:
THE HONGKONAŤ:
GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK | after their rescue from Hasnières, those. LORD LANSDOWNE'S RECENT
AT CAMBRAI,
MANY DIVISIONS USED.
HEROIC BRITISH STAND,
Fontaine
as we
Germa
LETTER
QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS.
"poor women with babies and perambula-
tors and, pet dogs, who made such strange pitiful crowd one morning our guns and cavalry and conera." We had a big feld ambulanco Among the ruine, with a body of splendid In the Eloise of Commons last month. young doctors, who worked like heroes, Lord, FL Cavendish Bentinck Askod the and were very merry and bright when 1 Prime Minister whether the Government Went up to see them on the way to further would give the House an opportunity of felda. Many members of this little com discussing at an early date in Secret munity believed themselves safe from Session, Lord Lansdowne's letter to The
as, though Daily Lelegraph newspaper danger of the front-line positions they did not believe that from shell are would fast for Mr Bonar Law The answer is in the on Friday morning most of the hospital negative clay, some of the orderlies were up mak staff were asleep
the
immunit
going to commander the plant of The the toil of the Mr. Hogge Is ny right hon. friend
Daily Telegraph for circulating Pacifst literature
of the village some
Mr. Kennedy Jones-Can the right hon. gentleman inform us if the letter of Lord Lansdowne was placed before the Censor either by the Marquis or by the publisher of the newspaper, and if so
The Speaker Order order. That does not arise out of this question
Richardson asked, the Home hallet form of the letter upon wa Secretary whether the publication
under Regulation 27e of the Defence the Realm Ache
Sir G. Cave Yes, sir
Mr. Ponsonby Is it not very important that this letter should be circulatel amongst the population of this country as there are many who prefer to be led by Lord Lansdowne rather than to be
THURSDAY, JANUARY
SACRIFICED FOOD SHIPS,
STILL FORCED TO RUN A DOUBLE
BISK
Mr. RP. Houston, one of the largest shipowner, gave notice last month that he would ask the Parliamentary Secre- tary to the Shipping Controller in abe House of Commons
Whether the steamer la Blanca, 7,419 from the River Plate, was ordered to tons gross register homeward bound call in at a certain port. A Whether the steamer received orders to proceed to another port, and whether she left the former port on or about November 23rd, and was sunk a few miles off that port Whether the steamer sailed in
instructions
nce with amiralty or protected]
Whether this
whether she was
by Admiralty vessela MAD teamer was insulated Why throughout all her holda
ho can state the quantity of fresh meat and nature and of any other cargo on-board at th
the time that she was sunk, eyes Whether it is intended to continue the
practice of ordering valuable steam es carrying valutable cargoes into one port previous to sending them to another port, with the increased dan- ger of being sunken
"SENT TO DOOM. Attention was called by the Daily Er press to the loss of two food ships which were sent to sea again after reaching then torpedoed by
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FRANCE, December 1st. It was incritable after our surprise victory on November 20th and our break through the Hindenburg lines to the country round Cambrai that the dangers as well as advantages of open warfare should return on this part of the ing coffee for the doctors. One medical front Our advance, taking in Bourlon just lathered himself very successfully officer was in his rubber bath, and had Wood on the north and the ground be- with soap In Gouzeaucourt there was stretching of arms of tired fellows yond Mannières and Marcoing. Gonne who wanted another hour's sleep, and the lieu, and Villors Guillain, on the right, yawning of men who wake to another day had made for us a new and rather of strenuous work, and the fragrance of perilous salient, which might tempt the coffee und frizzling bacon, which is the enemy to retaliate heavily for the blow English.
