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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
ANOTHER GERMAN PEACE MOVEMENT.
NEW ALLY.
WAR AIMS OF FRANCE.
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
CTIVITY IN THE WEST.
Franco-Felgian Front.
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·ARTILLERY DUELS.
PARS, September isth.
A communiyse states:- There
wero
fairly lively artillery actions in the region of Chaniague and the heights on the Auberive scelor,
The artillery duel was somewhat violent on the right bank of the Meise, to the north of Hill 344
NORTH COUNTRY TROOPS.
GOOD WORK AT INVERNESS
COPSE..
LONDON, September 18th,
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re purta
Russian bront,
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PROGRESS ON THE RIGA FRONT.
I ONTON, September 19th, "A" Russian communiqué wys:-O ad vanced guards are continuously resisting the enemy in the Riga region, and are progressing at some points,
ADVANCE CONTINUES.
LONDON, September 18th,
A. Russian wireless official message states. - We occupied the wood north-east of Friedrichalady, and the Roumanians have captured a sector of fortified posi tions in the region of Varnitza.
Losnos, September 18th.
A German wireless official message North country troops raided at In-states-Several Romanian attacks near verness Copse and took thirteen prisoners, Varnits and Maneelal failed heavily.
We improved our positions slightly2
to the cast of St Julien, and drove off raiders to the south of Mericourt,
"There has been great", reciprocal artil- fery activity on the Ypres sector.
Three German abroplanes were driven clown on Monday. The combats were few and only a small number of Germans were in the air. missing.
Three of our lunchines, are
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PATROL ENCOUNTERS.
Laspos, September 18th- Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig There have been enly patról encounters in the Ypres sector.
RAIDING.
METHODS COMPARED.
LONDON, September 18th, Reuter's special correspondent in France say that raiding continues to be favoured on the Western Front, the Ger mans showing a similar activity on n Jesser scale. Their methods are mostly differem, to ours, which depend Inrgely Con the initiative of the individual, where na the Germany cling to the formula that every soldier is part of a great mechanical structure. This doetrite does not work fo the best advantage in raiding, and leads to plentiful recrimination among the different classes of prisoners, who Accuse one another of mutual letting down. Last night the British severely punished the Germans, for, besides de- atroying defensive works at three different
General,
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RUSSIAN SITUATION,
DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE.
PETROGRAD, September 15th, The Democratie Conference will be at tended by 1,000 delegates. The chief of
FRANCE'S WAR AIMS.
M PAINLEVE'S STATEMENT. FAVOURABLY RECEIVED:
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH, IULTA
HOLLAND AND THE WAR. SPEECH BY THE QUEEN.
WAR AIMS OF FRANCE.
STRIKING SPEECH BY M PAINLEVE
GERMAN PEACE MOVEMENT.
TANGLE OF CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS
LONDON, September láth. After weeks of careful preparation,
declate Germany has launched a new so-called peace movement, through the medium of the Reply to the Pope's Note. The actual
to end the war have been unsuccessful; all the forces of tho ∙nation for wording of the Reply is at present We shall continue to be ready to ward the supreme phase of the war.
unknown, but amid the tangle of con
He
THE HAGUE September 18th. Paris, September 19th, The Queen's speech at the opening of
PARIS September 18th.. M. Painleve's declaration has beon the States General contained the followi In the Chamber, M, Painleve announced sccorded a most favourable receptioning The prospects for the coming the Government policy. He declater both in the Chamber and the Senate, winter, are not very satisfactory. The that the Governinent would Rive aspecially the passage containing the attempts made from the different sidea all its attention to Assembling warning that anybody found guilty of treating with the enemy will be punished with all the rigour of the law.
The evening newspapers pay glowing tributes to the new Government which is described as confronting with determina tion the problems of the day.
The Top Buys: We ars promised that we shall, above all, have a more vigourous prosecution of the war, and that is want the country demands and hopes for.
BRITISH WOMEN'S ARMY
AUXILIARY CORPS.
LONDON, September 18th. The Ministry of Labour is making a strong appeal for recruits for a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps for service at home and over sens. every new recruit releases a soldier for other duties, thereby directly increasing the strength of the effectives/
It should be noted, that
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RUSSIAN SITUATION.
MILITARY EXCESSES.
