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THE WAR.
THE
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31st, 1918
At six o'clock yesterday evening, between | Italian, Front. the Oise, and the Aisne, our troop recti- fed our front on a stretch of about 13
BRITISH ENTER kilometres between Carlipont and Fon-
MERVILLE AND OUTTERSTEENE..
ROYE RAILWAY STATION CAPTURED.
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SPANISH ULTIMATUM TO GER MANY DENIED.
SOVIET GOVERNMENT TO MOVE
TO KRONSTADT,
Franco-Belgian Front,
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(THROUGH REUTER'S LOENCY.)
BRITISH FRONT
GERMAN ATTACK BEATEN BACK.
PARIS, August 10th.
11.45 p.m.
Sir Douglas Halg states: --The enemy this morning, strongly attacked our posis tions on a mile front between Libens and.
tenoy. reaching on the whole line, an average advance of two kilometres.
We occupied the plateau, west of Nampeel and reached the southern run of the Audigicourt ravine, capturing Non- vionvigre. We took 1,700 prisoners, in-1 eluding two battalion commander,
ROYE RAILWAY STATION
CAPTURED.
LONDON, August 19th. 9.33 p.m.
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ITALIAN FRONT.
ALLIED MASTERY OF AUSTRIAN AERIAL ARM
LONDON, August 19th
3:50 p..
THE SIBERIAN SITUATION.
GREAT BRITAIN'S
PLENIPOTENTIARY.
PEEING, August 18th.
Sir Charles Eliot has been appointed High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in Siberia at Vladivostock.
DRESSED BY THE STATE. THE STANDARD SUITS OF BRITAIN.
department of the. War Office which has been constituted a loser providence to preside over the material, nerds' of civilians, lest the too great want of desir
wear, and after that standard fangels be standard hosiery, mostly, for, women's and blankets to make the winter mono tolerable. Fifteen million pounds' worth
f textiles altogether.
CHANGES COMING IN RUSSIA We have reached another of those crisis when the air is saturated with a solution of astounding rumours and the telegraphThe if not actually closer to the public, is necessarily put under exceptionally
able things should make the spirit rest. -- severe restrictions. says the Morning with the discomforts of war, has pre Post's Petrograd Correspondent, writing served standard suits for our presene
satisfaction. That Kreat on June 6th. As material for a comic authority which insisted on the patriotic unknown Reuter's correspondent ERC Italian THE WONDERFUL FRENCH Headquarters," telegraphing to-day,
paper) a mere recital of the beadings has been deposed.
virtue of shiny black and purpling biun statan:-Two captured Austrian docu-had barely crowed the frontier, it was days would be perfectly suitable, but noter a reward come new suits by the mil Even in the early days, when the Hun the stories current Hers for the past few been proved by long months of shabbiness, Our patriotish has
and also our abedience to authority, and ments show the extraordinary mastery the difficult to get the French peasant to leave serious purpose in our interests is to be lion. And after Standard suits there will Allies have obtained over the enemy in the district near his blackened, smoulder-served by "transmitting such material aerial warfare.
The first document eling home.
abroad. We are so placed as to be quite The railway station at Roye has been joins better protection of dumps and At that time they had no idea of what able to verify even the most probable emplacements against aerial observationGerman occupation meant, and many of general situation may be summed up as of the mass of current rumours. The by letter cumonfaging and less military the menfolk lelt their women and children oing to Russian minds capable of any orderliness." The second document is frost would never injure the helpless.
with friends who believed that the Hun thing and everything at any moment. The only real interest in life here among Colonel commanding the Artillery.) They know better now and yet you will all classes, racept those that formerly con. which seeks to explain the impossibility behind the new lines, waiting in the hopa society, is the pressing problem of obtain
find them buzzing like so many bees just stituted the base of the pyramid of of a systematic and effective destruction back beyond the Rhine They have never of any kind to maintain life. It is only that the Allies will push the invaders ing from day to day enough sustenance of Allied artillery. It indicates that the given up hope in all the weary years of fair to say that itte continues to min.
waiting. Allied guns, as well as observation, are
tained, but the cost in wear and tear of Within the sound of the guns you will nerve tissue to all better class flks in find and being cultivated, crops being appalling Money, of course, is no longer superior.