incense to the gods of We had dealt him. During the past the Depar week he seemed to concentrate his efforts very close. The merry and bright young
Suddenly shots rai
rang
werd entirely on the northern side of this very sicht by desperate attacks and counter doctora ant up and listened. The mat would require the sanction of the t attacks on
on Bourlon Wed,
with a lather of soap on his body put ma Notre Dame and our wines west of bead out of his tent More shots snap Bourton Wood by the village of Mœuvren ped out like the cracking of whips, and But meanwhile he was concentrating they were right among the rains of heavy forces with great secrecy, Gouzeaucourt. The enemy was there had Essembled ours car right finsk among them; he was inside Goticaucourt by Cravecoeur and Lateen Wood, and and all round it. The lathered man put opposite Villers Gaislain, in order to a towel round his body, and, as one of strike through at the weakest part of our his comrades told me hurried down the salient, and so, if, they had luck, cut off street. Other men ran and so got nway driven by Lord Northcliffet sport safely, and WORK WANDERN MOR
Bir G. Cave-That is certainly not a German submarines. grant numbers of our men and guns pioneers retreated down the road to question for me to answer A leaflet is a In the first case the ship was carrying The attack delivered yesterday mornins, but in Gouzeaucourt must of the leaflet whoever is the author of its large quantity of incat Sir Led fog had ambitious plans, and was direct held ambulanco staff found themselves Mr. Hogge-Are we to understand that. Chi
Chiozia Money, Parliamentary Secre ed from the north to piere southwards in the hands of the enemy with railway, if a leaflet is first of all published in try to the Shipping Controller, admit- to the Cambrai road past the west side men and mule drivers and engineers, and newspaper it will be all right to a Daily Express representative of Bourlon Wood, while what was pos
Sir G. Cave On the contrary,
that
were as stated, excent that sibly a heavier attack was delivered sud odds and ends of units who had been
the facts By a
a queer chance
quantity of mont was less than 4,00) tons. The exact quantity the direction of Gonnelios and Villers morning, and it was only by u
was on the road to Gou
merely Guislain. The northern attack failed, as luck that I did not fall into
fluke
side, issue, and there is no denying the I will tell later, with most bloody losses of the enemy If I had been fifteen this letter submitted to the Censor at plies for the whole of
the bande
Brigadier General Page Croft - Washes of the loss of 1,000 tons of ment to the inerny. The southern attack
had
or i 1 had not carlier,
Benve
London--in addi- a temporary success, which for n hours
The second case was that of a our not have been writing this message. A
Sir G. Cave-1 do not know whether a cursing large quantity of tea, and genere ship and the disciplined courage friend of mine in the car with ine was
our troops, and was to the fruits of our recent victory until
As certainly
a menace in sprightly humour rather was submitted to the Censor, It inf
of any such occur I thought for such an early cowres optional to newspapers, to subyait bireno knowledge concy stated, 7 ORDINANCE 1616. quick and most gallant counter att sprightly, by battalions and tanks drove the hour on a chod morning what would Mr Outhwaite If this letter is this This is a remarkable and
English
morning almost re- in Gouzeaucourt or Villers Pluich after Censor will any charge Unfortunately, the enemy was able to cup- uncanny conversation in view of what ture some of our guns, which were very far has happened, for neither of an had a covered after being in his hands for likely SERIOUS SITUATION, A forward, but most of there have been re-ghost of an idea that such a thing was some hours.
> it was at Fine that both of us began After the comparative quietude "Mong lot of men on the road coming in our staring about curiously. There were a this part of the front, which I described direction. icre was something queer in alecent message, the enemy bagan about them; they were in odd groups, violent bombardment on and around: Bourlon Wood on Thursday afternoon.walking quietly without disorder, libe the right hon. gentleman, I wish to 45% would have been folly to do so, the cold
labourers who have done their day's job This, died down after dusk, and there was and ample quietly home down the roa a fairly quiet night. There was no sign
nee
denly on our castern ar sight, Bank in working in the place caucourt that against the newspaper or against the
of
minutes
Mr Billing-Will any action be taken
writer of the letter
B
NOTION
30-9:
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Antic or Indian desiring to leave the Colony should pply in person at the CENTRAL FOLIOS STATION between the hours of 8 AM, 10 I P.M sad sp to 4 P. dally,
Applicants will be required to produce
represent nearly a week's 50 on certain exceptions who
...put a most revere strain or something strange on the road I should all, and are any powers held by the tion to a large vasathe same
enemy back from his and the Unitic this
their to the Consor
siputin in
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AND MANILA UNA SLAVIA
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Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified Llatı ther minst Produce Import Formil sigapoer the Superlatandans 61 Importa and
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All Claims must be presented within ■ 'anonth of the Steamer arrival hero, after which they conant be recognized.
