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THE WAR.
IMPORTANT
FRENCH GAINS AT VERDUN.
BRITISH SEVERELY ATTACKED.
BRITAIN'S TIGHTENING GRIP.
GERMANY'S FOOD SHORTAGE.
AMERICA AND GERMANY.
FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT.
{THROUGH REUTER'8" AGENCY.]
ARTILLERY DUELS,
Par13, May 12th.
1.05&D..
The evening communiqué saya: There have been artillery duels in the Avocourt sector of Verdun, a violent bombardment of our positions at Caillette Wood, and of our second lines on the right bank of the Meuse There was nothing impor: ant elsewhere..
GERMANS' VAIN ENDEAVOURS
AT VERDUN. ANOTHER EFFORT DEFEATED,
PARIS, May 12th. 4.05 pin. The French were again successful at Verdur... To-day's communique says:- The Germans at night time vainly nt- tempted to dislodge us from the positions w captured on the slopes of Deadman Hill We defeated two successivo. attacks.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY."}
SERIOUS ENEMY LOSSES. ARTILLERY DEEL CONTINUED,
PARTS, May 13th.) 4.55 p.m.
A communiqué states-The artillery duel has been uninterrupted in the sectors of Avocourt Wood and Hill 304. We further progressed in the night in the vicinity of Hill 287. Last night the Ger mans renewed their attacks south-east of Fort Douaumont, but despite the violent previous bombardment our line gave way nowhere, and all the attacks were re- pulsed with serious losses to the enemy. Other enemy attempts north of Thiau ment Farm were likewiso stopped by our curtain of machine-gun fire.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESA MONDAY, MAY 15Tя. 1916.
GENERAL
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE]
SITUATION IN IRELAND. :
COURT-MARTIALS PRACTICALLY
FINISHED.
LONDON May 12th. Dublin Headquarters announces that another death sentence has been commut ed to penal servitude for life. Eloven others have been sentenced to imprison ment for terms varying from life to a year. The announcement adds that the court-martials in Dublin are practically finished and they are now dealing with the men arrested in the provinces.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:} BRITAIN'S TIGHTENING GRIP.
SIGNIFICANT GERMAN
APPOINTMENT.
WASHINGTON, May 14th,'
A despatch from Herr Wiegand, Ger- many's unofficial press reproventative, states that Germany is considering the appointment of a Minister of Foods, who will control the distribution so as to prevent the British grip tightening on Germany's throat." It is noteworthy that Herr Delbrueck, Minister of the Interior, who up to the present has been responsible for the food supply, has resigned.
AMERICA AND GERMANY,
SITUATION COMPLICATED.
NEW YORK, May 13th. The Associated Press at Washington
authoritatively state that Germany's
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
CORRESPONDENCE.
INDO-CHINA SHARER.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS.
It is always, of course, desirable that the delivery of the mails should be ex- pedited as much sa possible, and it is more than ever desirable now that the journer vin Siberis takes so much longer in,As a result of the regrettable in- thur formerly. For this reason it is to idents in connection with the report an 1 he regretted that the recent British meeting of the Indo-China Steam Navi- mails should have been delayed ewing to eation Co., Ltd, in which thebig the ships which conveyed them from people gained the day, the brokers on Shanghai being engaged to tow lighters, the Exchange have now succeeded in This means a very serious inconvenience ringing down the price of the shares to Pussilly involving loss, to business people h low rate of 246 and 8119) for the he obviated. Local houses represent,spectively in Hongkong, and it should, if possibl Preferred and Deferred shares,
ing Home firms are already at a dis advantage when negotiating for business in China in competition with firmos, in Shanghai owing to the additional time which it takes for correspondence to pasa between Hongkong and Europe, There is no prospect of removing this handicap, until the long promised rail way line is completed from Hankow to
In view of the gravity of the rebellion, its connection with German intrigar propaganda, and the great loss of lits and destruction of property, the Com inander-in-Chief has found it imperativs to inflict the severest sentences on known organisers of this detestable rising, und Note has complicated the situation, Canton, but, in the mountime, every the commanders in the actual fighting, making it impossible for the Unitedfort should be made to get the best out It expresses the hope that the examples States to press her demands upon the
of the existing system. When delays will be a suficient deterrent to intri Allies without appearing to do so
are unavoidable it would surely be as guers, and will show that murders of the bidding of Berlin. Consequently, it give the public early intimation of the well if the Postal Authorities were to His Majesty's liege subjects will not his uncertain when the reply to the latest fact instead of keeping them on the tolerated."
British communication will be forward tiptoo of expectation, for in making their ed.
engagements many men are influenced by the arrival and departure of the
THE CARES OF STATE;
Mr. Asquith arrived at Dublin to-day." Observers say that he stepped wearily from the mail-boat, and has seldom lok ed graver. He went straight to the vice- Regal Lodge.
