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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30TH, LU17.
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
SERIOUS SITUATION.
THE FRENCH IN BELGIUM. FURTHER ADVANCÉS.
RESIGNATION OF GERMAN CHANCELLOR REPORTED.
Franco-Belgian Bront.
LATEST CABLES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
POSITIONS IMPROVED.
Italian Front.
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)
PETROGRAD TO BE DEFENDED CHINEES TELEGRAMS.
TO THE LAST,
PETEOGRAD, October 28th. The Preliminary Parliament has ap proved of the declaration made by M. Korensky that the Government must defend Petrograd most vigorously and must "renisin in the Capital to the Jast
moment.
THE EVACUATION OF HELSINGFORS."
PETROGRAD, October 28th- The newspapers state that the complete evacuation of Helsingfors will take three
weeks.
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DISMISSAL OF OFFICIALS..
AMERICAN TRIBUNALS. SHIRKERS WITH THE OLD
EXCUSES.
[BY HAMILTON FYTE.
New York, Each country that has come into the war, PEKING, October 29th. has had to discover for itself the way to The President has dismissed. Chan | make war." All-important problems, which Ping-kwan (the Tuchun) and Mak Wing-mean the difference betweensate and death san (Defence Commissioner of Canton Perhaps to thousands of soldiers, and the difference between comfort and hardship and Wei Chow) and has appointed Lito millions of people at Home-these Yao-han (Civil Governor) as Tuchun of problems win only be solved by separate Kwangtung and Li Fu-lun, as Commun- and personal working out, der of Canton and Wei Chow.
The Cabinet wired to Li Yao-han and Mok King-yu (Defence Commissioner of Swatow) ordering them to defend Kwang- tung and to drive out Chan Ping-kwau Chai-kwong tus wired Peking stating that he has joined Li Yao-han, but that military expenditure must be
immediately.
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The answer oneshas found is of little use to others. Each must find a solution which fits the special case.
*** PEACE TALK:”":
SIR E. CARSON'S VIEWS.
TRENCHANT LETTER.
Sir Edward Carson has sent the following letter in reply to a correspond. ent —
Offices of the War Cabinet, ", Whitehall-
gardens, S.W. KVAR
September 6th, 1917. Dear Sir, I agree with you that there. is a great deal of very loose and mis chievous talk about peace. Some people scem to imagine that we have only to con- dude a treaty with Germany and all will be well. But I should like to ask what is to happen then? Are the nations of the world to proceed with prepara tions for the next conflict to pursue their researches in the application of science to the expansion and creation of still more deadly weapons of warfares to
So it is that I see here repeated all the incidents which have accompanied the successive stages of the war in, England. There are the consciention objections There is the uneasy feeling that, baseball matches, attended by thousands of specta tors, are not quite in the picture. Thers spend their resources in the creation of are the hastily celebrated war marriages cormous cohorts of aeroplanes and sub- Women are being exhorted to save food. Men are urged to plant their back marines for the destruction of unfort gardens There are the same scenes, the fed towns and the murder of innocent same exeuses before the tribunals which women and children that inhabit them are deciding, clainis
for exemption from to take advantage of the experiences service. shing. s Governor of Kwangsi and hasrying here seems
more amusing gained in this war in the improvement cf letbai and poisonous gases for the and on a larger, heartier scale. The tr bunals are sometimes very funny. I destruction of humanity; and are we to Yunnan troops were defeated by the apend an hour or so listening to their live in daily terror, with the knowledgo.
proceedings whenever I can
THE RUSSIAN DELEGATE TO PARIS.
INSTRUCTIONS REVISED,
PETROGRAD, October 28th. The Council of Workmen's and B COWARDICE IN ITALIAN ARMY diers' Delegatra, has revised its instrue
LONDON, October 28th. tions to M. Skobele, Minister of Labouret LONDON, October 28th. A wireless Italian official message its delegate to the Paris Conference, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re-states-The failing resistance of sine recognising the original instructions as ports We improved our positions units forming the Second Army, who unsatisfactory. slightly, during the night-time, in the neighbourhood of the Xpres-Routers railway.
retired in cowardice without fighting, er surrendered, has allowed the Austr Germans to penetrate the left wing on the Julian Front,
The Belgians, on Friday night, carried out & Ancoessful raid to the northward of Dixmade taking sixteen prisoners, and yesterday; jointly with the French, they erossed inundations and occupied the Merckem l'eninsula, in the neighbouring to plan as prepared. hood of Vijfhuizen..
