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THE WAR.

VIOLENT VERDUN BATTLE.

NEW FRENCH LINE FIERCELY ATTACKED.

OFFENSIVE IN MACEDONIA IMMINENT.

GERMAN NEGLECT OF PRISONERS.

TALE OF

RARE HEROISM.

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE VERDUN BATTLE

GERMANS AGAIN CHANGE THEIR

TACTICS.

Pants, April 9th.

3,05 p.m.

Router's correspondent says it is semi- officially announced that the enemy is again adopting new tactics, confinding thereby the failure of his previous atteinpits.

(THROUGH DEUTER'S AGENCY.]

VIOLENT ALL DAY BATTLF.

NEW FRENCH LINE FURIOUSLY ATTACKED

PARIS, April 10th,

3,05-4.m.

TAB HONGKONG DAILY PRESM. TUESDAY, APRIL 11TH, 2014,

THE BALKAN8

(THROUGH RETTE'S AGENCY,] COMING OFFENSIVE IN MACEDONIA.

ATHENS, April 8th. Germany has warned Greene that Bulgaro-German offensive in Macedonia is

jaminoat.

GREEK FENURY.

FINANCE MINISTER RESIGNS. ATHENS, April 9th, M, Dragoumis, the Minister of Finance, kaa resigned, despite all the entreaties of his colleagues,

The resignation is due to the emptiness of the State coffers and to the attacks made on the Minister regarding the restoration to Turkish owners of certain properties in Macedonia,

NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

(THROUGH REUTER'N AGENCY.)

“PORTUGAL" OUTRAGE

AVENGED.

PETROGRAD, April 10th. It is officially announced that the des- troyer Strogy ranimed a submarine near the spot where the hospital-ship. Portugal was sunk

MORE STEAMERS SUNK.

LONDON, April 10th The British steamer Adamton has he

There have also been sunk the Silks worth all and the Glenalment.

The evening communiqué says:--West of the Mouse there was a violent batte all day along the whole of our front from Avocourt to Cumieres, extending even to both the eastern bank of the Meuse. The pronesunk After simultaneous assaults ou wings, he is now returning to alternate ditated evacuation of the Bethincourt ali- attacks on the east and west of the Meuse, ont effected on Saturday night, enabled u« Fighting is now proceeding with the utmost to establish a continuous line from Avocourt vigens on the left bank. The French ad-Redoubt along the wooded slopes west of Hill 201, the south an bank of Forgis varce south-cay of Bethincourt continues.

Brook, and north-east of Haucourt. res joining our posi ions south of Bethincourt, GERMAN ATTACKS CEASE.

Esacs, and the Bethiacoart-Chattancourt cross-ronds. All this Eine was violently ntieeleed and resisted the most furioas

assouit.

FRENCH PROGRESS AT DOUAUMONT,

of the crew of the former are missing.

THE

Three

CHANTALA'S" CREW.

LONDON: April 9th:

In the sinking of the Chantala, the fourth engine and eight Lascars were killed.

THE "SUSSEX” OUTRAGE. GERMANY DISCLAIMS

RESPONSIBILITY

NEW YORK, April sih, The newspapers say that Germany his disclaired responsibility for the torpedoing.

of the Sussex, ITALIAN FROMI

[KANOUGH MUTER'S AGENCY.}

MAGNIFICENT HEROISM.

ON A BURNING MUNITION SHIP.

LONDON, April 9th,

A tale of rare heroism is revealed in the Court Circular in connection with tho

award of the infrequently-bestowed First Cass Albert Medal to Lieutenant-Com mander Warden.

TO END INACTION AT SALONIKA,

PROBABLE OFFENSIVE BY THE AL LOS

FROM O. WARD PRICE.)

If there is no attack made against us in

THE WOMAN AT THE LATHE-

A BUSY DAY IN A MILITARY MACHINE SHOP.

During the siege of Carthage by the Rons, the woms, even theso of the highest rank, cut off her hair and gove it to make ropes for the military engin s of the defender,

Our women 10-day mst go one better our present fortified position, and unless than this, says a woman correspondent is The Tames, ara devote their trains in- the chief command here is restricted by a stead to the making of those same military contrary decision of the Allied War Cour-ngines. From every corner of the land, A fire broke out at Boulogne on board cil, it is more than probabilo that when this the ammunition ship Maine, which was force is ready we shall take the offensivu.

