REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS,
THE STRUGGLE IN THE WESH,
Splendid Progress North of Verdun.
London, Aug. 21.
A. Fretch communique states: North of Verdun we car ried the enemy defences on both sides of the Meuse on a front of eighteen kilometres to a depth, at some points, of over twa kilometres. On the left bank we particularly hold Avocourt Wood, both mammits of Deadman and Cor- beaux and Cameres Woods. On the right bank we carried Tallon Hill, Champeloville, Hill 344, Moront Farm, Hill 240, and to the north Louvemost On the right we considerably advanced in Bois des Fosses and Bois'le Chaume. The total of unwounded prisoners exceeds 4,000.
The Germans violently "counter-attacked at Arocourt Wood, Dead Man and Hill 341 Our fire everywhere nullified" the efforts and inflicted heavy losses. The aviators played a brilliant part, machine gunning the enemy gatherings from low altitudes, thus contributing in the repulse of the coun- ter-attacks. Our pilots brought down eleven machines and. special guns brought down two.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1917.
German Barrage Comia Too Late..
London, Aug. 2). Reuter's correspondent at the French Headquarters says: At dawn to-day the French began another battle on the historic old of Verinn, For over a fortnight the bat-" teries on both sides of the Meuse have been hammering the German line on both sides of the river from Avocourt Wood on the left bank, to Bezonvaux on the right, a distanc of fully sixteen" miles. This morning the infantry leapt from the trenchesia a splendid rush which in forty minutes carried them to the limits of the first line objectives. All tle: objectives of the day were carried and by seven o'clock the report ooitg in were satisfactory. A number were mile prisoners by all the divisious engaged, and there is every reason to hope that splendid results have been achieved with_relatively small casualties.
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The French artillery, fire in the small hours of the morn- ing before the inntry left the trenches reached and remain- od at a hurricane pitch., The night was dark and moonless but the flashes of hundreds of guns of all calibres shelling the German trenches lit up the road so that the outlines of things a dozen yards away could be plainly recognised. The flashes played like summer lightning all round the horizon.
The roar of gun of various descriptions, in every key unit at varying distances increased but after the maximum via leten und been reached it dropped for a few minutes before the attack was launched and then leapt again into a tornado of strength for the barrage which preceded the infantry down the slopes routing Pepper Hill and Luuvemont. beven minutes later a shower of gulden ruckets over the Buche lines indicated that the German Battahun Comman- ders badly neciled & damage to check the French infantry. Apparently tie sigbui was too late as the French assaulting foror dashed from the departure trenches with such speed and.. precision that Lugs reached the enemy's first line before his barrage opened.
Telegraphing feu Verdan in the afternoon prior to the cap- tasre, vi Densi Man the purresjennent ahows what a terrible tack was set the Frenea inantry. The northern half of Dad"
· Slau was strongly belid by the enemy while we were estab lished on the southern slopez and Cumieres Ridge. Carrying. the enemy's first âne 19 the river on the right bank before us stretches the valley in winch Her Fosses Wood Beyond that rises sroder king Whaleback the highest points of which run from a topsand to twelve-hundred feet, between the villages of Samogneux and Ornes: All this is ground which the Germans have been strengthening by every means during the last eighteen month. The enemy is known to have strongly rentreed the army in front of Verdun and it is certain that the Germans mean to make a hard fight The attack fulfils the highly useful purpose of forcing the enemy to withdraw troops and gons to other points and to accept simultaneously three wrious engagements, namely Flanders, the Aisne and Verdun. The enemy is firing enor mous numbers of asphyxiating shells filled with new poison gas, which has been nicknamed "mustard gas," attacking the lungs, eyes and mucus mẹmlaxnes with deadly effect.”
the operations In Flanders.j
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London, Aug. 20,
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: Our artillery dispersed the "enemy massing" for a counter-tuck south. eastward of Epeby. Our patrols progressed on the north- western outskirts of Lens. Hostile raiders entered our lines eastward of Aimentieres. Two men are missing. Large formations of ency aircraft, well behind their own lines, upsuccessfully endeavoured to binder our bombing, photographic and reconnaissance machines, who wrecked trains and seriously damaged aerodromes, dumps and sta tions. They successfully co-operated with the artillery and secured inany photographis. We brought down three and drove down four encing machines. Six of ours are wiseing.
German Version of Verdań.
London, Aug. 20.
A wireless German official message states: The Battic of Verdun is going in our favour. The enemy penetrated the defensive zone as Avocourt Wood and Mort Homme, We repulsed attacks on the east bank of the Meuse.
