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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2nd 1916.

STORIES OF THE ADVANCE WHERE GERMANY IS WEAK BRITISH LOSSES DECREASE

BOMB DOEL IN ENEMY TRENCH.

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(BY AUSTIN HARRISON, THE EDITOR DE

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ABSENCE OF PRESSURE, MEETIN

The initial change wrought at Bouth ampton Docks by the coming of the pre After the failures of our secondary sent offensive parth of the Somme was, military expeditions, it is intelligible that of course, one that it was quite impossible THE TIMES SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT]

we should be loath to embark upon yet to overlook.⠀ ⠀ another, particularly as it is also a great The stream of casualties set dowing by oversens war with all the attendant dif the order that went rippling along our BRITISH HEADQUARTERS, Aug 20th

ficulties of transport and the constant front line at 7.30 on the morning of July In my message of yesterday I told that danger of submarines. None the less the Come on, lade! Over we go!" or there was one section of this line only Salonika base has been established; the Now for it, heys'!"" or "Fæt her go, at which we did not minke new, ground, arhies are there, and, what is more in- boys! · Come on!

these were the typical To-tiny I have been with far men, who did portant still, the hour, the place, and the phrases provided immediato evidence at the fighting there and the story is worth objective are strategically of almost de the Sonthampton landing berths which telling that the enemy may get what cam-cisive military importuare, mano man could mistake. It was like a for out of it he can.

The weak point in the Germanic, de reserve trench advanced field dressing fence to-day is Austria, who, thanks to station and the mud and blood-stained the unexpectedly formidable onslaught by passengers seemed almost as fresh from the Russians on the Eastern Front, now the firing line. Almost, it seemertone finds herself in the predicament which was in contact with the cheny, so con- faced her at the end of 1914-with this tinuoue was the stream, difference, that whereas then her reserves The changes that have come see then had not been raised, they are this summer, have been gradual; so gradual that one potentially at least, pretty well exhaus hardly notices them until reminded by ed. Lanked up, economically and mili- somebody who comes here now for the first tarily, with Austria-Hungary, dependent, time since the days of the fral rush. in fact, upon her power of resistance, the Such a one, an officer, who had not been

WEATHER REPORT

On the 1st at 1vs Tren bar ins creused modvately over Tongking and slightly over all other southern districts stationary over N.E. Chins.

Moderato moscoon conditions remain aver China

Hongkong rainfal for 24 hours ending at 10 am, to-day, 001 inch Total since 1st January 0.01 inches, against an average of 75.93 inches.

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La the centre of this particular action of the line our non went clean through the trenches opposed to them. The main onery trench had been so battered by our guns that it gave but little protec: tion and the Germans had sheltered in dug-outs, not of the asual sumptuons description, because this list is recently nade, but deep enough to give, security against anything but a direct hit from a heavy shell. As our, men came on, the dermanns tried to stop them with machine secondary German drm, which may be on the landing-stage there for justSome people live in an eternal gloom. gan and rifle fire, but they had not the called the Balkan Alliance of Bulgaria month, drew my attention to it the other They believe themselves to be the object courage to stand the charge, and long before our men were within bayonet or bombing distance they scrambled out of the trench over the parados and bolted.

Our men saw them bolting and did some good running, shooting at them as they went. Arriving at the trench, they

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Gnd, what a difference!" he said, of all the vexations that, beset mankind. absolutely the heel of Achilles, or the vulnerable spot in the enemy lines of Why, one hardly knows the place Petty grievances and trivial troubles rasp defence, to which must be added the Placid as a hydro! It's the absence of and irritate beyond enduranco They magnify little annoyances that would esant propinquity of a doubtful pressure, of course." Rumania

And that it is. It came so gradually pass by other people, with stronger Now the Pan-Germanic scheine aims that one was hardly conscious of the Admit that you yourself feel like this

nerves, unnoticed. tumbled in and soon accounted for the Primarily at what the Germans call the change; and yet the change is vital.times--everybody does in the Far East.

