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THE WAR.

BRITISH GENERAL STAFF QUITE SATISFIED.

GERMAN EXPECTATION EXPLAINS SLOW PROGRESS OF THE ALLIES.

FRENCH RESUME THE OFFENSIVE. DRIVE THE GERMANS FROM ESTREES.

FRENCH ARMY CORPS CAPTURES SIXTY GUNS.

RUSSIANS ROUT THE ENEMY,

FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT..

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BRITISH OFFENSIVE.

GERMANS HASTILY RE-

INFORCING."

LONDON, July 5th. Bruter's correspondent at the Press. Caunp in France states; German

counter-attacks on our new position at Thiepval, accompanied by a heavy bom-

[THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY.) FRENCH RESUME

"HE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY ♫TB, 1916,

THE SLEDGE-HAMMER IN TRENTINO.

100 AUSTRIAN GUNS TO THE MILE.

ATTACK BY SIEGE METHODS, Writing from the Trentino Front, on May 29th, a correspondent of The Times

knys:-

Great troop masses are manœuvring in the open, through the valleys and gorges, swarning over this summits of these mountains. The Austrians dare advance only us far as the long arm of their gune will reach, and are bending a their energy to bring up these guns. I is a gigantic task, and the skill of the enemy commander in holding together and co-ordinating his attacks, now that his troops have entered these defiles, must be acknowledged.

HELP FOR THE MUTILATED QUEEN MARY'S HOSPITALS AT ROEHAMPTON,

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT TO "THE TIMES.”]

SIDELIGHTS FROM GERMANY. EXPUNGING ENGLISH FROM SCHOOLS

THE MEN WHO CAN'T ESCAPE,

OUR SPLENDID STOKERS.

Although the British people have for centuries lived by their Navy, they know, little about this great Service beyond the fact that it costs a good deal of money to maintain and may be absolutely de- peaded on, phim

in

Of these others none has a better claim to be lifted from the obscurity It is too much for the ossische which enshrouds the unwritten and un

In the Prussian Upper Chamber Privy Councillor Professor Hillebrandt has It would have seemed accurate to say, given notice that he will move that with the other day, that the lot of the maimed the object of increasing Gorman know was as hopeless us it was heartrending, ledge of foreign countries the study of But that is no longer true. A glad new English and French in a number of uni time has dawned for them. It has come Trench warfare, for the time being, has about through the promptings of a goner replaced gradually by the obligatory bour &t dinner of what the crows of Bri

Should you doubt this, ask your neigh- vors ties and other high schools is to be been abandoned here. Trench lines nous inventiveness acting upon the official cially of Oriental languages. The motion tish warships are composed. Tento

mind and official resources. longer count.

has tim support of eminent men like Pro-

one he will reply, "Why, bluejackets, Lyons, and M. Maurice Barres, the nove-and Zorn.

Profiting, no doubt, by the example offessors Schmoller, Wagner, Waldeyer of course," and look at you in a way that

says clearly, I wonder how many. ap these men and the German established surd campaign which has been waged list, called attention to the condition of This motion is the outcome of the ab

petisers this fellow took before he came. workshops where they might learn trade against the use of French and English will think you are propounding suitable to their condition, Mrs. Gwynne since the beginning of the war. Language subtle conundrum and begin to wonder If you answer, Wrong, try again,' Holford had the iden of centralizing the purists have been at work for nearly two where the catch" might not only be fitted with limbs bith French elements; signboards, minus, bar only shares the popular illusion wounded in an institition where they years purging German from English and be surprised at this.

coines in Do not Your neighbour equipped professionally as well. Thus bers shops, theatres, millinery establish evory man in the Navy is a bluejacket. they could go forth gladly into a new life.ments, hotels have all been ransacked for for bin this personnel of the Fleet, and and Mr. C. H. Kenderdine, and together lents in almost all cases are screamingly may be others." Thore ars, though the With Wys Holford were Lady Falmouth obnoxious words. The German equiva

