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THE

WAR.

GERMANY ADMITS RUSSIAN PRESSURE,

GENERAL LINSINGEN'S FORCES WITHDRAWING.

WEST KENTS DEFIANCE AT TRONE'S

WOOD.

HUGE ANGLO-FRENCH CAPTURES.

·RANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY.]

ENEMY WAR MATERIAL

CAPTURED.

(TAKOUGA REUTER'S AGENCY.] RUSSIANS REPULSE AN ATTACK

IN CHAMPAGNE, An enemy op de main against - a trench in the Russian sector in Chum-

HIS HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19m, 1916.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

ENEMY'S DESPERATE RESIS TANCE IN LUCK SALIENT.

PETROGRAD, July 18th.

(THROUGH (REUTER'S AGENCY.} MEDICAL REPORT ON MESOPOTAMIA.

*LONDON, July 18th. A communiqué shows that the fighting Sir H. Craik (C.), Mr. Austen Chamber

In the House of Commons, in reply to in Volhynia is partly eastward of Svin-lain, announced that he had asked the juchi, where we broke the enemy's re-

Viceroy of India to expedite the con- sistance,” and partly in the Lower Lipnsideration of the report on the medical Both are in the south-western sector of the Luck salient. It was at Lipa that the bulk of the prisoners and guns were captured, though here the enemy en tinues a desperate resistance. ITALIAN FRONT.

*

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) AUSTRIAN ATTACK REPULSED.

SEVERE HAND-TO-HAND

FIGHTING.

arrangements in Mesopotamia by the authorities in India, and address it to him, with their observations, as on as possible.

Sir H. Craik asked Were not the con tents of the report common knowledge Mr. Chamberlain replied-Quite pos bly, but they ought not to be so, because the report only reached the Raj quite recently, and he had not a copy himself. He emphasised that it was right that the Raj and the Imperial Government Garral Sir Douglas Haig reports:pagne was repulsed with Joss by a coun-attack, supported by concentrated artil-ing the report prior to publication. should have an opportunity of exäinite

He assured the House that everything It was entirely repulsed by a counter-possible was being done to ameliorate attack, after severe hand-to-hand fight the conditions. ing.

Mr. H. W. Forster (C.) stated that the War Office had complint with all the demands hitherto made.

LONDON, July 18th.

There has been incessant rain, and the ter-attack. heavy moist again interfered with our uperations. Nothing important happen -ed todays. More prisoners were captured in local actions. The total is now 190 officers and 10,778 st. The captured

guns include 17 heary guns, 37 frld

guns, and many others which have not. get bren counted. The heavy pinces in cluch five eight-inch, three six-inch howitzers, four six-inch and five other heavy guns.

Also #0 trench-mortars, 63 machine-guns, and many thousand runks of gun munition. The above is exclusive of the many guns destroyed and abandoned by "the energy.

farther importatil successes,

AT VERDUN,

PARIS. July 17th.

A communiqué states: The night was comparatively quiet at Verdun, except » lively fullade at Hill 201

Detachments of our troops progressed- west of Flury and captured thre machine-guns.

Two

attacks south-east enemy

of Noueny and Lorraine were repulsed and prisoners were taken.

QUIET IN FLEURY SECTOR.

PARIS, July 16th.

The weather is atrocious. CAPTURED DOCUMENTS REVEAL ENEMY LOSES.

A communiqué states:-On the right Gonsal Sir Douglas Haig reports of the Meuse the artillery duel continued We storm in the region of Bouville. We have ed and captured the German second-token 200 prisoners in the Fleury sector, Jine on 'n front of 1,500 yards north-west There has been comparative quiet on the of Bazantine le Petit, and we still further rest of the front, widened the gap in the German second- line Lenst of Longueval by capturing thự strongly-defended

position at

Water. Faru There has Jena, continuous "hand-to-hand fighting on our left flank in Ovillers and La Boisselle, where wo captured the enemy strongholds, together with ·1224 Guardsmen forming remnant of the whole garrison." The whole of Ovillers and La Boisselle are mow, in our hands.

HEROIC WEST KENTS.

the

ROME, July 17th. A communiqué states:-A heavy enemy

Jery fire, was made in the Upper Posina

GENERAL.

