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THE WAR.
THE
WEST.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 19mm, 1917.
CALM IN
ANOTHER AIR RAID ON ENGLAND.
PEACE MANŒUVRES.
GERMANY · AND RUSSIA
DEALING WITH GREECE.
Franco-Belgian Front,
LATEST CABLES.
(THAUGGE REUTER'S AGENCY.)
ENEMY ATTACKS,
RHEIMS HEAVILY BOMBARDED.
PARIS, June 18th:
A communiqué says Following last night's bombardment in the Hurtebis sector, the enemy attacked and succeeded in entering the salient of our positions, but was driven back after a brisk fight,
driven back after a being only able to maintain himself in
a small element of the advanced line. Artillerying continued all day here, also north of Cerny, and north of Braveen
Luonnois. The enemy has violently hom barded Rheims during the past few days. Tweiva hundred shells fell in the city to-day, and there were many civilian
Cauallica,
17th
Aerial Activities.
LATEST CABLES. THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT. 1: THE ZEPPELIN RAID,
FURTHER DETAILS.
LONDON, June 18th.:
A South-east coast correspondent states that in one town, which 18-now strewn with broken glass, the first explosion
erred at 2.30 in the morning. "The long drawn hiss of aerial torpedoes was distinctly heard among the protectiles Jaunched. Fires broke out but were quickly controlled.
THE CASUALTIES.
The Press Bureau innotinces that two airship carried out a raid last night.
One crossed the coast of Kent and dropped six tombs on a coast town. The latest reports show that two people wera. killed, and sixteen injured, A large
number of bönsch was damaged,
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA
PEACE AT ANY PRICE PARTY.
LONDON, June 16th
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
FROM OUR OWN-CORRESPONDENT-]-
The Times strongly animadverts on the LI CHING HSI UNABLE TO FORM A
olicy of the Soldiers and Workmen's elegates, as displayed by recent uniter- inces, and says they are really advocates of prace-st-any-price,
The second raider attucked an Enát. PAN-RUSSIAN CONGRESS. Anglian east Lown It was heavily
PETROGRAD, June 17th shelled and driven off probably damag- |- A Pan-Huasion: Congress of Soldiers ed. It dropped a number of bombs on and Workmen's Delegates has opened. open places, bit, shortly after, it was.
AUSTRIAN SPIES ARRESTED. brought down in flames, destroyed by a Flying Corps pilot.
Thore were no casualties or damage in
East Anglia.
General
DATEST JABLES.
[THROUGH RIUTEN'S AGENCY:
CONSTANTINE.
BOME, June 18th. King Constantine and his family have
arrived at Messina.
FIGHTING IN PALESTINE.
SUPERIOR BRITISH ARTILLERY
CAIRO, June 18th,
Recent operations in Palestine have
been limited. There has been the usual trench fighting. The British artillery have been most active, dominating the chemy's artillery and inflicting unmer- The Zoppelin ous casuallica, while our airmen fre-
An East count correspondent, says that searchlights picked up the Zeppelin as it approached from the sen. The guns opened a terrific fire
HOSTILE ARTILLERYING
LONDON, June 17 Field-Mushal Sir Douglas Haig, ro ports: There has been hostile artillery ing southward of Croisilles and south westward of Lens, and at a number of points between Armentieres and Ypres There was great ir netivity yesterday, We brought down seven aeroplanes and org
.ing.
BARLIER CABLES)
PORTUGUESE TROOPS IN
POTATOES.
CABINET
PEKING, June 17th. Chung-Haun has ordered twenty-five Ying of his troops to Peking..
-- Li Ching-hsi has informed the Presid ent that he is unable to form a Cabinet in the present conditions. flo suggests that Tim Chi-jui ba recalled to his du rote, failing which, Hsu Shih-chang should become Premier and Wang Shih-
PETROGRAD, June 17th.
