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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, JULY 16г, 1917.
(THROUGH RCUTER'S AGESOX.]
SPEECH BY MR. BALFOUR.
GERMANY ENGAGED IN A
DEFENSIVE WAN.
LONDON, July 13th.
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THE BATTLE IN BELGIUM. ›| DUTCH OPINION OF GERMANY.
ITS EXAGGERATED IMPORTANCE.
LONDON, July 14th... Reuter's Correspondent at British Headquarters graphically describes stories of the German attack on our new front in Belgium on July 10th, to which, be incidentally remarks, home military orities manifestly attach an exaggerated Importance. The secue of the fighting is
AMSTERDAM, July 1h The opinion is growing in Holland that the German Government itself in sifp porting the Democratic agitation with a view to obtaining peace.
U.S. SILVER PURCHASE.
NEW YORK July 13th: American bankers have purchased from the Mining Corporation of Canada 200,000 ounces of silver at 89/18 The bigliest recent price in New York was 801
** TRENCH-FEET" AND "SHELL
* SHOCK."
In a recent issue of The Canadian Magazine hero is a capital article on With Canadians from the Front," by Lacey Amy, in which War Infirmities and Therapeutic Marvels are specially deals with. Remarking that in the old days oly stand-up fighting, of mere guns and
The heavy foreign demand con- there was small incentive to advanch s
tinnes. UNIVERSAL DEMOCRATISA-
TION.
: ཿ། ANSTERDAY, July 13th. In the Lower House of the Hungarian Diet, M. Karolyi declared that the first requisite condition of peace was the demo,
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3. Balfour, at the Mansion House, in replying to the King's congratulatory 99 address on the success of his visit to America, said that it was interesting, and almost amusing? to a cynic, to observe how Germans
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The enemy artillery swelled in on suzinous uproar early on July 10th,
directed against
KRuss 600 yards of
front-line-arenches, parallel with the Eastera ser. After an hour, guns were directed on the support trenches, an hour inter the crampling ground west of the river, and then shortened to the first age. The enemy repeated the methodi- cal bombardment, largely assisted by grent burial activity. Our guns were meanwhile thundering in reply. "During. the morning, the German sells destroyed bridges across the Yser between the sea and Nieuport Lock destroying the possibility of reinforcing the front line.
the time when Germany should be crushed and that at the present time hordes of Kungry plunderers were attacking this innocens, peace-loving nation for par poses of aggrandisement. That was the legend now being spread in Germany and neutral countries. A rucre preposterous and ludicrous doctrine was not conceiv- able. Let anyone who wanted to know the spirit animating Germany before and
The Germans advanced concentrically during the first months of the war read along the seashore. Our ranks were now the German leading articles, and, above so thinned that the defence consisted of a sunfl detached handful of men. They put all, study the German preachers of that up a magnificent fight against overstelm date. But he would give a concrete in- ing odds, particularly the King's Royal Rifles and Northamptons. A party of stance. When it dawned on German bombers and another of flamethrowers attacked a tunnel in which were the Head- statesmanship that Britain would noi
quarters of the Royal Rifles, sheltering allow France to be crushed, it tried to
from the bombardiment. The last seen hore was a party of live officer, standing | buy off Britain by impudently suggesting back to hack. Men were pressed back to They plunged in and that if Germany were allowed a free hand the river bank.
BATH Retoss. One soldier amid a bail of she would guarantee that French Euro-bullets swam ncross and fetched a rope. He secured the end and then re-swam the distaner, establishing a means whereby many who were unable to swim escaped. The Germans muude a position for their
of our positions and swept the ground.
Other instances of the glorious spirit of our men are told. The fight concluded at seven o'clock. The enemy did not con sider it safe fully to take advantage of the success they had won. They limited themselves to try and consolidate our old support trench, some hundreds of yards past of the Yeer bank" their existence has not been a happy one. since.” KING ALFONSO ON SPAIN'S ATTITUDE:
MR:"CHAMBERLAIN DEFENDS.
LORD HARDINGE.
Loyoos, July, 43th.. During the Mesopotamian; debue in the House of Commons, Mr. Chamberlain, referring to the earlier move towards Bagdad, warmly repudiated the charge that Ministers, for politient reasons, deli herately sent the men on gamble. He defended Lord Hardinge against whom the gravest allegation was that he trusted military affairs too im plicitly to the military advisers sent to
him.
The debate was adjourned.
