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THE WAR.
BRITISH WORKMEN'S
SOLDIERS' COUNCILS.
DISORDERLY INAUGURATIONS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY
AND
THE APPALLING GUNFIRE IN FLANDERS.
THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA. CLOSING OF FRONTIERS.
Franco-Belgian Front.
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Russian, Front,
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BRITISH FRONT.
AERIAL SUCCESSES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) ROUMANIANS PURSUING
ENEMY.
LONDON, July 28th.
A wireless Russian official report LONDON, July 29th.
statis:-On ibe Galicia Front in the Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re-
enemy's offensive nothing material has ports:--There was considerable reciprocurred. The enemy has somewhat press- cal artillery firing at various points oned brick our detachments enstward of our front, especially northward of Kirlibaba, Riverlys.
General
PRESS. MONDAY, JULY 30rm, 1917.
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LONDON, July-20th- Councils of Workmen's and Soldiers Delegaten, established at the Pacifist Leeds Conference, were inaugurated at various industrial centres on Saturday
amid scenes of disorder, especially at the Brotherhood Church, Kingsland, London, where a patriotic demonstration, including soldiers, forced an entrance, and after atoning the windows, they wrenched the water-pipes, causing & cascade to descend upon the audience.
The patriots held a meeting, forcing the Delegates to stand and listen to the National Arithem
The crowd outside assaulted the depart ing Delegates.
Great damage was done to the fittings of the Church.
Four of the Delegates of the Russian Workmen's and Soldiers' Council · were expected to attend, but they went to Paris instead.",
Disorder on a smaller scale charac The Roumanian, continued their purs There was intense aerial fighting yester-suit of the retiring enemy in the directerised the meeting at Newcastle, wherein a resolution greeting the Russian Revolo- day afternoon and evening which wustion of Kezdi and Vasurholy. They occu markedly successful for our airmen pied heights five verste south-westward tion was carried. The mover of the of the villages Monestirka, Kochinal, resolution said they were anxious to sup- Vigorous offensive tactics enabled var
pert the lads at the front as much as artillery and machines to curry on success: Dragolavo and Beresezi. fully, and an unusual number of photo- graphs were taken.
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THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AT MOSCOW.
PETROGRAD, July 28th. The member of the Government go to
BRITAIN'S GREAT EFFORT- SIX MILLION MEN WITH THE COLOURS.
LONDON, July 28th Mr. Lloyd George, who has been attend ing the Balkan Conference in Paris, in a statement made to journalists, said the result of the Allied Conference had been most satisfactory, and good would
speedily coine out of it.
Moscow on Monday to attend a great national assembly of the members of the Puma, municipalities and Zemslovs, and the Executives of the Boldiers' and Work- "r's and the Peasants Councils.
He dwelt upon the British effort in the The Assembly will last some four days, and is expected to be followed by a com- war. Over 1,000,000 men, he said, were plete reconstruction of the Cabinet, which serving in the colours, in addition to will include a due proportion of the 1,000,000 from the Colonies, and 500,000
A were in the Navy, bourgeoise.
It is realised that the fate of Russia hangs upon the result of 31. Kerensky's efforts to form a patriotic and enduring Coalition.
SHIPPING.
Great Britain's position in the war was entirely special. Her merchant, Heet was the most important in the world, yet LATEST CABLES.
the British had raised a buge army with PETROGRAD, July 8th.
but stopping the work of the scaunen. The Assembly at Moscow has been post They were at prosent placing at the dis- poned until the Cabinet has been recon-posal of the Allies nearly 2,000,000 tone structed.
The Executive of the Cadets has partly approved of the members joining the Government,
of shipping
MINING.
NERVES
[BY VERNON BARTLETT, AUTHOR OF MU
AND KHAKI.1
If you were to take a finely adjusted chemical balance and were to throw it on the four, three things snight happen when you came to age it again. It might and this is very improbable continue to weigh or it. might give you distorted weights- tell you accurately, it might not work at all; that a gramme of sulphur weighed an
ounce or that a block of wood could double its weight in the course of minuto di
And all over the world there, are fine,
strong soldiers sponding weeks or mon
torted by the appalling sights and shocką in nerve hospitals, their minds dis
There are hundreds upon hundreds of of war pa
thesa nerve cases, and there are hundreds upon hundreds of varieties of
Derves." There are men who have been paralysed for months; there are men whom the lust to kill has seized suddenly so that they would murder their own friends; there are strong men who weep all day; there are men who dare not be left alone; there new, men who laugh" inanety, there are men who tremble and shake as though they were lunatics;
But the vast majority of men with nerves are to all appearances ordinary hburn beings-they have but one small distortion of the mind. I know a man who is perfectly fit and well, but he has Nor had the British stopped mining, a peculiarity it is impossible for him to A million were working in the collieriesoro himself into a room where the is & closed drawer, I have seen him change,
ordinary cheerful individual into a trem. GENERALS RUSSKY AND GOURKO which were sending more coal to France in the fraction of a second, from
than before the war, A third or a quar-bling wreck, just because someone in the SUMMONED.
