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SIKH TEMPLE. COLLECTION FOR WAR FUNDE
A further collection was unde at the Sikh Temple on Sunday on behalf of War Funds, when the following amounts were given :- Mr. Moun Singh, Tang Wa wharf $50.00 Mr. Ojagor Singh, Motor-Car Co
10,00
(in addition to previous 40,00) Mr Amor Singh, Priest, Sikh temple · 10,00 Mr. Sang Sing, Gas Co. Yaumati Mr. Jainal Singh, A. S. Watson
Cam
Mr. Bhat Singh, Sergeant Major.
ILK P.
Mr King Sing. 8.S. Pardian
Mr. Surman" "Sing, No. 10 Kowloon
Dock
Mr. Gujjar Singh, Rope Works
THE KAISER'S SOCIALISTS.
THEIR PEACE TERMS A semi-oficial telegram from Berlin reproduces at great length from the Foruerta. the reply of the German Socialist Delegation to the questions of the Committee of the Stockholm Confer ence. The reply is as follows:
We give our assout to the proposal of 5,00th Petrograd Council of Workers and 5.00 Soldiers' delegates for a pouco without annexations or indemnities, and on the 5.00 principle of national self-governuent we
oppose the forcible appropriation of ter ritory. With the rejection of all forcible annexations, the return of the wrested
5.00
5.00 6.00
1917.
BATTLE FOR HELL WOOD, CHESHIRE MEN'S FINE FEATS.
BY PHILIP GLBUS:] War Correspondents' Headquarters, Franc, June 14th, Between Wytschete and Messines is a wood, horribly ravaged by shell-fire, called on our trench maps Bois de l'Eufer, For Hell Wood,
North of it was a German strong-point, with barbed wire defences and heavy blocks of concrete, called 'Enfer Hell itself-and south of it, behind a labyrinth of trenches, some bruken walls abore a nest of pug-outs, known as Hell Farm
These fithy places were central defences of great fortified positions held by the enemy just north of Messines, and just
TUE GUARDS CAME THROUGH.
Men of the 21st
Up by the Chalk Pit Wood, Weak with our wounds and our thirst,.
Wanting our sleep and our food, After a day and a night---
God, shall we ever forget 1. Beuten and broke in the fight,
But sticking it-sticking it yet Trying to hold the line,
Fainting and spent and done, Always the thud and the whine; Always the yell of the Bun! Northumberland. Lancaster, York,
Durham and Somerset,
fighting alone, worn to the bone,
But sticking it sticking it yet. Never a message of hope! Never a word of cheer
Mr, Bishan Singh, Rape Works 3.00 colonies is domaniled as a matter of south of Wytschnete, and round them and Fronting Hill 70's shell-swept slope,
Mr. Ojagar Singh, A. S. Watna &
Co
Mr. Dal Singh, Electric Co, Kowloon Mr. Rain Singh, Rope Factory Mr. Sorain Singh, Telegraph
...
Bar in
beyond them was some of the fiercest fight-
arse. The imposition of a 3.00deninity is to be rejected. We reject the which happened on that day of battle,
when we gained the Messines Hidge.
Until now I have left out that part 2,00 din of a one-sided obligation to repair 2.00 the destruction caused in regions affecter of the battle story-one cannot write the 2.00 by the war. It appears to us uncom-
vastly raportant to the success of the
With the dull dead plain in our rear.
Always the roar of its burat, Always the whine of the shell, Always, the tortures of bell,
As waiting and wincing we cursed
When our Corporats shouted "Stand
to !"
... front for the Guards 17
And the Guards came through.
Body difficult to determine the origin of history of a battle like that in a day or Our luck and the gune and the Bocke, Mr. Darbara Singh, A. S. Watson &
Co-
2.00 isolated acts of destruction, and to in but it must be told, because it was Me. Didar Singh, Rope Factory ..
100vestigate their military justification. For 1,00 the States which are unable out of their general action, and the troops engaged in And I heart, some ate ery, "Clear the Mr. Mit Singh, Cable house........ Mr. Barta Singh, H. K. Telegraph 100 own resources to rebuild their destroyed 1.00 economic life international financial help Mr. Boote Singh, Sze Yak wharf Mr. Bazar Singh, Taikoo Sugar can be provided by reciprocal agreement.
Refinery
100 We are in favour of the restoration of Collection on Sunday, Aug. 5th 303.00 an independent Belgium, which should neither be vassal State of Germany-nor 18512,00 of Great Britain,
Total
AIR RAID MURDERS ONE GERMAN PAPER ASHAMED OF SENSELESS SLAUGHTER. Amid the general rejoicing of the fer man Press over the "success" of the
I hate not to mention them all, but must it showed the finest courage. not because the enemy would like to know. There were Cheshire men among them and other country lads who were blooded in battles of the Somme, where once I watched them surging up the high slopes |
into the German frenches.