The valiant efforts of other were sanble to prevent the enemy ad- vancing into Italy's sacred soil.
FRENCH PROGRESS IN BELGIUM.
PARIS, October 28th A communiqué states:We continued to progress in Belgium.
We are withdrawing our line, aceord
All stores and depots in the evacuated places have been destroyed.
The record of so many memorable battles, successfully fought by our brave soldiers for two and a half years of the war is sufficient to assure the Comman- der-in-Chief that the Army, to which the
In our left, in the Peninsula of big-country honour and safety is confided, hem, we captured some small islands.
We have taken, since yesterday, over 2,000 prisoners.-
GERMAN REPORT.
LONDON, October 26th.
will know how to fulfil its duty. ITALIAN PRESS OPTIMISTIC.
ROME, October 28th.
The newspapers are most 'confident of the Army's capacity to prevent invision
A wireless German oficial message and regard the resistance offered, so far,
most hopefully..
states: The enemy reattacked to the south-westward of Houthuls Wood with -out gaining any greater advantage thop
before.
AUSTRIANS CLAIM TO HAVE CAPTURED GORIZIA,
THE ITALIAN CABINET.
ROME, October 28th. Signor Orlando hus been asked to, fon si Cabinet... It is anticipated that there
will be few changes in the Ministry al
present.
General Luk Wing-ting has wired to the President to recommend Li King-
sent a delegate to Peking.
Szechuen troops in Szechuen.
“OUR DAY."
SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE BY THE CAMEOS.
that at any moment onther conflict may arise which might almost lead to the ex- tinction of civilisation itself?
The truth is that a treaty of peace does not necessarily secure peace in the only sense in which it can be of any real us
We talk to progress and humanity platitudes about a League of Nations to enforce perce, without considering th conditions, essential to its success. Bun there was a league of nations to protect Belgium-there were solemn treaties and
The number of rejections in this city on account of defective health or physique at first startled New York. One of the examining physicians admitted he was surprised and dismayed too at the weak nesses revealed. Bad teeth were the cause of the greater number of rejections. One had an idea that all Americans took care of their teeth. Feable eyesight, flat fost and imperfections, due to lack of came next. There are too There was a large and enthusiastic exercise said this doctor. * with The Germino gunbont Eley was set of gathering at the Victoria Theatre last pigeon chests, big stomachs, uncertain conventions at The Hague to apply the
THE GERMAN GUNBOAT *EBER."
RIO DE JANIEGO, October 28th.
fire and sunk by the crew as the Bra lians were about to seize the ship.
GERMAN GUNS IN FRANCE. "WORKED TO THE DANGER POINT"
many men,”
hearts, and spindly legs.
cities. It is
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to the rest of the world.
principles of humanity as far as possible in war and to give effect to international evening when that happy and talented,
But that is so in all great company of entertainers, The Cameos,'"'
from the fields that the finest recruita, law. How did these avail en ihr out- gave a performance, the whole of the net though not necessarily the finest soldiers, break of war" There is no inter Proceeds of which are to be devoted to be so hardens and is out. Regular or
come. The city weakling, as he seems to rational law," said the German Emper "Treaties are but scraps of paper," the Our Day" fund. In view of this feeding, regular hours, regular exercise said the German Chancellor. We claim have a rapid effect in making a man of the right, said the German nation, “ te fact it was very gratifying to see such a him. Probably the New York doctors are sink ships of any nation, even neutrals. full house." The concert was held rejecting too readily, simply because they at sight, and to murder their crews. Wo have not had the opportunity of seeing claim the right to use engines of death under the patronage of HE the what the men who
appear to them to be forbidden by our own conventions, if The campaign of 1917 has taxed to the
weeds cap be. turned into: Governor (Sir Henry May,, K.C.M.G.), uttermost the productive capacity of the
only it will assist us in the prosecution: ME. NATHAN RUDINSKI.
of war." 1 have not yet seen a single I hope the doc. won't thump my suggestion made as to how in future German artillery and munitions factories H., Major-General Ventris, and Com
"I've just drunk these calamities are to be prevented from At the beginning of March, before the modore Sandeman, RN, and the pro-stomach," said Nathan,
weigh heavier.)
