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THE
WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE,
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CONTINUES.
MANY CAPTURES.
BRITISH ARTILLERY TERRORS.
FOOD RIOTS IN GERMANY.
AFFAIRS IN GREECE.
Branco-Belgian bront
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OFFENSIVE CONTINUES
SUCCESSFULLY.
GREAT BATTLE BEGUN.
PETROGRAD, July 3rd.
The high command of the Armies on the Western Front bek issued an Order of the Day which states that the Army on the south-westward front has defouted enemy, and has broken in his lines.
the
THURSDAY, JULY bra. 1917.
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VISCOUNT
GERMAN ATTACK ON MR.
LLOYD GEORGE
MOVEMENT FOR A GERMAN REPUBLIC.
AMSTERDAM, July 3rd.
The announcement that Dr. Roese Mr. Lloyd George's Glasgow speech has meyer, of Berlin, has established a com
Zeitung, which represents German indas not very much, deceived, it is the break svoked a wild attack in the Weffeljachettee of German republicans at Berne, is news of the very first order. If 1 am.
trialists. The article states. Lloyd of day for all those who love Germany, George becomes narrow minded, malicious and are now forced to take sides against and nuan. He resurts to the most abject the German autocracy and the misguided mens and speaks of indemnities. Yes, D., in the New York Erening Pos). Dr. German people (writes Frank Bohn, Ph. we shall have jademnities. The German who has long been known as an ardent Bloesemeyer is a distinguished journalist, people will hold out until Lloyd George advocate of republicanism in Germany. bends the knee before us."
TION,
JANDON, July 3rd,
Hardinge expressed the opinion that the In the House of Lords, Viscount
Mesopotamia Commission had insufficient A decisive battle bas begun upon whichy given prominence to the unexampled depends the late of the liberty of the fire of India at the outset of the wars Russian people. "Our brothers on the.
and the generosity of her contributions south-western front are advancing vic
of every kind, which had nowessarily ham. turiously. They look to us for prompt pered her operations elsewhare. The re- assistance, and we will not betray the port had inadequately weighed the risks The enemy will hear the thunder of our and preoccupation of the Indian Govern. canon.
I call upon the troops on the ment in 1914 and 1916 in connection with LORD HARDINGE'S EXPLANA. Western Front to put forth all their internal and frontier affairs India'a efforts, otherwise the Russian people who military expenditure before the war have confided in us for the defence of exceeded the maximum fixed, and increas their liberty and honour will cursa us.”
LONDOS, July 3rd. ed in war time beyond a point which his EFFECT OF RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. Anancial advisors considered safe.
In the House of Lords, Lord Curzon said the House had listened to Lord PETEOGRAD, July 3rd.
The Government of India strangly op
Hardinge's statement with the respect due The glorious news of the Russian posed the advance to Bagdad without to his character and position. He asked success has transformed Petrograd. Pes | reinforcements, but the maintenance of the House not to proceed further with portsWe successfully raided westward the offensive in the direction of Zoloche, patriotism has drowned the exploits of of the obvious political advantages and hood of a general discussion in both simism has vanished, and a wave of their veto had not been justifiable in view the matter that day in view of the likeli the anarchists and the mutinous soldiers expediency of captured Bagdad also in Houses during the course of the week. Small attention is paid to-day to the vibe of strong pressure from Home, and outpourings of the invertebrate Interns the unanimity of military opinion in tionaliste.
favour of the advance. The inadequacy If the Russian successes continue, the of the river transport was only revealed
ZURICH, July 3rd, forces of disorder will have
field. when it was too late to make it good,
The Socialist organ Velkerecht reports domonstration. To-day'a manly cheering remedy it. The local military authority Germany, including Stettin, where con days in the capital, anch yesterday's Although everything possible was done to serious food rioting in various parts of for Russia's victory contained a note of, did not raise this as an objection to the siderable damage was done to property. merce to the disgracere of the name of advance. Regarding the medical break
BRITISH RAIDS,
MANY CAPTURES.
PETEOOAD, July 3rd. LONDOS, July 3rd, A wireless Bassian official Inessage Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig Tenounces the successful continuance of
of "Havrincourt and northward of Nicu port, and drove off an attack southward of Cojeb River.
VIOLENT, ENEMY ATTACKS.
FRENCH MAINTAIN POSITIONS
PARIS, July 3rd.
A communiqué saya:-Laat evening, after & bombardment, the Germans made a series of violent nitricks on the trenches
and records the capture yesterday of 6,500 officers and men, 31. guns, 16 machine-guns and several mine throwers, Prisoners continue to come in. South-eastward of Brzezany, offers and 2,200 men were captured on Sunday.
