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THE WAR.
UNSUCCESSFUL ATTACKS ON
ARRAS.
ENEMY CAPTURE MONTDIDIER. GERMAN LOSSES CONSERVATIVELY ESTIMATED AT 200,000.
LONG-RANGE BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS: SEVENTY-FIVE KILLED AND NINETY WOUNDED.
BRITISH ADVANCE IN THE NEAR EAST.
BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK.
Franco-belgian Front.
{THROUGE_BEUTER'S AGENCY, BRITISH FRONT.. BRITISH GAIN GROUND."
LONDON, March 30th. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- ports:-Apart from local fighting et different points, the enemy to-day did not press his attacks northward of the Somme
WAR OFFICE REPORT.
LONDON, March 30th,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 1er, 1018.
The War Office announce:--North of the Somme the situation is unchanged. South of the Somme our positions are maintained.
FRENCH FRONT. THE BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS, MANY KILLED AND WOUNDED, A shell from a German long-range-gun fell on a Parin church on Good Friday during the afternoon service.
Seventy-five worshippers were killed and 90 wounded, including many women and children
The dead include the Swiss Councillor of Legation, M. Strochling.
The church had already been hit en March 24th during High Mass when Feveral worshippers were wounded.
BATTLE RESUMED WITH RENEWED VIOLENCE..
Panis, March 30th.
A comuniqué states The battle was resumed during the night with renewed violence and now rages on a front of 40 kilometres from Moecull to beyond Lassigny.
Our troops, supported by reserves, which continue to arrive, are offering a resistance to powerful determined assaults.
Our airmen, notwithstanding the 'bad. Heavy attacks on the French Front weather, renewed the attacks on March enabled the Germans to gain ground 27th and 28th, fying in groups and westward of the Arrs and southward and south-eastward of Montdidier,
spraying with machinegun "fire and bombs the enemy troops in tile battle line and concentration zones.
FAR EASTERN CABLE "LUSITANIA" WARNING SENT
NEWS
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
CHINA'S NEW CABINET.
PEKING, March 30th. ** Tuan Chi-jui has formed the following
FROM BERLIN, CODE MESSAGE TO BERNSTORFF SOLVED
GERMAN EMBASSY'S HYPOCRISY.
GERMAN TORTURE FOR
PRISONERS..
HEAT AND COLD EXTREMES.
Six British men escaped from the rigours of German prison camps have arrived in England with four or five That the sinking of the Lasiranin was French-men out of over a score who got away from four different compounds. directed from Berlin, and that Ambas The rest pither failed to negotiate the the sador von Bernstorff, who expressed auch Rhine or were captured, or gave up
effort through weariness or foot troubles. deep regret" over the torpedoing of the returned men tell of a new form of the ship, kusw before she sailed that itseruelty practised by the Germans upon to work in the mines Minister of Foreign
was planned to sink her, in asserted in prisoners who refuse
of Westphalia. They are stripped naked Cheng-Imiang.
an article by John R. Rathom, editor of and cast into cells, which are heated like One of the escaped men, a Turkish Minister of the Interior-Chien Nun The Providence Journal, in the February sufiered the torture, described the
number of World's Work
Cabinet
hun.
Affairs, Lu
Minister of War-Tuan Chi-kwei
In his article, which gives intereating Minister of the Navy.-Li Kwan accounts of the methods by which German haing
plotting in America was uncovered in Minister of Education Fut-Seng 1015 and 1010 Mr. Rathom gives the hsiang.
Minister of Justice, Chu Shen: Minister of Agriculture-Tien Tieh..
following code message which was sent from Nauen, Germany, to tac Sayville Wen-LI, wireless station at 3 am,, April 22nd, 1913, and caught by the wireless n The Journal →
cell as so small that he could touch the sides when extended his arms. The walls and roof are of wood, but double, and packed between to exclude air. When the door is closed the only ventilation, is a hole about the size of a Da piece. In this heated cell the prisoners he and sweat and gasp. Then, when they are almost faint- ing, they are taken cut, and made to stanal or sit in the open, no matter what the weather is, and suffer all the tortures this fails to break their spirit, they are of exposure, to the opposite extreme. If rendured unconscious hy n blow over the head with the butt end of a rifle, carried down
the pit, and not allowed to emerge again until they consent to perform tho (44, WV)-Wolf - nineteen-fifteen distasteful task allotted to them.
