THE
WAR.
BRITISH GAIN MORE GROUND.
FRENCH CAPTURE
TRENCHES.
REPORTED NAVAL BATTLE IN BALTIC.
MESOPOTAMIA AND DARDANELLES INQUIRY.
FRANCO-BELUTAN FRONT.
{THROUGH BETTER'S AGENOY.] BRITISH PUSH FORWARD.
LONDON, July 20th.
Cruern) Bir Douglas Haig, in a com- uniga, states: A little more ground has lar gained at Delville Wood and Longueval.
North of Lingueral and Bazentin our line has been pushed forward.
East of the Leipzig Redoubt an ad-
GENERAL.
[TALOVOR REUTER'S AGENCY.] DARDANELLES
AND
MESOPOTAMIA.
DEBATE IN THE COMMONS.
LONDON, July 20th.
There was a crowded attendance in the House of Commons-last night in the expectancy of a possibly critical debato on Sir Edward Carson's motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESJ. SATURDAY, JULY 22ND 1916,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GREAT BRITAIN'S
GERMAN
HUGE
EXPENDITURE...
CAUSES OF THE INCREASE.
LONDON, July 20th.
COUNTER-MOVE. IN VOLHYNIA. MACKENSEN REPORTED IN
COMMAND.
·HALF AN
HOUR.
A FIGHT IN A CRATER.
Bir J. M. Barrie recently gave us a
ite of a woman in peace I propose to spectator, not an actor-the impressions
not down, from the point of view pi
oi, an actor would be fraginentary and
A HOMECOMING. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE
From Gallipoli to St. Ives in Cornwallcked and poignant half an hour in the is a long way; but on what distant The Times correspondent, writing from not break! There is nothing in England shores may the ripples of a man's life Petrograd on June 21st, says:
From the increasing energy of the
more remete, simple, and uneventful. Austro-German counter-attacks on Gen- than the normal life of St. Ives, which erat. Brusiloff's right military experts is governed by the winds and tides and conclude that the Germans have been negens.. The very seagulls have their duced to concentrate their forces on tine there, so that a glance at their Russian front in order to stave off the doings will tell you the state of the tide Russian menace to hovel and Vladimir and extent of the fishing harvest, Sunny Volhynsk. The successive victories of and poseful go the days there, upset all the Germs plans General Kaledin's
array have apparently.
Yet from there also the call was anawed-fran the very first and all over the Flest, and all over the widespread
chaotic, where any impression except the dared triumph of being still alive re- mained-half an hour in the life of the front. Barrie's drama was skilful he- tion; this is plain Inet.
To how many of the millions of men and women at horie who read the ir papers daily with anxious hearts and in- terested minids do the brief, dry D- tences of the official romaniques bring
however
penetrating, cannot infuse reality into their recurring phrases-- phases often followed by the words
In the House of Commons, Mr. Me Kenne stated that the rise in the rate of national expenditure during the last seven, weeks, was due, firstly, to the Government's purchases of American securities, and, secondly, to the rate at which the advances to the Allies and the mainly on both sides of the highway are of war, the men of St. Ives are t any vital meaning? Imagination alone,
The enemy's counter-move is directed which runs from Vladimir Volhynsk to found. The other day 11 of them, Lutek. His left column, striking north members of the crow of H. M.S. Alon of the highway, has been arrestest near came lane their first leave since the Le village of Vorotchin, se 22 miles war began. They had been out in the east of Vladimir Volhynsk. His right Dardanelles, serving by sea and land in column was met by the Russian counter that theatr of chance and adventure, attack as Rogovitchi and had to retreat, Moreover, while endeavouring to arrest
and no doubt there had been moments our advance by a frontal move, the enemy
when they thought they would never look the magunt of home bad pulled them out But upon Godrevy Lighthouse again." from among the hundreds of thousands, had brought them back to where the little and by devious yet purposeful ways, round among the sandhills to the ailver railway leaves the main line and wandera townlet behind the island of greep.
