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THE WAR.
HEAVY FIGHTING IN THE WEST,
VIOLENT ENEMY ATTACKS.
CRISIS
IN GERMANY,
FATE OF BETHMANN HOLLWEG.
RUSSIANS STILL PROGRESSING.
Franco-Helgian bront.
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GERMAN CLAIMS.
LONDON, July 15th.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1917.
A German official wireless message states:-There has been violent artillery ACTIVITY ON BRITISH FRONT firing along the coast and between
AERIAL RAIDS.
LONDON, July 15th. Field-Marshal Bir Douglas Haig re ports:-There has been reciprocal artil
German real CLIP.
en Saturday, despite thunderstorms, and valuably co-operated with the artillery. We brought down three German machines and drove down two. Five of ours are
missing.
Boesinghe and Wytschnete, near Ypres and Leens, and astride the Scarpe,
We repulsed English advances near Gavrelle, to the cast of Croisilles, near Bullecourt.
We captured important positions on
350 prisoners.
We held the objectives
THE KING HONOURS FRENCH GENERALS,
APARIS, July 15th:
The King, during his visit to the front, conferred the honour of G.C.B on General Petain, and that of G.C.M. on General Franchet de Sperey..
"EARLIER CABLES.
ROYAL VISIT TO FRANCE AND BELGIUM:-
HIS MAJESTY'S CONFIDENCE IN
VICTORY.
LONDON, July 15th.
Their Majesties the King and Queen returned last evening. They have becu twelve days in France and Belgium,
King George and the Prince of Wales went to the Front, while Queen Mary, who was on her first visit to Franco since the war, inspected hospitals
STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE.
PETROGRAD, July 10th. The Soldiers' and Workmen's Delegates have convoked an International Socialist Conference at Stockholm for August 15th. THE GREEK PARLIAMENT.
ATHENS, July 14th." Parliament meets on July 7th,
KERENSKY
THE NEW RUSSIAN WAR'
MINISTER.
[BY ISAAC F, MARCOSSON.] (Mr. Marcusson, the distinguished Ameri- can journalist, who is now in London, was among the first to reach Petrograd after the outbreak of the Revolution. There he mot M. Kerensky, one of the men who made the Revolution" and the man who has not been appointed Minister of War.]
Alexander Kerensky is the Lloyd George of the Russian Revolution-and when I say that I say everything. If ever
Their Majesties visited the King and Queen of the Delgious and were enter tained to luncheon by President Poincare.
The Special Order issued by Hisan individual in a great crisis was a man Majesty the King, on the conclusion of A week before the Revolution broke out
of destiny, Kerensky is that man. his fourth visit to the British Armies in his name was scarcely known in Petro lerying in the neighbourhoods of Armen-Chemin-des-Dames, to the south-east of the field, continues:-Your comrades, grad Four days after the city bad tieres, Wytschatte and Nieuport. Our Courtecon, on a front of fifteen hundred men and women at home, claim your ridden the red tides of Revolution his seroplanes on Friday night bombed four metres, to a depth of three hundred.remembranes of their untiring service in name was on every tongue important railway stations and a large The enemy desperately resisted in a hand-belping you to meet the enemy on terms Kerensky is the infant (if not eajant
They also bombed to-hand fight.
not merely equal but deily improving. | terrible) of the Cabinet, for he is barely an aerodrome and on ammunition dump against three counter-attacks and took It was a great plesure for Her Maiests 1.33. He was born in Simbirak, where his the Queen to accompany me and to be-school. He studied law in Petrograd and inther way principal of the local high come personally aequainted, with the
became assistant to a excellent arrangements for the care of
commissioner of Qaths there. At school, he was noted the sick and wounded, whose welfare is for his ready speech and his fervid ora- ever close to her heart. The Empire's
tory. When he began his law practice he armies and workers in the Homeland immediately allied himself with the daring the past three years have risen Labour Party and often defended his the old reactionary An enemy attack on Hill 304, on the superior to every trial. The splendid colleagues when
these already gained, in co-operation Government clapped them into prison for
with our gallant Allies, have advanced the slightest offence. us well towards the completion of the task we undertook. There are doubtless fieree struggles to come and heavy strains on our endurance to be borne, but, be the road before us long or short, the spirit of pluck which has brought you far will never fail, and, under God's guidance, the final and complete victory of our just cause is' assured.
