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THE WAR.
THE TONGKONG DAILY PRESE MONDAY
FURTHER ANGLO-FRENCH
SUCCESSES.
DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN RUSSIAN MINISTERS,
GERMANY AND THE PAPAL NOTE
ITALIANS PURSUING RETIRING ENEMY.
anco-Belgian Front,
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BRITISH FRONT. ENEMY HEAVILY BOMBARD POSITIONS.
Loxpoy, August 20th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig fo ports:-Early this morning the enemy heavily bombarded our positions youth Dastward of Epehy and attacked Gille mont Farm on both flanks,
After sharp tighting the enemy captured- portion of the trenches north-eastward
of the farm,
..
We still retain possession of the farm We drove off raiders north-enstward
of Gouzecourt, and advanced our line alightly north-westward of Lens.
GERMAN CLAIM.
LowDon, “August 25th.
A wireless German official report states: A English attack astride the Vpres-Mein road pressed us back,
As the north-western fringe of the Herenthage Wood, we surprised and cap. uired Gillemont Farm, southward of Vendhulle
The Canadiana or the right camo
BRAVERY OF FRENCH NURSES.
Mademoisello de Baye, the matron in charge of an hospital, who with the atmost bravery superintended the removal of the sick and wounded to the shelter- trenches, herself remaining in the open under fire, has been made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, which is an unique distinction for a woman, and four uursES have been given War Crosses,
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CARRIED.
PARIS, August 25th.
General
AUGUST WITH, 1917.
T
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UNITED STATES AND THE
WAR
ALLEGED PURCHASES IN
AMERICA.
WASHINGTON, August goth Mr. McAdoo his announced the creation ef & Commission to handle Allied por chases in the United States. It is ex- pected that this measure will result in a more thorough co-ordination of American and Allied purchases and a more effective use of the combined resources of the Gov- ernments in the prosecution of the war. "AMERICA'S WAR EXPENDITURE.
The War Expenditure of the United
A communiqué states:We again pro gressed to the north of Hill 304, and bril-A liantly carried, lust night, three fortified works to the south of Bethincourt.
TURKEY'S PART. EQUIPPED FOR A LONG WAR.
The Turks aro azaply equipped to make
ENEMY SHIPS IN CHINA,~+
"REPORTED OFFER FOR PURCHASE HASE FROM JAPAN.
Baron, Skimpei Goto, Japan's Home| war for a long time, jet, and they are Minister, s trying to purchase 14 far from being discouraged, according to German merchantmen, interned in China Mr. Exataos Vincent, an attacks of the (according to the Tokio Asahi). Baron United States Bubassy at Constantia Goto has been negotiating with the ople, who has recently arrived in London
Government througli Messrs,
from Spain on his way back to the Suzuki & Co, and it is reported that the United States The Turks, still, have & dealings with the Chinese authorities have reserve of 2,000,000 men, he says, to ba of the fact that China is now badly in conditions generally, the attache says:--
en making smooth progress, in view called when needed. Regarding Turkish
nced of money
Chiness
"Conditions in Turkey are where
Baron Goto, offers to pay Y0,000,000 |- for the vesach Mr. Yamamoto, president nearly so bad as I saw reported in the of the Shosho Steamship, Company, whe European newspapers. The 2,000,000 men profits, has been sämitted into the deal which the Turks still have in their unused demanded that be be given a share in the
and the project made a joint enterprise. reserve are well armed and in prime con
Baron Goto now faces another dif
dition. feulty. Several of his intimate friends in the Government service are now
The Turks look -
on the loss of
asking that they also be permitted to Armenia and a part of Mesopotamia as share in the profits. The Baron, how-
against machine guns and fortress-houses. We took 450 prisonera, alt unwounded, States during August has been £4,800,000 ever, stood a fair chance of settling these only temporary, and they have not yet lost
Some rushed as far as the walls and ethere got beyond them and held out all day till recalled;
To the south there was no withdrawal. The Battalions forced their way to the southern entrance of Leas, which is now closed up. It was the hardest fighting the Canadiana lave had.",
The Germans used 50 battalions and their losses are estimated åt between twelve and Afteen thousand men,
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ENEMY'S WEAK REPLY.
