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THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESS FRIDAY JUNE 30, 1916.

Y.M.C.A.

This Linc is the Bulwark of England

I is protecting your home. What will you

do for the men in the trenches who, at the peril of their lives, are fighting your battles? Already some scores of Y.M.C.A. buildings are making life happier for our men. But thousands of others of our brave troops are doing without.. Shall they continue to do without while you can help?

Will you give a new building to-day. or maintain one for a short period?

“AYMCA Divisional Secretary in France writes:

We are making the conditious far more comfortable for the men who would have had to spend many hours wetry waiting out in the cold and wet bad we not been here Our room was packed to overflowing with its straight out of the trenches he enrered. mud, as only men in the trenches can be

By the time they had reached here many of them had tramped several miles and were quite ex bausted. To find somewhere in which hot drinks and food could be procured in the middle of the might, whe haven gladly welcomed; it is surprising where men can sleep when exhausted such as we see them.

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RUMOUR-MONGERING.

NEWS THAT ESCAPES THE CENSOR'S VIGILANCE.

In Ceylon the Inspector-General of Polica is taking steps to cope with Letters received from Home indicate

Writing on May 24th The Times rumourmongering, says the Madras the universal joy that is felt at the cap military correspondent said Austria Weekly Mail Notices have been issued ture of Sir Roger Casement His con had 30 divisions opposing Italy last broadcast and have been posted in publio duct in all the more inexplicable in that month. She had another six south of places warning the public that the the Danube, some four of which may have spreading of false reports with view as is well remembered, he gained a great been drawn to the Trentino, while she to alarm the inhabitants of any place deal of kudos, when Consul General in had four in reserve on the Russian front, and create a panic is an offence punish- not counting half a dozen divisions of able with a fine and (or) imprisonment. Brazil, for his investigations of the cavalry out of the trenches, and conse The Times of Ceylon very properly points Putumayo atrocities. When ho retired quently capable of relieving a correspon out that wide as the terms of this notice he drew a pension of £421, which, howding force of infantry in the front line. are it would not cover a good deal of We may therefore accept the Italian es what is going on in Colombo nowadays. ever, did not prevent bun from joining imate that Austria giay have 38 divisions Take the case of the Irish rebellion. The in the dirtiest of plots against, his against Italy, and that forces adequate Censor decided that until the outbreak for a considerabic effort from the side of had subsided or had been brought under Sovereign..

the Trentino may have been accumulated control, nothing whatever about it should be published. Yet throughout the period AR

Irishwoman who knew Bir Roger there with comparative caso. Casement in bis youth has communicated Every one understands that the security every other person in the street was in to the Daily Mail these particulars of bis of the main Italian forces on the Isonzo possession of a circumstantial story of family and of his character when a depends upon the preservation of their what was going on at the time in Dublin. communications from attack from Carin It would have been impossible to pru boy

rabchi di pane pret for this and Tirol, and that the earliest secute these narrators for spreading false The Casements were a very well-operations of Italy aimed at the occupa reports, firstly, because the reports were tion of the northern passes and their not false, but, on the contrary, were Temarkabla known County Antrim family with defence against subaequent assails. This substantially correct in a several branches. The grandfather was object seemed to have been attained, but degree; secondly, because it would have Mr. Roger Casement, a land agent and a great impression was made upon the been impossible to prove that the gossip- well-to-do man of property. The whole extensive and well-armed Austring works ing was intended to alarm the inhabit- family have always been Protestante, which defend Trent and overto, and ants. The fact remains, as we have staunch members of Orange societies, and pronounced Unioniste, and so we have their action extended by the forts pointed out before, that now which is All Sir Roger Casement's early associa of Folgaria, Lavarone, and other defences withheld from the public through the accumulated in the angle between the newspapers, the recognised chamel of tions and associates. His father was

Brents and the Adige. It was under the such information, is the common pro- once an officer in the British army. was a recluse and an eccentric, and his cover of these numerous, mostly intact, perty of the man in the street. It is not and extensive groups of works that the very consoling to a newspaper, which hobby was the occult. He lived at the Austrians completed the concentration of pays heavily for the latest news, to find Adair Arms, the principal hotel of Bally an important mass of troops.that, owing to the censorship, he is not allowed to utilise news which he has paid mena, and undertook to give ʼn seance

for, while the same news is going from and raise spirits for the habitues of THE AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE, the hotel. On the night of the stance, The Austrian offensive, which opened mouth to mouth through sources over at the hour appointed for its start, he on May 15th-the orthodox date for the which the Censor apparently has no con- was found dead in his room. The people resumption of active operations on the said that his spirit was too big for his north-eastern frontiers of Italy was at trail body, and that he had simply first of a general character There were snuffed out. He was an extraordinary Austring attacks on the Doberde plateau Don Quixote looking man. Roger, at east of Monfalcone, and artillery activity edicated at the Diocesan School at Gorizia On the Carinthian front in the that time about fourteen, was being as well as combats of infantry near Ballymena. He was a very remarkable Pontebba district. artillery duels took boy, handsome, gentlemanly, gay and of a singularly happy temperament. But he was very determined boy, always very sure of himself, and with command and influence over boys inuch older than himself

REVOLTS MADE IN GERMANY.