Be the drawer but Tittle bit open and -Generals Russky and Goutko have beenter of the steel produced in Great Bri-Fom had thoughtlessly closed a draw
tain was sent to France for purposes of the is all right, be the drawer shut and be clings, terrified, to his chair, while drops national defence. **
of perspiration break out on his summoned to Petrograd
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A BOGEY DESTROYED. German agents and Maximalists have been proclaiming that a counter-revolu tion is contemplated, but M. Kerensky has destroyed this bogey by declaring that The pacifist resolution at the Newcastle any attempt to restore the Monarchy will Council of Workmen and Soldiers led be suppressed manst rigorously.
The Roumanians took a battery and possible.. prisoners.
We advanced in the region of Kalaku! We bombed four enemy aerodromies, some of our machines dying at low towards the Putna River, and we occu altitudes forty milea behind the enemy'spied the village Boduple on the left bank
of the river. lines.
Fifteen German machines crashed to sixteen we drove dawn' earth, end machines. Three of ours are missing..
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Lovnoy, July 28th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports: We carried out a raid last night to the south of Armentieres and repulsed an attack to the east of Oostaverne.'.
we
There was considerable enemy artillery. activity in the neighbourhood of Art tieres, to the north of Ypres, and on the Nieuport sector.
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FRENCH FRONT.
COMPARATIVE QUIET.
PARIS, July 20th.
A communique states there was com parativo quiet, except in the region of Ailles, Hartebise and on both banks of the Meuse, where artillery was recipro-
cally most activá
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ANOTHER ENEMY FAILURE.
PARTS, July 28th. A communiqué reports: -The might was marked by a violent bombard- ment, followed by a series of fresh; attempis, principally on the entire Braye eu Leonnais Chevriay ridge and in the direction of the Hurtehise Monument.
All the infantry attacks failed com- pletely and the enemy suffered heavy losses.
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ARTILLERY DUEL CONTINUED
RUSSIANS FORCE GERMANS TO ̈
NETIRE.
LONDON, July 8th. A wireless German report states.-The Bussian armies continue to retreat on both sides of the Dniester, while they are destroying numerous roads and 'railway.
Our troops have crossed the Jagielorica, --Horodenka-Zablowon line.
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to extraordinary disorder,
Colonial soldiers stormed the pintforn, waving Union Jacks, Free fights followed, and the police were powerless,
The meeting was smashed up amid the singing of the National Anthem.
Similar meetings at Leicester and Nor- with were apparently not disturbed.
MR. CHURCHILL DENOUNCES
PACIFISM.
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SUBMARINE WARFARE.
SENSITIVE TO SOUND forehead. Men often grow inordinately sensitivo Germany, appreciating the importanes to sounds. The most staid and stolid of Great Britain's role, believed she individual I have ever met now twitches with an insane desire to dance at the first would be able to conquor by means of notes of a waltz, and another wan
nearly sick with horror at the strains of. smbinarine warfare. The destruction of a very well-known music-hall, tune-his British vessels in April was considerable. when someone else in the trench was play-
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brother was blown to bits one day. The enemy presumably relied uponing the melody on a mouth-organ. Nearly everyone home from the front vill achieving more serious results in May, jump at the backfiring of a motoy engina June and July, when the days were or the slating of a door, hut there are.
men who cannot support the ticking of longer, but the destruction had diminish clock or watch, while other regular markedly, and would become much bell, will turn them pale with agony- sounds, such as the tolling of a church
And there are very many men for whom less when the day's shortened,
the sound of guns has wonderful The Executive of the Council of Work Lloyd George paid a tribute to the fawination of the snake for the rabbit..
There are touches of “ help of the American Navy in organising sound singularly like superstitions--men nerves that
-who will not pass through an archway, mn who are convinced that they will die if they dream the same dream a certain
PRESS CENSORSHIP. The Government has again imposed a Press Censorship with regard to military
and naval jaformation.
THE MAXIMALISTS.
men's and Soldiers' Delegates has passed
resolution recommending that the Maximalists who incited the revolt and received money from Germany should be publicly tried. The resolution expresses
SHIPBUILDING.
