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THE WAR.

BRITISH GAIN IMPORTANT VICTORIES.

GUNS THUNDERING FROM SOMME TO

BELGIUM.

ALLIES' UNEXPECTED SUCCESSES ALARM GERMANY,

RUSSIANS IMPORTANT CAPTURE.

TEN THOUSAND PRISONERS AND MANY GUNS.

* MONMOUTHSHIRE”- PERSIAN” DISASTER.

FRRAGOBELGIAN FRONT.

[THHOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

ENEMY

TRENCHIES BARDED.

BOM-

LONDON, July 8th.. General Sir Douglas Haig reports --.. We bombarded every trenches in the neighborhood of Commecourt.

Our acroplanes, despite the unfavourable wenther, have rendered most valuable service, with the addition of the active co-operation of the artillery. Our air-

a hostile aerodrome, at men hombed "Dauni, completely wrecking a hangar

and doing other damage.

LARGE CAPTURES OF WAR MATERIAL

THROUGH MEUTER'S AGENCY.]

All accounts show the undiminished

eagerness of the Allied troops to attack

while German papers received in Hol

land betray the alarm and anxiety of

the German public at the Allies” “un- expected success. They warn renders that the offensive has only started, and that decisive successes are not impossible.

Viscount Esher, writing from France, nya that the mighty German effort is dying, and there are manifold signs of the disintegration of the enemy force, and the lowering of his morale;

GERMANS LOSE HEAVILY.

PARR, July 9th. An official report states --Bad weather

t of Estrees."

FRENCH GAIN OBJECTIVES.

Heavy rain has impeded operations has hampered operations. We progrcas- between the Ancre and the Somme. Weled five captured, in the last few days. twenty guns, fifty-one machine-guns, aud a large number of automatic rifles, trench-mortars and a mass of other war unsterial.

ENEMY RETIRE IN DISORDER,

LONDON, July 9th The French artillery on our right greatly assisted our advance.

The enemy lost severely in a combined Anglo-French bombardment...

Panis, July 9th Notwithstanding the persistent rain and fog, the French in the revening assaulted the village of Hardecourt and the hill northwards Ill conjunction with the British, who attacked Trone's. Wood, and the farm south-east of the wood. The Frencli gained their objectives in thirty-five minutes.

MAN HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 10′′, 1916.

[THROUGH HEUTEE'S MUENCY ]

BRITISH ADVANCE.

LONDON, July 9th. Reuter's correspondent on the British front on Saturday evening reported The British to-day on a considerable front advanced half-a-mile, In conjunction

with the French, they alw progressed at Contalmaison, where the position is satisfactory.

QUBRIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY/J MORE RUSSIAN SUCCESSES,

DESPERATE ENEMY COUNTER-

ATTACKS.

Petrograd, July Stk.

A communiqué states:--We have scored further successes on the Styr. We have captured the small town of Gradio, and also a village on the main road to Kolki The number of Austro-German prisoners

is increasing. We captured an enemy

position east of Hellatyn. A German

[THEOTUH TEUTER'S AGENCY.] RUSSIA AND CHINA.

PETROGRAD, July 9th.

THE IMPORTANCE OF SACRIFICE.

U.S. MINISTER'S ADDRESS TO CHINESE STUDENTS,

CHINA'S GREAT NEED OF ENGINEERS. COMMENCEMENT DAY AT SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY,

SHANGHAI

M. Sazanoff, interviewed, remarked that the Russo-Japanese agreement will Dr. Paul, S, Reinsch, American Minis- |-

"The twentieth annual. Comniencement unable Russia to devote all her energies ter to China, gave some good advice to

the returned Chinese student in a speech of St. John's University, Shanghai, was to the solution of the problems created

at the tiffin given in his honour by the held on July 1st. by the war in the West, with the assur-

