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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY. ~ JULY
GERMAN POSITIONS ATTACKED.
ALIENS IN GREAT BRITAIN.
IMMEDIATE INTERNMENT RECOMMENDED.
MOSCOW IN STATE OF SIEGE.
ranco-Belgian Front.
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BRITISH FRONT.
·SUCCESSFUL RAID.
LONDON, July Oth
1.00 p.m.
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports that London troops successfully raided castward of Avras, capturing a few prisoners.
The enemy's artillery were nelive against the positions we recently captured southward of the Somme.
VIOLENT THUNDERSTORMS AND.
HAILSTORM. -.
Logos, July Dth:
3.35 p.m. Reuter's Correspondent at Britieb today, Headquarters; telegraphing states:-The spell of dry weather was broken last night by violent thunder- storms, ending in a terrific hailstorm..
The only retaliation the enemy has so for nitempted for the Australian success
Italian Front.
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ITALIAN FRONT.
RECRUITING IN IRELAND.
LONDON, July 6th Colonel Lynch has written to Col Theodore Roosevelt, inviting him to Tre-
TITHRIVIN
THE ROYAL SILVER WEDDING CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
ADDRESS TO THEIR MAJESTIES.
[ROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT-
LONDON, July 8th
ADDITIONAL PORTS TO BE In the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd
OPENED. land to help recruiting. He says hoGeorge moved that an Address be pre would like General Joffre and a consented to Their Majesties, congratulat singent of French heroes to visit Ireinnding them upon their silver wedding
ALIENS IN BRITAIN.
PRIME MINISTER'S RECOM-
MENDATIONS.)
LONDON, July 8th The Prime Minister, who has been investigating the alien question, recom- mends the immediate internment of all male enemy aliens over 18 years of ago unless there is a medical or other definite cause for exemption; the repatriation of all women of enemy origin, except those whose husbands are exempted from interament; the immediate dismissal of PARIS, July 8th. all persons of enemy origin employed in A message from Turin states that Genet offices, and the prompt clos eral Ladendorff recently visited the g of enemy business. All changes of Trentino, and ordered the preparations
names by persons of enemy origin since for the new Austrian offensive to be August, 1914, to be inoperative until hastened Large Austrian reinforcements 8 months after the war. are concentrated at Innsbrueck. Thờ Treat-Swiss frontier is closed. Aerial Activities.
LUDENDORFF HASTENED AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE.
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[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
| BOMBING GERMANY'S MEANS OF COMMUNICATION,
LONDON, July 8th.
·
The Air Ministry reports:--Wo at- lacked the station and factories at Kaiserslautern on July 7th Hostile machines were engaged over the objce
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
UKRAINE GOVERNMENT RESIGNS.
AMSTERDAM, July 8th. The Ukranian Government has resign
ed.
MOSCOW IN STATE OF SIEGE BASLE, July 9th. Messages from Berlin say that state of siego was proclaimed at Moscow on July 7th.
a
and paying a warm tribute to their Majesties! unfailing devotion to dnty, expressing the loyal affece tion with which the British people throughout the world welcome the anni- versary of so-felicitous a union, and their carnest prayer for a continuance of Their Majestics health and happiness for many years. (Cheers.)
PERINO, July 10th.
ment the Chinese Cabinet is opening At the request of the Japanese Govern-
Kalgan, Kweihua, Taonan, Hulutao, Telun and Chifuno as commercial ports. THIRTY MILLION YEN LOAN FROM JAPAN
A loan agreement has been signed for -30,000,000 based on the security of the forests and mines of Kirin and Heilung kinng, China to organise a company for the development of these resources.
