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TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1917.
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TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to The "Talegraph.”]»
GERMANY'S NEW CHANCELLOR.
A Strong Man or & Puppet?
London, July 16. The few German comments on the appointment of Dr. Michaelis have been confusing and confirm the appreciation of British news papers that the new Chancellor is an unknown quantity. "It remains to be known whether he will prove a strong man or a puppet.
The Berliner Tagblatt complains that Dr. Michaelis was appointed without Parliament being consulted.
The Cologne Volka Zeitung gaya that the German people for two years have wanted a strong men, and Dr. Michaelis is apparently purposeful and bas a personality:
TELEGRAMS.
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THE BATTLES IN THE WEST.
German Raiders Repaised.
London, July 16. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:-We repulsed raida north-west of Foutaine lez Croisilles and near Armenteres.
We successfully raided near Opry.
Obstinate Night Fighting.
Londby, July 16. A French communique states:There has been obstinate fighting all night long at Mont Haut.
The enemy, who at firet succeeded in retaking the greater part It is significant that the Tueglisch Rundschau, the military of the recaptured ground, was driven back by our brilisnt counter- organ, welcomes Dr. Michaelis as the possessor of unusual energy, attacks, and at present only some portions of trenches remain in his like General von Hindenberg and General von Ludendorff, while bande. Herr Theodor Wolff, writing in the Berliner Tageblatt prior to Harr YOB Bethmsan Hollweg's resignation, ssid that if Herr von Bethmsan Hoilweg resigned it would mean the coming into prominence of the Crown Prince, which is scarcely likely to increase the possibilities of peace. No comments have yet been made in the Austrian papers.
A Dual Appointment.
London, July 16. Beater's correspondent at Basle says it is lesrasd from Berlin that Dr. Michaelis has also been sppointed Foreign Secretary
German Surprise.
London, July 16. According to Reuter's correspondent at Zurich, the Frankfurter Zeitung saya that the appointment of Dr. Michaelis is most surpris- ing. His name was never seriously mentioned for such a high post, "He is the first middle class Chancellor and a Prusaian in the best sense of the word. We do not know what sort of a stateman haj will make, but if he is to be a success he must co-operate with the majority of the Reichstag, including the Left parties.”
'Enemy Efforts which Failed.
London, Faly 16.
A French communique states:-After a bombardment, the enemy made a series of coups de main between the Somme and the Aisne,
An attempt to the south-east of St. Quentin and west of Allemant failed under our fire.
An attack by several detachments on our small posts to the south of Corbeny was completely repulsed after a very lively fight. √
We progressed to the south of Ailles and took prisonera.
After a most violent bombardment in the region of Mont Haut and Teton, large forces of Germans attacked the position which we captured on the 14th instant. Our forces resisted, with indomitable energy and tenacity, the enemy, in greatly superior numbers. The enemy efforts at Teton were unsuccessful, and our assailante, who suffered very heavy losses, were unable to break into cur lines.
A Graphic Battle Picture,
London, July 16.
Renter's correspondent at the French Headquartere, writing on the 15th instant, states:-Last evening, while Biga were waving and rockets were blazing all over France in bonour of the National" The Mannheim Folktimme, the loading Socialist organ at Baden, Fete, the battle for viewpoints on the Champagne Front was renewed saya that Dr. Michaelis's insight into the economic distress of the on the Moronvilliers Heights, a chain of five topped billa licked people, as Food Controller, should preserve him from over-estimating by high saddles, which dominates the eastern sector of the battle the strength of Germany and paraning a policy beyond her field from Nogent la Bussee to the farther bank of the Suippe. The strength. It promises Dr. Michselis the support of the Socialists if highest point thereof is Moat Hunt, nearly a thousand feet in he co-operates with the united majority of the parties. It couclades height, which is flinked on the east by Teton arque and on the by saying that pesce and freedom must be the new Chancellor's west by Mont Blond and Hout Cornillet.
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HIS MAJESTY AT THE FRONT.
A Close View of Modern Warfare.
The first great battle in April. brought the French over the crest of ground, bat except for Mont Corniliet, the whole of which the French have held for some time, the northern slopes of the chain remained in German hande.
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(Four sections of Message missing here.) Meanwhile, the French departure trenches on the slopes of Lordon, July 15.
