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THE WAR.

THE VERDUN

VICTORY:

AN EVENT OF FIRST IMPORTANCE.

BRITISH AIR BOMBARDMENT.

THE ROUMANIAN RETIREMENT.

ALLIES JOINING UP IN THE BALKANS.

MORE SUBMARINE PIRACY.

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S 'ACKNOY.] THE BRITISH FRONT

ENEMY ARTILLERY ACTIVE.

THE BALKAN8

(THROUGH = MAUTER'S AGENCY.) ALLIES JOINING UP.

LONDON, October 25th.

LONDON, October 25th.

A French official message from Salonike. General Bir Donglas Haig, in a com-states-Our cavalry came in contset muniqué, saya:-There was, heavy rain with an Italian detachment from Valona.i German counter attacks at Mackukova were smashed.

yesterday,

Enemy artillery was active during the night north east of Courcelette and the Pozieres Bapaume Road.

CONTINUOUS RAIN.

LATER

Rain continued to fall the greater part of the day south of the Ancro.

Enemy artillery was active, especially

in the vicinity of Lesars and Eaucourt la-Abbaye,

There has been reciprocal intermittent shelling olsewhere.

BRITISH AIR BOMBARDMENT.

PARIS, October 26th.

Two enemy aeroplanes were forced to. descend after fights with our pilots in South Albania,

ROUMANIAN RETIREMENT,

BUCHAREST, October 25th.

A communiqué atates:We have re- tired to the north of Czernavoda,

In the Oitat Valley we completely repulsed the enemy beyond the frontier and took 159 prisoners.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 1916.

GENERAL

{THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]

AFFAIRS IN MESOPOTAMIA

EXAMINATIONS BY COMMISSION.

LONDON, October 25th. The Mesopotamin Commission yester day examined G, H. Collier, of the India List, Lieut. Col, J. P. Hennessy and Cap

tain Scott O'Connor,

It is not anticipated that the oral evidence will be finished before the close of the year.

(THROUGH REUTER'S ACKROY.]

AMERICA'S PRESIDENTIAL

ELECTION.

LATER.

The election odds quoted in Wall Street are 10 to 9 on Hughes.

EXCESS PROFITS. UBBER PERCENTAGES RAISED.

(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.}.

ODALMINERS AND

ABSENTEEISM

-MR; ASQUITH APPEALS FOR

INCREASE OUTPUT.

ing employers and workmen to do every thing in their power to increase the output.

"EDUCATION IN JAPAN.

མ་ ེ་

We have received from the Department. of Education, Tokyo," the forty-first anual report containing a record of educational affairs in Japan during the statistical year ending March 31st, 2014. Although somewhat belated, it is well deserving of study, and invites intercat- ing comparisons with systems of educa- tion. For many years the Government of Japan his realised the vital import-

A KREN FIGHT. Thus far, the odds in favour of Mr. Hughes are dwindling while the betting, which, early in the campaign, was 2 to prising 3,000 representatives of the coal-ance to the State of a sound and efficient

Mr. Asquith, addressing a meeting com- against President Wilson, has veered mining industry appealed for the system of education for the young' att The Commission examines Lieut. Col. ascribed to the increasing activity of the whereby five per cent of working time of the country in a well-ordered system

practically to evens. This may

be elimination of avoidable absenteeism at the present time it has created an every year it has been perfecting it until A. E. Dallas, Commander Anthony Hamil Democrats. Incomplete newspaper polls was at present lost. If this was made up suitable to the needs and characteristics organisation which embraces the whole ton and Captain W. B. Huddleston to show that Dr, Wilson is at present lead the present deficiency in output would be the pupils in the elementary schools to of the rising generation in Japan, from morrow, while Mr. Chamberlain, Lording slightly in the doubtful States. Hardinge, General Sir John Mixon,

remedied. The output had progressively the position which Japan holds in the the students in the universities. Indeed,