Two Austrian officers and two privates | chen Minister of War. who visited the Russian Jines at Yozopol, on the South-Western, Front as parlemen- faires, have been arrested. They proved to be members of the Austrian Espionage Bürban
GERMAN PACIFIST EXPELLED.
PETROGRAD, June 17th. M. Hofman, a member of the Swiss Federn! Council, requested the Swiss Minister to communicate the German peace offer to Russia through Robert Grimm, a Swiss citizen who came to | Petrograd in the middle of May, osten
sibly acting as a guide to returning Russian refugees. It is now announced that the Provisional Government uns ordered the expulsion of Grimm, because it has evidence that he is a pacifist fler- mah agent
Crimm has already left Russia.
RESUMPTION OF OFFENSIVE URGED.
PETROGRAD, June 17th. The Doma has passed a resolution to the effect that a separate peace and pro-
at
longed inactivity on the fronts would be ignoble and treason to the Allies, and The Government has authorised the ex that the maintenance of Russia's safety port of 40,000 tons of potatoes.
and liberties depraded on the immediate resumption of the offensive.
MADRID, June 18th
MPOINCARE AT RHEIMS.
PARIK, June 18th M. Poincare visited Rheims, and de cerated the Archbishop and other notables with the Legion of Honour.
desperately attempted to defy the dequently and effectively raided camps and fences, and succeded in penetrating a headquarters at Birsaba, Barreira, Gaza few miles inland, though, meanwhile, and elsewhere. winged by anti-aircraft guns. The com mander of the Zeppelin, realising his peril, now attempted to climb beyond range, and turned towards the sea, but an aeroplane look up the pursuit. The Zeppelin blazed at the aeroplane, but the former was out of hand and was unable to ward off the attack. It broke out in Baines,
and descended in fluttering frag drove down three Two of ours are missmonts, amid loud cheering from the thou- sands of spectators from the whole roun- tryside..
LATER Later particulars of the doings of the Zeppelin in a south-eastem town show that scarcely a shop front in the main The contents of the streets is intit.
windows were hurled into the street. The Zeppelin stopped its engines to obtain We successfully raided to the north of its bearings before bombing. The aerial Gouzeaucourt,
torpedoes, throwing out a lurid glue, The artillery frustrated a raid to the caused the principal damage. One demolished a number of old cottages and south of the Ypres Comince Canal
YPRES AND ARMENTIERES.
PARIS, June 17th, The Echo de Faris in an article states that the British sledge-hammering of Ypres and Armentieres is forcing Ger many to decide between further very costly sacrifices in order to maintain new lines in Flanders, or a fresh retreat
ACTIONS
LONDON, June 17th, Field-Marshal Bir Douglas Haig re. ports-Portuguese troops repelled several raids during June.
FRENCH FRONT,
PARIS, June 17th. A__communiqué states-An enemy attack which was being prepared against our positions at Labovelle, north-east of Cerny, was dispersed by our fire
The artillery duel is very intense in the Hartebise sector.
Naval Activities,
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{TEBOUWE ZNUTKEʼN AGESOT.] FRENCH STEAMERS
ATTACKED.
PARIS, June 17th. It is officially sanounced that two French steamers report that they were attacked by two large suhmarines near the Spanish coast, outside the declared blockade zones.
Both successfully maintained an artil- Lery duel, obliging the attackers to abandon the struggle
THE GERMAN WAY.
RESCUERS FIRED ON.
•· LONDON, June 16th. Admiralty statement discloses the fact that British destroyers while rescu ing German survivors who jumped over- board during the naval petion on the 5th inst were fired on by the German de stroyed So before the latter was sunk, and also by shore batteries, while enemy seaplanes hovered above to drop bombe.
GIỐNG NGÔI
BY COURTESY OF THE
BAN PU,
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CRISIS
SHANGHAI, June 18th..
The President's Mandate, re-electing a new Parliament, why issued yesterday.
A secret meeting took place at the
President's office yesterday, and it was decided to organise a new Cabinet,
Li King Shi will take the Premier's post
Chang Hsun has wired the various Provinces urging them to cancel their declarations of independence,
RUSSIAN WAR AIMS,
WAR LESSON.
