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THE
WAR.
WEST.
ACTIVITY IN THE
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
OPTIMISTIC FRENCH
OPINION.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 26rd, 1917.
BRITISH AND GERMAN PRISONERS.
MORE GERMAN INTRIGUE.
Franco-Belgian Front,
EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH KIUTER'S AGENCY.)
BRITISH FRONT.
LONDON, June 24th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re porta:-There have been patrol encoun- ters to the southward of the Scarpe Hostile artillery has been active at Urni- selles and Messines.
UNSUCCESSFUL ENEMY RAIDS
LONDON, June 28th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports:The enemy unsuccessfully ut templed raids south-outward of Gavrelle and Armentieres. The enemy artillery. has been setivo near Harrincourt Wood, northward of the Scarpe and at Messines, We brought down four aeroplanes. One of ours is missing.
FRENCH CAPTURE.
PABIS, June 26th.
A commaniqué says:-A sharp, counter attack east of Vaux Aillon resulted in our re-capture of the greater part of the salient still held by the enemy north east of Moisy Farm,
on the left bank of the Meuse.
VIOLENT ARTILLERYING,
TROUBLE IN IRELAND.
MORE RIOTING.
CORK, June 25th.
A procession of Sinnfeiners lost night attacked a recruiting office. The relatives of men at the front, resented the action and rioting ensued.
The police made baton charges, These proved ineffectual, and the military, with machine-guns, were called out,
The police were repeatedly stoned, and had to act in a drastic manner.
Shots were Gred. One man was killed and another wounded, besides a dozen wounded with bayonets. The disorders were quelled by midnight.
EARLIER CABLES.
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. OPTIMISTIC FRENCH VIEW.
PARIS, June 25th.
MINERAL RESOURCES OF UNITED KINGDOM,
MOUNTING GUARD.
BY A CORPORAL IN THE HANCHESTER GUARDIAN, '^]"
You go up to the notice-board and read the orders for the day, and when yen seo your pane posted among the guard you click your tongue against your palate and say something
and say something of an irreverant but
RANDOM REFLECTIONS. FAR EASTERN MEN AND Many will agree, doubtless, with › the WAS THE WAR. opinion expressed by a correspondent
Lieutenurit Henry E. Ailen, Royal A DEVELOPMENT SCHEME, that greater care shoulit be exercised to Warwickshire Regiment, drowned nt sea ses that notor-cara travel slowly wher on April, whilst returning home LONDON, June 24th, passing through the marrow and thickly on leave, was the nfth son of the late Mr. It in officially stated that the develop populated streets of the Colony w Allen, of Greenford, at one time ment of the mineral, resources of the | Accidents--some of them fatal-hav, una member of the Stock Exchange, Bom United Kingdom, which department the Fortunately, been in the increase of late, in 1905, he was educated as a chemist, emphatic character. Your chums, if they Ministry of Munitions in undertaking. The chauffeurs, however, are not always and was from 1887 for 19 years with
are present, stand round and jeer at you.
Lander Sir Lionel Phillips, is likely to
to blame. Some of the Chinese display a Messrs. Watson & Co, Ltd., at Hongkong, They offer to meet "her" in year place. remarkable penchant for running across where he was one of the few Europeans, ing your leg (which is the army way They tell you that you, have been ** swing- lead to far-reaching results. Sir Lionel
the road when a car is approaching, and to recover from an attack of the huhunie of describing a dodger of work) long Phillips is bringing the knowledge the wonder in tant this stupidity does not plague on its first and most virulent out enough, and when you pretend to be furi- experience gained by a life's work in result in many more necidents now that break. From 1901 to 1903 he was, chief crowd with one of your hands tied behind ous with them and offer to fight the entire developing the mineral resources of South motoring in the Colony is becoming chemist and assayer to the Ashanti Gold your back they shout Wind up" and Africa to bear on his new task. A num increasingly popular. I have
leave you in peace. (“Wind up was seen fields Corporation at Obuassi, and subsc.invented by the Air Service, and very ber of engineers of outstanding ability Chinese, when the horn of an approaching quently hold a similar position at Mexico aptly describes a lost temper.) You get and position are also assisting the efforts motor car has been sounded, wait until City. He joined the Sportsman's Batth about twenty four bus ward, B. that of the department, and already consider the vehicle was almost on top of them lion in 1914, was gazetted to the Royal you have no chance of wandering off when you have clicked for guard, so that ablo work has been done in furthering and then make a sudden dash across the Warwickshire Hegiment in 1915, and then you should be parading, on the gentle war purposes. Stops have been taken to street, to the dismay of the driver. One seconded to the Colonial Ofice for servi pretence that you did not know you were
for guard. control and expand the wolfram mines, might almost as well bold the Tramway in Cameroon in the Nigeria Regiment, which are expected to produce, a home which occur as the result of Chinese, in
Company responsible for the accidents W.A‚F.F. supply of tungsten powder, an essential defiance of all warnings, juroping off cars ingredient in the manufacture of high travelling at high speed. speed stebl. The lead resources of the country are also being completely survey-
ed.
