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THE

WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH, 1016.

SOMME-ANCRE BATTLE CONTINUED. BRITISH TROOPS SUCCESSFUL EVERYWHERE.

RUSSIANS COMPEL TURKS TO RETIRE.

ROUMANIANS DRIVE BACK ENEMY

THE GREEK SITUATION.

FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT,

THROUGH REUTER E AGENCY:] THE SOMME SITUATION FIGHTING CONTINUED.

LONDON, September 27th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a rom munque, states-The battle continued violently yesterday along the whole front from the Soming to the Ancre."

Our froops were everywhere successful, carrying out their attacks most bril Jiantly.

BETWEEN 3,000 AND 4,000 PRISONERS.

We have taken between 3,000 and 4,000 prisoners in 48 hours.

We have consolidated our gains, Patrols and detachments pushed for ward in many places and are in close touch with the enemy;

We progressed during the night, parti cularly in the direction of Eancourt

Abhny

Sustful aids, were carried out opposite Beaumont Hume and in the zeighbourhood of Loos.

Three hostile neroplanes were destroy ed and six driven down damaged on the

BRITISH CAPTURE ** STUFF:

REDOUBT.”

LOUSON, September 98111) General Haig reports as follow:-We made excellent progress to-day.

We carried north of Flers further enemy trenches on front of 2,000 yards, and we are now level with the east side of Enucourt l'Abbaye,

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.

FRENCE FRONTS

NO COUNTER-ATTACKS!:

PARIS, September 27th. A communiqué states:--The enemy did net altempt a counter-attack on our Somme front.

FRENCH AIRMAN'S FINE RECORD. A communiqué mentions that Sub

alone brought Lieutenant Nungesser

THE BALKANS

THROUGH EXUTEZ'N AURKOTS SERBIANS REPULSE

BULGARIANS.

SALONIKA, September beth. The Serbian attacks were successfully

continued:

The enemy brought up reinforcements at Kajmakulan and attempted a series of futile counterattacks,

Many of the enemy were captured,

THE BULGARIANS DRUNK

It was observed that many of the Bul- garians attacking were under the us fluence of drink •

BULGARIAN COUNTER-

ATTACKS.

REPULSED BY SERBIANS

PARIS, September 27th. A French oficial report from Balenika

states:

Three Bulgarian heavy counter-attacks against the Serbians on the Kajmakalan mountain were repulsed with great energ losses by our cross-fire and machine-gun fire.

LONDON, September 28th,

down two German neroplanes and ROUMANIANS ATTACK ENEMY. captive balloon in the recent fighting. These muke seventeen to his credit.

Four other machines were wrecked. Fourteen of our aeroplanes droppol 110 big calibre bombs on the railway area of Appilly, 22 m Laon railway station and 17 on Montfaucon.

BRILLIANT FRENCH ATTACK, South of the Somme there was a fairly lively artillery confest in the Barleux district

A brilliantly-executed attack at the end- of yesterday enabled us to carry a wood strongly held by the enemy east of Ver: man d'Ovillets, forming a salient in our Find

STRONG ENEMY ATTACKĘ,

PAIE, September 28th.

A communique states: North of the Sune, aller violent artillerying, the enemy strongly attacked out new posi tions, hetween Bouchares had the Abbe farm.

The Koumanian communique states Fierce Bighting continues Routh of Her inamstraat.

The Roumians in the Vulcan Pass attacked and drove back the enemy, who 1s retiring hastily towards the north.

Quiet prevails in the Dobradja. There is a canonade along the Danube.

BUCHAREST BOMBED.

BUCHAREST, September 28th

[THEOUCH REUTER'S AGENOT

MORE EXCHEQUER BONDS.

LONDON, September 28th It is officially announced that the Bank of England will shortly issue aix per vent. Three Year Exchequer Bonds, and that the five and a half per cent. Ex cacquer Boods maturing on October Bil, 1019, will be discontinued.

HONGKONG MEN AT THE FRONT:

Rifleman Alwyn Kerfoot Hughes, Queen's Westminsters, second son of the late Mr E Jones Hughes, who was wounded during the attack on Gomme- Court cu Jaly 1st, and reported missing, now reported to be a prisoner at inter, Westphalia.