There is one aspect of the war which the Dublin outbreaks bring home to us that Germany, the home of autocracy and authoritarian government, is the greatest provider of revolutions in the world. Germany has been, and is still, subsidising solutions and revolts, not only against the Allies in their colonies

Allies,

trol

stands alone, and that no other Austrian offensive will follow it

THE AUSTRIAN PROGRAMME We must know a good deal more about the forces with which Austria is conduct-

about other movements of Austrian place, and in the Dolomite Alps there was ing the operation from the Trentino, and fighting at Treassi and the Col di Lana troops, before we can decide what is in The main effort of the enemy was, how the mind of the Austrian Command. The over, made in Southern Tirol, where a great array of gune was disclosed, and most simple hypothesis is that Austria under the cover of their are the Aus contemplates a great offensive of her own trians claimed to have taken positions against Italy, in accordance with views on the Armanterra ridge south of Borgo,ong sttributed to the Chief of her Staff, that the Tirol sally-ports are being on the Folgaria platen north of the used in the manner that it was formerly Terragnolo valley, and south of Rovereto,

tria possessed all the dominating post- The lighting then extended to the Ada expected they would be used when Aug- mello tone, west of Lake Garda, and to tions and passes on the frontier. A the Ledro valley, but no success attended general threat all along the border, these attacks, which do not seem to have sortie from the Trentino to attract the been howvily pressed Italian, reserves and weaken the talin The Italians replied with numerous Army on the Isonzo come raids at sen but against neutral nations if it thinks counter attacks, one of which recaptured and then a general forward movement it's possible indirectly to damage theatreach lost on the 15th near Monfalcone, soress the Isonzo, and a bid for a great and they succeeded at various points in coup after the mander of the old wars arresting the enemy's advance.. A ground This was the old programme, and so far though with different attractions, philor, which impeded the view in the Carin it is being followed stille

thian and coast, districts, was suggested The difficulty in admitting this hypo- by the Austrians as the reason for the thesis in present circumstances is that cessation of the activity of their gung Austria has 40 of her divisions in line Butkin Hunthero Tirol, the Austrians against Russia, that the balance of her pressed on, and, as the result of three forces can be greatly outnumbered by fars, uninterrupted bombardment, the Italy, that the border passes are now HOW Linians were compelled to evacuate the in Austrian hands, that the Isonzo can- position of Zugna Torta after success nov sa easily be crossed; and, that the erters against France in Morocco, fully repulsing two violent attacks. They danger of a large operation in the south gyptian officers and Nationalists withdrew, no doubt, to the Comi Zagna, while Russie is in a position to act with which is 600 metres higher than the lost vigour is very great and very marked. against England

hill Between the Terragnolo valley and It would almost imply that a defensivo Hours in Cape Colony Genussi and Berbers against Italy in the Upper Astico the Austrians also bom against Russia this summer had been

Tripoli,

barded heavily, with guns of every cali decided upon, and, though this is pos Sikh police

bre, the Italian positions between Monte sible, sitch a contention would not bind faggio and Boglio d'Aspio, and ulti-Russia, who might spoil the whole plan erman-Americans in Canada, mately brought about their evacuation when she saw what was up, especially Cinus against England in Hindustan, Austrian geroplanes now appeared a wore it proved that several Austring foslems against Rungis in the Can various points in the Venetian plain to divisions on the Russian front had gone

And south. subse stand between the German and Austria

It has subsidised with equal cynicism, sophic, revolutionists and Congolese can nibals. The list of the subjects of the Allies it has nesisted to revolt which fol lows is not complete, hut up in an e strue

Sn Feiners in Ireland, Arabs in Tunis

fice lagane. England at Sin-

og

reconnoitre the Italian

Bakhtiari bandit against the Persian movements. We do not know precisely how matters

Government.

Poles and Letts against, Russia,

Congolese natives against Belgium. Angola nutives ngainst Portugal. Fagan tribes in Northern Nigeria - against England.

Indies

Javanese against Holland in the East Chinced Republicans against President General Villa the Mexican bandi, in

invasion of USA C

Albanians against Montenegro.

