THE
WAR.
BRITISH
MASTER
TURKISH
ATTACK.
ATTEMPTON CANAL FRUSTRATED.
RUSSIAN ADVANCE IRRESISTIBLE.
THREE THOUSAND PRISONERS CAPTURED.
BRITISH SUBMARINE BOMBARDS. CONSTANTINOPLE.
GERMANY WILLING TO CONCLUDE PEACE.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] FURTHER FROGRESS BY
BRITISH.
A NIGHT OF SHELLING.
LONDON, August 8th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- matirique, says further progress has been made at Highwood.
The enemy all night long shelled vari Bus areas on and behind our front be tween the Ancre and the Somme. H+ opened a heavy bombardment to the murth-east of Acras, being apparently alarmned by one of our patrols.
Otherwise, there is no change in the situation,
ENEMY ATTACKS RESULTLESS
Losbon, August 7th,
General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- muniqué, stales:--West of Pozieres we progressed in the, direction of Martin- puich..
THE NEAR EAST.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.] SUEZ CANAL FIGHTING.
BRILLIANT BRITISH SUCCESS.
LONDON, August 6th.
General Murray reports that his forcer defeated the enemy with heavy fusses at Romani, cast of Port Said, on the 4th
and 6th inst., expturing 2,500 unwound- ed men, including some Germans, as well. as four mountain guns and a number of machine guns.
Our casualties were not heavy.
The Australian and New Zealand mounted troops displayed steadiness in holding a strong flank attack, and energy and initiative worthy of the highest praise in pursuit,
Monitors firing from Tina Bay assisted materially, while the work of the Flying Corps was excellent.
“HE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, AUGUST 8ru 1918,
HAYAL ACTIVITIES.
[CHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BRITISH SUBMARINE DAT CONSTANTINOPLE.
TWO LARGE STEAMERS
TORPEDOED,
LONDON, August 6th.
The Neue Frein Press reports that a British submarine suddenly appeared in the harbour of Constantinople and ter pedoed two large steamers and bombard- ed the suburbs.
BRITISH MINE-SWEEPER
SUNK.
FIVE OF CREW MISSING.
LONDON, August 6th.
The Admiralty announces that the auxiliary mine-sweeper (Incion was for pedoed and sunk in the Levant on the 3rd inst. Two engineer officers and three
are missing. An Assistant Pay- snuster and four stokers were slightly. wounded.
mon
STEAMERS SUNK.
LONDON, August 7th.
Wilson liner taro has been torpedoed.
It is reported at Copenhagen that the
Another Danish steamer has been sunk. The steamer Mount Coniston has been
sunk
GENERAL
[THEODOR MITTER'S AGINOY.]
THE RUSSO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE
IMPOSING DEMONSTRATION AT
TOKYO...
TOKYO, August 6th.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT;]
VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS.
A GLORIOUS RECORD OF COURAGE
AND VALOUR.-
LONDON, August üth. Victoria. Crosses have been awarded to the following:-
Surgeon Captain Jous GREEN-Capt. Green, although wounded, went to the assistance of a wounded officer who was hung up on enemy wire and dragged him to a shell hole, where he dressed his wounds. Though he was continuously bombed, Green was endeavouring to bring the wounded officer to safety when he was killed.
CAPT. G. N. ALISON KILLED IN ACTION.
FORMERLY AD.C. TO THE GOVERNOR.
His Excellency the Governor has receiv od news to the effect that his former A.D.C., Captain G. N. Alison, Seaforth Highlanders, was killed in action on July Captain Alison left. Hongkong at the
of hostilities.
int. outbreak
SOLDIERS LETTERS. EIGHT MILLION POSTAL
PACKETS A WEEK,
The Postmaster-General, Mr. Pease, gave a very interesting account of the war activities of the Post Office in the House of Commons recently.
Mr. Pease explained that the addi
WAR NEWS,
DUTCH POLICE AS GERMAN SPIES.
