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THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1918

THE WAR.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

THE BATTLE OF VERDUN,

THE CELEBRATION OF EMPIRE DAY.

THE FIGHT FOR FORT DOUAUMONT

FRENCH CONFIDENT OF SELTRING THE ENTIRE POSITION.

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PARIS. May 2 The French lines south of Dovou! - about from which, the main attack „as made are only 350 ypris distant from the tort, hat the defence was

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a foffridable- thất it was an hour before the Brst triumphant French- This really men jurised at the fort.

There remarkable mpidity. two lines of trenches befor The fort lavishly fortified. The first

vas reaches in a quarter of an hour | shd the compants haganetted or

aptured.

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Waves of assailants mehed the and line wird nesistance was of more serious character.

Twin the French were driven hack. Then informerts were released and Married the minch with

HOME.

THE CHINA MAIL.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE GREAT STRUGGLE- AT VERDUN.

ENEMY'S MOST DESPERATE EFFORTS NAIL.

ANOTHER BRITISH WAR CREDIT. | LATEST EDITION.

.

DAILY EXPENDITURE

APPROACHES FIVE-

MILLIONS.

Lastos, May 23.

In the House of Commons, Mr.

STOP

PRESS NEWS..

Asquith moved a Vote of Credit for THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE. £300,000,000, making the total war credits £2,882,000,000. He said that

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PARIS, May 23, The 94th day of the Battle of Veriun produced more violent fighting than ever.

recent expenditure ter 30 days aver. |FIRMLY HELD IN CHECK BY THE Today's ammuniqué says that througaged £1,820,000 daily:-Thér had

FRENCH. us the night the struggle continued with | been a slight dilution in the intense forceness on hoth banks of the expenditure on the fighting forces (Reuter's Service to the China Mall.)CUTIOLE Meuse. The furious counter-attacks of and the increase incurred had been the Germans against all our positions on mainly on loans to the Allies ami Hill 304 completely failed. The enemy the Dominions, which amounted to used numerous tame projectors, notably £75,000,000 from the 1st April to she westward of Hill 30, which embleith Alay.

PARIS. May 24.

A communique states t Artillery preparations and infantry attacks succeeded one another with abatest violence in the region of Haudromont-Douaumont..

him to penetrate one trench, hutu brik One of our great contribusions to IMPOSING DEMONSTRATIONS ATnt counterattack immediately drove the Allies was our Enuncial assist

him ont. -

The German efforts east of the Meuse, which was gladly given in the cómmon cause. The House would lespite intense artillery preparation, LoxDos, May Ma

were broken by car fire, and none of the grudge the addition to our

Despite furious assaults_regurilless The special signifleahee of Empire attackers even reached our lines.

expenditure in order that the whole Day, was this year "emphasised not Stubborn fighting proceeds in the composite financial, naval, and mili-of human life the Germans "baly"

Thiaumont-Donaumont sector. merely by the Government's fecognis

The tary fabric, upon whose co-operative succeeded in gaining a footing in to the day but by imposing mussed attacks and suffered enormous depended, should be kept in a state All attempts against our positions enemy in the night time increased his work the success of the Allied efforts some elements eastward of the fort. deinanstrations | throughtout theses. He only succeeded in re-occupy-of efficiency. (Cheers.) The present kingdom.

ing one trench, northwant of Thisumont credit would carry us to the begin. Westward and against the fort itself

ning of August, but he could not hold war stated. out hope of a sensible reduction in expenditure.

A bombardment is proceeding in Toerse.

A messige from Mr. Rudgard Kipling says:

Knowing as nations what we are fighting for and ralising us men æmul woinen the resolve that has been adied to us by what cach

hos hdgreb, we go forward now under the proud banner of our priets and losses dis a' greater effort of endurance and, if necessary, gavier suarifice, squad sponsors for the deliverance of mankind,"

INDIYS FUTURE PLACE IN THE

EMPIRE.

