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THE WAR.

BRITISH REPULSE GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS.

SIX LINES OF ENEMY INFANTRY SUFFER HEAVILY.

FRENCH CAPTURE BULGARIAN POSITIONS.^

ESTABLISHED WELL WITHIN SERBIAN TERRITORY.

BRITISH SUCCESS IN EAST AFRICA.

NAVAL FORCES OCCUPY IMPORTANT TOWN.

FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT.

ITALIAN FRONT:

.:

{THROUGH REUTer's agency.] ADVANCE OF BRITISH LINE,

LONDON, August 17th.

WOWKEENE,

General Sir Douglas Haig, in a cvm-

states: Our Fine has been advand both west, and south-west of

Guillerment.

STUBBORN GERMAN COUNTER-

ATTACKS.

Lospus, August 18th, General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- mumiepłe, states; ---Enemy counter-attacks were repulsed worth west of Przieres.

North-west of Bazentin. we captured 1000 yards of an enemy trench.

We amplished this as a result of the fight mg last evening

In junction with the French wa made an advice on Maurepas.

We captured west of Highwood · 300 yards of a treich 300 yards in advance of mur provivas line,

Our machine guns aipped in the had Gerne attacks, east of Moquet furni.

The enemy counter-attacks at Pozieres were of the most determined character: and were made successively, by Jargo

fures in a broad front.

uf

Last evening and early this saorn- ing six lines fierman infantry, advanced, but they ran back after suffer ing the heaviest losses. Our guns and machine-guns did great execution, and the enemy in no case succeeded in cater ing or lines..

The enemy counter-attacks to-day from Martiupnich were repulsed, and captured prisoners.

We

A German aeroplane was felled behind our lines near Pozieres. FRENCH CONSOLIDATE GAINS. VIOLENT ARTILLERY FIRING.

PAKIS, August 17th.

A communiqu' states: The enemy has not attempted a counter-attack ut Home. We are organising the positiona

Wom

There was violent artillery Fring north of Maurepas aud in the sector of Belloy- en-Sanferro. It is calm. elsewhere.

FRENCH ARTILLERY ACTIVE.

PARIS, August 18th.

A communique states: The French artillery have been active on the Somme front, destructively shelling enemy works.

There was" no infantry action.

The unwounded prisoners taken north of the Somme yesterday exceed 200.. Five machine-guns were capturéd.

RUSSIAN FRONT.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AĠENOY.) ADDITIONAL CAPTURES

made.

RUSSIANS...

BY

PETRDORAD, August 17th.

FROM

(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENOT.]

VENICE BOMBED

SEAPLANES.

·DAMAGE SLIGHT NO

CASUALTIES.

ROME, August 17th.

It is officially announced thit artillery actions have not been marked by special features.

Hostile aeroplanes bombed Vonice and the Grado Lagoon last night. The damage was slight and there were no casualties.

THE BALKANS

(THROUGH REUTER'S. AGENCY.)

FRENCH OCCUPY BULGARIAN POSITIONS.

of

*HE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 19 «

(THROUGH SKUYER'S AGENOT.]

FUTILITY OF GERMAN EFFORTS.

LONDON, August 18th. Reuter's and the other correspondents emphasise the futility and castliness of the German counterattacks in the Some region. There were three main and ten

minor counterattacks at Pozieres between

CHOLERA AT MACAO. SEVEN FATAL CASES IN HONGKONG

IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS

EVADED.

1918.

THE YUNNAN OPIUM SCANDAL.

"THE EVILEST THING IN THE NAVY.”.

corri-

the 5th inst and the 8th inst. It is known 15th inst., since when no cholera ensesius,, with being concerned in smuggling when the crews of five vessels of a divi-

BAIL REFUSED TO GENERAL YIH. "A dog's life in the evilest thing in General Yih Zien, aling Yih Zinng-zab, by an experienced flotilla CO. of exis- the navy "that is the apt description Commander-in-Chief of the 5th Republi-tence in our destroyer eraft, which have As the result of bacteriological exami can Army and special delegate to the nations it has now been discovered that Military Conference for Yunnan, was fight since. Trafalgar, writes a

so distinguished themselves, in the best. seven deaths have been caused by cholera | charged before Mr. Grant Jones, the spondent of the Manchester Guardian. in Hongkong, all the cases being Chinese. British Assessor, and Magistrate Yu at Occasionally in past years one has got These fatal cases occurred before the the Mixed Chort, Shanghai, on the 11th a glimpse of German destroyers and their crews-notably, there was one occasion, that one battalion, Inst. four, hundred of no doubt, to the precautions which were prohibited.

have been recorded in the Colony, due, opium, the importation of which is its effectives out of 530. Other losses taken when the Macao outbreak was

sign returned to their base most abomin ably sick and wholly incapacitated phy- are proportionate, hence the Germans made known.

