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·THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1917.

TELEGRAMS.

(Continued from Page 1)

THE TACTICAL DEVELOPMENTS.

WHAT IS THOUGHT IN

"GERMANY.

LONDON, Oct. 10. The first tactical developments in the Flander Äghting are most in teresting.

THE CHINA MAIL.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE NEW ATTACK.

BRITISH GAIN NEARLY ALL

OBJECTIVES.

THE GERMANS SURPRISED.

TRULY ONEAT DAY

·Ebxbox, Det. -10.

Fortunately, the Gaiman urtillery re action na less than could be expected· and was obviously ill guida MINS A

In the morning the Franch sieroplanes dil good work but in the afternoon.

THEATRE ROYAL,

TO-NIGIET AT 8,13 PIL.

Reuter's Correspondent at Headquara parsistent in made ofrervation in THE FANTASTICS

tors, telegraphing this afternoon, ays today's splendid victory is an amazing narrative of enduranca and dogged

achievement.

THE FLANDERS BATTLE

"A COSTLY ENEMY SUCCESS.

'The struggle shifted, yesterday, from LONDON, Oct. 10%

south to north in movoment, and was Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig apparently directed to envelop. thei reports:We repubel several countor-Houthulst forest and thus remove the attacks, yesterday evening, in the weigh monals on the northern lace the salient yesterday afternoon and evoning made water and bounded by knee-deep cost:

bourhood of the Ypres Stolen railway

The enemy forced back our advanced troops a short distance on a front of 2.000 yards, to the south of the railway We repulsed counter attacks, with enemy loss, to the north-east of Becol Beinde ani carried out a raist to the south of the Scarpe.

There is heavy rain

Reuters Correspondent at British Headquarters, telegraphing tonkay,

states --

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There was heavy fighting the new batth front, yesterday after

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possible...

General Antboine exploited the peculiarities of the ground to the utmost. It is notable that the dew German svatem of echelonnements in depth, again

· The men had to fight their way, floundering and struggling, across a failed. xtratoli of over 1,200 yards of ground Field Marshal Sir Douglas Baig to which was a waste of shellholes, often so US.NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. parts:--The continuous and heavy rains together, that there was no foot

balti between them, being brimful of

757. VESSELS. the ground soddan, and very difficult for the passage of the troops.

and the whole we incessantly awept by.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. Notwithstanding the stormy weather bigh explosive shells, shrapnel And

Mr Daniels, Secretary to the Navy, and waterlogged ground, we launched an practically the whole of the day's announces that the Navy's construction machine gun fire. Yet the men gained attack, in conjunction with the French, objectives, with exceptions to trifling plans consist of 187 vessels, with very successful results.

froni The attack extended from south that the clearing up is only a master saper. Dreadnoughts to the line from Langemarck to Zouestward of Broodsoinde to Saint Jans-

of time. "> nebeke. The tables are now turned beck which is a mile to the north-cast and the Germans recognise the moment. ward of Bixschoote. ousness of the issues.

which Field Marshal Sir Douglas Hai is pushing on towards, Roulers. It waK the threat from Houthulst to Sit Douglas Haig's left flank, in October 1913, that caused him then to retreat

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that an attack, in such weather and on The Germans were surprised, deoming The Australians, on the extreme such a terrain, was impossible. More right, advanced over the erest of the over the tr Divisions which had to The Leipzig Voreste Nachrichten

ridge to the eastward, and north-east.

bear the brunt of the attack, had only says that if the British break ward of Broseinde and secured all taken over the line at three o'clock in morning and were unfamiliar with their through, the whole Western Front their objectives.