It was announced recently that two have been dismissed from their posts on members of the Amsterdam secret polica a charge of having acted as apies for the German Espionage Bureau. The dis- cero in higher police circles, as it is con- covery has, it appears, caused great con- sidered not unlikely that more members. of the police force have succumbed to the tempting German ofers, The dismissed policeman had, on the instructions of the German Bureau, tracked various Ger mans and other foreigners, and also Netherlanders, who applied for passen for Germany and were suspected by the German Government.
EMPIRE FEDERATION MOVEMENT IN CANADA.
An active movement for the further federation of the Empire will shortly be storted in Canada separate from existing Political organizations and regardless of party divisions. The immediate appeal will be for an Imperial Conference, st the close of the war to consider the future relations between Great Britain and the Dominions.
letters, newspapers, parcels, postal revenue than had bean estimated, but orders, and telegrama had yielded more the 3d. tolpehone call had not come up revenue for 1015-10 showed an increase to expectations. The total Post Office of £4,000,000 over the previous year, need for the autonomy of the various Opponents of Federation emphasize the £3,300,000. Coming to the purely war tend that it is necessary to give Cana- and there was a profit balance of parts of the Empire, its advocates con- work of the Department, Mr. Pease gadians equal citizenship in the Empire the following remarkable figures:- and that, in face of the lessons of the Our troops receive weekly 7,000,000 war, organization of the Empire is im- letters and 700,000 parcels, weighing perative. Undoubtedly the federation 1,500 tons.
proposals The troops send home 5,000,000 opinion is far from unanimous.
are making headway, but lotters a week
Lient RICHARD JONES, North Lanes,tional charges imposed last autumn on Lieut Jones was isolated with a platoon that was holding a crater when the Ger- mans attacked in overwhelming numbers, Jones shat fifteen, counting them aloud, to cheer the Platoon. When his ammuni- tion was expended, he took a bomb, but was shot through the head when rising to throw the bomb. His splendid courage s encouraged the men that when the am- munition and boubs were expended they throw stones and ammunition boxes tilt only nine of the Platoon were left. Finally the remnant was compelled to retire.
There are in this country 40,621 military and naval men and civilians to whom the Germans send letters. They receive 50,000 letters a week.
TWO GOOD WIRELESS" STORIES.
The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic the statement that it happened at News, reproduced a wireless yarn with
In
The British in Germany number Captain LrosEL REES, of the Flying.
25,021 military prisoners, 1,030 naval Luderitz, and is not a war invention." prisoners, and 4,000 civilians. They The scene of action is laid in what was Corps. Captain Rees was attacked by reccivo. 55,000 letters a week.. ten enemy machines. He dispersed 'six,
Since the beginning of the war, the course of the campaign so admirably
crst German South-West Africa." 4,500,000 books or magazines had been conducted by General Botha in that arid seriously damaging two, and chased two sent, to the men in khaki. others, when ho was wounded and lost Mr. Penso paid special tributes to the for a Rugby football match. Whilst the Commending the work of the staff, halt, marked out a "field" in the sand and the Imperial Light Horse, during control of his machine. He then righted women who went to their posts in tele-game was going on a German aeroplane his maching and closed on the enemy, wore dropping, and
phone exchanges while Zeppelin bombs flew over, and appears to have reported firing from a range of a few yards, till operators, who stuck to their work in
to the telephone the passion for sport evinced by the Bri- tisher to German Headquarters; because, his ammunition was expended. He re-
Dublin while bullets were flying and fires raging. He had some astonishing message came from the enemy jeering at soon after its disappearance, & wireless turned safely..
figures to give in illustration of the Private GEORGE CRATER, of the Eastvages of the great storm of last football instead of coming out into the the English for lingering behind to play March, the worst the country had ever desert to fight in the course of the same Yorks Regiment-A despatch carrier was experienced. The following was the night, English and German patrols came broken; 6,150 poles, felled; 33,300 poles to retire with a loss of two killed and one catalogue of the damage: 2,150 poles into contact, and the latter were forced blown over; 17,000 miles of copper wire, wounded. The British wireless then re- weighing 1,500 tons, broken into small fragments.
