THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER STF, 1918.
NEW ALLIED BLOWS IN BELGIUM.
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IMPORTANT AMERICAN SUCCESS.
GERMAN POSITIONS ON THETM
MEUSE CRUMBLING
ITALY RECOVERING HER LOST TERRITORY,
LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S VIEWS ON THE COMING PEACE TERMS.
NORTHERN APPROACHES OF GHENT REACHED,
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LONDON, November 3rd.
WEZA
A Belgian communiqué states:— We continued the pursuit of the retreat. ing enemy notwithstanding the diffeul les of the ground which eat up with watercourses and canals, of which the crossings had been destroyed.
We reached a line from a mile west of Selzane, east of Ertvelde, through Langer; brugge, Everghem, and Tronchiennes,
There was a sharp fight in the northern approaches of Ghent
ALLIED PROGRESS NORTH OF GHENT.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PRISONERS.
LONDON, November 3rd. An Italian official statement bayn': The Seventh Army, entering the struggle, han broken through the enemy's fortifications at Sella-del-Tonale and is proceeding in the Sermiglim Valley.
HUNGARY'S APPEAL TO THE FAR EASTERN CABLE
WORLD.
Zuce, November 4th. wireless acasage, in French, from Budapest, on Saturday night, addressed to the people of the world, statos:-
The Hungarian people has, accom- the yoke of its oppressors and established plished
a peaceful revolution, shattered an independent State
repudiates responsibility for the world-war and
It
NEWS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] SPANISH INFLUENZA IN
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CHINA
SHANGHAI, November 3rd. Influenza is greatly devastating the
We have captured Colanato, north of their arms and date people lay down Yangtze Valley. Whole families have
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perice.
It declares fraternity and equality to been wiped out. There have been many Pasubio..
all inhabitants in Hungary-Magyar of cases reported in Shanghai hut only a Other nemies continue to advance nations of the world to preserve the few fatalities,
Non-Magyar-and appeals to the free- irresistibly
territorial integrity of Hungary."
The prisoners naw number 100,000, and we have taken more than 1,200 guns,
ON THE ASIAGO PLATEAU,
LONDON, November 4th., A British-Italian official statement
LONDON, November 3rd. Reuter learns that the Belgians in the says:- sector north of Ghent have advanced. The tenth Army yesterday reached a As follows:-Villetta, Praturlone, a point on the Meduns River cast of Eordenone, Sanquirino, and Aviano.
The advance continues. Over 16,000 prisoners have been taken
AIR-RAIDS BREED A LOVE FOR HUMANITY beyond Bassevelde and Bleydinge, eight Lin
IN GERMANY.
Franco-belgian Front
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FRENCH FRONT. ACTIVITY IN THE AISNE SECTOR,
LONDON, November 4th.
A French communiqué states:- North of the Serre, a French recon- naissance penetrated Parguy Les Bois and brought back 100 prisoners.
The enemy's artillerying and machine gunning were maintained at night on the whole Aisne front between Rethel and Bem uy.
FRANCO-AMERICANS LIBERATE
VILLAGES.
LONDON, November 4th. The French and Americans continued their victorious advance in the Argonne, which reached, on Sunday, a depth of 20 kilometres on a front of a kilometres, liberating a large number of villages
The French line runs from Semuy along the Ardennes Canal to Neuville-et-Day, bordering the northern outskirts of Bois- de-Yoncq and Chesme, and passing the limits of the Argonne Forest, where the French effected a junction with the American forces on their right.
The American front is marked by Anthe, Autruche, Tailly, Montigny and Basses aur-Meuse which is three kilometres north of the town.-French Wireless,
During October, in incessant fighting, in which our First Army was engaged on the Oiso front, it took 10,387 prisoners, including 201 officera. It also took, 113) guns, over 1,500 machine guns and co- FRENCH WITHIN THREE KILO-
siderable material.
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THE ARGONNE LIBERATED.
LONDON, November 4th.
A French communiqué states:----
A severe battle in the Argonne resulted in
a complete success for the Fourth French and American Armies.
