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THE WAR.
ENEMY SUFFERS HEAVILY AT
THIEPVAL.
BRILLIANT FRENCH ATTACK ON MEUSE.
ITALIANS CARRY STRONG ENEMY
SUBMARINE
POSITIONS.
DEUTSCHLAND
AT BREMEN.
RANGO-BELGIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH KEDAER'S AGENOT.] BRITISH PRESSING FORWARD.
LINE STRAIGHTENED.
LONDON, August 23rd, General Sir Douglas Haig, in a rom- euroniqué, states:-South of Thiepval, the British have gained further hundred yards of trench and have straightened their line.
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We silenced, in three different areas, the enemy's artillery. which had been showing much activity.
ARRIVES
RUBBIAN FRONT.
{THROUGH REUTUMʼa, AOBNOY.] IRRESISTIBLE RUSSIANS.
ENEMY EVERYWHERE REPULSED.
PETROGRAD. August 23rd.
An official announcement says:-We have everywhere repulsed the enemy offensive south of Brody,
We captured two heights to the north and south of Koveria Mountain, on the Hungarian frontier,, near the source of the Pruth.
THE HONGKONG DAIL YPRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23rd, 1916.
AERIAL ACTIVITIES.
{TEROUGH BRUIDʼN AGENCY.)
ZEPPELINS,
ALLIES ACCOUNT FOR
THIRTY-FIVE.
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LONDON, August 23rd. In the House of Commons, Mr. J.
THE CANTON : TROUBLE.
ARRIVAL OF THE NEW CIVIL GOVERNOR.
[From Our Special Representatire.]
CANTON, Wednesday. Everyone was expecting the new Civil Governor this afternoon, and when one of Lung's two-funnelled. gunboats came alongside the Admiralty pier at -3,40 and was received by a guard of about L. Baird, D.SO., representing the 500 men all thought he had arrived. The Air Board, mentioned that seven Zeppe pier and all the gunboats lying in the Jis an officially reported as having river as this point were decorated with been destroyed, while five others are belag, and in front of the pier was created lieved in have been disabled irremediably. lined with police and soldiers.
a decorated aren, while the streets were
The Allies altogether have accounted for thirty-five Zeppelins. GENERAL.
(THROUGH RHUTER'S 'AGENCE.]
THE UNBRIDLED' PEN.
ADVOCATING SEPARATE RUSSO-
GERMAN PEACE.
CAMPAIGNING IN THE SUN.
HEAT WAVE IN EGYPT.
THE RISE OF PRICES IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD.
BY W. T. MASSEY. Į
Prices aro gone up in the spiritual as well as in the natural world."
Even a Except for the brilliant air raid on good conscience is far dearer than it German hangers at El Arish, Egypt late-used to be, and peace of mind is hardly ly has not loomed large in the world-war procurable. If we are not overworking If news. But do not imagine the Army is ourselves, we know we ought to be. idle. On or near the Canat we are no!
we take any samusement, we feel we must fighting the enemy, because he cometh not excuse ourselves. We ought, we know, to force. Occasionally one of him may have something better to do than play, be seen, a tiny white speak. 10,000ft, up in though all but the most buoyant spirits the blue, and we hear his attack only require some artificial keeping up, and when the bomb, nears the earth. The
good humour is apt to go out at the door missiles have done hut an infinitesimal when economy comes in at the window. amount of damage, and no one would pay If we are not in direct anxiety, we are the German the compliment of making almost ashamed of our tranquillity; and funk-hole to get unt of his bombs' way if we want to converse with our friends, His air raids may be
more successful pre- and so procure the most harmless of all Hently, but just now he shows such-desperecccation, they are either out at work, rate anxiety to get back to his are that preoccupied, or so
a
tl.
most
soldier's thoughts and conversatieres. The guard of soldiers, and police was
Total formed with lat drawn up in order about an hour before heat. As a
weather his mind goes back to winter the gunboat arrived. As it turned out mud on Salisbury Plain, and there is however, the official for the welcome of hardly a man who would not exchange a whom so much preparation had been British rain, Colonial troops endure
day's Egyptian sunshine for one hour of the made was the Governor's Chief Secre-heat with smiling faces, because under Their home skies They are accustomed to tary, who had been sent on ahead to
days of unclouded san; but the soldier make arrangements.
