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THE WAR.
BRITISH GAIN ENEMY FRONT SYSTEM OF DEFENCE.
CONTALMAISON REGAINED BY ASSAULT.
FRENCH PREPARING FOR SECOND OFFENSIVE.
WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN A FEW DAYS,
ENEMY'S ** THIN ANÆMIC LINE.”
ADMITS FIGHTING OVERWHELMING RUSSIAN ODDS.
+RANDO-BELGIAN FROMT.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
ENEMY FRONT SYSTEM OF "DEFENCE CAPTURED,
LONDON, July 11th.
General Sir Douglas Haig reporte After ten days and nights of continuous fighting our troops have completed the methodical capture of the whole of the -enemy's front system of defence on
front of 14,000 yards.
The German defence system consisted of numerous continuous lines of fire-sup Bort and reservo trenches, extending to
various depths, ranging from 2,400 yards, and included five strongly-fortified vil- lagos, numerous heavily-wired entrench ed woods, and a large number of immensely strong redoubts. The capture
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) FRENCH PROGRESSING, A BRILLIANT ATTACK.
PARIS, July 11th. A communique says:-South of the
Binches and Barleaux, carrying a small Somme we progressed in the region of
fort and capturing hundreds of pris-
one ra
resulted in the capture of a strongly-held A brilliant attack south of Binches
hill dominating the river and Maisonette farm, situated at the summit. GERMAN ATTACK AT VERDUN,
PARIS, July 11th,
A communiqué atates: On the left of the Meuse, after an intense bombard- ment, the Germans attacked at Fluery, to the east of Le Chenois, and gamed
of onch of these trenchos represented im- a footing in the Le Chamois Wood and
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY JULY 13mm 1976.
(THROUGH SKUTER'S AGENCY.] GERMAN FORCE AGAINST THE ALLIES.
LONDON, July 12th. French experts estimate that there are over thirty German divisions opposed to
the British. Two fresh divisions from Germany are attacking Verdun
[THEOTCH METTER'S AGENOT.] NEW IRISH GOVERNMENT
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BOUMANIA'S INTENTIONS.
LONDON, July 12th
"KNOCKING ABOUT THE TRENCHES,
SYSTEM.
LONDON, July 11th. The official correspondent of the In the House of Lords, Lord Lansdowne Berliner Tageblatt at Bucharest is most outlined the provisional system of Irish pesimistic concerning the intentions of Government coming into force. After Boumania. He believen,, however, that the abolition of martial law until the Roumania will not join the Allies until establishment of the now Government, the Russians have crossed the Car there will be an Irish Secretary, with pathians. He states that the Allies are probably a Military Adviser. The carry-helping Roumania in the matter of muni-midnight dance of the trench rats. I airing of arms will be prohibited from to- tions.
FRENCH AIR-SQUADRONS
ACTIVE
PAR18, July 12th. communique statesOur squadrons dropped 220 bombs on various stations on Monday night. RUSSIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE. GERMAN APPREHENSIONS,
LONDON, July 11th. The Germans are apparently apprehen sivo as to the fate of Pinsk, and have issued a denial of the Russian Official Report of the capture of the place.
of the capt They say that no such report has been received up to the present. LARGE ENEMY FORCE REPULSED.
PETROGRAD, July 12th.
A communiqué says the fighting on the Stokhod continues. The Russians, to the north-west of Kimpolung, repulsed large
neaty forces.
RUSSIANS PRESSING ON IN THE CAUCASUS.
PETROGRAD, July 12th. The Russians are pressing on in the Caucasus,
ITALIAN FRONT.
(THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] SUCCESSFUL ITALIAN
PRESSURE.
ROME, July 12th,
morrow There will be no amnesty. The Garrison will be kept in Ireland. Special safeguards will be provided for the loyalists in the South and West. There will be a new Chief of Constabul ary, who will be a soldier and who knows all parthen. Lord Lansdowne stated that he understood that the Sinn Fein move ment is waning. The passage of the Bill embodying the settlement will take some time.
IMPERIAL
COMMITTEE TO OPPOSE HOME RULE.
LONDON, July 12th. Eighty members of the House of Com mons who have joined the Imperial Com mittee, of which Lord Salisbury is Chairman, to oppose the Home Rule settlement, will issue a manifesto shortly.
MEDICAL PROVISION IN MESOPOTAMIA.
Loanos, July 12th.
In the House of Commons, Col. C. E. Yate (C.) asked who was responsible for the medical provision of the Mesopo- tamia expedition. Mr. Austin Chom- berlain replied that, in the absence of Surgeon General Babtie, the Deputy
THE PALISADE.”
