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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH, 1917.
THE
WAR.
GERMANS ACTIVE ON ANGLO- FRENCH FRONTS.
AIR RAID ON ENGLAND. BOMBS DROPPED ON LONDON,
RUSSIANS OCCUPY ENEMY POSITIONS.
ITALIAN SUCCESS IN TRIPOLI.
batteries, once Photographed by Anglo-
INVESTITURE.
French airmen, are doomed to certain ORDER OF THE BRITISH IMPINE. destruction by their artillery." There
LONDON, Bentember 25th. His Majesty the King invests a number of recipients of the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palact
fore an entirely new system of defenco was needed, namely, a zone of defence organised in depth that is extended to-
wards the rear.” Such a system
defences is hidden as much as possible
the Queen is expected to be presente
As ladies are involved, Her Majesty
SITUATION IN RUSSIA.
ROUMANJA ASD RUSSIA,
Į GERMANY'S REFLY TO THE ARGENTINA AND GERMANY.
POPE.
STRONG DESIRE FOR RUPTURE
PRESS OPINIONS ON ENEMY
NOTES
re
The
BUENOS ATEES, September 24th. There is still a strong desire for up- ture with Germany, in view of the fact that Germany did not disapprove of Count, Luxburg prior to the revelation.
STRIKERS VIOLENT ATTITUDE.
general strike on the railways has
begun.
LONDON, September 24th A message from Buenos Aires says that the strikers are adopting a violent, atti- indo Ment-canning for the Allies 18 The public censures the interrupted. inaoivity of the Government and tho umpatriotism of the strikers, German influence IN "suggested.
LONDON, September 24th. The Fence is not surprised that the Austro-German replics have disappointed the Vatican. It is indeed asserted that from... enemy - observation, and troops.
the replies have been totally reconstructed echelonned in depth so that their lines are
since the fall of Riga. Universal opinion, thin in front and become, progressively.
including that in Germany, is struck by denser at the fear. This ought to enable
ODESSA, September 2
thes ostentatious silence upon the Pope's us to pass from the defensive to the My Mortzun, President of the Houenerite uggestions, excepting his offensive with troops occupying the more mamian Chamber of Deputies, interviewed | furence to the freedon of the sens thickly held positions at the rear. Pho by Reuter's Agency, said thus the Rout Allies are anxions for peas, met must abandon their trenches and martian Army was heroically defending immewable in the conviction that negotia retire to shell-orgter redoubts held by Moldavia. The Army Inked to the com- tions will remain a sham till all the machine gummers and arranged in depth | mon-sense of the Russian people, and he Allied territory is evacuated. - We are like squares of the same colour on a cheas hoped they would realise that the going to fight till we get our terms. boari. The protective capacity of these Russian Army, by ardent co-operation in The Daily Mail ways that the positions now effectively consolidated. | shell-craters will be increased by ring the defence of the Roumanian frout, was object of the new German manentres ið During the Inst twenty-four hours we sing little timbered chambers into their defending not only its own territory and clear. The enemy fears Field Marshal Sie carried out small attacks, appreciably insides and, where possible, connecting on the liberties gained by the revolution. Douglas Haig's victorious troops, thesaid that Count Luxburg's views in the proving our new line,
shell crater with unether by tubered, but Russia's honour in her, undertakings future appearance of the great American Swedish telegrains were purely personal The Menin victory again emphasises the passages, the essential point being that with the Allies, and thus hastening the Army, and the application of commercial and did not influence his Government. supremacy of the rifle as an offensive wea from above the fortified shell-craters shall final victory,
Iand economic pressure.
SINN FEIN DEMONSTRATIONS
IN pun, wellalirected rife-fire proving most be indistinguishable from thousands of Losvos, September 4th, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in effective against the concreto machine-surrounding sholz-craters, communiquez estates. We drove out- gun emplacements. The battle also des raiders from our trenches near La Bassenstrated that the pre-war training of ville.
Franco-Belgian Front.
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BRITISH FRONT.
RAIDERS REPELLED.
The enemy's artillery is active on both bank, of the Scarpe, south of Lens and north-east of Xpres
THREE RAIDS. REPULSED./ Field Marsil Sir Dougins Haig, in a commen igne, States. Under cover of this morning's bombardment, two attempted raids in the neighbourhood of Monchy-le- Preux, und n third south of the Arras Dailway were repulsed. The enemy
a mumber of dead.
Another party raided west of La Bassee One man
missing.
Jeft
Our patrols have been nalive on the battle front, and a number of prisoners were brought in Our neroplanes were. successful yesterday in dropping 107 bomby on billets, buurents and mo- dromes Nira German machines were brought down and six were driven down Three of ours are missing.