Dominions had been drawn upon. fe hoped the expenditure would decline. TOTAL PROHIBITION IN GREAT BRITAIN.
LONDUN, July 20th.
The Memorial from The Strength of Britain ** Tovement is
not connected with the Temperance movement. It ap pears that if the Government extend total | prohibition for the period of the war it will thus raise new fire and resolution among the piple, following the example of France and Russia. Many distin- guished men are signatories to the Memorial, including Sir.
Frempton, Mr. Harry Johnston, Mr. H.
George
G. Wolle, and Mr. John Masefield.
also continues operations from Kavel along the Rovno railway, endeavouring Prisce Leopold of Bavaria's army, which by this move to cover the right flank of north of the Stoklod. Thus the enemy was exposed by the Austrian retreat is trying to drive a wedge into our and Koyel urmies threatening Vladimir Volhynsk
Unless there be
fighting continues." It all sounds so small that hose at home are tempted to ask. Is that all? The following, de- scription is written with the view of anævering that question and of showing that however inactive our Arnies may
less and remorseless activity whereever
appear on the map, there is sel a cease- they confront the enemy, now here, now along the body of a great snake-it is a there, like the uneasy mation rippling
ring somewhere! that must be borne in description of what is continually recur mind before its significance can be ap- preciated. And it is not a battle; it is just a stuit, as it is called here, an evening's entertainment, like the star turn on a music-hall stage,
vance has been made by bombing parties. inquire into the conduct of the operations Crookes, Sir Ronald Ross,am forer which he was able to control on the rocks. In the little stone houses huddled here is being fought between two nations,
BRITISH CASUALTIES.
WOUNDED OFFICERS' OPTINISM.
Losson, July 21st. Wanded British officers emphasise that though our casualty lists are big we are gaining on the balance all the ting, not only in ground but enomously in man power and morale.
**Our chaps," they say, "are in better heart to-day than ever. On the present relation of gains to lusses, if our casual. tink were fon times what they are; The war
sudden freshet of fish The report that Mackenset has gone to or broccoli or visitors, the noontide peace assing personal direction of these opera of St. Ives is profound. The train is tions leads military writers to conclude away at St. Erth, the harbour is empty, That he will attempt to bring into opera- tion again the incis of the famous task of scavenging and are out with the the sea-gulls have finished their morning. phalanx," but evidently the crushing fishing boats, or lazily roosting on the Dunaire and in the advance into Serbia about the narrow streets prace reigns is not available now at least not until also. But on this day, there is u gather very large reinforcements have beening of people, strange and unusual, like brought from the French and Italian fronts.
a swarming of bees, which attracts the The above mesange, which was veerived
attention even of the sea-gulls. On the at 9 pon, yesterday, is apparently incom-sian armies are paralleled and explained its Carniche road round a bastion of The astonishing successes of the Rus Malakoff, as St. Ives calls the sweep of plate.En]
by the remarkable development in the rock, a crowd bus assembled; and at the output of munitions, of which E
was railway station just below it, where the privileged to enjoy ocular evidence in the course of a visit to the munition facceping ribbon of the railway comes to tories of Petrograd. As an instance I
a sudden end above the waves, there is may vite one cartridge factory which
another crowd. turns out thousands of millions of cartridges, thanks to the unflagging enegy and zeal of the workers. Men and women have worked since the outbreak of war without a single holiday.
THE BANDMAN OPERA AND COMEDY COMPANY.
THE MAN WHO STAYED AT
HOME."
This play, which has achieved a very considerable popularity on account of its war interest," was presented again
at the Dardanelles and in Mesopotamia.
