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THE

WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1916.

FRENCH SUCCESSES ON THE SOMME.

BRITISH CAPTURE KALENDRA,

SERBIANS TAKE MANY PRISONERS.

GERMAN SUBMARINE OUTRAGES ON

AMERICAN COAST.

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT,

(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]

BRITISH TRENCH RAIDS:

ENEMY CASUALTIES.

LONDON, October 10th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- muniqué, says

South-west of Givenchy we carried out a successful raid on the enemy trenches.

These trenches were entered although held in considerable strength, and two dugouts were bombed.

Casualties were inflicted

on the enemy. German infantry in the open in the neighbourhood of Orandcourt were caught by our artillery firo at dawn,

LONDON, October 11th.

General Haig's official report states that nothing important has happened..

The work of improving our positions south of the Anere has continued without any especial incident.

A further 263 prisoners have been brought in.

NAVAL ACTIVITIES

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] AMERICAN COAST SUB- MARINE OUTRAGES. OFFICIAL CONFERENCE AND

STATEMENT.

LONG BRANCH, N.J., October 10th. Mr. Lansing, Becretary of State, con- ferred with President Wilson on the Ger mou submarine question.

It is officially stated that there is no levidence of a German submarine base in American waters..

A WIDE BERTH.

NEWPORT, October 10th. Wireless messages from the liners Cameronta and Frederick VIII.

Bhow that they are proceeding to New York well off the customary courees,

"A DELICATE ELEMENT."

LONDON, October 10th. A telegram from Washington states Dar aircraft yesterday renewed their that a delicate element in the new Gor activity.

man-American eitnation is the fact that FRENCH SCORE BIG GAINS. ships have been sunk close to the Ameri

PARIS, October 17th:

con const because British cruisors were

(THROUGH ZHUTER'S ADENOS.] TWO GERMAN SUBMARINES

SUNK

RUSSIAN DESTROYER'S CREDIT ABLE FEAT.

CHRISTIANIA, October 10th

[THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENOT.] IRELAND AND COMPULSION.

LOST IN THE TRENCHES.

EBY PATRICK MACGILL).

THE RESCUE OF SHACKLETON'S MEN.

CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE

KING.

LONDON, October 11th, An earthquake had rent the whole The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (Lord country, Dark, sepulchra

Chasmi? Wimbourne), in a specu delivered at Jawned in the ground, and the whole earth seemed to have been gutted to its Dublin, stated that the Irish Divisions.

As we announced in our cable columns A Finnish newspaper states that a

needed 10,000 men before Christmas. Bashed to smithereens; the macihnery of marooned on Elephant Eland were saved. core. ⠀⠀・ Little' red-brick cottages were last month, Sir Ernest Shackleton's mon Russian destroyer sank two German sub-

There were 34,829 Catholics and 16,224 a mill stood suspended over nothing, and The party, numbering 22, under the marines out of three which hombarded rotestants in the Army before the war shapeless walls, jagged and lacerated leadership of Mr. Frank Wild, had been the wireless stat on at Jepnovalok on the

Since mobilisation 157,584 had joined, in quivered in air, ready to fall at the first on the island since April. Murman coast on Saturday, destroying duding 9,405 Catholics, 89,391 Protest-gust of wind. Where the pits were dug

Sir Ernest Shackleton in a maesage the mast and killing several people.

the earth shapeless heaps of white from Punta Arenas to the Daily It was estimated that there were be these heap lay a battery of field guns steamer which the Chilean Goverment chalk were flung up, and beside one of Chronicle says that the Telcho, the small BRITISH SHIPPING CIRCLES.tween 100,000 and 200,000 eligibles in jumbled in inextricable confusion. The

rusty steel muzzles of the guns ooked placed at his disposal, left Punta Arenas Ireland to day. He had never advocated grotesque and distorted; the ruined dug on August 4th. He adds-On August

out in which the guunera compulsion in Ireland, because general heathed tragedy from every broken beam 30th; after steering in a fog through num-

once lived consent was lacking, but in view of the and torn sandbag. andden conversion of England to com-

Dead men lay all | erous stranded bergs, I reached Wild's over the place, shamelessly exposed in the camp at 1 pm At 2 pm, we were home. most unlikely situations. On the Bald of vileged privacy,

ants and 2.798 unclassed,

NOWISE SCARED.",

LONDON, October 10th. Reports from Lloyd, and shipping circles in Liverpool and Glasgow showpulsion, there was no reason to despair war death is oftentimes denied its pre-ward bound" AN AMER

that they are in noviso scared by the latest “frightfulness" in the Aflats though naturally frights are rising.

