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TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1918
TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from Puge 1.
THE GREAT BATTLE.
CROWN PRINCE'S ARMY FALLEN BACK 20 MILES.
A LOSS OF 40,000 PRISONERS. PROBABLE RETIREMENT TO
THE AISNE
Cr
ANNIVERSARY OF THE
WAR.
CORDIAL MESSAGES EXCHANGED BETWEEN THE KING AND PRESIDENT WILSON.
LONDON, "Ang
The Prex Bureau states:- President' Wilson has sent the following message to His Majesty the King:
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE LATEST LANSDOWNE LETTER.
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILE REPLIES.
Losnos, A
Ale. Winston Churchill, in a letter
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE FRENCH OFFENSIVE.
GENERAL RETREAT BY ENEMY.
*NG VILLAGES AND BURN "O CROPS. DESTROYIN
LONDON
--Aug-
Se French 11.39
Reuters Correspondent at t Headquarters, telegraphing a pm. on Saturday, saya bila
The capines of Mont Bellen overlook.
to his conditments, replies at length THE ALLIED ARMY IN PURSUIT.ing the Aine south of Soissons gave ca
to toril Lansdowne's latest letter.
31r Churchill says the war has t to be won and is not yet won, These twin bank facts" douguste Anwrion' rordially extends her "very argument not arising tron hand to titrat Britain in this anniver, despondency or trenson, "Let us not
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LONDON, Aug. 3 Reuter's Correspondent +3 the 11. pm. yesterday, saya French Headquarters, telegraphing at The retreat is general on all three The Germans faces of the salient
footing on the plateau which fils the angle between the Aiane and the Veals and forced the retreat of the German left aur centre. The Germans with their third line chalooned facing south- west were driven from Soissons and is order to escape earelopment each successive centre of resistance had to ba abandoned as far as Fisten.
We ale again" in "open warfare and
stry of treat Britain's entrance into delle ourselves, hey, by thinker and on the line of the Vaale, but it is quite possible they may be obliged the war, in alieh the forces ofg there is any substitute for vis to retire to the Alsce. Anyway, they Laxdos, Aug, „3. Civilisation are fighting the forces of The salient fact of the situhave lost all they gained in the offensives cavalry teens spread across thờ fiekis. Sue" the Crown Prince began to Reaction, and repres that she two tion is: In appearance the power of May, June and Jaly. The question procede the advance of the infantry letres, his armies have fallen back nations stand side by side in so great is with the enemy, but in reality the now is whether they will risk what along the roada Elorsemen, on romains of their toserves in a sudden encountering machine-gun posts, die 20 Liles "and lost 10,000 prisoners canse."
power is with us. The Kaiser rules blow on another part of the front. If mount and destroy them or compel my to the present. The Gesiaan The King replied: "Yeir message tore millions of subjects and slaves they decide to tempt fortune once them to retire. The enemy artillery is positions are nearly in straight will be rend with cordis appreciation than any time during the wat, it more they will find the Allied Armies distributing its fire,on special points on ling between Soissons and Bheins. by my peoples, ensuring them the forman people are bleeding and ready. For the present we are receiving roads and bridges where our troops are every minute names of villages and bound to pass with the object of The enemy is still in care sides of in the proscention of the street, ale suffering fan bad feeding and woods re-occupied Plessier Wood, delaying the arivance: Bhis though the infest specesses against ur qpmanen enemies. La sudeedeeting and enduring a strain abutting on the Saisons Chatene have lived the pressure on the prot that my fores and thee of the as Imrd as that of (inte defenders surrounded to bed and the It was a centre the United States are fighting site Briting therefore, if we stand fast of Boche resistance-and the fight was The moons requires fewer Disis by sale. Fine, tay Test used the fermos mast break,
therefore extraordinarily bitter. sichs to geitai this line than it her unswerving detersination to con
Three terrible things haul hag. Further north the British crossed the retreated "gemoss" the Misne," whose time with all one strength what the devil, to. „Gorany during the Soissons-Chateau Thierry Road, pressing
through Conroy Wood, a mile east of ❘ CONTINUED SUCCESS OF BRITISH large victory of Right over thany Willings nevessitato
present year, Woong
Ville "Montoire, in March last year bullewag, trcmpus to defend then, but achieved."
The French Army is advancing in The Alde is frost dingelhus,
pursuit of the enemy. Cavalry patrols are far in advance and home artillery aad engineers, are accompanying the infantry
best shtë vit, the city.
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In the rear we have heuten the stol the indientkons are that
Her attacks C The British and French Aquies ing been Rea[at], Suterine had been definitely controlled, the American Amies were her Flutidend at a ruke pirunking to tanke
KING SENDS MESSAGES TO ALL is
ALLIES..