LONDON, May 13th.
Mr. Asquith, in the afternoon, con ferred lengthily at Dublin Castle with Sir Robert Chalmers and the Law
TWO MORE MEN SHOT. The remaining signatories to the Irist Provisional Government Manifesto, James Connolly and John MacDermott, have been shot
OVER 300 PRISONERS DEPORTED.
IMPORTANT FRENCH GAINS Officers
AT VERDUN, GERMANS WEAKENING.
PARIS, May 14th: 12.35 p.m. The importance of the French gains at There was intense artillery activity Verdun is shown in a semi-official com, From Avocourt Wood to Deadman Bill,uniqué. While the Germans are mak- and there was also a bonthardment in thong futile attacks in aiming Dougumont Vaux region.
Louaumont, the French are extending ABORTIVE ENEMY ATTEMPT their lines west of the Mouse almost from the Bethincourt region to Deadman Hill LONDON, May 19th.
They seized a vital hillock which was pro tecting Hill 304, and consolidated their
at Deadman Hill. The Germans agaia lines at many points, making progross
show signs of weakening after their recent furious and abortive effort.
A British communqué - says:-Tho. enemy unnecessfully attempted to rail our trenches at Ovillers on Thursday night. There was reciprocal mining activity to our advantage to-day at Beau
unt and Fricourt.
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There was artillery activity at Angres, RUSSIAN_FRUKT, Ypres, and Hohenzollern Redoubt. --
BRITISH ATTACKED.
TRENCHES LOST AND REGAINED.
LONDON, May 19th.
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HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING. RUSSIAN GAINS IN THE
CAUCASUS.
PETROGRAD, May 14th.
A British comminuiqué states: Last evening, after & heavy bombardeat, the A communiqué states: There has been enemy succeeded in capturing 500 yards brisk, fighting around Pripet, which in front trenches north-east of places developed into a hand-to-hand Vermelles. We regained the position by struggle. The Russians severely defeated a counterattack at night. There has the Turks in the Caucasus, where, after s be no further infantry action to-day, dashing night attack, the mountaing near but considerable artillery activity in this Erzindian were captured, along with
neighbourhood,
+2+)
We bombarded eremy position at Cuinchy, but other wise there have been only minor artillery duels.
LONDON, May 14th, 12.5 8.1.
A communique states:-After a heavy bombardment last night against our trenches between Somnu and Maricourt, the enemy made three attacks, one of which succeeded in entering our trenches, but he was immediately driven out, -Some dead-Germans were observed in our
wire, and one prisoner was taken.
FRENCH POSITIONS
EXTENDED.
LIVELY BOMBARDMENTS.
PARIS, May 13th.. 1,20 a.m..
30 Officers and 365 men. Another column captured a gun, 1,000 rifles und a vast quantity of ammunition. NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
THROGOR RIUTER'S AGENCY.]
SINKING OF SWEDISH SCHOONER.
THE GERMAN WAY.
Losnos, May 13th.
n
mails
There are certain brokers at present: still bent on bearing the stock t cover short sales, but I fail to see why the shures remain so low with good pros- pects before them for at least the next two years to come.
In spite of what the Chairman had to say about the boats being practically dumped on the "scrap-heap," or words valueless, and that they must soon be
to that effect, one of the Company's old est boats, the Lienshing, fotched no leys usum than £35,000, and now, I am told, the Company is considering an offer of £$8,000 for another much smaller an I older boat. These are certainly very valuable scrap-heaps.
The quotation for the Deferred shares is now "offcially" $112) buyers, although business has been done during the last four days, including to-day, at between 8114 and 8:15, and it seems to me that the "official" price is not likely to alter much until such time as it will suit the
books" of certain brokers.
FIGHTING IN AFRICA. ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED.
LONDON, May 13th.. On the 13th the enemy repeatedly attacked Kondoairangi, using a gun from the erniser Konigsberg. They were repoints of the successful exhibits. Hlast, yields a return of 7 por cent. if
pulsed, fifty dead licing picked up, in cluding two Europeans. Our losses were small. It is believed that the Command er-in-Chief led the operations.
A semi-official message states that the German attacks at Kondosirangi were made under the personal command of the German Commander-in-Chief. They began on the 5th inst, and wore continued on the th. 10th and 11th. when a determined
The military authorities announce thatight attack was repulsed. It is reported over 300 prisoners have been deported that the Belgians from Ruanda have and are under detention in prison,
penetrated Kigali.
TO RELIEVE POLAND. AMERICAN SCHEME OF RELIEF
LONDON, May 14th.