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India's future

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We continue despite vigorous resist ance, to drive out the Germans from Fort de Donnumont, where the enemy now only, holds the north-east comer.

PARIS, May 24.

Last night's communiqué says:-Ger man counter-attacks in the Verdun region developed with extreme violence after a boabarchment by heavy guns lasting the whole morning.

The Germans on the left of the Meuse several times launcherl assaulting masses at our positions east and west of Mort Homme. The first attack was swept by artillery and machine-gun fire, and was repulsed with sanguinary lossses without the enemy being able to approach our lines. A second attack, which was equal nly desperate, at seven o'clock in the even ug, gained a footing in a western trench but an immediate counter-attack com pletely drove back the enemy.

The Vote of Credit was unanim orisly passed.

THE COMPULSION BILL

LORD KITCHENER ON ITS ADVANTAGES.

LONDON, May 236

The enemy attempted to advances under cover of poison-gas in Cham- pagrie, but were throw back hy our batteries.

of the Times" og April 15th wrote:- Col. E. P. Repington, Military Expert

There is no other way to win the war

In the House of Lords when the BRITISH NEED OF GUNS AND MEN. Compulsion Bill was under discussion Earl Kitchener, said that the Bill would (enable them to regulate the flow of recruits and prevent fluctuations, so that the feneral Staff would be able to rely with greater certainty on the necessary: But be place in the field at a decisive traits. The rank and the would be point and in the principal thearre all the encouraged by the thought that all cur 'men we'coo raise and provide them with A murderous struggle raged all dayport ch a measte to the uttermost. Stat was restored to the exercise of its countrymen world be prepared to sup-ample munitions. Since the General in the Haulromont-Dumont region, It would also enable them to use menevitimate functions in October last minel The fortar article outlines then the right of the Meuse. The Ger- unfit for general service, but suitable for has been done, but we still do not yet mans multiplied their salts, each of Home service, for clerical work, and possess in the 'principal theatre, all che didhealties in de way of settlement, which was preceded by the most formid would nilintain the Army's numbers in a troops who should be rhers. especially the question of the India able artillery preparation. Despite all manner hitherto impossible, so that wa Office introl, but implatsises that these efforts, we malitained all the posi- might take our full share in the great

sions we conquered yesterday, parti conflict. took over 300 prisoners.

pulilishad irresistibl dash. They renched the opine Day Edition containing Fort, whom they wore-gined he lengthy anticio en columns Com the west. The garlier in the Empire, and another risón resisted in every comer and the Iulian States," ellir, but were driven out by bayonet ham both to they north- The finest figisting Pastern corner. continual all night,

The French are confident that these difficulties virtust he overcome uhriy at Fort de Donaumont., Wel will secure the whole position, white The task will rogare much time and the conviction is growing in Paris infinite patience, but it can be done that the poiment for the decision of und, unless British statesmanship the whole Verdun battle is iminentenes bunkrupt in genius, it will

THE WAR ON MERCHANT

SHIPPING.

LONDON. May. 24.

in the Mediterranean

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The article on the Indian States emphasises the impossibility of dis regarding these States in the con«| stitutional and political development after the war, and the necessity for establishing sonde organised connee-

Two German aeroplanes were felled! nights in the air near Furnes and Beaumont respectively. A French pilot. was attacked in the finge district by three enemy machines. He felled one and put the others to fight.

THE BRITISH FRONT.

FOURTEEN, AIR BATÈLES.

".....

to-day hetween Hooge and the Ypres

Hostile artillery was very active) Roulers railway.

LONDON, May, 24. The following ships have been sunktion between the Raj and the ruling count, says: There were heavy

General Siz Douglas Haig, in Princes to enable the latter to have reciprocal bombardments last night and Adamonki Oxkerais (Greck), Tjonte a voice in the settlement of questions to-day about Vimy Ridge, where the Norwegian) and the sailing ships in which they and their subjects are situation is unchanged. Fabricatti Italian) and Myosotis vitally interested. It says the time (French),

The dress of the two Stramersus conie to work out a scheme for a Council of the Princes to leu) with such matters on a definite constitu: tional footing with the necessary safeguards. It also calls attention to the necessity for upholding the rights and status of the Princes in ques tions of precedence, etc. •

were saved.

