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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
THE CAMPAIGN IN PALESTINE.
DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHTING.
RUSSIAN SUCCESS IN THE CAUCASUS.
SITUATION
ARRIVAL OF ANGLO-FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS.
THE ITALIAN
ranco-Belgian Front,
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BRITISH FRONT.
SLIGHT ADVANCE,
LONDON November 5th,
Egypt
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TOTAL PRISONERS.
LONDON, November 5th. An official report from Egypt states: The Gaza operations continue. We are
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haigre in contact with the enemy northward of ports-Slightly advanced our
posty Beershebu. The prisoners captured in -southeastward of Poolcapelle and re- these operations now total 207 officers
pulsed a bombing attack westward af and 3,400 men. Becelarro.
There
great hostile arti) Sery activity northward of the Ypres Roulers railway, and activity continues,
Artillery
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GERMAN REPORT;
Italian Front.
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Įtarokas KeUTER # AGENCY
ITALIAN FRONT,
ENEMY PRESSING ITALIAN LEFT: WING.
The
New York, November th.. The Associated Press Correspondent at the Italian Headquarters, reports enemy is chielly pressing our left wing in an endeavour to throw his balk on the Tagliamento, develop the turning
overrunt
Land
Friuli before General Cadounn Iis ró- organised.
The situation now hinges on
the strength of the successive lines of maturat defences west of the Tagliamento and the speed with which the roiganisation em be effected in order to throw the whole weight with the Allied reinforcements upon the advancing enemy.
The natural defences of the western
region are strong, and the country is described as the Holland of Italy owing to the network of casals and rivers. mostly running straight across the lite of the enemy's advanoo
The French troops were enthusiast cally welcomed, and the presence of the Anglo-French has brought inspiration to the lialian ranks.
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ENEMY CROSS THE TAGLIAMENTO
LONDON, November 6th
ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHTING Reuter's Correspondent at the Egyptian Headquarters, telegraphing on the 2 inst states:--Following up our success against the extrent, Turkish right, we engaged the left flank on the 1st inst... capturing all our objectives, including strong trench systunts and redoubts. The line was subjected to a preliminary drumfire, at night-time attaining an un precedented intensity at Umbrella Hill," An Italian official report states:The south-west of Gaza, a strong positionery reached the right bank of the 500 yards from our lines, Cousequently. Tagliamento, northward of Pinzano, thirs cur troops gained the hill with few casual- intensifying the pressure against our left ties, although the enny was not sub wing. jected to such artillerying intuen. Uro- LONDON, November 5th-brella Hill and the seashore. The troops Field Marshal Sir Bonglay Haig that secured all the objectives were ports-Vesterday's raid at Gavrelle reussisted by several tanks, whicit, despite salted in our capturing fourteen prison the shifty sand dunes. advanerd aver ers, four machine-guns and two trends
November 5th. A wireles German official report states that there was a powerful destructive fire in the Yeer lewhind and in the region between Houthulst Wood and the Ypres Comines Canal.
mortare
SUCCESSFUL RAIDS.
Searly one hundred Germans were killed. All the dugouts were destroyed
entanglements, parapets, and trenches in the moonlight, which exaggerated their uncomeliness and fearsomeness, and con- tributed greatly to the capture of the El Arish redoubt, and also Beach Post, the The Sherwood Foresters last night raidatter being besped with corpses. The ed north-eastward of Loos, capturing a Turks have shown the most, stubborn few and killing a number.
and set on fres
Our casualties were fights
Our firm dispersed hostile reconnoitrers
GERMAN REPORT.
LONDON, November th A wireless: German. states-The Austro-Germans gaited a official report
Tagliniento, and are advancing towards crossing over the middle of the
the aest
They captured 6,000 prismpre hind vi number of guns.
ITALIANS WELCOME BHITISH REINFORCEMENTS.
The Balkana.
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BALKANS, FRONT
GERMAN REPORT
LONDON, November, 3th.
A wireless German official report
7TH, 1917.
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
TRONG NGO
BY COURTESY OF THE
SAN, POJO
LUK WING-TINGS POWER
CANCELLED.
PERING, November 6th.
THE TAXICAB BATTLE, VON KLUCK'S WIRELESS TAPPED.
In the third anniversary week of the Battle of the Marie General Clergerie, then Chief of Staff to Genera} Gallient, recalled some crucial events that turned the tide of the war. To begin with, the
The Ministers held a meeting at the Eiffel Tower played a useful part, and those who never admired the 300-metre Premier's residente and decided to disiron monument are now reconciled to it.
states. —The English battalions attacking miss Tam Ho-ming (Kwangsi Tuchua) The German communders, apparently southward of Sto. Jacovo, between and carcel Lok Wing-trng's military under the delusion that the French wore the Vardar and Lake Doiran, Benvily power. collapsed.
