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THE WAR.
THE GREAT ALLIED ADVANCE.
BRILLIANT WORK OF NEW ARMY.
SANGUINARY HAND-TO-HAND
FIGHTING.
HUGE CAPTURES OF GERMANS.
ENEMY ACTIVE ON
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.]
THE ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE. GLORIOUS BRITISH CHARGE.
GRIM WORK AT HILL 70.
LONDON, September 30th. Router's correspondent at Headquar writing on the 26th inst.. states that Bors the first glorious charge of the British from the Vermelles treaches on Saturday morning carried them right through the village of Loos to the summit of and be yond Hill 70. The men left the tranches
at 0.30 when the sun haid niso suteistly to make the enemy's parapet clearly visible. Officers stood with watches in their hands impatiently waiting for the, minute when the batteries in the rear would ingthen their range, and the man- with bayonets fixed and landers ready to swarm up the parapets lengthwise. A whistla was sounded, and the troops
rushed off in an irresistible manner. They carried the quézny's fret and second lines within an hour, and by eight the whole unit in question was strumming through the streets of Loos.
RUSSIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1st 1918.
(THROUGH-REṬTER'S AGENCY.]
A VIEW OF THE BATTLE
OF LOOS..
RUSSIAN FRONT
(THROUGH REUTER'S· AGENCY.] FIERCE ENEMY ONSLAUGHTS.
{THRQUOR MRUTER'S LOENOX.)
THE ANGLO-FRENCH LOAN
SYNDICATE. ··
LARGEST OF ITS KIND EVER FORMED
LONDON, September 30th. The Anglo-French loan syndicate will
the United States, the membership in- be the largest of its kind ever formed in
dividual financiers from the Atlantie 10 lading Banks, Trust Companies, and in.
the Pacific. Forty banks in New York alone have signified their intention of
PETROGRAD. September 30th. LONDON, September 29th.". Router's correspondent at the British. A communiqué states that Germain at Headquarters in a letter, dated Septen tacka rear Friedrichstadt and Dvinėk ber 27th, says the bombardment preceding were repulsed, but the Russiaus gave way the attack was so terrific and concentrated somewhat south-east of Osminusy and cast that it was impossible to distinguish the of Vilna, while south of Pripet repeated reinforced, separate detonations. It sounded like a German attacks, strongly single tremendous machine-gum. Peon's compelled the Russians to withdraw to sleeping thirty and forty miles distant the right bank of the Styr, Three enemy There were awakened by the reverberations. The attacks at Novaalexinetz failed. weather was unfavourable at the outset, was a desperate engagement on the Styr
west of Tarnopol, where the Russians,iuining. The popular character of the but cleared up at midnight. The morn
to the reception given to the German lain, ing of Saturday broke dul), but it was supported by powerful artillery, captured support given to the Allies is compared which the German bankers, despite fran- find good fighting weather.
tis appeals to the German-America investor, have been compelled to offer under conditions yielding practically
nind per cent.
Captured officers with whom the corres- pondent conversed admitted that though they expected an attack it was a surprise One states that practically when it came.
his whole regiment was taken because the regiment on its left was almost destroyed.
hiding in collars.
Тоок, mining township,
two lines of trenches,
GUERILLA BANDS OF PEASANTS.
LONDON, September 30th. The Morning Post correspondent at Petrograd states that guerilla bands are
MAIL SERVICE TO JAPAN,
We are informed by the Superintendent of the P. & O. Co. that advices have been received from the Managing Directors that the Company will maintain a fort- nightly service to and from Japan by continuing on the majority of the Com pany's mail steamers from Shanghai to Moji, Kobe and Fekohama,
BRITISH ARMY GYMNASTS.
KING AND QUEEN WITNESS DISPLAYS.
The King last month at Aldershot saw the play was scientifically designed to make the men better soldiers. With the soldiers at play as well as at work, though
Queen and Princess Mary and Sir Arch- bald Hunter his Majesty motored to the gymasium in Queen's avenue. There were gathered the picked gymnasts of the com- mand-hundreds and hundreds of them, for the new Army has absorbed the greater portion of the young athletes of the coun-
Mr. Pierpont Morgan's representative try.
entusiastic. virtually disappeared--
BULGARIAN AFFAIRS,
Drilling as a private in the ranks, Boun-
a Greck statue, heroic style; and close to haniam hattalion, whose movements wege him was a big-chested little man from a
picture of lithe and powerful grace After some combined movements, taken "from" "the "fomittun Swedish drill the man. broke up into squads and played all sorts of games which tend to quicken the eye and the muselės.