New sources of supply are being
investigated, and old workings are being
re-opened Action is also being taken in regard to the production of zine.
NEW AUSTRIAN CABINET FORMED.
AMSTERDAM, June 25thi A new Austrian Cabinet has been form-
Fed, under the Premiership of Dr. von
Seidler.
القمر
Tondent who called attention and was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. it mounted at six o'clock in the evening,
What you say when you click " for a Monday or a Tuesday guard is absolute- ly guileless in comparison with what you
twenty-four hours, and so if you are de say when you click for a Friday or a Baturday guard; for each serves for
tailed for the Friday night guard, and
Saturday on duty; and if you are delil- you have to spend the letter part of ed for the Saturday night guard you have duty. This Inst guard is the most un- to spend the better part of Sunday on popular one of the seven, for the consolu- tion of being on guard is that you miss al parades, a consideration of some con- sequence when one of the parades is a couple of hours' field work; but on San- work to do, and so the men on guard not day, except for church parade, there is no
field Artillery, who died of wounds on Lieutenant David Clutterbuck, Royal
May th, was born in September, 1890,
to the annecessary suffering caused to Clutterbuck, of Hardenbuish Park, Chip fowls by the way in which Chinese cooks penham. He was educated at Horris Hill, and coolies carry them will have many at Winchester College (where he held a sympathisers. Nor are fowls the only scholarship), and at University College, victims of brutality or ignorance. Ducka, Oxford. Subsequently he received an Becse, and pigs, to mention only a few appointment in the Chinese Maritice others, are also conveyed by coolics in a Customs, and when the war broke out manner which must cause them intense he had just received promotion, and was pain. Though the poor dumb creatures at Peking. In February, 1815, he return-only have to spend the day on duty, but muy not be long for this world, that ised, and was given a commission in the no reason why their last moments should R.F.A. He accompanied his battery to guard is slightly more popular than the
be made agonising Unfortunately, we France in July, 1915. have no branch of the R.S.P.C.A, in Hongkong, but surely the Chiness and
they are deprived of the consolation of missing some work. The Triday night.
Saturday night" guard, because on that guard you do at all events miss a parade or a kit inspection, or even both. Some times there is swabbing" to be done on
guard misses that too.
M. Albert Thomas, the French Minister CANADA AND CONSCRIPTION: Indian police might be instructed to RUMANIA AND THE ALLIES. Saturday morning, and of course the
of Munitions, interviewed on his return from Russia, slates that he is optimistic and confident about Russia. The idea of a separate peace may be completely dis missed, The duality of Government and soldiers has disappeared, and the Coati
to bringutinted in a serious and critical time. The necessity for u disciplined
>.
army
OPPOSITION TO SIR WILFRIÐ. LAURIER.
Ortawa, June 25th.
deal with such cases. Ordinary common- sense is all that is necessary to realise what is, and is not, cruelty.
INTERVIEW WITH KING
FERDINAND.
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lo my regiment the guard is mounted
Paas, Jane 20thy in order to preserve the guarantee contingent, who are anti-conscriptionists and brithing by moonlight. Nothing the vassal of another Power, and, would tells him so long as he is on the "beat."
