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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from Puge 1)
Mr. HENDERSON'S RESIGNATION,
Sharp Criticism by Mr. Lloyd George,
London, Aug. il.
The correspondence between Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Henderson regarding the latter's resignation has been published. Mr. Henderson wrote on Aug. 11 tendering bis resignation, declaring "I share in your desire that the war should be carried on to a successful conclusion"
Mr. Lloyd George replied and, after intimating that H.M. the King had accepted the resignation, proccoded "My col leagues and I received with satisfaction the assurance of your unabated desire to assist in the prosecution of the war to a successful conclusion. Thrte are however certain facts with which it is essential that the public should be acquaint- ed in order that they may form à correct appreciation of the events that led to this regrettable conclusion,
THE HONGKONG " TELÉGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1917.
The first is that your colleagues were taken completely by surprise by the attitude which you adopted at the Labour Conference yesterday afternoon. You knew that they were in the present circumstances unanimously-opposed to the Stockholm Conference and you had yourself been prepared to agree to the announcement to that effect some days ago. At your suggestion, however, and that of your Labour col- lagues it was decided to defer any such announcement uatil after the meeting yesterday. I was under the impression after several talks with you that you meant to us your influence against meeting enemy representatives at Stock- bolm. What has happened in Russia during the last few weeks 'materially affected the position. In reference to that Conference you admitted to me that the situation had rom- pletely changed even within the last fortnight, and that whatever ground you might have thought there was for delegates from Allied countries attending such a Conference a fortnight ago, the events of the last few days had shown you the unwisdom of such course. That was clearly what you led ne u believe. It was also the impression left on the minds of your colleagues in the Cabinet and of your Labour colleagues in the Ministry. It was therefore with
no small surprise that 1 received a letter from you yesterday afternoon stating you ought to inform me that after must careful consideration you had cohe te the conclusion you could take no other course than to stand by the advice jud bad given the day after your return from Russia. Surely this was the coocasion of which you ought to have informed the Cabinet before you entered the Comterance. When you - spoke at that Conference you were not merely a member of the Labour Party but a member of the tuinnet, responsible tor-the conduct of the war. Nevertheless you did not dựem it veessary to inferui the Conferince of the views of your colleagues and the delegates wordingly were justitied in Site beaute you are Haind KUL MICULASKUL Wat wel op
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the ilusati GOVERNt towards the locabil Conference was very udiereal from what it had been buje,
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اق وانا لمايا
JE WESTERN FRONT.
A Big Rogosu Altack.
kutatuli, Jug. I.
A wrcices facrouch other shesage Stutas: -1esterung "s aftong Lugušu alluvas vù au eight krivinetre trout between Freewing and, mostke at that uroke in our law but
• zapla comeratizes ejeciço the enemy near Westhoek, ter ik bitter suggle. We brought down 15 acre
planes on the west fruul
French Positions Regained.
Lubuva, Aug. 11,
A French communque states: North of OL YÜNDUN we regained the greater portions of the elements in which the entity gained & looung on the 5th and 10th in Chat- pagué,alter an artillery preparation the enemy dzivered sammulta feous allachs cist and west ut Mont Cornilet. Our fire stoppel acad the assaulting waves, which pustamed heavy losses. Nort of alent Cerumet the enemy pézetrated our advanced use but energette counter-offensive re- captured with the exception of fifty metres.
THE RUSSIAN FRONT.
Seven Russo Kumadian Attacks,
London, Aug. il
A wireless, Geriau eflicia! message states:Strong istan and Ramuan torece seven tines stormed, the sala position but all the attacks broke down with heavy
4.
Russians Offer a Stera Resistance.
London, Aug. il..
wirdess Bursian ulicial message of. Aug. 11 states:- They's parual offensive in the direction of Brody was lete failure. He was everywhere repulsed with great
·lose We repelled attacks in the Bereth and Suchave Vals
le stubborn battles south-westward of Ouna the Bums were forced to retire for live verste. The enemy devel an offensive westward of the Focsani-Moreshest- chi R.
ay and compelled us to retiré across the Suchitza. We od autacks eastward of the railway and made prisons
300. The battle is progressing. Counter-attacks yesterdayening enabled us to re-cross in places to the auth ba
of the Suchitza.