A hazardous
A STATUTORY TRIBUNAL In the House of Commons, when the Mesopotamian debate drew to a close in the evening, Mr. Bilfour announced that the Government would adopt the niter- native proposal mentioned by. Attorney-General for a Statutory Tri. bunal.
GREAT BRITAIN AND FOODSTUFFS.
SUCCESS OF NATIONAL FOOD ECONOMY.
the
pean territory would not be diminished. The natural question asked was :-" What
tely do you mean? Will yop guaran- machine guns around the former, right Britain will be able to claim that they
tee the French Colonies? No," was the German reply: we will not guaran te that. Byen a child could see what that meant---uamely, that a victorious Germany might impose any indemnity and any Commercial Treaties and, in addition to making France helpless and subservient, all the French Colonies were
to be at Germany's disposal.
That, aided the speaker, is all on re- cord; let us hear no inore of Gerisany fighting only for self-defence. Germany would never be able in our lifetime to shake off the load of hatred and disgust which not merely her aims but her methods excited. (Cheers.).
The result had been that one free country after another had thrown in their lot with us. So I think it will go on to the end, which near or far is inevit able, for the world will not bow the knee to the ideal of kultur domination.
Mr. Balfour concluded by emphasising the incalculable moral and material. strength of the assistance of the United States, who desired no share is any operations excupt those in the centre and hourt of the great storm. (Cheers.)
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surgical methods and practically none fo new medical ideas, the writer goes on to SLY that with the arrival of trench waff
THE SILVER MARKET. ⠀⠀fare everything altered from the train-
ing of the soldier to his ailments and? treatment. For instance:-
LONDON, July 19th.
Whoever heard of trench-shins or Silver is quoted at dog. There a Contrench-fest" before this wit! Or 62 tinental and other demand. The market is steady.
Franco-Belgian Front.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]'
BRITISH FRONT
BRITISH RAID TRENCHES.
LONDON, July 13th...... Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports :—We raided trenches to the south
of Hulluch and to the south-east of Ypres
shell-shock" And even phritis and- rheumatism and hernia, while illnesses - of peace, have become much more the ill- missed of the style of Warfare în Flanders and France. Trenershins may sound like a flippant name for an unimportant ailment, but to the sufferer it is tempor- arily a bad nu a Horious wound and loss enger to respond to treatment. In reality: it is a form of chenmatiera that attacks the lower part of the leg in painful form, due to standing in mud and water. It is us incapacitating in time as a shrapnel wound Shell-shock is more descrip tive, but fails utterly in the indefiniteness of its application; for "shell-shock me range from a more mental surrender, the moment to staring madness or f plete, and everlasting paralysis.
The writer's observations on shell-shi these who maintain that fifty per d will be read with interest. There
We repulsed raids to the south-east of of the soldiers, even including those
from it:
Gavrelle, in the neighbourhood of the Ypres-Comines. Canal and to the east of Nieuport
FRENCH FRONT.
LIVELY ARTILLERY STRUGGLE.
PARIS, July 13th. communiqué states The artillery struggle"" was : particularly active during the night in the regions of St. Quentin, Pantheon and on both banks of the Mause.
Russian Front.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE RUSSIAN FRONT-
MORE CAPTURES.
the trenches, suffer to some slight ext
In its last serious recognised form may go no further than a slight trembli under excitement perħajís a profuse p Sparation. Sufferers by the thousan have been temporarily relieved of tren life for nothing more than a startle shrinking at the sound of a gun. It h been found that it is tuch better to give the sufferer n'élance to recover from the. first slight symptoms than to leave it until months of cutefal treatment is required. A slightly more advanced stage: in some is the perspiration that breaks out, the debilitating effects of which anyone can appreciate
the guns. In some cases it, may come Of course, shell shock is the result of
from the more overwhelming roar itself, As anyone may have felt the mental irrital tion caused by the uproar in a stumping mill. But usually the physical condition of the soldier protects him until the shelle begin to urowd him in quantities that leave him no time for recovering his poise, But the event of bombardment that claims it shell-shock victims by the score all along a much-tráfed line is. being buried by the earth thrown up by an exploding shell. Very few cases of shell-shock have I encountered that were not induced by this terrifying experience. or started on their way by it".
LONDON, July 13th. Referring to the treatment of shell- Bhock the writer says that there are A wireless Russian officia! report special hospitals devoted to its curn, for states:-During Wednesday's battles weit has been found that the treatment it demanded could not be administered in captured 10 officers and 850 men, mostly the ordinary hospital, nor could the dis- caso be studied save by those whose atten- Germans, and five heavy guns and ten
tion was undiverted by the other injurien of the war. In a convalescent home, situated in the midst of a large garden. work in the garden produced wonderful results... The conclusion arrived at is that, 15 the engine of destruction amplifies, the problem of conservation and physical, salvation grows with it and goes even beyond it."