Sir Edward Grey, on the 10th inst. agreed to an American scheme of relief
She had been zealously piloting her male companion round the various benches at the dog-show, and giving hiva the benefit of her opinion on the different
was amazed at her peculiar knowledge, but too gallant to show it. Eventually they reached the spaniels and poms, and, after a critical inspection of one of the untries, she exclaimed: "I wonder what this dear little Tum would say if he could only speak!" "I should think he would confess, with a blush, that he was a spaniel," was the brutal rejoinder, whereupon the temperature fell
The members of the Hongkong Clan and those people who walk along the Praya in quest of cool fresh air aro again to be regaled with tar fumes. As was the case about this time last year, largo tar cookers, belching forth their aromatic fumaga, are placed along the pathway which suparates the finest site" in the Colony from another patch News has been received at Worcester if mangey green award. Is there really
WORCESTERSHIRE
YEOMANRY
PRISONERS AT DAMASCUS.
Lesbos, May 14th
The Deferred shares based on the very the interim dividend paid in Septembe poor dividend just paid, and including
should, undoubtedly be good to buy, at taken at the rate of $120 per share, s present rates. Yours faithfully,
MANAGER HOPEFUL. Hongkong, May 13th, 1916.
COLONIAL REFORMATION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE."]
Sin-The points raised in “E;M.T.'s" letter, appearing in your issue of to-day, give one some food for thought, whether tions. anc agrees or disagrees with his
sugges
Taking his proposals seriatim No. 1 suggests the registration of absolute titles. What does this mann exactly I hope he does not distinctions recognised at Home between suggest introducing here the annoying "absolute, ***** qualified "poksessory system works admirably, expeditiously, titles. It seems to me the present and cheaply
for the population of Poland, provided the effect that besides the Hon, C. J. no other less central and prominent spot for debt, as regards the Chinese, is
that Germany would pay the expenses of transport in German ships, and not interfere in the slightest with the American adininistration; also, if Ger many and Austria would undertake to feed the starving populations of Serbia, Albania and Montenegro.
Coventry,
twenty Officers and 230 men
of the Worcestershire Yeomanry air prisoners at Damascus.
SHACKLETON BELIEF
EXPEDITION.
where the tar for renovating the roadway
be made?
No. 2. The abolition of imprisonment
sbsolutely impracticable. The fear of prison and consequent loss of face is very often the only chance a creditor has of seeing his money back.
**roquites an accident to make some No. 3 Why public flogging? I presume. Tple realise the existence of a danger,' pour encourager les autres, but it would writes a lady reader, who procauflshardly have much effcet on the class of "The zealous conductors of the Peak
person who would go to see it be LONDON, May 14th. Tramway should be instructed not to The Government hare appointed a restart the cars which stop at May Road Ambassador states that there are fifteen cluding Major Leonard Darwin and Sir
A memorandum from the American Committee under Admiral Peaumont, inati sufficient time has been afforded million people in the area cecupied by Douglas Mawson, to advise as to what Germany, and the United States under-steps shall be taken for the Skackleton takes to revictual only the 4,000,000 con-relief expedition. centrated at Warsaw, toda
and four
other cities. He also estimates that it
will be necessary to impert, 40,000 tons of Foodstuffs monthly.
THE COMPULSION BILE.
Lesson, May 19th. The House of Cermons this mursing concluded the Committee stage of th Compulsion Bill, which will become lawy next week.
MORATORIUM IN CHINA. FINANCIAL STRINGENCY.
TURKISH A RUCITIES. TERRIBLE TREATMENT OF ARMENIANS.
PETROGRAD, May 14th. The Turkish
atrocities perpetrated
PERING, May 14th." upon Armenians at Trebizond
A moratorium has been proclaimed in declared to surpass all the Turkish China, owing to financial stringency.
ROOSEVELT TO STAND FOR PRESIDENCY,
are
Srockuota, May 14th.
cruelties to Armenians elsewhere. The The Captain of the Swedish schooner expulsion of the Armenians began in Harald, in an account of the sinking July 1915, when hundreds of young and of the ship by a German submarine in influential Armenians who were arrested the North Sea on the 5th inst., ways that on charges of treason to aiding the the crew were ordered to leave in fifteen Russians were embarked in boats and The Caplain refused and drowned at sea. Others wore sent to a minutes. hoisted the Swedish flag. The Germans neighbouring village, where the women boarded the vessel, pouring and lighting were violated and killed and the children potroleum at different places. They also bayonetted. The Turks used the heads of attacked the Captain with cutlasses, fore the children as targets for firing prac ing him into 2 buat. The Harald was tice. The survivors were sent to then sunk by gun-fire...
zem Erzerum. The whole road was strewn with the bodies of children and adults. The surviving children are now being collect- ed by Russian benevolent societies, They present a terrible spectacle, being clad in rags, and looking sickly and haggard. They are also always asking if they are going to be massacred.