Too country ahead is about the most dif- abandoned by the officers and crew. Lieut.ficult that could be found through which to Commander Warden boarded the ship and make an advance; and the enemy is ready firmly established astride of every road and discovered cages of high explosives slight in railway (there are few enough of them) the hold. He descended, separated, and which we could ute; but Gonemi Sarrail is an old officer of the French Alpins (Alpino Regiment), and there is no risk of failure extinguished them

through an underestimation on his part of the obstacles to be overcome,

Private Gimble, of the Middlesex Regi- ment, who assisted, is awarded the Second Clasa medal.

INDIANS.

LONDON, April gtk. An Investiture at Buckingham Palace was attended by fifteen Indian Army officers, with when the King chatted for some time.

But for this advanco to be made, are organization of the force here is necessary, and has already been begun. An adequate H.M the King hopes to present these supply of mountain artillery is required, decorationg personally, but Private Gimbs and the transport system of the army needs to be adapted for use in a mountainous and is at present at the Front

roadloss country. The larger units of the force at least must have enough pack ani- INVESTITURE ATTENDED BY mals to be self-supporting, for the wheeled transport by road and rail will be unable to follow them into the sphere of their operations for more than a comparatively short distance. Three-fourths of the French force here, it may be said, are already or

At first sight the plan of a frontal attack ganized on this basis, upon the entrenched enemy in a mountain

be a dangerously ous country, appears to bazardous undertaking. But this disadvan

be tage to the Allies' attacking force may reduced by opening the offensive against the Germons and the Bulgarians at four or five points of their line at the same time, Lateral communication along their front will be practically impossible for them; they will be prevented-from emcentrating their force for resistance; and whatever contingents of the Allied Army are successful in breaking the enemy's local resistance will constituts menace to his line of communication and thereby robieve the pressure of resistance against other rectors of the attack.

MR. CHAPLIN GOES TO UPPER HOUSE.

LONDON, April 10th. The Right Hon. Henry Chapin, M.P has been elevated to the Perrage,

THE IRISH JUDICIARY.

LONDON, April 10th Mr. J. Gordon, K.C., Unionist M.P. for South Derry, has been appointed a Judgo of the High Court of Justice, in Ireland, in suocess on to the Hon. Mr, Fastics Boyd, who has resigned,

OBITUARY.

from factories, workshops, great businesses, ille homos, and little country places, our men have gone and are going out to fight, It rasta with us women to thi the gapa they leave. Already in arsenals and factories a few of us are at work-but how anal number comparatively! We have despised the slacker who held back from the ariny, but no less despicable is the lengt ong of us who does not come forward now and put to its fullest use the whole of her activity.

What is the work! It is hard, grinding work-let no one mistake! Here are my. own experiences

A great light, airy-room filled with thrumming lathes and workers. From each lathe flies up a shower of silvery threads, sometimes they twist and turn and wriggle away like little shining snakes, and some times they shoot up in a hot cloud of steely dust, toe tiniest speck of which will burn as painful as a red-hot need?o,

Work starts at 7 a,m. To those who have resisted the unspeakable luxury of a few extra minutes in bed now comes a great reward, for breakfast can be had in the canteen. It is a ghostly meal, silently and sleepily consumed in the grey morning light, with one eye on the clock and an unpleasant feeling of haste,

CHORUS OF MACHINERY. Soon the workers are in place before their lathes. A steel cylinder is inserted into the machine by the forema or charge-hand and the work consists in reducing it with great Bouracy to a given size. In revolves rapidly in the latha and a sharp steel cutter works across it again and again. peeling away each time a thin layer of the metal. Every minute or so it is re-starter on its journey by the turning of a bandlo and the adjusting of the cutter.

The work-room is bitterly cold in the ently morning. The three little stoves that alone are responsible for its heating take many hours to gather strength, and the consequent stamping of feet and rubbing of hands add a new rhythm to the whirring. chorus of machinery that hums and burrs from every corner of the room,

After five long unbroken hours of work the Lathes and belta are suddenly stilled. A great husk falls, and the silence is felt as keenly as a sudden noise. Eagerly the workers troop down to the canteen for lunch. It is cheerful place, with long traule tabus covered with spotless. Ameri- can cloth and crowded with hungry, chat- toring girls and men, Every social grade is represented here. The men aro, for the most part, of the working claus, but many of the girls are war enthusiasts of the well- educated class who have left their homes and have come to live nearby in little un- energy lovely houses. Their keennes and are wonderful.

