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THE WAR.
GERMANY'S OFFENSIVE CHECKED.
BRITISH FORCES PARTICIPATE IN
BATTLE.
FRENCH ENTER CHATEAU THIERRY.
EX-CZAR EXECUTED,
BRITISH AVIATORS BOMB ZEPPELIN
SHEDS.
Franco-Belgian bront.
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LONDON, July 21st. 1.35 p.m. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- porta: --We captured a few prisoners and machineguns during night raids and patrol encounters south-westward of La Bassce and in the Merville and. Dicke
buscho sectors.
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MINOR OPERATIONS.
LONDON, July 21st.
12.30 a.m. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- ports: Minor operations in the Hebuterne sector are being continued
with succes
Our pressure compelled the enemy to withdraw from Rossignol Wood, between Hebuterne and Bucquoy. This important local feature is now in our possession. ·
We followed up the enemy, who suffered
number of casualties,
Our total enptures at Meteren are 458 prisoners, 10 trenchanortars, and 50 machine-guns.
AERIAL OPERATIONS. Our aeroplanes on July 19th dropped 1 tons of bombs on hostile dumps, il
way stations and aerodroms.
BRITISH TROOPS IN BATTLE.
THE
LONDON, July 21st-
4.20 p.m. Reuter's Correspondent at French Headquarters, telegraphing at eight o'clock this morning, states:-
The British troops participated in the battle for the first time yesterday between Rheims, and the Marne in the region of Ardre.
The British took up positions at night time and attacked immediately with complete success, advancing over a mile. GERMAN PRESS COMMENT.
AMSTERDAM, July 21st,
The German newspapers do not con-
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JULY 23RD. IBIN
FALL OF SOISSONS IMMINENT.
WASHINGTON, July 21st General Marchi, in hie weekly statement, saysThe objective of the Franco- Americans between the Aisne and the
Marne is the Soissons-Chateau Thierry railway, the control of which will impede the German retreat from the south of the
Marne.
On the left we maintained the plateaux south-west of Soissons and the region of Chaudun in the centre.
Wo passed over by three kilometres
certain points on the line Vaux-Castille
Ullershelon-Noroy-sur-Ourcq-
On the right we conquered, after sovero fighting, the plateau north-west of Monnes bill, north of Courchamps, and advanced beyond Torey.
GUNS.
So far over 17,000 prisoners have been counted, including two colonics and their staffs. Three hundred and sixty guns. have been captured, including a battery of eight-inch guna.
GERMANS CONFIRM RETREAT.
LONDON, July 20th.: 11.34 p.m.
The German retreat across the Marno.
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ATTACKED."
TWO AIRSHIPS DESTROYED
is confirmed by a German semi-official GERMAN ZEPPELIN SHEDS report, which laboriously explains that tho. object of the first crossing of the Marne was to divert the French forces.
As this. was achieved it was unnecessary to further hold ground south of the river. There fore, the troops were withdrawn to fulfil
GERMANS COMPELLED TO
RETREAT.
General March believes that the Germans bad prepared an offensive FRENCH CAPTURES OF MEN AND important tasks. against the British northward on thi French front simultaneously with the offensive on July 15th, but for some reason it has failed to materialize,
General March is of opinion that the fall of Soissons is imminent. He says the Bigitificance of the events in France is not that the Allies are holding the Germans or gaining ground, but that they arO taking the offensive, which is of the greatest mural value.
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STUPENDOUS GERMAN EFFORT CHECKED.
LONDON, July 1st. Havas Agency at Paris, on July 19th, stated-The Franco-American troops, having in three days checked the German stupendous effort on the Marne and Champagne rout, took the offensive and
erul their chagrin at the Entente's victory dealt the enemy a series of staggering
on the West Front.
ALLIED AVIATION WORK.
Our aviators, on July 18th, in conjune- tion with the British squadrons were most üctive on the whole battlefeld. The French felled or disabled 20 machines and set Sre to two balloons. The British destroyed seven machines
Our bombers continued their attacks on the Marne crossings and demolished foot-bridge and machine-gunned, bombad and dispersed concentrations of troops at Oulchy, Vaux Ravine, Fere-en-Tardenois,
and Quilly,
Projectiles were showered upon stations in the rear, causing fires and explosions.
