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THE WAR.
ANGLO-FRENCH
CAPTURES.
FIFTY-TWO THOUSAND GERMANS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 4T, 1917.
ITALIANS DELIVER SURPRISE
ATTACK.
BRITISH AIR RAID ON GERMAN BASES.
Franco-Belgian Front
LATEST CABLES, THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENOX.”].
BRITISH FRONT.
LONDON, June 2nd,
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- ports:--We repulsed an enemy party last night southward of Oppy.
There was reciprocal artillery airing throughout the day at different points
of the front
Our aeroplanes accomplished much valuable work yesterday. One Gorman machine was brought down and six others
General.
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGINCY.) CRONSTADT DEFIES
VISIONAL GOVERNMENT
PETROGRAD, June 2nd.
PRO
DISTRIBUTION OF WAR
HONOURS.
LONDON, June 2nd..
Tens of thousands witnessed the distri- bution of War Honours in Hyde Park this afternoo£
The weather was most brilliant.
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
THE CHINESE REVOLT.
[BY QOURTESY OF THE ORENG NGO1
SAN FO
SHANGHAI June 3rd.
THE CROWN AND THE
COUNTRY
BY AN ENGLISHMAN.
CHANGING THEIR WORK. FROM A WOMAN TO WOMEN. Women have now got the chance of proving their mettle. Up till now they have been divided into two classce-the
stickers and the non-stickers."
Whatever be the sulf of the war, it is clear that never again will the Princes. of our reigning house ally themselves to brides of German blood. There can their job and stick to it and the women. By this I mean the women who find.
Their Majestic the King and Queen Chili, Fukien, Shanai, Helung-king no friendship with those who have me
and the Dominion representatives ceived an ovation
A squadron of aeroplanes hovered Bike specks in the sky during the ceremony. KAISER RENDERS THANKS.
ANGIERDAM, June 3rd.
The Kaiser has telegraphed to the Crown Prince begging the latter to thank his armics for
the great French attempts to break through the Aisne and Cheilpagne."
The Kaiser nads that the Fatherland is confident that he new fighting will bring new victories.
The Committee at Cronstadt of the The Kaiser has also telegraphed the Courell of Workmen's and Soldiers Dele. Crown Prince of Bavaria, On the gates assumed the administration of battlefelds of Arras the troops from Cronstadt, declaring that it will not re-everywhere in Germany under your com-
cognise the Provisional Government and will remove all the Government repre- sentatives,
The fateful decision at Cronstadt was were driven down out of control. Three adopted by 910 votes to 4. of our machines aro missing.
BARZIER CABLES,
The Committre announces that the rela. tions of Cronstadt with Petrograd and ENEMY ARTILLERY ACTIVE. the rest of Russia shall henceforth be
LONDON, June 2nd.
carried on through the intermediary of, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re-the Petrograd Committee.
mand in the ferce battles during the last two months have brought England'e war- like intentions to nought."
The Kaiser ecncludes by expressing his confidence that they will be victorious also in the fatare fighting.
POLITICAL CHANGES IN
AUSTRIA
AMSTERDAM, June 3rd.
and Shanghai (native, city) have all dear like criminis," who have thought it consonant with imperial dignity to clared their independence.
morder und la ravish, to sten! and To defile
A Presidential mandate has been issued
of Anhui, to Peking. summoning General Chang isun. Tuchun
Tang Chi-yno, Tuchun of Yunnan, has wired to the Vice President, requesting him to attack Ni Sze-chung, Civil Governor
of Anhui Ni Sze-chung's troops have arrived at Fengtal, and Chiang Chung-yeu's (Government) troops troops have arrived at Chang Sui-tien.
Chan Kwang yuan has resigned.
resign and that Parliament will discon
16 is reported that the President will
tinue its meetings,
Lower House), who resigned, has arrived Tung Hwa-lung (Chairman of the
at Hsuchow
(THROUGH REUTER': AGEKOY.]
SITUATION GRAVE,
PELING, June 1st.
