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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5TH. 1916.

WAR.

AT

SARS

CRITICAT SITUATION

AND TRANSLOY.

RUSSIANS DRIVE BACK GERMANS IN KOVNO

SERBIAN AND ITALIAN SUCCESSES.

BRITISH BAYONET CHARGE IN BALKANS.

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

[YHROUGH - BEUTER'S ADENCY.') BRITISH FRONT. SUCCESSFUL RAIDS SOUTH OF

¡LOOS

BUSBIAN FRONT

(THROUGH LECTER'S AGENCY.1 BRUSILOFF'S NEW PUSH. AN IMPORTANT STAGE

PETROGRAD, October 3rd. LONDON, October 3rd)

There is reason to anticipate that General Sir Douglas Haig, in com General Brusiloff's new push will extend muniqué, states:We have had a quiet

north and south of the Lomberg region, ight south of the Ancre,,

embracing the battlefields of Korel and We carried out successful raids south Vladimir Volynsk and wile extent of

LOUS.

Galicia

FRENCH OPERATIONS.. GERMAN ATTACK NORTH OF RAUCOURT REPULSED.

Panis, October 3rd communiqué states that a fairly viol ent artillery duel has been going on north of the Somme,

The Germans attempted an attack north of Raucourt, and were repulsed,

TWO AEROPLANES BROUGHT DOWN

Twa enemy aeroplanes were brought down on the Sommo front.

THE BRITISH SUCCESSES. SUPPLEMENTARY DETAILS.

PARIS, October 3rd.

The Entente's military experts hero re- gard the success from the south of Brzezany to Rogatyn as an important stage towards separating the Lemberg and Huliez armies, and they dwell on the similarity of the Russian and the Anglo-French tactics,

5,000 PRISONERS IN THREE DAYS.

LONDON, Oetober 3rd

A Russian communiqué, states We drove back deuso German columns who attacked cast of Novo Alexandrovsk,

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

[THBOUGH REUTER 6" LUENCY ]}

[BY COUNTRY OF THE

GREEK CABINET REPORTED RESIGNATION:

Losbon, Cotober 4th. Telograms from Athens stato that, thr Cabinet, with the exemption of the Fremier and Foreign Minister has resigned.

will riconstruct the Ministry.

GENERAL

CHAƠNG NGÔI

CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY.

SHANGHAI, October 4th: Mr. Tang Shao, Ministar for Foreign Affairs, who tendered his resignation, will return to Shanghai. Mr. Lok Ching

It is expected that M. Kilogropoutes Cheong, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs under Yuan Shih Kai's régime, has been nominated to succeed him in offee The House of Representatives, how Japonya ever, recorded one hundred and eighty in his favour and one hundred and ninety-eight against him.

{THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.] THE GERMAN CROWN PRINCE AGAIN.

MORE CROCODILE TEARS

LONDON, October th The German Crown Prince, caviously with the object of furthering mediation, has been making a statcipont to an American correspondent.

He wept crocodile tears, deploring the terrible loss of life, and said the German Generals deplored the necessity for sing liquid are and other instruments,

SHALL WE TREAT WITH THE KAISER? EFFECT OF REFUSAL ON GERMAN PEOPLE

[BY FRANCIS ORIRBLE. 1 When the Kaiser comes to us, asking reply that wo decline to parley with a or proposing, terms of pecce, shall we

Hohenzollernt

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SAVED BY SEA POWER

3

of war, tliose who examine its movements In looking back over the second year

closely will ducern, o ona dotermling. factor common to them all. This is the frotor of sea-power, mys the naval corres rpondent of the Beering Standardı

It is not only that because of our com- position to day than wo were twelva mind of the seas we are in a much better

months ago had we not been supreme is already being dismissed No one can altogether, broken and defected. Onco The question will soon be urgent, and stont, we should have been out of the war Hohenzollerns but some cautious critics in Providence and a good admiral, and bo said exactly to hold a brief for the more in our history we have put uur trust seem to fear that our refusal to negotiate it has not been betrayed. It is a mis their support and consequently more fits of our naval supremacy are only of with them would make Germany solid intake, however, to suppose that the bene the first place, that it would be nothing preventing us from invasion, from starva difficult to conquer. I am convinced, in what may be called a negative character, of the kind, and, in the second place, that tion, and other ovile. The past year has it would not matter if it did,

shown very many positivo gains as well. What we have to guard against in any Owing to the mastery which the Allies Tho Minister of Agriculture and Com-attempt to read the German mind is the continue to maintain at sea, their posi

unconsidered merce, Koh Chong Sau, also has tendered Germans who option that those tion on land everywhero shows i distinct

aro forbidden to speak and growing improvement As the con his resignation.

