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THE WAR.

FRENCH RESUME OFFENSIVE ON

SOMME.

BRITISH AND FRENCH CAPTURE ENEMY LINES.

RUSSIANS HELD UP BY BOTHMER.

ITALIANS CONTINUE TO SECURE GAINS.

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

AUSSIAN FRUNT.

(THROUGH PIUTER'S AGINCE.}-

KED 9349KONG DAILY PRESS, FEJOAY, AUGUST 18cm, 1918.

"[THEGUGT REUTER'S AGENCY.]

GOVERNMENT AND FRYATT

MURDER.

NO INTERCOURSE TILL HUNS MAKE REPARATION.

THE AMERICAN MAIL FOR THE ETAICS OF LYING.

HONGKONG.

CHINESE NEWS.

OVERSEA CHINESE.

5

fur

J'en

The German excuse for lying about BAGS INTERFERED WITH. - their losses in the Battle of Jutland seems

The Society for the correspondence of to us to be rather more reasonable, from the oversea Chinese has been When the ss. Tjisanduri, carrying the an ethical point of view than has gen mally established, and many Amerieži mail, arrived in Hongkong erally been admitted in this country. turned Oversea Chinose merchants have already registered their names | yesterday, the Captain reported, that the The Be may have been-indeed," it_esh- LONDON, August 16th.

there. Messrs, Pai Ping:chow and mail bags had, been interfered with viously was a political inepitude. But, By the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith during the voyage. While the vessel was reasons, it is surely as defensible on

in so far as it was dictated by militarytatives of oversea Chinese merchants have Li Han-ju in their capacity as represen said that the Government was deter sen it was discovered that the mail moral grounds as most acts of war. The addressed R petition to the Cabinet mined that it would not tolerate the bag for Hongkong and the bag for orals of war are not the morals of paternment to invite the everse merchants pointing out the necessity for the Gov In war, "killing is no longer murder, resumption of diplomatic intercourse Manila had been cut open and ransacked, deception becomes a duty, and thousands to return to China/in order to take up with Germany after the war, till reparand up to the present it is not know of actions are performed every day with various in ustrial works and to invest the capital in their mother country. tion had been made for the murder of what theft, if any, has taken place. The good conscience, such as in tune of

would send one to the gallows or Mr. Hsu Shih-yin, Minister of Com Captain susperts some members of the the gach, Das not a diplomatist beenmunications, has sont telegrams to rew; though a passenger by the vessel described as one who is sent abroad Messrs. Huang Chunghar and a few pro- was also detained for some time and belongs to times of peace,

e for his country! Yet the diplomatist - benent. Chinese merchants in the Straits 2. I even he Settlements inviting them to return to examined by the Chief Detective Tuspine cannot afford the candid, how can we Ching to take up enterprises of naviga- expect the whole alphabet of truth from

f'on, railway, etc. for at Hongkong. No arrests have yet statesman who is conducting a great

CHINESE SALVATION" FUND,

Captain Fryatt..

Continuing, Mr. Asquith said that subwof the Allies had suffered grosser and more extended brutalitijs than our

MINOR FIGHTS AT POZIERES. BRUSILOFF'S BUGE CAPTURES selves, at the bands of the Germans. We

HEAVY SHELLING ALL. NIGHT.

LONDON, August 16th.

OFFICIAL-ANNOUNCEMENT.

LONDON. August 16th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- { " According to a Russian official, ciri- aquiqué, staten :---The situation in the winement, during the period from region between the Auere and the Somane June file to the 12th inst., General Brus is unchanged, save for minor infantry ailoff captured 7,757 officers, 35,845 men, -engagements in the vicinity of Pozieres. 405 guns. 1,326 amchine gens and much

There was some mutual heavy shelling other material. the whole night long. "NOTHING SPECIAL TO REPORT."

LONDON, August 17th..

The evening communiqué states tha there is withing special to report, ARTILLERY LIVELINESS ON FRENCH LINES.

BELFORT AGAIN BOMBED.

PARIS, August 10th:

A camuriniqué states: During thy night there was a calm on most of the front.

There was a lively bombardowat at Thinurmint Fleury and Vaux Chapitre Enemy autoplanes bombed Belfort There, wow no victims

FRENCH RESUME OFFENSIVE.

“2 Paris, August, 17th, A communique states:- The French bave regimed thus offensive in the Home region.

