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THE WAR.

THE BRITISH

BITE.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY MAY 31st. 1915.

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

THROUGE BEUTER'S AGENCY.]. THE BRITISH BITE AT FESTHUBERT. SUBALTERNS SPLENDID LEADING QUALITIES.

LONDON, May 29th. Beater's correspondent at the British

STIRRING STORY OF BRAVE DEEDS. Headquarters says that words cannot fit-

SUBMARINE PIRACY RESUMED.

RUSSIANS REMARKABLE RECOVERY.

AUSTRIANS FLEEING BEFORE ITALIANS.

MORE ALLIES1.

THE NEAR EAST

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE OPERATIONS IN GALLIPOLI.

Dilice :-

NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

(TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] SUBMARINE WARFARE

RESUMED.

tingly describe the pluck and gallantry of the British Regulars and Territorials alike. when the rogent big advance was made at Festhubert and a bend was bitten into: the German Fine. Especially noteworthy was the splendid leading qualities of sub alterus, who, with only six months' ser vice, when their seniors had fallen, had to assume the command.

DAN IMPORTANCE OF BOMB-TAROWERS.

The battle was heralded by a bombard

[THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENOT.]

RUSSIAN FRONT:

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

RUSSIAN RECOVERY.

OFFENSIVE SUCCESSFULLY

OPENED.

PETROGRAD, May 29th,

3.56 m.

An official communiqué says:—

A CHANGED CAPITAL.

THE EFFECT OF THE WAR ON PETROGRAD.

SWIMMING TO TRENCHES, The 4th Camerons reached the German tronches by swimming, though their ad-

Here, in the north, writes Mr. Frederick Vance was apparently over level and grassy ground. Suddenly the German

Rennet, tho special correspondent of the Daily News at Petrograd, we have come machine guns or the right opened a beavy

round again to the long, light evenings. Tho children who have been sliding on fire. Tho Camerons continued to ad- vance splendidly, and the the leading

the paths of the Admiralty Gardens all men found themselves foundering it The Russians captured a strongly fortithe winter through have crossed to tho water out of their depth-they had fallen fied position in the Bubie region of riverside and watch till bedtime broken into a deep ditch. This they swam, and on Shavli, taking a thousand prisoners.

fields of ico covered with the clean snow went the Highlanders. The Germans did

of Lake Ladoga feat down the broad The battle in Galicia continues most in- not wait much longer, but rau like rabbits. tensively.

Neva to the Gulf of Finland H The Russians on Thursday Then the bomb-throwers and a machine-night opened an offensive north and east gan were required, and a Lieutenant and of Seniawa, inflicting heavy lossce. two decr-stalkers volunteered to take a message to headquarters. When they re- turned the enemy were counter-attacking in strong force, and the Camerons, to

THE COLONEL'S' BERVANT.

We captured on Friday enemy fortifica tions on the Pigany front, taking 6,000 prisoners (Austrians and Germans), six heavy and six field guns. We then storm- ed Seniaus, capturing a further thousand prisoners and five guns.

Russian year, when the liberation of the But this real beginning of the north

waters follows on the Easter holidays, greets Petrograd with something new besides her nama. There is more sound of humanity and sense of humanity. By six in the morning the loud, jolly staccato of rows of soldiers greeting their com manders at the beginning of a day's train- ing on squares and quays awakens the households. The long, groy buff coats of the Russian Army are giving Petrograd a new frame of mind..

