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Auzust 21, 1918, Humidity
S026
日伍十七
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
GERMANS STILL MOVING BACK,
ALLIES GAIN HIGH GROUND.
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HOLLAND'S ECONOMIC
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WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 21, 1918.
"August 21, 1917,
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THE SILVER MARKET.
London, August 19, The silver market is quiet,
Views of Mr. N. G. Wells,
Sigas of Retirement in the Scarpe Valley
London, August 19.." Reuler's correspondent at French Headquarters, writing on August 19, states:-Ganers! Mangin's attack, made after a abort artillery preparation, took the enemy again by surprise. He wsk holding the line weakly without reserves within call. We gained desful ground overlooking a deep wooded revine rapning south-eas from Nampeel to Morvion Vingre whereby the Germans brought up troppa adobserved. The enemy mast wow" withdraw all but those on the immediate fighting line behind the platesa on his side of the valley.
Enemy Positions Threatened.
1.
London, August 19. Renter's learns that General Mingin's attack has been brought to a satisfactory canoluzion. Practically all the objectives were now holds all the bigh ground attained. General Mangin commanding the Oise Valley from the south and threatens the enemy positions in the direction of the Aiene. Any farther French advance between the Aiene and the Olse would have disastroce possibilities for the enemy, who, realising the danger, is counter. attacking locally. Between the Liseigay massif and the Oise fighting continuea French progress continues. Le Hamel, a mile and a half north of Ribecourt, has beon captured, constituting an advance of a mile and three-quartere
Germans Still Moving Back."
London, August 19.
Reater'e correspondent at British Headquarters, writing on the evening of the 19th instant, etates:-From the North of Hebaterae to the zonib of Albert the Germans continue slowly and methodically to move back. There are now signs of a retirement in the Scarpe Valley, where our patrols have established contact with the enemy on both banks of the river. We have progressed on the south side. Prisoners state that the object of the withdrawal le to take up improved positions before the winter and to conserva man-pawer by abortening the line sad occupying more "favourable ground. Nevertheless the withdrawal means a renanoiation of the offensive sad an admission of a loss of initiative:
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In a document which was captured General Ludendorf bemoanz the shortage of horses. He says: "We must take care of our horses, as they cannot be replaced. The men must thoroughly understand that this is necessary in order to continue the war until victory is reached." The shortage is eo serious that officers' mounts have been rathlessly requisitioned. The attack on Oalterateene ridge on the! 18th inst. was more successful than was at first believed. captured 869 prisoners, including twenty officere, many of which We established ware Poles. The remainder were typical Saxone. an entire domination of the ridge with wide observation over the adjoining territory. The enemy is no longer able to walch us except from balloons.
An Enemy Communique. "
London, Acqua 19.
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A German official wireless mesanga states We repulsed Britieh attacks between Meteren and Merria. We advanced cor An Australian attack af lines at Lonally, north of the Aucre, Helleville broke down. The enemy penetrated the western part of Beauvraigufe, and we withdrew to the eastern edge of the village. An enemy assalt between Carepent and south-west of. Nouvron broke down after a bitter atraggle lasting many hours.'
THE AMERICAN ARMY.
The Number Needed for Victory.
London, August 20. Renter's correspondent at Washington says that General March has informed representatives of the Military Committee that eighty! American Divisjons of 45,000 men each should be able sarcemfoll to conclade the war. He said the American Army on Auguit exceeded three million men. It had been planned to send a quarter of a million. to France monthly, and it was hoped to increase the number in the! spring.
BRITISH AERIAL ATTACK.
London, August 19
The Air Ministry sanonnces:-On the night of August 18-19, we attacked aerodromee and landing ground, and machine-gunned various targets, One maobine has not returned.
U, S. WAR INDUSTRIES.
London, August 18.
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Reater's correspondent at Washington says that the War Industries Board has declined to grant priority to menufacturers of cotton gins for iron, steel and fuel. The Board agreed eabatantially curtail the normal production of new gine next year, as it is believed that the existing plants and equipment with repairs can be made
last until after the war.
RELEASING DUTCH "SHIPS,
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London, August 18.
