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THE WAR.
STRUGGLE AT DELVILLE AND LONGUEVAL.
FOZIERES: "MOST FURIOUS BATTLE OF THE WAR.".
TURKISH ARMY IN RETREAT.
IRISH NEGOTIATIONS
MOVEMENT FOR SETTLEMENT BY CONSENT.
RANDO-BELGIAN FRONT.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
HEAVY FIGHTING ON BRITISH
FRONT.
(THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
VERDUN.
THU HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 29TH, 1916.
Pants, July 27th, A communiqul states:We progrossed east of Extrees. There has been a lively TRENCH LOST AND RECAPTURED. fusillade on the outskirts of Soyecourt,
LONDON, July 20th. General Sir Douglas Haig reports that except for ocensional artillery duels and sharp loen ericounters there is nothing of importance to report.
LONDON, July 28th.. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com muniqui, states:--There was hard artil. Fry fighting to-day to the north-cast of Pozieres and in the vicinity of Longue val and Delville Wood..
A trench we captured last night, north of Pozieres and Bazentin, had so far resisted all attacks. The enemy recap- tured the whole of the trouch this morn.
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and intense artillery firing on Hit 20%, at Fleury and at La Laufee.
We progressed west of Thisumont,
LATER.
A communiqué states:-There has been the usual cannonade along the front. It ing been especially violent on the right of the Meuse.
CHAMPAGNE.
A strong enemy attack on
a three- quarter-mile-front west of Prosnes, in Champagne, only penetrated our ad- vanced positions, from which the enemy was immediately riceted.
LATER.
A German aviator bombed Credyen- Valois. There were one woman killed
ing after na intense cafilading artillery and three women wounded.
fire, but an immediate counter-attack rgained us a footing.
BRITONS WIN 24 SQUARE MILES.
LONDON, July 27th.
Heavy fighting continues in the vicini- ty of Delville and Longueval. A sinall eremy raiding party entered trenches that the British forces since the 1st inst. A correspondent at Headquarters 'says' west of the Ypros-Filken Road, but were have captured and consolidated 24 immediately rejected. A British party
square miles of ground in the Somme farther south, in raiding the enemy's line, encountered some Germans in front of the German wire, killing thirty, Fighting their way into the trenches, the British found many Germans killed by a previous bombardment.
Aeroplanes did good work on Wednes day, locating enemy batteries. They had to fly low owing to mist. Two are mise- ing.
FIGHT FOR A TRENCH.
LONDON, July 28th...
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A communiqué states:-North Pozieres and Bazentin-le-Petit we suc evided in capturing 900 yards of an in- portant enenty trench.
The enemy Encceeded in regaining possession, but was repulsed, and we regained the south ern end on the right flank,
We have driven the enemy from the rast and north-east of the Dalville Wood.
We regained the northern portion of Longueval
HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING.
USE OF GAS AND TEAR SHELLS.
(LONDON) July 27th.. General Sir Douglas Haig reports: Throughout the night unr artillery has
ben active.
We continued at various points to press the enemy with hand-to-hand encounters.
The enemy is using large numbers of gas and tear shells.
Elsewhere on the British front there
has been no incident of importance during the last forty-eight hours.
BATTLE OF POZIERES.
WAR."
PARIS, July 27th. The battle of Pozieres is described as the most furious of the war
80 far. Crack German troops were employed
area.
(U88IAN FRUNT.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
CAPTURE OF ERZINJAN
CONFIRMED.
TSAR CONGRATULATES DUKE
NICHOLAS.
PETROGRAD, July 26th.
A communiqué confirms the capture of Erzinjan.
General Sakharoft reports that two German attempts to take the offensive in
ITALIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH REUTIL'S' AGENCY.]
THE CAPTURE OF MOUNT CIMONE,
WONDERFUL WORK BY THE ALPINISTS.
Rome, July 27th.. The Italian capture of Mount Cimone is a remarkable fent. It is a plateau approachable only by gullier on the sides. Two attempts to climb these failed, as they were swept by machine guns and rifles. It was therefore decided that Alpinists should scale a straight wall ending in a plateau. Two companies, in the darkness, reached the overhanging brow by rope ladders and squatted under- Death for seven hours, being bombed and stoned by the Austrians,
Then the Alpinists, forcing chevauz de frise and other obstacles, assaulted á
redoubt on the crest, 400 feet above the plateau "fine. Men, hanging on rope ladders, passed up bombs and when a mon above fell, the line was moved up one, most coolly.
The redoubt was taken after five hours, enabling the infantry to climb the gullies and complete the occupation."
Mount Cimong is the last Austrian post lookng down on the Italian plain.
ROME, July 27th.
