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THE WAR.

GERMANS BOMBARD BRITISH FRONT-LINE.

FAILURE OF GERMAN ATTACKS IN VERDUN AREA

FRENCH SHOOT DOWN TWELVE GERMAN AEROPLANES.

BULGARIANS REPULSED BY SERBIANS. SUPERIORITY OF SERBIAN ARTILLERY.

FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT.

{THROUGH KHUTER'S AGENCY.)

BRITISH PROGRESS.

LONDON, August 20th.

Sir Douglas Haig reports:-The enemy bumbarded our front line at intervals He attacked throughout the hight. Guillemont as well as Thiepval, but did nut peach nur lives.

ENEMY'S ANXIETY.

THE HONGKONG DAIL YPRESS, MONDAY. AUGUST 28en 1916

(THROUGH REVIEB'S AGENOE.] IMPORTANCE OF MAUREPAS AND THIEPVAL.

LONDON, August 27th.

Success

THE BALKANS

(THROUGH RAUTER'S AGINOY.] ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.

LONDON, August 27th.

Au official communique states:-There has been artillery activity ou the Struma and Doiran fronts.

PEKING NOTES. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

PEKING, August 10th.

THE OUTLOOK.

The present is another occasion which the less optimistic gravely shake their heads when they refer to the inune diate future of Chine and solemnly

CHINA'S TROOPS.

CHINESE NEWS. THE NAVY.

Now that disturbances in China are. almost brought to an end, the authorities A Presidential Mandate says:-Some at Peking are contemplating the read-time ago, Vice-Admiral Li Ting-sing re- justment of the whole army. But nearly 200,000 troops having been newly enlisted in consequence of the Yunnan rising, the task proves to be no easy undertaking. For the sake of reference (says the China

Our aeroplanes bombed the enemy declare that the country is approaching Advertiser) we here give the number of tion of the Previsional Naval Hoad-

casaps south of Djir Hissar.

BULGARIANS RETREATING.

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n crisis. They point to the incómpetence of Parliament, the hesitancy of the Cabinet, the continued corruption in Government- PARIS, August 27th.

Departments and perpetuation of nepot- An official commauique from Salonikeism, the troubles in Kwangtung. states: There has been intermittent Mongolia, and now the friction with Japan over the incident ai Cheng China artillery activity on the right wing.

The British guns ceaselessly bombardett Tung But grave as these are, it has to the enemy positions on the left bank of he remembered that for the last decade at least China has been passing through muddling the Struma.

one crisis after another, through in characteristic fashion, but still muddling through, and it makes one hesitate in consequence to regard the pre- the most sent period of transition as critical in the history of China,. It may that the rises are becoming more fre-

The Bulgarians in the centre delivered sig counter-attacks north-west of Kuku ruz, which were repulsed by the Serbians. On the whole line the enemy was sanguinarily defeated, and he is retreat

is having its effect upon the country, but all the same there is reason for believing" Fiere fighting-continues on the left that the worst may be averted and that

The French capture of Maurepas nading, being continuously pressed by thequeat, and that the continued muddling

at Thiepval are Serbians, whom he is resisting stub the British typical of the new allied method of burnly. advancing piecemeal, intensely hom- barding patches of the front, then send- | wing. jag patrols to ascertain the damage. thereafter drenching other points with a The importance that the enemy attri-storms of shell, the infantry meanwhile bule to the Thiepynt sector is shown by attacking along the lanes formed by the the determined efforts that he is making to regain lost ground in the Leipzig salient (where he is effecting a great concentration of gues), and also by last night's assault by the Prussian Guards.

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first hombardments, thus rendering both frontal and later attacks possible. Greater gains are thus obtained at smaller loss of life than hitherlo.

The value of the success is apparent Trom the importance artached by the

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China will yet work out her own destitiy under guidance invited from outside her In the region of Ostrovo, the Serbiansuwa borders- not as a suzerain nation allowed the Bulgarians to approach but as sovereign State seeking to build 150 yards from the trenches, and with up an honest and capable administration a devastating fire they mowed down the and to develop the resourers of the emin- try with expert advice and assistance, as has been done by Japan and Biam.

enemy.

Two hundred and fifty Bulgarian corpses were found in front of a single trench.