The third line Territorial Division surroundings and fog-tire after a would give way and the French

long march attacks on the Verdun front might Manchester, East Lancashires, and Lan-193th Division which had just arrived the right centre, comprising the The prisoners include mer of the have incalculable consequenegs

cashire Fusilier regiments, nduced from the Russian front. This is the and evening, O witishwik,to Experts in London point out that smile to the northwards along the ridge thirt Division from the Fast which has the south of Tyres-Staden railway break through is not necessarily a part iectives under trying and most difficult/been knocked out in five days.

of Paschendale, capturing all their ob was due to repeated counter-attacks of the Allies immediate plans, as more circumstances, and with great determina Adler farm and Poelcupelle brewery exhausted troops and", "concguled fruitful results accrue from the conti-tion and gallantry.

machine-gun firm, which at soane

nuance of the present policy of a swift spots was intense.

succession of blows on the same front, each driving the salient wider and deeper into German lines...

The enemy threw in his serves in uussed formation natin and againg and these were lasten harks by our

artillery, ride and umchine din tire What Harross

was gained By the enemy was most costly, a

Despite they state of the ground, we are getting our guns forward while there is reason to believe that the enemy is moving some of his batteries back.

From the accounts of various cor

respondents it is evident that yester day's attack was really a great adjustment of the battle front where two advances were simultaneosly accomplished with a fragment of the stationary line between.

The larger operation was on the left, with the village of Poelcapelle as the centre, while on the right, the some what erratic line was straightened.

The objective, at its deepest point. did not exceed an advance of 1,200 to 1,500 yards and everything aimed at.

The prisoners state there is much disorganisation in the German rear.

It is agais mining heavily; bow- ever, we have the consolation that hile we are marly everywhere oth the highest ground of the ridge, thewas secured. · enemy is mostly dowir in this swampy country.

FRENCH ADVANCE EXTENDING.

LONDON, Oct. 10. A French ́estumuniqué „stateng-In Belgium we are extending, our wlrance to the east of Drailank.

We captured Papegoed farm. taking 40 prisoner.

the centre, between the main ridge and A considerable advance was made in Poele palle; it includes the capture of many fortified farms are covereted

redoubts.

We completed, on the left centre, the Welsh and Irish regimonta and the captura of Pocleapelle, and the English, Guards, on the extreme left of the.

At two o'clock in the afteroon,

wire and water causing delay at a apot Frere taken. Eoth had given trouble,

to submarias chaser and the coat is estimate to

acted $1,150,000,000

Some of the vessels have already been completed. The remunder ate being rushed through.

FOOD ADMINISTRATION IN

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PREVENTING. UNREASONABLE

PROFITS.

WASHINGTOS, Oct. 10. The Food Administration announces

that Fresident Wilson will within a few days, issue on Executive order called Waterfields

requiring the manufacturers and dia overcoming the dificulties and have to operate under license restrictions,

The latest news is that our troops are tributor of some 20 fundamental foods dug themselves in all round Poolderhock Chatean. The only question is, how designed to

prevent unreasonable long wil the Boche machine gunners profita bold out

Speculations, hoarding by meat packe ra British attack, have taken all their light, and our prisoners run inter four grain dealers and wholesale dealers Our casualties are reported to be and cold storage houses, millers, minera objectives and bare gained the outskirts figures. The prisoners admit that these of the forest at Houthulst, two miles to repeated hammer blows are demoralis doing business to an extent of the north-north-west of Poelcapelle..

$100,000 annually, will be subject to the regulations of the Food Administra-] tion

The French, on our left dank, crosseding and disorganising the German army. the Broembeck river, which is in food, The brunt of the fighting was borne

by the bome battalions.. and also gained the outskirts of the ferest ut Houthales, capturing all their objectives, including several bazilets and many fortified localities.

Upwards of 1,000 prisoners have ready been counted.

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Much aerial reconnaissance, and some) artillery work was carried out on) Monday,

The conditions of extraordinarily Two aueny machines were driven difficulty and discouragement seemed to down and ground targets were machine- our machines are make no difference, and the blow was gunned. Two of struck.as surely as the previous blows, missing. though some of the troops had marched for twelve hours before going into barile, | but they then fought like lions.

