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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESS.
GERMANS ANTICIPATING BRITISH
OFFENSIVE.
BRITISH CRUISER TORPEDOED.
BRITISH PREMIER PREDICTS RUSSIA'S RECOVERY
Franco-Belgian Pront.
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BRITISH FRONT,
AERIAL WARFARE.
LONDON, July 30th.
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig te ports:-We raided last night in the neighbourhood of Lombartzyde.
A GREAT FRENCH ATTACK.
LONDON, July 30th. A German official wireless message states-Artillery activity has lessened
The the Flanders front.
French áttacked on the Chemin des Dames with
at least three fresh divisions, on a nine kilometre front, but failed. Attacks south of Ailles failed. Ten neroplanes
were brought down.
The enemy's artillery was mere active Aerial Activities,
in the neighbourhood of Armentières.
Our aeroplanes bombed an aerodrome, Iwo important railway stations, and an
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amnaition depot on Saturday night, ZEPPELIN OVER THE BALTIC,
LONDON, July 31st Russian official report
causing fires and explosions.
Bombing operations were continued- yesterday. There
aerial great Was activity until ten this morning, when a severe thunderstorm prevented further fying. Many English aeroplane were enright in the storm, and four machines
did nul
We brought down four enemy auropianes and drove down two. Six of ourg are missing, of which four were lost in the storm.
return
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SMALL PATROL ENCOUNTERS.
LONDON, July 30th. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig ve ports: There were small patrol encoun- ters near Bullecourt and Acheville.
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FRENCH FRONT.
ARTILLERY ACTIVITY,
PARIS. July 31st communiqué reports: --Réciprocal artillery fire was most lively on the Aisne front; from Epine-de-Chevrigny to enst of the California Plateau, in Champagne, at Auberive, and on both banks of the Monse.
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A wireless
states :- --
A Zeppelin dropped twenty large bombs on Oeland Island, in the Baltic,
Enemy hydroplanes dropped, hoinha without success on the islands Tserel and Arensburg in the Gulf of Riga.
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NAVAL ATK RAIDS,
on
LONDON, July 30th.
The Admiralty announces that Naval airmen Saturday night dropped several tons of bombs on Bruges, Thourout, Middiekerke and Ghistelles, with good results. There were musicrous explosions.
All par maciones returned.
Nuval Activ ILLUS.
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TORPEDOED.
Loxtos, July 30thi
The Admiralty announces that H.M.S. Ariadne has been torpedoed and sunk.
Thiny-eight men were killed by the explosion.
: [The Ariadne was a cruiser of the Diddem class, 11,000 tons, built in 1900. Her com- plement was given as 680, ] Russian bront,
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GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE RETREAT.
LONDON, July 30th. The Germans advanced sixty miles in ten days against the Russians. Descrih, | ing the Russian Petrent, the Times' corré- spondent at the South-Western Hend quarters, wiring on July 26th, says: When I joined the British armoured cars on July 17th, nothing was known about the rupture at the front with the Eleventh Army. News came on July 23rd, after which we witnessed strange scenes, Aman on horseback dashed though Buczacz, from which the enemy was fifty miles distant, shouting "The German cavalry are behind, save your #elves," He was afterwards arrested and proved to be a German spy. Indescrib
able confusion ensued, a multitude of
desertars, with waggons and ambulances, fled to the east, the roadway being littered with impedimenta. We fought our way through the inferno with sticks, fists, and revolvers, as
the deserters tried to storm the till we hended the rout, when, placing the cars across the road, we damed the tide of panic. We roached Proskurow fifteen hours later and found the British nurses safe. They had been saved from the horrors, which subsequently occurred at Podhajce, by the British sections, who at Kozowo and Podhajõe fought gallantly, to cover the Russian retreat, holding up the German advance for twenty hours. Our carg fought a series of rearguard actions on July 23rd and following days `between Buczacz and Trembowla. When the cor- respondent left the care on July 28th their losses were twelve wounded, Three of the cars were lost owing to the defec tion of the infantry, and several were abandoned to the swarming deserters. The Eleventh Army is now improving, while the Eighth is retreating in fair order. It was the abandonment of the impregnable positions on the Sereth and the desertion of the three Brigades and | Guards defending Tarnopol which im
perilled the Eleventh Army. General Korniloff is now executing deserters
wholesale.