TRIUMPH OF MANNERS

ment lasting for ball an hour before mid-cape an enlading fire, nulled up the floor-boards of the trenches and crawled night. Then the infantry charged, cap.

into the hollow underneath. Colonel turing a long section of the German

Fraser was shot on the edge of the ditch, GREAT BATTLE PROCEEDING, trenches. Another charge, three hours

he refusing to leave till the last man was later was most successful, and establishe:l

PETROGRAD, May 30th, ...... safe

It is still a hive of chipovniki, of A communique states: There is to big bulge which was extended by the

prosperous bureaucrats qualifying for a activity of bomb-throwers. The latter's

change to report in the great battle which pension; and everywhere such people are The King's Liverpool Regt. was most is proceeding between Przemysl and elso likes them. They used to give the so pleased with themselves that nobody LONDON, May 20th.

work was most important. They carried bravo in attacking two farms which had Seniawa, Violent enemy attacks between tone to Petrograd, and they made it The Eidor-Dempster liner Ethiope has bombs fitted with a wooden handle in a been causing much annoyance.. Lanoc-

Przemysl and the marshes of the Dneis- They were always very polite; their habit

unsocial Even they seem to have thawed.. - batn torpedoed and sunk. The Chief box which is slung around their waist. Corporal Tombs left the trench five timester, and also beyond the Dneister to of mind. asserted the triumph of manners Officer and sixteen seamen have been pick-The bomb is lobbed high, and, if the aim in face of the German marksmen and re-

over morals. But now they have come ed up. The rest of the crew are in other be accurate, the destruction is great.

Dolina were repulsed. The Russians nearer to ordinary Russian mortality, A turned unhurt with wounded. Lieuten vigorously took the offensivo-between-the-and face the German challenge will the boats.

special School of Bomb-throwing has beans Hutchinson and Fulton, with a rivers Svitza and Lomnitza, where they the distinctive Russian character in this pride and humility that make together established behind the firing-line.

bombing party, went down to the trench captured 3,272 prisoners, on Friday and captured two hundred Germans, and further two hundred fled screaming with

night.

terror. They were fired on by other Ger- mans..

Colonel Wood, of the Scottish Borderers, fell into a stream wounded, and was on the point of drowning when he was saved by three of his men. One of the rescuers was the Colonel's servant, who had no business in the firing line.

LATER

Survivors were

A FORTNIGHT'S FIGHTING.

[BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE CABLE.]

LONDON, May 28th.

· The Ethiope was suok at the month of Following in-a-summary-of-a-narrative of operations- en Gallipoli Peninsula the Channel at nine o'clock in the morn from May 6th to 18th, issued by the Waring on the 28th inst. landed at Falmouth.

THE "ARGYLLSHIRE" ATTACKED.

LONDON, May 20th. The Argyllabire bail a

most exciting escape in the Channel. Keeping a sharp look-out one of the crew saw two sub marines rise to the surface tempted to close in on the finer, but the They at

latter went at full speed. Meanwhile she sent wireless messages for assistance. Torpedoes were fired, but they missed the liner, which soon outdistanced her pur- stors,

On May 6th a general advance took place, Dovered by the Allied flects. Very severe fighting occurred all day, and by night Fall the whole Allied line had advanced 1,000 to 1,500 yards.

At dusk the French obtained possession of an important tactical point which was thoroughly fortified to serve as pivot for further operations. On the 7th the attack was continued, the French again improving their position, while on the Teft the 29th Division succeeded in driving the enemy nearly into Krithia villäge."

The attack was resummed on the 8th, and

an advance took place in face of heavy

SUBMARINE'S RAID ON

THE GALLANT WELSH-

The Welsh Fusiliers, who were in the thickest of the fighting, waited until dark ness while the Engineers prepared & smooth passage to the German trenches They placed bridges over a ditch full of water, and also provided sealing Jadders. from the trenches. All was well done. Soon the officers of the Fusiliers stood with watches in band waiting for the hom

The Inniskilling Fusiliers showed their scaled the ladders and possessed the oppos splendidly led. The work of the stretcher bardment to cease, whereupon the men asual dash and gallantry and were

ing German trench two minutes later. De bearers was perfect, and each regiment spite a furions German fusillade, there performed countless deeds of heroism. was no wavering, and though the line bThe British troops generally showed won- came thinner and thinner, the enthusiasm derful valour. Their conquering spirit of the men did not wane. They reach was undoubtedly due partly to bitterness ed the trenches with a great cheer, and

af German treachery, irresistibly drove the enemy cut with the treatment of wounded at the Festhubert hayonet. There was a curious scene of section was terrible, and apparently the struggling figures amid the lyddite further victory recedes from Germany murkiners.

the lower and. more despicable har methods become,

The German

RUSSIAN CAPTURES IN TURKISH ARMENIA.

crisis.