Prisoners admit that the Serbian artil Lostos, August 27th.

to the Guillemont and Ginchy ery indisputably dominates the Bul Ammaniqué fram. General Siroemy Douglas Haig states: Near the Mou-region, where he alone retains an effec-garian artillery.

tive footing on the ridge. The two ROUMANIA GETTING READY. quet farm the British progressed. -

Another four hundred yards of a trench strongholds, with the Thiepval plateau, wire taken along. the Courcelette-remain the most formidable bastions in Thiepvat rond.

PRUSSIAN GUARD REPULSED.

the enemy's line, but the pressure around them is growing constantly more severe.

The stubborn relentless fighting by

Jast sight the Prussian Guard, after which the British during the last three the heaviest artillery preparation, al-weeks have forced their way over the tacked our new trenches, southward of Thiepvál. The attack was pressed deter minelly, but it was everywhere repulsed, There were heavy enemy losses.

Our success was largely due to the steadiness and gallantry of the Wilt-

shires and the Worcestershires.

active

The enemy's artillery were Around the Mametz wood and north of the Delville wood,

Fighting continues at the Monguet

farm.

GENERAL ACTIVITY, We captured 67 prisoners in the Mou- quet farm area and south of Thiepval during the last twenty-four hours.

The hostile attempts against the sap south of the Bethune-La Bassee road were driven back by rifle-fire.

The enemy shelled Roglincourt, La Couture and east of Zillebeke in the day time. There was also much reciprocal trench-mortar activity near the Hohen-

ltern redoubt,

Our counter-batteries yesterday success? fully engaged many of the enemy gun aositions, some of which were destroyed and others damaged.

open, up the slope, and then pushed the enemy by inches to the farther edge of the whole pintonu, is the outstanding fen- ture of the battle.

Eight miles of German lines between Thiepval and Ginchy, are described by the correspondents as a huge fortress flanked by bastions whose cutworks were stormed on Thursday.

It is stated that the Germans concen- trated on this little front enough vien to garrison eighty miles of trench.

They have hundreds of batteries of all calibres, and these, like the troops, are massed at certain places behind the lines. The vain counter-attacks cost the Ger- mans losses which are unprecedented.

For purely defensive fighting, on the contrary, it is calentated that the new Allied method of attack reduces Losses by 75 per cent.

TUOTAN

FRUMI. LIBKODOH KLUZEK'S MOEMOR.į

OF BITLIS RE-OCCUPATION

AWAITED.

PETROGRAD, August 27th. Military experts point out that the

Our aircraft attacked many points of military importance in the enemy's rear,re-capture of Mush puts the Russians on "dropping altogether five tons of boobs. One hostile machine was felled and an- other was driven down damaged.

Two British machines are missing.

FRENCH FRONTS.

ARTILLERY DUELS.

-Paris; August 27th. There were severe artillery duels on the Somme, especially north of Maurepas and west of Clery,

TOLL OF GERMAN AEROPLANES.

the flank of the Turkish force at Bitlis, regarding which news of its re-occupation is confidently awaited.

TURKISH POSITION HOPELESS.

The victory at Rayam, near Mosul, on the 24th inst., knocks on the head the Turkish plans around Lake Urmis, while in the Hamadan direction the Turks are in no better rase, and the enemy advance in Persia is no longer regarded as practi- cable. Ali

the

Turkish

movements

arc

paralysed, notably the grandiose scheme for the taking of Erzeroum, notwith-

The day has been disastrous for Gerstanding the employment of all available

maa aeroplanes, of which twelve were reinforcements.

shot down,

The French avintor Nungesser brought in the Lis eleventh machine

campaign.

down

GERMAN ATTACKS ON VERDUN FRONT.

Repeated attacks by the Germans on the Verdun front have failed.

There was an intermittent cannonade elsewhere, being most violent in the Thiaumont-Fleury sector.

NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S ́ AGENOT.} BRITISH ARMED STEAMER SUBMAR NED.

LONDON, August 26th..

It is officially announced that the armed boarding steamer, Duke of Alluny, was submarined in the North Sea on August 24th.

Twenty-four men were drowned and eighty-eight saved.

SIGNIFICANT ACTIONS.

