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THE WAR.
THE
GREAT BRITISH ATTACK IN PROGRESS.
in
THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS CAPTURED,
FRENCH CAPTURE MANY POSITIONS
FALL OF LASSIGNY.
THE "MASTER'S" GREAT STRATEGIC SCHEME,'
FRENCH AND DUTCH STEAMERS SUNK.
Frunco-Belgian Front.
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BRITISH FRONT.
BRITISH DEEPLY PENETRATE
ENEMY POSITIONS.
Losos, August send."
12.30 .m. Feld-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- ports:-Our attack launched this morn- ing on a ten mile front from the Ancre to the neighbourhood of Toyenheville was
successful.
We penetrated deeply into the enemy's positions on the whole front and cap tured a number of prisoners.
English and New Zealand troops, ae- opattied by unks, stormed the foremost Dnes under cover of a mist, captur in Beaucourt-sur-Anere. Puisnumerit, Buqquos. Ahlainżes ille and Moyenneville, The English divisions continued the advance as far as the neighbourhood of the Albert-Arras railway, capturing. Achiet-le-Petit. Rogit Wood and Chur- vel·les-Contr
There was sverd fighting at different joints along the line of railway, and west ul. Achiet-le-Grand a hostile attack was repulsed.
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BRITISH CAPTURE BETWEEN 2,000 AND 3,000 PRISONERS..
LONDON, August 2nd,
1.35 p.m. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- parts: - A2 -4,48 this morning we attacked the enemy's positions between the Somme
and the Angre
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 2411, 1979
A TACTICAL SURPRISE.
Loxpos, August 1st..
3.00 p.m.
BOCHE WILL BE GIVEN NO RESPITE
Loypos, August 1st. Beuter's Correspondent
at British
11.40.p.m. Headquarters, states that General Ryng's
Reuter's Correspondent at French attack, in which the tanks participated, Headquarters, telegraphing to-day, states: was a tactical surprise" in a thick morn--General Humbert's Army continues to ing mist.
The German infantry were found wenk in places, some companies being only 50
strong.
We captured a number of held-guns during the early stages of the advance, which is progressing well.
Our airmen were at first restricted by
advance.
Between Lassigny and the Oise the enemy were pressed back to the line of beights overlooking Divette.
Although the Germans are still holding Le Piemont,, the French from the west reached the outskirts of the villagë.
"Commenting hapon, Genèrst Byng's
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SUNK
*****"-BOAT SHELLS LIFEBOATS.
The German communiqués will, doubt- less, try to diminish the results obtained BELGIAN in the various operations on Sunday and Monday over the whole fighting front, where during those two days the French alone captured in the Osly sector between the Oise and the Aisne more than 2200) prisoners.
ALLIES AMBULANT FORTRESSES.
BERNE, August 20th. The Austrian paper Neue Freie Press of August 13th ways the new tanks used by the Allies are real ambulant fortresses.
The Arbeiter Zeitung, of the same date,
COPENHAGES, August 21st: The Dutch steamer Gascunier, en route from Brooklyn to Rotterdam with A cargo of grain and four for the Belgian Relief Committee, was fired on without
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warning by L bent in Norwegian waters.
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The vessel, which was fully marked und dew a special flag, lowered her lifeboats,,
a fog, but as the latter lifted our air. attack, the correspondent says the infar. Writes, "We do not know if the Gernians The G-bont bombarded the lifeboats, one of
men took a full hand in the battle.. GERMAN REVOLUTION AFTER THE WAR. S
LONDON, August ist: Correspondent u British
states:-The following German order. telegraphing today.
signed by Ludendorff, has fallen into our hands-it has come to my knowledge
Reuter's
Headquarters,
Hy nightfall of Wednesday our patrols that men on leave have spoken publicly of a
had progressed on the left bank of the Ancre to the south and south-east of
Beaucourt.
We maintained the positions we gained yesterday to the north of the "Ancre against strong counter-attacks in the alternoon and evening on the Miraumont
Acbirte Grand front.
Fresh counter-attacks developed this morning apposite Mirnament and Irles,
were frightfully crippled.
are able to make up for the technical ad- vance the Allies have been able to make The which was destroyed, and several seamen latter, who have the industrial develop ment of three countries at their disposal, also the raw materials of the whole world, may be able to speed tip the construction
chee is that the Boche will be given no respite, and blow will follow blow until the enemy is forced to make a bigger step backward than has yet been contem. plated, SOME THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS | of tanks en marc"
TAKEN.
Lastos, August 22nd..
1.08 3.91.
-French
Reuter's Correspondent
:st
Headquarters, telegraphing last evening.
revolation to break out in Germany after states: Our troops advancing eastward
OT
SMARTING REMINDER TO LUDENDORFF.
