THE
WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY OCTOBER 1 1916.
BIG FRENCH ATTACK AT VERDUN.
BRITISH GAIN GROUND,
HEAVY FIGHTING ON RUSSIAN AND ROUMANIAN FRONTS.
MANY VESSELS SUBMARINED.
GERMAN CAMP BRUTALITIES.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
FRENCH ATTACK AT VERDUN.
PRISONERS **POURING IN": ENEMY LINE BROKEN.
PARIS, October 25th.
An official communiqué states:-On the Verdun front, after an intense artillery preparation, we attacked on the right of the Meuse after midday, and broke through the enemy line everywhere on -n front of seven kilometres and to a depth
which attained a distance of three kilo retres at the middle. We captured n village at Fort Donanmont..
On the left bank of the Meuse we advanced beyond Thisument Work, and rushed the quarries at Kaudromont. The prisoners are puring in. Up to the pre- sent we have counted 3,000, including 100 officers.
mont.
Our troops have established themselves. along the road from Bras and Doune- Our line runs on the right of the Fort, and northward of Bois and Dela cailette, along the western outskirts of the village of Vaux and the castern bor der of Fumin Wood, and continues north of Chenols Wood and Damloup battery. We cannot yet estimate the quantity of captured material.
Our losses are small.
BRITISH GAIN GROUND.
LONDON, October 25th,
General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com-
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
FRENCH AIR ACTIVITY,
PARIS, October 24th. Acommuniqué states:--There has been lively artillery work in the Biaches and Ablaincourt regions.
Three aeroplanes were brought down in the Verdun region, and two were forced to descend in a damaged condition in Lorraine. An Aviatik was brought down in Alsace..
Frenck aeroplanes bombed the railway station at Spincourt and bivouacy at Azannen
NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SUBMARINE PIRATES.
MANY VESSELS SUNK.
BILBAO, October 24th. The Spanish steamer Victor Chavarri has landed the crews of the British steamers Barbara and Midland, and of the Norwegian steamer Snestad, all of which were sunk by a German submarine on the 20th inst,
The Captain of the Fictor Chavarri states that the Commander of the sub Imarine ordered him to return to part on the ground that he was carrying contraband, and warned him that he would be torpedoed without warning if he was caught again,
LONDON, October 25th.
The steamers Raftsund and Draft.
THE BALKANS
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.] HEAVY FIGHTING.
FALL OF CONSTANZA CONFIRMED
BOCHARRET, October 24th.
A Roumanian communiqué states -- The enemy has occupied Constanza.
Our left wing in the Dobrudia has been obliged to retire towards Caramurat.
We repulsed the enemy in Usal Valley, and on the left bank of the Alt;
We attacked along the whole front in | Oituz Valley, taking 300 prisoners and
ten machine-guns,
The enemy is violently attacking at Prodeal, Drago Slavele and in the Jiut, Valley. He slightly progressed at the last named place.
DOBRUDJA OF SECONDARY IMPORTANCE -
ROUMANIAN OPINION ON THE
SITUATION.;
LONDON, October 24th.
circles in London have always regarded Router is informed that the Roumanies
Dobrudja as of secondary importance in field operations, and that the situation will shortly undergo a great change for
the better The Roumanians are with- drawing behind the Danube to prevent the enemy securing oil and other natural riches of the country.
RUSSO-ROUMANIANS.
RESISTING ENEMY ADVANCE.
PETROGRAD, October 24th. A communiqué states-The Russe tou mantans in the Dobrudja, have retired to the heights north of Constanza and Medjidie, where they are resisting the advance of the enemy, who have occupied these two points.
Enemy Attacks in Orsova (the Tran sylvanian Alps) have been repelled.
GERMAN CLAIMS.
GENERAL
THROUGH NUTRB'S AGENCY.] ENEMY TR DE MARKS IN HONGKONG.
QUESTIONS ✯ THE COMMONS.
ERDON, October 25th
In the House of Commons, in reply to questions regarding the refusal by the Governor of Hongkong to allow the expunging of enem trade marks, because
THROUGH REUTKE'A AGENOT ] THE QUEEN'S NEEDLEWORK
GUILD
AN APPEAL.
LONDON, October goth,
Her Majesty the Queen appeals for continued support of her Needlework Guild, which, up to the present, has sent out nearly 4,000,000 garments to the sol- diers and sailors. The appeal says that
it would be veted by the Imperial an almost unlimited number of things Government, Mr. Hear Law stated that is needed. the action taken Hongkong was in accordance with the general policy adopted in the United Kingdom.
GERMAN BRUTALITY.
SHOCKING TREATMENT OF
PRISOLERS.
Loxy, October 24th.