This afternoon after

intense carmona, the French made important Kaink

The French, in conjunction with the British, north of the Bonime eitpturer a whole tine of Gerinau trenches on 'à' front' extending, to a milë, SYSTEM OF TRENCHES RESHED. Simultaneously, the French south of the Sumine pajared in one rush a system of powerfully fortified trenches 471 रा

BOTHMER'S DESPERATE

RESISTANCE.

RUSSIAN PRESSURE AND GAINS..

Perroogau, August 16th.

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migation of the tampered mail bags. The vessel encried. 655 bags of mails front. San Francisco.

war by

been made, but the crew are being kent At the same time, we do continue to were now consulting the Allies as to the under strict surveillance pending a judge statesmen even during a most effective stops to be taken and what conditions should be exacted in the peace terms to seepre reparation, satisfying justier. (Loud cluers.)

AMERICAN NAVAL BILL. CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME

APPROVED.

The Naval Bill 138

SHORT SHRIFT TO REBELS

AT HANKOW.

AN INSIGHT INTO THEIR

METHODS.

tion endure

ד'

SIR EDWARD MORRIS.

NEWFOUNDLAND PREMIER'S SPEECH TO AMERICANS.

a certain standard of truthfulness. Just The Association for the Raising of as we regard killing for the purposes of Salvation Funds in Peking bas received the war as legitimate and killing for any many letters from the public demanding other end even by soldiers as no better the repayment of the same to the persons than butchery, we are constantly 'seeking who contributed their money for that to limit the right to lic, and we woulif purpose. It was originally stipulated it statesman who became that if the said Association could not ko habitual diar or lied, so to speak, uneces raise the amount of $50,000,000 at a cer- sarily, as A degraded person. We ain axed period all the moneys received instinctively respect the statesman who from te public would be refunded with can be trusted to speak the truth beyond interest, but the promise has not been statesmen of greater brilliance who use observed although the association failed truth and Falsehood as mere instruments to raise the above amount. The follow- Washinoros, August 18th,

of policy. We like policy, but we do not

ing is one of the letters sent to the like too much policy. – Policy, we know, Reuter's Correspondent at Washington

may be pleaded as an excuse for Nero' Association by the subscribers: W The Cutral China Post says: The murder of his mother or for the violation have observed in your notice that the states: The House of Representatives raising of a foreign flag over premises of Belgium or for any crime in history.

Salvation funds are still deposited has approved of the Senate's three years' wholly upied by Cheld the Con Let a man subordinate moral scruple to the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications, but the point, we desire policy sufficiently, and there is no reason Naval construction programme, includ-sal of the Power concerned in complain why be should not end by becoming like to know is, how will those funds be dis A communiqué indicates that, Generaling the immediate building of four

and resulted in the discovery of a revolua Borgia, or any common sit-throat, posed of. The Association in Poking was tions entre right in the heart of the Hence our dread of the unscrupulous established soon after the movement was von Bothauer is desperately resisting the dreadnoughts and four battle cruisers.

French Coneession, heir day the liar.. The English once cut off the beadtarted in Shanghai, and the Shanghai Cónsul cür question seeing his national of their King because be was such a liar.

Association after its failure to raise the Russian advance. He has succeeded in "The "personnel of the Navy will be in- fing flying over the torner premises of One cannot be loyal to a liar, because one fixed amount has refunded the 'money checking the Russians to the west of creased to 71,000.

The Hankoy Doily Arms, opposite the cannot trust a liar to be loyal in his turn to the subscribers. If the Pyking branch Hankow Hotel, desired the American to his obligations. The Gernians them; does not like to follow the example set Zlota Lipa and south of Brezany)–– But

EXPENDITURE INCREASED TO Consul to approzes, the German authori selves la empat to by Shanghai Office, it should make a de the Russians are progressing between the

ties for the

removal. On inquiry loyalty to pledges if not of loyalty to claration regarding the disposal of the £79,600,000.

it was found that the Hankee Daily treaties, No one has praised this kind funds entrusted to it by the public, which mouths of the Ziota Lipa and the

Yere had subleased the premises to a of truthfulness-this keeping of one has all the time been anxious to know WASHINGTON, August 10th.. 'supposed Chinese mining unn, who hail † pledged word - "more"

fervently than whether the funds will be funded to Dneister and have occupied the littl

abtained permission to work Buder the Traitschke. Of the oath of allegiance them as promised, or whether they should town of Zoliavina on the Bistryes river. Sente, provides for the expenditure of authorities, working, tarangh the Ameri-

passed by the name of leal foreigner. The Frenel writes:-

The maintenance of its sanelity inutilized for any other useful purpoнns. Under The Russian pressure the enemy £79,000,000 sterling in thrie years.

can Consul, gave the Chinese resident a truth and honesty is always a sure so love their country, it is a great crime As the people have just begun to learn certain time to quit, and set a watch on of the high moral worth of a nation. is retiring from thi Deluty and

This is t0,000,000 - more than the ex-

the house to prey at anything being Soon after the War of Liberation, to nip their patriotism in the bud Vorehta regions.

taken away.