A remarkable feature was the admir- able contact maintainer throughout by the British and French troops. The latter das bad an extraordinarily difficult The German artillery was pemiliarly task operating practically, on active in the region of Lathanx and to. tinuous marsh. the north of the Aisne.

The Germans at many points revert INTERESTING POINTS OF THEed to the use of machine guns in trees,

BATTLE.

- LONDON, Oct. 10.

M Leon-

evidently mistrusting the pill boxes, but the British machine guns multiplier as those of the enemy were silenced, and Reuter's Correspondent at Freneb the British supporting guns, of all Headquarters, telegraphing to-day, say calibres, moved steily forward main "that two interesting points emerge from taining an 'uninterrupted fire.

the latest buttle in Flanders. First The mud on the battlefeld was the enemy, system of chelonnement everywhere studded with German proved & failure, and second, the sub- bodies, the victims of the last stitution of prepared lines of shell Never

before have the erators for battere trench lines was encountered so many enemy "almost valueless, because after the beavy which

story of

tells

shalling the craters were little good as headlong fight..

abeltera. The prisoners admit that the

Higher Command realise that during

heavy fire the men cannot be trusted

to hold them. The officers, meanwhile,

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in pillboxes or similar shelters, were an-,

Able to exercise effective control or even

THE ALLIES PROGRESSING

MAGNIFICENTLY.

plains of Belgium lie more at our feet It has been a truly great day and the than at any since the dark days of 1914.

THE FRENCH ATTACK-

BRILLIANT SUCCESS.

LONDON, "Oct. 10, A French communiqué states-Out | attack, which was launched this morning, developed brilliantly.

· DYDE

Adminstration's prime purpose is to An announcement states that the

"protect the patriotic against the slacker in business."

AMERICA'S ARMY.

A NUCLEUS OF 1,800,000 MEN,

ปี

HARRISBURG, Oct. 9.

Str. Baker, Secretary of State for War, in a speech said that befor The troops, after crossing a marshy long America's fighting nucleus brock at Proonbeek, carried, with would aggregate more than 1,200,000 admirable dash; n n front of 2,500 men, and the nation, bad diverted metres, the enemy's defences, despite its industries to war purpoet so the difficulties of the ground and bad effectively, that when its army takes

weather.

LONDON, Oct. 9. Renter's Correspondent at Headquar

We captured the villages of Saint its plage abroad, it would be urned ters states At dawn, the British and Jeau, Mangelante und Veldboek and as well as any, and better than Hast. Australians again attacked along the Flanders ridges and pushed back the enemy to a depth, in some places, of about two-thirds of a mile.

The battle extended more to the northward than in the three previous operations, and since September 30th, the French have been taking up the fight, on the left

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numerous farms, sorgnised as block bonses. The advance, which is of an average depth of two kilometrs, bas brought us to the southern fringe of Bonthuist wood.

TRAITORS IN ITALY.

̧· SIX MEN SENTENCED.

The air service, despite the gale, "co

Roye, Out 10. operated, actively in the attack, machine- The Court Martial bas concluded" infantry and maintaining tonch with the crediary Sres at Genow, in explosion gunning from a low altitude, the enemy of six men charged with cutting in."

other arms.

The weather was about as bad as

The number of prisoners ac far count-in munitions factory in 1916 and possible. Yesterday evening it was blowing a gale and raining in torrents,ed is 300, of which twelve are officers. but the clouds. broke at midnight and

with having relation wita, ; the enetay.

Three were senteneed to be shot: two to penal servitude for life and one to 20 years solitary confine ment

FRENCH DEPUTY'S WIFE ARRESTED.