economic hegemony of the East In essential, and of immense significance. placky fow who had stayed to meet them. Turkey it in his ccoreunit power, not The same clockwork organisation is work. These fits of gloom and grumble are the NETH. INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO. The trench was a perfect litter of German land, which is the German purpose, and ing with the sanie swift precision neither clouds that precede the storm: They are riffes and discarded equipment, and when it may truthfully be said that so long as more nor less. There are no delays or the signals of nerve exhaustion, and will our mon alaried to try to improve the the Germans hold the railway line hitches anywhere, and neither were there recur with greater frequency as time goes battered trench by digging, they had to through Serbis Constantinople not in that first memorable week of July on unless prompt measures are taken to stop because everywhere where they dug only is the goal of Pan-Germanism But though ther never was any sign of ser things right. they turned up German dead, killed durattained, but the military conditions are fluster or hurry then, there was ceaseless To do this is simple enough if you go to the root of the trouble-weak blood. ing ur bombardment of recent days, and established which ensure the faithful

till two or three o'clock next morning. trench..

Balkan belligerent group. Incidentally Ceaseless pressure, from the fring-lim cient nourishment to your nerves; it lacks. Besides the rifles, we got awo machine is the reason why the Germans are out there east of Albert to Southampton the strength, energy and purity that Dr. guns and five unwounded prisoners, three ready for peace. Not the West but the Docks. And now, while the silently run Williams Pink Pills have created in se of who fell to one small but plucky ser- East is their objective. Not Belgium but ning endless chain runs on and on, with many thousands of cases of nerve exhaus grant and many of our men went on to the German way to Constantinople is never, a jolt or crack or a bitch, the tion and debility caused by weak blood. yond the trench and cleaned the lurking their coveted prize, whence they hope to pressure has gone. That is all. There By building up the blood, making it pare Germans out of shell holes, where they pursue their aims eastwards and south no more any pressure, for the time and red corpuscles, Dr. Williams Pink Pills and healthy, and filling it with energising hid. Hore it was, unhappily, 20 yards wards to the Persian Gluf.

there has been none for some little time on the further side of the trenchy, that one

past. The actual number of cases is not in ave and twenty years have gained a of the best officers in that regiment was It was with this object in view that the a quarter what it was.

World-wide reputation as the greatest kill.

Anatolian Railways system was initiated

blood tonie known.

Everybody needs a blood tonic on occa- as well as the Kaiser's policy of infiltra tion, which dated from 1898 when he in the history of war. Si Douglas sione. If you do now Dr. Williams' Pink

Pills entered the Holy City on a white charger Haig's forces on

are obtainable from medicine the left, our brave vendors everywhere, also direct from the of these men, our attack was held up, on and addressed the Mahommedans as his French Allies on the right; we are eating Dr. Williams' Medicine Ca, 96, Szechuen}

our way into the ferritory which the the right by the difficulty of getting over friends over the grave of Saladin, a kanken road, which is deep and very Turkey to Germany is beachy Hung thought, and defnitely called, Road, Shanghai, 1 bottle 81.50, 6 bottles strongly fortified, and on the left by selfish, interest. Cotton, wool, naphtha absolutely impregnable," The unshakable post free. machine guns in High Wood. Our there are the things that Germany iron wall and with every day we are troups, then, found themselves isolated, wants, and the fertility of Mesopotareia forcing down, lower and lower, the price holding an undivided middle of a trench And this Drang towards the East has we pay, per yard, in blood. with the enemy on either side, while the been the life and soul of Pan-Germanim. machine-guns, already mentioned, in the it being clearly recognised by all

throne writers and authorities that whole work

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Couldn't be betterve ves very well. can poly be accomplished with and but sure as as death and, taxation," said And, as has been said, it no through Austria; success, in fact, depend an artillery #observation officer, whose ink on the fate of Austria, on whose fate right arm and shoulder had stopped a The number of bombs which men can that also of Turkey, as a German interest, few dying shrapnel splinters, while he Garry with them in an attack is limited, is mevitably involved was talking into a front-line feld teler and as the enemy came bombing, from

