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THE WAR.
FRENCH FIGHT SUCCESSFUL ACTION
IN ALBANIA, THE OPERATIONS
ITALIANS DISPERSE RETREATING ENEMY COLUMNS.
ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE.
Franco-Belgian bront.
Aerial Activities.
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THE BRITISH FRONT.
BRITISH AND GERMAN ARTILLERY ACTIVE:
LONDON, July 14th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re.. ports:We drove off raiders eastward of Loere
Hostile artillery were active north. westward of Albert, westward of Kemmel Hill, and southward and south-eastward of Xpics.
Our artillery were active at a number Df points,
HOSTILE ARTILLERY ACTIVE..
LONDON, July 13th. 11.65.2.0. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re-
"southward of Buequoy,
Hostile artillery
Panis, July 14th,
The famous airman Lieut Beaumont has been killed as the result of collision in the air.
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BRITISH AERIAL RECORDS.
LONDON, July 13th
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 18TH, 1918.
RETREATING ENEMY COLUMNS DISPERSED.
LONDON, July 19h0
9.25 p.
An Italian official report states: We maintain contact with the new chemy line northward of the Senteni.
We dispersed retreating enemy column northward of Berat.
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"THE GOD OF BRUTE FORCE"
PRIME MINISTER SAYS IT MUST
FOREVER BE BROKEN
LONDON, July ratll
OUR LONDON LETTER
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE
SINN FEIN PLOT
How Do OWN CORRESPONDENT
LONDON, May 27th. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at a dinner The Government statement on the Irish in honour of the Canadian editors now American-(derman plot in Ireland Ins visiting the country, under the auspices of sufficient to convince evily tengon- ablo man of the connection of Sinn Feis
Our prisoners since July 8th exceed soothe Ministry of Information, and, in pay with the conspiracy. The mat d'ordre in
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ITALIANS REPULSE ATTEMPTED
ATTACK
LONDON, July 19th.. 9.25 p.m. An Italian official report states:We repulsed an attempted attack southward of Sasso Rosso,
General.
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REDUCTION OF MEAT RATION IN GERMANY,
AMSTERDAM, July 14th
NO TALK WITH GERMANS
AMERICAN LABOLK SOLID
Picture to yourself a combination of the oratory of Sir Frederick Smith and the " driva “”) of Ms. Winston Churchill, with the manners of a duke, and you will have
a good idea of Mr. George L. Berry, a leading member of the United States.
Britain at war during the past threa Laldur Mission which has been watching
ing a tribute to Canada's effort, mentiones anti-Ministerint circles and the National
weeks. Ho is one of the most remarkable that Canada since the beginning of theists amp is to treat, the official narra-
of the many remarkable products that or war hnd manufactured fifty five million, tive nghai and unconvincing"
»||ganismul. Labour in any country has ever shelly and fortyfive million enroidge | because it does not contain full zorro-
turned out. jk him to tell you the borative details, but it is obvious that a story of his romante carter-be is 38 CÁKER.
Continuing, the Prime Minister said Wise discretion must be allowed de yenïg olif--and the first thing you are We engaged the Empire in a war whozi we
Government in this matter. To publish i likely for bear is that he “ never went to
had no time to consute the Dominions, out in evidence in a court of law would mountain hoy in Eastern Tennessee, the all the facts as they would be brought school day in his life. He was a
but the Intter had approved, and hence inevitably give available information to son of humble parents so poor that at forth they were entitled to be consulted the cremy, and would also assist the re the age of 91 he had wandered from howe on our policy Beforehand. That was a volutionary element in Ireland hy, afford- in search of a livehbood into the neigh- shangy dưa to the war, and hence the ing a clue to the sources of information | bouring Stute of Mississippi, Thero, in Imperial Wne Cabinet was a reality. The whereby the plot was discovered. Dominions must also have a voice in settling the conditions of peace equally with Great Britain. The consultations
The Gerinan meat ration will be reduced that year and this year showed that whelming and public opinion in this was for the popritor to sleep in his
The Press Bureau announce:For the at the end of August from 200 to 200- year ending July 30th on the Western grammes for towns of over 100,000 in- Front alone the British destroyed 2,150 habitants, and at smaller places the in- sircraft and drove down '1,083
babitants will receive less. FALL OF BASTILLE
·ANNIVERSARY.