LONDON, July 13th. Mr. Lloyd George has written to the Chairman of the National War Savings Committee thanking him for his efforts and paying a tribute to the success of national food economy. He adds that he has every hope that the people of Great accomplished by their own free will what the people of other countries could only achieve by complusion. What the Com mittee had done #as illustrated by the figures in the reduction of the consump tion of bread Thus, the Paddington | machine-guns, consumption dropped by from twenty five to thirty per cent. in two months: the Willesden bread sales for the week ending May 19th were 481,830lbs, as com. | pared with 390,404lbs, for the week ending June End. At Brighton, the bread con sumption was twenty per cent, less and at Reading twenty-five per cent. Ports- mouth reports that 180,540lbs. Tess bread were sold in the last week of May than in the last week of April and a further LONDON, July 14th
reduction of 78,940lbs, was achieved dur King Alfonso, interviewed by a Dailying June. nne 2 Represe correspondent, emphasised that Spain must be neutral to the end, unless attacked. He said Spain's relations with Britain and France were excellent, add- ing,
MUST REMAIN NEUTRAL TO THE END.
We are able to supply them with nessary material. If England could/ send us, coal and the United States: cotton, everything would be perfect.": Some Spaniards admired the pre-war re- putation of the German Army, but the pro-Germans were in no wise anti-Ally. He hoped that Britain next year would import oranges and relieve the distress of the Valencia growers.
Referring to the crisis, King Alfonso said that Spain was suffering from finan cial indigestion. Some Spaniards were while others had suffered severely. This situation was complicated by the patrio tic mavement in the Army, which wants to see the money which Parliament voted for the Army utilised in the best pos- sible manner.
SIR EDWARD CARSON.
GENERAL KORNILOFF'S NEW OBJECTIVE.
PETROGRAD, July 13th. Now that the River Lomnitza has been crossed, the eyes.
of General Kornilof's Cossacks are turned to the great railway centre of Stry:
Two distinct movements are proceeding | one to the north behind Holisz, and the other on the Upper Luvka, in the direc tion of Delina, for the purpose of cover-
LONDON, July 18th. Several papers state that Sir Edwarding the former Caraon will probably enter the War Cabinet, relinquishing his post at the Admiralty.
IRISH PROCESSIONS.
LONDON, July 13th. processions The Twelfth of July
wers affairs. No Bags were carried in Belfast, where religious services replaced the cus tomary speeches,
Replying to the toast of his health, Mr. Balfour said the Treaty of Berlin secured a temporary peace, but its charnost prosperous as a result of the war,resumed in Ulster, but they were quiet actor was artificial, because it did not tako into account the great populations concerned. The next great congress would not be held in Berlin, and would bave a happier result than the congresses at Berlin and Vienna, for the territorial arrangements of Europe will carry with them peace and permanent security, be cause it would be based upon the will of free peoples.
KAISER AND REFORMS.
CONCESSION TO THE PEOPLE.
The Army, said His Majesty, also de manded to be modernised but it was
OBITUARY.
MR. P. O'BRIEN, M.P. true, that its discipline and loyalty were impaired. Another complication
LONDON, July 13th. Was Catalonia's demand for a sort of Home Rule. The Government were pre- This death is announced of Mr. Patrick pared to discuss Catalan demands when O'Brien, M.F., who has represented legally made and also to satisfy the Kilkenny as Nationalist member since justified demands of other parts of 1895. Spain but the crisis cannot be settled before the end of the war. He believed that the war would long continue, but it was impossible for him to offer mediation after the declaration of Mr. Lloyd George and M. Ribot. He was of opinion that the cause of the war was an immense upheaval in all countries, and that in future Governments must lean towards
AMSTERDAM, July 13th. The Kaiser has made an important con cession to the democratic agitation. He has ordered that an Equal Franchise Bill shall be submitted to the Prussian Dict in time to enable the next elections to be hold in accordance with the new frana Socialist character, similar to the chise, thus modifying his previous deci sion that the reforms should only operate after the ware
DISMISSAL OF ALL MINISTERS ADVISED.
British state of Socialism. He regretted that reformers in Spain who were former. ly pro Monarchist now sided with the Republicans, saying he belonged to a past age, but he asked if there was a mors modern King than himself. He looked to the future with confidence.