(THROUGH REQTER'S AGENCY.] H.L.G M'F. "DEUTSCHLAND." FORTHCOMING DEPARTURE.

New York, July 18th, Excitement prevails over the forthcom- ing departure of the German submer sible merchantman Deutschland.

WHAT GERMANY WANTS.

THE MEANING OF VERDUN,

[BY LOVAT FRASER.]

It cannot be urged us often that we are probably approaching the climax of the war and ought to be concentrating all our thoughts upon it.

feast mean that its end is necessarily The climax of the war dues nos in the

approaching. 1t news that the war

may then take a course which may prove analterable.

nut

The cardinal factor in the present sit uation is the increasing desperation of the Germanic Powers. They are quite so short of food or of men as the British public secins to think; but the are straining every nerve to scener à decision and impose peace on their uner terms before heat winter, If they attain their object the world will be under the heel of the Prussian jack-boot ten years hence.

AMERICA FIRS

MR. WILSON ON THE AIMS OF THE

UNITED STATES.

Intimating that America exprets ta play a part in the European peace settle- ment and giving a definition of mili tarism which seemed to apply directly to graduating glass Germany, President Wilson delivered long address at West Point to the of the Military Academy. Mr. Wilson asserted that the America speaks she theaus what she says. world was going to know that when He pleaded for preparedness, and added':---

"No man can certainly tell you what the immediate fature is going to be, either in the history of this country or by accident that the present great war in the history of the world, It is not came in Eariaque

to

1780

there, and the Cutest land to one was

Every element or later. It is not going to be by acci by "the purpose of men who are strong dent that the results are worked out, but enough to have guiding minds and in- As a consequence of thy latest develop domitable wills when the time for deci- ments the movements of the war, growsion and settlement comes. less obscuro; but note that none of the great events of the last month was clearly

"The part the United States is to play foreseen. Nothing that was expected be in any event a disinterested part. has this distinction in it, that it is to happened; everything that did happen There is no danger of militarism in Anie- have been the naval battle of Jutland, of view; it is a system; it is a purpose. was unexpected.. The four great events rien. Militarism is a spirit, is is a point the renewal in fiercer form of the German The purpose of militarism is attacks b Verdun, the formidable farmies Austrian offensive in the Trentino, and | militarism is the opposite of the civilian for aggression; the spirit of the smashing of the Austrian eastern spirit. front by the Russians. Not one of these events figured in the current predictions. We see now that the interminable battle of Verdun is neither lost oor won. We KITCHENER MEMORIAL FUND see that the Germans appear to be stak

ing their fortunes upon it, and that on the whole they have gained LONDON, July 17th.

good deal Over £18,000 have been received to-burg must be fuming, for his offensive of ground, and last very little. Hinden-

wards the Kitchener Memorial Fund.

in Courland has been delayed and its prospects have beci impaired, H.RH PRINCE OF WALES.

LONDON, July 17th. The Prince of Wales bas been gazeiter Deputy Assistant Master General.

!!

A message from Herr Jagow, the Ger

British are dastardly enough to sink the man Foreign Secretary, says: If the

Deutschland, the United States are ETON'S NEW HEADMASTER bound to protest in the nanie of civilisa

Lonzo, July 18th. tion and humanity."

The Rev. Mr. C. A. Alington, at pro nt Headmaster of Shrewsbury School, has been elected Headmaster of Eton, in

KETTING AGAINST SAFE

RETURN.

prevails the military man looks down In a country where militarism upon the civilian, regards him, as in- ferior, thinks of him as intended for the military man's support and use, and just as long as America is America that spirit is impossible with us.

a very small number, whom we have "We have been disturbed recently because some of those, though 1 believe drawn into our citizenship have loved other countries more than the country of their adoption. known that nobody who does

We ought to let it be not pat are ready to join other nations of the America first can consort with us. We world in seeing that kind of justice pre- vails anywhere that we believe in- Times.

WAR NEWS.

FRUITS OF THE NAVAL BATTLE.

Ford Beresford, speaking at the Man- would be the turning point of the war sion House, said the North Sea battle if the Government would only put on a If it had been done at first the war would strong, rigid, and effective blockade now. have been over months ago.

