THE
WAR.
THE FRENCH SUCCESS.
THRILLING ACCOUNT OF STORMING OF
HARTMANNS-WEILERKOPF.
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND THE WAR.
GENERAL.
MORE SUBMARINE ACTIVITY.
ANOTHER AUSTRIAN DEFEAT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ON THE WAR,
LONDON, April 4th. The Archbishop, preaching in Canter
AUSTRIAN FAILURE TO INVADE. BESSARABIA.
LONDON, April 5th.
A Petrograd official despatch states
that "the defeat of the Austrians on
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TULBDAY, APRIL 6TH, 1918.
THE
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
OF STORMING HARTMANNS-WEILERKOPF. THRILLING STORY OF FRENCH OPERATIONS..
HOW AN INVISIBLE FORTRESS WAS DEMOLISHED STONE BY STONE.
PARIS, April 4th.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
THE PEKING NEGOTIATIONS,
AN IMPORTANT DECISION:
PEEING, April 4th. At Thursday's conference between the representatives of the Japanese and Chinese Governments. China agreed to the demand that Jugances shall be allowed to reside and own land in South Manchuria, but only on the understanding that any dispute arising shall be tried by the Chinese Courts irrespective of the antionality of the parties.
The French official Eyo witness" gives a vivid account of the storming of Hartmanns-Weilenkopf. He recalls how the French advance guard in January was compelled to surrender there, owing to hunger. Hasty counter-attacks were fin- possible, and consequently the French started methodical properations to demo Saturday's conference was without lish, stono by stone, the invisible fortress result. The Japanese asked to have the from which the Germans had been Manchurian questions reopened, dominating the valleys, directing their ⠀⠀⠀ artillery fire with deadly accuracy.
The fog prevailing in the Vosges further made
their task most difficult. The French dug trenchies, erected shelters, constructed gun-positions and launched their attack at the end of February, but the Germans burrowed the woods and only gave a hun dred yards
Still more deliberate proparations en sued, resulting in the capture of some of the enemy's blockhouses and first line
A SECOND DOMESTIC LOAN. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK TO ASSIST IN ITS FLOTATION.
PERING, April 4th.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank has arranged an agreement with the Chinese Government to undertake with the Bank of China and the Bank of Communica tions to float a second domestic loan. of $21,000,000,
trenches early in March, after intense": artillery fire and brilliant charge by PRESENTATION TO REV. C. chasseurs. This drove the Germans to
March 30th near the villages of Schilovtay bury Cathedral, affirmed: Our cause when 2,133 prisoners, field-kitchens and
this great war is indisputably right, eight field telegraphs were taken. resultexasperation, and twʊ German regiments and we are firmly resolved that we shall ed in the enemy's" retreating along the made four acounter-attacks during the
prevail."
His Grace strongly urged all engaged in comection with armsments and other supplin, to do their best work. It was
unthinkable, he said, that the splendid
devotion of their brothers in the
frenchu and
wasted
battleships should be
The Archbishop advocated that British houselolds should, voluntarily suspend the us of alcohol. He impressed this apon church people and emphasised the fact flat the King was confident that they would be ready with 2 widespread
respolc
STIRRING SCENES IN DUBLIN.
whole front, and the complete failure of his attempt to invade Bessarabia in the
direction of Chotin,
LATER.
The battle which, checked the Austrian
invasion of Bosarabia was remarkable
for the impetuosity of the Russians and the strong defensive position near the villages of Schilovitzy and Malintry which was held by an Austrian division of infantry and a brigade of cavalry Two columns of Russian cavalry, not quite equal to the Austrians numerically dismounted and attacked the enemy et 6 o'clock on the morning of the 30th ult, one from the north, the other from the south. The enemy throughout the day. offered
BONE.
The Rev. C. Bone, who is shortly leav-
day and two the next day. Two further
ing for Home, was made the reoipient of a silver spirit kettle and a purse of sorties were mowed down by our artilerygold at the Sailors and Soldiers Home
Now it was we who had the upper hand and who felt sure of winning by hard fighting. Our gunners were learning by daring and patience the positions in the donse wood, They had honey-combed the hill with more than thirty miles of telephone wires,
In the middle of March, our artillery bombarded the enemy for four hours. The guns poured a terrific and precise fire among the trees, and there could be seen hurtling through the air fragments of the Germans equipment and portions of the trenches.
Then the infantry dashed forward and a desperate resistance. The the Germans were thrown into complete Rugsians, including Cossacks, repeatedly consternation The French pressed furi Towards ously forward and carried two line of attacked with the bayonet,
The trenches, taking many prisoners. Chasseurs debouched from the flank with equal dash, carrying the lines before We repulsed two counter-attacks them. and organised the ground won,
LONDON, April 5th. There were stirring scenes in Dublin esterday when Mr. John Redmond re-evening the resistance of the Austrians vived in Phoenix Park 25,000 national was broken, and the Russians, pursuing their impetuous attacks, dislodged the volueers carrying rifles.