SUSPENDED,
A telegram from Berlin says that the Crown Prince attended the second Crown, PORTUGUESE CONSTITUTION Council meeting on Wednesday, The fact that the Kaiser summoned him is regarded as proving that the Kaiser has consented to a change in the Constitution,
LISBON, July 14th. The Constitution has been suspended. It is stated that the Minister, Herr There are no details yet available. Leobell, advised the Kaiser to dismiss all the Ministers in order to give the new Chancellor a free hand. This led to the report that Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg was resigning. It appears that certain
GERMAN COAL STRIKES.
ZURICH, July 14th. In the Reichstag, Herr Helferich dis Ministerial posts will be divided among closed the fact that one of the principal the different parties instead of among the causes of the coal crisis was due to the
bureaucrats,
miners' strikes,
A FAMOUS JOCKEY.
LONDON, July 13th. The death is announced of the famous old-time jockey, Tom Canion, sen.
BYE-ELECTION.
LONDON, July 13th In the South Monmouth bye-election, Sir Garrod Thomas (Liberal) received 6,769 votes, and Mr. Pardoe Thomas (In- dependent) 727,
COTTON STOCKS,
MANCHESTER, July 13th.
It is understood that a consus of stocks of cotton in spinners' hands re- veals the fact that the quantity is lower than was supposed. It is probable that the Cotton Control Board will recom mend the curtailment of the production of the mills to four days a week This will directly affect 100,000 operatives.
YOUNG MAN "BROUGHT UP
AS A GIRL
STRANGE POLICE DISCOVERY IN SEARCHING FOR A DESERTER...
Whilst the Carnarvon police were searching for a deserter from the Army they accidentally discovered a youth. 20 years of age, who, it is averred, has pissed all his life as a girl on teach
Very diligent search had been made in the district for the deserter, but all
... It is believed that the defences of Ler- berg are strong on the east and north east, but weaker on the south.
Meanwhile German attack on the efforts to trave him had failed. He was northern front is expected..
Naval Activities.
(THROUGH REDZER'S AGENCY.]
NAVAL CASUALTIES.
- LONDON, July 13th. The following Naval casualties aro announced --
suspected of wearing woman's clothing. and amongst the cróvil of holiday-makers at Carnarvon Police Sergeant Owen noticed a young woman of masculine appearance, fashicuably dressed, talking to another young woman, He straight way challenged her with being the desertor: My name is Dorn Lewis was the indignant reply, but the sergeant was nol Entisfed: He saw in the face | evidence of shaving, though the hair was long and arranged like a woman's. A isit to the police station established the fact that the "young woman" was a man, though not the deserter wanted
It is reported that Lewis told the police that he was born in London and that when three months old he was removed to his grandparents at a farm nex Car narvon. He was christened as 2 Dorn at the local parish church, attended school,
Wounded-Lieut. Athol E. Gudgeon, Naval Reserve; Lieut. George E. Turner, Naval Volunteer Reserve saadaketa
Slightly wounded ---Flight Sub-Liautas a girl, and was treated by the attend- John C. Tanner, R.N.
The following: Naval Division casual- ties are announced: --Wounded-Sub Lieut. Stanley M. Pettitt, Bub Lieut. Bergard Elphicke, Sub, Lieut. Ronald M. Pym all of the Naval Volunteer Resorve
FRENCH SHIPPING.
PARIS, July 13th. During the week ended July 6th there were 1,067 arrivals and 1,000 sailings, The sinkings were three vessels above and one below 1,600 tons. Ning vessels were unsnccessfully attacked.
ance officers and everybody else as such.
When his grandfather who in over 80, years of ago was informed by the police of the discovery he expressed great. surprise and said there had surely been a mistake.
⠀⠀⠀ Further inquiries are being made by the polles, Meantime, the principal person concerned has donned masculine clothing, and has been reported to the military authorities.
MORE GERMAN INTRIGUE.
The existence of an extraordinary plot against conscription has been discovered, and as a result 11 persons have been arrested in Texas and Virginia. A society formed in Virginia for the FRENCH SHIPPING LOSSES. steasible purpose of co-operative buying,
had its headquarters in a mountain fast ness, and its members were bound to secrecy Backed by German money, it planned the morder of the registration officials and a revolt against the Govern ment. The authorities announce that the met arrested were dealt with and promptly punished
PARIS, July 13th
The shipping losses and accidents in 1916, accounted for 275,006,000 tons, po compared with a pre-war annual average
of 600,000 tons.