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THE WAR.

SIR ROGER CASEMENT ON TRIAL.

SOME SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES.

BRILLIANT FRENCH SUCCESSES.

BRITISH AGAIN HEAVILY ATTACKED.

RUSSIANS PRESSING FORWARD.

FRANGO-BELGIAN FRONT

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BRITISH ENGAGED.

HEAVY ENEMY BOMBARDMENTS AND INFANTRY ATTACKS.

LONDON, May 10th.

1.25:8.0.

A communiqué states.-There was con- Biderable activity last evening and in the night on our front between Loos, Bethune and the La Bassee Canal. The enemy heavily bombarded a small section of a trench east of Bethune, and raiders

RUBBIAN FRONT

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RUSSIANS PRESSING.

· FORWARD. ENEMY'S PRECIPITATE RETREAT

PETROGRAD, May” 15th

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17rg. 1916.

A communiqué states: In the Cau- casus, in the direction of Mamulatun, there has been a successful réconnaissance. There have been engagements in the direction of Diarbekir. We repulsed the Kurds in the direction of Mosul We als rushed the town of Revendouze,

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

CASEMENT ON HIS TRIAL.

SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES.

WAR PRISONERS STONES.

LONDON, May 15th. Extraordinary interest was manifested at the opening of the trial of Sir Roger Casement. Long lines of people, many of whom were of distinguished position, waited for hours at Bow Brent, but only a few were admitted owing to the limited

space available.

There was a dramatic surprise when a

(THROUGH REUTER E AGENCY.]

CORPORAL MOLLIE, A.S.C. Reading in The Daily Mail that the Germans are using women in their Army Service Corps reminds me of my friend Mollie

EXTENDED BRITISH FRONT. FROM YSER CANAL TO SOMME

unsuccessful attacks made on them are now included in this British barrier across Flanders and Western France, con-

second prisoner was placed in the dock struck him. For this they were punished.rself employed by the Forage Depart fresh divisions that have been arriving,

Daniel Bailey described as a soldier, living at Wembley, who was arrested at Wandsworth yesterday. Both were chargcan priest carried on the Irish Brigade A campaign after Sir Roger Casement el with high treason

Sir Roger Casenient was pule and left baggard.

The Attorney-General (Sir F. E Smith, K.C.) sketched his Consular life, read a letter from prisoner to Sir Edward Grey, which was written in' 1911,

War prisoners farther testified to the fact that the Germans punished them for calling Sir Roger Casement a traitor, and also because Irish soldiers struck

bimi.

The case was adjourned

expressing 18 grhitude On the honour of {⠀⠀ Knighthood, and con- It appears that the 20 met with an trasted" this with his subsequent change accident and put back to Heligoland, of views. He explained that Bailey where Sir Roger Casement and bịa com- was born in Dublin, and was takenpanions were transferred to the

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succeeded in entering, but only for apturing munition depots. The enemy prisoner, by the Germans in September, which went northward by the Shetlands signed by a Lieutenant Somebody Else north of the village of Hebuterne through

Belfast Corporal stated that he saw a young fellow shake Sir Roger Cast

With the recent occupation of the ment, and then the Germans interfered.

Arras sector, the British front has (says Like many another friend or aequain- The Germans offered them £10 each to

tance, she disappeared during the first Mr. Percival Phillips in a dispatch from join the Irish Brigade," and pronised months of the war and came to the sarthe British Headquarters) become one face again in the place one lenst expected. that if Germany were defeated the Bee-It appeared that she was anxious to do

continuous line from the Yser Canal,

gade would be sent to America.

her bit," but was not at all sure what north of Ypres, to the valley of the or where that hit was. She has many Somme Two ruined cities and a series Another Irish war prisoner testified to accomplishments, sings, fiddles, mimics to of defences rendered historic by the furi- Bailey wearing a grey uniform with the life, and tells a story inimitably, tion. She tried lady-gardening, not green facings, and the harp and Sham-but none of these is a war-time occupa rock of the - Irish Brigade.

altogether successfully next she did little dairy work, and adoring beasts ruting the armies of Duke Albrecht of rive A Private in the Leinsters stated in and cattle of every sort enjoyed it so Wurtemberg, the Crown Prince of Bava-

* British force, pitifully small in com the course of his evidence that they hissuch that her conscience pricked her ri, and General von Bulow. A year ago That job coming to an end, she turned ed and boood Casement out of the camp her thoughts to munitions-making. But parison with the hosts arrayed against it. in the meantime she saw an advertise and not a man of the New Artay in the at Limburg, and that one of the Munsters.