Many of the enemy were discovered appearing in the rear of the Germany has announced that the response the bardier Wells, the famous boxer, suggeste THE LAST RUSH,
consisting of peasants whose homesteads loan in all parts of the country has been The last rush of the attackers carried
before have been burned, led by Cossacks, Re-exceedingly gratifying, and prondises to Any opposition has mit of Hill 70, and half a mile out of the village. Some went beyond the war had a population of 10,000. Itantly a German column of all three till checked by a powerful earthwork was curious to discover a sumber of defence. The enemies batteries are now civilians at Loos dive: They-welcomed concentrating on the Hill, and the at tackers have been ordered to entrench a hundred yards from the summit. Fierce fighting continued all round the Hill on Sunday aid Monday.
The Now Army Battalions were con spicuous in the attack. Men who were inexperienced in real fighting advanced in a most steady manner under a terrible fre They hauled the German forts firing from cellars, obarged and captured machine-guns firing through the holes of cottage walls, all amid a terrifying din, while the air overhead was thick with bursting shrapnel.
SANGUINARY HAND-TO-HAND
FIGHTING.
the conquerors.
arms was surrounded by an insignificant force who had silently crept along the secret paths of the marshes and then raised an aların on all sides. The Germans be cane panic stricken and the whole.celuma disappeared in the treacherous - MOTISS, NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
(THROUGH ARUTER'S AGENCY.)
BATTLESHIP NOT SUBMERGED.
There was leap-frog; there were short races in which a man had to creep between another's legs; there were glorified forms of "tig' and puss in the corner! The royal party walked down to see it
NEW CABINET TO BE FORMED.
ATHENS September 20th. The King of Bulgaria has requested M. Malinoff, who is a Russophile, to form a Cabinet. It appears that the crisis was caused by the pro-Germans Tont-stood in a circle and in the middle was a
ITALIAN · NAVAL DISASTER, cheff and Bakalloff, who disagreed with M. Radoslavoff, the Premier, when the now situation demanded a less warlike altitude, consequent upon the especially determined attitude of Greece.
ROME, September 9th.
"The weather to-day was overcast with From pouring rain in the afternoch. an eminence south of La Bassce I had a splendid view of the battlefield. In the foreground were the miners' red-roofed cottages amid the slag heaps. A promin ent features was the famous Tower Bridge of Leos —» metal colliery struc ture which the Tomurics long desired and bow possess. The theatre of the fighting,
The habtleship Benedetto Brit, the was clearly defined by the red flashes of the guns against the lowering sky. Overmagazine of which exploded after a fire, hand, aeroplanes were tirelessly watching is not submerged, though seriously dựn the enemy's movements., Red Cross oars aged. Several of her guns have already and munition waggons were oraselessly been removed, and arrangements are passing towards the front. A British being made for the removal of her heavy observation badlogu soaring skyward artillery. LONDON, September 30th. Hompestuous weather is rendering tho was lit up by the evening sun. The only operations most dificult. The Crown eign of life in the folds and villages were Prince's attack was as furious as any in the calpits belching forth smoke, show-
The Franch parapets were ing that the miners were toiling-under- | IMPORTANTBRITISH SUCCESS waited away by the furious bombard-ground heedless of the palpitating events. A large share of the success is due to ment. Then began gushes of liquid fire, but the French stood firm and poured the British aviators employed in gaining sheets of lead at the advancing Germans. information and bombing the German of Lille Then there was bloody hand-to-hand communications southward. fighting The Frenchmen were almost There were 27 fights in the air during the buried in masses of Germans, but the past week and only, once was a British reserves, not heeding the ga's sheets, made machine worsted." the enemy waver. Eventually the Ger mans returned to their own trenches, and were prevented bringing up supports by the French guns. ALL NEW POSITIONS MAINTAINED.
PARIS, September 30th.
the wair
IRRESISTIBLE DASH. The Colonel of one Regiment followed his man over the parapet, and when he reached the Erst of the onemy's trenches was astonished to find no trace of the attacking companies. The Colonel cross- ed the tranch, and entered the second line, where he caught sight of his men dashing through Loos village itself, which was protected, by a triple line of wire of extraordinary thickness and
A communiqué states that fighting has strength the baches being nearly an inch
continued all day on the heights between long. The first two lines were destroyed
Souchez and Vimy. We have maintained by the artillery, but the third stood still all the now captured positions. There is and had to be out by the men standing still violent fighting in Champagne be up fully exposed to fire. The German fore the enemy's rear positions.
With the object of reducing the salient dead were piled four deep in some of the trenches. In the village bayonet and in north. Mesnil, where German frale- bomb work was in full swing in the wind-tions are still holding ground, we pro- gressed on the slopes of Tahure Knoll and
1.35 am
ing stress. Many of the cellars con- the qukirts of the village, and also tained Germans, and our bombers, dash-north of Massigas. ing into the houses, pulled up the flags of the cellars and dropped their bombs. Hidden machine-guns were discovered in several places and had to be routed out.