tended, herds being watered. The lawns of ruined houses are being planted with counted as any part of the real cost of Vegetables, barns are being re-roofed,,
living. How long it will be possible to barbed wire is being lifted in order that Seep the Russian pyramid balanced on palat can be reclaimed for feeding the ita apex no one can rese, but everyone population. Civiling life keeps surging understands the ultimate result of this up against the black line of war like a altempt to defy the immutable laws of
beat bog
whole energies to the task of sticking it They are prepared to take hazards, and out. All signs point to ammler kaleidos they take them. Old men and women cepe change being now imminent " The wander up and down behind the line seek. White Guards are fighting their way for ing information of their friends whom ward from Finland towards Petrograd they have not seen for nearly four years; and also eastwards. It is believed that muthers ask about their children, hu- Finland intends to demand the extension bands about their wives. They haust the of her frontiers to the north bank of the high roads in the hope of meeting some in which case the Winter Palace, one who has come from the district cfthe British Embassy, and all the long their violated homestead. They hang
captured. THE ENEMY LINE OF RESISTANCE.
PARIS. August 19th.
7.30 p.m. In "vensentence of the steady advance.
Rope, the German artillery "fre slackened again, suggesting the trans- ference of batteries to the reur.
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The infantry resistance appears to be focussed on dertain strong points--Chaul- Hørleville,' and succeeded in penetratings, Roge, Lassigoy, and a few other strongholds-which could be stormed at pour line at two points.
Dur counter-attack drove him out, and the The Germans desire this, but. instead of exposing our nien, these re,
4 The writer complains of the inferiority of his, hatteries in number and power The restriction of the ammunition supply renders it impossible to comply with the
On June 11th at an exhibition in Brad- ford (which was opened by Mr. Albert Illingworth, the Postmaster-Generali it was revealed that the patterns of sloth" are standardized hat not patterns of suits. Those who are still allowed to remain civilians may by standardized but the
of their own free choice, the grade i will not be informed. They will only get as far as the grading, and that will
anan taking away his Tour-guinen Suit for prompt cash and the grade a anan overcoats, taking a grade 3 cloth for three his for sts, kl.
getting Both will be equal
But happily the guinc
outward architecture of then will continue, various The War Office has not stepped in with
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the situation has been completely restored doubts are being literally deluged with infantry's request for better artillers f fresh-water war against the dark ooze the universe, and all are bending their collars. We are not to les reduced to one
We inflicted many casualties and took a few prisoners,
Our advince in the Merville sector con- tinued, and we' made considerable pro- gress on a front of 10.000 yards. We entered Merville and reached the road. through the Merville from, from Paradis to Les Pures Becques. In sharp fighting we,took prisingrand captured machine
guna.
(Our total prisoners' in the neighbour- hood of Outterstene is now 670, including Is officers."
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We brought down six neroplines. One British machine is missing. We dropped 16 tons of bonds during the day and night.
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ENEMY POSITIONS PENETRATED.
LONDON, August 19th 12.40 p.. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re parts--We captured a few prisoners in Alle Ayette sector, also south of the Scarpe, where our patrols penetrated some distancy into the enemy's positions. We repulsed raiders north of the Seage and further progressed in the Merville sector, capturing between 40 and 30 prisoners.
Our artillery and machine-gun-fire completely broke up Counter.attack.on
our new positions between Outtersteene and Meteren,
BRITISH CAPTURE
·OUTTERSTÈENE.
11.30 p.m.
shells, and the Allies are striking only at well-defined points, and attaining their objectives one after "the other without undue haste.
Signs of uneasiness are apparent by the raids which the enemy is making on the British and French Fronts to find out what his adversarios are doing. GENERAL MANGIN'S TENTH ARMY,
LONDON, August 19th. 4.45 p.m.
Reuter learns that it was General Mangin's Tenth Army which participated in the aztnek mentioned this afternoon. IMPORTANCE OF NEW ATTACK
EXPLAINED..
PARIS, August 10th..
4.46 p.m.
} French communiqué, stapa:--The scene of the attack is the sector between Lassigny Ridge and Soissons. Its import. ance lies in the threatened 'enfankment of the German Jines on the Aisne, beyond Soissons.
protection.
General.
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· [THAOCOK REUTER'S AGENDS.}.
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
A SAFE PLACE FOR SOVIET GOVERNMENT.
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AMSTERDAM, August 19th.
The Bolshevist paper Prande states that the Soviets appeal says that Russia's intervention' in the war is necessary, and the Government, therefore, has completed its preparations to remove to Kronstadt,
which is regarded as a safe plaer.
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SPAIN AND GERMANY.
“SITUATION BELIEVED TO RE GRAVE
MADRID, August 1sth.