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NOTICE TO CONSIONEES,
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having arrived from the above Parts, Consignees on Identification papers of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goo
will be delivered: from, alongside t a the Colony for more than 7 days re required to Bogister themselves under REGISTRATION or PERSONS
Forms of Registration giving the par icular required may be obesined at the
The Penalty for non amplianov in a fas
recaptured ground. happen if we got pinched by the enemy tributed without being submitted to the confession (spys The Dailant.P., and at all Police Stations,
established our line south of Masni a German break through It was in Lansdowne BRUNNER5/against Lord Almost every merchant in London Knob exceeding 160o..
THE ATTACK OPENED.
A
and
aware, of the facts of which the officials Sir G, Cave-No, sir; the charge would concerned are ignorant. We can furnish lie against the persons who distributed the Shipping Controller with the name of the leaflet,
but the east coast port from des that such a thing was 11. Lynch-Does the right fou, gentle une sunt out to hit doom which, the chip
xoan intend to institute proceedings Mones's explanation of the meat ship THE
Mcet significant of all is Bir Leo against Lord Lansdowne under the De
giving encouragement to the enemy fenes of the Healm Act on the ground being sent to sea again
The only possible course was taken he said. Owing to engineering dili- Mr. Lynch-In view of the answer of She was not discharged there because i Sir G. Cave---No, Bir. Ay
culties, the vessel had to make a port!
him whether he will give reparation to storage accommodation living insufficient. those four untitled Pacifists who have ha
Tof a great attack about half-past seven young gunner officer cure up.” “What been prosecuted for less serious offences the situation was handled by hist
on Friday morning. The enemy, fired has happened?" we asked. *****
Bosi has broken through,” said “
he enemy
Mr. Kennedy Jones-Was not The Daily clase business men, who acted in the light great numbers of gas shells over our Footlicer. We were silent for & zocond, the Defence of the Realm Act regulations sions, when chaps had unloaded at the
gunner Telegraph guilty of an infringement of of previous experience. On two occi tions round the forest of made a great
This
the
the northern sidration all men are silent who bear incredible thing by publishing the letter without brithret port of call, there had been serious
on the West, Marcoing
and Masnières,
side of the salient Then one of us asked, 18ting it to the Censory loss of valuable fgod owing to lack of and said, There, this Cavo No, wins have already cold storage and to railway congestion. said that it is optional whether it is Cold storage is being erected at the part submitted to the Censor or not in question but
it is not General Sie vor Philipps-Is the right ve
everything pol available, hon. gentlemen aware that Lord Lans sible
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enemy The gunner offcer pointed sprending down the road, s castward to
eide of Gouzeaucourt That was followed later in the north by little morning surprise, and, we get heavy infantry Atack your bad car round pretty quickly. Then we tried Un our right flank the attack Reemet to approach the front by a different road have begun suddenly, without a violent 19, the left up by Havrincourt and
and on the Hermies
saw British Army under the heel of n scale, ata and many
way bomt,
THE Homeward lei! Steamer, carrying. Some of
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His Majesty Mail, will be despatched
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debauched against our lines our artillery was on the
them galloping
At the close of questions, Mr. Life of the statements made in the House of and Cariga for the above Porta Passenger mady straight quest place the gunners stood to their said-I beg to ask the Leader of the foot three food ships in similar cir scoured before departitre from Hongkong.
the field. In a Beross
Commons soven months ago, when the accommiation in the connecting vessel for Villera Guialain.
