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THE
WAR.
ANOTHER BIG OFFENSIVE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11г,017.
BRITISH AND FRENCH SUCCESSES.
ARMY AND NAVY PAY.
THE PREMIER'S VIEWS.
SPEECHES IN THE REICHSTAG.
Franco-Belgian bront.
LATEST CABLES.
-{THROUGH' BEUTER'E AGRECY.)
A NEW ATTACK,
BRITISH AND FRENCH
CO-OPERATE.
LowDay, October 10th Field Marshal Sir Douglas. Haig re pasts: The continuous and heavy rain yesterday afternoon rid eveling maila the ground widden and very difienfts for the passage of the troops.
Notwithstanding the song, wonther; and waterlogged ground, wo lanched an fatinek, in conjunction with the French,
with very successful results.
I
The troops found the hunts holding the front much more heavily than in any of the previous balties of this series and this anggests a return to their earlier. defensive tactics, depending upon man power rather than upon concrete.
The prisoners include men of the 196th Division which had just arrived from the Russian front. This is the third Division from the East which has been knocked out io five days.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Adler farm and Poelcapelle brewery were taken. Both had given trouble, wire and water causing delay. The spot was called the
water fields.
FRENCH ADVANCE TWO KILOMETRES.
PARIS, October 10th.
A communiqué states:-Our attack,
loped brilliantly. which was launched this morning, deva.
brook at Proonbeck, carried, with ad The troops, after crossing a marshy
mirable dash, on a front of 2,500 metres,
FARMERS COMPLAIN OF
MEAT PRICES,
CHINESE TELEGRAMS. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE FLOOD IN NORTH CHINA, THE CAPITAL ENDANGERED.
SHANGHIM, October 8th, There are enormous floods in North
LONDON, October 10th. The Press Bereau announces that Lord) Rhondda, replying to an agricultural de putation, dealt with, the complaint that the fixed prices of meat were unremunera
famine in meat in tive to the farmer.
He referred to the danger of a world China over a densely populated area. that
10IB. He said Twenty thousand square miles have if the Director of Food become an immense deep lake, and there the enemy's defences, despite the difficultor voluntary evonomy failed, he would, itchound and uninhabitable also the
Economy, Sir The latest news is that our troops are ties of the ground and bad weather,
A. Yapp's appeul is a likelihood of Tientsin hecorning overcoming the difficulties and have dug
unhesitatingly, compulsiorily ration the removal of the capital from Peking might We captured the villages of Saint fixing of the lowest maximum price for the communications.
country. He agreed to postpone the be necessary, owing to the instability of themselves in all round Poelderbork Jean, Maugelnare and Veldhock and cattle, but be refused further concessions Chateau. The only question is, how long numerous farus, organised as stock and added that the nation was entitled will the Bosche machine gunners hold out?bouses. The advance, which is of
to ask for sacrifiers among all classes, Our casualties are 'reported in be light, | average dépiù of two kilometres, has
on including the farmers. and our prisoners doubtless run into four brought us to the southern fringe of figures. The prisoners admit that these Houthulst wood. repeated hammer-blows are demoralising and disorganising the German army.
The brunt of the fighting was boren by
the home baltalions
It has been a truly great day and the
The rille-fire was not so heavy as usual,plains of Belgium lie more ni our feet doubtless beeruse
the weapons
were than at any time since the dark days of largely clogged with mud. The bayonet 1914. and the bomb were the principal weapons used in the close. Eghting:
The walking wounded who are return- ing are bleached and caked to the eye- Brows with wet and wick, "nevertheless, they are wonderfully cheerful.
THE FRENCH ATTACK.
SPLENDID RESULTS.
uf
The air service, despite the gate, ru operated 'actively in the attack, innetine gunning from a low altitude, the enemy infantry and maintaining touch with the other arms.
The number of prisoners so far counted is 300, of which twelve are.officers.
There was artillery activity on
the Aisne Front.
EARLIER CABLES. FRENCH FRONT. GERMAN POSITIONS ATTACKED.
· LONDON, October 9th.
