WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1916.
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THURSDAY,
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FRIDAY,
the 11th Augar, 1918, at 10,80 m.;
at their Balon Room, No. 8, Da Vœux ROAD, Corner of
Ice House Street,—
Two FAIRBANK'S PATENT
WEIGHING MACHINES (tested and stamped by the Police) ..
BUNDBY
VALUABLE HOCBEHOLD
FURNITURE,
Remared to Sales Rooins for Convenience
of Sale, » Ons Case WHITE SINGLETS, &c., &c. |
Also
Ons Surveyor's Level by Troughton &
Simms, London, complete,
Ons Sextant by Falconer (practically
new
A-quantity of Valuable Books on Navi-
gation, Astronomy, de,
2 Ceiling Fans and one large Table Par.
Terms :--Cash.
HUGHES & BOUGE.
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Hongkong, Ang 3, 1976.
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THURSDAY,
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A QUANTIET OF COPPER, BRASS and IRON PIPES, DEDA FITTINGS, Etc. Eto,
3 BRONZE. TROPELLERS. On view Now,"
6 Tassie --Chah on delivery.
GEO. P. DAMMERT,
Auctioneer
Hongkong, Ang: A 1918
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME.
THE OPENING DAYS OF THE OFFENSIVE,
(BY CORRESPONDENT:
THE BRITISH THRUST.
“I··LONG." BETTER, AHEAD.
PRES, CA, 2nd July "
THE TIMEST
Is would be unwise yet to attoimpt to Apportion – praise among the variona segimanta - engaged. That will come in due coarse. Cu-sit sides. Lowever, one hours, penine at: Ulster, troops, who had an extremsly difficult task to perform. I havs board to-day uca generous teatimony to their gallantry, not only from the higher offders of the corps? but, what pichapa saute for eYED MONS from the troops - engaged on thele framediate left. The Gordons also, bere won more glory. But any enumeration now met bo^ "Inadequate the Another point established in that the Northumberland Fusiliers; the Royal enemy had in the last few days rory Irish Riffes, the Bufolks, the Royal Scots, much strengthened his front lines the Lancashire Fusiliers, the Warwick certain points Regiments which were ahiras, all of those, and others no lesa, knows to be in reset ve 'some miles back when all is known, will be found to have at wenn fago "water found fa" the front done magnificently
Isa bow-possible «to, ret- something / trenches and many preoners "wore::takon. We still hasn zoet stirring, secounts of;}
ike an accurate picture of the resulta the fret. day's fighting in the battle which is now raglag here; and the essential fact which stands but is that on the main pars of our offensive both wo and the French operating on our right wo complete success.
On the northern portion of the front of the real attack we made less progers
from them.
다.
the gallantry of the French troops, on our right. What the German lossES, ATE TO.
UNDERGROUND DEFENCES
the extreme data" It is impossible even to gueri More important laborsioness of what may be called the they me, have lost bot far from 10,000 Geras underground defences, though prisoners (for every hour bringe accounts this is nothing new. Many alther of new captores, and sorocal: time; that, villages in this part of France, bays comi quaber.in Hilled and wounded plete systema of catacomb-like collaça, like the famous cellars of Albert. This in, the cosa at Thiepval, and as Serre,
B the Deutsch Asiatische Bank Over pace of this area wo, still hold our Is all these cases the German has made
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FRIDAY,
the 11th day of August, 101, a: 3 p.m., within the building No. 7, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong formerly the promises of the Deutsch Aaiatsche
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A other points the fullest use of them, and has axtendeil original front line. fighting is now in progress in the rear them into elaborate subterranean barraclos of the German first lice, with the and fortified positions. Elsewhere we situation very coscuro. „At Serre, af have found dug-cuts over 301t. dsep," proof | Thiepval, and at Beaumout Hamel the against any shelin, and even these have Germans still hold the villages which in some instances lower stories yet, where We are in occupation stores were kept. The value of auch
It is now possible to state without any bear those names. of part of their front line between naderground habications in case of such exaggeration that the French who are Beaumont Hamel and Thiepval, and what a bocabardment as we have indicted our fighting south of the Semme, are well on I felt the district at 4 o'clock this after him is obvious. The complete destruc- the way to winning a really striking The Valuable Office Furniture, Electric noon we were extending cur footing, tion of a village overhead only, increased success, striking.ast. only by the num Fittings etc, etc contained on the At other places, after our first advance, the thickness of the protective covering, bem of prisoners and gune captured and TO-NIGHT! Ground Floor and Basement of the said we have fallen back on our original Mention was made in my dispatch of by the ground covered, but by the positions. The situation here most yesterday of the fact that a Thiepval rapidity with which the successive Ger -promises
remain obscurs until the issue of the after our men had passed the enemy man lines have been forced in the coursT As follows:-
Bank.