We regret to learn that Ainslie ich

THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR.ards, the only son of Mr. C, W, Richards

CAUSE OF CONTENTION.

LONDON, September 28th, The opening of the Reichstugto

morrow is anticipated most anxiously in

Germany, owing to the campaign against Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg, on the ground of his alleged forbearance towards Great Britain,

* Tho. Frankfurt Gazette speaks of la

widespread_moventent, embracing many powerful politicians against Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, and quotes a promin-

National Liberal's assertion that the Chancellor, against the Kaiser's wish, has thwarted nețial warfare against England for months.

ELECTORAL REFORM

LONDON September 28111.:

A Conference will shortly be held to prepare a scheme for electoral reform, the redistribution of seats, and for registra-

ARTIFICIAL RUBBER,

VANISHING HOPES. AUSTRIA AND THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR

Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, the Austra Hugurin Ambassador in Batu speaking at a reception at the Embassy of the Austro-Hungarian colony on the Occasion of the Austrian Emperor's birthday said

A year ago no one taught that when the Birthday recurred it would find them still in the midst of the world war That' day inst venr they celebrated after the Russian retreat the fall of Kovna, When, later, after the punishment and numihila- Intely shipping clerk, Messrs. Jarding, ton def Serbia and Montenegro, new Matheson Co, was killed in action at batts proanising success fared up in the west, and again after their most promis- Yarca on June and

ing thrust on the south-west front was Bulk of the boys naut were born in made, the hope seemed not unjustified. Hongkong

that the end of the great struggle was approaching

News has been received in the Colony of the death at the front of Mr. H. E. Victor, who left Hongkong with the first volunteer contingent. The deceased, who was in the 2nd Middlesex Regt, was reported missing on July 1st, and he has now been officially reported killed while taking part in a charge. Another Hong kong man who left the Colony for the front with Mr. Victor writer of him and his death as follow: Many times have ve been out on listening post and patrol work together, and old Vic out in the

open was just is calm as when in his own trench. A great soldier and man, he was always one of the first to volunteer for risky jobs. The officer of the 2nd, says he is mourned by all ranke, as he was very popular.

The Ambassador procededWhile wo all followed with the most eager attention these provedings in the west and south- West, a heavy thundercloud rose in the east and burst with unforeseen violence over uur fronts standing opposite Russin. We knew it well already, this Russian

turrent with its inexhaustible, recklessly taked, human material. Now, however, these tough masses were equipped with all camion knowledge alone could devisk the means of destruction which tho nowost. and which this time were placed by tho most modern industries only too willing- ly at the disposal of the clumsy Bussian bear. The horizon, which already seemed to be clearing, darkened again, and again dawned hard, nerve-recking times. We are strong enough calmly to concede thas our adversaries in the east, and thereby indirectly even those in the south-west, have won successes in tess hard battles, which to-day are not yet concluded. Bun the jubilation which they voiced already- in the first works of their offensive, ni

exultation in victory was premature and will remain Bol

The remainder of the speech was a re- iteration of confidence in final victory, a glorification of the Austrian Emperor, and an afirmation of absolute unity of the Central Powers in the struggle for the common end.'"

by which they wished as usual noisily to announce to the world that we were el- The death of Mr. H. E. Victor will be ready overthrown and annihilated; this. deeply regretted by a very large, circle, of friends in Hongkong, among whom he was extremely popular. Possessed of AMSTERDAL, September 28th.

bright and cheery disposition, Mr A Berlin tekgran states that the Ger- Victor was u man who could not help mans have succeeded in producing artif making friends, nad while many will re cial rubber comparable with the best gret his death they will at the same time plantation rubber in durability and honour the memory of one who has died. elasticity

as he would have wished, for King and country, and feel proud that the

knew 1′′

A Zeppelin and six German aeroplanes have bombed the city,

There were 40 killed and 30 injured, KITCHENER FUND COUNCIL including several Boy Scouts. MITYLENE JOINS DEFENCE MOVEMENT.