Jack," the general favourito, typifies the interested in the scheme the Govern farcical, but the purists lack all sense of song-makers and the story-writers have it has never occurred to him that there gut, the Directors-General of the Army humour, and, a and Navy Medical Services, and the vari-motion proves, are determined to pursue

Herr Hillebrandt's not yet discovered them. ous societies which follow soldiers and their campaign. It is sledge hammer tactics, so dear to sailors into civil life. The committee bas the Prussians, that the Austrian con heen unsparing in its efforts to give body Zeitung. Any attempt to eliminate sung than the naval stokers, whose manders have adopted, and from the to the project, which is now firmly upon English would be ridiculous, it says. The splendid work, done under the most try.

its legs Thanks to private impulsion and. general aspect of their plans it woulda Government grant of 3s, in day for cach English language reigns in the greatering conditions, has been a material fac appear that these were prepared and inmate, the concentration hospital, to part of the civilised world, and it will tor in winning the victories afloat that matured in Berlint rather than in

day in being, has an assured future. dot effect its power and influence should have come to us during the war. Stokers Vienna

Its official name is Queen Mary's Con- German schools be foolish enough to shut are not "blucjackets"—that term appli valescent - Auxiliary Hospitals and its it out from their curriculum. If Gap to sailors only-but there are more stokers fore the Austrian effort will have spent more beautiful situation for the two English they must expect to diminish to be described as the black squad," How long can it lust? How long beaddress Roehampton. There could be no mane, says the Fassische, cease to learn than sailors aboard some of his Majesty's ships. Nor, by your leave, are stokers itself? are the questions that are being houses, which have been lent to the promo their business, not only in England and sumed the offensive. north of the Somme. battle is drawing to a close. For, unlike gaù and Mr. Kenneth Wilson, than this in the United States and in the harbours men of the mercantile marine."Clinker- asked hero as the second week of this great ters of this work by Mr.J.Pierpont Morits vast dominions and colonies, but also for that appellation belongs to the fire- We captured the second German posi- Verdun, it is not a fortress that is being charming suburb of London, close to Put of Latin South America. We may re-like, but not black squad unless you or shovel engineers," if you tion east of Curlu on a front of two by siege methods. Not converging on a assaulted, but a great drive, carried on

gret the predominance of English as much wish to give offences kilometres.

single centre, but radiating, like the

as we like, but we must accept things as As regards the stoker's work, it con sticks of a fha, from a central base.

they are. Either we are to raise our sists in feeding the fires," principally, position in the world, in which case we though not wholly limited to this. Sho- So much has been written regarding

require English, or we renounce English velling coals into a furnace may not ruin our future. the exhaustion of the resources of the

in haughty national isolation, and thus strike one as a task that requires much but of men. In how far is this true?

brain power, but when properly done st becomes a work of high art. Before To deal first with the question of

man is entrusted, with it he must gra duate through successive stages of ex- [by competent experts. have well over

HOPE AND HAPPINESS.

perience. Five hundred more prisoners were this battle line. These include a groti spacious grounds, shaded by cedars of 2.000 pieces of artillery in action along Wonden wards have sprung up in the number of heavy calibre guns, Naval Hoehampton Hous. They are comfortable guns, with an extreme length of range, and airy and have a more familiar and are being used with great skill through intimate look than is goneral in the out the engagement. Kept in reserve, solemn and established hospital And and silent, though posted close up to the their inmates seem privileged mortals in spite of their physical handicap, for they effect, in that their fire has reached for laugh and play as if they had not a care behind the latin lines at intervals in the world. Some were sitting down to between the attacks, firing shots at lunch as I arrived, and they looked parti random which did little actual damage. cularly happy and not a little roguishly but gave the impression of continued.

OFFENSIVE. GERMANS DRIVEN FROM ESTREES

PARIS, July 6th,

A communique states:-The French re-

We repulsed counter-attacks south of

hardnient from both sides, were easily the Bomme, and finally drove the Gor Dual Monarchy, not only of materials,

repulsed.

mans from Estrees. We now hold the

Prisonors say that German units hava socond Germian position soath of the ordnance. The Austrians, it is estimated

bren rushed from Verdun and Lens to ths hustle-fold.

