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WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1BRD, 1917.
SIMULTANEOUS OFFENSIVE ON
ALL FRONTS.
ALLIES PLANS MATERIALISING,
SPLENDID WORK BY ITALIAN ENGINEERS.
BOWDY SCENES AT THE LABOUR CONFERENCE.
Franco-Belgian Front.
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HEAVY FIGHTING ROUND LENS.
"Italian Front
General..
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FINE WORK, BY THE ENGINEERS.
Rose August 2nd.
The Tribuna describes the splendid exploit of the Engineers in bridging the
Isonzo north of Anhoro. The construc-
LATEST CABLES, (THROUGH ARUTER'S AGENCY.}." SONGS AT THE LABOUR CONFERENCE
THERED FLAG" AND KEEP THE HOME MIRES BURNING."
LONDON, August 21st.. The Labour Conference was charac terised by much rowdiness.
After the announcement of the figures
LABOUR AND THE STOCK- HOLM CONFERENCE.
MINERS CHANGE THEIR VIEWS.
LONDON, August 21al. The miners' decision means the transfer of six hundred thousand votes from Mr. Henderson to those opposing the Stock- holm Conference. The transfer does not secure a majority against Stockholm on the basis of the voting on August 10th, but reduces it to vanishing point and
THE MILITARY SITUATION
INTERESTING REVIEW.
LONDON, August. 21st. A review of the military situation states that with the opening of the Verdun offensive the whole of the Western Front,
from the sea to the Swiss frontier, over
a distance
of 440 miles, is now ablaze. There is unprecedented gunfire and burab- ings are unceasing day and night. The tion was carefully and silently carried the majority sang the "Red Flag" There are indications that the miners' pounding of guns is platuly audible in minority, led by Mr. Will Thorne, M.P., vote will influence other unions, at to England. The artillery duel at Verdun out the night preceding the first day countered with" Keep the Home Fires day's conference, thus overwhelming 'thos, is particularly stabburn, as both sides, battle. The enemy opened fire when they Burring," Mr. Thorne shouting qut who favour the sending of delegates to with a thousand guns, are well-matched,
crossed between Tolmeeno and Anhovo
to
offensive on the greatest scale at Verdun is a dramatic illustration of the changes in the fortunes of war since the Crown Prince's adventure in 1816. Moreover, the Germuns at the very height of their concentration on Verdun were never able
were aware of what was progressing, but
"Yes, wait till the boys do come home."
Stockholm. The most notable feature of but the French infantry's magnificent centre noi southern portion of the attack the Engineers continued their work undis
The narrow majority is not likely to the transfer in the change of the Norrash turned the scale. The battle is stili was more fieresly, resisted, and the latest concerted although sometimes the suuko
cause the Government reverse its deci-thumberland miners, who, hitherto, have in its opening phases, but the mere fact news is that fighting is still progressing, from the bombs flung along the riversion not to grant passports. The Sailors always been pro pacifist, yesterday's mest that the French are able to take the A good many prisoners, a large propor-banks covered up the workers. Directly Union is determined not to assist in tion of whom are wounded, havs been the bridges were finished the infantry carrying the peacemongers. brought in
The Conference crushingly defeated the and were soon firmly established on the Executive's allocation proposals in re left of the Isonzo. The enemy thereupon gard to the representation at Stockholm, strengthened their defences, organising which included special representation of News from the Frontier states that four defensive lines. The battle never-independent Labourites and other minor numerous troops from Galicia aretheless continues hotly. Aeroplanes aided bodies. The Conference decided that the inestimably and dropped twenty-five tons Party delegation should number twenty. of explosives.
TROOPS FROM GALICIA.
AMSTERDAM, August 21st.
LONDON, August 21st. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- portsEarly this morning we attacked and captured the enemy's positions on a front of 2,000 yards westward and north-arriving in Flanders, Westward of Lens
Heavy fighting ocenrred nud continues. Wo heat off two strong counter-attacks | north-westward of Lens,
cap-
GERMAN ADMISSIONS.
LONDON, August 21st. A German comminueriqué admits that the French captured Morthomme and Hill 344 and a portion of Fosse Wood. The
communiqué further goes on to state that i
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ITALY'S NEW OFFENSIVE.
LONDON, August 21st. Reuter has received, from a competent
four.
TROUBES IN SPAIN.
THE DEATH ROLL.
MADRID, August 1st.
The official figures of the victims in the recent trouble show that they execed
Our artillery broke up a third counter- attack southward of Leus and we itured a number of prisoners,
We repulsed raiders north-castward of the French losses were extraordinarily Мевнів.
high and concludes: A battle is devt. military authority, a commentary on the seventy deaths whereof thirty-seven were
Our acroplanes were successful, despite loping from which we anticipate a favour- the enemy's aggressiveness.
able result." It declares that the offen We brought down nine and drove down sive at Verdun was demanded by Eng
machines.
land. Four of our nobines are missing.