PARIS, August 8th. comamaique states:-On the left bank of the Mouse the enemy weakly replied with artillery. On the right bank the activity of both artilleries was somewhat lively. There was no infantry action. GERMAN REPORT.
LONDON, August 25th.
Jeport
A wireks 4German officia! states:We completely repulsed a French attack on a three kilometre front, south- ward of St. Quentin. {
Thero is increased fighting at Verdun. French attacks on the Forges River and Hill 344 were unsuccessful.
8,000 GERMANS PREFER CAPTIVITY.
LONDON, August 24th. Reuter's Correspondent with the
on the left bank of the Bleuse, yesterday, making the total 8,100.
THE THUNDERING GUNS,
AMSTERDAM, August 25th- The Local Ausieger states that the
Verdun and Isuzu were dis guna at
tinctly heard on the Rhine, and in the Palatinate and Bavarian Alps, respective ly.
Africa
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THE AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.
LONDON, August 25th. An official report states: In the Lindi area we drove back the enemy eight miles. The Belgians from the Kilossa northern uren, forced
the
enemy to retire to the south bank of the Ruaha river,
A considerable German force at Opcops, 65 miles south-westward of Mohengi," is being closely invested by our columns.
Our troops in the southern area are approaching Tunduru, an important enemy supply centre..
The Near East.
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THE OPERATIONS IN PALESTINE,
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LONDON. August 25th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:We captured a length of a German trench to the west of Lens, and an enemy post in the neighbourhood of French Headquarters reports: The cap- Lombartzyde, securing prisoners and ature of Hill 304, by which the enemy was manchine-gun.
deprived of practically the last effective There is artillery activity to the vast observatory point on the left bank of of Epehy.
the Misuse, was effected within tuo hours, although the men had to wade through Italian Front. marshes often waist-derp, amidst gas and high-explosive shells The determination
THE CANADIAN SUCCESSES.. LONDON, August 20th: The Canadian successes are described 28 constituting an epic in beroism, The Canadians have been assaulting continu ously for ten daya.
After capturing a slag heap they retired from the crest, scaling the western slope by sheer courage.
of the Germans to hold the line of heights captured on August 20th and 21st was evidenced by the fact that the propor tion of officers captured is almost fifty per cent, higher than usual. Seven thou- and and six hundred prisoners were cap tured in two days, and these include 201 officers; while of 11,000 prisoners cap
eluded only 218. tured on December 19th the officers in
-
Losnos; August 25th. The War Offer announces that there have been several raids on the Turkish trenches in Palestine, with good results.
Turkish desertions are frequent.
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MONITORS SURPRISE AUSTRIANS.
LONDON, August 26th.
monitors as monster vessels with guns of Italian war correspondents describe the
the largest size made, for long range, and they have surprised the Austrians,
While the British pounded Hermada, the Italians shelled the military works at
daily, of which two-thirds have been sd This came in the form of a strong obEgypt. They regard the Arabian Repub. troubles until another obstacle arose. hope that they will eventually recover vaubes to the Allies. The War Expendijection raised by a certain Tokio Amic as nothing more or less than a joke, ture since the commencement of the war has instructed his Minister in Peking asserting thing the Sheik, who has pro bassador, who (according to the Asahi) has been £475,000,000
to take every possible measure to impede clained the independence of Arabia, dos the transaction.
THE TEA SITUATION.
dications that a
LONDON, August 26th.. The Times states there are various in at a much tighter grip of the ten situation will secure the immediate future. The trade now seems to be fully prepared to find developments, and will, under the direction of the Govern ruent, purchase tea in India for civilian requirements
The Times fully expects that the ton nage position will shortly be consider ably improved.
