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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURNAY, SEPTEMBER 9cm. 1916,

ALLIES WITHIN REACH OF GERMAN

BASES.

RUSSIANS BOMBARDING BURNING HALICZ.

GERMAN-BULGARIAN PRESSURE

ROUMANIANS.

ON

FORTS SURRENDER IN EAST AFRICA.

FRANCO-BELBIAN FRONT,

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENVr.]`

BRITISH FRONT. ENEMY DRIVEN BACK.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

FRENCH FRONTS.

FIRST LINE TRENCHES CAPTURED.

Lexoox, September ità.

Pants, September 7th. General Sir Douglas Huig in a com-

A communiqué states:--On the right muniqué states:--The enemy is a coun- ter-attack on Lettze Wood, was driven bank of the Meuse, yesterday, we attacked on a frout of 1,000 metres at Vaux Chapitre and Le Chenois, occupying first-

buck.

The communique continues:--The: enemy was driven back from Leze afterline trenches and capturing prisoners and hand-to-hand fighting, leaving officers

and 1 men prisoners,

The fighting at Cineby continues. There has been considerable mutaïd artil tery firing, the enemy using lachrymatory shells.

The enemy exploded a mine at Neuville 81, Vaast.

machine guns.

Strong enemy attacks en l'Hopital Farm, south-west of Belloy-en-Santerre, and south of Barboux have been repulsed

with most heavy enemy losses.

Our aeroplanes have been active on

We carried out a most effective bom-the Fumie watching the movements of bardiment of the enemy trenches at Lens.

GENERAL ACTIVITY..

LONDON, September 9th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a coun-- „muniqué, states:-Our artillery dispersed enemy working parties cast and south- rust of Ginchy and between the Somme and the Ancre.

Our artillery successfully dealt with the enemy's batteries.

. Between, Souchez and the Ls Bassee Canal our artillery and trench-mortars bombarded the enemy's lines continu- uusly.

We effectively shelled a bridgehead on the Ypres Canal, north-west of Hollebeke.

Our machines bombed an important railway junction in the enemy'a lines, and a communication station and rolling stock were greatly damaged. An enemy aerodrome was bombed, and one machine was destroyed and others damaged. Good work was done at low altitudes: Three hostile machines were wrecked, four were driven down damaged, and two of ours are missing.

TRENCH RAID.

A communiqué states:-South-east of Guinchy and near Bichebourg and Lavoue we raided the enemy's trenches, inflicting severe, casualties.

THE SOMME ATTACK, GERMAN REPORT OF TROOPE ENGAGED.

A

LONDON, September 7th, German communiqué – states ;- Twenty-eight British and French divi- sions are attacking on the Seimo.

ALLIES IMPROVED POSITION.

LONDON, September: Tťa.

The Allies are now within reach of

omy infantry, bombing the war of the German lines and using machine-guns against marching troops.

Our gun auroplanes repeatedly bom- barded

chemy trenches. Twenen zeroplanes were felled at Va, being furu to descend damaged.

BOMBARDMENTS AND CAPTURES.

Paris, September 8th.

A communiqué states:--There was a violent bombardment in various districts

north of the Somnic.

There was no infantry action.

The enemy was reduced to impotence withward by the violence of our artillery fire, and was unable to counter-attack.

Four bomb-mortars and sixteen machine-guns were found in a captured trench north of the Somme.

The enemy bombarded our new posi- tions at Vaux Chapitre wood, on the right of the Meuse. Two hundred and eighty prisoners were captured here-in yesterday's attack.

Up to the present 400 prisoners taken

wuth of the Somme have been counted.

It appears that the Germans we beat yesterday cast of Chilly belonged to a Saxon Division, which was hurriedly brought from the Aisne.

RUSSIAN FRONT,

(THROUGH, REUTER'S AGENCY.]

HALICZ IN · FLAMES.

