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THE WAR.
MARKED
BRITISH
PROGRESS.
RUSSIANS STORM ENEMY POSITIONS.
STRONG TURKISH FORCE ATTACKS NEAR
SUEZ CANAL.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT
{THROUGH REUTER'S" AGENCY; }
There are
GERMAN SECOND LINE SYSTEM CAPTURED.
AUSTRALIANS PARTICIPATE.
LONDON, August 5th.. General Sir Douglas. Haig reports:-- The Australians participated in a successful attnek north of Pozieres in which the main German second line system, was captured,
Troups of the new army participated and captured a line which extends on n
froul for 2,000 yards.
Several bundred prisoners were taken. Repeated counter-attacks were subse quently repulsed with the heaviest enemy terases
The only ofher incident of importance consisted of mining activity near Sauchez
and Laos.
DEFINITE SHELL HITS.
LATER.
General Haig, in ; a' communiqué sales:---Including the capture of the trenches reported to-day, our line north| and west of Pozieres, has been pushed forward 400 to 600 yards on a 3,000 yards
front during the last two days.
Australiam, Kent. Surrey and Sussex troops participated in the operations.
We consolidated the ground won, despite a beavy shell-fire.
Our artillery shellad Courcellette and Miraumont, and destroyed ten gun, em-] placements and three maition stores.
Enemy aircraft have not been enter- prising. Eight of their reachines scattered ́when three of ours engaged them.
.ENEMY SECOND-LINE SYSTEM PULVERISED.
LONDON, August 5th.
Router's Correspondent at the Head-
(THROUGH REUTER'S (GENCY.)
QUIET ON THE SOMME,
PARIS, August 5th. A communiqué states: The night has been comparatively quiet on the Somme frent.
AU881AN FRONT
{THROUGH BRUTER'S GENOE.)
RUSSIANS 'STORM VILLAGES.
PETROGRAD, August 8th.
À communiqué slaus :---The fighting on | the rivers Graberka and Senth and south
THE · HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 7ra 1916
(THROUGH SKUTER'S AGENCY.]
WAR ANNIVERSARY. EMPIRE-WIDE CELEBRATIONS.
LONDON, August 5th. There have been Empire-wida celebra tions of the second anniversary of the
War
Great enthusiastic meetings in cities and towns have passed resolutions similar to the one passed at the Queen's Hall
There have also been services of inter- cosion in churches and places of worship of all creeds.
Business was suspended. : Messages have been received from Promiers and Covernors of the Domin ions and Dependencies expressing their analterable determination to continue the struggle and their confidence in victory
MR. ASQUITH AND GERMAN
of Brody is developing in favour of the Russians, who stormed two villages and en adjacent wood held by the enemy. In one of the villages they dislodged the co enemy from every house.
- ATROCITIES:
AT THE MAGISTRACY.
MURDER CHARGE..
A Chinese was rumanded by Mr. J. R. Wood on Saturday on a charge of having murdered a man in his house at Hanghom recently.
SNATCHER SENTENCED. ·
A man was charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland on Saturday with attempting to snatch half-a-sovereign and a silver dollar from a woman in Yaumati the previous day. It appeared that the woman was walking along with her sister ad to take the money from her pocket. when the man rushed at her and attempt
She seized him, and he was arrested by a constable. Sentence of two months' hard labour was passed.
SERIOUS AFFRAY ON A LAUNCH.
A quarrel took place between the enging staff and the deck staff of a launch which was at Taikoo Dock, and during the fight which ensued one of the men stabbed the coxswain in the side.
The Coxswain was so seriously injured that he still remains in hospital. His assail- ant was charged before Mr. F.. A. Haza- land on Saturday with causing grievious bodily harm, and was remanded for a week.
CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO FUND.
The following is the Subscription List to date: Acknowledged to 30th June,
1916
Since received :-- Bank interest. Mr. F. G. Becke, Whampoa, for
June Collected by Mrs. Pentreath on
3.8. Empress of Asia C. D. M. F.
Per.
Mrs. Jordan, Victoria Lodge, from Ladies' Bridge Book, including a donation of da ets.
Collected by Mrs. Pentreath, List No. 9-GTE A.W.L.R T.J.F. J. Met., CH.B., cach
25 W.N.W.M.. 1.S.G.,
cach 80 A.R.A. W.B., J.R.K. J.D., FWJ. J.S., W.C.B., E.MF., R.J.R.. T.R.C., R.A.W., cache 82......... List No. 10-R.B., 8: Mr.. R. Shewan, 810: Mr. J. A. Young, 810 Oil Kings, 820 List No. 11-H.C.B., L.N.M.. ench 830:
Wallaby IL, P.H.H., W.S.. ruch 80; G. E. T.. 3. A. B., A. S. L., H.L.M. R.T.B.. each $43. J.A., She Tat Tsoi, Lum Shau Shun, each 2 ...... Members, Kowloon Customs Staff, for June, per Mr. O. D. Gander...ti..