Nonecches were made as Mr. Redmond enemy from the height between the villages and occupied them. Meanwhile wish he review to be regarded as a
seven miles north, the Don Cossacks drove There was activity in the German military went.
an Austrian battalion and several squad trenches on the following day, The Ep rons of cavalry out of the village of pearance of bayonets and helps herald Roukhotine and the enemy began to ed a big counter-attack. Our artillery
The with appalling rapidly, found the retrout along the whole front, Russians are pursuing.
chemy's trenches again, men and equip ment hurtling through the air.
Salquently, the Band of the Irish Guards niched through the streets playing the national airs including * Gol save Ireland," evoking transports of enthusiaum, The band, which was sent to help recruiting in Ireland, arrival at Dublin at midnight on Satur.
[Bessarabia is a province of S.W. Ruesia, separated by the Pruth and the Lower Danube from Rumania in the W., and by
last evening, the presentations being made by Mr. Mukcham on behalf of the members of the Wanchai Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. The presentation took place at an interval in a most enjoyable arranged, along with a tea, as a farewell concert programme which had been
gathering to the Rev. and Mrs. Boue.
Before making the presentation Mr. Makeham, who is this oldest member of the present congregation, recalled the time when the Rev. Bone first came to Hongkong from Canton seventeen years ago At his first servies only twenty people were present, but as the result of arduous labour he had been able to bring their chapel and chapel buildings up to
RCISE
he
situated To compel every person, whe wants a permit to leave the Colony-ho residents only, but every passenger pers
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
By a tacit understanding, prandial orations are always regarded ing through the port to go down to with indulgence. Nevertheless, Colonel the Headquarters Offices half a mile of Chapman's utterances at the Volunteer more away from the principal Riding dianer last week ond have aroused no piers and approached from the mit little indignation, and more
road by a hill with a gradient of about than che
1 in 3, is very reasonably a matter of letter of protest to the Press, I am informed, has been written only to be general complaint. As many as a h torn up because, on calmer reficction, making this pilgrimage The Post Dog dred persons must on some daya be it secrace too strong, while subsequent Building would be a much more con- afforts have been discarded because they erred in the opposite direction Admit-venient location for the office issuing of taste, but that, after all, is not u
these permits. tedly, his remarks were not in the best matter which need concern anybody but naisane that one is obliged to give So many people complain of the privat himself. We are all willing to acknowledge our indebtedness to tho really belongs to the category of local public-spirited men who are sacrificing
nuisances. The insignificant-looking comfort, and leisure to their sense of
blossom is declared to be responsible daty, but a little modesty in a hero does in many cases. for very distressing. not necessarily lessen his claim to our throat affections, and it is more than mimiration. When Colonel Chapman useless to point out the ornamental value issues his black-list" of those who are of the shrub to its annual victims.. doing nothing for the Colony he would Shanghai, where they study beauty lea perform an additional public service by and comfurt more, a complaint addressed including in it tho mamce of those who aro anpatriotic enough to accept the removed of the nuisance from your neigh- to the Municipal Council secures tho emoluments of two offices while di bourhood, I understand. charging the duties of one. then discover that there are some in our midst not unlike that hero of romance, Little Jack Horner," of whom it was written:-
We may
"Little Jack Horner sat in a corner Eating à Christmas pie,
He pushed in his thumb and pulled out
a plum
And sad What a good boy am I.'".
"The Four
credence to their claims that the blossom
In
I
Pesk residents naturally feel that they have a grievance against the Peak Tram Company for increasing the fares. have oven heard talk of a petition to the Government on the subject. Though no reasons em given in the advertisement for the increase of fares, it is obvious to regular patrons of the Peak tram cars what causes have led the Company to the decision. Since the war began there must have been a serious falling off in the Company's revenue, due to the withdrawal
of the troops from Mount Austin bar- racks, the expulsion of the Gemians from the Colony and the paucity of tourists. At the same time, it must not be forgotten
When I hear all this feather-brained talk of presenting white feathers to all who are not in the Volunteers, I am tempted to ask those who advocate this outrage whether they have ever read Mason's well-known book, White Feathers," from which, presum ably, the idea in horrowed. I suspect not, that many other businesses in the Colony and for their benefit I will give a brief are suffering from these and other causeg a poor fellow who has been thrust into tainly point in the contention that if outline of it. The hero of the story is incidental to the war, and there is cor-
the Army by his father to maintain the every firm so affected. is at liberty fo family tradition, and lives in perpetual dread of funking if over he should go into not in his pace when the of some, he sends in his papers when he becomes engaged, but, before doing so, receives a tolegram announcing that his regiment has been ordered on active serving. This fact he suppresses, and three of his brother officers, when they learn of it, send him cach a letter containing a white feather. Many, he said, looked back with joy and One of these reaches Lim white ho is pleasure to the work which had been done when & hunce with his fiance, and shareholder would stay th suspect, the she see it und learns this as a rank by ne Rev. Bone Personally, Mr. Bone the rason for its being eant she and con-demn-ible heresy.
