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FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1917.

TELEGRAMS.

(Continued from Page 1)

THE WESTERN FRONT.

A SMASHING "ATTACK.

MISLEADING GERMAN

COMMUNIQUES"

A PACIFIST MOTION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MR. ASQUITHS, COMMENT,

Loxnes, July 96.·*

In the House of Commons, Mr.. Eamsay Macdounki, on behalf of the quintut of pacifist Members, moved a resolution walking the House to culore the sentiments of the Reichstag resolu tion which are as follows "That the Gernian people, a declared' pa August 14th 1914 do net desire conquiests,. Pynis, daly 28. that they uro Hghting. for liberty, A French semioticial ports independence, anil the integrity hows that it was

shing of their territory that they desire the best pence of conciliation and a lasting attack, carried?' out in French, style, on July 24, which reconciliation of all peopler: an regained, in one hour, the dominas-conomic peace: and the freedom of the ing positions at Craonae plateni which the grey took four days to avengan ut Cust of sanguinary 1.0

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The resolution further askel the House to restate the peace aims, and also that the forthcoming Allied Con ference eu the war aims shall includ demoerstie representatives besides; diplomats

The report stairs that The Genuan Higher commais! Lilowing its usand ensionary warthed, das so

Mr. Asquith tracal the origin of the far, tot etival this defent; on "the Contrary, it is actually stated in fed, too much importance was attached. Reichstag resaitition to which, he declar- yesterday's "cammumque, that Peace was to the supreme interest of attuck at Druerne failed. Connornmankind, but she all important conj- tion was "that" it "must not defeat the purpose for which Great Britain and the Allied Nations were at war and must not rémer wasteful the great sacrifices that have been made.

is needless.

ENEMY'S TREMENDOUS AND COSTLY EFFORTS.

THEIR EROPORTIONS NOW - BEGINXIMI, TO BE REALISED.

Tostos, July

Mr. Asquith welcomed the Auth- goning Allied Conference initiated by Russia, where the war ainm would he state, beratase- The tremendous proportions of the

new facts Germaus fruitless and most mostly med mely the cessation of with a practical bearing had reentig efforts maria by the Germans to capture Russian autoersey, and the entry of the heights on the Aistic Front, which

the United States in the war..] The French had regained, are only now! begiming to be fully realised.

The Albul forces comprisark in over- Inspires that was Kerman werkning majority of free proples Armies, Generál

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Fashio's "and gud the world policy of this: Gengral vin Butor's, comprising sight: 1d unpretental aggngation of Divisions of which three were Prussiau, į tree peoples wils solely freedom. three Westphalian, one Bayarian and No pence would be worth having one Bailes, totalling approximately which restored the precasions status. -100,000 men, participated in the general que made, which left small, countries assault from Cemy, as far as the Call-fla the meriy-of dynastie intrigue and fornia Plate

(militury “coercion. The gowning The principal effort was directed principle should be the interests abai against Carme Plateau, The ery wishes of the peopl" affected by fle losses were very henry and the refeheater! 20th Brandenburg Regiment almost

change in the reuenpigendat of the lisappeared.

p. He asked explicitly if ther

The French losses were ceri paratively light.

THE BRITISH FRONT. "

Tespos, July 20. Fieldershan Sir Douglas Hig reports 1-

We successfully curried out a raid ip the uth-east of Armentieres: LONDON, July 26,

Pield Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

» reports:-

The weather interfered" with air Bighting. We brought down' one

DOMINIONS.

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any was prepared to adhere to that policy and principle. The Iteichstag resolution hach sant, disclosed it.

WOMAN SPY SENTENCED TO DEATH..

The

THE CHINA MAIL.

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

BRITISH SHIPPING REPORT.

LONDON, July 25. The Admiralty's weekly shipping|

report states; —

Arrival Departurisi

THE BRITISH FRONT.

1.

HEAVY BOMBARDMENT.

SOCIALISTS" CONFERENCE. IN

LONDON.