SHOULD THE ENEMY ATTACK. There is, of course, still a possibility that the enemy may choose to take the initiative and attack us here, Higley improbable at that may be, it is conceivable that political or other considerations elsewhere may nevertheless lead him to attempt a sort of forlorn hope here. That the enemy in at The Right Hon. Mr John Campbell, tacking would suffer probably more severe K.C., Unionist MP. for Dublin Univerly than any troops in this war have yet auf

fered is evident to anyone who standen sity, has been appointed Attorney-General the hills along which our gus emplacements lis and looks down first at the tiers of for Ireland, in sucesion to Mr. Gordon.

trencher that stretch like an amphitheatre along the face of the elope, then at the ever Mr. Justice Boyd has been given a

widening network of barbed wire below. Baronetcy.

and Gually out across the swampy seven miles-wide plain across which the attackers would have to come, They would be in the same situation as we were in front of Achi Baba," said a general who had been

The food in the canteen is excellent; two for nine months on the Gallipoli Peninsula,

What makes an attack on the part of the sorts of meat and vegetables, bread, cheese, enemy so unlikely is the immense difficulty biscuits, coffee, and fruit is the usual menu. be would have in bringing up his heavy guns Sixpence will pay for a hoarty meal. There or, indeed, in finding positions for them was a time when sixpence would have anywhere witha ettective range of our seemed a small stim to pay for such a feast. lincs. There are three railways leading but measured in hours of work st ad. on from his country into ours. One comes from hour, it has a very different value, One Monastir, but as there is no railway runs strangely conscious of this when decid- ning from Germany to Monastir be annoting whether to have a twopenny or a four- transport his heavy artillery that wry penny dish

The hour for rest passes very quickly.. without first taking it on a long ra country journey. Consequently the French and the summons back to have so far left the bridges on the railway given out by the sudden roaring of the inthe-belts as they begin once more to fag from. Monastir to Salonika intact,

and by found. o four hours and

reten blankly anead, without a Z break.

SIR STAFFORD HOWARD

LONDON, April 10th.

The death is annoudeal of Sir (Edward Stafford Howard, who was Under-Secre- (THROUGH BEUTER'S AGEKOY.)

fary for India in Mr. Gladstone's Govern AUSTRIAN SUEPRISE ATTACKt, and has been Ecclesiastical Commis-

FAILS.

PARIS. April 9t.h

4.20 .

A German offensive on the Nors Homme The Gorian attacks have erased, while

Cumieres front was bloodily def,ated. The the French contimio to make good progresz

nomy assaulting columns debouched in in the important Douanmont region.

Today's communiqué says:-Weconden o formations from Cumieres Wood and tinued to advanced in the communication were caught by machine-gun and artery trenches south-ward of Douaumont, and fire, and scattered, leaving hundreds of took 130 metres from the Germans to the corpses on the field. All attacks at Nort south-west. A German coup-de-maria. in Homme were also repulsed with heavy las A. simultaneous attack on our positions Lorraine completely failed, with loss to the

between Avocourt Wood and Forges Brook enemy.

was desperately resisted and everywhere repulsed. Finally an attack on one of our CLOSE FORMATIONS SHOT DOWN. works north-east of Avocourt, which

ROME, April 9th. succeded 'momentarily in gaining a footing:

A communiqué kaya-In an in our trenches, was immediately driven

attack between Muzli and Vodi, we cap tured 136 prisoners. The enemy, relying out by a counter-attack.

on a surprise, came on in close formation and suffered most beavy Josés.

VALIANT TRENCHMEN. SMALL FORCE MASSACRED BY

ENEMY.

Remo

PARIS, April 9th.

6.10 D. Berlin, communique speaks of heavy losses of the French at Haucourt,"

The enemy's artillery was at a tive envi owing

of the Meuse against Poivre Hill, and in to the treacherous behaviour of troops.". The truth is that great German the Douaumont-Vaux region and against forces advanced against all French all our second lines. Our artillery prevent-GENERAL. detachment, whose treachery" was toed the enemy's infantry from leaving their fight so valiantly that they were punished tranches.

by masacro to the last man. GERMAN LOSSES AT VERDUN

AUTHORITATIVE FRENCH

ESTIMATE.

PARIS Apri Oth.

