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THE WAR.
The following Cables were received an Saturday evening and issued in our Early Morning Extra yesterday. FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 10TH, 1916,
GERMANS CONTINUE THEIR HAMMERING.
THE FRENCH MAKE PROGRESS.
Pants, April 8th." 4.30 p.m.
The Germans continue to hammer west ut the Aleuse, The French have made ground east of the Meuse,
A comuniqué tales that the Germans, after a violent bombardiment of Bethincourt
and Hill 20%, launched a night attack which penetrated the first French line. They were immediately ejected, merely retain ing a small advanced clemone, fulgenud
The French winde progress to the south. west of For Donaumont,
GERMANS. FORCED BACK TO
THE TRENCHES,
HEAVY BOMBARDMENTS.
Paris. April 8th,
1.50 a.m. A communiqué › announces that benvy retillery bombarded German positions at Middelkerke and Langemarck.
The Germans west of the Mruse, after fio hottest bombardment, violently attacked ust and south of Haucourt on a front of two kilometres. Artillery and machine guns forced them back to their trenches. Many were killed.
The French recovered portions of the inches seized last night south-east of Bathincourt,
The bombardment of Nort Homme and Camières continued,
EBB AND FLOW,
GROUND TAKEN AND RE-TAKEN.
LONDON, April. 7th.
11,45 p.. A communiqué states that yesterday the Tomy recaptured a portion of the ground s captured at St. Elọi en, March 27th, Fighting continues.
GENERALA
(THROUGH REUTRE'S AGENOT.]
THE TRADE CONFERENCE
IN PARIS.?
AUSTRALIAN PREMIER MAY
ATTEND
LONDON, April 7h, Mr. Asquith, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said it would gladly use the Australian Premier's sur vices at the Trade Conference in Paris. but Mr. Hughes was leaving the country before the Conference could be held
Mr. Hughe, however, states that the date of his departure is not yet fixed and his arrangements would not prevent bis. attendance at the Conference,
LONDON, April 7th
It is stated that Mr. Hughes, in accord ance with the wishes of the Conventealth Government, will attend the Paris Con- ference.
THE RECENT CRISIS IN HOLLAND.
THROUGH REUTPE'S AGENCIJ}]}]||
ANOTHER SUCCESS IN EAST AFRICA.
GERMAN FORCE SURRENDERS.
LONDON, April 7th. General Smuts reports that General Van dorventer's mounted troops on the 4th inst,
surprised and surrounded a German forec with nigahine guns stationed in a moun. tain stronghold in the Arusha district, The enemy turrendered on the oth inst
MARRIED MEN CALLED UP.
FIRST GROUPS JOINED YESTERDAY.
LONDON, April 7th, The first groups of married on begin to join the colours to-day..
SPLENDID AID FROM INDIA. EFFECT ON PUBLIC OPINION IN ENGLAND.
THE GERMAN ATTACK- CONCENTRATION AND CORRELATION.
[BY
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DIET AND BLOOD""PICTURES? SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT FOR THE MOSAIC CODE.
FBY THE TIMES" MEDICAL
PUNDENT
The Mosaic code of health has interested sociologists in all ages, All kinds of values have been ascribed to its commands, and also, as was bound to occur, volue of any sort has been denied. But as time passe fication; indeed, we seem to be approaching the code continues to reocive fuller justi- by way of scientific observation the same principles of public health as were given to the people of Israel by their leader,
The latest scientific support for the Mosaic code is perhaps not a very great matter, but it is immensely interesting. In the test issue of the Brish Journal of Sur- Bido
-the
When the German Higher Command pre- pared its plans which are now in course of have asked and answerul certain leading development on the Western front it must questions. Shall we attack the Russians and seek for a decision in the East, con tinning our successful defensive in West Shall we attack the West and stand on the defensive in the Euat? Shil we deal the Western Allies, a heavy blow before the spring, and then once more turn upon the Russians and completo on this the unfinished work of 1916 ?