INSURANCE PREMIUMS

DOUBLED.

A meeting of anderwriters at Lloyds decided to increase by 100

per cent, the premiums between Europe and America. CARGO LOST THROUGH SUB- MARINE ATTACKS.

LONDON, October 11th.

of convincing the Irish democracy of the overwhelming logic of facts.

PRESS COMMENT.

The Belfast Telegraph points out that Lord Wimbourne's figures refer only to Infantry.

ANOTHER GERMAN WAR CREDIT.

TWELVE THOUSAND MILLION MARKS.

AMSTERDAM, October 10th. The Koetusche Zeitung states that the Government will use the Reichstag for a War Credit of 12,000 million Marks.

In an interview, the Secretary of tho Liverpool Steamship Owners Association said that the renewed German submarine warfare had not created any alarm, and f really was not a promising development MB. GINNELL'S CONVICTION, for Germany. The fact of the operations APPEAL COURT CONFIRMATION. not being conducted on both sides of the Atlantic showed that Germany had not

it submarines. Our loss through had been only ten shillings in every £100 submarine attacks during the whole war

sterling worth of cargo. We had import

LONDON, October 10th The Appeal Court has confirmed the conviction of Mr. Ginnoll, M.P. (who was fined £100, or six weeks' imprison ment, in July last for giving a falso nume when wuking to see Irish prisoners at

Marching in single file, the last platoon of the battalion passed across the dead be dies and entered the first-line trench, where the regiment that held the position vas busy as its many duties. The night was very quiet; that ominous stillness held the world mute; the quivering star which often precedes or follows a battle shells were a mockery against the silence, Here on the Vimy Ridge they trenches had none of that well-ordered sungness of the actors farther north. Men huddled in shell-craters which were linked together by hastily dug ditches, had no dug-outs in which to rest, no well-placed fresteps or which to stand, no fixed hours for meals, no sure supply of rations on Viny Ridge. Here the outer frontier of the Allied lines was chaos and desolation. So much could 7662 Riemen Trone, of the London Irish, see through the dark ness as he stood for second on the parados of the trench. He was the last man of the last platoon; his mates were

already pledding ahead through the Blushy alley on the right,

Trone endeavoured to clamber down into the shell-hole over which he stood, missed his footing, and landed in the muck at the bottom.

Breakin' yer neck, natey somebody inquired:

Trone wiped the mud from his lips and coughed it from his throat.

*

Trone soon followed in the track of ins mates. They had umy got out of sight, but he felt that he could overtake them

The King, in replying to a telegram from Sa Brnest Shackleton announcing the rescue of the members of the expech- tion, congratulated him on his success, and added:-

leader Frank Wild, which was so instru

**** I greatly admire the conduct of their

hope. I trust you will soon bring them mental in maintaining their courage and all safely home George R.I.

The following is Wild's report

ture of the boat, the island was besot by

On April 25th, the day after the depar dense pack-ice. The party was confined to a narrow spit of land, 250 yards long and 10 yards wide, surrounded by inacces Sible cliffs and ice-laden seas,

We were forced to abandon our ice-hole, which was made untenable by the snow. We made a dwelling of our two bosta supported by rocks, and set up as far as practicable from the sea. was difficult to work, and the vitality of The weather continued appalling. To

the whole party was lowered owing to exposure. Blackboro, Hudson, Ureon- street, and Rickinson became ill, and several others were frost-bitten.

In May a heavy blizzard swept much valuable gear into the sea, and we were being swept away by the heavy seas raised in grave anxiety owing to the danger of

velocity of 70 miles an hour. 2 by & blizzard which was blowing at a

An official communiqué states--North withdrawn from the trade layes adjacented £900,000,000 worth of staff up to the Knutsford), but has reduced the penalty f in a couple of minutes. But Trono mis cier calved," throwing up heavy waves,

of the Somine there has been great re- to American waters in deference to urgent. ciprocal artillery fire.

Americas representations that such South of the Bomine our infantry carried a position constituting an objec-patrolling was vexatious and discourte tive.

