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THE WAR.

TREMENDOUS. EFFECTS OF

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BRITISH ARTILLERY.

VIOLENCE OF ANGLO-FRENCH ATTACKS CREATE SURPRISE.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY SEPTEMBER 1179, 1916.

RUSSIAN SUCCESS IN THE CARPATHIANS,

BRITISH AEROPLANE SQUADRONS: PREPARED.

FRANGO-BELGIAN FROM 1.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BRITISH FRONT. IMPORTANT GAINS AND

CAPTURES.

LONDON, Seaber 10th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

FRENCH ON THE SOMME

PARIS, Septender 9th. A communiqué states: There was live- ly artillery Bring on the Semund

Au enemy counter-attack north-east of

GENERAL.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

OPERATIONS AMAZE GERMAN CORRESPONDENTS.

LONDOS, September 10th. German Correspondents are frankly surprised at the violence of the British and French attacks on the Somme They were especially impressed by the aerial activity, and speak of the great swarms

(THROUGE REUTER'S "AGENCY.]

ANGLO-FRENCH MUNGIÓN. MINISTERS CONFER

GERMAN SAVAGERY IN

AFH UN

CAMEROON NATIVE VICTIMS. · THE SOUTH-WEST AFRICAN CHIMES.

LONDON September 9th. It is officially announced that Con- German Atrocities and Breaches of ferences were held during the week at the Rules of War in Africa" is the tile Paris between the French and British of a Blue book Cd. 8:00 recently issue, Ministers of Munitions. Views were ex-if there are any sceptics left about the changed on the reccal operations and brutality of the German as combatan

and as ruler of a civilan papuintión, lec toem get and read this record. measures were dreward for the most

16 acais, first, with the conduct of the Geamat effective comployment of the joint military

of British aeroplanes hovering over the resources. Satisfactory conclusions were Franco-German froutier,

where tenenched, squadrons bombarded the German com-

munications,

KING FERDINAND CONFEFS WITH KAISER.

AMSTERDAM, September 10th," The King of Bulgarin has arrived at the Eastern Front is confer with the

Kaiser.

V. C. AWARDS.

LONDON, September 10th. The Gatte announces that the Victoria

The Hon. E. Montagu has returned to Bugland

{l'elegiums "rzepived on Saturday und on Sunday morning and published" in an {"Extra" on Sunday, will be found on

page 6.]

MURDER IN WELLINGTON STREET.

CHINESE EX-MACISTRATE FATALLY STABBED.

Wellington Street, at the junction of Gatzlaff Street, was the scene of a falai stabbing affray on Friday night, the victim being Wo Hing Kt, aged 38 years, who has been living in Hongkong, for

He was

muniqué, skates :-Tiu: whole of the Ginchy Derby was repulsed with heaviest losses Cross has been awarded to temporary about two months.

village and the ground to Lenze Woodl

are ours.

Bast of High "Wood we advanged three hundred yards on a five hundred yards front,

North-east of Pezieres në gained va further six hundred yards,

HEAVY ENEMY CASCALTIES.

TaNDON, September 10th, Kizurnal Sir Douglas:Haig, in" angther evamaniqué, says --We allacked this afternoon on a front of six thousand yards between High Wood and Lenze Wood. This resulted in the'capture of the whole of Gineby, after seviye fighting The prisoners taken and time Paviny casualties were very heavy.

The casualties of the enemy were also very heavy aorth-east of Poxierts, wheré he was caught by our artillery while fussing for a counter-attack.

There has been artillery activity else- where on the front,

There have been numerous air-fights, and our air craft bombed another, enemy; aerodrom destroying two hingars.

SUCCESSFUL TRENCH RAIDS. We took prisoner two Bavarian officers and 19 LCFL. and inflicted heavy

casualties on the enemy.

There has been considerable artillery activity on the part of the ceny worth of Pozieres and in the neighbourhood of Mouquet Farm, where a small enemy attack was easily repulsed,

Wo raided enemy trenches in the neighbourhood of Arras, the Hobenzollern

to the enemy.

French inders rushed the trenches cast of Belloy, capturing 30 prisoners,

A munter-attack at Berny was preceded

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Major Swart Walter Loudon Shand,magistrate, presiding over the perfecture Capiatu Adrian Carton De Wiart, tein- of Kingchow, Kwangtong, and was porary deutenant Geoffrey St. George lieved of his post when President Li Cather, temporary Second Lieutenant succeeded President Yuan: Darald Simpson Bell, Sergeant-Major We made a further advance on the Nelson Carter, of the Sussex Regiment,

by a furious bombardment,

enemy. Trenches east of Beniewurt.

