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FALL OF THIEPVAL.

A GREAT STRUGGLE,

LEBOM | THR TIMES "SPECIAL

CORRESPONDENT-]

British Hinquantené, Sept. 27th,

To-day Thiepval is ours, and it is, I think, the greatest triumph that we have won and the most staggering blow that German military prestige was suffered in this battle. The natural strength of the position is notorious, and with its under ground defences it was a veritable Gibral tar, The Gornians never believed that it could be taken. Officers captured to-day freely confess that they regarded it as impregnable. The place, moreover, has been garrisoned by one regiment the 180th Wurtembergers-since September, 1914. It was a matter of pride with them to hold it, and they have gloried in its impregnability. They were staut troops, and they fought hard, and 1,000 of them are prisoners in our hands to-day. They are not now mon, but voterzas who have had in their keeping one of Germany's strongholds for 24 months, types of the best meu with whom Germany started the war; and they have told us to day how they have lain snug in their dug-outa while our worst bombardments have torn the ground above them and have laughed at the idea of our ever winning Thiepval

UNDERGROUND" FORTRESSES. ́ ́

· ENEMY'S LAST BÏT OF HIGH GROUND, N.

AMERICA'S HUGE WAR PROFITS:

24,897,300 IN DIVIDENDS BY ONE FIRM.

WEATHER REPORT.

On the 2nd at 19.15-Praamme har den erased moderately over S. Japan and slightly over central and N. China and the Philippines. It has decrewed slightly over N. Japa Formoss, the south cost of Chius, and Anuam, A shallow depremien lies over the 8. China

gun lim over ti

Fresh monsoon is Indicated along the east cosst of China and over the 2. Chins Sea.

Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending st January, 79.73 inches, against an average of 10 am, to-day, 0.00 inch Total sino ist

30.67 inches.

Pioneers came Klong, saw the enemy riting from his dug-outs, so dropped their tools and went for him; and, when the Germans above ground had been disposed of the Pioneers went underground and a dreadful six hours! fight went on below, till the remnants of the Pioneers emerged triumphant with prisoners to the number

Statistics recently compiled of the de carninge of industrial companies" in the of four times their own strength.

Further to the right, again, northward United States abow a striking increase from Houquet, Faris, a very formidable in profits, due mainly to exceptional ac

doubt which has held us up from adtivity through war orders. $

Taking a group of over 200 concerns | fat that point was also taken all our line along the left part of with a share capital of £1,180,600,000, the battle-front has pushed forward for it is seen that the net profits amounted distances which cannos yet be determined, to £157,400,000, equal to a return of 13 for fighting there is not finished yet.

per cent. on capital. These profits are It is, indeed, not to be supposed that struck after providing for debenture and the Germans will submit to the humilia and other interest and all allowances for tion of losing Thiepval without every of an abnormal character owing to the

depreciation, many of the latter being | to-day is as follows:- desperate effort being made to regain

DISTRICT it. Already they have counter-attacked large amount of revenue available. The heavily once and been beaten back. That net profits in the preceding period were | Hongkong to Gap Rook other attacks will come is certain, but only £96,440,000 so that the advance there is little fear that, however they during the past 12 months has been at sack, they will gain anything more than the rate of no less than 83 per cent, local and temporary successes. In all The profits made by the groups of com- this battle we have not lost any place that panies more especially benefiting from we have won, though here and there we war contracts and the increase as com have yielded a bit of trench, to recover it pared with the previous years are given again soon after. That Thiepval will below:- over be Gorman again is not to be believed.

I spoke

Ammunition Motor-car Chemical Copper

Electrical Leather Petroleum Meat

Net profit. Increase.

$

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In a despatch some days ago of there being eleven points on the cirenit of the ridge which the Germans had de- The attack was made yesterday after-clared must be held so long as a man Of the 11 points, noon at 12:30 from the south, that is, frem hyed to hold them; the line which we held across the salient nine were then in our hands, and of the by the Wonderwork (of the capture of remaining two, yesterday's fighting gave which I told in a message at the time),us one. There still remains to the enemy and thence westward towards Mouquet in all the region south of the Ancre only Farm. In the line of attack lay a perfect the one bit of high ground before it dips mass of trenches studded with machine down to the valley near the point known

as the Crucifix, just north of Thiepval gun posts, connecting with subterranean

1,124,000 1,024,600 passages and dug outs. Beyond the row Lying, as it does, oft to the left of our