Mr. ASQUITH emphasised that our Naval and Military diplomatic advisers strong, ly protested against the publication of the Papers, but the Government recog nised the public anxiety in the matter, and therefore did not complain of Sir Edward Carson's motion. In view, how- ever, of the eritical character of the present military operations and also the prospects thereof, the Government very much deprecated a debate which would give the outside world the impression that we were internally divided. The kaer, and Germany would be down and Government hoped and believed, with wut. Moreover, a big-lot of our casual-regard to Mesopotamia in particular, that ample provision was being made for kies will be fit to fight in a month.”
the requirements of the troops and the FRENCH CARBY ENEMY campaign. The Government did not de-
TRENCHES,
sire to conceal past shortcomings or to shield whoever was directly responsible.bers of the raste,
Continuing, Mr. Asquith reminded the House of the complexity and length of the Crimea Toquiry, and said that similar difficulties would face Sir Ed- ward Carson's proposed inquiries. He believed the Government's proposals would meet the situation better.
would be over before the end of the sum
Panis, July 20th. A communiqué states Wo carried wuemy trenches, between Hardecourt Hill. and the Somme, and extended our line east word of Hardecourt for a consider able distance along the narrow-guage railway from Combles towards Clery: So far we bave prisonered 400 here..
We exptured the whole of the unemy first-line trenches between Barleux and Soyecourt,
A German aeroplane was felled in the Somme aren.
PROGRESS AT VERDUN.
Patis, July 20th.
We progressed west of Thiaumont, We extrial a strong many work south of Fleury, and prisonered 150,
A German aeroplane was felled in the
Verdun-area---- PUKSIAN FRUNI
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] RUSSIANS ADVANCING IN CAUCASUS.
PETROGRAD, July 21st. A communiqué states:-There have been violent artillery duels in the Bvina
and Volbynia fronts
In the Caucasus, the successful offon- sive on the right wing continues. Some 4f our detachments have advanced over teu miles.
THE NEAR
FAST.
{THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, July 20th.
shade
NAVAL ACTIVITIES:
The Hon. AUBREY HERBERT asked-Will the responsible inen in Mesopotamia keep their positions during the Inquiry!
Mr. AsQUITH replied-We must not con- demn them unheard Wherever there is a prima facis case of incapacity the Government will not hesitate to act. We have done so in more than one instance:
Sir EDWARD CARSON said that after Mr.--Asquith's statement it would be futile to proceed with the debate. SECRET ENQUIRIES TO BE HELD,
LATER
Mr. Asquith, in the House of Com- mons, announced tit secret inquiries would be held regarding the Dardanelles and Mesopotamia, but not by Select Committees. Both Houses would be re- presented, and also Australia,
Mr. Asquith proposed that the names
and terms with reference to the inquiry
would be submitted to the House. A Bil would be introduced providing com- pulsory powers for the securing of evid Cate which otherwise might not be available.
BILL TO BE INTRODUCED ON ·
THE KING ON HORN
terms-
BATTLE.
SPLENDID WORK"
REEF
Royal last evening. When it was given by the Bandman Co. at the Theatre on the previous occasion, during the visit. of the Company in April, there was a crowded house, and although now, wh The King paid a visit to the whole of conscription in force, the subject is get- the Grand Flent last month. During his ting a little out of date, it once more visit his Majesty addressed represents attracted an interested attendance Mr. tives of units on parade in the following Compton Coutts, in the title rôle, main- tained the reputation he has gained as an actor of more than usual ability, and he was well supported by the other mem- You have waited for nearly two years with most exemplary patience for the To-night there is to be a variety enter;oppurtunity of meeting and enagging the Lainment, and the Company will close energy's Fleet I can well understand its season in Hongkong on Monday with bow trying has been this period and how
The Belle of New York??
great must have been the relief when you knew on May at that the enemy had been sighted.
THE HONG ONG SUGAR SEASON.
"Sir John Jellice, officers and men of the Grand Fleet.
"Unfavourable weather conditions and approaching darkness prevented that complete result which you all expected, The large sugar refineries in Hong-but you did all that was possible in the Consul-Qeneral for the U.S.A. in Hong his harbours and inflicted on him very kong, reports Mr. George E. Anderson, circumstances; you drove the enemy into Business was not up to the usual volume, kong experience a fair season in 1915, severe losses, and you added another page to the glorious traditions of the and the course of the sugar market British Navy. during the year was downward, but on The whole purchases of raw supplies were splendid work I thank you."
