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THE ALLIES AND THEIR CAUSE

FRENCH STATESMEN IN SWITZERLAND.

ATHENBRITISH 'EFFORT.

HUNGARY'S ANGER.

TAR HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER SOM 1916,

GERMANY 8 DOUBLE GAME.

· DEPUTY'S FURIOUS SPEECH.

Scenes in the Hungarian Chamber since. the reopening on August 10th, when Count Karolyi, amid the cheers of the new party, made a daring appeal for Hungarian independence against German interference, have been ever increasing in violence (says Mr. A. Beaumost, of the Daily Telegraph, Milan).

writing

from

HITTING THE ENEMY HARD

DAY OF BIG GAINS ON THE SOMME

GERMAN DEFENCES WIPED OUT-

Once more we have hit the enemy very hard (says The Times special correspon dent writing from British Headquarters, on August 19th)

CHURCH SERVICES.

respective, achievements of Britain, Italy the lobbies and urgently insisted on know-prisoners, a number of machine-guas, and, Hy35 355: Kyrie Varley Foberts;

·NATIONAL MISSION.

Wednesday, 4th Octobe Short moling for prayer in the Ferk Church, om menelus at 6.30 pm.

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ST. JOHN'BE. CATHEDRAL, Hongkong 15th Sunday after Trinity let October, Matina 1916 Holy Communion 7.50 D (11am) Responses, Ferial; Venite Cloodsen; Palms, Weely, Wesley, Hopkin Jubilate

Monk and Hopcion; Te Deum, Oakly in Stainer Fth evening) ; Authern, « Forsmail moment, Stainer Holy Communion (19 Too little attention (saye The Times

cos) Hyrin, 424. B.B.-Psalm 1, verses special correspondent at Bertie) has been

94 and 7 in unit; Psalm, versa 4, 6 nd paid in England to the value of the work

for the 119 in unison; Pesim 3, verste 7 and 8 in initiated by the Comité de l'Effort do Is

The Germans, for some days now, have maison, Parla 4, versen 1 and 7 G. Pin been saying that ilus British offensive was arisen Psalm b, verse 1, 2, 7, 8, 11 and 13 France et de ses Allies-un important

over. It was dead. On the contrary, unison. Erezsong 5.45 0. Responses, body of representative men which has recently been organised by the French

from day to day we have steadily eaten Ferial; Pastor, Parcell, Cerke Tuober; Office with the 'ohjeet of awakening in

our way into his positions. Now, in last Magniflost, Smart Nuno Dimitt, Felion night's and this morning's attacks, we❘ Baymi, 192, 616 (T, 76) au^ 370. each of the Allied nations a better under-

Kowloon. 1st 37. ANDERW'S CHURCE, have driven the enemy out of his posi- standing of the part played by the others in the struggle against the common foc. My informant reports that as the Rus-tions at mumerable points from helpw, Ostober, 15th Sunday, afie Trinity, Holy An excellent start has already beed made sings are approaching closer to the Hun- Thiepval to heyond Guillemont; we have Communion at A'r.m. and 11 am, Horning in France, where, since the middle of garian frontier panic is spreading among made advances at one point of about 500 Prayer, at 11. Responser, Ferial Venite, Mar, a large number of lectures have the deputies, who smart under the yards on a front of 1,000 yards, and at Goodeos, Psalme, 1st morping Prom, Werler, been delivered by well-known publiche tall of Gorizia, was not revealed till wider front; we have captured trenches WA. 76: Te Deum, Big Julte, P tematic Government concealment of facts, another point of some 300 yards on a No. 3 Pm2, Tusk, No, 3, Palm 3. Hopkins, 4, Praira 4, Monk, No. 5. Fealmu 5. Fridge, Speakers, in Paris, Havre, Barileaux, it had become a public report. Some of which, if put end to end, would reach Lyons, and other large towns, on the the deputies followed Count Andrassy in some miles, and we have taken about 1.000

363 and 667. National Authom, Brening Frayer, at 6. Hymes, 190, 255 Sand Russia, Japan, Canada, Australia, India,ing the truth, but all they had from him other spoils. For a dead offensive it is

Responser Ferial Prato, 1st evening, and the British Navy, Now, us

was the usual asphyxiating gas of vague extraordinarily vigurous antidote to the poisonous suggestions of replies. The following day a farious The German communiqué will probably Palm G. Forell, No. 7, Pram 7, Coko No B, Verger Gerima agents that there is a want of speech was made by: Deputy Gem Felonyi, tell you that we inade an attack and were Fest 8, Tacker, No. 9 Cantate Domine cohesion among the Allies, the work is to the effect that the Government was reprised. There was, indeed, one part Cratob Nure Dimitti Barnby,

Hymn. National Anthem, being extended to Switzerland and other trifling with the Chamber by asking it of the great semicircle of the front en

UNION CHURCH. Kennedy Road, Sunday, neutral countries.

