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THE WAR.

BRITISH OFFENSIVE.

PROCEEDING SATISFACTORILY.

WHOLE PRUSSIAN BATTALION SURRENDER.

FRENCH CAPTURE ASSEVILLERS AND

HERBECOURT.

EIGHT THOUSAND PRISONERS.

FRANGO-BELGIAN FRONT.

{THROUGH REVISE'S AGENOT.] BRITISH OFFENSIVE.

PARIS FASCINATED BY

HIGHLANDERS' GALLANTRY.

LONDON, July 3rd

Only fragmentary details have yet been received of the infantry fighting.

Au episode which has fascinated Paris is the story of how two Scottish regi ments carried three lines of trenches at one bound and penetrated the village of Moute Auban, slaying with the bayonet several hundreds of the enemy and cap- turing the whole staff of a regiment.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY (5#, 1926

(THROUGH DRUTER'S - JONNOY.} PRACTICALLY NO CHANGE.

LONDON, July 4th. Reuter's correspondent at Headquarters reports: At three in the afternoon fight- ing continued intense on practically the whole British front. There has been no change of importance above the Ancve Tivor. We beavily bombarded Thiepval and at La Boiselle there was severe fight- ing. North of Fricourt we pushed forward our positions to higher ground. The situation here is promising. The Ger mans continue to heavily shell Monte Auban, but here we appear to be well established. Up to the present we have captured four thousand German prí sucts.

The weather is favourable.

In the present cautious and methodical push there have been apparently few instances of fatal over-cagerness carrying the men beyond their supports, but the CAPTURE OF HERBECOURT. slimmess and courage of the enemy wero evidenced in

AFTER BRILLIANT ENGAGEMENT, # desperate fight at Thiepval, after the place had apparently

PARIS, July 4th. been thoroughly cleared. The British had

An official communiqué states ----South passed when the Germans emerged from of the Somme the struggle was continged drop dug-oute and other strange hiding last night, and night-time completed a places and furiously attacked with success for us. We completely occupied machine-guns and bombs, while a torando two lines of trenches in the German of shells of all sorts transformed the second line position on a front of more scene into a fierce conflict in a cauldron - than five kilometres from Bois de Mercau- of green smoke, in which the wonder was court to the immediate approaches of that anyone could possibly survive.

The indications show that the Germans were in no wise surprised by the British offensive. They even knew the actual date; hence the success of the first onrush in all the

more praiseworthy. The Germans' strongest, defence was put up in bartered villages and field-forts, in which they fought with the highest skill and abstinuty. The weak point of the German resistance was in heavy artillery, for he was throughout hopelessly out-gunned. FIGHTING FLUCTUATES. SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS MADE.

Assevillers, between which, in the oʊurac of a brilliant engagement, we carried the village of Herbecourt, which the enemy had organised defensively. The northern and western outskirts of Assovillors are in our hands.

4}}+{THROUGH REUTZE'S AGENCY.

GERMANS GAIN DAMLOUP

WORK.

BUT FRENCH REGAIN POSSESSION.

PARIS, July 4th,

{THROUGH HEUTES'S ACKSON.) THE IRISH REBELLION. REPORT OF THE COMMISSION OF

INQUIRY,

LONDON, July 4th,

is report of the Irish commission of

A communique states --There has inquiry has been published. It attributes been no infantry action

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bank of the Meuse, and the artil lery has been moderately active. On the Jeff bank there was a violent bombardment at Foivre Hill, the Thiaumont work, and Danilong from a battery on the right bank, but the enemy did not attack

SITUATION IN CANTON.

REVOLUTIONARY TROOPS ENCAMP ED CLOSE TO THE CITY

Enquiries made by a Daily Prom

THE MOVE ON NINEVEH. BATTLES ON CLASSIC GROUND.