ATHENS, September 27th. Mitylene has joined the National Delence movenient

________M. VINEZELOB IN CRETE, A brilliant French counter attack M. Venczelos received an ovation on rushed to meet the assaulting cueny landing at Suda (Crete); and in a speech. waves, which were thrown back in dis he appealed to the King to lead the morement against the traditional enemies order with busy enemy losses.

of Greece

There has been: Gerce - Egaling north-- We-captured 250 prisoners und eight east of Thiepval, in the course of which

machine guns. wo stormaxi aiul now hold the enemy work styled · Stuff Redoubt."'" on the main ridge, 2,000 yards north east of the village

Over 1,800 rifles, our fammenwerfer and many thousand rounds of artillery: munition and grenades were taken at

·Combles.

In addition to the large French cap- tures of material, the total prisoners taken during the fortnight is 10,000

Two enemy acroplants and two kite Jalloons were destroyed yesterday.

Two of our machines are missing

THE CAPTURE OF COMBLES. GERMAN DESIGNS FRUSTRATED

LONDON, September 27th. Reuter's Correspondent at Headquer- tars in France reports:

The French attack on the 26th inst. tade Combles virtually untenable by the onomy. We learned from prisoners that the Germans proposed to evacuate the place at night, so our artillery barraged intensely the whole night long across the line of retreat so as to prevent a Ger man withdrawal Hence the enormous

capture of booty.

The capture of Morval and Les Boeufs roveeded like clock-work. The Germans were ofther surprised or are losing their powers of resistance. Anyhow, they sur rendered easily.

We appreciably extended our progress cast and south-east of Rancourt, and we penetrated St. Pierre Vaust Wood.

RUSSIAN "FRUNT.

(THROUGH HEUTER 8 AGENCY.]

RUSSIANS DRIVE TURKS. CAPTURE PRISONERS AND MATERIAL:

LONDON, September 27th.

A Russian communique states that in the direction of Hamadan the Russians compelled the Turks to retire westward, capturing prisoners, arms and camel transport, and destroying the enemy telegraph line for a considerable distance..

Thure were serious patrol encounters on the Tirral Swamp, south of Riga.

GEN. BRUSILOFF CONFIDENT.

GREEK WARSHIP JOINS

ALLIED FLEET,

ATIERS, September 28th The battleship Hydro has joined the

Allied Fleet.

GREECE AND THE ENTENTE

ATHENS, September 28th.

It is reported that the Council of Ministers are in agreement, and that the King has decided upon military colla boration with the Entente

AERIAL ACTIVITIES.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SUCCESSFUL AEROPLANE ATTACK NEAR BRUSSELS,

LONDON, September 27th.

It is officially apaounted that Naval seroplanes hombed and apparently hit

enenty airship sheds at Evere, Berchen, Saint Agatie, and Etterbeck, near Brussels

A the machines returned safely. NAVAL ACTIVITIEB.

COMMERCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS,

LONDON, September 2th. The Council of the Kitchener Fund have decided to establish Commercial Scholar ships to enable Britons who have served with the Forces or are surm of dead or disabled members of the Forces by the "war to travel and study in allied countries.

The value of the Scholarships will bo 150 per annum.

This is supplementary to the funds for the purpose of relieving disabled members of the Foros

Previous to leaving for the front, the late Mr. Victor had been for eight vents on the staff of the Hongkong Daily Press, and he was also Hanard reporter to the Hongkong Government,

THE INSURRECTION IN

ARABIA

WITH THE GERMANS ON THE SOMME,

A DUTCH WRITER'S VISIT

The Berlin correspondent of the flu, clabad has boon permitted to visit £lio German lines on the Somme

He approached Perenne by night, and noxu, that su far the town has auffered lite

Considering that many German soldiers who are now passing through this ordeal

No sooner had the hours of darkness: show signs of giving place to a fresh day than a grey white wall rose up. This was the smoke of high explosives and shrap. Cel. Under this wall of smoke thousands of soldiers awaited the atack, the ground around them battored and turn, up by i eastless rain of shell splinters and When proclaiming through her vasinisshrapnel bullets. Such a scene has been the Young Turks holy war in all the often described but the reality can countries of Islam, Germany hoped to not be pictured; it was a veritable hell. rain the prestige of Francs and Britain, The noisy was nerve-racking, which are great Maquetin Puwers by their colonies and protectorates Now,

ot only chil this blustering proclamation the very worst so for have already renau fruitless, as far as the French fought by Ypres, in Champagne by Ver and British possessions were concerned, dug, hy Dvinsk, on the Stryps, in the WAR NEWS.