We ought to he regarding Yerden very seriously. It concerns England as if timately as France. The fact that our Allies have ample lines of fresh defences weet of the Meuse would not alter both the military and the moral effect of the Quarterfall of Verdun. The immediate military

seek to carry the uncaptured Heights of effect would probably be that the Ger mans would take advantage of the gate they have long held at St. Mihiel and the Meuse between that town

and Verdun. The larger moral effect would have deeper significance. Verdun is by beat-defended position actually forming common consent the strongest and the. part of the western front. Germain attacked it we thought they When the were mad, and wondered why they did not select a wenker sector. We may now assume that they chose Verdun with calculated deliberation. INCIDENT AT KARACHI?.

Verdun is the only fortress which directly bars the way *LoxDON, July 18th.

to Paris.

If the blockade had been put on the They wanted to show what first day of the war it would have been they could do, and to impress the Allies according to international law, In the House of Commons, Mr. Austen and the whole world. The task is taking difoulties began when we did not put Chamberlain stated that he had been

far longer and costing infinitely mors it on and allowed neutrals to emback on Our than they ever expected, but the motive contracts involving an enormous expen- telegraphically informed of a lamentable tured wis can conceive the German Chan-

begins to emerge. Should Verdun he cap-diture of money. incident at Karachi, and that he bad ask-, cellor saying next day: You see what ed for a full report. Meanwhile, stops peace 1

And now. can do.

what about had been taken to ensure that the troopant we may trust it will never be taken; Verdun is still very far from falling, Will not be removed by rail from Karachi to Northern India under sach conditions

The Captain is trying to secure Amori succession to the Rev. Hon. Edward

Lyttelton. can passenger safeguards. In view of the Pro-Germans boasts, British sports men have offered to accept up to five thousand sterling all the pro-German money at 50 to I against the vessel's

arrival in Bremen.

LONDON, July 17th. General Sir Douglas Haig quotes from. the captured documents showing the heaviest enemy casualtica. These consist of appeals for reinforcements, mostly from Company commanders,

THE IBISHI SITUATION. all Bavarian

-Ono

says:-"Owing.

HOME RULE AMENDING BILL. tu exhaustion, the men cannot be counted

LONDON, July 17th. upon in case of attack. The Company

In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith strength is

une officer and twelve-announced that the Home Rule Amend Another says: My Companying Bill would be introduced before then the lut weather... tera relates the following stirring in-bas completely lost its fighting value Recess, and that a permanent settlement cident: The West Kents, whe held out owing to the heaviest and most intense of the Irish Question would be consider. at Trone's Wood, numbered a hundred artillery fire. Relief is urgently requested by the Imperial Conference after the men and were commanded by a Cap-|ed.". But the following, from the second war. tain. They accounted for a hundred and ; battalion to the third battalion of the fifty of the enemy before being rieved.

LONDON, July 17th.

Renter's Currespondent at Headquar-men.

WOULD RATHER DIE THAN SURRENDER.

The correspondent of the Eeka de Paris says that when the West Kents vere ent off they managed to creep to a

Sixteenth Bavarian Infantry, is the most striking-The battalion consists, of three oficers, two not-coms, and nine- teen men."

MOSNIA &

FRUNI (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE IMPERIAL UNIONIST ASSOCIATION.

LONDON, July 15th, The Imperial Committee, rechristened the "Imperial Unionist Association," watches the negotiations between the Government and the Nationalists.

* Received today,

EX-POLITICAL PRISONERS.

REPRESENTATIONS

GOVERNMENT OF CHINA.

TO

THE

we

a

but the outcome of the immense struggle will affect us all. It presents to us grave and perhaps a vital issue.

*

The great and gratifying surprise of the early summer has been the tre mendous blow struck by Russia at the Austrian armies on the eastern front. All the winter people were discussing whether the Austro-German forces would march apon Petrograd or upon Odessa in the spring. No one, to my knowledge, ever suggested that this year'a.

campaign would open with the headlong rout of the

FISH-SHAPED ZEPPELIN.

AAN. TORPEDOES WITH NINE MILKS RANGE.