Great Britain's shipbuilding pro-mber of times, men who have a firm belief that an awful ruggle against the would gramme.
produce next
yeur black power of death is going on arcand them all the time. I know a man, too, with 4,000,000 tons, in comparison
who will not sleep in a room without
LONDON, July 28th the Tap, that Lenit will not escac0.000 built in the most favourable flowers--sunier or, winter, he must have
Mr. Churchill, speaking at Dundee, în justice.
The Austro-Germans wrested some high positions from the still resisting enemy | denouncing pacifism, said, “We will have The Executive offers itself for re-clec
in the wooded Carpathians.
The German forces upon the upper Putna river retired before the pressure
of the enemy.
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RUSSIAN FRONT.
THE BRAVERY OF THE WOMEN'S BATTALION.
PETROGRAD July 28th, Later news regarding the bravery of the Women's Battalion shows that 150 out
of 200 were wounded."
RUSSIAN FRONTIERS CLOSED
In view of the exceptional circum stances, the Government has ordered the closing of the frontiers until August 15th, till when nobody not holding a diplomatic
the shells, the guns, tanka, and aero tion. planes in unprecedented numbers next year, but we must fight to secure the prize within our grasp
THE TANKS CORPS"
LONDON, July 28th.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
WAR
pener year. The output of the yards
already hed considerably increased.
NATIONAL DEFENCE WORK. Five million workers were employed in antibal defence concrete: work in Bri
Everything had now been arranged to ake Great Britain agriculturally self- supporting, and the Germans were now
That
IMPORTANT REVELATIONS.
LONDON, July 28th.. The Times is authoritatively informed An Army Order has established a Tanks that the reference in the spicech delivered unable to starve Great Britain.
last week in the Reichstag by Hers Haase, was a capital event which had changed a Socialist, to a meeting on July 5th, the aspect of Germany's submarine was 1914, as requiring explanation before the i fare. origin of the war could be understood,
Corpis.
THE COTTON TRADE
LONDON, July 28th.. The Cotton Trade Board of Control have decided to enforce a reduction of the output by the spinning mills,
He concluded by saying that the future
towers by him or else it would get
The
Commonest of all forms of nervo
is, perhaps, the longing to be alone. It would be difficult to say how many men hav had to be invalided out of the Army because they cannot live near other people. To such theatres, crowded streets, the buzz of conversation in a room, the pro- xinity to plople in a train or in an aniņibus become tortures that are almost- unbearable. There are men, who have Enken to solitary hats in the forete, to tiny houses by the sa, where they will live like primitive inen until something hap pans in their brains to jerk them back into the old routing of life,
There are, then, hundreds of varieties of "nerves" hundreds of ways by which strong mon inay be, mentally as well as morally, crippled; hundreds of strange terrors and evenbruities which obsess the | brain--and to the man who has lived in
* matter of wonder that there are any of tha shambles of war it is sometimes the combatants of any of the armies who are not suffering from “nerves."?"
related to a meeting at Potsdam attended of the world depended upon Great Bri- by the Kaiser, Dr. von Bethwan-Hollweg, tan and France acting together. Admiral von Tirpitz, General von Fal- THE GUNS IN FLANDERS.
General Stumi, Archduke NOW MORE AUDIBLE IN LONDON, It is anticipated that an announcement (kenhayn, will shortly be mads that mills be required Frederick, Count Berchtold, Count Tisza.
LONDON, July 23th. The sound of the guns in Flanders, to run only 60 per cent, of their spindles. and General Hostzendorf, which decided
which has been heard daily in London As most places in Lancashire are only now the points of the Austrian ultimatumi running 80 per cent, the actual reduction despatched to Serbia eighteen days later for verbs past, has been more audible A message from Copenhagen says, that
pasport will be allowed to leave or enter ¦ will be about 20 per cent Russia.
RUSSIANS EVACUATING
CZERNOWITZ.
COPENHAGEN, July 28th. Vienna papers report that the Russians are evacuating Czernovitz.
Naval Activities.
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JAPANESE LONDON, July 28th.
A German wireless report states that except at short intervals the artillery duel has not diminished. Intense drumfire was again commenced this morning.
WARSHIPS DE- STROY A SUBMARINE.
LONDON, July 28th. The Japanese Naval Attaché announces
that some Japanese warships in the
The energy lost 13 aeroplanes in the Mediterranean, escorting a British trans- port, sighted an enemy submarine on the afternoon of July 22nd.
Course of numerous engagements on the French front."
AERIAL RAID ON PARIS.