He was given a from Britain is not so sure that swelter- special guard of 20 soldiers. There was ing heat is conducive to a good labour a big furn-out of Chinese to
viewtat, and to get his work done is the aim of every man serving the King and the arrival, but they were not al-Empire here, He works hard in the early hours, when the night breeze has Petrograd, August 93rd.
lowed to get within 100 yards of the place cooled the desert sard, and left an air The Government is being urged to pro- where the soldiers were drawn up, and which makes a man buoyant and vigor It is a wise precaution, however, serute the Extreme Right leader. M.traffic shung the band and in the streets
which sends all those who are off duty Bulatzel, who, regarding Mr. Asquith's surrounding the Admiralty was held up to repose when the sun is at its meridian,
for about an hour.
Consequently, there is less dinner-time declaration that punishment' should be
football than we used to see. The ball is CANTON, -Thursday,
out when the sun is throwing shadows meted out to those responsible for Inter.
The Civil Governor arrived by the from the west, though the majority have
pensive in a spiritual sense. directed by the Kinshun this morning. When he arrived come to believe that lookers-on have most
of the game. there was a small guard-of-honour and
You would think so. too, if you had hent and glare are trials which only the any reliable figures of the temperature foolish regard lightly. I cannot give in the outpost line, because the only people I know who endeavoured to mea- sure the heat had to give up the task. Their thermometers, registering only to 120deg., bubbled over, and declined to de the service properly. But it is possible to get an idea of what it is like out there, heat waves, by glancing at the shade-tem where the horizon
lost in the dancing peratures since June 3rd, for, by adding some 25deg. or. 30deg, to these, you obtain approximate figures for readings in the
A Turkish offensive on the Caucasian national crimes, as frontier was driven back.
Kaiser, wrote an article containing scur-
To
set
Argumentative and he uzcupies only a small place in the censorious that we go home wishing wo
had not forged the meeting. against all this there is an unintermit tent drama of thrilling interest being enacted before our eyes. We canuot help actively enjoying its development, and for doing so most of us condenin our selves... Even this distraction we must Pay for in the coin of self-abasement,
Just now the temper of the oridnary. person is short. Very small worries will serve to keep a bad sleeper, awake, and very small irritations raffle the spirit in The spiritual and time of stress. material worlds converge upon the ques tion of money, This sounds very cynical, but surely it is true. If we have to give two thoughts instead of one to what we must eat and drink and how we are to be clothed, peace of mind, which is us often as not simply leisure of mind, recedes as we count our pennies We cannot get this mental leisure while we are distracted by the forming of new habits which have not yet become second nature. This second nature is very ex- It means an outlay of energy, and it means that we continue to pay out from our mora! fortune in patience and perseverance. In
there are people who require a good deal leisure back, and find we have
gained something into the bargain.
Again
more recreation than others, just as there are those who require an exceptional amount of food,
For instance, a good deal of light reading may have become a
They trust to it to. necessity to them. enable them to get through their work. and they think with daily gratitude of the second-rate writers who have so often offered them rest and refreshment with out mental effort of any sort. takes some effort nowadays to lose one's self in the lightest and least exacting of fiction. A domestic novel is now about se hard to read as a piece of stiff biogra- phy used to be in those delightful times before the craving for newspapera came to interfere with every train of quiet thought. They must pay heavily for their mental outing.
Our offensive to the west of Lake Vanrilous diatribes against Britain, who, he chairs, but he walked off quickly to Dutch had a day of duty in the desert, where in the end we may perhaps buy our
Enemy aircraft, which had shown un- would enterprise, Were engaged in large numbers with mon satisfactory resulta.is proceeding. At least four were destroyed and others were driven down out of control, while others' still were pursued to their aero- dromes. We had no casualties.
ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- manique, states:-Two enemy attacks south of Thiepval were repulsed.
ENEMY SUFFERS HEAVILY. The text of General Sir Douglas Haig's communiqué is :---The enemy twice deter minedly counter-attacked our new trenches
to the south of Thiepval last evening.
In the first, the enemy obtained a tem porary footing, but he was immediately. driven out.
The second was completely repulsed. / The enemy suffered heavily both times,
AN ENEMY ADVANCE.
PARIS, August 23rd.
THE BALKANS
(THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENOY.]
BULGARIANS REPULSED.