STILL PROGRESSING.

LONDON, July 5th."

Somme on a front of ten kilometres.

taken.

There were only intermittent bombard- ments at Verdan."

General Sir Douglas Haig reports that SLOW PROGRESS EXPLAINED. firing line, they have had a disconcerting

henry lighting was continued at night- time in the neighbourhood of the Ancre and the Somme, bat we progressed fur- ther at certain important points.

Gorman artillery fire has been intense; in certain sectors.

Two determined attacks on our now trenches at Theipval were broken.

HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING. General Haig later reports that hand-to-hand fighting continues between the Anero and the Somme, and 500 more Germans have been made prisonUIS..

ADVANCE IN CERTAIN

SECTORS.

TROOPS DID NOT DIE IN VAIN.

LONDON, July 6th.

ney Heath The former residence, called Dover House, is devoted to officers; the latter, known as Rochampton House, interesting because of its 150 inmates, whe are waiting to un fitted with limbs before in the hope of employment and with the they re-emerge into the wideworld strong

courage and self-respect born of practics) knowledge.

THE DIFFICULTY ABOUT FRENCH; With regard to French the Fossische points out difficulties of equal gravity. its former importance, but it is the French, says the journal, may not possess language of the Mediterranean basin. In the Balkans, moreover, all instructed per sons speak French in preference to their own language, and even in Turkey no European language is spoken save French, To eliminate French from public instraction would be to inflict a serious

conic blow on Germany.

And what-languages would you put in place of English and French? All this talk of Oriental language is nonsense.

knockore

fire, and unless steam be properly. Water-tube boilers are tricky things o kept the ship loses much of her officiency. For maintaining that speed in her heels" which enables the captain to use "the last knot" when he needs it-anil which may decide the issue of a fight }

she depends upon the stoker, so you will he is not a man without importance and must needs bo: skilful professor of his own black art

THE TRAINING SCHOOL. Something more than ability to swing shove lustily goes to the making of a

The slower British progress is explain-advance. With the front of this battle at the visitor. Yes, they were disabled, No German merchants are going to lose stoker R.N. Recruits for this rating

ed in a French semi-official report on the ground that the Germans expected that the British, not the French, would attack, thinking that the latter were exhausted at Verdun, and the Ger- mans accordingly massed their best troops against the British. From this reason the French papers are most eulogis- tie upon Britain's effort, especially their brilliant capture of La Boisselle, which was the enemy's strongest organisation There is a consensus of praise for the bravery of the new armies. A distin- guished neutral observer says the first triumphant assault Was at Mamotz, which the enemy believed impregnable He does not believe that there was ever a more gallant feet in war. Nothing the Japanese did against the Russians WDO so perfectly heroic. Similarly at Commecourt, though the British troops have not died in vain, for they held failed to capture the salient. The British the German maases, enabling success to The total prisoners now excords, six bo attained at other points. thousand...

LONDON, July 6th.. General Bir Douglas Haig, in a com muniqué, states--Fighting has been.

continuous, mostly local struggles for atrong points, the result being that wo advanced slightly in certain sectors. We

fost nu ground.

The German casualties today were of

the heaviest,

There was the ordinary trench warfare elsewhere..

BIG FRENCH CAPTURES,

PARIS, July 5th. A communiqué states --We have now over 9,000 unwounded prisoners. The number of guns captured is not yet known, but on Army Corps, south of the Somme, has taken sixty.

We captured German trenches east of Curlu, Tatton and Sormont Farm.

A

LIVELY STRUGGLE AT ESTREES.

UBBIAN FRONT.

(THEĐUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.)

RUSSIANS ROUT THE ENEMY,

PETROGRAD, July 6th. A communique states:-The Russians.

roated the enemy on the right bank of the Dosister, south of Buczacz They cut the railway which extends from Delaytin, in Galicia, to Korosmezo, in Hungary.

ENERAL.

(THROUGH REUYDE'S" JULIOT.]— GENERAL STAFF QUITE SATISFIED,

THE STAYING POWER OF OUR

RACE."