American University Club - at the Palace Dr. Reinsch, the Amerionn Minister, nce that no Power will take an unfair Hotel on July 3rd. number present, addressing the students, said:→The advantage of China to carry out ambiti- | fncluding the guests, was exactly 100, of spirit of science is knowledge--but it' is ous plans, as was the case with other

also much more than knowledge. Meto countries bordering Russia in the East

literary ability, the power to feel, is not science. Nor is meres palish, science. Science goes further it has its roots in a. most tremendous self-culture; in an attempt at a lf-mastery;, not in taking the easy way, but in a deliberate selection of the most difficult course. One of its parts is in training the faculty of obser-- vation. It is not so much the facts

IMPORTANCE OF SACRIFICE.

learned which are important, it is the Referring to the returned student, the method, the training—accuracy of Minister said that there worn two main vation, independence of judgment, sure- reasons why Chinese sought education in noss of reasoning aro csential. Many to things which used to be important are foreign countries. The first was acquire general information and know- now but incidental,

[Telegrama, received on Saturday, and published in an “Extra” an Sudan,

be found on page 7:1

U.S. A. MINISTER AND AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN

CHINA.

THE NEED OF TEAM WORK.

The US. Minister to China; Dr. Reinach, was the guest of honour at å dinner given by the American Chambar of Commerce at the Pala Hotal,

Shanghai, on July 3rd. There were only few invited guests, the attendance being limited to some 40 members of the

it

Chamber and a few offies.

whom practically all were graduates of American universities and colleges, the affair being, as the president of the club, Mr. W. W. Stevens, anid in introducing the guest of honour," the most import- as in the history of the club". Dr. Reinsch also had much to say relative to the moral duty of American college men of any nationality who find themselves in China

Obser

country. Your

ledige of foreign lands and peoples; the The scientific spirit has its special second was to acquire professional know. application to your ledge to the end that they might become civilization is the oldest in the world and leaders and teachers in their own country

counter-attack south-east of Lake Narstel regained a part of the lost trenches. Violent enemy counter-attacks cast of Baranovitchi pressed us back slightly, but our concentrated fire forend the unemy to withdraw.

GREAT CHARGE BY COSSACKS.

PETROGRAD July Oth The steady Russian nyproach on Kovel is shown in a communiqué, which chron-thought. Between the years of 1780 and scles the capture of a new line half-way 1800, American merchauts, as you know, were second to none in the Far East, between Chartorysk and Kovel The

It was at that time the individual entor- | students had exaggerated "expectations, placed in this institution au on tho most important capture was the station

prise of Americans and their spirit of and an undue sense of what is due to work which awaits you for a greater of Manievichy, where two thousand pri

adventure that found a possible field of tried men had refused $125 positions,

them

He knew of cases where college Chine and a happier community. Only soners were takin

action in China. It was not necessary posts for which they were specially thus can your knowledge reach its grent- for a merchant adventurer to pussess tried. He urged students to realize the est attainment. In the matter of public

Bacrifice; they should be more than a moderate anunt of capital willing to take up work in their country service you have special obligations and There was plenty of room for individual | at a moderate salary to start, initiative and men stood entirely upon

This was where such an association as reputation to sustain St. John's mor that which he was addressing could behave filled an enviable position, and you - their own resources. For this reason the helpful. One noteworthy thing about are about to become a member of rhia energy and enterprise developed by the university assmaation in China, said Dr. | fraternity. I commend you to the ideals Reinsch, was its international nature. conditions of our new country, gave to. He was glad to see, and was proud of the of the institution, to the example of the Americans a great advantage in fact that there were so many Chinese those who have gone before, and to the members, besides American members, and making for themselves, a place in manbers of other nationalities. An preservation of the qualities of your Far East,

one that might fairly have been called Dr. Reinsch said: organization on their return. The second he con- the best ever evolved. 16 was, however, of the American Chamber of Commerc.sidered to be the more important, the synthetic, and by an unconscious adjust- in Shanghai to my mind marked a very asquisition of special knowledge of the ment it found its highest expression in important advance in the development applied sciences. But, owing to the literature and art. When we see some of of American activities in China. As peculiar constitution of Chinese socie the results of this we are apt to exclaim, go back to the history of American enter-

ty, the returned student found no "Would that China might have stayed avenues open to him on his return and forever in that civilisation." But prise in this country it presents a very he often found it difficult to place lum change was inevitable, and if all this is interesting and fascinating subject for self where lo could atilize his special attacked in the right light you will make learning to advantage. Men fitted to fill the realization of it the more perfect. high posts were unplaced. This was due, | You will not destroy you will deepen it. perhaps, to the fact that the returned So I congratulate you, both on being

great charge by Cossacks eut up the Austrian masses. when 600 were mad prisoner

OVERTHROWING THE ENEMY. PETROGRAD, July 9th.