The Air Force, in conjunction with the Navy, shot down 823. During the same period 1,094 British machines vero miš- sing; also 89 working with the Navy.
From April to June, on the Italian Front, the British destroyed 185 and
ports --We repulsed an attempted raid drove down sis enemy machines. Thir. teen British machines were missing. At Salonika from January to June we de stroyed 21 and drove down 13. British machines were missing
of Arras.
pre active southward
There was no air-fighting yesterday" owing to rainstorms and clouds. Our night-tiers dropped, four tons of bombs,
FLANDERS FEVER."
LONDON, July 13th,
7.20 p.m. Router's Currispondent at British Headquarters states that of 800 prisoneja which the Australians captured on July
Four
From March to June, in Egypt and Palestine, we destroyed 20 and drove. down 15 enemy machines. Ten British machines were missing.
The British, therefore, during the year brought down over 4,000 enemy nircraft, our missing machine, slightly exceeded 1,000.
while
...ith a large proportion were reported elck | Naval Activities,
the following day, and were found to bis
fering from a high fever, culminating
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in complete prostration, which is partly attriknutable to malnutrition brought on RESTRICTING MOVEMENTS OF by short rations The Germans calf this.
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sickness Flanders fever," which is more
LONDON, July 13th. serious than the Spanish influenza.”
Bir Erie Geddes, in i speech in Lon-
THE FRENCH FRONT.
SUCCESSFUL FRENCH ACTION.
Paris, July 14th.
PARIS, July 14th The anniversary of the Fall of the Pastille was celebrated most enthusias tically, Detachments of all the Allied Armies, amid the cheers of a huge crowd, marched past President Poincaro from the Bois Boulogne to Place Concorde. BRITISH STEAMER SUNK-
BUENOS AIRES, July 14th. The four thousand ton British stëmmer Yaduan has been sunk as the result of a collision. The crew were saved.
"SPANISH
INFLUENZA GERMANY.
There can be no question that the Government posers complete evidence of the complicity of the Sinn Fein leaders. with the Germans that is simply ever
country is absolutely behind the authori. ties in the course they have taken, and moreover, will support any further men. sures they may deem advisable to take for
were pretty well agreed on this subject. There must be no hugger-mugger pence, It must be a real, not a fraudulent, poace, Germany had waged three wars, and each time had added to her strength, encourag-the security of the country. ing her to the next war. If this way adik. d a single card to her territory, a single dubit to her stature, a single iota to bor strength; it would simply raise the ideal of militarism for which the work in vom being sacrified. Therefore, was important that the Dominions and our selves should be in complete accord. The jod of brute force must forever be broken and burnt in its own furnnee ITALIAN GENERALS RETIRED.
LONDON, Jaly 13th.
PotriCS AND RELIGION.
Looking at the state of Ireland during the last four years and at the present time it is lamentable to note how, com- pletely that wihappy country is under
The Italian Military Bulletin an- nones that Generals Cadorna nad IN Cappello have been vetared with loss of
rank and pay.
AMSTERDAM, July 14th General
The Telegraaf states that thousands in German industrial districts are suffering from the so called "Spanish influenza It is really a discaso of hunger and ex- haustion. Numerous deaths occur daily. Eight-thousand school children in Berlin áre affected.