After four days' artillery fire, the French attacked from south of Hauray to south-east of Moranvilliers, but the assault was substantially repulsed. The enemy pentrated in a few places at FRENCH ORGANISE POSITIONS] Hichberg und Poehlberg. The fighting is
proceeding.
PARIS, July th
A communiqué says:- The artillery left bank of the Meuse, reached struggle has slackened west of Cerry and trenches hat collapsed. Champagne. We organised positions cap-Russian Front. tured last night north of Monthout and i Teton.
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HEAVY
FIGHTING.
FIERCE GERMAN ATTACKS.
LONDON, July 5th.
A Paris communiqué reports fighting in Courey, where a German attack was repulsed, and lively artillery firing at numerous points along the front.
PARIS, July 15th.
A communiqué states: After several hours of drumfire, the Germane Jast even- ing heavily attacked our salient to the west of Cerny.
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THE OFFENSIVE,
GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED.
PETROGRAD, July 15th. The Germans strongly counter attacked Kalusz on the 11th instant, being support- ed by an armoured train and motor-ears, They re-occupied the town, but were again expelled with heavy losses, after sanguin- avy bayonet fighting in houses,
The Russians took a few prisoners. The Gerumns awed-explosive bullets.
MANY MORE PRISONERS, LONDON, July 15th.
A Russian officiel wireless message
A violent ught, characterised by alter-states:We repulsed several attacks in nating advances and retreats, continued the south-west of Kaluga, agažast the Dubrovdiany-Novica Front. We took all night.
Despite the employment of large effec-prisoner 10 cfficers and 600 men.
As a result of the series of stubborn at
tacks in the region of Lodziany, we drove out the Austrians from their positions and took prisoner over 1,000. captured a number of guns.
We also
POLITICAL SPLIT IN
• GERMANY.
IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR'S FATE.
AMSTERDAM, July 14th. During a sitting of the Main Committee
sp of the Reichstag, a Socialist member protested against the absence of Herr von Bethmann Hollweg and Helfferich.
When, the Revolution began Kerensky leaped to the front. He had participated in many secret meetings of the revolu tionary workinen held during the past
that the first reaf organised movement of year, and it was out of these meetings
the Revolution developed.
But with
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
{BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NGOI SAN PO."]
ACTING PRESIDENT RESIGNS.
SHANGHAI, July 16th, Feng Kagehang lag resigurd the position of Acting-President,
A Mandate appoints Wang Tu-Asien. Alinister of Foreign Affairs; Tan Chi- sui. Minister of War; Liu Kwan-bung. Minister of the Navy, and Sha Chen- chun, Inspector of Inshore. It also dis misses Chang Chen-fang, Lee Hen-chyn and Feng Lin-kas, and delivers them to the Court,
"Lak Wing-ting has wired to Feng Kus chang and Tan Chi-sui demanding mili- tary expenses.....
TuoteH AUTER'S AGENCY.]
CRITICAL SITUATION AT CHENGTU,
SHANOUAI. July 15th.
A telegrain from Mienyang states that fighting broke out at Chengtu on the oth
troops. Fires broke out in the city, and instant. between Szechuan and Kweichow
the situation is most critical,
Most of the foreigners at Chengtu me at present in the hill resorts.
PÉKING CASUALTIES.
PERING, July 15th.
The casualties in the fighting on the 13th instant were light compared with the numbers engaged and the expenditure of ammunition, amounting to ten soldiers killed and 30 wounded, and 20 civilians killed.
The situation is quiet.
GERMAN MAN-POWER.
A STRIKING ANALYSIS.
Renter's eorrespondent at Headquar teds, examining the Germinu man-power, concludes: At the beginning of 1990 the
AUSTRIANS AND PEACE. SOCIALISTS' PROPOSALS.
NO ANNEXATIONS.
