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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25ra, 1917,
BRITISH INFLICT HEAVY
CASUALTIES.
GERMANS OCCUPY TARNOPOL.
RUSSIA ENDANGERED BY ANARCHY.
APPALLING OFFICIAL ACCOUNT.
Branco-Belgian bront
LATEST CABLES.
(THHOUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY.]`
BRITISH FRONT.
RAIDERS PENETRATE ENEMY
POSITIONS
LONDON, July 24th.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- ports:-This morning's rald southward of Avion penetrated the `enemy's positions on a front of 100 yards to a depth of 300 yards. We inflicted heavy casualties and much damage.
We succesfully raideif the strongly, held farm eastward of Oosttaverne.
We repulsed an enemy attack north- westward of Cherisy.
There was neriat fighting throughout. yesterday, when the risibility was excel- ient.
Our seroplanes successfully co-operated with the artillery and dropped three tons of bombs on aerodromes, ammunition dumps, and railway sidings with good results. We brought down fourteen enemy machines, including
♫ raider from England. Nine of ours are missing.
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Aerial Activities...
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(THROUGH RKUTER'S AGENCY.
GERMAN
VERSION OF AIR
RAID.
LONDON, July 23rd.
ANARCHY IN RUSSIA. A DOLEFUL VIEW OF THE SITUATION.
PETROGRAD, July 23rd, The Soldiers and Workmen's Delegates Council and the Peasants Congress, niter an all-night sitting, passed a resolution saying that the country was threatened by military débiele and internal
A German official wireless message sintes -Qur air squadron bombed Haranarchy, declaring that the State and the Revolution were endangered, and wich, with visibly good effects. All our
proclaiming the Government to be a machines returned.
Government for the safety of the Revolu- tiou, acording it unlimited power to
Russian, Bront.
MUTUAL ATTACKS.
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LONDON, July 23rd.
RUSSIAN FRONT
A German official wireless messago states There has been an artillery battle FAITHLESS TROOPS JEOPARDISE all night long in Flanders.
SUCCESS.
Air squadrons unsuccessfully attacked our balloons. We brought down eight deroplanes.
The enemy delivered a vigorous night attack between Avion and Mericourt, but we equalised the enemy's success.
We attacked on the northern slope of Winterberg and carried, several lines of trenches on
a front of one kilometre, taking 230. prisoners.
POTS.”
LONDON, July 3rd.
LONDON, July 23rd.
A Russian official wireless message says --We attacked in the direction of Vilna, penetrating to a depth of two miles in some pinces in the neighbour hood of Krevo. We took over one thou sand prisoners.
CONFIDENCE IN FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
PACIFIST MOVEMENT:
DENOUNCED.
PARIQ, July 23rd. The Senate has unanimously passed a vote of confidence in the Government. I trusts the Government, to suppress propaganda against discipline for security of the nation.
all
the
Previously, MI Clenienceat delivered a remarkable speech denmuucing pacifism in general"
Amid cheers, M. Ribot muid now re-establish the organisation of the Army he knew the whole of Parliament was it and public order.
A CLIMAX APPROACHING.
LONDON, July sard: The situation in Russia is momentarily overshadowing the Western Front. Events seem to be approaching a sort of climax
The news that the Soldiers and Work men's Delegates and the Peasants' Dele- gates have given the Government full power is welcomed, as are the indications that the Government will sternly deal with the forces of anarchy.
the back of him he could govern more strongly. Germany needed peace and meant to securo it in any way she could. Jo the presence of the campaign of treachery, the police must redouble its viligance. The foul German propaganda must be suppressed. If France wished for peace through war weariness, sho no longer was worthly to be called France, There must be no blind optimism, und also no excessive uneasiness. France could not be conquered.
