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THE WAR.
SAT HONGKONG DAILY PERSS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26TH, 1916,
MR. LLOYD GEORGE PREDICTS END OF WAR.
RUSSIAN CAPTURE OF
IMMINENT.
ERZINJAN
GERMAN SUBMARINES" ATTACK · DUTCH VESSELS.
GOVERNMENT AND IRELAND.
+RANCO-BELBIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACKS. REPULSED BY THE BRITISH.
Loos, July 24th.
General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com muzigar, Baje:-Apart from continuous shelling by both sides, a night of com- parative calm followed yesterday's fight-j
ing.
Repeated counter-attacks by the enemy between High Wood and Guillement yes terday gained him no advantage. Our artillery and machine-guns inflicted very henvy casualties.
LATER.
Fighting continues at Pozieres. The number of prisoners captured by the Australians has now reached six officers and 145 others.
LONDON, July 25th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a co- muniqué, states --The Australians par ticipated in the fighting at Pozieres.
There has been considerable artillery nctivity in other parts of the battlefront MORE FRENCH CAPTURES. PARIS. July 24th
A communiqué states: The night was The weather is quiet on the Somme.
bad.
racks and an acrodróne at Dieuzi.
AU881AN FRONT.
GENERAL.
In
[THROUGH REUTER'S. AGANOY.} BRITAIN'S PROSPECTS.
INSPIRING SPEECH BY MR.
LLOYD GEORGE.
LONDON, July 24th.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
IRELAND.
THE GOVERNMENT'S POSITION."
LONDON, July 24th In reply to Mr. Redmond, who asked if the Government intended to dopart from the terms of the agreement based op Mr. Lloyd George's proposals, or to insert proposals at variance with the without consulting the
agreement
Nationalists,
Mr. ASQUITH pointed out. that the agreemont was subject to approval and revision by the Cabinet. In this connec tion, said Mr. Asquith, two questions emerged-firstly, the form in which Ulster's exclusion should be provided (all parties had agreed that the inclusion should not be automatic, and the Govern
*(THROUGH REUTER'8 AGENCZ.]''·
"GOING - SIOK” AT THE FRONT.
PENANG CHINESE AND - INCOME TAX.
A largely attended meeting was held in the Chinese Chamber of Commnarec, Penang, on July 10th, to further con- sider the question of the proposed income-tax for the Colony,
In moving the adjournment, Mr. Red- mond reviewed the negotiatiores leading] HOW OUR SOLDIERS ARE CARED
FOR. to the agreement between Sir Edward Carson and himself. On returning to An officer at the front writes:--
There is a tale of the Old Man of the Loudon he was faced by entirely new
Mountain-one of those earnest and proposals propounded by Lord Lans thorough fighting leaders of the early Mr. Lin Eng Hee proposed, and Mr. downe. He had received, on the 20th days of Mohammedanism-that he follow Lee Chun Bam seconded, the following ed this plan of recruiting for his army: inst., en extraordinary notification from Healthy and active young men were raid-resolution, which was carried: the Cabinet stating that it had posted from the villages, drugged, and then poned its consideration of the draft Bill, to a valley, There all the enchant They were ments of life awaited them. and was considering a number of new gorged with pleasures of the senses, and told that this was Paradise, and the way proposals, "I asked for particulars, and to come back for ever was to die fighting for their chief. This lesson sufficiently was informed that the Cabinet did not
learned, the recruits were again drugged, desire to consult me and would not cout and returned to their villages, No com municate with me till a settlement hadision was then needed to force them tion towards the war fund, in whatever. into the fighting ranks; and in the battle line they had no paltering notion of wait and see. They went in to hew hip and thingh
been reached.
On Saturday. Mr. Lloyd George in formed me that the Cabinet had decided to insert in the Bill a provision for the permanent exclusion of the six Ulster counties, omit the agreement for the re- tention of the Irish members at Westmins ter during the transitory period. that their decision was final, and that they would not open the discussion. 1 and my colleagues adhere to every word of the agreement, but we cannot agree to the nation the Government felt that if they now proposals, which would mean a dis- could not themselves agree, they could-grneeful breach of faith on my part to not expect the House to agree that the wards my supporters in Ireland. We full number of Irish members should be warn the Government that we will retained in the House of Commons after oppose the Bill at every stage."
