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TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1918
TELEGRAMS.
(00ntinued from Puge 1.)
BRITAIN'S ADOPTION OF IMPERIAL PREFERENCE. CAUSES UNEASINESS IN GERMANY,
AN-ECONOMIC COUNCIL, TO CULTIVATE MARKETS.
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AMSTERDAM, July 28. The Cologne tinar le reports that German Economic, Council has been inaugurated. Bepresentatives "of the Interior. Foreign Affairs, Finster, Raiksnys and War Minis teles. War Bled Bound, the Press
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE FRENCH OFFENSIVE.
FRENCH CONTINUE TO PROGRESS.
LONDON, July 28,
Our right approached the Dormans
RUBBER COMPANIES AND REVENUE AUTHORITIES,
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AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. -
LONDON, July 25.
BATTLE STORIES
RAIDING THE GERMAN LINES.
The newspaper The Financier om Gerries line. I was a good little show *I got this packet in a mid on the phasises the importance to rubber-took you back to the finish of the companies of the judgment favouring Somme. Wad to have a raid every French communiqué says:
the Merlimau Rubber Estate's claim other night that like a raid better Northwards of the Marae we con-against the Revenue authorities. It is then a push though of course & push is our elements reached the right bank and the Company to add to its capital in Set Sox and close to the Gerries in finued our progress at night time, when understood that the decision permits cre useful. What I man is this, you approached the road southwards of the computing the tax on any additional sometimes can get to grips with there. ich right in amongst them--and you Ohireg,
Am speat out of the reverne inn a push they're too keen on getting developing its estito.
away to let you right in amongst them You get bits of their line, though, in a push, and I suppose that's the game right
cough. Our oliver, was a first-class chap in raid. He was a great big man, not fat but bellish powerful I bet he woighed fifteen stone it he weighed a pouzd, and it was all big bone and hard muscle. It gave you a tickle in the throat to go after him. He used to go into the raid
with revolver and keuckle dusters. If he got close enough
Rheims bad.
We capulsed several attacks on our new positions southward of Mont Sansnom also north-eastward uf St.) Hilaire,
A
THE MUNITIONS STRIKE,
SITUATION IMPROVED.
LONDON, July 28.
·THE "NAVAL SIGNAL, AT
ZEEBRUGGE
Dar
Our books on naval history which rive in terms of flags. Nelson's signal at Trafalgar, will have to be brought up to
England of Zeebrugge, says & note date to include, in Morse dots and
writer in the Daily Chronicle. dashes, "the immortal "Bt. George for.
Japanese Allies will be the first to date the fine watchword. for Togo, an intense battle with Bussin Said he in his of the Trafalgar signal in the great sea admirer of Nelson, employed a variant
the ships in sight-The fate of the Empire depends upon this event every ran up this signal for all
man is expected to do his ntiment.
report:
Sir Boger Keyes to the indictive is not The clarion four word message from excelled for brevity, or effectiveness by "Up Guards and at 'em" was really, anything in our records. Wellington's heid Guards stand up," and the prelude, to general instruction. To balance the phrase from the terms of dashed into the midnight air at
of patriotic exhortation: Admiral Charles Napier's roar to his blue-
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FINE WORK BY TANKS. Since July 18 ocr Tanks have s gloriously participated in the battle They drove in the enemy lines and fucilitated the forward tush of the or precedet: the Allied advance, and The President" at the Natal attacked centres of resistance and energy Bank, Herr Schquest, presided, and batteries Each section of the Tanks Ja dwelt on the World-wide ciontel for from 15 to 20 Garman importance of Great Britain's adores. Some of the Tauks returned to machine-guns and inflicted the heaviest
tan periaj Bretezerce.
" the battle.lue four or five times on the
i The Fader-Secretary of Finingene day. Derr Schiffer, with the esnell woukl endeavour to establish close concanje Mont between De Central
GENERAL GOURAUD'S' TACTICS, FORIGINAL POSITIONS RESTORED,
PARIS, July 27.