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have been killed.
around some of the railroad stations, they line of palaces between them would and try to get letters through into the inved on the frontier line. - Fighting is report
d district, they after aimlessly, almost to be in progress within one march despairingly. Their mental angnish is north of Petrograd, There are greater than that of those whose friends physical barriers of any kind to protect the capital against the assaults of modern word of his wife and child only by writ have moved out and some Eghting is ex
One French soldier I knew used to get methoils of warfare, but the Red Guards inga ktter to a friend in a village near rected. The best one an say to English the Holland frontier by whom it was sent renders is to believe firmly, notwithstand- -no nor knew how-to Brussels, then ing anything they may bear from the ngais inte Ciennung, whither the woman Various Shanghais of the West that had gre wme route, and each journey took six Moscow, and Smolensk may follow the A reply came back by the Russia is not eaten. that Petrograd, months. But those who are unable to fate of Kursk, Kharkoff, and Kieff, and letters through and they are multitude- inst Just wait for the day when the French, British, and Americans strike; lard enough and make the Huns retreat. In the day the pathetic host of civilians, aged and infrm sick with waiting, will follow hard on the heels of the Army, For the present they are trying to pick up the threads of life in districts where
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As regards the Spanish Note to Gerdinth is sapreme. Bady Mad, many mentioned on August 17th, it is
stated that the Note is really
The situation is believed to "more" grave than ever.
GERMAN RESERVES FAILING. Reports that Austria has been required ultimatum... to place from ten to fifteen Divisions at the disposal of the German Staff show how low the German reserves of man- power have fallen,
LIEUTENANT FONCK'S GREAT RECORD.
· STATEMENT "BY SENOR "DATO. "SAN SEBASTIAN, August. 18th. As the Spanish papers have been publishing sensational statements
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LITTLE
WAR MOTHERS.
Russia will still remain unbeaten.
pettifogging restrictions; it only says that sports eats are barred and certain cinioration of trimming and velvet
strict rule and pattern nor Fet to ung has told us that if the cut betekens iatel colour. A classic authority on tailoring" leet and talent the colour betokens temper and brart Agreeing is that, we shall
sently find the whole male population proving itself in dress the possessor of Meady tempers and very sober hearts, for its choice of colour will be limited to navy- quieter blue and black, the duller browns, and
The War Office authority fixes the colours the manufacturers determine the style and can; and here we find that this factories have their more or less rigid standards. The suits in this attraettyn exhibition have been cullerted from six north and suth, but there are no corres different manufacturing areas in the. pending differences in style. There has been no stipulation that trousers should be turned up, yet all of them are It
It is re
war-time and to be pronomical we must To bring ourselves to the measures of turn to the ready made suit. served to the man who can afford more than four guineas for the grade 1 gar- an additional 5s, ed., can get the sam ments to be a chooser of style. He, for cloth rade up, just as he wishes to have it, by bis own tailor. But the King's suit, for which he chose the cloth at Eds recently, is a brown worsted mixture price s. 6d., and anybody may have a similar pattern-3---Erl
The French Lieutenant Fonck brought garding Spain's relations with Germany,sburt skirt there clung n mite of about Russia has been laid on a bed of sickness suit at the identical price by asking for
down three enemy planes on Wednesday, bringing the total number of hostile air craft destroyed by him up to 60..
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BLONDE F. BRUNETTE.
has not ben ordained that waistcoats
f the day as provided for the million by should be without collars; but they invari ably are. These are points of the fashion the wholesale manufacturer, who deerees abo-dierating again where he merely GREAT BRITAN'S VITAL INTEREST
is at conforming to the mode that the Any man who has ever noticed the reats shall be made with a vent, The methods of a woznan dealing with a inherent right of personal cheire in mat feathered will appreciate that firmness,ters of taste aay be chafed a little by the gentleness, and patience are the only way idea of all this standardization, though to chritin a satisfactory result, and that it is nothing new. It comes about in the. gentleness is the essential quality ordinary method of choup production, and The Germans appreciate this parallel in
is merely one degree more compelling that. dealing with naren that envers and.
the opinion (imposed by the urching eye- sixth of our globe, but even Seamann. brow) of the bespoke tailor whose busi- nuss it also is to insist on the prevailing in his Mitteleuropa." admits some Johbt whether the Germans can develop,
fashion. FEN O. STT SANDERS,)
without erasing to be Germans. precisely those qualities which are essential to the In her first at the local national task before then in Russia. Russin is kitchen tiny little figure in cheap unconquerable and will rise again, black, with bright, but shabby, boots many developing along good, old, tried Unes. sizes foo large, and old cotton gloves. It is the vital interest of the British many sizes too small, that left bare an Empire to see that Russia remains our inch or two of red wrists above them.
