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THE WAR.
ALLIES CONCENTRATING AT SALONICA.
ITALY AND GERMANY.
ALLIES CAN SEE THE END.
CANTON QUIET.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH RIDTER'S SOENOY.)
BRITISH STILL PROGRESS.
HALFA-MILE AT POZIERES.
LONDON, August 2nd. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- munique states: We have advanced half uile on the front at Pozieres an abar the Leipzig satirat.
FURTHER ADVANCES.
LONDON, August 22nd.
The text of General Sir Douglas Haig's communiqué is Despite very honyy fesses from
bombardment, the "enemy's garrison at Guillemont is still maintaining an obstinate resistance,
our
We have again made considerable pro- Bress the vicinity of Pozierce, having adrated on 'n front of half-a-mile and
are established at the rond junction just outside Moquet farm. We have pushed forward along the right of the Pajero Marnunoon road.
We extended our gains in the Leipzig salient and advanced ur positions to within's thousand yards of Thiepva!. BRITISH CAPTURE TRENCH AND PRISONERS.
LONDON, August-23rd. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com
Riya, statos: Between Martinpuich and Bazentia a further, hundred yards of enemy, trench has been gained.
THE BALRANS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOK.]
THE ALLIED ATTACK.
BIG EVENTS BREWING.
Paris, August 22nd,
It is pointed out that the Bulgarians are attacking only the extreme left, while the Allies are attacking on the right, left and centre, Moreover, the present actions are only a prelude to operations
ut a greater scale.
RUSSIANS AND ITALIANS AT SALONICA.
PARIS, August 22nd. Italian troops have disembarked at Salonica. Kussian contingents are also arriving at the port.
MORE ALLIED CONTINGENTS COMING.
LONDON, August 22nd. It is now permissable to state that the first Russing contingent disembarked at Salonica on July 30th, and the first Italian contingent. August 1st. Further contingents are following.
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NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENox,]
GERMAN BATTLESHIP
with?
TORPEDOED.
BELIEVED TO BE SUNK.
LONDON, August. 92nd-
It is officially announced that Sub marine z is believed to have sunk a German battleship of the Nassau class in the North Sea on the 10th inst..
CANTON QUIET.
[From Our Special Representative.}
WEDNESDAY. Everything is quiet and there has been no fighting except on the North River where spasmodic attacks continue.
Shum in reported to have moved all his men from the vicinity of Shek War Tong and to have taken up a position at Three Eye Bridge, which is the second station on the railway, and which is
further back than he has been for some
time.
The submarine, torpedved and damaged He is believed to have made a statement t'e battleship and then again torpedoed that he will not attack again until some her white she was being escorted to bar-sort of arrangement is made between bour by five destroyers.
Lak and Lung or until Lung attacke him.
(The battleships of the Nassau class' nee of 18,600.toms and are armed with twofive 11-inch guns.]
GENERAL.
{THROUGH `REUTER'S AGENCY.)
PRIZE COURT AWARDS. FALKLANDS BATTLE
LONDON, August 22nd.
The Prize Court has awarded a bounty of £12,160 to the officers and men of the British warships which sank the Scharn- hörd, the arisenu and the Nurnberg
in the Falklands battle.
:::
**EMDEN DESTROYER.
LONDON, August 22nd. The Prize Court has awarded £1,865 to the officers and crew of the Australian cruiser Sydney for the sinking of the Enden: £1,606 to the Alcanatra and the Andes for destroying the raider Griff; and £1,410 to the officers and crew of
At for sinking the light cruiser Edine in the Baltic.
ALLIES SATISFACTORY
POSITION.
WAR MINISTER'S OPTIMISM.
LONDON, August 22nd.
All the Allies are now represented on the Salonica front, where big events are
In the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd expected very shortly.
George, reviewing the situation, con- EFFECT ON BULGARIAN ARMY.
trasted the Allies' satisfactory position SALONICA, August 22nd. everywhere, when compared with that The Russians landed in ferry boats and obtaining two years ago,
He said the were received by British, French and initiative had been wrested from the Serbia Guards of Honour. Bands paraded the quay where General Sarrailemy along the whole front alast for reviewed the new-comers, raising his cap the best time. The only possible and in response to Hussian cheers. The Rus unimportant exception was in Mesop siaus afterwards marched to their quartamia, where conditions were quicsceni
for climatic reasons,
A successful enterprise was carried outters amidst hand clapping, to e south of Guillement..
One hundred and sixty-four prisoners were taken in yesterday's operations in the Thiepval and Manquet, farm, weigh
bourbonds.