A emmmuniqué states General Brus- seldorf's troops "are approaching Stok- hod, overywhere overthrowing the enemy, who are resisting desperately, TWELVE THOUSAND PRISONERS. The Russiaus in the three days fight. etween the Styr and Stukid took

12,000 prisoners and eð guns.

The German counter-attacks on the hilling in the afternoon were shattered by the mplete French fire.

A German counter-attack made in mass formations across open ground W broku down: under the

eighteen-pounders, and “se

fizi

of our

seventy-fives."

The enemy retired in disorder. Hand-to-hand fighting continues in th ruits of Ovillers.

AERIAL WORK.

Our neroplanes and kite-balloons work- ed despite the cloudy weather, photo gruphing and directing the fire of the batterica, which sused an explosion in my ammunition. depot. They also bombed eneiny billets.

Fierce fighting has again occurred on

General Everc's front,coast of Baranu- vite.

The Germans lost heavily and left 250. prisoners.

Nothing transpired south of the GENERAL. Somme.

ON THE MEUSE.

Panis, July 9th. An ulheial message states:-There has been a violent artillery xlucl north of the northern Verdun Eroit.

PARIS, July 9th,

[THROUGH REUTER'S JUENCY.]

The interest

great country.

association ench as this, an ant -During the second half of the nibe-

association, could be of great moral help

Mr. Z T. R. Woo received the. in aiding China, in keeping alive the teenth century, our country was entirely traditions of college experience, and in honorary degree of Doctor of Science. preoccupied 10 the development ot affording the encouragement which every Dr. Woo graduated in 1805 with the first dunes le resources, and the question or

mai so much needed. The highest func- a complicated system of business organition of the American University Club class to complete the work of the college zation. Ino mcrgy. ut our mercata

was to help, to ** krep together,'' and to course. After graduation he tunght for a and industrial leaders was cons otrated assist in the transformation of Chinese number of years at St. John's and at upon the development of the car society. Chipa was interesting herself in Nanyang. During this time he was pro- resources at home, a task which turrestry, in mining, in manufacturing, in minent in all educational movements in occupied their attention. The form of reads, khe was lu position to make Shanghai, and was instrumental in organization for doing business whica tremendous headway in developing her founding the Society of Commerce in the has since developed throughout the work t | resources. In this, such an association Native City, which later became, the is one which the broadest 102m of organi-ould also help. The men trained abroad Nantno Chamber of Commaren. In 1902

reed organization.

Dr. Wao went to England to pursue his hati) is ucceBATY KRAN

between the pariod when the indivi-CHEESE LECTURERS IN AMERICA. studies, graduating with honours and dual enterprise of Americans counted for

receiving the degree of Bachelor of A great deal would be done from the Metallurgy from Sheffield in 1907, In SINKING OF THE " PERSIAN."verything, and the period when exper- American side. The people at home, the following year Shefield granted him ence in organizing large enterprises although it was said they do not care the degree of Master of Melallurgy. Th could be utilized in developing our about affairs in China, actually By 1900 he entered the Hanyang Tron: Werks foreign trade, there lie aujout four or pathized with China and had a real five decades of comparative harronnis,interest in her progress.

as an assitant engineer, and of present occupies the nosition of General Super- during which the promise of the early

was there, an active interest, but a more interest of both the Hanyang and the activities of our people in the Far East thorough knowledge of China is needed. Tayeh Works, a spikes o was out realized. indeed, we always The speaker then referred to the need of

