CUTLER PALMER & CO'S
NAPIER JOHNSTONE'S
Known as the
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 6TH, 1917.
THE WAR.
(Continued from page 6.)
o-Belgian Front. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]
BRITISH FRONT.
ENEMY ATTACK NEAR MONCHY-LE-PREUX,
LONDON, August 3rd. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Hig re- ports:--The weather continues wet and 95 stormy.
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Russian Front,
(THROCGA BEUTER'S AGENOT.] THE RUSSIAN RETREAT. A STUBBORN BATTLE.
LONDON, August 3rd A Russian official report, received by wireless, states
After a stubborn battle we retired across the Zbrucz in several places;
Our troops are retiring between the Dniester and the Pruth.
The enemy has occupied Fulkei and we evacuated Kimpolung.
AUSTRIANS OCCUPY.
CZERNOWITZ.
LATER. It is claimed at Vienna that the Ans- trians have occupied Czernowitz,
THE GERMAN REPORT. The official German report states: The enemy last night renewed his
We captured several villages on the attempt to drive us out of our positions lower Zbrucz, captured Czernowitz, and on Infantry Hill, eastward of Monchyle penetrated positions further south.
The Austro-Hungarians are fighting Preux. He attacked on a front of half-house-to-house battle at Kimpolung.
a-mile and temporarily gained possession
of portions of our front trenches at two points,
Our counter-attacks have already re gained part of the lost ground.
We repulsed enemy attempts south-east of Queant and north-west of Warneton. -GROUND REGAINED.
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have cetablished porta:-Our themselves at St. Julien,
troops
Our fire broke up infantry massing for a counter-attack to the Ypres Roulers
railway-
We advanced to the south of Hollebeke and regained nearly the whole ground to
last night
THE RUSSIAN ARMY. COMMANDER TREACHEROUSLY
KILLED.
Perrogran, August 4th, General Gourko, ex-Commander on the
Western front, has been arrested.
General Erdely, Commander of the Eleventh Army, has been killed, having been treacherously shot in the back.
A. COMMISSIONER'S REPORT.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE WAR
THE KING'S MESSAGES.
LONDON, August 4th. The Press Bureau announces that "H.M, the King bus telegraphed to the Emperor of Japan, the Kings of Italy, Serbia and Roumania, and the Presidents of France, America and Portugal as follow: "O the third anniversary of the day on which my country entered into the great struggle, I desire to express the unwaver ing determination of my Empire to pursue the contest until our joint efforts are crowned with success, and aur common aims are attained. I am happy in the confidence, which I feel assured. is shared by you, that the untiring will of our peoples and the heroism of our forces will achieve final victory, securing the possibility of the peaceful progress of humanity."
The Press Bureau announces that H.M.
the King has telegraphed as follows to the King of the Belgians: On the third anniversary of the day on which my Country threw in ita forces against the violators of the neutrality of Belgium, desire to express my unshakable con- fidence in the ultimate restoration of Belgium to her rightful position among the free countries of Europe. The unfailing spirit of her people, under grievous sufferings, will continue to suspire the joint efforts of the Allies liberties under foot." against the nation which trasupled her
BM, the King has telegraphed to the King of Siam expressing his appreciation of Siam's noble resolution to associate in the righteous cause for which the Allies are fighting.
BERLIN TU-DAY.
WOOD FOR FOOD.
TRYING TO “SWALLOW" THE RUSSIANS.
BY P. SEFTON DELMER.] Mr. F. Sefton Delmer, who left Herlin on May 26, is an Australian, and became English lecturer at Berlin University in 1001 Interned at Ruhlehta from Novem her, 1814, to March, 1915, he afterwards enjoyed unusual opportunities of observing developments in Berlin.
1 referred in my last article to the dificulties Germany has to fight against in the fodder question. In consequence of our blockade the fodder is simply not there It either has to be taken from
materials that are of vital importance as food for human beings or some substitute for it has to be found. The German chemists in their laboratories have been
kept as busy
as medieval alchemists try ing to discover their new philosopher's
.atono.