It is believed that the presence of the liberators of Bulgaria on the Allied front will produce an incalculable effect on the
Bulgarian
army, dozens of which have
MARVEL OF THE MEDICAL | BATTLE FOR THE STOKBOD.
SERVICE.
GERMAN "INVINCIBILITY.
AN. EXPLODED LEGEND.
"APPEAL TO MUNITION WORKERS,
It's quite an experience, you know; this being wounded," said the Brigade Staff Captain in the half apologetic tone one reserves for references to the Eh! My commonplace and obvious. arm; yes; a bit torn in the biceps by shrap. But I didn't mean the actual wounding. I meant the process of which. that is the first step. The actual wound- ing? It just felt like any kind of a sus:
knew about it den jar. Might have been a bang from a door, or a smack in the face, for all I
I was thinking of what it led to. Stafi
point of view, you know, I get a corporal to rip my sleeve and shove dressing_on. was bleeding rather freely. Then I fished what I wanted to do just looking at a couple of At present the arrival of the new Civil machine-gun emplacements--and went Governor is occupying attention and the back with na orderly to the dressing
station in our rear Ene. That was be bund is crowded with soldiers and police, tween 3 and 4 yesterday afternoon, with- He is to arrive at Whampoa or there in sight of the Buche trenches, and very abouts in a merchant steamer from Hongshoved into a motor ambulance with an-
much within range of their guns.
I was kong and to be met by one of Lung's other officer and several men.
Chronal a gunboats which will bring him to the Admiralty sharf. The Admiralty wharf is all decorated with flags and flowers and also the streets, which he will have to go through to get to his Yamnen. There are a great number of soldiers in this vicinity. He is expected this after
·TION.
There are mire people about in the streets and inore shops open to-day then has been the case since the present fight ing began.
The sunken gunboat in the channel at Tai Shick has been raised. After a cons siderable amount of troubles the harbour authorities succeeded in floating her yesterday afternoon" and the channel is now clear. The other bear which sank off the wharf a Wong Sha has also been raised..
SHAMERN.
very
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FROM STANLEY WASHBURN.) KOVEL FRONT, via Rovno, July 11th, Fighting wors fierce than any that has been seen in this entire movement is now proceeding along the banks of the Stok- hod from the Kovel-Sarny railway to the Rovel-Rovno main road, while the troops to the north in their advance to the Stokhed have already reached some places on the river between Nobel and the Kovel-Sarny railway,
That the joint operations of these two armies have been extraordinarily successful is indicated by of the prisoners taken are Bavarings and our enormous captures. Probably half other Germans, which should permanent ly dissipate the fletion of the invin cibility of the Germans against the Rus-
sians.
While both sides are losing heavily, our hsses are much less than those of the nemy, who, I believe, are having increas ing difficulty in filling up the vacancies created in their ranks, though they are constantly bringing up increasing num bers of guns and machine-guns agains us. The Russian losses, no matter how great they may be, need not be considered from the military point of view, as all the depots are crowded with reserves, and such losses as we suffer are being filled up every few days. Unlike last year, there are plenty of rifles with apparently abun dant ammunition in Russin, what we have captured, which may be estimat- ed at above 300,000.
RUSSIAN INFANTRY'S SUFERIORITY.
cup of tea at Amiens, I had a good dinner 013 the train thai evening, where I found camp library banks and magazines provided for the delec- tation of the wounded:
alone they trend been beautifully dressed at the clearing sta- like clockwork: despite the crowds there tion & Amiens, where everything went were of us. On the train one spent as comfortable a night is you'd spend in the average station hotel. Au excellent breakfast was served in the huts on the the Germans were turned out on the pre I was yesterday on the battlefield where wharf at Havre this morning. And here ceding night at the point of the bayonet. of these entirely admirable, wonderful, indifferent to losses or to German shells. you find me at Southampton, where one The Russians showed themselves utterly
and unfailingly kind Red Cross sisters and at me point they forced a crossing has just given me delicious cup of tea.
of the Stokhod in face of the
concen Practically it's wounded on a battlefield trated fire of eight German batteries. in France one evening and dining in The difficulties of observation here are London the next evening..
greater even than in Poland, as along the "That's the sort of point that interests || Stokhod the terrain is as flat as a board. mo; the arrangement of the whole busi-There are no ridges, and the whole coun- ness, It's one of the finest pieces of try is a mass of marshes nad woods, while organizing I ever saw in my life, and such roads as exist are almost impassable, not a jar or a polt or a creak or a hitch and atterly so for motor-cars. all the way from the trenches to Blighty,
IT ALL HINGES ON MUNITIONS.