Paris, Oct. 10.

the stars ahone. In the email hours it THE FRENCH ATTACK DESCRIBED. battle. was quite clear, enabling the troops to

LONDON, CEL. 9. be brought to their starting positions British under more favourable conditions, but

Reuters Special Correspondent with dead, the ground was very bad going and the French in Flanders states their satremely difficult and it is hardly likely To French under General Anthoine, that the Gericans anticipated that we attacked at live in the morning in the hould endeavour to advance under such direction of Mangelaire and the forest Conditions.

at Houthulst, crossing the marahy Steinbeck and determinedly ploughingaudame Tupinel has been arrested. their way through the in andden

Madame Turbel is the wife of Deputy momsa, driving out the Germans as they advanced and reaching the first line of Turmel, who was recently arrested on a their objectives in a little over two charge of treason.] hours. By eight o'clock they had taken Gambetta farm to the south of Mange PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT VISITS- lacra and on the extreme left, the village of Draeidank

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA,

PETROGRAD, Oct. 10,

The formation of the new Cabinet has

to know what the men in the craters entailed the dissolution of the Council were doing; hence, at the moment, off of Five, created to deal with the attack, the men were either not at their Kornilo trouble. posts or were in a frame of mind which "makes surrender a wiser course than

fighting.

GERMAN REPORT.

Losnos, Oct 10. A German bificial messagé states- Yesterday morning's attacks were the prelude to a battle on a 20-kilome tre front, between Bixschoote, and

M Karensky, General Verkhovsky, Admiral Verderysky and M. Teraschenko bave gone to Headquarters to confer with the Allied attachés..

AN INTER-ALLIED' CONFERENCE.

PETROGRAD, Oct. 10. "A special mission is going to Paris to attend the Inter-Allied Conference.

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The troops found the Hun bolding the front much more heavily than in any of the previous battles of this series, and this suggests a return to their earlier defensive tactics, depending upon man Power rather than upon concrete.

The rifle fire was not so heavy as usual, doubtless because the weapons were largely clogged with mud. The bayonet and the bomb were the principal Three hundred prisoners, two gune and four machine guns were captured apone used in the close fighting. The walking wounded who are return in the first hours attack. By eleve ing are bleached and caked to the eye-o'clock, Mangeldere was captated and brows with wet and muck; neverthelest, Passed. they are wonderfully cheerful

The French die now within 1,006) | Farly reports, though necessarily yards of Houthulst forest, both on the serappy and brief, are most satisfactory right, where they are advancing in and the advance, though slow, owing to touch with the British, and on the left, the badness of the ground and the where they are advancing along the poorness of the light, seems to have Corverbecke advancing along the been general Here and there, pointe The position of the Germans in the of strong resistance were encountered, forest must already be most uncomfor

Gheluvelt, lesting far into the night. THE FOOD QUESTION IN CANADA. and Daisy Wood was found to be fall table. The forest lies low and after the

The enemy's repeatedly reinforced

troops assaulted six times, at some

points.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Oct. 9. The Portuguese President arrives to-day and King Alfonso will meet lin at the station.

A Joint Committee of the Trade

THE PRICE OF MEAT.

THE PAY OF THE SERVICES.

· DEPUTATION ASKS FOR 100 PER CENT INCREASE.

LONDON Oct. 10 of German machine-gunners. These three day's dowupour the dugouts must MONTREAL, Oct. 10.

were dealt with by tactics believed to be flooded have been quite successful. The British, from the positions they tinians and of the Meinbers of Lord Northcliffe, speaking at the

There was stiff fighting near Beutel Lave already held since last night, over Parliament,bas urged Mr. Llovd The enemy captured 1,500 metres of Canadian Club, said unless the Food but it has apparently gone in our favour, look the rear of the forest and the roads George inmediately to increase the ground in the neighbourhoods of question is taken up in Canada with and there was hot struggle in and from the east and the rich are closing pay of soldiers and sailors, by 100 about Poelderboer Chatean which was in on the west, while an enormous nur per cent, with ideaser in other Draaibank, Mangelaere, Voidhoek and vigour equal to that in Great Britain, strangly defended by muschine guns.ber of guns are in position to bear on ranks below others Polecopelle

the ratious of the soldiers at the front

The news is not definite but it is the position.