JAPANESE TO CONSTRUCT NEW
RAILWAY
Mr. Lloyd George paid & tribute to the beauty, simplicity and purity of Their Majesties home life, their invariable kindliness, sympathy and unwearying The Japanese have also signed na devotion to duty by which they exercised agreement for the construction of a rail an unassessable influence on hundreds of way from Tsinan, in Shantung, to Shun millions in the Empire who instinctively teh, in Chibli, at which place it will join looked to the throne for their pattern. the Peking-Hankow railway. The (Cheers,}
amount of the loan is 2,000,000.. length of the line will be 186 miles. to His Majesty the King's undaunted capital, material and engineers will courage, constant thought for the soldiers supplied by Japan. and emilors, and Their Majesties' solici- tude for the wounded and bereaved. The
CANTON NEWS. British people would never forget these [FROM THE CANTON INTELLIGENCE BUREAU.] things. (Cheers.)
The Prime Minister also paid a tribute
SOUTHERN FORCES LAND AT ANOT
The
The
be
General Chen Chiung-ming, the former Governor-General of Kwangtung and now leading the Cantones troops to relieve
Their Majesties had encouraged aul inspired the war workers when thrones were tottering and falling in other lands The British Throne was more firmly estabFukion, officially reported on July 7th ishta than ever on the only foundation, that some of his men bad landed at Andy namely, the lasting affection and good in the face of strong resistance from the will of the people.
No sovereign had local forces.
nt Villers-Bretonneux has taken the form tives. One hostile machine was shot post office were recaptured from theter of Imperial moment.
of heavy minenwerfer fire.
Prisoners captured in this sector pay a very high tribute to the weight and necuracy of our shellfire, in consequence of which they were without rations for two days, whereby the German moral was sensibly lowered.
Hib
ENEMY SUPPLIES BY ABROPLANE, Prisoners also reported considerable confusion in the rear of the line. difficult was the rationing of the German outpost line in face of our fire that the enemy was forced to r
aeroplanes as supply lorrice," a box of bully-beef and
down, and two British machines are
missing.
Aur squadrons on the 8th inst bombed the railway station, workshops and sidings at Luxembourg. Bursts were observed in the station and workshops.
The Balkans.
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(THROUGH BEUTEE'S AGENCY.).
AUSTRIAN REPORT
Losnós, July 8th.:
6.20 p.m.
A wireless Austrian official report, biscuits being dropped mistakenly from a states:The Italians are attacking with a strong West wing on the middle and lower Vojust, in Albania.
hostile low-fying plane on one of our forward, posta.
This is the first time such a practice has been followed on the Western Front..
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NOTHING BEYOND LOCAL
ENCOUNTERS.
LONDON, July 8th,
11.00 p.m. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a despatch, says: There is nothing to report beyond local encounters. We have taken a few prisoners..
SIXTEEN TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED.
ing.
CORRESPONDENCE.
BUSINESS MEN AND MILITARY DUTIES.
[TO FUB EDITOR OF THE “ HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.).
Grouser that I quite ngree with him? Si-May · 1 be allowed to: tell
Some of the men to whom he refers havo already done their " bis in the fighting, line; others wear medal for fighting in the South African War, which was by no means a pienic; and all are ready
go again the instant the word is
given.
In the meantime a grateful country is taking about 20 per cent. of their salaries from them because they live in this de- lightful Colony, which should be a grent incentive to them to help Grouser ninke more money. Certainly stop their about bathing and tennis parties. What drink and tobner Many of them hav given up businesses possibly as good un
Grousers," but not with the object. nf coming here to do" Grouter's" guards, dte, and they certainly should not be allowed any freedom now that they are here
However, you've got them Grouser, and you must try and let
them know it. By the way, 1 believe they waste quit, a lot of time having npals. See what you can do about it.-- Yours faithfully,
SERGEANT.
Hongkong, July 10th, 1918.
MAN
WHO THRIVES ON
** CRISES."
PEN PICTURE OF THE PRIME MINISTER AT BAY.
[BY CHARLES T. KING.
hearts of subjects. This was a mat-Military Government, which held its in- over yon a more assured position in the THE 3DMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL.
The Administrative Council of the
A man of medium height, silvery hai
majority of its members present either in The stability augural meeting on July ath, has now eyes that in turn dart shafts of hot light and beam sunny 'happiness, champion person or by del rates and hay sent a request to Dr. Sun Yat-sen to return to
of peace, yet resolute for war, stood ins Canton at his earliest conveniente. A yesterday in the House of Commons to his.