ment asking for women to net as hay-feld-held the main road to Calais. To balers, applied, was engaged, and found day, great army built up with the Further relcased prisoners gave similar men of the War Office,

steadily throughout the winter, holds all usa hay baler the roads to Calais between Ypres and vident. One declared that an Ameri-Mallie's experiences us her amiens. It is obvious that this recent ex have seen her standing on n haystack in tension of tlie British sphere of activity the grey and shivery dawn--for she was not unconnected with the situation started work in November-tossing the at Verdun. By taking over a heavily- louse hay with her pitchfork into the held portion of the French lines we have feeder of the machine from which it released a large force of allied troops issued chopped and trussed. But her which must be reckoned among the beat career, though packed with vicissitudes, in the French Arias enabling them to came to a sudden halt. There was & con- prepare a fresh concentration elsewhere. diet with the authorities, and Mollie, The British from has been extönded though morally victorious, had to retire very slowly, and with great deliberation": from the field of action. She packed her Until the middle of last summer It was a pilgrim basket and went home.

single short strip of line embracing tho There followed another idle space

Yprés salient, Plug street" Wood, tinged with more dreams of munition- making But Mollie's spirited behaviour mentors, Neuve Chapelle, and the re- seems to have impressed the War Officegion about La Bassce, held by corps commands. it is even possible that she has left her organised into two army mark upon the Forage Department for Then a third British Army organisation one day she received a mysterious tele replaced the French in the Somme aron, gram, summoning her to report to a Sercast and north-east of Amiens, taking genat Somebody at Somewhere in Sussex, over a line which extended from a point Extremely puzzled, but panting with a Albert, south of Vaux, on the heights sense of adventure, Mollie packed her above the Somme. This arrangement left pilgrim-basket once more and took the the French in possession of the sect next train into the Unknown, including Soucher, the so-called Laby When she got to her destination she rinth, the heights of Notre Dame de la found on inquiry that no sergeant of the Lorette, and the Arras salight, which they name given her had ever been heard of retainer throughout the winter, with there. Quite by chance, however, an British troops ou either flank, until they other sergeant turned up and annexed

were finally relieved by their Allies frw her. He said that for some days past he

weeks ago. A LAS had been expecting a young person from

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British area affords many. Oxford, but as she persisted in not ap pearing he would take whom he could get. opportunities for observing the battle Mollie was surprised to learn that this front which cannot be enjoyed on the was how things done in the army, flat plain of Flanders. Instead of peer- but she made not of tion. The sergeant ing through a periscope at an empty föld, was a genial persia rather fat and not marked only by a mosh of rusted wire. altogether military in peace, but it is possible to gaze at a wide sweep of some of the sergeants she had known she white line of the German trenches up and Menuwhile four of the Southern Pro-accepted hum thankfully

down the hills, and through wide valleys. The officer instructed Mollie in her The troops who have gone there appre- vinces which have revolted have formed duties. She was henceforth to remain in ciate the change. They are able to stretch Provisional Government at Canton, the goods yard of a certain railway sta their necks--and their legs with greater and have proclaimed Vice-President Li of hay which would come in from time Boches can be continued aid pleasanter tion antil further notice, awaiting loads

freedom, and the business of killing Yuan, Hung President...........

to time to be forwarded 14 various dea tinations. These loads were to be check surroundings. The new occupants of the ed, examined, and bales must be rejected Arras ettor found excellent shelters not up to quality. She was also to see awaiting them. The French are master them weighed and labelled, and to make trench-builders, and they bequeathed. sure that the trucks for their reception deep, commodious dug-outs and wide SHANGHAI, May 15th. were dry and sufficiently clean. Other well-lined. fire trenches to their Allies. duties there were of a clerical nature Cordial greetings were, exchanged be Despite the Moratorium the Bank of complicated forms to be filled up, re-tween the incoming and outgoing tenants. Chins remained open, thereby preventing ports to be sent in to the Department, It is not often the British and French in- and what not. The sergeant put two fantry of the line bave an opportunity an unparalleled panic, as already there sheets of closely typed directions into her to fraternise, and the process of taking run on another Bank. hand and vanished. To say that she was over" was marked by many evidences Immense crowds are besieging the banks bewildered fails to describe her state of of good fellowship. The departing troops.