PETROGRAD, August 3rd. The Commissioner to the South-West Front reports that the armies under Gen- H.M. the King has telegraphed to the oral Korniloft, especially the Eleventh President of Cuba saying he is confident Army, regiments of which recently he of complete success, thus setting the laws tired of their own accord, are now vigor of the nations welfare and of humanity. ously repulsing all attempts by a power-upon a firm foundation.
The Seventh Army, in impetuous at tacks in the Grisintine region, tonk aj number of German prisoners.
In Germany there is at present in use a method secretly but very extensively a kind of flour practised of obtaining
from wood. This "four" goes by the. name loftment. It is a modification of the discovery of a Swedish savant, whom name I have forgotten. I saw a German translation of his book on the subject in the hands of the Director of the Fodder Comission.
This new wood fodder is a sort of for lorn hope which the landowners have
Our Emperor's dream of simultaneous ‹ expansion towards the West ought to have – been deferred for at least another generation. Our expansion must be to wards the East, and will be towards the-- East, for the Blav, with his softness, him mysticism, and romantic idealiam, was meant to be ruled, and not to rule"
These remarks were made at a tima- when no one foresaw the Russian Ro volution. They are curiously illustrative of Germany's anaconda policy of first slavering and then awallowing its prey. I have, as a result of long observation, come to the conclusion that the moderm. German is never good or kind for good- ness or kindness sake. If he docs am apparently philanthropic action it i niways with a material motive. If be treats prisoners well it is as a matter of policy and not for Christ's sake. believes in philanthropy only when it pays a 10 per cent. dividend. That is why the treatment of Russian prisoners has somewhat improved of late, with the distinct object of enjoling them as in- dividuals into becoming the tools of Ger many
Me
The Germans know that the Russian is the bravest of soldiers. when well led. If we could only get these grown-up children into our hands and train them under German officers we could sweep Europe 1 I have often heard them
say.
In the streets of Berlin, scantily clad throughout that bitter winter when the snow iras frozen into crystals so hard that they gave ont a sound like aleighbells when the wagon wheels passed over them, the Russian prisoner was a farailiar figure. Hardworked and underfed, he yet seemed to me to have in his face a look of dogged, far-away hope.
the cast of Monchy-To-Prenx which we lost ful enemy to penetrate Russian territory MESSAGE FROM GENERAL BOTHA, eagerly clutched at. The Russian forest kitchen refuse that could possibly be usedt
We repulsed raiders to the north-east of Gouzeaucourt and to the south-west of Fortaine-le-Croiselles.
We successfully carried out a raid to this south west of Lombartzyde,
The prisoners taken Last Tuesday on "Toff["15;"{%
are
THE GERMAN REPORT.
The German official wireless report says:-English advances on the Nieuport. Westende
of and rcad
westward Bixschoote and Langemarck failed.
The enemy is bombarding Boulers, Advanced engagements northwards of La Bassee Canal, Monchy, and Havrin- court favoured us.
We drove out the French who pene trated our trenches on the Caon-Soissons Road. We captured the southern exit of the tunnel of Cemy and repulsed attacks on the left bank of the Meuse.
FRENCH FRONT.
HEAVY ENEMY ATTACKS NEAR
CERNY.
PARIS, August 3rd:
A communiqué states:Bad weather continues on the whole front in Belgiura. After violent bombardments on the cast and south of Cerny the Germans launched violent attacks on a front of 1,500 metres.
All were repulsed by our fire with heavy
lusses
The
Belgium.
LATER.
IN
bad weather continues
A German attempt to rush our lines to the east of Cerny, completely failed
THE ALLIES OBJECTIVES IN
FLANDERS
LONDON, August 3rd.
The Times Military Correspondent states that the objectives of the offensive. in Flanders did not include the enemy main artillery positions; hence, a large capture of guns was not anticipated.
