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WAR BREVITIES,

Mr. Huntly Drummond and Mr. James Carruthers, of Montreal. have given 240,000 each for the purchase of machine

· 1918--

Mias Olwen Lloyd George, daughter & the Minister of Munitions, has gone to France, to tako up duty as a Red CrosG JSH THO

By having G, 4d. in coins driton by Shrapnel from his pocket into his thigh a soldier's life was possibly saved. The coin, much bent, have been extracted in the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

Nearly 3,000 wounded soldiers ̈ in mower care, who passed through cheering rowds, were a feature of Cheltenham's Buldiers' Day" recently, to raise funds for fighting men and wounded,

Insistent, complaints of the quality of American footwear and clothing supplied to the French Army have caused the more responsible manufacturers in the United States to demand an instant and thorough woform by thole less scrupulous brethren.

OPERATIONS IN THE -DARDANELLES.

BATTLE OF JUNE 4TH.

GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION.

**LANCASHIRE LANDING.*

The Daily Telegraph on June 15th re voiced the following cablegram from Mr. Compton Mackenzio, the well-known nore who was at the Dardanelles, and bad been selected temporarily to replace Mr. E. Ashmead-Bartlets. The latter having lost the whole of his kit in the sinking of the Majestic, was obliged to return to England in order to obtain another out of He is maraudus way out to the East again

THE DARDANELLES, undated.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21st, 1915,

all the time it was possible to mark with green and red and blue pencils a redoubt. gained, a trench occupied, or, at some point, perhaps, a check.

THE STATELY SEIPS.

Que message brought Lewe of fifty pri soners coming in upon our left, and a ataff officer went off to moct them. It

The grey

happened to be my chief, and I was glad of the excuse to go with him. ness of the morering had quite gone by now, and the air was very brilliant after

the damp and gloom of the shelter. The road toward the line of battle ran by the cliff's edge, and out at s'a, escorted by destroyers, two battleships, with guns ani turrets in blackest silhouetle against the flashing sea and the silver fame of the horizon, went backward and forward at their slow and stately business and their solemn firing.

We met the escort just where a Hed Cross flag was flying above the cliff har rows of the held, ambulance. Some of We bearded our ship and travelled for the prisoners were badly wounded, and nearly an hour toward the sound of these were at once taken off for medical coming down through a grey and indeter-attention. The rest were halted, and

A northerly minate day that was very slowly changing several of the escort really danced found. us, talking and laughing, not set free wind was blowing, such a wind as might from that first wild elation of the charge. to a clearer atmosphere.

made it almost impossible to see where shatter the chestnut blossom i England The dut and sweat caked upon their faces. on the Fourth of June. Therefore most of us stayed in the wardroom until we

models of a sculptor, and their bayonets are off Cape Helles aming the transports the khaki ended. They were like the clay They were children intoxicated A small green whale-like object, all that is now visible of the Afajralie, lay motion with sonic, splendid adventure as they

SHIPPING IN PORT.

SYKAKHIR.

AWA, Danish atr., 3,328, C. Schmitt,

13th July--Bingapore 5th July, Gen- eral-Thoreen & Co.

RYNEgo Manu, Japanese str., 1,759, E- Kanada, 17th July-Newchwang 10th July, Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kafshi CoreANG, British str. 1,424, Holmwood,

18th July-Shanghai 15th July, Gen

eral-Jardine, Matheson & Co. 18th July-Saigon 11th July, Gon- eral.-Chinese. DERWENT, British str., 1,353, J. Jenkins, EASTERN, British str., 2,272, F. Carter,

16th July-Melbourne 12th June, Gen- eral Gibb, Livingston & Co. FURUI MARU, Japanese str. 3,059, H.

Chesaki, 19th July-Moji 6th July, Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. HALVARD, Norwegian str., 460, C. Beck, 16th July Semarang Gik July, Sugar Thoresen & Co. HANAMETAL, American str., 1,714, Lanor, 19th July Wakamatsu 17th July, Coal-Order,

12th July Saigon 7th July, Riec Jardine, Matheson & Co. HANGSANG, British str.. 1.550, 8. Wilde,

Біг.. 739, A. Marguerite, 17th July-Haiphong HONGKONG, French

15th July, General.-A. R. Marty. 14th July-Auroy 13th July, Rice. Chinese. HONGMOR, British str., 2,555, Kinghorn,

allowed to attend British schools 1 was dig. And trasters and various craft at anchor. Hacked even so much lustre as a tarnished HUTER, British. str., 1,203.. C. Plunkett-

Should the children of enemy aliens b Dussed by the Middlesbrough Educating Committee recently, when it was decided

le Germans.

