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THE WAR.
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HONGKONG » DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY UCTOBER 20TH, 1918
DAY OF EXTRAORDINARILY HEAVY FIGHTING.
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LONDON, October 97th, Reuter's Correspondent at American Headquarters. telegraphing yesterday,
GENERAL VON LUDENDORFF RESIGNS.
RUMOURS OF KAISER'S ABDICATION REVIVED.
VIGOROUS DRIVE BY THE FRENCH IN THE OISE SECTOR.
Franco-Belgian kron! :
EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
BRITISH FRONT.
ADVANCE ALONG THE SCHELDT
LONDON, October 26th.
Sir Douglas Haig states:- As the result of a successful operation this morning south of Valenciennes we captured the villages of Artres", and Famars, securing the crossings of the Rhonelle at Artres.
We are now advancing along the cast bank of the Scheldt towards the southern outskirts of Valenciennes,
We repulsed & counter-attack in the neighbourhood of Engle Fontaine and took 1,000 prisoners during the day..
ENEMY ATTACK NEAR LE QUESNOY.
LONDON, October 27th. Sir Douglas Haig states:-The enemy, yesterday evening, after a heavy bombard. ment, delivered a strong and determined counter-attack against our positions on the railway north-west of Le Quelnoy,
We completely repulsed the attack with great enemy loss. GERMANS GETTING NO RESPITE
LONDON, October 27th/" Reuter's Correspondent, at
British Headquarters, telegraphing yesterday, 'stated:
is
Five British Armies are giving the Germans no respite. Whenever there is 3 pause,
it merely to deal' a fresh blow, There was desperate fighting to-day- along the western fringe of the ten-mile long Mörmal Forest between Le Cateau and Maubeuge." It must be recking with gas which we pumped into it.
In spite of severe opposition, we are making good progress
The number of German dead lying "about testifies to the intensity of the
resistance.
The Germans are trying to Bood the
country in order to hamper our move ments, but luckily, the season has hitherto
been dry.
BRITISH CAPTURE AVELGHEM. LONDON," October 23rd.
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▲ Belgian communiqué states":— The resistance of machine-gun nests has been reduced north of the Consele,
The Second British Army made pro gress towards the Scheldt, and captured Avelghem
FRENCH TROOPS IN VILLERS- LE-BEC.
LONDON, October 27th.
A German official statement says:- The French gained a footing at Villers and on the heights to the east of that village.
BRITISH AND FRENCH SUCCESSES.
Lyons, October 26th. British continue their advance in the Valenciennes sector.
The British have captured the village Braillon-sur-Escaut and hold the railway between Quesnoy and Maing.
General Quillaumst's Fifth Army be- tween Sissonne and the Chateau Porcian and General Mangin's Tenth Army took the offensive yesterday.
The French took the powerfully or ganised positions held by the enemy since 1917, and passed through them between Bagogue Recouvrance and Herpy Mill and made progress on a front of seven kilometres, reaching
4 depth of three kilometres at certain points.
The French pushed as far as the road from Recouvrance to Conde-le-Herpy and took Herpy Mill.-French Wireless.
ALLIES APPROACHING GHENT.
LYONS, October 25th.
In spite of strong reaistance the Allies obliged the Germans to abandon certain important points.
The Allies are approaching Ghent The British continued their victorious advance on the Quesnoy-Landrecies line. They advanced between four and five kilo metres. reached the gates of Quesnoy, and are now within two kilometres of Landrecies.
Valenciennes is practically outflanked
from the south.
Fifteen villages have been captured, and 7,000 prisoners and 100 guns fell into the hands of the British forces.
The French passed the Oise at Grand Verly, north of Guise, which is menaced by a turning movement.
East of Rethel a well-conducted French operation resulted in the capture of the
THE CENTRAL POWERS AND POLISH NATIONAL COUNCIL
· ESTABLISHED.
AMSTERDAM, October 28th.
PEACE.
GERMANY'S REPLY TO AMERICA'S LATEST NOTE,
A Jewish National Council, represent ing 3,000,000 Polish Jews, has been catab lished at Warsaw, and demands self- determination.
The Americans alightly advanced their
LONDON, October 27th.: The Frankfurter Zeitung says that Ger- positions as the result of a day of extremany's reply to President Wilson's latest ordinarily heavy fighting, but the gains Note will probably be issued on October AMERICAN TOURIST STEAMER
were very important, especially on the left, where high, dominating ground wave gained...
DRIVE BETWEEN THE OISE AND THE SERRE.
Loydos, October 27th:"
28th.