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nor control 60 square tuiles of ferritory, It is interesting to recall says the Japan Advertiser, that in the early day, and has the support of only a few shiáll of the war, the Pacific Mail and the China tribes. They say that the widespread Mail, both of American registry and in reports published in the European press the view of purchasing these German and of successes of the Allied arms are solely need of more vessels, made a survey with
Austrian vessels. But now this deal for the purposes of keeping up the spirit coa to have been entirely dropped, as of the Allies in the field and at home"
no more has been heard of it."
The reported bitter hatred of the German officers by the Turkish soldiers only 'aj
THE BEST EQUIPPED ARMYplies to the Prussians, atxording to the
KEYNOTE OF BRITISH EEFICIENCY.
Before the war came our Artey had
informant.
HATRED OF GERMAN OFFICERS, The
is this minch foundation in the "Where Prussians
ever been a large one, as measured from reports, he saya.
ng qualities caused hard feelings, but
the standpoint of modern armies. Never were placed in command of Turkish had we a gun or a horse or a man lan troops, their dominicering and overbeat- many; but always those guns and horses and men were well found and equipped. The British soldier of to-day, just as there were no mutinies. The Turk is a his ancestor who fought at Quarre Bras fatalist. He thinks that if Allah saw t RESTRICTIONS IN EGYPT, and Waterloo carries all his personal
belongings on his back. Messtins, clean-to place over him such a heretic the ing gear, spare boots, socks, shirts, all heretic was Caino, August 26th.
doomed to eternal damna- are folded into an incredibly small space Major-General Sir E. Allenby has and stowed in the pack, which is the ich snyway, while the reward of the issued a proclamation which states tha world over. The soldiers of the French Bro
infantryman's" Gladstrine bag all the Turks in the hereafter will be all the Where Bavarian and Saxon nobody will be allowed on the north coast fighting campaigners, love made a march staff has at List geen the wisdom of taking Foreign Legion, bard swearing, birdy officers are in command there is per- fect harmony, and the German general of Egypt at night time, except for a lawing song about their “paquetage,” whichr
of various pretexts to remove adranuge ful purpose.
the Prussians and replace them with Bavarians or Saxons. Wherever this is done the hard feelings quickly vanish."
A substantial reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of carriers of editions literature and aug giers of arms and ammunition, and spies,
RUSSIAN MINISTER RESIGNS
"Pernouran, August 25th.
"goes": --~
“Le sac man fois toujours à des » These men, who have fought in Morocco and Algiers, all agree with their ally Tammy Atkins in France that a well-
When told of Swiss reports of Turkish designed marching order, as the so-missaries, seeling a separate pence, the dier calls bis equipment, means comfort the expressed his doubt of their vera- and convertiener for the wearer. trin soldier who cares for his pack can Of course I have not yet had time find any, single thing in it in the dark to get in touch with general conditions," He knows exactly where everything is he said, and there are many. stomed and his motto if he has been which I am ignorant, but the fact is that y things of trained as our soldiers are is. A place the Turks believe that the Entrate victory for everything, and everything in its means the loss of all their European ter M Savinkoff, the acting linister for place."
ritory, and that if any mercy was meted War, has resigned owing to a mulitary
EVERYTHING GOOD out to the Central Powers they would Equipment that is one of the key notes erive none. They do not believe that Ger- and political difference with M. Keren of clicy Packs are not, of course, many would ke sky. It is stated that General Korniloff the British soldier. Boots must be good would mean an ending of the Gutan separate peace and the only things that are made well for permit Turkey's dissolution, for this shares the views of M. Savinkoff.
and solid and hardy yet soft to the feet dream of an empire from the the North of the wearer. Dar Army and the French Bea to Persin. They do not fear the te THE MINISTERS DISAGREEMENT. Bay the test boots in the world. Your alization of this dream; they prefer to
LONDON, August 25th.
foot soldier cannot march with a cramped be a unit in a Germanic Empire than t toe, for, however well plucked he may be, be thrust into, Asia and lose all hopes of It appears that M. Kerensky disagrees sooner or later that cramped toe develops being of any further weight in world with M. Savinkoff and General Korniloff, into a swollen foot and the foot into a affairs.