General.
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A "VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY."
LONDON, July 30th.
A question in the House of Commons elicited the announcement that Messrs. Henderson, Wardle and Ramsay Muc donald had gone to Paris to discuss the situation with representatives of the French and Russian Labour parties
ANGLO FRENCH CAPTURES.
LONDON, July 30th Reuter's Correspondent at the French Headquarters, summarising the events on the Western Front since the battle of the Somme in July, 1016, show, that the Anglo-French have taken 170,000 pri-
Mr. Bonne Law stated that Mr. Hon derson went in his capacity of Secretary sonora, of whom 3,500 are officers. They
PERSISTENT ENEMY ATTACKS. | of the Labour Party. The arrangements have captured 948 guns,
trench 780 mortars and 2,500 machine guns. They
LONDON, July 3181
for the visi
were settled without the
have forced the enemy Lo abandon a
A wireless Russian official report knowledge of Government. hundred miles of fortified front. The states-Southward of Husiatin We re- relative superiority of the Anglo-French pulsed an attempt to cross the Brucz armies has steadily increased and the River recent combats show that the French. morale is as high and the fighting spirit as keen as over,
Several members asked why Govern ment had not interfered, and Mr. Bonar Law replied that the only way to inter- We repulsed the enemy after a stubborn fere would have been to refuse passports, which the Government did not do. He battle near Zalismick.
denied that the passports had been accelerated.
The enemy is persistently attacking GERMANS ANTICIPATE A BRITISH and has slightly pressed us back in the
OFFENSIVE.
regions of Zviniacz, Kiselie and Stecota, The enemy compelled us to retire in the Carpathians to the region of Kameral
SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, July 31st. The silver market is quiet but steady,
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PARIS, July 30th." A correspondent of Liberte in Flanders says that after a brief lil the cannonade again started on Saturday In Moldavia the enemy pressed is back morning most furiously and swelled until after a day's fighting towards Myiotyza THE LOSS OF B.S. MONGOLIA
ten o'clock in the evening. It was an appalling on, shaking the ground for thirty miles distant. It was the British batteries which began, and the Germans replied feebly. British aviators all the time extensively bombed German com munications and attacked enemy quad- rons, the latter often consisting of twenty or thirty machines.
The Temps quotes the Votersche
which Zeitung,
mentions seeing forty British observation balloons and which anticipates that the infantry battle is about to begin...
The Temps comments that if the Grrians expect, a British offensive they must bitterly regret the loss of the divisions which were shattered in Cham
pagne
on the Roumanian front.
ENEMY CLAIMS FURTHER
PROGRESS
LONDON, July 30th.
LONDON, July 30th
Commons, replying to a question, Dr. Macramarn, announced that the steamer fongolia was Bunk on June 24th by a mine believed to form part of the minefield laid by the German raider Wolff, he did not believe the mine was laid by a neutral steamer.
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THE ALLIES POLICY.
LONDON, July 31st. In the House of Commons, Mr.A. Bryce and Mr. Noel Buxton raiseal, the question of the Allies' policy.
Mr. Balfour said: We stood different position to many of our Allies, for we had not entered, the war with any selfish purposes. If France asked it, he failed to see how we could refrain from proceeding to assist her until she was restored to her position existing before the attack engineered by Bismarck in 1860.
1917.
* RUSSIA WILL RECOVER.”
STATEMENT BY MR. LLOYD
GEORGE
LONDON, July 30th. Mr. Lloyd George, presenting a gift to the Chairman of the Press Gallery, in the House of Commons, on behalf of the latter's Press colleagues, made a brief but important reference to the war situation.
Paris, where I had a useful talk with tho He said have just returned from
leading representatives of the French Press, I am glad to be able to state that the spirit of the French is better than I have ever known. This is remarkable, because it is the end of the third-year of a war which has meant a great deal more to France than to us, because they have suffered horribly and the enemy is still in their country, and also a sense of discouragement might have been pected from the great collapse of the Russian Armies. But we have received information that Russia will cocover, and will becomes-formidable she was. (Applause.).
SITUATION IN RUSSIA.
PETROGRAD, July 30th.