LABOUR'S CHANGED POSITION.
SPERCH BY SIR EDWARD CABSON,
L92905, May 24th,
Sir Edward Carson (First Lord of the Admigalty) was the guest of the British Empire – Producers' - Organisation at luncheon.
Lord Beresford prisided and read the following telegram from Mr. Hughes, The Prime Minister of Australia: resolutions of the Imperial War Confer ence will draw more closely together the bonds of Empire. The victory of tho National Government in Australia Has Fatown Australia's attitude towards the Empire. I wish the Producers' Organim,
tion success.
Lord Beresford said that only those who before the war pointed out the danger, of starvation had a right to criticise the Admiralty now. He declared they tha submarine menace was not yet in hand. Nothing but over water craft in large numbers could beat the submarine in the blue water..
sult of the
Sir Edward Carson, responding to the lost of his health, said tliore was one result of the war that nothing could deprive us of, namely, the utilisation and organisation of the vast resoureds of the Empire in the most advantageous manner to every part of the Empire. The waas had demonstrated three or four funda mental facts-firstly, what our resources ware; secondly, that by a little trouble and organisation they might be of use to make the Empire self-supporting thirdly that blood was thicker than water; and fourthly, that we had been living in a Fool's paradise in allowing these resourets to be used for strengthen- ruabling them to light us. (Her, hear.) that state of affairs did not end. “Without The war was being fought in vain if new methods the victories of our armies and hect would be in vain. God help us if we got back to the old party ideals. ference, it seemed to him that it was pre When he looked back at. Imperial pre- ference for the German Empire also; the most-favoured nation clause, which sound together in an indissoluble union, reall. etch-words must be got rid of. No war d so well, really meant a combination of The Revolution bound people and Army our enemies to our disadvantage. Such ing in a firm resolve to win a decisive of a magnitude would be waged for victory. It is true that a section of three years without bringing vast revol-- Socialists, now on the Committee of LoLK Workmen and Soldiers' Delegates, expr
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, the wish for immediate peace. But they have no majority on the committee, and still leas influence in the country.
It cannot be denied that everybody in
WHAT THE SOCIALISTS DEMAND. ing our enemies and forging weapons
The question which interests everybody more than anything else is Russia's fature attitude towards the war. There have been misgivings about the possibility Russia would now seek to conclude a of a separate peace. But to suppose that peace without the consent of the Allies in to misunderstand the whole course of the Revolution
The First Lord went on to say that Russian revolution was because the war brought, home to the people that real Power must be in the people, who had
GENERAL CONGRESS.
And Workmen's Delegates has opened,
The General Congress of the Soldiers'
M Cheidze, the President of the
and a day for the Bussin wants peace. This majority fight, What might replace the old Petragrad Committee was elected Pre-moreover, want peace without annexe was still on the lap of the goils, However in some respects we might regret. sident. The Committee approved the top. They any that Russia is big enough, it, he believed that it was a necessary to approved the and that if the Poles want to have revolution. Let them not imagine that expulsion of Robert Grimm by 640 to united kingdom, they should now revolt there was no revolution going on in this 121 votes, venturing the opinion that improve the lives of the Germans and were never more safely and sectirely fixed in Pesen and do all in their power to country and the Empire. Their Majestica expulsion was necessary in the interests Austrions in Russian and Austrian Poon the throne than at present, (Cheers.) of the Russian Revolution and Interna that the whole of Russia is going to starve of the Imperial War Cabinet. He found land They rust, however, not expect Look at the almost automatic innovation tional Socialism.
and fight indefinitely, only to oblige the that the connecting link binding the Pules and other small nutionalities, But Dominions to the Mother Country Wo they understand at the same time that had exactly the same ideals of liberty and their obligations towards the Allies must progress. S
REVOLUTION ENGINE
AMERICA'S APPEAL..