The situation is grave,
The revolting Military Governors necuse the President and Parliament of attempting to destroy the responsible Cabinet system and claim that the dis missal of the ex Premier Tuan Chijui in illegal. They demand the dissolution Beidler has been appointed Minister of of Parliament and the reconstruction of Agriculture.
A despatch from Vienna states that
for
ports-The enemy's artillery was active The Minister of Justice, on behalf of Herr Bourzynski, the Minister last night against our positions in the the Government, communicated with the Galicia, has resigned and that von
There is nothing of interest to report.
ARTILLERY DUEL ON BRITISH. FRONT
tupul,
neighbourhood of Ballecourt and Vimy Cronstadt Committee through the Petro- village
grad Committee, asking it to revoke the decision to enter into pourparlers.
There has been an incident at Sebas where the Committee of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Dele- gaten arrested the Commandant of the Fortress, despite the protest of Admiral Koltchak; commanding the Black Sea Fleet. The Commandant was subse uently released, but was replaced while
PARIS, June 2nd. emi-fficially announced that there persistent artillery duel in progress on the British Front. There have been. frequent successful British coups-de-nwin as a prelude to the resumption of the
battle.
LATEST CABLES. FRANCO BRITISH CAPTURES.
PARIS, June 3rd
way
Admiral Holtchak was allowed to retain his command.
SNA
Strikes are threatened at over a hun dred factories in Petrograd. These are mostly engaged in war work. The strikera demand a six hours day, a minimum A commnaniyue states:- There lively artillery firing at Laffaux, Hurte wage, and the women 100 roubles pur bise, and Craonze.
Since April 16th the Franco-British forces hayo captured over 52,000 Germans, including 1,000 officers, and an enormous quantity of materiel, which includes 448 heavy and field guns, 1,000 machine guns and numerous trench guns.
Italian Front.
LATEST CABLES. THEOUGH RBUTER'S AUNLICY.)
ITALIAN FRONT.
ROME, June 2nd
An official communiqué states:---There was very heavy artillery firing north- wards and eastward of Gorizia, in the northern sector of the Carso, and at Dossofaiti
We repulsed an attack at night-time on Thursday on Hill 862 and on Vodice.
month
FATER
The Cronstadt affair is apparently partially due to the local Counei} of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates ig- norance of the relations between the Government at Petrograd and the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates. The President of the latter is going to Cronstadt to investigate.
the Cabinet.
The cutcasts of Europe-and qutenats the Germans will remain, until they have purged their stamed souls in misery and humbleness--are no fit match for proud and honourable English men and women-
Not after thres years of fighting can wo blind ourselves to the danger of en-
couraging, us wo
encouraged in the
who wander round always looking for before it was necessary for women to have one. This tendency was noticeable - uvoza
jobs.
what fashion suited them und followed it, A few woluen--very few-found out
the majority were always changing. A fow women found the friends they liked; a great many had a shifting acquaint
aneeship. Unfortunately there was no particular reason why they should not follow their hent, and consequently chango has become the normal course of thing you can ask them to do is to stick a great many women's lives. The hardest to their job. The reason, of course fig that they do not think much of themselves or they do not think much of their job.
worth Deep down in a man's mind is They do not think much of themselve They have taken men's estimate of their the idea that a woman is only a make- shift: He does not expect her to earn a
expect you get in this life. Unfortunately, as wage. And, of course, what your the man is usually the employer. He sets in the majority of case, she lives down the standard for woman's labour, and to it. She does not trouble about getting the training which is always at hand. She knows she is not expected to be expert. Her employer says tacitly, if not bluntly, That will strain your brain; a man had better do it." Therefore her brain has no call upon it to develop, and brains being lazy things, they settle down to the line of least resistance.
