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THE WAR.
GREAT ITALIAN
MONDAY, MAY 28TH, - 1917.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.
Italian Front.
Naval Activities.
OFFENSIVE
CONTINUES.
ENEMY SUFFERS TREMENDOUS LOSSES.
AIR RAID
ON ENGLAND.
TOWN SUFFERS HEAVILY.
MANY CASUALTIES INFLICTED.
THE PREMIER ON SUBMARINISM.
Franco-Belgian Front.
Aerial Activities.
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BRITISH REPULSE RAIDS.
LONDON, May 26th.
Field Marshal Sie Douglas Haig re ports: We repulsed raids last night northward of Couzenuccurt and eastward of Armentieres.
We have slightly improved our posi- tion on the right bank of the Scarpe,
There has been increased hostile artil lory firing between Croiselles and the Scarpe
SUCCESSFUL. RAIDS.
Our line was advanced slightly to day wentward and northward of Fontaine-
lez-Croiselles,
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH BEUTER'S, ADZENOT.]
ENGLAND RAIDED BY AIRCRAFT:
MANY CASUALTIES.
Lospos, May 26th.
A large, squadron of enemy aircraft, numbering about sixteen, attacked the south-east of Englund, between 5.15 and 6.30 last evening.
Bombs were dropped, nt a number of places.
Nearly all the damage occurred in one town, where the bombs fell in the streets, eznaing considerable casualties among civilians.
Shops and houses were serionsly damaged.
Seventy-six were killed, of whom 27
We carried out a successful raid | were women, 2 children; 174 were id
LAPEST CABLES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.
2.3 ITALIANS MASTERS OF ZONE
ROME, May 26th.
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[THROWER BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMAN SUBMARINES CAP TURE FIVE SWEDISH VESSELS.
A semi-official report states that the b Italians have dastered the whole fone
PETROGRAD, May 26th. between Castagnavizza und the see. Thus, German submarines esptured five onle the Sermada stronghold stands beƐwedish ships in the Gulf of Bothnia in tween the coast and the road to the two days. Comen Plateau, and Italian action to wards Trieste and Laibach is now pos
sible.
ENEMY SUFFER HEAVY.
LOSSES
ROME, May 6th. An offcial report states: Heavy fight. ing continues on the Carao,
The Near East.
LATEST CABLES.
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CHANGES IN THE GOVERNMENT..
FRENCH CHAMBER DISCUSS CHINESE TELEGRAMS,
SUBMARINISM
PARIS, May 26th. The Chamber discussed submarinism.
The Minister of Marine agreed with
Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Milner that
"the subnurines will not heat us. With the captured tonnage and the tonnage pur chased and constructed, the Allied aud neutral tonnage as the beginning of 1917
• Liang-chi-chao has informed the Fre- was about the snine as at the commencesident by telegrum that he will retire.
ment of the war. Dar total losses during the first four months of 1917 might be put at 2 million tons, and taking {THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
account of the rate of construction, RUSSIANS FRUSTRATE TURKS without being unduly optimistic, our losses for the year, if the submarine war- fare is continued with the same intensity, would be 44 million tons. Our total is over 40,000,000 tons With the Allies. restricting imports we can with the pre sent tonnage meet all the requirements of the country and resume the transport of war material.
PETEOGRAD, May 26th An official report, transmitted by wire states that the Russians frustrated Turkish attempts to dislodge us from the heights southward of Ven. General.
We carried another strongly förbinches position and captured 3,300 prisoners also a network of trenches from the mouth of the Timavo River to castward of Jamiano, and took possession of the heights between Flonder and Medeazza
The enemy's defences eastward of Bos comalo are broken and the trenches around Castagnavizza were taken.
We extended our positions on the hil northward of Tivoli and drove back the enemy in the Vodice area with heavy
Joss
LATEST CABLES. {THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
FIRES IN GERMANY
AESTERDAM, May 26th. Great fires continus to break out in
fermany.
The Minister pointed out that the sink- ings to May 23rd were markedly de- creased, being only 290,000 lous. He gave man German statistics showing that the blockade was never effective, since the French ports received all the ships they
SHANGHAI, May 27th. Chung-heun his wired to the President stating that the dismissal of Tan-chi-sui, ex-Premier and Minister for War, ia illegal.
The President has appointed Li King- shi Premier
Wang She-chen will be appointed Minister for War.
OUR WAR MUSEUM.
THE LATEST ADDITIONE,
[BY TWELLS BREX.]