Mr. Asquith in the course of his
A MUCH-NEEDED LESSON. speech (at the Queen's Hall meeting) said the enemy was showing signs of
Ten ricsha boys appeared before. Mr. Woods OR Saturday charged with material weakening and exhaustion. demanding more than the legal fare from
persons hiring then. Inspector Sim ex-. The recent recrudescence of deliberate plained that the hirers were a party of and calculated barbarity indicated his ladies and gentlemen, and on the com- pletion of the journey the coolies demand- desperation. The Fryatt infamy haded a fare of 20 cents each instead of the legal fare of 15 cents. It was stated by outraged the world. The Allies were
the accused that a bargain for 20 cents each was made, but this was denied by the complainant, It was stated that the accused behaved rudely to some of the 6, Indy passengers when their demand was refused. They were each fined $5.
Nine enemy counter-attacks were reconsidering the most effective methods of pulsed with heavy loss,
dealing with such atrocities and their A total of 12,000 enemy prisoners was authors. (Prolonged cheering.) But the taken, and others are coming in.
Á further covarauniqué states:-There has been stubborn fighting south of Brody, where repeated unterattacks were repulsed.
The ground has been consilidāted.
CAUCASUS.
PETROGRAD, August oli. Some advance been made in the Cau- casus, west of Kilkit and Tschittik.
NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
(THROUGH ELUTER'S MENĊY.]
AUSTRIAN DESTROYER
TORPEDOED,
ROME, August 5th. A communiqué says:-An Italian submitripe torpedoed an Austrian de-
stroyer on the 2nd inst.
war must first be won. It was the united opinion of the Allied General Staffs that: the prospects of victory were never 90 bright as they were today. This was not the time for faint-heartedness, petty crificium or the contemptible pastime of |scapegoat-hunting. What was hecessary was concentration of purpose, and, as regards Great Britain, a continuance of that unselfish patriotism which was lead- ing hundreds of thousands, of workmen to forego a holiday.
LAWN BOWLS.
HONGKONG LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE.
POLICE v. TAIKOO.
This match was played on the Police Greens, Happy Valley, and resulted in a win for the Police by 8 points. Secres:
Grant McDonald
WASTE IN PROSPERITY. ADDRESS BY LONDON MANAGER
OF H.K. & S. BANK,
Sir Charles Addis, London Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking $14,132.35
Corporation, spoke at a conference held 5.37 in connection with the National Economy Exhibition in London, on "War Savings 20.00 Present and Futurea. He said that
in this matter of war finance there is 12.20 danger lest by sheer dint of "repetition 25.00 our senses should become "gospel hard- ened, as they say in Scotland, to the appeal.
56,00
65.00
He said that the productive efficiency 10.65 of the country had already been consider- ably raised compared with that before the war.
New factories had sprung up in a night and old ones had been turned to new uses. Those above military age and below military age and a multitudo of patriotic women had come into in- dustry. But it would be "ecessary to urganise, savings as well as labour if we wanted an early, an honourable, and a Insting peace. It was impossible for production to keep pace with war ex- penditure unless personal expenditure was cut down and the surplus devoted to the war. There was a large aniount of unwonted prosperity among some classes of the community, and millions were be 64.00g frittered in senseless wasto un didlo.
extravagance. We were all éreatures of habit, and economy as a habit was never 37.00 congenial to our race. To give up an occasional luxury causes a glow of satisfaction; but it was necessary to cut down on necessaries, and to curtail nt one's table. Sir Chrales continued. What is required is nothing less than a change of habit. And to those of us who 320.00 have passed the meridian of life that is a
heavy prospect. It may serve to lighten- $14,620.00
the burden if we regard the money wo 107.57 put by as, merely the measure of our abstinence and our real savinge as the goods and services we have agreed to do Thrift without for the sake of others. assumes a new grace when it becomes vicarious It no longer seems shabby to go in old clothes when we reflect that the coat we have done without is warming the back of someone
"somewhere in France who has greater need of it than It no longer seems mean to curtail
$14,727.
Expended to 30th June, 1916. 14,900.00 Since expended:- 2nd August 1910, 100,000 Woodbine Cigarettes sent to the. Front
Balance in hand
.......