**PROHIBITION."
THE NEED FOR DEFINING TERMS,
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BY CANON HONALBY]
I is well known, and generally for gotten, that do define terms used in argu- ment of controversy avoids waste of time.
and the probability of mutual misunder standing The pid parable of the knights and the shield that was golden on one side and silver on the other shows that often men would see that there was go reason for variance when they under- stood by definition what was only a cause And, at the worst, accurate dofinition of difference while it remained undefined."
would, only result in its being ab evident. held by each, but they must agree to that nothing could reconcile the views differ for definition to catch in
"This "need" for definition ovidened in what is being now said and written for or against the various pro Posal for the restriction, for the control, or the abolition, of the traffic in alcoholic. liquors. To begin with, some use the word alcohol, as if it connoted, and in- cluded all intoxicating liquors ; some tiso it as the equivalent of spirits only; while others avoid confusion by using it only in its real sense as a narcotic poison and jam, in beer, and in vodka. found in varying proportions in bread
But especially it is necessary just now. for writers and speakers to define what they mean by Prohibition. There are five ways in which it is being commonly used
REPAIRING GERMAN RUIN IN in discussion
FRANCE,
THOUSANDS OF MAIMED TREES
RESTORED..
spondent of the United Press of America Mr. Henry Wood, the Special Corre-
with the French Armies, describes how the French lave rescued many of the treea mutilated by the Goriaany in their retreat. He says:- Corians and
is
1. I heard at a conference this week the argument used that we need not be afraid of the word, since the Control Board, had introduced Prohibition in the Carlisle area. This was confusing Prohibition, just nor politie, with restriction, which which the Board has considyed neither
has always been coexistent with any tolerance of the liquor traffic by national law. One might as well say that sugar
Reuter's Correspondent at the French There is intense enemy artillery activiSituation on the South-Western Front instead the tree-killers cut off a circle of in measure a prohibition of ardent spirits
south of Berezovica and Velka.
At Petrograd the all-important ques The instability and moral weakness of tion is:Will M. Kerensky be able to certain detachmente are jeopardising the
stay the rot at the Front, which un: development of further success, but a doubtedly threatens to create the most great number of our officers have perished,
dangerous menace yet experienced 1 GERMANS USING SMOKE. gallantly fulfilling their duties.
APPALLING STATE OF AFFAIRS The enemy continues the offensive be{ AT THE FRONT. tween the Sereth, the Strypa and the
An appalling official account of the Zlotalipa and has occupied four villages.
has been received by the Russian Govern ment. It says that a fatal crisis has occurred in the morale of the troops.
Most of the units are completely dis organised and the offensive spirit has utterly disappeared. Orders are
not go beeded, and exhortations by comrades are replied to by threats and shota.
Some elementy have voluntarily evacuated positions, without awaiting the approach of the enemy. Sometimes urgent orders for reinforcements are discussed for hours.
GERMAN ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHTING
LONDON, July 23rd..
A German official wireless message states:A Russian attack to the south-
west of Dvinsk failed
A Russian attack at Krevo penetrated. our position, but a counterattack drove the enemy out except ut two pointa
2. There is the personal, prohibition which denies all entrance of all forny, of aleholic liquors to our bodies or our houses, and this myraitis of tectomiers he adopted for all their life, or at any rate since they seriously considered the Restion. In this sense the King is a prohibitionist, and, as one who unticipat ed his advice by nenely forty years, I can only regret that so very few have followed his advice and example, “Against this personel prohibition of what at the hest can only be described as a luxury, there can nothing be said while we are called upon to self-denial even in the necessities of life,