GALLBRY OF RELICS AND CURIOS 1-Convex mirrors, as fixed in the exita of restaurants and clubs in 1017 by order of the Food Control Department to main- tain the moral of the public.
2. Actual plates used in the terrible duel at a food values exhibition in May, 1917, between Mr. Eustace Miles and Dr. Robert Bell. The conditions of the duel were that each antagonist should dine upon fout chosen by his opponent. Mr. Eustace Miles dined upon uncooked veget abies and Dr Bell upon cooked vegetables. Both combatants perishing, the duc proclaimed a draw. After the lapse of nearly a century this was the last recourse
this country.
The latest include the gutting of the could accommodate. These had brought everything needed by the country. Dur The number of the enemy captured on Moabit goods station, Berlin, in which March 4th, 200,000 tons of goods to the barbarous practice of duelling in,
ing
the Julian Front since Mny 14th is 22,419, including 467 officers.
PARLIER CABLES.
THE ITALIAN OFFENSIVE.
BRITISH GUNNERS VALUABLE
HELP.
entered French porta
tanks of petrol, hydrogen, etc, exploded, causing their destruction; a part of Vilna and the township of Osjory, near Grodno, RUSSIAN TROOPS' MORALE. and a conflagration in the station and basket factory in Halle.
Incendiarism is suspected.
FALL OF COUNT TISZA.
AMSTERDAM, May 28th. German papers ascribe the downfall of
early this morning north-westward ofjured, of whom 43 were women and 19 no fewer than ton Austrian divisionCount Tisza to the new policy aiming at
Wytschacte and secured prisoners.
There were many air reconnaissances and bombing raids were carried out. On Friday ve German acroplanes were brought down and five very driven down,
Five of ours are missing.
children.
Our aeroplanes pursued the raiders, and Naval aeroplanes from Dunkirk engaged the returning raiders,
The Admiralty reports that three enemy aeroplance were shot down.
five, bombing continuously,
The air raiders flew at a great altitude FRENCH EXTEND POSITIONS. They crossed the town in formations of
PARIS, May 20th. A communiqué statos: Two successivo attacks against our salients east and west of Cerny proved resultless.
uch damage was done to property in the residential part. A butcher's and bootmaker's shops were demolished, the
We attacked on both sides of Mont-occupants of the latter being killed. Cornillet, considerably extending our positions.
We captured 120 prisonera.
GERMAN ASSAULT FAILS.
PARIS, May 26th.
An official report states: After a most
The
worst damage occurred in the busy business thoroughfare, which was throng. ed with people, where a very large num ber of bombs were dropped, killing six teen women, eight men, nine children. and injuring 42.
LATER.
It is estimated that fifty bombs were
LONDON, May 25th Heuter's Agency learns officially that
comprising one hundred Battalions, are concentrated between the sea and Bos comalo, the acre of the great offensive,
The Italian Intelligence Department estimates that 100,000 bayoneta, not to speak of hundreds of batterics of varying -→
the triple administrative system is Austrin, whereby a third of the Slate will be Slav, namely, Polish or Polish
Czech
PETROGRAD May 20th. General Russky arrived after relin- quishing his command. He spoke hope fully of the improving morale of the troops, their fraternising with the enemy having stopped.
THE COTTON-WEAVERS! DISPUTE.
LONDON, May 26th. The cotton usnufacturers in Lanca-
The papers declare that Austria-Hun-shire, Yorkabire, Cheshire and Derbyshire booked orders at Manchester to-day for foreign and home trade at prices based
calibre, and thousands of machine-guns gary will thus become overhelmingly Blay, which would seriously damage Ger- mere opposed to the Italians bere, In near- ly every case the defence was a triple line many. of trenches protected by wide stretches of formidable entanglements, besides vari ous other obstacles anchored to the
ground
The success of the attack is attributed The Austrian expected a to surprise, long artillery preparation, but the Italians advanced after only ten hours' bombardment. The heaviest attack was on a front of eight kilometres, and the greatest advance two kilometres.
The Italiane gratefully acknowledge
NEW COASTAL SHIPPING CONTROLLER.
LONDON, May 25th. The Glasgow shipowner, Mr. Hector McNeal, has been appointed Controller of all consting shipping.
The new Controller will arrange for th transhipment of cargoes from the larger liners arriving at the first home ports with cargoes for other destinations,
is anticipated that this arrangement
upon a ten per cent increase in wages to 230,000 cotton weavers on the assumption. that the weavers to-morrow will accept ten per cent.increase instead of helding out for a twenty per cent. advance:
EARLIER CABLES.
SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, May 27th.