General Sir Beauchamp Duff, Major

decreased since the war began, although world to-day is largely attributable to the supply of coal to carry on the war tion in creating a good citizen. In cer- her recognition of the value of educa General Sir G. J. Younghusband and Major General Aylmer will be examined

was only second in importance to the tain respects it may even be said she has been in advance of some Western coun- in the near future,

supply of men.

tries in matters of education, more par- The meeting passed a resolution pledgmentary schoola. Until recent years the ticularly, for example, as regards ele teaching in the elementary schools of and it is questionable even now whether Great Britain left much to be desired,

we do so much to instil into youthful minds the rudiments of moral and national education and the knowledge and ability essential for the conduct of life, while at the same time care being taken to develop the physique of the children as 18 done in similar schools in Japan. It is certain that we do Bat inculcate the spirit of patriotism and Second Lieut. Leonard Marriots Daven-loyalty to the same extent se prevails in port, Royal Irish Fusiliers (died of Japanese schools. Thus the local gover wounds on September 6th), was the fifth relating to the issue of the Constitution nore are instructed to have the Rescript son of the late Thomas Marriott Daven rond in the schools, together with the port, Clerk of the Pence for Oxfordshire, Imperial Rescript on education, because, He returned home from the F.M.S. in mind the rising generation of the grand the report says, ite reading will re- affair of the proclamation of the Con- April, 1915, obtained permission from the stitution, and, at the same time, foster Colonial Office to take a commission for the idea and sentiment of constitutional the duration of the war, and was gazetted monarchy; such being a matter of great to the Royal Irish Fusiliers, June 16th, importance in the national education of

Heleft for the front last May.

people living under the Constitution. The same information was also given to

their schools and also in the attached and they have the same thing done in the directors of higher normal schools,

schools.

COTTON WEAVERS.

TO RECEIVE HIGHER WAGES

LONDON, October 24th. Three hundred thousand Lancashire cotton weavers have been granted an advance of five per cent. in wages, while a war bonus of five per cent, conceded for January has been converted into a permanent advanòc.

INDIA IN PARLIAMENT.

HOSPITALS AND COMMUNICA“ TIONS.

LONDON, October 24th. In the House of Commons, Mr. Cham In the Uzul Valley the battle continues.berlain said the Raj had decided that the We have advanced westward and took establishment of a direct Aden to Basta 200 prisoners.

or Aden to Karachi mail service with a view to more speedy communication with the troops in Mesopotamia was imprae ticable owing to the dearth of shipping.

The report of the Royal Commission on the public services of India was being printed, and would shortly be despatched We ceded a little ground in, the region to India. It would be issued simultane of the Vulcan Pass.

We repulsed attacks east of the River Alt, where we continue to press the enemy northward,

*

An official communiqué says:-Eleven British bombardment aeroplanes, accom panied by five protecting aeroplanes, at mid-day on the 23rd instant, bombarded blast furnaces at Hagondange, apon which they threw one and a quarter tons of projectiles. Several fires were caused

The aviators observed that the French aeroplane raid there the previous night |RUSSO-ROUMANIANS FALLING quickly as possible. had done much damage,

FORT DOUAUMONT CLEARED

COMMANDER MADE PRISONER.

FAR18, October 25th. A cùmmuniqué says:-German counter- attacks on Haudromont quarries and Damloup battery were repulsed. All tho captured ground was regained.

The clearing out of Fort Douaumont was completed, and the Commander, who was in the dug-outs, was made a prisoner, FOUR THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED PRISONERS.

LATER. North of Verdun the enemy delivered three successive counter-attacks in the Handromont and Douaumont region, Nane succeeded,

to

BACK,

PETROGRAD, October 28th.

ously in England and India The R would be requested to consider it as

Mr. R. Hunt asked a question regard ing the military hospitals in India. Mr. Chamberlain referred to his previous

LONDON, October 25th. It is officially announced that the Board of Referees has raised the percentage standard of the Excess Profits Tax on rubber companies to 10 per cent. in the case of companies, and to 11 per cent. in the case of private firms.

The Rubber Growers Association claimed 25 per cent., while a minimunt of

per cent. was anticipated. BRAVERY IN MESOPOTAMIA.

