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THE WAR.
ANGLO-FRENCH ARMIES
ATTACK.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 24TH, 1917.
RENEW
SATISFACTORY PROGRESS REPORTED.
BRITISH NATIONAL ECONOMY CAMPAIGN.
IMPORTANT SPEECH BY PRIME MINISTER.
ENGLAND.
THE ZEPPELIN RAID ON
FAILURE OF AIRSHIPS DEMONSTRATED.
Franco-Gelgian Fronti
EARLIER CABLES.
(WRROTCH RETTir's ageÑor.)
BRITISH FRONT. SATISFACTORY PROGRESS.
LOSION, October 22nd,
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig ** ports: Early this nurning we carried out local attacks astride the Ypres-Staden railway. The French coupmented on one
Heft.
The proglass rejunted is satisfaétory), GERMAN REPORT.
Losing Ortoline 22ruri.
THE NORTH SEA RAID..
ACCOUNT OF THE ATTACK.
Loxtos. October 22nd.
It appears that the Korth Sea convog.] wa, attacked at six o'elpek in the inorn- ing 05 miles from the Senttish const.
The enemy came up astern as dawn was freaking and quickly sank the Mary Kom and put out of aetion the Steomyłane. which few her fag and ised her guns till she was crippled. ·
A'sudi British patrol vessel picked EP Sherchant someri under a heavy Ger) mm Bre, but four died after the rescue,
The Ladies of four Norwegians were A wireless Germain official report states? | found inca small bout on Thursday, having There was most intense artillery fring|ben killed by bullets, proving that the throughout the night between south Germans shelled the small boats. of Roulihast Wood and the "Comines- Ypres t'anal, and an increased drumfire, This morning the France-British troops attacked ・・・ between Praaibank and
Poelenpelle.
FRENCH FRONT.
FRENCH CAPTURE OBJECTIVES.
PARIS, October 22mt.
A commitarqué states:- Wa attuckest this morning in Belgin on the left of the British army on n front of one kilometre. We captured all objectives, appreciably
made progress, north of Voldnek, and took prisoners:
Our segits penetrated the enemy line at
The Surgeon probationer on the Strung boi, although srafering from a stuttered Linh, insisted upon medically treating the wounded, and surrender in saving the lives
of sixteen men.
NATIONAL ECONOMY
CAMPAIGN.
The greatest possible credit is due to】 1bo Frezch airmen and the French nuti- nirerait service for their splendid per- SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER. formance (cheers)-but, in justice to the British anti-niicraft service, it should. the remembered that the Zoppeling fre over Fraure at 'duylight and at a lower altitude than they flew over England. The Government has already animaced its intention of bombing German towns until an end was put to such eald-blooded at-
LONDON, October 2nd. Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Bonar Law this afterncon faunched a great nutumn campaign for national economy by ad- dressing a representative gallering at the Albert Hall. ·
THE
"SEEADLER'S VICTIMS
RESCUED.
MELBOURNE, October 22nd.. The Naval Authorities announce the rescue of 18 men of the crews belonging to vessels sunk by the, Seeadler, which was marooned at Mopihan,
RUSSIAN MUTINEERS. INSOLENT RESOLUTIONS.
BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S PETROGRAD CORRESPONDENT]
Remarkable evidence of the military demoralisation referred to by Generat Korniloff in his Moscow speech is to b found in the Russian Press.. This one of the last numbers of Lenin's pupèr-con- tains the following defiant resolution passed unanimously by a general meeting of the ast Machine Gian Regiment at the Executive Committee of the Work- Petrograd, in response to a request from
THE KAISER'S CHIVALRY.
Mannan, October 2nd. The audience included the Primate, the
The newspaper Imparcial states on good tempts upon the civil population of Eng. Lord Chanceller, General Santis, various authority that the Kaiser ordered the
Two such British attacks hare High Commissioners, the Chief Rabbi,commander of submarine to rein's and Soldiers Delegates that thirty already en made The House might and Nor.conformist ministers; also to Cadiz when the vessel escaped. . rest assured that the process would can- officials in the Treasury, Post Office GREAT EXPLOSION AT ENEMY tinue until our purpose has been uitained. Savings Bank, labour organisations, and THEIR MAJESTIES VISIT BOMBED the Salvation Army
AREA.