ind; she was stricken with a sense of wore cheered as they marched away from in order to convert notes, and foreign❘tter helplessness, and she had the heart their rest billets, and the villagers gave banks are lending assistance. The Mora breaking conviction that the porters who their successors & hearty welcome,

kung ahout in distance were laughSTELO PRISONERS MOSTLY DANES.

in the distance w torium is universally condemned as an Get of criminal folly, which, it in feared, may lead to foreign intervention,

few minutes. We heavily and effectively bombarded German positions north of the Hohenzollern redoubt. The enemy fur ther north, just south of En Bassce Canal, exploded a mine twenty five yards in front of our trenches and seized the crater.

retreated precipitately, abandoning con voys and war material, with our cavalry close at their heels.

1914. Casement, he said, repeatedly ad

dressed, the Irish prisoners at Limburg, introducing himself as the “ organiser of the Irish Volunteers," and saying thai- prisoners should join" to strike a blow, HOW DEFENDERS OF HISTORIC | for Ireland." The vast majority treated

ROAD WERE THROWN BACK.

THE CAPTURE OF KASRI SHIRIN.

PETROGRAD, May 15th. The capture of Kasri Shirin on the 10th inst, was preceded by a very bloody

After a short bombardment we secured the lip of the crater, capturing a pri- uner and fuding several dend Germans. Both sides exploded mines north-west of ing. We carried out a successful bom village of Barmil, commanding the ap

is overtures with contempt. Bailey had stated that he joined really in order to get out of the country. Casement, Bailey, and a man named Monteith went to Berlin, secured tickets to Wilhelmshaven,

tu Trales.

THE TROUBLE IN CHINA,

DIVISION BETWEEN NORTH AND

SOUTH

LONDON, May 15th The Times' Peking correspondent says the Government has agreed to a proposal to hold a conference of delegates from Provinces at Nanking to the loyal mediate between the North and South,

Halluch, but there was no infantry fightlight Insting for 15 hours at the Kurdish and thence proceeded to Ireland in the and to discuss the question of President, quite the gentleman bering enemy-held country, and to follow the

bardnient of the enemy's position oppo- site Fauquissart, and also silenced. the eneiny's trench mortars near St. Eloi,

RILLIANT FRENCH

COUP-DE-MAIN.

PARIS, May 15th. 4.20 p.m.

A communiqué states: The activity al Verdun has been confined to a con- tinuation of the bombardment in the Hill 301 region. There has been great artil lery activity in Champagne A briliant French coup-de-main southward. SE. Somme took an enemy first line treneli

ANOTHER FRENCH

SUCCESS.

ENEMY TRENCHES.

OUT."

** CLEANED :

PARIS, May 18th.

1.30 am.

A communiqué atates. The French scored a brilliant little success on the heights of the Meuse. They cleaned ont 200 metres of enemy trenches, capturing some prisoners, Cerman artillery activity. in Champagne was succeeded by repeated infantry attacks, all of which were fruit- Jess

ITALIAN FRONT

ÍTHROUGH. REUTER'S AGENOL.):

GOOD WORK BY ALPINE

TROOPS,

Roux, May 16th,

U20.

proach to the town. This was the first engagement in Persian territory exclu-

HOW THEY REACHED IRELAND M

| sively with Turkish Regulars. The latter

Bailey, in a written statement, descri- wore desperately defending the historiced how the trio visited the Wilhelm road to Merepotamis, but were finally devastated by artillery and swept by su cessive infantry charges, and fell back. AIRSHIP ACTIVITY,

(781OUGH REUZER'S AGLIČT.) ZEPPELIN PURSUED BY BRITISH DESTROYERS,

SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED..

Copenhages, May 15th. A Zeppelin was observed off the west. coast of Norway and wha pursued by three British destroyers. The airship suddenly got out of control, and sank to a hundred feet above the water, and was then obscured by fog. It is supposed that she was shot down and was lost.

GENERAL.

strasse,

received facilities to go to Ireland, entrained at Wilhelmshaven, and boarded a submarine. On reaching Ireland they attempted to land in a He collapsible boat, which overturned. and Casement waded ashore, and reached Tralee, where Casement went to a news paper shop and asked if the commanding offeur had arrived. He was answered in the negative.

ARMS AND AMMUNITION FOR IRELAND.

