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THE WAR.
GENERAL KORNILOFF OFFERS TO LEAD AN ARMY AGAINST GERMANS
ALLIES' ADVANCE IN ALBANIA: OPPRESSED AUSTRIAN NATIONALITIES ANXIOUS TO JOIN IN FIGHT.
GT, BRITAIN SEARCHING OUT THE ENEMY IN HER MIDST.
ADMIRAL VON HINTZE TO SUCCEED BARON VON KUEHLMANN.
MR. HUGHES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.
Franco Belgian bront,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGEBOY.} THE BRITISH FRONT. SUCCESSFUL MINOR ENTER-
*PRISES. *
LONDON, July 13th.
1.56 p.m.
ENEMY'S CLEARANCE FROM V
FOREST COMPLETED.
LONDON, July 12th.
A Paris semi-official message states:- The capture of Corey completes the clear.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 15TH,
Italian Front
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY 1
THE ALBANIAN CAMPAIGN. ITALIAN ADVANCE SHORTENS THE FRONT:
LONDON, July 12th. A semi-official message from Rome says the importance of the
in Albenim
can only be realised by a knowledge of the topography of the country. Unlike most other war theatres, occupation of terri- fory can be carried out by detachments holding isolated tactical points. Our advance has resulted in the shortening of the front by some dozens of kilometres. GREAT POLITICAL EFFECT.
THROUGHOUT BALKANS
Ito July 12th.
The Italian advance in Albania, with French assistance in the centre, Greeks n the right flank and British naval support. is producing a great political as well as military effect throughout the Balkans, All the oppressed Austrian nationalities are anxious to join in the fight, The latter declare that" Austria is the Achilles heel of the enemy Alliance," and if the Allies succeed in attacking this vulnerable spot, the whole Austro-German
ONHIA INDIAN OPIUM TRADE.
LONDON, July 13h. In the House of Commons, replying to Sir J. D. Recs, Mr. Balfour stated that the Government would take all possible!
means to prevent the resnuption of the Ctumn Indian opiam trade if any attempt were made to revive it. He understood the Opium Combine was a private associa- tion
of importers of opium in Shanghai, which regulated the price of landed stocks: of Indian opiam.
ENEMY SUBJECTS IN CHINA.
LONDON, July 13th-
In the House of Commons Mr. A. J. Balfour stated that the whole question of enery subjects in China, was being, con- sidered. The object of restrictions on enemy subjects in the British Concession at Shameen was to prevent them carrying on business. If any member of the House had reason to think they were still carry ing on business he would be glad to have information.
BANK AMALGAMATION APPROVED.
LONDON, July 13th The Treasury has approved of the
Midland Bank and the London Joint Stock Bank.
rince of the enemy from the forest of compact may collapse like a pack of cards. amalgamation of the London City and
Villers-Cotterets. This was the objective
of a series of recent French local attacks Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- which have resulted in the securing of use ports:-English and Australian troopeful positions and valuable information yesterday, carried out successful minor previous to the resutuption of the enemy enterprises in the neighbourhood of offensive. The bastion formed by the Fieux Berquin and Merris, capturing 98 forest of Villers-Cotterots is now intact, prisoners and a few machine-guns.
Our casualties in this sector during the mast two days were exceptionally lights
We raided northward of Hamal captur.! ing 22 prisoners.
*# pulsel 1 raid northward "of
Mekeren..
Hostile artillery, were active opposite Beaumont Hamel, in the Strazcelo and
Loore sectors.
ATTEMPTED ENEMY RAID
"DRIVEN.
PARAS, July 12th.. 10.25. p... Field Marshal Bir Douglas Haig ré poris →→We drove off an attempted enemy raid this morning, with loss, in the neigh- bourhood of Burquoy.
AERIAL OPERATIONS. Heavy rainstorms yesterday limited our activity in the air. Our neroplanes -dropped nine tons of bombs upon a rail way junction behind the German lines. We destroyed thres German neroplanes uncontrollable and drove down Three British machines are missing. Fly ing at night was impossible.
two
THURSDAY'S ENTERPRISE.
LONDON, July 12th.
Aerial Activities.
· (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY;]
A WEEK'S
WARFARE.
FOURTEEN RAIDS IN GERMANY.
Lospor, July 12th. The past week's war in the air, which was remarkably successful, includes 14 separate British raids into Germany, with the loss of two neroplanes against four of the energy brought down. Despite the new formidable enemy squadrons told off to reinforce the defences, the raids ntc increasingly hampering the
German
power of offence and manœuvre, and owing to the serious damage indicted upon imunition factories, the network of railways from the Rhine to the front, Germany is being forced to divert an ever-increasing amount of energy and. trained man-power and material to defend the Rhineland. The interruption of war work is an increasingly serious problem.