SUCCESSFUL OPENING NIGHT.
A BARRISTER'S IMPRESSIONS.
which it is alleged means brains. I on I used to be a barrister. I had s practics and the rapidly thinning hair what flappers call middle-aged, and sen- sible people in the pritae of life. I have edited a trench newspaper in the front line of the trenches. I have attended the
have danced in a set of lancers as tady, to the music of the gramophone and tho light of candles. I have tried to pick up a pair of high boots and found there was a dead man at the end of them. I have judged a boxing show – within On more than one occasion Kowloon range of the Hun guns. I have been: there was no amusement for them in the makes an attack across the open, and residents have bemoaned the fact that ** over the top,” as it is called when one evenings unless they undertook the it is owing to a steel helmet that I am journey to Hongkong, and many sugwriting this mine has got a big dunch gestions have been made to remedy this from shrapnel in it on the place where state of affairs, but without effect. No
the speeches to the jury used to originate doubt the local gentlemen who are re-
from. Forget your revolver if you like, sponsible for the “Palisade" realised but never your steel helmet, and please that there was sufficient scope for a place keep on sending us the in: ration for of amusement in the rapidly developing medicine rolled into one.
the men; it is liquid, good humour, and peninsula, and judging by the large **house” which favoured the opening of "And how do you like it! That is the Palisade last evening such scope.
the first question everybody asks you if undoubtedly existe. The
you are home on leave. have had eight programme
high level of excellence which was provided, if maintained
months in the front line and I cannot at the
answer it yet. One's instinct is to reply reached last night, cannot but make stand in Piccadilly, with the taxis and "Oh! pretty fair helt," and then as you Kowloon's house of amusement extremely buses rolling by, facing an advertise popular both for Kowloon and Hong-ment of somebody's pills guaranteed to kong residents. To witness really inter make you live for ever, you remember esting pictures and listen to entertaining the evening when your leave warrant band music in the open air is a rare treat arrived in trenches, and how you shook on sultry summer evenings, and this is the water out of the back of your neek what can be obtained at the “Palisade,” and held yourself upright when you a large rooflcas enclosure, with ample could no longer hear the flop of a stray provision against any sudden change in bullet in the sodden earth beside you, the elements. The selection of films and the chance of the road being shelled last night showed distinct taste, and the seemed very remote. Personally, when I large audience were not slow to appre- got leave I crouch along the communica- ciate this fact. The picturca were quite on trench until I am quite safe. I
portant operations; and they are all now cast of Fumin, but were immediately. A commünique roports that in conte Director of Medical Services carried out up-to-date, and the band rendered selec. want my leave pretty bad and strays"
in our hands. The German success at ejected. Trone's Wood was of short duration, as. we recaptured nearly the whole of the wood. Apart from the guns hidden in the debris, we captured in these opera- tions 26 field-guns, one naval gun, and
heavy howitzer. The prisoners
exceed 7,500.
MORE PRISONERS TAKEN,
General Sir Douglas Haig reports:- We took prisoner 180 unwounded men, including a battalion Commander, at Conta maison. The whole of the village in now in our hands.
We took prisoner 200 unwounded men
in Mametz Wood.
by
FIERCE BOMBARDMENT ON RIGHT BANK OF MEUSE, PARIS, July 12th,
troops already on the way to the East. HAVAL ACTIVITIES.
of policy
INDIA'S COTTON EXPORTS,
Our barrage and machine-gun fire the Austrians have been obliged to recall ported that he dealt with no questions cal comodies of the day, this proving an
quence of Italian pressure in Trentino, the routing duties, but the Raj had re- tions from the popular revuer and musi- do not understand things. You remem elsewhere broke enemy attacks.
her other things too. The joy of arriving entertainment in itself. The proprietors in billets with half a company untouch- of the Palisade" are to be complimented, after hurrying along a road over ed upon their efforts to add to the amuse Whizz-bangs, Shrapnel and any old which our young friend is sending H. E. ments of the Colony, and they may be things his imagination fancies, and your assured of plenty of support if future where you are assuredly going to sleep arrival in the dilapidated farm-house programmes prove so thoroughly cater on the floor, but may he on a dry floor, taining as that provided last crening.
which seems a paradise if the post and the whisky have preceded you, and then dinner with your friends and frienda are friends at the Front, not acquain- tances easily upset by a chance tactless remark.
A communique states-The fiercest bombardment continues. on the right bank of the Meuse.
There has been a moderate cannonado, on the left bank of the Meuse.
GERMANS GAIN LODGEMENT AT DAMLOUP.