German campaign opened, the enemy had laid it gramme provide was well in keeping our glasses of water to make me recurring if the lawless temper of the with the object for which the concert had on from the United States Army. A power to repeat their crimes remains
nationality is a cause of
n fause of exclu. Germens remains unrepentant, and their attacked an average of eleven batteries many patriotic items, all of which, when he was told he would not be eatin down that for the defence of sectors borly been specially arranged
There were German named Berger protested loudly what it has been in the past relatively per kilometre was needed. An enemy athf
President Wilson is right when he de- I came away from that country nine order, dated March 1st, says that naturally, were very well received and years ago," he said, because I couldn't clares that no terms signed by the places where the figating is particularly encores were frequent, Athol Tier, get on with autocracy. I want a chance present rulers of Germany would afford not the local command should have itt its always absurdly funny, seemed to be It's hard I can't gold by a native of than that just in proportion as the to reform that same autocracy with a rifle. the slightest security for the peace of the world, and nothing is more certain disposal per kilometry on an average from
A
pathetic tale was five to seven batteries for barrage fire funnier than ever, and bis india-rubber
Russia 'named Weinski. Five of his military defent of Germany is incom- (ssume of which may consist of heavy artilbody and eloquent hands accompanied brothers were in the war he told the plete, the daration of peace will be short. lory if circumstances require it) and from his funny, ways and sayings in a manber court. One had been killed, one had lost Whatever terms Germany might now four to six heury batteries for other pur
were still fighting in rate her strength for another aggression, poses; of the latter at least one or two which was at once exceedingly laughable both hands, a third was a prisoner in bring herself to accept in order to recupe should consist of heavy long-range guns,” and remarkable" Jerry Osborne with
His story was genuine, it the gives us from line to thirteru bat his nicely balanced and well-governed appeared. He did not ask to be let offer people would soon forget-such écono
All he said
mic privations as they have had to en- teries per kilometre (1,033) yards) of front attacked, or an average of eleven batterie, voice, and Malcolm Prentice, with his and little baby Another of my wife dure, and would remain convincerl that LONDON, October 28th
to the kilometre. In theory the German violin solos, also proved extremely enter brothers are fighting declared himself to they had proved themselves invincible
territory battery consists of six guns, so that this timing. The lady members of the were on the wrong side. Should I have vast tracts of conquered
Austrian birth: Unfortunately they With their armies in occupation of The rapid development of our united number would give us an average of one
as if he minded very much.
tion of Belgium, would be trampt- A communiqué statsen attack in attack on the Isonzo was entirely segun to every nineteen yards of front. In Company came in for much applause for to fight against them the inquired, not any concession such as the evacua
this arrangement of batteries the propor their various vocal and instrumental The most amusing plea for exemptioned as proof of German Belgium began at 5.15 this morning and cessful, on Saturday.
tion of heavy guns to feld guns is high.
that have heard was entered by one nimity, and their children would be On an average there are to be five batteries tributions Lyle Jeffries, always a fcBride, who called himself an artist. I mught to remember the present war 2 was completely successful.
of heavy guns to six barrage batteries (77. Favourite with her fund of dainty musical only hope
nly hope he does not claim to be an the greatest of Germany's military millimetre feld guns), a proportion which humour, was encored repeatedly.
He brought out a roll of triumphs. The prestige of the house of may be increased if desirable. At the
designs for posters.
One was headed, Hohenzollern and of the Prussian mili- Everyone present seemed to hav."Up, slackers! present moment well over a hundred
another bore the legend, tary caste would suffer no diminution, kilometres of the front in France may be thoroughly enjoyed themselves,
and the inherent weakness of democracy * Don't counted as in a state of intense activity,
you think I should be more would be represented as the chief lesson thanks
usefully especially from the gumer's point of
he asked. view, so that, assuming the German tat- Blake
all the democracies of the world in The tribunal said, rather coldly,
No ran guns in action on less than a The Cameos"), for their generous I object to servs because I am curseien-
Very well, tery to have six guns, there would be 6,000
coalition had been unable to defeat the retorted McBride, then armies of the War Lord.. seventh of the Anglo-French front. The assumption would not be a safe one from action in arranging such a successftiously opposed to the taking of human war--as is the earnest desire of every
AMSTERDAM, October 28th. The French, who were deeply echeloned,
An official message from Vienna states were sanguinarily repulsed, to the east-that the Austrians have ecupied ward of Filain and to the north-westward Gorizin. of Braye.