friend and Ally. Whatever be the issue She carried in one hand a jug almost of the titanic struggle now joined in the as large as herself, and in the other West, this remains true either way. "Eng. poor little purse. On her arm there hung and also is or should be, unconquerable. a market basket of rush, and to her little Señor Dato. Foreign Minister, has issued three, with great blue eyes and a round hut by a German but by an internal a trelaration insisting that it is the wet nuut.
microbe, but who will not succumb.. Two
small boys, of about six and eight, Russia and England may still fight their intention of the Government, like its eagerly watched her as she peeped over Waterlou together after the enemy Eas high white counter critically examia. been bled dry. That this result is still EARLIER CABLES, predecessors, to maintain neutralitying the tempting dishes arranged there far enough off, thanks mainly to the An engrossing controversy has been rag.
before making her choice. ́BATTLE REVERTS TO TRENCH
under all circumstances, and denying the much deliberation and a great deal when the war began, is indisputable now,
Only after omission to utilize the only arm we had ing in America ever since, in March last, the Washington Government officials WARFARE.
existence of any Note to Germany. He consultation with the children did sh The next fatal error which the nibblers issued a report the gist of which was to
make her purchase. says it is not the practice of Govern
in policy who have replaced the states the effect that the brunette is more capable Two of soup, two of vegetable pienen of earlier and better days will, and reliable than the blonde. It was even LONDON, August 10th.
ments to publish the instructions sent to two of tapica and how much will that doubtless, commit is to lose Russia to said that in the Government clerical de-.. 6.45 m
their diplomatic representatives abroad. kind-faced woman behind the counter.
leave out of a shilling?" she asked of the Germany, thereby in all probability, in partments 3,000 brunnettes were already Router's correspondent at French
With the odd coppers she wisely bought British Empire in its last war against females was given each blonde as a stendy- the long run of history, involving the at work before a blonde was admitted, and We advanced our line frap: one that: Headquarters, telegraphing yesterday,warded a Note regarding the alleged and concludes by denying that he for-
that a heavy surrounding of dusky-hairst fruit. sand to two thousand yards.
I helped her to put the good food into the combined forces of Teuton and Slav.
ing influence states-The enemy, apparently, has
her basket, and she told me her age was There are no excuses in war, and to say,
Of course this despatch created quite a furor in all cires, and the cudgels were at once taken up for the blondes. I hap killeder Daddy," who had been her Allies is, fntile, and not even true.
When this war opened one of Russia's myself visions of bordes of threatening Her name's Gladys May, the little greatest statesmen said to me "Wewives persuading their Freds and Johns mother told me, as she proudly took off don't want any army from England, but of the advantages of golden locks, to the the closetting crocheted bonnet to show we do want her fleet." Let the watch great detriment of that dyed cat. Mr me the golden baby curls that clustered word of British statesmen, wherever they | Dark." My damply round the little head of that very may be now concealed, be in every sense ther, and 1gination stretches far- see a queue of blonde bread- self-possessed small person who was evi of the words: "Remember Russia!" winners, intent on Government employ- deatly well used to admiration.
ment, in front of a drug store waiting to purchase bottles of capability."
However, the blandes put up a good THE AIR FORCE.
fight,
and it must be said that several influential American employers of woman About eighty Peers and Commoners, Inbour gase them preference on the point Of the the Parliamentary Correspondent of The of general efficiency, A woman specialist two little boys, Archie. the elder, worked Daily Telegraph understands were pre made the rather interesting disclosure éleaning the knives and boots for 48. 86, Air Committee, held at the House of Com salesmen and saleswomen on account of at a lady's before and after school sent at a meeting of the Parliamentary that blondes, male and female, make good 4 week Bert, the younger. went round mons on June 1sth under the presidency their aggressive natures They like, she, with
of Mr. Joynson,Hicks. The following said, to promise the goods which the reli- And I keep bouse," she said simply, resolutions were passed:
able brunette delivers to time. with a quiet dignity far beyond her ten
(1.)-The Committee view
with
grave concern the arrangements for the con- Apart from business matters, however, struction and supply of high-power flying the blonde makes a gay, and Aashing, huachines for next year's campaign. dainty and charming companion, without the serious moods which characterise the brunette. Our dark friend is deeper und will talk of the war and politics with intelligence, while the blonde will any,
Loxbox, August Ipth.
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports:---We carried out a successful local
operation on a front of over four miles between Vieux-Berquin and Bailleul, with slight loss.
We captured the village Oilersteene, decided to resist stiffly on his presin. sorpedoing of the steamer Serunts, whose ten Baby" would soon be three, and/or even think, that Baisia has lut down several defended, farms and houses, and lines in the Roye Lassigny and loss was due to fire in her cargo of
'aver dog prisoners,
We also progressed to the south-west Jerville and between Chilly, and Fransart, taking prisoners.