LONDON, September 7th.

great road linking up Bapaume, A Russian communiqué states: The Perone and Roye, the three main Ger- Russians have occupied the Milway line nan bases on the Somme.

half-way between Halicz and Kovtse The French, by fine performances, are Wodniki, and are bombarding the town stendily pushing on in spite of fog and of Haliez, which is in flames. rain, under cover of their artillery.

The Germans at Barleus were ten times huried forward to 'reverse the fortune of war, but they always melted before our furious fire.

GUILLEMONT,

IMPORTANT RESULT OF RECENT FICHTING.

ENEMY DRIVEN FROM LAST DEFENCE LINES

PETROGRAD, September 7th, The enemy has been driven from his last line of defences in the region of Brzeza y

General Teherbatcheff drove out the nemy from a series of fortified posi- LONDON, September 7th.

tions, and, advancing westward, crossed. Reuters Correspondent at Beadquar-at some points of the Naraiuvka river, ters in France reports ---As a result of which is a tributary of the lotalipa, the figating at Guillemont we occupy a Jong crest commanding the ridge thère. The Germans are now at a great dis- advantage in this very important sphere of operations. The enemy, sheltering in shell-holes or hastily-made trenches with- out dug-outs, are exposed to our gun- fire, and it would not be easy for the Germans to shorten their line But the

BAVAL ACTIVITIES..

(THROUGH REVIZE'S KOLOT:]

BRITISH STEAMER SUNK.

LONDON, September 7th The British steamer Torridge has been. question is not now the copying of unk. Nineteen of the crow were saved, territory but the killing of Bochen.. but the remainder are missing-

THE BALKAN B

GENERAL.

(THROUGH BEUTRE'S AGENCY.} BRITISH OPERATIONS.

ALL ARMS ENGAGED.

SALONIKA, September th... AB official British

announcement states: On the Struma front, patrols. made several raids on enemy trenches, some prisoners being taken.

The Navy successfully shelled a bitta lion of the enemy concentrated opposite Nedhori.

Artillery has been adive on our Deiran

front.

[MLOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]"

THE AIR RAID HERO,

ENTITLED TO £3,500 IN REWARDS.

LONDON, September 8th. Lieut. W. L. Robinson, V.C., the hero of the recent air raid, flew in France and was wounded at Lille in May of "in all the last year. He has been "up London raids since last September,

He is entitled to rewards amounting to

(THROUGH RELTER'S · AGENCY.] JAPAN'S DEMANDS ON CHINA,

SEQUEL TO CHENG CHIA TUNG

INCIDENT.

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PEKING, September 8th. Baron Hayashi has requested that the Divisional General whose troops were concerned in the Cheng Chia Tung incid

as shall be reprimanded, certain senior pacers dismissed, and those directly in control punished,

It is intimated that the questions of

MORE WOMEN WANTED,

NEED OF A LIVING WAGE.

A state of war has given rise to many anexpected conditions, and one bi the audat surprising' is the present position a regard to Le employment of women, There seeks no doubt that for the moment Lis ucmand 'exccds the supply, a situa tion Bimosi incredinic to &generation brought up to twix gubly of "* more than

inton superfluous woundu.” 16 as a futie dimcult to readjust our standpoint, for the change has come so saddeniz, A few months ago women were cumoning over each other in their eager uoss to do their bit for the country, and here was nothing like enduga work' to round. They registered by this bund- red at the Labour Exchanges and at sureaux set up by numerous associations, and grow heartsick as weeks went by and they were still unemployed. Now, however, things have changed, and in every direction the cry is," We want more women." From the headquarters Baron Hayashi has further requested of the Red Cross Suciety comes an urgent appoal for more V.A.D.'s; from the the Chinese Government to consent to Labour Exchanges a demand for more the establishment of Japanese policewomen clerks for Government work; and stations in Southern Manchuria aud Eastern Mongolia, where there are Japanese communities, and to engage Japanese police advisers in these regions

£3,500 offered to the first airman to fell apology by the Provincial Military

Hostile gune shelling Vladojaa Zeppelin in England, were silenced.