M Kerensky has gone to Military Headquarters to confer with the comman-
ders of the various fronts, and also with Generah Alexeiff, General Russky, General Gourko, and the ex-Minister of War, M. Gutchkoff.
The question as to whether M. Kerensky stal remain Minister of War will then be decided.
Admiral Boltchak, ex-Commander of
the Black Sea forces, is mentioned as like- ly to be appointed Minister of the Navy." The Cadete are prominent in negotia tions for he formation of a Coalition Cabinet.
PROMINENT TROUBLE-MAKERS,
LONDON, July 30th.
The Bourke Gazette says that M, Lenin has escaped in disguise to Germany. M Roshal, the whilom Lord of Cronstad,"
Mr. Balfour did not think there was much doubt regarding the broad prin- ciples and regarding the war is animating the highest oflice-holders Since August, 1914, the application of those broad principles depended largely upon what proceeded in the Allied and enemy countries and the fortunes of war He asked how could they enter into details and anticipate peace conference work, what we desired in regard to Austria Hungary was that the notions composing that empire should be allowed to develop along their own lines and carry out their own civilisation. Everyone knew wo bad entered the war in the early days with very little in our minds besides the COMPLETE CONTROL NECESSARY. Ministers They refuse to enter a Cabinet
necessity of defending Belgium and pre- venting France from being crushed
before our eyes.
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GERMANY AND THE ENTENTÉ WAR AIMS,
CHANCELLOR'S BITTERNESS
AGAINST BRITAIN,
COPENHAGEN, July 30th. Dr. Michaelis summoned a party of journalists to Berlin in order to reply to Mr. Lloyd George's speech of July 21st He declared that it was evident that Britain did not want peace by agreement, but was resolved on Germany's enslave- ment. Giving instances of the Ententes, lust for conquest, he asserted that the reports of Eye-witnesses and the Secret: Sitting of the French Chamber on June 1st and June 2nd showed that MM, Briand
and Ribot were forced to confess that, shortly before the Russian Revolution. France negotiated with the. Taar's Government for an agreement providing for the French annexation of the Saar Basin, ne well as Alance-Lorraine and
other vast territorial changes on the left bank of the Rhine, as well as the French annexation of Syria, M. Briand declared. that whatever was the opinion of the Russian masses, Russia was bound to carry out her Treaty M. Ribot, refused any revision of the French war are.
Dr. Michaelis challenged the French Ministers to deny this, and declared that it was all done with Britain's approval,
AMERICA AND THE WAR.
SPEECH BY MR LANSING.
NEW Yonk, July 30th. Addressing officers of the Reserve Corps, Mr Lansing asked them to rid their minds of any idea that they were fighting anybody's battle but their own. Would a victorious Germany have withheld her, hands from such a rich príz as the United States? Would it have been easier.
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BRITISH SHIPPING.
As ever
LONDON, July 30th. : The Ministry of Shipping has issued detailed statement showing thọ sneris fices incurred by British shipping in con nection with the war.
It shows that fifty per cout, of the tonnage previously engaged in distant trading with foreign countries and the Dominions has been brought home, and that 14,000,000 tons of ocean-going ton- nage are serving Great Britain and Ireland at present. 6,500,000 of this to DAKO is engaged in war service. A very substantial amount of shipping has been assigned to meet the needs of the Allies in both munitions and food stuffs.
The situation has now reached a stage necessitating the complete control of all shipping in order to ensure the best national employment of every vessel, and to divert to the nation the high profits arising from war conditions."
has surrendered.
RE-CONSTITUTING THE
GOVERNMENT.' The Cadets insist that the Government shall not be controlled by the Soldiers and Workanen's Delegates, but they agree
to an equal number of Cadet and Socialist.
including M. Telinrnoff as Minister of Agriculture, while Socialist. Ministers. 7 threaten to resign if M. Tchernoff is superseded.
Generál Korniloff has ordered all
officers and men on the South-Western Front to return to their -units before August 14th, or they will be tried as traitors.
"WAR TO THE KNIFE."