The hamlet of Bovent, on the outskirts of Ablancourt, and most of the Chaulnes wood have been captured,

We captured 1,250 primners, The enemy greatly suffered around Ablancourt.

A coup-demain south of Bailly-Sail- lisel resulted in our expturing fifty pri

sorters

MAGNETO FACTORY BOMBED. An offic ̈al communiqué states:--Our airmen bombed & German magneto fac tory Stuttgart with apparently

At

serious results.

THE BALKANS

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

THE BRITISH ADVANCE.

KALENDRA OCCUPIED,

SALONIKA, October 10th.

A British official report from Salonika ábutes:

ouis

The Times New York Correspondent say that the German submarine U. 59 obtained at Newport a complete list of the inward and outward steamers to and from New York.

The destruction of the Stephano is particularly resented, as her cargo was squall and unimportant and not for military uso.

The passengers, including 14 babies, were driven into boats on a cold night and they drifted for eight hours.

"PACIFIC BLOCKADE OF AMERICAN COAST.”

LONDON, October 11th. The English newspapers dwell upon the gravity and complexity of the fresh German-American issue, raised by what the Times describes as being tantamount to a pacific blockade of the American coast. a forma of coercion occasionally

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We have occupied Kalendra, four adopted in peacetime to bring a wrong. miles from Seres.

We continue to bombard the enemy tretches on the Doiran front.

WHAT CAPTURE OF KALENDRA MEANS.

LONDON, October 10th.

An official announcement of the occupa #ic of Kalendra west, not east, of Sores, means that the Bulgarians have abandoned the Dém rhissar-Seres railway.

EASTERN ARMY OFFENSIVE

PARIS, October 10th. An official conimuniqué states:-Our Eastárn Army's offensive has been success. Fally continued.

816 PRISONERS. There has been very sharp fighting be * Berbe and Bulgars in Corna Bend, which the Serbs took 818 prisoners. Cur aeroplanes bombarded Monastir

Prikop

LATEST GREEK CABINET,

A COLOURLESS BODY.

ATHENS, October 10th Professor Lambrog has formed á most colourless Cabinet. It includes M. Tselos, profounarist, as Minister of the Interior, and M. Zalocastas, ex- Mumber to Bofia, as Minister of Foreign Affair

WHAT BULGARIA EXPECTS,

AMSTERDAM, October 10th-

The Berlin Tageblatt learns that poli- tical circles in Sofia expect the speedy

Intervention of Greece.

doing State to reason."

unanimous

While the newspapers are that the main issue lies with the United: States and Germany, they point out that the havoc wrought by the 16 empha sises the importance of the recent Allied Memorandum on the treatment of belli-

Serent submarines ir neutral waters.

Telegrams from New York describo the

end of July:

FRIGHTFULNESS RAMPANT IN

THE REICHSTAG.

AMSTERDAM, October 10th: The German newspapers state that the

Committee discussions in the Reichstag resulted in the victory of the Frightful-

css Party

ITALIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

ITALIAN SUCCESSES.

ENEMY SHELL GORIZIA

Ross, October 10th.

An official announcement states:-

We stormed and captured entrench

ments on Mount Pasubio.

Enemy attacks elsewhere have been

ropulsed.

The onemy shelled Gorizia, damaging buildings and causing a few casualties.

An Italian detachment occupied All! sura, south-east of Tepeleni,on

the Vojussa, in Albania. GENERAL

*(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].

HOUSE OF COMMONS O

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

POSTWAR TRADE CONDITIONS.

LONDON, October 10th. Mr. Bonar Law has announced that excitement se being greater than an out- the Committee on Trade after the Wars break of war, and that an explosion is with special reference to the recommen bound to follow the loss of American dations of the Paris Conference, hoped to lives.

be able to report shortly.

But for the activity of the American destroyers much greater hardship and possibly loss of life would have resulted. BELLIGERENT SUBMARINES IN

NEUTRAL WATERS

NEW Yonx, October 20th.

Sir Edward Carson Will legislation be introduced to prevent the dumping of German goods I

WHEAT.