Twenty-two tons were dropped during the day and 21 tons at night The British dropped 25 tons.
GERMAN AVIATION INFERIOR TO ALLIES.
Several Bres and explosions were ob served at stations.
blows between the Aisne and the Marno...
Along 28-mile front, cxtending from Kochnische Volks Zeitung (Berlin),
west of Soissons to north-west of Chateau after referring to the false hopes enter tained in Germany about the now offen- Thierry, the Franco-American forces sive, says it is no longer necessary to broke deeply into the enemy's power- fully organized lines, many points conceal the fact that German deserters. utilised their knowledge and planned of the advance being several miles. The attacking forces reached the the operations to betray the Fatherland. It is impossible to deny that the offensive plateaux dominating Soissons from failed. The German people anxiously the south and west and recaptured mere but patiently await the new decisions than 20 villages, and captured several demanded by the situation.
thousand prisoners and many guns.
The attack was launched at daybreak Marne reported the ar and raged throughout the day and is still in progres,
Frankfurter Zeitung says General- issinio Foch has managed to forma formidable attacking army and is now trying to snatch the initiative from the
The enemy was taken quite by surprise,"
Simultaneously infantry and aeroplanes marked the advance of our troops.
Tanks between the Aisne and the
of onemy reserves and participated directly in the battle by machine gunning the latter.
Twenty-six German aeroplanes were
Paris, July 21st.
A communiqué status: --The result of our victorious counter offensive is soon apparent. The German, violently attack- ed on their right flank and south of the Marae, were compelled to retreat and re-cross the river.
We hold the whole of the south bank.
-Franco-American troops between the Aisne and the Marne continue to make progress, and have driven back the
enemy, who is resisting stubbornly.
We reached Ploisy and Parcytigny and passed St. Remy Blanzy and Rozet-St.
Albin.
Farther south we hold a general line from Pricz Plateau to north-east of Cour- champs.
Viclent fghting is in progress between the Marne and Rironie,
LONDON, July 20th. The Admiralty announces-Aeroplanes despatched from a detnelment of the Grand Fleet, operating off the Jutland: Coast, yesterday morning carried out two attacks on the Zeppelin sheds at Tenbern, in Schleswig.
All our techines but one reached the objective
shed, which was completely destroyed.
Wo scoured direct hits on a large double
the fierce anti-aircraft fire and the volume -- Two sther sheds were hit, but owing to of smoke emitted from one it was impos-
sible to observe whether the destruction was complete.
The attacks were made from a height of from 700 to 1,000 feet.
Four British aeroplanes did not re tarn, of which three landed on Danish territory
It is assumed that two Zeppelins were. destroyed.
HANGAR GUTTED.
COPENHAGEN, July 20th. British airmen daringly atineked the Zeppelin station at Tondern at 4.30 am. on July 19th
France British troops, attacking vig, orously, encountered large forces, but, notwithstanding the desperate enemy resistance, we gained ground in Courban wond, the Ardre Valley and towards Stee Euphraise.
FRENCH PRISONERS EXQEED 20,000.
The number of our prisoners since July 18th exceeds 20,000.
Over 400 guns have been exptured.": Our aviators, redoubling their efforis, have multiplied their raids day and night. On July 19th, they fiercely Fought eneiny
forces,
Franco-British bombing
squadrons,
An eye-witness saw three machines bomb the air-slieds. Between twenty and thirty bombs were dropped, four of which hit a great hangar. The walls of the latter, being constructed of stone and steel, wore non-inflammable, but the inside was burnt out and two Zeppelina were destroyed..
LATEX. BRITISH RAIDERS INTERNED IN
DENMARK.
COPENSAGEN, July 21st. Three British aeroplanes, returning from Tondern, were fired on by German warships and elipsed by German aero- planes The fight ended on the Danish border. The three airmen landed at various points in Denmark and were in-
German Command. The tremendous as the attack was made practically with folled or disabled as a result of numerous making the Marne crossings their chier terned. They say that a bomb was drop- air fights with Franco-British pilots. Four objectives, have tenselessly hampered; and -ped and exploded on a great ammunition balloons were set on fire. Everywhere at some points completely-stopped, enemy dump at Tondern
supplics. Thus an important factor ju
Both British and German warships
Our aviators on one occasion dropped expenditure of fighting strength involved out artillery preparation. bombs on an aerodrome. a height of in such an effort may lead to a bad mis-
from 100 to 500 feet: One pilot landed take on the part of the French Army. I the American forces went forward with the German ariation was inferior to the the enaniy retreat is the machine-gunning were seets all day off the west coast of
in an aerodrome and machine-gunned the hangars before rising.