PARIS, July 30th. A message from Petrograd states that the Cadets condition for co-operation with the Government is that the War must be fought to a finish in agreement with the Allies; all agreements with the Allies must be adhered to; there must be war to the knife against anarchy and a Consituent Assembly must settle all social reforms,
The Bourse Gazette says thus the Glov ernment has refused the demand for M. Tchernoff's resignation, consequently Except for a few vessels engaged in negotiations have been broken off. work vital to the Colonies and vessels The Government is reported to be chartered by France and Italy, the Gov-negotiating for the inclusion of the ernment his "requisitioned ainety-seven leaders of Commerce and Industry. The Intter objcct to outside interference with per cent. of British revan-golúg tranips, All liners have been requisitioned and the Government and demand that the the profits go to the Government, and not Government shall undertake social re- forms, prior to the convocation of a to ship owners."
Constituent Assclubly, and insist that the foreign policy shall coincide with that of the Allies,
Many trades, built up in distant waters by British enterprise, have had to be abandoned to neutral shipping, and the withdrawal of ships has injured many
the Far East, and also to the distant tradas, particularly to India and export
Colonies, one effect of which is that the market value of neutral vessels is double that of British vessels,
After describing the huge ridichos in ecumercial imports and exports the report says;— We have therefore sacri-
feed ruthlessly the needs of our industry and commerce for the temporary, in- crease of exports to the Allies. There is no substitute for the loss of our per- manent trade
PACIFIST MEETING BROKEN: UP.
BATTLE ROYAL AT SWANSEA.
LONDON July 29th.
GERMAN REVOLUTIONARY PLOT IN ROUMANIA.
GERMANS SHOT.
LONDON, July 29th, Beuter authoritatively learns that Ger- y las made a really big effort to secure a Revolution in Roumania. The methods adopted were somewhat similar these followed in Russia, including an immense propaganda among the Army, which was urged to follow Russia's example
All the attolopts were unavailing. Moreover, during last week no fewer than fifty Germans in Russian uniforms, were arrested, tried and shot by the Roumanian nuthorities.
DERBY BETTING.
LONDON, July 30th, Tho betting for the Derby 38 ng fol- lows to 1 agst Gay Crusader, 7 to
2 Diadem, 6 to 1 Dansellon; 7 to 1 Dark Legend and 20 to 1 Colleger
Lina Linchy has been scratched.
and wiser for the United States to await such an event and fight Germany single handed than to units with Germany's brave' enemies now, and end for all time- A pacifist meeting organised by the All the military menace? He added: You Wales Boldiers and Workmen's Dele are fighting for those things for which gates at a Swansea Picture Palace was. your forefathers were willing to die. I broken up before there was an opportuni A German oficial wireless message
am firmly convinced that the independence ty of starting it. Discharged soldiers. states: --Despite Russian resistance, we
of no nation is safe until Germung muli and sailors, leading crowds of civilians, gained ground between the Dniester and
tary despotism is rendered impotent, and demonstrated outside, and then rushed. the Pruto and elsewhere. We took
THE AREA TAKEN ON THE Mr. Houston Has the Wolf been dis there is only one way to do that namely, the hall. A sharp conflict ensued. The
WESTERN FRONT. several hundred prisoners north of posed of?
by force of Erma
pacifists, armed with sticks and brass Focsani
Asked by Mr. Page Croft in the Hous stair-rods, wore forced back to the stair
of Commons last month to state what case, which they sturdily defended. The was the total ares captured by British at attackers seized furniture and charged troops on the Western front since July
and captured the staircase. They shower-
1st, 1916, Mr. Macpherson said About ed missiles on the Aceing pacifists, who 600 square miles has been regained in this
period. This figure must be taken as ap surrendered and were cleared out none
proximate only, as the boundary between foo gently. The loyalists concluded with the French and British Armies has varied a patriotic meeting
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TRANSFER OF GERMAN TROGES.
LONDON, July 31st.
A wireless German official report states--A considerable portion of our troops are now in Russian territory, after the battle eastward of Bruez..
Dr. Macuudarn-I must have notice of
that question.
SWISS LOAN TO GERMANY
BERNE, July 29th. Switzerland has decided to make Ger many & substantial loan, as the only means of securing coal, which has become mone scarce in Germany
MR. CHURCHILL RE-ELECTED.
The result of the bye-election Dundee is as follows:---
Mr. Winston Churchill (L) 7,302 Mr. Serrmgeour (P.)
2,036.
Majority
25,266
constantly