HONOURS AWARDED..

LONDON, October 28th. The Caretle contains the following awards of decorations.

'the

FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR.

1013.

his platoon, and had actually reached the

His colonel writer Your son died while gallantly leading final objective which we had been told to take when he was shot dead instantly."

Frederick Claude Buit, London Regi- ment who died from wounds received on July fat, was the youngest son of the lete Mr. G. W. Butt and Mrs. Butt, Hol would give the names, he (Mr. Cham-protests against the calling up of nien Infantry, was killed in France

In the House of Commons, replying to brother, Second Lieutenant

combe, Ross, Herefordshire. His eldest Richard Acton Butt, King's Shropshire Light berlain) would call for a report if the who had passed forty one years of age January 10th last. Both lads were the facts warranted that step.

before being summoned, Mr. Lloyd sons of the late Mr. G. W. Butt, who will George painted out that the pledge that and Shanghai Bank at Singapore, and be renumbered as agent of the Hongkong

office.

A communiqué states: In the Dobrud-reply, and added that if Mr. Hunt bad ja, the Russo-Roamanians, fighting as

any particular hospitals in mind, and they retired northward, have been com- pelled

abandon the Czernavoda Tasavla Lake defence line..

South of Dornavatra, we dislodged the enemy from a series of heights.

Near Predeal, the Roumanians were forced to fall back a little.

ALLIED ASSISTANCE FOR

ROUMANIA.

LONDON, October 25th.

on

THE ENTENTE AND GREECE such men should be exempt was given afterwards sub-manager of the Lendonment of fine arts.

Bro very

||C.M.G.--Captain C. K. Wason, R.N.Gloucestershire Regiment, who has fallen Second Lieutenant L. C. H. Vincent, for services in Mesopotamia,

in action, was 21 years of age, and was anded the gun hont Camel during the break of the war, and enlisted in a bat-wide awake, and that is in the preven D.8.0-Lient. G. E. Harden, who combama. He left Japan soon after the out- tional authorities in Japan

the son of Mrs. H. A. Vincent, of Yoko In another direction, too, the educa

attack at Chrsiphon, and the withdrawal his commission later in the Gloucester in every locality has been receiving more talion of the Royal Fusiliers, receiving tion of disease. Of late, school hygiene toward Kut with great coolness, and shire Regiment. brought off the crew of the Firefly under

and prevention of consumption, and attention than ever.. The regulations relating to school cleaning, disinfection, most heavy fire when the latter had

various other rules for sanitation and grounded, on December 1st, 1915.

physical training have been strictly en forced. At the same time, diseases of Bub Lieut. J. G. Wood, who was sent down the Tigris from the Ummaltubal action on 13th inst., was only son of Mr.

Second Lieutenant Albin George Ton-teachers, rupils, and children have been kina, Irish Guards, who was killed in investigati 1 when necessary, in addition camp in a motor-boat on the morning and Mrs. Albin B. Tomkins, Bramerton, Further, lecture meetings on hygiene, to the annual physical examination.

an or let, 1915, with an important Tomkins, Cleve Lodge, Esher. Hr. A.

West Byfleet, and husband of Hilde Gexibitions of sanitary matters, &c., were seage, and displayed great bravery B. Tomkins was a former resident of relating to hygiene were made. It is convened, and somultations, investiga- tions, and comparison of all affairs amor heavy fire, though wounded,

Hongkong and Shanghai, and was's part also of interest to learn that the parents her in Messrs. Reiss Bros, BRITAIN'S MAN POWER.

or guardians were often called to the the school and home should work school, and consultation as held how A MOST SERIOUS QUESTION.

for improving the health of pupils and jointly children. These are all very practica! LONDON, October 28th.

developments, indicating that the educa tion authorities in Japan are proceeding on highly intelligent principles. I the higher branches of learning continued ture institutes have been established for progress is the order of the day. Lec- teachers and school inspectors. It is also be opened once a year for the encourage an established rule that an exhition sball

There is a whole under the then conditions, but the con-

gradation of schools starting from the elementary to the Imperial universities. ditions had changed, and no-one could