Gormans in great numbers have been. making fortunes in Petrograd and throughout West Russia, expecially in the past ten years. They were disliked, and they knew it; but they were let alone The German here was an economic, not a political problem. Usually he had A communiqué says!----

enough sense to steer clear of Russian politics. Now he and his language have The Russians captured 25 guns and been turned out neck and crop from the

PETROGRAD, May 20th.

much munitions and stores in the Govern-business life of Russi ment Treasury when they occupied Yan.

will be found on page 63

[Telegrams received on Saturday, and published in an "Extra" on Sunday,

STARVING PRISONERS.

____ AND THE KISS OF JUDAS.

Major-General Desmond O'Callaghan wrote to The Times last month as follows:

RUSSIA'S CAPTIVES.

The only Germans in the streets of Petrograd now are prisoners from the battlefields. Two or threw times in a week parties of them, from 200 to 1,000, aço convoyed under Russian escort with fixed bayonets from the Warsaw Station to the Nicholas station on their way to tho camps in Vologda, and the north. In distance their route through the capital is. much as if prisoners of war were taken across London from Victoria to Euston. Na motive of the Roman triumph order, most certainly no wish to gloat ever a fallen enemy, has anything to do with their public procession through the opita, Around Petrograd there are no I have before me a post card written Willesdens or Clapham Junctions skirt by a prisoner of war to his mother, between the lines of which one may reading the city; and the only way to get beyond. Petrograd is to go through the of pitiable and helpless misery. He writes: If you have not sent the 10s. Streets of the city. Although the news do not do so, and do not send me any Papers frequently mention the hour when more cocra (in a former card he had the German prisoners are expected to pass with which to make the cco:a), but citizens turn cut to look at them beyond please send me a couple of leaves of those that are about in their ordinary bread and a little butter if you can." avocations..

دیم

CONSTANTINOPLE.

ATHENE, May 30th: fire. The French attacked with the The recent raid of Ell en Constantin- bayonet and the whole line, except on the|ople created 7 great pamio, all extreme left, advanced steadily. During the shops being closed. A torpedo was. A notable deed was that of Sergt.

red at and damaged a German trans-Majer Bartree, with seven bomb throwers. VIOLENT ARTILLERY DUEL, explained that he could get no hot water from one station to the other, not many port. The majority of vessels are now They fearlessly proceeded down a number

the night the Turks attempted to

counter-attack, which was everywhere re-

pulsed with heavy loss.

The Australian Corps at Sari Bair sur cessfully held their own, despite having supplied reinforcements for the general attack.

taking refuge in the inner port.

THE "

LUSITANIA.” CRUISER OR MERCHANTMAN? WASHINGTON, May 30th. The French forces throughout

It is understood that the German reply fought with magnificent courage and dash.to the consideration of President Wilson's damands will be postponed until the two **On the 9th the ground was consolidated, Governments have agreed as to whether and at night the Australian infantry the Lusitania was a cruiser or a merchant- attacked and carried with the bayonet nian. three lines of trenches at Sari Bair. A heavy counter-attack forced them back to their original positions, but the guns of

the Corps, in readiness, openal fire on the Enemy at close range, causing terrible execution, the Turkish dead lying so thick as to form an obstacle.

Further advances were made, on the 12th, 13th, and 14th, in which the Indian Brigade took a conspicuous part. The 20th Division advanced on the 17th. The Allied artillery was wall handled, and destroyed a large Turkish howitzer and an ammugition wagon, and demolished new entrenchments. A further advance was hande on the 18th by French troops, supported by the Royal Naval Division.