Our thronts they were parched and hot. But Lorit, if you'd heard the cheers! Irish and Welsh and Scot,
Coldstream and Grenadiers.
Dressing as stenight as a hem We-we were down on our knees,
Regarding Serbia and the other Balkan States, we support what has been said by Sur Austrian comrades. Such States us Finland and Poinnd, which find them- selves freed from foreign tomination by this war should not be refused the right of self-government. Regarding other re guns al foreiga race, mas far as their political independence is not concerned, they should at least fr granted autonomy peoples of advanend Kultur, political status underwent no change in real digging in the face of the enemy consequence of the war, such as Ireland.embly trenches, as plain us. pikestaves to German observers, and advertising, as esp, Tripoli, Morocco, India, it did the enormous ammunition dumps, and Keren, German Social Democracy as the greatest sympathy for the efforts How batteries and wagon lines, the awfal of these peoples to regain their national stroke of attack that was being prepared. freedom,
na heavy fire and fighting their wayTwo brigades, if you please, Tu this battle of Hell Wood they were so wonderful in the cool, steady way they fought that when an airmen came down to report their progress, he said to their. Generel, I knew your fellows, because they advanced in perfect order as though on parade."
Before the battle, when they lay about Wulverghem, opposite the fortress posi
niv raid on East London one newspaper,egarding the formerly independent tions they had to attack, they did soing]
Volkswocht, of Breslan, raises its voie in angry protest.
to a
whose
THE DEMON DIGGERS,
Praying for us and for them!
Praying with outstretched hand,. Praying with tear-wet check, Lord, I could speak for a week,
But how could you understand! How should your cheeks be wet,
Such feelin's don't come to you. But when can we or my mates forget When the Guards came through!
Fivn yards left extend 1” I passed from rank to rank. Line after line with never a bend,
And a touch of the London swank ·
Arms at the trail, eyes front!
Cool as a homo parade, A trifle of swank and dash. Twinkle and glitter and fash Flinching never a shade, With the shrupuel right. in their face
Doing their Hyde Park stunt. Keeping their swing at an easy pare,
Man, it was fine tu do! Mum, it was great to see!
be,
It's a cot and a hospital ward for me. But I tell 'ern in Blighty, wherever I
How the Guards came through.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYER in The Times.
After saying it deplores the raid no the less because it happened in London, it German airmen goes on to declare: who were sent out to bombard pilitary and transport depots of the enemy As regards the various nationalities of was a record night's work of twelve capital dropped their devastating bumise Hungary, was suppers what has humbed North Country Inds who went out into the dead strip between their from a height of 3,000 metres on school and other populated points of the been said by our Austrian comrades.
As regards Alsace-Lorraine, it was never brunches and the enemy's, and dug like City. The result is 104 people killed,
an independent national political entity, demons. When at dawn they crept back 154 severely wounded, 169 slightly hurt, and 20 children hurt and 20 children nor can it be regarded as a separate to their own lines they left lebind them Emographically the intench four feet six deep and 1,050 killed and injured. Borror must ayacionality.
yards dong for n jump out line on the hold of one when one pictures, even at ashitants are about nine-tenths of Gerday of battle. The enemy officers saw it this distance, what happened when aaran nationality. Alsace-Lorraine, more homb fell on the class of children and aver, does not belong to the regions which and must bare sickened at the sight. They I was frightful killed am on the spot, injuring and have changed owners during the war, and, marked it on their maps, which were throwing others down. One would col apart from the small frontier strip, it has captured afterwards. lapse with those others who this find remained under German jurisdiction. By ground in front of Ciese troops of ours, their little ones again-mothers who the Peace of Frankfurt in 1871 the dis. I have seen it partly for myself from husbands most likely are facing theriets of Alsace Lorraine, originally he ground about nine graters looking over
passed through in perfect order, which entity.
longing to Germany, both politically and Hell Wood,
The first part of our men's advance is a most dieult maneuvre in battle imaginable is the angermographically, and forcibly wrosted which
has been caused by such happen from the German Empire by the French, after the moment of attack was hardly when the ground is covered with troops ing Our English comrades"-Folk- wacht as cur be imagined, is: Socialigi roceived back their original adership checked, and they went forward in open who have already been fighting, with have no easy task to go to Stocklielmof the State. It is therefore quite un order as steadily as though in the prac wounded men and stretcher bearers, and and all the tumult of new Their ruble came later, when they found runners, from an England enraged by sich nets, justified to speak of France's right to tice Belds through butterups and daisies, suvenir hunters and moppers up and and consult with Socialists of hostile these regions,
themselves under machine gun fw from gained ground. But in long unbroken. Hell Wund, on the left of their salvaner wiven the fresh troops linet ap beyond country. It is a wonder they were not lynched and torn to pieces the firm
line and from Hell Farm in front of these exwds, and made ready to advance
line of attack, apun the new
Again of such an outrageo
groups of them and to be separated from the main body in order to seize isolated positions on the wings, where groups of Cerunns were holding out and sweeping our flanks with fire..
