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The Hongkong Telegraph
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October 1
October 1, 1917,
7764 日六十月八
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
SERVICE PAY INCREASED.
Compulsory Allotment and Hospital Stoppages Abolished.
London, September 30.
MONDAY,
OCTOBE ་
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE RAID ON LONDON.
Three Group of Enemy Machines,
London, September 30. -
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LEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
JAPAN AND CHINA.
An Important Declaration of Policy.
London, September 30. Increases in Army and Navy pay ara announced, Proficiency The Press Bareng issues the following-Reportë show that Beater's correspondent at New York mays that Viscount Labii, three groups of raiders determinedly and simultaneocaly attanced Pow bangna in boneuronide Japanese Mission, proclaimed London, approaching in diffrent directions, can prodrommés guns the applicat
For the Mo doctane to the Far Esst. Ha declar- broke up the groupe and only two machines, or posibly threw, ed that not only would" "Japan nerek to Assil the integrity or penetrated the defences. Bomba fell in the north-eastern, and sovereignty of Chine, but she woulds be prepstod eventually south-eastern distriota,
per defand Chinese independenor against any aggression, for she know A fourth group attempted to approach London later bag was that her own landmerk would be threatened by any outside invasion driven off, none of the machines penetrating the outer defense, or intesletines with Chine They dropped bombs in Kent and Essex,
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sy in the Army will be at the rate of thresponse or sixpence daily od will be payable after giz months' service, instead of two years'
rsion.
There will be na iporenme of a penny daily in soldiers' pay for "'year of war service since the outbreak of war. Men with ndents will be relieved of the present compulsory allotment of 200 deiff for privates and tenpence for sergeants. Hospital ¿pages are to be abolished.
Able Seaton will receive threepencs. daily extra after three) Full reports of the omapalties and damage have not yet been yours' service, with a corresponding increase in aflost allowance recaived, but both are believed to be comparatively light. to Marines. The concessions in the Navy as regarda hospital | „„stoppages are similar to those in the Army,
THE WESTERN FRONT.
A Quiet Day.
London, September 30. A French communique states:—The day has been quiet except for heavy cannonating in the Aisas.region, on the right bank of the Meuse. There has been no infantry sesion.
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The Guns Active.
London, September 30,
A French communique states that there has been very considerable artillery Aring at Pantheon, Hartebise and Crsonne, on the right bank of the Mense sad mutual raida elsewhere.
German Infantry Dispersed,
London, September 30.
The True British Spirit,
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London, September 30, Alter raid warning last evening, the people sheltered most promptly, and the bright moonlight made many remain in the sbelters, Distant gandre, was heard rapidly approaching till it swelled into the most terrifis cannonade London has yet heard The barrage was effective. Several outlying districts were bombed. bat the damage and osmanities are not yet reported. When the gunfire ossed, London,ramainad vigilant till all was clear. The thes tree and concerta wers not interrupted, though the ators were almost inaudible. The audiences and setore mutually, cheered. At the conclusion of a promenade concert at the Queen's Hall, the and dispersed cheering. pianist played dixos music and the audience danced till midnight,
The Casualties.
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London, September 30. ↑ The Prom Bureau sanounces that eleven were killed and eighty-two injured în last night's air raid. The mateğil damage
The German Story,
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Hsig, in a communique, states;— is not great, There is reciprocal artillery firing. We dispersed a concentration of infantry east of Polygon Wood and drove off bombers east of Loos.
A German Report.
London, September 30.
A German official wirolam message states :-There is strong Is artillery firing along the const between the Yeer and the Ypres
Comines Canal.
FRENCH PRESIDENT'S WIFE'S ESCAPE.
London, September 30. Benter's correspondent at Paris says that Mademe Poincare, while helping the wounded on the Mense, narrowly scaped a sheli and siso bomibe from aeroplanes.
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA,
A Great Final Effort Needed.
London, September 30,
London, September 30,"
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A German official wireless message mys:--Aviators attacked docks and warehouses in London, and aleo Bamagate, i sand Margate. They caused many conflagrations, and all returned,
ANOTHER naval aerial raid,
London, September 30, The Admiralty announcede kaj naval aircraži deo rid bomblon Saturday afternoon on St. Denis Wedging brodit
id odred direct bite on sheds at Bessonneaux andando bomb exploded amongst fire machinse Used up if the ante All our machines returned;
THE BRITISH ARMY.
Second to None in the World.
London, September 30.