Mr. Hayes Fisher, M.F.. has stated that 65 per cent. of Kitchener's Army are married men.

foil

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Cole, 19th July-Bangkok. 10th July, Ricc.-Butterfield & Swire.

July-Haiphong 16th July, Rice and General.-Chinese to excludo from the High School three less upon. the water. She was subsidingstoed round us, laughing and chattering JADE, French str., 356, J. Pannier, 19thi hildren wircao parents were declared to rapidly, they said. and already in of the deeds of their regiment, and the 1 the watery sunlight, she gave the illusion poster of dust, obliterating a lines, all of slowly auming to hers 1 the mature hair, all signs of age, made them appearKWANGTAH, Chinese str., 1.292. Stewart, 19th July-Shanghai 14th July, Gon- more than ever like children.

eral-Chinese. of the waves that pushed against her still Such a dream of a ship's

CHEERY PRISONERS,

KAWACHI MART, Japanese str., 3,821 K. rigid sides.

Kurozumi, 19th July-Singapore 13th July, General Vippon Yusen-Kaiz transmigration to her own element vanish- A number of members ofed in the billows of dust ashore, vanishe

Kaisha. in that queer heartlessness of war which the House of Commens are getting up an

is really the desperate cccupation of the mind with something e do nud herefer agitation against men of 40 being asked to enlist, since ten out of twelve men of thi

no time to dream. "ngo are articl

1.008,

The Turks were very glad to lure boen taken, sud wher another stall-effer esme. up and spoke to them in their own Que felt a fresh rage

19th July Shanghai 15th July, Gen- language they were thusiastically aux-LIANOCHOW. British str., 1,942, W. Beason, ous to be pleasant.

oral.-Butterfield & Swire. LOONGSANG, British str.. 1,092, Spittle, against the Germans for having been able

17th Ju-Manila 14th July, Geo- eral Jordane, Matheson & Co. to dupe such fine fellows-for they were

the MANDASAN MABU, Japanese str., 2,000, S. fire follows-ng they squatted there. many

Suzuki, 12th July-Miiko 7th July, Coal. Miteni Bussan Kaisha. of them wounded, but node complaining, was of course imprasible to examine the and all of them. lawing at

Hibi, 10th July-Hongay 14th July, cigaretes ur seidier offered them.

Coal.-Order. cause a group so large might have drawn prisoners here more than cursorily, beKICBIREN MARU, Japanese str.. the enemy's fire, so down they marched

Takeda, 15th July-Nagasaki 11th towards Lancashire Landing and the ac-NIKKO MAPV, Japanese str., 3.076, R. July, General-Nippon Yusen Kai. Mareha

sha, commodlian of the Assistant Pecrost

ORIENTAL, British atri, 5,284, A. L Valentini. 16th July-Bombay 20d July, General.-P. & O. S.N. Co. 15th July-Marseilles 13th June, Gen- eral-Messageries Maritimes. Rio PA910, American str 1,047, Simons POLYNESIER, Framel str., 2,543, Costa,

Lancashire Landing the glorious name Recent Austrian successes are largely of that each is the pins of all the attributed in Vienna to the use of 16 castles in the" aand that were ever build, mutimetre mortar, throwing a projectile No chidren at Blackpool or Southport charged with Ekranit, which explodes in could imagine in their most ambitions Inevitably the comparison with a the ground, altering huge quantities sch es such an effet of grown-up indus

No field try. earth and killing all near it. earthwerks are able to withstand the Force seaside resort on a fine Bank Holiday arrives, 80 inevitaldy as really to be rather trite, yet all the time the comparison is of the explosive.

Even the aeroplanes on the top of the law. cliff have the look of

When we were back in the shelter there. was still thing visible, and two of u an amusement to provide a threepenny or conceal phrenologists, os fortune-tellers. sixpenny thril. The fents mighs easily

The very carts of the Indian where, heralded by the telephon's petu- The signal station might wel be a camerart down 16 one of the hondquarters cthe back of the progress of the battle. Obscura. have an air of waiting goat carriages,

Is was true then that the had capture transport, seen through the driven sand, ant and gnatlike summons, more news

MOAK OF THE SMELLS.

three lines of trenches, and 1 thought of the men in that esert who had danced 1 about in the roadways by the son edge and cattered all together about their exploit like children. The Indian troops hn suffered severely, but the and the had made a desperata advance. The

It was magnificent to had pressed on. watch a thin red line of pencil symbolise and record their achievement,

A document, signed by General Rohr.justifying Hoell. found on a captured Austrian officer, states that an inquiry has been opened into a grave dereliction of duty, on Aus trian detachment having failed lament ably in a sector where they might easily. -havo held the Indians, who clambered over rocks in rain and mist, and brake the Austrian front because we companies of reserves were asleep.