Thus, if the Germans were to walk out phone, to his battery some miles away both sides, those which these men bad were soon used up. They found's store of France to-morrow and Belgium the day in the rear.

after, yet keep Serbis and maintain their Mind you, you know, the Borhe had of German hombs, and they used those Turco-Bulgarian military and economic some reason for his boast that we could up too. And then there was nothing for partnership, in great part the Pan- not possibly make ny impression on his il but to get away for they were a very German scheme would be realised, and lines out there. He was wrong, of course;

THE small force and the Germans, in over Germany, an she could end the war on the generally is about the things tha whelming numbers and with unlimited Lombe, were coming on from either side. such terins, would incontestably have really matter; but he had pretty good having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are part of her objective, reasons; all the same There never has hereby informed that Goals. Ben being One man one man, be it noted with the gained the chief

And this idea it is, which Germans de been ground so strongly held. There landed at their risk into the hairdous and lust of the German bombs, was left onsignate as Austria's ethnic landslide," never was such concentration of guns-extra bazardous Godowns of the Hongkong either side to keep the enemy back as long without which all Pan-Germans agree especially machine and ammuni- and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ida as possible till the others got away. So

tion. And, of course, the lie of the land whence delivery may be obtained, de little hurried was the exit that they there can be no chance of success

This is what the Germans are fighting was all with him, and every yard of it brought their prisonere with them, and, for, what they hope to maintain, and as represented the steady preparation work have left the Glodowat, and all Goods remaining while one man at either end held the it is the Germanie central objective, so, of nearly two years, with unlimited mit andelivered after the 2nd Oct. will be subject enemy back, the rest just leaked away in militarily, it is the wenke spot in their terial and unlimited labour.

to rent lost the Ste the middle by way of shell holes and armour. The Austrian principle of Gov Yes, I think he was pretty much presented to the Undersigned on or before the map. The last of the bombs used up, the

Divide and Conquer" is not justified in his conviction that it was im- Germans from either side, being close Austria is in dire stress, and because whole German ariny would have found are to be left in the Godowns, where they will two Inat defenders followed; and then the suitable in war, Pressed on all sides, pregnable; and, wind you, I believe the 9th Oct., or they will not to recognised,

All broken, chisted, sad damaged Goods together, began to bomb each other,

Austria is in jeopardy so is the Austro it impossible to turn our troops out of be examined on the Enc Ock, at 9 FONG, No.

German policy in the Balkans, on which these same positions that we've taken

No Fire Insurance has been effected, It went un quite a long time for when hangs the allegiance of both Turks and from them. Because people can say what Bills of Lading will be countersigned by you are bombing over a traverse in a Bulgars, and its point of danger in from they like about German thoroughness and

THE BANK LINE, LF5. trench you cannot see who the fellow is Salonika.

the perfection of the Boche machine, but,

General Agents, who is borbing you-and those who saw

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essentials. the

(1184 Without Austria Pan-Germanism has bed-rock, man to man it described to me how' first one party of the enemy would drive the other back neither meaning nor power, for the whole Boche really is of poorer stuff than our a bit and then be driven back itself casence of Pan German Imperialism liesmen. He's finely handled; but he's, baser And while it was still going on a Ger in the territorial expansion of Austria-stuff. I known it's the fashion to say man aeroplane came down to me what Hungary by means of which alone pros human nature's much of a muchness, and the situation was and was brought down, sure can be brought to bear on Turkey, all that. But it's no earthly good saying falling in flames, by one of our machine and through Turkey on the Balkan it to anyone who's fought alongside our

peoples.

men, lived with em in the firing-line, guns behind decisive blow struck upwards from and met the Boche with en. Ne,

This was the unsuccessful incident of Balonika, breaking through the Bulgarian won't do--Daily Telegraph. the day and the enemy is welcome to resistance and liberating Serbis, and all the glory he can get from it. How Pan-Germanism will receive a mortal little our men were depressed is best wound from which in this war there can shown by the remark of à non-commit be no recovery. The Young Turks joined #uned officer to whom I spoke:Lord, Germany because of their belief in Ger- we can get the trench whenever we want an arms, and Bulgaria joined Germany But if the it I'd ask nothing better than to go also for the same reason. back and get it now."