PRAISE FOR BRITISH SOLDIERS.
Salonica, August 24th. Fighting continues on the Serbian Left. All the Bulgarian attacks have been re pulsed.
The Serbians continue to progress to the north of Struping.
A bombardment of Doiran and the slopes of Veles is reported,
? General Sacrail has warmly praised the British infantry and yeomanry,
GREEK RESISTANCE.
suid, was planning & tribunal such as sentenced to death Mary Queen of Scots and Joan d'Are. The article also said the British Army had advanced a few hundred yards in two years, and the task of taking the Kaiser prisoner was pre- sumably imposed upon Russia. The war would not end when Russia was able to conclude an honourable peace, but when Russia had laid low the Hohenzollern Dynasty. M. Bulatzel practically advo- cated a separate Russo-German peace. -
Folly, where he had a conference with the Chief of Police. Afterwards he visited Lung's Yamen.
PROSPECT OF A SETTLEMENT.
FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES.
CANTON, Thursday. The new Civil Governor Chu Hing Lan is said to have arranged a loan of $3,000,000 dollars with the Bank of China, He is to receive half of the amount when he takes up office in Canton and the other half when he has given a report on the state of the finances of the province and shown that it is necessary. If this is all RUMANIA AND THE ALLIES, the money that Chu can lay his hands jon at unce, he will find some difficulty in paying the amount which Long demands Amsterdam, August 24th,
before relinquishing his post. Lung, has According to the well-informed Bük-
sent a message to Luk that he will not harut correspondent of the Berlin Tope fix a date for handing over the seals of Llall, the temporary tranquillity inefice until he receives satisfactory assur
ances that he will be paid in full what Ramania does not signify that the coun
the Government owes him and that be
The calling out of the demobilised try is not thinking of intervention. The will be given enough money to enable A communiqué states: An enemy at-reserves at Serres on the 22nd inst. was Premier certainly, intervenes on the side him to move his troops to wherever the
of the gallant commander, of the Entenfe, but it appears that the tack to the south of Estrees-and the west the act
is stoutly various Governments have not reached of Sovecourt gained a fosting in some Colonel, Cristodulu. who of the trenches captured by us on the resisting the advancing Bulgars, Volun-
an understanding as to whether Rumania teers are being organised at Balonica to 21st inst.
at the peace negotiations will have au proceed to his support. À contingent of
equally decisive or only an advisory Albanians has landed.
FIVE GERMAN AEROPLANËS
BROUGHT DOWN,
- PARIS, August Zied, A communiqué states;-There has been lively artillery due to the north and sinth of Maurepas, but the enemy did not attack..
ATTACK ON THE FRENCH,
A communique states: An enemy at tack on the French holding Komarjun ridge was repulsed.
The communiqué continues:- -Two bat- Five German aeroplanes were brought talions of the enemy were seen in the -down.
BRILLIANT FRENCH ATTACK.
PAR18, August 24th.
neighbourhood of the Dauli-Doiran front,
and we drove in their advanced troops.
The enemy is entrenching the
ON
·A· communique states:-North and Struma front. south of the Somine the artillery duel The Serbians are now holding a line continued all day. It was especially in the neighbourhood of Lake Ostrovo lively in the Belloy and Estrees sectors. and Pozar
A brilliant attack on the right of the
Mease between Fleary and the Thiau- NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
mont work resulted in the French ap
pratiably advancing.
The French captured 200 prisoners.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMAN BATTLESHIP
DAMAGED.
ENEMY ADMISSIONS..
AMSTERDAM, August 23rd.
JADED GERMAN INFANTRY.
PERIODS OF DEPRESSION.
Lognos, August 23rd. Renter's Correspondent at Headquar-
It is semi-officially admitted' in Berlin ers in France states:-Owing to a com- parative shortage of reserves, the German that the battleship Westfalen, which is infantry are unquestionably very jaded, of the Nas class, was hit by a torpedo There has never been a period when their on the 19th inst.
Central Goverurnent shall wish him to go. Luk has sent a military officer named Chao to Canton to discuss the matter with Lung, and some sort of sev tlement is expected. If satisfactory1terins cannot be agreed upon and if the new Civil Governor is not able to suggest a way out of the difficulty there will be a re- LIMITING LIFE OF PARLIA-sumption of hostilities. All parties have
"MENT.
voice.