6.53 p.m. Authoritative French estimates. based Largely on precise figures regarding Various Aroy Corps and smaller units, place the German losses at Verdun up to "April 1st at a minimum of 200.000.

So far, 239 infantry battalions and pioneer battalions have engaged in the "Shock" Army, of which 90 have been went to the rear to be reformed, while others Thusi have been reinforced on the spot. altogether, 450.000 infantry have been en-

THE ST. ELOI FIGHT.

BRITISH RETAIN MOST OF THE CAPTURED GROUND.

LONDON Aprit 10th

12.55 am

[THROUGH REUTER'S MUESUT.]

ereny

sioner since 1914,

NATURE NURSES THE WOUNDED.

BATTLEFIELD MARVELS

EXPLAINED.

As for the line from Nish and Ghevgeli. the French in their retirement from Serbia put that very thorough'yout of commis alon, and though the bulgars are busily repairing it, it will not be ready for s vice for some time yet. If they do repair it and come down that way they will find an exceedingly strong position held by the French in front of them

WorK 18 soon

AN AEROPLANE ENGINE PUMP, As I work at my steel and it sears com pletion after so much weary effort, I begin to feel an affection for it. It is part of a paup for an aeroplane engine. I think of soaring through the air in a

How a third gland-so sell that it weighs only one-seventy-thousandth part of the weight of the human body-ie saving the lives of wounded soldiers on the battle field was explained recently at the Roy There remains the line iron Constanti-swift and wonderful aeroplane, passing Institution by Profe or Sherrington dur-nople and Dedeagatch, which passes perhaps over many countries, and playing ing a lecture on The Physio.ogy of Anger through Demir Hissar. It was to prevent its tiny part in the war. What if some drawing of What if some stern: Com- A TERRIBLE INDICTMENT OF I have been told by surgeons from the big guns froni using that route that Gen careless designer has made a fault in the

era Sarrail was obliged to blow up the battlefield, said the professor that one railway bridge there, and now the only mauder at the Way Ofire or Admiralty will of the things that has struck them mosine of approach that remains open for 5 approve the type of aeroplane fi has been the way in which a lnd has sur heavy artery 28 the road from Sofa thousand evils may befall it poor little. piece have a sudden longing to protect vived after lyng for hoars in an abso-through Berres, That road is ommarded be

1 from disaster. Wastage! What a ter lutely collapsed condition, with what

rible thing it is the wastage of labour | As should be the irreparable injury of a

terrible almost as the wastage of life in ballet through the abdomen, Such wounds

wa the surgeons, have found, sometimes heal themselves,

GERMAN CALLOUSNESS.

DISEASE-STRICKEN BRITISH

PRISONERS..

LONDON, April 9th. The official report on the typhus epidemic in the British prisoners' camp at Witter A British communique says —A Fokker berg is a terrible indictment of German yesterday desconded within our lines. The

neglect, cowardice and inhumanity. The pilot, who was not wounded, was captured.

report says the conditions there made There has been artillery activity to-day versin and disease inevitable. When the about Neuville St, Vanst. Sonchez, Halou-epidemic broke out, German officials and zollern Redoubt, Haignes end Wytchnet doctors fled, and the food was merely shaved The enemy sprang a mine in the Hohen- through the entanglements for eight montag, Thus 17,000 prisoners experienoxd ghastly zollern sector.

suffering, being cooped up a space of 101 acres without the possibility of getting

We hold at St. Eloi a considerable por- tion of the ground gained on March 97th,

THE VERY BEST THING.

What has happened is that the inter tize has been absolutely paralysed and One understands that when motionless. one thinks of the emotional condition in which the man just have been just before he was shot, and of his feelings when the Bullet was tearing through him. The supply of blood was entirely shut off from the intestine a

the result of these einptions. In that way Nature docs as she so often does the very best thing."

English guns ndurably placed, and if they were not sufficient to repel an advance ther are still heavier French guns inerve which could be brought up very quickly to support them.-Times,

THE SWISS COLONELS ACQUITTED.

DISCIPLINARY PUNISHMENT.

A

Cink: Clack! Clock 1 turn the handles of the lathe. A droway, weariness creeps over me as the afternoon wears on. A long- ing to walk about beccuses almost unbear- able. But no One must keep on to the end, just quietly standing still, almost in- movable except for the anipulating of the tathe as the same monotonous movements are performed time after time with ever black- ening and blistering hands, Clink Clack! Clock That is all, But that is everything

TOMMY'S CHEMISE. HUMOURS OF ARMY RED TAPE.