gery there appears a paper describing the It is evident that one of the two latter appearances of certain blood cells in malig questions was answered in the afirmativo, ant disease (cancer). The author is a well- the decision was that which will entail upon the cells of the blood were noted by him in and it is best that we should assume that known observer. Certain peculiarities of us the greatest effort. There in body of enneer eases and it then decurred to him that these changes might also be produced opinion in Germany which is opposed to farthor penetration into Russia, and can by taking certain articles of diet. Ho siders that the Russian Army was so dam-carried out various tests and the following LONDON, April 7th.
aged in the campaign of 1915 that it is of his conclusion:-
It was found that one can reproduce Viscount Hardinge wrote to the British no great account, and can in any case be
off until affairs in the West are de- the blood picture of carcinoma (cancer) in Patriotic Productions Company on mecided. Whether this is in effect the opinion ruary 26th, heartily approving its aimg. He stated that he was confident the wide of the Kaiser and Falkenhayn we armat publication of the splendid aid given to yet say. But we can afford to admit, as the angrudgingly by the Chiefs and other aicat hypothe is for us, that this is the case. If so, then we are in for a fight to It now appears that the excitement pre-proniacut men in India to the war would vaiting in Amsterdam jast week was due to have an excellent effect on public opinion the death, and we shall meet the enemy more than half-way in hi; desires, both op the German Consul who distributed bu- in England,
land and sea, leting to the effect that the British Govorn ment bad sens an ultimatum to Holland.
The Consul amely explains that he he. Tieved the information, which came from The Hague. He now hears that there is, merely a possibility of auch an ultimatum,
CAUSED BY THE GERMAN CONSUL
AMSTERDAM, April 7th,
RECALL OF GERMAN CONSUL
DEMANDED:"
The Net Volt demenda the recall of the German Consul,
The railwaymen have again brea granted tenvo, indicating that the crisis i fess grave, oku, a task a
BRITAIN'S POLICY TOWARDS HOLLAND.
THE HAGUE, April 7ik. The British Minister, is an interview, emplingland that Britain would do nothing.
to prejudice the integrity or the indepen
dence of Holland, to unintenance and strengthening of which would be the main point of British policy after peace had been declared.
Last night, after a heavy bombardment.TO GO BACK IS IMPOSSIBLE,” a small enemy "ruiding party entered one our trenches north of the river Anere. Juny were quickly driven out.
Today there is artillery activity about. Suchez. ix. Noulette, St. Eloi, and
ITALIAN FRONT.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
IMPORTANT ITALIAN
SUCCESSES.
TWO AUSTRIAN AEROPLANES CAPTURED.
ROME, April 8th. A communiqué announces that the fight 1ng contings to the Italian advantage in the Cavories and Guidicaria valleys. The fortified paritions in the Daone valley have been captured.
Artillery is active on the entire front A stroop enemy column in the Carso was blondily deleted.
Two Austrian aeroplanes were brought down, and captured on the Isonzo,
MAVAL ACTIVITIES.
[THROUGH ARUTER'S AGENCY.]
REPORTED SINKING P. & O. LINER.
THE SIMLA."
LONDON. April 7th. The Daily Mail says it is reported that the P. & Simla has been sunk in the Mediterranean
THE REPORT CONFIRMED.
LONDON, April 7th The P. &0. 6,000 ton liper Simla bag been sank. Eleven Lascars were drowned, all the rest were saved,
THE "VESUVIO” SUNK,
LONDON. April 7th, The steamur Vesuvio has been sunk, and six of her crow drowned,
THE WEAR EAST.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
OPERATIONS IN MESOPOTAMIA.
TURKISH POSITIONS ENFILADED.
LONDON, April 7th.
An official statement says that in Meso- potamia, the third division on the 6th inst. continued to advance along the south bank of the river until positions were reached from which it was possible to enfilade the Turkish defences on the left bank.
RUSSIAN FRONT,
[TABOUIGI BRUTER'S AGENCY.]
ARTILLERY DUELS.