A communique states:-The enemy is stubbornly resisting, in strongly entrenched positions, at the wood north" of Monte Cimong, We, however, have math some progress. AFRICA.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
A GLEMAN FORCE EXPELLED.
GOVERNOR OF NEULANGENBURG
KILLED.
LONDON, July 27th. An official report from East Africa states that General Northey on the 24th inst. expelled the southern German force, including the bulk of the Koenig, berg's crew, from a strong position mid- way between Neulangenburg and Iringa. The enemy, after several strong but unsuccessful counter-attacks, retired to- wards Iranga, abandoning n 4-inch bowitzer and two machine-guns.
The Governor of Neulangenburg, who was captured, has died of a wound he received in the fighting.
NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
[THHOUGH ELUTER'S AGENCY.].
the Commern district were repulsed with | NORWEGIAN STEAMER SUNK. considerable loss. He adds:-We have crossed the Sloniovka and are prossing the retreating enemy who is losing most heavily. We have captured five guns and eix machine-guns,
TURKISH ARMY IN RETREAT.
PETNOGRAD, July 27th,
It is officially announced:-Wa con tinue to pursue the retreating Turkish Army in Armenia. We seized a depot of war xtures at Erzinjan.
A MOST IMPORTANT CAPTURE.
Petrobran, July 27th,
LONDON, July 27th The Norwegian stesiner Kentigern ha been sunk in the North Sea, FOUR STEAMERS CAPTURED BY GERMANS.
COPENHAGEN, July 27th. German destroyers have seized a Norwegian and two British steamers in the Sound.
A German cruiser captured the Wilson liner Eshing in the Skager Ruck.
CHRISTIANIA, "July 27th/
{TURQUAN SEUTER'S AGEKOY.)
THE IRISH NEGOTIATIONS.
TERMS OF MR, LLOYD GEORGE'S SETTLEMENT,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]'
KITCHENER'S. PROPOSED TREATMENT OF GERMANS.
LONDON, July 27th.
The Morning Post Bays that Earl Kit LONDON, July 27th. The beads of
chener, shortly before his death, suggest Mr. Llojd George's
ed that the Imperial Government and the abortive settlement in regard to Ireland
Dominions should legislate to prohibic are published. Generally, they are
Germans, for 21 years after the war, caled on June H and July 10
from naturalising or domiciling in the The heat Representation at West-Expire or from becoming partners or mitster" reads:-"The number of Irish shareholders in British businesses,
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representatives in the United Kingdom House of Commons shall remain un- ittered, namely, 103." It is not stated for how long. The head relating to Ulster simply defines the excluded area and says the Act shall not apply thereto. does not mention the duration of the
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exclusion.
The head relating to the duration of the Bill tallies with Mr. Asquith's slate ment of July 10, substituting Parliament for Governant.
SETTLEMENT BY CONSENT.
LONDON, July 27th.
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THE KITCHENER FUND.
TO BE PUT ON A NATION AL BASIS.
LONDON, July 27th.
Fund, and with a view to placing it on Owing to the growth of the kitchener
BRITISH CURTAILMENT
IMPUKTS.
AMERICA HARD HIT.
OF
The latest order in Council curtailing imports strikes a severe bjow at Ameri- can exporters, as most of the articles on the last come from America, saya u London dispatch of June and to Ameri-
can papers.
Cash register's are imported almost exclusively from the United States, and Erigland lately has been a big market for all types of cash registers and adding/ maomnes. In the case of hops, of which considerable exemptions will be allowed. the Pacific Coast is a heavy shipper,
The reduction probably will be about 25 per cont. Uthér articles on the list, in- cluding sowing machines, wringers and mangies, are imported in large quantifies from the United States.
The latest restrictive order is tempored for American exporters by nows that the restriction on the importations of starch and dextrin, which is shipped in enor- moue quantities from America, has been removed as the result of protests by the Manchester cloth manufacturers.
GERMAN FOOD PROBLEM.
CHILDREN GOING TO SCHOOL WITHOUT BREAKFAST.
Tho Feriderts discusses in a leading sical condition of German school child- article the effect of the war on the phy-
national busis, the Arcabisoup o
Cardinal Bourne, the Chairman of the Canterbury, the Archbishop of York,
Free Church Council, the Chief Rabbi, General Booth, Admiral Sir Jonni Jellicoe, Field Marsnal Viscount Frenen, General Sir Douglas Haig and Mr.ren, using a number of interesting data district. It goes without saying that the collected by Prof. Roth at Potsdam and
consumption of meat, fats, and milk has everywhere decreased, but it is specially the reduction in the consumption of milk by children which fills Prof. Roth with anxiety: ---
A new Unionist movement in favour. N Barnes, P., have been invited of Irish settlement by consent
to join the Council, as also have Mr. was inaugurated at a meeting in the
Will Crooks, the Governors General of House of Commons yesterday.
