Franco-Belgian Front.
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BRITISH FRONT.
ACTIVE ENEMY AKTLKERY.
Naval Activities:
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1917,
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DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY SUBMARINES.
GOOD. RESULTS. LAST QUARTER,
LONDON, September 14th.
LONDON, September 14th. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re purts: We progressed and secured pris-A high British Naval Authority, in a oners in the neighbourhood of Winnipeg statement to, & Renter's representative, gards submeriniam in an optimistic light. He says:
and the cross-roads, to the north-east of St. Julien,
The enemy's artillery was active in the Lena sector and there was.considerable reciprocal artillery activity to the cast of Xpres
Wesare more than holding our own. Tinte is on our side and ultimate success
assured. There is no evidence, despite
OUR LONDON LETTER.
[FROM
OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,] BEGINNING OF THE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES.
18,
LONDON, August 8th. Many things have been said and written during the last few days about the three years of war which are now behind u and about the probable course of the streg gle which has now entered on its fourth year. In all these pronouncements there is one point of agreement. According to individual temperament it has been stated either calmly und deliberately as one states a problem of Euclid, or with pre- sionate insistence that the wax has become more and more a war of ideas. The
ENGLAND'S DARKENED
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LIABILITY OF MUNICIPALITY
FOR ACCIDENT,
ARE YOU GETTING
ANY BENEFIT FROM THE HIGH DOLLAR?
An appeal to London. From N judgment OUR REBATE TO-DAY
of Mr. Justice Rowlett sitting with a peal jury at the Leeds Assizes on March
1917, raised a question of consider- able importance as to the liability of municipal corporations for accidents dur ing the enforcement of non-lighting
orders. At the trial of the action the jury awarded the plaintiff, Mr. Thomas Morrison, £600 162, damages for personal injuries.
It appeared that in April, 1916, shortly after 9 pm the plaintiff, a tailor, of Sheffield, was in Abbeyville-road shop-
Despite the weather, our aeroplanes dropped 80 bombs on the enemy's billets, loud talk by Germany, of new U-boat terrible character of the condiotun ping, and, after making his purchases, he
to the east of Lens, and machine-gunned troops in the open and in the trenches.
Three of our machines are missing. GERMAN BEPORT.
LONDON, September 14th, A German oficial wireless message states:We drove out the coery from wood in the sector northward of. Lange- marck and took numerous English pris oners. We penetrated the French lines to- the west of Guignicourt, taking prisoners.
FRENCH FRONT.
ENEMY ATTACK ON FRENCH POSITIONS.
tactics. Good results were obtained last precedented in the long and troubled quarzewin the destruction of German sub-history of mankind, has not changed with
marince..
the progress of events except in so far a The German High Command
it has tended to lapse into sheer savagery has fixed early October as the latest and with greater destruction of life; on the the third definite date for compelling the other hand, the fact emerges clearer than ever before that only by the complete surrender of Gent Britajų,
overthrow of the German military system can the future peace of the world be assoret:
VARIETY IN METHODS,"
The following incidents, taken from
On this point opinion in this country Adinirally records, are illuminating as
is like adamant. There is every reason to showing the growing success of the offen- believe that the same conviction will seize sity measures being taken against sub-upon the American people and impel that marines. The Grst story is that one of great nation to put forth prodigious PARIS, September, 14th,
our naval angiligy forery was struck by efforts. The idea of military aggression A rumuzunigud states:--On the "right
a torpedo it, the engine-room, the water has grown so abhorrent to the conscience bank of the Meuse, after a violent bombard ment, the Germans attacked the positions flooding several compartments. Then the of civilisation that even in Germany the we_recently_captized, to the verib of | periscope and the conning tower sppear- ruling casto are constrained to represent Caurieres Wood, penetrating our ad- ed. We freg, hitting both. Many other their country as fighting a defensive war yanend line, on & Front of 300 piętars.
The fighting continues.
nits were observed Beveral meu came against a rapacious enemy "stretching sut its hands towards their territory, out of the hatch ubaft of the concing This is the language of every German over. The submarine wallowed along statesman to-day. It is very different her stort almost submerged, with oil from the language they used three years squirting out of her sides. The crew ago when the Germanic hordes, in the Chancellor's phrase, intended to hack waved their surrender. We ceased to fire, their way through to Paris. whereupon the submarine started off at a THE DAWN OF REASON. fair rate of speed: We fired again and enemy vessel, falling on her side, slowly disappeared end up. The survivors were picked up. We reached harbour.
ENEMY ATTACK REPUÏSED. A communique states: -After a violent bombardment, the Gezsunns dawn attacked Casemates Plateau. The enemy was driven back into his own fines, with heavy losses, after a band-to-hand fight."