The
enemy desperately defended the Aisne "crossings, and then clung very tenaciously to the wooded heights, but
METRES OF GHENT.
Lyons, November 3rd.
The French and Americans continued to make progress on Saturday between the Aisae and the Meuse.
The French troops conquered the enemy and advanced to the southern bank of the Ardennes Canal.
ed
Longwe and Primat have been captar-
The Americans advanced towards. his resistance collapsed before the rush Stepay and captured a number of vil
road,
of our troops who stormed several villages lages, and reached the Vouziers-Stenzy and occupied the Vonck and Chesse Woods. The liberation of the Argonne is completed. Prisoners and boaty, have not yet been counted
MAGNIFICENT AMERICAN"
ADVANCE.
LONDON, November 4th.,
An American communiqué states:- The First American Army continued his.
successes, capturing to-day 19 villages.
The enemy has lost very heavily in con- sequence of the continuous blows he has
In Belgium, progress was continued. The Allies reached the course of the Scheldt for a great distance south of Ghent.
The French cavalry are within three kilometres of Ghent-French Wireless.
ENEMY'S POSITION
COMPLICATED.
PARIB, November 3rd
A. Havas message statis:-
The position of the enemy is com- received in the past month and the surfplicated by the capture of Buzancy and prise he received as the force of the re-the hurried retreat before the French and newed attack on November 1st.
Americans notwithstanding his furious Prisoners report that enemy organizaresistance, knowing well how fateful were tions have been thrown into very great the Argonne and Meuse fronts. confusion. Several complete batteries General Gourand's army broke his re- and battalions have been captured.
sistance on the left, and the Americans, Over 1,000 prisoners and 100 guns have on the right, overcoming the resistance been taken.
of the enemy's rearguards forced the Ger- mans to abandon a great amount of booty." Over 4,000 prisoners have been taken
We have advanced 12 miles on an front of 18 miles during the past three days and seized certain heights, enabling a cannonade of the Montmedy, Longuyon, and Conflans railways. FIGHTING ON THE BANKS OF THE MEUSE."
LONDON, November 4th.
An American official statement says: Attacking further into the enemy's ter- ritory today we traversed Belval Wood Land Port Gerache: Wood, reached the heights south of Beaumont, and are now approaching Verieres, further west-
We hold all the towns on the west bank
of the Mouse, south of Halles,
BRITISH FRONT.
NEW ATTACK SOUTH OF THE SCHELDT.
LONDON, November 4th Six Douglas Haig states:- We attacked at dawn to-day on a wide front south of the Scheldt River
The attack is reported to have been launched satisfactorily
GERMANS WITHDRAW FROM IMPORTANT POSITIONS.
Losbos; November 3rd. Bir Douglas Haig states:
eny
Our attack extended today to the east bank of the Mellae and is progressing Following on the severe defeat inflicted favourably. ENEMY'S MAIN LINE OF RETREAT upon him in the past two days the
CRUMBLING.AL
has withdrawn from positions east and Losnos, November 4th Reuter's Correspondent at Headquarters, telegraphing on Sunday
French south-east of Valenciennes. evening, states
The French and American armies hore effected a function near Authe, five miles north-east of Buzancy
miles east of the Derivation" Canal.
The Franco-Americans west of the Meuse, on a front of 30 miles, made a fresh big advance.
ALLIES AT GATES OF GHENT. Lross, November 4th. In Flanders, the Allied Armies tinue to free Belgian soil.
The whole region adjoining Holland up to the Teracusen Canal has been delivered by the Belgian advance-16 kilometres along the Dutch frontier.
con-
AUSTRIAN EMPEROR TO ABDICATE.
COPENHAGEN, November 4th. The Berliner Tageblatt Correspon dent at Venna states that the Emperor, on November 2nd, conferred with men bers of the Cabinet and the Party leaders and announced his intention to abdicate and go to Switzerland
GERMANY WHINING."
AMSTERDAM, November 4th. A telegram from Berlin states that Germany, through the Swiss Government, has proposed to the other belligerents the cessation of aerial attacks. in the rear of the tone of operations" on the ground
monuments of civilization."