A

The Nieuwe Couruat publishes from a correspondent

in Zurich detailed description of the newly "super Zepelin” which has just been. completed inhabitants of the shores of Lake Con- making trial trips over the heads of the stance.

Over thirty persons, who have just / Austrians (who had not got their best carry a crew of from thirty to forty mon

all fort without being noticed by the GREAT RUSSIAN CAPTURES Seventy-six peers and 95 members of the Hested to order General Lai Cheng sorbed by our own battle of Loos, and œuvring over vessels provided with anti-

eruans Subsequently a German pat- of approached. The West Kents

PETROGRAD, July 17th.

An official communiqué says:--Yester- day the Russians captured in Volbynia, 317 officers, 12,037 men, and 30 guns. The latter included 17 heavy guns. RUSSIAN PRESSURE TOWARDS LEMBERG.

GERMAN ADMISSIONS.

AMSTERDAM, July 17th.

lowed them to advance to within a few ards and then rushed out and bayonet them. Nothing further transpired til the evening, when a German column, ite way to the battle, chose the fort its quarters. The West Kents tacked the Germans, who, panic ficken, flod, abandoning their armë, inforcements, however,

Fearrived and enemy encircled the West Kents, o fought most desperately for twenty rbours repulsing a score of attempts storm the fort. Finally, the Germans hind the Lips, a handed their surrender, but the West nts replied that they would rather dic Germans were preparing for a mass uft when the British relieved the

Kents.

FRENCH SUCCESSES. IG CAPTURES OF MEN AND

MUNITIONS.

July 17th.

e French captures on the Somme

A Ceriau offcial announcement makes the important admission that General Linsingen's forces, which are operating south-west of Latsk, have withdrawn be-

to north-west of Brody, on the Galician tributary of the Styr,

frontier. This indicates more Russian pressure towards Lenberg. RUSSIAN

acute

CAVALRY

ADVANCING.

PETROGRAD, July 18th. North-west of Kimpolung the Russian Cavalry are advancing on the Kirlibaba Pass, in the Carpathians, in the direc

o July 13th include 236 officers, 11,970 tion of Maramarossziget,

85 guna, 99 machine-guns, and 26 nwerfer. These do not include the rial buried in the wrecked trenches. gups were incdiately turned. ast the enemy.

BAIBURT BURNING.

PETROGEAD, July 18th. The retreating Turks set fire to Bai-

burt:

The new airship, it is said, is specially It differs materially in dimensions and designed for us against ships at sea. construction from previous Zeppelin. It is fis-shaped and of great length in proportion to its diameter. It has envelope and four gondolas, and cau twenty-four ballonels within the outer been released from the Chi Fa Chu er

troops in Russia). prisoned for political offences by order wore staggered by the imposing Austro-speed of miles an hour. The steering Martial Court, where they had been im-

In the west last year we never properly

and an enormous quantity of bombs, understood the Russian campaign. We 4,000-horse power, giving a maximum The motors can develop from 3,000 to of Yuan Shik-kai, bavo, held a meeting, tuanding, among other things:-* at which resolutions were adopted de-

Gorman sweep through Galicis, and by apparatus, which differs from that of the the way Warsaw and one Russian fort- other Zeppelins, is so perfected that the ress after another fell like a set of ship can turn on its own axis in half a That the Government should be rem

ninepins. Then our attention was ab-minute, a material advantage in man- chun, the Chief of the Chi Fa Chu or Poking Martial Court, to issue a state Gernian offensive slackening and dying

we hardly noticed the immense Austro-aircraft guns. prisoners were convicted an executed When our Russian friends insisted that The airship will carry ment disclosing the reasons why pulitic away in the Russian swamps and forests.

At the sides of the envelope platformos

by the Authorities concerned upon and

are built on which to place small and that the personal effects of the pri Germany had failed on their front we of a kind designed by a Swedish inven-

air torpedoes

guns. Funers, which were seized and confiscated did not grasp what they meant.

tor, Major Junge, which can be fired a their respective owners, in default of known to us as the Pripet Marshes, in after their arrest, should be returned to as the great and mysterious marshland 120lb. of explosives.