Seven
eBay
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THE NEW OFFENSIVE.
ENEMY'S LINES RAIDED.
new Italian offensive, in the course of which the latter says that there must be no falk of a march on Trieste. He says :---- I should call Italy and the Allies very fortunate if the immediate objectives were attained. These are, briefly :---On the A French communiqué says:-Enemy south, the solid possession af aircraft during the night bombarded our| Hermada, which will furnish her with tear, particularly the prisoners' collect the necessary jumping-off point for a
MUCH ACTIVITY IN THE AIR.
LONDON, August 21st.
LONDON. Angus, 21st.
ing camp, where a great number of pri- Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a soners were hit. Our aircraft bombarded communique, says: The cheney's third railway stations at Dun sur Meuse, attempt to regai: ground recently lost Brieulles and Fleville and also a dump south east of Epeby, supported by fast, Bantheville, where a great fire broke menwerfer, was completely ropulsed and all the positions were held. We raided the enemy's lines on a wide front on the Bt. Quentin Canal and secured prisoners. We have improved our positions on the Ypres Menin Road.
BIG FRENCH CAPTURES.
LONDON, August 219.
Mount
in Barcelona. A hundred people were injured in Madrid and still more i Barcelona.
ANOTHER LOAN FROM U.S A.
AMERICA'S ESTIMATED WAR EXPENDITURE.
WASHINGTON, August 21st. A further ten millions sterling has been loaned to Great Britain, making the total loan three hundred and ninety three millions.
Senator La Follette, in presenting the
ing showing a growing feeling in favour of a referendum; on the ground that the decision of August 10th misrepresents Labour opinion. The Daily Telegrople's Labour correspondent is informed that ninety per cent, of the cotton operativen will vote against Stockholm.
LABOUR CONFERENCE FAVOURS
SENDING DELEGATES,
LONDON, August 2181?
The adjourned meeting of the Labour Party regarding the Stockholm Con- ference was held in London. Mr. Hender son, in the course of a personal state ment, druied that he had intentionally withheld any material information from the previous Conference and declared that M. Kerensky to-day favoured British re presentation at Stockholm, Mr. Flender- son urged them not to insist on the with drawal of Labour members from the Government, because that would be sub versive of the successful prosecution of the war.
Mr. Hutchinson, a member of the Executive moved: The Conference remains of opinion that it is desirable. that British Labour should be represented. at Stockholm, in order that its opinions may not be misunderstood or misrepre sented. The Conference regrets the Gov and requests that further representation ernment's intention to refuse passports be made in the subjecte Secialist Party,
Mr. Fairchild of the moved an addition to the resolution, that, the policy of Labour being incompatible with the policy of the Government, the Conference decides to withdraw Labourity from participation in the Government
Mr. Will Thorng, M.P., opposed the resolution and said there was only one
of the estimated revenue of the War Taxman in Germany who could make peace, Bilt by 300 millions sterling by imposing and ther was the Kaiser. Mr. Smillie, the President of the Miners' Federation, war profits. He predicted that in 1918 child aged. greater taxation on the wealthy and on appealed to Mr. Fairchild to withdraw
the addition, to which request. Mr. Fair
future definite push towards Trieste; or, if the ovents of the war should call her in the other direction, with a sure de fensive link in the Italian front on this side. In the centre, to assure the insul. ↑ Minority Report of the Finance Com out, while in Belgium we bombarded nerability of Gorizia and the bridgehead mittee to the Senate, urged the increase railway stations at Thourou, Routers, connection with that place. On the north Baden and Gits. Our pilots brought
the complets and indisputable possession down yesterday twenty-one, German
of the most essential parts of the plateau machines, most of which were totally
of Bainrizza, as a basis for future opera destroyed.
war expenses would reach tions on a vaster seale, and as a mighty between 30 and 40 billion dollars. bulwark preventing the Austrians from taking advantage of that wowaled table
fand to move their troops and Supplica with impunity, which greatly helps their
resistance."
DELIGHT IN FRANCE.
PARIS, August 21st, A French communiqué states: The Everybody is delighted at the main- Germans attacked at three different points tenance of yesterday's big results. The on the Cerny Platenn. Twice our fire Verdun attack opened in the presence of broke up the waves, which finally turned General Petain and M. Painleve. M. back after
severe losses. The
enemy Thomas Hutin, writing to the Echo de younter-attacked with extreme violence Paris, says the time has arrived for Gier- borth of Verdun during the night, not many to realise that the great decision ably at Avocourt wood and north of has come not in the East but in the West. Caurieres Wood. Our fire broke up the The coming victory will enable the assaulting troops, who sustained heavy Americans to be ready to participate in losses without any result. We maintain the final blow.
all our gains, which we are consolidating.