PARIS, July 19th. The Germans on the right of the Meuse, after several fruitless and costly at tempts, gained a lodgement in a Dam loup battery and in some elements of our
One of our aeroplanes was shot downline in the Fumin Food.
a direct hit from an anti-aircraft gan, and three other machines have not wturned
AIR COMBATS.
Tanis, July 19th. STORMING OF CONTALMAISON Somme region on the 10th fust. Four There were fourteen air eumobsts in the
LATER.
Our Infantry have retaken. Contal Rison by assault.
A strong German counter-attack was repulsed with beavy loss."
We stormed further east several lines of trenches in Mametz Wood, the greater part of which are now in our possession. Wo captured bere a heavy howitzer and three field guns.
Heavy fighting continues at Trane's Wood.
GREAT FRENCH SUCCESS.
IMPORTANCE OF HILL ..
"PAR16, July 11th.
A semi-official message lays stress on the great tactical importance of the cap ture of Hill 97, south-east of Binches, It places the French in possession of the
chemy machines which were badly hit by our unchine-guns dived abruptly. A French pilot brought back a burning machine to our lines and landed safely.
IN LORRAINE,
PARIS, July 11th.
(THROUGH BEUIKER'S AGENCY.] RUSSIAN CAPTURES IN THE BALTIO.
LONDON, July 12th
A telegram from Copenhagen says the Russians in the Baltic have captured the German steamers Lissabon and Worms, of 35,000 and 9,000 tons respectively.
GERMANY'S MERCHANT
LONDON, July 12th
In reply to Mr. G. Toulmin (L) Mr.. Austin Chamberlain gave a return show- ing the exports of raw cotton from India to Japan, Italy, the United Kingdom, China, Spain had been largely increased since the beginning of the war. He fur- ther said that he would be glad to give Mr. Toulmin detailed information of the efforts being made for an increase in the cultivation of long-stapled cutton in : India,
SUBMARINES. ANOTHER LEAVES PORT.
Amsterdam, July 11th. The Fossiche Zeitung says the Deutsch- lund is one of several submarine cargo boats being built by a company formed by the North German Lloyd and the Deutsche Bank.
Another such vessel, which has been christened the Bremen, has left harbour. GENERAL.
THE
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THIN ANEMIC LINE"
LONDON, July 12th,
Karl von The German-American propagandist, Weigand, has had despatch published in New York, in which ho was permitted by the German Censor to refer to the
the enemy penetrated the first line of A commanique states: In Lorraine, elements east of Reillon on a front of two Mr hundred metres.
GALLANT INFANTRY-
LONDON, July th
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE
PRESIDENT.
FAR
SHIPPING
EASTERN COMPANIES AND TAXATION,
Mout of the wit turns on one's per sonal appearance: mine is most useful to the battalion, specially if Fritz hus' been testing his machine guns--and I have lain in eight inches of mud-on a wind up, oh dear no, but just to make pitch-dark road-not breause I had " the shooting more sporting for him.
the
A shipping correspondent points out. (says The Times) that companies regis cred in the Crown Colonies, such Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and Hongkong, are not subject to excess profit laxation, which we believe to be What strikes us most is not french the case, and he advocates the application mortars or Silent Susies or machine- guns, but that it is a war of wonderful- of the tax to such companies by special sanitation and priceless good humour. enactment. He further asserts that there I suppose even the Hun must have some is a registration office for British ship-bave thought of the Hymn of Hate or sense of humour, otherwise be could not ping in the Chinese Treaty port of alleged that his womenfolk were Shanghai, and that it is locally claimed dressed. Of course one does grouse one well- the same privilegos apply to shipping sees a woman with decent ankles, hat of my friends complains that he over registered there as in the Crown Colenica, then he has decorated the officers dug- No doubt the question of applying the onta for some twenty miles of front line with Kirschners's and Fragonard's won- excess profit taxation to companies derful drawings, so he is a bit of an registered in some of the Crown Colonies expert. My grouse is tea minde at s can be argued from both sides. On the deranges something in my inside. And
4.D. with trench water-it
always one hand they enjoy all the advantages the sanitation Everything which can It is understood that a Bill will be which belong to vessels tying the British be salved is collected, such as old rifles, introduced to obviate Mr. Lloyd George flag, and, on the other, profits may be and everything else buried or barnt; bayonets, haversacks, and equipment, derived entirely from local trailing in there are no bully-beef tins or cigarette seeking re-election
the East, where they have to face severe
papers lying about in our trenches. AGAINST AUGUST HOLIDAY. Competition from companies not subject a match outside a billet, and had to pick have been reproved myself for dropping it up and spoil a new pair of gloves in LONDON, July 12th,
The correspondent further suggests doing so that the Indo-China Steamship Com-
LONDON, July 11th. Eaz] Crawford has been appointed President of the Board of Agriculture. MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S SEAT.