Pr. Witter Setoric, who # Pre- silent of the Sex Camel, deviant thet dhe problem which stavas Agency message says:---
Bolved was the rotule linking
of Central Europe with the not the world, in which connection
Despite all German counter-attacks. fit the south-west, the face of the toisons heims bulge continues to
improve m
Staniï · unien with Austria{Burs farther important progressS
The French and Americans marle becue of world-wide importanen. Fere-en-Tarilegois and are now less towartis The rent tasks with leg te than three miles from this important enltivation at the ‹ Near East col junction, through which troops Pur Bf waine British and Javeri reviesuailed. This town, as is every on the western part of the hulga are
Can genapelition. The Council line of communication within the lalalala enforce" an economic saliem. is being abjected a constant place in Bumps, and textatilish Thement either from artillery or aeroplanes, al is virtually commanded supplies atras figsterial irbm by the Allies. The enemy hart crowded 400,000 man and had accumulated, The Pelidbarg dominiit immense ntities of pplies and an- "před the Sailing busitiess experts July 15, as he expected to advance munition on this salient before his attack
JAPANESE CONGRATULATIONS
FRANCE.
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salient.
The Fresa Fureau states that the Ministry of Munitions to-night an today tom all parts of the country indicate that the situation is distinctly improvel and that the majority of the atrikers will in all probability return to work by July 28
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THE SILVER MARKET.
hit. fie used to runt as be hit, you rascale and fulfill the prophesies
jacketa at Acre, "Forward, you
over they
would go. It was a bit of all right know, 'Auch-bit watching him. Or course, no one fier man had a chance against him, but the WHY GENERAL MAURICE WAS NOT wonder was how he escaped being copped out, they used to go for him so much,
COURT-MARTIALLED. " in bonches
"Well, this was the officer that took Mr. Macpherson, replying in the us out on the raid that night. It was in debate in the House of Commons
for
a bit of the line we took in the last push out the motion for the adjonra we did, and the Germans hadn't been fasent able to put up much wire. What there remarks of Major David Davies, mid Whitanntide, to soma
T.3L.B.A. was had been fattened out by the that, placing General Maurice on half-
hu hed. He lammed it into the Ger-
was
it
pay was a much more effective method of dealing with the infringement of the regulations than bringing the matter before a court-martial. He teliared that it would have a good effect, and that distinguished generals would not be guilty of similar conduct.
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TEENCH MORTAR WORK. "It was a good little T. M. Battery wo had in that bit of the line. The officer in charge of theri was a Yorkshireman one of those keen chaps that are always on the job. Redidn't belong to oar Rezi- ment, but be'd have been a credit to s ries the whole day, and of course it known a case of seb gravity that bad LONDON, July 25.
Market is unchangel and the tone is take that as it comes Arybos, this Messi, Samuel, Slontague and Comeant that they hit back. They strafed pany's Silver Report states that the dendis still, I suppose you've got to
15 with
and that good. The Shangbai exchange, has T.31.B. officer was a pretty fair didger hardened to 491
H would wive the German treaches two bombs and the wire one. They thought he was after their blond, I expect. and all the time it was 'the wire he was at. He blew two or three chuan paths through the wire. was a workman, a journey- man at his job, that T.LE. oftver.
THE RAID
SILVER SHORTAGE IN EGYPT.
CAIRO, July 25. The Government is issuing five play notes to meet the sliver shortage."
AMERICAN TRADE IN THE EAST.
FAR EASTERN DIVISION OF COMMERCE BUREAU FORMED.:
FEWER BABIES IN GERMANY.
In
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a report on infant welfare in Germany during the war, prepared by the Intelligence Department of the Lotal Güvernment Board, the most striking fact is the heavy fall in the number of births. The first three years of the war reduced by over 2,000,000, the number of babies who would have been born had peace prevailed. Some 40 per cent, fewer babies were baru în 1916 than 1913
We knew that the Gerries would be uut mending their line that night, put ting up wird and that. So our officers arranged that the raid was to come of as soon as it was dark. It was very well ones The TM. 8. officer kept banging away till the dark was just coming death rate was markedly redoned, bat During 1915 and 1916 the infantile then he started to ent down the filing a hit and let them have hurts at in this respect we in England are tinex Half-an-hour, a burst, tea min far ahead of Germany, our infantile ites, batter. Sitven minna.
another, death rate being about 50 per cent with odd abestu berween The lower. In contrast to what prevail ferries most have been wondering their beats off. It have been just after in the United Kingdom the infantile seven when we erepe-out while the death rate in German country districts mortars blew over a few bonibs, naturalis higher than in the towns. like:
if
DEAN INGE ATTACKS LABOUR PARTY.