This Majesties dhe King and Queen visited the bombed London 'n res Mesterday and conversed with the suffeters for an
hour and a half.
THE SILENT ANTI-AIRCRAFT
GUNS.
The rout of the Beppelius in Frans was welcomed enthusiastically as the final failure of the Zeppeling, but there is an
the silence of Landon's guns on Fri- intensified outery by sonte of the paper
day.
•
The building was packed,
General Smuts had an expecially hearty recention.
The Prime Minister, in appealing to everybody to assist in raising funds to fipance the war, said the cost was gigantie
and the burden heavy, but Great Britain after the war would be a more valuable asset, not because she had extended her
people and the security of her shures territory, but because the efficiency of her
choing the demand for an explanation, solacing fact was that most of our Other papers, however, while would be increased. (Choors.) Another
point out that the Zeppelins may haw gigantic debt would be owed to ourselves. been trying to discover the strength of Although that did not always make a the new artillery" defences against the difference, stili, he thought it better that
"Gothas," and the authorities, perhaps
A debt should be in the family, wisely, lufe not disclosed them. Moreover, (Laughter.) The more Great Britain. it is known that mang aeroplanis ascended saved the more she could lend, and the Though the authorities ori silent at more she lent the less she would owe to the part they played in scattering the others, which was a mest important factor Zeppeling and deflecting them from their in the national wealth, course, it is known that Zeppelin was hit somewhere in the pro vinces, where the gunfire was ensiderable
GERMAN SAVAGERY DENOUNCED, and was left disabled.
STOCKHOLM, October 22nd.
at least te
Three Zeppelins apparently returned
GERMAN VERSION.
Two Gegan cruisers and three torpedo-cross Holland, where they were shelloit. bonts participated in the destruction of the convoy. They ruthlessly fired at the crowded #febouts.
The Swedish and Norwegian papers. bitterly denounce the German suvagery.
INDEPENDENT INQUIRY
DEMANDEDA
LONDON, October 22nd.
various pints south-west of St. Quentin. In the House of Commons, Mr. Carlyon near the Minnejraj Farm, the Pantheon
Bellair demanded an enquiry indepen and in the region of Tabure.
dently of the Admiralty into the loss of
on the entire Aisne front.
The artillery duel continued must lively the neutral convoy in the North Sea. He declared that the esport was obviously iundesquate.
Naval Activities.
EARLIER CABLES,
(TSROUGH BEUTBE'B AGENOT.]
GULF OF RIGA BA ITLE.
ENEMY DREADNOUGHT PRESUMED
TORPEDOED.
Permmm, October 22nd.
A Nasal congeuniqué states: Th abandoned se was completely dis mankind.
are
now
The Russian warships protecting the northern entry of Moon Sound and the mouth of the Gulf of Fin
Jand against any fresh eneiny attack.
Dr. Macuamare replied that the 'Goy eriment was not prepared to institute such an enquiry, but that a Naval inquiry: had been already arranged.
Aertal
Activilles.
EARLIER CABLES,
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
.
NAVAL AIRCRAFT ENGAGE
HOSTILE SCOUTS.
Loxnos, October 92nd.
Thự
any
MUNITION WORKS.
ZURICH, October 22nd. An interpellation in the Reichsrat revealed a great explosion during August in a munition works at Steinfeld awing to the spontaneous combustion of cap.
red enemy ammunition.
There was immense damage, and soldiers were killed and 360 soldiers and officials injured.
GREEK CHAMBER AND A FORMER CABINET.
Artens, October 2011.
the
prosecution of the members of
The - Chamber" voted in favour of
Skonloudis Cabinet, including the Premier founaris,
and "should be sent to the frout
in foree the decision to despatch ten commands at an early date,
wo inform the Executive Committee that
in future we will send commands to the froml only when the war bears a revolu
onary character, which is
from by power, and its transfer to the
hands at
the Rasimu Counil of Workinen's, Boldiers', democracy as represented by the All
W.S.D. threaten us and other revolu and Prasunts Deputies. Should the tionary regimats with cashiering, that is, with disbandment, Ven if by the applien tion of armed force, in answer to that. we should not stop short even before the visional Government and other organisa by armed force of the Pro tion supporting it We commission our
delegates comissionar comrade delegates from
the removal of the cable only
disbandment
the front to declare in aur name to our soldier comrades at the front as follows:
Let them, the soldiers at the front, demand together with us shat uuthority
that, it will not be necessary to front. should be (ransferred in the hands of the people, and when we have attained support and reinforcements for the as thy will the apps resolution were
of
themselves, Those who
the
ex-
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RUSSIAN DELEGATE'S ALLEGED PEACE DEMANDS.
