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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17TH, 1917.
SUCCESSFUL BRITISH THRUST.
CANADIANS' BRILLIANT ATTACK.
EX-TSAR AND FAMILY SENT TO SIBERIA.
TURKEY AND A SEPARATE PEACE.
Brarico-Belgian Front.
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BRITISH FRONT.
BRITISH ATTACK ON A WIDE FRONT.
LONDOR, August 15th. Field-Marsh Sir Douglas Haig re ports:-We attacked-early this morning on a wide front from the north-western
The first news that has come back is very satisfactory. The Canadians pushed forward on a front of over 5,000 yards to an extreme depth of about 1,500 yards. Hill 70 is well within the territory they have advanced over, and it needs only a glance at the map to enable appreciation of the great tactical value of this success in relation to Lens and beyond.
The battle is, of course, not yet over, and big as it is it in impossible to say outskirts of Lous to Bois-Hugo, north how it way yet extend. east of Loos
We carried the first lines and at all
points are satisfactorily progressing.
We completely crushed a counter-attack
east of Cito St. Emilie.
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HISTORY.
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SPEECH BY PRIME MINISTER, TURKEY AND THE ENTENTE AMERICAN TROOPS IN LONDON
LUNCHEON TO NEW SOUTH WALES PREMIER
LONDON, August 15th. Speaking at the luncheon of the Liberal
Committee tas the Hon. W. A. Hol
PEACE DISCUSSIONS /
AMSTERDAM, August 15th
have been occurring for some time at The Handelsblad learns that discussion
Lausanne between representatives of Tue key and the Entente with a view ma sepririše potes,
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GERMAN NEED FOR SUCCESSES.
Lesbos, August 15th. Renter's Correspondent at Franch Head | starters, writing
on August 14th, says it | War is noteworths, despite the tremendous Freier of New South Wales, at the activity of the gans in uther, sectors off House 4 Comisons, Mr. Floyd Gearge the Franco-British runs and on both sil We must not forget that shie banks of
the Meuse, there is no sign of res made in the war, mild by oile relaxation in the eneng's cffort north of which we had beaten back the cheny, was due not only to tiny valuer, of our
which had given us superiority in soldiers, but to the energy of the workers,
munitions and equipment. All honour to the workers. We are fighting for the secretly removed from Tsarsko Selo to victory of democracy over aggression. All other things wrapped up in Party programmes were not attainable unless we won.
the Aisne.
The battle of Chemin-des-Dimes as continued
without intermission since April 16th, and it seems a cardinal prin ciple of German strategy never to let it flag. The enemy lately has trebled his artillery power in this region, and has brought the heaviest calibres into play. Nover a day passes without fighting at Chemin-des-Dames, and this month half. a-dozen enemy attacks have been beaten off with serious loss.
THE EX-TSAR SECRETLY · REMOVED.
PETROGRAD, August 15th. The ex-Tsar and family have been
a destination which will be announced later.
LONDON, August 15th. Ahuge and most enthusiastic crowd witnessed the match of American Engi
and Stripes and the Union Jack woro neer troops in the West End.” The Starə
everywhere.
Their Majesties took the solute at Buckingham Palace, and Dr. Page, the Auriens Ambassador, at the American Embassy..
The Cabinet meeting was adjourned; in order to allow the members of the Cabinət Ti see them march pass. Whitehall.
MAJOR CARTER REWARDED
LONDON, Angust 15th.
ON POLITICAL AND MILITARY GROUNDS. Router's Correspondent at Petrograd has been promoted to says that complete secrecy shrouded the
Lieutenant-Colonel, romoval of the Imperial faultly, which upon political and military grounds, by was resolved upon in the middle of July,
the Provisional Government, without con- saltation with the Boldiers' and Work- men's Delegates. The Government took every precaution to ensure a safe removal,
In the House of Commons, Mr. Montagu. annonweed that Major Carter, who ex- posed the medicni defects in Mesopotamia, the rank of
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GERMAN SUBMARINE MEN,
NÓ LACK OF CREWS,
Under the Constitution no section of the community had as large an interest in the victory of the Allien as the workers. Nothing in the programme of Labour was Elsewhere on the French front, the Gur-achievable if the Allies are beaten. Thore mans are showing activity which is paly was room for nationhood within the explicable by a nervons desire to pierce the British Empire, and it was this federa- veil which conceals the immediate intention of free peoples that was presenting tions of the French by getting into our such a
formidable obstacle to the
One nerd nut be an expert to undersiand trenches, if only for a moment, to see what aggressive aims of German militarism, Guneral Carrie's splendid Canadian is going on behind,
that ships of every kind are useless unless. The French have gained further ground troops by their splendid attack this
The military position now hold' was
there be available me to put in them. north-west of Bisschoote
morning have added a brilliant page to
During the past fortnight there have largely due to the skill and industry of
TO SIBERIA!