A CONSIDERABLE AFFAIR,
BRITISH LINE STANDS FIRM.
the
Д.
crossed the road. The night was dark, and owing to the total extinguisherent of the street lighting he had to feel his way in the darkness. On reaching the other side of the road he came in contact with one of the iron spikes fencing a tree, and the signt of one eye was practically destroyed, and he suffered loss in business and incurred aeavy expenses through his injuries. He accordingly brought this action, and the jury were asked two ques:. tions by the learned Judge:
(I) Was the guard dangerous in the circumstances of the darkness that exist ed" and
(2.) Ought the defendants, if they exorcised reasonable foresight, to have take reasonable measures to have hou accident?" trulised the danger before the date of the
The jury answered both of these ques tions in the affirmative, and awarded the
plaintiff £660 10. dunge
The defendants appealed from the judg- ment entered in accordance with the verdict on the grounds of misdirection, absence of evidence of negligence, and that the verdict was against the weight of evidence The Court dismissed the appeal.
· JUDGMENT,
The Lord Chief Justice, after stating the facts, said that it had been contended that there was no evidence of any breach of duty on the part of the defendants, and the basis of the argument was that the trees and guards had been placed by the defendants under the authority of section. 43 of the Act of 1990. They contended that, having erected them guards, which were admittedly safe in normal circun The dawn of reason may not be so very stances, there was no further degree of far of even in Germany. In an admir care imposed upon them by reason of the able article headed "After Three Years Lighting Order under which the town was the Westminster Gazette aptly points out placed in a state of darkness, but in bis that the isolation of the military faction (his Lordship's opinion this contention was unsound. The defendants could not which brought about the world-war be contend that, when authority was given ones more and more evident. Its own to place the trees and guard, they were people are beginning to doubt; the not bound so exercise their powers with Russian autocracy has gone; the American reasonable care, having regard to reason democracy hus come in; the Austrian able degree of protection which the public Emperor declares himself willing and were entitled to expect. Neither could anxious to democratize the government of it be contended that because there was his country. Only the Berlin clique holda nu aisance or want of reasonable care out and declares still that free govern on the part of the defendants before the Lighting Order came into operation it says the paper, is whether any peace was not necessary for them to take fur
There was ther steps afterwards can be made until this last stronghold is obligation on the defendants to use rea- reduced and its chiefs discredited by sonable care for the whole of the time signal military delcat. It is for the during which they maintained the guards German people rather than for us to an in the public highway, and they were not awer this question, and we must be pre entitled to allow them to become danger- pared for either event. But we can say ous to those who used the highway. with great confidence that these few men are not going to impose their system upon a world which is determined to have none of it. All history would be falsified if the world which is now in arms against the German tyranny were unable to reduce
an
LONDON, September 14th.
The second story, in 2-- Weighted Beater's Correspondent at the British slanarine iu thousand yards away. The Headquarters says that yesterday's attack north-west of Langemarck was a consider- enemy came zeur and suddenly submerged. able affair. Unusually heavy artillery Sharily afterwards, e periscope appeared bring warned our maps, so that when close to our starboard bow for a few the Germans eume in they m with such an outlural of rifle und auchine-gun fire seconds and then again disappeared. We that they wavered. But so dense were the ported helm, circled round and dropped assaulting waves, that the 'attack reaphoti cluse quarters, resulting in a fieces hands two explosive charges, causing two explement is ruis: "The question before us," so-hand combat. Our main line stoot sions, the latter shaking us from stem to firmi, and bliss enemy suffered high keses. [stern." : The water became blackened over ENEMY TESTS DEFENCE a large area and a considerable quantity The ezems, who by jumpy, evidently of thick oil and flotsam came to the wanted tixtesthe efficiency of the defenen surfac Salong the rising ground between St.
Jean and Langemarck. The manner in The third story shows that one of our which he is constantly moving his artillery submarines saw an enemy submarine two suggesis uncertainly, and also suggests! that the effigiets with which our counter-miles to the starboard. We dived and the itors werk is carried out with aerial enemy altered his course, We lost him, aid is feuering it dificult for the bat, his apparent objective being con enray gunners to conceal their positions.jectured, we steered on the chance of cut. The ground in the battle zone continues ting him off. Then we picked him up on to be bad, despite the drying weather, our port bow, steering as we surmised. I write, the sound of their incessant throb The guns are booming in Flanders. A Non-porous clay holes hold the water indefinitely, and the incessant shell bursts We fired a torpedo a few seconds later bing comes across the North Sea. The that it was the duty of the defendants His Lordship had come to the conclusion in these little lagoons throw up great The enemy was seen with his stern out of latest Anglo-French push near the to continue to keep the guards of the trees fountaing whiur keep the mud liquid. the water, and surrounded by smoke. The the Third Battle of Ypres, has succeeded unwindful of the great stress and pressure const, which will be known in history as so as not to be dangerous. He was not Italian, Front
couning-tower was half-submerged, and a to the extent that was intended. By now brought to hear upon local authorities minute afterwards disappeared...
(THROUGH LECTER'S AGENCY.]
FURIOUS AUSTRIAN ATTACKS
THE BATTLE FOR THE SAINTS."
it."
..
THE WAR IN THE WEST.
