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THE WAR.
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ORDER-OF-THE-DAY BY SIR JOHN FRENCH
GREAT AND IMPORTANT RESULTS.”
RUSSIAN ULTIMATUM TO BULGARIA.
BRILLIANT RUSSIAN BAYONET WORK.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT. (THROUGH REUTER'B' AQENOY.}
THE
ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE.
SIR JOHN FRENCH TO HIS TROOPS.
WARM EULOGY.
UTMOST CONFIDENCE IN FINAL VICTORY
LONDON, October stb... Renter's Correspondent at Headquar- ters, in a message dated October 3rd, says Field-Marshal Sir John French in an "Order of the Day" on September 30th
id:-
We have reached a definite stage in the great battle which commenced on the 25th September. Our Allies to the south' have pierced the enemy's last line of entrenchments and effected large captures of prisoners and guns,
The 10th French Army, on our imme diate right, had been heavily opposed but brilliantly succeeded in socuring the important position known as Vimy ridge.
The operations of the British have been most successful and have had great and important results.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
I desire to express to the Army my deep appreciation of the splendid work they accomplished, and my heartfelt thanks for the brilliant leadership of General Sir Douglas Haig and the Corps.nd Divi- sinal Commanders under his orders in the main attack..
In the same spirit of admiration and gratitude I wish particularly to comment upon the magnificent spirit, indomitable courage, and dogged teneity of the troops of the old Army, the New Army and the Territorial who vied with one another in heroie conduct throughout the battle.
THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5ṛ¤, 1915,
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.) BRITISH AIR RAID ON ZEEBRUGGE.
The
AMSTERDAM, October 4th. Five English netoplanes attzeked Zee- brugge yesterday morning bom points of military importance. Gerinan garis sustained a terrific fusi- Thes lade and damaged one machine- officer, Lieutenant Boyd, who displayed mach skill and calmness, succuded in volpinning down into Dutch territory. He will be interned.
BATTLE OF
REVIEWED.
CHAMPAGNE
BRILLIANT ADVANCE THROUGH WOODED HILLS.
FARIS, October 3rd.
A review of the battle in Champagne shows how the sinuous line of the French was speedily straightened out, and then advanced, facing northward. The troops triumped over all the diffi- culties and established their ascendancy. over the Germans. They advanced over trench after trench, taking batteries, stores of munitions, and vast quantities of war material and supplies.
Frenchmen The
delightedly took possession of the German rustic canteens in the woods.
took up
their
The French guns positions in open ground as if the trench warfare no longer existed,
Special honours go to the troops from. Alsace and Lorraine and our African warriors, who were entrusted with the advance through the wooded hills.
The great feature of the battle was the way in which the Frenchmen covered the I feel the utmost confidence and assur- ence that the same glorious spirit which ground rush by rush, firmly consolidat- ing each sector as they advanced. The was so marked a feature throughout the Gormans particularly clung to the pine- first phase of this great battle will conwoods rising in terraces on the slopes tinne until our efforts are crowned by of the Sousin basin, but the troops final victory.
MESSAGE FROM THE KING. Field Marshal Sir John French received the following message from H, M. the King:-
I heartily congratulate you nad all ranks of the Army on the success of their gallant efforts since the combined attack.
doverly advancing from the west got into touch with those who captured Hill 193, thus encircling the enemy in their pinewood
*** defences The Africators: pressed further north, seizing enormous. quantities of war material, the existence of which had been revealed by Bero- planes,
Elsewhere the fighting was of w
I recognise that this strenuous and different character, being composed of
GENERAL!
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
RUSSIA'S ULTIMATUM TO BULGARIA.
DISMISSAL OF TURKISH AND GERMAN, OFFICERS DEMANDED
PETROGRAD, October 3rd.. Russia has sent an Ultimatum to Bulgaria, giving the latter 24 hours in which to dismiss the Turkish and Germain officers.
DEFENSIVE
ARMAMENT OF MERCHANT SHIPS.
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT RULES.
JAPANESE OFFICERS IN DISGRACE.
AN ECHO OF THE TSINGTAO INVESTMENT.
