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GERMAN LOSSES ON THE SOMME

HEAVY COST OF COUNTER- ATTACK

BRITISH CASUALTIES.

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[FROM THE TIMES BECIAL COLLESPONDENT.]

The every continues to make repeated counter attacks at the points where we have most recently pushed forward. It is natural ther he should resist our ad vance desperately, for it is evident that our steady progress on the right beyond Pozures involves other and important positions in that direction,

An encouraging feature of the present fighting is that in these counter-attacks, apart from their general futility the enemy is losing a great many men. There have been episodes in this, battle when our losses have been materially heavier than his, when there has been no recourse but to attack auross the open positions elaborately defended with machine-guns. In the counter-attacks which in has been making for a week past (August 14th) in the Pozines region his casualties have been much the more serious..........

DISASTROUS FNEMY ATTACKS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1916.

KULTUR IN PERSIA,

BRIGANDAGE AND MURDER AS A SYSTEM.

·GERMANBAL ORGANIZATION PRIN EXCELSIS,

[FROM EDMUND CANDLER]

LIFE OF PARLIAMENT.

EXTENSION FOR SEVEN MONTHS,

M. BRIAND'S SINGLE FRONT.

HOLDING THE GERMANS IN THE

WEST

(From Mr. H. WARNER ALLEN, Special Correspondent of the British 'ress with the French Armies.)

their.

The House of Commons agreed last month, under pressure from the Govery ment to extend the life of the present The main piyor of the Battle of the It is the achievement of a handful of other words, for a period of seven months, issue of the whole battle depended on the Parliament until April 30th, 1017 Marne was the defence of Nancy. The Germana in Persia to have introduced

There was quite a lively debate in French bolding their ground in war brigandage, loot, and murder into one of the few countries of the world small House before the point was settled. positions round the Grand Couronne. which might have enjoyed peace, Hap- The Government in their Bill proposed

The main pivot of the present battle, pily they have discovered that lies and an extension of eight months, which is being fought on a vastly larger assassination, though useful in disturbing Sir Edward Carsoft reminded the scale on the French, British, Italian, and the equilibrium of a neutral country, Prime Minister that many members were Russian fronts, is to be found on the left cannot be made the permanent basis of in favour of no more than a four or, western wing. The main object of our authority. With the entry of General months extension, and persisted in his armies and those of the French is to hold Sykes into Kerman one of the last centres contention that six months represented a so great a force of the enemy is to make of propaganda has been swept clean. ⠀⠀ fair compromise. He urged that an ex- the operations of our Allics in the centre

German methods in Persia have a tension of the life of Parliament was a and on the right irresistible, peculiar interest since they offer a model, very serious proposition, At present, he Today the Germans have on the West- on a small scale, of her political machi declared, umid Radical murmurs of orn front one hundred and twenty-one nery as a whole. Nowhere else have the protest, the House of Commons repre- Infantry Divisions and one Cavalry threads of her intrigues been laid so bare; sented about 25 per cent of the electors, Division, while of those no fewer than nowhere are the motives, source, method, and was little more representative of the fifty-nine are active divisions, that is to and effect of her propaganda so trans people than the House of Lords. He say, the French and British have in front parent. The specific is always more illu thought that Parliament ought to be ex- of them nearly two thirds of the German ninating than the general: and to follow tended to the shortest convenient period, Army in the field, and many of these the machinations of the firm of Wonck-not the longest, and, as six month did troops are the pick of the enemy's avail- haus bofore the war or the comings and not satisfy the Prime Minister, he renale forces. On the Eastern front the goings of the agents, Wasmuss and commended five.

German forces consist of fifty-three In- Neidermayer, during the last 12 months

Mr. Bonar Law made it clear that the fantry Divisions and ten Cavalry Divi- a to read the history of the government Government intended to stick to their sons, and of these only eighteen are in the individual..