Flue Work by the Tanks.
London, Aug. 20.
Reuter's correspondent at Headquartore writing in the afternoon describes the latest feats of the Tanks in the British attack in the region of St. Julien yesterday. The uncouth monsters began to move is the darkness and the noise of the guns drowned their saorting as they look up their pre-arranged positions. The enemy probably calcu 'lated that the ground was in too bad a conditium for them to " zasist in the attack. After a reciprocal violent bombardment our guns ceased. The enemy doubtless anticipated an infantry advance and continued the bombardment but finding that nothing, was happening stopped. Our guns re-opened at a" longer range with more deliberate firing at dawn. Then the Tanks advanced, the infantry following. The concen- trations opread out like a fan as they progressed, the object of the operation boing to try to straighten out the kink in our ling in which the Germans held several strong .positions. When the enemy saw the yellowish objecta . crawling rapidly over, the broken ground they began ta fire wildly from their places of concealment but 'tley_gen- erally fled before the Tanks reached them, with the Tank gunners showering bullets, on that part of their bodies where valiant men least like being smitten The infantry following the Tanks successfully occupied Triangle, Most Duhibou and Cockerol Farins, which have given a lot of trouble. The total depth of the advance planned was 500 yards but the Huns far beyond that had bolted. The whole. affair was a complete vindication of the utility of the Tankı in this species of warfare.
The French captures of guns now total 25. The serial activity between the battles was never greater,
ITÁLIANS SINK ENEMY SUBMARINE,
Rome, Aug. 21. .. An Italian seaplane dropped bomba aboard a submarine in the mid-Adriatic and sank her.
· REUTER'S← TĒLEGRAMS.
THE RUSSIAN FRONT.
London, Aug. 21.
A wireless Russian official message states: The enemy persistently attacked in the direction of Ocna and "Onestabi and pressed back the Rumanians to the south-western out- skirts of Ocna. The enemy's attacks in the region of Grazeatchi resulted in the capture of Staklerie Factory. The engagement, is proceeding. The enemy made an unsuccessful offcasive westward of the Focsani-Ajud Bailway sad compell- ed the Bomanians to retire eastward of the railway. "We' occupied several villages in the region southward of Pelmir belumer, in the Caucasus.
GERMANY'S FOOD PROBLEM.
Zunich, Aug. 21. The German Government has doubled the price of bay in order to reserve as much as possible for the army. This is expected to lead to further slaughtering of cattle for want: of fodder, thus causing a further shortage of milk. There are indications that the grain producing provinces of Austria decline to export the crops to other parts.
FEATURES OF THE ITALIAn offensive.
Udine, Aug. 21.
A terrible and uninterrupted drum-fire continues along sixty-five miles of the Irono-Careo fronts to which British batteries are valiantly contributing. The present affensive is developing on a front fifteen miles longer than that of May.
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reorganising SPAIN'S ARMY.
Madrid, Aug. 21.
The Cabinet has decided to disband the troops called up in the recent disturbances. It has approved of a credit of seventy-seven million pesetas for the reorganisation of the army, the provision of aeroplanes sad anti-aircraft guns.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
KIDNAPPING CASE.
Questions of Slavery Raised.
The Chief Justice (Sir William Bees Davies) est in Oriminal Sresione this afternoon to hear a charge of kiduspping against & Chinese, named Tze Tak, who in -aid to have kidnapped two girls, -ped 8 and 13 years, on July 20. The Crown Solicitor (Mr G. H. Wakeman) appeared ta prosecute and Mr. O.. G. Alabaster (instracted by Mr. Le d'Almada) defended the accused, who pleaded not guilty.
Eastern Extension, Australasia & China Telegraph Co.
Alarakhis, from Bombay. Berrick, from St. Louis. Engchong St. Tekwototion, tromi Iloilo.
THE MUNITIONERS.
Helping The Boys at the Front.
ROLL OF HONOUR.
Malay States Men Serving,
The "Roll of Honent and List of Malay States Serving," now footsing a total of 1,265 nimet, against 1,045 in the last edition.
AN AMERICAN ROBBED.
How a Pick-pockát was Chased and Caught.