Some considerable doubä howing existed in the minds of the OWNUTS of British merchan vessels and of A Karung despatch says that Colonoi these commanding then as regards such Matsumayo, Commander of the Forty- ships using defensive armaments whon eighth Regiment of Infantry, and Major trading to United States ports, the Hirose of the same regiment have been imperial Merchant Service Guild, with a suddenly placed on the retired list. Both view to clearing up any misappreh:n-officers rendered meritorious service dur
20 ure now in a position to publishing the investment of Tsingtao, the Rules which are in existence for the The reason for their retirement is guidance of the Officers of the American alleged to be that the Colonel, who was Governmens who are changed with the desirous of having a moment in his rezi duty of determining the peaceful character of particular armed vessels. ment of the Tsingtao operations, asked the Major, who was then Commander of the Tsingtao Garrison, to send to the regi ment some article, The latter complied, and secretly sent him a fine pinne in May last. This was discovered by the Tsing- to Customs authorities, who transmitted the case to the Military authorities, with the result above mentioned.
These Bules are as follows 4.- merchant vessel of belligerent nationality may carry an Armament and ammunition for the sole purpose of defence without acquiring the character
TEXT OF NOTE.
PETROGRAD, October 4th. The Russian Minister at Sofia was instructed to hand to M. Radoslavoff the of a ship-of-war. following Note:----
The presence of armament and ammunition on beard a merchant vessel "Events at present occurring in creates a presumption that the armament is for offensive parposcs, but the owners Bulgaria prove the definite decision of or agents may overcome this presump King Ferdinand's Government to plation by evidence showing that the vessel
carries winrament solely for deferice the fate of Bulgaria in the hands of Germany The presence of Austrian and Geroar officers at the Ministry of War and Army staffs, the concen- tration of troops in the zone burder ing on
Serbis, and the extensive financial support accepted from our encies leave no doubt regarding the object of the present miliar pre parations in Pulgaria.
The Balgaria
The Powers of the Entente, who have a heart the realization of the uspirations of the Bulgarian people. have on many occasions warned M. Radoslavoff that any hostile act against Serbis would be considered as directed against themselves. Pranier's assurances in reply to these warnings are contradicted by the facts, The representative of Russia, bound to Bulgarin, by the imperishable memory f her liberation from the Turkish yoke, cunnut by his presence sanction the preparations for fratricidal aggres- and allied sion against the Slav peoples.
-Evidence necessary to establish the fact that the armament is solely for defence and will not be used offen- sively, whether the armament be mounted dr stowed below, must be presented in each case independently at an official investigation. The result of the investi- gation must show conclusively that the arminent is not intended for, and will aut he need in, offensive operatione.
Indications that, the armament will not be used offensively are;
That the calibre of the guns ried does not exceed six inches,
2-Tha the guns and small arms ear rind are few in number.
3--That no guns are mounted on the forward part of the vessel.
WONDERS OF WOOD PULP.
MANUFACTURED INTO ARTICLES
OF ATTIRE.
The Gerouns are said to be using wood pulp in place of cotton for the making of propulsive explosives, and in England ladies are wearing stockings, blouses, and other articles of attire made from the same substance
Wood pulp is one of the wonders of modern commerce, a loading authority on ear-the subject told a Daily Chronicle repre- sentative, and it really seems as though the list of articles which can be manu- factured from it is inexhaustible. Every- body knows that but for wood pulp the newspapers could not obtain suficient supplies of paper for their needs, and now it seems likely to make itself as other branches of indispensable in industry Cigarette and cigar holders, fancy combs, buttons, handles for such things as umbrellas and sticks all kinds of insulating materials for electrical fittings, films, and innumerable other articles are all made from the same pulp.
That the quantity of antrunition carried is small.".
5.That She vessel is manned by its usual crew, and the Offers are the same as those on board before the war was declared.
6-Tha the vessel intends to and actually does clear for a port lying in its usual trade route, or a port indicat. ing its purpose to continue in the same trade in which it was engaged before the war was declared.