BAT THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES. sitfi leg who contend that it is impossible to intro-
Our Army is the best equipped in the Regarding the Armenian massacres, the world. Steel shrapnel helmets, lined with attaché said: There is no excuse for dute discipline without severe measures, rubber, protect the heads of our men from them and the half of their horror has not like shooting mutineers, etc.
the bursting shells of the Hun hep been told. The Turkish authorities fear General Korniloff demands the milithe Flanders mud turns itself into frozen that Turkish regulars would have to
skin conis keep them from the code water to an agonize the Kurdish tribes, holding tarisation of the railways in view of the plica covers for the magazine of Tommy's their blood was more valuable to Turkey craters; a far-seeing War Office even sup sacrised to prevent the messeres, and possibility of an immediate general tifle as a protection against the rivers of than that of the Armenians. There are the trenches, a far-scing Turks who appreciate the effect. strike
Horses and guns are just as well looked the massacres have on the western after as their masters. A gun is a mighty world, but their advice is unheeded. least bit of rust inside the barrel is suffir plotting with Germany against Fag- weapon which hurls death across miles Armenin is a difficult problem fo of mad with an uppalling ease, yet the Turkey. If every Irishman were eternal- cient to affect its shooting efficiency land, England would have in Ireland a Consequently a gun has to be cleaned just second Armenia. As much as it is fired and one cannot differently, of course, for the Turkish It would be handled
The Durainion troops have smashed through streets entangled with hedges of steel, houses alive with machine-guns, tunnels under red brick ruins, loopholed wells and enfilading machine-gunning Many times daily they were counter- attacked by swarms froin tunnels, Six its three regiments were made prisoner, patrol bouts which blocked the outlet GERMANY AND THE POPE'S enemy Divisions, including four Guards' being well over a third of its bayonet from the harbourss preventing the enemy Divisions, have been shattered, the strength,
Bor, have been
The prisoners Canadians, in places, being outnumbered. whole divisional organisation, with cooka,
from emerging. "A TALE OF UNIMAGINABLE
cycliste, and even the band, which had
THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE. The Sixth Brandenburg Reserve Divi-Trieste, to which the Austrians fecbly cow Conference to which Ukraine has de- General Korniloff will attend the Mos sion was practically wiped out. Sixty-replied. The monitors were protectedclared it will send representatives. nine of its vificers and 2,781 men out of against attack by torpedo boats and
FEROCITY.
include the
NOTE
AMSTERDAM, August 25th.
authorities have the same supreme; capa- city for misrule that the Russian bureau- cracy had.
clean fifteen-inch howitzer with a tin uf metal polish and a duster. All the special cleaning materials must be da ready to the gunner's hand as are the sheils with which he feeds his gun. Just as a Turkish newspapers blazoned the news of the declaration of the new Rus a cover and its various toilet arrange in Government that it sought no terri
torial expansion, and it way interpreted.
Enemy acroplanes, under cover of the The Foregryte states that seven mem-horse needs a blanket, so does a gun need
been sent to the front-line on the Gone darkness, went up and bombed the others of the Reichstag-two Socialists, two ments. All are provided for them ove
It is a tale of unimaginable ferocity, Hill as fighting men. In order to pre-where the monitore were last seen, but there, being no surrendering and hand-to- vent a recurrence of the wholesale sar- they had previously shifted their position hand fighting with bayonets and the renders of December 12th, the German and the only result was the loss of an butt ends of the rifles and the throwing Command had circulated a fictitious ac enemy aeroplane which was struck by back of enemy bombs when the Canacount of the terrible sufferings of war shrapnel and its cargo of bombs exploded. tians' own became exhausted, and officers prisoners in France. Nevertheless, 8,000 | The enemy position is berorning daily told of being for six days and nights Germans preferred captivity to longer more critical and the Austrians without sleep.