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German Social Demeracy demands for Alsace-Lorraine, fail" equality autonomous Federal State within the German Empire, and a liberal and mocratic extension of its Legislature and administration. ...
them.
It was a body of Cheshires, who side. shipped in the left to deal with that fire WAR NEWS.
The principle of prase without annexa. From word. They made a dash for tons naturally does not exclude friendly thos, sparrod tree trunks, from which a stream of bullets poured and fought RUSSIAN ADMIRAL THROWS HIS
arrangements regarding frontier recti SWORD INTO THE SEA
fications wherever they be. Cerman socialem way through to the German machine- From a skatement made by Admiral democracy demands an international court gunplacements, thought & mmber of of arbitration before which all conflicts them fell. As they closed upon the enemy Koltchak, it seems that the outbreak between individual States shall be laid, the German gainers ceased fire in a among the seamen of the Black Sea Fleet while in order to prevent the violation of harry, Many of them stopped shruptly, was largely fomented by delerates from international law and treaties an inter- with bullets in their brains and fifty
nion surrendered, with 15 machine-guna. the Baltic Fleet who came to Subastopol national law organisation should be creat
Hell Fan was gained and held, and at Fifteen thousand soldiers and sced. In treaties of prace' agreements about attended one of the meetings which had the limitation of armabeats shall be the top of Hell Wond the Cheshires routed our another machine-gun, so that all was been convened, and it was resolved to March out and arrest the officers, includ
car in this part of the field.
Meanwhile the Bain body of ussaulting ing Admiral Koltchak and his Chief of Staff, on the ground that they had been
troops had passed on to another system carrying out a propaganda counter to
of defenes known as Dctober Trench, the Revolution.
which was a barrier straight across their
included.
The supply of arms and ammunition from neutral States to belligerens is to be forbidden, the naval prize lair is to be abolished, and the arming of merchant The crew of the flagship, demanded that hips is to be forbidden. For world in Admiral Kotteliak should surrender histeresarse the straits and interoceanic were Here, as the drew close, they came sword. Admiral Koltchak unbelted his canals should be placed under inter a dead baht against a bread belt of antional control. Effect guarantees wire cut by our gunfire, and hideously sword, saying: The Japanese left me this sword when we capitulated at Port should be created to safeguard world angled in coi, nit a sharp barbs.
trade during war. "Raw Paterial for tho
Behind, as some of the officers knew, the Arthur. I won this sword in Japanese War, and I will not give it to clothing and feeding are to be excluded you,
Admiral Kottchak then threw his aword into the sea.
The mutineers, then wirelessed to the
crews of all the warships to disarm their
officers, whereupon, to avoid bloodshed,
Admiral Koltchak wirelessed to the officers not to resist. The mutineers finally decided not to arrest Ahmiral Koltebak, but to be satisfied with his resigning has command.
MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD
At a demu AMERI
VICTORY ON DEATH.-
North-st and south-east of Bumm Farm were bits of trends from which the enemy was routed after sharp bouts of fighting. Beyond were some holed walls called Nameless Farm and these were captured before the call of erase firing, which was the signal for the party to halt while our guns begun a new bombardment over the new line of attack,
1t was this silence which scared an officer of the Cheshires, who had led his men away forward to capture a body of Germans trying to escape from. Despagne Farm, right out in the blue this side of Owl Tronch, which was the next position. to be attacked, after our guns had dealt A sergeant and two men of the Cheshires with it.
ran right into Despagne Farm and bayoneted the German machine-gunners who had been spraying bullets on our Then the officer seemed to feel his men. heart stop. He looked at his wrist watch,
from hists of contraband. Postal interey had brought up 26 machine guns, pourse between belligerents and neuritsugh to sweep down a whole battalion and between neutrals and each other is held by wire like this. Even now. the men and was shocked at the time it gave. The also to be safeguarded in the event of don't know how they went over that wire realisation of the frightful Menace ap
ar. The definition of blockade is to be
revised. ANNA
Own
about the past, but rather of coming to in agreement about the future, namely, about bringing to pass soon as possible lasting peace corresponding to our principles and ideals."