NEW YouK, June 17th.
THE KING AND LABOUR.
LOYALTY, FORTITUDE AND DEVOTION.
LONDON: June 18th. HM the King, in a farewell message to the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, upon concluding his visit to the northern in- dastries, says: The outspoken sym. A message from Petrograd says that be kept, and that to make a separate pathy of the citizens of the north-east Mr. Root, who is leading the American coast fills me with courage and confidence. Mission to Russia, has greeted the Pro industrial army of the nation is strong the fearful danger of German military I am more than ever convinced that the visional Government. He laid stress on
in that loyalty, fortitude and devotion auteracy in threatening Russin's new which has built up the Empire, and which found freedom and the world's liberty will, under. God'a guidance, help us to He said America had begun to fight for
Russia's liberty equally with her own and she asked Russia to reciprocate
victory.
made a hole in the ground nine fest des by thirty feet in diameter, The Zeppelin which was brought down on the East coast hovered for fifteen minutes over a country town. Then two ueroplane flects got around it, the anti-aircraft can nonade ceased, and the Zeppelin burst into flames and fell into a ploughed field DEALING WITH PROFITEERS. a mile from the sea. It struck the ground
LONDON, June 17th. end on. Five dead and battered bodies
The Observer states that Mr. Lloyd were found in neighbouring fields, and five were entangled in the debris which George has resolved to deal drastically burned foresly for an hour,
EARLIER CABLES.
M. Terestchenko expressed confidence in Russia's ability to meet the problems of the creation of a strong internal democratic force and to fight the external
Toel:
with profiteers. Lord Rhondda, the new Food Controller, takes office in complete GREEK SITUATION. agreement with Mr. Lloyd George on
TRANSPORT OF ALLIED TROOPS. that point
PARIS, June 17th. The British, French and Russian troops for the occupation of Thessaly have been transported from Balonika without incident, though several submarines were lurking about en route.
·FALLING MARK,
REPRISALS DEMANDED Y
LONDON, June 18th, A crowded meeting, held in the Opera House, and presided over by the Lord
LONDON, June 16th. Mayor, passed a resolution demanding the Government to immediately initiste a
A heavy fall in the Germen mark is policy of ceaseless attacks on German reported on neutral Exchanges. It is
Be now worth less than 870 towns as a reprisal for the murder of innocent women and children by German raids on open towns.
FAELIER JABLES.
"ANOTHER AERIAL RAID
ZEPPELIN BROUGHT DOWN
Losos, June 17th, A British official announcement states Early this morning some enemy sirships approached the east and south-
east coast. Two came a short, distance Inland, one crossing East Anglia and the other coming over Kont
The father dropped banby and some damage was done. Fire broke out in a coast town,
WAR PRISONERS REMOVED FROM DANGER ZONE
LONDON, June 17th.
A German official announcement
saysAs Britain has announced that
the withdrawal of all German war prie soners to a distance of thirty kilometres behind the front has been completed, the German Army Administration. ling had
all British war prisoners similarly with
drawn.
V.CS DEATH,
ADVANCE IN THESSALY.
PARIS, June 17th.
An Eastern communiqué states:-Bri tiab airmen greatly damaged enemy camps at Saint Vrac A The Thessalian advance continues, French cavalry have reached Pharsale and Domokos, sixty kilometres to the south of Larisua, while the British bave
*** |œcupied Demerli.
LONDON, June 16th. The death is announced of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Colclough Watson, V.C.
The deceased officer, who was born in 1807, entered the Army (Royal Engineers) is 1888 and was made. Lieutenant Colonel One Zeppelin was brought down in 1914. He won his V. C. while serving on the North-West Frontier in 1897, when flamen
he was severely wounded.]
GRAVE RIOTING IN GERMANY.
AMSTERDAM, June 17th. Grave rioting is reported from Essen and other German towns
SILVER.
LONDON, June 18th. There is nothing doing in silver and
the market is steady.