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Reuter's correspondent at Washington says that forty Datch ships lying in the Datoh East Indies are expected to be released as the result of an informal medus vio endi to bring sugar, tin and gainine to the United States:
THE WESTERN BATTLE-FRONT-
British Troops Enter Merville.
London, Aug. 19. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: The enemy in the morning strongly attacked our positions on a mile front between Libons and Herleville and succeeded in penetrating the line at two points. Our counter-attack drove him out and the situation was completely restored. We inflicted many casualties and prisonered a few. Our advance in the Merville sector continued to make considerable progress. On a font of ton busand yards we entered Merville add reached the read through the Merville, front from Paradis to Les Puresbecques. In shaip fighting we took prisoners- and machine-guns. Our total prisoners taken in the neth bourhood of Ottersterne is how 676, including eign officers.
One British We brought down six aeroplanes. machine is "missing. We dropped sixteen tons of bombs dur ing the day and night.
A Useful French Advanc
London. Aug. 19.
A Fréach commuiquc says: There was a violent action At night time north and south of the Avre. We prisonered yesterday four, bun-dred west of Roye. At six o'clock last night between the Oise and Aisne our troops rectified our freat on a streld of about fifteen kilometres between south of Carlipe and Fontenay reaching on the whole line an avengradrance of two kilometres. We occupied the plateau wegs of Napeel and reached the southern run ci Audigiconst ravine capturing Nouvons igre and prisonering seventeen Lüşdied, antis,ding two battalion contiendas,
Allies' Systematic Efforts.
London, Aug. 19.
Reuter, learns that it was General Mangin's Teuth Army that participated in the attack mentioned in this afternoon's French comunique. The scene of the attack is the sector. between assigny Ridge and Soissons. Its importance lies in the threatening chilankiest of the German lines on the Aisne beyond Solseons
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A Bavas message states: In consequence of our "steady advance on Roye the Gerinas artillery fire has likened again suggesting the transference of batteries rearward. Infantry resistance appears to be focussed on the strong points of Chaulnes, Ruge, Lassigny and a few other strong- holde which could by stormed any time. The Germans desire this but instead of exposing our men these, redoubts are literally deluged with shells and the Allies are striking at only well defined points and attaining their objectives one after the other without undue Laste. Signs of uneasi- ness are being gitz by the enemy making raids on British and French fronts to find out what their adversaries are dolag.
Reports that Austria has been required to place from ten to fifteen divisions at the disposal of the German staff show how the Lerman reserves and supply of man power A Dave finden,
The French Lieutenant, Fonck, brought down three enemy planes on Wednesday bringing the total number of hostile aircraft destroyed by him up to sixty.
A laver message states that the railway station hit 1e et hei, epturi.
ENEMY ADMISSIONS,
London, Aug. 19. Reuterls Correspondent at Italian Headquarters reports to day: Two ciptared såustrian documents show the extraor- tu dinary mastery the Allies have obtained over the enemy in aerial, warfare. The first enjoins better protection of dumps and emplacements against aerial observation by better camou taging d less military orderliness. The second, from a Colonel commanding artillery seeks to explain the impos- Shilly of the ststematic and effective destruction of the Allied artillery, and indicates that the Allied guns, as well as observation, are superior. The writer complains that the inferiority of his batteries in number and power and the "restriction of ammunition supply render it impossible to comply with the infantry's request for better artillery pro- peatin
THE RUSSIAN SITUATION.
Amsterdam, Aug. 19. The Boliosis paper. Pravda" states that the Soviet's appeal sags that Russia's intervention in the war is arces. sary. The fovernment has therefore completed preparations to remove to Kronstad, which is regarded as a safe place,
- THE SILVER MARKET.
Silver is quiet.
GERMANS FIGHT
GERMANS.
Patrols Attack Each Other,
London, Aug. 17.
London, Jane 29.—Mr. EL G. Wells writes as follows:-I have been following with the keenest
Effect of New German Prize Law.