Mont Blond being transformed by a sea of milky vapour, in which Bsater's correspondent at the British Headquarters, continaing even shell-barata were invisible, what resembled. serpents of white his description of His Majesty's visit to the front, seye that the smoke with heads of fire wandered methodically to and fro scross King met a group of Divisional Generala and Artillery Commanders the battlefield, dragging after them a thickening cload of woolly and others who contributed to the victory at Messines. They were rapoar made of their own expanding bodies, which gradually hid draws up on the lee side of a peasant dwelling, the woman occupent the ground effectively, as if a roof had been built over it. The continuing to work a creaking mangle a few yards away while Hie Germans evidenty felt the loss of vision keenly. Five of their Majesty talked to the officers. Subsequently the King visited a sausage-balleons appeared on the sky-line, extraordinarily low and ministare of the Wysokaste battlefield, where the attack was rehearsed weeks beforehand. Later be lunched in an Old World so close that a special squadron of German aeropianes had to be sent
out to protect them. town where Auzic troope lined three sides of the market square. The Anzac Corps Commander, "with bis staff and the Premier of New South Wales was present and the King chatted with thêm, subsequently driving cf to eatbursts of Australian "Coose." Hia Majesty motored from there through fields and villages alive with Australians and New Zealandere, and they came bursting through the hedges, Bocked on fences and swarmed up trees to give a throsty welcome to Eia Majeste.
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TELEGRAMS.
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE ROYAL VISIT TO PRANCE.
The King on the Battle-Front.
London, July 15: The King and Queen crossed io France on the 3rd inst. The Prince of Wales was among those who received them
Queen Mary proceeded on a tour of the hospitals while the King began his tour on the 4th by visiting Messines Ridge. His Majesty climbed the slopes while German shells were flashing and crumping upon the other side. He was heartily greeted by the British and Dominion troops. Accom- panied by the Prince of Wales, the King walked from Vier- straat to the Ridge and halted upon the threshold of the battle ground of a month ago. He then passed through the scene of desolation, with innumerable craters etrown over with broker rifles, unexploded grenades, hehnets, bandoliers and gruesome objects which did not invite closer inspection. The scene affected the King visibly Away northwards a German battery was shelling an overhead enemy and "Archies" were searching the heavens for our airmen General Plumer, acting as guide, took the King to the old "German" front, Ene. The King paused to inspect a ruined, Chateau reduced to a mound of reddish dust. He stooped into the entrance of a wrecked dugout and saw, with an elec- tric torch, how the Germans were disturbed at their meal by historic explosions. Then he stood for several minutes silently beside a gigantic wine crater. Meanwhile the Gaz- mäns were shelling the crest near Wytschuete, just a thou- sand yards from the King. Thereafter his Majesty spent an hour in the old German defences. He was conveyed along a narrow-guage railway by a dwarf engine, the royal saloon comprising. a rough wooden can open at the sides with a solitary-chair and plank benches; thence, via an electric-lit tunnel, to the sheil-proof observers' posts on the Ridge, where he got a view of the plain of Flanders.and the adjoining valleys.
Honours Conferred,
London, July 15. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig has been appointed Kaight of the Thistle.
Paris, July 15 King George during his recent visit to the front con- ferred the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on General Petain, and the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, on General Franchet Desperes.
DEVELOPMENTS ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
London, July 15.
A French communique says: The artillery struggle bas slackened, west of Cerny in Champagne. We organised the positions captured last night north of Mont Haut and Teton
"Field Marshal Sir Dougla Haig reports: Reciprocal artillery firing is taking place in the neighbourhoods of Arment- ieres, Wytschaete and Nieuport. Our 'aeroplanes on Friday night bombed four important railway stations and a large German rest camp. They bombed an aerodrome and am- manition dump on Saturday, despite thunder storms, and valuably co-operated with the artillery. They also brought down three German machines and drove down two. Five of ours are missing.
AFTER THE RAID.
A Strange Whit-Monday at Folkestone.
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Aun. The "little hand" that was. "picked up" here, the "little bead" with "Enela all down is facee ain't been 'ome for an hourit lay then on the morta- ary tablethia was the sort of thing you heard spoken of to-day where formerly you caught jsite and careless laughter.
The destroyed housse, the man hlotted out even the women done to death, may at long last be forgotten, but the "ory of the children," the "wmall, slain body, the flower-lite face," this will not pase from the memory of those who walked to-day in bright raiment and rested their minds apan som- bre thoughts. It is the one in- effceable memory the raiders have left. It has hardened the people against them as nothing alse could have done.
Meantime there are the im mediate practical needs. Thero în the prevention of a recurrence of the business, and municipal pres- sare to be brought upon the authoritise to this end. There is the relief of the sufferers. The sub- committee dealing with this “mat- tor is not likely to find its coffers light. Sir Philip Samoon the member for the constituency, has headed the subscription-list with £100, and Lady Rocksarage, hia eister, has written ber beneath, giving another; and so the subscription-list bas begun well. Folkestone will be generous to its stricken. It has been so în the past. Even the Kaiser could testify to the bravery" and self." as fics of the mes of the place, who, when they had nothing else to offer risked their lives to sAYS the ancestora of the man who, on Friday,alaughtered women and children wantonly in the open. day.
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The tale in instruotiva. Two score years ago two German war- ships, the Grosser Kurfurst and another, came into collision off alone with our dead. It has the port. At the danger of their siways been so with us, and those lives the faberlolk of Folkestons who took counsel with the raises ved several hundred of mea tires at this time found it thus and those who were drowned the with them. And so each little town baried with full naval and home, instructing its "arrows to military honours. Mɔt only did
HYDERABAD'S PART IN THE WAR.