LONDON, July 6th.

Mr. Bonar Law, apeaking at a banquet PARIS, July 6th.

in London in honour of the representa- communiqué states: - On tho

tives of the Dominions now visiting Jest bank

of the Meuse, opposite England, said that the General Staff Clery, we hold the whole region south were quite satisfied with the result of the ward of the farm to Hill 63. On the struggle so far. The deeds of the road towards Fleucourt from Barleaux Dominion troops have become a household the enemy occupied part of Belloye San-word. Our resources will last longer ter, hut was immediately driven out than the enemy's, and the staying power

of our race will see us to the end." lively struggle at Estres, at a part of which the Germans UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.

AND are still holding out. All the counter CARRANZA ACCEPTS FRINCIPLE attacks on our positions were shaiterod by our fire, Energy attacks from Avo

ourt to Hill 304 were repulsed with heavy loss.

There

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OF MEDIATION.

WASHINGTON, July 5th. wrineinle of mediation, thus averting General Carranza, has accepted the any danger of war.

WHE

Bank

LONDON DESCRIBED.

a courнe

responsi-

miles, the artillery of the enemy works but it was only for the moment. To-morrow, their valuable time studying Turkish, upon entering the servico are sent to the line extending now to a length of gand, for the moment, ont of the running;

one gun overy 20 yarde, out as nearly 100 pieces to the mile, or or some other merrow, they would be fitted Arabic and Porsinn. The gareg is not Clinker-knocker's College,"

with new linibs, and then one would see worth the candle. Spanish, says the Voa-the-stoker's training school, for otherwise 1,000,000 SHELLS IN 13 DAYS..

what they could do. One felt there was the che, is to be recommended if your of instruction. secret indefinable courage which comes business lios inside the Spanish zones, but When rated. Z The shells fired by this artillery are of from a strong faith in their bearing. They it is to be remembered that here the sym

first-class" ♫stoker's excellent workmanship. I have on my looked, but upon the world, not in the Pathies of the people are all on the French a day. Now let us see how he runs it, pay rises to two shillings and oue penny table as write a fragment of to-inch legendary spirit of a Guild of Poor Brave side, and shell which I picked up here. It is rent Things following the touching title of trader, as often as not, understands by that of every part of his body that that the Spanish-speaking hot by the sweat of his brow alone but to fussures which would prove Mrs. Ewing-but rather, as it would French in deep

has a sweat gland in it. Right down at the explosive materials used are good equipped for a stronuous occupation.

svern as sportsmen or as workers. Russian is rejected because of its initiut the bottom of this huge battle-cruiser, shells during preliminary actions," "The Austrious fived away all their bad

difenities Italian is pooh-poohed as of which is rushing through the water with That attitude in fose of implacable forno commercial importance. The Scandi-big bone in her teeth so far down the comment of a yound Staff officer who tune was as new as it was grateful. One avian languages are all interesting, but that quite a long lift journey must he in in the habit of recording the efficiency logged reen were playing a ballgame of German and in conversation with Ger- Before each of these are grimy, per

Danes, Swedien, and Norwegians speak row of glowing Furnace

made to reach the place--are row after of enciny shells. But it is quantity aus

the greensward, with extraordinary gles. well as quality which the enemy is rely Sometimes it is cricket and the batsman mens prefer the use of German spiring men, clad only in flannels and ing upon.

n county player, if you please – balancen Twenty thousand shells were fired himself wonderfully on one limb whilst An article by a certain Karl Wickmann at it are they trying to satisfy an sp a pair of fearnought" trousers, Hard against my position the first two days of he drives to the off or parries a leg at-Two war-days in London" appears farently insatiable appetite.