Messrs. Montagu's report states that the tone of the market continues remark- ably steady, and the price has moved again with very narrow limits. There
East and buying ordera have been mainly for coinage.
violent bombardment north-west of Brayedropped by the departing raiders They the valuable help of the British gunners will save much shipping from the sub-has been an absence of business from the en-Laonnois three strong German columns were severely engaged over the Channel. asanlted the salient north of Chemin-
des-Damer
The enemy succeeded, after suffering sanguinary losses, in gaining a lodgement at some points of the advanced trench.
Immediate counter-attacks recaptured most of these points.
An eye-witness heard heavy bring and saw two peculiar looking aeroplanes maneuvring at a great height. Shells were bursting round them, and one machine nosedived suddenly as though Later heavy firing was heard sea-
hit:
wards
We brought hack 65 prisoners and two Other reports indicate that the raiders machine guns.
EARLIER CABLES.
BRITISH FRONT.
**** - LONDON, May 25th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- porta Reciprocal artillery firing was setive, particularly on the left bank of the Scarpe and in the neighbourhood of Lobs
There was much air-fighting on Thurs day, seven German aeroplanes being. brought down, five being driven down, and six of ours are missing.
FRENCH FRONT.
PARIS, May 25th.
covered a wide area, penetrating some distance inland and goattering bomba promiscuously.
The Admiralty report states -Our machines in the evening engaged over the over the sea several of the enemy, aircraft return ing from a raid in England.
In an engagement between one of the British and thres hostile aeroplanes in Mid Channel, one of the latter was destroyed.
Two large twin-engined hostile machines: were ahot down in the course of several encounters off the Belgian coast.
All our machines returned safely.
BRITISH BOMB ENEMY AERODROME,
The Admiralty announce that Naval aeroplanes attacked the aerodrone at St.
A communiqué étates:-On Chemin-des-Denis Westram yesterday morning, dropp Dames front, there was great mutual ing many bombs.
MR. BALFOUR AT TORONTO
LONDON, May 20th. Mr. Balfour received an ovation on arrival.
There is deep political and more marines, significance in this new brotherhood in arms,
The part played by the air service con- The Italian air fleet. stitutes a record. engaged consisted of 140 units, of which there were 29 battleplanes, sixteen hydro- planes, and 53 chasing planes. Despite the necessity to fly low all safely returned. HUGE ITALIAN CAPTURES.
ROME, May 25th.
An official report states-The battle is still raging from the sea to Flava
Our troops fought their way through labyrinth of fortifications stubbornly defended by strong and well-trained
forces.
The total prisoners captured Wednesday and Thursday was 10,245, 10 clading 318 officers.
We drove back the enemy to a line southward of Jamiano, extended our positions northward of Jamiano to the outskirts of Versic
LONDON, May 25th.
A Berlin offeinl report gives an ima ginative account of the air raid on May 24th
3-Knickerbockers, stockings, bag, driver niblick, mgsbie," and putter of the cocentris who, for a wager, travelled thus equipped by day light to Sunningdale on the Thursday before Easter, 1917.
4-Wonderful and system in Departmental war work. example of thoroughness Complete card-indexing system. The indexes employed scores of people and two Bloors of a large building. They were only abolished when, the achievements of the Department were found to end at the indexes.
8Cutting
ting from the Lancet (April,
1917) being the history of the case of a patriotic rich man who lived upon caviare, lobsters
and pigeons (by request of Mr. Kennedy Jones) in order to save theaper foods for the poor.
6Ancient photograph, once supposed to depict San Francisco during its re- building. Now known to be a
London
Park
during the
the third year of the great, 7--Roman coins, found in the bed of the
Serpentine when it was drained to mako
room for more Government offices,
8-Paleolithic fint, from the Geological Muscum, Jermyn-street, London, scandaleus resort of recreation and frothy closed after agitation by social reformers. amusement during war time, that was
Unexploded Zeppelia Bomb."
ignorant treasured many, such relics during the great war. Modern science has proved them to be loaves of war bread as sold by opportunist bakers The period, the self-named
AC
10-Portrait of one of
Optimists who flourished in 1914-16. The curious creed of this sect was that tha enemy could be beaten by treating him from an arınchair.–Daily Mail“
BIG BATTLESHIPS.