POLICY.
an election, except where consideration | BRITAIN'S POST-WAR TRADE of the Home Rule or, Amending Bill was concerned. Mr. Asquith also stated that the Government did not intend intro- ducing any Home Rule Bill unless there was substantial agreement among all parties.
The Premier acknowledged the loyal and patriotic attitude of the Nationalists. during the war. The Nationalists had
QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS. In the House of Commons, in reply to questions by Sir Owen Phillips and others regarding the representation of the Dominions of the Committee of In- dustrial and Commercial Policy after the
war,
That this menting strongly objects to the introduction of the propused it coine-tax.
The meeting also unanimously agreed to the tollowing, proposed by Dr. K. L. Teag, and seconded by Mr. Ong Hun | Chong : --- .
We are prepared to agreo, whenever called upon, to make further contribu
form of laxation Government may think necessary to luvy, so long as it will not 'ntorfer, with our business and our busi- ness accounts, and we regret that we are
not in a position to make any concrete
taxation beenise no amount was men-
mcat,
THE ENGLISH MIRACLE.
As to whethers the story is authentic, perhaps that good friend of ours, the of the Old Man of the Mountain) cationed that will be required by Govern- Aga Khan (said to be a lincal descendant Estions for any alternative means of - say, But it often came into my mind these last couple of months when I had the bad luck to go sick." "Going sick" was the open sesame to a spell of life is care free, as luxurious as pleasure-pack- ed as any Sybarite could desire. It was
M. Clemenceau, the redoubtable French except, let me hasten to say at the very outset, as regard bouris the life of the Old Man of the Mountain's Earthly statesman and editor of that most pun- gent of newspapers, L'Homme Enchitiné, Paradise provided not as a bait but as contributes a remarkable preface to the a consolation for those who fall by the wayside is doing their job at the front French translation of a book describing England is (or has been) a slack old Great Britain's effort in the war, by M. country in some war respects. But in Jules Destree, the Belgian Socialist de guarding the health of the men of the One
Ong readers thanks to the English- fighting line she has been a tender and
provident mother. I write, of course, Flect because it has been able, without regarding the French Belgian front stiering, without firing a gun-shot, to only one hears there have been mistakes annihilate the German menace, to block- in Gallipoli and Mesopotamin. But not ade the enemy, to assure supplies for our here. Relatives of soldiers can be com armies. It is true: though silent, its fortable in the thought that neither mounting guard is none the less full of money nor work is spared to keep their grandeur. meu in health and to heal then when sick or wounded.
the House of Commons, Mr.ment would not do more than make that Churchill compisited that Mr. Asquith sure); and, secondly, after full exami had not reviewed the military situation.
Mr. LLOYD Grozor. You cannot review the military prospect in the middle of a The prospects are good. Our battle. Generals are more than satisfied at our progress and are prond of the valour of our men. Great as the British infantry was in the days of old, it was never greater than now. One thrills with pride to belong to the same race. Our Citizen Army is hurling back the most formid- able foes, and, whatever happens in this battle, I am confident victory is assured us. I feel, beyond everything; confident, because numbers and all other resources are on our side, and our soldiers have
Mr. Asquarn read a telegram which proved that British resourcefulness and the opportunity to bring Home Rule had been sent by Mr. Bonar Law to the intelligence is going to snatch victory in into immediate operation, Were they Dominions in May stating that the Gov a few moniks over what appeared, at going to throw away that opportunity?ernment desired, as soon as practicable, one time, an invincible railitary Power. The Government believed the opportunity to source an Imperial Conference, in Our steel helmets are better than those had come which might not occur again. cluding representatives of India, to con old Home Ruler he asked sider the policy to be adopted after the Italians had saved thousands of lives the Nationalists to reconsider their decawar The telegram intimated the infer through-their instrumentality. Proceed-sion.
tion, prior to the Conference, to form ing, Mr. Lloyd George said he believed
a Committed in England to discover
the idea of a profeclive shield for the
whether agreement among the British
under the changed conditions caused by parties on the fiscal question was possible
the war, and assured the Dominions that the appointment of this Committee, what ever the results, would not unduly delay the bolding of the Imperial Conference, or interfere with the free discussion of problems with Overseas representatives. Mr. Asquith stated that the Dominions'
mitten had accordingly been appointed.
