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September 4, 1917,
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TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 4,
1917.
二拜疫 四月九英港香
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
AFFAIRS, IN RUSSIA.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE RIGA REGION.
Abandoned by the Rúaslans.
London, September 3. A Bidssian wireless official message says:The Big region has been abandoned owing to the threatening situation. West of the Rigs we retired to the line Bilderlingshof, Medem sad Dalen, in the direction of Ikekal. The enemy penetrated positions near the Jaegel River. Some of our detachments voluntarily left their positions and retired to the north. We repulsed attacks with heavy losses in the direction of FooMANİ.
Russians Retreating.
London, September 3.
A Garmin wirelew official meenage states:-We crossed the Drina on both sides at Ikskal. Our troops are progressing in dense oplamas and are bastily proceeding north-eat from Bigs. Barping villages and farms mark the routes of the retreating Russians. We repulsed the Russo-Rumanians between Susita and Paina Valley. Sinos August 23 we have ciptared 1,670 prisoners and six gube.
A S: Hlous Outlook.ji
London, September 3.
The German thrust against Rigs is now serious. A crowning of the Drine seems to have been effected eighteen miler from the town. The German thrust is momentarily directed against the Riga-Petrograd Bailway. The German offensive on the Mitau Road is also ominous, at the latter is the main thoroughfare scross the Tirul March,
Falf of Riga.
Landon, September 3:
A German official wireless message states: -Rigs has been
taken.
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Bigs in the third sesport of Bussia in importanos, lying on the Drine, seven miles from its mouth. It in 850 miles south-west of Petrograd. It was annexed to Rosis in 1710.1
A March on Petrograd?
THE SITUATION IN FLANDERS.
Armies Flovaderlog in the Mad.
Londos, September 3. The armies in Flanders are still fundering in the mad, the enemy having the worst experience, living in continust suppeam under unceasing shell-fire and the wierd spectsoles of la of the gaos in daylight and darkness, socompanied by baisting shrapnel, storm alouds and the explosion of the "besvies" throwing mad far and wide. The apicit of our Tommies in «plendid. They refuss to be downhearted at the first touch of the Flemish winter.
Mejar Bannatyne, D.S.Q., bad a terrible experience when flying with the Gloucester regiment. His enginn stopped in mid air and the muckian, catching fire, fell to the ground. Major Bannatyne," though scorched, crept out to the tail, followed by the times. He than hang on with his hande to the framework and crashed into a chad. His condition is critical.
Some Facts Concerning Gorman Wastage.
London, September 3.
Beater's correspodent at the French Headqueriery states;-... Since the beginning of the battle of Verdan, ten Ĝerman divisione bas been withdrawn on acconut of losses. The enemy has now seven divisions in the ligs on both banks of the Mense; therefore, seventeen Germso divitions are in process of subsustion by the operations begun on August 20. Since the beginning of August, the enemy has been obliged to withdraw thirty divisions facing the Franco-British Army in Belgium. The enemy sitogether had forty-two divisione in the Flanders battle; therefore, în a single mooth the Allies have put forty German divisions out of sction and st present nineteen others are being reduced by the same methods to the same condition.
Fruitless German Attacks.
Landon, September 3.
A French communique states:-There is a violent artillery dael between Ceray and Hartebiss. The Germane made four attempted attacks west of Hartsbiss, but were everywhere checked by our fire. An attempt on Ailles Pleatonu failed also. There is great activity on the Simogenenz-Beaumont front, on the right bank of the Meuse. German aeroplanes bombed Dunkirk and Belfort. Sveral oivilians were killed and jajared et Daukirk.
Another Successful British Raid.
London, September 3. After the recan't happenings on the Russian Front, the fall of Bigs was not unexpected. It is too early to speculate on the possibilities which will accrue therefrom, but it is recalled that General Korniloff solemnly warned the Moscow Conference :—" If }) the Army does not help as to hold the shores of the Galf of Rigs,
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in s'communique, stated :-- the way to Petrograd in open." While it is recognised that owing. to the great distance, the advance towards Petrograd would We repulsed a third attempt to capture our advanced posts south- normally be a stupendons undertaking, it is possible the German west of Harrincourt, We successfully raided south east of Monchy High Command has decided that there could never be a better le Preas, destroying dug-oats and machine gans.