PABIS, October 9th. A drawunique states:-In Belgium, in Router's Special Correspondent with the conjunction with the British, we attacked Barly
French in Flanders states: --The French, at 8.30 this morning the German positions reports, though necessarily under General Anthoine, attacked at five Draibank and Weindendreft,
south of the forest of Houthulst, between serappy and brief at most satisfactory in the morning in the direction The allock extended: from the south and the advance, though slow, owing to Mangelaire and the forest at Houthulst,
Fighting continues and is developing in aur favonr, eastward of Broodseinde to Saint Jans the badness of the ground and the poor-crossing the marshy Steinbeck and determarked by artillery activity, notably in Operations on the Aisne front are beck which is a mile to the north-eastward of the fight, seems to have been
the region of Pantheon on the right hank of Bixschoote
minedly ploughing their way through the of the Meuse. There is an artillery Germans as they advanced and reaching rain sodden morass, driving out the struggle in the sector north of Bois le
Chauine. the arst line of their objectives in a little over two hours. By eight o'clock
getral. Ifere and there, points of strong resistance were encountered, and Deisy wood was found to be full of Ger;
The Australians, on the extreme right, advanced over the erest of the ridge to the eastward and north enstward cfn machine-gunners,
Broodseinde and secured all their objec tives.
These were dealt with by tacties believed they had taken Gambetta farm to the to have been quite successful.
There was stiff fighting, near Reutel but it has apparently gone in our favour, and there was a hot struggle in and about Foelderhoes Chatean which was strongly defended by machine-guns.
ALL OBJECTIVES CAINED. The third line Territorial División en the right centre, comprising of the Matt chester, East Lancashires, and Jancashire Fusilier regiments, advanced a rails to the northwards along the ridge to Paschendale, capturing all their objectives:
The news is not definite but it is beliey-1 under the most trying and most difficuled the situation here has been cleared up circumstances, and with great shtermina Another contre of strong resistance was tion and galinntry:...
the brewery, on the eastern outskirts of Prisoners, are coming in freely and hundreds have already been
aged.
A considerable advance was made in Preirapelle. the centre, between the inain ridge and Poekenpelle, and includes the capture of
fortified
farmis and conereted
The dying men are doing splendidly, chasing the enemy aeroplanes whenever Becu. A seven in the morning, one of our formatious, over the German lines, hotly engaged six hun machines height of 10,000 feet.
at s
south of Mangalaere and, on the extreme left, the village of Draeidank,
four machine-guns were captured in the
Three hundred prisoners, zwo guns and: first hour's attack. By eleven o'clock, Mangelaere was captured and passed.
The French are now within 1,000 yards of Houtshuist forest, both on the right, where they are advancing in touch with the British and on the left, where they are advancing along the Corverbeek.
"The position of the Germans in th forest must already be most uncomfor table. The forest lies low and after the three day's downpour the dugouts must be flooded
Naval Activities.
EARLIER CABLES, {THROUGH BROTER'S AGENOT.] RUSSIAN CAPTURES IN THE BOSPHORUS,
LONDON, October 9th.
states. In the Bosphorus region our for pedo-boats destroyed seven coal-laden barges, while a Russian submarine cap Turkish steamer laden with corn. tured and brought in to Sevastopol n
Italian Front:
A Russian official wireless message
EARLIER CABLES. {THEOUGH REUTER'S AGExox.) ITALIAN FRONT. AUSTRIANS RENEW ATTACKS,
LONDON, October 9th.
An Italian official message says:-After an intense bombardment, the enemy renewed his attacks on Costa Bella and The British, from the positions they Massif but our artillery compelled him have already held since last night, over-soners in local engagéments:
to withdraw. We took a hundred pri- on the look the rear of the forest and the roads
Bainsizza Platean,
wany redoubts.
We completed, on the left centre, the capture of Pocicapelle and the English, Welsh
and Irish regiments and the Guards, on the extreme left of the British attack have taken all their objectives and At the moment of closing this despatch from the east and the French are closing bave gained the outskirts of the forest at It is heard that the Germans are counter-
the west, while an enormous Houthulst, two miles to the north-north-attacking heavily, astride the Ypres number of guns are in position to tear west of Poeleupelle.