Service at 11 M. Earthon, Prime to discuss the question of lakes when the which we made no new ground. That Minister of France in 1913, and M. enemies were pounding in their doors, was in the top of High Wood and to the sto ober. Moniur Lebon Minister of Commerce and the whilst the Chamber was not informed of west thereof. There, there is bar, high Hyman 273, 145 atd 11; Palm 23. Qrarterly Colomies in the late nineties have just events so grave and unparalleled in ground, swept by fire from various angles Communion Service at Neer. Evening Service addressed large audiences in Geneva and Hungarian history, adding, texually beyond We cleaned the enemy out of st 6. Hymns, 237, 204, 2C9 and 617. Lausanne on the efforts of France and

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCHED TIST, ** Our Government is the only one in the his furthest trenches on the top of the Preacher, Rev J. K Macerach's, world which ostentatiously refrites to high ground, then, finding the positious MaDonnell Road, Sunday, 11.15.0. Wednes of England, and further lectures on

answer any question bearing upon the humanly untenable, fell back to our old Belgium and the remaining Allies are to

important events of the day, or inpositions. Everywhere else we drove him days 5.30 p.m. follow in due course.

stance, in this great historical epoch, the out of his trenches, his strong points and second year of the war, there is suddenly his burrows, and we hold the ground we The min purpose of M. Berthou, who change in the high command of our won. Our advances cover about five- tork as the text of his discourses Texttering, which is no longer under a Hun sixths of the whole front attacked

garian-nay, not even an Austrian-gen The operation, can thus be separted into la France pour toute la giterre," was toeral, bat under a German marshal. Is it particular incidents (and the German can show that France is and will remain too this Austria and Hungary have now pick put one and ignore the others, if he the end of the war an undivided France, come! It is a shocking fact. The nation ilkes), because it was not what is com on with herself, faithful and grate must know who is responsible. I, as monly understood as a single battle. ful to her friends, and implacably how Hungarian, for conscientious reasons ask but was a series of connected, but inde tile to the enemy. He said little-be for an explanation. How is it the com: pendent, pushes made not at the sams had little, seed to-of what she ha donemand of our Hungarian Honveds is con- tion. on the Geld of battle. That was as wellded to a foreigner? Even the mast known to this Swiss audience es his own self-denying alliance has limits. It will personal share in the introduction of the put us before the world and before his Three Years Service Law, to which heory as a nation no longer capable of made no allusio i at all. But his silence having a general for its army Worse nst the way in which the inestimable atill, the Austro-Hungarian Empire no

longer has a man fit for the supreme com service which he rendered to his countrymand, since the combined armies of both on the eve of the war led to his own branches of the Empire have been on political downfall gave all the greater force to his remarks about the political trusted to a foreign subject. unity which the war has brought about. In the same way the restraint which he way bound to exercise with regard to fiermany because he was the guest of a neutral country intensifed the effect of all that he said about France and the eloguence and conviction with which he -spoke roused h's bearers to a fever-beat of enthusiasm for the cause of the Allies, On the day following his public can ference at Lausanne M. Barthon, who was charged by his Government to carry a message of gratitude and encourage ment to the French soldiers interne in Switzerland. broke his journey to Lucerne at Chateau d'Oex in order to Day a private visit of friendly sympathy to our own prisoners-of-war. In the few words which he addressed to some of the men, after lunching with the British officers at their club, be paid a special tribute to the invaluable services which most of them as members of the original Expeditionary Forex had rendered to the common cause. Without their bere ism, he told them, nearly everything that the Allies have since done would have been impossible.

2.

SUPREME MILITARY COMMAND,

We begin our attacks at all sorts of times, which must keep the enemy's nerves fairly on the jump. In this instance they were made in full daylight, in the course of the afternoon and early evening, bo- ginning at goon after 3 o'clock on the right, and not until after 5 on the lef Very force fighting went on through the night, and at some points was still going of at noon to-day, when we were stil cleaning out miscellaucous trenches and so-called strong points, and batches of prisoner were still coming down.

NEST OF DUGOUTE: 2

Tharrday, 5th October Administration of Holy Communion in St. John's Catzećni at 7.45 s.,

Br JOHN'S CATISEDIAL

w the Mission, At Matins at 11 am. Some objects of

Oct. To witness for God, Rev. H. Copley Moyle

Oct 8-To arouse the Apathetic, Rev. E. W. L. Martin, enga

Oct. 18-To deepen the devotion of the Faithful, Bey A. D. Stewart,

Oct. 22-To, convince tic

Die Doubting. The Lord Bishop.