past, the close relation of marriago be tween members of the German royal house and honest folk In Greece as in Russia we have seen the baleful influence of the
have made marriages, as they have pur Gerond hand, no longer hidden, bat openly unashamed. The Germans, indeed, sued commerce, always with a political end in view. Their cunning hes served they entangle Europe in the net of their them well in the past, Never more shalf intrigues
The belief in a royal caste, separate from the rest of the world, has not the sanction of antiquity. In England, at any rate, this belief is not older than 1772, when the Royal Marriage Bill was passed by our Parliament. And even then the Bill was not popular, and was got through the two Houses by the in- Auence of George III, who thought that his brothers, the Dakes of Gloucester and Cumberland had decreased the prestige of the monarchy by their imprudent mar. hearty support from everyone in my ser- ringes have a right to expect a vice, wrote the King to Lord North,
and shall remember defaulters." The provisions of the Bill were simple enough. Any descendants of George II., except the issue of Princesses married into foreign houses, were forbidden to contract marriages before the age of twenty-five without the assent of the After twenty-five the royal descendantsnitch of a job? Canally it is the might marry without the King's consent, untrained women who want to move- but only if they had given notice to the That is the and bad won the approval of Lords and per month. Any woman who thinks Privy Council a year before the ceremony Bervice which interviews 1,500 women experience of Women's
enough of her job to make herself expert in it is loath to move. She is
is much more
That this is the truth is patent by the fact that there are 60,000 women on the Employment Exchanges Register, while we are informed that skilled women have lang ago been absorbed,
They do not think much of their job, Who are the women who are always wanting a change?
Maidservants,
trained clerical workers in Gov-
ernment offices
Voluntary canteen workers. Teachers
The Emperor announces the creation of The Peking authorities define the move King signified under the Great Seal. Who can say that any of these have
ment as a struggle between Militarism and Constitutionalism with the object of causing the downfall of the President and
Parliament,
PERING June 2nd..
The provinces of Anhui Shantung,
Commons,
adaptability has been praised.”
and Shansi have declared their independent with the traditions of English 111during this war, but she suffers from the
a new Ministry of Public Health and Social Service..
GERMAN SHIPS IN BRAZIL.
RIO DE JANRITO, June 3rd The Decres utilizing the German ships in Brazil has been signed,
EARLIER CABLES ence while Fongtion and Hupeh, are
supporting the movement, conditionally the BRITISH CABINET MINISTER
The other provinces are doubtful,“ IN PETROGRAD,
There are now tine Chinese Provinces PETROGESO, June 2nd. Mr Arthur Henderson, member of the British War Cabinet, has arrived.
RESIGNATION OF MINISTER, The Minister of Commerce, M Konavaloff, has resigned owing to differecos with the Minister of Labour, M Skoboloff, regarding the economic and financial measures necessary in the pre- sent crisis.
A GERMAN REPRISAL.
LONDON, June 2nd.
Lieutenant Leefe Robinson, the famous BRITISH LABOUR DELEGA aviator who brought down a Zeppelin
TION TO PETROGRAD.
LONDON, June 2nd. An authoritative statement regarding the attitude of the Labour Executive towards the Stockholm Conference states that the party has not reversed its decision not to enter the International Conference, as proposed by the Dutch-Scandinavian
Committee, but is willing to state its
last year near London, has been removed":
to Freiburg as a reprisal against further
Allied air-raide,
JAPAN AND EGYPT.
LONDON, June 2nd.
The Times correspondent at Cairo states that it is understood that Japan has decided to appoint a Consul in Two enemy attacks southward of
Egypt, owing to the increase of Japan's Grazigna and northward of Tivoli were war aims to Herr Bracting and the other commercial interests in Egypt,
Socialists at Stockholm, when the British ORDER BADGE REGULATION. Labour Delegation is passing through Stockholm towards Petrograd. Executive resents the insinuation that Our seroplanes bombed the military anything its representatives may say OF
We made a surprise attack the same night southwards of Castagnavizza Valloy and advanced our line 400 metres on a two kilometre front
The
LONDON, June 2nd..
that have revolted:
the
Honan, Chektang, Fukten and Military Governor of Mukden have clared their independence, besides those -mentioned yesterday.