THE TYPHOON.
To-day's Blow in Hongkong-
This morning, Hongkong was more closely threatened with a typhoon than it had been for some time past. The first notification of the possibility of a big blow came in the warning from Manila on Saturday, which spoke of the typhoon as being near of | over Appari, travelling in a weat north-west direction. This was
THE WAR WORK OF· WOMEN.
Women in the Army.
INSURANCE CASE.
SALE OF GERMAN,BANK.
Furchased by Sir Paul Chater .for $335,000.
only for hospitals at home. It wa asked, very early in the war, to find them for the mat arduous sad difficult work overseas, for Serbie, devastated with typhas, Story of the Kongmeon Fighting. und for the army in Gallipoli, For Fach work only the beat would serve,
Already by the end of the first morning,
At the Summary Court this Women am serving in the army six months of the war, the Red Gompertz, the case was resumed Hough's sale room this afternoon
before Mr. Justice many ways, many more ways then were ever looked for in time Cross and the Order of St. John in which the Yung Fong firm are af peaca. The old army asked bad nearly four hundred nurse ning the Shanghai Fire and them for nursee. They have in hospitals abroad, and sealy Marine Insurance Company for followed by farther warnings later given nurses to a new army ten a thousand in hospitals at home, $500, for the destruction by fire in the dry and on Sunday, while times larger and they have given and that is to say nothing of a house at Kongmoon, which jast aftar 10 o'clock yesterday as well, deators, dispensers,
Mr. 0.0. Alabaster, instructed the No. 1 signal was hoisted in storekeepers, orderlies, coaks, women who had offered them sal insured with the company.
announced threatened be roest in
the vicinity of Hongk.ag.
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large company gathered, the Rale of the premises known as the German Bank taking place. The Fasle was sathorised by the Government take place last April, bat it was postponed. Mr. T. F. Hough
took place, au the auctionet T
CANTON NEWS.
British Consul and the Saitam incident.
correspondent
Our Canton write ander date of August 12 Be follows:-
After
Hongkong, indicating that the horse trainers and motor drivers. Yes, and because of insufficient by Mr. Leo J'Almada, appeared conducted the sale, and it was typhoon might cause's pale with. This did not all come at once; training, could not be used. They for plaintiff, and Kr. Eldos Potter, in twenty-four hours. At 12.39 but fier women in large pum- engage their nurses for six monthe, instrasted by Mr. A. M. Preston, some time before actual bidding bere had come forward to fill the sad in two and a half years have of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and announced that he had received p.m., the Pongkong Oberry civil placee of men, nad still more sent to hospitals in Great Britain Master, that the topbron and more men were ne ded for and overseas more than 5,000.
instructions that the whole of These nurses of the Imperial combatant service, the Army it
Mr. P. H. Cobb, a stook broker, the conditions of sale had to be sed begin gradually to relier Nursing Services, the Territorial of Mesare. Moxon and Taylor, said read both in English and Chiasse. oldiers of certain of their non-Nursing Service and the Red in 1916 he was with the Asistio Mr. Hough anaonaced that he. At the conclusion of this reading, (combatant duties and replace Cross serving all over the world. Petroleum Company at Pakkai, bad received an cffer of 200,000. wind, while all the conditions/them by women. Bat before this in Great Britain, France, Malts, which was two or three miles)
bed Salonics, Egypt and Mesopotamia, from Kengmoon. He remember Bidding was on the slow side, attempted women seemed to point to the likelihood of a near visitation. The more already done a great work with and in those Hospital Ships which ed the fighting in Kongmoon in bat the figure was increased ing, two cones were hoisted, in the army in that day which was so continually through the new 1916. He beard the firing, which $10,000 at a time for a while,
perils of the seat. There are started from Pakkai. There was
there being one bid of a $40,000 dicating that the gale was likely already theira.