French aireratí dropped 21 hombs at Elain and Costaus station anu un tie

Bombach work.

VERDUN FRONT: The French carried by asanul the while system of trenches beyond Douaumont,”

The French captared 200 prisoners and seal machineguns at Douamunt,

On Friday night Wa Hing Ki was on walking with two friends, and when near Getzlaff Street, he was stabbed fimm he

tores in Cameroon. They came to the conclusion that one tribe, too Duale, were hostile to them as the Allied troops advanced into the country. Therenn one of their commanders, Lieutenant won Engelbrechten, issued to a subordinale. the following order :--

THE THING CALLED A NATION.

[WY Q, K. CHESTERTON, ]

Five hundred years ago our Allies the Sorbians went down in the great Battle of Kossovo, which was the end of their triumph and the beginning of their glory. wounded, the Serbian nation had a For if the Serbian Empire was mortally

chance to prove itself immortal; sinos it is only in death that we Can discover ramoreality. So awfully alive is that Christian thing entled a nation that its very death is a living depth, It is a living death which lasts a hundred times it meant to the Serbians I know of no longer than any life of man; and of what

possible literary expression. The nearest words for it are found, I believe, in m Serbian proverb, which I fancy I have heard, and which I am sure is too good for me to have imagined God never made a

I have ordered the destruction of all of the Seele util He saw the sorrows

Duats villages. All Dunias met on the roads carrying weapons (matchers, bowi and arrows, speara and also riles) are to be shot. Prisoners will only on mmie when they are ought red-handed and can be legally trica and condemned to death. All Dualas stil in the employ- ment of the Government in the northerli railway part of the Dual district wi be arrested and seat under charge to Dschang."

General Dobell, in forwarding to the Colonial Secretary a translation of this captured message says: ----

I consider the, imessage serves to in- dicate the attitude of mind of the Ger maus towards the native inhabitants of the Cameroons, and although our troops must, from time to time, employ nati guides, it is unnecessary for me to stale that natives do not perform the other services indicated by the writer.'

SAYACK OUT-SAVAGED.

The effect of much orders on the nativ soldiery employed by the Germans in the Camerons may be imagined. But there is here no need for imagination. It described in case after case, taken from.

Corporal George. Sanders, of: the West.hind. The weapon was left in the wound the Gorman troops. Witness after wit

Yorks, Privates Janes Hutchinson, of the murderer, who apparently, was the Langushire Fusilers, William Mcfriends first became aware of the incident not seen, mixed with the crowd. Wu's Fadzean and Robert Quigg, of the when they sa ne reel and tall to the ground. They thought he was suddenly Irish Itifles, Jaines Miller, of the Royal taken ill, but on assisting him to his rect Lancaster, Willian Short, of the York-covered a knite in his side. We was | removed to the Government Civil Hoa- shires, Thinas Tyrral, of the Woresters,pital, where he made a statement to the

police bolore expiring. Theodore Veale, of the Devons, Drammer Walmer Kitchis, of the Seaforth High

No motive casi yet be assigned for the crime, but the police think de possible that political intrigue is at the botiga of the allair, or, on the other banu, tux murderer may have wanted his revenge on Wu for a magisterial decision, Four

connection with the crime.

The Germa again attacked thelanders, Private William Frederick positions explured on the Uth inst, at | Faulds, if the South African Infantry, Vaux Chapitre, but were scattered by the and the following Australian Infantrymen have been detained by the police in French curtain-fire.

STUPENDOUS ARTILLERY

FIRE.

PARIS, September 10th. The cannoni de 00 the Somine hau renched degree of unprecedented intens sity, the Allied batteries showering thousands and thousands of projectiles over a thirty miles' line.

Military eyewitnesses graphically de scribe the tremendous effects of the artil- lery fire on the German positions. | RU881AN FRONT,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] RUSSIANS CARRY HEIGHTS.

meh :---Becond-Lieutemat Arthur Ses-

forth Blackburn, Frivates Thomas Cooke, William Jackson, John Leak and Martin O'Meara,

THE AIRMAN VC

LONDON, September 10th. His Majesty the King has presented the Vietbria Cross' to Lieutenant Robin-. son, the aviator who destroyed, the Zep- pelin near London.

CONSTERNATION IN CLUBLAND.

LONDON, September 10th.

PETROGRAD, September 9th.

