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HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 20. 1917,
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THE ADVANCE IN FLANDERS.
18.
THE SITUATION. AT LENS.
LORDUS. Aug. 19,
fam.
Renter's Correspondent at Head- quarters in France telegraphs regard ing the situation at Lens: We
PROGRESS OF THE FRENCH.
TONDON, Aug Beuter's Special Correspondent ut dominate the duster appenaeber to British Headquarters, telegraphing on August 18, states that the French.
Our guns em render. comunicntion difficult, lost to... last night. completed the pushing of their lines forward to national front Germans are now in a saileank; so ganza!! the point of being impossible. The
formeit the sleek and Broen-
by book rivers,
Two strong, German redoubts. Lex.
#!
the tow
that it is
out of the ginestion for them to group ang artillery within Lilas and Mondovi Farm, which had first regular defensivé spatern beyond it The Oppy-Maricourt line, the
held out against the French attacks
Lens, is within easy rugge and co since Thursday, were finally shelledfortable observations from our new into bussion and the French were positions. Even
the Dincourt-
ble to complete the conquest of the Queunt line, forming a sector of the Hindenburg Line, cones well within
infantry attack.
::
territary south of the rivers.
The Correspondent, describes P Lilas us a conerele and steel farti | Langemarck resulted in 'ugh the | range of our luxies. The battle a fication, leavily armed with unchine proving our position along the higher gins and almost impregnable to ground forming the key to the whole defensive system of Northern Bel The French, on Thursday, moved gitn
The Germans are hurrying forward on either skly of it, and left in asses of troops and guns to try it in a pocket, and it was only when i argsst our advance. Prisoners the heavy artillery concentrateji upon state that new batteries are co the position that the German arstantly arriving 1 but they also admit the destructive work of our heavies has knpehri out many,
Fiscu rendered.
The morale of the French troops continues to be at the highest, pitch, and a feeling of great optimis prevails.
BRITISH REPULSE MORE ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS.
Lobos, Aug. 19.
It would appear thuit the day of
What our troops are now most likely the regular trench system has passed). to have to overcome is loose, real- tered résistance, taking advantage of every bole and corner to develop machine-guniping posts;
Field-Marsicil Sir Douglas Haig GERMANY AND THE WA
reports
There were two, enemy counter- attacks this morning, to the enxt of Loos and in the neighbourhood of Bo's Hugo. Our bag axi maligen fire drove back the first attack and the enemy, supported by turmmenwerfer, failed in his spoon
attuck
YAR
IMPRESSION MADE BY BRITISH PREMIER'S LATEST SPEECH.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 10."
Parliament on the 16th inst. cens Mr. Lloyd George's speech in to have vastly impressed German circles,
Twelve German geroplanes were that no intelligent. man has ever The Frankfuries, Zeitung declares "brought down and 18′′wery drivgasserted that Great Britain could be down. Twelve of ours are inising.
FRENCH REPEL CONSECUTIVE ATTACKS.
abdued by starvation. It points out that Dr. Helfferich's statements were exactly contrary to those of Mr. Lloyd George. Only when the history of the war-is written can final judgment be pronounced.
This'in very interesting se it shows that
A Fréncir communiqué states There is lively artillery duelling doubt the official staternents regard-
the Germans are beginning
on both books of the Meuse, in
Bois-le-Pretre, cast of Badon Villers the submarine warfare which
they have hitherto regarded gospel:
and porth of these places.
Consecutive enemy attacks were repelled with appreciable lossen.
GERMAN. AIRCRAFT BOMB CASUALTY CLEARING
STATIONS,
STATION
TEN WOUNDED' GERMANS KILLED, OTHERS AGAIN WOUNDED
LONDON, Aug. 19, -t-p.m.
Fjeld-Marshal Sir Douglas Enig
reporta
We captured tranches in the neigh bourhood of Gillemont Farm, south enstward of Epehy, and raided powi tions south-westward of Huvrincourt, inflicting heavy casualtie
Enemy sircraft on Thursday and
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comunity clearing stations, killing ten wounded German prisoners and again wounding nine other Germans.
GREATER ARTILLERY ACTIVITY FURTHER BOUTH.
Losnax, Aug. 18.
A French communique states that there has been somerunt greater. artallery Act!
Cong of enuand on
Vouclere
bobl banke of the Meuse.
GERMANY AND THE POPE'S APPEAL
EXHAUSTIVE DISCUSSION EXPECTED IN REICHSTAG.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 18. The Reichstag Main Committee, will meet on Monday,
when actord- ing to a Berlin newspaper, the Pope's appeal will be exhaustively da cussed.
Herr Michaelis, the Chancellor, who had gone to Belgium, will return for the meeting
KRUPPS WORKMEN STRIKE AT MADEBURG
SEVERAL HUNDRED OUT
AMSTERDAM, Aug 193 The Lokal Anzeiger. several hundred workmen at works at Madeburg have owing to the arrest of one leaders on a clurge of atrike handbillя.
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