1918-04-30 — Page 2

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The China Mail.

No 17,144.

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优十二月四年八十壹百九千登英

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1918.

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OTAL FONDS AT S1ST DECEMBE, 1914,

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£23,970,567

,881,458

Tile Annuity 2,141,693

Brandere Rorecte Marine Department... 237,235 +78,946 Other Reasipts

£6,333.25

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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Reuter's Service to the Ching Ma

BRITISH OFF REPORTS.

MINOR ATTACKS,

Lospos, April 29.

10. p.. "Field-Marshal "Sir Douglas Haig reportat

wards for the Coast with his weghiz

Reuters Correspondent says Whether the eneing attempts to garry the strongly defended hills by a frontal attack or aduce them by a. converging movement, he will find the operation very costly. There is abuzdance of evidence that a very

A hostile attack is developing this hard struggle is in prospect in this afternoon in the neighbourhood of afea. The Germans are bringing up L'Oere. Offerwise, there "sm only new Divisions, while enormous gun local engagements.

power has been accumulated on bell Our patrols captured prisoners in sides. The shelling of roads the neighbourhood of Villers Breton and hills in the rear is

neux.

towns

and Ypres is drenched with gua-

The enemy heavily bombarded our shells. positions in the pres sector,

Writers in the London papers dia

We made only two flights rester-cuse regretfully the possibility of the dar owing to the fog. We brought abandonment of Ipres which was for down ore mobine.

so long the northern buttress of the Allied lipe and has been drenched NEW ENEMY INFANTRY ATTACKS with British blood as no other battle

PRISONERS AND MACHINE- GUNS CAPTURED,

Loxtos, April 20. .1:20 p.m. Field Marshal Sir Douglas "Raig roposta :---

field has been, but they emphusias that it is for Generalissimo Foch to decide whether it is too costly to hold or so vital that every effort muss be made to recover the positions Invent where the Germans are now threaten |ing?it. The conclusion drawn from The hostile attack reported in the the course of events is that Germany neighbourhood of L'Ocre yesterday is far from achieving a quick deci was repulsed by our fife and son, and we must expect beavy and machine-gun fire.

continuous fighting all summier and The enemy opened a heavy bom-autumn bardment, with high explosives and The Times, which has not been gus-shells this morning on the whole duly optimistic, says: There Front from Metern to Vobrtizeele, growing conviction that

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Hostile artillery was very active ut night-time on the Scarpe, to Lens, and between Givenchy and Nieppe Forest Ware-captured frst night the post

taken by the enemy on the night of the 28th-27th.

cur.

This will be battle and it is not going quite as Field-Marahat von Hindenburg General Ladendorf had planned and

We foot overs and 53 machi THE AMERICAN REVIEW

guns.

We also captured a number of prisoners and four machine-guns in the mid southward of Albert and in the neighbourhood of Neuville- Vilasse,

FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT.

VILLERS EURIOUSLY

BOMBARDED

LONDOy, April 20, 1.30 amd

U.S.A.'S IMPERATIVE DUTY.

WARRINGTO April 29

The War Department's Weekly Review

While admitting that the situation

is les satisfactory, owing to the lower : of Kernel, the cutcome of the pre-

sent operations in the West

on man power. The

tempt to paralyze the will-power of the British Con

A French communiqué "states failed owing to the

There were furious bombardments command of the Allies

at Villere Bretonneux, or the Luce tended the operations to o broader and rest of Noyon

SITUATION REVIEWED.

NEES DISTINCTLY HEARTENING.

HEAVY AND CONTINUOUS. FIGHTING ALL SUMMER AND AUTUMN,

Luxbox, April 29,

field, presenting their full and untest strength to a hostile attack, to defent the enemy's intention to achieve decision-and ending the war by th destruction of the Allied force fell before odd

ench levies and forcements can take up tions,

It is the imperative dus United States to put

The week-end reports from the men in the field immediate root are distinctly heurtening, calling up a very large quota to showing that the Germans were

prevented from exploiting the Kem The conception of mei suzce, thanks to the stout Command by an en resistance of the British and Frenchment to force the ret

indeed, the enerny British how Arts and

On the whole,

has been somewhat pushed back, losing more heavily even thun

he did

capture Arrus, and Amiens

when storming Mount Kominelit The wipe out the Yprea

The Atmerican units French at L'Oere the Britiah at

action in various enga Vormezeol-two local points of

acquitted themselves well

fighting fought with very furious. ders

tonecity. Though neither place can

be called vital to any line of defence,

AT RE

#rid

yet the resistance hampered the proTHE KAISER AT THE FRONT grues of the enveloping movement

WATCHES THE SLAUGHTER ory now seems, ba which the directing against the next chain

Little doubt is entertained fed to roll up the Bribah rmy from Givenc

rike north- Arras his decided to

Poda