The French, on our left flank, ecossed the Broembeck, river, which is in flood, and also goined the outskirts of the forest at Houtbulat, capturing all, their
Roulers railway, but our people seem gaite content the situation here.
objectives, including several hamlets and Bercely at local spots. many fortified localities.
in
on
thereon..
This vast tangle of trees, wire and The German retaliatory barrage was
dugouts, extending two and three quarter net very strong, as a whole, although miles north to south and thres and a certain groups of galls were shooting half miles east to west is the principal German artillery centre on this Front It is already pretty clear that this will and already the beches are alarmed Upwards of 1,000 prisoners have already be another fine day for our arms and enough to withdraw a proportion of their been counted,
those of our Allies who, it is understood, artillery, especially their heavy guns. Much aerial reconnaissance, and some are progressing magnificently, sending However there are still enough batteries artillery work was carried out on Mon-back hundreds of prisoners.
in the forest to make a very serious, day.
obstacle and the enemy will doubtless offer formidable resistance before
Д abandoning a position of such importance and on which they have spent such
Two enemy iuuchines were driven down and ground targets were machine-gunned. Two of our machines are missing.
ANOTHER FINE DAY FOR THE ALLIES.
AN AMAZING NARRATIVE. OF
ENDURANCE. Reuter's Correspondent at Headquar- ters, telegraphing this afternoon says to-day's splendid victory is an amazing narrative of endurancs and dogged.
Reuters Correspondent at Headquar-achievement. ters states:-At dawn, the British and
The men had to fight their
way.
across
a
labour.
Gerleriz.
?
LATEST CABLES. [TERDUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
A COURT MARTIAL IN ROME. HEAVY SENTENCES.
men charged with causing incendiary fires
ROME, October 10th. The Court Martial has concluded of six at Genos, an explosion in a munitions Intory in 1816 and with having relations with the enemy.
Three were sentenced to be shot, two to Benal servitude for life and one to 20 years' solitary confinement.
more
AMERICA'S FIGHTING
were made in three days of atrocious CHANGE weather in country swimming with water
Australians again attacked along the floundering and struggling, Flanders ridges and pushed back the streich of over 1,200 yards of ground enemy to a depth, in some places, of which was a waste of shellholes, often so
and the discomfort of the men, who had about two thirds of a mile.
close together, that there was no foothold to spend the night before the attack
NUCLEUS.
HARRISBURG, October 9th.
the
LONDON, October 8th. General Sir Archibald Marray is in the Aldershot Command
PAY IN THE ARMY AND NAVY,
A
LONDON, October 10th. Joint Committee of the Trade Unions, and of the Members of Parlin diately to increase the pay of soldiers and ment, le urged Mr. Lloyd George imine-
in other ranks below ollicera sailors, by 100 per cent, with increases
Mr. Lloyd George pointed out that what had already been done had cost be tween $50,000,000 and £60,000,000.
The Fremier said that he sympathized with the objects of the Deputation and would refer the matter back to Sir Edward Carson's Cabinet Committee,. PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT. ARRIVES IN MADRID.
MADRID, October, 9th. The Portuguese President arrives to-day and King Alfonso will meet him at the station.
EADLIER CABLES.
THE GERMAN INTRIGUES. FRENCH COMMISSION TO VISIT ENGLAND.
LATER.
ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE, SATISFACTORY PROGRESS
INDICATED.
Lospos, Octoler Sch Field Marshal Sir Douglas Hajg. ro- ports: We again attacked, at 5.20 tis. morning on a wide front so the aorth cast and east of Ypres, in conjunction all parts of the frost. The weather is with our Allies on our left.
Reports indicate satisfactory progress at
stormy
GERMAN-REPORT.
A Genuan official wireless message says Thu English attacked this morning ride the Staden Boesinghe Railway and Fighting is in progress. northward of the Ypres-Meninnel,
GERMAN ADMISSIONS.
A German wireless official message states:A fresh battle has developed and still continues between the raibank and Chclavel. Tho gain of territory, despite repeated assaults, is limited to the stretch between Draibank and Poelcapelle.