A communiqué says:-There has bee of liberty was now understood by the violent reciprocal artillerying in the masses. There was a widely growing be region of Hartebise and Craonne, Welief that the military defence would be silenced a violent cremy bombardment
inore effective by an offensive. I found of Juvindart and dispersed material: and moral reasons for the pos 1 south
Hibility of an offensive, although I shall assembling infantry.
not declare the date on which it will take place. The Roumanian army would do wonders immediately Russin gave the signal.
GERMAN INTR:GUE,
CARGO HELD UP.
8.16 p.m. The hour of mounting varies, however, from regiment to reginent. The muumber of men in the guard depends upon The Government is to be congratulated
The Figaro, of Paris, recently publish the extent of barrack, camp, or billet to be guarded. Sometimes a picket iš post- Still further opposition to Sir Wilfrid on the prompt response which it has led a report of an interview with the Kingad as well as a guard. The officer in Laurier on conscription was marked dur-made to the demand for bathing facilities of Roumania, whom it styles Ferdinand charge of the guard is a corporal, and at North Point. The beach is being the Loyal,” Thế King affirmed his carn - during the twenty-four hours that he is An artillery duel bastion Government's authority is increasing the week-end. Three of his pro
on duty he has complete authority inside been rather active in the Hartebise sector, ing daily, especially in connection with minent supporters in the House of Com-cleaned, a pier is being constructed, the plete confidence that Roumania would go the guardroom, and cat order his senises the reorganising of the army, which had mons disapproved of his referendum bathing area is being buoyed, and a large on to victory with her great and dear among the NCOs to leave it if he mataked is being erected. This work is Allies, proud to fight with them. He was chonses. The entry himself in the strong. est man on his beat, and can order his amendment. It is expected that only rapidly approaching completion. I hear, convinced that she had entered the high superiors of any rank to obey him while six Liberal supporters will support Sirals that the Tramway Company is con-road to her historic destiny. By neglect they are within the territory under his Wilfrid Laurier and his solid Quebec sulering the arrangement of band nights ing ber mission she would have become the King himself must do what the sentry charge. I have heard sentry say that
have destroyed all that constituted the
The men for the guard parade outside definite has yet been decided, but I
greatness and nobility of the country the gazrd-honan five or ten or even more understand the probability is that national unity, liberty of action, and minutes before the hour at which they independence. Speaking of the struggle the public will be given an opporwhich arrayed against one another his are to begin duty. They wear greatcoats tunity at least one evening week conscience and his heart, the King added: "skeleton" equipment, and carry for "disporting themselves in the moon-My conscience triumphed. The Ger rifles; sometimes each man carries five above all, I said rounds of ammunition. The old guard mans may bere all abo
is called out, and the corporal_reports silvered sca, the while a band discourses My duty above bright music. Meanwhile it is gratifying regarded it as a moral obligation of the turn of duty to the corporal of changect Continuing, his Majesty said that he anything of a special nature about his to know that the discussion of the sub future to broaden the lives and increase guard. The santries are then changed ject in the Press has resulted in a dona-, the well being of the wise and brave and the old guard dismissed, and the re- tion of $1,000 to War Charities by Mr. peasants who had fought so valiantly for mainder of the new guard, with the re- their country. With this object he was mainder of the picket, if there be one,. Ho Kom Tong, who originally offered considering a thorough reform of the go into the guardroom. Each man has this sum for the provision of the bathing Agrarian law which he would carry out two hours on and four off duty, and the as fully and as equitably as possible, corporal's job is to change the guard at. He expressed his gratitude to the the end of every two hours and to see brave army which had been so sorely that each sentry knows exactly what his tried, which was being actively reformed, duties: nre. If your sentry can't gabble The Hongkong Police Force is doing and in the spring would have a new off his duty to the orderly officer when value. The King also declared his appre- he comes round to inspect the guard, itsbit" at the front in a manner which ciation of the French Mission, whose then you take that sentry into a corner must command admiration. News was help, he said, was so important for the of the guardroom when his spell of duty work of reconstituting the Roumanian received recently that another member ci Army. In conclusion he paid a tribute is over and you tell him in your politest language what you think of him. He is the Force, a very jolly fellow, had made to Roumanin's noble fraternity in arms to keep guard over all Government pro- bling pieces of coal which could be the great sacrifice. In all there have been co-operation the invader would be driven.perty on his heat and to give warning
with great and brave Russia, with whose
six deaths, one missing and believed to out. be killed, as well as a number wounded.