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German Report.
London, September 27
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London, September 3.
time than now, when confronted with the melting Eustian Army, Some military writers are of opinion that the menson is too late for
A German wireless official message states: An English sitsek such an operation. The Westminster Gazette says the attempt would. be sheer madness, with such forces as the Germans have, and with on the Cambrai-Arras Road Iailed. We reduced the French gain ,,winter coming on. Other writers point out that the German Baltio near Hartabies Farm. Flest may operate at the rear of the Reian Army, and that thin will probably lead to interesting aaral developments elsewhere. However, almost everything depends on whether General Tober, batohaff, who recently took over command on the Northern Front-a has sufficient dependable troops.
"TIP-AND-RUN.'
German Raid on an English Town.
London, September 3. Taking advantage of the lall in the storm, in brilliant moon- light the Germans indulged in a tip-and-tuo" raid on a south- eastern town, Little damage was done and only two were injured.
Only One Raider,
Lindon, September 3.
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A British official message etates that's single secoplane carried out last night's caid, It dropped seven bombs on Dover." Oas zien was killed and four women, and two children were injuza.l.
THE ITALIAN FRUNT,
Enemy Rashing Up Reinforcements.
London, September 3 Beater's correspondent Undine'states that bad weather is inter- The enemy is rushing up fering with the Italian advance. reinforcements.
A Fresh itallan Advance,
London, Eeptember 3.
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An Italing official message soya:-We have advanced farther eset of ite Brestovizz. Valley, capturing several dolines. The prisoners taken on Saturday and Sunday, on the Jalian Front, number 347.
Enemy Aerodromes Bombed.
London, September 3,
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig report:-Our fire drove back raiding party to the south-west of La Bassee. There has been considerable srtillery firing north of Ypres. Our seroplanea dropped three toga of bombe on the enemy's serodromes, with good results. We brought down two seroplanes. One of ours is missing.
A French communique says there is a lively cannonade on the left bank of the Meuse.
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO.
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Confidence in General Kortile!f.
Petrograd, Sept. 8. The Provisional Government has issued a statement aniterating its confidence in General Kornilod, and announcing the adopting of the disciplinary measures. It agrees that serious energetic measures are necessary to re-establish the army's fighting capacity. There is no question of super- eeding General Kornilon
Austro-German” Intrigue.
Petrograd, Sept. 2. The War Ministry has published particulars showing that the Ukraine separatist agitation was due to Austro-German organisation,
·Trial of Osverst Sukhomlinoti.
Petrograd, Sept. 2.
In the trial of General Sukhomligoff, M. Rodzianko was called as a witnost and said that the Duma before the war recognised General Sukhominoff's criminal slowness in organisation of the army. The accused after the cutbreak of war systematically resisted the Duma's efforts to stimulate the production of shells, notwithstanding appeals from the front, including' those from the Grand Duke Nicholsa. M. Rodzianko specially journeyed to Galicia and what he saw there filled him with terror, He dramatically indicted Gen- eral Sakhomlihoff for the enormous losses that were suffered in the retreat from that place. Other political witnesses directly attributed Russia's unpreparedness to General Sukhomlinoff.
Strike Abandoned.
Petrograd, Sept. 2. The engine drivers have abandoned the strike pending negotiations.
THE STOCKHOLM, CONFERENCE.
Disapproved by British Trade Unionists.
London, Bept. 3.
The Trades Union Conference 700 delegates, repre- senting three million workers opens to-day at Blackpool. The chief subject of discussion will be the Stockholm Conference. Everything points to a flat rejection of it and the substitu- tion of a conference of Allied workers.
The delegates of the Miners' Federation, numbering 163, have unanimously decided that the Stockholm Conference is impracticable and have favoured an Allied Conference.
A meeling of the Delegates of the National Union of Railwaymen likewise rejected the Stockholm Conference and altogether a strong disinclination is manifested against meet ing enemy delegates.
Conference led:flaite1y Adjourned.
Stockholm, Sept. 3.
In view of the result of the London Conference the organisers of the Stockholm Conference have finally abandoned the idea of meeting on September 9 and have adjourned it indefinitely..
ENEMY RAID ON KENT:
London, Sept. 3
A British official message states:-Hostile aeroplanes crossed the east Kent coast at 4.15 last night. They flew towards the sea and a few minutes later. a few bombs were dropped. The casualties are believed to be small,
WESTERN FRONT.