TURKISH LOSSES IN THE DARDANELLES.

GERMANY'S WARNING.

WASHINGTON, May 30th.

A NOTABLE DEED,

of German trenches, and occupied 300 yards of trench and captured 102 Germans and three officers. Private Hardy, of the Queen's, gave invaluable assistance. When wounded in one arm, he continued to throw bombs with the other, but he was a con- spicuous mark with his bandaged arm, and was soon shot dead.

J

A GLORIOUR DEATH.

PAELS, Mar 29th.

6.50 p.m.

There was a most violent artillery duel north of Arras on Friday night, the Ger- mans particularly bombarding the French positions on Loretto height ***

The French further progressed east of the Aiz-Souchez Road,

A German attack at midnight on the French trenche at Allain was repulsed.

A FRENCH SUCCESS.

An assaulting. Company of Scots Guardsmen exhibited memorable heroismu. So impetuous ware they that they outdis

PARIS, May 30th 4.25 a.. Germany gently warns Americaned, and were unheard of for a couple of tanced everyone. They became surround- ships to conspiciously display American days.

To-day's command states: We have marks in the war zone in order to prevent Scotsmen in the open. Piled high around of the whole village of Ablain.

Then scouts found eighty-dead Progressed afresh, and are now masters mistakes by submarines.

THE

NEBRASKAN." WASHINGTON, May 30th. The American Ambassador in London reports that the Nebraskan was torpedoed.

GENERAL

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

RUMANIA AND BULGARIA. WILL THEY JOIN THE ALLIES 7

ATHENS, May 28th. Leaders of the Bulgarian Opposition affirm that Roumania will shortly join the Allies, followed by Bulgaria.

PORTUGAL'S PRESIDENT.

them were Gora corpses. All the signs around testified to the glorious stand of these splendid Guardsmen against over- whelming odds.

ITALIAN "FRONT.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. ]

AUSTRIANS IN FULL RETREAT,

GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS THAT DID NOT ARRIVE.

"STAFFE, CUME ON !? The South Staffordshire Regiment par ticipated in the attack at dawn, These men from Walsall and Wolverhampton. showed wonderful pluck against the 57th Bavarians. The latter throughout the night shouted, Staffs, come on!" when

LONDON, May 29th, they came with a rush the Bavarians bolt- The Austrians are in full retreat before fed along a line which extended nearly a the Italian along their whole defensive mile. Beaty and luxuries were captured line, burning houses, stores, and crops, by the Staffs.

and destroying roads and bridg:6. Their The Warwickshire Regiment, who were main resistance was made at Store, a in support. also displayed magnificent gallantry in bringing in wounded. Their fortified position beyond the head of Lak young offers showed reinarkable effi-Idria, but after a short sharp fight they ATHENS, May 20th."

Senhor Thophile Brage has been clect, and Lieut. Chanas, nephew of a were driven back to Ala, where they ex Reliable information places the Turkish

well-known Bishop, earned the praise of peeted German raforcements. ed President of the Republic.

Instead his Commander, losses in the Dardanelles at 60,000. The

they found the Italians at their heels, and DISASTROUS FIRE IN

Some of the Queen's had an unpleasant this again rettgated, and are now hasten- force in the Peninsula is now 80,000. The

MANCHESTER,—:

experience. They found the enemy's whole of the Turkish Army in the other

barded wire insufficiently cut, and re-

ing towards the stronghold of Trent, theatres assumes the defensive, and their

LONDON, May 30th:

quested an additional fifteen minutes which is visible from the Italian outposte efforts are concentrated 011. the A fire on Saturday morning destroyed bombardment. They were lying in thon Monte Baldu Dardanelles, whither reinforcements are a cotton warehouse at Manchester, belongopen between the trenches while their own being rushed, many in an exhausted coming to the Ship Canal Company. The shells were crashing over their beads. dition. It is reported that supplies are damage is estimated at many thousands. But they reached and occupied the enemy's 'diminishing rapidly.