GERMAN OPINION RESERVED.
FOUNDERS.
LYONS, October 28th.
VANCOUVER, October 27th. The Canadian Pacific steamer Princess. Opinion in Germany is extremely Sophia, from Skagway, foundered in a reserved on the subject of President gale. 268 passengers and 75 of the crew Wilson's "Reply to Germany, and awaits
are reported drowned..
with profound anxiety the course of
(The Princess Sophia and the Princess events and the publication of the condilice were two tourist steamers cagagai on tions of the Armistico laid down by the
the trip from Vancouver in British Columbia to Skagway in Alaske, and were used Entente.-French -Wireless.
largely by American tourists who were at- Midnight Sun.] tracted by the wonders of the Land of the
A French communiqué states: Supported by tanks we began to-day a vigorous drive between the Oise and the Serre, and hustled the enemy out of his strong defences.
We captured several villages and num-THE BOATS, RETURNING HOME. crous-prisoners.
The Germans between Sissonne and Chateau Porcien repeatedly counter attacked in great strength, but were every- where repulsed
We have taken 2,300 prisoners in this region since yesterday. One Division alone captured hundreds of machine-guns. BATTLE NORTH OF VERDUN.
LONDON, October 26th,
con
An American communiqué states:----- North of Verdun the battle, which is being fought by our First Army, to-day enters its second month, and is tinuing with incessant severity, frequent ly rising to extreme violence, The Balkans,
·EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.} HUNGARIANS BETAKE
"FIUME.
AMSTERDAM, October 26th.
A telegram from Budapest states that the Hungarian troope have retaken Fiume.
ALLIED PURSUIT CONTINUES
LONDON, October 28th
A French Eastern communiqué states: In Serbia the Allied pursuit of the
Austro-Germans towards the north con-
tinues.
village Dambly-Fleury, 100 prisoners and SERBIANS CREATE BIG ENEMY
RETREAT.
LYONS, October 25th
a number of guns French Wirelesz.
EXIT GENERAL LUDENDORFF.
COPENHAGEN, October 27th. The Kaiser accepted the resignation of General Ludendorft.
A SIGNAL HONOUR?
LONDON, October 27th.
Kaiser, accepting General Ludendorff's A telegram from Berlin states that the
resignation, decreed that the Lower Rhenish Regiment No. 39, of which General Ludendorff was long the com. mander, shall bear his name.
DUTIES ALREADY HANDED OVER.
BALE, October 27th..
A German communiqué issued on Satur day afternoon bore the signature of the Chief-of-Stall of the Armies in the field; instead of that of General Ludendorff...
FRENCE FRONT.
BATTLE IN THE OISE SECTOR
LONDON, October 20th.
A French communiqué states:-- There, bas boen great artillery activity in the sector of the Disc, where we are everywhere maintaining our contact with the energy.
A Serbian official report announces that the enemy were defeated on the banks of the Morava and are retreating forth ward in disorder. French Wireless.
RAIDS ON THE DANUBE;
LYONS, October 26th,
Danube into Roumanian territory, the French patrols inflicted severe losses on
In raids on the north bank of the
the German troops and took prisoners- French Wireless.
CHASING THE AUSTRIANS IN ALBANIA.
LONDON, October 29th.
CHRISTIANIA, October 26th.
Pilote at Stavanger report that U-boats SAVAGE FURY OF A U-BOAT flying the White Flag, have been seen southward bound.
WHALERS AND RAFT SUNK BY RAMMING,
AUSTRIA TO DEMOBILISE
AMSTERDAM, October 7tb.
A telegram from Viennal states that a Proclamation has been issued which orders preparations to be made for de mobilisation.
RUMOURS OF KAISERS
ABRICATION REVIVED."
MAN CUT TO PIECES.
[BY HC. FERRABY.]
The Boche is just the same in, whatever ses he works, and in the course of my journeyings round the French coastal de-
fences in the past-few days I have come
neross more than one story of ferocity" and atrocity, such as the annals of the French mercantile marine cannot, we are proud to think, match from the days when we were France's adversaries.
Take, for example, the story of the Lyndiane. She was on her way home to
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AMSTERDAM, October 97th,
·The Nieuws Vanden Dag's Correspond dent at Berlin states that the Kaiser is expected to make a declaration which will clear the atmosphere.
