways from 1897 to 1901.
as an international language through the anti-dorcat serum sufficient to inoen to be rade, wil he immensely larger than hold Property belonging to the fabrication.
ADMIRAL SIR JOHN OMMANEY Jown, who in every constry speaks in late 2000 bead of carsbsc. At the same the South, Albert Is will be designed to showed advertised to be held by
Tiddish, a form of German,
simo he has naked the emergency board | take emily anything that ship designers the 11th August, 1910 has been PUSA to set aside an allotment of P43820 to can put into the water, so for 51 we can PONELE until further notice be made available immeyatoly a so zow, for the next 50 years. We The AUCTION SALE working fand the themalefacture of started out as optimists; we believe in Furniture und Effects on
et the Far the future of London and we believe will be held on the Pank pre Floor and Basement of the faturn will be great if we have the courage above mentioned date at 3,00
It is offcially announced that there were no casualties caused by the raid of Germanairships.
LAZKAR
FIELD MARSHAL FEENCH'S
LEPORT.
Tield-Marsh Viscount French reports that ong to mist and the
LATES
The House of Commons has agreed to the appointment of Naval 201
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HOPKINS
* LONDON, Aug, 17- LONDON, August 1.
The death of Admiral Sir John The Committee of the Association Ommagney Hopkins is anpounced, aged reat height at which the Zeppelins in opposition to the payment of flew it was diffult to determine double income-tax, reports that it is their number, Luthere werd
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