7. That the vessel takes on board, fuel and supplies sufficient only to carry it to its port of destination or the same quantity substantially which it has been accustomed to take for a voyage before war was declared, n
8.-The the cargo of the vessel cum- wists of articles of commerce unsuited to the use of a ship-of-war in operations against an enemy.
ren.
Tens of thousands of workpeople are. engaged in industries which depend largely upon wool pulp for their raw material, and the turnover yearly in England alone amounts to milliore of pounds At the present Sime, it was stated, the demand upon the factories for many of the articles was so great that they were unable to cope with it and were booked up for months ahead..
The making of propulsive ammunition does not exhaust the uses of the pulp from a military point of view, said the. expert In the form of a solution it is largely used in the treatment of fabrics for accoutrements bid in other ways.
Boldiers often have the most marvel- lous escape from pudden death, in fact one of the wonders of war is, the number of the men who escape, when we remember
"The Russian Minister is therefore
That the vessel carries passengers ordered to leave Bulgaria with the who are as a whole unfitted to enter the staffs of the Legation and the CeMilitary or Naval service of the belli- gerent whose flag the vessel five or of Intex it the Bulgarian Government do any of its Allies, and particularly if the
A REMARKABLE SURGERY. not within 24 hours openly break with passenger list includes women and child- 10 That he speed of the ship is the enemies of the Slav cause and of
Blow.
-Port Authorities, on the arrival Russia, and do not immediately send away the officers bolonging to the in a port of the United States of
armed vessel of belligerent nationality Armies warring against the Powers of claiming to be a merchant vessel, should immediately investigate and report to Washington on the foregoing indications es, to the intended use of the. artment in order that it may be determined whe ther the evidence is sufficient to remove the presumption that the vessel is, and should be treated as a ship of war Clearance will not be granted until a thorised from Washington, and the Mes fter will be so informed upon arrival.
the Entende.
determined fighting is but the preludo frontal attacks with grenades, inter #AVAL ACTIVITIES.
to greater deeds and further victories.
I trust the sick and wounded alre doing well. Field-Marstal
John Sir
French
Your Majesty's Forces in France are deeply grateful for your Majesty's gracious message.
On the morning of September 25th be First and Fourth Corps attacked and ́carried the enemy's first and most power-replied: --- ful line of entrenchments extending from our extreme right flank at Grenay to a point north of the Hohenzollern redoubt, n distance of 6,500 yards. This position was exceptionally strong, consisting of a double line which included some larg? redoubts and a network of trenches. Bonib-proof shelters and dugouts were constructed at short intervals ell along the line, some being larger caves thirty feet balow the ground.
The Eleventh Corps in the General Reserve, and the Third Cavalry. Division 'were subsequently thrown into the fight and finally the Twenty-eighth Division.
There is no sacrifice that the troops are not prepared to make to uphold the honour and traditions of your Majesty's Army and to scoure final and complete victory:
GERMANY'S LOST GROUND,
ATTEMPTS AT RECOVERY REPULSED.
PARIS, October 3rd.
4.45 p.m.
and
[HAVAS BERVICE.]
GERMANY'S BUBMARINES.
FIFTY SUNK.
ingled with sprints with the bayonet Then again and again the French heavy guns in alternating gusts, enabled the troops to get ever northward. The
PARIS, October 18, Germans surrendered in. gicups, -- even
The total number of German sub They wore though not surrounded. exhausted by the fighting and depressed marines dunk since the outbreak of the by hunger. On one occasion, at The war has been 50. Hand of Massiges, af force of Germans surrendered to our artillery. An observer OVERSEAS AIRCRAFT FUND. suddenly gave the order to case fire,
as he had seen Germans rise with their
orest. hands up along a
The guns than lengthened their range beyond the Germans, who immediately ran into our line The Colonials, going up, occupied the German trenches, erecting small flags, which guided the artillery fibe
(THROUGH ZEUTER'S AGENCY.] SABRE. BAYONET, AND SHELL.
