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BUSINESS NOTIQES,
HONGKONG. THURSDAY, JULY 19. 1917.
BUSINESS NOTIOES
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PRICE, $8.00 Per Month
THE WAR
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NY EUROPEAN, Non ASIATTU 1 INDIAN desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the Central Police Station between the hous of 9. AM. to lem and 2 PM, 104 P3E. daily
Applicants will be required to produce Pasports or identification papers, All parsota, with certain exceptions, whe remain in the Colony for more thin 7 days are required to register them- salves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1914 Forms of Registration giving the particulars squired may be obtained as the G. P.O and at all Police Stations.
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THE WESTERN FRONT.
THE FRENCH ADVANCE ON THE MEUSE.
A
PARIS, July 18.
It is serni-officially announced that
THE RUSSIAN FRONT.
STRONG ENEMY ATTACK GAINS BUT TEMPORARY SUCCESS.
LONDON, July 18.
A Russian offical message, trips-
yesterday's advance on the left of mitted by wireless, reporta :---' the Mouse was of gonsiderable in I
There has been intense enemy portance, as it releases H 304. artillery activity in the region of which the enemy had been closely Potutory und to the south of pressing. It has also done much to Brzeziny, and also near Halicz.” clear thy approaches to Verden. The enemy strongly attacked to the The fury with winch the Germans south of Noven, and occupied a are attacking in t'kamajagno, crates | height War counter-attack by "in- the belief that the internal situation funtry and cavalry threw him back of the Central Empires urgently and we re-occupisd the height. detrands some sore of a victory,”
GERMAN REPORT.... There is also great intensity of artillery activity on the Belgian
front.
RENEWED ENEMY EFFORTS - SHATTERED.
"Lospox, July 18.
A French communiqué states:--
A German official report, by wire- less, states:--
There is increased fighting in the
Biga region, southward of Dunsburg, and at Smorgon.
There is
"
Brzezany, artillery activity at
W
uptured the Carpathian After violent bombardments, the brights. Eastward of Nowica and Germags runde several counter repulsed 'counter-attacks.. attacks on the positions we captured yesterday," from Avocourt Wood, as far as the slopes on the west side of
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Our energetic resistance shattered all the efforts of the enemy who suffered sanguinary losses, without regaining the least-portion of the conquered ground.
THE BRITISH FRONT.
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LONDON, July 18. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:-
There was local fighting to the east of Monchy le-Preux which re sulted in our gaining further ground and capturing soune prisoners.
We successfully carried out raids to the north-east of Costtaverts and near Boersinghe.
We drove back raklers Wieltje.
neur
We forced buck the Russiada oz the Lomnica line.
Artillery work is more active or both sides of the Susit valley and along the Putha and Sereth.
THE DEMONSTRATION IN
PETROGRAD.
FURTHER DETAILS.
PETROGRAD, July 19. The military demonstration began in the afternoon. Motor lorries, bristling with machine guns and manned by Maximalist agitaton paraded the streets. As time passed and nothing happened, the population, which had at first kept indoors, emerged into the streets and watched the demonstracois", with, curiosity. Some regiments, yielding to the persuasion of the Maximalists, Jeft their barracks in the evening, carrying arma, contrary to orders. One, regi-: GERMAN REPORT.
ment marched to the Nevsky Prospect apparently going the Duma. Sudden- A German official report, by wirely, half a dozen dinant shots were red loss, states:-
and the regiment together with the There is lively artillery activity on spectators bolted for cover in the door- the coast, from the Yser to hys, the ways from were the soldiers began a wild La Bussee Casal, Loos and Lens, fusilade which only ceased when their and on both banks of the Scarpe. magazines were emptied. The
soldiers We repulsed English advances came out from their cover and after so beween Hollebeke and Warneton excited discussion abandoned theirmarch. and drove back an English attack to to the Durus and returned to their the north of the Arras-Cambral rond, barracks quietly, and the City, 20 except at a narrow point to the west minutes later, assumed its customary, of Bois-du-Vert.
For hours, motor lorries full of The French attacked on a five eldiers, sailors and civilian Max kilometre front between Arocourt imalists, with pointed rifles, rushed all
jaspect.
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MORE RIOTING IN LISBON.
Hill After bitter; fighting, they the station of departure for. Warsaw to penetrated the south-eastern corner prevent M. Kerensky (Minister of War). of Mulancourt Wood, astride the going to the front, but they found tha Malancourt-Esnem roi.
M. Kerensky hind left a quarter of an hour previo aly. Another party seized the offices of the newspaper Woun Lisnoy, July 18, Fremy and made the compositors. There has been more rioting in the set up in type a proclamation. streets. Bomb were thrown at calling upon the people to appear trams and several people were armed in the streets and to demam the overthrow of the Provisional Govern injured
The Chamber has extended Martial ment, the confiscation of the bourgeois preas and to seize hand and factories and Law for a month.
other sources of production.
HONOUR FOR COMMODORE
TYRWHITT.,
The First Machine Gun Regiment, one of the instigators of the trouble, converted the vills of the dancer, Mme. LONDON, July 18.
Kreshinskaya, Into their headquarters. Commodore Tyrwhitt hus been
The organ of the Council of Work appointed a Contander of the Buth.
men's and Soldiers' Delegates denounces the outbreak, and firm action by the ENEMY HOLDERS DEPRIVED OF
Executives of the Council of Workmen' BRITISH TITLES.
and Soldiers Delegates the Peanut Lospor, July 18. Delegates and by the Plovimons A Bil depriving enemy subjects Government is expected, to prevent of British titles passed its second recurface of the trouble
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