RUSSIANS OCCUPY ENEMY POSITIONS.
PETROGRAD, April 8th. Today's communkynd mainly records artillery diels, especially, south-west of Lake Narokh where in the evening the Rus sizde occupied some points in the enemy's positions seng Bliduiki, capturing 78 pri
Bonera,
GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH.
Amsterdam, April 7th,
THE STRANGLE HOLD ON GERMANY. COFFEE, TEA AND CHICORY CONFISCATED,
AMSTERDAM, April 7th.
Owing to the growing scarcity the Ger- nan Government has confiscated at coffee, tea and chicory.
BRITAIN'S TRADE.
INCREASES IN MARCH,
LONDON, April 7th, The increases in March were:-Imports £10.630.545; exporta £7,122,653.--
CROWN PRINCE OF SERBIA
LEAVES ENGLAND.
DELIGHTED WITH HIS VESIT.
LONDON, April 7th. The Crown Prince of Serbia departed with the most cordial farewells from a bril liant gathering. The Prince lay boen highly delighted with his vist
GERMANY AND ISLAMISY,
THE POLICY BEFORE THE WAR.
Herr Bethmann von Hollweg has made an extraordinary opeech in the Reichsing, in which he vehemertly protested against the British blockade, threatening the ut unoot reprisals. He said that the spreches
LONDON, April 7th. of the enemics showed trace of pesce, Goneral Smuts reports that the German while Mr. Asquith considered that the Government archives discovered at Inabi complete and final destruction of Prus- siang miitary power was a condition pre- of German East Africa gent to all the included & circular signed by the Governor liminary to any pasce negotiations. He District Comin'ss anera months before the added: We have only oue reply to that condition, and our sword must give it. If the spread of Islamism, either by total pro war, ugesting means for counteracting our enemies continue with human massacres hibition or by forbidding Government ser- and the devastation of Europe, the blame lies with them. Germany must be solidly ants to perform circumcision, by preach protected in the future. We entered the in the mosques and encouraging ni
breeding among the natives. struggle to defend ourselves, but now the position is changed. To go back is impos sible." He insisted that Poland must be a buffor State and that they must have guarantees that Belgium shail not become a vassay of France or England. The fate Continent. of the Colonies would be decided on the
The Chancellor gered at the idea of an Entente commercial war and insisted that peace. must be a lasting one,
· ANXIETY AND DISSATISFACTION.
IN GERMANY,
AMSTERDAM, April 7th,
OBITUARY.
SIN COLIN SCOTT-MONSTRAT
LONDON, April 8th.
K.0.6.1.,
The death has occurred of Sir Colin Campbel Scott-Moncrieff, K.C.M.G.. at the age of 80 years..
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
The following is a list of unclaimed telegrams. The Chancellor's speech has caused aaying in the Eastern Extension, Australasia and visty and dissatisfaction in Germany China Telegraph Company's oftoe at Hong especially the weakause of his references kong g to Belgium.
THE PASSAGE OF THE NORTH SEA.
TOO DANGEROUS FOR THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.
LONDON, April 7th. The Dutch Government has notified the British Government that the passage of the North Eca is so dangerous that it is un- able to undertake the transport of the exchanged British and Goemas incapaci tated prisoners, due to cross to-day.
SALARIES OF M.PS. PROPOSAL AGAINST PAYMENT DEFEATED,
In the House of Commons a proposal by Sir F. Banbury against payment of members of the House of Commons was defeated by 237 votes to 32.
Mr. Bonar Law strongly deprecated raising such party questions in way Line in order to embarrass the Government,
· FIGHTING A ZEPPELIN,
CROWDS CHEER THE BRITISH GUNNERS.
LONDON. April 7th. People cheered the "terrible strafing" which the gunfers onye to a Zeppelin last night on the North-East Coast,
The airship was apparently bit and her noje was seen to dip. Then she disappear- ́ed seaward, pursued by seaplanes,
NEW IMPORT DUTIES.
THE REVENUE PRODUCED.
