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WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1918.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS,
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THE WESTERN FRONT....
NEW ADVANCE BY AUSTRALIANS.
GREAT TRIUMPH FOR THE TANKS.
:
LONDON, July 7. Reuter's Correspondent at British Headquarters, telegraphing to-day, sats:
The Australians new advance reached a depth of 400 yards and secured commanding views for 5,000 pasis of the
whole of Villars Bretonneux.
The necess was a great triumph for the Tanks. One of these fattened out accessively six machine-gan pests with their crews. Another obliterated 30 machine-gans and took 200 prisoners.
The thoughness of the Americans roused tinted praise from the Australians. Tao-former charged |
houting Laitazim.”
The fight was the most economics! of iti kind we have ever fought, not « single Tank being lost.
THE CHINA MAIL.
GERMAN EZÕUSE TO OCCUPY
BAKU
PARIS MORE GAY THAN
*MOURNFUL.
LONDON, July 8
*SUFFERING.
-Significant reports are appearing in SPIRIT OF THE CAPITAL SURVIVES the German Prons of Bolebutik cruelties: at Baku which, it is allegado necessitate Germban ecospariowof tkia rich district.
JAPANESE ARMY TO BE INCREASED.
Navy and has approved in principle on' increasing the Army to 1 corps, 42 divisions and 126 regimenta.
THE DUTCH CONVOY.
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DETAILS OF THE NEW ORGANISATION.
Al Herman Bechstein, a Special Correspondent of the Yeg York Herald, writes from Christiania lately:-)
There have come into my possessiv It was recently announced in the extracts from the conflentia stenogra-China Machat & company had been phic report of a secret conference of the German Commercial Troutišs Societies | formáil by the Ministry of Communica which have just been smuggled to tions in Peking and the Western neutral country.
The following parties:Isra have been furnished to Shanghai papers:—
million gold dollars, que half for the The Company is capitalized at one
Ministry of Communications and the remainder equally for the Electric Com- panies. The Directors who have been oleoted for the first year are:
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Strangers who expect to find Paris a city of sadness and mourning geta delightfulsurprise on a riving therr, saya a Paris correspondent of the New York Herald. Although the war has struck a ARMY AND NAVY CO-OPERATION. staggering how to the nation of which this pity is the heart, and although the
This conference which was held on Electric Company, Incorporated, and sounds of the guns inuyalmost be heard LONDON, July &.
in the boulevards, Paris is the same old ctober 24, 1917, discussed frankly der the Nippin Elsetrie Carapany, Limited, The Tuner Carrespondent at Tokio, Paris. Perbare it in a bit subdaed.many's economie debacle. The society's wiring on the 1st inst. Hars
Perhaps some of the gaieties which once President in his opening address made to be known as the China Electric Com- Council Field Mashal seddaunted themselves, before the gaze of the startling statement that during the pany Limited for the establishment Admirals has decided upon a plan of the visitors have been toned down, bat entered the war der mit nerice of a manufacturing plans in China to
Germany soot couriers. co-operation between the Army and the spirit of Paris, has survived the to the United States, France and Southproduse telephone and telegraph ap:
tragedies and the years of suffering,
It is the life that one does not see Aeries, sach couriers rendering services paratus and other electrical materials. which has been transferred. There are
to Germany by fulling their confiden- tial mission. no grand receptions in the mansions. There are no veuing clothes in the re-
'PR. DERABUMI HEAD, staurants. The places which had their Dr. Borchard Dornburg, of German- doors flung, wide open from sunset to American propaganda notoriety, review dawn are darkened or closed and the ing B the conference, Germany's streets are more like, catacombs at night economic plight, said then the brillant thoroughfares which “The economie "war has specially in- in former years cast their splendour uponjured Germany by giving to her anemies the people of all the world.