Four Large Fire Proof Safes, Combina struggle which is now going on for issued from secret hiding places under of operations in which speed: was 'not tion Cabinet Safes, Large and Small possession of the crucial positions in this ground, and took pur, men in the rest (considered to be capital factors
extremely difficult piece of country, Desks, Bookenses, Teakwood Seats and especially Serra and Thiepval Stook. Leather-covered Upholstered Everything here, however, is for the Desk and Arm-chairs, Sofas and Settees, moment secondary compared to the pro-
• Clocks Typewriters, Duplicators, gresa quade upon the soul. A glance at Copying Press, Filing Cabinets, Book the map will show why, in co-operating Waggon, etc., etc. Ceiling Fans, Electric. with a French, advance slong the Somme, Brackets, very powerful Electric Ceiling what was necessary was a thrust almost Lights, Reading and Desk Lamps, due eastward from Alber, to flatten out the German sakert, the angle of which etc.
was at Friccur. As I write, not only have we taken Fricourt, but Mfmetz, and Montauban, wall to the eastward, are
ate.
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· Fricourt itself was the scene of most desperate nighting, and it was not until 2 o'clock this afternoon last we finally carried the village itself by assault, after we had beco in occupation of a greater part of Feoart Wood (beyond the" "[886 village) and of high ground on the south of it since last evening. Fricourt itself is a point of considerable strategic value, or the Germans would not have held it Still more te the nose. ata salient. however. has it a sentimental importance, as there in scarcely any place on the whole front which has been the scene of more persistent and deadly fighting at short range. Eardly any bit of all thin.
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with machine-guns. The fact that the On Saturday the first defence line, waS German are still holding out in the carried for a distance, of Avo, oliers, act various villages mentioned above in the on Sunday thosecond defensive line var northern part of the line is in each case broken through on a front of about threa due to these elaborate underground miles. Testerday. the point of the works.
French wedge was driven Into the third line at Flancourt (about 24 miles south- west of: Peronne) and the French be came, masters of the plates of Perpone, from, which, town they are now only three miles away.
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Acne place number of Germans came out of the dugouts holding up their hands and bearing white flags They were rounded up and left under guard. After the main body of one troops had gone on more of the enemy, poured out of the burrows, very mach out numbering the grard, and the prisoners, getting such weapons as they could joined the new comers in turning on their. In the northern portion the French are Hongkong. 8th August, 1016. captors. Whether it is a legitimate ruse
THE TWO BATTLEFIELDS.
The battlefield of the French south of the former consists of two zones, difer- ing widely from each other in character.
fighting along the Valley of the Somme,
de guerra or not is probably not a loose, generoa stream which scattera question which much troubles. the ita"waters in: farge, reed-covered" pozás fermess."
and marshes. This portion of the front is dotted with clumps of trees and cook sions? woods. The southern section is bors, well-knit plateau land.
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In which connection I wish to bear festimony to the fact that today I saw a large body of German prisoners st certain place about. Er be sent away by Along the river the French bit one train, and the British soldiers on "goard, lustily yesterday. Their possession of were giving: thom all their own biscuita Mersucours Wood (just cant of Frise) and cigarettes. An officer said to me proved of great profit to them. The Tommy's only iden, when he catches French pushed their attack down from these, fellows, is to feed them."
Meresucourt, Wood upon the little villago of Fealleres, at the head of the "bridge Another point to be mentioned in leading northwards across the Somme Sortured country has been so wracked connection with the German resistance canal and river to Hem. The division with mines, so shell-tors, and so watered is the immense strength of their machine which was entrusted with the operation with blood. If we have wrested it guar. That, again, is not new; but it is carried Faulleres with the bayonet and permanently from the enemy it is no only in such an operation as this, where grenades, and the French, striking out, meas success.
we are attacking: positions which the north-east, pushed through the Chapitre How strong the position" bero was is enemy has been laboriously perfecting Wood, and captured the hamlet of sufficiently shown by the fact that it was toe nearly two years, that the value of Buscourt (hres miles north-west of able to hold out long after we were in their machine gun equipment and Peronne).