ANGLO-FRENCH CONFERENCE, IMPORTANT MATTERS DISCUSSED
PARIS, October 28th. It is reported that the Anglo-French conference, held on the 21st inst, decided on a collective Entente programme for the Eastern front. It also discussed the Grock question, and adopted resolutions which will develop progressively, where by King Constantine will be made to realise the Allies' unity of action and energy.
NEW ZEALAND'S WAR
EXPENDITURE.
A Government Committee has col lected from three medical men who were there, shocking evidence concerning last year's outbreak of typhus at Gardelegen, where there were 11000 prisoners, in
herded together in a small camp and cluding 230 British stbjecte. They were
lived, fed and slept in small huts. There were filthy palliasses, po tables or stools, and the air was foetid. All the people
WELLINGTON, October 24th. were half starved and half clothed, and It is officially announced that were anemic and emaciated. Many died | Zealand's war expenditure is
The British and French partly sub £1,000,000 monthly. sisted on home parcels. The less for- tunate Russians daily scavenged for potato peel. The sanitary conditions. were indescribable. The emptying was done with buckels, and this task was
specially allotted to the British till they were so reduced by sickness that they could no longer perform it.
Everyone was covered with lice, and the prisoners manifested utter misery and desolation owing to most brutal terrorism; bullying, kicking and hitting
New
now
DISASTROUS HURRICANE.
VIRGIN ISLANDERS' PLIGHT,
LONDON, October 24th.
A hurricane at the Virgin Islands caused twenty-one deaths. Two thousand people are homeless, and the cropa have been destroyed. Relief measures are being taken..
THE NEED FOR MEN.
LONDON, October 25th
It is understood that the War Office has by German under-officers. And then decided that all officials, irrespective of typhus broke out, whereupon every in- rank or class, below twenty-six years of gle German bolted, deliberately abandonage, will be immediately releused for ing their helping charges, but the latter military service. rejoiced. The sèntrics stationed outside A German official announcement claime"
shot down anybody attempting to leave. the captures of Predeal, Rasova and Sixteen medical prisoners of various Mejidia, with 75 officere, 8,693 men and nationalities, twelve of whom eventually twelve guns.
Amsterdam, October 24th,
contracted typhus, two, dying, wel)
WAR NEWS,
DUTCH TALK OF WAR.
One hundred sad forty-seven prominent Dutch citizens, constituting the intel-,
AFTER THE WAR.
AN AMERICAN VIEW.
Some very shrewd, and interesting speculations as to what is likely to hap-: pen after the war are to be found in a recent cimoalar from Mr. Henry Clews, the well-known New York hanker. He says
observers leok for a period of excessive A great many careful and experienced
prostration among the belligerents after severe economic exhaustion and not be the war That there will be a period of
questioned, but not a few of the pro phets of distress have underestimated. the recuperative powers of the great aztions. Great Britain, for instanc. 18 undergoing a terrific strain in financing not only her own huge Navy and Army, Allies but also in the financial aid given ber England's resources are not confined to her own island, but must bo measured also by the enormous resources of her colonics, her huge investments industries and seaborne commerce have abroad, and the fact that her immense
continued with little interruption. A nation carrying nearly one-half the trade of the world and controlling auch vast resources of herself is not likely to be seriously crippled by contest with Powers of much inferior resources. Great Britain will probably come out of the war in better condition than any of the belliger- ents. She will probably emerge an Empire solidified, awakened, strengthen- ed and more powerful than ever. Beyond question the war has welded the Empire into a unit as nothing else could.
GERMANY'S RECUPERATIVE POWER. Upon Germany, however, the blow is likely to fall with much greater severity. German financial resources do not compare with the British. Her foreign commerce, which ranked second in the world, will be very seriously prippled. After the war grave problems will re- quire the skill of her best financiers if ale is to escape national troubles. Get- muny may also be threatened with mo- mentous social and political readjust. ment, and should the Allies impose heavy burdens her recovery may be relatively slow. Yet it must be remembered the recuperative powers of Germany ato great. Her people have a wonderful scientific for organisation, genius thoroughness, hard work, and economy, and may be depended upon to strain every nerve for the restoratida of national prestige. Her territory has not and may not be devastated by war. Her mills and her railroads are practicfly intact and it is doubtful if the Allies, even if successful, will ever make any perceptible inroads upon German" soil, Germany's resourcefulness will be put more surely because of the awful waste to the greatest test imaginable, all the of life and skilled labour, but, there is not the alightest doubt that she will make marvellous efforts towards recaps. ration.
FRANCE AND ITALY France and Italy may also be expected to recover more rapidly than anticipated in the present state of public opinion.
France has been destroyed; a valuable Only a comparatively small strip of
muniqué, states:-We gained ground yes (Norweginu), and the Hete, Helpa and cludes 3,000 taken on October 20th, in ditions appalling. There were no nurs streng appeal to neutral countries to sort that can be quickly repaired, and The Gerшso capture of 8,693 men in brough to the camp and found the con lectual élite of Holland, have just issues trip it is truc, but the injuries are of
terday in the neighbourhood of Gueude court and Les Bœufs, which was fully
secured.