Rumours of his abdication are revived.& French port, and she had reached the GENERAL VON HINDENBURG'S
north coast of Spain, when, at about 8.45 in the evening of July 16th, she was hit by a torpedo without ever seeing a sub- marize or even a periscope. There were Senegalese, and two passengers, one a forty-four men of the crew, most of them young women of twenty-three. Two one whaler was filled with water from the whalers and a raft were lowered, though. effect of a second torpedo, and the sur vivors pulled away from the wreck. all the time without seeing the submarine.
ADVICE:
AMSTERDAM, October 26th. General von Hindenburg appeals against faint-heartedness which would accept humiliating conditions. Germany must have an honourable peace, or fight
the utmost.
General von Vietinghoff of Stettin, a
Then began a sinister drama, Tho submarine broke surface. It charged at
notorious suppressor of public meetings,welve knots against the second whaler has resigned.
GERMAN ARMY NOT BEATEN."
AMSTERDAM, October 27th.
In the Reichstag, the War Minister declared that the Army was not beaten..
The manufacture of munitions was increasing.
?
He admitted that there was a shortage of tanks, but, on the other hand, anti-| tank measures were being increased.
PLAIN HINT TO THE KAISER.
Fr
AMSTERDAM, October 26th. The Frankfurter Leitung sees in Pre- sident Wilson reply & plain hint to the Kaiser, and hopes that the latter will make the wise decision,"
IMPORTANT GERMAN REFORM
'PASSED.
COPENHAGEN, October 27th, An Italian official statement says:***
The Reichstag has passed a Bill placing Albanian bands indicted considerable the military command under the control tosses on the retreating Austrians in of the civil Governtient by a great
Albania.
Italian Front
EARLIER CABLES. (THEOCON REUTER'S AGENCY.] TWO IMPORTANT POSITIONS EXTENDED.
LONDON, October 28th.
and cut it in two Those who saw it could only believe it, to be due to bad seaman- ship. It was deliberate for the suoma rine immediately turned and rammed whaler No. 1 in the same way. The young woman was in this boat. She was caught by the prow of the submarine and hurled ten yards through the air, sinking dead into the sea. Then the submarine charged the still floating fragments of the other whaler, to which a few maimed and, baving settled with them, turned its and bleeding survivors were clinging. attention to the raft, ....
NOTHING ACCIDENTAL.
HONGKONG SANITARY
BOARD.
THIS AFTERNOON'S IMPORTANT MEETING.
At the fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board to take place at 4.35 p.m. to-day, Mr. FB L. Bowley and Mr. a
upon the public health. G. Alabaster will return to the question: of overcrowding in the city and its effect
Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, pursuant to notice, will ask :---
1. Are the provisions of the Publis Henith and Buildings. Ordinance with refer Lence
to overcrowding being enforced. by the Sanitary Department? If not, on whose instructions has the enforcement of such previsions been suspended? When were such instruc tions given? What reasons (if any) were put forward for such instruc tions?....
Will the Head of the Sanitary Depart ment have the following returns, pre pared and submitted to the Board. (a) A return of the unoccupied floors ...in cach Health District. (b) A return of the houses in each Health District in respect of which "modification, of Section 133 (1) with reference to external air are now in force, giving the date and period of each modifiention “and showing whether such modifica tions are revocable or not! (c) A similar return, of the houses in ench Health District in respect of which modifications of Section 154 with regard to cubicles are now in force?
(d.) A similar return of the houses in each Health District in respect of which modifications of Section 175 with regard to back yards are now.
in force?
(e.) A similar return of the houses in
ench Health District in respect of which modifications of Section 189 with reference to the height of buildings are now in force 1 Have the District Inspectors instruc
tions to report all illegal cubiclens and cocklofts in their districts? What steps are taken, with regard to such cubicles and cocklofts 1- What is the present routine for house. to-house clearsing? Is it possible to expedite it with a view to the pre- vention of epidemic disease during the approaching winter 1
5. Does the Head of the Sanitary Depart
ment consider that the staff of the Department should be increased in order to enable the Department to carry out its duties efficiently 2 If so, what increase does he consider, advisable 7
Mr. C. G. Alabaster, o.B.E., pursuant to aptice, "will ask:-
It will be noticed that there could be nothing "accidental about the business even up to that point, but the affair of the raft is more definite still. It was .com- posed of iron cylinders bound togather with spars. When the bow of the sub marine struck it the raft simply spun round Again the submarine charged with the same result. One of the men on the raft sprang into the water to swim back to the "Lyndinne, but the submarine commander saw him and went astern, and the others on the raft saw, the man cut to
2. pieces by the submarine's propellers. Five times in all that raft was rammed unsuccessfully, and after the fifth attempt an engine-room artificer named Olliet, 3. mad with rage, screamed out to the Ger You can't even sink us." But they could. The raft sank and the submarine mans Hooligans. Assassins! Clumsy
majority against the votes of the Conser-disappeared to the east att
vatives.