buried during a bombardment and an At an imposing demonstration mem-attack on our trenches, when Private bers of Parliament and other prominent Chafer, on his own initiative, took the men endorsed the Russo-Japanese Alli-message from the pocket of the despatch ance, assuring their unswerving loyalty carrier, although severely wounded in to the Anglo Japanese Alliance, which is three places, ran along a ruined para- Continuing his despatch, General Mur- the main piller in the international pet under maxim and shell fire, and
delivered the message and collapsed.
Bergeant Jos EuSKINK, Scottish Rifles,
The enemy twice attacked the ground we gained north-west of Pozieres. One attack. helped by liquid fire, temporari-. y forced us brick from one of the captured trenches, but later we recovered" all, except forty yards. The second attacky says that on the 4th inst. the we repulsed with loss.
SUCCESSFUL COUNTER-ATTACK.
enemy
frontally attacked the British entrench-
aituation.
The demonstration endorsed the view
There has been considerable activity atments in conjunction with an attack that Germany is the enemy of civilisation, Territorials. He secured two wounded
Carenely. Loos and St. Eloj. We ruid ed enemy, trenches, sauding numuy casual- ties.
Our artillery, assisted by Aeroplanes, destroyed several gun emplacements, FRENCH AVIATORS ACTIVE.
PARIS, August eth.
round our soathorn flank, employing 14,000 men with heavý howitzers.
The frontal attack was unsuccessful, but our mounted troops retired slowly before the flank attack until evening and became involved in the sand dunes iste in the evening. Then a counter-attack was made by all arms, which was com
A communiqué. states:--We extended our gains to the north-west of "Thiau- | pletely successful. anont repulsing a counter-attack.
numerous
The pursuit of the retreating anemy was taken up vigorously and still son tinues.
Our aquadrons dropped bombs in the Combles region, and on the Noyon, St. Enny, Sedan, Conflans and
The Territorials did exceedingly well, Metz stations; also on the military estab-especially in manœuvring in heavy sand
Fshments of Rombach.
Two German captive balloons on the Some front caught fire.
AT VERDUN.
PARIS, August 6th. A communiqué says a French airman Brought down two German machines in
and despite the great heat.
THE ENEMY'S WATER SUPPLY.
Losbox, August 6th. Romani, mentioned in General Mur-
ray's drapatch, is eighteen miles east of the Canal. Reuter states that the wells near the canal are all in our hands, there
and that Japan's entire sympathy will remain with the Allies, to whom she will give her fullest support..
MORE PEACE TALK.
DANISH SOCIALISTS'.
DECLARATION="
COPENHAGEN, August 6th. Danish Socialists who have returned from a tour in Germany declare that everybody is praying for peace, that the German Socialists regard the restoration of Belgium as a matter of course, and that Germany is willing to conclude peace without annexations, provided her poli- tieni and economic independence is guaranteed.
LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.
LONDON, August 7th.
It is officially announced that Lord
the region of Verdan, one falling in the fore the enemy must bring every drop Wimbourne has been re-appointed Lord French lines and the other on "No-man's of water to Romani from Angliratiua, Teutenant of Ireland.
land." Another machine was brought down at Estrees and the aviators cap buted, The captured machine is of the newest type and is intact.
GERMAN BOMBARDMENT.
Paris, August 7tli. A communique states:-The Germans violently bombarding Thaumont, eury, Chapitre and Chenois, The infantry did not attack.
ALIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH EXDIER'S AGENCY.)
A NEW GAS BOMB. STEIAN ATTACKS REPULSED.
ROME, August 6th..
la communiqué states:-A heavy Aus-
attuck between the Adige and the
ten miles distant. Moreover, water can
men under fire, then ran to an officer and after bandaging and attending to him for an hour assisted in bringing him in, shielding him with his body.
