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THE
WAR.
BRITISH ARTILLERY SCATTERS
ENEMY.
ITALIAN SUCCESS EQUALS GORIZIA.
RUSSIAN MENACE TO BOTHMER'S ARMY
·FORCES - RETREAT.
ENEMY SUFFERS SEVERE DEFEAT IN EAST AFRICA,
BRITISH CAVALRY DRIVE BACK TÜRKS.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUT.) BRITISH STILL GAINING.
IMPORTANT "ADVANCE. AT
POZIERES.
Loxdus, August 13th, "General Sir Douglas Haig,, in a cum- „muniqué, statas:--North-west of Bazentin- le Petit. the British gained ground towards Martinpaich.
North-west of Pozieres we further ndivicneed alout four hundred yards on a front of a mile.
RU881AN FRONT.
(THROUGH IKUTER'S 'AGONUT.}. THE RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. SUBSTANTIAL AND IMPORTANT
'CAINS.
LONDON, August 13th. The latest Russian successes constitute a gain of from four to eight miles on a front of thirty-five miles against General Bothner's Austro-German army, which: constitutes the Austrian centre in Galicia. Its northern and southern wings are already dangerously outflanked by We captured enemy trenches in the the Russian Luck and Stanislau salients, plateau north-west of Bazentin-le-Petit. | and, And our advance north-west of Pozieres was importaat. Our losses were light, despite a heavy enemy barrage.
Last night we made three successful raids on enemy trenches south-west of La Folie Faro, Vimy Ridge, oppositel Galouur and east of Armentieres. We in- dicted many casualties on the enemy, who attempted to raid the Hohenzollern Bedoubt, but was repulsed with loss.
ENEMY SCATTERED BY ARTILLERY.
Losion, August, 13th. * fæter commumiynë -General Sir Douglas Haig states:--Ân „önemy bomb
tack south-east of Guillemont was re- ple. North-west of Puzieres the enemy observed concentrating in large ibers. The British artillery effective
· Ifscattered them, WAVY SHELLING OF OUR FRONT
TRENCHES
Losnos, August 14th. Nothing of importance has occurred an ́xur right flank, except some rather heavy
shelling of our front trenches,
AERIAL, WARFARE,
Wh it communications .now menace, General Bothmer has evidently begun to retreat along the whole front, which ezwended frons north-west of Taruopol to a • pains west of Buczacz HUGE HAUL OF PRISONERS AND WAR MATERIALS.
PETROGRAD, August 14th.
A communique says that since the 1st inst. the Russians have captured 84,000) Austro-German prisoners, 68 guns, and 335 machine guns, besides mortare and rauch other booty.
ENEMY FORCED, TO; EVACUATE POSITIONS.
*90 $3898ONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15ra, 1916.
ITALIAN FRONT,S
{THROUGH SAUTHR'S AGENCY.} IMPORTANT CAPTURE BY
ITALIANS.
A VAST AND FORMIDABLE REDOUBT.
*THEFREEDOM OF THE SEAS.")
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WOMEN IN A HURRY.
Women are the hustlers of creation, They have been
In a hurry to get married, In a hurry to get divorced, In a hurry for their husbands to get rich.
In a hurry to be better off than their neighbours.
their
In a hurry, to daughters.
Marty off
JEWELLERY THEFT FROM ÄSTOR HOUSE HOTEL Miss Gordon, a tourist who is staying at the Astor House Hotel, Hongkong, has reported to the police that someone has stolen from her room at the hotel 2820 worth of jewellery and $33. in money. The police are making enquiries.
BRITISH ARTILLERY FIRE
GERMAN TESTIMONY: TO ITS EFFECTIVENESS.
Beuter's Agency publishes extracts. from the diary of Colonel Bedall, who commanded the Sixteenth Bavarian in fantry Regiment in the Tenth Bavarian Division, and who was captured by the British on July 13th during the opera- tions in the Bomme theatre.
GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S INSULT-
(BY ONE OF THEM.] ING LANGUAGE TO THE US.
Women have always been in a hurry. The German doctrine of the freedom of Eve was in a hurry to eat the apple; if the seas to safeguard the unrestricted she had waited long enough Adam would right of aggression on land finda curious if unintentional expression in the report, not have been able to resist it. of an interview which Herz von Beth- mann Hollweg grante
As soon as women see anything they to Mr. W. B. ROME, August 13th. Hale, the special Berlin orrespondent of
want they are in a hurry to get it. That of is why women have not achieved so much The Italians have exptured the entire the Hearst newspapersyn The Times as men. They have been too much in a
correspondent at New York).