General
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGERO7.] SOUTH AFRICA'S FUTURE. A STRIKING ADDRESS..
CAPE TOWN, June 25th. Speaking at Robertson, Cape Colony, General Loanis Botha regretted that the Provincial Council elections had been fought on political lines. They should have remained outside of party politics. Unfortunately, politics had been dragged) into many matters where they should, never have been, even into native affairs. He would be a coward and a faithless
THE DURNOVO ANARCHISTS.
PETROGRAD, June 28th.. The Durnovo anarchists are still defy- ing the Government.
COPENHAGEN, June 25th.
A Norwegian official message states that the Christinna police have arrested several foreigners, with a quantity of explosives, in a private house. Also, they scoured a number of large trunks from Germany filled with explosives, at a rail way station.
The newspapers state that the persons They threaten to blow up the occupied arrested include the German Baron von Rautenfels. The explosives amount to a Villa if force is used. MAXIMALIST PLANS Á COMPLETE
ton. They include explosive cigars and cigarettes, and infernal machines resem FIASCO.
PETROGRAD, June 25th. The Maximalist plans have proved a completo fianco. Neither the workmen
deposited among ship bunkers..
facilities which the Government has now undertaken.
nor the soldiers rallied to their call. The CHINESE TELEGRAMS. This is no mean record for so small a
military Commandant at Petrograd, and the President of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Exocutive, dissuaded the intend. ing military demonstrators. The Work- Africa (Pro men's and Goldiers
leader if he allowed his people to sink into the mire without attempting to rescue them, South Africa's future de pended upon the co-operation of the two white races. There cannot and must not be two streams in South Africa of longed choert.) Now they heard republican propagands. Did people want to cut adrift? Why did they raise these matters under the present dificul tics?
Executive also
counter-acted the Maximalist agitation among the factory hands.
[BY COURTESY OF THE " CHUNG NGOL
NEW MINISTERS.
The change in the storm-signal codes contingent little of the glory is re-reflects credit on the person responsible fected upon the Special Police, but for for it. The old system was often a puzzle whom it would not have been possible to to those who were obliged to examine it spare-so many members of the regular force, who were old army men. Hong SHANGHAI, June 25th kong's Roll of Honour is already A President's mandate appointa Wang lengthy one, and when the war is over, Shi-chen, Minister of War; Sha Chin-it will be found, I am sure, that in pro ping, Minister of the Navy; and Li portion to its size and having regard to its. peculiar conditions, the Colony has King-shi, Minister of Finance It also reason to be ashamed either of the appoints Cheng Pi-kwang the successor quality or quantity of its contribution of Sha Chip-ping.
to the fighting forces of the Empire.
FOREIGN LOAN.
to the corporal in case of fire. He is to report any case of fight on" when lights should be out. He is to solute all officers; to call out the guard for the Sovereign, general officer, the colonel of the regiment (once a day), and when in- structed to do so, for the orderly officer, once in the day time and once at night. from a distance, and at night-time it was He is to prevent all unauthorised per almost impossible to discern the message sons from entering billets or barracks, which the mixed colours were intended to and he is to order away from the gates convey. The fact that after the end of any woman who may be loitering there. this month the colours will be more dis The guard sleep in the guardroom dur tinctive, such as three white lights, oring their four hours off but, since three green lights, instead of a mixture they may be called out at any hour, they of red, green and white, will be welcome have to sleep in their equipment and news to many, and the same remark must not remove boots or puttees. It is applies to the day signals, which will extraordinary how comfortably one can also be more easily distinguishable. It sleep on the floor. I have slept on wet only remains to hope that the current grass with very little covering and, so which serves the lights over the water to speak, one's ears widely open for the police station at Kowloon will prove sentry's call," Guard turn out??? reliable, and that the apparatus will not The corporal of the guard, must- The danger of a water-famine has be allowed to get out of gear. During periodically visit his sentries and assure the last typhoon season these lights were himself that they are at their posts and disappeared, for the condition of the often visible for one minute and out for awake. He must give the order ** Lights
reservoirs 18 now practically tea, as though worked on the lighthouse out at the proper hour, and is respon
sible for sooing that the lights are put normal. This is very good news, for it principle.