Speaking at the. Democratic Conference on the 28th initant, General Sir William Robertson, speaking in London, said that| M. Korensky said General Korniloff demanded that the Petrograd during 1917 we had taken more prisoners and over four times the district should be under his authority, as the fall of Eiga brought number of gunean we had corselves lost during the whole of the the capital mush near to the war zone. The Government refused, war. Our Army was now second to none in the world; nobody and General. Korniloff then moved suddenly towards Petrograd, know that better than the enemy, who was suffering heavy losses The country must now make a great final effort, as amaroby was before their proper time. Our losses were very much lighter then and was compelled to utilise younger olassis ¡wo years and more growing irresistibly end was spreading over the country in waves. He appealed to the Conference to give the Government and the in 1915 and 1918, when our equipment in artillery and aircraft was -country a decisive lead; otherwise, the Revolution would be lost, lena satisfactory than as the present. He added that he had
supreme confidence in all ranks at the Front.
Result of Russia's Weakness.
Londani, Beptember 30,-
Beuter's correspondent at Petrograd esys that at the D.mocratic Conference, M. Verkhovsky, Mininter of War, declared that Ruseis's *weskaset had led Germany to offer France and Britain all they
BRITISH AVIATORS RELEASED.
London, September 30. Reuter's correspondent at The Higat saya the British_aviators
wanted, but at the expense of Russis, whose Allica rašoted the resoned on the open ses on the 25:h instant have been released; offers with indigestion, believing confidently that the Rasulen their machine being stized. Army would do its duty, The Army and Navy were not refusing
to fight, but were animated by a spirit of victory which Slone could
eave Egusia.
Other items.
London, September 80. Benter's correspondent at Moscow says the telephoniste have gone on strike,
· OERMAN DESIRE FOR PEACE.
Fulsome Praise of the Pope,
London, September 30. According to Reater's ocrrespondent at Amsterdam, in the Bouter's correspondent at Petrograd esys namernou explonage of the Pope was an imperishable page of glory in the Reichstag, Herr Kuehlmann, the Foreign Secretary, amid the -arrests have been made, but sa yet there are no details. ・・
According to Renter's correspondent at Petrograd, it is-stated annuale of Papal diplomacy, for the Pope threw the word of peace that M. Kerensky is in complete agreement with the Moscow into a copilot threatening to convert Europe into blood-drenched representatives No appointments have been announced, pending initiative which made it possible again for her to expound without raina. Germany had every reseon to thank the Vatican for the "the decision of the Conference.
Food difficulties have led to the probibition of travellers ambiguity the national German policy, for the German Govern- entering Petrograd ansuthorised.
ment's raply embodied the will of the overwhelming majority of the | German people, being the result of the first collaboration of the Government and the people's representatives in a degree more London, September 30.
intimate than any attempted in purely Parliamental pantries. It Reater's correspondent at Petrograd says a dramatic scene was ridionlone to allege friction between members the Goyarn. followed M, Kerensky instancing the revolutionary threat to re open, mens and the brilliant Army leaders to whom Gere my ored her the Finnish Diet. The Nationalists cheered M. Kerensky, who, in present position. Herr Kuphlmann reviewed the hit of Europe confronting it, said the cit song had not yet lost their reason and daring ffty years, claiming that it was more powerful and stronger added that be appreciated the applause specially when announce than before, because of a mighty Germany in its midst. Therefore
A Dramatic Scene.
THE AUSTRALIAN STRIKE.
London, September 30, Bentar's correspondent at’Sydney says the Coal Miners Fedora: tion has recommended a return to work on the Government's condi. tione A genered resumption is expected, "
ment bad, L'been received of the approach of the German Flest it was illusory, nay, criminsi, to suggest that Europe could "B
in the Gulf of Finland:...
reconstructed with a mutilated Prumin and a 'vegum · federal - con-
Following M. Verkhovsky, M. Toberarif, formerly Minister of glomeration of States. The chief motive of the German Nite wAL Agriculture opposed the inclusion of the Cadets, while M. Komgnev to assist the Pope to create an atmosphere essential, to frital! Maximalist, objfolad to any of the bourgeois partie M.Theretelli disonmion of the numerous matters dividing the nations. long declared that a Coalition was imperative. The Conforages as a war svered Entents cherished the illasi that adjourned at midnight,
ARGENTINE AFFAIRS.
Guarding of German: Ships.
London, Beptember 30, According to Router correspondent at Bantide Aires, the Government has arranged for the gairding of interned. German, “nicamera in oopseg sence of a threat by the crews, to destroy them in
the rvant of a rapu
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ITALIAN MONARCH VISIT
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BARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE WESTERN FRONT.
The Wastage of Enemy Manpower..
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London, Sept. 29. Beuter correspondent says: The chief feature of the week end has been the renewed efforts of the Germans to retrieve' their losses, Our artillery deal successfully with these attempts. The wastage of enemy manpower upon the Flanders ridges during the last ten days has proceeded, at a rate which is already bearing tangible fruita, v Troops; which were quite lately identified upon the Bassian" front are now opposite the British. These confessedly regard the circumstance of härlig been rushed back westward at a tighen there is so much talk of a great Russian offensive, ma angaring ill for German success in the west. This re-emphasises that the west is the vital war, theatre,
The British Keepior Busy.