The condition and spirit of the troops denote a decisive reaction, giving ground for hope that the army will carry out its duty.
QoyeurTM East.
{THROUGH asUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE TURKISHI FRONT.
SEQUEL TO GENERAL YON FALKENHAYN'S VISIT.
LONDON, August 3rd. Following reports that General von Falkenhayn visited the Türkish front at Gaza, it is stated from Athens that the Turkish military authorities are at pre- sent giving attention to the campaign in Syria and have concentrated huge forces at Nalep for use either in Mesopotamia or at Gaza, according to the development of the operations.
Naval Activities.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.} SUBMARINE ATROCITY,
A CREW DELIBERATELY.
DROWNED..
LONDON, August 3rd.
Au unparalleled submarine atrocity,
LONDON, August 3rd: The war anniversary messages include one from General Botha, who says:——
At the close of the third year of this terrible world war we can only reitersis what we said last year-let us press on to complete victory."
WAR TIME PROFITS. TAX
IN AUSTRALIA,
MELBOURNE, August 3rd. The Government has temporarily with- drawn the War-time Profits Tax Bill and will probably introduce important amend ments to the measure
BRITISH MINISTRY OF RECONSTRUCTION,
LONDON, August 3rd. The House of Commons has passed the third reading of the Bill establishing a Ministry of Reconstruction.
STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE
ANOTHER FRENCH MINISTER EXPECTED TO RESIGN.
PARIS, August 3rd
DUTY OF THRIFT. Those men had to carry away and empty the heavy sanitary bins that stood in the areas. Every housewife lud, at a comparatively early stage in the war, received printed instructions that all as food for pigs or cattle had to be caro in the becupied districts, I have heard,fully put aside in a special receptacle. are being ruthlessly cut down and turned With true German thoroughness, a list of the things that ought to be saved for into wood-meat. This wood-meal is in this purpose, such as cabbage leaves. tended primarily to serve as a cattle food. turnip tops, potato peelings, and the like, was given, and, as if this were not Of its nutritive properties I know no
enough, the housewife was solemnly en- thing. They are said to be low. Bread joined that such things as hairpins, bits is also made from it, and I have been of broken crockery and glass, fishbones, and old nails were not to be regarded na told that it is given to the soldiers. Ifit food for German cattle !.
am more inclined to think that it is re- People of all classes punetiliously served as a delicacy for the prisoners' observe these regulations, convinced of camps. It will probably be an improw-the importance of apparent irifles. and ment on the war-bread served out to us at Ruhleben in the winter of 1914-15, which was made of all sorts of inferior ingredients and included flour made from straw. I remember yet the rasped, cratched feeling it produced in one's throat and digestive canal.
KEETING THE RUSSIANS.
eight of the crew of the steamer Belgion against the Government in the Chamber namely, the deliberate drowning of thirty As the majority of the Socialias voted Prince, is related by three survivors who on the question of attending the Stock- were rescued by & patrol boat after fearholm Conference, it is reported that M.rgament, but is regarded by the mas ful sufferings.