With an Alpini major, con tack. In the billiard room a legless hero a number of ultra-nationalist journals. sturdy, practised swing, they thros the engagement, manding a small knell, remarked to the in his wheeled chair moved rapidly round Wichmann alleges that he has just re shovelful after shovelful of coal, into the Using this as a basis, it would not be the table, making surprising shots, and turned to the Continent from London, greedy maw that gapes hungrily in front far from the truth to assert that over one armed mon playing each other. where he lived in lodgings as Mr. T of them. One inan, after a 1,000,000-shells have beta Ired by the This is then wiper, play with which to It is clear that Wichmann, if there is such over the blazing intori in quick look as yet no slackening of effort, which the workshops are preparing them enough in his own country, happily rare into the dragon's throat, and by a spsam ceras in the present battle, and there is court success in that wider ophore for person, is a liar of a type numerous pricker oraslice," thrusts it deep

And the troops? This morning & group Courses in mechanics, in telephony and in other countries.

of strenuous effort forces the monster of somo son Austrians taken during the electricity, in wood-turning and the run-

He begins by describing the secue in

to spit out the drumbs" or, to new action last night, are in this village ning of motor-ears have becu organized London when news cune of the outbreak words vaid of imagery, he clears the fire stoned officer. The men had hind sis Polytechnic; tenchura instruct in book the City. How foggy and yellow the skill in keeping stearn enables the ship's in charge of an Austrian non-commis far and Mr. Robert Mitchell of the rushed to the rattling tube and arrived These by the furnace mouths are the ex- They are divided in squads of 25, each by Mr. Kenderding, the honorary score in Ireland. On receipt of the news ho by dragging out the red-hot clinker

pert-stokers the frat-class men-whose prisoners are Rumanians from Tran- Each man's training only lasts as long as cipal buildings with Manufacturs Manifold horse power to the full-and some hura rest before I saw them. These Resping, in shorthand, and typowriting.ity! Great yellow posters on the prin enormous engines to exert their thousand sylvania. They are you well-set-up be is detained in hospital being fitted with tons, Munitions 1 Two hundred thousand times a little bit more, troops. They are naturally glad to be prisoners, though their captors tell me afterwards, he is free to continue his eduBattle for Right and Humanity, for gauge glass and keep a directing cye on

limb a matter of three or four weeks; Join to day, to-morrow may be too late:"THEY SHOW NO FRAR"

more soldiers required for England! that they fought valiantly. The equication elsewhere, until he reaches pro Truth and Righteousness, for the exist his subordinates, stands, the petty officer "On watch," where he can see the ment of these men is new, and I was struck by the excellent quality of their foiency Practically, the technical schools boots; high, now leather, thick mountain of the country are at his disposal, fres of the of the little Nations!" This was at on whom liest that this be boots. In fact, all their leather accoutre charge. Thus he reaches excellent posts,

ability of seeing that work runs smoothly. mouts aro new, and of good leather thanks to the facilities. Brauteng chins dressed in yellow, green, red and hold is an inferno of grime-charged hent "From side Janes sprang ragged ur. At the best of times a warship's stoku Their uniforms are in many cases of s | hospital I heard of men oraing 358 ing the hard mounted highting better tricians which, with the pension of 253, a top of their voice, "The Latest! Bloody turns it into a Hades, with a typhoon heary cotton twill, very tough, and resist week with board as chauffeurs or electone suspaper bills, and yelling at the and sizzling steam. Forced draught than the usual cloth hilorm. Nearly week for total disablement or 10s. 6d. for ously Marching on Vienna! Germans in

Revolution in Berlin! Italians Victori raging through its fre-herbed alleys. every man has an overcoat, which is of a partial disability, representa a coma trap at Verdun! Bloody battle in Dub gantly, describes the place when

"Hell with the lid off" aptly, it inėle stort new cloth. Only five or six of the fortable living wage. And those mon know fin! Three hundred rebels slaughtered ! thing is closely battered down every men are without caps. None have helmets not the elements of their science when the swept onwards by the dark human of any kind, but all wear the soft cap accident of war brought them first to the stream I entered Queen Victoria-street. I least enviable situation of anyone in the During an action the stokers have the with ear-flaps tied back. According to friendly portale of Roehampton House. naswers given to the interpreter, they

spring on a bus and pass a recruiting ship. Their chance of escape, should she are of the class of 1915, and have seen

station with German war-bread exhibited be sunk, is so small ge to be alive no fighting in Galicia