PETROGRAD, October 22nd. The papers, with the exception of Maxim Gorky's organ, ridicals Skotle's peace demands as childish prattle which might have been drawn up by Germany. -
REPORTED MUTINY. IN GERMAN ARMY.
STOCKHOLM, October 22nd.
AMERICA'S CONTRIBUTION
TO THE WAR. Official advices received by the American
these
15% good
word, for only a few days later, in co-operation with
with the Konstadt garrison, they carried out the unsuccessful Petrograd rising, the object of which was to overthrow the Government and transfer its power to
to the CW.8.D., against The will as il happened, of the latter body. The 1st Machine Gunners were a reservoir formation, from which detachments at thes
to
front should have been kept up strength and are understood to have m bered soun: 8,000 men. Being armed with the rest deadly of all weapons for close fighting, they therefore constituted a a very faridable force; Nevertheless, their courage soon oozed away when they were confronted by a fow patriotic regiments, and they submitted to disbandment like lamby It must have her one of the strangest sights of the war when they marched into the square lined the great semicirde opposite the troup which Winter Palace to surrender their machine- That the full number of these guns.
weapons was not forthcoming Was no
reason for surprise.
months ago, at one of the meetings of the regiment, soldier said that under the revolutionary Government it was as easy to steal in machine-gun as it had been to sta fartridge under the old régime.
An even more-shaineless resolution was
Uzal passed by the 112th Regiment was as follows: On the question of an
After emphasising the harmfulness of individual extravagance, Веснико it absorbed money, labor, material and energy esential to the progress of the war, the, Prime Minister proceeded:
Reports from the Dvina front state that I am not going to predict when peace fierman prisoners adinita mutinous move with come. No man in his senses would ant in the army at the prospect of an A. Gerisan official report states:-Dur prolong the war one hour if there were other winter campaign, and that the naval airship squadron on. Friday night opportunity for a real lasting peace,mutineers were severaly punished. was specially successful in an attack on (Loud cheers.) It must not be a peace London, Manchester, Birmingham, which would be a prende to a more devas. Lingham, Derby, Lowestoft, Holh tating war. I have been stunning the Grimdy, Norwich, and Mappletons-{ horizon anxiously, and canno Hee
crossed the French battle-zone and wert, are possible now are terms ending in an
On returning, owing to an adverse wind terms in sight which would wad To anonsulate-General in Hongkong indicat advance the 12th Ural Regiment un- and dense mist, four of our airships enduring peace. The only terms which
that since the Congress of the United aimonsly declares that it declines: to The regiment agrees to hold thỏ States was convened in extraordinary position only on its own sector from the according to the French, shot down armed truce.
mark to the village M--, and till the autumn. The regiment also ending in an even more frightful struggle. war between Germany and the United This wax is terrible, but more terrible States, it has placed at the disposal of the bouring detachments only in the event of the momy attacking them. If the neigh- American Government seventeen billions bouring detachments themselves begin still are the possibilities it has revealed
of dollars, or over seventeen times the na active operations and auffer a failum, the of new horrors of land, sea and in the tional debt of the United States. It has Ural Regiment will not support them.” Loir. Inst those who are pressing--should authorized contracts for two and a half
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE. there be any-for a premature peace to billions mere. Most of the money appro A inciallurgical worker who was out reflect for a moment upon what might.printed was for war purposes pure and
ORDERS ISSUED BY MR. F. C. JENKIN, D.B.P. (RESERVE). shooting when the L5 descended intact happen if we made an unsatisfactors simple, including seven billions for loans at Bourbonne graphically describes how settlement-all the best scientific brain to those nswociated with the United States!
forced down.