Eexpos, July 20 LONDON, July 20. Ao a meeting of the Russian repres Fiold-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig Hentatives and British Labourites of all sections, it was decided to hold reports:--

Following a heavy berbualment an Allied Socialists Conference in enstward of Monohy-le-Preus, the London on August 9th. encing, using dammenwerfer, attack- Infantry Flit and are in a fow of our advanced posts on a front of 250 yards.

Vessels sunk (under: 1800

Vessels punk paver 1,000.

[ +3+

4,191

211

FISTIN

Vessels unspacéssfully at

tacked

We drove off raiders northward of Bullecourt.

15

1

Fishing vessels sunk

We railed enemy trenches at a number of points vorthward off Ypres.

THE IRISH CONVENTION,

CHAIRMAN AND SECRETARY APPOINTED.

Lassos, July 18.

It is officially announced that the Irish Convention have munimously

The weather restrictel aerial opera-appointed Sir H. C. Plunkett s tions, but we low down four Chairman and Sir F. J. S. Hopwood German auchines Thave of our fan Secretary, machines are missing.

GERMAN REPORT.

Losos, July 25.

ITALIAN SHIPPING REPORT.

Rose. July 20. The Italian Shipping Report for the week ending July 22 states:-

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303 550

FRENCH SHIPPING REPORT.'

A German official report, th ittel by wireless, states:- A most powerful artillery Are continued in Flanders. We drove hack repented English chraste.

RHEIMS SUFFERS AGAIN.

TONDON, July 25

Arrivals Departures Vessels. Bank

Pants, July 26: The Freh shipping returns for the week status ; -- *

Arrivals...

Departmes Vessels guilt

Vessels insucessfully,

attickerd

1,063 187

THE ENEMY STEAMERS 'AT

BANGKOK.

MACHINERY DAMAGED.

BANGKOK, July 23. The marinery of the Austrian and German steamers wire dungest by sinali

explosions.

teret for the duration of the "war A nady enetiese have been in:

gud oring business front will be wemus up.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS."

THE RUSSIA FRONT.

RUSSIAN RETREAT. CONTINUES.

Losnos, July 26.

A Russian Michal message, trus- mitted by wireless, states -

Northward of Rievo our detach- nants occupying enemy trenches retired, owing to powerful artillery Bre.

The Gerris Corps, with the excep- Pants, July 27,

tion of the Perovsky frigade. dancer. Marguerice Zell,oluntarily retired at Tarnopol, the was "Mathruri," who was Petrovsky's faithfully battling south | bom in the Dutch Indies, has been Jeustward of the, town.

sentenced to death, for explonge.

BRITISH TEA SUPPLIES.

The eniny crossed the Sereth, driving back the Russians to the Myszkovice river,

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Jag

On the Gnieznu-Trembowl line, we offered great opposition custward of Myszkovice

1.

A French Comuniqué states:- Reciproen artillery fire continued. most lively, especially on the Cali- formin and Lusemates Plateaux and at Moronvilliers and the left of the Meuse.

Five hundred and sixty-seven sheils were thrown into Rueiras,

GERMAN REPORT..

Tosuos,July 23,

A German official message, trans fanitteby wireless, states: -

Strong French attacks, supported by fresh divisions, failed in Cruonne,

RESULTS OF THE GERMAN EFFORT.

THOUSANDS OF CASUALTIES.

BRITISH MERCHANT-CRUISER

AUNK.

Losnos, July 25. The Admiralty announces thint the merchant-cruiser, Otway TYOS torpedoed and sunk in Northern waters on the 22nd inst.

Ten men were killed and the remainder were saved..

AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

(The Chinese Mail's" Service,)

REPORTED LOAN NEGOTIATIONS.

PEKING, "July 25, Press reports state that the Govern meat is negotiating a loan of $20,000,000 from a Japanese Bank.

THE EX-EMPEROR.

Hanan Tung, the ex-Emperor, who was frightened into illness by recent events has recovered.

THE FUGITIYES, Kang Yir Wei, and Lincg Tun Yen have left the Dutch Legation and sought refuge elsewhere.