GENERAL
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
IN MESOPOTAMIA. D
SIR EDWARD GREY'S. SPEECH CAUSES SATISFACTION.
LONDON, September 30th,
at close quarters, The exercise which used the Queen most was a variation of skipping rope practice. Twenty mou
rope. He whirled it round in rings, alter sergeant with a ball at the end of n los ing the speed at his own fancy, and each man, as the ball approached him, had to leap in the air and clear the rope,
A startling yell rase from the far end of the field, and up at the double duahen men with fixed bayonets, giving vicious stabs to sacks of straw, both suspendet and on the ground, and coming, to a hat in a straight pasting line at the finish. If one or two of the shouts were such as It is understood that Sir Edward Queens are not accustomed to hear, that only proves that the men have divined the Groy's speech has caused great satisfac-time-honoured way in which a bayonet
tion among Bulgarian diplomatists in charge is made. London.
NETHERLANDS PROTEST TO
GERMANY.
THE HAGUE, September 30 h. The Netherlands Government has sont
regard to Zeppelins violating Dutch another serious protest to Germany in
neutrality,
LONDON, September 29th. In the House of Commons, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Under Secretary of State for Landis, announced an important British success in Mesopotamia,
emy's position has been carried and the INDIA AND THE IMPERIAL
CONFERENCE. enemy are in full retreat towards. Bagdad, the British forces pursuing then.
The
LONDON, September 30th. Mr. Chamberlain, Under Secretary of
ENEMY BOMBARDMENTS. The energy violently bombarded the French positions along the Aisne, in the Vially region. The French guns replied LABOUR LEADERS AND THE State for India, replying in the House of onergetically.
Progress has been made in elearing the battlefield and taking stock of the arms and every kind of park and, trench material which the enemy abandoned,
ESTIMATED CAPTURES.
WAR.
MR. ASQUITH AND LORD KITCHENER ATTEND A
MEETING.
-
LONDON, September 29th. Mr. Asquith and Lord Kitchener unex- LONDON, September 30th.
peatedly attended a joint conference of An unofficial Paris estimate of the cap the Labour organisations in London 350 called to consider the resolutions of the tures of Germans is put at over
Trade Union Congress held at Bristol on officers and 95,000 men.
the 7th inst..
GERMAN GENERALS DISMISSED.
AMSTERDAM, September 30th.
*
The German newspapers slate that two Generals have been dismissed owing to
the Franco-British successes, and the hope is expressed that General von Hin denberg will be sent to the Western
THE STRUGGLE IN CHAMPAGNE.
The struggle continues unabsted in Champagne. Fresh bodies of Germaina surrenderad northward of Massiges, total-Front. ling 1,000, al taken yesterday in this one.
Progress eastward of Souchez wag made
KAISER IN THE WEST.
AMSTERDAM, September 30th. A statement in the Norddeutsche showe
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Coinruns to a question put by Sir John Reck, said no decision had yet been taken un the very important subject of the representation of India at the next Imperial Conference, nor can a decision be taken without consultation with the Dominions. But the Viceroy had been authorised to inform the Council that its resolution would receive the most careful consideration of the Government. When the full account of the debate in the Council is available it will no doubt be The proceedings were private, but brief official statement says that Mr. read with equal interest and sympathy in Asquith and Lord Kitchener spoke of the all parts of His Majesty's Dominions, but Military situation and subsequent con.the constitution, which is at present fixed ersations with the delegates showed that by a resolution of the Conference itself, the speeches had made a deep inepression, can only be altered with the consent of one waying, When the men get to com- the Governments represented. prehend the situation as explained to us, the Germans can gather up their tools."
The Daily News says it is understood that Lord Kitchener told the Labour Con-
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A BRAVE GERMAN OFFICER. The Commander of one battalion was sector. sheltered with signallers in solidly built house from the German shells, but last night until Hill 140, the highest of that the Kaiser is now on the Western was soo surprised by a rain of projecthe Vimy Hills was reached, and the Front, for it says that on the 24th...ac-ference that a great increase in the rats
Three hundred ompanied by the Crown Prince he dis tiles. It was found after a search that orchards south thereof. there were two super-imposed dugouts in unwounded Prussia guardsmen were tributed Crosses to the men who had been exposed to especially severe artillery fire. M. FOINCARE CÔNGRATULATES THE ARMY.
the vicinity, and in the nethermost was captured here.
ARMY CORPS.
a German officer with a telephone, busily GERMAN LOSSES EQUAL TO THREE directing a battery miles in the rear. Despite the British occupation he had bravely remained at his post, and learn-
PARIS, September 28th.
The introduction, to B communiqué says: The Germans have not only been
PARIS, September 30th. M. Poincare, in a message to the Army,
congratulates the men on their incompara-
of recruiting was necessary and indicated the methods which it was desirable to ploy. The Cabinet has still come to no decision on the question of compul- sion,
THE IMPORT DUTIES.