Dominions and the Viceroy of India.
PARIS CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS.
Sir Edward Carson supports the move- ment,
PAY OF CAPTURED INDIAN OFFICERS.
LONDON, July 29th
LONDON, July 27th. In the House of Commons, Mr. As- quith announced that the resolutions
THE REPHIEVE PETITION
FOR CASEMENT.
LONDON, July 27th. The petition for the reprieve of Roger Casement was presented to Mr. Asquith last evening.
In one municipal school this con- sumption has gone down, during the war in the case of 38 children 190 por cent, in the case of 64 children 50 per cent, and in the ease of 23 children 25 per cent., and has remained unaltered only in the case of 28 children. In an- other school of 980 children, 19 children, or 13 per cent of the total number, no
of 283 children in another school out of a total number of 1,388 children. This makes 20.4 per cent. Yet.in a third school this percentage rises to 55. Still more deplorable is the evidence of several schoolmasters that a pretty large number of children have of late been getting no breakfast at all on account of lack of bread or that the breakfast roll has considerably lost in weight as compared with former times.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Chan-adopted by the Paris Conference will be true or any milk at all, and this is berlain stated-It has been decided that discussed on Wednesday. Indian officers taken prisoner after 61 days' full pay will receive full pay of their rank plus half staff pay attaching to their ordinary employment, the total averaging about five-sixths of their full ordinary emoluments. Staff officers still in the cadre of a regiment will be treated similarly to regimental officers. The
INDIAN APPOINTMENT.'. decision will be retrospective from the
LONDON, July 28th. beginning of the war. Family allotments Mr. Reginald Richard Enthoven, will be adjusted accordingly. No altera-C.1. E., recently acting Deputy Control- tion is proposed regarding officers of ler of the Import Restrictions Dopart British Regimente,
ADDITIONS TO DARDANELLES
COMMISSION,
Losnos, July 27th. : The Right Hon. Mr. Walter Long, M.P., has been added to the Dardanelles Commission.
atent of the Government of India, has been appointed Controller.
BELATED LIST OF
PRISONERS.
LONDON, July 28th. In the House of Commons, Lord Hugh Cecil stated that the official list of pri-
In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquithsoners captured at Kut had not yet been agreed to add a naval and military re-
furnished by the Parte, but the United presentative to the Dardanelles Commis States Consul at Bagdad had telegraphed sion and Licut.Com. J. C, Wedgwood, on the 26th June that 1,000 prisoners D.S.O., M.P.,
to the Mesopotamian Com-were there, but that they were too il mission. Both Commissions are
and weak to proceed. Clothes and money powered to enquire into the origin, in would be supplied as soon as possible. ception and conduct of the operations.
FEEDING OF CIVILIANS IN THE MESOPOTAMIA
OCCUPIED TERKITOKIES. COMMISSION.
AN OFFER BY GREAT BRITAIN..
em-
LONDON, July 28th. The Raj has been granted the necessary leave by the House of Commons, who have adopted an amendment to the Mesopotamia Commission, to first en- quire into the provision made for the sick and wounded and to report the re-
Crowls of people stationed on the hillsult before proceeding with the rest of see a German auxiliary cruiser, dis- the enquiry,
FIRMS.
The capture of Erzinjan is most imged in Swedish colours, attack the BLACKLISTING AMERICAN
Eskimo in territorial waters, portant, as it secures the Trebizond- Erzerum road and gives the Russians NEW CIVIL LORD of unfettered use of the sea base at Tre-
ADMIRALTY. bizond, which will be most useful if the Grand Duke means to strike the Turkish.
LONDON, July 28th. The Ear of Lytton bas been appointed main positions at Sivas, 120 miles from
Civil Lord of the Admiralty in succession Erzinjan, and enter the Anatolian
to the Duke of Devonshire, the new plains, in the heart of the Turkish Governor General of Canada, Empire.
SAKHAROFF'S NINE-DAYS*
CAPTURES.
PETROGRAD, July 27th.
A communique states:-General Sak-
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(THROUGH RESTEKʼN ADEKOY.] TURKISH FINANCE.
·SIGNIFICANT METHODS.
A PROTEST.
WASHINGTON, July 27th The Government of the United States has despatched a telegram to Great Bri- tain protesting against the blacklisting of firis in the United States as an in- vasion of neutral rights. U.S.A. ARMY EXPENDITURE.
WASHINGTON, July 7th. The Senate has passed a Bill authoris ing an expenditure of 8312,000,000 on the Army. This is a third more than was voted by the House of Representatives. GERMAN ROYALTY TITLES:
LONDON; July 27th.