The steamer was torpedoed on Tuesday Albert Thomas, he Minister of Muni evening, 200 miles from land. The sub tions, may resign. marine shelled and destroyed the wire M. Painleve, Minister of War, tem
porarily takes over the Ministry of
so it comes about that when the keepers of small dairies come round with their carts to collect the débris they get quits a valuable contribution from this source. I was glad to hear that this plan had! been adopted in London too. The dust- man tells me that quite half the houses in London save the useful refuse for cattle and pigs. But why not all of them The war has certainly taught the Germans, always a thrifty people, the duty of In this respect we waating nothing. English, too, have lessons to learn
In the Russian forests prisoners are. being employed to destroy Russian pro- perty. In the earlier stages of the war the treatment of the Russian prisoners was brutal in the extreme, the theory Folk in Berlin are already anxiously being that the unalphabetic Russian was gathering together in their cellars what a kind of animal that understood no argu- coal they can in anticipation of an even ment but the knout. I have on several greater shortage next winter thun thes occasions walked through the forests had to suffer from in the winter just past round Berlin where Russian prisoners For want of coal many schools had to b were at work sawing down trees, and closed, in some cases for several week! bearing them away on their shoulders. 1 In houses with central heating the wate in the pipes froze and the pipes burst saw what hard, exacting work it was two men carrying the huge logs, heavy Plumbers were everywhere in demand with sap, that would have taxed the but there were very few to be had. Th strength of three. while their task whole trouble was brought about by th masters looked on with an insolent air lack of facilities for transport. Th
the German bayout is not there as an has been put upon it, rushing troops ad of superiority and with fixed bayonets. rolling stock all over Germany has grea And reragmber, please, Mr. Pacifist, that y deteriorated through the strain the
material neross Germany from who carries it as a very effective ox-goad frontier to the other for nearly thro I managed to smuggle a few cigars into years. Lack of mechanics, lack f the hands of these poor wretches by lubricants, lack of tools, all added o
the difficulty. Nor were there enou dropping them in their way at a pro- pitious moment. The captives, no doubt, horses to cart the coal from the railwa Marine.
not knowing that I was an Ally, took once it did arrive. One freuently sw me for some new type of Geriau. horses that had fallen on the slipper ATTITUDE OF BRITISH LABOUR.
On a German estate where my little snow and lay there, too weak to get jp. LONDON, August 3rd. The Times states that the majority son Denis was staying last Eastor he again, or wagons that had stopped in until they sank exhausted or died of exof Mr. Henderson's colleagues in the beard the German overseer assuring the the snow, whose horses, in spite of eures Government are determined to do their Russian prisoners employed there that and brutal whipping, could not mive
Russia was done for gauz Kapet') the vehicle atmost to convince the Trade Unions Nein, nein," said the Russian prisoners; It was the poor who felt the pitch to vote against the recommendation of with their unconquerable smile, Huss-must. The Hong queues of people in the the Party Executive to accept the inland nicht Kapal Russland stark streets, waiting hours for coal on thore vitation to the Stockholia Conference. (Russin not done for Russia strong!) bitter days, with 22deg. of frost, tiled
Meanwhile the conference of Allied and Neutral Seamen, including officers, bas been summoned in London for the 17th inst., or a week after the Labour Party Conference, to deal with the question, of the submarine.murders of seamon.
The Executive of the Trado Unions yesterday decided to adhere to the re solutions not to meet enemy representa
less, took the capinin aboard, and muster. ed the crew on the deck of the submarine, deprived most of them of their outer Clothing and life-belts, destroyed the boats and thereafter submerged, carrying many of the crew. Others swam or floated
posure:
GERMAN SUBMARINES IN DUTCH HARBOURS.
AMSTERDAM, August 3rd,
A Berlin semi-official report states that the result of an investigation by an International Commission at The Hague ENEMY'S APPALLING LOSSES is that German submarine U6 remains interned in Holland and that Use will be released.
LONDON, August 3rd.
Renter's Correspondent at Headquar ters, telegraphing to-day, says:
Since my last despatch there has been a hurricane of heavy shelling and deter mined counter-attacks, The more the enemy launches his masses against our withering barrages the sooner must the
General
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CONTROL OF FOOD.
tives
MINISTERIAL CHANGES IN RUSSIA
ار طابق وش رد کنه
A most important revelation about the one's pity. The great cold certainly mado Russian prisoners was ride to me them feel the lack of fats and thing an unguarded moment by a certain high food still more keenly, Wir haben. official about a year age I mention it das Hungern gelernt, nun können wir in the hope that it may become known auch noch das Frieren lernen!" (We in Petrograd and taken to heart by our have learned what it is bear hunger, now we must learn what it is to beat fold!) friends there," " After the war,” he said, "German agriculture will be of supreme they said, half bitterly, half stoially importance, but, as a result of the ap They shudder at the thought that the palling losses we have suffered, there will war may last over another winter and· be a great lack of farm-hands in our say, "Impossible, Impossible !