During the night about Schleirmacher made a very pertinent re penditure previously provided by the

(wenty nalives left the house, inat mark about the old German Confedera LINES OF ENEMY'S RETREAT,

Wednesday morning two made an at- Lion. རྩྭ་ What makes this senseless situa House of Representatives.........

tempt to slink out with a box and port-

at all? he askel. PETROGRAD. August 17th.

matrau ENVOY TO THE VATICAN.

These were arrested and the Nothing but the integrity of the Ger Military authorities indicate that there

goods taken to the French police station man people." The firm grip upon duty. for examination. It was discovered that morals, and enstoms, even to the point of. are three lines by which the enemy zmíny,

LONDON, August 17th.

the packages largely contabed revolu prejudice and narrow mindedness, is at retrat în Gaulicía; namely, the Taft Count De Balis has been appointed tionary literature, but there was also the root of German character.

qtátity of sinali anus, ammunition, and The truthfulness of the loyal man, in

Sir Edward Morris, Premier of New- Wing along the Tarnopol-Lemberg road, | Special Envoy tự the Vaticani, in succes- a vase of chemicals for the manufacture deed, is a virtue which appeals even tør foundland, was the guest at luncheon of explosives with the recipe. An ex- the pagan, às in the case of the Roman recently of the American Lunelicon Club the Centre towards Brezany, and the sion to Mr. E. W. Howard, CVO, amination of the premises did not bring prisoner, Pomponius, who was brought in London. Prime Minister for eight Pomponius, a years, a member of the Cabinet for nny further evidence of war-like intent before Mithridates. to light, but it was very obvious that the man of some note" Plutarch tells us, was twenty years. Sir Edward is one of the house was given over for accommodating taken wounded: nnd sore and in pain as vigorous little Dominion's most versatile a large number of Chinese. Meanwhile he was, was carried before Mithridates, and energetic personalities. the two natives who tried to escape with and asked by the king if he would become

Replying to the teast of his health, the revolutionary goods are being kept his friend, if he saved his life, H under lock and key.

Answered. Yes, if you become reconciled cordially honoured by a gathering of 300, In the House of Commons, the Exten there comes to light a story which shows Mithridates, we are told, admiring his we were ready now, we had got the men Among the gumerous recent arresist the Romans; if not your enemye spoke of the two years of war we were now reaching as our time of preparation, sion of the Life of Parliament Bill and the working of the present Saviours loyalty and frankness, did him no injury. the Registration Bill passed their second of the country. Information was receiv- There you have the ideal of the and the guns, and when we started some reading.

ed by the French authorities at the elgination. Pomponius would have been toe would get badly hurt. (Cherrs an of last week of a large gathering of “re- orgotten two thousands years ago if so laughter.) He had, just come from the SITUATION IN MESOPOTAMIA, heck of the concession.

volutionaries " at 48 San Teh Lee at the fine a story had not been told about him. Buited States. The lending man 11:

A raid was Car-

And yet in our hearts we know that there very walk of life there were with us in ried out and twenty-seven natives, were are circurosances in which we would not the light. What the Empire had now. tuye Losos, August 17th.

chught in one room, During the inter- think it right to be truhful. The most keep in mind was how best to consolidate

obvious case of this is that which was its many outposts after the war. rogation which followed, suspicion was An official communign states that the raised by the ravements of a youngster put, we think, to Tolstoy-the case of a would have to maintain an Army and a situation in Mesopotamia is quite un whom it was evident the others were

man who saw someone flying from a mur- Navy which would command the respect wanting to keep back. On being asked. derer and was afterwards asked by the of our present Allies. They must be changed,

the youngster told his story. He was a murderer whether his intended victim has drawn from the whole Empire and maiu- MADRAS GOVERNMENT AND force a relative to pay Thx 8,000.

hostage held by the revolutionaries to passed that way. Few of us would

tained by the Empire. (Applause.) He hesitate on such an occasion to tell a lie

We must have an Empira tariff which “NEW INDIA."