PETROCAD, September 18th,
M. Kerensky and the Ministers of War and Marine have gone to Headquarters; LONDON, September 15th.
It transpires that there have been other excesses at Viborg besides these mentiorad on the 15th instans. The soldiers beat and threw into the river most of the Corps, and it is semi-oficially stated in
officers were killed and that 00 are mis-
mdequate
au, apparent disposition of the German
to quit Belgium. Then are, however,
off possible transgressions of our neutre-emphasised that the nearer the end of tradictory statements can be discerned. lity. It is becoming continually more the War ennie the more essential to f difficult to supply the people with the victory would be the moral resistance of new sonries of life and with raw materin). the pation, against which the enemy, who Traffic with the Colonies is being inerent, was unable to conquer on the battlefield, ingly hampered. For the necessary es
was about to redouble his efforts. The port of Indian products the requisite
Government, must redouble its vigilance tonnage is lacking, while
against there insidious plane. Whoever made himself an accomplice of the enemy necessary exports from chewhere are im-
must suffer the full rigour of the law. possible. The collaboration of all classes No enemy neuvres and no individual is there than ever essential in order to weaknesses can turn. France from her maintain ourselves antides the growing
uoslmkeable determination. France citstress of the nations.
shes this, war to defend her own and the world's liberty and independence. claims are independent of the issues of battles. She proclaimed them golemnly
GERMANY
STRANGLED
pur-
grounds for suspicion of the genuineness of these, but Here Ercherger, in a signi- firant speech yesterday, declared that there must be conquests of any kind and that we are making long strides t wards peace. The pan-Germans are noisily profesling against any arrange. mer Some newspapers, including the notorious Tages Zeitung have been sup pressed Everything at present points do an effort by the German Government to prepare the people for a climb-down, but in view of the recent new proofs of Ger- man duplicity, the Allies refuse to cont-
FUTURE OF BELGIUM:
LONDON, September 18t)..
GEN SMUTS AND THE SITUATION.
BELNU
in 1871 when she was beaten and she pro-mit themselves any way until the enemy's TO DEATH.
claims them today when the
bona fides are beyond doubt. Agressor is LONDON, September 18th. feeling the weight of her arms. The dis- According to Renter's correspondent annexation of Alster-Lorraine, rupara Paris, interviewed by a representative of tion for damage and ruin wrought by
In connection with the new German Le Jourant in London, General Smuts the enemy, and a peace which shall not pence manœuvre, the Worlnische Folks referring to Germany's present position, be peace of constraint ny violence, can- Zeitung corroborates the statement of the said is...“ She has little or no improveinen taining within itself the germ of future Togen Zeitung that fiermany has decided. to hage for. Can one doubt, on the other wars, but a just peace, wherein to renounce her claim
Ou
to Belgium, hand, the growing feelings ofterior
peoples, strong or weak, would be According to the Avelnische Fulke which possess her as she 408 nations range oppressed, a peace wherein effective heitray, this decisime las been embodied themselves side by side against her? Here against all aggression on the Dutch paper 'ga declares that the de- guarantees shall protect the society of in the Reply, in the Papal Note, but the food problem is becoming daily more and
part of on among them. These are the vision aroused such hostility among : the
more neute, her economie future is hope Jessly compromised, and her name is more ant more detested. In short, she is faced with the prospect of bring strangled to death, unless the Entrate reopens the door to her. What does the future offer her, even on the impossible hypothesis of a reversal of the military situation? There is nothing dat Germany, longs for nere ardently than peace, all her people LONDON September 18th. feel that their position is desperate. But Australian restrictions on all sport are before thinking of peace we must be cer now announced. There will be a reductain of having finished with the military
sing. The Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates are appealing to the troops, and people to refrain from lynch law.
RACING IN AUSTRALIA.
noble aims of Franer, and as long as these
are not attained, France will continue to
Pan-Germans that a conference held in
·Berlin on Sunday deleted it from thes Reply substituting merely assurances of
KING'S TOUR OF THE NORTH. Germany's willingness to discuss terms.