PARIS, August 21st, The successes achieved yesterday by
The Dutch, crow heroically attempted to save their comrades," but, six wounded sailors died in the water.
The steamer took fire and sunk in twenty minutes.
Twenty-one of the cress including the wounded, werg, othsequently' rescued, but the-hong, made off without attempting
General Mangin's Army over a kilo to save the victims.
metre front for part of the battle
engaged in since August 5th, which is Aerial Activites, developing normally.
furthermost point the French have rench- From Albert to the village (sly, the
between Tartiers and Coursil made im portant progress They surrounded Pommiers on the Aisne and captured Laval, two miles to the north-west on the hand-edge of the Juvigny plateau.
ed on the Aisne, to the west of Soissons the distance is more than 100 kilometres. Sone thousands of prisoners were taken The junction is made between the battle Belds in Picardy and Tardenois." Never were the Germans able to engage in a night without intermissions,,over such n stretch of ground.
Before July 15th they never could do inore than break through the front on a maximum of 70 kilometres) in the manner of a hull fight.
On
prisoners.
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the war. One soldier' from Rheinish Wests phalia declared that with this object the men of his district were going on leave and were taking weapons with theur, hamely, captured revolvers grenades. I desire that the kit of men going na leave should be searched. As test to day. cases when occasion offers, the offences which are detested must be severely punish. We raptured between 2000 and 3.000 ed. Above all, I wish to impress upon prisoners and a few guns on Wednesday.superior officers who hear such talk or
We further progressed to the east and
hear it through others that they must north-east of Merville and reached the deal with it immediately.
The Home Authorities and the Director of Military outskirts of Vielax-Berquin and captured
Railways will take corresponding men a strong point to the north of Bailleul. COUNTER-ATTACK REPULSED. We repulsed, after sharp fighting, strong local counter-attack against the Locre Hot, Farm, to the north-west of Deanoutre.
Further fighting crurreal a nightin
Our battle patrols actively, engaged the chi setor. wy opposite Thiepval and to this north.
of our attack,
We advanced our line between Boisleux, St. Marc, and Mercatel, and we also ad- vanced the line on the Lys front in the #neighbourhood of Le Touret, eastward of Paradis and between Merville and Out. terstwie, capturing 188 prisoners to the south of Loere,
THE
**MASTER'S STRATEGIC
SCHEME.
LONDON, August 2nd.
8.00 .m.
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AERIAL ACTIVITIES.
We brought down one aeroplane. One British machine iš missing:
GERIAN REPORTS.
LONDON, August 22nd-
1.10 a.m.
A wireless German official report stakes: Between the Ancre and the Avre since August 8th our troops report that mare than 500 tanks have been destroyed.
The French attack between the Oise and the Aisne penetrated our front lines, but was broken on the line Carlepont to the south of Brancourt, Vezaponin and
The series of blows now being dealt the Germans on the whole front from the Belgian frontier" to Rheims are reshark- Pommiers. Sible not merely for the rapidity with
counter-attacks drovi: back tho Dur which they succeed each other, but for enemy advancing on Javigny ridge to! the fact that they are not isolated enter-Bieuxy. prises. but integral parts of a great French attacks late last evening collaps. strategie scheme directed by a "master," ed on the whole front,
sures,"
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FRENCH FRONT.
FALL OF LASSIGNY.
FARIS, August 22nd. A munerique states:--Between the Matz and the Oise the enemy, despite his resistance, bent under our vigorous pres Aure.
Lassign has fallen
Farther south we obtained a footing at 1 Plement, captured the Orval "Wood and reached the outskirts of Chery-Dus-
camps.
We continued our successes east of the Oise, and captured the Carleport Woods.
We are on the Ois east of Noyon, between Senpigny and Fointoist
NEARING ST. AUBIN. Farther east we passed the Noyon Coucy-le-Chateau rond, and captured Camelin, Le Fresne and Blerancourt, and reached the outskirts of St. Aubin.
TWENTY VILLAGES LIBERATED.
Since resterday we have liberated, a score of villages and advanced eight kilo metres at certain points.
Nine enemy aeroplanes were felled and three balloons set on fire yesterday.
Army Corps captured 1.600
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FRENCH CAPTURE IMPORTANT HEIGHTS.
LONDON, August 22nd.
7.10 ..
The advance of General Mangin's troops continued all night through the forest of Carlepont, and they captured Montepoisy, 300 feet high, and in the evening other heights on the eastern edge of the forest.
The battle was resumed on the whole! front this morning.
We reached the Oise,and captured the important height Pommeraye, 650 feet high, overlooking the enemy's zones.