the opportunity to fight as along broad lines. We were powerless against the combined warfare of the great Powers. But during the daylight hours there Our greatest and the best part of car is nothing to suggest the burroes of the tonnage fell into the enemies" hand. war. There is not the first indication Our food and clothing are reduced to the impoverishment and paralyzation the extreme limit. Our reserves of which has been hitelat aprend. The trans-ocsanie goods arealaust exhausted. at receta are crowded. The jewellry sipps. | Our banks abroad and our commercial Ho Yuan Han, Chiet of General Dept. along the lae de la Paix have just as enterprises have beto liquidated. Our of Telegraphe: Eiuji Nakayama; and gorgeous window displays as ever. The foreign friends hare boycotted us and Clark B. Minor who is General Manager modiste and millinery shops have lost four commercial ways over neutral of the Company, K. T. Long (recently none of their alluring daintines and the countries are .closed. The entire street traffic goes tooting by in an end apparatus of our agencies and insurance Assistant Superintendent of the Tientain less stream, much as it does in Fifth companies is battered down.
Telephone Administration) is Assistant Aveane at Forty-second Street or "In short and without exaggeration, | Manager, and G. R. Howatt, Secretary Michigan Avenue at Jackson Boulevard. German commerce and navigation will and Treasurer. The Assistant Treasurer,
The restaurants are crowded Persons have to be built, all over again after the who will be Chinese, will be named desiring to be served usually find it war. Our fields are uncultivated. Our at the next meeting of the Board of New necessary to engage tables in ivaoce. mines ara exhausted. Our reserve de Food is by no means so plentiful as it positories are empty. was a year ago, but French. culinary versatility, ecni pensates largely for scarcity of ments and sweats and one may dine almost as sumptuously here 85 in New York. The prices are very high. Dinner for two, without wine, in, any one of thirty of the prominent re- staurants will cost a couple with
¡Los Dos, July 8, Mr. Gibson Bowles in a letter to the Tiary denouness the concession As regards the Dutch convoy as a return to SUCCESSFUL RAID BY SCOTTISH the Declaration of London and asks whether the Allies contur: if not, then the convoy is liable search by Japan ese and United States warships and also to attack by Geßnan submarines unless Germany has also guarantee immunity which would be a privilege not enjoyed by a neutrál in shy war.
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-reporty-
TROOPS,
Lospos, July: $. Fjekt Marshal Sir Dougins Haig
The "Australians have advanced, their lin slightly on a front of 3,000 yards astride the Somme, capturing several prisoners
Scortish troopa took a few prisoners in, suggfal raid southwart of La Base Canal.
Australians entered the trenches exorward of Hazebránck and brought back prisomers,
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The Tune in an editorial, describes the Foreign Office cunimuaique on the subject of the conroy as humiliating and uniutelligible, and sars the Government has stablished & precelent which will be eited aganst us,
SEARCHING HOSPITAL SHIPS.
Hustile artillery is active ride the Somme blowing our operations, also RIGHT FREQUENTLY EXERCISED westwal of Beaumont Hamel and in the neighbourhood of Bethune.
THE COMING BLOW.
PROBABLE REASONS. FOR
DELAY.
BY ENEMY.
Losnos, July 8, "In the use of Commons. Dr. Macnamara stated that German sub- marines had
everal occasions
exercised the right of searching hospital ships in onier in see that they were complying with The Hague Convention, fle *Loxpox, July 8.
emphasised that Great Britain hart never broken the letter and spirit of The delay in the fferman offensive, the Convention as regards heapital ships which, "The "Correspondents ennour in
true declaring to be fully prepared, is ex-and be believed the same was citing winch speculation. It is attributed regarding Great Britain's Allen.
in some quasters to a shortage of man power and the prevalence of influenza,
but it is believed in Paris that a political reason is responsible and that it is possibly connected with the prolonged
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W
LORD BRYCE AND UNITY" OF
EMPIRE.
PARIS VEILS WAR HÖRRORS.
"The United States was dragged into the war by our submarine warfare. Now America and Japan are our most earnest enemies in commerce and other fields The damage done to Germany is colossal,"
THE FATAL BLUNDER.
Dr. Dernburg then spoke of the mili- ordinary tastes about fifty franes-$10tary condition, saying
In a few places this will easily be swelled to 139 franes.
PRINCE MOURNS STOICALLY
has approximately 6,000,000 soldiers hundreds of U-boats, dozens of
great. Zeppelins and shoessads of air. But for the presence in the streets and planes, but German commerce is wholly in the restaurants et tens of thousands, Germany's ships are taken away of uniformed men. one wohl bardly and her commercial relations broken and suspect that one was in the chief city of German representatives are interned or the nation which has been murdest hit expelled..