The Germans on the Belgian 'Coast,
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NEW CHINESE PARTY.
Its Organisation Under Way.
A new political party is being organised, says the Paking Daily News: Infigentisk tfficials are bas hind it. When the organisation of the parly, is completed, a formal Kuponudamsons will be made.
The new party is mid to sim st the concentration of power in the Central Government, the peaceful solutiod of internal problems, and the participation in the European War on the side of the Altina ciora whole-heartedly.
One million dollara as initial funds have been raised, it in unid. The membership of the new party will likely include most of the |influential men in the country. Some conservativa members of the Chirpa Tang and the Kuɔmitang will be invited to jäin.
The President and the Prime Minister are paying attention to the party under, organization. They appear to approve of its platform, it is understood that they will give se'much uzolicis! sapport to the party as pomitie.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY.
Frawley Company-Present stion of "Jerry at the Theatre Royal; 9.15 p.m.
* Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m. Bijou Theatre.15 p.zz. New Hongkong Cinematograph -9:15 pm.
TO-MORROW. Frawley Company-Present stion of "Sunday" at the Theatre Royal; 9.15 p.m.
Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m. Bijoa Theatre---8,10°pit. New Hongkong · Öinests. graph:-0.15 p.m.-.
Saturday, September 8. Night Fete as the Y.R.O.; 9,
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of destroyere to attack some point in an extended line of patrols, or What the Kaiser Proposed.
· London, September 3.
Power has been "the most con-even to evade it, and in favourable. i-ient feature of our foreign policy conditions of light and tide to According to Renter's correspondent at Paris, telegrama from
for over three hundred yests. If effet damage somewhere,
The Germanɛ are now. y6F7 wis at the root of all the fighting the Kaiser to the Tear of Russia at the end of 1914, taken from
The Naval correspondent of the which caused the Low Countries apprehensive that Mr. Charobill the Bassion archives, are published in the New York Herald. They show that the Kaiser, daring the Russo-Japanese orinis, dreamt of a
so be described as the cockpit of purpose of "digging out the Franco Russian German alliance against Britain. He attempted to Daily Chronicle writes:***
The Germans are betraying Europe. Antwerp in hostile rate may be attempted in some indoos the Tear to sign's secret Treaty, whersby Franos and the world would have been faced by a fait accompli, bas the Tsar, after great apprehension concerning possession was" pistol presented other form. Zeebrugge has been heart of England," heavily bombed by sexplasios, and momentarily appearing to agres, changed hía mind' in view of the the situation in West Fianders, at the
Considerable activity has latterly Napoleon said that rather than the recent attack on Ostend waa evente at Algecirns.
The telegrama which passed between the Tear and the Kaiser developed in the region north abandon the position in Holland reported to have made that place show that the Kaiser took advantage of the Dogger Bank incident of Ypres and Dixmude, and be would break the dams. The untenable as a sea base. They and the difficulties of coaling the Russian Batie Fleet on the way thence to the sea-the battle Germane, inheritors of the have seen the British line ex- to the Far East to impress the Tear with the proposed new Russ-ground in which, in so earlier Napoleonic tradition, regarded the teaded from France to the cost, German alliance against Britain, assuming that France, as an ally stage of the hostilities, there was Treaty of Vienas as ineffective, and the possibility of a conjoint desperate fighting It should have established Prumis operation has been discussed with
of grast
par in the North Ses. The German some alarm in the German Prone. of Bussis, would be compelled to join them: The Treaty of much-
It is known in Germany that Alliance was actually drafted. The Tear wished to show the draft significant to France before its signature, but the Kaiser was of opinion that poses in the war, Then the Nars haval and military staffe well this would be dangerous, as Franc would immediately inform was supporting and protecting know that it is our first interest to the late First-Lord of the Ad- Britain, and Britain and Jepan would doubtless immediately attack the extreme left flink of the sweep them away from the cost. miralty, in a magazine ‘article, Germany, of whose small fist their enormpné maritime superiority Army in its resistance to the They have created the most for- advocated stronger. aggrozivo would soon make short work. On the contrary, if the Treaty ware German attempt to reach Dankirk midable defences at Zsebingge, messures by the Navy, by using Bat the enemy mounting there 11in. or even what he called our "Supplement- signed, France would urge Britain to remain quiet, through fear of and Oslais.
