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HONGKONG FRIDAY, OUTOBBR. 5 1917.

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£29,970,387

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THE WAR.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

(Reuter's Service to

ANOTHER

BRITISH ATTACK.

reports

Loxnus, Oct. 8,

11p.m

Chino Mail-T

BRITISH REPRISALS.

DECISION OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

LONDON, Oct. Reuter fears on the highest

LATER

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig authority that the Government, hes-

decided to adopt reprisus

The enemy heavily boarded, The Tunes atates that the Cabinets this morning, the positions between decision to carry ont reprisals presum Tower Hamlets and Polygon Wool. Lably means that construction has now His infantry uttempted to advance reached a point at which an air offensive but our artillery broke down the can be undertaken without interfering attuck, on the bulk of the front, with the requirements of the Army in before it reached our lines. A few the field. The Government's policy is penetrated the barrige; to the north pot oge of burried improvisations," sai

the result of raida. of the Menin Road," but Eur infantry completely repoleed them, and pur positions are intact, as

LAPSE

It is stated that the Government bas

•There was a great artillery duel of aeroplanes for raiding purposes.

ordered a greatly increased production

to the east of Ypres.

MORE FRENCH REPRISALE.

Losbox, Oct. 43

A French communiqué states that

Our aëtoplanes dropperl eight tons of Bombs, on Tuesday, and lifts were observed on three perodromës in the Courtrol' area and a fourtit near Cambrai We successfully attacked the artillery, on both sides, was dumps near Douxi and kidings at active, on the right of the Mouse. Boukers

As a reprisal for the bombardment The enemy avoided our fighting of Bur-le-Duc, our aircraft bombed

bounding planes, far to the rustwurd of the line

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JH. TAGGART

MANAGER.

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ADMIRABLY SITUATED AT VICTORIA GAP

ng the Tramway Terminus 1400 feet stove, Sen Lesel

Six Gerinin machines were brougly down and four were driven down. Six of ours are missing,

THE NEW ATTACK,

SATISFACTORY PROGRESS.

Lesbos, fote

THE OPERATIONS IN FAST AFRICA.

THE ENEMY CORNERED.

LONDON, Oct, Beuter's special correspondent, tole graphing from Massindye, states that the kitnation in East Africa is interesting sa it is hopeful,

The theatre of war is now confined to singļu, commes of the Colony and the Wiculty

the troops, which

We attacked, at 6. this morning, I was so great early in the campaign, his

been obviated by the establishment of

arm buses at Kilwa and L'oei, in close proximity to the fighting front at

ou à wide front, to the past of Ypryse.

Our troops are making satisfue- tory progress and a number of pri-Mahenge, Liwale and Messi, which soners, have already been taken.

THE HOMERIC CHARACTER OF THE CONTEST.

LONDON, Oct.

Colonel Repington, writing to the Times, unul referring to Field-Marshal

ace the only points of importance left to the Germans, and the net is dailyr drawing closer around them.

THE ITALIAN FRONT.

LONDON, Oct.

An Italian offelul message states We broke up repeated enemy at

Sir Douglas Haga repulse of the tacks on the western slopes of eneroy's furious and reftersted Mont St. Gabrielle, gunter-attucks, emplasises the un-

urunlly araucus conditions Ander

· THE BALKAN FRONT.

which these victories are been BRITISH AIRCRAFT AND CAVALRY gainer. He says:: For some werka

OPERATIONS,

the British armies alone have" dej

livered attacks and along the whole | S

Loxuos Oet. 4.

Vugt length of the other allied front A British message from Salonika there has been no great nttuck states that our aeroplanes, curried out. at all. When the whole length of most successful raid, on an exten-- the Allied lines is over 1,600 miles Rive scale bombing, campa- andr audi we are doing the chief fighting dumps at Belushitzu wnd "Planing.

miles, the They machine-gunned daft scattered onn front of a dozen

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mewhat Homeric. Although the enenybes brought up men guns and aircraft from all the order frouts and concentrated them against us, the Cérianne were beaten every day,

GERMAN: REPORT.

A German official sage states:

was a powerful artillery:

aeroplane.

Our cavalry, drove out enemy detachments from Jenimah fund, to

out of etes, and destroyed. an observation post.

NEW GERMAN MTANKSTA

Reuters Correspondent at Ersuch

art Headquarters states:

duel

Lout the night from Hout

The Germans are

Wood to Ly and this morn with a tank Etted there was drum fire. Strong assist in crossing the

Conning tower fo English" attacks/developed.:

poses projects from French tërsot to recapture the position still 844 broke down.

BOMBING THE BELGIAN COAST

Annour comes the caterpillary Finch-gun and

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