is now prohibited, as to apply the term There wers thousands of trees that the to the novel restrictions so slutary anet close pursuit of the French prevented the so efficacious in the fast two years. Germana from completely cutting down; There may be locally, or temporarily, or days exposure to the sun would betion of auch soon after the war began bark around the trunk, which with a few (and most believe that a general prohibi- sufficient to kill peach, plum, apple, would have met with quite insignificant apricot, and cherry trees that, had been half a century attaining their productive opposition); but nowhere has a prohibi- Boss. These trees presented the sensiest tion of beer been enrried out. problem. The wounds were merely bound up like the wounds of a soldier. Thou Bands of Array surgeons and Red Cross ambulance drivers and stretcher bearers assisted in this work. The drcle where the bark had been cut away was first covered with a special grafting cement and the entire wound then carefully bandaged p-often with bandages that had been prepared for human limbs. So great was the number of trees that had to be dressed in this way that the entire available supply of grafting preparation was quickly exhausted. Tar was then used as a substitute and bandages also had to be found, and in the end it was about the dressed wound was as effective discovered that moss twisted and Lied as anything else samtale me
4 witch more serious problem presented itself where the trees had been entirely cut or sawn down. But here French Extreme measures are necessary to get also solved the problem. The avert a catastrophe, and the Commander fe from the ground, were first trimmed stups, protruding usually two or three in-Chief of the Western Front has ordered so as to conserve the sap and prevent give it some chance of prevailing. Others, the ridge of the Carpathians as far es
Russian activity has increased along the deserters to be fired on; as he must with 1 of the rools, and then treated equally strong in their pérannal prohibi-
the death We repulsed raids at Lombartzyde and creasingly resorting is the concealing of Putna. Lively, fire on, the Lower Sereth who are selling Hussia and the Revolu, that remained in it. Branches that sowed Fregressive restriction. It is a pious grafting paste and carefully tion, consider that the demand for akce merciless notion against the cowards bandaged till the cut-down tree lying at national veto is a hindrance to national the side budded from the sap and lifet
SUCCESSFUL OPERATION.
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LONDON, July 23rd. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig 1 ports: We carried out a successful local operation to the south of Avion and reached our objectives with little less We took over fifty prisoners.
We raided and bombed dug-outs to the south of Harrincourt and in the neigh- hourhoods of Bullecourt and Hollebeke,
south-east of Loos.
LATEST JABLES.
FRENCH FRONT.
VIOLENT BOMBARDMENT
CONTINUES.
PARIS, July 24th. A communiqué atates:--The bombard ment of our positions at Hurtebise and in the Craonne region continues most violent, "especially. on the California Plateau There was no infantry action.
Eight hundred and fifty shells were thrown into Rheims to-day.
In Champagne a German attack north- west of Mont Cornillet was completely. repulsed.
Our batteries were most netive against organisations in the Moronvillers region. A long-range German gan fired one bund- red shells north of Nancy There were no casualties. We carried out a reprisal by effective fire on works at the Chateau Salins.
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Headquarters says that owing to the fact that the bombarded position is usually entirely cut off from communication with the rear, the Germans are now using **intelligence" bombs and shells in order to communicate with the rear during a
bombardment. The bombs are fired from trench mortars with a range of five
hundred yards, in order to establish com. munication with the first line under bonbardment and the battalion or regi- menital commands in the rear, while shells. are fired from mine-throwers at a range of thirteen hundred yards in order to
commands with the artillery and brigade link up the battalion and regimental
hendquarters: These bombs and shells fall in an agreed spot, thus reducing the danger to a minimum.
Another rue to which the enemy is in
positions with smoke. A recently captur ed Order to the enemy artillery announces that a larger number of smoke-pots will bo issued to batteries. When a battery is under are directed from an aeroplane, these will be placed to the windward of the battery, which the fumes will conceal Obviously smoke can also be utilised to concent trenches and redoubts, provided- the wind is favourable to the enemy.
The enemy, is also giving more atter- tion than ever to the possibilities of gas- shells, in the use of which specially train- ed officera are instructing artillery com manders.
Africa,
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RAST AFRICA OPERATIONS.
TWO ENEMY. POSITIONS:
EVACUATED.
Our counter-attack to the south of the Sereth developed and the Russians re- treated into the Carpathians.
We occupied heights immediately to the west of Tarnopol and crossed the Bohatyn Ditrow Railway, while we have begun a forward movement astride the Diviester The Bussinns strongly resisted to the south of the railway.
indicates, impending battles.