W. A. DOWLEY, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Des Voeux Road,
Hongkong, 4th August, 1916..
FREIGHT RATES.
At
Mesers. Snowman & Co., of Hongkong, | We in their freight circular dated sin the menu of our dianer table when August, state:-
we reflect that our superfluity has gone Chartering business generally, since we to relieve the monotony, and, it may be, last reported on 22nd July, still remains | to supply the deficiency in the prison The following matches were played very quiet indeed, the confidence in the diet of some less fortunate of our fellow-
market being, if anything, still more in countrymen interned in Germany. on Saturday:---
paired by the desultory fighting in and the best it is not much that any indivi- around, and the general unsatisfactory dual can do; the amount of his savings state of affairs at, Canton. It is reported compared to the enormous cost of war that the Chinese Navy may be sent down must needs appear insignificant. But from Shanghai to endeavour to pacify at him at least do what he can. He may the locality, and if this turns out to be take comfort in the thought that the the case there is a possibility of affairs value of saving to the State is not deter- attaining a more normal aspect. There mined by the amount Thrift as it has been alight activity in the Hongkong patriotic virtue has an unseen, a subjee- Bangkok trade, a small Japanese steamer five value as well as the objective value having been 6xed for 12 months which is seen. $20,000 p.m. and a medium-sized
By the efforts of the Sav aider, on lumpsum basis, for the foundings Banks of this country
of £300,000,000 has been collected out of trip. The rate, however, Bangko Hongkong still remains at 80/70 cents per the savings of the people, and made Fractiently nothing has State. That is a substantial benefit
POLICE.
TAIXOQ..
Muir Weir Drummond Hamilton
(skip)-16
G. Watt Gerrard
[Other cables relative to the War Annivers sary celebrations will be found on page 6.]
(skip)
Davitt Cooper
Dionin
McCubbin
THE
RUSSO-JAPANESE.
TREATY.
Kent Pitt
Prowse
..
Ferguson
(skip)--17
Bleckman. R, C. Watt. Sim
Gordon
(skip)-25
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ITS FIRST FRUITS.
LONDON, August 5th. Router learns that the frat fruits of the
TURKISH ATTACK BRITISH | recent Russo-Japanese Treaty is the cạn- NEAR SUEZ CANAL. clusion of a separate agreement whereby Russia sells Japan the southern half of
quarters in France, describing the battle ESTIMATED STRENGTH OF 14,000 the Harbin Changchun railway, about
on Friday evening. says the British and Australians rapidly advanced beyond Paziares with highly successful results.
MAKE NO IMPRESSION.
LONDON, August 5th. General Murray reported at 11. p.m. on the 4th inst. that since midnight of the ard inst. the Turks in strength, estimated at 14,000, have been attacking
A heavy bombardment had been main- iained throughout Thursday and the enemy appeared to be taken by surprise The German geond line system, which was pulverised out of recognition, was our fortified positions near Romani. crossed on a front excreting a mile.
Three times the ritemy counter-attacked during the tight, but all their attacks were repulsed with heavy losses.
Owing to the intensity and accuracy of our artillery fire many Germans sur- rendered freely, but it was difficult to collect those hiding in dugouts. Already over 100 have been brought in. Undoubt- edly others will follow.
Clear and cooler weather favoured the operations.
VERDUN FIGHTING.
PARIS, August áth. The artillery bombardment was violent throughout the Thiaumont-Fleury sector. Renewed furious counter-attarks at the Thiaumont work were repulsed.
cust of Port Said, on a front of seven to eight miles.
The position at dusk on the 4th inst. was that the attacks had mule no impres sion on our fortified positions, while an the southern ̈ flank fighting was also going on in our favour.
We took between 400 and 500 prisoners
there.
British warships are rendering, valu- able assistance from Tina Bay..
Fighting is continuing. The tempera-
ture is 100 in the shade.
GENERAL.
(THROUGH REOTER'S AGENCY.]
(skip)-22 Grimsbaw Wallace Wotherspoon Boott
(skip)-16
54
KOWLOON . CIVIL SERVICE. Played on the Civil Service Greens, Happy Valley, and resulted in a win for Kowloon by 2 points. Scores;-
·CIVIL SERVICE.
sixty miles in length, including the line | Highy. Tacchi from Changchun to the Sungari river. Duncan The Agreement also recognises the Dawson right of the Japanese to navigate the
Stanley -Lamble river between Kirin and Patuna,
Hil Russia had "previously contended that | Bond the right of navigation belonged ex- Carr clusively to Russian shipping.