No details of the fate of these vess-ly
-mud trews are yet available.
FRENCHMAN SAVES A ZEPPELIN-
FOR FRANCEİ
PARIS, October 22nd.
I will say an arwing truce session last April, upon the outbreak
of agrees to support the neigh-
he espied the airship surrounded by a
in all lands, stimulated by a national claster of French aeroplanes which were rivalry, hatred and hopes, devoting their pelting the airship with machine-gunfire,
thirty years The Zeppelin was #ying very slowly energies for ten, twenty or and very low and suddenly settled above to magnify the destructive powers of those a clump of trees. Her crew of 10 were horrible agents whose power had only just
in the war.
SPORT.
BILLIARDS.
VOLUNTEER CUP.
The 83rd Co. R.0.A. qualified for the The Admiralty reports:-Naval aircraft landed and paraded by the Commander been disclosed to the belligerents within second rpd of this tournament on yesterday afternoon bombed the Vlis who fired into the envelope of the balloon the last two months. We must settle this Monday, for although they still had one Seghem and Houttuve prodromes,
The metallurgist, who was thirty yards once and for all. bombs appeared to burst occurately.
(Loud applause.) more game to play they had a sufficient distant, realised their destructive inter-Air, power, which is only in its initial lead to ignore the result of the final gaine, Enemy aircraft attacked our bombers. tion and shouted Stop, or I will fire." stages, and the infernal weapong of the The first game provided an exciting finish We shot down two. All our machines The Commander thereupon threw down deep have fairly developed all those Master Gunner Hartree, who had had returned.
bit pistel, held up his bands and chemical elements which have been utiliz very bad luck, was 50 or 40 behind all Five of our scouts during an offensive Kameraded." The metallurgist pointed
ed for the first time--if this is going to the game until his opponent wanted the by reconnaissance patrols engage his rifle until the crew
he repeated after thirty years scientific twenty, when, by a couple, of good were made hostile scouts and destroyed two and drove prisoner.
work and application, believe me, there efforts, the Artilleryman pulled up, and down two.
are men and women in this hall now who an interesting game ended in Lee, Carpl.-
During the Gulf of Riga operations submarine attacked the enemy fleet and fired two torpedoes at a Dreadnought, but wag shelled and riddled by seaplanes and compelled to submerge. Agaiù rising, the *---- aubmarine commander saw clouds of smoke in the distance, presumably from the Dreadnought, and also a fleet of trans- ports, our of which was torpedord.
GERMANS LAND ON WERDER PENINSULA.
A wireless
LONDON, Detober 22nd. Russian official report states: The Germans, after a bombard
One of our pilots is missing.
THE ZEPPELIN RAID.
HOME SECRETARY'S STATEMENT:
LONDON, Oetüber 2nd.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Geo ment by destroyers, landed on the Werder | Cave, Home. Secretary, stated that the air Peninsula on Sunday and pressed back our raid on the 19th instant was apparently! advanced posts.. They occupied the west. I carried out by ten or mare Zeppelins, of ern part of the Peninsula.
BRITISH SUBMARINE IN RIGA GULF.
LONDON. October 22nd.
A British submarine in the Riga Gal launched two torpedoes at a German Dreadnought, but did not witness the result. Subsequently the submarine attacked the German transports, blowing up one vessel.
GERMAN CLAIM.
LONDON, October 22nd. A German wireless official report states:We captured 1,200 prisoners on Dago Island.
which five failed entirely to roach their objective, leaving the country without causing any material damage,, •
Another airship passing the spot tempted to assist the prostrate Zeppelin, but was driven off.
t
may live to see the death of civilisation.
Mr. Lloyd George proceeded to say that
Back winning by six points..
General.
FARLIER CABLES. [7BROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.}
THE POPE'S PEACE PROPOSALS.
On
A large crowd watched the next
Soma
PARADES.
Platouns, etc., will parade at Central Station under own Commanders. al 8.30 p.m. as follows:-
· No. 3 and 4 Platoons (No. 2 Cv.)--
Tuesday, October 30th,
Nos. 5 and 6 Platoons (No. 2 Co.)