LONDON, August 3rd. The House of Commons have accepted the House of Lords amendment to the Parliament Bill, limiting to two years the life of any Parliament elected on the old Register.
Parliament has adjourned.
WAR NEWS.
NIAGARA FALLS ELECTRIC
POWER SUPPLY.
withdrawn to a radius of 5 li from the previous fronts held by them, and the only fighting since Monday has been attacks by robbers and quarcela among the wol dier's themselves. There are repeat rumours that the Central Government will permit Lung to station his troops and make his headquarters at Ko Chow.
TOM GUNN.
The Chinese papers state that Tom Gunn is at Shiu Hing with two- nero planes manufactured in Japan.
-HELP FOR "LUNG.
Li Tien-tsai, the Commander of the 10th division of the Northern troops, has applied to the Central Government to be An acute situation has developed at allowed to take his soldiers from Hupeh Niagara Falls. The Provincial Hydro- and proceed to the help of Lung if it electric Commission, which supplies shall be necessary. This Commander Li power to Toronto, Hamilton, London, and many other municipalities through was formerly an officer under Lung and out the province, is unable under its con- tract with the Canadian Power Company to secure sufficient energy to maintain the service.
As a result the Ontario Government
counter-attacks have so systematically The announcement containing this ad-supply of energy from Niagara.
failed. After a fifty days' offensive we mission says the battleship can be repair- have nowhere retired. Captured letters ed. It declares that she remained cap- show that there is much depression, of able of maneuvring and that a second which the stendy stream of déserters is
torpedo missed her. an even more significant indication.
ITALIAN, FRONT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENO.]
ITALIANS CARRY ENEMY POSITIONS.
ROME, August 23rd.
A communiqué states:-We carried. strong enemy positions on the western
SUBMARINE
MERCHANTMAN
** DEUTSCHLAND,”
ARRIVES AT DESTINATION.
AMSTERDAM, August 24th. The submarine merchantraan Deutsch- laul, which left Norfolk, Virginia, on
slopes of Tofana and in the Travenanzes the 2nd inst., bound for Bremen, has Valley, the enemy suffering heavy losses, arrived in port,
THE WOLFF NEWS AGENCY.
was ons of his right hand men,
THE TRANSFEIL.
sin,
Here are the daily maximum readings in the shade taken at a hospital in the Suez Canal zone
Max. shade- temp.
Date. June 3
104
112
117
914
96
00
100
· 102
107
107
108
10%
17
18
109
107
105.
113
115
115
118
9%
1101
28
105
个
109
28
11
But it
Probably none of us know till lately. how much we depended for our equan imity upon tiny distractions, little talke and plans and purchases, pleasant look- ings-forward and pleasanter lookinga back. The dislocation of social life has We very much done away, with these. got something out of thero which it is difficult to describe, but something which 1s & Bort of class privilege-possessed, though it is, by an enormously large class. It is a sort of surface happiness- the badge of prosperity. It shows most in youth The joy of well-off youth is a thing so lovely to look upon that if by its sacrifice we could mitigate by a quar ter all the hardships of ill-off youth, there would still be some tears to be shed over the loss to the world. In later life it still shows in the faces of women. Let any one wander all day about any town and look at the women. Serenity is con- fined almost to what we still in our minds call ladies. They had leisure for con- stant little pleasures. These are too dear now to be had. They cost too much-time. too much thought, and too much courage. We have all a sense that if we seek to make ourselves and others happy in the little ways of the past, shall be blamed; shall be cast out among the careless. belonging to those who dwell with eare: We take a pride now in If we insist that our harmless pleasures are still ours by right, 'wo must be pre- ́pared to pay for them, to lose considera- it may be said: tion, and even perhaps self-esteem. But Who wants amuse- ment or pleasure now when the interest NORTH OF THE CITY-
of life has increased tenfold? " It is Outside the City to the North and | true; yet how painful is all this enhanc- around the White Cloud hills there has ing of interest.
Still, when the posts been a great deal of isolated firing, spoke of sweet pain they spoke with
There principally attacks by robber bands on trath.
some wonderful villages in the vicinity. These bands, spirius goods in the market, though which are very strong in numbers, have there is nothing for nothing. sacked several villages.