Today's communiqué says:--Between
Givenchy Wood the RUSSIAN FRONT. After the vicissitudes attendant upon Souchez every great fight the enemy's second line Germans made four separate attempts posts were taken, commanding the posito re-take by bombing portions of their tion known as Hill 70 in advance of Loos. lost positions. This was finally captured and a strong line was established and consolidated in close proximity to the German third and
last line.
The main operations south of La Basso Casal were much facilitated and assisted by subsidiary attacks by the Third and Indian Corps and the Becond Army.
Great help was also rendered by the operations of the Fifth Corps cast Ypres, during which some important exptures were made,
I was also much indebted to Vice Admiral Bacon for the valuable co-opera- tion of the Flect.
Our captures amounted to over 3,000 prisoners, some 25 guns besides many machine-guns and a quantity of war
material,
The enemy suffered heavy losses, parti- cularly in the many counter-attacks by which they vainly endeavoured to wrest back the captured positions, but which were all gallantly repulsed.
repulsed.
They were everywhere
A German abtalele in Champagne, northward of Mesnil, was also defeated.
FURTHER RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.
LONDON, October 4th. While the German communiqué is eloquently brief concerning the Russian
The German batteries again used poison shells in the Suippes Valley. Our guns engaged those of the enemy, theatre, where, it declares, nothing silencing several batteries.
FURTHER PROGRESS IN ARTOIS.
PARIS, October 4th."
1.10 alm
important has occurred, the Petrograd Russian communiqué records further successes, either in repulsing German to flee in attacks, causing the enemy Last night's communiqué says:-We disorder, or capturing trenches and progressed in Artois, capturing a block-villages in brilliant bayonet attacks.
Most of the fighting cccurred in the house and trenches south of Givenchy Wood.
Make region to the east of the Dvinsk- There has been violent artillery Vilna line. It is noteworthy that i
that in duel south of the Somme, in Champagne, the communiqué cientions
вега several instances the Germans and Argonne,
An attempt by the enemy in the unable to withstand our artillery fire, Vosges to spray our trenches with liquid while the cavalry played an important fire was unsuccessful.
part, charging and sabring the Germana. A hard fight ended with the Russians, further at the point of the bayonet, storming a village and farm south of Lake Narotch, which code the Germans & loss of eight
AIR RAID ON LUXEMBURG. The evening communiqué says squadron of aeroplanes bons barded the station, railway bridge, and military buildings at Luxemburg.
howitzers and six pine.
The conversion of a merchant yessel into a ship-of-war is a question of fact, which is to be established by direct
use the vessel as a ship of war. or circumstantial evidence of intention
THE NUGI - - FAMILY.
A SINISTER RUMOUR.
how terrible are the death-dealing devices of man. Great strides have been mado in modern murgery, and the war will probably result in the achievement of inore for future suffering humanity tham many years of constant labour in the past. An interesting case of a recent surgical operation is reported by the Revue Scientifique. It appears that a young sergeant in the French Army wag part of wounded by a hand grenade, which passed through the diaphragm, the pericardium and the whole thickness of the cardia's muscle, penetrating into the cavity of the heart, after four month the fragment, which measured three fifths of an each in length and breadth, by one eighth of an inch in thickness, and weighed 10 grams, was successfully. extracted, and the patient was considered sa cured one month after the operation,
The Japanese public watched the prothe heart working normally. The signi The Hon. Secretary and Organizer of posed resuscitation of the family of the ficanes of this particular operation is the Overseas Aircraft Fund, in acknowlate General Nogi with much interest. that it proves the possibility of a success- lodging receipt of remittance of £1,450 No sooner was it announced that Mr. ful explorative operation on the heart sent from Shanghai on August 10th, Mori Motosato, the younger brother of when metal has penetrated into its Viscount Mort, was to succeed to the muscular wall or into the cardiac cavity. Baya
We have passed the sum of £1,500 late General's title than prominent pub on to the Secretary of State for War,licists expressed views denouncing the and will forward the official acknow-step taken.. ledgment in due course.
We may say, we have now been the means of presenting twenty-six aerop. Lanes to H M. Government, and several more unite have been promised.
FRANCE'S TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.
PROTEST FROM FRENCHMEN RETURNED FROM GECWANY.