It rained heavily all day and the
TheGermans continue to burnvillages,
over ripe cemfekls. They aru alao
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PATROLA.
LONDON, Aug. 4 Field-Marshal Sir Doughs Haig te ports:
they will continue is retires EMPIRES DETRBAHNATION TO the Allied strength overwhelming. condition of the roads retards the Albert sector continued.
"maart north of the Aisnes, Even this
natupade nammpat is jeopardised by ala French bridgehèques at Sisseas and its suluuris of St. Viast. The Battar vonands the whole sluppe bomb of the river on the east side
l the sity.
THE BRITISH FRONT.
RAIDERS DRIVEN OFF.
PROSECUTE WAR
Lyngs, Ang, J. The Press Bursun states: H Majesty the King has eat 4. Trusso, Las to the miles of Brazil. Japan.
France,
Gore, ply
Pestug and Setia, emphasising Fabe Empire's muetanging reset
opticentify its enting her
vietärne – nefiisasi of the stug Losnos, plug."J.
glo, and exjessiter" qufidency in a Field Marshal Sir Douglas Hasiera penge not far distant,
Jejarta:
We deve nifinders to the math
of Ams
Pare's emptured a few primers in the fa, Basser" svetur,
His Majesty, Beld o Sindilar myter suge the King of the Belgians.
bling thut Belgiani's trials, Hraj heuvely borne and chored, will he un incentive to persevere till come. pleto victory is no Miguel.
P
The fourth thing was the increasing Alberi domination in the the worki
was mitching against Germany. We beal but to persevere To conquer. That was a reality. Taj make pened tow when Genigny bad
The progress of our patrols in the
We hold the greater part of the "ground" previously in the enemy's THE ADVANCE FAR FROM ENDED. possession westward of the Ancre. We
advance.
PARIS, Aug. 3.
A semi.official message states :—— The capture of the beights north of Grand Rozoy was effected in the teeth pparently triple but was really of desperate resistance. The woods, tottering; when America lead dily thickets and villages were so many just begun, and when Russia was in fortresses swarming with machine-gunt the deepest abyss of misery, would and had be captured separately, but bind our tire, for generations with opened at four o'clock in the morning the assault, which was assisted by Tanks, Retitions inferiority and a sham and was preased with such vigour that defract Y chat was wixt Loud the chief position was captured in Violent counter attacks Lautsdowne was obstinely beseech, two hours
were superbly nect and by the ing usodo.
evening the ridges farther north wers cocupied Numerous. Geroans were. seen by observers. Ageing northwards.
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Mr. Churchill, after uphasising that we must keep step with our Paberian kinshen The Cathedral was riddled with shells.
to the works of Provisions Wilson
AERIAL ACTIVITIES.
His Majesty also sent messages 101 Tasos, Aug .the Ringe of Sium and Montenegro. Fold-Marshal Sir Dughs Haig and the Presidents of China. Cum Tore pervivik on" nvhetión, says
We dropped Bive tons of lombs zand spot, dawn seven templipes,
n Liberia.
HOLD FAST!"
kore without stint." com- clades by declaring as indispensable to the cessation of hostilities, firstly that the Germaur Armies must be decisively beaten in the held; and Ketondly, the German people must
the night-thiers dropped fise tone PREMIER'S MESSAGE TO THE spontaneously are definitely break
of insubs on the railway, stations of Steenwerck and Fives.
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Tires British "machines are mise- ing.
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICA.
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A PROUD RECORD,
"TWENTY MILLION MEN, OF MILITARY AGE.
Lasoos, Aug. 5, Nine Congressinen of the Unitar State, visiting England, have nucle
EMPIRE.
Loxbox, Aug. 4 Mr. Lloyd George has issued the following message:-
„‚” The' message I send to the people of the British Empire on the fourth anniversary of their entry inter the war is "hold fast. We are in th
war for no selfish ends. We are in it to recover free- lom for the nations which have been brutally attacked and despoil ed, and to prove that no people, however powerful, can surrender itself to the lawless ambition of
with the system, which had leg them monstrms, erings,
many
Otherwise they cannot be allowed to enter into the League of Nations.
ZEEBRUGGE LOCKS TERRIBLY DAMAGED.
GREAT, SLAUGHTER AT BRUGES:
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The French completely hold Soïssous. Yesterday's progress was on a "front of 50 kilometres between Soissons and Rheims to an average depth of three or reached air. four kilometres. In some plaas it
closely followed up the enemy in bis withdrawal, indications of which were previously observed. "A number of dead were found in the abandoned
trenches.
We repulsed strong raiding "parties south-eastward of Hebuterne and east-
ward of Robeeg..
There was increased hostile artillery
activity at Remmel.
The weather interfered with airwork.
We dropped 30 tons of bombs daring the day, three tons of which fell on Bruges docks. We brought down two hostile machines. All our machines returned. Night-fying was impossible.