GREAT RECEPTION.
crowds In conversing with An iron turner. His Majesty expressed his
ordination of nations in the war in an My Painleve admitted that the co-
effort to scoure, inter aft, increased prediction, meant the imposition of indis, pensable restrictions, the stoppage of
LONDON, September 18th speculation anal a rise in prices. It was
His Majesty the King at Glasgow a difficult matter, for private interrats extensively toured the shipyards, and must yield to Bational in the nation.
engineering, works. He presented thres in its patriotise would rise in the effort. Victoria Crosses and other medals in the these are the Soviet of Petrograd and
Who would hesitate to impose on himself presence of large and most enthusiastic the Soviet of Moscow, and the Peasants' tion in Metropolitan Horse-reing Meetperialists. Before empting any peace, the necessary sacrifices, light when Council of Petrograd; 100 delegates from ings in New South Wales from 134 to 97, those who are charged with the destinies compared with the sufferings of the pleantre that fewer ships were being sub- each Soviet and Conneils, 50 from Co-operative Associo-smaller
Peamets District substantial reductions in Queensland, and of nations should give serious
reflection soldiers! Such reductions in Victoria and tions, 100 from the Chemists Union, 20 Westeru Australia.
to terms, for on the peace that we sign necessary along, the Allies, who s
should het as if a single nation with a will depend for a generation the peace. Post Office employees, 10 from the
single
Teacher's Union, and 15 of various nation-
and future of the world. The stake is my on a singl, frush. All must equally replied “We are doing our best.”
contribute men, artus and mõneg. Only⠀⠀ Eighty thousand prople were present alties. It is stated that the secondary and
the largest that the human race ever
on this condition with their superior at the investiture at Throx Park, where high grade schools will be closed and that
played for Patience and confidence are
resourers, become crushing, Such a policy Victorii Crosses hed other war decorn- the students will be abilised indus
all we now need in order to be certain of will allow France, without exhausting tions and Orders of the British Empire trially.
Gaining it."
hurself, to meet her economie and military were conferred. One hundred and forty- needs. Since 1914. France's blood had three persons were recipients of the been shed in torrents. It is necessary for Empire decoration, and included Lord the happy issue of the war that she should Strathclyde, the Grand Cross of the maintain to the end a plentitude of Order, and Lizzie "Robinson, a munition workerja, uedal for hernism whilst engaged in her work.
The Municipal Council las requested the Government to immediately, abolish the death penalty, which has been re. catablished at the front. M. Verkhovsky his annoured that the Government will shortly be effecting reform owing to the essity of crating a powerful army. CONDUCT OF GENERALS.
GERMANY'S NEW ENEMY..
COSTA RICA SEVERS RELATIONS.
COUNT LUXBURG.
GERMAN REGRETS.
vigour.
mrdination was no less
marined and said "We look to you to
give us ships," to which the iron turner
SAN Jose September 18th. Costa Rica has broken off diplomatic relations with Germany. The President
as discovered that German residents were This war is a war of machinery conspiring against the Government Instructed by experience, we have adopt Several have been arrested. All the Gered tactics which may not be very showy mans in Costa Rican ports have been but the results of which are mathemati ordered to be interned.
cally certain. These tactics consist in
progressing by advances strictly limited
~The peried, following the conclusion of on ground rendered impossible to hold penée must be prepared for most carefully by the superiority of our artillery. These a long time ahead. We must restore the BUENOS AIRES, September 18th, tactics cost a minimum to as and inflict reconquered districts and prepare in The Argentine Minister in Berlin tele a maximum of losses, on the enemy. If extensive programine of public works in graphs that the German Luder Secretary the public understand these wethods and order to multiply our industrial forces for Foreign Affairs has declared that their success, there is no more question and regulate the return of the soldiers lo Germany regrets the Luxburg affair, and regarding winning. Today we have won, nordial life, avoiding the crises of un- disapproves of Count Luxburg's tele and the Germans know it quite wells The employment, increase prosluction and General Kaledine, on September 17th, grams. The Argentine Government con- final result of the persistent pressure of national credit, prepar, for the trans- parts of the line, the British advanced actions to the proper quarter, whereupon sufficient and awaits a formal Note.
notified his willingness to explain his siders that the above declaration is in our Army is well anticipated in Germany, formation of munition factories to peace in the wake of a amart burst of gun fire de Government transferred the inquiry
despite the reassuring communiqués, conditions, establish a fiscal system and got into the enemy with bombs, to General Headquarters where General says that is officially announced that Ger cannot make up for defeat in a world embody as a part of the social life the Reuter's correspondent at Stockholm Germany's military victories in the East just, bold, and well-considered taxes, and bayonet and other weapons. It is su Kaledine will give evidence before a mili- many has expressed her deep regret at sense. Hence Germany', desire for peace reforms recently
the annoyance" caused to Sweden the Luxburg affair.
gested that individual fancy for these operations continuing nightly will keep the enemy at the truest tension.
