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YESTERDAY'S
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THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.
London, July 6.
TELEGRAMS.
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THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE WRECKED.
London, July Reuters correspondent at the French Headquarters describing the powerful attack by the enemy on the French writes:--
THE HONGKONGTM TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1917.
TELEGRAMS.
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THE DUTCH POTATO TROUBLE.
London, July 6. The Gertuan press is naturally making the most of the disturbances about Holland, the object being to stir up Anglo-Dutch trouble but it is most unlikely it will meet with any success.
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A wireless Kussina official mess- age says: There has been incressed
The Germans mustered the pro reciprocal artillerying in the direc tion of Zolotches. Sharp encounters Fiods night in trenches on the
It is officially stated at the Hague took place in the region of Dzike northern slopes of the plateau. At lany. The Germans waved a white 30 the next evening the French that the Minister of Agriculture's re- flag and suggested fraternizing in the Divisional General commanding the mark cabled on the 5th inst. was and suggested fraternizing in the sector of the plateau was sitting inaccurately reproduced. The Min- region of Baliestchi but we replied down to his evening meal, wender,ister said that Holland muust export with artillery. Abattle is proceedinging what the silence of the enemy potatoes to Germany in order to get in the direction of Sakkiz and in the guns meant, when a sudden roar of coal conserently by virtue of the region of Bistans on the Abishirvan artillery supplied the solution. The Germans had opened· a bonha rei. river with reinforced Turks.
A wireless German official message ment with staggering volence along! the entire front. Across the plate states: Massed Russian assaults on Brrezany and between Zoorow and eau ran an unbroken ware of shell Koninchy broke down heavily. Anhursts cutting off all access to the other wireless German official mess-front. In the rear great shells rain age says: An artillery battle based on every part of the position. developed between Zborow and destroying the communication tren Brzezany also at Lisely, Zwyzyn, Brody and Smorgon.
Ramanian preparations to attack southward of Casiau valley were dispersed. Under our fire, the enemy is restless on the Lower Danube.
Ang Dutch agreement potators must be permitted to go to England, although England was not obliged to deliver coal to Holland,
CONSIDERING IRELAND'S :
Meanwhile, the food difficulties of other. European neutrals are again shown by the report of the Danish Government. Committee that the Danes can pull through the winter ches, cutting wires and ploughingly by the greatest economy and up roads. For a moment the position the slaughtering after 1st September. appeared desperate. But the Borhes of half the stock of pigs (and the reckoned without their hosts. The last profitable eattle, roar of their overture had been heard for miles, and the result was that every. French gun was turned j into the German departare trenches. Reuter is informed that the B- The Germans had counted on im tish Ambassader Sir George Bucha munity for the trenches on the nan has been instructed to warmly slopes of the plateau; because, ow- congratulate the Russian Governing to the steepness of the ascent | ment on the brilliant guccess of the most of it had been counted as dead new offensive, the latest reports of ground for artillery jurposes. As which show that it is. favourably it happened, the day before the developing.
London, July 7.
A message from Paris states that M. Painleve baš similarly congratu lated the Russian Government.
Divisional
Artillery Commander himself, adventuring beyond the front trenches, had worked out the exact range of the enemy front line. and directly the battle began se eral batteries of seventy-fives open ed a terrific barrage on ther
FUTURE.
London, July 7. The Navy League has requested. Mr. Lloyd George to receive a de- putation in regard to the safeguard- ing of Irish harbours and communi- rations in the event of Irish self- government as the outcome of the Irish Convention.
The Premier, diclining for the pre- seat, writes that the Government is fully interested in the strategic posi tion of Island in its relation to Imperial defence and communica tions in war time.
Mr. Michael Hearn, · Nationalist..
tretches which were naturally has been retarged unopposed for
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CANADIAN CONSCRIPTION.
Ottawa, July 6 The House of Commotis has pass-
to 55.
scription Bill by 119 votes Twenty-six Liberals supported the
the an second reading and on nouncement of the vote the National Arthem was sung.
London, July 5. The resumption of the Russian offensive after the sharp luil is in- dicated. A German communique
Meanwhile the'f South Dublin County. crowded with men. states that attacks were delivered
heary artillery was raining destrue- between Zborow and Koniuchy
tion on the supports behind, and where seven
thousand prisoners were taken on Monday, and at the German communication trenches The French reply Petro and batteries. Brzezany, farther south. grad correspondents emphasise that had been so prompt that the at- the offensive is not merely a tempt failed even before it properised the second reading of the Cot demonstration but is in accordance commenced. The enemy bonbard with clear strategical plaas. They meat died down in forty minutes state that the Germans have already and ten minutes after the German withdrawn seven divisions from the infantry left the trenches. At this Wert in addition to fresh forma part of the Eae the enemy did not tions from Germany. There are employ "stosstruppen, the attack- signs of impending naval operations ers consisting of fresh troops of the in the Baltic. Enemy aircraft have! 1918 class. who, full of fre, came been raiding Livonia,, and sub-on very gallantly, but the decima. marines, have been exploring the tion caued by the seventy-fives it Gulf of Finland. It is noteworthy them too weak to advance, far that many of the leaders of reg against a storm of machine-gun, mental committees were the first to french-mortar and riffe £re from the fall in Sunday's advance. The in- trenches. They never reached the fantry were delighted with the French line. artilery preparation which was un- precedented on the Russian front.
A Czecho-Slovak brigade composed |
volunteers stormed three Enes
of fortified heights, breaking the! front. Altogether five thousand prisoners were taken in one village. M. Kerensky was present through- put the battle.
THE CHINESE SITUATION,
London, July 8.
CONTROL OF FINANCE.
The second stage was followed by an all-night suing during which three amendments were voted down. Only nine members supported the Laurier's amendment was defeated motion for rejection. Sir Wilfred
by 1 rotes to 62, although the entire Quebec contingent, except two Cabinet Members, supported it: AMERICAN CONTINGENT AND SUBMARINES,
Parie, July 7. American naval officers interview- ed said they believed that two sub. marines were sunk by the destroyers escorting the American contingent
across the Atlantic.
and
London, July Mr. Bonar Law's announcement of the appointment of a select com.
They state that one submarice nittee for the Parliamentary Control of Finance was practically an acceptance dived when it was eighted but the of the motion of Mr. Godfrey Col-Transparantix, a destroyer, manc lings, which was the result of several uvred so as to get the submarine months agitation by members the visible beneath just astern House of Commons against the dropped a bomb. There was a vio waste of money, and was backed by leat explosion and the water was Reuter is informed that a Provi-over two hundred members: Mr. covered with oil. The other sub- sional Government of the Chinese Bonar "Law stipulated that the marine was believed to have been
examination of expenditure should rammed by a transport. Republic has been established at
not be used to control policy but Nanking. It appears that the Vice-
the papers point President of the Republic, who is military governor of Nanking, bas to temporarily sesamed the Presidency. the feeling of members was The Admiralty announces that a thoroughly roused. It was note-mino-sweeper in the Mediterranean worthy "that Do speech was made struck a mine and sank. against the spirit of the motion the crew, are missing. » throughout the debate.
Peking: The situation is becoming serious. Every train, for the past few days, has been packed with Chinese fleeing to Tientsin, and the interruption of communications caused a panic? The foreign Hotels are full of refugees.
Small American and Japanese re- inforcements are endeavouring to come up from Tientsin to protect
SUNK.
TELEGRAMS,
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AUSTRIA'S FACTIONS.
Zurich, July 6, 2 The Imperial amnesty to political offenders is absorbing attention. The
German parties are bitterly in
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