Mr. D. MacMaster (Unionist)-In view of the fact that the principle of representant in peace time. Most of the men tation of the Dominions was recognised at the Paris Conference, was it not possible, in working out the details of the sebeme, that the Dominions should be represent
of the Germans, and the French and
We took over 300 of the enemy prisoners at Chapelle Sainte Seine in ten days.
Mr. Asquith announced that the Gov Two enemy acroplanes have been felled,
body was capable of further development. Irish Bill, regarding which there did not ernment did not propose to introduer the We bombed the railway station at Con- Axis, hutments at Vigneulles, and bar-Regarding the further utilisation of the
man-power of the Empire, the whole appear to be any prospect of substantini
agreement between all parties. question must be reviewed. Undoubtedly action must be taken shortly, The Mr. REDMOND obtained leave to move French had used theirs to the largest the adjournment “in order to call atten extent, and there was no reason why we
tion to the rapidly growing unrest in should not follow their example.
Treland and to the fact that the Govern
We are turning out monthly more
ment did not propose to carry out in heary guns than were possessed by the their entirety the termas submitted for a Governments harf concurred and a Com- whole Army at the beginning of the war. communique states that in the This is a triumph for British engineer
ing, but more are still wanted. Caucus the offensive continues.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGRROY.] CAUCASUS OFFENSIVE
CONTINUED.
RUSSIAN CAPTURES.
PETROGRAD, July 23rd.
Six guns were captured at Gumish-
Кинет.
Two hundres Turks were made pris oners on the heights of Bala Bandalan, west of Gurishkane.
There has been some skirmishes with the Kurds in the direction of Bagdad: ERZINJAN'S DAYS NUMBERED.
PETROGRAD, July 24th.
It is stated that the days of Erzinjan are numbered. The Russians are stead ly advancing on the place from the south
and the north, while eastward the van guards are only fifteen miles off. NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
BRITISH WAR VOTE,
· EXPENDITURE SINCE 18T APRIL.
LONDON, July 24th.
Mr. Asquith, in moving the vote of credit for £450,000,000, stated that the average daily war expenditure was £1,050,000. The £6,000,000 mentioned by Mr. McKenna, Chancellor of the Exche
quer, represented all outgoings. The total expenditure from the 1st of April to the 22nd of July was £359,000,000. They had £41,000,000 in hand, The Navy and Ariy munitions cost £379,000,000. Loans to the Allies and Dominions £157,000,000, and food supplies and rail- ways, etc.. £23,000,000.
| DUTCH · FISHING VESSELS IN PROHIBITED WATERS.
LONDON, July 24th,
The speaker temporary settlement," concluded While the attitude of myself and friends towards the war is unaltered, and unalterable, the Nationalists would consider themselves, free to criticise the vacillation of the Government both in domestic affairs and in their conduct of the war.
ed?
3.
But the English miracle is not there. The English miracle has not been wrought at sea. Dreadnoughts, oruisers, torpedoes! Well, it is all only the English tradition. But what has made the ancient korthern island sout in the esteem and admiration of man kind is that she has, for the first time in her thousand years of history, ceased
"Going sick in the Army uned to have its terrors, if the gossip of old sergeants can be believed. It rarely can be believed, wholly, for the old sergeant is a mighty liar and leg-paller when the day's work is done, and the beer is cool in his mouth. But it has usually a foundation of truth, even as the most to be an island, erased to think and set deceptive of tankards has something more island. She has embodied her- beneath the froth. Nowadays, for the self into the Continent by her fine hand- amallest sympton of real sickness there some men who have heroically held the are sympathy and help, though the line in the trenchies of Flanders, their "malingerer has still to be met in the short pipes in their teeth, by her guns spirit of the old formula:
and her convoys, and, above all, the high Driver Hawkins, if yer want to go serenity with which she has accepted, 00 sick you must go sick at reveille. If yer our ancient soil, a destiny of pain and go sick in stables yor'll get an hour's bitter struggle. Yes, that is splendid, because it is not at all the work of an extry fatigue."