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VIOLENT ARTILLERY BATTLE. A German wireless official inesange
states:-There is an artillery battle of great violence or the coast between South- hols Wood and Westhoek, also at Lens
and St.. Quentin and in several sectors on: The Aisne front, in Champagne and Verdún
THE 'ALLIES' GRAND ATTACKS. The Times military correspondent says: -March- - 4th," June 7th, July 21st and September 29th have all been days of grand lacks well plaimed, Anely executed and completely successful, eject ing the Germans from the strongest posi lions ever created with heavy loss to the
via: men, material and merül The battle of September 2015 was a co- finuation and completion of that of July 31st. Horrible weather in August, and sodden fields in Flanders prevented that battle being fought out to an inevitable -conolusion, long ago. Now that we have wartaro, guna covering infantry must be moved up before one success can be followed by another and for this fine weather is indispensable.
Eystematise go tut
The main objective of our troops was completely exposed by the fighting on July 31st, and the Germans have since profited
by-
The importance of the documente lies not only in the new tacties prescribed, but is a frank recognition of the effective: -ness of our artillery, and especially our pada dirnen. The axiom from which the
a thing cha be registered by airmen's cameras it will be destroyed. The moral for us is easy to
the British infantry was eminently sound.
moat sheeessfully Stalking tactics were employed in more than one instance, a snail party of riemen capturing a pill.order starts is that e box by inserting the muzzles of their rifles in the machine-gun slot nad alling the interior with ricechyiting ballets.
LATEST CABLES.
FRENCH FRONT.
ENEMY ATTACKS BROKEN UP.
Pants September 25th.
& communiqué states: There was most lively artillery fire on the Aise
We repulsed a raid on our outposts. north of Braye-Laonni is
The Germans of the right of the Meuse, after a bombardment, aflacked our trenches, north of Bois-le-Chuume: un, » front of two kilometres. Four battalions, were leading, supported by anastruppen, but the attack was broken up by our fire,
und the enemy did not reach our lines, except at a few elements in the centre, where fiero hand-to-hand fighting re sulted in the ejection of the Germans.
sanguinarily
Simultaneously, two secdary attacks north of Bezouvaux and south of Beau
mont, respectively, were defeated, our troops leaving their trenches and rushing to met their assailants.
Two fresh attacks in the afternoon at Bois-le-Chaume only increased the enemy.
Joasca.
EARLIER CABLES.
INTENSE ARTILLERY DUELS,
PARIS. September 24th-
A communiqué states:There is violent Fertillery firing in the region of Brave, | Froidement Farm and Hurtebise.
A surprise attack at Hurtebise failed.
· Our fire dispersed reconnoitring parties attempting to reach our lines on the left hink of the Meuse.
There were very intense avtillery duela on the right bank during the night in the
-region of Bois Fosses and Bois Cheumes
Enemy aeroplanes last night bombarded
north of Bar le Duc
Several bombs fell on a group of Ger man prisoners, two of whom were killed and 17 wounded.
drav.
Russian Front,
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RUSSIAN TFRONT,
SEVERE ENEMY LOSSES.
LONDON, September 24the
"A. Russian
wireless message states W
enemy positions after a fierce struggle south of Pskov the high road. Enemy losser are severd. Tour hundred corpses were found and the: number of prisoners taken was sixty.
A wireless German official musike
states:---Hussian artillery is active north
of Baranowitgehi and west of Luck, Italian Tront.
“EARLIER CABLES.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENOT.)
ITALIAN FRONT.
ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS-
REPULSED..
M Mortzun declared he was confident that despite the heavy trinks Boumania would emerge victorious on her own soil.
EARLIER CABLES.
MILITARY POSITION STILL
SERIOUS.
PETROGRAD September 24th. 3. Kerensky is still at : Headquarters,
as the military situation is regarded as
M. Kerensky, in an Army Order. neerpte Gmeral | Alexeiff's resignation. but places him at the disposal of the Pro- visional Government in order that his vast military experience will not be losi. EX-DOWAGER EMPRESS OF RUSSIA ILL
LONDON, September 24th. The ex-Downger Empress is seriously.
iu,
GERMANY'S ABUSE
OF
⠀ ROUMANIAN NEUTRALITT
WASHINGTON, September 24th.*
Reuter's correspondent nt. Now - York says that the consensus of clitorini opinion in the United States is that the. Kaiser's reply is hypocritical. This sen rénces are designed to cover up German crimes. but it is impossible to consider Free while the present. German Govern. ament endares.
Renter's correspondent at Rome slates
that the Osservatore Romano is of the opinion that the replies by the Citral Powers leave the way open for discussions, Their acceptance of the Pope's termy is as clear us could be expected in diplo
matic documents,
ANOTHER PAPAL EFFORT.
ROME, September 24th.