Colonel Egli and Colonel von Waterwyle's country needs. the two officers of the Swiss Staff charged Earlier in his lecture Prof. Sherrington with having violated the neutrality of their and stated the means by which this cutting country by improperly assisting the Ger off the blood supply to certain parts of man and Austrian Military Attachés, have the body is attained. Fear or pain causes been acquitted

placo nerve storm, which in the first greatly reduces the How of blood to the ̈ to the brain and voluntary muscles. This is Nature's way of saying." Evidentl there is something to be done.” BE THE NERVE STORM,

gaged, of which 150.000 fell in front line including three eat of the four main line clean. Six British doctors heroically carekin and stomach while increasing the four fore their military chiefs for disciplinary The unchanging routine of the army

and in assaults, the rest of the losses being among artillery, troops in reserve and on communications, etc.

It is understood that the German General Staff estimated that Verdun was worth 200,000 men. This figure has already been exceeded, and the goal is little nearor. YOUTHFEL GERMAN RECRUITS BEING EXTENSIVELY USED IN. BATTLE.

PARIS, April 9th. Thy German are making ever greater use of the men of the 1918 Class at Verdun, Champagne and in Russia. Some units are now composed of 50 per cent, of this Class.

craters,

PU881AN FRONT.

{TARÕUGK RETIER'S. AGENCY.].

THE RUSSIAN OPERATIONS.

PETROGRAD, April 9th,

5.10 p.

to the rescue, and three were themselves

atricken:

FRENCH POLITICIANS IN ENGLAND

LONDON, April 9th. A party of French Members of Parlis- cient, which arrived at Victoria station this Eiganing to return the recent British visit, was given an enthusiastic reception WILD SCENES IN REICHSTAG.

AMSTERDAM, April 30th.

A communigte says:—In the region, ona of the Moumoretz airships bombed the eneury's cantonments,

The enemy attack north of Lake Narotch was repulsed

The Turks ande three unsuccessful at tacks on our position on the Karavere. River, eastward of Trebizand

The Geraan newspapers are not allowed to publiek a report of the proceedings in the Reichstag on Saturday, when the

were wild scenes,

The officers are, however, to be sent be

punishment.

proceedings is well illustrated by tho The tribunal found that the communien following comical incident which re tion of the General Staff bulletin to the cently took place at a certain train- Attachés was improper, but not criminal asing camp in England At the kit the officers had acted in good faith, inspection one of the subalterns was sur- Then the nerve storm stiau ate the

The Federal Council met at Berne on prised to see a peculiar looking garment oute" adrenal gland, which lies at the core of the supra-renal capsule near March 1st, in the presence of the General among a private 3 kit. What is that? the kidneys, and this gland pears straig's Commanding the Federal Army, to deal he asked." Unfold it, and the grin. into the blood a chornical substance of with the two officers who had been report ning owner proceeded to display a flingy A chemise I think, Sir. It was re- greater poteses in its action on the blouded by the Courtiartial to their superiors lace and chiffon article of femining attire.

sels than any other substance known to for disciplinary act on. The General sen- scienez. Its ability to cause a rise in the tenced each of them to 20 days close arrest turned to me from the trash instead of my blood pressure in certain parts of the holy and to be placed on the unemployed list. Yht. The officer was puzzled by this and consequently to withdraw blood from The Federal Council will leave the qustion problem and finally ascertained that the other parts. is so great that if a small of their future employment for further coa-arment could only be disposed of by the following regular course. It was con- introduced into the system sideration,

deinned as being unfit for wear and then quantity Will burat an abealthy artery This sab tance is called adrenine.

geant for inspection. The company quar sent to the company quarter-master sez- ler-master sergeant then exchanged it for What the prists useded and the offending garment was passed on to the store with the other condemned "unfit to wear gar

It is to the presence of adreaise in the the blood that such remarkable survival

While the German-Swiss papers have re ceved the verd el in the two clone's case with what appears to be a lavet satisfaction, the Preis of the French-Swiss on the battlefield as those mentioned I Le professor are believed to be due. I and Itayan-Swiss cantons is unanimous in refufore the more direct action of thd caring its amazanest and regre. There

merses and taking the internal presente have beɔa popular damon tration, in several

towns. off the wounded part enables it to heal.

ments and is now awaiting the final. decision of the Board of Master Tailors,