GERMANS OCCUPY TARNOPOL
LONDON, July 23rd.
Router learns that the Germans hava occupied Tarnopol.
The Near East.
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THE EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN.
LONDON, July 23rd An official message from Egypt states Two enemy cavalry force on the 19th instant pushed nine miles to the west of Beersheba, Our mounted forces drove them back to Beersheba. We successfully raided Frenchies to the south west of Gaza
The Balkans.
For a distance of hundreds of versts, long files of robust and shameless deserters are proceeding to the rear, and frequently entire units desert
tion.
AGA KHAN CHAMPIONS VISCOUNT HARDINGE,
LONDON, July 23rd.
There is the now ancient cry of some zealous ferpétunis, advocates and „or- ganisations. The total and immediate suppression of the liquer traffic," which having failed in our land for two that the stress of wartime will at last generations at least, now thinks or hopes,
great numbers of buds and other signs of opinion, an aspiration after an ideal, buɛ exceptional vitality were then cut off there is no evidenes that Parliament or and finally grafted into the carefully the nation consider it a matter of prac prepared stumps. To-day these grafts aretical politica
in full leaf and blossom. The roots. There is the cry, with much more to appear to have been entirely saved by this commend it, of war time prohibition, process and years have been saved in tirged with a wealth of figures that none restoring the cut down on
eat
orchards of should ignore, by the Strength of Britain Movement.This is supported both by
The Aga Khan, in the course of a long Fincenda also to be seen care those who have consistently and persĪRA.
On
every
fully cultivated and sown felds each bear ing its little painted sign Terrain cultivé par l'armées da
letter in the Times supporting Viscount Hardinge, says: "If any Indian were now in either House of Parliament, no
The few horses that are being used for matter of what religion, Province or
the fields are those whose guns and political complexion, he would have been ammunition caissons wait unharnessed at the side of the field to be taken up again eager to testify in the Mesopotamian as soon as a little ploughing or harrowing debate to the strength and unanimity sional old man or old woman working sation and in correspondence I have had, in done. Likewise, txcept for an oct
tently advocated an entirely "dry" Eng land, and hynthers who do not agre with them, but yet think an exceptional. time justifies an exceptional measure. But there is one most important queS7 tion which they generally evade. In com-- pensation to be given to those whose licences you temporarily abolish The great majority seem to me, in conver
of Indian admiration for and attachment away on emall gardens, all of the heavy to scout the idea of giving compensation. work of the fields is being done by
to Viscount Hardinge, and to condemn soldiers. As the troops pass, either going the ignorant attacks made upon him into or from the front they stop and dedicate the day to the cultivation of the some portions of the Press. My country redeemed fields. The next day they pass
Wa men of all shades of thought feel that be on and other troops take up the work
a
"SMUTS THE APOSTLE OF PEACE"
But obviously this must be faced, and some evidence must be adduced that the nation, which for good or for evil has deliberately made compensation part of its policy is ready to prohibit without. any solatium the trade which Mr. Bal four's Act established and endowed in a way hitherto unknown,
5. And others, while upholding war
has been moet anjustly and ungratefully treated, and I am constrained to write on their behalf. Viscount Hardinge's work in India, both in peace and war, should be judged as a whole and not lose by Under the heading Smuts the Apostle time prohibition, distinctly mean.com-
temporary breakdown of military of Peace," the Cologne Gazette comments arrangements in Mesopotamia. The hold as follows on a brief report of the meetpensation as a matter of justice. In this Viscount Hardinge has upon the affectioning of the League of Nations Society the sum required, and also of what would case some estimate should be afforded of and gratitude of India has not been Smuts and the English-and indeed also diminished by the Endings of the Com Wilson and the United States, France, happen if peace quickly followed the mission. The Mesopotamian breakdown and Russia-should use their new peace Prohibition Is the sum paid to be was the inevitable result of a mistaken broom on their own door step, where it measured by the