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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG
ALLIES' PROGRESS CONTINUES :
TYPICAL GERMAN EXPLANATION OF DEFEAT.
ADMIRAL VON CAPELLE DISMISSED":
FOR FALLING TO PREVENT THE AMERICAN ARMY REACHING' FRANCE,
MORE SENSATIONAL CHANGES IN RUSSIA
Franco-Belgian Front.
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BRITISH FRONT
PROYART CAPTURED BY THE
BRITISH. «
LONDON, August 19th.
11.30 p.m.
Sir Douglas Haig states:-Successful fighting occurred in the neighbourhood of the Royn road and east of Fouqurscourt; also on the south bank of the Somme. „W», advanced our line in each of these locali ties, taking hundreds of prisoners.
We captured Proyart, "south of the Somme, after sharp fighting, in which the enemy lost heavily in prisoners. ud till. ed. Fighting continues,
The French, on the British right, have taken Les Loges.
PACE SLOWING DOWN..
LONDON, August 12th.
4.45 ..
British
to-day.
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ing down, as the enemy is throwing in reserves as fast as he ear rush them up.
The Frankfurter Zeitung says:-We lost a not inconsiderable number of pris
DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14TH, 1918
defensive system, and is now able to bring NO CHANGE ON AVRE AND OISE, Aerial Activities.
his heavies to bear upon us from across the Aisne. Also, he has an extra- ordinary profusion of airmen va this Front, which would make one suspicious: changed.
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of some counter-effort here, were he not so husily occupied elsewhere, but this naturally greatly increases the difficultica!| of our aerial reconnaissance.
FEATURES OF ALLIED BLOWS. LONDON, August 12th.
7.30 a.m.
The promise of further rapid surprise blows by Marshal Foch has been fulfilled more speedily than was anticipated by the entry of General Humbert, whose swift successful rush equalled the magni.
Paris, August 12th,
A communique states:-Between the Avre and the Dise the situation is un
There were bombardments at night. tim in the region of Marquivillers and Grivillers,
THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND
PRISONERS.
PARIS, August 19th. A semi-official statement confirms that #5.000 prisoners have been captured since Augast sth.
FIRST AMERICAN ARMY FORMED.
Paris, August 12th, The formation of the First American
oners and guns without, so far, otheficent advance on the opening day of the Army in France is officially announced,
serious consequences." It remains to be seen whether the situation has changed strategically
The folngur faceffe says the reason for the regrettable occurrences has not yet been cleared up
The Cologne Folks Zeitung says. "It is ne good hiding the fact that this check south of the Somme by an enemy not numerically-superior hits us hard.'*-
The Foxrische Zeitung says, "The least vulnerable point on our front was at tacked, therefore, it is ridiculous to say that our entire position is menaced. When Hindenburg has consolidated the Aisne and Tesle front he will be able to freely shift his reserves to every menaced point."
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battle. It showed, inter-alin, how great is the strength of Marshal Foch, who is able to embark on a third attack when two offensives" are already in progress, The battle, indeed, so far, has gone liké; clockwork, and yet what has happened is probably only the first move in the
eipate may soon change the whole face great offensive, which some experts anti-
of the war,
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The fruits of victory so far are indeed remarkable, severely shaking the whole enemy position. His heavy counter attacks are designed not merely to escape from the Montdidier pocket, but to defend all the strong country.of which Laon is the centre.
General Pershing commands, while re taining the Chief Command of the American Expeditionary Force.
LONG-RANGE BOMBARDMENT OF
PARIS.
PARIS. August 11th. The long-rang guns which were shelling
They are supposed to be situated in Paris have been silent for two days,
wind between Guiscard and Noyon, and are endangered by the advance of the French along the Roye Lassigny line.
The Near East.
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ITALIAN PROGRESS IN ALBANIA,
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LONDON, August rath. The Admiralty announces :--Our light forces and the Royal Air Force's aircraft reconnoitred off the West Frisian const on the morning of August 11th. Thuy were heavily attacked by German aircraft, and six of our motor-Boats have not res turned.