Since the hurry. fortified zone from Carso to the west of beginning of the war Mr. Hale's Vallone Pass. This is semi-officially of the Germans, and it is therefore ant. Den has been unreservedly at the service described as being of“ equal importance surprising that he should forward in the Ne Turk di rienu, two columns of to the fall of Gorizia, as both positions abuse by the German Chancellor of Mr. were pivots of the Austrian Isonzo Wilson's policy towards the Allies. The surprising thing is that the Chancellor defence and the whole of the Carso zone should have talked for publication in such
contemptuous terms of was transformed by a year's work into a whose friendship he professes to desire.
Government
vast and formidable redoubt, Trenches
Herr von Bethmana Hollweg began, says Mr. Hale, with a historical review were sunk deep in the rocks, armour-of the American revolt against British a hurry about is getting their plated, and defended by entanglements and bewailed the fact that it had been
domination of the western hemisphere," married, and minefields, and connected by an im fallowed by as adequate revolt against British domination of the open seas. ite mense system of communication trenches. then proceeded to clothe the German doc Natural caves sheltered swarms of troops trine of the freedom of the seas an instrument of German tyranny on land. from the most murderous fire, while tele in the following words :-
"There was another Declaration phone and telegraph installations en Independence which history will record as they continue in a hurry. That fac abled them the coinmand to regulate the as af import no lers significant than the are too much in a hurry to notice
is pathetically patent just now. Women lish succeeded in penetrating our line on document
A narrow front south of Fricourt, in the signed at Philadelphia on fire of hundreds of guns in the rear. The July 4th, 1776--the manifesto issued by the hastes they got to work for the counry as also succeeded in carrying our positions chances they are missing. With feverish direction of the Monetz Wood. They "Austrians considered the position Great Powers of the world upon the free-
dom of God's ocean to His people, of the beginning of the war. How many south and south-east of Mainets, and have pregnable,
whatever clime, who set sail upon its women have broken down since? With gained ground by an advance by way of bosom ot lawful errands. The proclamafeverish haste they took the first job that Memetz and Montaubon, where they have tion of the freedom of the seas is known affered-however unsuited they were to it, consolidated the ground won. as the Declaration of London. I
They could not bear to let people think subscribed to in London, of all places in for a moment that they were not doing the world, on February 26th, 1009.
their hit. Thus ladies in comfortable circumstances went miles to do the placed their John Hancocks."
OVER FIFTEEN THOUSAND' PRISONERS IN A WEEK.
im
of
was
To
In a hurry to be like men. The only thing they have not been in sons
They have never considered the fully with the experiences of his troops Ped
This diary forms a complete account The way they walk tells you what they of the doings of his regiment and deals pace which they can comfortably keep during the first twelve days of the Bri- ly slow down. Like the hare and the with e optimistic character of some of up. They begin in a hurry and gradual-tish advance. It is in strong contrast tortoise, man and woman run the race the German conanuniques. of life. Women will never win so long
the
South of the Ancre Rivulet the Eng-
It is officially stated that strongly defended positions in the Carso area have its enunciation of principles 10 matious Rerubbing working women were praying artillery bombardment. They were most-
been carried; 1,058 prisoners and some guns have been captured.
Since the 6th inst., 15,393 prisoners: have been taken, including 350 officers, 16 guns, a number of machine-guns and & quantity of wae material THE NEAR EAST,
(THROUGH ANUTER'S AGENCY.]
SUIZ FIGHTING.
TURKS STILL RETREATING.
lines south of Mametz and Montaubon "The Prussian troops who held the
have sustained severe losses from the
ly shot to pieces. for.
The Sixth Bavarian Reserve Regiment, which, during the such numbers to give their aid that the Montaubon, was completely destroyed. They hurried across the Channel in moring of July 1st, was thrown into commandant order, Clear the women out!"
at Boulogne issued the Only 500 men out of 3,500 were left. The regimental and battalion staffs were all captured.'
T may be explained that he name of John Hancock was the first inscribed on the Declaration of jaden fence, and, this signature appearing al ne on the Grat published copy of the Declaration, it was to familiar that of has become a toy th in common itse, meaning a signature.] They were in a hurry to get into uni-
They thereby guaranteed that here-
form even though khaki was scarce and after wars should be conducted solely be the war was delayed on their account tween the parties in them on land or
They were in such a hurry to be like men! before the actual para
of the enemy, that a section of them have earned the leaving the nations not involved in the title It," struggle to carry on unembarrassed and unamoyed those processes of peace,' the notivities of legitiate trade, communica tion, and travel, unt as though all the world were friends,"
The Chancellor goes on to say that it is a regretful refrecem to us in Germany, whole neutral world," that the United and it surely must be a regret to the States Government neglected to enforce the rights of peace-abiding nations We
by the Declaration of, London.