·similar message has ben forwarded to Instest crisis.". ex-Premier Tang Shao-ri.
of the Throne was essential to the strength of the Empire, for it was not only a symbol but a bond of unity.
Mr. Asquith paid a tribute to the un scarying tact with which the King strove for pence in July, 1914.
The railwaymen refused to strike, as requested by the Socialists on the eve of the revolt. The station, telegraphs and
Socialists by the Bolsheviks next morn
ASSASSINATION OF MIRBACH
9 July 8th, Petit Journal states that Mirbach, when at the German Legation at Athens, was the real Premier of Greece, and, with the assistance of the notorious Schenk he caused all the misfortunes of General
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LONDON, July 9th.
The lenders arrested include Spiri dovna, who has confessed that Mirbach was murdered by the terrorist members of the party in order to provoke the annulment of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty.
We withdrew our advanced posts in the The rumours of a revolution at Petro valley to the inain positions.
grad and Jaroslav are denied by the General.
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EXCHANGE OF WAR- PRISONERS.
AMSTERDAM, July 8th. In the Reichstag the War Minister, General
Stein, said that Gormany
had
Government.
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THE CZECHOSLOVAK ABMY
LONDON, July 8th. Reuter's Agency learns, according to trustworthy Japanese sources in Russia, that the Czecho-Slovak Army is much stronger than was at first supposed, and
ARAB TRIBUTE TO MAUDE
→ The resolution was passed unanimously. TO SUCH AS THOL DEATH HATH (Cheers.)
NO TERRORS."
Mr. Lloyd George thrives on
I have seen him open his despatch box morning after morning, ac 4-am, after twelve hours of hot controversy over a party measure, and toss his slain or The following appreciation of the late tortured clauses into it with a gáy smile General Sir Stanley Maucks, Commanding One day I gave him a little batch of the armies in Mesopotamia, appeared in
recent issue of El Arah, of Bagdadenttings fall of abuse of himself, and he Like stars without the moon, or like first chuckled with enjoyment and then
Jowol
Replying to the Address and congratu-string of pearls when the purest lay back and laughed merrily...
lations of the Imperial Conference on the silver wedding, testifying to the constant aud-inckoning affection of the people at home and overseas, Their Majesties say that no congratulations are more warmly appreciated, and they pray that pence will soon be restored, bringing a reunion in the home-life, which is the basis of the well-being of the Empire.
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AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.
MEETINGS AND PROCESSIONS PROHIBITED.
LONDON, July 10th. General Shaw has prohibited meetings
Ireland.
thunderbolt. For it was not to. be
Irak is smitten by a cruel blow which
The psychology of David Lloyd George, has fallen upon its people like a devastat Prime Minister, is such that almost any thought that the lion and the conquerer vi monent in his life is a paychelegient this country would meet his doom at such moment. He was so much in one of his a moment as this a doom which echoes through the land from end to end. mastering moments yesterday in his gallant leader fell sick on the 17th speech of an hour and a quarter on the of this month, having previously felt that his health was impaired. Symptoms of Maurice letter crisis, he dealt with it in dysentery appeared, and all steps were such a characteristic style, that seasoned taken to ward off death from him. But Parliamentary veturnas like Mr. Balfour the labours of the most skilled physicians sat and drank it in with eyes a-glitter were fruitless, uo remedy could prevail; And at four in the morning of Tuesday, His hair is grey, and there are long
with joy. the 19th, the fatal news was spread wisps of it over his ears, but he looke throughout the city, to the deep grief of as trim as a new pin. He has had the all those who had known his fine charac heaviest load of work any statesman could ter and
generous nature, had them bear, hut his eyes were bright with the selves had experience of his nobility and light of battle. His voice was as pleasant. purity of purpose, and realised the place and clear ag cover, and he took it down winch he held in the hearts of
all.
and up the whole gainut of human expres. It is known to all men that General HELD THEM ALL. Maude had achieved fame such as falls to
THOU ART MORE ITIAN MAN."
sion.