THE BONIALISTA KRAL DESTAND. peace would amount to treachery.
People talked wildly of Imperial Fede ration not knowing what it meant, gates being sent to Scandinavian coun-if it were meant that an Act of Parlia All the rumours about Socialist dele There could be no Imperial Federation
ruth is, that some of the Russian anti He did not mind how loose with the tries in order to come to an agreementment was going to bind together the with German Socialists are untrue. The various units that made up the Empire. war Socialists proceded on their own system binding the Empire as long as it with German Socialists and discuss the not try to tighten it artificially, but let initiative abroad, trying to get in touch was the heat working system. They must possibility, not of a separate ponce, but it work in its own way. The meeting of of overthrowing the Hohenzolleras, and the Council of Empire as a Cabinet from also to give a guarantee that if there year to year to discuss Empire executive's should be a revelation in Germany, the matters was the nearest approach at the portunity to indict & crushing blow on which we were niming. Allica would not use this as an op- moment we could get to the ideals at the German army, and then proceed with There was a revolution in the Empire, the dismemberment of the German Em and at home there was a revolution, pro- has been approached by the Committee of brought that about? The war, conscrip pire. I believe that even M. Miliukoff ceeded Sir Edward Carson What had Delegates of Soldiers and Workmen, and tion. Millions of men were going over asked to bring forth some joint Note of the parapet daily to face the German the Allies, renesuring the Germans on guas, They were men who were preorV the point of dismembermenting their property for those at home, Bussian Socialists state that they know (Checra,) They could not ask them to do that German Socialists are ready to col all that without giving them a voice in laborate in re-establishing Poland within the government of the country. Thank her original frontiers and to aurrender God, we had not required bloodshed and Alsace-Lorraine to France, In exchange anarchy to do these things. Labour they demand the return of German would never again be satisfied, nor ought- colonies in Africa as well as a guarantee it to be satisfied, to be in the sathe can that neither independent Belgium nor dition as before the war independent Poland will be allowed to have an army This is naturally under the presumption that after the war the former order of things will prevail.
WHAT TO TEACH LABOUR
Labour, in the number, it had sent ont was laying the foundations of car Enture progress, and maintaining our present, The Russian Socialists with whom liberties, and must have, he would not came into contact say that both their call it reward, but its fair share in the demands can be accepted in principle, he body politic. They had to prove to cause in a new Europe, under democratic Labour that if its true interest were to control, the independence of these two expand and progress, that could only be countries will be internationally guaran- done on a sound and elvent basis by the toed, and any aggressor who would dare organisation of the unexploited resources to interfere with their freedom will have of the Empire.
the whole of Europe against him. Real "Let as not talk to them too much guarantees for small nationalities do not about Imperialism, continued Sir consist they say, in armies, but in the Edward Carson. “To some, it rather abolition of secret diplomacy and the idealises domination; to others, it zueins actual control of foreign pelitics by the aggression, to others, it means exploits- representatives of the nations elected by tion of the people, for the benefit of a few universal suffrage.or of capitaliste. You must get that ant Such is the true state of the Russia of their minds, You must rather teseb mind so far as the war is concerned them Empire igion, in which each unit * Little remains to be said with regard to is a help and strength to the other unite the influence of the Committee of Dele- You must teach them that the patriotisma gates of Workmen and Soldiers on the inherent in them is best for their material whole situation in Russia. There is no progress. Just as by building up a busi doubt that the Committee has a firmness, they got a freer flow for their control of the workmen, but its authority energies and greater resources for higher over the soldiers is not so great. As time wages, so by expansion of the Empire amst passes the people realise more keenly than | by exploiting untapped fiells of Empire, ever that the success of the Revolution you will bring home to them that. Was made possible only through the oe have great material which ar place them operation of the people and the Dume on a surer and better found en of good end the first body only to defy the ever fallen to the lot of the proistariat of the pivot round which everybody rallied, terms and happiness, at bors than bas
former Government K
Any other race (Cheers.