Are
Though I am with the corps on the Blokhod, near Sokul, it is impossible, by The push! Oh, the pusir is all right. reason of the noise of the guns and birst- The Sai Aam brought dowis a big lot schedule. It won't be a quick job, you burning villages, to form any impression It's working out very much as pering shells and the amoke rolling up from of silk and business is improving slowly, know, I suppose every one realizes that. of the progress of the fighting. The wea There have been no merchant ships in
But it will be a thorough one, I think;ther in terrifically hot, with a scorching a good, clean job, with no particular loose sun and a cloudless sky day after day, the harbour for quite a long time now ends hanging out, The Army will put which is
of prisoners were taken, as and even if they came there is no business its job through all right. It will be up huge probly one reason why such to the politicians and the public to see the Austro-Germans were so exhausted for them. There was no noise of Bring it never occurs again. There's no reason
after the fighting that they made no effort to evade the Russiaus when their trenches last night and only two of Lung's gun-why it should. I imagine there's no fear of any slackening in the munitions boats were lying in the vicinity of the output, is there? If all hinges on that crambling up on every day, saving.
were captured. The Austrians. If that's kept it's number is up for
at full pressure you "All is lost, why continue fighting?" may take it the
It is impossible to estimate how long Germans will be able to hold the pre- sent line, but it seems impossible that without their breaking in whatever juny 2 auch intense fighting can continue long.
prove to be the weakest point in their line. It is reported that givilians in huge numbers and prisoners are working night. and day preparing formidable defences nearer Kovel; and the present terrific engagements star prove to be a gigantic rearguard action covering à retirement to these alleged positions" when completed.
Times,
concession.
ARRIVAL OF THE CIVIL GOVERNOR.
LATER.
The new Civil Governor arrived this
bout at the Admiralty wharf. afternoon at 3.40 in a two-funnelled gun-
ON STRIKE.
sure,
the private
Coming down, now, 10 soldier's outlook here are the words of Pte. JM of theth, who was wounded, at Cuntalmaison...ons of the very few bayonet wounds the Hun managed to inflict on our men, though during the past week or so soma of them have had some success in bayoneting our wounded.
"Yes, I've got the haynit what did my business, Sir, done up in me old shirt. I want to keep that for my Missis. Yes.
SOME EXTRAORDINARY DEMANDS.I suppose that's my blood on it all right.
Over a hundred workmen in the eu-
ployment of the Yokohama Dock Com pany struck work on August 14th, and the Laczaki-cho Police are endeavouring to settle the trouble.
Concluding, Mr. Lloyd George said YOKOHAMA DOCK WORKERS I think in the dim distance the Allies can see the end. It would be a mistake been deserting daily for months past.
to under-rate the rask, which will require Both Italians and Russians locked all the resources of the Dominions and There has been considerable hostile hardy.
Their presence
in Salonica the Empire, but I atm confident of artillery activity on the front opposite demonstrates, inter, alio, the Allies' coin- victory if the Allies continue to work A'x Noulette and south of the Ypres of the sea, to which the big traus- loyally together."
portation of troops from Russia and Italy without mishap is a remarkable
NATURALISED tribute. OBJECT OF BULGARIAN ATTACK,
LONDON. August rd.
Comites Canal.
VERDUN
OPERATIONS.
VALUE OF FRENCH STAND.
PARTS. August 22nd.
The act that the Tricolor still flies
the
A telegram from Salonika states that
Bulgarian attack is intended to over Verdun after six months of terrific restore the morale of the Bulgarian Army
baslaught shows that the spirit of self- sacrifie and the resolution of the French soldiers are more powerful than high ex- plosives. 1 is not get realised the enor mus part which. Verdun has played in the war as a whole.
:
FRENCH BOME RAILWAY STATIONS.
PARIS. August 22nd.
A communiqué states:-A French air squadron bombed, the railway stations at Tergnier, Noyon, und Appilly and Pont-le-Veque, causing waterworks
violent f
FRENCH MAKING PROGRESS;
and to stave off the intervention of Rumania. The Bulgarian occupation of Flurina is absolutely of no import- ance, as the heights dominating the town are securely held by the Allies,
ITALY AND DECLARATION OF WAR,
ROME, August 22nd. The Meswyer believes that one result of the Italian landing at Salonica will be a declaration of war on Germany.
GREEK IRRITATION.
ATHENS, August 22nd. The news, of Bulgarian advance being resisted by the Greek garrison at Fort Pheapetra, in which the commander was killed, and at Serres, where the reserves were called out to protect the town, is the outskirts of Calery, and occupied-exciting the public who sympathise with portions of trenches south-west of the resistors. Estrees and east of Boyecourt.