The commandering of the National In an official communiqué it is stated Liberal Club and the Constitutional that south of Baranov, in the Car Club has created comternation in club

Redoubi and Neuve Chapelle, took pris-pathians, the Russians carried a seriesland. Deputations have visited the War

oners and inflicted casualties,

A. Grenian trench was captured last night at High Wood, after sharp hand- to-hand fighting,

TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT AT GUILLEMONT

LONDON. Beptember 10th. Reuter's Correspondent ai British Headquarters states that the terrible character, of any bombardment at Gaille-

of heights. capturing 000 firisʊners and five machine-guns,

The enemy drew a mountais battery. and other guts down a ravine,

All the Turco-German counterattacks at Halicz were repelled. THE BALKANS

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BRITISH SILENCE ENEMY BATTERY.

A Salonika communiqué slates; -The tillery duel et Doiran front continues, We silenced an enemy battery on the Struma front.

TOWN.

mont is shown by the fact that the ground cast of the village was afrown with anked corpses, many, unwounded baving been RUSSIANS BOMBARD BULGARIAN killed and stripped by the intense 'com. russion, which also killed the occupants of some of the dugouts. The Germans were completely demoralised and sur- rendered freely. 11 seem that the German's withdrew Their field artillery froni Guillemont either in order to pre- vent capture or as a preliminary to a general withdrawal.

MR. ASQUITH AT THE FRONT

LONDON, September 9th. Beuter's Correspondent, telegraphing to-day states that Mr. Asquith is spend- ing a few days in the area of the British offensive. The visit concluded to-day.

HINDENBURG ON THE

SOMME.

COPENHAGEN, September 18th. General Hindenburg has arrived - on the Somme Front, accompanied by the Crown Prince.

The Russian bombarded Badijak, on the Bulgarinn coast.

EGYPT

(THROUGH REUTER'S ACRNOM.] AEROPLANES RAID EL

MAZAR

LONDON, September 9th. Our acroplanes on the sth inst, raided El Mazar with good effect. AERIAL ACTIVITIES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

NAVALLERS BOMB ENEMY AERODROMES.

LONDON, September 9th. The Admiralty announce that Naval

aeroplanes carried out an attack this morning on the enemy's aerodromes at Costelles and Handzarre..

Office to protest

A PROCLAMATION.

LONDON, September lotir.

A Preclamation has been issued squir ing retums to be nude of all British property in enemy territory and of claims by British subjects against enemy persons and enemy governments.

FRENCH WAR CREDITS.

FAR EASTERN MEN AND

THE WAR.

A letter dated August 2nd, received in Shanghai from the mother of Mr. fugit Lester (Messrs. Dodwell & Co.) states that Mr Lester was wounded in the run by shrapiel on July 8th, but at the time of writing was back in the trenches, quies wall again. He was not sent home.

Further news has reached Shanghai re- lative to the wounds of Lieut. C. S.

the mouths of native witnesses who ha passed through the ordeal of visits fron.

warning that the Germans were coming. ness tells the same story-of a sudden

res caught; and of the finding of tach of panic flight; of men women, and child bodies by those who had escaped wher at inst they ventured back to their suit ten homes. A memorandum by Mr. V. Elphinstone, Chief Political Officer covers much of the evidence. He say that-

In every care

Cros very close examination has been held on cer material point, and I have satisfied my self in every ease that the witnesses hat related what they believed to be true; } have turned away many who were t quite satisfactory under cross-examin tion,

"The evidence has been taken, in fas in exactly the same way as I nat acess tomed to take evidence in crimiani casos,

It is, of coure, impossible. to give auţ complete summary of this mass of ev dence. A touch or two, revealing the tatue of the whole, is all that can b reproduced here:

"We all ran away; but my sister Ne Ntonge was caught by them. I heard screaming. Came back three days after I saw no wound; the baily was swallo up inside her own house. I saw no mark; on her body."

live at Mang. Sour months ag I was living by the house of Npando. Bignell, formerly of Collins & Co, and

The were in the house of Npɔndo, my ais many friends will be pleased to know

self and his two wives, Matio aud that he is resting easily in a privatened out: he went out and was shot p Mundu During the nigh Nondo wa hospital in London and that, there is overy reason to think that he will soon be able to rejoin his regiment at the front. It sems that Lieut. Bignell was potted" by a sniper, the bullet strik- ing him in the thiga, Fortunately missing the bone, and resulting only in » flesh wound.