MENU SUITABLE ALLIANDES AT HOME
The Bill was violently opposed, upo mlined to the ground that it was wholly inconsist-get into a groove
Women's In Eng and the Sovereigns have always been happily for us, the friends of their defects of her quality. She can not only monarch and subjects a candid intimacy in cycles, people. There has existed between change in order but her ideas also change
which has guarded the Throne and which The last time we
met we were both
said a were in of registering
has made loyalty a natural sentimenting to be motor It is not strange, therefore, that the Bill quite frankly to another at So. Le gir 16 is just trend as sffront to the nobles clerical won with one Auviring for
of England, who could guete many A woman who was doing skilled munitión precedort to their purpose. Not only work at the beginning of the war is
somebody's secretary. A girl who w trained as a postwoman at
who was now being trained for a policewo
dead your Princes stooped to conquer but many an English lady had sat upon the throne. Not the Plantagenets nor the Tudors nor the Stuarts had looked
HOW TO CONCENTRATE. SIMPLE CURE FOR WANDERING
MINDS;
apon themselves as so widely distant frum
their compatriots that they could not try them, Elizabeth Woodville and Anne Neville were English women both Henry VIII married four ladies of English blood, though to be sure in his prim savagery he beheaded two of them, And was not the wife of James II the those who opposed the will of George III Caughter of Clarendon, But, above all, this matter believed that to make the Royal Family separate caste and to
V.A.D. members are anxious
Auxiliary Army us to join the woman's mind is proved by the National
How real this shifting of sa
sand to in a Service warning-Women alrearly in State service are not expected to change tacir pecupation. Lord Derby stated, definitely that he would not have a turn- coat in the Auxiliary Army. The Board of Agriculture asks wonten to sign on for the duration of a war.
At the back of every one of the speeches atthe
women a
demonstration for National Service was obviously the
An interesting paper on some methods by which concentration can be developed was read by Dr. Mary Bell at the last Medical Women. As summarised in the Prevent marriages between Prince anuanxiety-Will women stick to their jobs t
meeting of the Association of Registered
was a mere piece of Germanism, arrow sentiment of a German Court Arrow a Alrendy the hidden hand seemed to be at work already a King's unwisdom seemed. to disturb the honoured traditions of That there did lark a danges in the thoughts are often taken up by certain older habit of this realm need not be have such a prond record. It remains for important interests and their attention
points are that children and some adults have little power of selecting the objects on which they can fix their attention, and they cannot concentrate on one thing for
In mature age men's and women &glish life und English loyalty, hom life would not be what it is today
long
surely take to heart. Had it not be night have been today the King of a for intuspicious marringes Constantine larger Greece, the Romanofs might still have been a princely and a reigning house, and RENOW
evidenced by the result of the Inlewors condition. Volunteers turn sorrowfully
The stickers strong women have alwayss away when they read it. done the little things greatly. English if it were not so. Englishmen would not women who are entering National Service now to keep the flag dying. Particularly is this applicable to land work. Only the quality of sticking to it will carry the woman over the hard
places.
PEGGY SCOTT.
It is, indeed, with a proper pride that we contemplate the stability of our
throne in this year of revolution. And revolution, as we all know, is more quick
catching than disease. An epidemic, passes over the world with the speed and virulence of a plague. It is com
does not respond to other stimuli. Life denied. But the danger was slight and is made a burden to some people, and ng ago, outgrown. We cannot cite Lord they become increasingly self-centred, be, vers, the brother of Elizabeth Wood cause of some bodily trouble which sends, as a warning precedent And we insistent messages to the brain and mates know by a recent and a bitter experience concentration impossible that the influence of a German Princess power Children have little or none of ties of evil than the influence of an over- Concentration, of course, is an acquired may be deeper and wider in its possibil it. It is drilled into most of them at have taught us a leason which we shall veening subject. Greece and Russia or become stronger depends on the life school. Then whether it will fade away career adopted. Worgen seldom develop concentration in the same degree as men, probably because they do not choose the The Gazette notifies that His Majesty forms of work which require it. In both the King commands that the Badge of the men and women it declines as middle life In the future what we believe to be municated from nation to nation by some Companions of the Bath, the Star of
ecmes on, and then the fixing of the works, aviation camps, dumps and rail. I do at. Stockholm will compromise the India, St. Michael and St. Geor attention for any length of time becomes a counsel of virtue will be forced upon invisible and subtle agency, ag news pus by necessity Our own monarchy, travels across the desert or through the the
positively painful. Order of the Indian The simple cure for these wandering more firmly established than ever in the bush. It is possible that what happened All our swerved from its determination to pro worn suspended from a ribbon round states of mind, as described by Dr. Bell hearts of the people must perfores turn in 1648 may be repeated to day. But
man Empire in future should bo
ir to practise some difficult exercise daily, its face away from the blood-stained the British monarchy bas strong now the neck of members of these Orders One of these is to write with the left hand generation will the Kings and Princes of was then Wisdom and sentiment victory and consider
This class of the four Orders named will or to do looking glass writing. Another
Courts of Germany. Not for many a that the air will be cleared by the pre- while retaining their titles of Companion is to read with the book held upside civilised Europe remember that tie of principle Fuading us to accept the sentation of the views of the vast according to seniority in the Order:
necording to sundor over the Commanders down. Another in to spend some time cousinship which was for us one result principle of kingship, and we would majority of the British workers.