The Italians have withdrawn across
EARLIER CABLES.
the Isonzo
ALL GERMAN POSITIONS CARRIED.
LONDON, Octolitr 98th.
GERMAN REPORT.
A powerful thrust threw back
the
The French, on both sides of the Ypres-Italians, who were seeking to prevent us Dixmude road, irried all the German from emerging from the mountains
be of
Take care
Don't wait to be called twice. and We entered Cividale, which was burn-
The Austro-Germans took
Gorizia early this morning. Our prisoners how total 90,000 and we have taken 600 guns. Russian Front.
positions on a front of four kilometres
Fing. lo an average depth of two kilometres, despite the stubborn resistance of the enemy, who suffered most heavy losses.
We reached the western border of the Houthulst forest and carried the villages of Verdren des Mis, Ashcot, Mercken and Kippe, also numerous solidly-farti- fed farms, prisoners,
capturing
hundred
We made fresh progress on the Aisne front from Chevrigny and occupied Froidmont farm,
Aerial Action
LATEST CABLES.
(THROUGH "REUTER'S AGENCY.)
EXTENSIVE AIR RAIDS.
LONDON, October 28th.
The Admiralty announces that our naval sir serving, on Friday night, bombed Lichtervelde railway junction securing direct hits, causing a heavy explosion and numerous smaller explosions. They also bombed Thourout railway junction; bombs falling near a moving train which immediately stopped and a large explo
sion was obsered. They also bombed Cortemarck juntion.
magna-
of the theatre), Work 23, employed doing this kind of to be drawn from a conflict in which
are due to Mr. J. (Manager
and Mr. M. S. Cowan (in charge
the point of view of gun, per battery, evening on behalf of so deserving a cause. The Germans have taken to splitting up
As result of the concert Our Day LATEST CABLES. their batteries, in order to get more work [THEODON REUTER'S AGENCY.] out of the same number of guns, and the funds will benefit to the extent of not
heavy gun batteries rarely number more less than $700. MORE FRATERNIZATION BY than two pieces. Nevertheless, there is no
RUSSIANS.
LONDON, Oetober 28th. wireless Russian official message states-Our artillery dispersed several scores of our men who were fraternising with the Germans in the region of Uluxt. General
LATEST CABLES. {THROUGH HAUTER'S AGENCY.] REPORTED RESIGNATION OF GERMAN CHANCELLOR.
AMSTERDAM, October 28th.
reason to suppose that the total number of German guns on the “sotive" fronis is less than the figure given.
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If we know the exact distribution of the German artillery we should probably find that in Flanders and behind the Obe min de Dames there are more German batteries to the kilometre than the number other sectors, which either are, or, at any "Roses prescribed by the order of March 1st. In
moment are liable to become, “active,” the number would be considerably smaller, for the reason that the Gergians have not enough guns to provide for all probable contingencies. At Verdun the German to the demands made upon it. artillery was certainly unable to respond
It is to be noted that this array of guss. per kilometre, is designed for defensive purposes only: that is, for infantry bar- A message from Berlin states that the rage and counter-battery work only
The attacking side, which, besides sile evening papers report that Dr. Michaelising the enemy's batteries and repelling has resigned." SCARCITY
OF FOODSTUFFS IN DENMARK.
COPENHAGER, October 28th.
life.
Another
•
If this war is to put an end to all Nine man in every democratic country named conscript Kaminski, whose racial stock may also be in the world if, in the Prime Minister's. guessed without much cudgelling of phrase, there is to be "no next time," brains, told the examiner that he had it must be waged until German military injured his foot. He limped into the power has been sufficiently crushed to room with the air of a man suffering the make fresh aggression by ber impossible. extreme of pain.
for a long time to come, and until it in shortly.themselves to be deluded by the legend seemed to be more annoyed than of their invincibility in arms. When this astonished. However, he had another has been achieved it may be possible for
eyes were weak.