share the sentiments of those who are en summation of our purpose and sacrifice couraged to shout from the housetops drawn nearer, it is well to remember that The men who do the shouting in Germany the chief thing, which makes it possible are the Junkers and the National Liberals is the strength and efficiency of the flect. and these, no doubt will stick to the Evidence of this is to be found in a Kaiser to the Inst. He and they are in comparison of the military situation at the same boat, and must sink or swim the present moment with that at the be together

condition of stalemate on the western ginning of August, 1915, There was a

cearly told us, the British troops were front, where, as Mr. Lloyd George re- condemned to an enforced inactivity be sustined attack. cause our munitions were not equal to a

GLIMPSES OF WAR,

THE INVADER'S ALPHABET.

But there are others the Social Demo- Gorman thoroughness in the prepara-gested that even they have, at the bottom orats, for instance. It seems to be sug tion of wor, as in all else on the material of their hearts, hankering regard for plano, is so widely acknowledged oven affront to their royal house as an affront the Hohenzollerns, and would regard an among those who attribute small blame to themselves. That is what I canot

He hinted that American treasure

to her for this war thet my little witness should be invested in sowing the seeds of to it will not add anything. But it may peace

provide intercating reading for na idle an idle And first let me ask you to pronounce phonetically the following words

GIFTS OF AEROPLANES.

FROM SHANGHAI, HANKOW AND BRITISH MALAYA

Lónnoy, Untober 4th-

A total of 78 seroplanes has now been- presented

the Imperial Aircraft Flotilia, the contributors including sidents of Shanghai, and Hankow

moment

"Ondresz juh.

Köt juhr Jaining." This portion of the stock-in-trade of tho Simlified Speling Sosieti is not what seems; nor is it the harmless foolery that it sounds. It is an extract from the orders given by an imaginary German Twenty-nine aeroplanes have been pre-officer in one of the English Homs British Malaya. sonted to the Royal Flying Corps by Counties to bis equally imaginary cap tive charged with spying on behalf of the British Commander now engaged in de fending invaded England. And it is

UNDER LOCK AND KEY,

Now, however, he saith, we are turn

bring myself to believe we sing out nearly twice as much amminaition in single weck and, what is more, few The German Bocial Democrate are not nearly three times as much heavy shell — speaking, the Cons; they site, broad as we fired in the great offensivo in Kaiser flattered them on the day of the exponded in that battle was the result of the Gorman masses Though the September, Although the ammunition wo declaration of war, his provious attitude many weary weeks of accumulation. In towards them had been unfriendly he tho erst, the Germans were smashing their had openly spoken of them as enemies way forward in Poland, the Russian of God and the Fatherland"; and his armies being obliged to face a hailstorm treatoient of those of them who did not of iron with flesh and blood. Now our desert their principles when the war broke Allies, like our own troopa in Frances out has been oppressive. Those who were have grapsed the initiative themselves, liable to military service have been placed and have astonished the world by a many of those who were not have been have not only won back many miles of in the forefront of the battle, and a good succession of bold stroke, in which they Social Democrats are at present in prison prisoners in tho protess. Even the pro- put under lock and key. Thousands of territory at made enormous liauls of in Germany for political offences; and a longed offensivo of the Germans nt Verdun special internment camp was opened, the seems to have at last spent itself. On chatinate journalists of the party, fensive. It is by means of our power at other day, for the accommodation of the every hand the enemy is now on the de L it credible that these men, whom those that thus marvellous transformation did not want, will suddenly learn to love of the fleet the resources of practically Kaizer has dragged into a war which they has been effected. Under the protection. prisoners in three days, including six REBELS ATTACK DUTCH TROOPS. taken from a little volume entitled the Allies refuse to treat with him as a power which must give our enemies, the him when they discover that he has con- the whole world have been drawn upon ducted that war in such a manner that for the development of that – military Sprachführer für den westlichen Kriegsoldier, but insist upon punishing him knock-out blow Furthermore, not only Western Theatre of War I will not likely to take the line that this treatment the Allies given them the time and the schauplate, or rage Book for the as a criminal? Are they not far more has the command of the ocean routes by

and that as will be seen in the following think so, and I also feel pretty sure strangulation of German oversen enter this Western Theatre includes Engloud, BAD VAITH

means to rehabilitate their old armies and paragaphs, & good deal of frightfulness that we in England, are upt to attribute prise it, has denied this power to our watchword stamped upon the book reform the walo nob really entertain. Their sent day in the required direction: Germany had been prepared for us. Indeed, the reverence for the Hohenzollerng which that we have been getting stronger every. to the German people a superstitions enemies. It is only half the truth to say molely to that sublime German prayer, ment may be inferred, not only from has been getting weaker, and the noiseless which runs-Zum Geleit; Gott Strafe their private conversations, but also from pressure exerted by the seamon gripa like