Amsterdam, Jane 3.-In view
AVIATION IN FORMOSA. interest the public discussion of the incressing difficulty of over a league of nations in the Holland's scocomic situation I House of Lorde, the press and to-day (sys & correspondet!) Used in Subjugation of Natives. elsewhere. There seems to be made inquiries in ensathoritative disposition in many quarters 10. Datch quarter, where the Last year Japanese aviators regard the proposal as premature following statement explanatory
are being of the eituation was made to me. msde several fighte in Formosa and basty, and we
Holland's difficulties for the double purpose of testing Convailed to zo slowly, to look!
we leep, to try ex-largely from the country's their aeroplanes in a hot climate before
perimental half messures and to position, since Holland is now sad of intimidating the aborigines sit down quietly in front of the simost completely shut off, so far
into submission. We do not
arise
koow what resalt was obtained manifest difficulties of the pro- 88 ses communication is concern- in regard to the first experiment. Pasal; in fact, to let it ripen for ed, from the rest of the world. a time, as we have let the problem One of the difficulties is the new but it grams the other was very of Ireland ripen for a century; German Prize Law, which is to successful, for the Government- General of Formosa is credited with the intention of organising
the Ailies. The immediate "These are thoroughly ange sa seroplane police-force solely
result of this ordinance is that They are for the purpose of facilitating the British methode. sahjugation of the Formosas the methods that bare done every Dulch ship is liable to aborigines.
so much to mske Great Britan seizure. Several Datch ships in It is reported that when Mr. what she is at the present the Sosadioavian trade have been Shimomare, Chief of Civil time. They have received public brought into Administration in the Formosan endorsement and the approval of principally Swinemunde Government-General, visited many of our elder statesmen, but Cuxhaven. About eight Datch Tokyo is March last on the the peculiar conditions of the vessels, some quite smail, have occasion of the Gabernatorial present struggle call for certain already been treated in this way. The result is that Dutch ship: Conference, he folly discussed anusual energy; even, indeed,
we now are letting the problem be considered as a reprisal against in India ripen.
the taking over of Datch ships by
German porie
and
Hector" and "Zyldyk." They go out in exchange for the "Java" and "Stalla." Together these ist two will bring about 8,000 tons of grain, The Germans have agreed
the proposal with the authorities baste, and call so strongly sa to ping, has been practically stopp
the ships to be of the War and Home Deport 12stify a complete departare from ed, except mente, and
the Government that discreet dilatoriaess which is exchanged for chips bringing General has now inoladed in it frequent a characteristic of grain from America. Two of
these ships. which leave to Estimates for the next financial British statecraft.
morrow (Tuesday), are the year a sum of Y 80,000 for the
This war becomes more ard more proposed organisation of au clearly a half-conscious effort by aeroplane police-force.
humanity to adjust ite habits and According to the reported pro ideas of nationalism and loyalty gramme of the Government-and its old political forms and General, it proposed to build two methods to a new scile which has aeroplanes to begin with. Taipeh been created by the incrested not to molest these four ships. The quantity of grain, however, ja will be the base of operations, range of all means of communice not large, crd will not supply and hangars will be established tion, from railways and wireless Datch needs for very long, isse at Taipeh, Taichu, Ako, and some to pamphlets and gans during mach as 20,000 tons monthly are other places. The seroplanes will the last one hundred years. needed to allow a bread ration of fly over the regions inhabited by
These things have destroyed 200 grammaa (Toz:) daily per the aborigines and drop bombe territorial autonomies and made bead. This consignment is the on them when they are anruly, the world one system physically, firet instalment of a provisonal It is not known whether the while mentally and politically it 100,000 tons which sae Alies necessary aviatora will be recruit remains many systems. While have placed at the disposal of the ed from military or civilienthis process of adjcatment con Datch Government and which airmen. A polioe-inspector attachtinues it seema bound to be will have to be brought by ed to the Government-General of increasingly wasteful and in its degrees. Formons has gone to Tokyo to acute phsees an increasingly In the meantime, Holland is inspect the Tokorozawa aeroerdel sad bloody process agil a entirely cut off from other sources drome.
new equilibrium is attained. of food supply. She gets other In connection with the pro It is a process, therefore, that commodities from Gezasny, poral one of the military should be shortened in every These include cual, iron, steel, Aviators who flew over Formosa possible way, and the only foal potash, aniline dyes, salt, machin- last year 18 quoted sa paying adjustment which man so far bas
and wood, all necessary for "The proposal is a very opporheen able to discern is this scheme her industries and agriculturs. tane one, and the earlier it is of a federal league of nations Her economic agreement with carried out, the better. The overriding sovereignty in such Germany, by which ahe received greatest care, however, should be matters of univerest concern as applies of these commodities exercised in the eelection of armament and tropical control. expired last April, bat a "modua aviators and machines..