Forty-eight tons of bombs were dropped in Germany during May, and 61 tons in June
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig BRITISH BOMB SAARBRUCK ports--We captured 120 prisoners and ten machine guns in Thursday's enter prise south-west of Merris.
LONDON, July 12th. The Air Ministry report: Last night we succesfully bombed three aerodromes,
We repulsed an attempted raid to the south of Buequoy and raided to the north. I causing two fires, and fired many machine- cast of Merris, near Meteron and in the gun rounds at trains, searchlights and vicinity of Hamel, taking prisoners. other military objects. Wa bombed rail- way sidings at Saarbruck today. All the machines returned,
THE FRENCH FRONT.
BRILLIANT FRENCH ATTACK.
PARIS, July 13th.
A coma unique states-Our troops this morning carried out a brilliant attack on a front of five kilometres between Cartel
and north of Mailly-Raineyal.
RAIDS IN TURKEY AND BULGARIA.
ITALIAN BOOTY.
LONDON, July 12th-
An Italian official message states that the booty in Albutia includes three can- non, eight mountain guns, four trench guns and two trench-mortars,
AUSTRIANS STILL RETREATING.
PARIS, July 12th
An Eastern communique states: South of the Devoli we are continuing our suc
cess.
We have seized the whole of the Kosnitza Ridge and occupied all the villages in the Tomorica Valley above Dobneny, taking over 250 prisoners,
THE · SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, July 13th. Messrs. Samuel...... Montagu's report states-The tone is good and the price.
changed.
Shanghai exchange hardened to 11/9. It is reported that
purchases on account of China have been made in the United States.
LONDON, July 13th. The silver market is quiet. China, is
reported to be buying in America,
LONDON, July 13th. The silver market is quiet.
AMERICA AND THE WAR and are retreating, pillaging and burning AMERICAN MACHINES BROUGHT their depots.
On the left, the Italiana captured Caf quimaka Heights.
The Austrians have suffered heavy losses
FOUR HUNDRED PRISONERS
CAPTURED
LONDON, July 13th.
2.80 nm.
A French Enstern communique states ---- Our advance in Albania continued on both banks of the Devoli.
Mount Komjani, on the right bank, was captured.
The mountainous region on the left bank between Devoli and Tomorica
cleared of the
except enemy,
was
the hill commanding the confluence, where
the enemy is resisting. ja
Over 400 prisoners were taken,:
ENEMY LOSSES VERY HEAVY!
LONDON, July 12th: The Allies' captures in Albania so for are 1,000 prisoners and six guns.
The enemy losses were very heavy... General.
-{THROUGH BHUTIR'S AGEKOY.) THEIR MAJESTIES SILVER WEDDING.
GIFT FROM WOMEN OF INDIA,
LONDON, July 13th.
础
DOWN
LONDON, July 12th. 44 German
1 official message claims that five out of six American aeroplanes attempting to raid Coblenz were brought down and the crews made prisoner.
LATER,
An American communiqué confrms the loss of five aeroplanes as the result of a bombing expedition.
AMERICAN CONSUL SAFE AT
TEHERAN.
WASHINGTON, July 12th. The State Department announces that the American Consulat Tabriz has reach. ed Teheran in safety with a party of Europeans and Americans.
THE REPLY FROM TURKEY. Turkey has not replied to the request for an explanation of the pillaging of the American hospital and the damage to the Consulate at Tabriz. FRANCES DAY IN LONDON.
LONDON, July 12th. France's Day for raising funds for the French Red Cross was celebrated in London There was a great public de mand for souvenirs and flags which, with liberal subscriptions, will, it is in the collecting of £500,000. There was an impressive Re quiere Service at Westminster Cathedral,
Her Majesty the Queen, in reply to an inquiry from Lady Chelmsford, has signified her willingness to recieve LONDON, July 12th The Press Bureau announces:-The Air present from the women of India in com estimated, resize All our objectives were secured, includForce, co-operating with the Navy, from memoration of the royal silver wedding ing the capture of the village Cartel and the 8th to the 10th instant, dropped sight in the form of a fund for promoting the Anchin Farm, and a number of strongly. tons of bombs on enemy docks and works, who have fallen in the war. The gift Their Majesties were represented. The
organised spinneys.
Our advance at some places was two kilometres deop. We captared over 100
prisoners..
ENEMY'S AERIAL LOSSES.
PARIS July 12th.
A communiqué states:-During June 161 enemy aereplanes were brought down and 181 seriously damaged. Over 600 tons of bombs were dropped.
and half a ton on Constantinople on the 7th instant.
Kulelburgas bridge and station, in Bulgaria, on which a quarter of a ton of bombs was dropped recently, was badly damaged.
The Balkans.
·FRENCH- CAPTURE VILLAGE AND THE
FARM.