When the Canadians advanced, the enemy, who was three times as strong, advanced simultaneously and the forces. dlashed on “No Man's Land," between the enemy and our own intensive bar
Tagea
enduring the French fire.
GERMANS PERSISTENTLY BOMB
HOSPITALS.MUS
are
withdrawing their heavy artillery from the rear fearing its capture.
The total of prisoners is still mounting up, and the 10th, 45th, 77th Regiments of the 24th enemy Division have been prac
Router's Correspondent at the French Headquarters reports:-The attack on the Anglo-French military hospitals are tically annihilated. 60 deliberate and frequent that there is no question that the Germans are practis
On the left, they fought in the opening a new frightfulness. As an instance, until their ammunition wes spent and hospital within range of the German then they continued with their bayonets guas was shelled so persistently that and the butt-ends of their rifes, Matard shelter trenches had to be dug around it. Three women nurses were killed and ive enemy reinforcements came up with stick. ** bombs and by repeated storming parties forty-three persons, nurses, orderlies and wounded at this hospital. Altogether
gradually drove back the (Canadian to wounded, were killed and 55 were in their trench.
jured in the four hospitals
TRÍCOLOUR ON MONTE SANTO. ROME, August 24th.. It is officially reported that the Tricolour has been flying since yes- terday from the summit of Monte Santo, and troops from the second army are pursuing the retiring enemy.luck
On the Carso front fighting continues at Caproni, where we bombed Chiapovani Valley.
representatives of the Contre and one cach of three smaller parties-will participate
in the discussion on Germany's reply to the Pepal Note,
FRENCH COMMANDER-IN- CHIEF HONOURED,
PARIS, August 25th. The Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour has been conferred on General Petala, in recognition of his success at Verdun and in Belgium.
THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, August 23th.
there in Flanders. Horse, foot, and guus The German is well equipped. At the beginning of the war he was better found than we were, but we are out to win this struggle and ours is the better-found
have Do wants that are not supplied.
army now.
MAGIC OF SUPPLY.
as a sign that Russia was putting out tral Powers pe peace with the
feelers for a separate Cen
Regarding the relations between the Turks and the Bulgarians, the attache declared that even as the former enmity between the English and the French is to bar to cordiality The clothing of our Army is only one Bulgarians and the Turks, so far now the of the many improvements which make it as I could learn, get along very well, the best equipped the world has ever seen. The Bulgars fought against Tarkish mis and the Ordnance can in ten minutes Turk" It is said that the Army Service Corps rule not with a hatred of the individual Supply an officer, provided he has the necessary authority, with anything from an identity disc to a motor car. To be well
equipped means that fresh supplies everything that an army needs wast be ready to hand wherever and whenever needed. The man who loses his sun helmet in the wastes of Palestine must be provid. ed with a fresh
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AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE. Benjamin L Williams, secretary of Aircraft Manufacturers Association, says that prior to the war aircraft were built in Great Britain us a sporting proposi his "pudding basin, as Tomboy calls makers, who had been very successful in his shrapael helmet. It sounds very easy the develpment of the racing automobile to supply a man with his immediate wants engine. To day the cash invested in the almost anywhere in the world's
Silver is quoted at 44 7/8. The marks his brother in street" who misleyetion, by one or two of the automobile
is steady, with buyers.
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LONDON, August 20th. The silver market is firm.
[Telegrams received on Saturday and « Extra on Sunday morning and published in an on Sunday, will be found on Page ]
area World's anting aircraft industry in England is he Think of the buttons that are needed £375,000,000 There are 66,000 employés for the soldier: the tin cans, the spoods, They have a capacity of 41,000 aeroplanen the bootlaces, the millions of pairs of in a year. The man power is one-third socks, the forks and knives, the towels, as eficient as American workmen, due to the chains and belts and straps and sand local conditions. The American industry bags, camp stools and bandoliers and pud with its equipment and cash invested can ding basins War is not wholly made up turn out on a peace-time programme 600k of shells and hand grenades-J.B. Aeroplanes in a month, or 7,200 in a year,