Yesterday we took 5,000 prisoners in Naval Activities. cluding 116 officers,
CANADIANS FIERCELY ENGAGED.
LONDON, August 21st.
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BELGIAN COAST RAIDED.
Reuter's correspondent at the British) Headquarters states:-The Canadians around Lens launched another attack
LONDON, August 21st. converging upon the western environs of
The Admiralty announces that the Air the town at half past four in the more-Service, at midnight on Sunday, dropped
ENEMY CAMP IN DANGER.
DIFFICULT ADVANCE.
UDINE, August. 21st: While the definite Italian objective is not yet elear, the crossing of the Isonza near Canale may threaten to envelop the entrenched eam, a Toluino. However, the advance is confronted with many obstacles, the most formidable being [Tolmino, in the north, and the Comen Fermada line, in the south, connected by a curtain of great mountains, chiefly the Sauts, San Gabriele and Vestibia groups, forming a succession of bastions where
ing Dawn broke with a thick haze and many tons of bombs on a dump at Mid.it is difficult to say whether the natural when the infantry went over the top they delkerke and on the Brugeoise Works.
All the machines returned safely.
The Balkans.
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saw masses of shadowy grey figures ad- vancing towards them. The Germans had planned an attack at the identical mo ment to ours, and probably one of the most desperate hand-to-band battles of the war ensued. An eye-witness says the Germans fought like cornered rats. The VIOLENT ARTILLERY DUEL. struggle raged in the shell-torn and wire encumbered No Man's Land, the bayonet)
or artificial fortifications are the stronger.
MANY PRISONERS.
LONDON, August 1st.
20te,
America's
ZEPPELIN DESTROYED.
LONDON. August 21st. The Admiralty announce that Light Forces operating on the coast of Jutland this maruing destroyed a Zeppelin.
There were no survivors,
BARLIER UABLES.
INVALIDED OFFICERS. EMPLOYMENT IN THE EAST.
LONDON, August Dist. The Hon. E. S. Montagu announces that, in consultation with Mr. Walter Long, a committee has been formed to meet at the India Office in order to assist disabled and 'nvalided oficers desirous of obtaining employment in India, Burmah, the Eastern Colonia and the Malay States
Application from mich officers of all brunches of the Services, with Indian or Eastern experience, are invited:
RUSSIAN, MINISTERS' NEW POWERS.
PETROGRAD, August 21st. A wireless Italian official message saya: The battle on the Julian Front of War and Interior dictatorial powers The Government has given the Ministers
is uninterrupted. Our troops on the exto arrest and deport anybody suspected treme right, despite undiminished resist-
of anti-revolutionary tendencies, ance are advancing successfully supported. PARIE, August 21at, ·
by-floating and fixed batteries and moni
GERMAN COLONIES." being the principal weapon used. Gra An Eastern communiqué states:-There tors. The struggle continues in the Carso
LONDON, August 21st. dually the Canadians beat back the Huns, is a violent artillery duel at the Cerna Plateau and the coastal
Professor Mahaffy, the Provost of The and about fifteen minutes after the clash bend and north of Monastir. Our de enemy's line is beginning to bend and Dublin University, in a letter to the the enemy were making their last stand structive fire caused explosiong in two give way at various points. We carriedner, on the object of Germany's
heavy batteries' ammunition the enemy's defences between Cortite and
restitution suggestions, says that as Ger. Selo. Two hundred and sixty-one of our many cannot repay as our losses we must Fifty Allied aeroplanes dropped a ton seroplanes, flying over the battlefield, repay ourselves. We conquered the Ger a furious machine-gun fire broke out, and a half of bonths in the neighbourhood bombed moving troops. We had taken activity of the Overseas Trominions and man Colonies owing to the zeal and The northern part of the Canadian of Prilep, causing many fires. No prisoner up to Monday evening 10,103 we must keep them. If the Dominions attack from the direction of Cite St. French establishment was damaged by men and 243 officers. We destroyed a have one spark of the spirit of English Emile made good progress. Strict orders the big fire which took place in the Bul- storming party in the Lagerina Valleynen they will simply refuse to restore kad been given that the advance should garian quarter of Saloniks on August and counter-attacked and drove back the ther Besides, who will compel then not be pushed beyond given limits. The 18th.
enemy south-east of Mtoaio,
We are no going to permit the German Fleet to do so,
on the parapet of their trench. Then enemy
they retreated as rapidly as possible into dumps. the ruins of Lons, and almost immediately
to strike on both banks simultaneously, as the French did. A French corresponds ent reveals the interesting fact that the Germans were so surprised by the infantry, assault ilut they only put down the barrage twelve minutes after the French danger zone unscathed. went over, allowing the latter to pass the
The Italian advance demonstrates the perfect synchronisation of the Allies' operations, which are the nearest approach yet attained to an all-round offensive. forces engaged, but the Germany estimate It does not indicate the strength of tha that the Italians have 2,000 guns, not including British heavy guns. The Italians now have only one very serions abstacle between them sind Trieste, namely the formidable Hermada heights. These heights hold thus flower of the Austrian Army. Bristling batteries are the storm centre of the offensive. The Italians are attacking all round from Dosso Faite, on the extreme left, to Monralcone Grado. Nothing can save Trieste it Rdent of getting these heights this time. The Italians are con Hermada talis.