occapied the Belgian-coast, and bigger gane, with a great battery ery Flest," and that he has quita reostly put forward the sams France's position being isopardised.
at Zeebrugge, Ostend, and in the of many smaller. "Hinterland "of those places Time after time, by sir bom-views with great insistence in AFFAIRS IN GREECE.
they have made formidable bases bardments, we have endeavoured's Sunday lastrated⠀⠀⠀ paper, Londra, B-ptember 3. According to Renter's correspondant at Athens, s Commission for the attack upon this country to make the place antenable, bat Whether the Admiralty consider continued to issue from the pork, effective is quite another matter. has been appointed to investigate the charges against preceding and upon its shipping by des- destroyere and submarines have such a stroke „as likely to bu The Times in en sticle on Germany's grandioss world policy, Governments, which reported socusing members of the Shoulondistroyer, enbmarine, and aircraft. days;--The German overseas policy is essentially one of Machtpolitik, Government of plotting for an absolute monarchy and conniving at whatever may be the garb it wears for the moment. Germany murders. want back her colonies, not primarily for their reɔnomic valas bat for their military value. It sims at the creation of a great militarist State of negroes commanded by German officers and disciplined by them in German methods of warfare. They want, ach a State with
Italian Airmen Busy.
London, September 3. An Austrian ‹fficiel message staten:—Italian aviatore bombed several towna on the west coast of Istria. Our seroplanes drove back air equadrons making for Triests.
GRANDIOSE OERMAN SCHEME.
A Milliarist State of Negroes,
London, September 3.
THE BALKAN CAMPAIGN,
London, September 3.
À certain asose of insecurity and to raid our coast and ship | - The point which arisen at **** now alarme the German. It has ping, and from the serodrame in présent time is that the great been stated in the German papers the rear have come the aircraft increase of German submosrina that it was the purpose of Gres which have wronght sach, havoo and serial activity, as directed at Britain to enter the Scheldt, with a car. const_towne and in the this country and its shipping, in
A German wireless official message states repulsed the the object of approaching Ant-metropolis. There has been son- largely based on the occupation
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
their own supplies. their own munition factories and their own Fach north-west of Monastir. naval basse, because it would domiosto the African Continent and destroy the security of the Mediterranean. The Suez Canel could be easily linked up with Central Eprope which it could flood with black armies and thresten from a score of naval bases the CAPO route to Indie, to Australia and to the Far East and thereby prevent England from again concentrating her fali navel foroes in the North Sea.
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
London; 8-ptember 3. The Times says that the Petrograd Government has osscalled the ancient territorial privileges of the Don Cossacks. It is nalikely that the Cossacks, who up to the precont have been very law-abiding, Will tamely submit.
THE LAST WAR
Pariz, Sept. 3 The "Humanite" publishes the text of a state- ment drawn up by the Committee of the Inter-Allied Conference at London, which was entrusted with the drafting of the resolution on the goneral International policy. The Committee reiterates that the viatory of German Imperialism would mean the crushing-of democracy. The Allies must persevere in the war to attain the desire of the peoples that this shall be the last war.
werp and taking them in the siderable agitation against the of the coast and of the countries rear. There was, of course, de naval authorities for not blowing of West Flanders. The possiblity trash in each allegations. We Zebragge to pisces, or otherwise of making a aɔsjoint attack by have never bad any intention of of effectively blockadingit, Those naval and wilitary foroon in that violating Datoh neutrality, and criticisms betray ignoranos of region has often been discussed. Lord Derby, in a statement pab-fundamentalosaditions. Zebrug. Many naval, militery and political lished in a Datch newspaper, has ge is now much stronger than it considerations affect this basimam described the repori ne a Ger- was in 1915, when the monitors bat it is case that the necess man preliminary or preters for wore off she coset bombarding of putting an end to end It is not the business of war-activity on the cost has bed felling upon Holland, which Germans have always been in-ships to endanger : themasivos, inaintent, and that the olined to regard as a, sort of against heavy guns in consented themselves are well aware of German irredents.- nigdy positions. To prevent, all egress fact, and are beginning“
room bla, that there is something The preservation of the coast from Zasbrugg from the grasp of å strong military