In Persia one cannot hut admire the Buns He denied that the matter was of active divisions. To this forte must be added the Austro-Hungarian troops, adroitness with which the German has any consequence to the Government; it was which are certainly of inferior fighting Retween August 5th and 8th the Ger- combined the contraditory roles of fugi- not going to extend their life. He asked, value. They consist of forty-seven In- mans delivered three main counter-attive and protector. The persuasive tongue worth the whese this discussion was fantry Divisions and eleven Cavalry tacks, besides some 10 minor local counter of Wassmuss resounds in the proclama worth while, unless the object way to get attacks, and of the three chief attacks tions of the Khans of Tangistan, in which rid of the Government. If that were the The effective pressure of the British we have fairly accurate information. these nnregenerate highwaymen profess object, let it be on a bigger issue and French combined armies against the Sir Edward Carson profested against German forces in the West is proved by They employed about 4,000 men, includ: themselves shocked at the violation of ing two battalions of the did and parts Persian neutrality, and demand the the temper of these remarks, but declined the difficulty and hesitation with which " guests to contest the matter further. The the enemy has attempted to reinforce his of the 162nd and 163rd Infantry Regi- restitution of their innocent ments, as well as part of the 84th Re and Austrians who had brought their agreed to without a division offensive. At the moment of the first were die same Germans Government proposal was accordingly Eastern front against the great Russian The guests Regiment, The attacks er machine-guns over the Turkish border, originally planted for August fith, but flooded the country with inflammatory Mr. Bonar Law gave an assurance that draw four divisions, and since that time

Before the Bill passed its final stage shock on the East he ventured to with were countermanded, and wore finally leaflets, and against the express orders Plural Voting Bill would not be intro he has sent a single division, the 121st, delivered on August 6th and, 7th. .....

of the Persian Government set up their The attack of the former day was com wireless installation at Ispahan Allied duced by the Government during the from the West to the East. This division pletely and disastrously repaised. In with these champions of Persian neu-

period. For which the life of Parliament was withdrawn from the Somme, where it had suffered very heavy losses three that of the following day the enemy atrality were the Turks, who occupied was to be prolonged Air Long, tan, vanced over some 800 or 1,000 yards of Kermanshah, overran the province of explained that it was not the intention thousand five hundred men in prisoners open ground, where be suffered very Azerbaijan, captured Tabriz, and put the of the Government to take advantage of alone, and a large quantity of artillery.

a measure of this kind to secure the elec

As things are at present the Germans severaly from our artillery fire, and on inhabitants of the city to the sword. approaching our trenches he was caught DEMOCRACY IN A STRANGE GUIBE tion of Parliament for the ordinary cannot spare a single man from this The German in Persia is a champion perind upon a register that admittedly front. Verdun and the Somine each of by our machine-gunk, and the attack

was unsuitable for the purpose

Gorraan divisions in the first line, and it them require the presence of some twenty simply withered up. Orly in one or two of demoerncy as well as of the integrity place did parties of the enemy troops of small nations. German and Demo

Earlier in the debate Sir Edward Car is clear that the steady methodical ad- reach our trenches, and of those which crats has been a common catchword inson made á strong plea for the entran vance of the French and British will did so, such as were not killed were made the south and the Persiaus linked the chisement of soldiers and sailore. He necessitate the maintenance of every man prisoners. We took 70 prisoners.

words in all inuocence, so that to the ig urged that, while the Bill purported to available on this front. What the total enemy losses were we norant "Democrat" must have come to retain the qualification of 5,000,000 men do not exactly know; but we know that mean an employer of assassins who is with the colours, or one-quarter of the M Brain's dotrine of the unity of the 3rd Battalion of the 63rd Regiment prepared to pay a high wage.Demo-electorate, in reality it left them disfront has been fully realised. On March eracy** is a strange standard for the franchised during the war. Under the Bill 27th last he laid down at the Conference thing like the same proportion of casual German to fly but he is adaptable, and even the Army on the East Coast, the of Paris the following main principle on ties probably prevailed in all the troops

as not in the wounded in hospitals, and the munition which the Allies must conduct the war, engaged.

lost 400 men out of a total of 550 Soine

-COMPARISON" WITH VERDEN.