D. Dernbury told the assembly that by the war and which has horse the in September, 19:4, William J. Bryan brunt of the casualties. Women in proposed an arbitration treaty which mourning are seen everywhere, and Germany refused. This, Dr. Dersburg crippled men. but there is no evidenes declared was Germany's greatest blas that the nation is cast down. On the der during the war. contrary, its spirit is as buoyant as ever. The people are weary of the war, as are the people of all the rest of the world. reached a stage which will even consider sacrificing any of the principles for which France and ber Allies have been
ar One may hear in England stories that France is a stricken pation; that she lost so many men and so much money that she is merely groping her way toward the end. I have found none of this I tot onglead the people are and Paris that in
getting ready to lay down their borden and make peace. I found none of that feeling in London.
Council of War which the Kaiser, CountHE GREAT NALLY FOR LIBERTY Hertling, Field Marshal von Hindenburg and General Lndiendorff have been holding for some days past, war to "which Dr. von Kuehlmann has now.
been hastily summoned. It is stated! that the latter's party, which denies tha possibility of a military victory, Eas been reinforced recently by accounts of the situation in Russia and niso the revela-pe. tion that over a million American suldiers are in France.
Experts in Paris are of the opinion that the German reserves amount to only 55 Divisions compared to 60 Divisions in the Spring, hence they expect the coming blow will be on a much restricted front.
GERMAN AMBASSADOR
ASSASSINATED.
ASSASSINS HARBOURED BY SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARIES.
AMSTERDAM, Fely. A message from Berlin says the marderers of Count Mirbach.took shelter in a building occupied by Social Revol tionaries and defende 1 by machine-guns, The impression is growing that the murder was the signal for a big revolt by Soon Revolucionaries, fighting with
Thom is occurring in Moscow...
Details are lacking,
LENIN EXPRESSES INDIGNATION.
LONDON, July
+7
Lord Bryce has written the following introduction to a careful, study of The British Empire and the War" by French author, by Paul Hamelle (Paris, Gay):- "The Germans are a remarkable peo- They are an industrious people, a logical people, an organising people, a legrued people. But they are not wise pennie. They take enormous pains to accumulate snowledge, and when they have got they completely misunderstand it, and make the grossest practical, bluntiers in their attempts to
use it.
ver
the
world whole
to
WHAT GREMANY HIS TOLD US.
but this weariness has by no means
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THOU SHALT NOT FASS" France has a wonderful sy in the field. She has recently called up her young men and they may be seen about the streets, grous in their spick and span now uniforms, eager to get to the Front to do their bit for France and
will
HE Yeh Kung Cho (Vice-Minister of Communications), President and Chairman of the Board of Directors;
Chow Kia Ni, (Director-General of Telegraphs);
Directors.
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This Company has been formed for the express purpose of manufacturing and supplying the telephone, telegraph, and general electrical material required by the Chinese Telegraph Administra tion, as well as other Chinese companies. The head office will be at Peking and a branch office will be maintained at Shanghai. Under the perm of the contract between the Ministry and the
Electric Companies, the China Electric Company, Limited, will become sole agents in China for the Western Electric Company, lue, and the Nippan Electric Company, Ltd, and will have the privilege of all of the patents, Inventions, advice and experience of both of these very successful electrical manufacturing companies. The China Electric Company Limited, will sell all kinds of electrical material and apparatus, and is now ready to transact business.
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that it was at that critical mecient when All present agreed with Dr. Dernburg Germany was practically exluested and
The establishment of such a Company has beco contemplated for several years, beaten that the Bolshevik uprising and the Brest-Litovsk tragie comedy gave to but heretofore the Electric Companies Germany a breathing spel, enabling her did not feel inclined to start manufse to move her troops to the Western front turing in China. Recently, however, in Russib and the new hopes for bread.. Communications have been succesful and feed her population on the victories the present officiale of the Ministry of lenine, in return, güined a breathing spell for the Bolshevik dictatorshid in inducing the Electric Companies to which is destroying Kussin and aiding co-operate with them in this project, Germany against the free peoples of the and the Ministry is much gratified with world who are fighting for their freedom, the successful establishment of the
WHO CAUSED THE WAR?