A communiqué states:-We accentuated
education of children of Indian soldiers
will be devoted to scholarships in higher education, and it is hoped to extend the endowment to the territories of Frinces and Chiefs and to make a special provi. sion for the daughters of fallen soldiers 2 AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT
AND JEWS.
AMSTERDAM, July 12th. The Lemborger Tageblatt, in view of OPERA- the anti-Jewish attitude of the Austrian Government, urges, Austrian Jews to abandon neutrality and go over to the Entente, which supports Jewish interests. GREEK ARY' ___ CHIEF OF STAFF.
[DRROUGH REUTRA'S AGEN(V,}
MACEDONIAN
TIONS.
our progress to the north of Chavegny ENEMY ARTILLERY VERY ACTIVE. and east of Faverolles, occupying the village of Longport and Javage Farm
We carried out coupe-de-main, north of Montdidier, in Champagne, and took fifteen prisoners,
Thero is lively enomy artillery firing on the right baux of the Heuse
PARIS, July 11th
A communiqué itates Enemy artillery is greatly active on the Macedonian Front, especially west of the Vardar and north of Monastir.
ATHENS, July 12th. The French General Gramat has been appointed Chief of Staff of the Greek Army.
for the fallen French soldiers, at which
Zouaves and the Grenadier Guards parti cipated, and the Zouaves Band later marched through the city, accompanied by the Coldstream Guards, and were very warmly greeted.
TULS
AFFAIRS IN BUSSIA. ALLIED ACTIVITIES ON MERMAN
·COAST.
LONDON, July 12th The Daily Express Correspondent at Stockholm, says that in consequenes of the landing of Allied troops on the Murma Conet, the Russian War Commissariat has ordered hurried preparations for was in this region. The military censorship has been restored.
KUEHLMANN'S SUCCESSOR.
LONDON, July 12th The appointinist of Admiralvon Hintzy as German Foreign Secretary is not yet officially confirmed, but it is now takon for granted.
The German Press emphasises that Admirul von Hintze has always recognis od that the war 19, in essence, Britaiu versus Germany, and has regulated his activities nocordingly-
It is reported that the Majority Social- ists have accepted the appointment, with certain reservations (15
LONDON, July 13th-
Three hundred Serbian and Italian offeers have been arrested at Archangel on the order of M. Lenin..
Thɔ Austrian newspapers regret the DISORDERLY SOVIET CONGRESS. resignation of Baron von Kuchlmann, A deseription received in Stockholm of whour they describe as the liest exponent the Soviet Congress at Moscow two days of the idea of a molerate pancé. before Count Mirbach, the German-Am- LONDON NEWSPAPERS OPINION. basador, was killed, anys that representa
The newspapers in London consider tives of the Entente, and also Count Mirbach and the personnel of the German that the appointment of Admirak von Legation, were present. There were vio Hintze is a distinct gain for the Allies, lent scenes, the Social Revolutionaries as Baron Kachlmann's policy of compro- more feasible, than the r'actionary iden stignintising the Bolsheviks as hangmense was more dangerous because it was and Mirimch's lackeys, and applauding
of crushing the Allies the appearance of the Ukraine representa- tive, M. Alexandroff. Asking for assist
A telegram Iron Ansterlara staten ance to enable Ukraine to throw off the that the uncusinces in Holland due to yoke of the Brest-hitovsk Pence, M..
Admiral von Hint's appointment is Alexandroff declared that the Germans in reflected in a full in almost all securities Ukraine would be wiped out; they had on the Amsterdam and Rotterdam Stock already paid a thousand lives for their Exchanges. tyranny.
M. Alexandroff, and. M. Kamkoff de- nainced the Bolsheviks for tolerating the presence of Count Mirbach at Moscow, amid shouts of Down with Misbach!"
Throw the robbery out !!
UNEASINESS IN HOLLAND.
TRIUMPH FOR VON TIRPITZ CLIQUE
AMSTERDAM July 19th. The Berliner Cageblatt says that, despite all the official assurances to tho contrary, Admiral von Hintze's appoint- GERMAN TROOPS IN UKRAINE.
ment is a triumph for the von Tirpitz The Petrograd newspaper Anchoick re-elique, and will be recognised as such ports that the Germans are pouringut Home and abroad. troops into Ukraine, where there are now.
THE SIBERIAN SITUATION, 35 Divisions.
JAPAN WAITING ON AMERICA.
OVERTHROWING THE BÓLSHEVIKS.
PEKING, July 11th. The Czecho-Slavaks have overthrown the Bolsheviks in the whole region from Tobolsk to Semiolatinak and from Krasnoyarsk to Cheljabinsk
The correspondent confrins that the Bolsheviks have also been overthrown at Irkutsk
GENERAL MURAIEFF COMMITS SITICIDE.
LONDON, July 12th. The Belshovik Government alleges that General Murnioff, the Commander in. Chief on the Czecho-Slovak front, hus committed suicide.
SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARIES MARCHING ON MOSCOW.
LONDON, July 12th. The Stockholm Correspondent of the Matis says that M. Tchernoff, the leader of the Social Revolutionarica, at the head of numerous armed bands, chiefly pu sants, is marching on Moscow. He has already reached the cavirons.
A
LONDON, July 12th. Reuter's Correspondent at Tokio, telo : graphing on the 2nd inst, says the report from Washington that Japan has declined the request by the Entente to intervene in Siberia is authoritatively declared un- true. Japan's attitude has not change. America's reply on the subject is still
awaited.
It is unofficially stated that in Japan there is an almost ananimous feeling that the despatch of troops to Siberia is a present unnecessary SITUATION DISTINCTLY FAVOUR- ABLE TO ALLIES:
LONDON, July 12th,"
It is understood that the situation in
Siberia is distinctly favourable to the Allies.
FUTURE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
THE PROGRESS OF THE DOMINIONS.
LONDON, July 12th. The Lord Mayor gave a banquet at the Mansion House to the Dominion Promiera and representatives. The distinguished company included Mr. Balfour, Admiral Viscount Jellicoe, Lord Milner and Gen- eral Smuts.
coasting Mr. Waiter Long. report
FOOD SHORTAGE AND CHOLERA.
LONDON, July 12th.
official
·wireless Russian states:--Owing to the food shortage cholera is increasing at Petrograd. There are many hundreds of
daily
the
guests, remarked that the Imperial Gov- ernment did not desire to obstruct the progress of the Dominions, but, on the victims Whatever changes were made, let them be
contrary, were prepared to facilitato it. real and secure the greater stability of the of the Empire and prevent the enemy from Empire the rightful use of the resources invading our territories,
CRITISH EMPIRE STRENGTHEN- ING."
It is very difficult to carry on till the hervest.
The Councils of the corn provinces are urged to speed up the despatch of food.
Petrograd.
LONDON, July 12th.
bc
LATER
Regarding recent reports of the doings. In the course of his speech at the Mari- on the Marman coast, it can now stated that the Allies are taking measuression House banquet, Mr. Walter Long to protect that coast in co-operation with said:-In these days of progress and re- resist the German advance. The Allies go forward or backward. The British the local population, who are determined form, nobody could stand still; all must.
Russians themselves..
to
forces these epon the request of the "HANDS OFF THE PACIFIC,"
HAN
AUSTRALIA DETERMINED TO REACH A LASTING PEACE.
Early in the war, be forecasted the ab
the end of the war there would be weakening of the German Empire and an immenso strengthening of the Britize Empire. That strengthening was th proceeding as surely as right followed day. Germany must suffer from its LONDON, July 12th attempt to defy the laws of morality Mr. Hughes, the Australian Premier Some believed the Colonial Office desiret
Christianity and civilisation. (Applause. speaking at the Pilgrims' Club, said use to prevent progress. On the contrary, the tralia did not dare to assent to the Pacific Colonied Onice was prepared to do all it Islands reverting to Germany, because
safety demanded that her ses old Whatever changes we might make Australia's
facilitate progress, (Hear, by: free,
and whoever held the hear pathways northern island belts commanded Austra in the future, let us take care that they Germany fortified the islands and would tend to secure greater stability for the foundations of the Empire and secure for a few more years would have stenen
to
to
prevent our enemies invad
our people of their
RECRUITING IN IRELAND, LONDON, July 19th. Mr. Gwynne M.P. addressing thePolised their trade before the war, us the possession and rightful un- Dublin Chamber of Commerce, said hago German Army in the Pacific. New limited use of our almost unlimited va
Guinea and other islands were To Courcco. (Cheers.) Let us see that they
cnabled.us recruiting in Ireland had dwindled to a Australia what Boulogne and Calaising our territory as they did in peace to England. Australians
time and more thread. They were not going to wore
laid down their lives
develop
rightfulTesti beritage in the Pacific. There beat the dram at the street corners, but Australia's would appeal to bodies directing public were going to be many international com. opinion. If they did not help, the thing plications and racial problems. A greater war than the present might follow unles could not be done, p
people with love of freedout and ample ROYAL ÁVIATORS RETURN regard for civilisation, such as the Ger mene did not possess immediately ad TO FRANCE.
ministered the Pacific He recognised that the policy of Hands off the Pacific!" meant that we must fight on to victory, but Australia was determined to do so in order to reach a insting penco.
PARIS, July 11th." The King and Queen of the Belgians have returned to Havre by seroplane,
* FROST DESTROYS PLANTA-
TIONS IN BRAZIL
WASHINGTON July 12th. The young coffee plantations at San Paulo in Brazil have been ruined by frost and the sugar castor oil and fruit plants. tions have been damaged..
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