Landan, July 16. Beater's correspondent at Hyderabad says that the British Resident, speaking at the Nizam's banquet, referred to the exalted On the second day, the King lacched with King Albert of part His Highness had played in the war. He mentioned that the Belgium at the latter's coast vills. They visited naval and military Hyderabad Regiment was among the first ladisa troops to leave for serodromes and drove through camps, being vociferously cheered Egypt and was still serving there, the State defraying the fall by the Belgians. The King, at the serodromes, was most interested expenses thereof and also of the Becond Cavalry Regiment Alto- in prodigal exbibitions of freak flying machines tumbling about like gether it was costing three lakhs every month, and that would be special correspondent of the be-proud will lay its own be they thas bury the dond, and e variety knock-about turn. Bis Majesty chatted with a batch of continued however long hostilities endured. Early in 1917, the Daily Telegraph wrote from loved to rest, some to-morrow, rescue those whom they could, Naral Voluntary Reserves just back from a successful raid. All Nisam telegraphed to the Admiralty £300,000 towards combating Fulkstone on May 28, some on Thursday, some later, but they hosped upon the resor But on Saturday s memorial all the hospitality they cot day, airmen overhead accompanied the King, keeping the sky clear submarinism. Last month, Hyderabad invested seventy-five kbs follows:
in the Indian War Loan, apart from thirty-eight-and-a-half lakbe You saw the cemetery from the service in the parish church will give. The German recognition His Majesty visited an establishment on July 6, where he witness privately subscribed. The speaker paid farther tribute to the railway, and men in uniform look mark more publicly Folkestone's WAR: obaracteristic. ed the art of deception carried in amazing lengths, including the Nizam's appeal to Mohammedans to stand loyal to the King-ed out quickly as the train passed, grief. To this the Archbishop of Wilhelm L who reigned in thos
If you followed their eyes yon Canterbury will coma, ami lay at daya, and Wilhelm L. wa disappearing trickery which is specialised in here. He inspected Emperor when Germany forced Turkey to join her,
mote little upturned hills of earth, the feet of the dead the Church's And to mark his appreciat
all that Folkestone had dogs he workers employed in disguising snipere as holly bushes, and then
When you came later to that level tribute, he watched a practice battle in which the features included al-
sward where so many sleep you. It is the strangest Whit sent to the Vicar Bible richly horseman slowly advancing, representing a creeping barrage,
ew cat in the earth many deep Monday that had been soon in bound. It was for use in- the behind whom drummers were realistically rata planning a
rectangles. Some there were which Folkestone, this Whit Monday Parish Church. Besides, her bombardment. The drammers were preceded by handreds of
London, July 16. were smaller than the others of the Black Whitean. Never gold watch or two iasori laden soldiers guiding their pass by the horseman. The troopa
According to Reuter's correspondent at Peking, the Premier, These were for the children. Two lid the some sparkle more softly with the Imperial arms. dashed headlong as the trenches and parapet with lowered bayonets Tuan Chi-jni, and a number of prospective members of the Cabines, poplam swayed softly above the than to-day, never the chalk clifa may still read on the monument and swept over the trenches capturing Tommies, representing including Liang Chi-chao, who was a strong advocate of war with place, and there were plots of for core in more dazzlingly the view erected by the German Govern Germans putting their hands up sad crying "Kamerad." His Germany, baze ariived. The Chinese are very angry at the Austro-hot and sweet smelling from the sea beight. There meat solicitons list of Majesty auber quently watched another practice attack ander German activities in connection with the restoration of the Mon- all were and the turf war was shimmer of white dresses victims. Now's new mon different conditions. His Majesty heard later that enemy aeroplanes archy and the recent disturbances. It stated that it can be
and wit} „dainien, so so the beaches far below, on the will aries. If will write in had dropped bombe over one of the places he had visited earlier.
undeniably proved that Chang Fan was brought up by the Germans akiyak
Kints that was all a Len itself porte costs abone of Ere the record of a murd The Dutch ste also,criticised in connection with the esospe of Chang white cover. Nothi stirred bu blus, fatbed rose, flies fre Fan, who was rescued by a foraigner, probably an Austrian or a. the wind
with this holides decor German.
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THE LOSS OF H.M.S. VANGUARD.
L'ondon, July 16.
It is announced that 804 officers and men perished in the dimeter to EL.M.S. Vanguard.
PEKING POLITICS,
Anger at Austro-German latrigue,
THE REICHSTAG ADJOURNS,
London, July 16, Banter's correspondent at Amsterdam mays that the Reich
has been #ijoarned indefinitely..
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MP, GINNELL'S FUTURE.
London, July 16
FEDERAL REPUBLIC FOR RUSSIAN.
Mr. Ginnell, M.P., told & Bina Fein demonstration at Mullingar "that he was retiring from Westminster to devote himself to Sinn addr
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