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for the moment autocracy Air..

workers who had left their homes would be unable to vote. Sir Edward Carson did not agree that it was impossible to devise the necessary machinery. Offers had told him that, although it would be

Divisions.

THE ALLIES MAIN PRINCIPLE

against the Central Empires: A single cause served by a single army fighting on a single front against a single enemy under one single control, "d

Today it is possible to regard all fields of operation as forming part of a single

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For a long time Isphau is the centre of intrigue. On February 4th, 1915, Dr. Pugin arrives with a semi-royal escort, and hoists the German and Turkish Bags, How expensive in the aggregate this Before evening the German Bag is torn in a troublesome thing, there was no sub battle has been is illustrated by what shreds, but it is soon flying again. Instantial difficulty in the way of the re-whole. Germany did her utmost to anti- seems to me a fact of the first importance May the wireless is installed. Protests, cording of soldiers votes. Australia, cipate and prevent the co-operation of namely that the Germans have now ordera, expostulations pour in From New Zealand, and Queensland had all the Alice by her wild assault on Verdun - useit in the battle of the Somme as many | Teheran, but the Governor General is set up wachinery for that, piceable Verdun France hell and duraten. Die

diviziona as they used in the whole of dilatory in putting them into effect. And British Columbia, Lad

the Verdun fighting; This, of course, it would be a pity to remove this toy, taking the votes of

its so can plan, with the result the Y

intluces the troops used against both the For the voice of the War Lord is heard Britain during the last few days I British and the French, The figures. I daily in lapahan speaking with the elect. the Government would undertakery believe, are certain and the facts un- He tells of colossal disasters to the Slov, and set up machinery of the site kind, doubled.

the destruction of the British Navy, the he was willing that the Bill should Ko" connoander, presumably, puts failure of the Bank of England, and the become lay as it stood. He also suggest division into the fighting line and, after extinction of France Farther south, ed that the Government should simplify a few days withdraws it to be replaced Wassmuss has a dummy wireless of his the machinery of registration, and wound by new troops unless it has suffered to own, and he, too, confers with the All up by insisting that the enfranchisement severely that it is no longer to be relied Highest in the camp of the simple of our soldiers and sailors stood on a on to do its work, The Germans have Tangistanis, drawing sparks with a different basis from any other extension

of the franchise. teen putting in new divisions, withdraw magnet in the night. “ing them and replacing them with others,"

will extraordinary rapidity.

AN ILLUSORY ZEPPELIN

Briand's system is beginning to prove slowly and surely that it must be success- ful. Not only have the French bold, and, indeed, gained, ground at Verdun, but in co-operation with the British they have pushed back the Germans. The Russians and Italians have made the most of the opportunities of the situation, and their courage and brilliant generalship have brought about a decisive advance. When the day of Enal victory arrives the effort of France and that admirable co-ordina Sir John Simon followed with a very tion of the Allied Armier, so largely died The comic muse still holds the stage at persuasive appeal for recognition of the to the genins of M. Briand, will be realis Ispahan on May 20th, when large crowds claims of women to the franchise. After ed and appreciated by all those who have It is not to be inferred that the total flock to the cemetery or Takhti-Rihad to raking the Bill fore and aft, he asked fought on the side of civilisation. Josses here have yet been as large as those see a German Zeppelin arrive laden with Ministers to fake advantage of the pre- at Verdun. It may well be that in this sugar-symbolic freight from the north vailing atmosphere, which was net un battle, with the terrible pounding which The townspeople search the sky with favourable to considering wide changes the enemy has been receiving from our strained necks until dark, when they in the franchise. If the Bill were car- artillery and the constant shock of our return home disappointed, nucli to the ried, it ought to be with the qualifications attacks, troops get shaken and have to diminution of German prestige.

that the Special Register was to en be withdrawn with a small proportion But things are to move more quickly operation for the period of the war and of actual casualties that they could stand in the city, and the tragic muse will take for a few months afterwards. Bat he without losing their serviceability in such her turn on the boards. offensive fighting as that at Verdun,