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. COALITION CABINET FORMED. PETROGRAD, October 9th. The new Coalition Cabinet which has been formed comprises six Socialists, of which M. Kerensky is the Premier and There are elyen,
Commander-in-Chief. PARIS, October 9th. A French Commission of Enquiry is Democratie und Bourgents representatives, going to England in connection with the including M. Terestchenko, Secretary for Bolo case:
Foreign Affairs; General Verkhovsky, Minister for War, and Admiral The vist of the French Commission to
derersky, Minister of Marine.
Yer- enquire into the activities of M. Bolu's OTHER CABINET APPOINTMENTS. friends in England is expected to result in some startling developments.
The new Cabinet includes M. Nikitân, Belo is a Frenchman, who has been
Minister for the Interior and Pests and ladies hairdresser, a stock broker's agent, Telegraphs, M. Avksantier, as Minister a bogus company promoter and a sup for Agriculture, M. Govorder, as Minis- posed millionaire with an entrée to Pariser for Labour, and M. Bernatzky, 18 Khedive, who made him a Pasha. society.
Minister for Finance. He had illicit dealings with the ex-RAILWAY DISPUTE SETTLEMENT.
The discovery of his activities on behalf The Government has decided to grant of Germany has caused An normous the increase of wages demanded by the sensation in France.
railway strikers, necessitating an annual expenditure of 750,000.000 roubles.
He is supposed to have received 1,000,000 Marks from Germany to effect a separate peace with France.
Bole tried to secure control of the French Press.
IN
BRITISH PRISONERS
GERMANY AND TURKEY.
EXCHANGE URGED..
LONDON, October sth. The Daily News, in a leader, refers to the callousness which is the inevitable result of war and says that the fatalistic acceptance of misery and suffering and death is a thing that must be resisted at all costs. Especially must it be remen- bered that the case of the prisoner of war is not less pitiful to-day. It is possible to believe that the best is being done, privately and officially, for prisoners in Germany, but what of the others?
The leader proceeds to dwell upon the wretched lot of prisoners in the heads af the Turks and urges the British Govern- ment to take steps to effect their exchange without delay.
COTTON IN EGYPT.
is 94 and in Upper Egypt The final
CAIRO, October 8th. The cotton condition in Lower Egypt result is not expected to be so favourable and the ginning out-turn are expected as anticipated, but the quality of or to be particularly good.
POLITICS IN GERMANY.
SPEECH BY THE IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR.
The Government also provides for special supplies to railwaymen, who will receive fuod before other supplies are distributed..
OIL-FIELDS STRIKE AT BAKU: BAKU, October 9th. A general trike has been declared in the oil fields because the employers, have refused not to dismiss workmen except with the consent of the Trade Unions.
BUTTER
THE
AUSTRALIAN
PURCHASES,
MELBOURNE, October 9th.
It is aunounced that the Impérial Government butter purchase involves thirty thousand tons, of the value of £4,500,000.
THE MUNITIONS WORKS FIRE
LONDON, October 9th. The Press Bureau Banounces that tea were killed tnd two injured in the muni tions works fire cabled on the 2nd inst. ARGENTINA AND GERMANY.
ter, in an interview regarding Argentina's
BUENOS AIRES, October 9th.
attitude, stated that the Government Senor Pueyrredon, the Foreign Minis-
with Germany if any act were committed would not hestitate to sever relations interfering with the principles of Inter- national Law,
THE RAILWAY STRIKE There is no prospect of a settlement in and the railway strike. The strikers are
attacking railroad repairers.
AMERICA AND THE WAR. FLEET OF TORPEDO-BOAT
DESTROYERS
keen
COUNT LUXBERG OSTRACISED. 'It appears that Count Luxberg has not sailed, but bas temporarily withdrawn to Mr. Baker, Secretary of State for War, in a speech, said that before long, Ameri-
AMSTERDAM, October 9th. an unnamed place in the interior, as he Dr. Michaelis who was accompanied was unable to embark without safe ea's fighting nucleus would aggregate by the principal members of the Govern conduct, and his presence in Buckos
than 1,300,000 men, and
ment, soothingly addressed the Reichstag Aires was dangerously exciting the popu nation had diverted its industries to war the conduct of the Fatberland Party pro- Fobjected to his crossing the frontier.