thanks to the loyalty of the natives; but Carpathians, in Serbia and on Gallipoli, the pbviously spontaneous rising of the no words can express adequately the ad- THE CIVIL LIABILITIES SCHEME Arabs against the Turks, the usurpers of miration these fellows deserve

religious us, well as of political power, As we made our way back to the About 65,000 claims for assistance have his just brought to right the real feeling motor darkness had gone, but at times the been made to the Barrister-Commissioners and sympathy of the Mahometan world. smoke-clouds were stronger than the sun. under the British Government scheme for The grand Sherif of Mewa proclaimed We passed a party of workers, returning relieving soldiers from their civil liabili-his independence and openly revolted from a strenuous night, repairing: broken ties. This number is far Jess than the against the caste of infidels enforced by trenches. From head to foot they were Government had anticipated. About half Germany, that Is been governing the smothered in mud and filthy But thy of the claims have already bees dealt empire of the Osmanlis, since Enver laughed and smoke works out at £17 109, the maximum is drove Kiimil from the Sublime Porte men who had just left the treaches with. The average of the grants paid Fachz ssussinated Nazim-Pacha and I asked permission to speak ta soine

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asked them the usual questions de tr whether the French would break through Break through ? Where we stand? Never and the others poided assent, There was no pose in the utterance. It was a spontaneous expression of a con- sceness of strength

AN INTERESTING PRISONER.

Already at the time of the declaration of the Holy War, the Sherif had distinctly refused to follow the rulers at Constanti

It is announced, says the Daily Tople and strove to prepare the Union praph's Paris correspondent, that a well of Panislaisin against the force despot known Prussian officer, and mum of a is which, under the pretext that the in- notorious father, has been taken prisoner terests of Turkey required it, began by by the French troops. This is. Lieutenant pitilessly murdering the Armenian hopu. von Bissing son of General von Bissing, lation In May, 1910, Galib Pasha the who for months tyrannised over Belgium Turkish Governor of Mecca was attack The Prussian Herr Lieutenant as caned, and his escort dispersed by sums Art tured by a rustic French trooper of Norbian tribes Ibrahiin Pasha the Governor mandy, a peasant from Calvados, whose of Djidda, was exposed to the undisguised name is Clement Bredellee

I saw a cherry orchard, that had been blighted by the gas, the leaves yellow, the fruit shrivelled. I saw a creadow iyer which the clouds of cas had passed. The verdant surface had been turned at a stroko into dry stubble.

A SCOTCH JUDGE,

In another village I talked to sold who had gone throught a gas attack a Broart young fellow fold the story Despite his experience le bal asked to bo allowed to join the next patrol and a few of our joined in with, And I! And hostility of the inhabitants On the If one wes the effect of a gas atfrek olher hand, in Syria and Lebanon on the vegetation one realises that this COST OF THE WALL TO AUSTRALIA. Djemal Pache, the Governor General of apparent contempt for the danger of such

Syria, endeavouring to check the increas attacks conceal real heroism. PETROGRAD, September 28th

Speaking at the war anniversary meet-ig influence of refractory elements, had ing in the Town Hall Melbourne, last recourse to an absolute reign of terror. General Brusiloff is most confident. He

month, the Acting Prime Minister, Sena Imprisonment and hanging went on ruth declares that the period has been resched

tor Pearce, said that the military exlessly and unceasingly at Beyrout, Alep Bombs struck buildings and presumably penditure for the year ended June 30th, Caifts and Damascus. Among the where succes is no longer estimated in territory captured, but in the number of the ammunition stores close to the sheda 1015, was £10.000.000. and last year

£9,498,000 total of £13,104,000

many victims whose names were publish the enemy, rendered burs de comput. We af Evers, where there wote heavy ex-The combined total of the navy and ed in lists by the Turkish authorities, in military for those two years was their communiques, was the Einir Omar, had deprived the Austro-Germans of plosions, and large volumes of smoke 257,695,000. Why they remembered that son of Abd el-Kadr whilst his grandson,