Apart from this, we suffered neither damage nor casualties.
Our aircraft attacked a German airship north of Ameland, bringing it down in flames, on the sen, from a great height.
IN THE UNDERGROUND
A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. It was at that sweet hour, halfway through the evening, when the District trains are nearly empty. There entered
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NOOT SAN POJ
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
It is reported that Feng Kuo-chang and Tuan Chi-jui will both resign
Feng has stated that Hsu Shib-chang must be elected President, and either Shum Chun-hurts of Luk Wing-ting vice- President,
"
It is said that Feng Kuochang wilj ba appointed Tuehum of Chibli,
Tuan Chi-jui has ordered the forces which Chang Cho-lum brought to Tientsin to proved to Peking.
A LESSON IN STRATEGY. The Bavaring i had done a hide. ous thing: and they wäre showing him over the Palace, in Berlin as a special mack of approval. He was come to the Imperial Chamber itself, vacant now, but familiar, as they assured him, with the War Loul's frequent presence.
The Bavarian soldier gazed round him He saw at the far end,
my compartment and sat down on the in admiration.
who might have been spoken of as a son red seat opposite to me a soldier of fine in a corner, a small door that seemed to presence and magnificent physique one lead to an inner private room. It seemed of anuk, in any Guards regiment in the beer left partly open where all else was so small in that inagnifieene, and had
exact and tidy, that it caught the
world."
His uniformi was quite unfamiliar to stranger's eye. me; brown riding-boots, dark blue breeches with a circular stripe, and a dark brown tunic somewhat of the cut of room.
Norfolk jacket, -On his tunic he wore! the most wonrful array of decorations --three long, separate rows of them, more Correspondents describe the confusion
many-coloured ribbons than I had ever in the Montdidier pocket, where the
before seen on any one man's chest. enemy has only a strip of country eight
Presently he leant forward and asked milas wide in which to manœuvre, as ex-
me, in a foreigner's stumbling English before he would reach Victoria. how many more stations"he had to pass This cerding, even the scenes on the Marne.
As be The dusts, sun-beaten roads are full of lys ---We, obliged the enemy to evacuate bad even more difficulty in understand the Jagodina bridge-head and pass over him what he wanted to know in French, ing English than in speaking it, I told exhausted fugitives mingling in lis
to the right bank of the river,
which he spoke fluently. Thus a conversa. rderly procession with the wagons,
tion began, and eventually I. too, put question limbers, and ambulances. Fires and explo Naval Activities.
"The Dentsche Tages Zeitung, the organ of the pan-Ciermans, says, Events be tween the Somme and the Avre constitute
Reuter's correspondent
the first serious defeat in the war. was due to the state of morale among Headquarters. telegraphing states: The pace of the fighting is slow-Prince Rupprecht's troops.
Torwarts, commenting upon the crisis confronting Germany at the opening of Time alone will show whether the Ger
the Afth year of the war, says the morale mank are attempting to stabilise their of the nation has been damaged by the present line or
pan-Gerumns wild cry of conquest. covering a further with drawal. One of the most gratifying fea-THE GERMAN DEFEAT EXPLAINED
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tures of the Allied victory is the compara "tive smallness of our own and our Allies' forces engaged. This was rendered possible by the completeness of the aur prise and the tanks.“
The weather is fine, but hot
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BRITISH LINK UP POSITIONS.
Losos, August 12th.
1.40.p.m.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- ports:-The enemy last evening again attacked our positions southward of Lions, but was repulsed.
BY GERMANY,
AMSTERDAM, August 12th,
sions break out everywhere.
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General Hambert's timely stroke, apart from the spoils it has securent, will probably fores the Germans to send to` wards the south some reserves," whome counter-attacks have "slowed down. ***
The rate of advance on the northern battle front is a striking feature of the
Logos, August 19th.