Laspon July 25. Beater's Correspondent at the French Headquarters report show that the magnificent counter-attack Jon the 24th inst., resulting in throw, LUNG CHAI KHONG.

ing out the enemy from the «Cases antes, practically deprived him of

Lung Cha Kwong (the former. gains which had temporarily afforded Tuchow of Canton who has been filling Thing coveted view point over the sinacure at Hoihow during the past French positions. He has nothing twelve months or so) has mit a repre to show for his great effert except seatative to l'eking to consult with thousands of cusimalties and that the General Feng Kus Chang (the Acting) very pick of the fermans were un-President) It is expected that Lung nistakably defented.

Chai Kwong will himself come

BRITISH SUBMARINE BUNK BY Peking to sea the Premier.

NEW CIVIL GOVERNOR FOR CANTON.

GERMAN SUBMARINE.

Loxnox, July 25.

It wus oficially arounerd in Berlin en, the 22 inst. that the British submarine 034 was sunk by

eneng suburiaine.

One stoker survived and was made

prisoner.

"

THE OPERATIONS IN AFRICA.

THE PURSUIT OF THE ENEMY.,

LONDON, July 25.

An official report states:- In an action at Narongombe on

to

lau Shing Yau has been appointed Civil Governor of Canton. Pending. his arrival Chay Ping Kwan will act in

his stand.

Chu Eing Lan has been appointed Civil Governor of Kwangsi.

"THE VICE-PRESIDENT.

فراد

CONDITIONS ON WHICH HE

WILL GO TO PEKING.

"

SHANGHAI, June 25. General Feng Kue Chang has tele

the 10th inst., over diffenit and billygraphed to the Premier stating that he

Thush rountry, the enemy's losses

That he shall be allowed to bring with him his military retinie; toconvers Parliament within three months and to appoint Chai Yau Lum the Tukwan of Slangsu

Loxtos, July 27. In the House of Commons, Mr

The Germans continued the offen- Germon vanhing. One of ours is Clynes. Parliamentary Under-Secree between the Seretsend the missing,

tury to the Ministry of Food, stuted Strype. thutu pahene for taking full control: Three divisions north-westward of LOANS TO BRITAIN'S ALLIES AND of all supplies of tea arriving in Romanov retreated to the rear.

were heavy. The enemy was driven will come to Peking on the following England was being drawn up, afterent irthe region of Olesha, despite kuri Valley.

The Germans forced our retire-body retreated towards the bem-

out of all His positions, and the main conditions:-- a consultation with the representa the gallantry of Infantry Division tires of the trades concerned. This and two Cyclist Battalions.

Southwards of the Dniester, as far would provide for the securing of the

us the Carpathians, our retirement benefit of reduced prices to the has continued, and we are engaging in rearguard actions. There was stubborn buyozet fighting in the streets of Stanislau, and the inbabit ante from balconies and windows threw hand grenades at our depart ing troops.

Losos, July 26. " Mr. Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, las corrected his state- ment the House of Commons on Tuesday as regards the loups to the Allies and the Dominions.

가

It "should reud: "The total pavunces to the All

were

to

£1,020,000,000 in audition: £146,000,000 to the Dominions, the total thus being £1,171,000,000. "

GERMAN REPORTS..

THE OPERATIONS IN

FLANDERS...

consumer.

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THE IRISH CONVENTION.

LONDON, July 20. The Press Bureau announces that the Irish Convention, at de second raeeting, appointed a Preliminary. Procedure Committee. The Conven tion then udjourned until August 8.

Later. The feeling in Dublin is more LONDON, July 26. hopeful, regarding the Irish Conven- A German official message, transmit tion. The choice of Sir H. Plunkett ted by wireless, reporta

as Chainman, is approved. He bus The artillery battle här continued

an intimate knowledge of all sections with undiminished intensity between the coast and Lys. The English recon by all. He is also entirely detached of the Irish people and is respected poitring thrusts continued to be

from recent party politics and has unsuccessful. Our fame-throwers opp tared an important trench on a sector

been

a life-long worker for the prac near Monchy, Three enemy attempta

tical regeneration of Ireland. to recapture the position failed.