Wednesday, October 31st
Nos. 7 and 8 Platoons. (No. 3 Co.)-
Thursday, November 1st.
No. 2 Platoon (No. 1 Co.)-Friday,
November 2nd.
No. 1 Bection (No. 1 Co.)-Friday,
November 2nd..
No. 2 Section (No. 1 Co.)-Tuesday, October 30th (at Water Polica Station).
Ambulance Platoon-Thursday, Nov.
Ist
RECRUITS,
Recruits of all Units will parade at Ceci wal on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 5.30 p.m., commencing Monday; October 29th.
BAND PRACTICEH. Tuesday, October 23rd; Friday, October 26th; and Tuesday, October 30th, CLARIONET CLAPK. Wednesday, October 24th
No. 5 Section-Fire Station.
No. 6 Section Top of Shing Wang
Street and Hollywood Road. No. 7 Section at Bottom of Old Bailey
and Hollywood Road,
No. 8 Section at Top of Old Bailey,
Western District.
No. 9 Section at Junction of Centres
Street and Queen's Road West, No. 1 Seetion at Junction of Water
Street and Queen's West.
in his judgment such a settlement was garde and had the pleasure of see
PATROL HELIER POINTS, There not within their immediate reach.
play.
·Gering
very ine
Central District. any would only make peace now
were no large breaks, but plenty No. 3 Section at Dairy Farm erine which would enable hes to benefit clever shots, both players frequently gain. No. 4 Section-Junction of Lyndhurst
Terrace and Cochrane Street, by the present war. That would being well-deserved applause. Lard proved a encouragement for any buccaneering too good. for his opponent and von com Empire in future to repeat the experi- fortably by 77 points. The Artillery lead ment. (Hear, bear.) LONDON, October 2nd.
The failure of was further increased in the last game, Mr. Arthur J. Balfour stated that there table leson, and a similar lesson must be by buints. Scores:
Napoleon taught France an unforget. Gunner Hawley beating Corp. Fawthrop seemed no reason at present to add any burnt into the hearts and memories of
83RD CO.,8.0.1. 25TH MIDDLESEN REGT, thing to the British acknowledgment
L'Cpl. Back 200 every Prussian before this war is ended. Master-Gr. Hartree 191 Gr. J. R. Lord...... 200
Pie. Geall... 12 (Cheers.)
200 Cpl. Faw- The
Gr. Hawley Minister, Prime
continuing,
throp 120 fifth drifted over London with it engines change of policy in view of the statement terms and concession here and there, we said:-Amidst all the discussion about
ent off dropping three bombs.
must fix our eyes steadfastly upon the that the Allies were
It is not a Our
great purpose of the war. aeroplanes ascended, but the
reply jointly?
question of territorial readjustment, ex- atmospheric conditions were most unfar
cept so far as that is necessary for the Eudolf Reventlow, nephew of Count ourable, and they were not able to bring
recognition of national right. It is not Reventlow, has deserted from the German a question of indemnities, except to far He was spending his leave with the raiders into action. However, four FAMOUS PUGILIST DEAD.ne that is essential in order to compensate his mother on the German side of Lake
for the wrongs inflicted. It is pre- Zeppelins were accounted for by the
New York, October 22nd eminently a question of the destruction of Constance and both rowed towards the French Forces (Cheers.) Information Bob Fitzsimmons, the ex-heavyweight the false idea which has intimidated and Swiss, shere at night time. A German enslaved Europe, or would have done had patrol vainly pursued them and shot the regarding others was being awaited. champion pugilist, has died of pneumonia it been triumphant. (Cheers)
nother.
of Eve which came near London four the Pope's peace proposals. tailed to penetrate the defences, and A
Mr. J. King asked:--I t that
considering their
Mr. Balfour did not reply.
Minis
COUNT REVENTLOWS NEPHEW DESERTS.
(By Order.):
TF: Hooon, A.S. P. (R.). Fongkzig, October 24th 1917,
STANDARD NOTES.
Great Britain's first supply of standard boots for civilians will be for winter wear and were expected to be on sale in the shops in October. There will he several grades. There is no intention of making standard boots compulsory for everybody. The main idea is to ensure for those wh cannot afford high prices serviceabl winter boots at a reasonable cost.