VICTORY FOR PRUSSIAN MILITARISM.
the city of Jackson, for the succeeding five year he was dovil in the machine- room, of a daily newspaper. A great Amezipan journalist uace, said that the only way to runs a successful, newspaper
office. George Berry, long before be entered his "tenne.'' must have been im- bed with the same idea, foy during his career as a painter's “devil” the "only hed he knew way in the machine-room of the Jacksum: Dalty News,
A rea) Labour leader, one who has laboured, is more talking delegate
After leaching the printer's trade amil the domination of political intrigucts catered upon that, phase of his life which, these primitive conditions Mr. Borry
The country is sodden from top to bottoin
he says is like the ons Jack London with politics, and the immediate differ went through. He tegame a tramp. "Jack ences and ultimate aims of the rival Londen was a regular tromp tramp," ex- fautions and parties are embittered and explains Berry “and I was tramp print. intensified by agelong religious enimosier. There isn't a very big difference." ties. To-day the bitter gibe holds good tant the Irish are always “fighting like devils for conciliation, and hating each other for the love of God."
anwhile the best spirits among the Nationalists are cutting themselves apart froin Sinu Fein, und dropping the one boly alliance they contructed with that sinister organisation so as to resist con.
Capello cornuanded the Second Army in the battle in October scription. As for the priests, Jafely an
dat
THE DAMNED"
bellicosẽ, they are "lying low," prolmbly ir obedience to be instructions of their .ordinàrice, or it may be as gone think,
*The damned in this war are those what the bidding of the Vatienu. nre serving only themselves."Haily Mai, THE HUN IN "SPORT April 20th, 1918,
A very considerable impetus has been John Smith, a rising artist, with a few given to the movement in progress for handred pounds in the bank, threw up bis commissions and joined up in the some time to purge British sports clubs Autumn of 1914. He became a recond of Hun members by the decision of Lieutenant, but his C.0. was a wealthy
Berry tramped and trainped, printing all- the time, till he went (as Americans say} far as you can go in our country without getting your feet wet"--his tramped to California, Now a man in Years and stature, Berry struck out for ainan's job in his oraft, and eventually became nicchanical superintendent of one of the largest printing establishments on the Pacific coast the Smusel Magazine of San Francisco,
There he presently attracted national attention by carrying into, execution & project whereby the State of California was to furnish free text books to every schoolboy and schoolgirl in the Common wealth. In 1906 the Printing Pressuren's Machinists, and Assistants Union called, him to its presidency, and for the past twelve years without interruption he bas devoted himself to the affairs of that or gaisation, which numbers 35,000 members. His proudest achievensent is the founda tion of the town of Pressmen's Home, near Rogersville, Tennessee, where he has builo for the men engaged in the mechanical
don said the extension and improvement FALL OF KUEHLMANN LAST HOPE man, and the mess bills were so high that Hurlingham to ostracise every man of branch of newspaper production & Home
in nine-laying were gradually restricting the movements of enemy submarines. A barrage of mines stretches from Norway to Scotland, there were British mines in
OF SPEEDY PEACE.
Zumica, July 14th The Vienum Arbeiter Zeitung declares that the fall of Baron Kuehlmann is a
A communique states:-A successful Heligoland Bight, and also a barrage complete victory for Prussian militarism
action north and south of Longpont dvanced our positions castward. We crossed the Bavieres, despite enemy re- sistance, capturing 30 prisoners.
Our captures in the Montdidier region" on Friday now exceed 000 prisoners, and 80 machine-guns.
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nerdeg the Channel. German photographs in the possession of the Admiralty con- firmed that Zeebrugge harbour entrance was completely blocked. They also showed that destroyers enme out from Zeebrugge, not from the Canal but from the side of the Mole outside. We visited Heligo land Bight almost daily on, over or under
the water.
and extinguishe, the last liope of a speedy peace. It must clearly be ascertained whether Berlin and Vienna still agree over war-aims and upon a continuance of the war The German Army Command alone cannot dictate to Austria for what and how long she must fight
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AFFAIRS, IN RUSSIA.
BOLSHEVIKS DISARMED ON
MURMAN COAST,
COPENHAGEN, July 13th.