LONDON, April 7th, Mr. McKenna announces at the new import duties, up to March 31st, have pro duced a million sterling, including half-a milhon from potor-cars.
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FRONTS NOT IMPENEIRABLE. The writer has never been able to accept the doctrine of the impenetrability of the Western fronts, since this doctrine we have ourselves disproved by our actions, and there was every chance that it would be disproved even more etaphatically when wo or the enemy brought into play all the vast resources of modern artillery supplied by the activity of our respective arsenals since the war began. We who saw and under stood some of the heaviest bombardments in the West last year realized that, severe though they were, they did not develop the whole of the latent possibilities of field siege artillery, and that when the Old Guard of modern times, namely, Un 6, 8, 1 and 12-inch guns and howitzers, entered massed upon the scene with their tragic airs, there was likely to be trouble, accom panied as they would be by a retinue of
countless pieces of malter calibre. We saw that modern guns, a their worst or best, could not only destroy obstaces, trenches, troops, but lay flat the whole countryside, and we had to make our plans in con- formity with this new development
In affairs of this kind the assailant, has the best of the deal, at all events at firet, became, if he is at all clever, he completes his artillery deployment before his enemy and brings to bear against him up the points sttarked a marked preponderance of forec, whereby he gains to entre extent the od vaning of surprise, always precious in war. On the other hard, the defendy ha th3 to his credit-namely, that his artiller Oven if locally and temporarily inferior, not readily silenced because it is
numerous and well conconled So it comes about that though the assailant suc teeds up to a point very often, his losses Sre great, and he requires a considerable superiority of infantry to push his way. through.
THE ART OF CONCENTRATION.
cospect to the nuclear pecudepods by mbly taking of certain articles of food- notably pork, and to a less extent other red meats, He addi-Incidentally these observations suggest the physiological on on for the dio ary imposed upon the Hebrew race (Gen. ix, 4; Lev. xi.)."
While no hurried conclusions must be arrived at on the strength of what is after all, only a very small item in the picture of the disease, it is yet fair comment that since one phase of the blood-picture pro. fuced by circulating toxins of inalignant license can be imitated by ingestion of highly nitrogenous food" (i.o., pork, etc.), it suggests that long-continued over- ups of the same may form an advantageous substratum for the subsequent development. This statement has of the disease. only a speculative value.
The passing in Leviticus cuns:-"And the swine, though he divide the hoof and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the end; he is unclean to you.".
FISH-LIKE ZEPPELINS. NEW AIRSHIPS MUCH LONGER THAN THE OLD ONES. A Berno correspondent says There is at present extraordinary activity in the Zoppelin, works at Friedrichshafen,
41. most overy day airships make trial trips above the lake. Oftentimes, a'so, in the darkness of night, muck-raids with search lights and gunfire are plaerved from the Swiss border.
A correspondent who has opportunity for getting information writes to me: A Ger. man workman told me that every week one Thoma or twu new airships are finished.. new Zeppelins are much longer than the old type, and are fehlike in shape. They are covered with a grey, metallic, lustrous substance produced by a new method
The gondolas are placed in steel and. arizoured each with six mueline-guns, one
and special appara small quick-firing gun,
tw for throwing bombs and air-torpedoes, It is said that a new kind of air forpedo of great ficacy has been inverted. Every Zeppelin has also special machine for the production of gas-clouds, in which the air- ship, in case of pursuit, ean completely di appear. In the motor manufactory of Ma bach, near Friedrichshafer, every now mo tor is run for 48 hours without interrup tion before it is delivered. The noise, uf. these motors can be easily heard on calm nights over the lake on the Swiss border. The latest airship, which made its trial trip last weck, bore the number L Z 95.