LONDON, August 20th. The Roumanian Government has in creased the extraordinary arany credit It has ap- by eight million sterling. pointed a new director of munitions' and a new commander for the first army

TAL AC AERIAL ACTIVITIES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BOMBS ON AIRSHIP SHEDS. DAMAGE UNKNOWN.

MONGOLIAN TROUBLES,

ported by telegraph that, as the Military should be subject to the control of the

Thereupon, Ad-- Cabinet had been abolished, the Navy Central Government. miral Sah Chen-ping was appointed to proceed south to express our appreciation to the service. Now, he reports the aboli quarters at Shanghai and the readiness of all the squadrons to obey the orders of the Central Government, etc. The mid cummanders and officers being deeply Now. sensible of their great duty, give us the utmost satisfaction. Henceforth, for 152,300 Leverlasting peace on both sea and land, 27,000 we shall depend upon the commanders 28,700 and officers, of whum. 1, the President, 49,500 entertain great hopes.

men in uniform whom China had prior to the late Revolution, by the side of the troops now in. the service.

Before. In Chili (including Jehol,

Sakhar and Suiyuan) 82,000 16,000 Shantung

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Shanxi ...

Henan

Kiangsu

Kiangsi

Anhui

THE ARMY."

02,000 General Thani Chi-jui, as Minister of 70,000 War, has decided to fix the strength of 47,800 the regular army of China at 46 divisions 43,000 and to brigades, to be equitably distri

20,000

14,500

34,800

43,500-110,600

20,000

21,300

18,000 31,000

Hunan

19,500

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Hupeh

19,300

Cheklang

14,700

Fukien

5,000

Shensi Kansu Szechuan Kwangtung Kwangsi Yunuan

14,800

Kweichow

Fengtien

Kirin

+

Hailangkiang Binkiang

buted throughout the provinces, but to be 13,800 15,000 under the direct control of the Ministry 17,000

64,100 of War. He has also framed a set of 38,800 150,000

8,900 35,700 rules for the safe disposal of all now and superfluous troops after being disbanded. The principal points in these rules are:- (1)-Those who have families to be ad- 12,000 vanced money to enable them to enigrato 18,000 and become agriculturista. 17,000

21,400

43,000 12,100 34,000 28,500 31,300

1,000 19,000 8,000

AN INDEFINITE PROMISE. WOMEN AND THE MARRIAGE SERVICE.

Only & minority of women munition workers were getting large wages, Miss Margaret Ashton, of Manchester, told a conference of the British Domainions Women Suffrage Union in London. In a great many cases employers were paying women 138, 149, and 169, a week-not von the minimum of 21s. promised by the Government.

(2.)--Those who can read and write a little, to be formed anew into the Emer- gency or Police Corps.

(3.)-Those who are strong and healthy to be assigned to work on railways and at mines operated by the Government.

(4)The aged and the weak to be sent. inte the Poor People's" factories, or poor houses, to enable them to eke out a living by themselves.

DR. SUN YAT SEN DECLINES AN

APPOINTMENT.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen has received a letter The Government has certainly a peek

written in very courteous terms from the of trouble in Mongòlia, First of all, the

viser of the highest class. It is reported bandits under the gentleman with the

President inviting him to act as his ad- After the war there would not be so that Dr. Sun Yat-sen has replied pray- comic opera name commencing with the two syllables. "Pu Ba” have beco extraor many men to marry the women and helping to be allowed to decline the Presi look after them, so that a large number, dent's offer on the ground that his nocept- dinarily troublesome. Certain members of of women would have to remain single. ance would be certain to provoke critic- the Tsing Imperin! Clan are suspected of The underfed woman of 45 to 6 was ism, the post being a sinecure carrying a lending their support to this gentleman's absolutely unemployable. She had been big salary.

KO worn down from her youth upward that she was useless for real industrial work of a high class when she reached the age of 45 or 50. After 00 women were unemployable.

A resolution in favour of equality of payment for workers of both sexes was carried.

activities, while it is also alleged soune. Japanese have been selling arms to the bandits. Then there is the Cheng Chia Tung affray, in which, the Japanese were the ag contend, the Chinese

and

will

PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS.