On July 15th, they tried in Champagne and Tardenois a strategical manœuvre which piteously failed. It was left to Marshal Foch to revive the real man. œuvré in i was in which continuity of front seems to exclude, this possibility. and to give Ludendorfi a strategical lesson of which the General Quartermaster will keep a starting rriųembranos.
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VARIOUS
ENEMY TARGETS BOMBED.
London, August 21st. The Admiralty announce: Between August 15th and 19th Air Force cuntin- shta attached to the Navy dropped ts if tons of explosives on the Solway Works at Zechrugge, Bruges docks, anti-aircraft batteries at Westende, Ostend dock Zeebrugge. Aertrycke, Middlekerke, Plaaschendaele Canal, St, Alhille dump, Metkerke, Leffinghe, Zeebrugge-Brugesi Canal and enemy shipping. Good results
were obtained.
We destroyed nice enenly machines and drove down, eight others.
We lost four machines, one of which Tanded in Holland.
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AUSTRALIAN TANK BRIGADE
Yesterday's victories are a reply to the Order of the Dny issued by Ludendorff on August 4th to his troops Ludendorf affirmed that the French, British and The retreat of the ierindas from the Americans could no more, assume the offen- pocket in the Thiescourt massif, which is sive when four days later the offensive! faced by General Humbert's troops, and between the Ancre and the Avro began, in front of General Mangin's men at followed
by the offensive between Carlopent Forest, will be endangered when the Avre and the Oise and continged yes- our guns have moved up close to the Oise.erday, by one between the Oise and the are considering the formation of a Tank
Aisne, operations which, besides the ex-Brigade for service overseas. It is believ- :" tremely extensive ground reconquered.
that many have already given more
mon possessing special than 50,000 prisoners:
qualifications as mechanics will cagerly. join such a unit.
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Losnox, August 21st."
9.50 ... Beuter's Agency earns that the left flank of General Mangin's Army advanced to- day to a depth of three miles, captured Sempisas, Pontoise, and La Pommeray, and reached the outskirts of Camelin, Thence the line is unchanged to Courtil"} Blerancourt, St. Aubin, and Vezaponin,
In the centre the Germans abandoned a great deal of material..
THROUGH HAVAS AGENCY.) REAL MEANING OF NEW FRENCH OFFENSIVE.
Naval Activities.
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SUBMARINE STATISTICS..
ed
MELBOURNE, August 21st.
it is stated that the Military Authorities
AWARDS FOR SERVICES IN ACTION" ONLY.
LONDO, August 22nd. The War Office has decided that from August 1st the Distinguished Service "LONDON, August 22nd. Order, the Military Crows, and the Dis- The Press Barenu announce :-The fol- tinguished Conduct Medal will be award¬ lowing are the July mercantile lossesed for services in action" only. British, 176,479 gross tons; Allied and Neutral, 136,539 gross tons--total 313,011 VEHICLE WORKERS' STRIKE Compared with the adjusted. Juno losses, these figures show a British increase of 10,065 gross tons, and an Allied and Neutral increase of 21,552 gross tons, and
LONDON, August 22nd...
na a Paris expert expressively phrases it.
A German official report issued last night Ludendorff is like a bull being states: Northward of the Ancre strong maneuvred and mastered by a jujitsu English attacks on a wide front in the expert. It is conceded that the Germans direction of (1) broke down with heavy varying between 50 and 500 yards on troop evening was continued throughout Mog. compared with the adjusted May losses cerned, and Sir George Askwith, K.C.H.,
had planned their retreat, but they are being forced to carry out their retreat aegrding to the, will of the Allies, and if it is tried they stand the risk of annihila tion of whole units.
UNCERTAINTY PARALYZING THE
ENEMY.
losses.
BYNG GIVES BELOW'S. ARMY HEAVY CRUELLING.
LONDON, August Bist
10.30 p.m.
Panis, August 20th. The new attack launched on Sunday
At a conference of the 'bus strikers, the representatives of the anions
con-
AERIAL OPERATIONS.
dropped during the daytime from a height Forty-one tons of projectiles were
concentrations, convoys, and passages at Ailette, in addition to tens of thousands of cartridges.
We continued to attack with bomb and Heuter's Correspondent at British machinegun the Ailette passages et village Fontenoy on the Aisne, the fur- 282,938 gross tons The British losses for COAL ECONOMY IN BRITAIN -night-time, besides dropping 23 tons of thermost point of the counter-offensive of July exceeded ships being built in United bombs on several stations.
July 18th.