British Red Cross Narees in Holl-
increase. Eventually the property in fact artillery behind hie to increase. The harbour b
290 nurses in the Imperial Militand, meeting the British woanded office, which was struck two or
was sold to Sir Paul Chater, came rather rough, and. prac-
O.M.G., for $335,000, tically all the vessels left their ar Nursing Service and 173 in coming home from Germany; three times. On April 18, the Besides these, 800 were there are Red Cross nurses in guns behind his office were firing moorings and went to shelter, reserva.
called up at once from civilian Bussia and Rumania ad at the from Pakksi at the forts between while the native craft had
the hospitals for daty with the Ex rest stations all along the Italian Pakkai and Kongmoon. The end since long
gone to
of the fighting was reached, be typhoon refuges. As the morningpeditionary Faros Small as time from!.
namber now seems, it was suffici The Voluntary Aid Detech supposed, when the gunboats progressed, the conditions became more ominone, and the glang was ent to staff the twelve hospital ments have grown in these two weas down the creeks and shelled rapidly falling. The ferry boste its which went overseas with and a half years not by thousands, the rebels. About 7 o'clock in reduced their service to half-hour that firet army, and also the per- but by tens of thousande, and the evening he noticed a big departure from either sile, later anent military ospitaleia Great they too, are working overseas. flate Boross the sky. He would
a big fire. On the: -topping them altogether, while Britain. Behind the regular nars Many have come from the Domin- say it was the tramway service was tally service was the Territorial ions at their own expense and following morning, he went to sospended from 8.45 to 11.45 8.m
Service, the second hospital line. there are thousande more waiting Kongmoon with another. Earo- All ite
were in to come when they shall be need-pean, and he felt certain he was but wsa again suspended at 1.49
In the first 22 months the firet. Earopesa to land after civilian work and drawing no ed. p.m. The Peik tramway - -ervice wae maintained.
army pay, bat were pledged, at 10,000 of these workers were sent the fighting. Be went to Shan the outbreak of war, to come to to the bospitals in Great Britain On Fong, of which half was At eight o'clock this morning the call of the State. Their duty and overeese, and besides these burnt down. The other houses Chan King-ming, former Tuinh, thebarometer at Messrs. Falconer's read 29.23, and during the fore.wa to staff the extra hospitals in there are apother forty thousand were black, the shops were closed of Cantoo, bas accepted the Civil Great Britain, which would at women, of every class, come giving and there were only two or Governor's request to be com- noon it fluctuated considerably.
ouse be taken over by the Govern all their days, and some their taree people about. The streets mander of his bodyguard. The lowest reading was 29.17, at
San Yat-sen entertained local Of mareed so pledged hours of leisure, to work unpaid, were covered with charred things, about 11.30 o'clock.
A recovery, there were nearly three thousand, in the Military Bospitals of their including charred bodies, and journalists in the Fablic Park at however, set in at about noon, the reading ebortly afterwards being Besides these fally trained carsee own towns.
people were lying about shot. Whampoa on the lith inat. A there had already been formed Already in the second month So far as he could say no attempt flower bost towed by a public 29.20.
women Lad been made to take away the stem launch conveyed the guesta According to a Manila advice before the war the Voluntary Aid of the war there were
Detacuments which were to work doctors working with Red Cross dead. This thoroughfare, at to Whampoa at 10 am, at 11.45 a.m. to-day, the typhone with the second hospital line in hospi-ale in France and Belgium, the time he saw it, was more like they had visited various parts of must have passed very close to the event of war in Great Britain and at the beginning of 1915 a city of the dead. There were the Park, Dr. Sau invited them Bubgkong, its position being
no people about at all, 10 a pavilion, where he informed given a 115 degrees Long. E and on ambulance traine, in clear. others had gone to Serbia. They practically
in all the No one was attempting to collect them that the Provisional Gov- and 22 degrees Lat. N., travellinging hospitals and rest camps are serving Dow
and for this work no pay we countries of the Allies, and con-things from the rains. The Kongernment cught to be eatblished During the tiffin hoor the rain cffered (and may are still trolling hospitals that are staffed moon hotel had been emsebed. so as the resolnica bad been Bat besides There were bållet marks all over passed by Parliament, and then was extremely heavy, while the working without pay) but only entirely by women.