THE ALLIANCE.OF THIRTEEN. Mr. Hiu Shih-chang, who was delegated to disolve the alleged alliance between

Among the questions to be debated by Parliament on the 21st inst. were the fix- ing of the currency of China on nominal gold standard, an interpellation as to why the Bank of China should Miss Newcomb (hon. secretary of the gressors. The incident will be the Union) moved that a woman should be have engaged a foreigner to be one of its diplomatic conversations legally entitled to a share in her hus-officers, and the immediate reform of the band's property and income, and should Bank of China and the Bank of Com- give the new Japanese subject of

She said that Minister an opportunity of displaying be given equal guardianship with her munications

her children. husband of Japan's goodwill to this country. As if the clergy of all the Churches were great these were not troubles enough associatedly to blame for present inequalities. neyer conduct a marriage," she with this part of Chinese territory, there comised, without allowing a man to has arisen the question, submitted by say With all my worldly goods I thee 13 provinces, has only approached the

endow.

It would be a great thing to Headquarters of this alliance (Gen. the Russian Minister, of the legality of specify how much of the man's worldly Chang Hsun at suchow). He returned.

representing goods he endowed his wife with. If It is officially stated that naval aero-members of Parliament

Mongolia sitting in the Chinese National women would say No, we will be content planes yesterday morning bombed two

Assembly. The Russian contention that with half, and if for the fature the man should say “With half my worldly goods enemy airship sbeds near Namur.

the autonomy of Mongolia is infringed thee endow, and we bound a man Owing to the low-lying clouds, it was by such representation scerns open to dis legally to keep it, I think a very tolerable impossible to observe the extent of the cassion, bat, of course, there may be stop would be made in advance."

dainage.

LONDON, August 98th.

One of our machines failed to return. GENERAL.

(THEOUGH- KIUTRE'S AGENCY.] PRICE OF COTTON,“ SMALL AMERICAN CROP.

LONDON, August 27th. The Times, commenting on the rise in the price of cotton, says there is little doubt that the United States erup will be small, but in some quarters the last official report is regarded as unduly Moreover, the market in pessimistic. America is under dinal control.

BRITISH LOAN IN AMERICA. SPEEDY SUBSCRIPTION.

NEW YORK, August 20th. The new British loan of £50,000,000 has forty-eight

been over-subscribed hours.

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It has been decided to close the lists to-day instead of Monday.

SHACKLETON EXPEDITION,

BUENOS AIRES, August 97th. Sir Ernest Shackleton bas left Punta Arenas on board the steamer Feltho.

This is the third attempt to rescue the party mursoned on Elephant Island.

AUSTRALIA AND CONSCRIPTION.

MELBOURNE, August 27th. After a Cabinet meeting. Mr. W. M. Hughes, the Premier, stated that a deci sion had been reached regarding con suription, but he declined to suy more.

It was noticed that the Ministers known to be in favour of conscription looked pleased

The political parties are now consider ing the matter.

[Telegrams received on Saturday, and mublished in an “Extra on Sunday, will be found on page 6.]

other reasons not publicly expressed.

PARLIAMENTARY.

ed in his mission and obtained the fol- to Peking, reporting that he had succeed. lowing assurances:

(1.)--In futuro, orders of the Central (2)-A praceful attitude will always Government will be oboyed, be assumed towards all quarters, what- over subject may be in question.

There is a belief that the report about the formation of such an alliance WAS &

Vice-President were included in the Cabinet it would be easier to fill the posi-bluff." tinn. At present, however, none of the active politicians care to be shelved.

- ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN OPIUM

FORBIDDEN.