THE MALINGEBER.
hour, but the inevitable conclusion of "Other The matingerer, who is a sort of rela- a history of ten centuries. tion of the conscientious objector, makes nations have, on the pic battlefields a lot of difficulty for the medical service of Europe, shed more blood than Eng
when there is a spell land. He goes gick
Others have undergone assaults No. 1the
moro violent, have had to develop a of hard work or when his non-commissioned officer who has charge more desperate heroism before the on-- over him-tries to urge him out of the rush of the Barbarians. But no nation ways of laziness. If he is an ut he has resolved, with more method of de put up a set of symptoms which it is very hard to determine upon. The nateur cision, to go on to the very end of the Ne nation has experienced so maligerer comes along boldly with task,
complete a metamorphosis in its man- Fever, sir, fever all over.", yarn can be bowled out easy enough. But the nor in the exercise of its rights and its malingerer who has a mysterious pain claims to be independent." in the back, "Can't hardly move, sir."" is a more difficult case. A sensible medi- eal officer generally gets to know from
The President has.telegraphed to the he officers of units the character of any
tient he is doubtful about, arranges Sheng Changs of the provinces, point- for a close watch, and if the "pain in ing out that the education of the people
e back".
case, relieved from duty, is should on no account be neglected, and noticed to be agile enough in enjoying auffcient funds should be appropriated his enze, when he thinks he is not under for the maintenance of bools in their observation, something happens to that respective provides in spite of the difi- man. Medical officers tell me that there culties of the gives it financial situation. is a very low proportion of malingerers in the British Army to day, far lower
His
it
nation of the war, and there have been tetanus and gangrene make the man have their hearts in the successful prose every soldier as a first precaution against very many cases of officers and men allow combe, and send for an ambulance.
Half an inter than go sick, and run the risk of hour from his accident the man will be ing ailments to run along dangerously arrives within ten minutes.
On its way undar a skilled doctor. being withdrawn from the fighting line.
A wounded man, however slight the the ambulance has to cross, under a rail- Mr. ASQUITH-Mr. Hughes went to the wound, goes or is taken to a dressing way bridge which the Hun is shelling as
station at once.. Dressing stations are a Sunday Bervice of Hate.
Mention of the iodine recalls the host Paris Conference to represent the Em-established usually in fortised cellars Mr. LLOYD GEORGE argued that the pire, and not any particular Dominion.close to the fighting line, far in advance of preventive measures by which the of the field gun positions, At these soldier is safeguarded. Every man carries difference with reference to Ulster was VILL OF SIR JAMES' CAIRD. dressing stations the case receives at once a little glass, ampulla of iodine an ex-
LONDON, July 24th. The late Sir James K. Caird, of Dundee, left estate to the value of million sterling:
T
a dose of anti-tetanus serum, a first aid pensive drug these times, but issued with- a matter of phraseology. He admitted
dressing (if that has not been already out stint. Every cut, however alight, he that there had been a departure from
provided on the Beld), and a stimulant, is instructed to treat with iodine at once. the agreement with reference to the re-
if necesary. He is kept there until it is The earth of this overcrowded battlefield
presentation at Westminster, which was
a possible to take him by motor-ambulance swarms with filth organiem, but the bar- to a hospital farther back from the firing riors our medical service has built up due to the opposition of the Unioniste,
line. Ordinarily surgical work is not around the Army keep them from our done at the dressing stations. The uni Army's blood almost entirely. There is who agreed that if after a dissolution
veral use of the anti-tetanus serum has a "raid " now and again, a raid which
the number of Irishmen at Westminster
THE APPOINTMENT OF
practically abolished tetanus (lock-jaw), is usually beaten out with anti-tetanus MR. LUCAS,
which used to claim a large percentage sorani before it can dig in." Success- of trench wounded.
ful occupation of a soldier's blood system was undiminished it might make a
A sick man, chiefly because of the by this second daady enemy-the Ger- PROTEST BY CHINESE MEMBERS difference between a Liberal or Unionist
OF PARLIAMENT.
malingerer trouble, has to go to hospital mans and the Germs are our two foes with a little more formality. Any man-is the rarest of accidents, Inoculation Government on any general question of [THROWCH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
The members of Parliament assembled feeling unwell can report to the orderly against typhoid and paratyphoid is yet Government and the Empire. No agree at Shanghai on Sunday telegraph sergeant at reveille. He then falls in for another valuable prophylactic. It has DUTCH VESSELS SUNK.
ment was possible without modifications.ed to the Central Government a protest the sick parade," and under a non-kept typhoid down to limits far below against the appointment of Mr. S. E. com the sick go to the medical officer, those ruling in ordinary well regulated AMSTERDAM, Jnly 23rd.