the The possession of both Mametz. and organization is demonstrated in the The achievement of the French in this Montauban, nearly three miles to the fullest degree. Wherever their resistance northern carter of their battlefield has eastward. The capture of Montauban, has met with dry success, the chief carried them right beyond the German from its commanding position, is factor in that success has been the second line, which at this point had been especially satisfactory Beyond Man- survival of their machine guns in specially strengthened. The first Ger- tauban proper, some ha a mile to the impenetrable positions where sur bom man line, consisted of three trench lines NE 3 NEW TYPE TAPPET cast," are large bricks yards and hardment could zot reach them. In The second line, however, from Herbe
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buildings known on the maps as Is several cases such guns were able to play court (about four miles west of Peroune) with numerous spares, also ONE STEEL Uriqueterie, which it was understood had on-odr troops as they came from the to Assevillers about five miles south- VERTICAL CROSS TUBE BOILER been converted by the Germans into a trenches, doing considerable damage, and west of the same town)All reports to hand show that in these with all fittings working pressure 80 lbs: post of exceptional strength. It was instances have been reported to nie in double one. North of Herbecourt the per square inch mounted on, trolley anticipated that we should find Le which the machine-guns were only doubla line stretched out to Feuileres, Arst few days of fighting the losses of
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push forward in the Assevillers Estrees lines north west of the Thintmont work. section with the success which has at-They failed to shake the French defence. tried: the devilers Feulieres opera Elsewhere in the Verdun region the only tions, it will not be long before they and chismester have taken place kävi themselves with nothing but the open; alightly Your of Thể count on the way to Peronne. In timt "Times. case the enemy will probably decida.to fall back beyond the Somme below. Ferphine and make of tita ezanálized course the first line of his new positions
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the enemy here extremely heavy,
£28,000. BOATS BOLD-FOR-£140,000 Briqueterie mest troublesome and that silenced when we had reached the and in front of that double line was
inflicted beavy loss. Thus in
rise in shipping vaines no md fb would probably have to be masked for enemy's line and the men manning the special trench organisation from Herbertreilery fire of the French To the rise in future treatment. As a matter of fact guns had been killed either, with the couch to trosucourt Wood
ona dug out which had been blown in by is yet apparent reazas a recent Lond when a party we sent to test it, it was bayonet or with bombe, I am sorry te The Frich, in carrying the Chapitre heavy shell fire no fewer than 40 corpeesper. Second-hand bosta now Letch
word found. Right along the line there prices that would have been found to have been so afferty destroyed say that the evidence is madebted than Wood, bars in reality get boyend the to these heaps of enemy dead. In the pairavagant for new vessels, a couple
y our abell fire that, we tools it (and the the... machine-guns played upon our three main defensive positions of the accurfighting the losses of the Germann remnant of its garrison as prisoners) with wounded on the ground. I have to-day Germans, and the dash with which this have reached enormous figures, especial and more than their original very light opposition talked with several wounded us, what was achieved is full of promise for suc ly at certain hotly contested points
months ago The success of the advance on this caly s ved themselves by lying in shell cess lower down the front. The capture such as Frise and Herbecourt, on the main spection of the front is most holes half full of water until dusk cams of Feuilleres, and of Hill 105 to the northern slopes of which the German for paletter
dead he thick. heartening The enemy's losses at and ben crawling back to our lines of it will enable the French artillery.Last night the French
themselves Fricourt, and Montauban are known to
south of the Somme to lend a very help digging A GALLANTRY OF TROOPS. T
securely into their have been immense.
All the foregoing makes only a random ing hand in the starner struggle which newly won positions, and in this summary of the chief aspects of a very is proceeding north of the river in the they were left undisturbed by the enemy
intantry Today I have seen large numbers of large and confused situation. The one neighbourhood of Carlu, where the German prisoners, including one batch copiouous fact in the day's achieve advame has been much slower THE BOLD TO FARONNE ment in the brilliant succes our main
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470 at a single place. If al it is believed that to date we have later, about 8.000 attack in the Fricouri-Mamelez region. The most important progress made by I have also visited some of our wounded It is only the beginning of what promiss the French yesterday was in the centre of the salient which they say cutting of in the collecting us. They are to be most stabborz battle. It is so the German front Here he French
BOWDERtraordinarily cherry fat beave. Zi fe find yet to talk of victory, but we having out the double fromgh line of the
ANG TUR
grafifying to know (and I have gathered can assuredly claim, great success. And, second German portion, found Lermid- Che same information too many points as always, there can be bo praise toofable barrier in the tremendously for to have any doubt of the ecuracy) that high for the gallantry of our man. Is Bad little village of
thetrond to xz/samemptiónálly Estpo-proportion of our may be that thes, are simces, too gallanti which bada carosities. Ace-Tory, Hight woanda, "being; and, ovar-anxious to go, too far, but that i statenda
VENTIST, Successor to injuries from skrapaal (dd, machine-gun,
(the late BIEN TING!
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GURE KO MATKHTAL CAPTURED. The amount of material of all kinda captured by the French is considerable, wattsold To-day the taking of three further basis for teries, two of which are heavy artillery, been
#onounced. Ab Assevillers, where the backward led by 10 famo French ssful that orps it was so quickly e
bole
fed village fell into
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