A body of Prussians almost succeeded They the in breaking the Belgian line. amilted to inform the gunnora at chateau what was occurring, with the aule that when nearing the Belginn trenotes they were attacked in the rear by The majority their own machine guns. were killed, and twenty surrendered with three new model portable machine guns strapned to their shoulders.

We walked in the slope from the beach and suddenly there broke upen one the realisation that all this time the gune ha

Suddenly an empty been thundering. stretch of desiccated serub rolled on

The homes chatter of the beach fore us.

There was nothing bat was forgotten, a noise of guns and wind, and for the eye nothing but the black and white telegraph poles, the wire winking in the sun, and

falling. the imperturbable arka rising and

This empty stretch began on the sky in The French Government has onde the and it was necessary to enter a french ommittee of the Academy of Science originally dug by the Turks, and good essential part of the great military mencugh it seemed to withstand and but We hurried on, bera chine. Two points a be discussed are the heroes of that imperiskiable assault the possibility of a cload of asphyxisting upon April 25th. Kases ocunteracting the enemy's gas, in stead of the soldiers being compelled ta use respiratora, and gune substitute for high explosive shells in the destruction ofsagé. barbed wire entanglements.

The Belgians near Nieuport found an island between small tributaries of the They saw two bottles Tser abandoned. attached to a plank inscribed. "Pottles contain photographs." The Belgians vainly Aried lift the bottles from the water, but the enemy immediately shelled the apot, the bottles signalling the Belgians The island was re-coupled, but the Belgians abseruently recaptured

presence.

it.

At a meeting of the Glasgow Armaments committee recently it was officially stated that Messrs. G. and J. Weir, Limited, engictors, of Catbeari had offered to place their works at the disposal of the Government for the manufacture of shells, and that the directors had agreed that, until the close of the war, all profits aris: ing from the manufacture of shells should he handed over to the Red Cross Society or kindred organisations.

Mr.

The Naval Division had lost heavily, having come up against three tronches banked one above the other on the slope. but nevertho's a blue line showed where and with what valour they had held their. ground against a bloody enfilade.

SILENT WOUNDER, We emerged from the dugenia and passeil that was sometimes even wet uongh to tents and carities which the Irishmen had and there almost sticking in the rank clay along the paths that wound among the mattress of houghs for its found time to deer rate with white stones, One more returned that sensation of want

Finally we came to the shelter consid:bing near the seaside and of all this ate's labellallow dorrgay" upon the noise of battles being but a dream. The A scend ad- lintel. The walls were lung with care rifles and Maxims had begun again when vas, and each of the low oblong windows we reached the shelbur

aus, as we leaned upon their high vance timed to begin at four o'clock was

Somewhere behin-1 sills, a new aspect, framed in branches, of already in all swing. the haule of the hill.

a sixty-ponniler crashed it intervals, cod we could hear the moon ens rattle of the she go forward on its way.

Birde were

Again we dried to see the figura of men in their bayonet charge up the slope, and still there was thing visible ixcept the In froat mules and an ambulance waggon gallop the shelter the country dipped gradualling up the ribbon of the rond." down, to rise again mare steeply beyond a wide and partially-wonder hollow. Here through the glasses could be seen a num ber of mules, tranquil enough, notwith standing the concentration of shellfire that was susceping and shrieking and hazzing over their heads, is explode ball way up the opposite slope. Every shell burst with its own shape of smoke, and so substantial was the vapour List the wind could only carry it away bodily, unable for a long time to disper‹w it. ̧

ADVANCE TO RE2018.

The sun was by now westering fast, and when the result of the second advanos arrived we hurried back along the tronch toward Lancashire Landing. twittering in their flight through the re- diant air, and beyond them three biplanes were winging homeward one behind the other, as birds fly across the sunset 20 roost. The sixty-pounder was still moan- ing on its way to the enemy's lives, but peace of that evening of the Fourth not ever guns could destry the golden

June.

As we waited on the ligliter to go aboard our ship some of the wenaded able to walk were coming down to the bach to embark in a hospital ship. These were the red and blue lines marked on the maps upon that trestin table. They were tired a kind of jubilant men of the escort at noon, who and silent, strangely different from the They were tired and silent, and ment, had word of their triumph in every move- the sight of that company was almost pity for their suffering, but because they intolerably moving, not from any vulgar were so wonderful and so calm coming down to the edge of the sea in the evening after the battle.