You could not do more, and for your made at such times and in such a way On the conclusion of his visit the King duct on as to enable them to pass the refined prosent the following message to the Com
to Chinese ports at a good mander-in-Chief of the Grand Floot !--- prost.
"I am thankful to have had this The imports of the year, according to best commercial figures available opportunity of congratulating you and amounted to about 870,000 tons. Of this the Grand Fleet on the result of the re all but about 12 per cent. came from Java, cent engagement in the North Soa, most of the reminder coming from the Philippines and the South China coast Of the imports of sugar from Java, about 75 per cent, was of this white augar, which is used in China na refined product," the "remainder classed as raw sugar.
а
being
The exports of refined sugar amounted to about 100,000 tons, much of the im ports being re-exported as white sugar.
Asure all ranks and ratings that the name of the British Navy never stood higher in the eyes of their fellow-cun- trymen, whose pride and confidence in their achievements are unabated, "Good luck and God speed.
with complete success."
May your future efforts be blogged
GEORO, RI.
A NIGERIAN COALFIELD.
IMPORTANCE OF THE DISCOVERY.
At the annual meeting of Elder Demp
While the refineries have had a fair year, Hongkong dealers had unfavour able returns from the season's business. Prices continually sagged and stocks last value rapidly. The new year commented with stock in Hongkong of, about those of 1914, but the market so far the Udi in southern Nigotia marked as now 40,000 tons of sugar, mostly white Java, ster and Company Sir Own Philippa Prices are still low as compared with remarked that the discovery of coal at
current year has ruled comparatively and most important epoch in the history steady.
f West Africa. It rendora possible many industrial developments in that still 'ttle-known country.
AN EXPECTANT CROWD. huddin of houses beneath the island that You would think that the little silver lids couchant in the grey sea could not have contained such a population as binckens these two spaces; but every
the regular exceptions of silence during All day long, from dawn onwards, with mealsus an officer remarked, the war each of whom is inordinately fond of its firing intermittently upon the opposing front and support line, until dusk stole food-the guns of both sides had been
over the lines, cool and fresh, and gradually the shelling tallered and ceased.
were, holding,
were
been
THE ATTACK BEGINS. The moon would not rise until {L} hour after dark, and as we stood on the parados of the trenches tre were occupy ing the silence was hardly broken except for a few casual stort bursts of machine- gun fire; the gloom was hardly pierced
the German lines, for all the world like except for the few brilliant Very lights rising and falling here and there from Roman candles. We had been informest of the time at which it was intended to rush the lips of a orster the Germans. moment adds to it, while a mobile fores
comparing of children, fearful of being away from watches, when, without other warning, the centre of interest, moves up and down there rose on the air in front of us a the stone steps, now throwing itself into rapid crescendo of sound as of huge
attack had the station group, now reinforcing that kettle-drums-the on the Malakoff. The town band assem-launched and the bombers were now at blas, and enlivens the sombre crowd on
work. the platform, with a touch of colour and
A moment later widely along the line gleaming brass. The breeze brings the short, angry, little cracks of rapid came the rat-a-tat of machine-guns and strain. of rzasic and the note of a beйl.