THE COMPULSION BILL.

Lospes. May 24. The Compulsion Bill allowed a man leaving work of national import. ance two months in which to look for another job without becofring, a Foldier..

An amendment in the House of Lorax reduces this period to a fort- night.

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This will be considered by the

House of Commone to-day hente. it

is unlikely that the Bill will become law before to-morrow.

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

SPECULATIONS ON ITS SOLUTION.

MR. ROOSEVELT'S CANDIDATURE.

FOR THE PRESÏDENCY.

LONDON, May 24.

Mr. Roosevelt Eas accepted the offer of a Committee of Republicans

There was some artillery and mining activity. elsewhere...

Hostile aircraft were very active on portions of our frott yesterday, and enemy aeroplanes were engaged, one of condition in the enemy lines. which was driven down in a damaged

COLONEL CHURCHILL ON BRITISH

NEEDS NEXT YEAR.

"

LONDON, May 23. In the House of Commons, Colonel Winston Churchill urged the strengthen- ing of the British fighting-line by the

The thin reading of the Bill was pawed without a division.

PAYMENT OF TROOPS IN EAST AFRICA.

Fosbos, May 3. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law, answering a series of questions re- garding the payment of British, troops in East Africa with Indian rupees, stated that the question of future currency carefully convideres ten fish went arrangement in Past Africa would be did not consider the establishment of a He local mint justified.

AFRICAN REBELS DEFEATED BY

ITALIANS.

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ROME, May 23... of the rebels against Zuar, the in Owing to the increasing menace habitants of which are loyal, an. expedition was sent thither from Tripoli, and defeated the rebela, who abandoned booty and prisoners.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL

..PASSES SECOND READING.

LONDON, May 24

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to provide the army with guns, shells It has taken Mr. Lloyd George a year

and rides in the maximum, of which we were so terribly deficient a year ago. We have now many hundred heavy guns? in the Seld and millions of shells; but there must be no abatement in our effort... The proportion of guns with the French and German armies is still greater than with ours. Their output of munitions. per week is still much higher? -

We are only now beginning to exploit our great resources. When our munitioas suffice as we must re-double our effor to help Bussis and most anticipate that, until the end of the war, we must for naval and military purposes together keep of whom 1,000,000 must be mex. 2,000,000 hunds at work upon munitions.

Above all we need men for our armica. Farly last year the writer warned the public that a grisis in munitions would To followed by a crisis of men unless the Government took drastic measures to make up the deficit in existing establish- ments, provide men for the 'drafts and the field is the Summer of 1916. create thirty new divisions to throw into

Nono of these measures has been taken. Though the response of the country has heen grand to every demand made upon it, the truth about recruiting has beep The course we persistently concealed.

have taken has been the best suited to prolong the war indefinitely, not to end it. All this talk of holding the balanca between trade and victory; all these

use of every able-bodied man. He Lord Islington moving the second dreams of economic pressure upon the pointed out that we had large reserves Bill in the House of Lords, called we shall do to impoverish Germany after reading of the Government of India enemy, and all these fairy tales of what of thirty States to work on behalf of Africa, for which Egypt would be a

of troops among the black races in attention, especially to the clause en- the war are sheer moonshins.

abling the appointment to civil posta The frontiers of Europe exist no longer,

his candidature for the Presidency suitable training ground. Another re and military commissions of rulers and and will only re-appear at the end of

servoir was Asia. What part was

HOIHOW NOTES.

THE LOTUS FLOWER.