He dwell upon the criticising regarding lation Neighbouring Governments have To-day's splendid results were obtained purposes so effectively, that when its pagands by officiate and stated that there in the face of most disheartening con-armed as well as any, and better than political parties, but abuses favouring a army takes its place abroad, it would be was no objection to officials belonging to ditions. The preparations for the attack
particular party were not allow all political propaganda in the Army IN COMMAND AT was excluded. He deplored the fact that ALDERSHOT.
antagonistic forms of propagande had recently sprung up there, and appealed for singleness of the community's aime,
Subsequent speakers refccted! irritation at Herr von Heliferich's General Hunter is taking up an import supported patriotie propaganda, which sondemned polities in the Army, but they He has issued a farewell Order in whitenants could not accomplish.
inexperienced eighteen-year old
lieu he states that the late Lord Kitchener The War Minister, Herr von Stein, re-ordered him, on August 22nd, 1914, to pro declared that the propaganda service was. armies without wasting an hour, and he Helferich defended his behaviou: on ceed to Aldershot and to train the new covered from general funds. Herr von started the training centre on August Saturday 23rd. He pays a tribute to the officers and men who worked under him and action in cases exposed where higher Dr. Michaelis again spoke and promised eulogises the steady discipline and good officials on behalf of the Fatherland Party behaviour of hundreds of thousands of had undaly influenced the lower. Fe soldiers of the new armies trained at welt on the necessity of propagands at Aldershot. He states the one regret he the front, though it was somethings must carry to the grave is that he was difficult to distinguish propaganda from not privileged to fight with the men he politics, as exemplified in the criticism helped to train
of the Reply to the Papal Note. Readying. denied that propaganda was being worked
support the Fatherland Party
to the skin and in a bitter wind must
imagine a landscape more desolate.
Fortunately, the Gerinan artillery action was less than could be expected and was obviously ill guided.
The battle extended more to the north- ward than in the three previous opera-i
between them, being brimful of water and crouching in flooded shell, holes, soaked succeeding General Bir Archibald Hunter attitude, as cabled on the 7th instant, and tives, and since September 30th, the bonded by knee-deep ooze and the whole have been indescribable. It is hard to ant appointment at the War Offee French have been taking up the fight, was incessantly swept by high explosive on the left
shells, shrapnel and machine
gun fire. The weather is about as bad as possible. Yes the men' gained practically the Yesterday evening it was blowing a gale whole of the day's objectives, with excer and raining in torrents, but the clouds tions to trifling, that the clearing up is broke at midnight and the stars shone only a matter of time. In the small hours it was quite clear, enabling the troops to be brought into that an attack, in such weather and on The Genmaps were surprised, deeming their starting positions under favourable conditions, but the ground such a terrain, was impossible. Moreover,
very bad going and extremely the two Divisions which had to bear the General Anthoine exploited the peculi- diffenlt and it is hardly likely that the brunt of the attask, had only taken overarities of the ground to the utmost. Germans anticipated that we should the line at three o'clock in the morning It is notable that the new German endeavour to advance under such con- and were unfamiliar with their surround-system of echelonnement in depth, again ditions.
ings and dog tired after a long march. failed.
Was
more
In the morning the French aeroplanes did good work but in the afternoon persistent rain made observation in possible.
MADAME TURMEL ARRESTED,
PARIS, October 10th. Madam Turmel has been arrested
The Suplementary Estimate for the office of Vice-Chancellor was adopted. unaltered, the Social Democrats dissent- ing
spend $354,000,000 in building torpedo
WASHINGTON, October 8th. The Administration is arranging to boot destroyers, which will be ready within eighteen months.
POLISH ARMY TO BE RAISED.
WASHINGTON, October 9th. The Government approves of the raising of a Polish Army in America to fight in France.
SULTAN OF EGYPT REPORTED DYING.
PARIS, October 9th. It is reported that the Sultan of Egypt
THE SILVER MARKET,
LONDON, October 9th. Silver is quoted at 451d, per The market is dull.