MIMICKING THE BISMARCKIAN FELONY.
Company...
The Western Electric Company, Inc., is the great telephone manufacturing Company which supplice, the material used by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and has established factories in the other large countries of the world in conjunction with the capitalists of those countries, where it bas worked successfully through the following foreign allied houses; Nor Western Electric Company, Ltd., London, thern Electric Company, Ltd., Montreal, Le Matériel Téléphonique, Pads, Bell Telephone Madufacturing Co., Antwerp Western Electric Italiana, Milau, N. C Heisler and Company, Petrograd, Nip pon Electric Company, Ltd., Tokyo.
"In August 1014 they thought the Civilization. France's losses have been Fierr von Jagow's amazing "reply civil war. They believed Tad to be of a new offensive. Indeed, France may Viscount Grey could have prevented United Kingdom was on the verge of so overwhelming that there is little talk to the Lichnowsky revehtions that ripe for revolt. They expected the treat not be in a position to make one; but the war bus would not," is simply to self governing Dominions beyond the France knows that no army that ever fing Bismarck's plot at our heads and MERR to be eager to shake themselves took the field can pierce the French line say "ditto," says the Daily Chronicle. loose from the mere patrie, Every and that the historic saying of Verdux. On July 13 Bismarck sees that the only where they were proved to have beenThog Shalt Not Pass, will be the way to war is by picking quarrels and wrong, utterly and hopelessly wrong. French slogan for all time to come, seeking them artificially. On the 13th And the result of their attack on Britain No one is speculating here as to when he and Moltke and Hoon meet his was to draw all the British Dominions the war will end. Every one hopes it house in Berlin. despairing. To them. Pelcing, has for several years past beer Mir. Minor, who has recently come to into one wilf end this year... Mist French people unexpectedly comes the fateful Ems whole-hearted resolution standbelieve the end will not come this year.. dispatch. Then the forgery, for which the Manager of Le Matériel Téléphon together uniting all their forces for. But every one is confident that the end Molke piously thanks God.
ique at Paris and the Ball Telephone bring victory to France and the
in July 17th Bismarck received Manufacturing Company at Antwerp, defence against the common enemy.
nations
Note from the British Government and, has had much experience in the The people of Paris suffer many inccn- urging arbitration. The answer was manufacture and sale of telephone and Those among us who had travelled reniences, but do not complain Dark mobilisation the same day. Nothing on telegraph equipment to the Scan- over the British world expected this.streets at night keeps people indoors. en-th could then avert war. Next, on work, Criada, Australia, New Zealand, more or les nervous state. Soap is a suder to tell him that a reply, refusing French, Italian, Swiss, Spanish, South Having visited nearly every part of that Constant fear of ruids keep many in a the 20th, Bismarck went to our Ambas dinavias, Danish, Dutch, Belgian, even the Falkland Islands, I felt certain luxury. Persoas in hotels must provide arbitration; was on ita way to him. In American and Australian: operating
It can be bought the next breath he said, "England oaght companies. soup for themselves. that everywhere there was & Mense of a drug stores, but costs almost as much to have forbidden. Finnes to enter the union and loyalty to the idea of that
The very harmonious and satisfactory as silver. Vigarettes are very scarce. Empire which belongs to us all in com The
war. England could prevent this by results from the co-operation of the commočest kind cost five cents ber action now.” mon, because it is held together not by apiece sad few tobacco shops in Paris his secret, but the world knows it now,
For 15 years he kept Western Electric Company, Inc., in fores but by affection, and by liberty have them all. Butter is almost wn and bonday, see: You fagos deliberately Japan with the Nippon Electric Com But the extra Britannic world did not known in most restaurants and sugar is raimicking the felony.
pany, Limited, during the past twenty know this. It is Germany whose not to be had generally, challenge hus revealed it. Let us thadk
years has been gratifying to the officials the enemy.
of both countries, and the parties concerned, and the Ministry of Com munications is very sanguine for the fature development, of the Electric Company, Limited.