Quite frequently people who realise this We repulsed raiders cast of Kleinzille- the history of the
beon attacks at Saint Quentin, in Cham- the workiven in the factories.
may overheard arguing that W127. 11 also adds
PernoGray, August 16th.
Cornny will eventually have to abandon lastre to the Canadian victory to learnpagne, and numerous attacks or attempt victory in the field is a victory for the
The Bourse Gazelle states that the Inher submarine campaign because she cau The weather is stormy, and there is that the Germans were completely readyed attacks on both banks of the Meuse, workers. Also, we must not forget the perial Family were sent to Siberia by no longer had crews for the boats. Never notably a Avocoure Wood, on the left unparalleled way in which all the special train, accompanied by two nem- was a greater fallacy than this propound- bank, and Caurieves Wood, on the right Dominions voluntarily came to the aid bers of the Government and military
ed. There exists no foundation in fact bank, towards Saint Mibiel and in Alsace, of the Mother Country. The strength of guards.
for such a belief. And it ought to be all of which were no doubt prompted by the Empire was due to their sense of a desire for knowledge rather than a hope kinship, fraternity and goodwill. of permanent gain.
beke.
heavy rain.
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GERMAN REPORT.
LONDON, August 15th. A wireles German official report stades-There was nu artillery bitch throughout the night in Flanders.
We repulsed the English southward of Frezenberg and on both sichs of Hooge
There was a violent artillery duel be- tween Haliuch and Lens,
Prench attacks on Corny failed. We shot dowa 20 aviators and balloons.
Losos, August 10th.
A Wireless German official report states:--Infantry rngagements are pro oeding northward of Lens and eastward of Cerny-on-Luontais.
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FRENCH FRONT,
APPRECIABLE PROGRESS..
Pais, August 15th.
A communiqué says: We made uppré of the Dismade giable progress wrest Road, in Belgium,
for battle and in nowise surprised.
A prisoner officer states they were told the attack would be delivered within half-an-hour of its actual development, and at suny places they were awaiting it. The enemy put down'a borrage with in two minutes of the opening bombard- ment. The night was of the darkest and stormiest, but the rain ceased just before jumping off time.
BRITISH 011-URUM SHELLS.
Nothing indicated thai anything abnormal was contemplated till the battle opened, then suddenly the artillery began to shower oil drums, which went rolling over in convolutions of pink flaine into the midst of the enemy posi tions. À creeping barrage roared forth a' perfeet entaelyam of sound, and the infantry began to advance at 4.25,
Emile
The fighting included the taking of Hill 76. Cite St. Laurent, and Cite St.
The resistance
upon Hill 10 "was not very great, although beyond the Germans fangha stubbornly.
At its southern part the attack also
comparatively
little
resistance. Through the smoke barrage the Cana
There was a moș active artillery duelt
at night on both banks of the Mense.
In estimating the causes for the German activity on this front, the need of successes to impress their own public opinion is a factor which must be remembered.
Aerial Activities.
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AUSTRIAN AERIAL REPRISAL.
LONDON, August 16th.
A wireless Austrian official report states: In reprisal for the aerial attack upon Pola, numerous aeroplanes attacked the Maritime Arsenal at Venice.
They successfully dropped 1 tuos of bombs. They observed good hits, and there were conflagrations. Taree machines are missing.
Lussian broni.
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Every
Mr. Walter Long said that Mr. Hol man was abng the first Dominion Minis ters to preach that the doctrine of Empire was first and the traditions of a lifetime second to the successful proscention of the war. We could regard with eons- Adence the future burden of the Empire 20. Jong as we had Dominion Ministers likey Mr. Holman and the people whom he represented.
the
mcla
It appears that the Council of Work-squashed as a mischievous agent which mea and Soldiers insisted upon
tends towards perpetuating our national failing of under-estimating the enemy's removal of the ex-Tsar. Tsaritza- and sources. Tsarivetch from Tsarekoe Selo to a more remote part of Russia. Their daughters were given the choice of remaining Petrograd, but they riveted to necompany
their parents.