When Seiler urged, would it not be better to build up cours the truculent Pugin is discredited the Parliament of Reconstruction on the The critical nature of his situation hero, as not truculent enough What have basis of a simple residential qualification and the terriendous penalty which he you done for us?" he is asked. No for adult suffrage 1 might pay for the total failure of his thing at all!" The ruan stands a self- troops at any one point, may well make confessed weakling, all words and bluff. BR ASQUITH'S "STOP-GAP," it more urgent to keep nothing but a when he should be the father of riot and

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BYELMERS. with the strength they constantly need. If The str. Berunder felt Ben Francisco the blood is impoverished and weak these on the 17th Auguit, osils at Honolulu, It is now permitted to announce, says the first compinint they make is to cease and is due to arrive at flungkong os organs fail to receive this assistance and Yokohama, Koba, Uhanghai and blanita, em Paris, correspondent, that a to call for food Pour appetite sever or about September 30th and will love French airman flow over Berlin on the comes alone. It is generally accompanied on October 4th

The str. New Sweden loft Gothenburg night of June 20th, dropping, not bomba, by indigestion, headaches, bad taste in but leaflets, continued his journey the mouth on rising from bed, coated on 5th August, and is due to arrive here towards the Russian front, and was forced tongue, lassitude and lack of tone shout end deptember. succession of fresh divisions against us. assassination. Clearly a more resource- The Prime Minister outdid both Bir to land at Cholm in Poland, when only throughout the day to Put matters right But whatever the detailed reasons may ful head, a livelier propaganda is needed. Edward Carson and Sir John Simon in 63 miles from the Russian trenches, by What you require to put matters be, the fact remains that he has already On May, 18th Von Kayer, Juanager of the depreciation of the Bill. Sir John Simon engine trouble rencon is a course of Dr. Williams' Pink Pilla Second Lieutenant Marchal left Nancy The good, new, strengthening blood which in six weeks found it necesary to make Russian Bank, is shot dead as he is bad called it a miserable makeshift as great an effort in terms of men as he driving home from the Russian Consainte, which would be satisfactory to nobody at 9.30 on the evening of June 20th on a these pills create finds its way at once to had to make in over four months of the where he has dined. An Arab in the squat, described it variously carrying enough petrol for a 14-hour organs, and the benefit they receive from special type of Nieuport monoplane, the debilitated and exhausted digestive struggle & Verdun.

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a transitory expedient **

THE PRICE OF OUR SUCCESS.

a halting top-sided measure, and light. He reached Berlin without diff it is spon noticed in the natural and per- by the local authorities for examination

connection with the murder, but the rigged up affair. He started from the suity and dropped a proclamation which manent return of the strayed appetite. was prefaced: We might have bom Then the digestion becomes normal, head From German sources, on the other man is suddenly spirited away by Seiler assumption that a General Election in barded the open town of Berlin, and this aches are absent, you rise in the morning baud, continte to come references to our to Teheran. Boun

time of war would be a calamits killed women and Innocent children, but bright and well and retire at night to enormous losses in this battle. Our losses Grahame, H.-11.'s Censul-Gereral, is shot France and Italy did not contemplate to contented onroólyes with throwing the sound refreshing sleep, have a quar are certainly heavy, but I have already at and wounded as he is riding through agency, and Britain ought following proclamation, empation on Dr. Williams Pink Pills have a quar said that the claim made in the German the streets, and his Indian orderly is not to either,

Lieutenant Marchal is now mterned atter of a century's reputation and tens wireless that they amounted to 230,000 killed.pd

Still, the Prime Minister contented Salzerbeck, from where he has sent the of thousands of cures behind them st in the month of July was merely grotes MURDER PURE AND SIMPLE Parliament must provide some machinery following information