An enciny aeroplade which was shot down fell in fames in Doiran.

BRITISH CRUISER ENGAGED.

PARIS, September th.

A Salonika communiqué states:-The enemy violently bombarded Porej and Doldzeri.

HIS OWN DESCRIPTION OF THE

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ACHIEVEMENT. Describing the achievement. himself, Lieut. Robinson said: I had been up an hour when I saw the first Zeppelin flying high. I followed, climb

g higher to get. above her, but there was heavy fog, and she escaped. I attacked at long range, but the airship

Governor and of compensation to the families of those killed would be left to voluntary settlement. by China.

rom several directions at once a call for

any number of women for work on the land. Perhaps the first is the most un- expected, for until quite recently the despised V.A.D. has been a drag in the market. In the early days of the war there was a great rash of women

to

A British cruiser silenced Bulgarian made off before I could see if I had done in order to prevent disputes over police qualify themselves for Hed Cross work.

batteries in the direction of the Lower

Strama

VIOLENT FIGHTING AT TURTUKAL

LONDON, September 7th.

A telegrant from Bucharest, dated the 6th inst, states that there was fighting of great violence at Turtukai, with heavy losses on both sides.

The message does not mention the ovacuation of Turtukai.........

TURTUKAI EVACUATED:

A Bussian communiqué states:-Under superior German-Bulgarian pressure the Boumanians evacuated Turtukaï.

THE CAPTURE OF ORSOVÁ

any damage. I met the second airship just after two o'clock at 10,000 feet. Soon she appeared to catch fire in her petrol tank. The Rames spread rapidly and she made off eastward, but in a few minutes her nose dipped and she dived slowly towards the earth in flames.”

A JOYFUL LOOP-THE-LOOP..

*** I was 80` pleased," continued the Lieutenant, that I looped the loop several times. Then I signalled to cease firing and returned to the aerodrome."

GALLANTRY. REWARDED;

WARWICKS OFFICER

REINSTATED.

LONDON, September 8th.. LONDON, September 8th. The case of the Indian Army officer, The Times Bucharest correspondent, Capt, Smart, is recalled by an announce under dat h inst, reports that the ment in the Gazette of the reinstatement Roumanians occupied Orsova, în Hun-of John Ford Elkington in the rank of gary, an important military station GREEK FORCE AT KAVALLA.

SALONIKA, September 7th. Despite Bulgarian opposition, Colonel Christodoulos and the garrison from Serres have reached Kavalla and are

said to have saved two forts. Volunteers

are joining him.

EGYPT

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) EGYPTIAN OPERATIONS AIR ATTACK ON TURKISH

AERODROME.

LONDON, September 7th.

An Egyptian communiqué says: -Two of our aeroplanes yesterday dropped twelve bombs on a Turkish aerodrome at

El Irish, with apparently good results. Enemy aeroplanes attacked our machines, but only at long range, and ultimately abandoned the fight. Our machines re- turned without damage. AFRICA:

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] FORTS SURRENDERED.

LONDON, September 7th. It is officially announced that the enemy has surrendered the forts at Kilwakiwindebe and Kilwakiesiwani, in East Africa, under the threat of a naval bombardment.

Lieut. Colonel, Royal Warwickshire Regi- ment, with previous seniority, in conse quence of gallant conduct while serving in the risks of the Foreign Legion.

cases in the future.

GOVERNMENT

PURCHASES.

JUTE

AMENDED SCHEME CRITICISED.

LONDON, September 7th. The Times appeals to the War Office to withdraw from the arrangement whereby Messrs. Ralli are appointed sole jute buying agents for the Government. It says that the London jute firms criticise the amended scheme mainly because of the submission of the tenders to a Con- tract Committee on which Messrs. Ralli are represented, which means disclosing business to a rival, and also because of Messrs. Ralli's support of Swedish ship- ping interests, which is regarded as con- trary to the highest national interests..

U.S. SHIPPING BILL.