LONDON, August 13th. General Murray reports:- Our cavalry has driven back the Turks east of Biraal Mana, and the pursuit continues. secured no materials or stores, but large heaps of ashes were found at Bir-el-Abd.
..
HEAVY TURKISH LOSSES. Reuter's Correspondent at Cairo states that the situation at Sanai has been most A communiqué shows that the Russians satisfactory since the 4th inst. The Turks are pouring across the tributaries of the have been driven out of their positions Dueister, building bridges while under and pursued for fifty miles from the Suez fire and dislodging the eneiny from Canal. fortitted positions.
General
Scherbatcheff's
$11
in
breaking the enemy's Strypa from has facilitated General Sakharoff's advance on-the Epper-Sereih-by forcing the enemy to evacuate a series of positions.
General Scherbateteff's
army
Look
The total enemy losses recently are] estimated at 7,000, of which 3,534 have huge quantity of war material have also been taken prisoners. Four guns and R
been captured.
&t
the
TYPHOON WARNINGS. The following telegrams were, received, American Consulate-General, Hongkong, from the Manila. Observa-
3 p.nl, August lath, Cyclone or typhoon E. of Formosa, moving E.NE.
12 noon, August 14th.. Cyclone or typhoon N.W." of Nahn, moving north-east.
There was some minor enenunters with 50.000 mut of a total of 84,000 prisoners. Jste detachments near Delville Wood.
ADVANCE IN THE CARPATHIANS. {tory:-
The communiqué adds that the Russians are,advancing in the Carpathians, in the forests to the south of Delaiyn, and are fortifying the heights and repulsing all enemy attempts to take the offensive,
1 was an aeroplane that detected the enetay concentrasjon, north of Pozieres,
Our airmen yesterday carried out an
·oller lung-distance raid.
Great damage was done at railway works and aidinga There were also (several successful short raids and recon-
STILL MORE PRISONERS. An evening communiqué says:-- Our across the Rivers Strypa, Goropetz and Zlotalipa continues,
Hostile aircraft were fairly active," but passirig they avoided combat.
Au enemy machine was filled, and a British machine is missing.
NEW FRENCH LINE CONSOLIDATED.
AIR SQUADRONS BUSY;
PARIS, August 13th. A“enmmuniyné states:---The night was (comparatively quiet. North of the Somme
we consolidated our new positions.
TWO TOWNS CAPTURED.
FAR
EASTERN MEN AND
THE WAR.
He asks
It
the British began to bombard Baupaume Colonel Bedall's diary aaucuners that on June 30th with guns of the heaviest calibre. This intense artillery fire con- tinued without a pause during July 1st and 2nd. Later Colonel Bedall assembled All that did not matter greatly.
his battalion commanders and had them land them at the bottom of the hill, that that after an intense bombardment of the is now, when their hurrying threatens to explain the situation to him. They said another woman who has hurried all her entire German second army, front, the life would call a balt, Women are pass-long expected British offensive was bo- ing by the chances of their lives, ways, come short of the glory of man?
Why have women always, or nearly al-ty of their, artillery the British main- gun. With the overwhelming superior- Because they have not been trained for air for eight days an infernally, vio- irnt bombardment with their heaviest their work. They married in ignorance, guns against the German trenches.
set their boys loose is a den of hons, and brought up children without experience,
ROMHARDBENT WAS EFFECTIVE,
how long America proposes to permit England to enact its tyrannous functions allowed their girls to go out into the on the high seas, to violate American world unprepared for life. The spectacle has reached our second and third lines The bombardment," the diary reads, rights, and concludes :-
of the middle-aged woman to-day who is and our billets and villages, in these lines. Germany and neutral Europe, to con- hopelesely unemployable is one of the It has set fire to or has blasted into ruins fess the truth, have almost ceased to hope most pitiful of the war. She is the pro- all the hamlets behind our first lines as that the cause of neutral commerce will during this war find a champion in the United States. There seems little ground submission to stand up in the stature of for trusting you after so many month
sovereign State and re-assert the now extinct right to send your ships, mails, and goods aerran the ocean."
À DUTCHMAN ON THE FIGHT FOR THROUGH NEUTRAL EYES.
JUSTICE
Mr. John C. Van der Veer, London cur respondent of the Amsterdam Telegraf, was the guest of the Leeds Luncheon Club last month, and spoke on the posi tion of Holland in the war.
duct of her mother in a hurry. And the younger women are following in the suic far back as fifteen or twenty kilometres, stretched out on all sides to hold them tack at Montaubon on July 2nd.