Csically, One surmises that now

their With the quarantine

at have been summarily knocked piece-meal

favourite shock tactics" of line abreast" - care congianity employing fresh divisions, regulations which have been put into It is calculated that they have useds in force in regard to the Macno boats, and

by our fotiflas; for, apparently, in the Mr. Muss informed the Court that column of divisions, to go by the account Horns Reef engagement they led off in the Somme an equal number of Troops as

the rohibitions of immigration of the accuseḍ was in the whole of the fighting at Verdun.

Chinese from Macro the local medion! wanted on a warrant issued in connection one of seven persons

from a survivor of the Shark's crew.

with the illicit importation of uptum from Yuunao,

is

The Times Military Correspondent, authorities are of, the opinion that there however, is of the opinion that the break-

no cause for alarm in Hongkong, ing of the German power is likely to let for the treatment and isolation of any complete arrangements having been made long, costly and dieult. He says it is 'unsafe to reckon on less than two mil-

cases which may occur locally. Tion being, still available of the German drafts, in addition to half a million new recruits yearly.

THE CHENG CHIA TUNG AFFRAY.

Regarding Macao, the

DISPATCH OF JAPANESE TROOPS.

TOKIO, August 17th. A regiment of cavalry, three battalions of infantry and a mixed company with machine-guns have been dispatched to Cheng Chia Tung from the Japanese garrison."

The Japanese Cabinet have discussed that there sexs the situation.

nearest

The Foreign Office states that the Sarica, August 17. attitude of Japan will depend upon the Linder cover a henry Allied unfriendly attitude and co-operation of the bardment the French troops occupied Peking Government Bulgarian positions south of

Doiran

Lake

They have established themselves ab the village of Dolizeli, well within the Tortoise Hill, in the neighbourhood of

Serbian territory.

The Bulgarian casualties were cou siderable, the shellfire, anently dis organising the defence of the enemy?

BULGARIANS FLEEING FROM MONASTIR.

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LONDON, August 18th. A telegram from Athens states that the Bulgarian population of Monastir fleeing, fearing the Serbians' advance."

Albanian insurgents in the Darazzo region have seized Austrian provision depots at several places.. GENERAL.

(THROUGH'AKOTEK'S AGENCY:]. BRITISH EXPORTS TO SWEDEN.

GOVERNMENT PROHIBITION.

LONDON, August 18th.. Reuter announces that the Government has decided to prohibit all exports to Swedor, except under the most stringent licence.

LONDON, August 17th:

The reason for the prohibition of ex ports to Sweden is that a Dow Swedishi law prohibits importers giving any in- formation regarding the ultimate destina- tion of imports, which information is essential under the British Customs War Powere Act.

PROLONGATION

PARLIAMENT.

OF

LONDON, August 17th.

ITALIAN WAR POLICY.

Mr. G. D. Musso and Mr. R. F. Master appeared for the prosecution Mr. J. G. Priestwood defended.

י

receiving a warrant for the arrest of Det. Sub-Inspector Dee deposed to seven people, including the accused, and in consequence of it he called at No. 154, found only three men, the accused and Hupeh Road a Chinese hotel. There he

tive in charge, and when the accused.re three others being out. He left a dete- turned he was taken-into custody and brought to Lonza Police Station, where the warrant was read over to him."

In reply to Mr. Musso, witness stated that the three men not arrested bad left Shanghai.

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were

Life in a devilish war-shell that covers a mile in less than two minutes, turns at right angles with a terrific lurch at a touch of the finger, and rolls on the slightest provocation till the funnels dip is not soothing at any time. You in the British navy it is popula, partly be enuse of the Best of it, let more because the severity of discipline is rolaxed in the torpedo-boat destroyer so long as work is done efficiently; and the sailor is allowed to smoke and enjoy himself, if enjoyment ha passible, at hours when in other sele-of wor routine keeps him husily engaged With Hans in his tor- pedo-boat, on the contrary-unless conti discipline obtains without any cessation tions are now altered,a est-o'-nine-tails of drill and general routine.