We repulsed attacks against our posts in the neighbourhood of Bevucourt, Serri, and Puisieux, taking prisoners.
We destroyed five aeroplanes. Three British machines are missing.
We dropped 13 tons of bombs.
GERMAN REPORT.
"LONDON, August 18th.
11.30 p.m.
sectors. The old 'treaches are giving bi
solid defence, hence the battle bas momentarily reverted to trench warfare.
LOCAL ACTIONS,
PARIB, August 19th. A communiqué "states:-The artillery
duel continued, nad was most lively in the daytime, particularly in the region of Canny-sur-Matz and Beuvraignes.
Local actions south of the Avre result ed in our capturing 150 prisoners,
Eight enemy aeroplanes were felled and three captive balloons were set on fire yesterday.
A wireless German oficial report states:We drove back enemy attacks along the roads from Amiens and Mont Aerial Activites. didier to Rore.
The enemy obtained a footing in our foremost lines north of Autreches.
In the Vosges our posts, which we advanced in the Fave region as far as Frapelle, yielded to a local enemy thrust,
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FRENCE FRONT. FRENCH LINE ADVANCED.
LONDON, August 19th. 4.45 p.m.
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Loxos, August 19th. The Air Ministry announces:-On the night of August 17th-18th we attacked
petroleum shipped at New York, VEHICLE WORKERS STRIKE
LONDON, August 19th.
The bus and tram drivers and con-
ductors have struck, following the women'
conductors' demand for an additional
five shillings per week, which advance was recently given to the men.
Practically the whole of the London bus services have been suspended to day.
Ten thousand workers are idle, The workers' representative anticipates that the strike will spread to the pro vinces.
THE SILVER MARKET.
AMERICA FIXES MAXIMUM
PRICE:
WASHINGTON, August 18th:
killing Germans."
We walked along the hot, sunny road together I carried the large jug of nous ishing soup, she carried the laden working in a munition factory. basket.. Mother, I was told, was
years.
papers.
narrow court to
my
(3) They feel that the question, of the "No. I have not read the papers for ever
so long," and will continue her novel
My powers of conception for once desert
Eventually we turned down a aim and tiny little house, half of which they call "home" With a very (2.) They observe with great anxiety big key Archie opened the door, and the heavy loss of life sustained in the watched the little
trio mount the steep training of pilots in this country, and the steps to the
upper.
inedical service." ince that day I have come to know little mother well, and through her Loch Doon aerodrome cannot be allowed I have found that she is but one of a to remain in its present inconclusive posi great and wonderful army of such brave tion, and that further investigation me in the attempt to conjure up a picture little mites "keeping house and mother, should be undertaken by the War Office of a golden-haired, blue-eyed woman M.P. The Treasury announces that it hasing the younger children in the many Bub-Committee on National Expenditure, in heated argument over the P.R. or poma
homes where mother is away all day with the view of fixing responsibility for such virtually fixed the
maximum price of fighting in the factory and father is away such an unwarrantable waste of public silver at
ighting, on the Beld
time, labour, and money.. Dear, loyal little heroines ! War Futs
consider that the position wrecked homes than all the raven- The Federal Reserve Board will only ried them down the stream of life, paat Force,
them of their blessed youth; hur- of the
For nil: seat in either Houses of that, whatever their locks or looks, I find
2011 the
Labbed
and in warning, I hold that blonde hairs on the coat-sleeve have
et of
State for the Air haired villains of melodrama.
grant export licenses for essential "civil the happy, careless fields of childhood, Parliament, is highly unconstitutional, my affection for the Isir." sex (both numerous aerodromes, railway junctions, and military purposes, and conditionally on to the troubled waters of maturity and request the Government to provide dark and fair) unaltered. While admit 3 French communiqué states:-There blast furnaces, trains and other ground that the maximum price is apt exceeded while still in years they are babies. a date for the discussion of a resolution ting, however, that the former is capable, was a violent artillery action at night
True daughters of their war-waging on the subject.
I, as a man, take pleasure in helping the north and south of the Avre. We took 400 targets, and machine gunned many tarby the purchaser.
parents, theirs is not the spirit of sacrifica prisoners yesterday west of Roye.
(After the meeting it was ascertained latter in her usually admitted capacity of it is the grand, innate spirit of the race that the Secretary of State. Sir William the weaker sex.-B.F., in the Dail -the glory of our England
Weir, had been elevated to the Peerage.) Mail
gets. One machine did not return,
LONDON, August "18th," "
The silver market is quist