board, lodging, and travelling these and besides those women the place windows sad mirrore thy boala request recugaition wind rose to great velocity, some
doctors who are giving part of being smashed by ballets. There by the foreian Powera. of the gaste being well up to
Sach were the preparations for their services to the military was a fire in Shun On Forg Toe Civil Governor has called typhoon force, we should imagine. A deal of injury mast war already made in time of bospitals at home, there are over in 1815 which he was also, but on Tang Shao-yi (who artived from Shangbai a few days ago) have been done by the wind and peace, and they were complete a hundred who have soewered at that time there raja. The Hongkong cricket and ample for the old army. But the appeal of the War Office made people about the fire. He made on the 11th inst. at the village of ground is at present-like a lake the nursing service, like the army at the end of the firet year of war, enquiries regarding the 1916 Tougkawan jabout 10 miles north
itself, had suddenly.to grow be- and given their service entirely to fire.
el Macao) requesting him to in appearance, while many other
Mr. Potter: It my friend render sesistance. Tang has. localities are also flooded. Treen yond all that had ever been ex the State. There are nearly thirty have been uprooted in esveral pected of it with this difference, working in the hospitals of Great would like to put in the Chamber promised that he will come to
of service of Commerce reporte. I don't Canton. places, while quite a number of that while the firet of the new Britaino on
An official letter from the baildinge have scfered. Chair armies were eet to train themselves by which they may be sent to any mind making him that present
Consal and ricksha trafic was almost in six months, and in that time hospital in the Kingdom, and in return for my patting in Mr. British
received had become soldiers, no nurse there are another eighty serving Coab's evidence, We have differ- has been completely suspended shortly. after the tiffin Four."
was accepted unless she bad had in the hospitals at Malta, which ent views on the question of that Tuchun's office along with a three yeare of service in a large was the base first for the Gallipoli Chamber of Commerce report, copy from the log book of hospital. Even, with this standard and then for the Salunica armies. However, my friend does not 9.5 Sainam in regard to in- It was a little later that the seem over BOXIOUS to avail cleats of the night on which set the needs of the great armies have been met, and War Office decided to employ himself of my offer.
abe was fired at. It states that Dow Biter two and a half years of women in place of men in many! Witness, continaing, said he war, that service of 300 with its of the duties of the army hospitals, knew Mr. Uhoy sa Chief of Police
clarks, 170 in reserve, and the 800 as
$3 typiele, as at Kongmoon. civilian nurses attached to it, bas telephoniate, as torekeepere, as Mr. Potter:--This is the man The Kiosk. opposite Blake. Pier, grown to close o.7,000 and is laboratory assistante, as Xray Mr. Alabaster said was a cashier, was removed this morning by steadily growing. At the same attendants, as cook, as di Mr. Cobb knew him as Chief of gang of forty coolies, for fear it time the Territorial Nurses have pensers, and a cleaners. All Police. would be blows into the harbour. increased to close on 5,000, and these were duties that the Mr. Oubb said in addition The tag Edith has been pat they too, enlisted originally for before been performed by that he did not use Mr. Choy be rolling the harbour this morning, service only in the Hospitals of the orderlies of the Royal tween certain dates. on the look-out for any distressed Great Britain, are to be found at Army Medical Corpe. But since erstl.
