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THE
WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.
BRITISH ADVANCE IN WEST.
DUTY AND HONOUR GUIDE GREECE.
ALLIED CONFERENCE IN LONDON.
RUSSIAN CABINET FORMED.
Franco-Helgian Frnt.
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BRITISH FRONT.
FRUITLESS ENEMY EFFORTS.
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THE FIGHTING AT HOLLE BEKE
LONDON, August 4th. Router's Correspondent at Headquar tera states: The fun is very mechanical LONDON. August 6th
This methods, The lure of certain Tield-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig replaces, seems irresistible, and, as far as porta:--An enemy attuck in the neigh one in see, his rictions are not always bourhood of Hollebeke was driven off governed by purely tactical reason. Tho before reaching our lines.
An attack under cover of heavy barrage against Westhoek was equally unsuccessful.
We used a raid in the cast Epehy
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We drove off an attempted waid to the north of Arleux and slightly advanced our lines to the south-west and west of Lens
Oar aeroplanes resumed bombing raids yesterday. We brought down Ave 16 chines and drove down three, the of ours, is missing. GERMAN CLAIM TO DESTRUCTION: OF TANKS.
Losos, August 6th.
Aerial Activities,
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GERMAN AIRMEN INTERNED
IN HOLLAND
AMSTERDAM, August 6th A German acroplane landed at Texel, after sixty shots had been aimed at it. The occupants have been internod.
General.
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BIG EXPLOSION IN GERMANY.
"London, August 7th.
A German official report adinits what appears to have bewain big explosion in a munitions factory of Henningsdorf, near Berlin.
The report suys that the damage was not insignificant, and the loss of life was
relatively small
WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST STH T417
THE ORIGIN OF THE WAR, MINISTERIAL
UNITED STATES POSSESSES
PROUE
New You, August 6th The American Government possesses information showing that Herr Zimmer- ninn, the Carman ex-Foreign Secretary, admitted to an American diphoniat that the German Government was in posses sion" of "Austria's ultimatum to Serbia fourteen hours, before it was delivered to Serbia. It is pointed out that this disposes of the German denials of the 2'imca disclosures regarding the Potsdam | Council,
NEUTRALITY OF BELGIUM DELIBERATELY VIOLATED.
LONDON, August 6th, Mr. Gerard, former U. S. Ambas sador to Berlin, commenting upon the Kaiser
(mentioried in an earlier telegram). remarks that this most ins teresting document clears up one issue, mantely, the deliberato violation of the noutrality of Belgium. The very weak Germany on Saturday night heavily
excuse is added that "news" had been comber attacked Hollebeke. Owing to
received that France was already pre- dense winther, our gunners did not see
to enter Belgium, but there was paring the signals and the enemy gained a foot with the members of the War Cabinet been any actual violation of Belgium's not oven a pretence that there had ever ing in the village. Runners were sent back with messages, and the artilleryference to-day.
He attends an important Allied Confrontier by the French prior to the Ger with wonderful promptitude, put down
WAN
M. RIBOT IN LONDON.
LONDON, August 7th, M, Ribot, the French Premier, has arrived in London, and has conferred
LONDON August 7th
Winston Churchill was overturned in a A noter-wir conveying Mr. and Mrs.
collision at Lang.field.
Both distinguished occupants were shaken, but were able to continue their
journey in another car to London.
a barrage on the Germans. When this ACCIDENT TO MR. WINSTON had lasted while the range
CHURCHILL. lengthened, so cutting off the back area, and our troops attacked and drow back the enemy upon the curtain of fire, with the result that, when daylight came, the ground-was-seen to be strewn with Gar man dead. Ond wight have thought that this experience, would have been enough for the Iun, but last night his stor troops agaid attacked Hollebeke after a heavy bombardment, to which our guns interrifically replied. A few of them may Flanders. We repulsed strong English have reached our wine, but cortainly attacks between the Ypres Mexines road me got farther, and the attemy was and the 1ys, and recovered some tuachite-arotluce costly failures It will be in guns from twenty-five tanks lying de teresting to see how often the Germans stroyed before our front.
throw their waves against this spot, and whethy indeed, they man to repeat their Verdun tactics
Hollebeke 11
A German official wireless inėssage, states: There is an artillery dudl of great intensity 201 sonic ecctors
FRENCH FRONT.
PARIS, August 6th.
A communque states ----The situation in Belgium is unchanged. German ad tempts to the east of Moisy farm, in the region south of Bavolle, in Avocourt wood and in Alsace, failed under our fire.
There has been reciprocal marked artik lory firing in the Champagne mountains region, on both banks of the Meuse, notably in the Avocourt and Louvement
sectors.