The Russian strategio scheme on the Asiatic front, wrote the Petrograd cor- respondent of the Morning last recently, has been developed with a rapidity and success which bid fair to make this com representative yesterday in authoritative paign a model for future military text- books. I indicated recently that Russia

{" either | the rebellion to the Irish Government's very disturbed state owing to the proxi- The official bulletin issued last used circles went to show that Canton is in would probably sinko a strategic, rather than a tactical, attack upon Baghdad. failure to suppress lawlessness. It does mity of the revolutionary troops of confirms this, Russia has quietly moved not attach responsibility to Lord Win General Li and General Shum Chum into Mesopotamia by the shortest and bourne but says that Mr. A. Birrell, the Hsien. These troops, numbering over Lake Urmia, in Persia, by Suj Bulak chsiest road, running from south of Chief Secretary, was primarily responses from the old city, and in view of thent began we have not been officially 1,000 strong, are encumped bus sixteen and Ushnu to Revandus and. Mosul, or sible. Sir Matthew Nathon carried out the fact that General Lung has fre-informed; but Ushnu and Suriginally the ancient Nineveh. When this move

the Government's policy most loyally, quently expressed a desire to go forward were taken by the Russians Origina but be had not sufficiently impressed and meet the revolutionaries, fears columns are within afty miles of the just a year ago, Today the tussini On the right of the Mouse, after a vi upon Mr. Birrell the necessity for more are entertained that anything might level easy road of ancient Nineveh, lant bombardment the enemy strongly active measures. The report praises the huppen" before Thursday, when General where the German Baghdad Railway reaches the Tigris a couple of hundred attacked the Damloup work, which they conduct of the police, and does not attachang is supposed to bo leaving Canton, miles north of Baghdad. The mountain captured, but our counter-attack com-nny responsibility to

he having been recalled. If nothing ranges dividing Turkish from Persian the military happens before Thursday the general gian column at Revsadus is in rich territory have been grossed, and the Ras- pletely drove them out. The work reauthorities in Ireland.

opinion in Canton is that a peaceful fertilo territory withiri a cavalry, ride mains in our hands.

solution will be found, but assuming of Mosul. The enemy forces in this direc RUSSIAN FRONT

General Lang decides to carry out his guns, rifles, and munition. The re- tion were route and fled, abandoning. oft-expressed wish of crushing the revolu-gion is classic ground, for within easy tionary units, and to remain in Canton, disturbances are anticipated.

Damloup

من

ĮTHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]/ GERMANS ADVANCE FIVE MILES.

AFTER WEEK OF VIOLENT: ONSLAUGHTS.

PETROGRAD, July 3rd, As a result of a week of violent on- slaughts the Germans have advanced five

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

ITO THE CHƯNG NGÔI QUA PA

NEW TUURS.

PEKING, July 4th. Chan Bing-quen has been appointed Tutuh of Kwangse and Cheong Feong way Tutul of Sheriai.

ADVISERS' BUREAU, The Government has proposed to or

Many of the better class Chinese are already leaving Canton, and there was quite a substantial rush to Hoogkong yesterday. Another fact which has proved disquieting to the Cantonese is that it 18 common knowledge that the revolu tionaries

who are encamped so close to the city are well-armed, well-drilled, and

Arbela, where Alexauder the Great over- march of the Russian vanguard lies.

throw Darius twenty-two centuries ago.

The character and amount of the

PROBABLE RUSSIAN SCHPEIGE, opposition to be expected at Nineveh the railway runs at least thus far, the (Mosul) can only be conjectured, but as appearance of a Russian column from the Suj Bulak region must counse some hasty redisposition of the enemy forces if the railway, upon which the Baghdad armies depend for the muni- tions and reinforcemente already on the way, is to be saved from Russian attack

niles on some sectors cast of the Styrganise an advisers' bureau for the Northgenerally very active; more so than the The probability is that the Russians have

but military experts are confident that and South, to which important persons the Russians can hold the enemy pending the development of General Letchivsky's

sweep

Bukhoving.

will be invited to act an advisers.

TRIAL OF PLOTTERS

A special Court will be formed to try the chief monarchical plotters.

The Russians have advanced fifteen miles south-west of Kolomen.

The Austrians are being hard pressed | LUNG CHI-KWONG RECALLED.

to cover their Carpathians.

retreat towards the

BIG BATTLE AT

BARANOVITCHI. GERMANS HURLED BACK.