QUEEN
Sapper WILLIAM HACEKET, Royal En- gineers--Sapper Hackett was entombed with four others in a gallery owing to the explosion of an enemy mine. A hole made to the outside after twenty hours of hard work. Hackett helped three of his comrades outside, but refused to leave the fourth man who was wound- ed, though the hole was collapsing. Both were buried. Supper Hackett thas deli- berately gave up his life for his comrade. Private ARTHUR Procter, Liverpools, Territorials-Private Procter went out to two wounded men who were lying in the open, in view of the enemy, and dressed their wounds under fire..
Private GELZOE STRINGER, Manchesters, Private Stringer held ground, single handed, against a counter-attack, while his battalion was retiring, till his bombs were expended, thus saving the battalion's flank and enabling a steady
only be transported by slow pack camels. BERR HARDEN'S WARNING.withdrawal.
The number of the enemy is reassuring, for unquestionably 14,000 men cannot in- vade Egypt in face of General Murray's powerful army. Probably there are 1,000 to 2,000 Austro-German infantry, besides a large number of Bedouin Horse, with the Turks.
RUSSIAN FRONT
[THROUGH EKUTER'S AGENCE.),
RUSSIAN ADVANCE FROM BRODY.
ANOTHER HAUL OF PRISONERS.
LONDON, August 6th.
A Petrograd message states that to the
Per Isonzo and also in the Sugans south of Brody the Russians have over- dCordevelo valleys was repulsed. The
lery on both sides has been most come the enemies' resistance.
The Austrians are employing a new
of caplosive gas bomb.
On the
left banks of the Grabenka and the Serath a number of villages were captured and over 3,000 prisoners.
Lieut. AnTHE BATTENPOOLE, Munster LONDON, August. 7th.
Fusiliers.--For most conspicuous bravery The German publicist, Herr Harden, while in command of a raiding party has published an article on the second Lieut. Battenpoole was severely wounded
of the your
war, which is a reby a bomb on entering the enemy lines, markable revelation of chastened
and, although all his right fingers were mood. He pessimistically warns mutilated, he continued to direct the readers that Germany is fighting for her operations with unflinching courage. His life. A period of untold suffering lies voice could clearly be heard cheering and shead, and nothing can be hoped for until directing his men, and he refused to the favour of Heaven or accident smashes retire when urged to do so. Later he was England, which is still unassailable.
A TRIUMVIRATE OF MONARCHS' MESSAGE.
FIGHT TILL VICTORY IS
ATTAINED."
LONDON, August 6th. The Tear, the Mikado and the King of Serbia have sent a message to King George stating their determination to carry on the fight till victory is attained.
twice wounded. During tho withdrawal, while personally assisting to fescue an other who was wounded, and still refus ing assistance, he walked. unaided to within a hundred yards of our lines when be fainted and was carried in.
It would be difficult to say which course of conduct bas done more harm in the violence on the one hand, or maudlin treatment of Easterns discourtesy and sentimentality and naif credulity on the other. Both extremes should be scrupul, ously avoided-Lord Cromer.
The
plied to the enemy message, saying that they had played the game, and that its WAN SAYINGS,
result, had been "England two goals one ounced that 108,000 Zeppelin insurance, Germany "nil. If the story isn't
Postmaster General nextman- policies had been taken out for a total true, it ought to be. of £1,000,000 Finally, he gave the fight between the converted cruiser 4- following figures of war investments and savings: effected through the Post office *---
£31,000,000 in Four-and-a-half per
cent-War Loan. -
£5,000,000 in scrip vouchers and certificates for subscriptions up to £5
by instalments.
Ex-
£22,000,000 Five per cent. chequer Bonds
£5,800,000 in 15, 6d, war saving
certificates.
£187,300,000 balance of savings bank deposits at the end of May, within £1,000,000 of the highest balance in _cecent times.
STRAIGHT TALK BY M. VENIZELOS.
THE PRICE OF PEACE.
delegates visited M. Venizelos at his A number of commercial and industrial house last month and expressed to him his policy (say The Times correspondent sheir attachment and their confidence in at Athens).