A communiqué says:-We advanced on
There has been artillery activity on a
There are signs of increasing irritation
FOREIGNERS
IN THE SERVICES.
RESTRICTIONS IN FORCE.
LONDON, August 22nd..
In the House of Communs, Lord
Robert Ceeil announced that Viscount Grey bad directed that no naturalised
foreigner or a son thereof should be appointed in the Foreign, Diplomatic or Consular Services untifTM approved either by Viscount Grey or Lord Robert Cecil.
MUNITIONS FACTORY
EXPLOSION.
CASUALTIES FEWER THAN -.
EXPECTED.
LONDON, August And,
GERMANY ANNOYED WITH THE BOERS.
I'd dropped me ride, ye see, Sir; got two o me finger-andé smashed. And I was just goin' for the Buche what'd been working one o' their machine guns. Just as I was makin' a jump for him the other Boche skewered me through the arm with
Under the heading. A. Degenerate his baynit, an' my Section Commander, be got his bodkin in an' out o' Boche People," the Hamburger · Nachrichten The Japan Guzette says it appears that number two quick as lightning. An' complains bitterly about messages of a workman was discharged some jine. then the pair of us got in on the machine sympathy from South Africa on the death ago by one Unezo Uchiyama, a foreman,
gunner.
But he was my mutton, he was; | of Lord Kitchener. The writer says:--- for absenting himselt too long from his an' you may be sure that prick in the
"Sixteen years ago we Germans felt work. This alleged arbitrary step on the arm didn't make rae any gentler with
strong admiration and sympathy for the part of the foreman aroused the work him either. You can take it from inc,
Boers in their heroic fight for indepen- men, who belong to an association calling Sir, e won't foul no more machine guns; deuce against the British Empire, and itself the Yuan-kai (Friendship Improve not this side of the place the dead Boches ment Society), of which the disenarged go to. He wasn't a bad tookin chap we felt sympathy and indignation when workman is a member, They therefore neither; but he'd done a lot o' mischief they had in the end to accept defeat. And petitioned the Directors to re-employ the wi that gun before I got hit. I would now we see what then seemed simply un- workman and dismiss the foreman, who, n't be surprised but what he was quite thinkable the chosen representatives of they claimed, had exceeded his powers in a decent sort of a sausage-eater, ye know, the Beer people humably expressing their discharging the offender. At the same
I don't think he was none of the surrow at the death of Kitchener. Herr tume, they preferred various demands, sort they tied to their guns to keep 'em Louis Buthawhy is he not an Earl, and not even a Lord t-delivered a speech full- among them being a 10 per cent, advance from bolting. in wages, that they be advanced at least Out there I read in the papers about job admiration for Kitchener, praised his once a year, and that the equipment in the munition workers giving up their gigantic effort for the freedom" of his the factories be improved, eit. The Whitsou holidays, Well, that's no country, and comforted himself in his Directorate of the Company suggested to mor'u right, seems to me; nu' I a'm sure grief with the knowledges that Russia also the malcontents that they elees delegates they'd never grudge it if they could see has recognised Kitchener's greatness. · De- to meet with them, but this they, de how the stuff they send out saves the in- votion canet throw itself more completely clined. The malcontents met at the fantry mas. The preparation's all right: Narutokan at Noge on the 14th instant the more the better, I say; an' we can't in the dust than the chosen representa- and decided to go on strike if their de do much without it. But it won't win tives of the Bor people have done after
their violent subjection by England.” mands were not grauted in toto, Not only did they strike work next day, but they also tried to bring out the other workers.
In the House of Cominosis, Dr. Addisons According to & later dispatch the strike has spread among all the workmen of stated that twenty bodies had been the Dockyard and something like 700 recovered from the wreckage caused by men are now on strike. There are now the explosion in a Yorkshire munitions 3,000
men remain- comparatively new factory. There had been consideráble
twork and the work of destruction, but the casualties were not
ckyard has been practically sus peu A strong force of police is so heavy as had been anticipated.
on guard in the vicinity of the Dock Company to prevent the occurrence of an untoward incident.
Ing the
SO
FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR,
Sir
the war without un. We've got to get right after the Boche afore we can really down him. No, I don't somehow reckon the boys an' girls at home would enjoy the holidays none too mach; not if they was thinkin' of us bein' mown down in swathes, same's we should be on this jab must be if the munitions, run short, So I reckon they won't grudge doin' of their bit, same's, us, without olidays. till the war's over. We got to put up shells, or we got to put up flesh an blood; one or the other; an the shells is cheapest in the long run; even if it does mean no holiday at home. They got their beds of a night, an' their three square meals a day, sure. No, I don't think there's many would grudge their holidays for-well, far us chaps.".