-The-Calour-describes-the-German- at- reckless haste. Experienced hands are
He back. Wait and train," wise voices complains that the artillery support was insufficient, and says he asked his supe- rior to allow him to break off this costly battle. This was later permitted.
Any.
The women who have been business for years would save their sisters from a false start. They hurried in themselves.
The British artillery, manwhile, waa They harried all the time. They were mercilesly swift. On the contrary the in a hurry to give of their energy: they man regimental staff had the greatest kept, nothing hack; they gave of their difficulty in removing their headquarters reserves. The marvellous output of the from Longueval to Bazentin-le-Grand woman-worker-to-day-is-a-subject-of Sonder. It is nothing news she has always done it. She has always lived at concert pitch and then cracked kuddenly. Men save themselves in the spirit of the who fights and runs away will live to fab anther day, Just now woman's hurry helps the country, and it is well But it is only wanted in certain depart
He was glad to say that the best part and the overwhelming majority of the Dutch people showed a nebler attitude. From the moment that the German now 10 do
أن
Women
Girls in a hurry, think who will be
women omnibus conductors-all honour 'to them It will not be the women du- gine cleaners, coko loaders, ticket in- spectors, street cleaners," dock labourers, and the reat.. The women workers who may look for a future are:
d une regiment could only retire by splitting into small groups.
After recording other operations, the Colonel speaks of the piercing of the Ger- man line" near Contalmaison by the Bri-. tish on July 7th, and the fruitless attacks which were marle by fourteen companies of the Third Division of the Prussian Guard.
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after-war fear for them.
But-women are in too much of a
that :
The heights by great men won ánd kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. The women toil-oh, yes! but it is in blind alley.
Mr. Van der Veer referred first to the strong pro-Ally policy which from Augments. D. had characterized the Trleyraut, and which, be said, the Germans would And is the wrong women who are
vasily forget and forgive. In the hurrying. Ert the leisured
The remainder of the diary, which in- hustle; it will do them goort. It is their cludes the day on which the colonel was beginning of the war many people in Holland feared that they might be back-
great chance of healthy, honest work, captured, contains many more referene s ing the wrong borse.
But all the women hurrying will surely the disastrous effects of the Britis He never thought end in disaster. Ask the women's leaders fire. su; but even had the war schon-as the tierman Press put it in its will tell you
remai ed what they most dread to-day, and they early days for German aggression, that of reckoning for all the haste of the After the war the day would not have altered their altitude in hurrying women. The cataclysm of wo
we can go on doing without them if the Mr. R. Jones, who previously to the the least. outbreak of war was chief officer of the
men's anemployaient could be prevented domesticity the domestic science teacher women will: and with the sweep back to str. Sir Richard Ardrey, and, later, was
if the women who must, earn a living will have her hands full. appointed to H.M.S. Triomph, writing
after the war would prepare themselves on July 7th, says: an now trans
But they are in 80, ferred as Lient RN on the permanent armies violated the soil of Belgium and every
too much
2 hurry-societies of It is only a little list; but-and how- The towns of Podhaitse and Mariampullist, not supplementary, and am now 1st began to murder Belgian civilinas the opportunities of training..
description are holding out ever irritating this is to the beginner, it have been captured, and another 1,012
Lieut of a brand new destroyer, H.3.S
Schools are is true-there is always room at the Believe
H.3.5. great mass of the Dutch people Lerume even waites are open on every side become thoroughly skilled in the work me, she's some
top of any industry. Let the women prisoners were taken when the enemy was was. in the Jutland show and had quite atrocity stirred. Dutch hearts more pro- but they pass them by, all hurrying down they fancy, and then there will be no
furious against Germany, and every fresh is earned. Doors are Hing back across the Bystritza.
time, I am at present some- an exciting where up North and the weather is cold foundly. When the invaders began to the blind alleys. and wet. I think we have reached the of Antwerp, whose outlet runs through wanted after the war! It will not be the hurry. They do not pause to consider
talk of annexing Belgium, with the port final stages of the war. AFRICA.
Cheer ho to all old friends in Shanghai."
Dutch territory, level-healed Dutchmen fogad in more than ore sense the enemy Capt. A. J. Mackintosh Shaw is reat their own door. By an extensive and ported missing-believed killed." He unceasing propaganda curried on in was the son of Archdeacon Shaw of Tokio. Holland the Germans sought to sonthe and joined the Peking Syndicate in 1902, the stirred feelings of the people and working at Tientsin and Peking, and at make them believe that they meant no the mines at Chiactso, Honan, and in harm to Holland, and that they loved Shansi. In 1910 be started as an their country. But Dutchmen remember
On Lamp Day £7,000 was gathered by architect in the firm of Conk & Shaw, ed a peculiarity ascribed to monkeys,
the Women's Service for training wo- men; several societies are making grants November, 1914, when he went home on young, crush them dead in their arms.
or loans for training or, maintenance to the str. Nalin, and obtained a commis They called that "monkey-love."
suitable candidates; county councils are sion in the 14th Batt. King's Royal German loved Belgium, and so would So the
giving short commercial coures; train LONDON, August 13th.