Consul at Hongkong says that he has Portuguese

no further information to impart. The outbreak in that provines, he contends, cannot, by any stretch of the imagine tion, be described as severe, and all the cases which have occurred have been prop- erly treated and full precautions have been taken to guard against a spread of prisoner should be allowed out on bail. Mr. Priestwood applied that the

In both services the work is hard. When the craft is at sea the food is atro- the disease. The Consul also expressed The accused, he said, was

cious, for in anything like a bumble of the opinion that Some precautions officer of the Yunnan Government and

& military water it is impossible to cook or cat s should be taken regarding Chinese was proceeding on a special mission to cookie, as likely as not, may find his trea

meal in any comfort. In the galley, Poking in connection coming to Hongkong from Canton, for

with military sured pots and panu come clattering matters. He pointed out that the aceas-about his head, or carry away as the it was known in Macao that Chineseod was a man of position and would be vessel jerkily pitches and heaves, giving refugees from Canton had brought the able to furnish bail. He accordingly a feeling something like circular motion disease to the Portuguese settlements which the accused would be allowed out.

asked the Court to fix the amount on in the pit of the stomach; and in mens

deck or in wardroom her violent move- The Chinese papers had also announced! Mr. Musso said he seriously objected ments produce a confused medley of

an outbreak of cholera to bail being granted in this case. He arms and legs and a deluge of plas at Canton, and this was equally as opiuta, valued at 81,500,000, still un- pointed out that there were 30 cases of

and eatables. The space below deck is cramped and confined, intensely hot in serious for Hongkong as was the out-

accounted for, although it was within summer, bitterly cold in winter: for the break at Macau, and restrictions should the knowledge of the prosecution that plains of the craft are of the thinnest, and

Of part of that opium had been offered for conduct heat or cold to perfection, de the craft are of the thinnest, and be imposed upon Chinese who left Can-

sale. Unt I those missing cases ion for Hongkong, in the same way as discovered he would view with disfavour down, and when the enormously power- spite the corticening. All weight is cut upon. Chinese who desired to leave Macao any application for bail. It was true fal for Hongkong. There is, he said, as

that the accused was a man of high posi

Til engines are running at full speed the is most trying, even-to the fully tion, but the only result of that would seasoned. much danger arising from Chinese com be that, if he wore guilty of the offence, ing to Hongkong from Canton as there it would be far more serious for him. is from Chinese arriving here from the Assessor pointed out that the object After consultation with the Magistrate, Macao at the present time, and somme of granting bail was to ensure the ap- restrictions should be introduced.

pearance of the accused at the trial: He In a speech Signor Bosselli, the Prime

was satisfied, on account of the acensed's Minister, declared that they must secure

Enquiries made in other circles went position, that bail in any amount would to show that there is a feeling in the be forthcoming from members of the Italian: mepizmikusa by quay quen, Colony mas mataanzichtana, chest used work appear at the sane party, but there was no guarantee and must closely maintain their agree-placed upon Chinese couing to Hong trial. The trial, he pointed out, would ments with the Athies,

kong from Canton, a number of who come on soon as possible and, in the are afflicted with various diseases, It is bail should be granted. He would, how circumstances, he did not think that any also pointed out that at the present time ever, be willing to consider an applies- the Chinese at Macno who desire to come discovered.

tion for bail when the 36 cases had been to Hongkong can easily evade the pre- Mr. Muss then applied for a despatch sent immigration restrictions by the warrant to issue for the apprehension of simple expedient of journeying to arrested. They had gone to flangehow the three men who have not yet been Canton from Macao and booking from and counsel said he wanted to have them Canton to Hongkong. No doubt many have ught back into the jurisdiction of that already adopted this course, and thus we The application was granted.

Investigations are still being briskly only recently left a port which is cholera-38 trunks, which the authorities know to have in the Colony Chinew who have pursued for the recovery of the missing stricken, and who, if they had sailed have been brought to Shanghai, together in the sugine rom. When the hatches for Hongkong from Macao, would be the W.-. Daily News), Clues as to the have been battened down the tempera- refused a landing here. The position is one existence of the balance have been picked ture and smell below deck are almost Fortny of consideration by the local up and strong hopes are entertained of supportable. When the small craft

ith authorities, for at

the ultimate seizure of the missing running at full spd in a seaway her presti Las opium. It is known that well over half der's is swept by he waters. The seas immigration prohibition is not fufuling offered for sale in Shanghai on the mornbows, bubbling among the cables and a hundredweight of Yunnan opium was crash on to her forecastle or turtleabeked, La object, the prevention of the landinging of the 11th. If this is a portion of slips, and eddying round the capstan ti hongkong di Chinese from Macao. the Yunnan opium for which the search frothing swirls Hier knife like st

DEFINITE CONQUEST.