Yesterday, after a severe battle, we
pled Presovo and also strongly furti fied positions on the heights west and south-west of Zherov, and the fortified
as
UNREST IN GERMANY.
He is not a Socialist. But, what is far better for the sucess of his work, he and his group will have the sympathy and the. confidence of the republican Steinlist,
ninority of Germany.
Two months ago Dr. Rosemeyer wrote. me a letter which le succeeded in having smuggled out of Germany. He then in formed me that the time was at last ripe. for activity on the part of the radical. republican group. The foundation of this republican committee furnishes the only immediate for the political Mr. William English Walling in a re- democracy of Germany. As explained by rest article in the Were Tork Times, the coupletely Kaiserized, while the Socialist Socialist
majority of Germany has been minority has not yet ventured to exhibit a mind or soul of its own.
In understanding the war, one fact. above all others in importance is just now becoming evident to all reading people in America: This is not primarily a war of nations. It is a waz of classes. aristocratic, militaristic land-hold class of Germany, in its rulership of Gor- mang, has almost, but not quite, crushed out the class mind and the class instinet of the German intellectuals and middle class, which, seventy-five years ago, were and America. as democratic in Germany as in France Similarly, the junker régime has completely dominated the working class, and inade use of its economic and political organizations for its own purposes.
which we recaptured on both sides of the village of Korshidua. We also penetrated Russia. The national tricolour has been down, which had caused him the deepest : GREEK TROOPS LOYAL TO can committee in Berne marks the rebirth.
Paissy-Ailles rond. A most violent nighthree lines of trenches. The retir.
long struggle onded in the complete defent of the enemy. We maintained all our) positions. The artillery duel increase in intensity at mid-night At Hill 304,
le enemy.
ed across Little Strypa. We captured positions westward of Uzofuvka.
A Zeppelin dropped twelve bombs on Venden.
in the streets, and among the most strik ing incidents of the day was & procession bended by General Russky, with Russian Staff officers are-in-arm with officers of the Allies, marching towards the Minis
in the Arocourt Wood sector, the Gor: STRONG RUSSIAN ATTACKS, try of War and the Marse Place, the
i
mans made an early morning attack on.
n front of 500 metres. Our firs ansied
the assaulting waves, which were unabl to reach our lines
GERMAN NEWS
LONDON, July 3rd
A wireless German oficial message saya-Tan French attacks south-east of Corny broke down,
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SHELL HOLE IN HELL,
LONDON, July 3rd.
A wireless German official message stistes: There has been lively artillery- ing between the Stuckhod and Narajowka New and strong Russian attacks at rzezany failed "heavily,
ENEMY EVACUATING
BRZEZANY
PETROGRAD, July 3rd." The enemy are reported to be evacuat- ing Brzetony, which is invested on three sides. Konukhy is situated ten miles From Brzezany. Units of four Russian armies are co-operating in the Galician
LONDON, July 3rd. Reuters Special Correspondent on the British Front in France gives extracts from a German letter found on the advance, covering a front approximating Messines Ridge dated from "A shell hole 20 miles.
in Hell," "vividly depicting the feelings
troops Wo
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·RUSSIAN - SUCCESSES DESCRIBED.
PETROGRAD, July 2nd.: After capturing the western outskirts of the village Schibaline, and all three lines of the enemy's trenches in the forest of Lischen, they deployed north of the forest, where they entrenched themselves.
of the German troops. We have been fourteen days under a hellish fire day and night. We crouch together in hotea awaiting our doom. The dead here are piled up. All night we lie with our gas masks on as Tommy" fires gas-shells and hundredweights of aerial torpedoes, Trench work is impossible with shrapnel all night. So far our Division is com posed of three regiments. We lost 3,400 in barely three months. We are quite helpless against the British. We cannot Bit or lie down. The big British shells attacking. would craze a lion. Our artillery cannot fire in the day time. We all hope to be made prisoner, otherwise we will all go
Russian Bront.
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LONDON, July.ard.
A German oficia] message says:-The Eighting has increased at Riga and Smorgon. There has been strong artil Jerying in the Middle Stockhod and at Zlotalipa, Russian attacks on the Kovel- Luck railway failed heavily.
The enemy is violently borabarding the forest of Brejany, which we are
Detachments of our division of infantry carried two lines of enemy trenches north. west of Zoinoukhi,
The troops belonging to the Siberian Army Corps have taken two lines of enamy trenches south-west of Potoutory.
Another part of the Army Corps cap- tored the whole of the first and part of the second and third lines of the enemy's trenches east and south-east of Mitchis- ebow.