Rifles. He trained with this regiment they love Holland, if her neutralty did flower in the sun during the war. It will ment point to training given by arms and ing is being given free on the land, and until May, 1915, when he was ordered to not suit them better.
the Board of Trade Employment Depart- According to an official announcement, Gallipoli, He was attached there to
the General Smuts and various lores com- whom he went through the Dardanelles world had not risen against a country Women have proved their worth in police hosiery, lace-making, bootmaking, apro
1st King's Own Scottish Borderers, with
One could only regret that the whole remain Girls' club leaders and factory technical schools in various parts of the welfare workers will all be wanted. country in wool spinning and weaving, menced, simultaneously, on the 5th inst., campaign, and was transferred with his which deliberately provoked war by tear work. The Women's Service Bureau had
regiment to France in March, 1916.
ing up a solemnly signed treaty and carlately 128 vacancies for dental mechanics,
plane work, welding and engineering, forward movement against the main
rind it on against all the regulations she but only seven trained women to fill them, tracing, fancy leather work, optical helped to make in 1907 at The Hague. The woman carpenter has been wanted grocery, and toymaking; as switchboard enemy force, which, size its defeat or
trades, breadmaking and confectionery. THE PALISADE, KOWLOON. He could not help feeling and saying ever since the first home was built, So attendants at electric power stations, às June 24th on the Lukigura River, has
that the attitude of nentral Governments convinced of the opportunities for girls chemists and poultry farmers. The popularity of this pleasantly cool occupied strong positions on a fertile and place of entertainment has increased with had been lamentable. The neutrality of in business is one school headmistress
that she rent for the fathers of her girla and willing to look around can take The women-be, they young and strong well-watered tract on the Nouru Moun- make a point of securing the best and the fourth Hagne Convention. The treaty who are in business and suggested that their choice, and without paying their
the enterprise of the management, who Belgium was guaranteed by treaty and by tains. Stubborn actions developed, result-most up-to-date pictures for the amuse-its force. The convention concerned all women doctor is for ever established. too much of a hurry. A short training concerned Great Britain which asserted they should teach their daughters. The money in most cases, but they are in A strong German attack on the left]
ment of their patrons. Another strong Avocourt Wood, was repulsed by shell-fire Matamondo and Tschungo, whence he had to-night, in which the features are two they let it go without raising a protest. the branches the chemist climbs the more
can get to-day is equal to a long peace dramatic films The Secret of Monte He held the opinion that the war might sought after will she be. The male shop been pursued. The enemy's losses were Carlo." and "The Passing of Diana," have been provented had all the neutral Once having done without fruit imports, the end of their blind alleys will the
assistants are not exreeted to come back. There are, also, a number of interesting Powers collectively supported the peace. and humorous films.
ful proposals of Sir Edward Grey.
(Continued an next. Column.)
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
A German counter-attack froin Combles] against the church and cemetery.
at
STUBBORN FIGHTING
EAST AFRICA.
IN
by machine-gan fire with heavy loss.
·Maurepas occupied by us was repulsed
We progressed slightly south of Fleury. ENEMY DEFEATED WITH SEVERE remaining in Peking and Tientsin until who, when exceedingly fond of their French air squadrons dropped
hundred and twenty large bonths | Metzablons and on the station,, railway,
workshops and barracks at Metz."
FRENCH ADVANCE AND REPEL ATTACKS.
PARIS, August 14th. A communiqué states:North of the Soume the enemy has not attemptéd'a counter-attack.
Minor isolated actions enabled the French to advance on the slopes of a hill to the south-east of Maurepas.
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LOSSES,
Welfare workers. Doctor®. Dental mechanics. Chemists. Carpenters.
Shon assistants. Police women, Fruit-growera. Business women. Domestic science School attendance teashere.
officers.
Welfare work has developed like
bank of the Meuse, to the south ofng in the defeat of the enemy at programme is announeed to open its run other Powers outside the conflict, but especially in municipal work. The higher with the experience which any woman
and bombs.
Conditions were quiet elsewhere.
rélatively severe, while ours were small
course
But only when they have arrived at
women discover it.~Daily Mail.