Three extracts from this precious littlo cipal

their Reichstag speeches; and the prin-a vies upon both her means of military volume will suffice. On the first landing

Tho battles continue north of Halicz, where the enemy is stubbornly resisting. Here

we have taken five-thomand

hundred Germans. THE BALKANS

THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY. J

REBELLION IN FLORES

LONDON, October 4th The Dutch Resident at Timor tele

graphs that in an attack by rebels, en escape the notice of the observant that serves hup AOHENZOLLEINS Add meente Aentirely now ones. By the

The French newspapers supplement the particulars of the now brilliant successes that the British gained on the 1st inst

As indicated ~ Sir Douglas Haig's re- BRITISH BAYONET CHARGE, Dutch lieutena was killed and

ENEMY COMPLETELY ROUTED.

SALONIKA, October 3rd.

port, on the morning of the 2nd inst, the „zbjent zinaed at was entirely gained under two hours and was characterised by a great bayonet attack, in which two Hano

A British official despatch states:

Dutch troops in the Island of Flores

soldiers were wounded. Five robes were killed

The natives of Achin are also giving England frouble

vorian battalions were driven back, Three battalions of Bulgarians Hade a NEUTRALS AND SUBMARINES. in Lincoln or Essex the apt pupil takes

despite desperate

resistance. Tho ** Tanks” services included the break ing of ground for the infantry to advance

counter-attack on our new positions on the cust back of the Struma. The sttack was broken by our fire. Then a British

URGENT REQUEST BY THE ALLIES

LOSTOR, October 3rd.

out his book and thus addresses a yokel on the road

Du juh spink dachōrmen? The yokel will probably stare at his Junkers, Velvet questioner, who then proceeds

and the levelling of a formidable defonattalion charged with the bayonet and It is officially announced that the Ahr jul aut off szis reberhad ??

sve system.

completely routed the enemy, taking 40 prisoners,

Our aeroplanes bombed troops in trans- Pert ut Prostenik and the railway from there to Seres.

A MOST CRITICAL SITUATION. The situation at Sors and Traustoy is now most critical. They are points of support to the first line of defence at Bapaume, and we are heavily bombard SERBIANS CARRY TRENCHES, Sing them.

BAVARIAN SOLDIERS"

NERVES.

LIBUT COL. 8 REBUKE..

SALONIKA, October ard,

A French official despatch states:-The Serbians have carried the first enemy trenches on the heights of Starkougrob, north-east of Kajmakalan, and captured another Bulgarian battery. Bad weather continues.

ROUMANIAN ATTACK.

LONDON, October ürd

LONDON, October 3rd. Beater's Correspondent at Hendguar lers states--A captured Bavarian Batte Jion Order shows that the enemy is suffer ing from norves A Lieut. Colonel plain- tively rebukes his men and says I have got an impression that a few Eng fsimen, throwing bombs from their trenches, can thoroughly frighten a crosd of Bavarians. If we put an un- necessary barrage co the enemy, here. THE ROUMANIAN FEAT ON

taliates, and we auffer. Therefore, this fright on the Somme Front must be dis polled

HAVAL ACTIVITIES.

THROUGH REUTEE'S AGENCY,

Allies have urged neutrals to prevent belligerents' salamarines, however utilised, from using neutral waters, and to detain auy entering a neutral port,

AUSTRALIAN REFERENDUM.

DIVIDED OPINION.

Is ze willedech okjupaid bai sul- djers? Okjupaid” is gont sa Füle on us would say and has rainiscent Lewis Carroll air,

Juh ahr à spai. If juh trai tu ron aweh juh uill bih schott Kön nibrer. Tekh ze lihd.

Even a person of great mental agility the Prime Minister or Mr. Bernard Shaw, might well hesitats when told to tekh zlihd." Which lid? he would the German equivalent of a fortnight's ask. And the reply would probably he C.B. But the supposed “spai has yet more troubles abend.

Kihp sailenaz.