DURNOVO GARRISON
SURRENDERS.
PETROGRAD, July 3rd. The siege of the Durnovo Villa has ended in the surrender of the garrison of sixty.
After the troops had surrounded the Villa at three in the morning the snar- chists at first refused to surrender, upon which the troops rushed the house.
Headquarters of the Government, at which patriotic speeches were toade from the balcony.
M. Kerensky, the hero of the hour, sees his portrait corried in front of many processions,
OFFENSIVE DEVELOPING
FAVOURABLY
PETROGRAD, July 3rd." The Government has received news that
pain and sorrow, ho confessed that he had been completely deceived by mislead; ing reports from the front, but the moment he knew the truth he made overy effort to remedy this.
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RACIAL TROUBLE IN AMERICA WHITE MEN SHOOT NEGROES. NEW YORK, July 3rd.
A labour dispute has led to serious racial trouble. East of St. Louis negroes killed a policeman. A crowd of whites caught two negroes whom they shot and killed The crowd was most aggressive and wrested arms from the Militia to
NEW KING.
ATHENS, July 3rd
Regiment, took the oath of allegiance to The garrison, including the Cretan
King Alexander.
The formation of the German republi of the German political democracy. We in America must welcome this movement, and support it by all the means in our power. Let me suggest the organization at once of a committee of German repub-
support Dr. Rosemeyer and his group licans in every American city. Such Ger man advocates of German freedom can in many ways. They can educate, such Germans in America as still support the ance, they can help prepare the mind of Kaiser. What is of far greater import- America and of the Allied countries, as well as the policies of the Allied Govern- arents, for the work of making a tasting peace. A peace which does not abolish the Hohenzollerns and the junker party: out of Germany is unthinkable to all ad- vocates of democracy. However little hope for the cause of German freedom may now result from surface appearances, we know that the democracy of Germeny will wax stalwart the moment the Ger man army and the German Government are overthrown from the outside. But ste History has shown that revolutions are in high time that the organization of the German political democracy be placed in
M. Venerelos was must enthusiastically received. The Premier thanked the po pulace for its loyalty.
The Salonike troops also took the oath. General Papoules has requested to be placed on the retired list,
won by
REVOLUTIONS.
the offensive on the South-Western Front attack the negroes, who were well armed one in classes who join to pust the the way to grow and do its work. Let
is developing absolutely favourably.
Naval Activities.
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ARGENTINE STEAMER
PIRATED.
LONDON, July 3rd. It is officially learned that the Argen- tine steamer Tore was sunk by gun-fire in the Atlantic, outside the German war zonej on June 22nd. Evidence of the steamer's nationality was demonstrated to the submarine Commander prior to the sinking. The cargo consisted of wool, destined for Switzerland.
were
A French steamer picked up fourteen of the crew in a life-boat. The Captain and the remainder of the crew landed at a port on the 2nd inst General,
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IMPORTANT ESPIONAGE CASE
LONDON, July 3rd. The Press Bureau announces that Alfred Hage (3), a Norwegian, has been arrested in London on a charge of espionage on behalf of Germany.
The case is regarded as of grave import ance and will be dealt with by court martial.
POTATOES,
London, July ard. Lord Rhondda has abolished the potato, restrictions in connection with restaur
anta.
In East Galicia the battle continues to go forward across the heights on the west bank of the Strypa Russian masses
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THE TOBACCO DUTY Consequence of the gap made in our lines
LONDON, July 3rd. the previous day. Russian attacka at The anarchists threw bombe, but they In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Koniuchy broke down before our new did not explode.
Law announced that the increased tobacco positions. The enemy did not repeat the One member of the garrison committed duty would be halved from the 18th inst attacks against the heights of Biszary,
Búcide.
on the cheaper grades.
MILITARY CONTROL SITUATION,
LATER
The latest advices from St. Louis state that the mob shot and killed at least fifteen negroes as they fled from the barn ing houses..
The flames threaten the business district, The damage already done is estimated at $3,000,000,
The mobs were temporarily unmanage able, but the military now has control of the situation.
ed.
Three hundred whites have been arrest.
power The French revolution was won by a combination of the middle and lower class against the fristnernes The reform bill of 1532 in England, which was a sort of English revolution, was won in a similar manner. As to the revolutions all through Europie in 1848, wherever they succeeded it was because of such a combination; wherever they failed it was because the combination did not hold.
uy actieto ourselves to that
Long our most steadfast
is this
of ardent German publicans, iuslading & armall but growing the first division of the Allied armies misority of the German Socialists, When finds itself upon German soil, the forces of the revelation in Germany must be Then, with the Kaiser defented, dethron prepared to meet it and make peace.
sared that political freedom will be per ed, and placed in exile, we shall be as- manently established in Germany.