The delegation of the German Socialist party in Austrin, which is visiting Stock- holm, has declared that in its opinion the general cause of the war was Imperialism, but that national questions had on oeca- sion been used as pretexts. Nationalists were intermingled in the Centre, Enst, and Sainth-East of Europe that no territorial delimitation was possible, and ́any attémpt: to effect one would only give rise to fresh conflicts, Even wher nationalities could be separated ṣusk a policy would only call into existence a congeries of small States, whos, constitu- tion would endanger their political and economic development. The disintegra- tion of the existing great States would only serve the vicious Imperialistic aima of other Stnies. For these reasons the delegation declared itself in favour of national autonomy. the realisation of which, however, ought, in conformity with the resolutions of the Basle Congress, to be the work of the nationalities them- selves. The delegation further declared:
1. That it desined pence without- annexations.
2. That it held all the Governments objectively responsible for the war, but wished to put aside the question of blame, and held that a general peace should be conclude without, any war indemnities.
3-That it was opposed to the annexu tion of Belgium, and was in favour of the independence of Serbia, for which access to the son might perhaps be scentred by its reunion with Montenegro,
4.That the other Balkan States should' cune to an understanding for the setti ment of their relations in such a way as to realise the metto, "The Balkans for the Balkan peoples."
5. That the South Slav countries and the crown provinces of Austria-Hungary should remain an integral part of the Empire, but that Socialists were bound to give their support to un autonomous polity for these people.
That Finland and Russian Pelan should be independent, while the Poles in Russian Galicia should obtain com plete autonomy within the boundaries of Austria and Germany; that the Ruthent- ans should be treated in the same way; ut that a permanent solution of the Polish problem for the future may be looked for in a free understanding of the two Central Powers with Russian Poland established as an independent State.
That as a reply to the assertions that the present war is war for the liberation of small nationalities, it is.
sufficient to point out that the Austrian
tion of small nationalities,
renched its maximum effective the advent of revolution these sentire civilian labour last winter possibly strength. Compulsory mobilisation of dark emerged as the dow famous Council brought the army numbers at the begin-State has been favourable to the preserva- bodies of mere who had-plotted in the of Labour, which has been the thorn inning of the 1917 campaign to the same the flesh of the Provisional Government. Although bound to Radicalism by virne toful as at the corresponding period of of birth conviction, and association, by 1916, but failed to replace the reduction proved himself to be a constructive statesnian of the first rank when dissen-
of fighting efficiency. sion arose in Russia's new-found freedom.
EXTREMISTS STAYED,
The number of divisions is perhaps It was Kerensky and his colleaguebuttalions is lower. This is demonstrated harger now, but the quality of the Tekkeidzu who formed the link between in the development of the policy of the rabid Hadicals and the Duma when relying on small forces of highly trained the New Liberty trembled in the balance gladiators for carrying out diffeult The Dams at the outset find the ideal operations. It is certain that the Civil of a Constitutional Government and Mobilisation Act enabled the memy to Herr Regent; the Council of Workinen shrieked raise his numbers to the highest point, not only for the Czar's life but for but no wore contingents from industry red and * rampant Republic. In the very hour that schism was imminent
ar from agriculture are now available. stemmed the tide and secured the sup, Kerensky, by his impassioned oratory, port of the Council of the Duma Con- mittee which was the nucleus of the Pro- visional Government,
It was explained that Herr von Beth- mann Hollweg was absent unavoidably, but that he, Herr Helfferich and other Ministers were prepared to answer ques tions,
From the moment that the first shot was fired Kerensky was in the thick of This was considered unsatisfactory, and things. He has all the Lloyd George the Committee adjourned.
seuse of the dramatic, and he is a great stage-manager for spectacular effect. Aanong other things he did, he made himself personally responsible for the safety of the Royal Family, for Stürmer. and for Protopopoli.
of the treaty of peace especial attention 5. That among the constituent elements must be given to economic questions and the development of international law, in- cluding the re-establishment of freeduir of trade by land and sen, à diminution of of the "open door. the protectionist system, the establishment for all colonial donins, the creation of an international cia contes and inter-oceanic canals, and administration of all maritime commer the constraction of new railway routes by the co-operation and under the ad niinistration of all the Powers.