Oot 29-To convert the Wicked, The. Lord Bishop

At Evensong at 5.45 p.m. Oct. 1-Personal Repentance, Rev. H. G. H. Grifith lava k

Oct. 8.--- National Repentance, Rey, C.

Cooper-Hunt, C.F.

Oct. 15- Personal Hope, Rey, H. G.

Griffith

Oct. 92 National Hope, Rev. E. W. L

Oct. 29.Mission, Bev. H. Copley

Martin

Moyle.

DIGESTION AND THE

NERVES

*We must know why the supreme military command was handed over to a

Beginning for the porposes of narrative foreigner. Our military law, based upon the Hungarian Conslitation and the on the extreme left, though there the at- Pragmatic Sanction, expressly decrees tack was later in time, it was there that that exceptional high powers, such as the perhaps the largest and most important chief command of the Royal and Govern gain was made. Here we pushed on a ment High Commissioners, can only be front of about 1.000 yards due.north, trusted to Hungarian subjects, who clearing out the whole elaborate system take the oath of allegiance to the of the German front line with all its King. One of the rights of the nation's support and reserve and evergenty sovereignty has been handed over, and trenches, fill our front there now is about that without even asking the consent of 1,500 yards north of Osillers-la Boisselle, the Hungarian Parliament. What are and almost exactly due west from the we here for Have Hungarian deputies, cemetery above Pozières. There has been has the Hungarian nation, no longer any no smarter or more workmanlike achieve

A tiny piece of grit can cause a lot of right to decide the nation's destinies ment since this battle began. How much sorrow, how many tears has I have talked this afternoon with off mischief. You realise this when it blows this caused to Hungarian patriots even cers of the units concerned, and they tell into your eye Comfort ends until this where There is no law permitting our me that the whole ground won was a per mers spook of dirt has becu removed. army being appended to another coun fect nest of dug-outs of the finest descrip Sometimes your watch won't keep time; try's army, much less a law permitting tion. How strongly those dug-outs and goes when and how it likes. You take it our supreme military command to be the connecting trenches were held is to the meader; and he, perhaps, finds the transferred to and exercised by a foreign shown by the fact that 600 prisoners, indelicate movements have been put out of subject; nor have I found any preceden cluding a dozen officers, fell into our gear by dust you can only see under a Cory see under a for Constitutional right to permit hands, and there is no doubt that the

Indigestion acts in the same way on the foreign subject to direct the nation'. German killed and wounded much exceed magnifying glass. destiny without taking the previous oathed the number of prisoners. The casual body Digestion, like the mainspring of of allegiance to defend Hungarian inteties on our side were hardly half this watch, is one of the principal things grity and Hungarian territory number

The Vice-President of the Chamber, M The men themselves talk with he that keep the wheels of life running M. Lebon's speech at Geneva was

part of

your system suffers Notably tirely devoted to The EBort of Charles Szasz, said that he felt it his dut greatest enthusiasm of the work of our emoothly. Let it be disturbed and every England. It was followed with close to interrupt the speaker by calling him artillery, which had pounded the enemy your nerves are apsot. Why 1

Well, the nerves and digestive systems attention and constantly applauded by a to Order, but M. Guza Polonyi continued positions most unmercifully before the

the "I am not saying anything to endanger attack was delivered, barraged the ground depend upon each other very closely. large audience which included French Ambassador, the British Minis the nation's interest. Let us act as every ahead of them as they advanced to perOne cannot become affected without the ter, and a fair sprinkling of English ungarian, when the country is in danger fection, and, finally, helped to smother thor becoming upset. Bad digestion counter-moans lack of nourishment from food. w and Robliterate a formidable and French subjects. I can hardly ought to act

The speaker at this point was stopped. attack Heavy guns and field guns alike your nerves, ory eut because they are not imagine a more eloquent and moving testimony to the peculiar qualities His remarks caused a great sensation,

So completely had the German trenchiosted. They lose tone and energy. Let us show how Mother Seigel's Syrup rapidly which our race has displayed during the members on the right frequently interruf been battered that our initial attack was ends matters. was. It was even embarrassing, as an ting. What he called a danger to Hun-delivered in plain daylight over the open In a state of Indigestion food often Englishman to sit and listen to such is not only a Rusian invasion, but ground almost without casualties What remains too long in the stomach and

the subjection of Hungary to German losses were incurred were a individual fermente. Again the supply of bile praise from the lips of a foreigner even dictatorship, and the ultimate destiny strong points in the course of the advance, Nature's own lamative) from the liver though that foreigner was a man in a foreign town, even though that being absorbed with the entire a notably two points, one on the right

is frequently poor in quality, and badly town was Swiss. Bnt the best of it wasg Monarchy by Germany is this the line of advance and one on the left regulated. Or the bowels are to slug" gish to expel the body's refuse topuri- ties are then thrown into the blood. All these important digestive organs are the centre of a special nervous systen.. Naturally the irritated nerves protest

of like the eye does against a particle

A TRIBUTE TO ALITAIN.