Beatings and Solitary confinement on warne 175 29 I stop 175 12 stop durch brend and water are common punish- 622 stop 19 7 16 stop LIX 13456ments, but the British ne a whole are not in so badly treated as they were earlier Chang Ching-yno has arrived
Mr. Rathom wrote that the message the war. It is the Russians who suffer
from home, and they are dying in hun. Changsha and taken over the Administra-created considerably interest in the office the most. They have no parcel supplies dreds in every casp from starvation, consumption, and diseases due to the lack of food.
Minister of Communications, concur rently with Finance, Tsao Ju-lin
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS INDICATED.
tion of the Province
It is understood that the Government has instructed Ching not to make any further advance, indicating a temporary suspension of hostilities with a view to re-opening pce negotiations.
(THROUGH ZEUTER'A AGENCY.)
The enemy captured the villages of
Several machines made as many as We gained ground at certain places Auhvillers, Grivesnes, Cantigny, Mesnils, Heavy hostile attacks developed this St. George's, Lemonchel and Ayencourt three sorties in one day Seventeen
Heavy fighting is proceeding eastward, thousand kilogrammes of projectiles were morning southward of the Somme in the neighilibuthood of Mezieres and Bemunin. of the latter place, and the exact situation dropped 25 the Noyon, Guiscard, and JAPAN'S Fighting here continues,
Captured documents show that the at tack on Thursday astride the Scarpe aimed at the capture of the Vimy Ridge and Arras, and was carried out by at least six divisions in the front line with ifony assault divisions in support. Despite the force of the attuck it made no con siderable impression upon our battle position and resulted in a severe enemy defent.
in heavy fighting further south, de tween Boiry and Serre, which had no greater success, 11 hostile divisions were identified.
ENEMY ATTACKS BREAK DOWN.
LONDON, March
is unknown.
Ham region. One of our tracer squadron,
The weather has broken, and there is in the course of numerous contests, heavy rain. GERMAN LOSSES TWO HUNDRED
THOUSAND....
Pinis, March 30th-
A seini-official statement issued to day contains:-It is anticipated the Allied Command will only take the initiative after the expected new strong German attack in the direction of Amiens has been broken.
ACTION
FOREIGN MINISTER
RESIGNS
1
NEW YORK, March 20th. brought down. 13 machines, seven of A Tokyo telegram states that the which were tololly destroyed, and six Foreign Minister, Baron Motone, has seriously damaged. Two of the enemy's resigned.
Baron Uchida, the ex-Ambas captive balloons were set on fire. ¿ sador at Petrograd, is succeeding him.
THE FRENCH RESERVES IN
THE SIBERIAN SITUATION, SIBERIAN GOVERNMENT FORMED
SHANGHAI, March 30th. The North China Daily New's corres pondent at Harbin reports that it has been decided to form a provisional Siberian Government to continue the original revolution programme and sup
is expected the Red Guarda. press
PARIS, March 30th. ~ Le Temps, commenting on the improved battle outlook, says that the French re serves have undoubtedly intervened.
The Allies are now in the most favour- able condition for carrying on the The Near East, defensive, and, for assuming the offensive! The Third and Fifth British Arnes
refresh reserves."
THROUGH REVIER'S AGENCY.
From Berlin, Foreign Office, te Bots chaft, Washington. ....
660
of The Journal because it followed none of the known codes and, in form, was unlike any other message which had been received at Sayville up to that time. That it was considered important by the Germans was indicated by the fact that in unfavourable statio conditions foursome respect has this inspired that the. attempts were made to put it through before Sayville got it.