SHARP FIGHTING.
of
PARIS, September 19th. communiqué states:-Bouti Lamiette, after a violent bombardment, hostile detachments approached our lines near the Neufchatel road. A sharp fight casued in our advanced trenches, from which the enemy was completely repulsed with appreciable loazes. We took pri-
PETROGRAD, September 19th. The Commission of Enquiry, sitting at Pskoff, has exonerated General Klem bovsky from aétív, participation in the Korniloff movement.
tary commission.
SETTLING DISORDERS.
LONDON, September 19th,
The Russian Embassy, in a statement. to a Reuter representative, said that M Kerensky had taken all measures to pro vent the rebellion interfering with the re-establishment of the fighting power of
the army.
ROBBERY OF BRITISH AEROPLANE PLANS.
LONDON, September 18th.
A sensational robbery of aeroplane plans from a firm of London builders, has resulted in the arrest of a Greek, after the discovery of the missing documents in the cloak-room of a tube station.
OB
FOOD PRICES.
LONDON, September 18tån Lord Rhondda, in receiving a deputa tion of butchers, said that maximuta prices must be strictly enforced. High prices were largely due to competition by the butchers themselves,
A DOG STORY FROM THE BATTLEFIELD:
Sumewhere in France a dog waits has been waiting since August, 1914-for the return of his master, and the latter wit But, despite the horrors of carnage, we workmen and employers. Such are some he fell-in one of the first battles of the never return, for he lies sleeping where
must continue till the lesson is graven deep into the hearts of the German people,'
FUTURE OF POLAND.
LONDON, September 18th.
introduced between
of the dominating ideas which should guid, our democracy.
M. Painlere concluded with a review of the war theatres, saying he hoped that
great ward
away
war. The story is told by the Pigora A petsant from the Puyde- Dome jomed his regiment at Riom when the robilization began. He took his dog the Republic of Russia would re-establish with him and they were inseparable until union and discipline. On the Carso, the the day came for the man to leave for Sereth and the Cerra, as well as in the front When the train steamed "An Austro-German decree announces the Artois, during the past months great Canon, for that was the dog's name, re- forthcoming inauguration of a Regency things have been accomplished, of which mained looking wistfully at it as it reced General Alexeiff, who was the most
and Council for Poland, but the real the results are more far-reaching than is horizon and then disappeared, carrying ed, dwindled away to a mere spot on tha authoritative Russian General, had been
power will remain in the hands of the at present apparent, as developments will his master out of his sight for ever, Austro-Germans, through the Governor show. As regards our own Army, the master's love to reunite them one day is entrusted with the immediate direction of
But Canon's faith in the power of his the military operations, and the reorgani
General
moral was never higher Without en stronger than the will of nations, and he sation of the army, and there is every
FISHING BOAT OWNER croaching on the domain of the High refuses to leave the station at Riom. Upon reason to believe that all minor dis
Command, Parliamentary and Govern-on to the platform, runs first to the the arrival of each tram he dashes out COPEN GEN September 180 The issue of five-shilling notes is fore-orders will ocese. All the separate cases The authorities have discovered an
YMUIDEN, September 19'h,
ment control will be exercised over the locomotive and then scampers froue shadowed, owing to the shortage of of insubordination have been successfully other espioner. lat.
The fishing boat owners have Army. Our intention is to govern in carriage to carriage, looking for the Four Germans accepted the British offer cabledvin (az İnce union with Parliament and we shall object of his affection-until the whistle. Hilver.
handled,
seek to conceal our responsibilities blows, and he is left gaze wistfully as have been arre tid.
9th instant.
hind the cloak of an optimist.
he did once in 1914.
soners.
FIVE-SHILLING NOTES.
LONDON, September 18th.
The Greek, who is named Cokinaki, has bren committed for trial at Bow Street ou a charge of stealing aeroplane plans. ESPIONAGE IN NORWAY.