The Pope praposes, when he has the Allies Reply, to is a second Note to belligerents, pointing out the questions on which they are agreed, for instance, disaratament and arbitration, as facilitat
sug an adjustment of secondary preblins, The Vatican espreitully favours the
of
Mr. Lansing has unde fresh disclosures abolition of couscription, inktaucing the of German intrigue. He publishes à resplendid example before the "war pors by the Secretary of the American voluntaryism in Great Britain;
TURCO-BULGARIAN REPLIES. Legation in Baklinrest revealing how Ger-
Amsterdam, Seplyanker 24th- many secreted in the German Legation f Bukharest, after the United States took charge of German affairs, fifty boxes en taining a powerful explosive and que boxnintenance of full sovereignty over containing anthrax and glandern sicrobes. Turkish territory.
A Viema message says that the Turkish reply to the Pope's Note insists on the
AN INVIDIOUS TASK.
Mr, Lausing also publishes a letter The Bulgarian Reply supports from the Roumanian Foreign Minister principle of nationalities. LONDON, September 24th.
corroborating the above, and stating that An Italian official message states -- We the
We the explosives and microbes were brought heavily repulsed the enemy's counter-to Roumania by a diplomatic courier attacks in the Marmelada region. 14
Our
aeroplanes dropped four tons of botas on Grahovo Railway Station.
General
LATEST JABLES.
(THROUGH RETTER'S AGENOT.)
THE ITALIANS IN TRIPOLI.
ENEMY ROUTED,
Roms, September 25th.
while Roumania was still strictly neutral
LATEST CABLES.
VIOLATION OF DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES.
LONDON, September 25th. Reuter's Agency learns that the intri gue in Romania, which is now .announced by Mr. Lansing, has been known for some considerable time. It has been exhaus
After a bard fight, extending over six tively authenticated that German diplo- hours, an Italian column, on the 20thmatic couriers, copt from supervision inst., routed 7,000 enemy riflemen and conveyed explosives and bacilli from Brasso in Hungary to the German Legn 800 cavalry with, artillery and machine-
guns, commanded by Nuri Pasha and
other Turks, in the Zanzur region in Southern Tripoli,
The enemy's losses are estimated at 1,000. A quantity of material, all Ger
the bad weather to pile up Six German aeroplanes were brought may make, was captured.
dofences and reinforcements to arrest the down.
British advance on the Mesin road,
TERRIFIC · ANGLO FRENCH BOMBARDMENTS.
All the mere credit is due to the com- @manders of the troops for not merely øver- coming all super-defences in a few hours,: 'but holding all the gains on September
20th in face of repeated and very power-Headquarters says:
ful counter-attacks. Neither a serious hattuck nor a fault is discoverable in the -conduct of this masterly attack.
LONDON, September: 24th. Reuter's Correspondent at the French
Terrific Anglo
French bombardments are forcing the German High Cumaand to revise his
entire tacties of defence on the western
Front.
A recently captured enemy Army Order, after admitting that the German fro lines are regularly battered to pieces by our artillery before the actual battle
AIR RAID ON ENGLAND.
LONDON ATTACKED-
LONDON, September 25th. The Press Bureau announces that air- ships appeared off the Lincolnshire and Yorkshire const early this morning.
The raid is still in progress. No details have yet been received.
LATER. Aeroplanes attacked the south-east coast in the evening!
They came over at different places in Kent and Emcx.
A few followed the Thames and at
WASTING GERMAN INFANTRY. Renter's Correspondent at the British Headquartem says that alter the failure of the counter-attack by the enemy's
"storm troops" north-east of Langemarck, begins, proceeds;—" The power of the tacked Landon, resulting in a severe repulse, the Germans defensive depends upon the possibility of evidently decided to accept the inevitable | hiding the means of defence. Trenches, and notinto waste further infantry against shelters, machinegun emplacements and filled and about 20 injured.
Bombs were dropped at several points. The casualties so far reported are six
tin in Bucharest, where they were buried
in a garden and found by the Secretary of the American Legation alter Ron- mania's declaration of war. The packages were addressed to the German Military Attaché, and contained full instructions for the administration of bacilli sufficient to deal with 1,600 horses and cattle, and requesting to report upon its succees.
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A GERMAN COMMENT.
LONDON, September 24th, In commenting on the Count Bernstorff disclosure of September 21st, the Kolnis che Volke Zeitung says it is most regret table that the United States has secured, apparently, a whole collection of German diplomatic documents, which it is now exploiting against Germany.
KAISER ON BOUMANIAN FRONT.
AMSTERDAM, September thi The Kaiser is visiting the Roumanian Front
GERMANY'S VAPOLOGY,"
AMSTERDAM, September 24th.
A Berlin message anys that Germany, expressing its regels lo Argentina,
IRELAND.