The trapnel puffs materialised from The villagers of Fritton, near Yarmouth, the air at first as small and white as wade are receiving their milk from the bands of cotton wrol, then growing swiftly larger and turning to a vivid grey, then of the vicar, the Rev. W. Jones,

faint again and travelling across the Jones announced that he would give a helping hand to allow any young man to view like tadpoke of cloud until at last A farmer in the village has they trailed their tails in enlist.

Being an invalid ho daily milk round.

sky. Heavy shells created volcanoes all only drives the cart, but his son used fatigue before they diesolved against the The son joined the along the line, and from the sea, like to deliver the milk. Army, and the recter now takes his place drums solemnly beaten, came the sound of

ships fring and carries pinta and quarta to the

It seemed very calm in the shelter as villagers.

Frofessor John Oliver Arnold, professor the wind fretted the grass and fluttered of Metallurgy, Sheffield University, at the two magenta cistus flowers immediately arawled laboriously past our training Royal Institution, recently said that outside the window and as a tortoise shortly before the war the managing diras binoculars. It seemed very calm as one tor of Krupps told him they were making looked at the maps pegged out upon the

trestle tables. steel ingots, weighing 110 tons, for guns

But it was ten minutes to twelve, and by the crucible process evolved 175 years ago by an Englishman, Benjamin Hunts

Neither the Germans or that tware o'clock the advance would begin. The gunfire lessened and from the whole line the noise of musketry and maxims Americans could produce the Sheffield That was a secret white crucible steel. handed down from father to son in Shef-came sharply, a noise that was tenser than field.

14.

The number of old Harrovians serving with the forces is now 2,426; 128 have been killed, 150 wounded, and 44 are thissing Twenty have received the and prisoners. D.8.0., 108 have boor mentioned in de- spatches, and there have been 2 V.C. Lieutenant-Colonel R. E. Stephans, 2nd Rife Brigade, writes to the Headmaster of Harrow that Captain C. A. Werner, ne of the Harrow masters, is missing. H

the guns and more portentous,

It was

as if one had been listening to a change of orchestration in a symphony, as if after heavy and almost dull prelude the Yet, as one gazed through the glo, strings were leading to a breathless finate there was scarcely a visible sign of action. Onco, indeed, & large body of men were visible as they climbed the green slope, but they were soon lost, and, notwith standing these angry rifles, we had the mules standing motionless in the says Captain Werner was last seen leading hollow and once down a ribbon of road nothing at which we could look, except Yet all the time a party of men against some of the enemy

messages were coming in along the wires,. who had established themselves on the an orderly galloping. zight flank of his company."

FORTHCOMING EVENTS. 9.15 p.m.-Charles Howitt A. Phillips Co. Wednesday, 28th July :--

at the Theatre Royal.-"The Barrier." Thursday, 29th July:-

1p.m.-The Association of Exporters and Dealers of Hongkong, Annual General Meeting in the Chamber of Commerce Room, New Government Building.. 4.30 p.m.--The Association of Exporters and Dealers of Hongkong Extraordinary General Meeting in the Chamber of Commerce Krom, New Govt. Building. 9.15 p.m.-Charles Howitt A. Philips Co. at the Theatre Royal-"Why Smith Left Поже Friday, 30th July:--

9.15 p.m.-Charles Howitt A. Phillips Co.

at the Theatre Royal, "Don Saturday, 31st July:

Arlante, 13th July Saigon áth July, General-Order.

kawa, 18th July-Shanghai 15th July, General Nippon Yusen Kaisha. SANGOLA, British str., 3,340, R. A. Milne,

BADO MARU, Japanese str., 3,560, K. A53-

R.N.R. 19th July-Calcutta 13th July, General-David Sassoon & Co SHINYO MARU, Japanese str., 7,926, W.

C. T. S. Filmer, 19th July-Sa Francisco 19th June, General--Toyo Kisen Kaishal Kobayashi, 16th July Swatow 15thi SoSHU MARU, Japanese str., 1,119, A. July, General-Osaka Bhosen Kaisha, SHERMAN, Dritish str., 794, R. W. de Li

Sale, 18th July-Manila 14th July. -Thoresen & Co.

STANDARD, Norwegian str., 504. C. Jobun-

neson, 18th July-Bangkok 10th July, Rico and General.--Order. TACHING, British str., 1,143, . Byers, 19th July Sourabaya 10th July, SugarButterfield & Swire. Fumoto, 17th July Dairon 10th July, TAIYO MARU, Japanese str., 1,020. L.

Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. TAISHUR, Chinese str., 1.800, Westerlund, 12th July-Shanghai 7th July, Ger eral-Chinese.

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