South Africa. India, the West Indies,
A Russian wirelear message says that M. Ledia, informing Ambassador Joffre at Berlin of the murder of Count Mirbach, order him to immediately visit Dr. von Kochlmann and express This wonderful rally of the whole bis indignation. The message states British people and its dependencies to that M. Lenin, M. Sverloff, L. Tebis & cause which is not only their own cherin and M. Karahan on receipt of the cause but the cause of right and justice, Cream is, on the "Don't." list, but
fun of bichdesertices is the theme oft
Candy may be bought at a few places, Vegetables and eggs are provided in but the prices are almosti prohibitive. abundance and there is plenty of mest to keep the population in good healthi Cream la, on the "Dining coffee. Ben's
WHAT IS POETRY"
A little coserie in Americs who call
cently threw out a challenge to the they asked, and offered so dollars for great continent. What is poetry
Daws immediately assured the Chief of with a vivid and sympathetic pen the clothes are twice as bigh in price as in themselves." The Poetry Lover" ro- | the German Mission that extraordinary great rally of the British Empire, and New York and leather goods bring meastires would be taken for the the feeling which pervades us all that alroost any price. Fish, poultry, canned discovery of the murderers. The whole meats must be found for making this goods and groceries are within the reply. The "committee who sat in The first of the Kobe quarter in which the Embassy is situated Imperial unity legally perpetual.
reach of the consumer. Altogether, was immediately surrounded by troops By what constitutional means that Paris is wach better off than London..
is to be done is not yet clear There and severe control was catablished oc
Upon the Arrivals at and departures from the are differences of view.
varjous views cited in M. Hameller: book town. An extraordinary Plenipotentiary express no opinion beyond'saying that will be dispatched to Berlin to express indignation.
GERMAN EXPEDITION ANTICIPATED
LONDON, July 8! A German expedition against Moscow is anticipated as a result of the murder of Coins Mirbach, the German “Ambassador: "
MOSCOW SOCIAL REVOLUTION- ARIES.
COUNTER-REVOLUTION
that I am one of those who held that KULTUR STATUE AT NEW YORK
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As an Englishman, I thank Msion in and out of Congress, has been Hamelic heartily for these brilliant and hoisted off its pedestal by a detachment Jamiuous pages, in which, with all the of army engineura and placed in storage. grace and vivacity of his admimble The thing-a gift to the United States languago, he has described the. spirit from the Kaiser to commemorate his and the action of our peoples. Febe-fighting ancestor probably never will trated as we are with an admiration for be put back in its place again, at least the valour and the constancy of our not for many years.
Is not a Biabop & Pontifex, and is further service. Allies, rejoicing that the French and President Wilson is adderstood to have not Pontifex n bridge-makar ?”: Baked British nations, which here always suggested the rémbyn!" of the statue in Dr. Henson - Bloombary Tways appreciated one another's qualities, even this manner to prevent further agitation a writer in a London paper, the answer hen they were opposed in arras, sro of the quication and to check any pos to the last part of the question," as they sow united in the closest friendship, esible draamitin, party by overzealous lay in Parliament "is in the negütires desire that Mamolie's countrymen Americans. The statue has been an The word Pontes according to the should know from him that the same eyesore to many Americans for years, ripest scholarship, has no connection wireless Fistian official macardgoj, resolution to carry this war to a Chand at least two attempts, one ten years with one bridge? but comes from O mend of suffering from cramps in the stordach, or intestinni į pažnis. plete and decisier victory which Alls the age and another several months ago,pontan cholite form of “quinque, Chamberlain's Colic Oncler and Diar SATURDAY, 18th July A connter revolutionary rising of the hearts of Frenchmen, berns with "as have been made to destroy it. The fact i meaning "five," and "facore, muy in this, Remerly never fails to relieve the Left Social Revolutionaries in Moscow, bright silame in the souls not of Eng that the War Department has permitted the technical sense of " tu sacrifico... in storero cases Oct it to-day, there thas bean suppressed.
Fatimen only but of all the British the statue trist where it did he been! The Ronun «Pontifices were originally will be no time to sebi for it after the Several bundreds have been arrested i British fag.
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