1. That the Hohenzollerns at all the tome ut the Adied control of are these educible from those speeches

deducible from those speeches expansion and her comente condition.

events since the death of Frederick the to the desperate course of submarine war- sea communications drave Germany Great have not led their people, but late against merchantmen, but in spite allowed themselves to be driven by the of the ruthless manner in which this has Jhat it is a commun

been waged during the past year, with- saging, in eat any regard whatever to the laws of democratic circles in Germany, that a astions or of humanity, it has ignomini- Hohenzollern never keeps his word.ously failed. That our control was sure Both these propositions have been both and real was further shown in the great grily and argumentatively maintained battle on May 31st of Jutland. The whole in Reiclistag debates. The record of King modern fleet of Germany there came out after King has been there brought up and to attempt pilloriexi. Frede..es William III, it has ward, but this enterprise, whatever its an enterprise directed north- been pointed out, promised his people a character, was completely frustrated, and wart resistance of Napoleon, but after upon the sens A year ago the campaigns constitution as a reward for their stal the Grand Fleet reasserted its dominance wards refused to full his promisc. in Gallipoli and on the Tigris were being Frederick William IV granted a consti proscated with vigour. In the one case LONDON, October 3rd.

tution under pressure, but withdrow it as the nation was told that the army of Sir Reuter's Correspondent at Sydney says

allegiance to Frederick William IV's co- de Robeck were separated only by a few soon as he dared. William I swore Ian Hamilton and the fleet of Admiral that the State Ministries, except those

stitution, but afterwards overthrew it miles from a victory such as the war had of Queensland, are supporting the

with a bloody violence which earned him out seen. In the other, My, Asquith an Referendum. The Labour organisations Juh haw to ansyer huli, tahun 11 has promised, again and again, to within measurable distance of Bagdad. the nickname of Grape shot Bill, William nounced that General Nixon's force was in Queensland. Now Boath Wales and ahe jub duink szähr 1 Haw ju äni let often found excuses for not doing so. these two undertakings was in no way due istens Wott is juhr nehr? Wett extend the Landtaff suffrage, and has as It is capable of proof that the failure of Victoria are strenuously opposing. Itters or ani pepers wisz juth? Tek off It is a pretty record of broken pledges, inability to use it, but because the me 73 is expected that the voting in New South faining. Empti juhr pockets of a House with such a record should be utilised in the right way. It was futile to jahr buhts. Ondresz juh Rot juhr and it is a just Nemesis that the pledges to strike which the fleet gavo us were not pledges to the weakness of sen power, nor to our Wales will be decisive.

We leave the bewildered “spai and treated as worthless. The German masses employ modern ships against forts with come to the chairman of some Urban Disunderstand that quite as clearly as we do out the simultaneous work of a land BRITAIN'S RISING REVENUE trict Council under cross-examination by They know that they are far more likely force, and also to risk a comparatively

German staff officer. The opening is ENORMOUS INCREASE OF encouraging: ~~**Juh ahr porsonnalli from the Allies than from their ralors; for river transport, in such a manner as to receive constitutional liberty as a gift few troops, without the right material INCOME TAX.

Tanzponsibel. If aur orders shr noit and there is no reason for expecting them brought about the disaster at Kut ******** obend juh will be ärrüsted äsz a huste duch, to look that gifthorse in the mouth. In two other directions sea power has Ahr juh 420 mabr off six toun! Han Their forefathers rallied round Frederick been seen in very successfal working-in mani inhabiton's has itt! Isz szihr William TIL, and he deved them. the Baltic and Black Bea. The Russian hospitel Ahr szahr än bäräks? Hau Onco bit, twice shy. They will not Navy, in augmented strength, has pre mani tsischens ahr hier Scho nith szerally round William II., except under vented the Germans using their undoubted techeraist's schopp? Ahr szabrani compulsion. Their feeling towards our superiority, and, has, with the aid of the konfedechos (splendid werd:) disilises at refusal to treat with him will be that it Russo British submarines, successfully present

serves him right that the House of defended the flank of the army in the Duont tu pripähr kwoters for osz

Hohenzollern has only got what it was Riga district. The submarines have also hier is as good a sperimen of the en asking for chanting jargon as any, but even when that we should parloy with the Hohenspect of its lighter craft by the sacrifice Apart from that, of course, & proposal which the enemy's fleet, weakened in re- set up a blockade of fierman shipping pronounced with meticulous kabr by an zollerns as absolutely incompatible with of cruisers in the commerce raids and the locutionist it would be a puzzle. When the proposal that we should hold them to loss of both cruisers and destroyers in it is rapped out raucously by a Boob account for their misdeeds in violating the North Sea conflicts, has been power We come next to the farmer in the war Hohenzollern are wanted in the sense a position of ascendancy in the Black angry tongue tablean

least three members of the House of Similarly, the Russians have occupied with a not improbable dry thrust and treaties and the laws of war, and at less to break, ing the Bulgarian outposts,

from one in every hundred metres to one Ui ahr fohr rekwisischen in szis The Kaiser himself is wanted for the the Goeben and Breslau. Cur Allies were

ker place

in which the police use the word Bea, in spite of spasmodic appearances of The operation is of great tactical, in- in every thousand metres, and also, with Billedsch, szöhr. Rait dann wott ui uont. murder of Captain Frynt, which he cerable to land troops westward of Frebizond portance and its strategic conséquences