Our second yarn, deals with the great
cantra and the German raider Greif After the destruction of the Teuton's wireless and the release of the Alcan- tera's radio apparatus from jamming. other British craisers quickly appeared arrived, fired & shot over the Alcantara upon the scene.. One of them, as the which went home upon the already sink- ing German. On wearing the scene of business had already been done before action, this cruiser, realising that the her arrival, sent a wireless message to the Altautare which was read before the latter vessel had, in her turn, disappear- ed; the message run "Sorry you bird"The Wireless World,
VALUE OF ZEPPELINS, On of the most interesting writera on Naval Affairs is Mr Archibald Hard. In one of his recent articles, he dwells curly by his possession of the highly upon the advantages bestowed upon our developed lighter than air machines proper and legitimate sphere of action 15 which we know as Zeppelins. Their that of scouts, for which the wireless ap M. Venizelos, in reply to their address, paratus which the latar machiness are said that although when Crete was in capable of carrying renders them spe bondage he had passed most of his life' cially efficient. From these aircraft, By- there as a revolutionary in the moun ing at a great height completely out of tais, he believed that free States needed, gun range, the North Sea can be viewed peave in order to progress. To remain as though it were one vast panoramic stationary was not peace, as his politicsi opponents seemed to think; as a matter care. They can scan all the more im portant operations,, and by means of in the surrender of one's possessions to tish men-of-war are to be met with and of fact, that sort of thing usually cuded radio-telegraphy can report where Bri the enciny. revival of Hellenism by keeping close to bored, too, that a Zeppelin can travel at While his own policy had aimed at a where they are not. It must be remem the Powers who had secured the liberty about twice the speed of the fastest war of Greece, the outgoing Cabinet had re-ship sout. The British Fleet was un duced the Greek people to a condition Provided with these rigid dirigibles at of slavery, and the nation had nearly the commencement of the war and is been choked in the atmosphere of espion handicapped to this extent, age that had been created by these puny.
On the other hand, of course, although these obsequious counsellors, with their their seaplanes are both more efficient men. What would Greece have come to if the British do not possess Zeppelins, absolutist tendencies, had continued to and numerous than any equivalent ma ing the majority of the nation might although, constructionally, they are not advise the King Counsellors represent chines possessed by the enemy; und become disagreeable: they were like doc able to carry much powerful wireless tars, whose physic might be unpalatable, apparatus us is possessed by the later but who were able to cure by telling the type of gas-bag, they are utilised truth, and
M. Venizelos concluded by announcing nut require to report direct for such from floating bases, and, therefore, do that, as soon as Parliament had been die long distances. The exploits of British a public meeting this programme at seaplanes, like those of British sub solved, he would state
with loud cheers, and, after he had also and important than the general public The ex-Premier's speech was received marines, have been far more numerous addressed the crowd outside his house has been able to learn through the enthusiastic demonstrations took place medium of the Press. It is only now and
laide the British and French Legations.
again that a glimpse at their activities. is vouchsafed, a notable instance, being the occasion when a combined naval and. -THE PALISADE, KOWLOON. seaplane excursion delivered an attack upon the German airship sheds in Schles The management of this popular place wig-Holstein at the end of March
entertainment. of
announce another On the whole, the ceaseless. vigilance, strong programme of pictures which which wireless telegraphy enables the begins its run to-night. The leading film Fleet to maintain, gives the British is entitled "Temptation," and depicts Isles a defensive screen such as they have the struggle, and ultimate success, of a never possessed in pist ages, and the young engineer to secure recognition for rarity even of abortive attempts, like the new controllable torpedo which he has recent bombardment of Lowestoft and pictures of an instructive and interesting is fully aware of the extreme peril run invented. There are numerous other Yarmouth, demonstrates that the enemy kind, including the Gazette of topical by their raiding squadrons when they events, which has come to be a festurs make anoh short and hasly excursions. of the Palisade programmes.
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