9.That it protests against a policy of economic warfare such as was systematis ed by the Paris Conference of 1916, and defensible only when they are favourable is of opinion that Customs unions are
to the development of fver trade,
The correspondent surmises that the present reinforcements consist of youths atlaining military age and wounded mea from hospital. The former class will provide 10,000 monthly, and the latter to contain the stipulations advocated by 10. Thus the tavaty of peace ought also 50,000. The Germans have already called up part of the 1919 clase, while the 1920
the Congress of International Unions. class, who are youths of 17, have been
11. That the present war having done summoned for medical examination,
away with all the guarantees of maritime. The 1917 class have been fighting since ception of the Peace of Paris of 1856 as law, a return should be made to the con- the latter half of 1816, and form from regards the prohibition of privateering 12 to 15 per cent of the infantry units and the arming of merchantmen, the at the front. The 1918 class are already suppression of the right of capture, the strongly represented at the front and exclusion from treatment as contraband form the majority of the reserves, whilst of everything in the nature of raw. the 1919 class are being called up. enenty may send the 1919 class into the ing, the limitation of the right of block The materials necessary for feeding and cloth. Geld this year, and so follow the un- ade, the prohibition of the declaration of battle. The German casualty lists may show that 12 per cent. bulong to the 1817 class, 2.4 per cent, to the 1918 class, and also a few to the 1919 class,
tives and the extensive use of flammen- werfer, the enemy was unable to hold the trench into which he penetrated, merely occupying some of the first-line elements on a front of five hundrel yards.
After a big artillery preparation, our troops last evening attacked most vigor ously at two points in Champagne. We making efforts to throw us back to the cellor was about to be made the scapegoat have to wait," he said, "but I have had desirable course adopted after the Somme any part of the sea as a theatre of oper
gained all our objective to the north of Mont Haut and on the slopes of Tetor, carrying with splendid dash, on a front of eight hundred metres and to a depth of three hundred, a powerfully organised system of trenches.
The enemy is attacking the Lomnics River crossing near Perekhinsko and is
right bank of the Lomnica.
Loxos, July 15. Herr von Bethnano Hollweg'a resigna.. tion contrais Router's forecast eabled on the morning of the 11th instant, in which it was suggested that the Imperial Chan
the primary delirium of Freedom had The first time I saw him was soon after subsided. He apologised for keeping me waiting. I am sorry that you should for the climb-down of the Kaiser both
to see a delegation of soldiers from the Rains are causing the Lomnica and as reards internal reform and the ques frout. They came to me straight from Dniester to inundate the surrounding tion of annexations.
the trenches; they look upon me as a sort of father confessor (!fere country.
Here was the key to the whole situa- tion. In Kerensky you have a man who not only commands the ear and the heart of the people, ut also the love and the confidence of the soldiery, him to be a physical wreck, His great To look at the man you would imagine
even blaze out of the setting of his sunken, pallid cheeks; he lives on his fervour and after every great speech, he makes, on his nerves, collapsing like a wet rag
The advent of the Crown Prince, who The enemy is resisting our advance on has been most prominent in the discus the Slivke lahen Front.
sions at Berlin, and who suriond Generals von Hindenburg Ludendorff, seems to have settled Herr and
In the direction of Van, we drove back
A succession of violent counter-attacks, the enemy at Arish, on the Sarasi River, after hand-to-hand fighting. failed. with and we dislodged the Turks in the region heavy enemy losses. All the conquered to the north of Serdesh and the heights
to the south-west of Van...
positions were maintained, We took prisoner 300 Germans, including nine officers.
Our artillery caught and heavily punsh- ed concentrated enemy relief troops.
BRITISH
PATROL ENCOUN-
TERS.
LONDON, July 18£b. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- porta-Patrol encounters have been of advantage to ub south-east of Havrin-
court,
We successfully raided near Bullecourt. Gavrelle und south of Armentieres.