CHUMAH DOES NOT NEED ITS **PONTEMPTUOUS PATRONAGE.”
swiftly. The other point of the bulge which is being especially shelled is the railway bridge thrown by the Germans across the Aisne a Missy, siz miles east of Soissons, to supply their troops Long range guns are also firing at other important junctions at Bazoches," ani! Fizes well Fuck in the battle-area
NEW YORK, July 20, "BRANGIAR" "WELY 190.
between Soissons and Rurims. Through Commerce bas announced the creation The Turent of Foreign an I Domestic The Councillor of the Japanese Fismes have to pass most of the supplics of a Far Eastern Division with C.Mars bles Embassy yesterly conveyed to At. for the south-eastern corner of the Bishop of New York as chief This We were out for the usual thing. Picton, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
East of Rheims in Champagne, the between the United States and the dange dug-outs, take prisorers and official recognition of closer solicitation sheer devilment in the German fice dhe barty congratulations the front line in restored a before the Japanese Givemment on the valour German onslaught. General Gouraud nations of the Orient in the first step of generally kick up Hell. Our big offer displayed in the victorious butt the river Suippe and Massigen. When commercial intercourse with them on a but & hobisa bandy thing have about
has re pecupied his old positions between
the Government toward developing led the way as usual... I had a couple of tombs, though In a bayonet man, which is being fought by the Frand the German attack was launched on
large, scale. traps,
July 15, General Gouraud slightly drew announced that for the first time in them There was bit f Kamerading "The Allied Industries Corporations and found a pretty rood wind up among you. We nipped into the German lines The
French Press comments back that line so as to give battle on Bistory American manufacturers have and a bit of fight, too. It was a strong the Lower House of the Convocation of Daen Inge made a remarkable attack on the Labour party, and its leaders positions he had prepared and leave a Savourably nn Japan's dorikioni “to
in wide No Man's Land" for the enemy
formed a combination to develop point in the German line, with two or Canterbury. Speaking on a resolution ageopt the prognomine of Washing to cross and for the French artillery to foreign trade: Forty-four mill owners three chine-gun emplacements. One urging closer fellowship and co-operation won. The Press says Japan's das turn its handles. This provisional whose domestic sales aggregate annual- of the machine gunstarted to play on between employers and employed; he
and I let drica with the bomb into the said sions of the highest importance is withdrawal penvel h excellent tactics
ly $100,000,000 hare authorized the A. I. C. to cooperate with them landed into a bunch.
the post. The wa it Melves the failure. German It is this ground which isneral Gourand in sending agenta to Central and South in them. There was a tidy mix-up then, only one solution of an economic problem
that the Germans lost there 50,000 men.
rushed it ad They had no right to mix up polities intrigues in the East. But it is has recovered in the last few days by Republic, the Philippines and the He fired at ine and got me in the side
with a bit of fight and Christianity and to suggest that America Costa Rica, the Dominican and I engaged a fellow with the bayouer. Habt to call the future Siberian cam-continual pressure.
interventions in fact,
Straits Settlements to introduce their just as I made point at him. Whether Big
Cods. There is to be a reciproca! it was being hit or 1 slipped I don't site September 1914, the Japanese |
but know, encouragement of foreign trade activities when I meant him in the shokter intervened in the war.
first
here. The firms of the list include
to get his chest. He did" the Kamend act makers of textile goods, hanting and prisocer. He talked him lighting systems, chemicals, leather,
The Fergeant saw
good English, too. rubber, textiles and toys.
told tu vake four Gerries back with was hit, and my prisoner. I could hardly breathe
shall be my God, than the Lord with the Packet I bad, so I'male the resolution, said: "I so not a member Canon Garbett who moved the Germans Pull me
out of the trench lead the way to cranes Behind us with the spirit behind it." the German trench and machine-gup joined the Labour party last week. of the Labour party, but I sympathise our chaps were playing the devil with posts, stink bombs in the dug-outs, good fost of us here enjoy security of tanuro The Rev. W Temple declared: "I charges under the machine gun emplace ments; general bedevilment--that is to an almost unheard-of extent, and it what these tip and run raids are for.
is difficult for us to appreciate the position of those whose security is only of a week or a day, and over" ybose heads the nightmare of insecurity always bangs.
It was
ENEMY ROMBARDED FROM THREE
SIDES.
55 co-operation with British in th
LONDON, July 8, espture of Kinuchou, then there was Continuing the description of the continuadas "paval setion, in the Paei-German retreat since General Foch
NEW FAR EASTERN CHIEF. BeLastly, it is to be reineulere: counter-attacked, a message states that the Germana bare been subjected to a
WASHINGTON, July 20. that the security of the Medit mutarous canonade from, three sides. Frankford Stevens Miller, United Enable latterly to see the railways, States Consul General at Seoul, Kores, airsty secured
their only means of supply has been a has been selected as chief of the narrow and winding bill-road and where, Division for Far Eastern Affairs of the TURKESTAN, BOKHARA AND KHIVA beyond reach of gun-fire, they have State Department to succeed Edward been incessantly bombed by airmca day T. Williams, who will join the faculty and night..
of the University of California.