LONDON, September 30th. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar
ble ardour and sublime devotion, which Law, replying to criticisms of the import had definitely affirmed their superiority duties, said that they had not been sug over the enemy.
gested by any Tariff Reform Miais ters, and he believed that they would have
ing that an officer of importance was in forced to abandon along an extended the vicinity' he ordered the house to be front positions strongly entrenched and sheiled. Hundreds of dead and wounded which they had orders to resist to the were found lying among the debris of end, but the sustained losses exceed the houses, and the church was a mere the strength of three Army Corps."
Everywhere There have already passed through ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION been imposed with equal certainly if there shapeless mass of bricks. there were fortifed machine gun emplace. Chakins 17,055 prisoners including 316 ments, especially in the cemetery, and field-guns were found in cemented en trenchments A few of the French in- habitabits were still alive, they being mostly women.
officers.
A communiqué says the German lo in Artois and Champagne are now over
120,000.
AT CAIRO.
were no Unionists in the Cabinet. In CAIRO, September 30th.
deed, from & Tariff: Reform point of The assailant of the Minister Fathy view, they were in for contrary, to all' Bey has been sentenced to death.
the principles laid down in the part. [Fathy Boy was stabbed three times Their sole motive was to enforce econo- The total prisoners number over 23,000 by his assailant, who was an employee in
the Finance Ministry.] and 79 guns have been captured:
RAILWAYS LIKE MAGIC. GERMANY ENSURING COMMUNICATIONS IN
LUSSIA.
According to the Münchener Neust
1. Central News Nachrichten, says
march into Russia is likely to encounter message, the enemies of Germany are great y deceived if they think that the German anything like the same difficulties as that of Napoleon.
KRUPP'S AND BIRMINGHAM.
WHICH WILL DECIDE THE WAR. :
who has
Mr. James O'Grady, M.P. just returned to London from the trenches in France, told his story to a Daily Mail "Before I came away," he said, "I saw Sir John French, and he gave me a man- representative,
sage:-
Tell the people of England that the issue is now between Krupp's and—she's
I say-Birmingham.
And from Sir John French right dow to Tommy in the ranks the mesage is always the same: We want moro shells, an ample supply. Give us shells, and we aro confident of winning.
"Tammy, defonding his little patch of trench, as a clear conviction that only shells can see him through to victory. Pelted as he's day after day, he is longing to get out and go for the enemy. But he knows as well as his officers that to send
him across to the enemy trenches as things are now would be simply murder. Not until the German spray of death is dis-. placed by high explosives will be have a fair and equal chance. Then he knows he can win every time.
ONLY ONE TROUBLE.
"During my stay in the trenches. T found that our soldiers always have a cheery word for a civilian visitor. Old fighters told me that they are now better- fed and better cared for than in any pre- vious war, Indeed, this is the general alike are only concerned with one trouble, opinion at the front. Privates and officers
aan bombard the enemy with high explo and that is sheils: They know that if they sive for several hours nothing can remain with one tenth of the losses they are suffer- alive, and then our troops can advance ing at present:
One thing I was truly thankful to. tell our men out there, I told them that the workers at home are now resolved to submit all questions to arbitration, and on no account strike. With that assur- anco the troops are looking with oven greater confidence to an abundant supply very quickly. Artillery officers saked me to tell the munition workers at home that
saved. every extra ten shells turned out above the normal rate means one soldier's re
"With those words in my mind I came upon a pitiable sight. As I walked across the square at Ypres I found near the True, the Russians have destroyed the railways everywhere, but to supply the cathedral a recent grare in the roadway, place of these the Germans have imdug by civilians before they left the city.. At its bend was a white wooden cross and provised light railways which spring up
Then upon it an inscription: B.I.P.-In loving like magic on the line of march there are the giant automobiles, of which memory of two brave unknown British fellows might have still been safe, if those tula and the Bug alone.
The number of draught horses provided, extra tons had always been turned out. two thousand are plying ixtween the Vis soldiers. I wondered whether those pour
are bad four and even six can be harnessed too, is so enormous that where the roads to a load that two would be expected to the rivers (presumably the smaller ones) draw in ordinery places. For crossing the Germans are provided with portable trestle bridges.
So many Austrian school teachers have gone to "the front that the Minister of Education has called on pensioned teachers to return to work.
No one can have been there and passed the simple graves of the French privates, with the soldiers' caps hung on the armis sorrow and of intense desire to help. All of the cross, without coming home full of
from our homes. I feel it is our bounden these men died to keep these horrors away duty to slacken nothing in keeping the Army well equipped, more than well sap- plied, with all they require. I am going to speak up and down the country, to give the message sent home from the front, that there must be shells in abundance if we are to worry through.”