PETROGRAD, July 4th-

Baranovitchi a big battle rages.

A communique states:North-west.

Russigns captured an officers, 1,000 mas and four guns. Fighting continues,

One thousand machine-guns have been taken on the

Prisoners

and

Lower Lipa between. Dubno and Sokul, where the Germans were hurled back Westwards,

The Government has advised Lung Chi-kwong to come to Peking, and has also requested Sham Chan-lasien to take the post of Tatah of Kwangtung.

The Government has enquired of Tong Siu-ye and Wan Jao-yin how best to deal with the Kwangtang trouble, which merits investigating,

Cantonese Gulli in Peking stating

Lai Yitan-hung has replied to the that the Lung Chi-kwong case will be laid before Parliament.

three candidates for the Kwangtung Lung Chi-kwong has recommended

Tutuhship, but these have been refused by Lai Vunn-hung-

RIGA TO CAUCASUS. RUSSIANS TAKE 2,500 FRISONERS GERMAN FOOD DICTATOR'S

We progressed north of Extrees and captured more prisoners and heavy guns, the total of which is not yet ascertainable, We identified 9 German battalions on the French attacking front, of which according to prisoners, st hud suffered ign to the Caucasus It has heen specsident of the German Food Supply

· · . . .

PETROGRAD, July 4th. A communique states:-There has been fighting on the whole front from

heavy losses and were completely dis-lly

organised.

BRILLIANT STORMING OF

A

ASSEVILLERS.

PARIS, July 4th, communiqué slates —There been, no mfantry action north of the has

LONDON, July 4th.. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- muniqué, states :-- The fight fluctuated in the afternoon about La Boiselle and south of Thiepval, but generally to our advant- age. Hostile counterattacks south of Some, where the situation is ua- Thiepval drove some of our troops from changed The French are continuing

portion of the positions they had cap their sucesses, tured early in the morning. Many

South of the Somme, cast of Murvau

hostile attacks elsewhere were repulsed court Wood, the French captured Chapitre with heavy loss. We continued to make Wood and the village of Feuillere, and substantial progress in some places.

Assuvillers, the centre of a powerful de- fensive organisation.

Very considerable armament and war material were captured. The number of prisoners now exceeds 1,300,

The communiqué continues-Wo con- quered month of Assevillers the second

The communiqué spoaks of heavy fightGorman position to the vicinity of ing south of the Anore, but alle our gains Estress, and passed beyond the second Ive been maintained. Fighting was position. In the afternoon we captured most severe at La Boiselle and Ovillers

"PROCEEDING SATISFACTORILY.

the

LONDON, July 4th. General Sir Douglas Haig reports: Heavy fighting continues, but is procced ing satisfactorily for us, especially in vicinity of La Boiselle, where the remnants of the garrison surrendered Further progress was made in other parts. of the battlefield and additional hostile defences have been captured,

PRUSSIAN BATTALION

SURRENDERS.

Buscourt, East Feuillere and Flancourt. Here the ground won reaches to a depth of five kilometres. Enemy reinforcements reported in the region of Belloye Santerre and others east of Flancourt wore die persed by stillery fire.

EIGHT THOUSAND

PRISONERS.

SEVEN BATTERIES OF ARTILLERY

CAPTURED.“

PARIS, July 4th.

The number of unwounded prisoners now excecils 8,000. Up to the present seven batteries, including three heavy, LONDON July 4th. have been counted among the captured Reuter's correspondent at Headquarters

material. The number of mitrailleuses, reports A whole battalion of Prussian trench gut, and other batteries lodged Infantry surrendered to the British hear, in casemates and several at Herbecourt

have not yet béon counted.

Fricourt

desperate between the Styr and Atukhod rivers, west of Lutzk, south of Buczacz and south of Smorgon, where great enemy attacks were repulsed the Russians taking altogether 2,300 prisoners and numerous guns. The Turks are

but are being repulsed with heavy losses. attacking everywhere in the Caucasus,

GENERAL

(THROUGH KKÜVER'S AGENCE.).

INDIAN &TOCKS.

LONDON, July 3rd.