The conflagration lasted for five hours. position.

LISBON, May 30th.

The Italians are using a new. French model seventy-five gun. These silenced a battery of 12-inch guns at Flitch, in Carinthia,

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LOYAL AUSTRALIAN MINERS

LOWER COSTS.

Bince it became clear that owing to the enormous increase in the output of the. plantation variety the price of rubber was likely to remain at a comparatively

The card bears his own Christian name, but the word "starving follows it. and this has passed the Censor by being mis- taken for a surname. The poor mother RUBBER CULTIVATION AND has veen a valued servant in our family for more than 40 years, and the son enlisted mainly, I think, because I was in the Service; it is heart-breaking to me to think that nothing can be done to stop the slow torture that is being inflicted him. The case is a fitting pendant to that appearing in The Time of Friday last, and one asks oneself whether these low level, the problem of rubber company and other horrible atrocities are within finance has been to reduce costa as much. the knowledge, and have the approval, of as possible and to increase the Produc the man who charmed er hypnotized us at tivity of the estates. That this problem is Malta and other places, and whore being successfully dealt with has been apparently generous liking for English demonstrated in a number of reports men and their methods made us feel that recently, and also in the annual statement it would be unworthy to entertain any issued of the Linggi Plantations, one of suspicion of his sincerity. If he now the principal undertakings in the East. sanctions and abets these horrors, verily The average price realized by this company the kiss of Judas has been re-enacted. was 44d. less at 28, 140, but owing to a reduction in cost:, effected in spite (F a new expense, war risk insurance, the profit per lb, was only lid. legs; _The_ cheap ning of production has been brought about by better methods of cultivation. Last year tha Linggi secured a larger yield per irce in spite of the fact that owing to a new and lighter The Bishop of Kalgoorlie, in conversa system of tapping, les bark is removed. tion in London, paid a tribute to the Formerly the bark was used up very miners in his scattered diocese, which is rapidly and the trees deteriorated; the not without interest at a time when new system has proved its value, for it trouble has been threatened by the miners has increased the productivity of the tree. at home.

Last year the average yield per acre io "I was in the Munchison district," he bearing was 340lb., againet 3391b. in 1913. stated, when on the 6th of August we and 311lb. in 1912. It has been found, on heard that war had been declared Thy the Linggi and other estates that close ruiners were just leaving their work, and planting was a mistake. Much m the manager of the mine asked me to portanes is attached to this matter, and announce the news to them that England on the Linggi fields the thinning-out and Germany were at war. There was process is being continted, until the more than a possibility of a strike at that estates are reduced to 100 trees per here, time. I told them the facts, an I spoke and the reduction may be carried further. to them about the Empire and their duty. than that. The Times. When I finished a man who had the re- putation of being one of the strike leaders succeeded- me on the box from which I had spoken. He said, All I can says. is Damn the strike and God save the King!"

BISHOP OF KALGOORLIE'S ANECDOTE.

A NEW WEAPON.

The United States army ordnance de partment is experimenting with a new automatic rifle, constructed along the.

Prince Leopold of Battenberg, a lientelines of the automatic pistol, so that it is ant in the King's Royal Rife Corps. has been appointed, says the London Gazette as aide-de-camp on the personal staff.

Mile, Leman, the daughter of the heroic defender of Liege, announces that the health of her father, who is still interned at Magdeburg, is satisfactory General Leman Looks upon his fored inaction as his greatest hardship.

necessary for the soldier to pull the leading lever or even to press the trigger for each separate shot (says a Reuter message from Washington).

The only difficulty with this weapon, which is practically the equivalent of machine-gun, lies in the fact that it con- that the question of supplying the in- sumes ammunition at such a rapid rate dividual soldier in the trenches would h a difficult one,