The next word was
The
12
kome
The men
MEN WHO RETALIATE, 40 The British have a wonderful spirit, U- German atrikes & Briton the Intter promptly retaliates, and such a whole "misdemeanour is less and less reported. by the German soldiers. The escaped men The message remained undeciphered attribute this indomitable spirit to the people 14 Germany. The parcels sent to into the German Embassy recalled that them from home have kept them in fairly until someone with a line of information fact that the British are the best fate an the morning of April 9th Prince, comfortable circumstances, and as their natzfeldt had been searching for a Vespirita riso so the Germans' descend to Fork World Almanac. The first word of zero To the people of England these six the message, "Welt," Getinan for wen appeal for even more to be sent, World, gave an additional clue, taken for it badly needed. The German population is starving. The want of food with the words following 1913. fourth word of the message was "warnc. is apparent all round, the people's com which is German for "warn." On Page plexions have taken on an unhealthy hu 175 of the almanac, the twenty-ninth line, and they never smile; even a flag hoisted
fails, to
inspira Victory first word, was Lusitania. On Page 175, for
in one word two, was passenger, enthusiasm. The men describe the Ger
durch, German mans as very docile, anxious for peacy but for through," Page 622 of the almanac, dull and listless. In their opinion there is no likelihood of any revolt. They take line two, word four, was presa." 4
The next word of the message came things as they are, and hope for peace on
their own terms. The bread, the men say from page 19 of the idle is made half of sawdust, and Ints are which contained the announcement of the death of Joseph Pulitzer, the 18th worden are all members of the now of the 7th line on that page being no Army, and had been in Germany over The last four words of the message were two years. Two belong to Newcastle, and taken from an advertisement of a motor one to Swindon, two are Australians, and
the which bore the caption The sen! of one is a Canadian. In a walk from safety at sea. This was page LIX. of port of debarkation to the military con the advertising section, and words 3, 4, 5 trol office to which they had to report they aud & of the line 11 were voyage across contrasted the streets of the town with the Atlantic." So that the complete those of Germany. It is good to see remarked strecta smiling faces in the message read :---
Warn Lusitania passengers through one," and the shops are a treas to those Press not voyage across the Atlantic. in Germany, You do not seen to have any The word Botschaft is German for shortage here. In Germany the shops are Embassy and was the direction of very clean, but quite empty. And most the message. This message was received of the women work there. No, we think by von Bernstorf in Washington on we have come to a land of plenty when
we look round. April 28th, the first thing in the morn- ing. The anxiety of the German Ambas sador to warn passengers on the Lusitanta is shown by the circumstances that not until two full days later, on April uth, did he send to the offices of The World and The New Tork Times Baron Uchida has arrived from Petemps for the famous advertisement of the ograd, and has reiterated his faith in German Embassy, published on the morn. ing of May 1st, the day the Furitania. the Bolsheviks.
Two youths of 18 fgured as prisoners Biled, warning passengers intending to voyage across the Atlantic that Germany in a charge of burglary at Middlesex and England were at war and that ships. Sessions when an extraordinary story of fying the English flag were liable to their exploite was told. They were destruction. Mr. Rathom comments on Harold Victor Baronson of an internast Mumford, who A Palestine official report státes :---
German and Cyril Henry this message as follows: AUS tions eastward of the Jordan continued Despite stubborn opposition, our opera
"Notice the cleverness of the Ger was described by Mr. Huntly Jenkins as one of the most extraordinary boys thr man Embassy in dating the advertise successfully. The Colonial mounted 26th, states-In the Upper House, the ment april nand, 1916, for insertion in Bench has ever had to deal with
Seven charges of burglary at Bush Hill on the Hedjar railway of track Premier said that if the German menace the newspapers of May 1st. It was, of Park, Enfield, Winchmore Hill, and other
course, for the purpose of not disclosing We also attacked westward of the Jor-developed in the Far East, endangering the confection between the codo nesange places were brought against Baron and Mumford, the value of the stolen property from Nauch and the advertisement that LONDON, March 30th.
and £400 Thoy being between The French repeatedly counter attacked advanced to a maximum depth of two Japan's well-being or calling for action 4.20 p.m.
to protect the Allied common interests, the date was put back for a week. As pleaded guilty and were sentenced to s Reuter's Correspondent at Headquar. violently our new front between Montmiles on an eight miles front.
We occupied Deirsiman Khummel Japan was determined to cope with the Printed, the advertisement mentioned no year's detention under the Borsta),system.
ship by name.
As told by Mfr. A Bryan, counsel for Ikba and Khum el-Bureiti.
Referring to the published statement the prosecution, and witnesses, the story ter's, telegraphing to-day, states: The didier and Noyon
situation adequately
from German gources that von was an extraordinary one.