Presently a whistle sounds, echoing fireworks began-not one by one at long rifle-fire, and at the same instant the among the cliffs the vice of the little intervals as before, but in twos and train demanding admittance through the threes along the line, and at the threat- rocky doorway on the promontory. The end point so fast that a dozen were in signal bows, and the train glides in and the air at a time. The brilliant lights stops. The crowd surges round it, an were shot up, as the Germans tried to eddy of black; in the midst of which can presently be discerned the blue naval col-the points at which they were being see the number of their assailants and fars and white caps of the heroes. There rushed. Madder and madder rose the in much affectionate confusion and in-frantic beating of the kettle-drums as dividual welcoming, which threatens to bombs were hurried up on both sides, annihilate the ceremonial side of the and, seen by the rising and falling flares, occasion. boxes having been disposed of, the pro- grew red with the bursting bombs and But at last, bags and ditty- the whole earth in and round the crater
the 11 sailors, then the awarming crowd. seemed a devil's cauldron near which no cession is formed; first the band, then steamy with the clouds of duet, till it In this inspiring order they tread the de- vious and familiar ways of the sunny the Germans signalled to their artillery man could live, And up from behind the threatened point rose red lights as narrow streets, working upwards all the time, until at length they arive at the that they needed their assistance--not Malakoff.
once but many times the red lights rose, their townspeople, the 11 ure formally the call on their own account till an There, among hundreds of and the neighbouring Germans took up welcomed by a brave speech from the Mayor and presented by his little Fritz sems to be getting the wind
officer standing beside me remarked drily. daughter with the inevitable chocolates all right? a phrase out here, the origin and cigarettes to disperse afterwards of which no man knoweth, for getting with the crowd, and be questioned, and in a panic and then the artillery b savour the distinction of those of whom greeted, and made to feel proud, and to gan ours as well as theirs. Neither their fellows think well.
A DANCE OF BOMBS.
side dared shell the lips of the crater, round which with bayonet, bomb and sadder ceremonies of departure, are al-fighting was going on; each took up with These brave little occasions, with those knobkerry the desperate hand-to-hand must all that some remote towns in Eng shrapnel and HE the work of prevent- Jang have to stimulate their spirit and ing reinforcements being rushed up by encourage the larger patriotism. Winter shelling the support lines and main com- and suminer, the seasons of herring and munication trenches, of mackerel, pass over those who remain behind; the storms of the Atlantic beat at the rocky gates of the little town; but no armies, hostile or friendly, march through its streets, no drums or gune sound inspiration or alarm to those who dwell in its fastnesses. It is all hearsay,
it; that is why the men who go forth all imagination. That is why the care mony on the Malakoff meant so much to
from such a place and return with honour win a double vistory and carry forward the banners of peace as well as of war.-Timer, adre
PROPOSED ABOLITION OF
This announcement comes as a welcome THE CHUN WO YUAN. surprise, for the full secret of the Udi CHINESE PEACE PROSPECTS.
coalfield has heen well kept,. The dis-
A BATTALION OF ADVISERS." covery was made in the course of the After long consultation (says the which was associated with the Imperial to the Inte President (most of whom are Mineral Survey of Southern Nigeria, The number of cocmellors and advisers Peking Daily News) the Southern Institute. Following in the very favour-military officers) is no less than four In the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd Leaders have sent a telegram to the able report of the Imperial Institute, hundred all told (says. the Peking Daily President stating that as they have stops were taken by the Government to Nes). Not only can no proper occupa
MONDAY.
LATER.