reasons, to rule out certain sections which, from other points of view, may be advant ageous to us, but we must not tabulate on the railways system as it existed before the war in our estimation of what the enemy can do, for in a few months many roads within the area occupied by the enemy be come covered with contractors lines, while other routes are provided with motor lorries without end:
How can the Germans obtain this superi. ority when they have 118 divisions in the West and we Allies have rather more! We remain slightly superior in the West, or at least we hope and believe that we are, and the German probes is therefore to hold us on most of our front with comparatively weak German forces, and to accumulate at the one, two, or three points selected for attack, a superiority of two or three to one irrespective of guas, which naturally fol low the same law. The minor attacks which the Germans carried out between January 10 and February 21 had for their object the dissipation of our force and the weakening of our general reserves. When the enemy attacks a section of our lines, and even penetrates it, it takes a great deal to induce generale to believe that they are being fooled, and so, normally, they retain a lot of mou in this section, while the enemy, trusting to the impression which he has created, carries away most of his We are here dealing with general prin troops, and adds them to one or other of ciples, but the application of these prin- his masses assembling for the real affair cipies varies widely sccording to circumi. The measure of his preliminary success, is
stances. Any really great success by the the measure of the extent to which he has Germany further to the north west than fooled
failed to do so. us
Champagne may, under present conditions, Concentration, of course, has its limits. bring about an enforced retirement from The numbers left in frout of us at the the Mouse, and is therefore far from being points which are not to be seriously at excluded from the possibilities of the mo- tacked must bear a reasonable proportionment. What the Germans evidently hope to our force at these points. But when is to attract the bulk of the Allied reserves our enemy's general situation is dangerous to the east by making an immense clatter and still more when is desperate, then there, and the next German blow from the be will be prepared to risk much, and north-west probably awaits the fulfilment may leave nothing but a frings of troops, of this desires par Kh hoping that the local disturbance already IMPORTANCE OF RESERVES, Ch caused, and the enhanced power and in-
The French appear to have met the Ger fluence of his real attacks, will deprive man onset at Verdun with reserves just us of all thought of undertaking an offen-sufficient to maintain the conflict, and their sive of our own, and of exposing is counter-attack with one Army Corps of weakness,
Douaumont, admirably timed and led, was exactly the stroke that the situation de The principle of concentration is weak-manded. But there is no sign that General ened if Falkerbayn attacks at more than Joffre has yet drawn on or even moyed his one place, but he can still attack in two main reserves, and, until the Germans have places, or even three, without necessarily fully exposed their hand, the moment has abandoning the escace of the plan, which not come for him to do so,
ONE ATTACK OF MORE?
is to concentrate masses against a part only. We must credit the Germans with the of our front. If we attack in Artois and knowledge that operations like those round Champagne, as we did in September, 1915, Verdun, even if successful lead nowhere, there is so such concentration, because the since many fresh positions in rear of the two attack, have no intimate correlation, Meuso remain to be taken in sucession, and have divergent cbisctives, are too far there must be a limit to the sacrifice of apart, and deal with entirely different 150.000 men for each four miles gained in parts of the enemy's armies. But if we depth of penetration. Considering how the are Germans and are attacking Verdun Gerrans stand they must throw for a
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mang have a more limited objective, or if the Hecatombs of Verdun weakon reslu tions formed, then it is so much to the good.
in depleting our main reserves, and to Our ene is to keep cool, to be avaricious reckon every day bad which does not add n division to these reserves for action when
or in Lorraine, or whether we attack at all three points, we are still not abandoning our principles, because success at any one of these points necessarily aids our attack at the main French Armies. If wo sim at the other two, and all affect the fortunes anything less than these main armies and seek something less than a great decision, then we are very poor creatures of the Germans have exhausted themselves
Certainly we must admit that in practice We are fretting because our British troops we need good railways to serve our massed are not yet, engaged in the fight. We need attacke, because without them, or an extra- not fret. They are acting closely with our ordmarily efficient service of mechanical French and Belgian Allies, and when their transport, we cannot surprise the enemy hone strikes they will take their part. It by a great concentration of our guns, and 25 Joffro who is playing this hand and prolong their setivities by a regular suvictory depends upon paychology and tem ply of shells, We may be obliged, for these porament,