Libut. F. W, Terrell, Gloucester Regi In addition, there are a large number of forecast the duration of the war. Exemp-on September 6th, was the only son of

ment, who was killed while patrolling technical schools established for the pur- the war.

pose of training, those who intend to tion would deprive the country of the M.S. Missionary in China, and of Mrs. merce. Special means are also taken for the late William Girdlestone Terrell, engage in productive labour, such as

manufactures, agriculture, and equivalent of at least two Army Corps. Terrell, now of Sias Kau, China, and educating the children of the poor, and The alternation would be to raino the J.P., of Bristol. He intended ultimately The report states

grandson of the late Mr. William Terrell,

also those who are blind, deaf, dumb. military age to provide men whom they to carry on his father's work in China. secondary education, all measures

regards He joined the Bristol University O.T.C. taken in unison with elementary educa did not want,. The man The Gazette announces that the Distintion, he said, was a most serious one, transferred to the Cambridge University physical education. Taking considera- guished Servico Cross has been awarded and he foreshadowed an carly debate November, 1914, and was promoted to candid character ware fostered, and it at the outbreak of the war and was tion. Stress was laid upon discipline and O.T.C. He obtained his commission in tion of the times, healthy thoughts and to Flight Lieut. Charles Tenterill Free-

lieutenant early in the following year, was carefully sought to produce yung.

ment. In July, 1915 he went to the of society. With regard to girls, fogy front with his regiment, and returned to were carefully taught to be virtuous, and England wounded early in March of this chastity, modesty, and goodness were middle of July He was 23 years of age courses, and salutary results are expected. year, going to the front again in the earnestly cultivated.

At the same time, they were encouraged in their domestic The death is reported as killed in School directors and principals were action, on September 3rd, of Lieut. Ralph summoned, as usual, and conferences were Hawtrey, RE son of the late Montagu held, at which the essential articles of

education were discussed... Hawtrey, of Shanghai. He was 30 years institutes of various kinds for teachers Training old, ad when war broke out was employ were opened in different localities, and ed as a mining engineer in Siberia. On efficiency in teaching was increased. In returning to England he joined the the department itself, an institute for Artists Rifles, subsequently obtaining a local school-inspectors was opened, and commission in the 3rd Northamptonshire in the method of elementary school educa Regiment. He was transferred to the Royal Engineers on September 2nd, and was killed next day.

LONDON, October 25th. Reuter learns that the Entente are recognising both the Governments in Greece.

BRAVE AIRMAN.

RECEIVES D.B.C.

LONDON, October th.

power ques-

that EB

com-

were

In the House of Commons, replying to a question on the Roumanien situation, Mr. Lloyd George said :--“Our Allies Our front has been everywhere main tained, and we have continued our pro-and ourselves are working in concert in greve east of Fuminwood and north of connection with the matter, and are doing man, who determinedly attacked a Zep-| REPLACING MUNITION WORKERS being attached to the Gloucester Regi- men who may be useful in all functicutg

Le Chenois.

The unwounded prisoners so far as counted exceed 4,500 in number.

THE VERDUN SUCCESS. AN EVENT OF FIRST IMPORTANCE.

PARIS, October 28th.

everything possible to assist Roumania

Ho added that it was obviously undesir able to detail the measures.

RAVAL ACTIVITIES

(THROUGH RKUTKE'S AGENCY.)

A mi-official messag says:-The Verdun break-through is an event of first importance. The French fought with the sano ardour that characterised their previous titanic atraggles here. irresistible dash overwhelmed the enemy. sunk.

Our line encloses Fors Vaux, and is A German submarine burned therefore a great tactical success, for the Swedish barque Antionette and equilibrium is practically restored to Norwegian brig Theodor. what it was five months ago. This proves the vanity of the sacrifices which the arrogant obstinaney of the Crown Prince has inflicted upon Germany.

MORE SINKINGS. SHIPS BURNING IN NORTH SEA,

LONDON, October 25th.