General.
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"UGANDA""" GOVERNORSHIP',
LONDON, November 6th: Mr. Robert Thorne Coryndon, CM.G. Resident Commissioner of Basutoland, has been appointed Governor of Uganda.
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AUSTRO GERMAN PRO- PAGANDA IN ITALY.
LONDON, November 8th.
The action of Austro-German pro paganda in Italy, which, it is alleged, has been strong in the happenings on the Italian Front, was raised in the House of Commons
Gerinaa falsehoods
Gen, ri] Lung Chai kwong has wired Peking demanding the dismissal
too stupid to know anything about wire- toss used the latter constantly, in com-
munication among themselves. All these of messages were tapped by the Eiffel Tower and, when necessary decoded, but half the time the Germans did not even take the trouble to use cypher. Thats other General
Lam Eu (n commander in Cantan).
The Government has paid 100,000 Jollars to. Szechuen for military expen-
ditures
Representatives of Chang Hoi-yu and luck commanding the cavalry in:
Fong Shing to (Commatulers of Yux nanese troops) have arrived at Peking.
sinteresting pieces of mong Von Clergerie, learned that General Kluck's army informed Von Kluck Chis ruen und horses were spent and could not move for two days, that men fell asleep with Baddles, that hearhaustion, on their all the horses wanted Tower was one on Another useful message
by the
Luk Wing-ting has wired to the Presentember 9th from Von Kluck himself
sident demanding two conditions. The saving tlint he was retiring with his First
President and Premier discussed the Army, and in fact telling the oth
other question yesterday.
CANTON NEWS. HY CODETESY OF THE - KHUNG NGÔI
A TIHK-LIMIT
SAN PO.
army
You must hurry
out.
also
the first authentic account of the historic day of September 7th. A new division taxicab arrived that day to join the Paris army, but how to get it out to the front nearly forty miles away in time! Railway transport, it was found, could carry
only 8,000 men, How were the remaining 0,000 to be got out! Clergerie had an inspiration en approved Clergerie and decided to risk using taxicabs.
CANTON, November 6th.
Col. Xate asked --- What steps are the Luk Wing-ting will not come to Canton,five men, and thus in two journeys 600 Owing to reports stating that General had 100 taxis permanently at his disposal, but wanted 000. Each taxi could carry Government taking to deny the Austro- the leaders of King. War troops, who had could bring 1,000 men to the front. regarding · Great requested: General Luk to transfer the They must be ready by six pm. A requisition order was sent out at one p.m. Britain which are being disseminated | Tuchun, have again wired to Luk asking The news spread like wildfire in the taxi- among the Italian troops by Austro-him to come to Canton within five days. cab depots, and, as Clergerie Laye, it was
a curious sight Geening agents, and by means of a special
driving fares to see many chauffeurs the Paris streets Souteone with about 20 armed, body
suddenly stop on hearing of, the order, propaganda of bombs, or by being
to go into battle," nod, by. G. p.m. the the fare out, and start off at once dropped from seropianes i
600 taxis stood ready at Gagny just out- side Paris They were inspected Gallloni Two
by routes, going and coming
Mr. MacPherson replied →The Liatian military authorities are being asked to
supply the British Government with
copies of this propaganda. The best
A RUMOUR.
guards left Canton by i mofor-heat yes terday. It is rumoured that it was the Tuchun who went to Wuchow to meet the General, but the rumour is unconfirmed,
THE OFFICE OF TUCHUN.
The Civil Governor, Li Yew-hon, As
for the double journey. relief cars with tyres and re mapped out, petrol drove at intervals in the procession, and stores were also placed at points along this road. The taxis, each carrying: five men, started two journeys the 600 taxis had brought
and win it, which they did.
000 men by daybreak on September 8th ready to go into the Buttin of the Ourog
means for defeating the objects of the mural Chiny Pik-kwong and the Tuchalt twenty yards behind one another, and
cannot promise that the means selected propaganda have been considered, but I
will be published.
AMERICA AND THE WAR.
DO THE FIRST CASUALTIES OF
THE WAR.
WASHINGTON, November 5th. General Pershing reports as follows :— spirit, elinging to their positions to thẻ
Three American soldiers were killed, five LONDON, November 5th. last. An example is related of a single Router's Correspondent at Italian
wounded, and twelve captured on Satur- machine-gunner, who was surrounded, Headquarters, Telegraphing on the 4th day, when the German, raided the in-
Chan Ping-kwan propose to go together
General Luk upon the question of the to Wuchon They will consult with
Tuchunship.
PROTECTION FOR THE SHAMELN
• It is said that a few hundred Indian soldiers have recently arrived at Shameen to afford protection to the residents,
The Civil Governor, Li Yew hon, enter tained various Consuls to-day and assured: them that he was responsible for the pro- tection of foreigners in the Province.