"And
a league of nations to be established with
doctor looked at the foot te longer possible for the German people-
CVIS"rong there." hei
$13,381 44 £20 excuse ready.
375.00
5.00
813,761.44
SUGAR INFECTED WITH
ANTHRAX
if dot, von't do," he remarked without come reasonable hops of being able to shame had an internal inchures vich safeguard a peace thua set on a durable
I caused by shtraining incinself carrying foundation. But unless this war attains
"AGED PARENTS SUPPIZED,
If the men drawn for service can show £25 that they are the sole supporters of aged
relatives they are excused. At one tri bunal a letter was received from a poor woman, who wrote:-":) will claim
My Bon that he
He supports me. He does not. never did and he never
On · no
Swedish newspapers announce the die covery at: Kiruna, in the worth of Sweden, of sugar containing anthrax bacilli,
It will be remembered that among the
account let him off.
other
such a result, and so enables the nations of the world to feel that they can enter upon problems of development and pro gress without the constant terror of & fature war, all the sacrifices of this strug gle will have been made in vain, and the world will not have been made, safe
for democracyour
Surely, therefore, our course, it - ob-
A German plot to make strong young vious, We must carry on until such
ineligible by pulling a number of victory is gained as will remove all prae- their teeth has been discovered. The tical danger of war for the future, and Deputy Attorney-General of the United any man who tries, whatever his motive * States sayɛ be bas evidence of this Ased may be, to distract the attention of the parents grandparents, paralysed uncles, country, from this goal of deliverance in crippled sisters are supplied by another the worst enemy of a real peace.-Yours his counter-attacks with field-gun fire, malpractices of the members of the vou
on application. But the must pulverise his trenches and centre of een gas was the smuggling into Pin (ribunals have been wised up" as they
faithfully,
(Signed) EDWARD CARSON resistence before releasing the assaulting, land of anthrax-infected sugar. The say here, to these and
devices of the the infantry, is bound to concentrate on the authorities believe that the sugar now enemy front of attack an enormously larger discovered belonged to three Finds who In Oklahoma the objectors to national number of guns, especially of heary were expelled from Sweden last April, service took to the woods and defied the
A vegetarian society which appealed for pieces than the defender.
although there appears to be no reason authorities. They did their best to spread Bombings were carried out on Saturday
We know from prisoners statements that to connect them with von Rosena reign of terror, but after some sharp the exemption of its members on the The Minister of the Interior, speaking the, German gune in Flanders are being The newspapers state that the three fighting they gave in. Strange that men ground that they do not eat fish, flesh, ng fowl, and are consequently opposed to afternoon at Sprappelhock and Engel at Ffolkthing, said that the Government worked to the danger point: Outworn Finns referred to, who arrived at Kixane should fight to avoid fighting, should more the killing of human
take the risk of being shot by from th aerodromes, and the Ostend Thourout was considering the question of rationing guns and mortars, the fre of which is in March, declared that they were in the
than b by German 1
the Deputy diverting
think, ho wrote, railway line, to the southward of Engel. butter and fats and added that there is tables of correction to enable the from Germany and were proceeding to Oklahoma they are glad of a chance to
explanation would be a scarcity of foodstuffs gunners to compensate the error of the Eussia. Later, a box of sugar was dis for the next two winters.
pfece. Many of the field guns have fired covered in the yard where they were fight about anything. Now they have had Government, notwithstanding anything The peo as many as 12,000 hebt, and the freqnadier arrested, and on examination it was found their private scrap the rebels" vill in the Germans may have in mind, to kin trolled and one fell to the sea. All ple mast endare privations if ther of premature discharges seems to point to to contain minute glass tubes partly fill, Bll probability gladly go off to be trained Any buman being for eating purposes." a decline in the quality of the munitions with anthrax basilly and animals inocu-
Many patrols wer carried out. - Two enemy aircraft were triven down uncon-
ours returned tafely.
wished to avoid famuna
received
Varietessarily inaccurate, are worked, with Finnish Battalion and had come direct manure that 100 4s on the part of thos
used-Neuter.
18 no
Iated with the contents died of anthrax.
The vegetarians will therefore have to do for more elaborate battles,
their bit, like those who eat mutta (Continued at foot of next column.) beef Daily Mazl
eneo