Guldbory, (Danish), and two sailing vessels have been sunk.
The British steamers Chuden and
There has heen reciprocal and inter-Hurgess, and the Norwegian steamer tent shelling during the night,
Renasjell have been sunk.
mittent
The troops which captured 3,000 pri- souers on Saturday had only 1,200 casual.
tion.
BRITISH ACTIVITIES.
LONDON, October 25th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- muniqué, states;-South of Ancre there has been intermittent hostile shelling. Here yesterday and today we took eighty prisoners. There has been heavy resipro- cal shelling to day south of Armentieres. A strong enemy party made a raid east of Loos early in the morning with the apgurent object of destroying mineshafts. They were immediately ciested.
GERMAN ARTILLERY DEFECTS
* TERRIFYING NUMBER" OF GEN EXPLOSIONS.
LONDON, October 25th--
Reuter's Correspondent at the French Headquarters states that a captured docu ment, written by the Chief of Artillery with von Gallwitz'a army, complains of
the
<s terrifying number" of explosione
and
the Rasova region:
SERBIAN SUCCESS: ADVANCE ALONG VARDAR FRONT
LONDON, October 24th.
The Danish vessels Guldborg Helga were torpedoed, and the
A Serbian official message states:
· schooner· Libra, and the Swedish There has been heavy and fierce Eghting schooner Lekna have been fired. The at Vardar. Our First Army advanced Norwegian" stenuer Secundo has been along the whole length of the front. sunk, and the Edam has been seized and taking the first Bulgarian trenches. taken to Emden. The steamer Gunn has THE GREEK ORISIS, been fired. The last named is one of four
SITUATION CONSIDERABLY ships which a Norwegian steamer, which has arrived at Stavanger, saw fired at mid-se. All the crews have been landed,
A Copenhagen message says that to day seven more Norwegian steamers, and six sailing vessels are reported to have been torpedoed,
SOUTH COAST OF NORWAY.
BLOCKADED.
a
The Norwegian Shipping Gazette says that five German submarines have estab lisbed regular blockade of the Norwegian south coast,
NORWAY'S MARITIME LOSSES.
CHRISTIANA, October 24th: Eighteen Norwegian steamers, total-
the
of gans, and especially of field guns, kroner have been paid for war insurana, which it attributes to inadequate care the premiuras of which are being raised. and unskilful handling. The document
adds -
If this is not changed ime diately, renewals will not be able to keep with the wastage, and the immediate result will be an appreciable falling off în our artillery power r
AERIAL ACTIVITIES,
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
IMPROVED.
ATHENS, October 25th.
The French Minister, after an audience
ing appliances whatsoever, a few small packets of drugs, but no milk, soap or suitable food. Thero were 2000 case and the mortality was fifteen per cent. The doctors were summoned daily to report at the fence.
A noteworthy incident was when some American officials visited Gardelegen and were shown several carcases of mutton outside the camp. The Americans were duly impressed, but the mutton was re- moved after their departure,
The senior British medical man pays a tribute to the splendid devotion of the French priests, and the British and other orderlies.
nations possess great
twelve mouths of reconstruction in Assist in assuring the reconstitation of the independence of Belgium,
France will work miracles in the present After citing the German Chancellor regenerative temper of hor people The and other prominent Germans in proof same will be true of Italy, provided that Germany seriously entertain the the aorthern section of that country is design of annexing Belgium in some form preserved from invasion. Russia has been or other, the appeal goes on to say slightly hurt by the war. She is too "The Entente Powers declared on Feli vast and has too large a population to ruary 14th, 1916, hat they will not con- feel the conflict very seriously. Russia Bent to a peace in which the independence is not a rich country except in unde of Belgium is not reestablished. It is veloped natural resources; but her more entire world, cutside Germany and her abundant financial aid, and after the necessary to make it known that the wealthy Allies are able to give her allies, considers that it would be a crime war development on the enormous scale and a sure source of new wara, to despoil may be expected in Russia, in which the a country, however small, of its indepen- United States will undoubtedly have a dence
share. In all of these countries, there The appeal urges that the sacred prin fore, we may safely look for recovery ciple of the independence of smail nations from depression within a reasonable should be affirmed now, and points out period after the resumption of peace, that-if moral intervention proves useless, because these there are economic as well as militars genius, high spirit and vast natural weapons, that the neutral countries could utilise
resources which are only awaiting new development All three of these coun tries will be literally born again, his re proving that Great Britain, Germ and France have quickly recovered from struggles quite as severe relatively as the prosent. The same can hardly be said of Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States or Turkey. These nations do not One of the greatest problems in the possess the attributes just referred to, of the population other than German campaign in German East Africa is that and some of them are decadent. For them is the class of trader who has thrived on cially those of the Balkans, will be The natives have welcomed us, but there ably in store; and their problems, espe
a longer perior of exhaustion is prob-
the country and its people aided by the found far more difficult of adjustment. corrupt Government offcial. When the than those of the other great European British come along these traders find their means of profit-making stopped; the coloured Government official finds his ce copation gone, and both are passively hostile The natives, on the other hand, bring in their produce and receive full value in cash, and in distress come to the British and are well treated, not pampered.