French

that it was all true and supported by an unanswerable array of facts,

The chief points which M. Lebon mach after a masterly review of our Traditionally insular policy, which as he it has nevertheless always included k regard for the rights of smaller States, were the following

That the only possible criticism of our Navy is that it has done the work it had That England is the only State in which

to do too successfully:

identified itself with the life and nter ests of the people; quit

seem to have done admirably,

af

in time.

bas caused the new party

the former of which was much more dence suddenly to gain strength. From

formidable having only twenty-five followers in the

This particular point held out when all Hungarian Chamber, it has now received

the trenches around it were gone. It was the adhesion, more or less openly of paly by working close up to it on every to push meters furture, anel Count de side and bombing it that it was finally to push A reduced. This was, however, no case a drassy's promotion to the Foreign Mims couple of machine guns and a handful

You must right your digestion before try has been adjourned.. Germany is of men holding off a battalion; it was body and nerves can be restored to a really playing a double game. Andrassy may Thermopyla. For when the white flag sound state; otherwise there is a steady be more useful in Opposition than in the was hoisted there filed out unwounded drain on your vitality. The drip of Government. Through him the German surrender no fewer than six officers and water from a leaking car will empty it Government knows exactly what is going 170 men,

quickly Mother Seigel's Syrup quickly atopa on among the Opposition. Among the The whole of the gain at this point was real independent Hungarians Andrassy not made in one straightforward move- the old feudal nobility. has consistently is looked upon as a blood-red traitor.ment. In such a warren of trenches and tale sapping of the system: It's tonio and: Corrective action restores good digestion. With Count Tisza is the Hungaria: dug-outs such a thing is impossible. But by stimulating stomach, liver and bowels Premier and Count Andrassy as the first the main opposing trenches were, as into healthy activity. Then you derive leader of the secret pro-German Oppost have said, attacked across the open full nourishment from your food. Robust tion, Berlin is sure of handicapping and They were rushed, and their occupant health, with full nerve energy follow. defeating any attempt at Hungarian in

Mrs. T. Momberg, 53, Eight Street, dependence. It is this new German who were not either killed or wounded

were made prisoners. Then, dropping Boksburg North, Transvaal, wrote on intrigue,, the consequences of which are into the trenches, our mon set to work to July 21st, 1914." About four mouths just dawning on Hungarian politicians, bomb along them with short rushes across ago, I suffered very much from Indiges

that is causing such great emotion among the open to clean out a shell hole or antion. The symptoms which gave me the their ranks, but it is unknown yet how outlying bit of trench. It seems to have most trouble, and which were especially far that many affect Hungarian action in heen a gloriously confused and exhilarat reverb after mouts, were a tightness and the present war.

ing day just like ferrets after rabbits." leaviness at the chest, and a completo as one officer described it--with extremely derangement of the bowels, successful results. Besides the prisoners This caused me acute pain, and with upsetting six machine-guns were captured, and loss of appetite had the effect of soveral more are now being dug out.

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That in the payment of the stupendous taxes which we are now contributing to the expenses of the war (an anual sum more than twice as large as our previous National Debt) the upper and richer classes are bearing by far the heavier part of the burden;

And that the armies of 5,000,000 men rased from Great Britain, the Colonies, zu India are armies of volunteers. which came into being before we had accepted the principle of compulsory national service.

neutrality. But, as a Genova newspaper says in answer to this charge char bounier est maître chez soi," and the No Englishman could have talked in people of Geneva and Lausanne refuse mure glowing terms of the readiness of

to recognize that any foreigner bas the the whole State-soldiers, sailors, and right to dictate to them the lite of con- people to sacrifice blood and treasure in duck which they ought to pursue "least defence of the liberty of the world, and of all the bloodstained champions of hardly any audience could have been Kultur" My own opinion is that no more responsive than that which he was German statesmen who wished to present nvidressing-appropriately enough in the the German point of view could com Victoria Hall pregented to the town of mand in any part of Switerland such a Geneva, by a former British Consul treception as the people of Geneva and is not surprising that the German news Lansanne have given to M. Barthou naners are exasperated by the success and M. Lebon, for the simple reason whida has attended these meetings, or that as the lawyers say they have no that they are trying to mate nut that case. For Switzerland knows that Ger- they constitute a breach of Switzerland's many's effort was the effort of aggression

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