The Taoyin has received a telegram. from Governor Chi of Nanking retrans- mitting a telegram from the Ministry of Finance to the following effect:--

Both Houses of Parliament ure getting down to business in their own particular

A GENERAL POST. way. Up till.the, present they have given

There is much concern among the offi the hope that they will proceed with nore 'reason and discretion than before, but cials employed in the various Govern

ment: Departments, as the

sweeping after the fruits of office have been dis changes in staff which usually attend the tributed it is doubtful if they will prove advent of a new. Minister in any Ministry

According to the Opium Agreement, made in the interests of efficiency or

the three provinces (Kiangau, Kiangxi and Kwangtung), shall probibit all trafic very assisduous. Indeed, members have have commenced. These changes are not shown already that they prefer their com- economy, but simply mean that the fort and convenience to the reariness of friends of the highly placed ones are

being rewarded for their fidelity or their in illicit opium and only permit opium elections and ballottings, for yesterday skin. In the Ministry of Communica- having certain special stamps stud business in the House of Representatives tions the changes are particularly re- thereon to be sold within their jurisdic- grettable because they mean the removal tion. At present, as the foreign opium had to be suspended owing to members who have been carrying out a nee- merchants are complaining about the teaving in such numbers that a quorum fui work for which they were trained by laxity in the suppression of smuggling was not present. However, the Senate foreign Advisers. managed to elect its Chairman of the Permanent Committee, Mr. Chao Shih Yu receiving the highest number of votes, A typical incident took place at the meet ing of the House of Representatives when the name of a certain member having been called out an interpellation followed from the floor of the House which sug gested that the man in question was dead!

MÁNEGYRING FOR OFFICE.

Tang Sao Yi is still in Shanghai, bay ing found reasons which prevented him coming to the capital to take up the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. It is sug gested now that efforts are being made to ouat Dr. Chen Chin Tao from the Minis-

of Finance in order to provide a more acceptable post for Tang At any rate, this gentleman evinces a strange disin clination to identify himself with, the present Cabinet

WHO WILL BE VICE-PRESIDENT.

in

FINANCIAL

two and a half million dollars to the

EXPEDITION TO CANTON.

opium, this order is hemby, issued and you are expected to issue stringent "Hope deferred inaketh the heart sick." instructions to all your subordinates to act in this matter as strictly as possible The truth of this wise saw must be borne

Government so as to avoid complications. the Chineso цроп when it reflects that none of several loans discussed have materialised, and that even the surplus from the Salt Gabelle

A recent telegram from Foochow stated expected this week has dwindled from that an expedition under Lt. General rable sum of $200,000. These experi- Tsang Chi-ping, would start for Canton ences have not been without their effect on the 22nd instant to relieve Lung Chi- upon the decision to cancel the so-called kwong. Moratoriem, the carrying inte operation of which has again been postponed. Still, it has to be admitted that the notes of the Bank of Communications as well as those of the Bank of China are cir- culating more freely among the Chinese, who realise that the suspension of specie payment canont be continued much longer.

THE RAINS.

PERSONAL

SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS WRITTEN BY BACON. DECISION OF A CHICAGO LAW COURT.

A Chicago court of law has lately de- At last the rains have come, and havo caused much flooding throughout the cided that the author of Shakespearo's north generally. They have given us

which is not at plays war Lord Beco "Hongkong weather,"

It appears that William N. Selig, the Although the thermo- all appreciated. meter has now dropped down to the eigh-moving picture producer, saw his oppor ties, the heat is less tolerable than when tanity in the Shakespeare Tri-Centenary, it was in the neighbourhood of the three and prepared for it with lavish expendi ture. Before he was ready he discovered figures.

that Cel. George Fabyan and associates Nobody seems to have the faintest

Captain Hankin, the commandant of were about to publish a book, which had notion who will be selected for the im-the British Legation Guard, is under been a long time in preparation, to prove portant office of Vice-President. General orders to proceed elsewhere. A successor that Bacon was the author of Shake notices of this book Mr. Selig became Tuna Chi Jai, the Premier, is not likely from Hongkong is expected to be named speare. After reading the advance Mr. W. Grave, the First Secretary of alarmed and applied to the courts for an to give up his power as Premier, neither is Feng Kuo Chong expected to retire to the Russian Legation, returned this week injunction restraining the publication from a prolonged tour on the Amur and of the book. After examining the evid

ence the Court handed down a decision- this comparative back-water, and the to Vladivostock pa

Mr. B, Macleay Councillor of the Bri- that Bacon was the author of the plays, position is hardly such as will commend If the

tish Legation, who is now at Feitaiho, and that the contention of the plaintiff will be leaving soon for home as his suc- that the name of Shakespeare was de itself to the energetic Tsai Ao.

octor has arrived.

famed was untrue. (Continued on next Column.)