Roms, August 17th.

BULGARIANS FIRE ON

RUMANIANS.

LONDON, August 18th. A telegram from Odessa describes a other incident at Kalafat, on the Danube, Bulgarians firing on Rumanians, & fight ensuing.

Austrian ships have brought much bridging material, motor cars and petrol to the Bulgarian Danube ports.

INCIDENT IN HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT.

"Loston, August 18th,

A telegram from Budapest states that

the Governinent for transferring the M. Polonyi, in the Chamber, attacked

command of the Hungarians to a for- eigner, General Hindenburg.

CHOLERA AT YOKOHAMA.

HOW IT WAS COMBATED.

M. Polonyi's denunciation of the Hun Amongst the third-class passengers who garian Generals was cheered,

arrived in Yokohama recently by the 4.S.K. liner Hawai Maru, titteen cases f cholera, three of which proved fatal,

curred up to the 2nd inst

OBITUARY.

LORD REDESDALE.

LONDON, August 18th. The death of Lord Redesdale is an

nounced.

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The crews number from 60 to 100 off- cers and men, the officers being a lieu- larger vessels), sub-lieutenant, tenant (lieutenant-commander in thes gunner, and engineer lieutenant. Save in the largest craft there is no room for a sur- goon. The officers are berthed aft in tiny cupboards opening into a small ward- room, or in the, wardroom, where they Their number is so small that they are try to eat and sleep when off duty. almost continuously on duty, and thus, ewing to the speedy exhaustion of her long keep out at sea, crew, none but the largest destroyers can

The bluejackets, who are berthed for ward, receive 6d. a day " hard-lying money--a smal! additional pay to com pensate for the hardships they undergo The work on deck is hard; but harder when the vessel is steaming in rough still in the engine-room and stokehold, weather. A summit of frothing, white- capped sea, passing under her, lifts bes stern and thruste ber forward into the trough at express speed. Her twirl at an alarming velocity, threaten- propellers ing to snap the shafts from their sockets. Her men below are thrown this way and that,

the pard-rails save them

is being vigorously prosecuted, it would slices through the mounting waters in- seem to lead to the assumption that the stead of rising to neir lift. missing drug has already been split uthe seamen five in their

Everyone is in oilskins, and most of

lampy-suits,"

but against this is the fact that a mul tiplicity of hiding places involves of thick brown wool, waterproof, fire: Cue with a lavish h nd out of a material larger number of confederates and greater risk of discovery..

An astonishing statement is current that this lot of opium is really the second that has reached this port. It is said that, by similar means, a large quantity of opium was brought into Shanghai six months ago, but on Most of ugglers are said to have been success- occasion the ful

and

this

SIXTEEN-INCH GUNS.

proof, and soft us blanket, the lammy- saic you can put on over uniform or other dress and defy all the elements. Vlad leather up to the knee and soles thres in it, with sea boots of black greased quarters of an inch thick, with sou weeter reaching well down the back of the neck, and in front almost to the eyes, and with goggles of white glass set in wire side-nettings fixed round the back of the head with strong elastic bands- the destroyer's man has a rig which resists all bad weather. Only, if a slap down one's neck, it must swill about... of ice-cold water loc: happen to trickle inside the lammy-suit till you or your clothing absorbs it.

he patients came from Manila. The Jokohama municipal authorities decided taking rigorous sanitary measures to amp out the epidemic. The prefectural overnment also opened temporary quar- | FOR. AMERICA'S NEW WARSHIPS. [The late Lord Redesdale, G.c.v.o., atine and disinfection offices to carry K.C.R., will be remembered by old residents ut an extensive quarantine and disinfer year, and closely watching the work of After a discussion lasting more than a of the Far East as having been attached for ion in the city and in the harbour. The the British and German battleships, the are expected always to do and dare, or, The officers in command of a destroyer & short time to the British Legation at In the House of Commons, the Pro-Legation at Tokio. In 1906, also, he eccomere disinfected, and stevedores