THE FRENCH FRONT, We stormed a French position on a front of 1,800 metres to a depth of 400 metres, to the south of Ailles:

We captured a dominating ridge to to the north-west of Hartebise.

Wa raided and captured groundit Hochberg. The French suffered sanguip- ary losses in counter-attacking these places

We took 1,150 prisoners.

A CANADIAN LOAN

THE BILYER MARKET,

LONDON, July 27. Silver is quoted at. 397. There are increased offerings and the market Has an easy tendency.

RUMANIANS TAKE THE OFFENSIVE.

HUNDREDS OF PRISONERS AND 19 GUNS TAKEN.

A small detachment retreated in a south-westerly direation..

A sreall German column in the northem area was reported on the 20th inst. upon the north shore of Lake Manya, westward of Arusha, and the column from Songea on the 21st inst. came into contact with the retreating enemy 58 miles southward of Mahenge, and we are pursuing

In Portuguese East Africa enemy detachments from southern Nyasse land are hastily retreating towards the Bovas River.

THE NINEPENNY LOAF,

LONDON, July 20.

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QUAINT SEA LANGUAGE.

printed $100,000 from the Treasury light eleery memories have I of a and sent the money to Li Yuan Hung certain cabia (rental one peany per day as medical expenses.

and that paid with a grumbla) in which a group of men, fanned by the winds and weather of all climes used to muster daily and pass the world by in a sort of

THE PROVINCES AND THE PARLIAMENT.

ESTABLISKO EROS

London, which is always anchored in the [same spot!

Only the comic-opera, Jack Tuz "shivers his timbers t or hitches up his slacks." Real sailor talk differs widely To hear a party of sailormea spinning from this ange patter. For one thing it is much more puzzling Ita naval mas yarna is a thing of after delight-if you asked you to come aboard and make understand their language. There is your number you might guess a long" little use putting the listeners on" il time before you realised that, in plain you do not, specially after conversation English, he had simply invited you to call gets fairly on the flood," for you will upon him. Having got thus far in your both attack Liang Kai Chui most than edified once chins begin to way

Chui Sit Sung and Nei Sze, Chung be more likely to find yourself bewildered education the **come aboard" grow

fairly obvious. Make your number strongly, because the latter has appro-reely.

means end, in your name.".

Upin artlving at a port or joining a flag, ship their number," Hence the origin of the antounes their identity by making

phrase. Top your boom" has am opposite signification, conveying that your room would be preferred to your company.

Telling a man to pipo · down **' ink. In the House of Commons, Mr.

equivalent to asking him to cedo talking. Jassy, July 26.

Clynce, on behalf of the Food Cou-) The Cabinet has sent out a circular anecdotal review while the old ship Clew up his a similar meaning. If A Rumanin official" states:-

report troller, foreshadowed a far-reaching telegram to the provinces with the rolled Salfors yarns have the fascinat Jack wished to explain that the way 15 We took the offensive in the food sales and distribution.

scheme of local control in regard to object of sounding opinion regarding ing quality that comes of spontaneity.) pen to all he would put jb that there is southern Carpathians and occupied Government is taking over all the idea as to the wish to convene a Pro-dims the glowing reality of the scenes climbed, he would probably tell you that

The Parliament and to secertajo the general

free gangway Spending of sometim No smpicion of an ordered sequence who had started at the bottom and the villages Meresci and Velocsany

important flour: „mills, which will We captured hundreds of prisoners supply bakers at a price to enable

they depict. One bears the birds and the individos come in through 1: and nineteen guns, including several the sale of a aihepenny loaf, which

visualises palm-fringed beaches in the Ing that one joined as an ordinary, seama“.. hayse hole, an ancient way of expepun... of heavy calibre. !