out. In the morning it is his duty to would have been a most uncomfortable
In view of the fact that the war has see that the men are wakened at réveillé, Ni. Sje chung's troops have been with experience to be “rationed" in regard resulted in a serious shortage of paper and that, perhaps, is the most entertain drawn from Tientsin,
to water during the hot season. A few I must protest against the suggestion that ing of his duties for it is comical to people who complain of the condition of see the attitudes into which sleepy men months age the outlook was very gloomy the roads in the Colony should he provid get when they are first wakened. Ten or and the Water Authority was faced with ed with a copy of Mr. Goldsmith's dozen men in a billet-room, all'amoring GENERAL SMUTS ON THE
article on road-making. It might be all more or less, some buried beneath the EMPIRE'S AIR FLEET. some very serious problems. The only very well in peace-time, when paper is blankets, some half out of their beds, people who really suffered any inconveni- abundant, but not now. Newspapers some waking up with a start, others The Imperial Air Committee has
Fleet presented General Smuts with an acre once were the Chinese, hut had the dry are exceedingly hard put to it to keep seemingly incapable of waking at all, up the supply, and, should the suggestion make a laughable spectacle; and when plane on behalf of South Africa, for use season lasted a few weeks longer the referred to be acted upon, I am sure some sleepy-head complains that he has on the Western front. General Binats European population of the Colony knowing the opinions of some people been called at five minutes to six when in accepting the gift, said I am con
about the roads, that the paper supply he ought not to have been called untik vinow that we can combat the submarine would also have found themselves in would receive such a blow that lossl six the corporal can let himself go in menice efficiently I foresee the period Queer Street, and been placed on & water journals might and it impossible to cons asking the sleepy head just how a couple when the Empire's air feet will help to allowance. In such circumstances the tinue. Perhaps the P.WD would not of hundred men scattered over several bind the component parts of the Empire blackest cloud has a silver lining.
regard that as an unalloyed evil. just as to day it is freing un from the érémy,
WAR PRISONERS.
BRITISH DELEGATES AT THE
HAGUE
AMSTERDAM, June 25th The Under Secretary for Foreign Lord. Newton, General Sir H. E. Belfeld and Mr. Justice the foreign banks. Younger have arrived at The Hague to negotiate with German delegates relative to conditions in respect to war prisoners. FOOD CONTROL IN AMERICA,
General Botha added: Would it not bave been far more honest to have said at Vereeniging that they desired to create a new republic as soon as possible. He Affairs, proceeded to point out that the National ists programme of principles specifically recognised Clause 4 of the Act of Union, concerning the Unions relations towards the United Kingdom, a reating of the bond fices of the two nations. Let anyone
PRESIDENT'S POWERS: tell him, the speaker exclaimed, where
NEW YORK, June 25th. their rights had been interfered with or
The House of Representatives has curtailed, and what was the reason of pesed the Food Control Bill empower this republican propaganda The fact ing the President to control the distri- was that they in South Africa had the bation of food, feed and fuel, and for- greatest possible liberties, and as much bidding the use of foodstuffs for the freedom as was obtainable under any making of intoxicants, also authorising republican system
the taking over of all distilled liquora.
The Ministry of Finance is in consulta. tion with a view to raising a loan from
TIENTSIN TROOPS.
various
(Continued at foot of next column.)
RODERICK BANDOM.
billets are to be wakened precisely at six when there is no trumpeter to sound the réveillé !