The appeal is being sent to the Scandi navian States, Spain and all the Repuh as to Switzerland
with the King, announced that he had CLIMAX OF WAR APPROACH-lics of North and South America, as well
been authorised by His Majesty to state that the situation was considerably improved owing to the King's sincere declarations of his sentiments towards
the Allies, and the Minister's assurances regarding the Allies' intentions.. BIBBIAN FROM
ROUGH REUYER'S AGENCY,] FURIOUS ENEMY ASSAULT.
CRUSHING LOSSES.
ING.
CANADA'E LAST 100,000 MEN.
OTTAWA, October 93th.
Sir Robert Borden, the Premier, in a stirring appeal for National Service, stated that the climax of the war was rapidly approaching and Canada's last
100,000 men may be the deciding factor. Canada's manhood must answer the challenge if the nation was to have au abiding plane n the futuro.
VOTING BY PROXY.
A SCHEME FOR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
PETROGRAD, October 25th. Over twenty battalions, including a ling` 22,375 tuna, have been sunk during whole Austrian division, participated in present month. Fifteen million the furious assault on Friday in the wooded Carpathians, with the object of
LONDON, October 25th. securing, regardless of cost. the heights The Timex states that the Government east of Kirlibaba. All the attacks were are considering a scheme whereby soldiers besten off with crushing losses. Out and stilors will be allowed to vote by battalion was absolutely wiped out, and proxy at clestions in their home con- another, of 850 strong, had only 170 suratituencies, possibly through their wives vivors. The Germans are ceaselessly at tacking along the Bystritza. Only Geld P7B5; operations are practicable for the heavy and light artillery. Breaking the Russian front in the Bystritan Valley would Another order. dealing with barrage the 23rd inst. a naval eruplane attacked bring the enemy to the rear of Kimpe- fire indiestes that the German shell four enemy seaplanes off Ostend, and lung, and of the whole Russian lett supply is smaller than the soldiers of the brought down one and drove off the flank The Front line think
others
A similar order from the headquarters
of the First Army shows that the trouble
is a long standing
GOOD WORK BY NAVAL
ABBOPLANE
LORDON, October 24th. An official announcement states that on
greatness of the stake ex pixins the enemy', serifices:
million voten are concerned.
GERMAN WAYS OF SPREADING "TRUTH."
Powers,
WEAKENING MORAL OF GERMAN TROOPN.
The Times correspondent at Copenha zen writes:-
Before retiring from any centre of a People who during the holidays have considerable, population the Germans wet Danish Schleswigers say that they make it a practice to call together the give gloomy reports of declining morat
tumbas and lesser chiefs of the neigh-in the German Army, bouring villages: A lecture on the course-
When a Landwehr regiment left Fiona of the war ponording to the German burg the greater part of the men were exibited, and it is made to appear that that they were induced to enter the train ideas is given A map of Europe is drunk, and it was only by persuasion the French Berlians, Bussians, and The officers were insalted, the soldiers back The lecturer adds that the end in rifes against them as soon as they Belghans have been defeated and pushed saying that they were going to turn their Europs is pear and the success of the arrived at Verdun, Central Powers certain When peace The Eastern front is considered Que is two or three monks the Ger- veritable bell by the soldiers. Bufficient mans say they will return, and the woe food is not to be had. When an offen- betide any who have helped or been too friendly to the Eritish. All suspects will movement was ordered on the Rigs front the men declined to leave the FRENCE WAR LOAN.
Fortunately, bowever,” the commanders.
trenches. RAISED IN AMERICA.
have to set the Government off The Ribe Stiftstidende learns that the cisis of British-East Africa, who have German soldiers now lay hands on the NEW YORK, October 25th.
knowledge of the natives, their ways, stores accumulated; in Belgium by the their Inaguages, etc. The efforts of these | American Relief Committee. Not only Fration has concluded
omicials have been succesful The na do the men going to the trenches hare tives have come to believe that we have their rations thed out from the sup $100,000,000 to cover exports.
Another Briting loss is carly a Battle meal and other plies, but soldiers going home on far
produce are forthcoming, and labour, and laugh arrive with their knapsacks filled ed in Wall Street
Waterin) have been turnished.
with vidusts from the same source