across or die. From October Support every nerve in his body tingle It was ly knew instanch hat they must get proaching as evere second passed made The reply demands securities agains Trench, further back, with another belt of our new bombardment. A vast storm pl he war being continued as an economic seat wire ju front of it, heavy fire was explosives which was about to sweep over var, secret diplomaty must be abolished using from Germans who had their this ground, already pitted with deep and there must be an open door to the honds ap. Dver you go, men,” shouted shell-holes, it seemed as though nothing
"We the officers.
could save this body of Cheshires, who Colonies, The reply proceeds:
The
dung themselves over, had gone too far and could not get back shonid on all sides declare that we have.
scrambled over, rolled over, tearing hands before their own guns killed them. only the duty of defeading our
eople, but have not the task of chastising and faces and ints of flesh on these rusty IN THE ENEMY HIPPORT.
There was only one chance of escape A RUSSIAN GUNBOAT 15 NEXESSARYther nations, for the real or presumed pngs, but getting over or through some
for any of them, and that was for each held on Glasgow trimes of their Governments. We do not how and anyhow. Green recently, under the auspices of the discussion of the question of Parties of theus raced on to October men to dive into one of those sit. deep- the Trades Council, which was attended quilt, but could not expect its discussion Support Trench, flung themselves against holes, and crouch low scratching himself by large crowde, a resolution was adopted be promoted by way of a conference, wire and got, bleeding and scratched, into the shelving sides before the hellish condemning the action of the officia, ele It cannot be a question of quarrelling to the other side unless they were killed storm of steel broke loose. The Cheshires ment in the Seamen's and Firemen's
fit. Some of them fell. It was the did this, fung themselves into the pita, most deadly eposide of the day, but the lay quaking there like loads under a Union in their endicavour to prevent Mesars. Ramsay MacDonald spd Jowett
Germans paid a ghastly price for the re-harrow, and hugged the earth as the bonu proceeding to Russia at the request
eround round the old ruins of Middle By an amazing freak of fortune it awept the Russian Government, and with the
stante, and 30 German dead tie on that bardment burst out and swept over them. Farm Lehind the wire
over them quickly, and there were only consent of the British Government, and
Away back when fighting here began two casualties among all those Vinen demanding that facilities be provided for them by the Government.
was a party of men, some Irish boys led in holes, expecting certain death. Mr. Robert Smillie, president of the 31G GERMAN LEVY ON ROUMANIA among them, who had gone as far as they A bit of luck said the men, getting up Miners' Federation of Great Britain, de
had been told to go. They saw what was and gasping. Weaker men would have clared that the holding up of Messrs. The German Government is levying happening, watched those other men been broken by shell-thock and terror- MacDonald and Jowett had done more contribution of £10.000.000 upon the flinging themselves against the barbed stricken.
These Cheshires went on took the next than anything he to prolong the war cupied districts of Roumania. Of this
Chego Toy_hell with staying here" MacDonald and Jowett were not peace sum £8,600,000 will have to be raised by hold one of them. To hell with it," German defences and many prisoners, and at-any-price men, and they knew that the rovinces directly under the military said others. We could do power of hen dag in according to orders and pre-- unless something was done and shat authorities, and the remaining 1,400,00 could not be done by Mr. Henderson or will come from the districts of Buzeu, cond up there for anything that might happen in It was the German counter-attack which Lord Milner, or even by Mr. Lloyd Runic Sarat. Braila, and Putna The Come on then, boys, said the first the way of trouble George himself, if he went to Rur ivy will be raised by the different Departe, beginning to run. They ran fast there was serious danger of peace between Germany and Russia. He (Mr. Smilli) ments, the Councils-General of which witowards the end of the wire belts slipped happened. Bix hundred men enme des dreaded such a thing. MacDonald and be summoned to meet to consider the best round it, and fell on the flank of the ching out of a gully called Bla Jowett would be able to put before the fans of obtaining the money. It is enemy. It was timely lulp to the other riber with its month opposite Dec The second phase of the battle began shine guns in position, and their rifles Russians the dangers and foolishness of expected that Rukarest and some other men some of whom owe their lives to itmagne Farm. The Cheshires but their such a peace, and that they must have Denartments will have to pay £3,140,000. hlasting peace Let them not trouble themselves about Messrs. MacDonald and Jewett, because if necessary Russia would send a gunboat for them, and they would undoubtedly get there.
The Germans are doing their best to when another body of the same troops They held back their fire until give an anpentance of legality to themed through those who had already the German column was within short action, but there is no doubt that the assaulted and won their ground, and went a Then they bied volley after coercion of the Councils-General is con- forward to a new line beyond. They volley, and those 600 soen found themselves (Continued at foot of next column.
trary to international Jaw
in a volley of death band escaped.