[BY COURTESY OF THE CHUNG NOOI SAN PO."]
CHINA AND THE ALLIES' NOTES.
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Paxisa, November 5th. President Hsu Shih-chang summoned Tuan Chi-jui, the ex-Premier, and other leaders for a consultation after he received the Allied Notes. They will give hi explanations to the Allied Ministers in regard to their treatment of alien enemies. They will send the Note to the South, and ask the South to declare an immediate armistice on all fronts, so that the Allies
of which 1,000 were taken by the Four of humanity and the preservation of will be satisfied that the unrest in China
It says that Gerraan aviators were is to be settled. ordered to cease such attacks in the be angianing of October,
teenth Corps and the Mounted Men:
The Forty-Eighth Division, in operation on the Asiago Platens, took 470 prisoners and 13 guns. GOOD NEWS RECEIVED LOCALLY. The following telegram has been courteously communicated by His Lord ship Bishop Pozzoni for publication
The Allies are at the gates of Chent. The German retreat has been heatened
PERING, November 4th. east of Valenciennes and the Scheldt.
To the Catholic Mission, Hongkong. The British, penetrated the villages by the enemy's forts, have occupied Italian troops, overcoming resistance unaing, Estreax and Villers-Pol, which
is six miles east of Valenciennes-French Treat. Wireless
The Balkans.
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SERBIA ALMOST WHOLLY LIBERATED..
LONDON, November 4th.
A French Eastern communiqué stuten: Following the capture of. Belgrade the defeated Germen and Austrians retired the north bank of the Danube
The Second Serbian Army has reached the Bosnian Frontier.
Almost the whole of Serbia has now been liberated.
FREED OF THE ENEMY.
Lross, November - 3rd. Belgrade, has been re-captured, and thus Serbia has been entirely freed of the enemy 45 days after the commencement of the offensive in Macedonia-French Wireless.
Italian Front...
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ITALIAN FRONT.
AUSTRIANS CEASE HOSTILITIES IN ITALY.
LONDON, November 3rd.
Vienna, November 3rd, says that in the An Austrian official statement, dated Italian theatre-of-war Italian troops have coased hostilities on the basis of the armistice which has been concluded.
ITALY RECOVERING OLD TERRITORY.·
LONDON, November 3rd.
An Italian official statement says :---- We occupied Trento.
Our troops landed at Trieste. Our cavalry entered Udine, ITALIANS OCCUPY ROVERETO, BOE, November 3rd. It is officially stated that the Italians have occupied Rovereto
THE OCCUPATION OF TRIESTE.
AKETERDAM, November 4th.
A telegram has Vienna states that the Statthalter, and other austrian autho
ing of Italians and Slovenes, took over rities left Trieste on Wednesday when the Public. Welfare Committee, consistă
the administration
Italian troops have landed, at Trieste. The tri-colour is flying on the cam- papile of the Cathedral of San Giusto in Trieste.
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(Signed) CHARGE D'AFFAIRES. REJOICINGS IN ROME.
RoxE, November 4th. The news of the liberation of Udine, Trento, and Trieste, led to spontaneous demonstrations in all the towns in Italy.
An immense procession formed in the Corso Umberto, amid frantic cheers, and marched to the Capitol where the historic bell was sounded en fete. Aerial Activities,
DISQUIETUDE IN BAVARIA.
It is reported that the Peking Govern- ment has ordered, secretly all the Northern armies on the various fronts to stop hostilities.
Japan will not return the Boxer In-
AMSTERDAM, November 3rd. A telegram from Munich states that there is much disquietude in Bavaria over the events on the Italian Front and indemnity to China until the unrest in Austria.
China is at an end.
Troope are being posted on the frontier in order to prevent penetration, burning plundering, etc.
GERMAN INHUMANITY.
mothers of boys and girls under 18 A Hayaa message says:-
PARIS, November 3rd A petition signed by over 8,000 fathers! years of age, who had been taken away from Lille by the Germans, has been sent to the German Government.