duration of the war, or policy so long pursued in relation to is must wanted Who repudiated with is it to be adequate to the continued Indian military resource, actual and contemptuous laughter all attempts to and eternal prohibition which the more potential Every well-informed man nake peace? Who for decades preached ardent desire and profess to expect as a knew during the last ten years of the and practised revenge? Who promiot remit of a temporary measure! Canada inevitability of war with Germany, buted the Pan-clav agitation policy, and it has shown us that this is a matter as to no attempt was made to adjust the pro conflagration after conflagration? Who which our men abroad should be con A communiqué mys:-German attacks,
spective utilisation of Indian military made the encirclement policy the motto of sulted, and not merely those who remain strength to such a contingency. Yet Earope? Who sent masses of munitions at home, and our officers and men in accompanied by violent bombardments,
when the moment of the world crisis over the sess to destroy a free people, the Army should be consulted as to on the 18th. There was severe fighting, Our aeroplanes bombed Demirhissar came, Viscount Hardinge, rightly trasting which to-day in spite of everything, is whether, in the years of demobilisation continued last night on the plateau before the enemy stubbornly resisting and fre- and Puljavo.
India's profound loyalty to the Emperor still maintaining itself in victorious do and return home, there is to be for them Craonue to Casemates After the finish of quently
and her indignant repudiation of Ger fence against all these hostile assaults total abstinence in every club and res-
efforts to induce her to revolt, sont Who was the diplomatist whom the Fugtaurant and home the flower of the Indian Army lish ought to have watched better? Was Obviously we should make un cur to France, and it arrived in it not Peace-Grey? And the others were mind, rech one of us and as a nation, ne time to share in the glory of the not Peace Edward the Peace Tear,
VIOLENT FIGHTING
PARIS, July 23rd.
LONDON, July 23rd. An East African official message states The enemy evacuated sitebakama. on the 17th instant. We pursued the main body which occupied a ridge to the north of Narongombe, which we attacked
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THE SALONICA FRONT,
LONDON, July 23rd. An official memengo from Salonika states: --We successfully raided Homo dos, south-west of Seres.
counter-attacking, sustaining General,
considerable.
the bombardments and extremely violent heavy tosses Our casualties were also attempts, the enemy anoceeded in pene trating our first line, but an immediate vigorous counter-attack ejected him from all bat a small portion.
The enemy evacuated Kitope, and wo drove the rearguards towards Madaba. The enemy retreat, towards Mahenge con-
The struggle on the California Platean tinues. only ended late at night, and, despite
Belgian columns are pursuing a small
all his efforts, the enemy was unable to German column southward through drive us off the Plateau.
Engaruko, to the west of Labe Natron.
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THROUGH NHUIKE'A« AGENCY.]
AGRICULTURISTS' WAGES.
LONDON, July 23rd. The House of Commons has rejected the thirty shillings miniman wage amend ment in connection with the Corn Pro duction Bill
the
Saving Calais, No request from Eng and Peace Wilson with his Notes When to what we mean by Prohibition, and land for help in any of the theatres of war one rends Smuts speech and thinks of what we desire it should entail. Unr was refused Viscount Hardinge relied England one is tempted to suppose that personal abstinence should not make ne on his military advisers and on the South African is ironically holding deny all liberty of thing to thors. Our unanimity of expert ofiol opinion, mirror before the English Bot un bright visions of an idea) should not an His fault was one of the generous reformnately he is only a hypocrite, accord. † dazzle us that we bengves tili va sponse, considering the means immeing to the habit of all who are English difference between what we should hire to diately available to the many calle made by nature or by choice. Now, when the get and what we are like endorse the refusal of Mr. Balfour to sre going, they might perhaps make neace, the enemy of the good upon India Indian opinion heartily united war agitatore see how badly things as in many things accept the resignation of Viscount Hard But they had peace Why did they not of a shadow cause us la= inge.
keep it RE
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