· Mr. E. S. Little, junr., district manager of Brunner, Mond & Co., Ltd., in Tientsin, is leaving for Home in the near future to join the Officers' Training Corps, on application to the War Office Mr. Lite, who is a married man with two children, was educated at Leys School, Cambridge. On returning to the Far East he was prominent in Shanghai sport and was for a period of eight years Company, a popular member of A S.V.C. At present he holds the rank of Lieutenant in the British Volunteer Com- pay at Tientsin

and killed. After a bit I looked and s four German goldiers. After some ar alandu told Matio to run with her. Smi refusa. Mundo rau kit and was shu Then two soldiers eanne duža at twice. the house. They hit a lainp. They four blatio under a bed; they kicked fier: sin came out from the bed; they killent sat with an axe,. They then round ae aiding | They took me. They told me to sh

them the Keachman's house. I showed them. They un let me go. I ran away and was shot at three tunes. The first shot missed me, the second got me in the left fore-arm, and the third. in the left shoulder. Two soldiers came and looked at hr; they asked me if I was dead. I was left there,"

Before leaving our village, for gome reason which 1 do not know, & soldier picked up my small brother by the Te and dashed his head into the ground: He did this twice and then kicked th body. The boy was only fåur years old and he died at once. We were not allowed to bury him."

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So much for Cameroon. The details of these atrocities are here published for the first time. But their existence bez been known ever since the campaign was well under way,

FORONED WELLS.

News has been received that 2nd Lieut. J. O. Barnes, Royal Fiald Artillery, was vory badly wounded in the big push that started on July Ist. He was attached to the Trench Mortar Battery, and after being under very heavy shell fire for 62 PARIS, September 10ti.rs, bas his right kecap and right calf shed away, five shrapnel wounds in The French Budget Committed have the groin and the little finger of his left Hand broken. This happened on or about adopted a Bill for credits amounting to July 9th, and on July 10th he was operat Ad úponat Amiens, baton July 18, whilst (22833,000,000 for tëse final quarter of 2016. at the 8th General Hospital, Rosen, itdence is well-known. The case of the was found Pessary to amputate the description of the condition of South African prisoners taken by the Germans THE SUMATRA INSURRECTION right ng above the knee. He is now

is the same. It is not new; bus the ful: lying in the 3rd Lundon General Hos-

text of the reports is now published for. pital, says the N. Daily News,

the first time in an easily accessible form.

THE HAGUE, September 10th. The Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies telegraphs that five brigades of infantry teft. Jambi, Sumatra, on the 6th inst, for Moears Tanbesi, where the rebois lost. 50 killed and two Dutch soldiers were slightly wounded in the engagement on the 2nd inst.

More troops have beer sent to Bangko, and two more companies of infantry have gone to Mocara Roepit from Palembang,

The Dutch Controller Mocnra Tambesi, who was reported murdered at Surulangon, is now reported safe.

LATER.

The Governor of the Dutch East Indies

A large number of bombs were dropped reports local skirmishes favourable to with satisfactory results,

the Dutch troops at Mocaratelo, and satisfactory move, from other plasce

All the machines returned safely.

AN AMERICAN TRIBURE TO LORD KITCHENER.

2.

The day of the great Turkish victory is everywhere celebrated by Serbians- except in Serbia. To asic why it cannot be kept in Serbia is to ask the central question about the greatest quarrel that has ever convulsed this planet. We are ighting to preserve that particular spirit which remembers a defeat rather than victory. We are fighting to make success failure. The Germans keep the Day of Sedan, that is the Day of Success: and it is at fact, to which any honest observer will attest, that they are conspicuous unong other nations recalling other vie turies, by the fact that their whole. phraseology and philosophy treats it as terminable Sedan. The remember and celebrate the Day of Jena. That is why it is vitally necessary, even or their own sakes, to give them a bigger iena, which they will be obliged to re- member. As it is, the average Prussian

robably realises nothing about Jena, Except that Professor Haeckel lives there; which may, indeed, be reasonably regard

d as a national judgment or visitation

of an in-

part of an inevitabins do not

itself; but in which the divine irony expresses itself in too subtle a manner to. ensily apprehended by the Prussian aind..

Kossovo of the Serbians towers in his bry as the most tragic and memorably of such instances of memory. But it in y no means the only instance indicating hat the Allies stand for this, paradox of he undefeated defeat. When I first went Paris as a mere boy I think the thing hat most struck my eye and stuck in my emory was that sculptured circle of the reat cities of France, in which the only ratue afil girt with new garlands and Traperies is the last city of Strasburg.

seemed to be a challenge to the changes f time more momentous and isopressive von than the cannon column of Napoleon

the tawrs of Notre Daine. Inover nw a sight in my life that impelled ne spontaneously to say. In hoe sigue inces. But the very phrase I am using s enough to remind is that the idea is der and even, more historic than the 1st quarrel of France In the fight of bat aneight idea, most assuredly, Serbia anat be delled the eldest brother of the Alliance. It was under the sign by which anstantinople conquered that Lezar fell failure that has lecu as fruitful as martyrdon.