Kingdom yards by 34,531 gross tons. But INGENUOUS GERMAN REPORTS.. It was in the same region in the centre for the same month 19,220 gross tons were Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Cric-
LONDON, August 21st. PARIS, August 22nd. of the present attacking front that a suc-completed abroad on British account, cietb, emphasised the necessity of saving Referring to last evening's German ceaful local operation had been carried reducing the July deficit to 22311 grow coal and increasing the output. Without communiqué, #semi-official
out on Saturday. This attempt having tens compared with the average monthly minimising the British sufferings, they says the German Command, being no formation, the troops were thrown in year of nearly 90,000 gross tons.
given France command of sufficient in deficit during the first six months of this were not to be compared for one hour longer able to "plead an elastic falling to the assault on the enemy's positions
with those of France. All the latter's back or a victory for his rearguard, or a next day.
day by the French troops over a 15 kilome. they show a British decrease of 55,301 resumption of work was recommended, tres front, and was limited, accord gross tons, and an Allied and Neutral pending reference of the disputed ques" ing to the exact terms of the communique, increase of 3,820 gross tona. Compared tions to the Committee on Production. to the southern region of Carlepont on with July last year the combined British whose award caused the strike, the one hand, and on the other by the and Allied and Neutral decrease is
Headquarters, telegraphing yesterday, states:- Von Below's Army to-day got n heavy gruelling from General Ryng, who achieved an important strategic re
fine round numbers, and the enemy casual- Prisonera.. and guns are swelling into
ties are admitted to be very high.
The fresh heavy losses he has again sustained proves that the retreat is in nowise the voluntary operation he pre-sült bends. Apart from the material losses, the enemy is suffering heavily in morale from the paralyzing uncertainty imposed upon him and by the variety of thei
ction and the strategy of the Allied The 18th German Army Corps suffered terribly. Infantry and tanks fought with irresistible spirit and swarms of our aero- planes, participated in the battle.
Aperations.
The attacks by General Mangia and General Byng, two outstanding opera PROGRESS OF BATTLE GIVES tions of the moment, were successful be-]
GENERAL SATISFACTION. cause both effected a complete surprise. The main line of the enemy defence was General Byng avoided a frontal attack the embankment of the Albert-Arrus Rail- along the Borame, and by striking further way, which is honeycombed with machine north he prepared the way for a con
guns, but some of our heavy guns have verging attack on the Somme positions heen hurried up and are now enfilading from the north and south.
the line.
of"
General Mancin's advance on the left
There is an unconfirmed report that the Oise promises to envelope Noyoninfantry and tanks have crossed the rail-
from the east, thus, helping General Humbert'in the Lassigny region.
WLY.
There is general satisfaction as regards the progress of the battle.
statement
désire to secure more freedom for man-
Sailings to and from Great Britain in coal-mines bad been taken away, and the July were more numerous than ever, being least we could do was to provide her The communiqué gives the real mean. 7,718,898 gross tons for steamships exceed wants. Great Britain also needed cont œuvre to explain his retreat, simply ing of this new offensive action. It is ing 000 gross tons, representing an in denies it This method is too simple to merely a matter of rectifying the front crease of 283,512 compared with June. take anyone in. The facts, fortunately, line. The results are, nevertheless, most speak for themselves.
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PARIB, August 21st.
Oise and the Aisne the enemy made no
4.40 p.m. A communiqué states:-Between the fattempt at a reaction.
take progress on the whole front
Our troope this morning continued to We have taken Carlepont and Cute. west of Laasigny, and repelled several Ve sained ground, after lively fighting, raids in Champagne.
interesting. The capture of Morain and Nouvron-Vingre, also the plateau of Nouvron, commanding the valley of the Aisne, helps to free Boimons.
The occupation of the ledge on the Ravine Audignicourt and the plateau valuable view, also excellent fortified west of Nampeel gives the French- points. On the other hand, fighting was very intense on the front between Boye and Lossigny. Despite the enemy's stub born resistance the Allied troops are pro- outskirts of Lassigny, the suburbs of greasing continually, particularly in the which the French reached on the west.
FRENCH STEAMERS SUNK
PARIS, August 22nd. The Messageries Maritimes liner Poly Salonika with Serbian troops, was mined nesien (6,373 tons) en route Bizerta to
on the 10th inst, and sank Nineteen are missing.
for war purposes, and the miners could help just as much as if they were in the battle line. He appailed for the use of more wood as fuel.
POISON GAS DETECTOR. The director of the Paris Toxicological Laboratory bas invented a new apparatus which promises to be of the greatest use at the front. It enables the user to
The French steamer Balkan (1,709 tons) way forpedoed in the Mediterranean on detect at once the presence of poisonous August 15th and sank within a minute gnacs, even when the latter produce no One hundred and two persons were immediate effect upon the senses of tell
saved.
or taste.