Even one-armed men become expert in the window a proof that Germany in existent. Although they can hear the Asked about their food, they replied such enterprise is scarcely encouraged by livering an oration. No one bothers about above, being quite cut off from the upper drivers of the "school" motor-car, thonga starving. The recruiting officer is de know nothing of what may be happening Suns firing and feel the concussion they that they did not get enough to eat, but the hospital, which profeza as the safer him, and the bus goes on. their looks belied their statements. What course that they should direct their eter Paul's dirty, smoke-begrimed Bows of the stokers must remain incessantly at ever may be the truth in regard to the gies to the joinery shops. It was there streef hawkers, mostly cripples from the work, feeding the fires so that the ship I pass St. dock, Amid all the turmoil of the light meatless and fatless days in the Hapsat 1 saw bread trays and cruet-stands, Boer War burg Empire, the armies in the field are neatly finished, the work of the single George's picture for a penny, respond to orders from the bridge. And They are selling King has the steam necessary to enable her to not suffering in this respect, and, though handed. It is scarcely surprising that the strict rations, their soldiers' rations, in advantage of the classes, which bold out the sulphurous heavens. Here we have res before leaving their posta. If the the civilians at home are now put on immates of Rochampton take increasing able sparing newspaper offices rising to gulation is that the stokers must draw "I enter Fleet street, with its innumer should mishap occur, the standing re- this sector at least, have not been cut the prospect of a useful and well-paid the most grandiose le factory in the ship goes down they are almost certain taken from the knapsack of a prisoner down. I was shown small tins of meat, civil career. and several carried 3oz tins of a good

The accommodation of this admirable change, without taste. Fleet street is yet they show no fear, and may always world Daily the same lies without to go with her, as they know full well, quality butter. In another sector I saw stitution is shortly to be increased to digesting Ireland to day. Then a recruit be depended on to stick to their duty to and looking much like Turkish troops. the old system, or lack of it. Formerly ged crowd. They are singing the English this are surely worth a mood of praise 1 Bosnian prisoners, wearing a grey fez, 50 beds. It marks a great advance on ing band marches past, followed by a rag the last Men who show such grit as in fact, all the prisoners taken recently Kary, waited in their homes for the Army and Navy, root them out utterly less spectacular than that played by the They also impressed me as very fit men; the men, discharged from the Army or the Bong of Hate, Down with the Germans Although their part in a fight may be would seem to be of strong thre, and onrrival of the limb, which was to at the Cut out their langues, gouge out their man behind the gun, it is equally fin the whole far better equipped tha: free to pursus some avocation. But hopes eyes Down with them all! Constables portant, for the ship must have the speed Austrian troops which I have seen else were not always realized. The limb did with roast-beef faces keep order." where. dan not fit and there were painful journeys Then he visits a friend in a club near

to mauuuvre or she cannot hope to win, It is evident that the Austrian com to the makers. Now the maker has come Pall-mall. The magnificent-apartments

no matter how admirably her guns may of the Dual Monarchy for the sorring the grounds where the living stump may ourables, nearly all in ovening, dress. marrders have assembled the picked tros to the bospital and set up workshops in

serve her. are filled with earls, lords, right hon of these Trenting heights. Everything be adjusted to the reechanical appliance. They have just heard of Kut-el-Amara would point to the fact that they are English and Americana vie with caeli and are in a fearful stata of trepidation making a supreme and final effort to other in producing the better artificial They order whisky and sods to hearter stating that the war canot go en much said to have an English rival at half the they think of their lost prestige in India. win the war. Prisoners confirm this by limb, The Care orm, which costs £40, is them, and, sitting round the flaming fire Longer.

prico which answers as well

Daily Chronicle.

--ONE-ARMEES SAPERTS,

In Party has alre

It helped Admiral Burlee to run down our Fleet more than once during the war Good stoking, in facty has advantaged

the German squadron off the Falklands

before, and thus prevent the Nurnberg and through it, upon his occasion, the cruiser Kent was enabled to go two or three knots faster than she had ever done: escaping.-J.J in the Daily Mail.