The chief cause of the German failuro distance of 9 miles. They each contain which adequat compensation should be paid; that an account of vach prisoner's name is Poliesie, and it was the original the heart of West Russia. Its correct life, past career, illegal arrest and meal home of the Slave From the impas BRITAIN'S HUGE WAR

treatment by the Yuan Administration sable morasses the Blavs have spread and should be published; and that the re-multiplied, and in their dim recesses EXPENDITUR &

mains of aff those who have either died they developed the dreamy and imagina in the prison of the Chi Fa Chu or were SIX MILLION DAILY.

tive qualities which mark their countless executed by the said Court should be descendants, gathered together and a proper spot LONDON, July 18th,

McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer,

selected for a common burial ground, Mr where some tablet should be erected in

int mated that Great Britain's total daily expenditure now amounted to £6,000,000

House of Commons have so far joined the Association. Lord Salisbury preid when it was resolved that the Association ed at a meeting held yesterday evening,

are viewing with apprehension the establishment of the Irish Parliament Executive.

In the House of Commons,

PREMIER HUGHES (N IMPERIALISM,

memory of the dead

"THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE SHOULD BE VOICED.”

BAN ON REPUBLICAN NEWS- PAPERS REMOVED.

GREAT WAR-AFTER-THE-WAR ALLIANCE.

pire's

in Germany's scheme for the War-after- By far the most significant manœuvre the War is the amalgamation of the Fra- The enemy hoped to concludo a sepa rate peace with Russia when they took raised body called "German League of

engineering brains" in one cen Warsaw and Brest Litevsk, which shows tions."

Engineering and

Economic Associ how little they knew the unconquerable leading institutions:--

It comprises the following six spirit of the Czar and his people. When they pressed onward in the late autuma

Society of German Engineers, it to seize and hold the one railway-line Bociety of German Blast Furnacemer.

was absolutely imperative for them

Society of German Architects, Design-

era, and Builders. running north and south through the marshes and linking up Vilna and

Bociety of German Chemists. Rovno. They never got it, for the invin

Bociety of Electrical Engineers. cible marsh defeated them, and they are

Society of Shipbuilding Engineers.. feeling the consequences to-day.

The combination will represent a mem- Germans are Borth of the marshes, the incorporate

The bership of 60,000 and can justly claim to Eighteen Republican papers, which

scientific and The Hon. Mr. Hughes, Premier of Aus-Shiu-kui régime in China, have been re division has been fatal to their joint worthy of more than passing note-has esme under the ban of the late Yeanctions are circuitous, and the first presidency of the new league a fact The

visited Capetown, Bloemfontein, and Some of the papers were forbidden to be tralia, passing through South Africa, stored their rights of publication by an purpose.

order issued by the Ministry of Interior,

why we been given to Privy Councillor Professor The Russians have now shattered the Dr. Busley, managing director of the Kimberley, where he delivered strongly sold or mailed in Chinese territory, hurled the Austrians from an elaborately of the Kaiser and Herr Ballin, is a dis- Austrian front, and the most remarkable Schichau warship building plant at feature of their exploit is that they Danzig. Dr. Basley, an intimate friend Imperialistic speeches.

while others were refused registration at the Post Office on account of their sovere

entrenched line. If they can reach Kovel tinguished marine engineer, who has been General Louis Botha, who is on a visit criticism of the Yuan administration and general falling back of the Austrianly constructional side of the German as well as Dubno they must compel a as conspicuously identified with the pure to German East Africa, was asble to to these papers their rights of publica dispositions in the north. But it is in- and Ballin respectively have been with the monarchist movement. In restoring armies, and perhaps affect Hindenburg's Navy and merchant marine as Tirpitz meet the distinguished visitor.

tion, etc., the order of the Ministry of conceivable that their cavalry is within their general development. It is openly Interior says "The present situation Mr. Hughes has now sailed for Aus demands that the will of the people ought to shed the foolish habit of expect league of all the talents has been organ is- eighteen miles of Lemberg, and we acknowledged in Germany that the should be voiced and public opmion helping Muscovite miracles once a week. As ed to confront the great new tasks ed to make itself felt."

it is, they are doing wonders.

which the present era conjures up.”

tralia

LONDON, July 18th-

Austrians are south of them. Their com engineering talents of Germany.

all the