Bulgarians are defeated and driven into their own country, Turkey will find ber self cut off stranded, reeling into help lessness, and the hour of Austria's fate

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Trout, I told the tale in detail yester day and there is no need to recapitulate is of such enormous importance. It is speech recounted how, two nights before it here We hold this evening everything there that the German heel of Achilles lies. he died, Lord Roberts insisted on taking that we won. Indeed, ve added a useful It is there, if we strike well and victori part in a midnight conference at hear little bit to day and from more than onsly, above all if we strike now, when quarters in France an one point, come accounts of futile and the Austro-German armies are fully en-

I was said Lord French, costly counter-attacks The Fame thing gaged, that a decision may be reached of nights before his death that he arrived at Just fro happens again and again. We see from overwhelming military and political St. Omer, and it was late in the evening aeroplanes or otherwise the enemy mas significance which would not only fru when I urged him to retire to rest after ang for attack and cur guns get on to strate all Germany's ambitions but his long and tiring journey, and in view him. Most frequetly they break thevitably hasten the end of the war, if only attack before it develops, and the men by process of disintegration,

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they seldom have the heart to push the and shout at the enemy: Holla Boola ference with the custom to hold a cor, constipation. Fiveriness," sick head-

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the midst of important and critical operare all you need of Pinkettes to dispel tions and it was

General Staff and report aches, biliousness. attack home, but are beaten by our rifles It is an unpleasant job, but he enjoys ing officers at midnight, when the mili and machine guns.

it and as he always shouts from Atary situation as it bad developed in the That the enemy casualties continue to different spot in the trench the enemy is day was carefully discussed and appre ho very heavy is certain. They are very convinced that he has confronting him asted two hours. I happened to have foiated. These conferences sometimes heavy in these counter-attacks and no-thousands of savages of the blackest and told the Field-Marshal about it, and when the little just-like-nature laxatives, stimu- where do our mea penetrate the enemy's most horrid description 1 urged him to rest he asid, lines without finding evidence of the It is things like these that, show the must wait for the conference, and I wish late digestion, purify the breath. Of all tremendous Losses inflicted by our temper of our men. It may or may not you to let me be present, and this chemists and post free, 60 cents this phial, artillery.

show the temper of the enemy, but it is persisted in doing. He followed every from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 98, The German official communications fact that among deserters who came word that was uttered, and every line Brechnen Road, Shanghai.

in yesterday was one man who wore an on the maps with the keenest interest and lately have spoken of heBritish black troops fighting on this front. Iron Cross as well as another decoration; a rare intelligence, and, although he did Today, I believe, I found the ex-while, most inexplicable of all, a lucky not lie down until the small hours, be planation of it, supposing explanation company of Scottish troops going up to was up to join his old Indian comrades to be necessary of a German statement the front mads prisoners of five un- the first thing in the morning. We know There is a certain London Battalion wounded Germans whom they met coming the sad sequel to the story and the toOUND VOLUMEN of the HONGKONG to D WEEKLY PRESS, JAKUart to Jurg very black. He has orders so many times surrender to. Nobody knows where they suffer, but we soldiers of the a day to put his head above the parapet came from lint it is probably the first tionary Force in France will never forget instance of troops taking prisoners be that our great and much beloved Com- (Continued at foot of next Column.) fore they reached their own front line.mander-in-Chief died in our midst.”

which has one native soldier, and he is along the road looking for someone, to rible loss the nation was called. vedi 1918

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