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-oce.

And the chief fruit of this philosophy the national idea itself, the sacra nental use of boundary, the basis in ar almost religious sense of agriculture, the dea having a home apo this earth. which the Arab armies out of the deseris an hardly even be said to have violated, aving never even begun to understand. If we in the West have javed these nings mom pacifically than the Serbians it would be on the last level of vileness for us to reproach them with the differ- For in the plain light of history, it is because they have beep warlike that

e have found it possible to be peaceful.. if they are fierce it is because no courage nort of stuer fanaticism could av kept Ac trentiors of Christendour against such. ush cloudy pi fues, while we were clcct-. g our first Parlaments and building 'first enthedrals. While all we call the world was being made they were the wall of the world. If they had the fault uf such fighting we at least might in decency regard them not as sins, but

cars.

If they have wildly struck down grants who were also traitora, it is be cause for them a plaram like selling the pass" is not a petty, political metaphor. but has often referred to a real past, over real mountains, letting loose rain upon.

cal villages in a real valley.

And, indeed, it is this vivid and senti- Live visualisation of the traitor which makes the main sentiment of Serbia in he war. The Serbs have a feeling about the part played by Austria which we in ne west can but imperfectly understand. Chat Austria was wholly and flatly in he wrong in the quarrel that created this war is admitted by everyone in his five vite It may even he said that it was The Bine-book also contains the full immitted by, Austria, since she refused text of General Botha's correspondeate arbitration, or even any sort of discus- with the Geront authorities in South- sion. It is admitted by many of the Gar- West Africa about the poisoning of the nans, who-are, indeed more and more wells The substance of this corresponsposed to prove their own impeccable virtue at the expense of the Austrians, as well as of all the rest of mankind. But the Serbian has an issue with the Austrian which is the more sinister for oring spiritual. For the Serb the Aus trian is a Christian-like Judas Iscariot, He is a Christian who has stabbed him in the back while he was still fighting with his far to the infidel. And his just. anger is full of the fury of five centuries, and dark with the trappings of that day of mourning when the blood of his saints. vad heroes was given on the field of black- birds in vain.-Daily News and Lander.

KAISER'S UNPOPULARITY,

According to the Rotterdamsche Cour gut, Kaiar Wilhelm is eensiderably per

A few page describing the brutal murder of our wounded men by Germans in East Africa complete the Blue-book. The whole effect is overwhelming in the Very diaracteristic, and for that rea

disgust and abhorrence which it inspires. the son perhaps, wry genuine, was

It shows the German stripped of his Americi tribute to Lord Kitchener on veneer of humanity-a brute and a callus the day of his memorial service. Agrest brule; committing unspeakable abomina bazar called the Allied Bazaar was be- tions of erucity and lust whining when ing held in New York and the sale was in his own skin is threatened and lying frantic progress wen suddenly hagles with brazen effrontery when his crines. sounded a call and there was an instant are brought home to him.-Times. stop of every activity. Motor cars arriv ing stopped where they had run to; ladies in evening dress geing in or out stayed GERMAN CHIVALRY LOWER THAN surbed over the increasing evidences of where they stood, every sales girl halted with goods in her hands, every booth chairman consed his appeals, twenty thousand faces turned towards the front The announcement that the Kaiser has of the Hall and everyone bowed whilst conferred the Order of St. John on 11 prayer was offered and after Land of Dutchmen does not create any enthusiasm Hope and Glory" the vast gathering hero (says The Times special correspond sang together Onward Christian Sol-nt at Amsterdam). German chivalry as diers. The sudden and complete stop illustrated by the murder of women and age of every movement caused a most children in the Lusitania, of Miss Call, weired effect and was an evidence of the and of Captain Fryatt, has fallen lower reality of the feeling.

in public estipation than the mark.

THE MARK.

h's unpopularity. During his recent journeys he has several times encounter- cd cold and eveu hostile receptions,

Another Dutch paper says, the Kaiser" recently complained to a general in his suite about the coolness of his subjects, and was so moved that he shed tears. The paper adds that these evidences of un popularity have considerably affected the Emperor's health, and he suffers from frequent fits of depression. We should take this with a grid of salt,