The petition calls on the German Gov- ernment to restore the young people de tained in deñance of international law. THE AFTERMATH IN AUSTRIA
"AMSTERDAM, November 4th.
THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. GOVERNMENT INQUIRY IN THE F.M.S...
The inaction of the local Sanitary Board authorities in regard to the local outbreak of influenza is being widely discussed in the City. The consensus of opinion is that the great increase in the number of cases in the past fortnight- there were 60 deaths between October A telegram from Vienna states that the 14th and October 30th-makes it incom National Council has jasued an appeal breaking up in disorder and points out prevent what may easily become an dwelling on the fact that the Army is bent upon the Board to take action to
and misery likely to ensue. the dangers of vast unemployment, hunger
It atatea epidemic. Even on the principle that that guards are abandoning war prison the number of deaths in the past fort ers' camps, and exhorts soldiers, volun- tarily, to join German-Austrian corps night does not render medical action "a in order avert famine and further bloodsbed
necessity, it would be well if the Board' remembered that Singapore and Shang- hai, neighbours of Hongkong, were both taken unawares and did not realise the serious nature of the epidemic till it had descended on those cities with melancholy severity.
GERMAN BOHEMIA
AMSTERDAY, November 3rd. A telegram from Vienna states that the German Administration for German Bohemia has been established in spite of the opposition of the Czech authorities. DISTURBANCES IN BUDAPEST.
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LONDON, November 4th. The Press Bureau states:-
AMSTERDAM, November 3rd. The Independent Air Force yesterday comparatively alight excesses occurred on A telegram from Budapest states that heavily attacked the railways in drome, with good resulta.
and Uctober 31st in the outskirts of the city. around Saarburg, also the Buhl, sero They were severely suppressed. All our machines returned. Gunistal.
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THE AUSTRIAN FLEET.
The F.M.S. Government recently held
discuss the question and. to see what & public inquiry at Kuala Lumpur to
steps should be taken to prevent the further spread of the disease and the eradication, as far as possible, of the epidemic in that city. The Chief Secre tary of the F.M.S. (Sir Edward Brock- man) presided.
PARIS, November 3rd. The Jugo-Slavs have telegraphed to. President Wilson stating that they are ready to hand over the Austrian Fleet to the United States or to representatives of the Allied Navies.
Dr. G. McGregor, suggested that all MORE GERMAN PLOTS REVEALED. Possible precautionary measures should be taken, and particularly urged on all BEINE, November 4th. Fallowing on the protest of the Swiss to resort to gargles of permanganate of Federal Council, Germany has recalled potash which should be used freely and LONDON, November 4th. the Consul General and Vice-Consul at The first reasoned exposition hitherto Zurich in consequence of the discovery often. People should avoid crowded published of the situation with which at the Consulate of pamphlets, arms, meetings and cinemas, and he thought Europe will shortly be confronted, and bombs and munitions destined to stir up it a very good idea that coolies from one af some of the problems attendant on the revolution and carry out acts of destruc long transition period from war to peace, tion in Italy. and thence to the establishment of a
Associated Powers will impose on Ger- The article enumerates what the writer believes to be the terms which
the
estate should be prohibited from visiting
League of Nations, appears in the Time sentenced, in default, to 2 years imcoolies on neighbouring estates, also that
An employe of the Consulate has been in a three column article, signed "North-prisonment in connection with the plot. cliffe.'
the visiting of patients in hospitals UKRAINIANS OCCUPY LEMBERG. should either be prohibited altogether, AMSTERDAM, November 3rd. For else greatly restricted, and then allow- A telegram from Lemberg states thated only by permission of the medical the Ukrainians have occupied the town! and interned the Stattholder
They have proclaimed a state of elege
officer in charge Business is at a standstill..
VERSAILLES CONFERENCE
many.
These comprise the complete territorial and economie restoration of Belgium; the reconstruction of the invaded Provinces, with compensation for all civi lian losses and injuries; the restoration of Alsace Lorraine to France, not, is a territorial acquisition or part of the war indemnity, but as reparation for the wrong done in 1871; the readjustment of
RESUMED.