At & Penang dinner table the other 800,000 in four months, and when the were observed

that burden had Jen taken on willingly the Emir Taher, was sentenced to 10. propitious moment arrives we will make

and cheerfully by a population of under years hard labour. The Mahometans of evening the conversation turned to the five millions in a young country like Neti and Kerbela rose against the Tur general opinion seemed to be that the wit and eccentricity of the Bench. The big bounds forward and easily overcome

Australia, it was a worthy effort, of which kish authorities after the execution of best anecdotes could be traced to Justice the people of the Commonwealth might their deputy and of the deputy of Homs Maule, whose celebrated ironical remarks the shaken armies. Final victory will

well be proud.

The people of Lebanon were system to a poor man accused of bigamy are still then be near.

tically starved by oriler of Enver Pacha cited with gusto. It is strange that no Thus we see why the Grand Sherif of mention was made of Lord Lakgrove, an EGYPT

Mecca wished by his act which led to ris eccentric Scotch Judge, at the beginning Opinion is fast developing in the direc-inge against Turkish oppression all over of last century. According to his colle- sion of proclaiming the Kaiser the Royal Arabia to free Islam, from an odious ague, Lord Cockburn,

1,2 more ludicrous criminal, with whom the Allies will refuse tyranny Mecca, Djidda and Meding are person than Eskgrove could not exist, to negotiate terms of peace, whose head in the hands of the Arabs The Turk People seemed to have nothing to do but they will demand in the primary coudi (the bulk of whose armies are employed tell stories of this one man. To be able tion of ang settlement of the war," The analogy of the attitude of the Allies in of last do cute rive an anecdote of Relgrove, with a 1810, towards Napoleon thus only dispose of a limited number of proper imitation of his voice and man- emerges as of more than historical in forces, wholly inadequate for quelling ner was a sort of fortune in society." terest A Declaration was then made such a wide spread revolt In this move Condemning a tailor to death for mur- that Napoleon had deprived himself of ment we perceive the rightful vengeance dering a soldier, Lord Eskgrove remark, the protection of the laws, and made it of the Arabs national pride, which had d Not only did you murder him, whereby he was bereaved of life, but you evident in the face of the universe that been crashed for so long by the wiles did thrust, or pash, or pierce, or project, thero can no longer be either peces or violence and intimidation of the Young truce with him. And this sentence was Turks domination. In short, this Holy or propel the lethal weapon through his regimental breeches, which were his added in that stern Declaration The War fomented against the Allies by Enve: Majesty Sentencing two criminals Powers, therefore, declare that Buona Pachy and his equals, with the connivado for housebreaking with violence, after parte has placed himself out of the pale of Germany, will turn against them, and detailing how they attacked the persons of civil and social relations, and that as shake the foundations of that blood of the house, he added: All this you the general enemy and disturber of the stained regime which has prevailed in did God preserve us, just as they wer world he is shandoned to public Justice Tarkey ever since January, 1913- I siting down to dinner," Strast Echo

"[TALOUGH" REUTER'S AGEN OSA

CAPITULATION OF TAIF

Dur, casualties were extraordinarily

CAIRO, September 28th. "light, while the enemy's were very heavy

The Sherif Abdullah reports to the Prisoners say that eight battalions word Grand Sherif the details of the occupa wiped out.

bort of Taif, Chaleb, the Commander, M.POINCARE CONGRATULATES having agreed to the terms of capitula

THE KING.

tion

The quantity of booty, rifice, bombe and LONDON, September 28th shells is large

Abdullah begs-His Highness to treat the

The French President, H.-Poincare, has telegraphed King George congratulating prisoners with kindness, for the byes His Majesty upon the brilliant British of the Mussulman world are turned to

successes.

wards us.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENÖT"]

MORE SINKINGS.

LONDON, beptember 28th.

The following steamers have been Bunk ----The s.3o Bromwen (British) and the 8.3. Dania (Norwegian)

GENERAL

(THROUGH PEUTER'S AGEVOL. 1 DEUTSCHE ASIATISCHE BANK

AT YOKOHAMA

TOKYO, September 28th Afthorities have closed the Yoke branch of the Deutsche Asiatische

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