6.30 p.m.
An Italian official message from Albania
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PARIS, August 12th.- Petit Parisien's Correspondent at Rome states that Admiral von Cappille has been dismissed because he did not prevent the
And then he heard a voice. It carde clear and commanding out of that inner-
"I recognize your work in the past,' it said. It has been admirable. Ad mirable "
Who is that speaking?" said the Bavarian
Hush Hush they said,*, ** All Highest.”
It the
Your work has been admirable," the voice went en. "You have been of the
the Crown Prince. I do not forget it. At" greatest assistance both to myself and to
the sub tin this war has continued too long. My sword has been drawn and must therefore achieve victory. My plans must be crowned with a god German peace. Peace must be brought by my sword. I` desire peace now. The peace with Russia I am a general in the Russian army. My look, however, was interested and has delivered the Russian into my hand. interrogative, and be decided to answer I do not deny it.. "It is most creditable to the
he questions which he rend in my eyes..
Poland too. I admit that. But destroyed. Towards the end I served in rounting has been done in the West for In mean to say that 1 was a generalahy not in the West Nothing worth in the Russian Army which the Bolsheviks Roumania, where I had a good deal vents,
The West may appear unimpor
Are you French!" I ventured, not because he looked French, for he did not, but because be spoke the language so, ex- tremely well.
***No, I am a Russian," he replied, and then paused.
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A message, from Berlin states that a semi-official report attributes the latest German defeat to the fact that only Allied blows, "Since July 18th there has great American Army from reaching how I came to be given your Military stand strategy know that the Western
been essential unity throughout the whole | France. operation from the Anere to the disc, representing an almost unprecedented quality of conception and execution. MONTDIDIER COMPLETELY WIPED
hakty defences were possible in the over- run area owing to the lack of time and transport for material.
The statement speaks of the hurricane of fire concentrated on the German trench garrisons, the breaking down of the tele phone and telegraphic communications, also that signal rockets were invisible in the thick fog, and that the gunners sud- denly found themselves attacked" in flank
As a result of sucessful operations and rear by squadrons of tanks whose immediately cuthward.of the Somme wenschine-gunning played terrible havoc, captured over 200 prisoners and linked
up positions eastward of Mericourt with the line eastward of Etinchem on the
northern bank of the river.
On the right of the Fourth British Army the French on the afternoon of August 11th progressed towards" Roye, eapturing Armancourt and Thillox...
On the northern front we efferted local improvements in our line eastward of Roberg and between Vieux-Berquin and
Mërzis.
GERMAN REPORT..
LONDON, August 11th. 11.50 p.m.
A wireless German official report states:---Saturday's attacks were mainly against our front between Libons and the
Avre.
We repulsed oft-repeated attacks cast ward of Pozieres and astride the Amiens and Boye road, despite the enemy's superiority and massed employment of armoured cars.. Over 40 of these were destroyed in front of one division..
Eastward of Montdidier we withdrew Bghting beyond the line La Boissiere Haigvillers-Rocquebour-Marest, GERMAN PRESS COMMENT UPON ALLIED SUCCESS,
AMSTERDAM, August 19th. The German newspapers are beginning to admit the Allied success, though pro- 'fessing a calm confidence in the future All dwell upon the fact that the surprise was due to fog, enabling the tanks to break
through.
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FRENCE FRONT. THE AMERICANS NOT IDLE.
"OUT.
LONDON, August 12th.
7.00
Reuter's "correspondent at French Headquarters, telegraphing yesterday, afternoon, states: Der gains to-day were thoroughly satisfactory.. If our progress alackened, this was die less to enemy re- sistance, than to the fact that the roads S encumbered with the enemy's abandoned material and numerous trees felled-similarly in the spring of 1017-that our ammunition and supply columns find it difficult to follow the infantry and cavalry.
were
LONDON, August 12th..