We brought down 10 aeroplanes and six balloons. Seven British machines are missing.
Our night-fliers, despite the weather, dropped 14 tons of bombs on rail ways between Mons and Valenciennes, and -on stations at Cambrai, Lille and Saclin. A direct hit was obtained on a train at Saclin,
BRITISH LINE ADVANCED).
LONDON, July 20th. 2.46 p.m.. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports:As a result of the operations Meteren yesterday our line in the sector, was advanced on a front of about
4,000 yards, and the village of Meteren, with the group of buildings to the south- westward, is now held by the British.
On the extreme left the energy offered considerable resistance.
At other points our objectives were gained rapidly and without difficulty.
We captured 426 prisoners. The British troops carried out a success- ful night-raid near Beaumonthamel.
Further north British troops, after sharp fighting, pushed the line forward on a front of about a mile southward of
Hebaterne.
There was hostile artillery firing in the neighbourhoods of St. Venant and Ypres.
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FRENCH TROOPS ENTER CHATEAU THIERRY,
PARIS, July 21st.
A communique states that the French Troops entered Chateau Thierry this morning
VIOLENT FIGHTING. Violent fighting is proceeding north and south of the Ourcq, and between the Alarne and Rheims.
Despite a desperate resistance by the Germans we continued to make progress.
"Cloneral Mangin's. famous troops with
wonderful dash, supported by tanks and French. protected by a heavy barrage,
The warding off of the German blow succeded, despite great enemy losses,
The heavy pressure on the Villery but the counter-offensive failed, and freedom of action remains in the Ger- Cotterets front has been relieved by this
mans' hands.
advance.
VERY BITTER FIGHTING.
LONDON, July 20th.
12,35 a.m.
and hombing of concentrations of the chey preparing to counter Itinek On his columns and convoys they have inflicted heavy losses.
Twenty-four tons and 28 tons of projec: Reuter's Correspondent at French tiles were dropped during the day and The enemy made to move between Headquarters, telegraphing at two o'clock | night, respectively, upon the Marne and Chateau Thierry and Argonne yesteryesterday afternoon, stated: The night the rear of the battlefield, day.
was relatively caini on the Aisne-Marne fronts
Culogne Gazette says, As has hap pened on other occasions, for instance, on the Somme, we must concede the loss of prisoners and guns, but even so, the
The German army between the Marne enemy's leading idea is that the break and Rheims turns its back to that which
not attained.
Despite is being pushed back between the Aisne through was tremendous enemy exertions, we were abla and Marne. With but little more than to hold up the counter-offensive before 20 miles between these two armies, the it attained any strategic advantage worth position of the forces south of the Marne mentioning Continuous changes of posi- thus becomes perilous. tion are the logical outcome of the open Waufare now in progress."
HOLLAND IMPRESSED. The Allied victory has made a deep in pression in Holland.'
The Telegraaf says that anything is now possible. The capturo of 300 guns will fill the Germans with consternation. Handelsblad says the double Franco American success will revive French courage and rejoics the Americans, whose. young army proved capable of vigorously attacking the Germans
Nieuwsvandag says the greatest import ance of the ory is the scoring of a tactical and partly even a strategical success against the German commanders. Even if the Germans recovered their ad
The French are pressing on the line of
new positions captured during the day.
This morning Gergian reserves, were brought up in considerable strength, and the fighting was very bitter. 121 Over 10,000 prisoners were captured yesterday and over 50 guns between the Marne and Rheims.
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Loynor, July 20th. 5.30 am, An American communiqué states: Between the Aisne and the Mame we continue to make progress.
FRANCO AMERICAN ADVANCE- CONTINUES..
PARIS, July 20th-
A communique states-Yesterday and during the night Franco-American troopa continued to advance along the major portion of the front between the Aisne and the Marne
The enemy lost a good deal of ground during the day. The move up the river towards Epernay seems definitely arrest- ed. He is fighting to-day between Couilly and Montvoisin on the ground he occupied on July 16th.