The Greaks at Trebizond are of the opinion
TORPEDOING OF THE ** SUSSEX,”
AMERICA INVESTIGATING.
MB.
NEW YORK, May 14th. porter, announces for the first time that Mr. Roosevelt, in a letter to a sup
he is a candidate for the Presidency TOWNSHEND SON AND BEIB
LONDON, May 14th.
owing to the very steep gradient, passengers who enter at this difficult level to take their seats. At present.
incoming
passengers are sometimes thrown from one end of the car to the other in a most alarming manner. If the conductors are instructed to see that everyone is coated before the car allowed to proceed on its journey many
H.
No. 4. Easy appeal from magistrates to the Supreme Court seem quite sound,. appeals. This might be done by giving as long as you guard against frivolous the Court power to stiffen up the sen
advised it pay the costs personally in a tence if it was of opinion that the appeal should never have been brought, and. possibly, also, by making the lawyer who
really bad case.
No 5 Why introduce the Indian Penal Code
No. 8 The passing of a Divorce Ordi and provide some good copy for the nance would benefit the legal profession. newspapers. Apart from those two prais worthy objects, I do not see that any good purpose would be served.
will have cause to be thankful and none Judge, to sit either in Original or will have cause to complain.”
It was dusk, and the Magistrate and other interested were examining the rear-plate of the automobile by the light of the electric lamp at all angles and a variety of distances in order to decide whether it complied with tho Regulations or not. While they were thus engaged five other cars passed without rear-plate lights! There will be a gala day, as a consequence, in the Police Court this week Will the Magistrate be called to give evidence, I wonder.
The Marchionces Townshend has given General Townshend of Kut was heir to birth to a son and heir, Previously, face
the Marqueasste.
opmmuniqué states:—On the left bank of the Meuse partial attacks en- abled us to appreciably extend our post tions south-east of Harcourt. There has been a lively bombardment in the Worthomme and Cumieres region. There was a violent bombardment of our first. and sound lines between Haudromont Wood and Vaux, cast of the Mense. A Mr. Lansing has instructed Mr. German attack south east of Dousumoat Gerard to ascertain informally the Fort was completely repulsed. There has nature of the punishment imposed apo that the massacres wero organised by the Pay and bonus have been granted, and been artillery activity on the rest of the the Commander of the submarine which Turkish Government, which mercilessly the strike is now ended.
presecuted anyone assisting Armenians. -
front
WASHINGTON, May 13th.
torpedoed the Surser
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) CHINA COAST OFFICERS STRIKE ENDED.
EXTRA PAY AND BONUS
GRANTED
BHANGHAI, May 14th The Guild has been recognised, extra
(Continued on page 6).
No. 7. The appointment of an extra
Summary Jurisdiction as required, and mary Jurisdiction, to five thousand at the same time the increase of Burn-
dollars is eminently desirable. The extra judge's salary would be more than met by increased Court fees, and there would be the additional advantage of having
Full Court always available, without having to send up to Shanghai. The present cost of small litigation, viz, of claims from one thousand to five, thou sand dollars, is prohibitive,
and
this class of work is being killed.
No. 8. Spare the Sanitary Board which performs much useful and thank less work This application is refused I do not much care about the idea of a Municipal Commission. They would either be nonentities in which case, why have them or if they had any real powers, it would be certain to mean member increased taxation. Does " E.M.T. re what happened. ta the rates at Home after the establishment of the
No. 10. What do you want a British London County Council E
9. With
great respect mag I enquire what functions the bishops would perform on the Council Resident in the New Territories for What's the matter with the Distres
He was andeavouring to explain the superiority of one kind of generating power over another, and Jeho, upon whora be had called, listening, intently,
plenty coal Wanchee two, thres men an inscrutable smile overspreading his This no good. Very old. Use
No good. Lose money. As this did not seem to produce the desired effect, the patient Briton again returned to the Oficer attack while John listened and smiled
agree with the suggestion to At last John broke forth with the increase the Butrimary Jurisdiction, but following This no good, th! This not with the proposal to merge the two very old ch! This wanchee two, three branches of the legal profession mea 1 - I lose money, eb1" - John had been thinking, and he proceeded Velly good, you catcher one pisce machine velly small you talkes I give you this big one. Can do! You say velly chesp, this one vally dear. I give you this one, you catchee me small one. Can do This was far too much for the electrician, and he promised to call again after he had thought it over
ROBERTOK RANDOM
In-
No. 12. A poll-tax is all right. habited house duty would simply be clapped on to the already exorbitant rents, and you to not want to increase the coat of litigation
Try taxes on (a) ponies, (b) yachts, servants in excess of fear) four.-Yours (c) all private vehicles, and (d) private faithfully,
LEX
Hongkong, 13th May, 1918.