And thousands must have obtained the necessary certificates. Then for a time it seemed as though there were a dozen V.A.D.'s for every job. Those who were really anxious for regular work soon grow tired of the hot competition for ne privilege of performing the smallest hospital duty, and found some other ocupation; While the rest became slack as the first excilement wore off, and be- gan to think that "doing the washing list once a week at the nearest hospital was enough in the way of war work. Now we are told there is a shortage of nurses, and apparently almost anyone is wel-

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NOT ENOUGH TO LIVE ON. The position with regard to the scarcity f women clerks is rather different. The. najority of the posts vacant, now junior clerkships in Government offices, with salaries of from 20s, to 25, weekly For the type of work required, for which so special training or qualifications are necessary, the pay is perhaps sufficient, But it is not enough for middle-class girls to live on in these days of high

the

The ordinary sources of supply of women clerical labour have been used up. for some time-girls living at home in London and the suburbs have been glad in enra a guinea a week; and in addition to these a number of well-to-do girls have some up to London with albowances from nome to eke out their salaries. Now, however, it seems that this supply has also come to an end, and if tacre is in actual fact a real dearth of women clerks, the Government must either raise the- The Gazette of 31st October, 1914,

general standard of wages very material WASHINGTON, September 9th. amounted that Elkington had been

y or provide hostels where their em President Wilson has signed the Shiployees can live decently on what they

Pearn, cashiered under sentence of Court-ping Bill authorising the Government to

There are not many girls who care to Martial When, after thirty years' ser buy base ships through the afty-million spend at least 30s. a week on uncomfort vice, he left the Army he joined the dollar corporation formed for the purrder to earn 258, however keenly they Foreign Legion

pose.

INDIAN MILITARY HOSPITALS | BRITISH TRADE RETURNS. THE CHARGE OF OVERCROWDING.

LONDON, September 7th.

The Board of Trade returns show an increase in exports of £15,291,488, and in imports of £6,715,915 as compared with August last yeur..

LONDON, 'September 8th- Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary, announces with reference to the paragraphs in the Press regarding the military hospitals, at Coonoor, that similar reports had reached him in the middle of August, when he immediately tolegraphed the Raj, who, in reply, stated that caustive enquiry showed that GENERAL JOFFRES PREDICTION

OF THE ISSUE,

...

there was no overcrowding except of the most temporary kind. The arrival of many convalescents from Mesopotamia without kit caused a brief shortage in crockery, as well as other inconveniences, but these had been promptly attended to: The invalids were happy and contented. [Cooner is a town and sanitarium in the Mudras district of British India. It is situated at an altitude of 6,000 foot on the Niligiri hills.]

Loxbox, September 8th,

** VICTORY

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CERTAIN

The United Press, New York, published the following on August 8th from the General Headquarters of the French Army:

In an interview with American cor- respondents on the occasion of the second anniversary of the declaration of war, General Joffre said it gave him great pleasure to meet the representatives of American public opinon, because it gave him an opportunity of expressing his The Morning Post has a strong article appreciation of what the Americans had on the treatment of the wounded in done for France during the present India, instancing. the conditions prevail-crisis. ing in hospitals at Wellington and Coonoor

ble lodgings and unappetizing meals in

nay desire to be patriotic. The easier way is to remain at home in the country with plenty of fresh air and good food ind time for golf and tennis, and appease conscience by putting in occasional work it the local hospital, was depôt, or canteen The various associations engaged in recruiting women for work on the land are confronted with the same problem-

he impossibility of the worker living on the wages she earns. In cases where the absent labourer can be replaced by one of his own womenfolk who has

sepura. tion allowance in addition to her carn- ings the matter is simple enough, but where girls of a different class are brought from a distance and housing and feeding have to be considered the whole question is fraught with difficulty and it is not surprising that girls hesitate to come forward.