The removal of the minimum prices on Indian stocks has revealed a 4 to 5 per cont. basie, with a disposition to purchase at the reduced level. Three per cent. stock is quoted at 62 buyers, and 33 per cent. Block as 72 buyers.

MESOPOTAMIA, CAMPAIGN. STATEMENT UNDESIRABLE AT

PRESENT.

LONDON, July 4th In the House of Commons Mr. H. J. Tennant said that it was undesirable to make a statement on the Mesopotamia campaign at present. CHANGE OF GERMAN

NAMES.

LONDON, July 4th. Mr. Hunt (U,) asked why a German firm, whereof one of the partners was now

FEARS. FRICTION ALREADY BETWEEN GERMAN FEDERAL STATES. According to the newspapers, the Pre-

Board, Berr Balocki, made a short sporch before the chief Budget Committee of the Reichstag. He warned the House not to expect any sudden change or improve- ment of conditions. Of special import- ance was the close co-operation of the new Board with the authorities of the administration, Federal States, the Army, and the civil

Great difficulties," he said, "are arising out of the relations of the Federal States From Württeudurg menacing letters have reached me already proist- ing against the sucking dry of Württem berg by Prussia. Without the nerdy co-operation of the authorities of the Federal States, their organisations, and the entire population he successful, y efteris

In the course of his

before the said: The Army must first be provid- Badget Committee Herr Entecki also ed for, and only then car the civil po- Lisk will be the provisioning of the large pulation be considered. The most difficult towns. Whether this provisioning will be inore or less difficult depeuls on the result of the harvest. The bad harvest of 1914 and the still worse one of last year were the cause of the situation which deplore today.

men who compose General Lung's army, and the opinion is held that should General Lung go forth to meet the rebels things will not go well with him. Thus, the Canton people hope that Lung will consider discretion to be the better part Some concern is also felt by the in- of valour and leave Canton..

habitants on the Shereen, though quite a friendly notice has been issued by General Lung requesting the Shameen inhabitants not to use the band which passes near his quartors,

At present the City is quiet, but there is an under-current of feeling that any thing is likely to happen at very short

notice:

BONGKONG GYMKHANA.

Handicap events Saturday afternoon at Happy Valley-

The following are the weights in the to be decided on

MILE HANDICAP. Ploughed Field

Cilgwyn

Electric Light

Antony

Birdwood

lbs. 167

157

166

150

151

Sunshine

160

Blufter

148

Durham Chief

140

ONCE ROUND. HANDICAP.

Ibe

Standard Dahlia

100

161

181

King Jack

Matabele Makoni Peter Doody Social Schemer

165

164

Forester

154

Ploughed Field

Middlesex Chief

193 153

Sunshine China Coaster Durham Chief

150

148

140

1) MILE HANDICAP- Standard Pallia King Jack Matabele Makoni

Dunkeld

Forestor

moved with the speed and silence which ensure surprise. In this case it may safely be taken that the Baghdad Rail- way is already cut, so it runs on the twenty-four hours, within a cavalry ride. left bank of the Tigris and has been for With the raiway working to Tabriz and Persian column is peculiarly well placed the steamers on Lake Urmia, the Mosul

in regard to supplies, apart from the fact that the route lies through some These facilities point to this colunin. of the richest territory in the world. being a force of considerable magnitude. guidance are exerting their utmost efforts The Turks, meanwhile, under German

to inflict a defent upon the Russian con- tro, but without success. The Russians

are containing, without undue difficulty, Hussian securing full use of the Trebi Generals have hurried up to prevent the zond-Erzurum Highway.

ALATED-GEEMAN REINFORCEMENT).

It is stated here that Germany has sent to the aid of Turkey one division of German troops and a brigade of Aug- trian cavalry, together with vast stores of war material, ranging from guns to wire. When the latter will reach any. paint where it can be used is doubtful having regard to the roads in Asis Minor. The Turco-Persian front it of course, for Germany only of secondary importance now that Russia has killed all the German hopes of raining the Mussalman Orient against civilized Christendom. Nevertheless, some twenty thousand men seem to be somewhat paltry. support in Turkey's desperate straila after the lavish promises made by Ger- mang Russia is steadily pursuing, her strategic plan on the Asiatic front. Having completed the conquest of Armenia, Russia is busy consolidating the means of communication in the ocen pied territory, while repulsing all Turco- German atlaces and occasionally deliver- ing telling but short blewą in retaliation."