KOWLOON.
(skip)-21.
Grant Atkinson Milroy Russell
(skip)-20
May Chapman Cooper Haxton
(skip)-20
BULGARIA
Mace. Fincher Blake
(skip)—10 W. Taylor Keith Gow Harvey.
(skip)-14.
(skin)--22
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TOO FREQUENT ↔ FRONTIER INCIDENTS."
LEAGUE TAKLE,
Taikoo Kowloon Police
A WARNING TO
BY ARMENIA.
BURHALESE, August 5th.. The Foreign Minister of Rumania has C. Service called the attention of the Bulgarian Government to recent frontier incidents,
remarking that they have become too ire- querit and do not harmonize with the goor relations of the two countries.
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS,
LONDON, August 6th. Sir Edward Carson, on the 8th inst.,
:
There was equally sovere fighting at ALLIED AIR RAID ON GHENT. will suggest that Mr. Asquith convene
the Fleury village, where there is no ap preciablo change.
An enemy attack, after artillery prepa ration, on the Facq forest was broken down.
Two German aeroplanes were brought down in the Somme, and two at Verdun.
PARIS, August 8th.
A communiqud states:-The enemy on the right of the Meuse has been extremely quiet,
In the Thiaument sector we hold all the southern part of the village of Fleury. ENEMY LAUNCHES TWO POWER FUL ATTACKS.
AMSTERDAM, August 6th. -The Telegraaf states that in the allied air raid directed on the end inst. an Ghent, forty aeroplanes, divided into three groups, simultaneously attacked three military points, including the arsenal at Cheatbrugge.
A great conflagration was noticed at Saint Denys, but the damage is unknown, as the camp was closed by barbed wire. The arrival of the ambulances showed that many soldiers were wounded.
A large hangar was wreded and other
The Germans, after an all-day bon-buildings were badly damaged. bardment, launched two powerful attacks | SOLDIERS AS HARVESTERS. on the Vaux-Chapitre Wood. One was repulsed and the other penetrated por-| tions of the trenches, but the enemy was immediately driven out.
Our front remains intact.
LONDON, August 6th. The Army Council has decided to re- lease 27,000 soldiers to asist with the harvest.
an immediate conference of the Antente. Powers with a view of establishing a common basis of action in the treatment of enemy prisoners, and making joint representations to
neatrals respecting the conduct of enemies towards the Allied prisoners.
He will also suggest the appointment of a Minister whose whole time shall be given to the question of the treatment of British prisoners.
OBITUARY.
63
picul
out-
B
sum
barpectively for inside/outside the directly available for the purposes of the
been done in the direction Saigon/Hong which all can see and in which we all kong, and although the rate improved | share. And yet these soouronlatad patty slightly from 20 cents to about 25 cents savings are invested with an unseen sub- per picul it declined again. No fixtures jective value which is higher still-the have been made and regular linera are chargy, the patience, the self-control taking on the berth what little cargo is which has gone to the making of them— offering at about the former rate.
enriching the nation with what is more Export of rice from Saigon from 1st than money, the source, indeed, of money January to 30th May amounts to 472,763 and of all true value, the diligence, the tons, as compared with 380,546 tons for punctuality, and the veracity of itx the same period last year. Quotation for
prople. No. 2 white round sifted rice stands at $4.70 per pical to.b. Baigon for August/ September shipment.
SAIGON/PHILIPPINES.--Threo Axtures of medium-sized outside steamers ported at 60 cents per pical and this rate sppears fairly firm as regards further
business.
are
re-
re
·Saigon / Java, → Thee fixtures of medium-sized outside steamers are ported in this direction, one at 80 cents and two at 75 cents per picul.
NEWCHWAND. No change since our last
report.
COAL.-There has been a certain amount of business done in the interval under review, but rates generally show a slight downward fendency, stocks here being Won. Lost. Played. Points still good and there being very little
demand.
FIXTURES Beronres. -- Karatau/Hong- kung 36.25, Hongay/Swatow $5.25, and Port Courbet/8watow 85.25 per ton.
SAIL TONNAGE LOADING OR TO LOAD. Nil
3
1
th
3
1
4.
6
3
1
2
I
4.
2
$
SHIPPING NOTES.
LIGHTSHIP MISSING OFF
SINGAPORE.
Master Mariners are warned by the Harbour Master of Hongkong to navigate with caution, as it has been reported that the Lightship of Simbar Cape. Tanjong Pagar, is missing.