་ holds therefore, at the conclusion of peace, mean to keep back as many as wo can of our million Slay prisoners. They make excellent and docile farm
And yet and yet, Count Reventlow still preaches that the Pan-Gerrours, will her content with nothing less than a German peace-a larger war indennity, labourers." PETROGRAD, August 4th.
the coast of Belgium, the mineral dis But how will you manage to keep than tricts of Northern France, Poland, and LONDON, August 4thter of Agriculture, has been accepted.
The resignation of M. Tehernoff Minis here if they want to return home? a rich slice of Russia! Let him who can reconcile these claims with the present inquired
mood of the German people, do so
end come. It is impossible to estimate COMMITTEES TO BE APPOINTED The losses yesterday afternoon during a series of assaults, but they must have b appalling
It is a striking contrast that, while the Han infantry grow their artillery for lack of support troops praise our
gunners.
It is officially announced that Lord M. Arksenteff, Chairman of the Exe. Rhondda has invited the local government cutive of the Peasants Deputies Council, bodies of Great Britain to appoint Food has been appointed Minister of the In- Our new positionsouth of the Ypres Contral Committees to athainister the ferior. Commines road and the Ypres Boulers new achame of sugar distribution under railway to opposite 8 Julien seem to which retailers are required to register. be causing the Germans great concern. Sugar cards will be issued by the public They are devoting their heirat shellites who are also requested to there The Frendo fodero continue the Food Economy Campaign Koortekkeen and Bixachoote is also being and to deal with other foodstuffs in
cluding meat and bread, and to enforce sheiled heavily
fixed food prices.
The situation on the whole front shows no tactical change.LONA
The weather continues deplorable. A fonler August was never, born
Onr prisoners number well over 5,000. THE WEATHER IN FLANDERS. The wrather conditions in Flanders may be imagined from the fact that the average rainfall for the monta has been experienced in the south of England during the last five days. The weather cleared last night.
BRITISH SHIPBUILDING.
DEMAND POR MORE LINERS.
LONDON, August 3rd.
ROYALIST AGITATION IN
ATTICA AND BOETIA
ATHENS, August 3rd. A state of sicge has been proclaimed in Attich, and Boctis owing to a Royalist ngitation.
THE SILVER MARKET.
LOSDON, August 3rd. Silver is quoted at 40 d. There is The leading shipowners have me small demand and scanty applies
LORDON, August 4th moralised the Premier agam arging the building of liners, and not merely cargo- Bilver stands at forty-one The Con
tinental and other demands are steady.
steamers.
Ob. they are mostly illiterates, and it wo treat them well they'll probably stay of their own accord. Many of them
I find people are wondering about my are already forming connections, illicit bona fides. May not Mi, Delmer have it is true, with German women, on the been sent over by the Germans for pur- big estates where they are at work. But,
poses of their own? some usk. I ought of course, if they refuse to stay we shall not to take umbrage at such excessive find means to wake them. With proper caution, nor do I; on the contrary. I education, in a German milicu, in less rather welcome it. In the past. English than a generation they will be Germans. people have so often received the singoth- German history," he went on, shows, tongued alien with open arms that one from the time when the Germans plished cannot be too thankful that they ale no on into the lands on the other side of longer so eredulous, To answer the ques the Elbe and Oder, that it has been the tion so often addressed to me Why destiny of the higher German Kultur did the Germans allow you to so! to permeate and then to assimilate the involves however, rather a long story. lower Slavenio civilization on its burders. But anyone of discernment, who reads my This process of peaceful penetration into impressions of Germany must surely wee- Slavonic regions, followed by the absorp that their sole genesis is their love of tion of the Slavonic population, has been England. clinched at intervals, when necessary, by I shall have to devote half of my sixth war. This process has been in the past, I article, I am afraid, to this personal and ought to be in the future, our policy matter.--Timer --