Lis compulsory. An Exchequer sub- Wo broke through along a wide sidy will meet the difference between

South Seas; a shake of the kaleidoscope hig in your stais means "p front a strongly organised enemy, the purchase and sale price of wheat belief that Chica will soon declare war Bal and Homkung bathour; then swiftly anyone has reeved his arm through the It is reported, that owing to the and there emerges a picture of Boatswain down your elbows, while to say firet by the mills. The Food Controller, impressed with the necessity for Germany, the Austrian Minister securing the overseas surplus, had intends to ask the Spanish Minister to porth, while the Ladies or the Straits will A man does not die ei killed be this given plage to one of the ice-hounding bol indicates he is taking his esse,

An indolent pereou hangs on the slack," arranged for the acquisition of stocks protect Austrian interests in China. The surely drop up la due tuzn. For the talk.loses the number of his mess of wheat and a minimum monthly former intends to return to Austria as you must know, rams hither and thither, indifferent fellow is confempiricisty Loxion, July 26. accommodation as a first charge on soon as wat is declared.. A German official report, trans British shipping. Steps were being

the caprice of meinory or the tread of referred as “ullage. Thus Bailor who initted by wireless, itates

The Cabinet has held a second re reminiscence pay deffect itashing meets with a yet-back has dipped considered to discontinue the com-gular meeting, Too Fa Lang Ling on the world with the swiftnem of a "gut ditched. An admiral or capt The Russians refrained from again petition", between the Army Ki Chin, Cho Yu Lum and, the other weaver's shuttle through tim welt on his disclosed from his command attacking, and our advance was not civilian food purchases,

described interrupted.

asclied or, it may And there are quaint touches in it. A upon the beach. Bluejackets do not man will suddenly bren's off doubling qasrrel, they part liras Cape Horn" to stk. That's Trafalgar when Jack thinks it is, simo square whers they've got Nerson penned drink he cosas, bis eye

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GERMAN REPORT.

Tho Kaiser watched the troops repulsó a strong Ramin attack between Tarnopol and Trembowin

We assaulted and captured the heights on the east bank and repulsed the Russians

visional Senate.

CHINA AND THE WAR.

Dow Ministers all attended.. The Cabinet first discussed the preparations for declaring war and then discussed the

question

Ansocial

Joom

io Lopo Whitehall, at it? Well, this remarka that the sun has come OVER shap was Cockney, and the side hay the forefant."

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DON'T NEGLECT YOURFAMILY MR. ROOSEVELT'S. SONA ALL

WHEN you fail to provide your family

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Colic, Cholers Rad Diarrhom Komedy at: with a bottle of Chamberlain's Theodore Jr. Kermit and Archibald

this season of the year, you are neglecting NEW YORK, July 26. Roosevelt, as well as his son-in-law, De captured Tarnopol, and we are near provaient, and it is too dezgemus EAMBERLAIN'S Colic, Cholewa and Horn again. To you landaren hie But the wa

the three oldest as of Mr Theodore

narrative the speaker goes back to Cape in the days of the quirg The Canadini Loan of $100,000,000, Richard Derby, who for some time was ag Buczácz

malady to be trifled with. This in

Diarrhoea Remedy zeeds no glaring uncertainty shows the location of Trafal pliza attached to the American Ambulance at We also captured Stanislau and Specially true if there are children in beadline to strict the public eye. The for two years, will be regotiated with a Neuilly, ontaide Faris, are now in train: Nadworna.

the family. A dose or two of this pemedy

ger-kuara may raven range the cooks Syndicate which will inciyle Meaving the Plattebargirstuction camp The Russians peretrated our lines herhane suvelta or at least a doctor's sale Is been used for forty years the sailor who lies in the Derat Freedom

will pince the trouble within control so simple statement that all chemiste sell

ignorance. “Bub, does it? Why should it is suficient, naʼovory family known its J. P. Morgan & Co, and Menare. Brown for officers. Mr.

Roosevelt, the former President's roungest son has in the Sceite Valley, but they worn bil For sale by all Chemists and Store- and is fisted its name implied. For of the salt water bother aboue leath

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