THE DANGERS OF NAVIGATION
AT CANTON,
At the request of the Chinese Military Authorities, notice is given that the navigation of the approaches to Canton, hoth front and back reaches, is dangerous during the hours of darkness, owing to the fighting now taking place.
Inward-bound vessels are therefore cautioned, until further notice, not to proceed above Tide Pole Light between the hours of 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. If they see that they cannot enter the port of Canton, before 6 p.m. they should anchor at Tide Pole Light for the night.
Outward bound vessels should not navigate the waters of the river above Tide Pole, Light between the hours of 7 p.m. and 6 2.m.
RECOLONISING ENGLAND. In furtherance of the progapanda for the placing of ex-service men on the Ind, the inpire Land Settlement Committee of the Royal Colonial Institute have issed a series of leaflets dealing with tho problem of increasing our domegrown 100d supplies. It is pointed out that this country is now paying the penalty for Four- the neglect of its agriculture fifths of the wheat and three-fourths of all the food we need come from overs
last year we paid £200,000,000 for i.. the supply and our ability to hold out ported supplies and the continuance depend absolutely on the power of the Navy to keep the scas open. Our agricul tural
population numbers only eight of Germany, which has sixty per cent. millions, against the twenty-two millions more land under cultivation and pro- duces three times as much food.
be
To put an end to the dangers which the SILK CULTURE IN INDIA.
present situation involves, England, it is urged, must be recolonised; and waste The progress of silk culture in India and grass lands must be restored to and Ceylon is the subject of a series of arable cultivation, so that enough food most interesting annual reports issued may be produced to feed the population. by Mr. F. Booth Tucker, of the Salva. It is suggested that much may be done, to tion Army, which body has displayed facilitate this process by encouraging development of this important industry at the conclusion of the war.
activity in connection with the sailors and soldiers to settle on the land The first The latest of these reporta, that forential is to create an overflowing agri- 1915-18, is just to hand from India. In cultural population in the United King- 1210 Mr. Booth Tucker consulted the dom, whose surplus would later on Imperial Institute with reference to the available to peoțile the empty spaces in the Dominions. The larger question of sik produced by the Salvation Army Imperial settlement is also dealt with, silk-weaving school in the Bangalore and in this connection emphasis is laid District. A specimen of the silk was accordingly scientifically examined at the on the need for an organisation to ensure
The results were Institute.
highly that as far as possible emigrants from favourable and were confirmed from the the United Kingdom shall not be lost to
the Empire commercial point of view by a leading silk-manufacturing firm in Great Bri tain, to whom a sample was submitted. Subsequently the Imperial Institute arranged for spinning, and weaving trials of the silk to be made, and as the
Lieut. G. Butland, And York and Lan results of those trials certain defects in easter Regiment, son of Capt. Butland, the silk were pointed out. Since then is reported dangerously wounded with a the number of Salvation Army silk gunshot wound on the chest. centres in India and Ceylon has been
FAR EASTERN MEN AND
THE WAR
greatly increased, and in April last Lieut. Llewellyn Jones and Lieut. SIE ALFRED B. MARKHAM, M.P
there were 28. Nearly all these centres Wood, son of Mr. A. P. Wood, of the undertake silk-worm rearing and silk- | Shanghai Waterworks, are in the Coun- Sir Alfred B. Markham, the Liberal
realing. Some of them have also silk tess of Pembroke's Private Hospital, schools and silk weaving establishments. Wilton House, the former with a piece member for the Mansfield constituency,
of shrapnel in the throat, and the latter Notts, has died suddenly.
with a leg wound. Both on doing well. M. Venizelos has given £400 to the
Mr. Fisher Unwis will shortly Deceased was one of the strongest Serbian Red Cross
publish an illustrated book entitled "A Sergt. Major Bradish, 10th Yorkshiro Halland has decided to prohibit the Bachelor in Japan," by Eric Erskine Regiment, has been killed in action, and critics of the Government.
export of all cattle, whether for breed Wood,
after wandering about | Lieut. A. V. Scudamore and Sergt. R. ing or slaughtering, during the coming Europe and Asia, settled down in Japan. Orr have been wounded. Capt. Page, month. An exception is made in two to live in Japanese fashion. When war who joined the contingent on the home- cases in which for special reasons the broke out the author returned to Europe, ward voyage at Hongkong and who was export of small quantities will still be and has since served with the Red Cross attached to the same regiment, bas had allowed.
in France and Belgium.
his left arm fractured by, a gunshot.
Telegrams received on Saturday and on Sunday morning, and published in anztra" on Sunday, will be found on page 6.1.
who