London, Sept. 29... Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports --Wa repulsed an attempt to mid two posts on Hill 70 northward of Lens: Weesptured a few Germans while two men are missing. We also prisonered 'a-few in patrol- encounter, in the neighbourhood of the Bapaumé Cambrai "Road.” Our artillery in fictive on the Ypres front, and there is considerable bostila artillery fire at points hết ilma thè pres Commes Canal ad St. Julien. Quaeroplanes drop. pod à tour abi bomby on serodrome comédi Carnieres, dumps at Neillots and raline döydërsa tons at night-time on similar targets, fiðluding Kiontrade Lerodrome. Despite a heavy barrage all returned salaly. During the raids our flyers used machine guns with good effect against troops and transport. We brought down ten enemy aeroplanes and drove down four. Three of our ars missing.
A German Claim.
Lor, Sept. 29.
A wireless German official message states: Wo repulsed English local attacks at Zonnebeke and drove out the enemy from the crater line on the Ypres-Passchendae. Road.
LINER TORPEDOED AND SUNK
London,, Sept. 30, Renter learns that the Japanese Admiral reports that Japanese destroyera wore escorting a liner and transport when the liner was torpedoed. The Japanese destroyi produced smoke screeds to protect the liner from further attack while the others rushed to discover and attack the gubmarine, the Japaness alternately protecting the ar and firing at the locality of the submarine. They rescued 650 persons from the liner, including women and children and in less than an hour, brought them and the tranport safely to port..
THE LATEST AIR RAID.
London, Sept. 30.
A British official message states: The aeroplanes crossed the coasts of Kent and Essex in groups between 8 and in the evening. Several attacks were made on London, bojabs „being dropped in the north-eastern and south-eastern" dis- tricts and also it various places in Kent and Essex. Reports of the casualties and damage have not yet been received.
A wireles German official message states: Our aviators bombed London and several places on the south coast.
TWO GERMAN MACHINES IN HOLLAND,
Amsterdam, Sept. 29.
A German aeroplane of the newest type with three machine guns and six bombs descended at Saavabgent. One of the three occupants was severely wounded, and the others attempted to escape, but were captured and will be interned.
Amsterdam, Sept. 30. A German biplane descended at Friesland and its three Aviatora sat on fre...
ANOTHER NAVAL AIR RAID.
London, Sept. *20, The Admiralty states: Naval aaroplanes on Thur bombed store houses on the south western side on Beirut Barbour. Many direct, hits were made and fires were started. All the machinog returned/
A cruiser shelled aud ou fire store houses on
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VERY MARKET London, Hepiscaber $0. Silvar in quoted at 491.
1. Tas market is quiet. THE FLOODS AT TIENTSIN Militons of Homeless People.
N. O. Dally Neus, talegraphing The Pekingcorrespondentof the on September 24, 30 BAYS
fells of rain at mveral periods this uutama hai saireädy: caused an | immense area betwéan Tiental
and Paotingfa to become water- logged; another dalage on Satur- dag pighi prently aggravated the sitantion. Thousands: Gels quare miles are inundated aid, the homes of millions of people are destroyed.
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*The waters of the rivers and the Grand Canki have overflɔwed' their: Bankast many points and the foreign Ugnoessions at Tiens tain ́ars veriously threatened with. lodadation. Trafis on the nor thern end of the Tianmin Gakow Railway is completely anap
Peking, Sep. 28-T dossed rising in '1yanı
Concession" ends bed, reaching. Tako „Bərd hundred
which is the highest Bottlement, but almost
of the British extension, and the exwamural territory and a large?
| part of the_reach – Conesusiomi ars inundated. The sleptzia labs: | and water supply, have been out off and the trama "have bolsad |ruing
The Japanese
suffered most many of the house
being dompletedY.
Thousands
Man reinge in the ospecially the
on the other side 'of
which have not been alzatod. Feeding and sheltering these refagves present serious problema. which will become, mere sarious if the waters do not si beide soon. The present code the describe ed at being even-worse than those of 1893.
Telegrams received hars terday indicated, that t was three fees deep on. in the British Ganchet second road parallel to die': and the aptaión. was
| thing the fl od might sim
for some weeks, withoë
higher; unless more heavy rain.
Mosser. Butterföld
received a telegra
Tichtsin agenta'ad Lisod appeared to be
begible, from which
implied that the watere reached their baight, he
Swire thair:
Bailings of steamers to Tientai
will be resumed, and. will be made from that
se the dubulties 02.
The north bank of t not fröted coming
of ton Paiho