NEW BEGIME IN CROATIA.
~*`LYONS, October 26th, The Budapesth correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung states that the old régime in Croatia has ceased to exist. An Italian official statement says:-
The Slovene National Council, with After fighting all day long in the region Croatins and Serbians have taken over of Mount Grapps we maintained, and all the power The Banns of Croatia extended yesterday's gains, taking 249 sympathises with the revolutionary move
We checked several enemy infantry prisoners. reactions.
The battle continued between Bissonne and Chateau Porcien, where we broke down enemy resistance, and carried several powerful positions which had been organised and continually reinforced General Deheney between the Oise and since last year, between Banogue, Recouv the Berre captured the Ferriera Farm | ranco and Moulin-de-Berpy,
and 300 prisoners
On a front of soren kilometres we General Mangin crossed the Serre at reached a depth of three kilometres and Crecy and Mortier. East of the Bouche rushed forward our line as fer as the he enlarged the bridgehead and reached Recouvrance Conde les Harpy road, tak the outskirts of Caumont Farm and libeing many prisoners and considerable, rated Teale Caumont and Pierrepant.
material
We captured Mount-Pertica and Mount Valderen, north west of Spinoncia. General.
EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH REUIKE'S AGENCY.) INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC BEACHES GERMANY.
AMSTERDAM, October 26th. Spanish" influenza has reached and numerous deaths have
IN NORWAY. The influenze is raging in all towns in Norway
occurred
ment
The Serbian prisoners-of-war have been ect at liberty-French Wirdess.
SERIOUS RIOTS AT FIUME
Eross, October 25th,
1. Will the President state for the in- formation of the Public, who have not had the advantage of reading Lieut. Olitsky's valuable report, what were the limited areas which produced the greatest number of casea of cerebrospinal fever 1 Have not the same areas proved the most prolific in cuses of bubonic plague and plague-infected rats Is it not a fact that the buildings in these areas are notoriously over- crowded and habitually occupied by more persons than the laws of the Colony and the requirements of Public Health permit? If so, what steps are being taken to pervent the overcrowding'?
Only eight of the forty-six people on board the Lyndaine were saved, and that after an entire night passed on bits of wreckage I saw several such momentoes of the booliganism of the sen na I came across from England, waterlogged boats lifted painfully to the Atlantic swell, the -stern of a whaler end up that still drifted, to and fro as perhaps it had drifted for many hours, God knows how many help- les victims with crushed limbs clinging 5. painfully to it. When one has seen that one realises something of the awful gettable. German phrase: Spurlos ver- martyrdom that is meant by the unfor-
senkt.
Daily Express.
RADIUM AND CANCER.
Is there any reason for supposing that many of the buildings in these areas are constructed with insufficient pros vision for light and air!
Is it not a fact that, a Liegtenant Olitsky's report shows, fear of thieves causes the inmates to live with. windows
and doors closed, thereby, shutting out the air and light they might otherwise chtain 1, If so, will the President bring to the notice of the Government the necessity of “in- troducing building by-laws regard ing the provision of ventilators and sliding grilles which will keep out intruders whilst admitting the free circalation of air).
ELECTOR FROM HELIGOLAND
- Speaking at the Scientific Exhibition at King's College, recently, Dr. §. Bdes described the wonderful effects of radium, ding to the Hungarian newstion was in the treatment of cancer. A
and said that its most important applica
papers, several hundred persons were great amount of work had been done in this directiofi, and although he did not wounded in the recent riots at Fiume. feel competent to pronounce any judg Shop signs in the German and Hanga there was an answer in the satisfactory ment as to the degree of success or failure,
of-arms were torn down by the populace slides showing how various malignant Fit Janguages and the Hungarian coats reports from American and British
A claimant at Newport (Mon.) Revisiona radium instivates Dr. Bass exhibited Court said he was born in Heligoland in The troops looted the centre of the growths on the face had been removed. 1884. At the time it was ceded to Ger Of course, one could not say, he added, many he was at ses in a British ship, and town MA
that the cancer had been cured. The therefore did not take advantage of the growthe had simply disappeared. Atten opportunity afforded by Lord, Balisbury tion was now being turned towards ascerto remain a British subject. He had human tissues when the rays were applied taining what change took place in the been in England for more than fany
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It is reported that two regiments mutinied at Carlowitz French Wireless