Fresh
Japanese destroyers.
A REPUBLIC.
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ALHED TO RUSSIA
Losoy, July 26. The National Congress of Tur kestan las pertained the Govern "ment of Torkestan and also the Government of the Trans-Caspian Khiva and Boklar a Republic allied
to Russia.
The Executive comprises eleven Mohamedans with the Republican Commisty attached to the Emir
of Bokhara us Adviser,
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The Goremment demand is still Jarge.
TWO KINDS OF GERMANS.
There were two totally differers kinds of people in Germany-the Scan dinavians, or long-headed people, al the Slav, or the people whic belonged to Central and South Germany-wid Professor Keith at the Royal Institution. All the great mon Germany, inkl pro duced belonged to the latter kind.
BLAZON TYPE NOT NECESSARY..
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The successful British advance west Lof heims after the capture of Vrigny was the first blow that made the enemy realise the danger to his forces in the PRESIDENT WILSON'S LIMERICK. south. Then followed the "fall of vital points west of the salient of Tille-IT'S THE FELLOW IN FRONT Montoire, and Qulchy-le-Chateau while the capture of Reail and the French advance north of Pont Abinson gave the Allies a new section of the railway and enabled them to direct an incessant and murderous cannonade on, the five mile strip of the Marne between Ver- neaitil and Chatellon, to which the Germuna are still desperately clinging.
and writer of limericks, and has written President Wilson is a famous collector one on his own personal appearance to the following affect
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WHAT THE PRISONER SAID.
ant
"The prisoner I took spoke good English. He'd been a better merchant in Hamburg-never in England,
though he could speak the language so well He was a sort of Corporal or something my pocket but I gave him a ramper to and he thought I'd bear a grudge for smoke when we went down to the dressing
station, to show him it was all salted & lat right. That loosened his tongue and be
was
Sympathy with Labour was one thing, compatible with Christianity. but political support of the Labour party was another.
They did not need the contemptuous patronage of hard-headed Labour lealers who with Jacob would say: If the Lord will give ne food to eat and raiment to
Speaking on the same subject in the Upper House the Bishop of London said chaplain had reported to him that what beautiful new world which would follow all the troops were talking about was the the war. "That is the only thing worth going over the top for," they said..
"We bave to face this passionate dream of Labour," added Dr. Ingram. He said that they seemed to hare a lot have a passionate craving for wors, life. "He bad the lump about Germany. It is not an ignoble dream. People of victories, but he that led to any: No one can read Mr. Henderson's aims thing, and he said home was very bad.
the news from bis of Labour and say that they are not a
His father's bristian ideal” - A business had a "zone, and food was awful scarce with the folks at home. SUCCESSFUL RAIDS BY BRITISH.
Lots of his relations were sick and could It's the fellow in front gets the jar.
not get better, and it seemed to be pretty LONDON, July 28.
It was Judge Wadhams, an eminent general in Germany all over. He said Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Halg the Westeru frost in an oficial capacity, bome, always grousing about no food American judge, who has been visiting fed up with the letters they got from that the Gerries in the firing line were réparts
We captured a fow prisoners and to the members of the American Lun
who retailed this limerick in an address and about being sick. mebine-gane in successful raids south-cheon Club at the Savoy Hotel, London, if they were winning auch a lot of Section. Platoon and Company Com
He could not understand how it was eastward of Arras, in the neighbourhood recently and the moral he drew was victories that there. no peace.
For beauty I'm not a great star, There are others more handsome by
far.
But you see I don't mind it. Bocause I'm behind it;
将
of Leere and in a patrol encomater at thas it was the fellow in front of the told him they'd had o victories worth Givenchy."
AERIAL ACTIVITIES.
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reporti
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Americans in France who was going to talking about, and asked him tow about
Vimy and Messines. He said it get the jar.
Allading to anti-U-bost devices that no troops on earth could stand just because we bad such a lot of guns Judge Wadhams said some of the the fire. Then I spoke about Cambrai submarine destroyers employed had with no artillery fire, and he seemed to been built by "a man who used to be think that they'd won all the ground. called a pacifist, and who used to make
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Mr.
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