7.96 p.m. Reuter's correspondent at the American Hradijuarters, telegraphing this morning, says:Although the American during the last few days has ceased to move forward, movement, is not licking behind it. Trestle bridges are replacing pontoons across the Marne each day, and the railhend has been carried a littic further. Soon a most important link be tween the east and the west will he repaired, and trains will again be run- ding from Paris to Chalons, and beyond. The Paris-Amiens line has already been didier, Compeigne and Chaulnes, upon repaired, thus removing a strategical dis- which the enemy depends to feed his whole ability, which long hampered our com- manders. The roads, also, are being re paired. The organisation of the army is in a much more stable condition than when we renched the Vesle.
front. On the other hand, the, retreat differs
from last year's in that the German hurried back too quickly to mine the roads and set death-traps in the villages. visited Montdidier and found it con Pletely wiped out, but it is already only a small incident in the battle. Our troops at Dancourt are ten miles beyond Mont didier and are three miles from Rose."
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line in the salient.
GERMANS NEXT STAND, “ Menaced by General Debeney's advance in the region of Thilloy towards Roye,
General.
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¡THROUGH ECCTZI'S AGENCY.J THE SILVER MARKET,
LONDON, August 12th. The silver market is quiet.
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS, COMMAND OF NEW CZECHO. SLOVAK ARMY.
AMSTERDAM, August 12th,
A mage from Moscow states that
do with the British Mission. That tant, but it is not so.
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Those who under- Crosshe pointed to it which you front and not the Eastern is the more Hem wearing Afterwards 1 fought important of the two. For technical rea against the Bolsheviks at Moscow. They sons it must always remain so. Your Look me prisoner, tried me by court help in the West is therefore needed m martial, and condemned me to death, butperatively, at once, in order that our with the help of some of the English, just cause shall triumph. I request that friends whom I had made in Roumania you direct it against the English imme-. managed to escape and was smuggled out diately. My sword." of the country.
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And now?" 1. asked.
You have met me on my way to the recruiting officer.
To
peated.
the recruiting officer)"
I re
Yes, to the recruiting office to ask leave to be enrolled in the British Army as a private. For fight the Germans trust honour compels me-and if I can not figh: them as a general in my ow aruly, then I will fight them as a simple soldier in yours. But this is Victoria,
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not?
General Teherbatcoff will command the word, and wished, me good evening with new Czecho-Slovak Afty. - "
it was: and he ruse, without another a fute, and disappeared among the crowd on the platform before I had time to speak any of the words of surprise and sympathy which were on the top of my tongue. But our eyes met for an instant. and I saw that his eyes had filled with sudden tears.
FARLIER HABLES. COMMAND OF RED GUARDS.
AMBTERDAM, August 12th. The Lokalanzeiger states that General Krylenko has been appointed to the com. mand of the Red Guards against the Czecho-Slovaks, rentacing General Mura vielf, who committed suicide.
PROTECTING THE GERMANS
T To whom is he speaking?" said the stranger from Bavaria.
Speaking! they said.." He is pray- ing é
MORE BUSINESS MINISTERS” SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES PLEA
Sir Auckland Geddes, M.P., speaking recently at Whitchurch where he was
looking back we saw how much there was adopted the Conservative candidate or North-West Hants-remarked that
in the past that was wrong; we saw how we drifted into this war. have been something wrong ia bur means of governnunt. There were too many men in the Government in those days who were not really practical men of affaire One of the great lessons was that in the Juture we must find men who had done
There must
things, and not merely spoken wards. We must have in the future a complete recon.. to work on the land at Long Ashton, construction of the ideals reconstruction For knocking down a German prisoner, struction of the ideals which underlay one of a party which was being "marched the educational system, and with the re- near Bristol, Charles Ridge, a seanfan. of the educational system itself... General Krylenko has recently been a costs,
was bound over and ordered to pay 4s.We had to feed the people out of our policeman..