THE
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KAISER AND SUBMARINES.
LONDON, August 15th.
• But," protests someone, Germany. cant for ever go on fighting mee for can the Allies, although they any be fighting purposes. Quite true, neither able to outstay her in this respect. That, bowever, affects the argument very little, Rest assured that when the time arrives at which Germany has to lay up her suharines From lack of personnel to commission then the Allies will have bes come se warworn and decrepit that Ger- gens will not be worrying much about. lwin,
In the popular view the submarine still rebrains a mystery ship which needs a
reay more highly trained your crow the
Specialist crew to navigatsit.s matter of fact, she is nothing of the kind. better, hot such a une is not indispen
Mr. Halman, in the course of á hold speech, advocated closer relations be tween the workers and the Government Easender at Berlin, continuing his
Mr. Gerard, the former. American An in order to avoid misunderstanding. He velations, describes in interview be said the time had arrived when they with the Kaiser, in which submarining should strike a balance between achieve
labour thereby involved. ments like Messines and the wealth sid
Has not the time arrived when frontal He asked,
attacks should give way to other m thods
able. You can get along without it when your have to, and that is what Germany was discussed.
is doing. The point of consequence is that She makes shift successfully, and there The Kaiser said that sübmarines had Low we teed not "look for my hull in eam to stay and tha; International Lust inntrer what comfortable theories any hee submarine activities for this reason, no longer existed,
be affort on the subject. People who know that à submarine can be run by a circulate them either forget or do not few highly skilled men assisted by a knowledge. That may not be the ideal namber who are almost devoid of special method of manning nor the one with which Gerdany started out but it is the one circumstances have obliged her to adopt, and she is getting sufficiently
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg agree, de
for
We must, enter upon a policy claring that a person travelling in an of uncensing creation on the most scienenemy merchantman had no cause tific methods to develop, aeroplanes incomplaint if injured. such numbers ag to destroy enemy comI-
An enemy attack west of Hill 201 was diens could see the Germans fleeing, and THE RUSSO-RUMANIAN FRONT munications and compel surrenders in
repulsed.
BATTLE OF HILL 70. CANADIANS' SPLENDID ATTACK
LONDON, Angust 15th, Reuter's Correspondent at British Headquarters reports:-The Canadians, at 4.30 this morning, attacked Hill. 70, which dominates the rise of ground north of Leus. The position was very strong being literally honeycombed with trenches and redoubts, isolated posts, and WDK wired to
an extraordinary degree.
when this did stop it was principally for the purpose of surrendering.
The enemy was completely demoralised by the cassades of fre which lit up vapurous fumes as the oil-drums emitted their contents.
A very large proportion of the captives are mere boys, which testifies to the serious problem which the man-power question in Germany is presenting.
The first phase had consisted of a sweep south-eastward from Bois Hugo to the outskirts of Lens, which was deve loped with great success. The second It therefore seems pretty certain that phase involved a continuation of a south- there will be bitter and prolonged fight rasterly movement, accompanied by a ing in this district, assuming that the heavy pressure further south. Germans are loyal to their traditional struggle here continues extended to the policy of promptly counter-attacking. Bouthwards.
The
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LONDON, August 15th,
A Russian wireless message states:- The enemy occupied a height to the west of: Okna.
The Roumanians repulsed attacks in the Casinu Valley.
Focsani,
who had penetrated our trenches near Our counter-attack drove out the enemy
Kredcheni..
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LONDON, August 15th. A wireless German oficial report states:---Russian attacks south-eastward HAVE THEIR TAILS of Tarnopol and southward of the Tro IN THE AIR.”
us Valley failed-
The weather is not ideal for infantry CANADIANS attack, and the night is showery, the esuit being that the ground -18", sticky and in a mashed condition, and difficult to advance over.
The principal advance was from the chalk pits north-east of Loos, which gained such an evil repute in the battle
The Correspondent pays a tribute to the indescribably fine spirit of the Canadians, who, in their own phrase, "have their tails in the air." All are confident they have the Boche beat..