Jeffery Farnól, writing in the | Daily Chronails, saye !=
An American citizen, named At on uncomfortable boar I The Holl of Honour itself shows Peter Lindfors, an engineer, who arrived at a certain bleak rail- the addition of the names of 22 way platform, and in due season, men who have given their lives Hotel, was the complainant in
in etaying at the Autor House stepping into a train, wae whirled for their country, and the total is
And as I now 165. The list of Malay before Mr. Dror Ball, at the Police case of pocket-picking which was away northwards. journeyed, bearkening to the States men serving includes 1,022 Court this morning.
talk of my companions, men much | nsmes (sgainst 334). The list of
The xmpligent's story was
travelled and of many nationali- [French Reservists serving that he was in Qe∙n's Road, ties, my wind was agog for the remains at 35, while the number last night, bear the G and Botal, marvels and wonders I was to see of Malay States Jorn men serving when he felt come de bump ia the workshops of Great Britsin. has increased from 32 to 42.
He missed his Marvels and wonders I was pre- The honours gained înolade C. *gainst him. pared for, and yet for once bow M. G. 1; Military Cross 32 (and On looking round, he saw & IDAD pocket book, in which was $9. far short of fact were all my two bars), D. &. ́O. 22 ; D. C. M. {fancies!
1; D.&.0.1; Mentioned in deening sway down los House Britain has done great things patches 25; Recommended for Street. He went round the other in the past; she will, I pray, dp valour 1; Croix de Guerre 15; when he was in Des Voeur Road, way, by the Hongkong Hotel, and Italian decoration 1.
be ea two Chinese talking Since this list was printed the together. As he approached, one
oren greater in the future; but surely never have mortal eyes looked on an effort so einpendous
ard determined so she is sustain- has been received - ing and will sustain until this mont bloody of ware is ended.
The deathless glory of our troops, their blood and agony and scorn of death have been made pegs on which to hang much in different writing and more bad |verse--there have been letters
following additional information of them ran away and he gave "Major Stuart French, of Kelan. chase. Eveninally the man was caught in the lane which runs fan, has died.
between Mesars Jardins, Matheson Liest, OH. A. Huxtable, of and Co., and Messrs. Whiteway Tanjong Malim, has obtained a Laidlaw and
Oo. The bar to his Military Cross,
notes were recovered, bat' bia' The Hon. Mr. E. Macfadyen pocket-book was not found.
has joined the Artillery.
Mr. & A. Monutain, of Cheviot
siao; sheaves of them, in mayy Estate, Negri Sembilan, has of which effusions one may dis- joined the Royal Flying Corps, cover a wondering earprise that Mr. H.R.8. Cowie, of Sungei our men can actually and really Binching Estate, Selangor, has: fight, that Britain is still the joined the Royal Flying Corps. Britain of Drake and Frobisher ¡£r. J. Parsons, "of the F.M.B. and Grenville, of Nelson and Railways, is now 2nd Lieut. in Blake and Cochrane, and that the the South Lancashire Regiment same deathless spirit of heroic
Mr. P. B. Lawder, who was determination animates her still: born in Kuala Lumpur in 1891, To-night, as I pen these lines; is now Lieat B. N. He is the son
Evidence was also given by Trooper 95, of the Police Reserve, who effected the arrest,
The defendant put up rather an anusɑsi exonse. He said that the complainant drew a handkerchief from his pocket and the notes fell oat. "He (defendant) picked them up and gave them back. The complainant gave him 45 cents, but he wanted a dollar, and the complainant then struck him.
Farmer, Hongkong Hotel, from our Army is locked in desperate of Mr. F. E. Lawder, formerly the complainant's story and pass
Newchwang
Frederick Stewart, Chartered Bank, from Melbourne.
Hirajama c/o Mitsui, from Sourabaya.
Nampathang, from Bangkok.
Khianseng c/o Joothaiseng Laupiesan, from Taipeh. Malkow, American Consulate, from Weltevreden.
Mechan; from Manila..
Nakasuke Iwatani Matsubara, from Thursday is.
Ossorio, Hongkong Hotel, from Shanghai
Turner, King Edward Hotel, from Nutfield.
Schoutendorp Str. Vondel, from Manila.
Teishingpo c/o Koobalai, from Shinchiku,
Wallem, from Bombay,
J. M. BECK,
Superintendent,
His Worship decided to believe battle, our guns are thundering D. O., Ula Langat.