queer stick,(laughter)-he plucks a fourth feather from her fan was a liked to have his own way, as most people and adds it to the others. did, but he was a generous neighbourhearted, the young fellow leaves Eng and a true friend. (Applause) Mt. land and is not heard of again for some Moksham then made the presentations
years. Meanwhile he has born in Egypt amid much applause.
mixing with the people in order to learn their language and customs us a pre-
the present very satisfactory level.
at 5
Brokem
insist on the patrons who remain paying enhanced charges for their necessities. Hongkong will cease to have attractions for anybody but millionaires or wealthy taipans. I have heard it suggested, sotto voce, that the shareholders should be prepared to contemplate, for once, a reduction in the annual dividend, or, it. need be, to bear with courage and patrio- tio the entire loss of the dividend while
up an
It is never pleasant to take unpopular attitude, and, as a conse- quence, the majority of people prefer to follow the line of least resistance. When, therefore, we find one who means well and has the courage of his convictions,
arrivedparation for the task that he has set it is difficult to withold from
Returning thanks, the Rev. Bone also referred to the time when he in Hongkong from Canton. He had no come in those days of seventeen years ago. In those days, they might bo inter ested to hear, the Dairy Farms had only
himself.
a him a feeling
Eventually, disguised as native, he contrives, by various daring even exploits involving much suffering, to his
scue, one by one, his erstwhile friends who are held captive by the enemy. As
Then, on the day of the great assault one cow, and there was only one mother he gives cach his liberly-in one case ut
he know and she had a child and
day, yet crowds, including the Lord the Dniester from Podolia and Kherson in March 26th, the Frenchinen noted, 101 would not come out to hear him. It was
N. and E, touching the Black Sou from the Sulina mouth of the Danube to the estuary of Ovidopol. Bessarabia was ceded by Roumania in 1912.]
| RUSSIAN COMMAND CHANGE,
LONDON, April 4th.
impossible, under these conditions, to get up a welcome for the new minister, and
the cost of his own-he returns the feather, and asks that it shall be carried to his fiancée. Finally, his task accom
fully that the fog, which for many weeks. had favoured the Germans, had melted before the first rays of the sun. All was so he went out and purchased half-a-plished, he goes back to England and ready, and from this point onward the dozen handkerchiefs and went home and gives her the fourth feather in person drama proceeded with automatic regu-wept (Laughter). But his farewell was
It is not a story to make one eager to emulate the examble of those who owed
man upon whom they had turned their backs so promptly.
admiration, though we
not share views. There reflections are
It is announced at Petrograd that Jarity. Between us and the summit were one of the finest things he had had in their liberty, if not their lives, to the private. Apart from this, however, it is
Mayer, were present to welcome it. FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT (THROUGH REUTEN'S AGENOY,} FURTHER FRENCH PROGRESS.
LONDON, April 5th. The Paris evening communiqué says: * Quiet along the whole front, except at Woone, where our progress has con- tinud We captured the village of NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
Regaleville, west of Fayenbaye, and
occupied it on April 1st.".
BRITISH CASUALTIES.
LONDON, April 4th..
The latest casualties announced are:-- Killed. J. E. Marshall R. W. Rac. Died of Wounds.-H. Broadway. R.
J. Francis. Wounded. 2nd Lieut. Bayne (East Surreys), T. Kendall, H. M. Marshall,
:-
RUSSIAN FRONT
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE FIGHTING ON THE WEST NIEMEN.
A Petrograd official statement says that the fighting west of the Niemen is deve Toping strongly in favour of the Russians. The fight between Calvaria and Suwalki ended in the Russians charging and sabing the Germans and driving them from the occupied region.
General Alexieft succeeds General Russky in coiomand of the armies on 'the north- west front,
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
DUBLIN STEAMER
TORPEDEOD.
LONDON, April 5th. The Dublin steamer City of Bremar has been torpedoed off Lands End and sunk, Four of the crew were drowned and
wore
thirteen
Penzance.
DANISH STEAMERS SUNK BY MINES.
saved and landed at
LONDON, April 5th.
4 Copenhagen telegram-states that the ferry, between Trelleborg and Sassnitz has been suspended as a result of the mining and destruction of two steamers.