holding guns as though our forward positions. here thinly, and were not yet expecting an attack but House a question of which I have given when this sudden weight of men was flung ing up the ammunition dumps and how of the important political situation of
men were back private notice, namely: Whether, in view cathstands was raited. It was then
pleaded that,
after thirty three months and London (under arrangement) will be
Silk and Valuable Cargo for Taly, France'atic, "Foreign against them they were forced to give pitals. In some places where un barber Lord Lansdowne, he will make a statement de war, our railways, and ports were an inveyed by this Steamer proceeding t POSTAGE way, and the enemy's plumns broke days there had been great activity ther to the Haute
some ports lacked both cold storage and oncarrying Steamer for Marseilles and developed in a a strategic through our lines
sense, and that Bombay and there transhipped to the The rapidity and surpriss of the attack now a look of quietude. An officer The Speaker Order, order have labour. The pledge was given that the London MARINARY was so great for a little while that in moste up to us, and we asked him to tell received no copy of any such question.
most serious attention would be the situation on the north of the enges our men were only aware of the salient for which we were beating
to Parcels will be given
at the Office until the provision of accommodation.
3.. the day befor wiling. Seven
T enemy's break through when they saw his The Boche is putting up a big attack
months later we are told the sul value of all packages are require troops to we seem to be held enemy planes came out in large numbers
apply to thing
Merchants, shipowners, and For further partionfare, sailing dates, eto he basi't got new also, and challenged our men ↑ to this with his battery between La Vacquerie this place." and Gonnelieu when, at about half-past The news had not spread everywhere
EY D. PARR there were thirty hostile planes over the when they may expect this vital w seven yesterday morning, he heard an in one Beld some Tommies were playing Bonavis Farm area, and many fired white. The matter is as preseing officer shout, ** Stand to your guns. He football. In some camps the men werlichta continuously over Gouzeaucourt.
De any branch rushed out of his dugout to the battery frying their breakfast bacon as though and Gonnelieu and Villers Guislan
of war work. Many ships are being and saw only 300 yards away, a great all the world were at peace. We knew
ordered out from ports where they should more about it then. We knew that north
GUARDS TO THE FRONT, bo unloaded, and are being
to with machine-gutid not lose their were lighting hard to hold back tion was sermewhat critical on the right ports where there is a shortage there are
This team with their
As for the lack of labour, if there are the surprise was stupenenjy, and that our right wing was by Gouzeaucourt, but it was relieved in others where there are men to spare although
The officers gave orders for the the moment in jeopardy. As we go the afternoon by magnificent counter- laying of the guns on the enemy's towards Havrincourt we saw the which attacks by the Guards and some dis inquiries in the London cocks district. Koprema representative, who made ranks, and they actually fired some rounds line of our northern front by and tore gaps in
Bourton moanted cavalry and Tanks and bodies was told that there were efficient trans one, and places whereing all the way, and holding the enemy frequently had nothing to do, and who were almost surrounded had before they abandoned the battery
and
fery Furnaces Havrin mach battlefields were ran for safety. Three of the officers were court Wood and the roads below it were have told
machine-gun hey fought all the way
Some of these men places, such as Liverpool, where the pres hit by rifle or machine gun fire, but other under intense bombardment
told me that The gunners made their escape and joined the was finging Bells down the Bapaumy back like this in short rushes, lying, down sometin word is so great that ships are
held up as long as three infantry. Afterwards they were given
for volley Sring, then getting up rifles, and took part in the counter-attack. Cambra road Bourlon Wood and ill retreating before the advancing CEASED TO EXISTE which captured Gouzeaucourt and drove were filled with clouds of smoke frog of men, and then lying down again for the enemy back.