Ohdate
SOCIETY BOHEMIANS,
MABEL, MY MATE IN THE SHOP.'' A lady who has a kitle and a house in Mayfair has joined the ranks of the
The
red handkerchiefs
The Mainichi quotes Mr. Shusaku, a younger brother of the late General Nogi, who lives at the Nogi villa at Ishibayashi. Kane-mura, Neu- gun, Tochigi Prefecture, to the follow- ing effect:-
About the middle of last month, munition workers, and the other evening we summoned to Tokio by General she gave a dinner party to celebrate the Oka, the War Minister, who inquired completion of her first month of produc- Her gurate, pays tha what I would do if the Emperor wanted tive industry. ta resuscitate the family of the late London correspondent of the Manchester General Nogi I stated in reply that Guardian, were a Duchess, the wife of a though all the relatives were determined Cabinet Minister, a Red Cross nurse, to observe the wishes of my brother, there and a woman of the working classes, A telegram to the Journal from Brest would be no alternative but gratefully whom her hostess introduced to the others says that a Frenchman who has returned to accept the Imperial desire, Person as "Mabel, my mate in the shop.
wore prin from Germany, where he was interned, ally, I intended to commit suicido if I boatese and her "roatie"
had been told to succeed to the name of dresses and had writes:---
I must protest indignantly against my brother. Even now I hope for the awathed about their heads their working They sat down at a table the way in which German prisoners are extinction of the Nogi family. When I uniform.
Covered not with linen, but with white treated in France. They have meat had an interview with General Oka every day, are paid for their work, eat had no knowledge whatever that Mr. oilcloth and the hostess explained, Mabel put me up to his It is a excellent soup, and can buy what they Mori Motosata was a candidate for the
title I am not acquainted with Mr war saving. You just sponge it over the please
We over there had nothing, The Mori, whom I have seen only once. I and it doesn't need to go to
The dinner was joint, velge. work we were compelled to do in the am sorry that so much criticism and laundry.” Havelbers camp was only fit for cor- denunciation has fallen upon him from tables, sweet, and cheese. A maidservant vid's, and we never received a centime the Press and the public, yet I cannot carried in the dishes and then disap bat give expression to my own resent-peared. The lucis arved, and the for it, nor any additional food.
guests helped each other to vegetables. "You will understand that it is my menit at what has been done."
Count Nogi's return to his residenos The simple life," the hostess explained. duty to protest against the favour en-
"Mabel and I only get fifteen bob a The joyed by the Boches here. I protest, at Chofu, Yaguchi prefecture from not for myself, but in the name of all Tokio was kept secret from the Chofu week, and it won't run to more." the Frenchmen who are dying of hunger people. The Mainichi quotes Count little party had a jolly meal, and the in Germany. People who everywhen Nogi as saying that it is inconceivable hostess and her mate talked behave like savanes have no right to be that he should now decline to assume the to the delight of the others. The duchess, an appellation of Nogi in succession to the taking her departure, ventured
enlisted? humanely treated."
late General Nogi.
inga tra
Hay Griggs According to the Japan Chronicle
dear, no," said the hostoas: "I Japanese papers report that Con und sent him to a theatre to get him out of Countess Nogi have both fallen ill as the way. Griggs (though that is not result of the public criticism levelled his real name) is the butler., against them. A Chofu dispatch to the nicht reports a sinister samour cur rent among the Chofu people to the effect that Countess Nogi Kikuko, who is a young woman of twenty-seven, has at tempted suicide, and that her act is res ponsible for the unexpected return of Count Negi from Tokio. The veracity of this report has not been established.
A north country soldier writes home: Just tell your mates at work that every shell out of Armstrong, Whitworth's works gets rid of some of the world's greatest pesta.'
Responding to an appeal from the Southern Slav Organising Committee in London, a number of Dalmatians resident in Auckland have resolved to enlist to fight in vis.
shop,'
Sub-Lieutenant Betrand de Bellaving, on whom President Poincaré, while on his visit to the French front, conferred a dis tinction for valour, is in private life d as Father Gonzalve. Capuchin friar, sad is known in Paris