It would seem that all those who want. to work and can afford to are now fully employed, and the remainder are either unable to live on the pay they can com mand or frankly do not want to work, who come under the latter heading, the There is no doubt there are thousands

Flag Day sellers, for instance. It is fre quently stated in the Press that 10,000- sometimes 20,000-ladies were selling flags in the streets of London for such and-such a cause. Where do they all come from? Sorue perhaps ago to as to allow of an occasional free day, but arrange their usual work in such way

the great majority must be young, unen- ployed women.

HOME SUGGESTIONS.

It has only just begun to dawn on the for useful work left in the average wo- authorities that there is some capacity

man even after her 40th birthday—— France will issue from the conflictYA.D.'s may now be 48, and the Civil Service Commissioners have nominally (remarked General Joffre) with her tra- removed all age limits, though actually ditional friendship with America greally very few posts are given to women of strengthened, because we are not only over 40.

Would it not be possible to devise some

HOW DAR-ES-SAALEM WAS TAKEN, The surrender of Dar-es-Salem was preceded by a close attack begun on the 3rd inst, by the naval forces in whalers conjointly with a heavy bombardment of INSURRECTION BELIEVED TO BE ighting for an ideal which is equally method by which more use could be made

the enemy's positions north of the town, and the advance troops' landings were effected at two spots. The cremy evacu- ated the town, which is virtually un- damaged where the Germans had not occupied it.

AERIAL ACTIVITIES.

{THROUGH. REUTER'S AGENDY.] ENEMY AERODROME BOMBED

LONDON, Beptember 8th.

DUTCH EAST INDIES.

SERIOUS.

AMSTERDAM, September 7th.

dear to Americans and to Frenchmen, of the part-time services of older and married women, and thus release the but we are also fighting, in a manner worthyour ancestors who fought with younger ones for other work i. In the country particularly, much of the local your ancators, for the attainment of this war work is being carried on by middle-aged women who are only able abie that in the large munition centres to give part-time services, but it is notice- many young girls are employed in can- teen work which could be perfectly well undertaken by their elders.

The Telegraaf states that the insurrec-ideal. tion in the Dutch East Indies is not desperately, yet the German plan of Although the enemy is still fighting localised, but carefully organised, and quickly transferring reserves to various therefore serious.

fronts is no longer possible owing to the steady action of the Allies on the whole German front.

Why should not the National Register Victory for us is now certain. It is when, it may be rememuered, reg.ster not for me to say how long the struggle ed women as well as men be used for will last before the final breakdown of the purpose of conscripting women on the enemy's strength comes; aa come

somewhat the same lines as the Suitary am alsosutely certain it will The Service Act? Every, woman, or at least French resistance for five months at Ver every unmarried woman, between the ages dun definitely turned the scales in our of 18 and 40 could then be called upon

The Insurgents violently attacked Fort Moera Tebo on the 2nd instant, and were repulsed. There were twenty killed.

A VILLAGE OCCUPIED,

THE HAGUE, September 8th.

It is officially announced thas Navalhe Governor-General of the Dutch favour by shattering the German plans, for work of national importave, unless aeroplanes yesterday dropped bombs. on an enemy aerodrome Westrem, with good effect.

and yet we must not imagine that there she is granted exemption, and in many

at St. Denis, East Indies reports that the village of is a distinct weakening of the force still cases her place could be filed by an older

One of our machines is missing.

A Naval aeroplane brought down a kite-balloon at Ostend. The balloon was on fire The aeroplane returned safely, despite the heaviest

Meera fambesí has been occupied by the Insurgents after heavy fighting.‘.

opposing us. We now have over two thirds of the whole German Armies namely, 122, divisions facing us, while It is presumed that the family of a

tho remaining 50 divisions, in coopera foriner Sultan is concerned in the dissian front. But we are fully equal to tion with the Aust riens, are on the Rus

the taak we have undertaken.

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woman. Much has been mid about the male slacker-row become the canscript and much about the excellent work rendered by the women of the nation, fortunately not very many but there are women slackers, too, though. and they ought to be rounded ap.-The Times."