Mr. Boner Low It might be nece sary, but it has not yet been considered. The Counsellor of the State DepartTHE PRICE AND FREIGHTAGE OF ment (Mr. Frank L. Polk) has announced that the United States refused to accept

In the House of Commons Mr. Runci- the Entente's contention that belligerent submarines, however utilised, should be mau, President of the Board of Trade, prevented from using neutral waters, and indicated that the prics of wheat and that those entering a neutral port should freight rates for wheat would be fixed. be detained,

At a later stage, Mr. Buccinto so SUBMARINES ACTIVE IN nounced that the Government bad deelded

THE ARCTIC.

to appoint a Royal Commission with fall TWO AMERICAN VICTIMS. powers to take adequate steps to secure

a regular aupply of wheat and four LONDON, October 10th. -

A memage from Christiania states that five German submarine ar operating in the Arctic and that their victims include

two American steamers

to £50.

WHY DOCTORS DIFFER. DIFFICULTIES OF MEDICAL

RESEARCH

1Y "THE TIMES MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT

The military representative of an peal tribunal stated recently that doctors exprees such great difference of opinion that we do not know where we are. Most people will incline to en dorse this statement and many must be putting to themselves the important question, Why do doctors differ??"

The answer to this question is a matter of national importance and no apology nced he offered for considering it Though generalizations are dangerous, this much may be said at once: Doctors differ because in this country we have not realized that the only way to solve any question is to organize a campaign for its solution. The way of the medical research worker is a hard way, though

thanks to the efforts of a law for socios

men it has been made easier by the for fuation of the Medical Research Com mittee of the National Insurance Act, one of the best steps ever taken by British Government,

It is a painful sight to see eminent scientife workers devoting their time to routine examination of specimens which might be done by junior assistants, were them appointed. It is even more painful to find important researches hung up because some problem touching a kindred science has not been solved and there is no means of solving it

Fortunately, owing to the low tem perature, an ice-foot formed on the ses shore, and this protection was the means of saving us from total destruction.

Un several occasions the adjacent gla

calculated. At the end of five minutes and on one occasion blocks of lec were he found himself in a deserted trench, | hurled to within 15ft. of our dwelling.: all alone, and then decided that it was

Observing how the island was beast, I time to turi buck. The last sentry whom realized the difficulty our leader must he passed might have made a mistake experience in effecting our early about the where abouts of the digging relief, and as a measure of pre party he was seeking,

caution I drastically economized our food, allowing only one hot meal daily blabber. Our valuable stock of bovril until we had strengthened our reserve of

rations was used for two meals weekly, this supplying a vital change in our diet, and life was well-maintained.

Trone went buck for a short distance trenches crossed at this point, and so far and came to a trench junction. Several

as he could remember they were not there a few minutes before.

Well, I'm damned," added, I'm lost as well." He realised. "he said, and then the danger of his plight and felt uncom

fortable, Stories have often been toki over braziers in the dim trench traverse, and many of these stories speak of men who have gone astray in the trenches and who have never returned. Sometipies the lost soldiers find themselves in the enemy's lines, and on other occaions they have wandered up to their home parapets to fall a victim to the rifle of a nervous entry Trone had heard many of these stories and the youth recollected them. Vimy Ridge of late, and the English and Much fighting hat taken place on the German trenches criss-crossed in several localities and in some places both

partics

kept in anxiety as to our meat supply, Nature's providence having arrived at the island late in the season, we were which was constantly depleted. It was periodically replenished by small pen- guins, but the seals were unable to land owing to the ice-foot.

better as regards wind, but we were under From June onwards the weather was constant pall of fog and snow. In the middle of the winter Blackboro's toes had to be amputated. Whenever the sea opened our hopes of relief were renewed synchronized with the times when the the three previous attempts at relief had

land was beset with ice.

At the beginning of August we were

occupied the same trenches, no deformed a valuable change in our diet, but

Trone, alone and astray, had no de that he was lost at the cross-trenches and finite idea of his position; he only knew did not kuoy which trench led to safety.

He peered over the top, The night was quiet; scarcely a rifle spoke, though many star-shells were ablats in the heavens and dropping petals of flame to the dark earth, Right in front of Trone was & ghastly heap, jumbled and con fused-a heap of dead men

"Well, where am I?" said Trone. Whose star-shell is that, ours or theirs

Where's our line?"

He looked at a dead thing near him and shuddered Ther, shouldering his rifle, he made his way bp the trendh on his right.

vented us from fishing. the deep water, heavy seas, and ice pre

On August 28th the gale drove the pack from the island, sad on August 30thy through the lifting fog, we caught sight of the Teleho steering through a maze of stranded bergs. An hour later we were someward bound.