As an example of daily events on the High Seas Sir Eric Geddes told how six trawlers off Iceland were attacked by a submarine which fired 100 shots, but the trawlers knocked out one of her guns,
A message from Vardos says thus 2,000 hit her again, then she dived, and it was Bolsheviks arrived on the Murian Coast impossible to tell whether the submarine Counter-Revolutionaries surrounded their sank. He also told how an enemy sub-train and made them prisoners, disarmed marine, discovered by a certain method, them, and subsequently allowed them to was hunted for 72 hours, many charges return to Moscow, were dropped upon her, and she was
PARIS, July 13th." A communique states:-During the fight between Montdidier and the Oise cour advanced posts advanced 500 metres
in the region of Porte Farm. ACCOUNT OF FRENCH ADVANCE.
LONDON, July 13th. 5.16 p.m. Reuter's Correspondent at French Headquarters says the advance mentioned finally compelled to come to the surface
in Friday night's communique Secured and surrender.
possession of the entire Rouvrells platenu, which gives capital observation over enemy movements along the main roads also in Moreuil and Mailly-
eval, in the neighbourhood of which very severe fighting occurred at the end of March and beginning of April,
Yesterday's artillery preparation was so aconrate that the trees in small woods were reduced to matchwood and wide spread network of barbed wire was blown to en awful tangle. The French assault was launched in face of an incesant firo from hundreds of German machine-gnos hidden in, strong emplacements,
Italian bront
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for the Aged, a school for active members, Smith found it impossible to make both | German birth-rowing and yachting clubs and simatoriam, including · a tuber- ends meet and was compelled to dip into his modest savnigs in order to maintain as well as other branches of sport took ulosis institute that a great hospital this course long ago; and I understand might be proud to have. For many years his wife and family with any decency.
nearly 50% of the recorded deaths among fhree years later he was invalided out that the conditions governing Heules members of the American printing trader on account of ill-health contracted on Regatta are to be revised with the same have been due to phthisis and Luber utive service; he was given a silver and in view, oculosis Pressman's Home" represents badge, and his health was ruined for life. Within the last few days assistance bas
an investment of £320,000, and, with the tried to do some of his old work, but ben obtained unexpectedly from no less exception of £15,000 contributed by Mr. the men who had stayed at bome had
a personage than the Kaiser's brother, Berry and some of his personal friends, cornered the market, besides, Smith was Prince Henry of Prussia, whose opinion it was built entirely out of funds con- too ill to go into the arena and shout of British sportsmen is published by the tributed by his great union his owir wares,
Kiel Feneste Nachrichten as follows: I
Mr. Berry is going to be Governor of have lived and worked with the English Tennessee some day, and State Governors, for years," said the Kaisery brother,
in America often reach the White Hous have played tennis with them, an at Washington. In 1014 only 89 votes sailed with them, but everything they do separated him from the original Wikor even in sports and games, is done with man" in Tennessee, Berry enjoys the the exclusivo object of getting on top by friendship and confidence of the Presid every manner of trick. Pure pleasure in eat, who appointed him one of Labour's the game is unknown to them. They are representatives on the National Council only afaquainted with sheer selfishness of Defence for the duration of the war. and brutal egoism. The only thing that
His wife had moved to a tiny flat, his children were underfed--milk being a luxury and other nourishing foods impos sible for a man in his nancial circum stances, their clothes were shabby, their boots unsound, the price of children's clothing buying risen beyond the means of an invalided officer, His wife was thin and worn from the fatigue and teain. A gratefal country, assessing his dis ablement at 20 per cent of a possible total, gave John Smith £35 per amam, will bring them to reason is brute foren He is in the forefront of the American
with leave to beg for a little more on compassionate grounds if he were minded
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CRITICISM INDEED!
Labour leaders who are for victory at all costs and will parley over peace with no Hun but a boat n Hung A
WHAT THE EXPERTS THINK.