visnalising words and figures. Urdinary of George III's Bill. They will find in suggest nothing which would not establish reading or writing is of no use, but any their pride and dignity and the proper the minds and affections of the people.
their own country alliances suitable to that principle more firmly than ever in exercise that cannot be carried out spirit of national ambition will be shared As we have said, our English monarchs
w
way junctions from Duina to Opicina, British cans. The Executive has never northeastward of Trieste,
machines returned safely
Aerial Activities.
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENDS.] AERIAL ATTACK ON GERMAN BASES.
LONDON, June 2nd..
The Admiralty announce that an aeroplane attack on the enemy, aerodrome at St. Denis-Westrem was made yester day morning.
Naval aeroplanes and seaplanes attack ed the German bases last night at Zeebrugge Ostend and Bruges, upon which they dropped several tons of explosives.
secute the war
to
In view of the visit to Stockholm of Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, and other extremists, and the Fabian Julius West, the Times sums up the newspaper com- ment on the grant of the British permits by saying that the proposal of a Con- ference at Stockholm or elsewhere can be viewed without apprehension so long as it is really representative, because it convinced that the nation is determined to resist all attempts to maneuvre it into an inconclusive, peace
and
FRENCH MUNITIONS
MINISTER
JASSY, June 2nd.
tions, has arrived from Buais. The M Thomas French Minister of Muni distinguished visitor received a most enthusiastic reception.
SILVER.
LONDON, June 2nd. supplies. The market is steady.
Silver te quoted 833, and there are small
mechanically will suffice.
to hear the shocks and chances of fate és
By this easy plan everyone who finds by monarch and subject alike
have always been bound to their subjects
Chronic invalids, said Dr. Bell, have the Royal Marriage Bill, itself an excre increase his power of concentration that we should revise the provisions of gone through the country in progresses his attention dificult to control can A TIE OF FRIENDSHIP
by the bonds of intimnoy. They And in England especially it is just visited them in their houses, they have thus been cured and are now doing useful sonce upon our Constitution. We should
which are now historical, The good example which Queen Elizabeth took from work And not only can concentration be reverting only to the time-honoured he predecessors she has set to those who bo developed, but also people who auffer from fixed and troublesome ideas who practice of other times. We should do as atter her And there is no reasons worry about their health or their business, ment, We should but carry back our me march and, subject should not be yet- no violenon to our tradition or our genti. why this tie of friendship between may get relief.
minds from the eighteenth century to the more chisely knit. When nece comes larger days of the Plantagenets and that our Princes find their brides where Tudors. And we should strengthen infinite their ancestors found theirs among the ly our English patriotism and increase nobles of England, and then our patriot marvellously the love of old laws and ang firmly seated upon a national old traditions that lives in us all
throne, shall interpret wisaly and well. the national aspirations of a loyal and contented people.
Telegrams received on Saturday and
Three thousand and fifty-six ships on Sunday morning and published in on totaling 12,881,507 tous, have passed Extra on Sunday, will be found on through the Panama Canal since the Page 4
opening in August, 1914
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