Altogether, the Western offensive is the
there are signs that it is severely taxing biggest thing of the war und will relieve the Russo-Roumanian fronts. Alrently the resources of the German Staff, hut the full effects will not be felt inmediately. THE SALONIKA DISASTER.
TWO THIRDS OF TOWN DESTROYED.
ATHENS, August 21st, The Cabinet is discussing measures for the relief of the sufferers of the Balonika conflagration, for which a large credit will be voted.
There is no dire comununication with Salonika, to which the Minister for the Interior has gone.
It is stated that twi-thirds of the town He is destroyed and that a hundred thou
100,000 HOMELESS.
Mr. Barnes said that in joining the War Cabiner h was acting in accordance with the expressed views of Labour. believed it would be a bad thing for sand people are homeless. Labour to leave the Government. Te intended to continue to support the Gay- ernment to establish the freedom of the
it is officially confirmed that 100,000 world--(Cheers). He was opposed to the Stockholn Conference because no good Jews. There are no indications of foul are homeless in Salonika, including 40.000 could came out of it. Germany had all play.. to gain and nothing to lose by such a Conference. Before he accepted at NEW HUNGARIAN PREMIER
in the War Cabinet he wrote the Premier urging the retention of Mr. Henderson. Mr. Barnes finally affirmed that the
LONDON, August 21st.
Alexander Wekerle has been appointed
sending of delegates to Stockholu would Premier of Hungary. weaken the Government and 1. durabló peace could not be secured thereby. He BRITAIN AND THE POPE'S did not object to a consultation at the proper time and the proper place, but the present was not the time and Stock- holm was not the place-(Cheers).
NOTE.
PARIS, Lagust 21st. The British Minister has informed the An amendments that the question of the mitted to a Referendum of the Trades acknowledged the Pontifical Note, which Stockholm Conference should be sub- Vaticus that the British Government has
Unions affiliated to the Labour Party it will examine in a benevolent and to 920,000. was defeated on a card vote by 1,500,000, serious spirit.
to send delegates to the Stockholm Con-
The Conference re-affirmed its decision COTTON TRADE RESEARCH ference, by a card vote of 1,234,000 to
1,231,000-
NEW MUNITIONS COUNCIL.
LONDON, August 21st.
Messrs. Tootal, Broadhurst, Lee & Company, have maile a donation of £10,000 a year for five years towards textile research and education in the will be established. A Provisional Com- cotton trade. Institutes and laboratories mittee is issuing a prospectus of the asw aided organisation.
LONDON, August dist. A Munitions Council, on the same lines as the Admiralty and Army Councils, has been established to co-ordinate the work of the fifty Munitions Defartments, which will be classified into ten groups, each group being represented on the Council. The Ministry now employs two million workers, the headhuarters staff numbering 13,500, and it is hoped that the Council will result in economy and fuller October 10th. utilisation of resources,
GERMAN MENDACITY.
LONDON, August 21st. The Daily Telegraph publishes a fac- simile of the now famous Kaiser's letter to President Wilson, thus finally dispos ing, of the frantic and clumsy German denials of its validity.
GERMANG
AND NEUTRALS. DISREGARD FOR LIFE.
PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS.
LONDON, August 21st. Parliament has been adjourned.. to
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS,
LONDON, August 21st. A message from Petrograd states that M. Miliukoff, addressing the Municipal Council, declared that the Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates had neither authority nor ability to assure the de- fence of Russia. The Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates' efforts had resulted in Fabul waste of time in discussion. He denied that the Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates represented anyone.
SILVER,
BECORD PRICE REACHED,
LONDON, August 21st. Reuter is authoritatively informed in connection with the mysterious visitation of German aeroplanes to Holland, cabled
returned owing to bad weather As Trade orders have caused an advance and
August 19th, that the explanation is
bombing machine cannot alight before the market is firm. *** that they intended raiding England but
LONDON, August 20th." The price of silver is quoted at 441d.
get rid of them over Belgium, it might have resulted in 872 cents. It is predicted that it will yet disposing of its bombs, the raiders had to
NEW YORK, August 21st, If they had done so. Silver has reached the record price of killing German troops, so accordingly reach a dollar as the Boating supply in they waited, until they were over Helland, limited and the world's demands exceed where they could only kill neutrale-
the production.