Those who recollect Prince Henry of Praia in his travels in the Far East as the representative of the "Mailed fist" Taking advantage of Mr. aithe re- fusal to impose conscription, James Jonesosan of his opinion of us. But whit will, no doubt, be interested in this ex- healthy and well nourished man of 30, pre
Naturally, these huge Gothan have set. al critic says is somewhat dis- when war broke out strained his borrow the Ho the fact that it is the opinion the experts discussing the relative merits ing capacities to the limit and acquired counted by a race which has never and demerits of small and large ser steamers at a low cost; these he sold to learned how to the possession of a number of tramp of a Prince play the game either planes. Opinion inclines to the view that the medium-sized machine 1 o berf the Governinent at several times their in sport or in war. value. On the profits he built munition GIANT AEROPLANES,
because it is the pie pe aily manœuvred when works, and, 28 they say in America,
sa large In their latest raids on London the Ger Gotha, it is more e Government good and stung, the Tienty. As a mauition-works owner he mans have used Gotha of enormous power attacked, and it does not on became an indispensable."
and size. The wings measure 131 feet a target to the gunners. This argumen He has now moved to a large country of 300 horse power, or 900 horse-power in Whitsuntide raid the Hung lost sever from tip to tip. Each three engines Bnds support in the fact that in the house well outside the air-roid zone, his wife wears expensive furs and bis boys all A crew of eight or nine men may Gothas out of thirty which crossed the are going to Harrow and alter
and afterwards to be carried quite easily, though only from coast Long ago we built machines quite At Moscow M. Trotzky told the All-Oxford.
three to five are sent across on these bomb as powerful as anything turned out ki James Jones, one of the "dammed," is dropping oxpeditions, so as to leave the Germany; and it is satisfactory to kom Russian Congress of Soviets that the chuckling to himself at the idea of escap full lifting capacity of the machine for that they cannet teach us anything unity of Soviet troops was suffering a, ang military service. If John Smith were the murderous cargo of explosives, about aircraft construction. On the con
to ask James Jones for n job, Jones would When you hear these giant Cothas trary, we have gone surprises in store for result of the Anglo-French propaganda, sit at his desk with a cigar in his mouth crossing the coast and passing across the them before the Sumpur is över.
and patronise him. and that part had deserted to the enemy. But James Jones and his breed will night sky the noise resembles a threshing THE RETURN OF THE NICYCLE. BOLSHEVIKS FAR FROM SUPPRES increase and multiply they can afford the guns of the London defences get to to while John Smith and his kind will work the whire of the raiders mighty sink deeper and deeper into misery and want.
propellors and the throb of their engines The damned in this war are those who are drowned in the roar of the artillery. The Westfaelische Zeitung's Corre are serving only themselves? Possibly! All the time the searchlights are to he But John Smith, wondering how he is to seen trying to "spot" the enemy up A French Eastern communiqué states spondent at Bieff states that the Bolshe-pay his rent and buy food for his family, among the stars, as it were, and what The enemy saffered heavily in the re
Sometimes wonders whether a little ready with the crescendo of sound, the flashes vika at Moscow are far from suppressing cash would not compensate for ethical of the bursting shells, and the beams treat in Albania.
the revolutionaries. They are only hold-damnation,
of the searchlights a raid now is a fear- jug their own with the assistance of the der why he and his friends are giong to loose in the firmament of heaven,
Do you blame him! And do you won- | ful and wonderful thing, like hell let vote against the "Old Gang" at the Lettish guards.
general election t
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THE OPERATIONS IN ALBANIA.
ENEMY SUFFER HEAVILY IN.
RETREAT
Pants, July 14th
We are now holding a line near the junction of the Tomorica and Devoli,
SING REVOLUTIONARIES.
AMETERDAH, July 14th.
machine on a farm; but, of course, when
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One result of the shortage of petrol is the prohibition of motoring for pleasure Policemen can (and do every day) poll people up and make them show that the motor they are wing is required for a genuine business purpose Joy-riding is a thing of the past Petrol is reserved for the Army and civilians do not count. For this reason the push" bicycle hat come into its own again. The main roadt are now full of cyclists, reminding one fore the advent of this motor, when the of the bravas days of twenty years age
bicycle was the fastest thing on the high- way--H. B