SONG OF HATE AGAINST LORD KITCHENER
And now to the beating of the devilish of the rifles was added the roar of the Lettledrums and the ceaseless crackling guns and howitzers with the sharp zeream of the first and the leisurely bright flash, white smoke, and quick whistle of the second, followed by the burst of the shrapnel and the heavy "krr-umn
and dark cloud of the
H.E. We stood in the midst of a great ring, the outer edges of which gave out. the wide dull-red flare of the firing guns, lighting the heavens, and in
which in front of us the earth seemed to dance and roar. In a few minutes the terrific. Bacchantic dance of the bombs died down a little, and we said. They've got it, now they've to hold it a few with even more terrible fury as the Ger- minutes more, and it all broke out
again
Hell, stayed constant for another 10 mans counter-attacked. The
like scene, a greater than Dore's illustration of
NO CHANGE IN MESOPOTAMIA-} George, Secretary of State for War, already realized their objects after the work the field, which is no longer in the tions be found for these high-class TARA, minutes, and the sounds were those of announced that the Bill eabodying the repromulgation of the Provisional Con experimental stage, Ten thousand tons bonds at this most critical time, but the some master madman's music-and then It is officially announced that the Government's proposals regarding the station, etc., they have, passed a resola of the coal have, in fact, already been Government is so hardly pressed for little by little the fury lessened; the
inquiries into the Mesopotamia and tion to abolish the Chun Wu Yuan in -situation-in-Mesopotamia is uncharged Dardanelles catapaigns will be intro- Santh, and that, hereafter they will obey coalfield is in immediate proximity toto find funds to pay them. Hence the Spasmodic rather than a continuing rest- order to consolidate the North and the mined and stacked ready for use.The money that it is at 3. loss to know how heating of the kettle drums became The temperature is 120 degs in the duced on Monday. Ile added that the all the orders of the Central Government. Port Harcourt, whence the distance is "battalion of advisers" has crept up for sound of the shells. Bit by bit the tran- the new Nigorian Eastern Railway from question of the disbandment of this thero wore fragmentary silences in the the less roar, the rifle fire came in gasps, inquiries will be of a searching nature.
only 10 miles, and when this line is disenssion. According to the latest THE IRISH_QUESTION.
opened for traffic-some time this year ports, the Government contemplates send-quillity of the summer night resumed its transport can begin at once, and the coating the advisers home with two months than it had been all day. The stunk" place, and then all went still, stiller LONDON, July 21st.
be at the service of the whole of Nigeria ments after the restoration of general it had been quite successful, and our salary each to wait for further appoint was over. A little later we heard that Mr. John Redmond has published a
A song of hate against Lord Kitchener Many specimens of Udi coal have been has been composed at Chemnitz (Saxony) vary fully examined and the faul value peace in China.
casualties surprisingly few. From silence. memorandum which he had sent to Mr. The author of this song, composed on
and is now being sung in public resorts definitely determined at the Imperial
to silence was just half an hour. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George on Tues Lord Kitchener's death,
Institute. Though not equal in quality a bookseller, to Welsh steam coal it is much better It is believed that a naval battle took dusing the Bill for the Irish Settlement long been active in this direction as a
day, declaring that the delay in intro who exhibits it in his shop window, price than many varieties which are now be
5 pfennigs (about d.) a copy. He has ng mined all over the world. It has place on Wednesday night in the Baltic
and Lord Lansdowne's speech have creat contributor to a leading middle class Nigerian railways, the officials of which en subjected to exhaustive trials on the Cannonading was heard throughouted & most serious situation in Ireland.newspaper in Chemnitz.
have reported very favourably upon it the night, disappearing southwards, Any proposal to depart from the terms who gives the foregoing information:
The correspondent of the Vorwärts. as a lowmotive fuste indicating that the Bassians were driv-agreed upon will compel the Irish party among decent men of the value of such less than 2,100 square miles. In places The total area of the Udi deposita is, says that there can be only one opinion as far as can be at present estimated, not ing the Germans.
to declare the agreement ended..
trash.
the seams are five feet thick,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] REPORTED NAVAL BATTLE IN THE BALTIC.
COPENHAGEN, July 20th.
REMOVAL OF CHINESE.
CENSORSHIP:
On this particular occasion there was a sequel, not in the programine of nor inal days at the Front, but it would be isleading to withhold it. Two days ported to the Ministry of Interior to the to the success of the " stunt," they broke lafer, when it seemed to the casual ob The Metropolitan Police Office has reserver as if the Germans were resigned effect that on the 5th inst. the censorshin the dreamy silence of a sunny afternoon exercised over the mails introduced by nouring upon our trenches a rain of sent to various post office for that purit of ground changed hands once again. the 12th month of the 3rd Year of shells for over five hours, after which Min Kou was abolished, and the officials the ownership of the nitted and tortured pose were recalled on the same day. Fighting continues." (Times),