Conversations aboard the submarine

trine

CHINA'S MORATORIUM,

AN ACT OF CRIMINAL FOLLY."

has been

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ing at her

revealed that the accompanying steaner SAN FRANCISCO AND CHINA self more or less abreast of it. Now and

had 20,000 rifles, suveral million rounds of ammunition, ten machine-guns, and bombs on board: Bailey beard that Dublin Castle was to be raided.

COAST.

THREE NEW VESSELS.

But there is nothing like being thrown To-day in a village at the back of the into the sea to teach one to swim. After lines I saw about 100 prisoners taken at two or three days struggle to overtake St. Eloi, g her new work Mollie began to find her

The majority of the mon were of a Jager regiment from the Danish side of then the sergeant would arrive, ask Schleswig-Holstein. Because, in the cir- question or two, unbend in a few social cumstances, they were lucky to be aliensis remarks about the weather, and depart for their position had been mined and Mollie had hoped that she was to don a rushed they looked really cheerful, and uniform, but beyond the official badge The three Dutch cargo and passenger which she wore in her buttonhole nothing while being photographed took a boyish steamers,

Venezuela, Colombia and of the sort had yet been provided. She eagerness in the proceedings. Feuador, each of 5,461 tons gross, with

was rather disappointed, for she fell Several were white and sad enough, The Attorney-General added that Sir capacity for 5,700 tons of cargo and no that a uniform would make the porters having been shocked by the mine explu- Roger Casement, when arrested, gave a comiation for 111 first class passen respect her office more. One cross-grained sion; but even the eyes of these shower gers which were recently purchased by old thing, the dayen of the goods yard out of it at last. All of them were their appreciation of being thoroughly false name, but when he was handed Messrs. W. R. Grace & Co., are intended, was most obstructive. The younger ones over to the Metropolitan Police he ad- says the daieriens Exporter, to ply be were more agreeable, one of them even grateful-several of them confessed as tween San Francisco and the China coast, conversational, but they all had a way much for the generous treatment they initted his identity. After his arrest SirThese steamers are specially well fitted of vanishing elsewhere on important had received from their captors. The for such service having been built to the busince when she wanted anything done, understandings between them and their Roger Casement dropped a paper which order of the Royal Dutch West Indica One day no less a person than the guardian Tommies were obvious. Tommy, was found to be in code. Divers who Mail Service within the past twelve lieutenant came upon the scene. By that thank goodness, hough a bonny fighter, is Dutch Guiana, Vene forage matters, and was able to meet him prisoner bears himself like a man, then examined the cargo of the sunken steamer to New York in 10 trust the Atlantic time Mollie, was quite au fait in all not the buy to cherish ill-will. If his three hour's private conference with the found Russian rifles of the 1005 pattern.zuela, Curacao, and Hayti. The Fene with that ease of manner which comes of Tommy's appreciative offering of cigar- zuçlu had made several voyages to New conscious efficiency or unconscious inettes and general help to a fellow in mis York in that service, but the other two efficiency. When the official had satie fortune is pleasing to watch. Lord Mayor of Belfast and a dozen

slips are quite new and do not appear fed himself that all was as it should be,

This might have been more noticeable leaders of the local commercial communi-

yet to have been operated.

value indulged his very natural curiosity about

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

MR. ASQUITH TO VISIT DUBLIN

· ENTHUSIASTICALLY CHEERED

BY BELFAST CITIZENS...

LONDON, May 15th:

Mr Asquith, this afternoon, had a

WAR PRISONERS STORIES. After formal police evidence, a Scot

months for

ty. An official statement says that the land Yard Inspector testified to the feet to was an instance of the inerzo a rather bored young man seems to have yesterday, because, no doubt, our men of chipping property, it is reported that an extremely nice-looking girl how these prisoners were of their own Premier, at his own request, met a few that Sir Roger Casement and Bailey were. the Norwegian interests which acquired long had she been at this sort of thing? port. Nobody could have mistaken ther the boats from the Dutch Line and trans Had she been able to find a decent for Prussians. Though dishevelled, and A communiqué states.Alpine troops citizens with whom he had a full and charged together, whereupon Sir Roger forred them a few days later to W. R. billet ? And then, delicately confiden- their grey and greenish uniforms were "I didn't know they employed caked with dry clay, the prisoners were have gained possession of an important frank discussion on the present position Casement, pointing to Bailey, said: Grace & Co., inade a profit of about tial:**