their guarantee They can be obtained que. Without giving exact figures it "A small party of Englishmen," for the election of its successor. A barose I was made poner on June 21st at everywhere) and direct from the Dr. Wil may be said, and can be taken as true, writes Zugmeyer to a certain chief, measure for the reconstruction the 8:30 in the morning at Cholm. Austrian liams Medicing Co., 58, Ezechuen Road, that if this battle had not been begun," have come to D It will be very Constitution was out of the question officers were disinclined to believe what Shanghai, bottle for $1.50 or 8 bottles but our casualties in the ordinary trench easy to crush then. Proceed at once, Let the House see by all menus whether I had done, but proof came and they had for 68 post from warfare had continued at the same rate kill them, and take possession of all their in the coming toonths it could not work to admit the truth. It was sparking-plug FREE What to Eat the Diet Guido as in the month of June last, we should property, arms, and ammunition, and out by general agreement a scheinc for trouble which made me come down. bave suffered by the end of November next send me one rifle of each kind pos- the creation of an after-war Parliament landed, changed two plags, and started the losses which we have suffered now. sessed by them as a specimen. There is which should command the confidence of the motor again, but unfortunately two We had in one month the casualties of something medieval in this direct appeal, the country, Meanwhile, there was others wanted changing and I was cep- five. Or, to put it in another way, our It is murder become routine, not war nothing for it but to rest content with tured. Imagine my sorrow," killed in this battle have about equalled Germany's propaganda in the East has something better than the existing regis Lieutenant Marchal in this flight what our total casualties would have not received the attention it should. ter. As for the Bill, he announced that travelled about 811 miles, mostly in night been in the same period of stat

of stationary Those who shrug their shoulders and the Government would and the Ballot Aying. warfare

hesitate to believe the, iniquities of Act to enable voters in the United King- Who can doubt that we have gained Louvain and Gerbeviller will find here dom, absent from their homes on war' ser- mach more in this offensive than we corroborative evidence in support of the vice, to record their votes. The military lion in the field had been greatly exag could have gained in another five months accepted estimate of the mind of the authorities, however, were against an gerated. Equally, there would not be the of the conditions which prevailed before German. The only difference is that the extension of that privilege to men at the slightest dificulty about the men at sea. it began! As a matter of fact, the gain Fersian murders were prepetrated by front. The Government, too, would ac on the very first day was incalculably agents in cold blood, and had not the cept an amendment to make it plain that Admiral of the Fleet Bir Hedworth greater than any number of small gains same provocation as excess committed in the Special Register should only exist for Heux threw up his hands in despair at in trench warfare put together. I am not the blind rage of warm the period of the war and a few months this remark He thought the dificulties talking of geographical gain only, but of The events of Ispahan and Kerman afterwards

Meters wero insuperable. The House rocked moral and strategic gal to all the

were repeated at Yerd and Shiraz and These concessions were of no avail with laughter as the gallant sailor pro- what is obvious to all the world over the greater part of Pertia. It is the Member after member rose from the back ceeded to compare Bie Edward Carson is that the immediate result of this offen- same story of bribery and assassination, benches to criticize the Bill It found with Bratus and Mr. Asquith with Solo- sive was to compel the enemy to rally forged proclamations, and spurious hardly & friend until Mr. Long rose, and mon, He declared that there was a largo forces to resist us here which obliged him Jehads. The German's hypocrisy is based insisted that during the war and antif body of people in the House who thought to relax his pressure in other directions, on a desperate opportunism; his Islamic Parliament was able to face the question the way to win the war was to get rid To what lengths he has had to continue bubble is nearly burst, and every month of reform, it would not get a better of the Bolomon at the head of the Govern- that process have just shown. No one that the war is protracted Germany a scheme. He hoped that the House would ment. He implored them to remember can realize better than the Germans how mask is the more transparent. If she pass the Bill, and then set itself to find, that, when Solomon left this world, he cheaply for the common cause that gain wishes to establish an Empire in Asia she a solution of the larger question by a was suceeded by Rehoboam, who broke was won by the sacrifice which we have will have to mend her ways. For no representative conference which should up the old Empire. The only other ques- made-a sacrifice which, however terrible, Government that intrigues with religion, represent opinion on all the points. tion the men at the front were very saXI, was only the anticipation of the inevit-cynically playing off sect against sect, Mr. Churchill contended that the dith, ons about was the attempt of various able wastage of the rest of the summer will endure a single generation in the culties of collecting the votes of a batta ecclesiastic and other well meming people and autumn.

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