Thoir The British steamer Framfield has been

TAL

the

the

pelin at sea on August 2nd till all his ammunition was exhausted. He return ed to the attack a second and third time, despite the approaching darkness, and the problematical chance of his being picked up.

PUNISHMENT OF PRISONERS. STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS.

LONDON, October 25th.

upon it.

LORDOR, October 5th,

Mr. Runciman has announced that a

complete scheme for the replacement of eligible munition and other workers has been arranged and will probably operate

ori Monday,

CIVILIAN

EXCHANGE OF

PRISONERS

BRITISH AND GERMAN

LONDON, October 28th.

In the House of Lords, Lord Newton said that the exchange of British and German interned civilians over forty- five years of ago had been arranged, and

GERMAN COMMERCIAL

METHODS.

·were

tion and outlines of educational adminis tration, their knowledge was improved. It may also be noted that meritorious persons in educational matters publicly honoured; additional salaries were given to elementary school teachers; and at the same time the superintendents often made official tours by order, and made inspections of educational affairs in general There are many other

but the above is sufficient. indication of the activities of the department of Education in Japan and the excellent work which it is accomplishing-London and Chine Express.

In the House of Conimons, Lord Robert Cecil stated that, after careful considera- tion, the Government had decided that it was not desirable to conclude an Anglo German agreement similar to that made between France and Germany, providing will apply throughout the Empire. It The crews have been landed.

for the temporary remission of grave would heen the handing over of 1,000 HOW DYESTUFFS WERE PUSHED matters to which reference might be made, Several ships are reported wrecked and punishments inflicted on war prisoners, Germany for 700 British. burning in the North Sea.

and they return to Germany of British BRITAIN'S NEW WAR LOAN. | prisoners working in Poland.

TO BE RAISED IN AMERICA,

The Norwegian steamer Ginboldi has An enemy communiqué of Octoberbeca sunk and a submarine burned the Bird spoke of our violent artillery fire Norwegian barque Rands.

The Norwegian steamers Rayn, Anna Gurine, and Dagde Frondjin, have been sunb. The crews have been saved,

east of the Meuse, adding but our artil-

The steaners Alíz (Norwegian) and lery frustrated the attempts of the in-Emilie (Swedish) have also been sunk. fantry to attack." This is the usual maneuvre whereby the Germans invent the beginnings of an attack in order to glorify their own victorious defensive. Yesterday's victory is a reply to this sort of thing.

The steamer Edara, mentioned on the 24th instant, is now reported sunk, and the crew taken to Emden.

י די

IN CHINA,

United States Customs officials have discovered an example of German in- EXCHANGE OF INTERNED MEN.

genuity, by which German manufac turers of divestuite sought to push their New York, October 28th. ware in China and other parts of the NOT FAVOURED BY BRITAIN.

M. Briand, the French Premier, made Far East before the war. A package It is expected that the new British of colours bought by an American an interesting confession some years ago, LONDON, October 25th. Joan in America will

speculator in China was received in New when be took part in a national congress amount to In the House of Commons, Lord Robert $250,000,000 or $300,000,000. It will be one of the largest German makers of to by some of the delegates, who said that York for appraisal. It bore the name of of workers. His presence was objected Cecil said that the Government under- at the rate of five per cent,, will be of the cans to ascertain the character of excluded from the congres of workmen. dves, When the appraiser opened a few Briand as a qualified solicitor ought to be stood that Germany was willing to ex issued at 99, and will uature in two the goods the cover of each of the causats workman myself replied change interned men of military age, years. The security will consist of from but the War Office were of the opinion $250,000,000 to $350,000,000 of mobilised that the military results of such exchange American stocks, and Canadian neutral made sssent impossible.

bonds

holding silver sixpences Customs compose myself a newspaper which I was found to contain a secret receptacle, Briand. A working compositor, sinDO officials believe that this method of brib- pusfish at 81. Nazaire, Where did powerful stimulus to the sale of this lawert Aaked, By working for ing the head dyers undoubtedly exerted you get the mor to make yourself particular brand of German-dys, in fit, he replied, and, - Comrade" Briand China