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It is necessary, of course, to confine all our organised efforts outside of Germany to Gemians and the descendents of Cer The revolution of 1005 in Russia failed
The world outside of Germeny Forty negroes and six whites were taken for the reason that the working class, may be saved from militarism by force of to hospital.
encouraged by the crumbling of aristors and by their own democracies cracy after the Russo-Japanese war, hadaved from the living death of Kaiserism. within each nation, but Cermany can be become socialistic and determined to have only by the political revolution to establish demo group of Germans who love democracy, two revolutions at the same time, a Barely there are in New York city
Germans. themselves. cracy and a social revolt to establish or the one hand, and Germany, on the socialism. This frightened the middle other, enough to organize their forces class into going over to the side of auto now. The foundation of such a movement cracy, and the revolution was suppressed in America will make it possible for us Milyukoff in 1905 had tried to keep the to say in truth It is not Germany we classes together, He failed for the reason barbarian aristocrats in Germany, such Bre aghting, bu a class of mediaeval, just stated. This time he seemed at first to bave succeeded, but the outcome still were cast out of the place of power in hangs in the balance. Will the working 189, but who, because of the peculiar con- England in 1649, expelled from France in classes be moderate in their demands tortions of German history have been able Will the two classes combine to fight the to deceive and misrule the German people invader? Under modern conditions of until now. standing armies popular uprisings are doomed to failure unless they secure the Society of Young Germany,
Our organization might be called the SOUTH | support of the troops All successful re Society of Forty-eight. The
or tbre volts in recent times have been primarily society begins its work in America the day that due to the active aid of the army, as was situation will be much clarified. It will the case in the Portuguese, the Chinese, direct the war hatred of America upon the Turkish, the Persian and now the that chasin tierny which deserve to Russian revolution, Where the army was be hated, and help save the German hostile they failed, as was the case in people from the well-nigh universal corn the Russian revolt of 1905, which was put to which it is now being subiected. down by the troops in spite of the fact that they were discredited and even Fis organised by the defeats in the war thLL-TREATMENT OF NORWEGIANS Japan
U.S. LOANS TO BRITAIN,
WASHINGTON, July 3rd. The United States has lent Great Britain another five millions sterling. making a total of £117,000,000,
REPUBLICANISM IN
AFRICA.
MR HERTZOG REPUDIATES
RESPONSIBILITY
CAPE TOWN, July 3rd Mr Hertzog, the leader of the ant Government Dutch Party, repudiates re- sponsibility for the Republican agitation and advises the abandonment of the pro posed Conference at Philippolis, in the Free State, for the furtheranos of the
The main reasons why the Russian army The seizure of the Norwegian steamer backed up the Russian revolutions are Carnitty by the Germans is described by first that it was primarily a patriotic one of the survivors of the outrage. The affair and consequently appealed to the vessel was taken with corn for the Belgian soldiers. Then the terrific slaughter of Relief Committee, but when she was the first year of the war had thinned the stopped in the North Sea the anbmarine ranks of the officers, who had come mostly commander refused to recognise the It is understood that the Conference from the aristocratic ranks of society German safe conduct. He ordered the will be abandoned.
movement
REGULATING COTTON
SPECULATION.
WASHINGTON, July 3rd- Lord Northelife has submitted to the American Government & plan to regulate speculation in cotton fatuies,
To is understood that the British Government is soeking to co-ordinate measures to check the wild movements in prices in New York
The new officers had, of necessity, to be crew of twenty-three into two small boats, recruited from the mir le classes, who in and they were allowed no supplies. A Ger- Russia are inclined to liberty if not to man prize crew took the Carnitta to radicalism, To a large extent therefore Germany the army had become bourgeois instead of aristocratic
Five of the occupants of one of the Carnitta's boats died. Two of the corpses. But again the question remains, Will remained in the boat, as the survivors. the army fight If not the revolution were too weak to throw them overboard. fails
All suffered terribly during their six A similar revolution is not likely in the Two subsequently died, and it was.
days buffeting with the wind and wea Germany, because all classes of the necessary to amputate both legs of the German people have been so militarised, remainder owing to gangrene having set. other country, that even were the German died from starvation. Some fell out and to an extent that does not prevail in any in. Four occupants of the other bost army officered by the middle classes it were drowned, The few who survived tammer and spirit would still be aristo were balf dead in the bottom of the buat cratic
when picked up.