We would feel was captured down at Hwangking, where as big as a mountain. his family were practically exterminated Morality in such circumstances is rightly self-supporting, and ensure to the pri

that

we were justified by necessityist resources in raw material, make us would encourage the development of our by the so-called revolutionaritable held to consist in acting from a decentnor & proper return for his enterpris maltreatment by the leaders. This motive. women-folk being subjected young man is a seart relative of a rich duty is clearly a different thing from and to the worker a ceomfortable, life. merchant in Peking so was spared to telling a lie through malice or covarilice. Hear, hear.") Never again at th held as hostage till the demanded con-

There is a humbug of truthfulness as well Empire be unprepared for her enemies. tribution to the caase came along. He as of mendacity. It may be even a very had been taken to Hankow where he had disagreenble vice, as in the case of the been held a prison for six days. Dur Emperor Tiberius, who would not pre- ing this time he had been cruelly treated,

tend a grief he did not feel over the death

A wireless press message from Paris his arms were cut, and he obtained only of his son Drusus. Nay, more, when a quotes a manifesto published in Rotter deputation from Iliuin offered him some-

dam by the German, Humanity Lengue, one bowl of rice a day for food.

The other natives in the room were what belated condolences, he replied with

and bearing augst other signatures thereupon arrested and, quickly follow a sanile, as if the memory of his berave

those of Karl Bernstein and Emil Gott, ing on the evidence obtained, the French meat had faded from his mind, that they offered Tier Liebknecht his liberty and as stating that the German Emperor -pelier soon captured other six men,

too, had his sympathy for the loss of their en ident among whom was the leader of the party,

follow citizen Hector" a pardon on condition, that he would a man called Ma Chih-chou. When This is candour in excess. One weeks promise to maintain silence until the brought before the boy, he had maltreated, refuge from it in honest hypocrisy. The end of the war. This condition Herr

Liebknecht courageously refused. Ma grovelled and cried for merey but convention of being aggreable is an ex- ties and has now been shot along with was handed over to the Chinese authoricellent convention, and one must su-far

as is possible square truth with it, some twenty-ons of his fellow-conspira- Even in deceiving the world, however, pose, shows that in this matter there is

Right Wing towards Halicz. The Rus-

sans are only six miles from the latter.

General Bothumor and General Ermali are vigorously resisting General Suk hncoff's outflanking effort.

BOTH MER HOLDING RUSSIANS.

In the Sereth region the Russians are still being held up by General Bothater in the middle course of the Zinta LiP but farther south the Russians hold bot by

front of, tíselve hundred metres south af hunks for sixteen wiles, and are continu Belloy en Santerre,

GERMAN POSITIONE CAPTURED.

Aflée capturing a mile of trenches Morth of Maurepas the British and French troops at certain points reached the Guillemont-Maurepas road.

In addition, south of Maurepas, all the German positions east of the Maurepas Pery road were captared in a front, of two kilometres to a depth of 300-500! actres, after a fierce fight, in which the eneity fost very huavily.

Both operations were brilliantly con ducted and rapidly excented, and many prisoners were taken, in addition to on captured south of the Somne,

ITALIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

ITALIANS CAPTURE

TRENCHES. AERIAL ATTACK, WITH "GOOD RESULTS."

ROME, August 16th. A communiqué, states:We captured trenches on Mount Pecinka, the Carso Plateau and cast of Gorizia.. We took 3:50 prisoners.

Ehemy attacks on the remainder of the front were repulsed.

An Italian air-squadron dropped two and a half tons of explosives on the rail- way and military establishments, near the important stations of Pryàcina and Dornberg, with good results. NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

(THROUGH BUTER'S AGENCY.] MERCHANTMEN SUNK.

Lostos, August 17th. The steamers Pugasarri (Spanish), San Giovanni Battista (Italian) and several sailing ships have been sunk.

ing to cross,

GENERAL

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE AFFRAY AT CIUNG

CHIA TỪNG

OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF CASUALTIES.

Tokio, August 18th.

C.M.C

LIFE OF PARLIAMENT AND REGISTRATION BILLS.

LONDON, August 17th.

LONDON, August 17th.

In the House of Commons, in reply 10 Mr. P. Showden. Mr. Austen ham berlain said that he was nat prepared to interfere with "the action of the Govern It is officially announced that nine ment of Magiras regarding the paper Japaniei soldiers were killed and awon | Fru Jadiu. He was not aware that wounded and a civilian and a policeman every paper of standing had protested or also killed at Ching Chia Tung. The that the sction had created indignation

throughout India, Chinese casualties are believed to be over fifty. The encounter continued through out the night and morning of the 13th arid 14th inst.