Mr. W. J. Austen, of the F.M.S.labour and four hours' stocks.
ed sentence of three months' hard upon the Somme, but like an echo
to their roar, from mile apon mile Survey Dept., is leaving for Home of workshops and factories and to join up.
shipyards is rising the answering The name of Mr. B. 8. Preston,
roar of machinery, the thunder-Straits Trading Co., who died at INDIAN DEFENCE FORGE. ous crash of titanic hammers, the Home after service abroad with bellish rattle of riveters, the whin- | the H.A.C., should be included in ing, droning, abricking of a the Boll of Honour. myriad wheels where another vasi Mir. H. D. Row, who army is engaged night and day, formerly planting in this country, as indomitable, as fierce of par- has been severely wounded. pose as the army "beyond "the
narrow seas. .. ́.
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Mr. A, E, Nash, formerly of the F.M.S. Railways, has joined the Navy.
Mr. R. AV. Dazell has joined a B. F. A. Cadet Carpa.
Mr. J. V.. Cowgill is now a Brigade Signalling Officer.
Mr. B. A. Ingram, of Kelantan, fermerly of Selangor, is now a Leat, in the R. F. A.
now
Planters and Service Training.
At a "meeting of the General Committee of the Indian Tea Asopiation on July 4, at which the difficulties of Darjeeling, Dooars and Terai tes-planters in regard to general service training were explained to Major M. Macfadyes, Staff Officer Pre- sidency Brigade, it WAX stated the Darjeeling and Terai Tes Association had consulted the authorities of the Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles, on the question of general service and the fiability of men who are alode on their gardens,” The Ad- jutant of the Corps expressed the view that it was not desirable or necessary for them to ask for exemption, so the questiva of to a place he asiled "holy ground" their being taken away would be
causeways, swept god re-swept by circumstances of individasis in.
glow outbuildings, AF-a matter for the Selection Com proached by narrow wooden mistees, who would consider the men shod in felt, a place this selecting man for general service.
Dr. Elsie Lyman is attached to the B. A. M. 0.
Dr. O'Flynn is with a hospital ship.
Major Hickling, M. U., R. E., has received the U. 8, 0.".
The following formed the jary:-Meers. R. E Sedgwick, J. G. Bedrigue, N. U. Botelho, J. A. Ballen, F. H. Y. Lufitar, L. E. Remediot nad E. W. White.
I have bebeld miles of work- Mr. Wakeman said that the ten
shops that stand where grass -mall ́servant girls were sent or
grew two short years ago, wherein by their mistress to buy some
are bright-eyed English giris, eweets. They wanted to go to
Irish collesas and deals lasates by Cross Street but apparently loer
the ten thousand, whqes dexteron's their way. They met the prisoner
fagers flash nimbly to and fro, and sekel him to take them home,
elender fingers, yet fingers con- telling him their address. He
triving death. I have wandered took them on the tramcar and Hongkong, Aug. 17, 1917.
through a wilderness of whirring later to Yaumati. After keepingl
driving belts and hemming them there for some hours, be
wheels, where men and women, brought them back to the Canton
with the same feverish activity, wharf. The husband of the London, Aug. 11-The report bend above machines whose very mistress had been informed that of the committee on the settlement ham sang to me of death while I the girls were miasing, and he of ex-service man in the Empire have watched a cartridge grow wan searching the wharves when says that tens of thousands can be from a disc of metal to the hellish he found the two girls nese the socommodated ander existing contrivance it is. Wing On Company's store. The schemes. It urges preference to And as I watched the busy prisoner was arrested.
Evidence was firet given by acuitation of emigration of wo- awful thing that women's hande be given to married men, and the scene it seemed an unustural and the girl's mistress, who said men relatives and fiancees, and should be basied thus, fashioning that the bought one of the girl declares that female emigration is means for the maiming end des where no dust or gris might bs, He did not think it probable that from the girl's brother. The other the essential funndation of effec traction of life-antil, in a remote for here was the magazine, with more than 30 monated and 30 girl was the servant of her are settlement. A central em-corner I paused to watch a woman the filling sheds beyond. And infantrymen would be taken away relative.
igration authority should contain whoes dexterous fingere were fit within these long sheds, each from the whole Corps at one time. Questioned by Mr. Alabaster, representatives of the Home and ting finished cartridges into clipe sested behind a screen, were Meantime, however, the question witness said she paid $148 for aversese Governments and with wonderfal öelerity, A middle- the girl, paying the money to the limited numbar of unofficial mem-aged woman this, tall and white women who handled and cut of general service had been raised
alder brother.
Ex-soldiers for Colonies.
The other girl bers is imperative. Such an haired, who, at my remark, looked was purchased by a friend of anthority should be established up with bright smile, but with theirs about two years ago for without delay,
eyes sombre and weary, 8:00. The elder brother was
“Yes, sir,” she answered abov poor and had to sell his sister for
the roar of machinery, "I had two boguss the front, but they're
money.