.Router's
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THE FIGHTING IN FLANDERS
HIGHLANDERS ROUT GERMANS.
LONDON, August 7th.. Correspondent at British Heaters in recounting a trio of battle on July 31st, pays a tributo to the Lewis gunners in stopping a tem porary gap on 150 yards of our line, one Corporal using his ponderous
weapon like a rifleman. When the Infantry got going, it was a real soldiers fight, non- commissioned officers automatically took command when their officers Were knocked out, and the men carried on
without pause,
ship.
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AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
A CABINET FORMED
Pemoonau, August 7th.
man invasion.
The Kaiser's second excuse, that the King of the Belgians refused free pussage to German troops, is still wenker, "It would indeed inaugurate a new era in the intercourse between nations if small mutions could only preserve their freedom by granting free passage to the troops of a powerful neighbour.
RECONSTRUC-
TION IN GERMANY.
LONDON, August 6th. German Ministerial reconstruction has begun.
GREAT CHANGES.
CAN YOU BEAR THEM?..
[BY HAMILTON FYFE
Almost every day I hraɛ someone speak of after the wards it, we were likely Five Prussia Ministers and four Gez-, to return, when peace comes to the man Secretaries of States have resigned exact conditions which übtained before and their places have been taken by high the war, municipal official, except the Deputy Women say: “ I do wish the war would Herr Spahn, who becomes the Minister finish. Then we should be able to gen
of Justice, and Baru Kuchiman, who servants and housekeeping would be
simple again,” A
is made Foreign Minister.
Here - Holfterich, although he hay resigned the Ministry of Interior, con- tinues to represent the Chancellor.
Formaerts comments that the changes are burocratic, but liberal. Neverthe leas, there is no sign of a Parliamentary Ministry
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3.ONDON, August 7th
Men say I shall be glad when bus nexs gets buck tu ila old basis ? ---
Or they say, "I do miss Ascn and Sandown Cheeriness seems to have gone on of life somehow. Jolly glad I shall be when the old days come back."
Der people, haven't you realized vets that the old days never will come back fi Thai fusiness must be on
a different basisThat the pleasant, easy days of housekeeping in the old way have fled for. ever t
We are at the end of the age which mang of us found so agreeable, in which we had grown up, which had coloured all Four habits, all our view, of life. We are The German Ministerial appartment at the beginning of a new age. Those persis who still advertise "eleven ser- are regarded as finally disposing of any viats kept, those who cling to the notion hopes af concassion of the demand for the Best People, those who think
that the only people who really count aro Parliamentary Government They are they exist in the country that the niso likely to affect the Stockholm Cour should touch their cups and be Thank for twenty-two shillings a week, ference, since it is felt that such a body with the new age or the aware will these persons will have to fall into step of Intenterats will not permit ay grind them to dust,
anti-Prussian Socialist, to attend the Conference.
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from another by the sharp edge of a is not often, that one age is cut off definite Event The Early Victoriat period, with its fragiance of youth young Queen, young Empire young Dizzy, Young England" Farty, youth- ful hopes and dreams-this faded imper THE ATTITUDE OF GREECE ceptibly into the drab, ugly mid-Victorian period, when houses and furniture became hideous, when falso piety gained in power when dali Respectability was worshipped and Prudery valued far above frank Common Sense.
The eighties gradually killed the nud Victorian age. Followed the Edwardian period, a stupid, formal
period of reaction against convention-renotion carried, as usually happens, too far, JE is this period which has been put in end to by the Great War
ATHENS, August 8th. In the Chamber, after taking the Oath of the Constitution, the King in # speech from the Throne, docinsed du Greece had now adopted the artitude which duty and honour imposed on her Mr. Gerard then contrasted the fowards her brave and chivalrous Ally Kaiser's explanations with Dr. yon the defenen of the rights of Hellenisn Make up your minds to it, dear people; Bethmann-Hollweg's sprech in the and a debt of gratitude for the original nothing will ever be quite the anne again. Reichstag six days earlier, when he sud, liberation and protection which she and hension through you! Are you unable to Does that send a cold shiver of appre- ** There were bomb-throwing airman, always enjoyed. His Majesty referred face without dislike, misgiving, four even
any other state of society than that which cavalry patrols and invading companies to Bulgarie as the nation's hereditary wrapped you so cosily in cotton-woot in Alance-Lorraine. Thereby France, meny and paid a tribute to the heroism self as you read this I won't, I won't. before the war? Are you saying to your although way had not been decayed, had of the Greek troops at the front, which believe it. All that I value and care for attacked cur erritory
belongs to the old order. If that is gone. was a most happy augury for the ultimate let me go also. I have no Monroyer,
issue of the struggle,
further use for
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M. Kerensky hus formed a Cabinet, himself taking the portfolios of War and Marine, in addition to the Premier-German Ambassador in Paris, when he declared year on August 3rd, repeated the statements and affirmed that French aviators and clearly violated Belgium's neutrality by flying over Bel
M. Terestchenko is Minister of For Throughout yesterday afternoon a big eign Affairs, and M. Nekrassoff, Minis movement of troops" behind their linester of Finance. was plainly visible, and our artillery duly attended to these columns es route. The weather continues fine today, though il is more misry than our airmen and ganners could wish.