high explosives, and for miles our ow, another bout of rifle fire They could with this question more than two yeste
not yet hold back the In other parts of the field bodies of guns were sweeping a fury of drum their comrades were cut off, and it was
enemy our men were caught by surprise through over the advancing them
up to the Guards to deliver the rapidity of the first enemy advance, SIX SEVEN DIVISIONS.. though the attack as a whole was not It was then that the enemy was trying unexpected In the neighbourhood of to break through past Bourion Forest Marching 371 Boma of English battalions had been sleeping in cellars and ruined ern attack, which started two hours after Friday afternoon and cottages, when the sentria gaye shout that on the right wing, was supported by Itwas of ***Stand to
gas-shelle and that they say sivey. For the time Que troops hi
number of German soldiers advance as well as south of the silent our meu All through Friday morning the situen a second risk of degree compelled
pers
1
nerve
A
"that our gunners and were so close past days was on the way to the by rearguard actions with rise could quite well be transferred to other others ran for die German lines. But Word onder shell-fire. The quietude of troops, who had been retreating, fight, port workers throughout the district whe
spent many hours:
back
Bonce
Com
The Government tried to gra
grapple
ngo said a shipping authority to the Daily Repress representative. An ad- visory committee that was called the Port and Transit Committee was their posuted, and it hit done useful work counter-attack in the afternoon 19 and Masnières the man off duty the left and cut off the northern side et serious gap in our Snough cowok other uncful bodies that
infantry, ready to pour
there is the Diverted Cargoes
the salient. As we know now, this north- Guards of melt Saturday morni
this battle of have
of used to exist were the
Committee and the f Foodstuffs Requisitioning Committee. down ronds toward đ luga:explo Gouwen Baring that in a was the formation of the Dockers Bat of these told me yesterday, ich ground yield ground, and, some bodzes of the WHY were tall and proper men to increase the strength of the battalion
I be fighting
it was clear at a glance that our more a far as the sugar factory on the Cam- did not seem to feel the weight of then20,000 men in that we wanted 15.
Bour
up in the roads. Souto bind storms of on, who advanced pe men and noble sight as they The most useful step of all, however,
hurried out to and all the men were six to seven-
had bours
to
the enemy advancing over the
ferrist talion Last January it was arrangul
south of Masnières in great numbers, and enemy are said to have penetrated almost and they marched with full packs, but to 10,000 men.
advanced lince had been lent in There brai read, but were there repulsed by our does not seem to have been a direct attack men, who fought with enormous gallan on Masnières or Marcoing at that time, try. They were then caught by our artil but some parties of the enemy swing lery fire, and these inasses of men were right and got into Los hum vertes "hich forced into retrast, and our gans follow
Masnières, and were en them up, raking them as they shattered by the machine gun fire of our and men, who also swept the ridge south of St. Quentin Canal, so that many German
followed the established ing
ANDORRA great numbers soldiers were seen to fall. We strafedine gun and rifle, and
our line, except for a bit of
failed
battalion in ESOIVE,
the quays, blocks the part så hoone
hay whole of the arrangements for the shups coming in, and offen ads to unhappy results such as the
press has recorded
They were led on by their hands playing to be sent anywhere and everywhere to gay music with a ne jaunty rhythm in sappement, the ordinary labour resources it and these men stepped out jauntily
ofa port that is pressed 20 Delay in whistling and singing to the march fun
loading ships or in Femoving Some of them were among their piper weat and others were manching -
chocolate, and others were Bijcntly and thoughtfull ing ahead of them the bat helow they would soon be ping attack of the passed, and when I met some of them
to abelter them from the shrawd wind so the it wasn't a picnic for usOverhead the xy was blackened by our was all dark inside lifted the
I have seen many of our arro
and Jool It was A Gouseaucourt that the sur-aircraft. I
Then Th at rows of faces under band prise was greatest on Friday morning, planes before on days of battle, but never agod Leads and bodice lying, there sticy- This village was well behind the line of so many squadrons and fights and single ugly wounded→ They had fought their
recent advance, and had been scoute as qu, Friday, when they were like fight, and Triven but the meaty beyond not Organised as a forward station for the flocks of crows over the enemy's linte. Concatcourt and the SA, Qurbon Ridge have wounded and some other purposes. I There was serial fighting all day, for the and Gonnelien, and had brom the Get- was hither that many civilans were sent (Continued et four of next (akan) man menaceDaily Telegraph.
them properly!
arm, "but Fritz 'put down a frightful lossen. shell-fire into Marcoing this morning, and for the day rem
removed.
said a boy who Ind just Moeuvres, Thin and th bloody again they were seated in come out of the battle with a bullet in his enemy is that mentega train povered with blank
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