The To suchs league we must come vivendi " ie in operation, 88 B aborigines have not yet seen an if we are to come to anything out result of which she gets supplies seroplane fall, and if the fliers of this matter of blood and of all these things except soal.. over Formoea show any incompel ency, the more efect will be disastrons. Only the best men and machines, especially motore, should therefore be used.'
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destruction.
ary,
[The "modius viverdi,” however, cannot continue indefinitely; and consequently a new agreement îa
necessary.
Let me set down briefly some of the chief reasons for argency on this question, an urgency that may even seem to be andignified This cew agreement is now being to those accustomed to slow negotisted but the negotiations gestures in pablio life. They are: are hanging fire. Holland has Firet, The incressing destrug had ro coal from Germany tiveness of modern scientific war, for two months, and there is no of which this war, make no mis immediate prospect of her gett take about it, is only an impro- ing say. She is meanwhile ex-" vised sample.
Second. The impossibility of porting to Germany under the modus vivandi principally The fire aigns had acted
controlling armaceuts snd
vegetables, abe is now exporting better then was intended, and
securing world disarmament
no oggs, butter, cheese, or meat; brought up two patrola instead of
without a properly empowered indeed, she has no meat although one. The second patrol. coming
espernational authority.
she has a large stook of milk cows. from the sun, saw the first, and
Third. The impossibility of Hope of arriving at an agreement* thought they were British, and purple and yellow and other gay relieving the economic straggle with Germany has not been went for them, and our man look colours because, when a large of the world by a mere network abandoned, though it is less easy d on while the two parties of number of new aeroplanes sudden: of treaties, tariffs and deslinge to attain than when Holland had On Jane 5 one of our seroplanes Germans bad first clase "degly come into a given area they witboat world authority.
more to give in return for what met a German two-reater, which, fight." Another British machine may be easily taken by their Fourth. The impossibility of
she received." watched the friends for enemies... In this case sobieving satisfactory settlement as our man approached, let cffe came
are, evidently mesat as a signal spretacle, and both our men saw the machines were not so painted, of probleme in tropical and (the Times correspondeet) enemy machines abot down by On May 31, one of our fighting derelict countries, like Alrios and
a big Garmen Mesopotamia, for instance, with is no way out for humanity except have more than once referred to enemies. Then they also took a csobines got the German habit of sending our hand, end, choosing their opport bombing aeroplane at night. out world authority single machines as decoys to draw anities on the cute kiris of the fight, Though it has been done before Fifth. The impossibility of The people do not seem to our men on to where large patrols managed between them to crash in England, this is the first time developing the rich sad eplendid realise how far the consuming of of enemy seroplanes are waiting. three German machines. Hoa German raider has been shot promise of air traffic in anything the world already has gone and In this case our man was cautione, any Germana were shot down down at night from another bat belligerent direction at what pace it now is proceeding and hang off to watch evente, and, by Germans they do not know, aeroplane, though they have been without world authorit
up and
ki
to overcome them.
The world now is not like an old sure enough, in response to the but they vow that it was a glorious got by anti-aircraft guns. In No doubt the constitutional anestisiactory house that we have Aare, a pirty of six German mix-up
this instance the searchlights and sentimental difficulties that plenty of time to rebuild and that It was earlier insidente like picked up the German machine stand in the way of establishing would be a pity to rebuild 100 scouts came to the scene. Almost simultaneously a second party of this which made the German and kept it illuminated, so that a federal league of nations are hastily. It is a house on fire and six Germans came diving out of "oircuses" adopt the plan of paint our so went in within 25 yards colossal and intricate, but they it is time to get to work if we the sun from above.
ling their machines vermilion and and shot it down.
must be overcome bewuse there want to save it as it is now.