*****Look at the crowds of young people who three years ago would have married with little romance and no anxiety.
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10% LAND, 110 In the hospitals the clinical thermome ters have to be kept in ice water, and the readings are taken while the instruments are still under the patients' tongue.
ments before advancing on the City The East River is still impassable and Tang Hang is as powerful as ever in this district. The trains are running for about 7 miles from Tai Sha Tou and on the other side from Kowloon to Shek Lung:
SHER WAI TONG,
are
wa
At Shek Wai Tong there has been no Now the alternations of anxiety and. firing, but it is said that Lung has moved delight are almost more than they can his men to Five-Eye Bridge and is bring- | bear, Love is indeed a romantic thing ing more men over to this side so that just now. Poetry lives. In a sense the if there is a continuation of hostilities he will be in a stronger position here than he has ever been before. No firing has been heard on Shameen now! for two days and nights,
SHUM AND LUNG.
world has grown young again. The gal- lants and maidens are courting in the near presence of death. Truly they have recaptured a bliss which seemed fading into the past. But what a price they have paid for it! What tears and sleep- less nights, what a terrible embitterment of the worst of all, fears: There is no. doubt a lighter side to this new interest in life. We are all politicians nowadays. We have all had a rise in life. We live in that exhilarating atmosphere where men gossip Imperially. We are as keen- ły interested in the Government of this country and of Ireland, and in the con- duct of the war, as though we had s chance of a seat in the Cabinet. We no longer say modestly, that we know little about the affairs of State. We are con- vinced that we know all about them, and we apportion praise and blame with zest True, we change and pleasure untold. our views every month or two, adore the men we cursed and curse those whom we adored; but, like children intent on a game, we have not a moment's time to give to the consideration of that inconse- quent conduct which our instructors would bring to our notion We never awake without sense of interest, or go
The question of Lung's handing over has asked the Dominion Government to has been the subject of much discussion in prohibit the export of power to the the native press. Firstly, Luk wishes to United States. If the request be granted as a day for the actual handing over,
The Peking Daily News publishes in many American industries will be seri ously affected by the stoppage of the Luk has made up his mind to stay at extenso a long telegram from Shum, in Fatshan and to send envoys to Canton which he lays the blame for the Kwang tang troubles at the door of Lung Chi actually to take over the seals. He then wong, and chides the Government for expects Lung to take his troops -away delaying to reply to his (Shum's) tele- quietly to whatever place, the Central graphic requests for instructions. He Government may direct. If Jung will charges Lung with having deceived the The news that the famous, or rather not agree Luk is willing to treat with British Consul, and says is absolutely infamous, Wolff News Agency, had re- Lang or even Lang's envoys at Shiu false that he did not reply to the telegram ported a deficit of 80,000 marks Hing or Faishan. Luk »s troops
that, in of the British Consul, (£4,000) is now supplemented by rumour the event of a settlement
He concludes as follows :-Thr foreign that the company is in serious financial shall not advance from their present difficulty. La pese times, when relac positions and that Lung shall obey interference referred to in your telegram tively honest, it paid dividends of 10 absolutely the orders of the Central Gov outbreak the Revolutionary troops have can nover be expected, because since the per cent. Its
present condition is arment with regard to the disposition never once molested foreigners. Now other proof that unblushing dishonesty of his men,
everything seems to be in good order, be does not pay. The Agency attributes its misfortune to the low rate it is con
cause General Luk has promised to come Outside Shek Lung fighting continues
to Kwantung. All my troops have re pelled to charge for its fabrications-ten and robbers and pirates are doing much mained in their places ceasing practically marks a mouth is the subscription for
It does not raise its rates as they like hereabouts. Lung's troops from hostilities and awaiting the arrival to sleep without a sense of expectation. warnews."
have arrived at Bien Chuen, which is less of the Tuchun. Unless Lung Chi-kwong To the Englishman, who is by nature an because its clients are none too civil as
than 10 miles from Ehek Lung and have should commence trouble in order to it is, having hurled many criticisms at
optimist though by habit a grumbler, which has so often been discovered. when
hension. Dulness is dead--but what has too late.
it cost to kill it Spectator.
SHEK LUNG
it for sending out news the inaccuracy oaken up a very strong position. They realize his ambitious schemes, the Central pectation seldom takes the form of appre
are presumably waiting for reinforce
(Continued on next Columin.)
Government has no need to worry about the situation here."