HOSTILE ARTILLERY ACTIVE.
LONDON, Aug 4. Sir Douglas Haig
Field-Marshal reports:-
Our patrols reached the Ancre The advance is far from ended, some between Dernancourt and Hamel, com. of our pursuing elements having alreadying into contact with the shamy on this reached the Vesle The retreating line.
villages, and Braises and Flames are in time northward of Bethune and south- enemy is enragingly burning crops and Hostile artillery, was active at night-
flames. The constunt aux of Arneri, ward of Ypres. cane is a sure guarantee of success of the operations which will shortly ba developed.
THE RETREAT CONTINUES.
PARK, Aug. 4. A Havas Agency message says: The "German retreat continues on the whole thirty mile front.
The catare of the pursuit is shown by the active intervention of French
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
SUCCESSFUL ALLIED OPERATIONS.
LONDON, Aug. 1.. An Italian official message states:- We captured a peak on Dociaalto himself at heavy cost since June 15. where the enemy has been maintaining we overcame large parties hidden in Caves and took 10 prisoners." A large quantity of war material was also taken. The French, by a successful coupe-
cavalry, which is hanging on the heels of the scattered for and forcing him to a Holland after riding Zeebrugge, accentuate his fight, declare that the Coat is still block-The Allied advance, yesterday, ex-mein, penetrated far into the lines cast- end, the locks were terribly dain-tended to a depth of six miles. At ward of Asiago taking 125 prisoners
places advance elements pushed even and a gut Militarism.without meeting with aged by a direct hit "yesterday. war effonk
further shood. The Vesla bas heen
a statement that there will be no Cessation of America's
until the war is won.
America has 20,000,000 men
· military, nge,"and" "overy your mon than a million youths reach the age' of 21,
America's agricultural production is so great that, if it is necessary, it can feed Prince, England and Italy, and keep the Armies fully
rationed.
ure
"Helore October there will be tw million American soldier Europe.
A... million-und-a-half more training in the United States, all of who are between the ages of 21 and $0, and equal to the best.
shock troops.
Daily, 10,000 of these splendid troops are leaving for the battle. front.
America is manufacturing weekly | 55,000 res, and 5,000 machine guns. The capacity of the factories is 760,000 shells daily. In the new upons, including improved gren- de, flame-throwers and poison gases, the Americans are specially wellsupplica.
Twenty-five thousand aeroplanes are now being built Tire United States possesses 100,000 aviator. The new aeroplane motor, compared to its weight, is the most powerful in the world and will enable great
hombing machines to fly across the Atlantic in twenty hours. Already 500 battle-planes have been shipped to Europe, the present delivery of the battle-planer being at the rate of 80 per week.
to under
Kerently
"retribution, swift; certain and dis-
British bomb fall crossed and any hope of holding this entered Glags, inflicting losses and The British westward of Asiago ustrems, at the bands of the freest 100 marines at Bruges, line has been lost for the Germans. The taking prisoners. inthas of the world. To stop using greas slaughter. short of victory for this enuse would be to roltpromise the future of romankind.
".
** 1 say
*bold fast beause our prospects of victory have
perer been bright as to-day..
ARMOUR FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. The War Department announces Six that the expert armourds, in the onths ago the rulers of Germany workshop. of the Metropolitan deliberately rejected just and in New York, ore model reasonable settlement proposed byling armour for the use of American the Allies Throwing aside the soldiers in France, including helmets, Inst misk of moderation, they shields and breast-plates, comprising partitioned Russia, enslaved all the best types used, in ancient Rumania and attempted to seize days.. supreme power by overwhelming.
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retreat will probably continue till the 'Aisne is recrossed and General Foch is determined to prevent the enemy from profiting by the full in operations.
towns.
AMERICAN TROOPS IN FRANCE, American troops advancing strongly in the centre yesterday reached the
1,300,000 TO END OF JULY. outskirts of Fismes, the great junction
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 on the Veals and on the Soissons-Rheims
General March has informed the railway line midway between these two
According to the last reports, Senate Military Committee that over Fisavas in on fire, which indicates that 300,000 American troops were shipped the enemy entertains no further hope of in July and the total to the end of July retaining the town. West of Fismes was 1,300,000. A gen now marching on the Aisne in concert tands one million men- the Americans crossed the Vesis and aré General Pershing now directly com with General Mangin's forces, which crossed the Crise on Friday and are now across the railway: skirting the Vesle
East of Fismes General Berthelot's army of British French and Italians swept forward over a wide area and is
COPENHAGEN,Aug 9: now bugging both sides of the main ra A Berlis semi-official message states AN INNUENDO LEPUDIATED. way line from Flames to Rheims. Thus that Admirat Holtzendorff, Chief of
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