and mainly young. A few wore the new naid for them by the new American one fan de dood en erest in the Adamello zone. They have of affairs. Mr. Asquith then left for Well that man is innocent. I wish him $237,500 on the transaction, the price er ladies. How did you manage to get in good condition, well clad, well shod, owners being $1,100,000 for each ship......... I don't know, replied Mollie me German steel helmet, which looks even more medieval than the French or Bri- The three sister boats were built by the destly I think it was an accident." Nederlandsche Scheepsbown Matischap To this day she is persuaded that her fish. They admitted the suddenness and pil, of Amsterdam, and measure, 360ft appointment was a mistake on the part vigour of the British attack had given long by 48,8ft. beam by 35.3ft. depth of the authorities. The telegram she re- them very heavy casualties... moulded. They have been designed to ceived was, of course, intended for the take the highest class at Lloyd's, and are young person at Oxford. entirely built of steel, with an orlop What is dock berthed in 57 staterooms.

also seized. Grozzon Deldivolo and made Dublin. His departure was witnessed by

a fresh advance in the Ladro Valley thousands of citizens who enthusiasti The Austrians opened a violent bombard-cally cheered him.

sont-in the Lagarina Valley, to which

LATER

The Italians effectively replied. There Mr. Asquith's Belfast visit, has aroused

has also been an intense bombardment on The Isonzo-front from Montenero to the

SEL

NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

{IRROUGH RETTEL'S-ACKROY.]

THE "SUSSEX " OUTRAGE. GERMANY OFFERS SPAIN- REPARATION.

MADRID, May 15th. Germany has apologised to Spain for

grent expectations in various quarters as to the solution of Ireland's dimculties

CONSCRIPTION IN NEW

ZEALAND.

WELLINGTON, May 15th

It is expected that a Compulsory Ser- vice Bill will be introduced this week

MR. CHAMBERLAIN.

LONDON, May 8th. It is announced that for reasons of public advantage Mr. Austen Chamber

the loss of her nationals in the Susserlain has farther extended his Holder-1-59

to be as well defended as myself.”

John Robinson, of Belfast, a Corporal in the R.A.M.C., who was prisoner at Limburg, gave evidence regarding Bir Roger Casement four times addressing British prisoners,

4,000. numbering Only about Afty, including Bailey, join ed the Irish Brigade." Sir Roger Casemont said that Germany was going to win the war, and consequently he

is my rank she wanted to

The 111 xaloon passengers are knows suppose, the the country she has come across many

STEW FOR THE TOMMIES.”

answered.

Mollie relates that going up and down.

heutenant

What pay do members of the AS.C-mostly male. Of the won ed she met one was filling a they give you

Now this question touches Mollie's sore position of responsibility even greater Described as the biggest contract of the point. She gets five shillings a day, than her own, but being a woman she sort over signed in the United States or Bunday excepted, and out of that sum drew only the same amount of pay. We she has to pay billeting expanses, tra hear a good deal about waste in Govern- Canada, the Imperial Canneries Cour, pany Limited, of Montreal, have just velling expenses, and the postage of her ment Departments, therefore it is unjust daily correspondenca with the Depart to refuse recognition of their occasional received an order from the British Gov- ernment for 600,000,000 one paund tinsment. The last two items are supposed econvinies, Women, however, have less roborated, and added that Sir Bogor of beef stew for the British Army Ae to be refunded, but an account sent in respect for authority than the other sex not noussarily an account liquidated and with their innate loathing of red cording to specifications, each fin 93- to

-to to travelling, she is obliged in the oficial mind. Perhaps that is the rea tape can cause much distress in the Casement, in the Limburg camp, talked | contain

pours of her work to-make journeys up

wanted to free Ireland.

A Private in the 2nd. Munsters cor-

to the men about an Irish Brigade movement. After this the prisoners were better treated, but when the prisoners

outrage, and promises to compensate the tenure of office for one year; to June refused to join they had their bread

families.

11th. 1917.

supply knocked off.

8 ounces of beef,

4 ounces of rice,

1 ounce of onions,

1-onuce of carrots, and

1 ounce of liquid."

The Imperial Canneries, Limited,

understood to be a combination especi ly formed to deal with the contract.

and down the line, but although it might son that more of them are not being em seem reasonable for her to expect a free ployed at present. One wonders how the pass she has to buy a ticket every time. Buns deal with their refractory fair To hear Mollie grouse on the subject ones, if, indeed, they ever prove refrac one would think she had been in the it they do not make full-blown cur- lory. It would seem practically certain Array all her life

Memo (Continued on nest Column)

porals of them even by accident. — D.B.H