Feking in 1865 and afterwards to the us in which the patients were lodging General Board of the Navy has recom- rather, to dare and do, whether in peace An official communiqué stales:—-Addi-

mended, and the Secretary of the Navy or war tongation of Parliament Bill, passed its panied H.R.H. Prince Arthur's Mission tother workmen and the employes of the with 16-inch guns in place of the 14-inch has approved, the arming of the new

And in the fight off Jutland to- tional captures totalling 108 officers, 7,30%

ward Heligoland's sale waters the Ger third reading. The extension to Septem-world

Japan. His experiences in this part of the:

battleships California and Tennessee man feet experienced a most harassing men, 29 field-guns, 17 heavy-guns, "70"

reflected in his publications saka Shosen Kaisha who boarded the guns carried by the Pennsylvania class.

time, notwithstanding the gallantry of machine-guns and 14,000 shells have beenber was agreed to..

"Tales of Old Japan" (1871), "The Ham-teamer after her arrival in port were The now ships will have eight 18 inch berois of all, as British destroyers threw their torpedo craft. Perhaps this last boo Garden" (1296), The Attaché at

These vessels carry twelve 14 inch guns..

stage of the engagement was the most Peking" (1900), and The Garter Mission made subject to strict medical examina guns, and naval experts who advocate themselves forward to attack the enemy's to Japan (1906). The third son of Henry ion. Bathing in the neighbourhood of the larger calibres say the additional battleships, sided by the far-flung search Georgina Jemima, daughter of the 3rd Revelay Mitford, of Exbury, Hants, and the breakwater where the Hawes Mare efficient and give them advantage over swift, daring rushes would be executed range of 2,000 yards will make them more lights from our puraning columns. Their February 24th, 1837, and was consequently quarantine offices were established on the very fes-actions will be fought at the about funnel fare, and the spray is apt- Earl of Aulibarnham, "he born was moored was prohibited. Temporary ships with smaller gaus. in his 80th one at the time of his death coast between Kauarawa and Nagahania extreme range of 17,000 yards; that at to betray the whereabouts of the assail

not at top speed but at about twenty to The opponents of big guns say that twenty-three knots; for top speed brings He entered the Foreign Office in 1858 and his first appointment. was as 3rd Secretary to carry out medical examination of 15,000 yards, which is the extreme range ants, active in the darkness outside the of the Embassy at Petrograd. From 1892 passers-by. to 1895 he sat in the House of Commons as member for South-west Warwickshire Ha Owing to the spread of the epidemic, was a member of the Royal Commission on Dr. Niki and two medical exports of the the Civil Services in 1887: WES both of the Wallace Collection and of the Epidemic Diseases Institute, were dis Wellington College. He was raised to the logical examinations, and to direct the National Gallery; and was a Governor of patched to Yokohama to conduct bacterio poorage in 1902, His rewidence was streament of the patients. Basford Park Moreton-in-Marsh, Don-Offices also dispatched a sanitary commis- The Home bestershire. His hoir is his oldest son sion to superintend quarantine work in Capt. the Hon. C. B. 0. Freeman-Mitfend, the port

AFRICA

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] GENERAL SMUT→ PROGRESS. IMPORTANT ARAB TOWN CAPTURED.

OF

CONDITIONAL LIMITATION. Before the Parliamont Bill was read a third time, the Government undertook specially to limit the life of the new Parliament in the event of an election on the old Register.

ADJOURNMENT LONDON, August 17th.

PARLIAMENT. General Smuts reports that his troops are closing in on the central railway in

LONDON, August 17th... the vicinity of Kilosa from the north and the House of Commons Mr. (the west, while naval forces have occupied Asquith stated that the House would ad- the important Arab town of Dagamojo, journ on Tuesday or Wednesday and expturing a naval four-inch gun.

reassemble on 30th October

In

a trustin

of the 14-inch gun, its penetrative power projectors molten beans

is equal to that of the 18 inch gun, and Through the rattle of machine guns. that at that range and closer the 12-inch and the rapid reports of the smaller heavier volume of fire than eight guns stroyers and 14 inch guns can concentrate a quickfirers on board the German de and battleships beyond, the of larger calibre. The fear, however, of swarming hornets dashed in upon their Navy has 16-inch guns it was decided to German losses be known. the American Navy being outranged was prey and fired their torpedoes. But not the decisive factor, and as the British for years after this war will the rea arm the new vessels with the still larger : When the full, detailed story is told weapon. The Naval Bureau of Ordnance it will be found that the magnificent has already built and tested a 16-inch work of the fovilest thing in the navy gun at the naval proving grounds. contributed most signally to the victory,