The crews were saved
GERMAN STEAMER SUNK. The German steamer Gretememsoth, faking ore from Sweden to Germany, was Two thousand prisoners were taken in sunk in the Baltic, twenty-five of her crew the Carpathians on the 2nd inst. in the being drowned. It is believed she was dinctions of Bartheld and Mesolaborcz, sun by a mine
prompted by the Bishop's sermon on Bunday morning, and the commente that I have heard passed upon it. Nobody can question his lordship's propriety in pointing out at the prosent moment the evil wrought by intemperance, and the efforts which the King and those in authority under him are making by force of example, to stem it. But there are many who take exception to any public analysis of the accounts, or criticism of the conduct of members of, an institution, which, after all, is three lines of trenches and block houses his life. It was a great wrench for him
doubtful whether any good purpose is served by a general chastisement of the and trees still masked the defences of the to come to Hongkong from Canton, and
members, though it is certain to create cany, but French artillery of every te had impaired his life from one point
of view. He had ambition, he had. I hope that I shall not be deemed to some feeling of resentment. Even if we take the figures quoted by the Bishop, description pounded the Germani.
ermanicals. Still, for seventeen years he had e imparting any valuable informativa they work out at only fifty cents a day. Huge pines crashed down, and the whole worked among them in a spirit of mutual to the German Admiral in Far Eastern per member-surely no extravagant sum ground was chaos and holes." Cries of affection and mutual help. He thanked waters if I give publicity to a very in a thirsty climate? But when one re agony were heard from the German sel them for all the affection, they had excellent suggestion that is assured in members that, in addition to the 500
Bishop, there were 47 subscribers ters, and ammunition stores exploded bestowed upon him, and if he should be advance of a cordial welcome. It is that resident members mentioned by the The work of destruction was continued spared to come back again it would be when the Territorials arrive somthing when the year closed and probably nearly remorselesely for over four hours, then one of the greatest pleasures of his life, should be done to mare their stay in our double that number before the war broko the infantry, in a magnificant rush, From the bottom of his heart he thanked midst as pleasant as possible by organis out, and a constant stream of story them for all their kindnces to him in the g, for example, a erics of weekly throughout the year to share in the Chasseurs wich
entertainments for them. These room, it ninety thousand dollars worth of "wire-and other things, including stormed the summit,
must not be forgotzen, are not carrying non-intoxicants which must represent a During the evening, also, a welcome hand grenades teak the trenches on the past, and also et the immediata present.
on business as usual," but have given considerable proportion of that figure- right, other troops progressing on the left,
was extended to the Rev. and Mrs.
account. up their regular avocations and the one is surprised at the modesty of the and the artillery swept the eastern slopes. Robinson, recently arrived from Suichow,
salaries attaching to them in order to completely demoralising the Germans,
who are suceeding the Rev. and Mrs.
serve their King and Country in return Thus wo conquered the whole of Hart Bone.
for a shilling a day. In Hongkong that manns-Weilerkopf. The dhab of the
The concert programme was contribut shilling will not go much further than Frenchmen carried them beyond the ed to by Mrs. Haskett, Mrs. Goodman, from the top of the Peak to the bottom
and back again, summit, where they also established them Mrs. Brown, and Messrs. Cawsey, Brock selves in a formidable position, Test and Stevenson, evening snow fell, covering with a white winding-sheet those who bad fallen.
RELIEF SHIP ATTACKED BY AEROPLANE:
I
healthy rivalry will develop between the Something seems to indicate that a Special Reserves and the Special Police, especially when the latter are fitted out with their uniforms, etc. It can be stated now that when the voluntary Roberts do emerge in all the glory of white uniforms, I uherved the other day that the with sprinklings of gold and blue, ánu a white helmet entwined with a puggery Provost Marshal is now established in a of rainbow tints, they will be a proud new office, and that bis old quarters are body of men possessing strong opinions Such was the Hartmanns-Weilerkont
made to serve as a special office for the as to the relative merits of white and khaki uniforms, and of carbines as, affair, which will be reckoned among t
..the A German aeroplane over the Nurch issue of permits to persons desiring to against service rifles. The Special
Sea bombarded for half an hour the Hence British steamer Elfard conveying went leave the Colony. Whether this in a Polics of all sections are progressing, finest pages of mountain wor
am told, in a remarkable manner. They forth the whole plain to the eastward from Argentina for the relief of Belgians quite recent change or not 1 do not know, are all very keen, and though forced,
and flying the Holief Commission's but it struck me that when the change through temporary circumstances, to drill. under our fire. Amid the snows we enormous fing. The cleverness of the was contemplated public convenience in civilian attire of a variety of colour counted 700 German dead, and we mate in steering the steamer in a circle captured large numbers of prisoners and and the approach of a torpedo inat might have been consulted. I understand and designs, make a very good show, when enabled the vessel to escape. One bomb that in other British Colonies these being put through their paces at the
police compound; much war material.
alongsido smushed some fittings.
*Pass Offices and mome centrally
RODERICK RANDOM,
was