Twenti oksen; fohr hödred piks; faifteinly authored, if he did not actually to turn the enemy's flank, and contribut a view to frightening away would-be bondreds kworts off milk siks hundred order it. The Crown Prince is wanted ed materially to the fall of that place, may be considerable. The plans were

de pmugglers and deserters, the enemy is

S paunds off flaur; stewen hondred solilted for stealing pictures from a chateau in Here, too, the enemy was robbed of tho made in agreement with the Allies, whose using dummy soldiers which are arranged and, crown of all," nsin höndre szoszid stealing women's underclothing, with the his continuance of the campaign against harrings; cht hoodred pannds of beaken France. Prince Eitel Fritz is wanted for reinforcements and supplies essential to aviators established communication with fifty metres apart on one portion of the schenDon't they sound Inscious 7 Yon Duke of Brunswick for his accomplice, the army of the Grand Duke Nicholasz

frontier. They disappear at daybreak Passing Show, once more one of the three has to stand in the dock Go folèrses possessions, the same can almost hear Nelson Keys in The From a country house in Belgium Each If or turns to the operations against But this is a serions businessHucw- punishment which the law prescribes. We supaj From the Cameroons to the

Uhr tu littel szoszideches ete" when the war is over, and receive the haids ani wiktināls till bih ärrasted no more negotiate with them on Pacific and on the lakes of Africa in Sze taun will how tua pel à fain off fail to subject than the police could be fact, wherever there had een fighting, the hondred pounds off storling Ohl sop Crippen. Even if the refusal to treat In a word, the feet has fulfilled during

negotiated with, Charles Peace or Dr pennen have had some she reposito lais all bib pehd fohr lehter on. Ever does prolong the hostilities, that righ the nest year all the expectations enter- riboddi gatts & rcash for ohl hi sop must be taken. The longer the hostilitie tained in regard to it. It is still the only laid,

Germany will be hammered, and the completely achieved the purpose for which last the more complete the pulp to which fighting force of the Allies which has greater the certainty that there will be ne it was created. The eca, however, is

A Roununian communique states : —We are violently attacking on the whole frent in Dobrudja, The enemy is stubbornly resisting

THE DANUBE.

PARTE, October th

It is stated that the Roumanians, under General Zetten, crossed the Danube under cover of massed artillery, thirty miles south of Bukharest, and penetrated Bul-

NAVAL AEROPLANES ACTIVE, garian territory, annihilating or roat

AIRSHEDS IN BELGIUM.

ATTACKED.

LONDON, October 3rd.

Au official report states:-Our naval acroplanes carried out a further attack

on the airsheds in the vicinity of Brussels

The machine failed to return.

HUNGARIAN DEPUTIES RE-CALLED TO THE COLOUNS.

LONDON, October 3rd.

A Royal Decree issued in Hungary orders that all Deputies on leave to attend the Session should rejoin the Any Immediately

General Serrail and General Zotion.

ITALIAN SUCCESS.

LONDON, October 4th. An Italian force occupied Argyro Kastro

Another Italian force landed at Santi Quaranta and occupied Delvino-

The Greek troops in both instances withdrew.

LONDON, October 3rd. The revenue for the year is £318,356,000, as compared with 2813,095,500 for last

year.

The Income Tax has risen by £56,274,000, ENEMIES LACK OF MEN. USING DUMMY SOLDIERS.

AMSTERDAM, October 3rd- The Germans have reduced the number

of sentinels guarding the Dutch frontier.

On one section of the frontier there is one cavalryman only. These steps are beer beved to indicate a great lack of men.

Other injunct ons are Burch

influence of the sea is

According to statistics compiled by the Ministry of Education the total number of High, Middle and Primary schools at mih. Njubeohl mai habts" "Dub present in China 18 35,884 and 892,071 juh no uahr so weterinarian linsa fresh incursion of the barbarians disturb jealous, and should the nation ever students, excluding military and naval. But they are human after all; for, "Aing the peace of the world. Even so forget how much we owe to its influence schools and students,

haw & pihn R.N.V.

Standards

it will exset a heavy penalty.