We repulsed raiders north-east of Armentieres.
von Bethmann Hollweg's fate.
It is significant that the Lokalzan
We submarined two schooners in the selger was suppressed after publishing Bosphorus.
GERMAN CLAIMS.
LONDON, July 15th.
A German official wireless message states:-There has been lively fighting at Duena and Smorgon. We repulsed the Russians to the south of the Dniester, above Kalusz.
General.
a telegram quoting a Vienna statesman
as advocating Herr von Bethniang Holl-
weg's continuance in office.
The new Chancellor is a bureaucrat, of whom little is known. He has only come into prominence during the war, when he was appointed Prussian Food Con troller.
There is now a distinct cleavage in German politics. The Conservatives and National Liberals are urging the policy
AMERICAN WOMAN SHOT AS SPY BY GERMANS.
A French student estimates that the enemy must replace bis losses at the rate of 300,000 monthly, but even putting down the number at 200,000 the Bache sapnet make his number good by any conceiv Fable manipulations of the younger classes. His army strength, both actual and potential, is decreasing. His effective man-power has been diminishing rapidly from June last year. The maximum pos sible man-power has been reached this year, and is wasting weekly.
GERMAN JOURNALIST'S PLAN FOR VICTORY FOR BOTH SIDES.
tons, and the limitation of the engines to be employed in naval and aerial war fare,
12.-That is in favour of the con- by the two Hague Conventions for the tinnation of the work sketched in outline
limitation armaments until it leads to complete disarmament by the organisation of purely defensive national militias, and by the nationalisation of war industries so far as the latter may still be necessary. tional convocation of a general congress, 13.-That it is in favour of the uncondi
in which it is the duty of all: Socialist. parties to take part-Heuter.
LONDON TO ROME BY AIR
BRITISH AVIATOR'S FLIGHT.
A British aeroplane arrived at Rome recently, having flown from London passing over Paris, Turin, and Pisa en route.
16th, says:
A message from New York, dated May
The well-known German journalist, Mrs Katrina Couch, wife of the Rev. Dr. Hans Vorst, is writing for the James Couch, of St. Francisville, Dagens Nyheter a series of articles Illinois. was shot last Friday as spy headed The Way to Peace," in which by the German authorities, according to he pleads for an immediate general dis The achievement of flying from London a message received by her husband from armament, declaring that a gradual one to Rome is a very remarkable one. In the Swiss Government. The message would in practice be more difficult, the absence of details as to the preciss announcing the shooting was the first disarmament would if strong propa what was the exact mileage covered, but
He thinks that the idea of a co
complete
route followed it is impossible to say. intimation he had concerning his wife for three months, during which time he ganda were organised, by its logical taking it is the crow flies from town to had been vainly inquiring about her. force easily convince the German people. town as mentioned in the Central New of annexation and indemnities, as well as many. Jeit Illinois six months ago man circles, this idea has gained ground. been less then 1,000 miles, and may have Mrs Couch, who was a native of Gere affirms that, even in influential, Ger- message, the distance can hardly has The author declares that only by com bee more. It is not stated whether the HONOUR FOR BRITISH the maintenance of the present forms of ander to visit her father in Hamburg plete disarmament can Germany win fight was accomplished without a stop, She appears to have got into trouble with liberty of the seas and Britain attain her but that is by no means impossible pro- COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF,
domestic government, both Prussian and the German authorities on account of principal aim the destruction of Ger vided the weather conditions were Imperial. The Centre and the majority letters which she had written to friends man militarism. He concludes by exhort favourable. So far the longest non-ston of the Socialists are favouring no inxpressing hatred of the mobenzollerna ing Germans to continue striving for the flight recorded is that of Lieutenant A demnities, as well as drastic political becoming so burdensome to the German destruction of German militarism, both from Nancy to Cholm, in' Polund, a and declaring that the autocracy was liberty of the seas and the British for the Marchal, who, on June 20th, 1916, flew reform.
people as to render rebellion probable. being on the right way.
distance of 312 miles.
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LONDON, July 16th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig has been appointed a Knight of the Thistle