Dr. Wo responded obly, speaking to maintained a creditable plus, Chistese lecturers at American uniter- the gradinarea în China's groot need of dug datorprins did not dwuparsities and the good that such lecturers engineers, and advised those who had not in proportion to our national wealth, could do in creating interest in and vet chosen their life's work to think of

in the general increase of Westra diffusing knowledge of China in America,

-Japan had several snch lecturers in In inaugurating the new period, whe America to her great advantage, and it Americans will gogo in car Easter was his intention to recommend certain Comeres, not only as individual :-

Chinese to go to Amerien for that pur chant, but as utilizing the larg exper-pose. There was our Chinese for whom he had great respect, known sa the ablert nace in organization, which our counay has since acquired, the work planed for tis Chamber is an important matter. This is especially true because of the relation which exists in our country tween the government and the commer cial and Industrial activities. In Euro- Dean countries the relation between the government and the large banking insti- tutions, as well as the groat industries, is RO close that the latter always take their cue front the policy of the government, while the government itself looks upen them as lies in the task of developing national enterprise abroad.

MALTA, July 8th. The Perkins was off Crete when she lost a man overboard, and two hours later the Monmouthshire signalled that she had picked up the man. The Jon -A communiter states-There has been-|-monthchire approached the Persian, A British machine, although disabled,

an intermittent bombardment on the left which had stopped, and the Monmouth Fonght three hostile aeroplanes for and a fiores cannonade on the right of shire, in maneuvring, struck the twenty minutes, and returned safely.

Otherwise, the few enemy machines. goon were far behind the enemy trendlies. FURTHER BRITISH SUCCESSES.

LONDON, July 9th.

General Sir Douglas Haig reports:-- The fighting to-day has been chiefly on our extremis right, where we gained further important succeases

We stormed ding of trenches and gained a lodgement in the strongly. defcuded Trane's Wood, capturing 130

prisoners and several machine-guns.

W repulsed a strong counter-attack. We also appreciably advanced in the neighbourhood of Ovillers.:

BRITISH GUNS THUNDERING- ANXIETY OF GERMAN PUBLIC

LONDON, July 8th, Despatches from Paris state that the British

guns are again thundering along the whole front from the Sommo to Bel- gium, and their intensity is equal to last week. Tho Trench recognise that the British had not merely to meet the pick of the anemy forces but also had do face strongly fortified ridges, while the French profited by the division of the German rear by the broad valley of the Summe. But similar obstacles now confront the French

the Mouw.

SATISFACTORY PROGRESS.

AND FAVOURABLE PROSPECTS.

LONDON, July 9th. Renter's correspondent at Headquar tors, writing on Saturday evening, reviewing the progress, stated: We have pusled in the German salient between

Albert and the Somme to the greatest depth, there being an advance of three

∙miles..

Persian amidships, and she sank in to minutes. The Monmouthshire, which was damaged, Ims arrived here with the

crow.

UNIONISTS AND IRELAND. ·

PARTY SPLIT NOT LIKELY,

LONDON, July 8th.

At the instance of Mr. Bonar Law, no resolution was proposed at the Unionist meeting, which generally endorsed the attitude of the leadera. The fact that New six Unionist members of the Cabinet ware present is regarded as indicating that a split in the Party is not likely.

actives in Chun

most sought-after speaker of the he was there. The speaker mentioned no diplomatte corps at. Washington while name, but his remark caused a feheer, as he referred to Dr. Wa Ting-fang, who Daily Netes) was among the guesta (says the J-CA

FATAL FXPLOSION ATA

SHANGHAI.

MYSTERY OF FRENCH CONCESSION.

One man is dead and two men, three women, and three children are in St. Mary's Hospital on Route Pere Robert,

engineering

"HIGH-SCONDING WOLDS AND SHABBY DEEDS.

MR. ROOSEVELT'S INDICTMENT OF THE PRESIDENT.