They were eraenating Naval Activities. situation, to-day is satisfactory for the
The Premier urged the nation to be Bernstorf regretted the sinking of the arrested at a house at Crouch End, which had entered, through a window. Allies.
prepared for emergencies.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas p porta:North of the Soming there were local actions only.
The enemy'a attacks yesterday at Demuin and at Mezieres, south of the Somme, pressed back our troops from the Jatter village.
have been entirely reconstituted with IMPORTANT CAPTURES AND that the new Government will ask the friendly Powers for assistance to com 5,000 PRISONERS.
See military operations without delay JAPAN FRIENDLY TO BOLSHEVIKS
It is conservatively estimated that the German losses total 200,000..
GERMAN REPORT.
LONDON, March 29th. A wireless German official report states-In local engagements on both
LONDON, March 30th.
A Mesopotamia communiqué states Pursuing the remnants of the Turkish force, we advanced besond Ana, 83 miles north-westward of Hit,
The captures prove, of great import the ance, including large depots at Hadite spand Ana containing quantities of stores,
also many small river-bonta
The prisoners now number 5,000,
BRITISH ADVANCE AND OCCUPY POSITIONS,
We secured a number of prisoners in sides of the Scarpe we broke into counter-attacks.
foremost English positions, and tured several thousands of prisoners.
The English continued near and north- wards of Albert thoir fruitless costly
counter-attacks.
All the enemy's attacks at Demuin broke down after sharp fighting lasting throughout the afternoon.
Our cavalry during the past week- fought with great gallantry, both mount ed and dismounted, and repulsed the enemy, inflicting heavy losses in numerous engagements.
We again attacked between the Somme and the Avre and drove out the enemy from his old positions and we bravely defended villages in a westerly and SITUATION SATISFACTORY FOR north-westerly direction vid Warfusee,
THE ALLIES.
The slowing down of hostilities is probably the lull before a renewed storm.
Abancourt and Pressier.
Our booty since the beginning of the battle is 70,000 prisoners, 1,100 guns, of which General Hutier captured 40,000 Prisoners and 800 guns,
Increased artillery firing, has continued
The enemy is rushing up artillery and reorganising, and when this is completed in Lorraine. the conflict will again commence with
great intensity,
We are awaiting his next move in the same old spirit of optimam, which has. never forsaken our men throughout the titanic struggle.
GERMAN CLAIMS.
LONDON, March 30th
0.10 p.m.
A wireles German official report states: We cleared Avette.
We drove. out British French troops Immediately the enemy captured from parts of the foremost positions be Mezieres we counter-attacked vigorously tween the Somme and the Avre. --
We captured Beaucourt and Mezieres.
Montdidier French attacks against failed. SOUTH AFRICA'S APPRECIATION:
CAPE TOWNS, March 30th. General Botha has called Sir Douglas The loss of this position does not alter Haig as follow:-We are watching with
in face of a terrific machine-gun barrage from the enemy. Our attempt was ultimately abandoned owing to the great strength of the enemy. However, our attacking force actually brought back prisoners,
LONDON, March 30th.
troops destroyed several miles of
dun. The left and centre of our line
[THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY.] BRITISH DESTROYER SUNE,
The Admiralty announce that a British destroyer "struck a mine and sank on March 7th.
Forty-one lives were lost.
General,
LONDON, March 30th.
Et
The Daily Mail correspondent Tokyo reports:The Premier and For eign Minister in their statements of polio declare that Japan in friendly to the Bolshevika and there is no reason for armed intervention.
JAAN DETERMINED TO COPE WITH SITUATION.
LONDON, March 30th.
A message from Tokio, dated March
ALSATIANS ATTEMPT TO DESERT A frontier message reports continued attempts of German soldiers to pass the electric wires into Holland.
SCHOOL OF SCIENTIFIC BURGLARY-
"BOYS' MASKE AND LOADED REVOLVERS,
£300
Lusitania, Mr. Rathom wrote: they were wearing black silk masks and
When word came that the Lusitania
station
was sunk and Bernstorff's Press agents both had life preurvers daggers, and » reported him as being overcome with bottle of ether. At the police grief and regret in a fashionable New Mumford tried to sidlo to the door, York Hotel, he was at that moment and pointing a revolver at a police officer, actually giving a supper party elsewhere called Hands Up. He was disarmed. and the revolver was found to be loaded. in New York, and during this supper Ammunition was found at the homes n party the destruction of the Lusitania both prisoners, and at the house, where It appears that some troops from the was hailed as a glorious triumph for they slept. They had been using rifles Russian front had been brought first to German naval prowess. During the even-
ALL SORTS OF APPLIANCES, the neighbourhood of the Dutch-Belgian ing von Papen, touching glasses with his stolen from a volunteer drill hall.