LORBON, September 24th: Sinu Fein demonstrations took place in Cork and Dublin on Sunday, protesting against the court-martialling and impri- sonment of comrades, and alleging that they are being forcibly fed. There were no disorders.
GERMAN TRADE AFTER THE WAR
A SOLEMN OATH.
The following is a copy of a solemn oath Italian and Kussian, which it is hoped to that has been translated into French,
circulate all over the world
To mark our horror and disgust of the methods of Germany, since July, 101-4; we swear that we will not
(knowingly purcluse anything made
in Germany, (6) Transact business with or through a (irrinats for 10 years utter puod ia dectured
**So help us God.
THE PUNISHMENT OF THE HÚN
An article by $C.D.L..?
on this subject after a visit to the Front, says: How is the Boche to be inaished for all the misery he has brought into the world by his ill-conceived plan to rule Europa? it did not require a visit to the front in my case to convince me that the offender must be suitably punished, and in the only way he understands, and that is through his pocket." EMBLEM
No one who had followed the progress of the war since Germany tore up the Serap of laper, invaded Belgium and Franco. and committed the horrible atrocities set out in the Bryce Commission Report, can have any doubt that the Germans them selves are to blaine. The German generally is a greedy beast. As a servant he is the servile. As a master he is a bully. “As n partner he is never satisfied and happy until he has played the part of the cuckow and got rid of his partner. A German gentleman is such a rarity that we have failed up to now to meet him. Aga nation, they have fallen away in civilisa fiou and deserve to be ostracised for many years to come. We have expelled them from our clubs, from our Chambers of Commerce, and are slowly taking over uns businesses or interests belonging to Ger mans. For three years we have done with out Gerruau goods, and it is to be hoped that the Imperial Government will decide in the interests of the Empire to impose 4 tariff of at least 50 per cent, ob
jandividually
Loxox, September 24th. There is vague talk in the German papers that the Pope intends proposing King Alfonso as arbitrator between the belligerents, but the Spanish month is anyhow unlikely to accept the invidious office.
BRITISH ADMIRALTY
DENIAL
LONDON, September 24th.
gouds in future. thing
In the inantime, we can all
do our bit by agreeing not to buy German goods, nor to do business with Germans. The Admiralty denies the Germign|| We can staungthen the hands of our Government and our Allies by signing &
declaration, as individuals, so that whe
ever happoas, if our overndent fails to
we can show our detestation of Germany exact just reparation which God forbid), in a patriotic and putical way,
We have nothing to lose as the follow- Exports to Imports from
Gerinantys Germany, £37,080,000 £61,820,000
39,288,000 40,382,000
allegations that. Ostend Cathedral was struck in the recent bombardment, and points out that photographs indicate that a doating dock hecked over and sunk, workshop in the dockyard was completely
and a submarino shelter, is missing..
MARTIAL LAW IN GREECE,
Martial-law has been proclaimed in the
ATHENS, September 24th, Provinces of Laconia Arcadia
domolished, seven others were damaged ng figures will show
Larissa!
∙nid":
1910
1011
-1919
1013
65,280,000
$70,048,000 $90,671,000
10,677,000 If we sold nothing to Gerinanyif that country and people were wiped off the The Government has replaced ex-King map of Europe, and we made all that we Constantine's aides de camp, who remain have foolishly imported, we should ed with King Alexander, because they better off by 40 millions per unnum. were stirring up discontent in the tics, and in other ways, Germany has
HURRICANE IN JAMAICA,
KINGSTON (JAMAICA), Sept. 24th
A hurricans, has greatly damaged the
north side
*
By under-cutting, by Government boul flooded our markets with cheap manu factures. This has kept was, A., whero down in Great Britain, whereas in German cheap goods and others were sur- charged a stiff tariff, wages are high. The banana crop is badly damaged. Germany has not bought 40 millions front Severity people were injured, but there us because they had any affection for us, but because they could not make these were no fatalities
B
particuler urticles themselves. We can do Railways and telegraphs are affected.
without Germany in the future. If the ALLEGED PLOTS TO DESTROY Allies will enter into an understanding
not to do business with Germany for t AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING,
years after peace is declared: not to allow German ships to enter their ports, and refuse to parley or confer with her so long as the Horenzollerne are in power, the end will be materially advanced. The Ger man people would be told practically to Ret rid of their present or otherwise there will be nothing but füether, blood- shed and hard slavery for them in the Future Car Army applying pressure on the battlefield
can apply pressure that the German commercial world will understand and fear, because, as I have said, the Hùu is a greedy beast, and bin feelings are in hit pocket.
SYDNEY September 24th, The dan newspaper offers £3,000 for in formation leading to the detection of alleged German plots to destroy ships bound to and from Australia.
OBITUARY.
SHEIK UL-ISLAM
› Caro, September 24th. : The death of the Sheik ul-Islami, Beliz Elbierbri is announced.