.
the conditions by which is now providing a rallying point for the and processions throughout the whole of the lot of few leaders. By his strutegicaled soldiers, ex-Praniers, young cadets,
exchanged British, French and German The hazy weather on July 7th interwar prisoners will not be again employed.
GERMANY
fered with air work Seven German aero- GRAVE FOOD: SITUATION planes were destroyed and four driven down uncontrollable, Three British machines are missing.
We dropped 10 tons of bonibs in the day-time and during the following night,
the principal targets attacked being
majority of the non-Bolshevik elements.
The Czecho-Slovak force at Vladivostock INbers 15,000, besides the reinforcements
which were despatched to Irkutsk
INDEPENDENCE DAY
AMSTERDAM, July 8th,
In the Reichstag, Herr Matzinger (Centre) drew attention to the grave food
situation.
The Socialist Wels said that certain
FRANCE,
IN
PARIS, July 5th. Independence Day was observed with
Ambassadors, peers, ex-viceroys, wond- plans he shattered the arm of the Turks colonels, generals, friendly MPa, and and Germans and blunted the AMIENS DESTROYED.
their purposes so that no sooner has of
they ring snipers packed the place from heard of the presence of the English in all, and played over them all with overy to top gallery, and he held them
BOMBARDED AND BURNT.
any part than their spirit died within note,
from the
raillery about a bostile them and they thought only of flight. Press drenching him with cocon slop,”..... Thus honours and congratulations rained down to low, solemn cathedral notes that Telegraphing from Amiens, Mr. Hy upon him from all august Wood, the United Press Association cor- chiefs of great nations kings and vibrated with pent feeling and touched respondent with the French armies, says:
heart Amiens has already joined her sister holding death as unworthy of a thought; swung round, and waved quivering
He was noted for personal bravery, the chords of the
When he made crowning martyred cities, Arras. Soissons, and aud to General Maude, in his warfare and over the benches that would Rheims, for she is completely dead. But with the
most rightly and been his chief supporters in party times. whilst these latter cities suffered a long be and lingering death, the Huns have in- Tayyib
truly
words of Abu-el- Even the ranks of snipery could searer ficted a quick death upon Amiens. To
with the Pringlets ever on the pourice, always sorry they had interrupted
ho
Rescued Zaw Career incing the Roiser had no enthusiasm The most stirring feature was te nearly 7,000
shells, with acroplane AND in
speaking of forbear to cheer. They were little rauks,
and Courtrai,
FRENCH FRONT.
ARTILLERY ACTIVE.
PARIS, July 6th." A communiqué states:-There was artil
Jery firing between Villers-Cottereta, forest
and the Marne,
FRENCH ATTACK GERMAN POSITIONS.
PARIS, July Oth
A communiqué states:-South of the Aisne wo attacked, this morning, the Ger man positions at the approaches to the Rouz Farest, northwest of Longront, on
front of three kilometres."
We advanced 1,200 yards..
ridges Borth and south of the farm.
We took 347 prisoners.
Thou
fallen on the thou Denth has
firm--and to such as and no terrors-as if thou
idea of the misery of the masses, 47 the march of French and Americardous and torpedoes, ha exceeds that wert under the eyes of ins Destroyer, but?on, quiet, calm, clear then a
per cent of whom earned under four troops, amid a storm of cheers, down
city, whose devastation far
the
of vehemence at the
Opposition
as a man tearing the sounds
merks daily. (Sensation.) Finally, he avenue du President Wilson, the name though the cathedral is still which and thy lips smiling. In thee, valour from his bosom with pain. Then a skirt
declared that n abortening of the war of which evoked the most cordial pro-
American speches. would be a greater économie gain than (Loud the conquest of any province. Socialist applause.)