Whether or not they had exercised rea- sonable care was a matter for the jury to decide. Whether or not during the 17 days which elapsed between the date of the Lighting Order and the date of the taken steps to prevent danger to the pub accident the defendants ought to have
lio was again a matter for the jury to decide, and it could not be said that there was no evidence before the jury on which they could decide as they had done.
the public have passed the stage when at the present time, but that would not every move forward on a big scale was absolve them from exercising reasonable sea-awaited with breathless expectation as the care in using the powers entrusted to
probable prelude to the breaking through them
The fourth incident is that a stock plase, seeing a submarine maneuvring to fire a torpedo at a merchantman, descend ed to the spot. The submarine submerged The seaplane dropped three bombs, and five minutes later a large unhcaval like
of the German armies. The conditions of the German lines and the rolling-up
of war as now waged are better under THE BUGAR-CARD. stood. Per
effort to-day is admirably expressed by troller at ratiofing the population in the The right conception of military au and the first official attempt of the Food CoD- Lord Rhondda's sugar card scheme is
a huge bubble rising above sea level was Major-General Maurice, Director of noticed where the bombs had been drop an important latervow which has become necessary not because aut Military Operations at the British War matter of household supplies. The scheme marine piracy has provented us from ob
Lornos. September 14th." Correspondente at the Italian front any that the battle of Monte San Gabriele, which has been swaying for the past fort aight reached the extremity of fury dur ing the past few days, when the Austrians Ped. There was no further sign of the zade desperate efforts to shake the hold submarine.
he gave to the Paris Journut he states taining the imports we want, but because that the tactics followed by Sir Douglas of the inequalities of distribution. The Haig for many months past consist in
A card-scheme involving registration
out too heavy sacrifices." The battle and supplies from the grocer limited to just ended, General Maurice aid, the number of the family or housebold is ** was a clearly deaned operation which obviously the fairest solution of the came to an end as soon as all the objectives problem. Anybody who thinks rationing had been reached, and any fresh advance will be a quite distinct operation separate ly prepared."
of the Italians, who maintained their positions and inflicted enormou losses.
The 6fth story relates how a patrol selecting beforehand a dumber of definit, well-to-do have never been short of sugar. Trenches avere frequently taken and re vessel noticed considerable foam travel objectives, the extent of his advance being They always bad a 'pull on their taken, but the greatest slaughter took ing parallel with her. She crossed the always limited by the distance at which Broger for the simple reason that, being! -place at the bare stony beati of me moun-
ain, where the combatants could only foam wake and dropped bombs on the effect. Complete co-operation on the part what they required, and while some of the his artillery can be employed with full good customers, he did not feel able to obtain water by having it carried up on
refuse their demands. While they had the backs of men.
Thost likely spot. Then other two of the artillery is, of course, essential to selfish or thoughtless had more than their After the fall of Monte Santo the patrol craft arrived and also dropped works and the killing of his men, thus share, the masses went short.
Casure the destruction of the enemy's Italians attacked the slopes of Monte San bombs. A thick brown oil rose to the permitting our own men to advance with Gabriele against the Austrians, who were surface for twelve hours afterwards. lodged in fortified caversis,
The record of the fortnight is: Two
The sixth story is as follows:-Oue of caverns captured on August 25th, and the northern edge captured on August 28th,
our nasal forces, hearing gunfire, steered Then several days of machine-gun fighting into question, sighted the submarine, fired steadily advancing among the rocks, will the Italians at and his her.. A large explosion resulted
Finally, on Septem ber 4th, the Italians made a great attack and nothing more was seen of the enemy. at dawn, throwing jets of fames forty. The seventh story shows that two sub- yards long, to which the with bombs Gradually the line of exple marines attacked a defensively armed which the Germans have been driven hack sions retired before the line of flame till vessel which fired a torpedo at elose cange two miles on a front of fifteen miles, have On paper Lord Rhondda's plan seems the Italians gained a footing at the sum but wissed. The ship then sank one sub succeeded, it is clear that the battle con all right so far as permanent residents are mit and drove back the Austrians to the north-eastern slopes. Here the battle is marine and the other attacked but was The first round has been fought and de the vast floating population in hotels and sidered as a whole has only just begun, concerned; but no provision is made for now wavering in fierce attacks and coun der attacks. The Austrian resistance is damaged and driven off.
cided in our favour. After due prepara-boarding-houses It would appear that concentrated in the mountaina of San
tion, the next round will be undertaken. they are to go sugarleas till the end of the Sacaterina and San Daniele, Con-
The eighth story is to the effect that an As an indication of the nature of the war. And there is no provision, either, found the Saints is the ery of the other defensively armed vessel encounter onflict it may be said, without revealing against the sale of sugar tickets. The Italian soldiers, and it is addressed to the ed, and the ship fired, hitting the sub-hardinent the British artillery numbered children of the poor; and as this is well. any secret that in the preliminary hom real sufferers from sugar shortage are the three mountains which impede their pro- gress, the northernmost of which is San marine twice, causing her to disappear 2000 guns of all calibres. This works out known, it is only renouable to hope that Gabrielo, whose slopes are carred with vertically. The sea appeared to boil for at one gun to about every dazen yards measures will be taken to prevent thei corpses and echoing with the groans of
long afteen miles of front. the wounded.
allowance from being sold, so to speak, (Continued at fost by next column.)
over their heads. H.B.
replied
& co siderable time.
BEGINNING OF THE END..
While the operations near Ypres, it
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