SWATOW AFFAIRS. ·
· Messages from Swałow state that Mok
LABOUR AND FOOD. OUSTING THE PROFITEER.
FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH B.
CORRESPONDENT.1
LABOUR
in the neighbourhoods of Holleboke and refusing to yield, and when. last reported inst., states: The passage of British construction salient before daylight, putting King.vn, who learnt that Admiral Ching limitation of profits are many, and com tingents to the front has been the occa down & heavy barrage and cutting off Pikkwong will command the 1st 8qünde gross who seem to think that a solu
Reutel.
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FRENCH FRONT.
he was still hanging on.
The airmen have been a conspicuoussion for touching manifestations of wel sacecas, silencing the guns with bomba come aml friendliness. Men and women and co-operating with the artillery most of all classes flocked to the stations, offer satisfactory. Two enemy guns caught in ing fruit, cigarettes and flowers to the the open yesterday by one heavies were tired men, who responded gratefully and with their crews, demolished.
left an impression of cheerfulness and PARIS, November 5th. A communique states that there is a The Naval co-operation likewise was vitality which encouraged the onlookers. fairly lively artillery duel in the region helpful. Several monitors and de
Cof Corbact.
ARTILLERY DUEL
Naval Activities..
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THE NAVAL EXPLOIT IN THE KATTEGAT.
GERMANY ADMITS LOSS OF AUXILIARY CRUISER.
LONDON, November 5th..
A Berlin official statement admits that
a British Nevel force rank an auxiliary cruiser on November 2nd in the Kattegat, but denies that any patrol-boats were sunk.
Russian Bront.
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RUSSIAN FRONT. VIOLENT ENEMY ARTILLERY
ATTACK.
LONDON, November 5th- A wireless Russian official report states there is violent enemy artillery firing watward of Brenten Lake..
TURKISH TRENCHES CAPTURED, LONDON, November 5th.
most
stroyers are before Gaza, their accurate fire enfiladed a good part of the enemy lines, and they successfully bombarded the Turkish communications, severely daniaging bridge over the Wadyhesi
The demonstrations assumed greater. proports plong the country read, inhabitants everywhere rushing to grest them and were much impressed by their stalwart forms. There were continuous shouts of “ Pau
SITUATION
The participation of detachment of NAVAL ACTION KEY TO WHOLE Italians in yesterday's fighting is worthy of mention, for the great gallantry they displayed.
EXTENT OF OUR ADVANCE.
LATER The Correspondent on the 3rd inst reported -Yesterday's advance reached n depth of 800 yards at Umbrella Hill on the right flank and 2.000 yards at Sheikh Hassan, on the sexshore west of Gaza.
The Scottish and East Anglian troops shared in the honours of the fighting.
Four enemy counter-attacke yesterday were repulsed with heavy losses,
-- All our gams were maintained and the new positions consolidateil.
NEW YORK, November 5th The Association Press Correspondent at Italian Headquarters
states that, the retreat of the Army has produced new conditions which may raske a naval action the key to the whole situation.
the salient.
The enemy's losses are unknown.
One wounded German was captured.
THE ALLIED PARIS CON-
FERENCE.
LONDON, November 5th.
In the House of Commons, Mr. X J. Balfour stated that he hoped the Allied | Conference in Paris on the conduct of the war would be held aircut the middle of November. He could not at present give any information regarding the Confer- erice on War-Aims. NORWAY'S MARITIME LOSSES
LONDON, November 5th. A Norwegian official statenient con- tains:---Ninetean Norwegian merchant men, aggregating 34,577 tons, were lost during October, and 48 Norwegian seamen were killed..
Mr. J. R. Clynes, MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, made a clear statement of the policy of Lord Rhondda to the delegates of the Trades Union Congress at Blackpool. The diff- culties which confront Lord Rhondda, in the regulation of food prices, and the There are delegates attending the ron to attack him, has requested the tion for all those complex difficulties ean Pukien Tuchun to send him naval ussiat simply to denounce the profiteer and pro- be found in s glib phrase. They have ance. The Tuchun has agreed and four pose that the State commandeer all the gunboats have been sent already.
food supplies of the country and retail them to the public. Mr. Clynes It is also stated that a railway for that the solution of the problem is not Proved military purposes has recently been 10-he reached in that w
way The wholesale retail trade is a vast organisation and under construction, and that the line employing hundreds of thousands of pers Irom Swatow to Cheong Chow, near sons in all sorts of capacities, and it is
impossible for the State to set up, as were, by some magician's wand a new Amoy, is nearly finished:
aveau of trade which will supersede all
Controller is
2
the existing me what the. Fra all the existing agencies, and to con
as wisely to utilise the amount of profit which they ca
earn in PM essential work between the
GERMANS AND BELGIUM.