It is certain that such a list of under round activities have never been pos- Be in any former war,

4 hundred ago sides utilised civil disorders of their oppongues

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The accesses of the

quent recapture of Roncegno and the Col | Staffs, and whether the relations are anto and his bloody failure in the Vni quite so intimate and cordial da it is Santa Lagarina, show that the main Austrian pretended that they are, Austria, hitherto, effort is directed between Lake Garda has been kept to heel and compelled to and the Val Sugans, which is the sector follow the German bidding. The Germans of Southern Tirol where the enemy can failure before Verdun, and the loss of hear on the whole mass troops for an prestige to the German Great Genern. important attack, find the best roads for Staff which this failure has involved his columpa, and support them beat by may have restored to the Austrian Cord- his railway system in rear. He has cor mand some of its lost independence, and tainly scored, but doring the week that an unwilling assent may have been ob- has elapsest since the fret attack was tained for the comp after which Konrad Taunched there has been ample time for von Hötzendorf has so lang hankered. It the Italians to support their advanced is scarcely a German interest that the troops, and meanwhile though the Ass Austrians should emerge from their rians claim to have gained a frontier mountains into Italy, compel our Ally the fighting is still to bring into activity his great reserves

all

our Austrian soilsating suis of men, and gradually deserves he British Government landed several In the absence of indications to the Austrian troops from the Russian front. rees of French Royalists on the coast contrary we must assume that the Italian But somebody, we can be sure, is getting France in order to attempt to create troops in Southern Tirol had a defensive into trouble for the Verdun disappoint- isaffection against the Republic of the mission, and that they fulfilled, this meat, and, as Kaisers and Crown Princes mpire which succeeded it. The French mission by resisting until the Austrians can do no wrong, it is probable that Cepublic on he sido negotiated with the deployed their full fores of men and Falkenhayn is the scapegoat, and that the

con German mited Irishmen and Bent Several ax guis Against really important

General Staff is not such a -editions designed to land men and arms centrstion they were probably not strong happy family as it was Bomething must,

Ireland. But these were mere retail enough to hold out very long, and if, in have happened to allow the Austria verations the German schemes are their retirement, they lost gung, the fact greyhound to break from the slips till holesale They em

employ every kind of is certainly to be regretted, but cannot alone gents from the Irlice of Reuss, who, afford much surprise for the withdrawal It is needless to recount

the other German Ambassador at Teheran, has of guns from positions in mountains is hypotheses which present themselves for seen at the head of a mob of Persian clways difficult, and rarely even possible they are all conjectural in their essence, if they resist to the last. We had a but there is this to be said for the Tren- andits and Bakhtiari tribesmen, down to people like Sir Roger Casement, who similar experience on a small scale tine offensive-namely that one at least. as conspiring against Great Britain before our withdrawal to Salonika, and of its objects is the recovery of Austriais hile he was still drawing a pension very often in these cases the loss of guna tertilory, a consummation which would From its Government, Christian de Wet in rather as bonour to artillery than the place Austria in better posture in case of

ad Beyers at one end of Alries were reverse

peace negotiations. Further, there is very erving German aims in their revolte, we can be sure that, during the long little risk, for even if Italy asserables hile at the other the Bassi Nge tribe months which have elapsed since the war forces and drives the Austriang back, no- Northern Nigerin was stirred un by begau General Cadorna has prepared thing is lost, and the enemy can fall be some influence to attack the Hansa supporting positions for his troops back upon his old systern of defence, and olice force, and to refuse to pay taxeshile, further in rear, there are all the begin again more or less where he left of of, if he is lucky All that concerns us STIRRING OP MOSLIMS important defences, organized in time

paare, to resist such an operation as that present is that Austria has given a The greatest effort has been to arouse

are now so boldly lead at last, has wou some successes, and which the Austriens a &clengorg.here is no dam in the aims at more. General Cadorna, who has Mohammedan subjects of: Fraube,

essenu by, of Italian reserves in this led the armies of Italy so well since the dgland, and Italy, and agente, lik

sat quartery and although

ustrians, war began, has strenuously resisted all lomon el Baroani the

ave won temptation to scatter his armi of the tant enterprises, and he is

the Sheikh Bhawish, who Oxford education with în

lism in Cairo, and in the gyptian servic recuted last year for nite into

in most of these caser disguise of, entansiastic their real, sentiments

German Last mandante fakt

enco

be urged them to try † and forthat end to e

resint enthusiasm revented the Ger ath Paran tribes Hindus

rage

like the Germans at Verdun, preliminary successes under fire of their forts and heavy batterieg, the this moment by having all 1 process of moving guns forward in us country is very slow, and shall expec soon to hear that the severe repulse infict upon

the Y the main highway between Italy and. Tirols repented in sectors

There are limite the

are not sun

theret credited flint this Trentino opere

TEBOUICER

Counter

under his hand, He is sure and to counter hard, and there is every hope that the successes of Austria, though creditable to her troops, may prove short- Irved

For these reasons we imagi that our Italian Allies will keep their heads cool

first

that they will

ole from

complete