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就八廿月八年八十燮百九千叠英:

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1918.

午戊次歲年七國良華中

1918

Indian

MOTOR CYCLES

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Applicants will b

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TOTAL FUNDS AT Slet URMAR, 1914, T

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-Authored Capital £5,000,000

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Paid-up Capital £2,437,500 -Fire Fundi........................................................ 3,837,047 IT-Life & Annuity Funds... 17,867,590 199,230 Sinking Fand Acconat ...........

£29,970,967 #

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Other Receipts encaminen.

597,259 478,940

25.339,228

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THE NEW ADVANCE TO THE SCARPE

SURPRISE ATTACK DEVELOPED.

LONDON, Aug, 20. Reuter's Correspondent at British Headquarters. telegraphing at noon to-day, syst

BRITISH ADVANCE CONTINUES OUTSKIRTS OF THILLOY FEACHED.

LONDON, Aug, 25,

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Renter's Agency, learns that the British have captured the suburb of Bapaume. Avesnes-Bapaums, and

This morning's attack east of Arrasso Cappy, South of the Somme carried our battle flank to the Senper Suzanne, north of the Somme at a moment when the eyes of the We have reached the western" out- Gerintins were nervously turnal else skirts of Thillay.

There is an unconfirmed repair

where, Consequently, the enemy was ralely surprised when in the that we ached Mont, Auban and qually, clouded moonlight dense the western outskirts of Longuoval British waves swept forwurl atter ohly very brief artillery firing.

THE SOMME BATTLE.

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Heavy wastage has been caused 116 SQUARE MILES CAPTURED during the last few days in the trans v fer of enemy reserves from this

Lasnos, Aug. 26, region towards the Bapaume sector.

In this morning's attack gressed most favourably and at the monent of telegraphing it is going well. Comparatively few prisoners

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not convey any indication regarding the character of the fighting.

CLOSING ROUND BAPAUME.

AIRMEN REPORT. TOWN DESERTED..

The Canadians and other Britisherk carried Monchy-le-Preus.

South of the Sorame the move- ment for the past 24 hours has been more restricted, but intensely active, especially on the part of the Gerrans who failed" in uumerous counter-attacks, but were unable to arrest cur progress where we were determined to push it

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wars, where resistance is stiffening. It is significant that during four. months of the Soinine, battle in 1916 wes captured 44 square miles of ter- ritory, while from August 21st. to August 25th 116 square miles were regained.

BRITISH AVIATORS HARASS

ENEMY.

38 MACHINES, BROUGHT DOWN:

LONDON, Aug. 27- Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

reporting on ariation, states:

Our low-flies on the 25th cou By storming Favrettil last evening tinued to harus the enemy by we had drawn a half-circle round bombs and mechine-guns. Bapaume the exit from which is We dropped 32 tons of bombs or now closed, save towards the Cat-railway jubetions, including Cam brai rond. Our airinen report that brai and Valenciennes, dumps, ară the town is deserted but they have the Bruges docks.

not detected machine-guns, which We also successfully bombed an

my be concealed in the ruins, derditome

Anyway, the Germans have cer- We brought down aeroplanes tainly been denied the use of this and drove down 18 out of control important center of communications. Five British machines are missing.

This morning the Australians ap- parently captured. Suzanne und Cappy, and have approached within 10 miles of Peronne.

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•

THE HINDENBURG LINEL

THREATENED AT SEVERAL POINTS.

The Wells troops, who penetrated, Mametz Woud yesterday, belonged

Londes, Aug, 27:-' to the sune Division' who took this Now that, with the exception of place is the fierce fighting in July, ferce locul reactions, the Germans 1916, while the capture of Mirau have apparently abandoned their mont redounds to the credit of the efforts to bold up the Allies in open East Tpnewshires a very fine feat.wuclare, interest centres in the ENEMY CASUALTIES. Hindenburg line in which the Ger- Touching the enemy casualties, mans have till the greatest faith the official figures show the terrible although it is already threatene gruelling to which the enemy Wun at different points by General Man subjected. Some battalions were gin from the south and faced, witia f reduced to a hundred men, or even formidable positions in the forest of fifty te The old animosity be St. Gobain, in front of Leon, but tween infantrymen and artillerymen the country behind Chauires, Rore broke out in the cages, where the und Noyon is likely to greatly en infantry accused the artillery pribarrase the retreating Germans, sonem of ignoting the barrage signale while General von Boehn's Anxie and contemptuously charged them have to face an awful ordeal in the with withdrawing their guns to a water logged ground of the Somme, enfe distance from the heat of the where every bridge is commande battle

by the Allies

BAYONET CHARGE BY GRENADIER QUARDS.

A most stirring story reach me

of the splendid courage of the King's

A notable feature of the develop thente is furnished by the growing usnher of German semi-official statements the burden of which is

Coinpary of Grenadier Guarda. the enemy failed to achieve bie They were Auffering heavily from objectives," Wo retired according the artery fire when they were plan. attacked by masses of German194 The Guarda fixed their buyouts and charged round the Germans, 71 of whom were slain.

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