THE MAIN OBJECTIVE.

The main objective now in Asia is

161 Baghdad, and Russia is following the route taken by the succession of the great world conquerors of historic and semi-historic agen long before the Chris tian era At present Germany appears to be directing her meagre supports tor wards the Turkish centre on Erzingan, Some units belonging to Austrian regi- ments recently engaged in Go:icia have. been identified already during the recent fighting But one odd division, even when all of it has arrived, can hardly now turn the scale against Russle in Asia. At the same time, Russia must henceforth deal with the Bagudad armies before pushing too far westwards to wards. Constantinople. Had the British forces in Mesopotamia, been anything fike adequate to the task set them, if they had not engaged in a foolhardy ad- venture without proper preparation, the proper organization, or even sufficient examination of the known or appreciable factors of the situation, perhaps the Russians might have safely contiuod their westward drive.

159

168

169

153.

152

149

Matchbox

Bocial Schemer

Ploughed Field Sunshine

148

·145

Wo

DISTANCE HANDICAP

Electric Light Cilgwyn Birdwood

yde.

15

20

Sunshine

An efficial statement issued to the German Press says:— The consumption of meat must be restricted in order to gurantee sufficient grittle for slaughter and mulking in the spring and winter.”

FRENCH ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF

JAPAN'S SERVICE

George Tamby Bluffer

Borneo Chief Skalp Snowlako Maybey Tinker Beattock Redshanks

RUGASASCRAP 8855

Political objectives, when attained, are sometimes useful in war, but when they fail so egregiously as the Gallipoli and Mesopotamia wild-goose chaze, they stultify the military plans of a campaign to a degree out of all proportion to their worth even in the miracalons event of their success Russia must now make good her left flank by dealing with the Baghdad armies and those in Mesopo tamis before pushing farther westwards. Or, as perhaps the circumstances may show, now that the enemy proves to have. inadequate resources in men to cover all hia over extended responsibilities, the Russians, by delivering a heavy attack towards Baghdad, may compel the ene my to present & much thinner line of defence at other cardinal points of the grand strategic front in Asia.

PREFERENTIAL TRADE WITHIN THE EMPIRE.

M. Girard, ex-Ambassador for France. to Japan, writing in the Petit Journal, said that "The effort of France and her FIRM Allies Committer, in paying a tribúté

BIG BAG OF SUBMARINES. to the Europeas Great Powers, Was anxious to praise likewise the nighty and generous aid which Japan, hid

A striking reference to the success of brought from the beginning of the great anti-submarine operations of the British struggle and parsed against the and Allied Fleets appears in the latest Germanic Powers and their accom in Germany, after being ordered flies, The Kinochioi campaign and issue of the Scientific American

The Japan's co-operation with Great Bri- passage runs as follows: A prominent op, was allowed to be acquired by a firm taip, France and Austria in polic Ameriena business man, who has recently of another game with an agency in Lon the Indian and Facile Oceans returned from an extended business trip don and remain under the same managtualling of the enormous Russian armies

Were a great help, as well as the revir among the belligerent nations of Europe, ment.

To these must be added the continel Allies had notted a total of 130 sub tells us he was reliably informed the Mr. Austen Chamberlain replied that herself with sll the decisive acts of the Department learned through its own services rendered by Japan in associating marines. Not long before this our Navy Kaj was at present considering the Allies such as the London declaration, private sources of information the total fair and reasonable treatment of neutral matter and until a decision was reached by which all the Allies agreed not to number of submarines captured or conclude a separate peace, and the Paris destroyed by this and other means was he could not make any statement

Economic Conference.

•197.'

The annual conference of the Austra lian Chambers of Commerce recently adoption of a system of preferential carried a series of resolutions urging the

favoured treat ent of the Allied nations, trade within the British Empire, with

nations, surtaxed at y nations, and stringan, provisions ta pre- vent the dumping ceny O