The brother sa fond
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Ji
His
killed by the same shell. I've got
He brought me by devious ways
deadly cordite into
needful
definitely by a circular sent to all legs as if it had been much general service members of the ribbon, and slways and every-Northern Bongal Mounted Rifles, where the same dexterous speed, including those planters who were He led me, this soft raised alone on their gardens. The been-eyed works manager, through circular was in the following well-fitted wards and dispensarice, terms of and kind to the girl and been proved that the childrenlaying out there somewhere redolent of clean, draggy smelis th girl was fond of her brother, were bought, one for $146 and
and the pervading odour of iodo-Service, which means that you "You "are liable for General He would not have sold her if he the other for $100. They were a photo of their grave very form; he ushered me through will probably be called upon to bad not been so poor. The girl ought to serve and were serving neat, they look, though bare, and dining halls, long sad wide and leave the District for training the had not seen her brother for air an slaves,
I'll never be able to go and tand lofty and lighted by many win period of which has not yas been morthe.
His Lordship: Femalecorvants em, y see nor lay a few flowers dows, where countless dinners settled, bat it will be for some Replying to Mr. Wakeman, are quite a common thing in she on 'em. So I'm doin' this instead were served at a trilling cost per months. Flesss show this letter witness said that the girls were dolany.
to help the other lads. Yes, sir, head; and so at last out upon to your employer and enquire she Mr. happy with her and had not tried
Alabaster:-But it is my boys did their bit and now pleasant green, beyond which rose month in which it would be most davory and cannot be recognised. they're gone their mother's tryin' the great gates, where stood the convenient for you to start this to run away.
At the conclusion of the wit-
Lordanip:-Somebody
do bare."
care that were to bear my comtrataing, but it cannot be guaran- neza' evidence, Mr. Alabaster said must have the custody of the Thus I stood and talked with panions and myself upon our way, wood that shi date will be adhered. that he thought it was time in onildren.
thinsad-eyed,white-haired woman,
"They seem to work very nard,” | Lo. caise a point which he hoped
Mt Alabaster:-It thene
A reply should' resch; this aid the Empire, and in her I
whence we had come"they seem please." ably, for no matter what other the women I should say that they sainted the spirit of noble mother- evidence was called, it could not the lawful custody, but it bood ore I turned and went my
very much in 'barnest,'
"Yes," said my companion; be disclosed that the prisoner was aws been proved in cross-Sicamina-
"every wook we are turning ont guilty of the charge in the indiction that tony are slavos, ja But now I woke to the fact that here he named very many ment. The offence was that of leed- Mr. Alabaster went on to refer ing away twoohildren with the in-to the Act Consolidating the Lewe my companions. had vanished millions of cartidge.
“To be sure they are earning tention of depriving two persons for the Abolition of the Slave uterly loss but nothing abashed, of their lawful custody. It ha3 Trade, but was interrupted by his I rambled on between long alleys good money!" said I thoughtfully. of clattering machines, which “More than many of them ever.
Yokohama Club Hotel Sold, been proved in the clearest Lordship, who mid that the pro possible way that the two women per time for the raising of that in their many functions seemed dreamed of earning," answered The Club Hotel, Tokohamas, had hot the lawful oare of the point was at the conclusion of the in themselves almost human, the works manager. "And yet-1 has been sold by auction to Kir children, for they were two slaves osse for the prosecution. He said posing now and then to watch don't know, but i don't think it is IA 3. Grimmanoy for Y.166,000
The Late Capt. K. Eto, and slavery had been abolished. that, it was not a point which and wonder and exchange a word altogether the money, somehow...
with one or other of the many “I'm glad to hear you say that The Emperor of Japan, kina It could not be allowed in that affed the jury, but which he workers, antil a kindly works very glad," mid I, “because it gives KAUB to the family of Court that the children werk in would have to consider..
a great thing to feel they are sue late Capt. E. Ein working for the Beitsin shas in, on how the M
July 4
would shorten the case consider-Johildren were simply living with who, had cast of selfish grief to id L turning to gianos back} offios not later than the 2nd July).
way.
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the lawful custody of the women. The evidence of the two girls manager found me and led me The indictment could not stand was then saken, and the case was snerringly through that riotous Fin the ouse of two siaran. It had adjourned.
jungle of maching
is
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Sir Robert and Lady Brodon. Bu Kobert and Judy Bredon have left Puking and are staying
"Tairen."