Ridge said that when he saw the men of the war. We had to me that agricni- own lands. That was the greatest lesson LENIN AND TROTSKY IN FLIGHT.amuking a cigar, he naked the soldier in People spoke of impossibilities, but w who were singing, and use of whom was
ture was recognised as the first industry. The situation ne Moscow, is most uncer being pointed out one who could, he in- we had to go on doing then Although all charge if any of them spoke English, and had done impossible things before, and tain. The counter-revolutionarica, if not uniter in.
quired whether he remembered: the Here meet the railways from Moht-actually in control, are undoubtedly man, and spat in his face. The soldier life, the women would saves, as they
"Bah!""
these men were being drawn from civil replied the Ger- gaining the upper hand.
said he did not see the German spit. had done before. Cheers,) Everything The German was brought into court at in the next few weeks depended upon The latest report i Berlin is that objected to a German being called to give the call now being made upon agriculture Long Ashton Petty Bessions, but Ridge our maintaining the armies, and heavy as Lenin and Trotsky have fled to Kronstadt. the summons was for disorderly conduct the end of the call that bad to be made evidence against an Englishman, and as was, he could not say that it would be GERMAN EMBASSY ENDANGERED, on the high road the Bench agreed not upon that industry, because there was
AMSTERDAM, August 12th.
to call him. Ridge, who is lame, put in
no good maintaining an industry, how- his discharge papers, showing he had ever vital it might be in itself, unsats It is officially announced in Berlin that good record.
had served in and General Humbert's advance betweenDr. Helfferich informed the Soviet Gov Army, and when at Ostend early in the Geld, because victory we must have. We the Mercantile Marine, the Navy, and the steps were taken to secure victory in the ernment that the Social Revolutionaries war he had seen many mutilated Belgian were not going to be beaten. "Cheers.) threat to employ terror as a fighting Ridge was suffering from locomotor alaxy, appeared not to be doing so well an at There had been a time when the Germans women refugees. method endangers the safety of members that but for this fact they would have on the surface. Behind their great efforts and the Bench, in giving a decision, said present, but he thought that was entirely of the German Embassy, which, therefore, dealt very severely with him.
in the field there was country which he will be transferred to Pakoff, as Petro- that so long as German prisoners of war more sick of the policy which its domin- The Chairman: We must not forget firmly believed to be getting more and grad is equally as dangerous as Moscow accordance with the best British trade their great show of force there was
are in our midst we must treat them in ant classes had forced upon it. Behind VON EICHHORN'S ASSASSIN
tions.
rottenness to, the core, and they could not Ridge: I wish they thought the same. EXECUTED.
keep on going as they had in the past. The Chairman: We intend to see that It was the recognition of that developing the German prisoners working in this rottenness which made them so strive for district shall have the same rights as an successes in the field in order to break tary brought the case, into coad the mil France. He did not think they could do Englishman. We shall see that these men the determination of this country and are protected, and we are glad
Ridge: If a German spits at me again he so if we all appreciated the position it, however-(cheer)-but that could only Thall knock him down again.
and if there was no wavering.
the Matz and the Oise, the Germans are throwing the whole of their available ENEMY INTENDS TO EXACT FULL strength into an endeavour to make a PRICE FROM AMERICANS. stand on the Rey-Lasaigny line, in order to get time" to withdraw the vant stores, artillery, etc, which they had accumulat- Peter's correspondent-at-Americaned in this region for the June offensive. Headquarters, telegraphing on Monday evening, states:-It is evident that the enemy intends to make us pay the full price for any attempt to drive him beyond the Veile. He seems to have completed & Germans dug into our line list March
Our troops are confident that they can
they can organise. Already, we have turn or drive the enemy from any line bitten off a third of the huge pocket the
AMSTERDAM, August 12th.
Danski, who asasinated Field Marshal A micasage from Kieff states that
von Eichhorn, has been executed.
It was
shown that