Russian bront.
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RUSSIAN FRONT
RUSSIANS OCCUPY HEIGHTS.
M. KERENSKY THE ONEY HOPE.
PETROGRAD August 6th- M. Kerensky alone stands between Russia and ruin, and all recognise that the only hope lies in giving him an absolutely free hund as to the form of government.
THIE
MINED STEAMER
NOORDAMS
the
If you feel that way, brace up. Show braver face. There will be compensa tions. There always are. Even if you, madna, have to do your own housework →→→ and be sure that many accustomed to being waited upon will have to come to AMETSEDAM, Auguse th
that yan
will be better an health gium territory. The Kaizer, when he The Dutch steamship Nourdron, Your nerves will be calmer "nerves"
Imaginary ailmeüls will fall from you. wrote his personal explanations on sich wie mned of Texel on August
result mostly of energy wrongly ure August 10th, muitioned in such violath, was injured in the hold, which was Even if you, sir (I address myself now employed. You will be less often bored. ion of Belgium.
full of water, but was able to proceed to business men), are obliged to scrap the under her own steam. It is reported and to substitute for them a more vigor
methods you inherited from your father that she is Iving three miles off the coast more "alert activity, you will he rewarded not only in material profit, but near the new
your business will
bring her to flotterdam.
old pleasarıg merit little sympathy, The old picasures had Passengers half-dressed were landed merely madish and mechanical. We of outlived their savour. They had become
- Mr. Gerard's memoirs will be published penal, as they extol i 50,000 words,
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The outstanding features of the Con
THE RAID ON THE U.5, EMBASSY ference on August 5th were M. Tere- telli's emphatic declarations that the war. The Daily Telegraph for published m must be continued, M. Cheidze affirma- further instalment of the memoirs by Mir, tion that the Soldiers and Workmen's Gerar
Battlerway and is discharg in the greater)
hold for you.
ing her cargo, after which it is hoped to Those
whole fan agha
at Helder. Some of them collapsed from
shock and
exposure.
A Dutch official, Mr. Dungeons, from
Delegates would not take the power into The ex-Ambassador complains of the LONDON, August 8th. their own hands, and the bitter recrimi- disgraceful midnight raid on the annex, Java, stated that, according to Bestern Russian official wireless message nations of the Cadet and Council repre- of the American Embassy at Berlin entom, many of the passengers were states:We occupied a series of heights sentatives. to the north-east of Czernovitz and drove. back the enemy to Poporovce and Rev concze. Subsequently we were forced to retire to the main position.
four villages.
Tar
GENERAL GOURKO'S
TREACHERY.
October 2nd, 1911, when the police arrest taking an afternoon nap in the cabins ed the employés working in connection when the ship was mined Hence their Winlf-clad condition. The passengers got with the relief of British subjects and
into the boats in an orderly fashion Although only a few miles from shore it was seventeen hours before they were
At a Conference on August 5th, M. seized papers which are universally Nekrasoff stated that General Courke cognised as immune from sciznte The entry pressed us back to the south had been arrested owing to the The military authoritis teld Afy of Cernovitz and occupied Radaus and discovery of a Jefter
the ex. Gerard at the raid carried Janded, showing that General Gourko out of the driers of the Admiralty, The enemy continued the offensive in remained un adherent to the old rigme The Foreign Office, which denied | AMERICA'S WAR TAX BILL
គ half apology, And the direction of Eimpolung, He crossed and had been counselling others to bide this, made the Bistritza.
their time, while ostensibly supporting Mr. Gerard finally, agreed to forget får incident, at the urgeat regnest of. Herr Zimmerroans, Under-Seerstary for Foreign Affairs.
GERMAN REPORT.
LONDON, August 8th.
A fine exploit, was performed during a heavy counter attack from east of
A German official wireless mesinge Frezomburg to the Pommern Rodount states-The Russians are preparing for battle between the Dniester and the Pruth The enmy is resisting to the south-east of Cernovits
Purious machine-gunning pressed back our line, but a little parly clinging to some ruins poured a withering fire into the rear of the German attack Then a body of Cameron Highlanders swung into
We captured Badauc,
Repeated Roumanian attacks to the
action The Germans held their ground north of the Putna Valley failed. for three minutes, bat broke and ran
before the yelling Highlanders, who Naval Activities.
retook the lost ground.