We hold the villages of Monte Auban, Fricourt and Mametz and are well acrosy the outskirts of Contalmaison. We are | GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT, mers entirely depends upon the effe Shanghai, as the result of an explosion Ho has dulled the national consciencs

also Grmly established at the various. intervening tactically important points. We have taken upwards of 6,000 piis oners, 21 guns, 51 machine guns, etc.

The enemy's losses are most terrible. As an instance, the remnants of the 3rd Division of the Prussian Guards have been withdrawn, being no longer war- worthy. Priscuers say that the morale of the Guards was most shaken, includ ing that of the officers.

The spirit of the British is wonderful, thought the ground is a quagmire, and there are few stragglers in the attack, so eager are the men to get ot close quarters,

In America the govorament has not established that direct connection

con itself and the concentrated capital of the country, which enables the two to ent as one it foreign affairs. For this reason the future of our foreign co- tivoness with which private capital aid industry will be able to organize them selves effectively for the purpose of foreign work. A

Mr. McKinnon Wood, Secretary for Scotland, succeeds the Hon. Mr. Edwin Montagu as Under Secretary for India.

For organization at home and here, team work is absolutely neccesary, in Mr. Tennant is remaining in the House

order that American enterprise repre of Commons and succeeds Mr. McKinnonsenting individual initiative may have that guidance which will give it the own Wood

pact forms of co-operation exerted in his national Industries of our competitors in the fold. In this work the America merchants here, who possess OXPETIAUSI

MADRAS HIGH COURT DECISION REVERSED,

LONDON, July 8th.

The Privy Council have decided that the islands formed by the estuary of the Gedarri belong to the Crown, and have thus reversed the decision of the High Court of Madras în connection there-

with

publican Convention, last month, said:

Mr. Roosevelt, in a letter to the Re

I hope Republicans and ProgressTVCB will koup steadily in mind the gravity of this crisis not only for: America but also for the world. I hope their aim will be not merely to nominate a man who can be elected, but a man of such power, character, stedfast conviction, and proved ability that, if elected, ho will again place this nation where it be- longs by making it true to itself, and therefore true to all mankind bath

Mr. Wilson, however amiable his in- tentions, has rendered to this people the most evil service that can be rendered to a great Democracy, by its chosen leader,

occurred at 63, Avenue Marcel Tillot, în and, relaxed the spring of lofty nationsl the French Concession, at 234 p.m. on

motivo by teaching our people to accept July 2nd (says the N. Daily News) high-sounding worrie as an offset and No. 53, Avenue Marcel Tillot is, within atonement for shabby deeds, and to use two minats riesha ride of the police words which mean nothing in order to station in Avenue Joffre. It was a one- draw all meaning from those which have storey Chinese house, and the explosion | a meaning. It will be no cay task to was such a terrific one that the whole rouse the austere self-respect which has building was completely demolished, been lulled to slumber by there means. including roof, walls and floor. The To this task we should bend our united. houses on either side, Nos. 51 and 55, energies in the spirit of Washington and were considerably damaged.

Judging from the nature of the dead Lincoln. The differences which bar

dead divided good Americans of all political man's injuries it might be assumed thatboliste in the past angle sink into he was handling a bomb, or manufac The eight injured persons are turing one, at the time of the explosion nothing when compared with the issuve seriously injuret.

not

sained by direct contact with Chineas is only through these channels tlunt the affairs, have a great part to fulfill. I people hour can be given the oppor unity of realizing the condition of the few days previously six men were in commercial situation in China and toured when a bomb explosion occurred in become is with opportunities here an alleyway directly opposite and within home cly on sound and sagacious wired to the disowery that the place _existing. * *f the America interestë at a stone's throw of the sane police station,

coungel from this side, they will be more warabagh, factory, with three dozen Toads to commit themelves to larger enteleket bombs and mafiled tans in

Daily Neve

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now demanding attention. - If we are not all of us Americans and nothing else, then the nation will crumble into dust, and sooner or later submit to a con- queror's will. The profesional German- Convention not to cheat in good faith an Americans are seeking to terrorite your American President, but a viceroy of a foreim Government, “It is for you to repudiate them.