These women, November in 1915 not a man fit On the Hongkong side, the nearly thirteen thousand in nuw- for service at the front has been barbour has been fairly calm, but ber, are all fully trained nurses, enlisted in that Corpe, unless by huge waves can be seen washing but besides them it has been reason of some special qualifica- against the seawall at Kowloon found advisable to recruit a cer- tion, and now, neither in hospitals and slong the piers there,
·
borthwest,
Some of the shops in Queen's Rosd, opposite Pedder Steet, have bad to close in consequence of the heavy gale, while in ambers of places sign-boards, chimney-pote! etc. have been lifted bodily off by
the wind.
expenses.
all the fronts.
terme
*
were many
The case was adjourned.
tain number of partly trained at home, nor in the base hospitala in the army. There are the The wind became so forceful and untrained women who work oversese, nor on the lines of com- bundreds who work in the Army shortly after tiffin that the Tram- ander the nurses se probationers, maication are any men, fully fit, Postal Service, there are the way Company found it impossible These number nearly 8,000. to be employed. It is by the thousands who work in the Pay-
Canton, the
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the vessel had just left the deck
and we proceeding to Canton, when she was beached near to Sampan Chow. She" would have cleared off herself or bean towed away by other steemboste bat for the fire of the forts, which only cessed after more than one hour, when the distress signal was shown. Now the ship has to be docked again and all the expenses should be borne by the anton Government. An investigation has been ordered by the Tuchun into the matter.
Government Clerk's Suicide.
Wm. Googh, M.B., forty-two,
to get in some of their care, and
These twenty-one thousand service of women that this has master's Departments, there are ex-tntor at Oxford, recently clerk three bad to be left stranded by women are in the Army Nursing been made possible. There are the trained masseuses in hospitals in the War Trades Intelligence the City Hall and Supreme Court Services, but there are abroad, now 6,000 in the Army Hospitals at home and abroad, there are the Department, was found in his Two of them were damaged by besides, those trained nursee, taking the places of mer
6,000 who are required by the room at Cambridge-street, Hyde. trees falling on them, and another some in British Hospitals, some Bat this work of replacing men Royal Flying Corpe. Each week Park, with his throat cat. "At had the rails and canvas top buck-in the Hospitals of the other by women in the army itself has the number grows,
the inquest yesterday his friend, led in, owing to a telephone pole Allies, who work under the Bed not been confined to the hospi Of women working under the Mr. McKinnon Robertson, MP, and wires falling on it. The cara Cross and the Order of St. John tale. At the beginning of this War Office alone se doctors, ne said en anfortunate love affair were still in this position at four of Jerusalem. These two bodies year they were engaged also nurses and orderlies there are had weighed on deceased's mind. o'clock. It was also learned that have under their joint control all 88
motor transport drivers twenty-seven thousand, in place The verdict wee "Suicide." one of the Company's care, which those nurses who are not under in the Army Service Corps and of the four thousand old at the Nine Men Die Every Hour.` could not be pat into the the War Ofice, and they like the the Royal Flying Corps, and, a beginning of the war; and if we Lieutenant-General Sir R shed in time to escape the worst Army insist, in their choice, on a little later, an appeal was made add to these all there other Baden-Powell, opening a Scout of the blow, had its top carried full three years training and take for a thousand women to serve a women from Red Cross doctora Craft Exhibition at Neer Cross, bodily off. It is an extremely only those who are fit for the cooks and waitresses in the camps and ourses to cooks and motor aid that scouts would be wasted fortunate circumstance that at work, For, in the first enthusiasm of Great Britain. In this way, drivers who are working in the badly after the war, for nine men the time these mishaps took place of the war, anauthorised units little by little, the women have hospitals and camps, there is were now dying every hour of the no-one, was riding on top.
had gone abroad often hastily been taking the place of men in serving in the Army, and many day. The *hole differance The rough weather had the equipped and with staffs half those many duties in camps and of them sharing its perils, dis between the fighting forces of the effect of preventing Mr. Dyer Ball, trained. Bach antried work in hospitals which, before, comforts sed privatione by land belligerent nations was that the second police magistrate, from ers broke ander the strain, soldiers had to perform for them and sea, a body of devoted women British and French officer went attending at the Magistracy this It was found the more necessary selves.
that numbers more than half of first and eaid, "Come on, men," morning, Kr, J. E. Wood taking to have vigorous tests as the Red And even this does not end the that whole army which fires went and the German officer kept
behind and said “Gło on.”
all the osas.
Cross were choosing women not tale of the work women are doing to France