Boraks were dropped last night on the railway station and military establish-
rents in Paris.
One unit protected the transport from attack on one side and the other unit at
tacked the submarine and smashed its reriscope
The submarine was closely pursued and Hits were observed, and our sirmen again successfully attacked, and was
undoubtedly destroyed
rėtumed unharmed
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THE DERBY.
PROBABLE STARTERS:
LONDON, July 28th. The probably runners in the Derby are:-Athrada (Evans), Gay Crusader (Donoghue), Brown Prince (Fox), Invin tible (V. Buyth), Dark Legend (J. Childs), Diadem (Rickaby), Colleger (Early), Lisnalinchy (Barrett), Sir Des mond (Colling), Kingston Black (Burns), Dansellon (Watson), Planet (Lancaster),
Lord Archer (Madden).
-Telephus (Bland) is a doubtful starter.
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The betting on the Derby is as follows:
to 4 Gay Crusader: 9 to 2 Diadem; and 17 to 2 Dard Legend
THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, July 20th Silver is quoted at 391d There is an absence of buyers and the market is quiet.
Silver is steady.
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and agreed to accept the consequence of War with Russia.
The Kaiser afterwards went to Not
in the last fortnight, in the bours during which, according to the German com
W
WAR NEWS.
THE“ ZUKUNFT" BUPPRESSEN
HARDEN MADE MILITARY CLERK
Me Zukunft has been suppressed by the | German Government, and prohibited pab-
lication for the duration of the war.
Herr Harden, the Editor, har heer
way, for the purpose of throwing dust i manigués and the correspondents at the pressed into military service as a clerk.
in the eyes of the French and Russian Governments. Three weeks later, when it became known that Great Britain woul tiöt remuin neutral, Dr. von Bethman Hollweg wished to withdraw, but then it was too late.
The subject was more explicitly raised in the secret session of the Budget Com mittee of the Reichstag eight weeks ago, when the fact that the Minister did not deny the facta, though he refused to make a statement, caused a sensation, which is possibly one of the factors under lying the recent political crisis.
AMERICA AND THE WAR.
A YEAR'S ESTIMATED
EXPENDITURE.
WASHINGTON, July 28th Mr. McAdoo, submitting to Congress the estimates of the War Budget, said the first year of war promised to cost the United States $10,736,000,000, besides Loans to the Allies, making it necessary to raise $65,000,000,000 in addition
British front, the artillery duel has been unprecedentedly violent, exceeding vien those preceding the attacks at and the Bornme
GERMAN BONUSES FOR BABIES.
Mrs. Delmer, wife of the English pro fessor formerly at Berlin University, says that the German Government is encourag
as repopulation by the following 9y6-
Correspondents state that the enemy has apparently piled up enormous sup plies of munitions for the artillery offen sive, specially for bombarding the countem try near the coast and smashing Nieu- port to pieces, Though active with the down ag St. Quentin Fifteen-inch shells guns, raiders have been active as far sometimes full twenty miles from the front
Every new-born baby is allowed one fall bread ticket, one grocery ticket, half an parents or elder children), one litre of adult meat ticket (all, of course, for the
an extra litre for the family,adida milk (9-10ths of a quart) daily, and also
Thus, a month-old baby gets far more than a 18-year-old child. GERMAN LUNATICS ENLISTED IN
THE ARMY.
According to advices from Stettin, the annual report of the Kneckenmueller Lunatic Asylum at Stettin states that a number of natics have been called up for military service at the front, adding:
Thousands of gas shells are poured into Ypres and back areas, and a score of places which have been untouched for two- years are almost daily searched The British reply with a greater volume of fire and more frequent raids The German raid an Homcourt, north of St. Quentin, was the heaviest of their attacks. Follow in the obliteration of trench by gunfire the advance of their raiders is concealed by men belching smoke from an apparatus strapped on their back They captured working party of Engineers who escaped he asylums are proud that their m The crossing-No Man's Land, profiting by inates are allowed to serve their Father- the Germans hurry to escape the prompt land. It appears, however, thut the results are not always satisfactory, as riposte of the British guns.
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an unbearable nuisance in the varione armies in which they have served, refus APPALLING GUNFIRE.
ing to obey orders, deserting from their companies, and becoming hardly, of any
PARIS, July 28th. A Correspondent at the British Front se for military purposes, and many have reports that The gunfire in Flanders had to be sent back to their asylums, the most appalling we have ever heard As a result of their terrible experiences llora extraordinary even than the din at the front, they become subject to fits is the extent of the cannonade, which is of mental aberration and periods of unbroken between the coast and Lona general excitement.