The scene of some of the sharpest fight of September, 1915. Today's operations ing has been from the railway embank- necessitated a
considerable degree of ment north of Cite St. Laurent, from changing front and deploying of our which Boiling oil treatment cleared the flank, in all of which the battalions em Gormans, to 700 yards south, ploved have been very fully rehearsed. Of enurse, in addition to the movement some than usual, but ours are chasing The German airmen are more venture have indicated from the chalk pits, then them everywhere on the battleground. was a general advance along the whole Tanks were not used, as the battleground battle froot;
is unsuitable,
bulk.
THE POPE'S PROPOSALS FOR PEACE,
RECOMMENDATION TO THE GOVERNMENT,
1
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Indefinitely/
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STANDARDISED BALLOHS,
vice in U-boats are sent to these estab ably has one in the Brunsbüttel neigh bourhood also. Mentold off" for ser listents and there put through a building them, ne U-boat resembles an system of standardisation introduced in course of instruction. Owing to the
aboard the instructional craft at the other so closely that hands" diilled units without any loss of efficiency, schools can transferred to seagoing
The chief interest hitlerto in Mr..
Every U-boat carries skilled navigators Gerard's revelations in the Daily Pele remainder of the crew may be marines and certain other specialist ratings. The greph is the light they throw upon the not needed for the kind of work that falls or mere shipyard labourers. Sailors are character of the Kaiser. When Mr. to the lot of the remainder. A long Gerard probested, against submarinistraining school in the Baltic and prob time ago Germany established a submarine The enemy did not attack yesterday at The Westminster, Gazette recommends States did not break the British blockade the Kaiser always asked why the Unitou the Government to consider, what it would He once declared that before he would Then, putting aside prepossessions, up Windsor Castle and the whole English like to achieve as a result of the war. allow his family to starve he would blow consider how much the achievement is Royal Family. He always wanted the likely to cost. Next, to consider not United States to do something against whether the Pope's proposals are inspired England when Mr. Gerard protected by Germany or acceptable as final terms, against any German violation of InternaNavy standard we know they do not- These hands may not reach British but whether they afford negotiation with a prospect of securing Gerard
basis for tional Law. On one such occasion Mr. with when leavened by a sprinkling of but they are good enough to get along the necessary minimum required by the grounds and one, At-pped upon the forget that Corman has all the ships Allies,
a mtorted, "If two men enter my skilled. And for the supply of them there are still great reserves. Do not If this question is answered in Rower beds and the other killed my sister, companies of her High Sens Fleet to the negative, the Allies should announce I probably would first pursue the mur abmarine flotillas, as well as any other draw upon when she requires men for what is the necessary minimum, so that dorer:
such argument.
The Kaiser was not affected by classes the may choose to select from Ordinary considerations of naval policy carry no weight with a country whose only naval policy is to keep a submarine offensive going as vigorously as it can... do this by every means in her power. Gerway is doing and will continue to We must not, therefore, mislead ourselves into the belief that U-boats will one day bo withdrawn from the sea through lack men to man them. The zupply of Hur exhausted. Quite a lot of them go 2- pirates is a very long way from being pirating unwillingly, but they do go. very anxious) to follow them to many and there are plenty more ready (if not that Germany is assured of crews for all fon a long time to come. But very few the submarines she can send against us of these crews possess the quality of the earlier ones. That much we have learned
Daily Mat
We pushed beyond. Soveja.
We are pursuing the retreating enemy the world will not think, as Germany We stormed the Baltaretu bridgeheading in the war for aim on both sides of the Putna
desires the world to think, we are persist- we could not on the west bank of the Bereth, capturing and dare not avow. 3,000 prisoners,
General
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BRITISH SHIPPING,
LONDON, August 15th. The Admiralty reports that the arrivals
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BRITISH NAVY'S – GROWING EFFICIENCY.
London, August 15th... Colonel Repington, writing to the Times describing a visit to the Grand Flest, says that the vastness of the armanient for the week were 2,776, and the sailings leaves beholders dumb. The efficiency of LONDON, August 15th,
Fourteen vessels over and two the Fleet is one hundred per cent, higher The Government has decided to appoint under 1,600 tons were sunk, Select Committee to enquire into the
Thirteen than at the beginning of the war and vessels were unsuccessfully attacked, and fifty per cent higher than at the battle question of issuing Premium Bonds. three fishing boats were suak.
of Jutland.
2,006.