DARKER ER Mr. Lloyd George pointed out that must be cut down.

belfered the situation here has been This vast tangle of trees, wire and what had already been dond cleared up. Another centre of strong dugouts extending twoand three-quarter had cost between £50,000,000 and resistance was the brewery, on the miles north to south and three and a £60,000,000 eastern outskirts of Poelcapelle

half miles east to west is the principal The Fremier said that he syu Frisoners are coming in freely and German artillery centre on this Front pathized with the obicets of the hundreds have already been caged and already the Boches are alarmed Deputation and would refer the The firing men are doing splendidly enough to withdraw a proportion of master back to Sir Edward Carson's chasing the enemy aeroplanes whenever their artillery, especially their heary Cabinet Committee spen.. At seven in the morning, one of guns "However there are still enough. our formations, over the German lines, batteries in the forest to make a vay hotly engaged six Hun machines at a serious obstacle and the enemy will height of 10,000 foeta

notre abandoning a position of inch Eme doubtless offer a formidable remtánce

portanes and on which he has spent such

ay's splendid results were obtain-

moet dishearte

We firmly held the lines at Pole capelle, to the south of Gheluvelt.

PORTUGAL'S PRESIDENT VIBITS FRANCE.

SAN SEBASTIAN, Oct. 10. The President of Portugal (who was reported yesterday as having gone to Spain) has now gone to France.

AN UNFORTUNATE OCCORRENCE,

"AMERICAN PATROL BUAT FIRES

ON ITALIAN SUHMARINE

PAKETWASHINGTON, Oct. 10. Damel, Secretary for the När that a American pata

STORIES ABOUT THE RAIDER

**SEEADLER."

SYDNEY, Oct 10 “

The Sesadler left Germany dis guised as a Norwegian timber ship.

The crew claim to have anak eight million pounds sterling worth of

bipping

At the moment of closing this des patch it is learnt that the Germans are Tho Becadler was cleaning at counter-attacking heavily sataide the Mopena leland when a tidal wave buried Ypres Roulers railway, bat our people ber in the sand. A

seem quite content with the situation here

SULTAN OF

The Ger Hot very certain gr forcely

FARG

retaile

THE SILVER MARKET.

Silver is

LÄST UHANCE TO HEAR PROGEAMME: NO.

Complete Change Te-morrow,

'Tonight's Programme. BERT WILES-The Rag time xylophonist,

`HOLDA FELSTEAD in "Oh ! the Wait. "I was only knitting"" OB

Chap" and "Saw Versions of an Old Rhyme

MISS NELLIE BLACK.

WAR

IVY ALDOUS & FELD KEELEY

in the "Papen Danes.** FRED KEELEY in his. "Inebriate

Dance.

EESIE BLACK-the Cipry Flautist.

and NT BILLIE SEATON The Ginger GirlMian Sentons will be beard in "We'll have to pass the spples again":"She's waiting for you to love her all the time", "My Coal- Black Rose: The usual way "They always pick on ma anc "Mississippi.

FERN

SINTERVAL HA NELLIE BLACK &

* FRENCH in Songs, and DuN. BAY TRAYNOR in Varied Inter pretations": "Song for the Marned Men and the American patrol LEONARD NELSON in "In these hard times: Every Girl is doing her Bit Willie's Panta followed her here I fallowed her there"

IVY ALDOU in “Whistling Jim

(Song and Dance).

RED HEAD WILSON in Acrobatic Monologue?.

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THURSDAY, 18th OCTOBER, 1917.

MORNING:

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GREAT DRAWING OF WAR BONDS at the Parade Grounds

St John Ambulance Erigado competitions, Refreshments in English and Chinese style, and various attractions EVENING at 9 o'clock.

FETE at the Public Gardens New OFFICIAL VAR FILMS shown, for the first time in Hongkong.Illuminations art Music

INFANTRY, 74th PUNJABIS and POLICE RESERVE will play during THE BANDS OF THE 25th MIDDLESEX REGIMENT, 18ch

the afternoon and Evening-

* GRAND CHINESE THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENT

From 5th till 12th October, at the Taiping Theatre.

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