THE GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS.
The figures regarding the German rein- Zorcements show that 2,000 officers and en were drafted into one division since April, yet the division was never nearly nt full strongth. Lads of the 1918 class formed 28 per cent. of the division, the 1017 class 5 per cent., even the combed-out industries 15 per cent, and the returned sick and wounded 52 per cent.
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VICTORY
LONDON, August 6th. The Admiralty announces that a Ger- can submarine attacked by gandrs a Spanish fishing bost in Spanish terri torial waters, two of the crew being
BEVÉTELY Wounded:
the new order.
ARREST OF SOCIALIST LEADERS. In connection with the Petrograd rising
My Gerard contrasts this treatment in the middle of July, the Minister with the manner in which ▲ rice treat. of Justice has ordered the arrest of timed the notorious spy Igel in New York. Internationalist leaders, M. Trotzky and M. Danacharsky, who are members of the Soldiers and Workmen's Delegates.
EARTHQUAKE IN NEW
ZEALAND.
A VIOLENT VISITATION.
WELLINGTON, August 7th The most violent earthquake since the
'fifties, on the southem or
North Island has occurred
31r. Gerard's revelations altogether constitute a string of confirmation of pre- vious accounts of German duplicity and disregard for international courtesies.
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ADMIRALTY APPOINTMENT.
The Admiralty announces that Vice-
Admiral Sir R. E. Wemyss has been appointed Second Bea Lord, in succes sion to Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, who Great damage has been done, especially is employed on special-duty in the Wairarapa district
THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST CONFERENCE.
STOOK HOLM, August 6th The International Socialist Conference has been fixed for September 9th.
WASHINGTON, August th
The Senate Finance Committee has lavourably reported on a Bill which pro poses to raise 82,000,607,000 by taxation
AIR-RAID NERVES AMONG
ANIMALS.
the new age must take others for our. selves. If the process he slow, so much the better. We shall be thrown back upon the enjoyments and delights which are up with portic completeness in that offered free to all, which Borrow summed thrilling phrase of his There's night and day, brother, both sweet things: sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things: there's likewise the wind on the
heath Forward, then, without flinching or looking back. Let us get firmly into ou mind that After the war will be quite unlike ** Before the war." Let us greet the unseen with a cheer," and move briskly, with the procession or the procession will leave us behind. Daily Unit.
UNCONQUERABLE ENGLAND.
Some stonishingly frank utterances on the fallacy of believing that England can be made to bend the kness to Cor. many are published, uncensored, by the Bremer Burgerzeitung —
Were those rabid folks who are seated around a beer table or at a writing desk far removed from the scenes of massacre to have their way the blood-thirety world Atruggle would continue until not only the enemy, but we ourselves, were, ground Mans animals, particularly ents and into the very dust. Then they would
listen to talk of peace. dogs, have shown earious symptoms of Enough, more than enough, of this illness and uneasiness lately, and veteri
Vicious and Bary surgeons have been puzzled Lo crushing of the enemy who declines to he dangerous twaddle about the diagnose the silments of hitherto healthy crushed, and who ought not, even if he peta. Such habitually stolid creatures as could, be crushed, for the effect of such cows have also shown a curious unensi a massacre would recoil on our own nens all the animals, indeed, are suffer heads, We are sick of the talk about the ing from a wor-time malady which has
forcing England to her
A dog fancier, in a letter to the Weekly
vie
LONDON, August 6th. been diagnosed as air-raid, nerves knew for
It is perfectly true that England Dispatch, says he has noticed that during our most dangerous enemy, whom the an air raid dogs howl piteously, while U boats are severely punishing, but many cats seek the darkest corners they can find a day must pase before she can be reduced One exception to these curious cases, is to such a level as to be, forced to kneel that of a London eat, which shows the to us and beg for merry
Every day, however, claims fresh sacri greatest interest in air raids, and, at NEW NAVAL CONTROLLER.
lunes, when bombs have been falling not fices in bloed and destroys millions fra from its bone, has indicated clearly worth of property. It is not by over- LONDON, August 8th. its desire to go out and see what is heated speeches, by everlasting PTG- happening. When allowed to go out, the pouncements in favour of impossible con- Mr. Alan
a director of the cat watches the sky with every appear quests, that the resistance of the Allies Oriens Company, has been appointed Con- Ance of intelligerent interest; indeed peoples are only whinged up to more in- can be broker On the contrary, those troller of the Navy, in succession to air that its name has been changed to neutrals are rendered more and more dis-
its curiosity at such times is so marked tense hatred of Germans, and Eric Geddea.
"Zepps