Neil said both boys had a Inspector frontier and after a short interval were chief, made the remark: This is the vent towards the front, their places being end of the mistress of the seas. Captain mechanical turn of mind, and their houses laken by other troops from the East. Boy-Ed, who was not at this function, were fitted up with all sorts of appliances.
scicatabo Chairman of Sessions:--A Ou Bunday night (wrote The Times alone among the entire group of embassy Austrian Correspondent) a skirmish took oficials persisted in declaring that the school of burglary. place between a few armed Alsatian sinking of the Lusitania was a blunderserved an apprenticeship to a well-known The silver market is steady, and is soldiers, accompanied by Belgian work of the worst sort closed until Tuesday.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
THE SILVER MARKET.
MARKET CLOSED,
GERMAN BANKNOTES RIDICULE
DRAG FATHERLAND,
was further stated that both lads
the situation materially. Our hold on the deepest appreciation the strenuo ndividual owner to be postponed beyond trict mounted patrols, who galloped up offence lay (according to thecule His To step nothing back from the common
efforts which you and your gallant men the Luce Valley is considered satisfactory, pr
are making in this struggle for the A body of our troops
Who were* en- veloped in Roeux on March 28th fought liberties of mankind. We earnestly pray the enemy till darkness then they re- that complete success may crown the joined the main body through a gap in the enemy line-
heroic and noble stand which the sons of It is reported to day that the Germans freedom are making under your able
are, digging, in between Thiepval and Laboiselle.
leadership.
firm of photographers In a cellar at Jed, and the German guards The
Faron's house 15lb. of explosive powder, Alsatians who had been on the Ruasion
gelignite, and P quantity of blasting front throughout the way, were on their (Continued a Page 6.)
powder was found, together with some way to the Flanders front. When the
bottles of sulphuric acid, ten rifles, and German guards attempted to oppose their
& quantity of ammunition, as well WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES. passage the Alsatians opened a rifle fire. The artist who designed paper money chemical phials and test tubes.
killing one and wounding others. In the of the denomination of 30 pfennigs, which The boys were also in possession of a The Treasury announce that they in meantime others were busy cutting the is now being circalated in Beveral rural sort of Communistic code which evidently
applied to a gang, a
and some of the tend, at the first convenient opportunity wine which was presently short-circuited towns of Prussia, has been arrested at
The
rifle fire and Nieberlahnstein on the charge of holding articles were to obtain legislation to allow the cashing and caused a blaze of War Savings Certificates held by any the blaze attracted the attention of dis- up the Fatherland to
Munsbode of pool, and to take only that which is the period of five years until the under their officers, bot, being met by Rotterdam) in the ornamentation on the slotted to my by the other members.
To sell nothing without the consent of maturity of the last-dated certificate in steady rifle are from the fugitives, re margin of the bills. After the money his possession, and to provide that any turned to seek assistance. Finally the bed been in circulation for some time it the Chief rettificate held after maturity during this Alsatians were outnumbered, but in the was discovered that the marginal decora That my share of the process is to be
ate of Id, a month.
Holland and safety. So him the artist inscribed in microscopic en all others, interval shall increase in value at a flat meantime one Belgian or more reached tions consisted mostly of drawings of 10 per cent on all cash and goods from
articles of food. Above a picture of operations in which I
participate
gad na On Monday all the Germans troops in letters: "A tender memory and fond
Another clause in the code enjoined. the vicinity of the frontier were sent for hope. Over a design of three turnips members to procure, for personal use ward to the Western front, their places he wrote: This is how the Germans revolver and rifle, ammunition, mask, life
live: being filled with troops from the East
preserver, bowie knife, skeleton keye, etc.
It will, of course, be for the holder to decide whether ho wishes to take advan tage of this arrangement or prefers to cash each certificate on its maturity