AN INSULT TO SWITZERLAND. Switserland has been excluded from explained that the Food Control Depart and the consumer. Mr Clynes relief work in Belgium by a pro-German ment did not want so much to fix the intrigue. All the Powers signified assent price of commodities as the proft, which any person can make out of the business. to Switzerland's offer to undertake the It is impossible for any Food Controller duty. Accordingly, the Swiss Govern to fix the price of wheat in Japan or of wheat or ment in the Argentine, and it ment designated Madame Chapuis, a member of the Legislative Assembly of prices of imported products will be dis beyond his power to say to what extent the Canton of Genova, and M. Meyen-turbon by boat sinking of merchant
But there are certain burg, of Schaffhausen, as Swiss Commis which can be done, and Mr. sioners in Belgium: Their departure was cd that these things are being
effectually The Italian Fleet commanded. Abruzzi
accomplished by the Food Control De fixed for June ist. Suddenly, however, partment. It can, and is, preventing by a brilliant manoeuvre and seized FUTURE CONDUCT OF THE May 28th, the German Governor-Ge competitive
among the Allied countries. A
now been made eral of Belgium telegraphed to the Swiss and a systema of
the Ministry misunderstanding, and that the Bwis already made an arrangement by what Commissioners could not be received in an end has been put to the foolish cont Belgium. This communication. which
petition between those who have to was in itself an affront to sicer and supplies for the Army and those wing inasmuch as it ought to have been com- municated by the German Foreign Office to buy me to the markets of the world
the
diplomatio ordinary
chan
Practically for the civil
population. followed by communications
the whole g
mercantilo feet E the country bas pain and Holland declaring that the State, « requisitioned by profits In excess of These are real improve par commercial methods, and an end to anything in the way war profiteering.
naval strategic point at Grado and the vast lagoon whose entrance it guards The Jeet commanda the whole Gulf ot Trieste front for forty kilometres to Monfalcone, five miles from Triosta. K
The enemy's advance has brought him. along a considerable stretch of the coast
WAR.
COMPLETE AGREEMENT ESTAB-
·LISHED
LONDON November 5th.
Reuters Agency is informed that the conferences held in London last wook were.
buy bas
Government that there had been some stituted Furtha Perative buy us
On our right, the enemy' was dislodged of the gulf. Hence the possibilities among the mest important during they would not accept the cooperation C. the fixed amount towautomatically into
precipitately.
the situation arising from the Italian Vennis Deshan that
the Treasury
from Abuirgeig station, eight miles a naval action which may be realised. It conferred with Mr. Lloyd George and the the formal notice received from both Hel will put
war. M. Painleve and General Petain daily Switzerland in Belgian relief work The the
Swiss Government thereupon referred to ments in north-west of Beersheba, and he retreated is significant that there has been intense War Cabinet, and a completa identity land and Spain assenting to the appoint
ment of Swiss Comm
replace eviews was established regarding the American Commissioners B
Holland Expointment
appointme of position, and also regarding the future o
of America. But The American soldiers realised the conduct of the war
that since America had abandoned neu minute they set foot in these Rales that tradify, Spain and Holland alone were sooner or later a nickname would to entitled to decide how relief work in Bol found for them. What they were to to gium should be
naval activity in the Gulf of Trieste The Turkish communications in the recently. rear of their right Blank suffered severely from the fire of our heavy artillery and naval guns.
A wirdles Russian official report DISORDERLY PEACE MEETING states. --We attacked the Turks in the Kalkit sector of the Black Bea front,
LONDON, November 5th.
NAVAL EXPERTS URGE SPEEDY ACTION IN ADRIATIC
PARIS, November 5th.
Naval experts urge speedy and vigorous BRITISH NAVAL PROGRESS. Entente action in the Adriatic.~ ~~They
PARIS November
tho AD
arsent
TEDDIES."
Married decided to exerlan they have called not one of them could guess, butte
from it immediately theysed with the gardul appear that the Germans ve
thetan Swie Commissioners
title was not
doubt The Teddies is the
A peace meeting at Swansea was broken declare that seaplanes could compel the Le Temps naval expert, who visited capturing first line trenches, and in some up, the crowd invading, the platform Austrian fleet to leave the harbours, thus the British shipyards, says hesa in 76,400 independent, and too fearonium new allies, and they would have had
and expelling. Mr. Roden Buxton and other speakers.
places the third line.
We secured a great quantity of booty.
enabling the Allied Fleets to strike a the Fairfield yards at Glasgow warships decisive blow,
far bigger than the Queen Elizabeth,
and name our soldiers have chosen for thes difficulty in Anding one more appropriatel for it is to ite sporting ex-President that the American army alwar, kara
that hence their presence in would have been a perpetual embarrass ment to the German persecutors of Bel gium. —}|ireless Prest.