TYPES OF THE FUTURE
An analysis of naval battles during the war leads a naval writer in Engineering to the conclusion that battleships must be at least as large as and probably larger than any existing vessels of this class, THE AIR RAID ON BRITAIN and smell" battleships are thus at once
-ruled
out
The discussion shows, pore- over, that larger ships quite apart from their greator carrying capacity poszors inherent nautical, technical, military, and intrinsically superior to smaller- economic advantages which render them
These advantages cannot be obtained by an of small vessels, however aggregation
their number. and peace are no greater for large than It is shown also that the risks of war
for small ships.
The limitation to en increase in size imposed by the · pequire- ment to tactical and strategical divisi bility of the forces is essentially a fimam cial one, and need not, so - far, ba considered by any great and wealthy nation. The only active limitations are those due to restrictions in the use of and channels. These
Mr. Balfour received the heartiest welcome. Thousands greeted him at the
It says the airships attacked the forti- railway station and lined the streets to Queen's Park, where a reception was fed places Sheerness, Harwich and Nor given by the province and city.
wich successfully, and that all the air- Replying to addresses by the Premierships returned undamaged, despite the and Mayor, Mr. Balfour said he left on the perfected enemy defences. other side of the border a nation of friends, and he had come to Canade, a great free country, composed not only of friends but of countrymen. The Empire was brought closer together by the conscious-
neas that for two and a half years they
had been engaged in a great struggle in which thank God, all North America
were now as oue. The whole- Empire felt profoundly the magnitude of Canada's effort, and valued it for itself: and for the evidence to all posterity and all the world what Empire really means. There is a strong desire that Mr. Bal four should visit Alberta, Baskatchewan, and British Colombia
Violent counter attacks in the southern Carso and at Monte Cucco in the Vodice area failed with heavy losses.
Dar aircraft effectively bombed the panel station at Santa Lucia, Tolmine,
Threa enemy machines were brought
AUSTRIAN VERSION
artillery activity in the region north- FRENCH AEROPLANES BOMB down. west of Bray-en-Laonnoia, especially
towards The Pantheon."
Eastward we carried out a completely
POINTS.
PARIS, May 27th.
A communiqué states that there was
successful operation against a portion of intermittent artillery firing in Cham the Chevreux Wood, despite energetic resistance.
pagne:
LONDON, May 26th
AMERICAN TRADING WITH ENEMY BILL.
The Austrian communiqué speaks of
WASHINGTON, May 26th. a battle being waged with extraordinary. stubbornness on the whole front from Playa Enemy Bill was introduced in the House The Government's Trading with the
to the sea Masses of Italians are
attacking furiously. It merely admits of Representatives. withdrawal oz one kilometre in ene It is largely modelled on the British
Fredch aeroplanes dropped 18,000 kilos, We discovered many corpse, in shelters of bombs on Marslatour, Conflans, and which our beavy artillery had destroyed. elsewhere, doing considerable damage. sector.
law
FRENCH SHIPPING.
PAR18, May 25th. It is oficially announced that during the week ending May 20th the arrivals were 901 and the sailings 1,016,... There was one sinking above 1,600 tons and two below. Three vessels were unsuccessfully attacked.
[Telegrams received on Saturday and on Sunday morning and published in an "Estra
on Bunday, will be found on Page 4.
Bread
limitations, although of a yielding nature, inevitably accompany increases the
in principal dimensions, and сад never be entirely ignored tekn
Taking all arguments
guments into considera- tion, it appears that a small number of larger battleships as from almost every point of view preferable to a graster number of smaller vessels, but it seems wise not to exceed the displacement strictly necessary to secure the desired nautical and military qualities, so as to minimise, as far as possible, the effects of hydrographic restrictions, depths Of channels, widths of channels, etc. Battle ships have always required the assistance of lighter vessels for scouting despatch service, and d other strategic duties, but tactically they have up till quite recently been solf f-contained units. It is of interest to note that under modern con- ditions of warfare this is no longer the CASO, Battleships and battle cruisers now require for their assistance and protec tion in battle a variety of attendant ship. of different types the most important of which are light cruiser, destroyers, sub- 1,100,186.17 marines, and aircraft. This specialisa- tion readers it possible to make each type more perfect of its kind, and justifies the enormous concentration of power in the largo artillers ship, which, whether at an nating singly or in squadron, becomes the nudeus of a compler unit where every #154.724.51 fighting quality, offensive and defensive
reprepented at 18 mature values
HONGKONG'S FINANCES
The financial statement for the month of February, 1917, was as follow
REVENUR AND EXPENDITURE. Balance of Assets med Liabilities on 31st Jan, 1917 Revenue from 1st. to 28th:
February 1917
Expenditure from 1st to
28th February, 1917
Balanen
$1,708,476.17
2,808,862.24
$200.927.81