Chang, the Governor of Mukden, on receiving the report, immediately order ed the Chinese to cease. He visited the Japanese Consul and expressed regret. JUDGE HUGHES AND PRESI DENT WILSON.

PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN POLICY DENOUNCED),

NEW YORK, August 16th Judge Hughes is continuing his attacks on President Wilson's foreign policy. He declared that he would, wage war unflinchingly if necessary to protect American lives and property,"

RUSSIAN MILITARY

APPOINTMENT.

PETROGRAD, August 17th." General Russky has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Armies, in sucression to General Kuropatkin.

NEW BRITISH MINISTER TO

DENMARK.

Health

has

LONDON, August 17th. Sir Ralph Paget has been appointed British Minister to Denmark.

PLAGUE IN ENGLAND.

LONDON, August 17th There have been three cases of bubonic plagne at Bristol.

The Medical Officer of been deliberately infected. JAPANESE PRINCE VISITING PETROGRAD.

Tox10, August 17th. Prince Tan-In is proceeding to Petro Duke grad to return the visit of the Grand

tora.

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To tell a lie from a sense of

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we hate that it should be done except in

a very delicate line drawn somewhere minimum degree. We forgive Scott between vice and virtue. for disclaiming the authorship of the could draw that line on a map; all wo None of us Waverley Novels, because we feel that can say is that we know when someone the outside world had no right to intrede

Some of the places raided were regular arsenals with arms and ammunition, the short 10 allow of their being carried mauser pistols being generally sawn of about. Among other things epauletes for upon his anonymity. But we are more gone too far on the other side. There the commanders of the rebel army were

cagaorious of Pope, who lied about there lies, as it were, which we know a hinted at the possibility of rats having discovered, while several lots of bomba dates of his early poems in order that good man will not tell. There is the le

had to be disposed of After their dise

of cowardice, and the lie of self- seeking, might be marvelled at as a sort of play on Sunday night of the way to run infant prodigy. Scott, we tell ourselves, and the lie of treachery. None of these

"'righteous

has any relation to what Samuel Butler cause from the foreign was by nature a truthful man, and only called "God's most precious gift of false- Copeessions, members of this bombing lied in self-defence. Pope, on the other hood," which he illustrated by saying gang are receiving little consideration

hand, was a liar from top to toe,

LL I find the plover lying when she reads from the foreign authorities and arrests fraudulent person on whose word neither u truly and, knowing that we shall hit are being made daily.

.

MARRIAGE.

MURRAY-BRASSEY.

LONDON, August 17th. The marriage of Major John Murray, son of the famous publisher, and Lad Helen Brassey was solemnized to-day,

SOME HEAT.

Operations in the neighbourhood of Bagdad must be what Mr. Kipling calls "wieked bad campaigning." Recent engagements have been fought by the Russians with the thermometer at 120 in the shade-if there was any while our own soldiers in the Euphrates Valley have been sent back to India to get cool, Which reminds us of the time honoured story of the deceased resident of Aden The bye-election at Berwick has resultime to fetch his greatcoat. it is grati- who returned from a traditionally warm

fying to hear that in spite of all, the health of the troops remains very good..

· BERWICK BYE-ELECTION.

LONDON, August 17th.

ed as follows:

Sir Francis Blake (Coalitionist) 3794 Dr. Turnbull (Independent)

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friend, ner enemy could rely. And if we

blame Erasmus for lying about his writher if we think her to be down, lures us ings, it is not so much his lies as the from her young ones under the etion of a broken wing." Nor is it God's most enormousness of his lirs that startles us, precious gift of falsehood" that is Thna, when he was accused of having called in to tell the lie of stupidity the written Julias Bulunur, a skit relating

That is the how Pope Julius 11, on his death was lie that will be found out. refused admission into heaven by Peter, lie of which the Germans have been prin he denied having done so with extrava- the Battle of Jutland.

reipally guilty in their official reports of To lie in this gant vehemence.

And he adds the fashion is merely to betray oneself, for spreme lie I have never written awab will ever believe a oficial, German book, and I never will, to which I will report again without questioning? That not afix my own name."

Lying, it is clear, is a business which is the danger of lying it so discredits And, even apart from this, the must be gone about warily.

The fact German lie that we can acquit Bcott, while we fad vein of Erasmus.

was rather too much in the though each of them lied in much the much as to violate it. Indeed, it came Erasmas guilty, of lying in the bad sense, was not an attempt to hide the truth sở same circumstances and for the same pur as near being a breach of good morals na

(Continued on next Column.) a lie can be-New Statesmann.

one,

It went too far. It