LONDON, July 12th,"
It is believed that Mr. Lloyd George
tioners to postpone the August Holi day till September:
to mich laxation
I
This is a question of discipline and eustora, and the men soon get as keen on
it as the officers. I have seen London to the East last year, may thus shaving on a December morning in the be able to avoid the excess profit taxe trench about eighty yards away, with front-line trenches with the German tion. That is a matter for the Treasury water boiled in an old tin over & brazier sad lawyers to decide, but we under- and a periscope as a-looking glass, and stand that the removal of the office was so until they got into billets next day. there was no order causing them to do
Beuter's Correspondent at Headquarthin anemic line which Gellers in considering the appeal of the muni pany, which removed its head office from ters reports that yesterday's British Hindenburg, Leopold, Linsingen and successes were most important.
The storming of Contelmaison was most overwhelming odds. The Russians Boothmer are fighting with against al parformed with great gallantry by our the Mametz Wood, where it is under- Infantry, who pushed steadily through to
are well fed, while the Germans food is lacking strength-giving properties stood our position is most satisfactory.
The development of the Russian attach in the direction of Kovel bears out Mr.
AMERICAN INTERESTS IN
CHIVA.
WASHINGTON, July Eth. A resolution has been introduced in
last hill before the Somme, which is less FRENCH SECOND OFFENSIVE. Weigands description of the thin enemy the Senate asking Mr. Lansing, the
than a mile from the Peronne Chaulnes
line, dominates the Somme Valley, and, moreover, enables the French to see everything that happens at Peronne.
LATER. A-communiqué states-Ou both sides
of the Bomme the night was calmx.
-- LONDON, July 19th. The French are now preparing the second part of their offensive south of
line. The Russian General Kaledine, Secretary of State, to report whether commanding on the Styr, withdrew his the Russo-Japanese Alliance will close the door in Ching to American busines interests.
INCOMPETENT HUNGARIAN
COMMANDERS.
the Somme. They are in contact on a troops a few miles till amply supplied front of three and a half miles with the with munitions, then he struck a blow enemy's last line defending the Somme in dvojugction with General Lesh farther Valley, which is three-quarters of a mile north. From which the enemy, wolkened South of the Somme, since the night of mans have strengthened this naturally oppose General Lechitzky, reeled and wide, bordered with ponds. The Ger- by sending reinforcements southwards to the 9th instant, we have captured 1,300 powerful position by bridgeheads, prisonera.
which therefore are only reducible by soon flod in disorder, burning villages operations demanding preparation.
A telegram received here reports that seems likely that these preparations,
It and huge supplies of stores na 1 screen there were violent scenes in the Hun the French semi-official report, wil
for their retreat. The passage of the garian Parliament sang from the carried out in a few daya
Parra, July 12th
▲ communique states-To-day has been comparatively quiet on both hanks auf the Somme,
MILAN, July 18h
be Blokhod takes the Russians, across the Opposition attacks on the incompetent
last natural obstacle to Kovel stu Austrian Commanders.
in no way whatever connected with the They are proud of the appearance of levy of the new taxation. The business they looked the smarter they would fight. their regiment and knew that the smarter of the company is in the Far East, where it was considered the board of
LORD KITCHENER AND THE DURATION OF THE WAR. »
directors should be, and, further, the company has a largo number of Chinese relieved from the burden of paying ahareholder, who by the change are
bered that the advances in the shares last oarly close of the war, according to Mr. British income tax. It will be remem The late Lord Kitchener looked for an year were attributed mainly to Chinese A. G. Gardiner, Editor of the Daily buying. There is no reason to suppose Neros. In an article published in the that the company, which is understood to London journal on June 10th Mr. Gar- have fared very well, has not fully taken diver says I am told on good auther- into account the possibility being
called upon to pay exoces profit taxation that a few days before the end which and made the necessary provision. It came upon him so swiftly and silently would, indeed, be anomalous that of two Lord Kitchener aid he had revised his companies in maintaining similar ser estimate of the duration of the war. He vices in the Far East, one, which bad bad calculated that it would last three removed its head office to China during Tears He now thought that estimate ex- the war, abhould not be taxed, while the cessive, and looked for an earlier close other, which still remained in London, The enormous impetus of events during should, like other shipping companies re the past few days gives force to the pre- gistered in the United Kingdom, be diction. There is on all sides a feeling called upon to pay.
of the imminence of final things,"