I wish to place on record the good moral of the entire party, and especially the energy and ability of How, Hussey, Macklin, Hellroy, Kerr, and Rickinson.

open and burnt with a dizzy clatter. In the distance could be heard the trap- sports of war clattering along the roads, the clank of rails unloaded at some far- off railway-aiding, and gleaming luridly against the darkness could be seen the flames of a building on fire some dozen

Medical research is infinitely laborious and the whole ground is in need of till- ing. There are in any investigation chemical problems and physical prol Jema, as well as purely medical prob lems. The expert handling of delicate This is all right! he puttered, pass apparatus is an essential factor; so is ing a projerting beam of a fallen dug the careful survey of the literature. At out. I passed this a winute ago. miles away Near Trone lay a dead present in England a man has to cope but not this

with all his himself if he wishes to make e detached himself awkwardly from at night when the routine of the day is had fallen and hurriedly retraced his any progress, and often he has to work the hop of limp bodies into which he

Doctors depend for much of the mate-trenches opened up to unknown mysteries Fentled and

steps to the junction where the dark rial upon which to base their opinions Trone leant wearily against the wall and

Be or the work of these investigations. So puzzled over many things. Jong a definite solutions of questions

If I go over the top, what happona!" | are not fortheeming, so long will their he asked himself. Bun into a German opinions differ, and so long will their patrol, maybe, or into one of our own patients suffer in quaequence, and the covering parties, and they'll shoot me on trouble does not and there. We are as ably get into the German lines. That sight. If I go along a trench I'll prob yot grossly ignorant concerning the be won't do either. I'm like a rat in a trap. ginnings of disease, the early signs, That But I must get out of it. Yes, I not a man will be able to stand the strain is why it is so hard to decide whether or

must get out of it.

But how !!*:*:* of Army life. We want investigation to run down the innermost parts of his The question caused a queer sensation by careful observers into the way in hody, and the sensation was one of fear which disease arises in the first instance,

He mumbled many things to himself in a thick, quick undertones. Then, without realising the risks he ran, Trone crawled over the parapet and went out into the open, taking his rife with him.

It was a man lying face downwards on the ground that attracted his attention first. He could have sworn that the man moved and brought a rife to bear upon him. Trone stood upright and fired at the man twice, only to find that he was riddling a corpse with bulllets.

A GERMAN PANS HIS BET.

One of the sanguine Germans who believed that the Fatherland would be victorious is paying for his belief in an extraordinary mener. He is Otto Wie derberger, of New York. Last year he wagered that the war would end on August at in the defeat of the Allies Winderberger started from Albany re cently to call to New York, pushing

man, farther off another, looking like an The Maxim re stammered into silence empty anck fung on the ground.

round, and listened with strained. and the youth got to Lis feet, looked Somewhere near he could bur tas mad of hammers and the creaking of shovels, and 20 sond Munch a was busy at in tol. It Depogible to determine to what side the party he longed. It might be Gaanang 1 lines. saliente projected out like ducks' bills in of trenches wore we conti

some five hundred yards from the op- places and at other points they receded posite front, No man was ever more stained Rifleman Trone nag solitary and deserted than poor, mud-

whispers, sounde, creakings, and rust) And the night was full of mysterious ing Spirits seemed to lurk” on vacant face of as earth and uncan sprite hovered or the world. In near distance all objects took on stronge undefined shapes, well in keeping wi

to grotesque fantasy of warry Bud- denly Troue fancied that he heard some where near him the sharp son of a rite- bolt. He turned round and scurried back to the trench which he had just left. It seemed quite e distance to fra verse, and he slipped the parapet voluble with famil and down on top of

art and Brikenap well awakened eller he room

placations Followed

is till it cossed its play. A galaxy of star-yor

A large purchase of Austration The distance 150 miles. At all the has been made and steps taken to pro principal cities ho goes through he is vide the tenuage required for its convey.opelled to sing "God Save the King

ince to Great Britain'

and the Marseillaise the public streets, flug is his payment of the bet.

Ho fung himself flat to avoid the ma chine gun has opened fire and waited holla lit up the heavents and a big shell of another peltern whirled acres the

(Continued at foot of next faluusen.)

lator Trone was back wit

am tas mud