· GERMAN REPORT:
LONDON, July 21st.
108 m.
STRUGGLE ON RIVER BANKS,
LONDON, July 20th. 7.30 pu Heuter's Correspondent at French Hendquarters, telegraphing at 11 o'clock to-day, states that the Allies are repul- sing the Germans on the southern bank of the Marne and are approaching the
banks of the river...
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QUENTIN ROOSEVELT.
DEATH CONFIRMED.
WASHINGTON, July 21st. A German aviator has confirmed Quentin Roosevelt's death,
Fresident Wilson has sent a message of sympathy to Col, Theodore Roosevelt.
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Jutland The British warships fired on German aeroplanes, one of which fell into the sea. BOMBING GERMAN TOWNS.
LONDON, July 21st. The AirMinistry reports:Cher squadrons on the night of July 19th bombed the chemical works and docks at Mannheim,
A fire broke out at the Badische Aniline Works.
We also effectively bombed two, aero- dromes and bombed and machine gunned trains and road transport. One machine did not return.·
Wo attacked Offenburg and Oberndorf
on Saturday and hit an engine-shed ot the former place Bursts were observed on factories and railways at the latter placé.. Our formations were heavily attacked; but we destroyed one and dreva down two enemy machines. Three of ours did not return,
Naval Activities,
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CUNARD LINER SUNK.
LONDON, July 19th The Cunard liner Carpathia (14,000 tons), outward bound, was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic on July 17th. The survivorn are being brought in
LATER The Carpathie was torpedoed three times.
THE MACEDONIA OPERATIONS All on board were saved, except five of
BULGARIANS LOSE HEAVILY
PARIS, July 19th..
A wireless. German official report states:-The enemy again attempted to breach the whole front from the Aisne The Balkans, to the Marne. Tanks carly penetrated our foremost lines, but the first enemy We reached Vierzy, passed Monloy thrust was defeated by noon on the heights vantageous position, the fact remains Wood to cast of Villers-Helon and cap south-westward of Soissons and westward that the spell of the all-surpassing Gertured Neuilly Saint Front and Licy-sur-of Hartinnes and St. Neuilly and north- man Army Command is broken, which Clignon emphasises the great strategic advantages achieved by Generalissimo Foch in a few hours only. The paper says the Germans
enemy at the Cerna Bend attempted received a hard slap at their attempt to
several raids upon Italian positions, but break through, and failed in a fashion
were brilliantly repulsed. The Bul signifying an Allied victory,
garians lost heavily.. AMERICANS AGAIN BREAK ENEMY
ENEMY RETIRE IN DISORDER. RESISTANCE,”
battle A communiqué states:-The
LONDON, July 20th LONDON, July 21st. continued very violent to the end of the
An Italian official report states 9.50 a.m.
day,ke
Benter's Correspondent
The enemy attacked westward of Hill An American communiqué, issued Between the Aisne and the Marne the
with to-day, states: Between the Aisne and anemy counter-attacked
large Headquarters, telegraphing to day, states 1,430, in Macedonia. We firmly held up attempting to arrest our the Marne we again broke the enemy's reserves, resistance and continued to advance, advance, which, however, continued on that the Germans are recrossing the the thrust, and, comter attacking, com
most of the front.
Marne and retreating northwardı. taking many additional prisonern
South of the Marne we drove back the onemy between Fossy and Oeuilly, and gained ground in the direction of the Marne,
ENEMY COUNTER ATTACK WITH, LARGE RESERVES.
LONDON, July 20th.
the engine room staff.
AMERICAN CRUISER SUNK.
WASHINGTON, July 20th. America has announced that a craiser
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westward of Chateau Thierry. A further attack in the evening broke down. We threw back the enemy northward of Hartimes beyond the original lines. We An Eastern communique states that the has been sunk, without loss of life. withdrew unnoticed to the north bank of the Marne during the night.
GERMANS RETREATING TO THE NORTH.
LONDON, July 90th.
7.20 p.m.
at
French
pelled the enemy to retire in disorder,
NEW YORK, June 21st.
It was an armoured cruiser that was
The cause 19 unknown.. ENE Three hundred and thirty-five of the crew are known to have been landed.
The Navy Department reports that 11 and 56 others are on board two steamers proceeding to an unnamed destination. all well.
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