The speeches of Herr Matzinger and Herr Wels were in reply to an announce ment by the Food Dictator that the barvest
of Loissons or Arras Scarcely a house be asleep. The warriors pass before the bench, then guttural tones, deep down in in the whole city remains untouched wounded in fight, but thy face is bright his throat, as
and it has been pierced by nine shells,
fores of ound are such that they have of declamation have inflicted damage principally to the passed into a saying of the people, that now a interior. where the huge statue of Christ tho
thou art more than man, With their
in high pitched tones, where
The American Chamber of Commerce lies in fragments on the floor, whilst wings they have clasped thoo in ans-bound & with two fists on the
gave a banquet to members of the Cabinet, the Allied Ambassadors, and prominent citizens of France and America
skilled workers ATC.
sively with smaller calibre guns, apparent over the lhe who
in
In the course of an address, the Chairly economising their bigcer ballistic reous victory knows that its shining
would not fulfil anticipations and than stated that American naval ship than the destruction of this unfortunate
Bestless weeks would be necessary.
SPAIN'S ESPIONAGE LAW. NEWS OF SHIPPING MOVEMENTS
merchantmen.
PROHIBITED.
MADRID, July 9th.
yards to-day had simultaneously launch ed 100 ships, aggregating 500,000 tons.
AN IRISH RENEGADE
Thou
sources for greater military objectives are the broad, keen blades
of the
picture we thought such a
ment the Germans effectively used incen- music was to be heard in Bagdad, there was the tieshus
were, its occupation great, and
LONDON, July 8th.
since
the almost indignant gaze
bis
here Gladstone bagging all the irremovable works of art. the strong alike would perish
busy sand embrace under which the timorous and rambled feverishly
ed and Disraeli
olled and Harcourt Apart from aerial bombs and torpedoes. despisest the javelin and castest it from delicate-faced figure. Then, instead of
Sometimes he
he looked a rather frail the Germans are shelling the city exclu- thee, for the
erults
the pleasing countenance, there would come the picture Mr Augustus John gave que, ugly, heavy-visaged Lloyd George On the day of the death of this great when he leaned across at Mr. Asquith's city. During the height of the bombardman no sound of song or instrument of bench, and jammed
together us John ander a city, often burning simultaneously in its occupation by the British forces
jay
expression, the glad
beneath Enit eye- various parts of the city. Although num-ness and social merriment have Bers of the Paris, firemen were rushed to unceasing. Even those whose
brows the face of a hard fighter,
The Prime Minister of Britain came to Amiens flames, the German aeroplanes, by con from their festivities in mourning
the great point the world gravity of the
out his hands God be tion. The pity of it! The sin of suche
supplica especially by night, drove off the firemen, merciful to him. until huge portions
of the city were com pletely Rutted.
For several days now the Germans have widow and his children. We would is into his voice. The enemy, silently, in been using their deadliest mustard as dole with the British Empire in its our heroes in Bhakt over there
mystery, was preparing a great blow at shells, with the consequence that, whilst bereavement of this great contain. And the population of Amiens numbered we trust that commander may be cuss could see them. Not a head stir 120,000 before the bombardment, only a sppointed to the arinies of Mesopotamia and implore that there shall be an end of
red Not a throat
gave a sound. few hundred remain These are living who will renew in us the memory of him this sniping:2 in eaves until their household belongings who is gone, and perpetuate his victories can be removed. The city exists chiefly and conqueste. To God we pray, and in in name only.
Tim is the answer to prayer,
for the purpose of, hghting the had taken place the day before abstaineer te hel
Lance Corporal Dowling has been court: Stantiv bombarding the burning districks, him whom they had lost my pettiness amid a storm that was threaten NB! beseech the Lord of the Heavens and ing the world A tremor of pain came
As the first application of the Espion-martialled in London. We captured Chavigne Farm and the age Law the Ministry has probibited the The charges were that, while a war publication of news and movements of prisoner in a German camp at Limburg, he joined an Irish brigade raised by the Germans and endeavoured to induce others to join. He also attempted to aid the eatiny by landing in Ireland
Fourteen enemy machines were felled
or disabled on July 6th and 7th, and two balloons were set on fire.
THE SILVER MARKET.
London, July 4th. The silver market is quiet,
to vouchsafe comfort to his
The
bugs
David Lloyd Georgs sank to his seat. trife pale, the victor of his hundredth
triais k