MOST FURIOUS BATTLE OF THE haroff has captured 34,000 Austro-Ger
WASILIAúTON, July 2012 mans. o guns, and 71 machine-gung in It is officially reported that Turkey is the fighting between the 16th and 25th | obtaining a further advance of shout July.
two million sterling from Germany. She will receive, not coin, but depre In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith ciated German Exchequer Bonds, on said His Majesty the King would be The stores captured at Erzinjan and which she will base a fresh issue of paper advised to take steps to deprive the Duke vicinity include 16 tons of petrol, hugenober.
of Cumberland, the Duke of Albany and
nud alaughtered. As an instance, eight onslaughts by Brandenburgers jaowed down.
PETROL AND MUNITIONS,
were quantities of munitions, and an hospital: The transaction illustrates the methods Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein of
of enemy finance.
with 800 bede,
their honours and titles.
LONDON, July 7th.
The Imperial Government proposes to admit foodstuffs into territories occupied by the enemy provided the enemy will reserve wholly to civilians all foodstuffs sent into those territories and allow nea trals selected by the President of the United States to control the distribu- tion.
If the offer is refused or unanswered before harvest-time, the Imperial Gov- ernment will hold the Central Powers responsible and exact such reparation as can be secured by the Allied arms or enforced by public opinion in neutral countries for every civilian starved to death in occupied territories..
THE DISABLED BRITISH SOLDIER.
PENSIONS AND THE DANGER OF SWEATING,
fre
If a proper scale of pensions for the placed beyond the reach of injustice dis- permanently disabled soldier is to be
fought for, and secured, while public guised as economy, that Beale must be opinion is hot, says the Hospital re cently. The proper pension for the per- manently disabled will be gained now, or it never will be gained at all. Even when it is gained it must be secured against reductions or abatements. The number of seriously, disabled men is be being made to relieve, their condition. coming so large that great efforts But the efforts now made to equip disa bled on for some sort of human activity, preferably of a productive kind, must be watched vory anxiously in the interest of The cripples. Such specialised skill as they may acquire ander medical tuition reducing their pensions merely because must never bo used as an excuse for
they can make a little money by it. The notion, too, that the disabled should be ashamed of their pensions, and grasp at every chance to give them up, in a mon- strous perversion of justics. The disabled should stick to their pensions as faat as they formerly stuck to their guns, and their countrymen should be equally proud of thou for doing it. It rests with public opinion alone, in the long run, to ensure that the permanently disabled shall not be robbed of part of their pensions by a process which, what- ever ollicial name is used to deak it, would be nothing but sweating the disabled soldier.
THE JUTLAND FIGHT.
OPINION OF A'DANISH JOURNALIST.
A Danish journalist residing in Lon don, writing to the Day News, 13 most Jutiapa battle. Guusiastic regarding the result of the Ele, spys there was only one blunder. The whole might of the German kugh Seas Fier, with its Zepps and boala and great guns, could not uft the British cruisers. They fought. to the last man; and when Jelicos, with carned tail. They were severely handled ne main fleet, came up, the Germans and knocked out on their way home, British cruiser squadron had sacriticed. self to stop the German heet rom gets: ting into the Baltic; but anybody who can read between the lines of the German victory claim can sce that to-day. there is no German High Beas. Fleet fit:
"This most glorious reat of any cruiser squadron in the his- tory of naval warfare leaves the British public cold and grumbling. There ought to be flags out of every window and crowds in the streets and Te Deum in the for the fallen heroes. Hyde Park ought churches. There ought to be 6,000 V,C to be turned into & Jutland Square, with a sky-high monument for Admiral Hood and his brave men. For do not In view of the experiences of the pre forget that by stopping the Germans your sent war the committee declares, that o cruisers saved Russia, and do not forget. thorough guarantee of the permanen either that the German eriusers: Wicaba- economic preparedness of the Germar den, Frauenlob and Elbing, which were With this airt in view an independent the Atlantic, are now. at the bottom of Empire for war is absolutely necessary off on commerce-raiding expeditions in board the War Preparedness Board the North Sea. I notice that one paper responsible to the Imperial Chancellor man responsible for the first communique must be established which shall only be saye, somebody blundered. He was the An Advisory Board must be adjoined, is sent out by the Press Bureau But the man Chambers of Commerce must be re- which industry, commerce, and the Ger Germant won one victory-their Press Bureau knocked its British contemporary presented. Reuter. :
into a cocked hat!"
ECONOMIC PREPAREDNESS FOR to take the sea.
NEW CHEMAN BOARD PROPOSED According to the Vorwarts there was a of Commerce on June 2nd. It was occa special resting of the German Chambers pied with questions of war economic or published: ganization. The following statement was