IN MAMETE WOOD,
right in the face of one of their lieu- tenants, and he clubbed me over the head with a rifle before it exploded. Devil of a whack he caught me but he went up all right the next moment. Good thing he hit too, because it made no lie pretty fint, else I think that bomb would have done for me, too. As it was, I got lots of little head scratches from splinters, That's the worst of not having & tin hat. But it wasn't fill next evening I get nocked out. We were horribly nearly out of the wood then, and I'd only my platoon sergeant and six men left. But I bet they held on all right. Hard Inck I couldn't see it out."
Jarge portion of the front north of the poned: All securities on the Bourse hava puted to be 180 years old at the time of Warwickshire Yeomanry), fourth son of speaking of the work at his platoon. fighting material, tenty of fight left
Sonone. We took two more field guns in the wood captured by us south of Gaille- mont on August 20th, inaking eight in this quarter.
SUCCESSFUL SURPRISE ATTACK.
A communiqué states:--There have been artillery duels on both banks of the Somme in the region of Fleury.
A French surprise attack to the aorth of Maurepas resulted in the capture of prisoners.
fallen.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY YEARS OLD.
There passed away in Kurong Hitam
"Don't you believe it, when anyone against the Gounarist policy. The recently, says the Alor Star correspon-
dent of the Pinang Gazette, an old The death, in action, is reported of
A youthful second lieutenant, who had tells you the Germans are played out, or elections will now be inevitably post-
woman named Toh Selama, who was re- 2nd-Lieut. Humphrey Osborn Springheld been wounded in the Mametz Wood, that they've come to the end of their said a company com- her death. Old men of 60 and 70 years Mr. Thomas Osborn Springfield, of said: You see, we'd sworn we would mander.
in 'em, and they seem to have unlimited of age now residing in the same campong Alburgh House, Norfolk, and brother of 't be driven altogether out of the wood men and unlimited munitions. They'll had never remembered her to look any younger when they were boys, & fact, M. O.. Springfield, Assistant-Super- while there was one of us not hit, Myght like mad tigers, so long as they can intendent, 8.M.P., and Registrar of the platoon sergeant was a brick he did it which inclines one to allow her the longe Mixed Court, Shanghai. The deep nll, really. Nothing to do with me, of knock you out before you can touch en vity she claimed, though 120 years would. Sympathy of his many friends in Shang course, But the men were splendid; they But if you can only live through their be a safer guess since she distinctly re-hai is, extended to Mr. Springfield in his really were. Why, one of em got back fire and get actually at 'em, why, then, generally hands up and the Kame to battalion headquarters with my mes membered the first Siamese invasion bereavement, which is all the more severe which took place about 100 years ago: from the fact that he had already lost wage asking for more hombs--I wrote itrade business. I was afraid it might be the course of my wandering it has been
Mercy, an English voice say, with an indelible-with both his ankles uy good fortune, to come across three other in the earlier stages of the on the leather case of my pocket mirror, catching, and that I should presently
could
broken. He recollect the first persons, who
A telegram has been received by Mr. J.
the way. Siamese invasion.
And I get the chest. And that shows I didn't know my One was Poh Wan Dalton, of Chinkiang, stating that 2nd knees half got there on his hands and Kamerade' when he saw the steel at his In all this Push there's no record Aroon, who died at Pinagg Tunggal a
'em. They say the Boche is a cur; but,
of a single British soldier playing, that good many years ago, at the ripe age Lieut. G. H. Dalton, of the 3rd Babombs, too. And you bet my chaps used men.
talion, Royal Irish Regiment died on
game not one. Believe me, our men 110, this old lady, Toh Selama, and an old August 14th Mr. Dalton was 25 years by God, he did fight in that wood. He
are not only all good, they're all gentle- man still living in Padang Trap, who old and was formerly with Messrs. Reins fought for it by inches: I shied a bomb
mon and sportsmen; yes, every mother's claims to be 180 years of age.
& Co.
(Continued on next Colurin.). son of 'em.
ANGLO FRENCH OPERATIONS. SALONICA, August 2nd, A British official announcement issued states that the situation is unchanged on the Doiran front.
We destroyed a railway bridge on the Struy front.
Anglo-French cavalry located enemy on
the Serri Savajak front. Artillery fire stopped enemy skirmishers and working parties were dispersed.
the
In
war.
it's
hear