India going to play in 1917, if the was subjects of native States and of adjacent the war traced in blood by the sword of continued The fate of India was as territories, like Nepal. These persons the victor. We must be that victor, and stake even more than our own. The now, and had previously, served in the the caly, way to become so is to digest par played by the Indians in France Army and had done loyal and gallant the main armies of the enemy if the was glorious, and why should we not service for the Empire. He was con- principal theatre by bringing ggainak him (From Jur Oun Correspondent,) start now and have a dozen new Indian fident that the proposal would give armies superior to his own.

Divisions ready to throw in in 1917 satisfaction to the rulers of those States, The typhoon which visited Annamwhere they would he urist effective many of whom freely employed British gave us plenty of rain and the heat and To allow India to be represented in the subjects in their territories. These foxnow, May 24. moisture that has come since is very would he wrong to India and to consider themselves component parts of struggle only by the Tigris. Corps of autonomy, were always proud to Staton, though enjoying a large measure The Time says it is understood oppressive.

Europe. tant M. Asquith, Mr. Lloyd George, and Mr. Bonar Law have individually At the time when the Province declar. con'erred with the landers of the edits independence, there were attempts Nationalist and Unionist Parties, and that the atmosphere last night was more favourable to a settlement than

Any time since the revolt..

at

HAINAN QUIET.

to drive out the officials of three of the Districts in the East of Hainia, The Magistrates left for a time, but in each case the authority of the former officia)

has been restored. The revolt is believed

THE ITALIAN FRONT.

ORDERLY RETIREMENT, IN ONE SECTOR, IMPORTANT GAIN IN ANOTHER.

Roxy, May 247

the Empire and had presented our fashion designers in the year the Queen The lotus flower, which was adopted by forces with some of the finest and most went to India, in again scen in the reliable men in our fighting material

The Daily Exprean яngs that Mr.to have been the work of the Kok-meng:A communique says:-The, eremy/modern Indian sentiment.

The provisions enabling selected sub fashionable dress salons. As a millinery jects of these States to compete for the trimming the flower is in request, "some Indian Civil Service,, and their rulers of the most distinctive hats of the day and subjects to be nominated for seats bearing a single lotus flower, its petole un Legislative Councils, were significant fastioned of semi-transparent white crope. of Ladian development. He felt sure A black crepe de chine hat trimmed with that they were in full accord with a couple of these diaphanoes white lotus Asquith to-morrow will announce the Society. They were strongly in favor is reported to be gathering between the political development of India, and when, as always before Farter, the black blossoms is one of the smartest things In abokion of the Irish Viceroyalty of local self government at the time of Garda and Adige."

The Bill made a definite advance in millinery to be seen at the modent, Lord Wimborne will be offered the former revolution...

he believed it would be accepted in that and white vogue in hate has a number of The Italians, after repulsing sense by the Indian community another post under the Government..

TAMINE BROKEN,

enemy attacks between.. Aistico, Brente, and Val Sugana, gradually opening of the Public Services to the season, is the "Flanders "Christmas Lord Sydenham warmly welcomed the followers. Another pretty floral fancy it fell back to their main lines in Indians not born in British India. The perfact order.

other amendments affecting the relations. The Italians carmed an important of the Bay to the native States, mal the position in the Upper Cordevole, powers of the Council and the Secretary taking 60 prisoners, and much dm of State might seem to heal To-day's Advertisements munition. There was more intense administrative ljustments, but they Nearly £7,000 has been collected to artillery activity at Gorizia and might in certain circumstances prove of endow a Cosir in Russian at the Univer-

Monfalcone.

vital importance. The administrative results would require careful scrutiny. sity of Birraingham Between £10,000 and £12,000 is required.

Lord Muir Mackenzie thought it zd vimble that the Joint Committed should Whare this day authorised M

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The Daily News says the Minis- The rains have come late, but they rial Iden of the future settlement will bring on late planted rice so that of the Irish Question is that if the the famine which has threatened Hainan Irish leaders agree to the establish for months will not be extended ment of separate parliaments for

· Ulster and the rest of Ireland after the war, this will facilitate the establishment at the present time of & Coalition Executive in Ireland.

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