PARIS, November 3rd."
A Havas mesange says:-
The greatest danger of all, added Dr. McGregor, was that of people, after an attack of influenza, exposing themselves to damp air too soon. Nothing could be more: fatal than this. People came out of doors before they were absolutely
this.
the Northern frontier of Italy; the evacua- its deliberations. M. Venizelos, the Bel- and pneumonia developed almoet at The Versailles Conference has resumed cared or couralescent; caught a chili, tion of all that which was once Russian gian Foreign Minister, the Japanese Amore, in nine cases out of ten. People
the
annulment treaties with the enemies since the (replacing the Premier) were again pre-
of all Russian Bassador, the Serbian Minister in Paris should be very seriously warned against Revolution; the formation of a Polish sent State with Access to the sen the indemnification of Poland by the Powers tions responsible for the havoc during the the abrogation of the Treaty tion of Serbia, Rumania, and Montenegro of Bukharest; the evacuation and restors and the removal, as far as possible, of Turkish rule over non-Turkish peoples,
war
attention to the crowded state of many of the cubicles, and suggested that the "Sanitary Board should pay special ate tention to this most serious matter. He had attended many cases in the poorčic that the crowded state of many of these parts of the town, and was of opinion cubicles had greatly added to the chances of the attack proving fatal
My Dr. E. B. Macintyre, endorsing the Nothing has transpired of the delibera- remarks of the previous speaker, drew
KAISER'S ABDICATION NOTH
PRESSING.
LONDON, November 3rd. A Havas message says:- Austria and Germany will have to liable source in Government circles, that The French Press publish, from are replace the illegally damaged and destroy Berlin no longer considers the Kaiser's Powers and Neutrals, while the Allies will are bent upon the retention of the Kaiser. ed merchant fonnage of the Associated abdication as pressing. Certain Germans
bunale to try individuale of any belli- also insist on the appointment of Tri- Berents accused of offences
against war or against humanity...
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RESIGNATION OF COUNT ANDRASSY
COPENHAGEN, November 3rd, A telegram from Vienas states that Count Andramy has resigned.
THE ARMISTICE WITH AUSTRIA FRANCE'S HONOURED DEAD.ontract the pagerially if they
HUNGARY
Doctor 4. E. McClosky said the disease was not started in the organs of tue'x body but it accumulated in the air, and attack it! The only thing, and a most question was, how best could, one necessary thing, was for everyone to take all possible precautions. People were as likely epidemic during The Committee sent a torpedo boat to
neglected to take necessary precautions Pants, November 3rd.. Venice to request the commander of the bez 4th, from the Secretary of State ha touching ceremony took place in the precise instructions what precautions
He thought the idea of widely distribut The following telegram, dated Novem A Havas message says:
circulars ing
in all languages, giving Entente Fleet to occupy Triem
been received by the Omoor Administer Pantheon. A British military delegar should be taken, would be a very excellent ring the Government Hongkongtion bearing a memorial palm, dedicated move. As to the opening of outside hos ian troops An Armistice with the Government of it to the French baroes who have fallen pitals, or temporary sheds where patients. Austria-Hungary was signed yesterday in the salvation of their country, could be treated, this was quite out of the eted that by General Diaz on behalf of the Allies The delegation was headed by an Eng question at present as they had not Occupy and comes into force at 3 p.m. to-day.lish captain who was blinded in the war, eficient hospital dressers as it was, and The Armistices do not terminate the who was present a delegate of the most certainly had none to spare for oute stall of war-Lose.
**Comrades of the Great Warul
We observed the withdrawal and are in contact with the German rearguarda pangala
We entered Villers-pol-Jenlain, Curgies, prevent excesses by the
The enemy's position or the Mouse Estreuz, and Onnning. which is the main line of retreat of his armies between the Meuss sad the Dise is beginning to crumbia.
fleeing from Italy. It
There was local fighting, weet of Land an American sqmsdron recies, to our advantage.
side work