Therefore, it was idle to introduce the Lucas as Assistant Manager of the Bank He may order a man Hospital or English towns.
But the filth to be fought is fearful, "Excused Duty. or "Light Duty" or
•The Dutch steuner Maas has been
As the Dutch fishing vessel were sell Bill. He deeply regretted it was thought of China. They urge that it is inadvie- Medicine and Duty." His decision is Public sanitation was never a strong able to appoint a foreigner to such a final, and must be obeyed by the officer point with our French friends War mined and sook near the Noordhindering 90 per cent. of their herrings and
E disaster, but the Izish nem-nosition in the premier Bank of the commanding the unit to which the man conditions have worked to aggravate
"Government, because the financial Lightship, and the Government vessel quantities of other fish direct to German bers knew their
country, and the secrets of the Government will be belongs Cases of sudden sickness aris every bad feature of the life of the ing during the day or night are referred typical agricultural village and the buyers, Great Britain has placed a num- English Home Rulers recognited their revealed by him to his own and other to the officer of the unit I have been of Artois. The small farmer of France mixed-mining and agricultural villages Zeehond has left to render assistance.
foreign countries! We hope the Central called in to see a man in his dug-out at of THE HAQUE, July 23rd-her-of-Dutch fishing vessels in the Prize difficulties were dae-to-cuses which the ovument will stand firm by the-ap-midnight, He was obviously ill, seemingly and is the country almost everyone, is Ten members of the crew of a Dutch Court and has detained others for performer had done their best to avert pointment (says the Peking Gazette) and of pneumonia. A chit to the medical of a
not yield to the pressure that is being cer brought him up with a motor-ambal mixer, trader, artisan, or what not
which Hugger which was attacked by a German sistently fishing in prohibited waters,
Sir EDWARD CARSON said that they had exercised by some person or persons in ance by 12.45. Shortly after 1 m. the stores up in a great shallow pit, sulanarine have been drowned.
ernment. Recognising the possibility of entered into the negotiations thinking Shanghai for purely personal ends. The man was in hospital under the best af forms the courtyard of his cottage, every- parliamentary objection now raised treatment. It was pheamonis, and be thing which can be used for manure, The refuse of the byres, of the piggerica, Bu good recovery.
of the stables, of the household all goes hardship, the Government has offered to only of the war, from which they had to Mr. Lucas appointment applies with made
oquel force to that of Mr. Passiori, the
- DRAUTIFUL PROMPINESS," confer with the Dutch fishing interests to been anxious to prevent distraction.. It was Assistant Manager of the Bank of China It is the beautiful promptness of the to the heap. This is drained into a pit devise means to alleviate the situation.
understood that six counties would be at Shanghai, besides being wholly u medical service that saves lives by the under the house, from which the liquid struck out definitely by the Home Rule tenable. If we are to sccare the assist score Just as I write to you this Sun manure is drawn off perhaps once
ance of foreigners in reorganising our day afternoon I am called out to the week: the central heap is drawn from only for the spring or autumn plough- Act. No exclusion could be called perficances, we must confide our so-called lines where a man has been strafed rathering. Sine the war in the areas occa
"secrets"as a matter of fact, badly by a horse which the flies have pied by our troops the disturbanes to manent. Ulster could be won over by foreigners know more about our financial, put in a Honnish temper. The man is farming operations has left these pits
*secrets!
"down and out" with shock and a bad than ourselves-to Obe good government. Exclude her, then
foreigners on the same principle that cheek cut I apply the field dressing to grow ranter and ranker in offence. win her. If hopes of a settlement were there mouse be no secrets" it a physi with some iodine liniment carried by Yet it is around them that most troops, and all troops with horses, must be cian is to cure a patient.
billeted
SWEDEN. AND SUBMARINES.
STOCKHOLM July 24th
A General Order has been issued to the Swedish forces instructing that foreign submarines in Swedish waters should attacked immediately unless they are oognised neutrale or mor
chantmon.
despite the warnings of their own Gov-
DARDANELLES · AND MESOPOTAMIA,
LONDON, July 24th.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith introduced & Bill to constitute the Mesopotamia Commissions,
shattered it would be a calamity.
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