The relative increase on net profits of shattered recnants of apple trees advance, it has not heretofore been part which, standing ragged against the sky, of the legitimate battle area, and its im shown by some of these undertakings is, has been for two months past the land-portance has been local only. Now even as can be deduced from the figures above, mark by which the site of Thiepval was

it is threatened. Our present line runs even more extraordinary than the actan known, lay the village, just over the brow age, below the Cemetery, where, at last have grown 1,024 per cent, the ammuni

just through the north of Thiepval vil-amounts. Thus the submarine profitk- of the rise, with, right at the southern reports, the Germans still held on. house of some importance, which was owned by a German, and, rumour says, had been prepared for war by him in the years before war came. However, that may be, the Chateau had vast cellars xuries which the German officers have still greater gain is expected for 1010, be left in the Chodowns, where they will be which, connecting with other cellars in the place, seem to have been the ganglion of Thiepval's system of underground fortifications, there is no building there, but only & heap This Château (of course of red broken brick and rubbish masking the entrances to the subterranean lairs). was one of the most formidable obstacles in our way, w

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods Laye left the Godoyus, and all Goods remaining

point, the fragments of the Château, at the dug-outs in Thiepval, though the tion 513 per cent, and the steel and iron 4ndelivered after the 4th Nov. will be subject

dug-outs themselves were not of the uxuriously fittel type which is so often found, there were the usual number of with them. Our men, as one of them put it went up smoking cigarettes and came out of the dng-outs smoking cigars. And dainties in tins and glasses, of liquors there were the usual customary stores of

and

acrated waters.

200 per cent.

GREATER GAINS EXPECTED. Great as was the gain last year, a when the bulk of the income from war orders is expected to materaliss. Nor do the statistics dealt with cover the entire concerns give only meagre details of ope field of operation, as the reports of some

rations and some enterprises, like the

· ENTRY INTO COMELĖS...... reduction of Combles, by ourselves Aluminium Company of America, which and the French together, was an admir controls virtually the whole aluminium The second most formidable obstacle ably planned and methodically executed output not only of the United Statca but operation. In former dispatches I have Canada as well, are practically private was a sunken road, with burrows to due spoken of the various stages of our ad-enterprises and do not make their results outs along its course and machine-gun positions everywhere, running northward ance, and great credit is due to our public.

troops for the steadiness with which they E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co, the from the middle of the village towards advanced; breaking through successive largest explosives manufacturing firm in the Cemetery, The Château was in our hands by the middle of yesterday after-stacles and digging themselves in on the world, did a colossal business last noon. Positions on the read held out the night before laat, close to the village, year. It made a net profit of £11,451,500, until this morning. I have said that the while the French drow in on the other and distributed £4,827,300 in dividends, garrison consisted of some of Germany's

cor who surrendered that eveu-Some idea of how rapidly the output of An officer

dered that besides a stuck dividend of 200 per cent tried and best soldiers, and they fought ing told us that there was still a garri- the company has increased during the well. ⠀⠀⠀⠀ All through the afternoon and right there was desperate work, and son of 1,000 in the place. We had reason war period can be gained from the fact Thiepval is ours now only because the to doubt, it, but all night long we shelled that the number of employés rose from garrison zet better men even than them the exits from the town heavily, and in 5,300 in October, 1914, to 02,200 in Jan-

elles men even th

the morning our patrols worked round "Tanks" were used in the attack and and blocked all approaches from the ary last.

The British and French then did valuable service, especially one, which moved in together and, almost without

north contributed largely to the capture of tho Château, which so bristled with machine-

selves.

side

gun positions that it may well have sition, met at the railway line in the of prisoners, of whom 350 seem to bevel

considered invincible by infantry attack In advancing against it the Tank got into difficulties in soft earth, and a furious fight raged while our men attack. ed the Chateau. It was still in progres when the Tank overcame its troubles and came to Help them. Against "Tank" machine guns are powerless and with and around and behind it our men stormed into the positions with bambs.

**

MURDEROUS WORK IN TRE, DANKY-

come from the post at the junction of aird Trench, mentioned another 300 from the village itself.

above and

The number, of of the place. German dend in the trenches before the town and in the ruins is said to be very large.

torant.

“All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Ladersigned on or before the lith Nov, or they will not be recognised.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to

examined on the 4th Nov, at 11 4.3.

Bill of Lading will be coattersigned by

No Fire Insuranos has been effected.

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co, Agente.

(1895 Hongkong, 30th October, 1916,

MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA (Mmwusion? Qu)..

COAL DEPARTMENT.

TAKASHIMA,

Bolm "PROPRIETORS: OF

"OURI, KUTABE, KISHIDARE YOSHINOTANI, HOJO, NAMAZUTA, SATO, KANADA. SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBAI

"AND OYUBABI - Gozzizkien.

AGENT zon SAKITO COẠI,

· HEAD OFFICE MARUŃOUCHI, TOKYO.

BRANCH OFFICES :-~NAGABAET, MOJE, KARATSU, WAKAMATJU, OTARU, Although Combles is ruined, it is not

A “TANK'S " GREST FIGHT.

MURORAN, HAKODATE, KOBE, nearly as badly wrecked-as most of the villages which we have taken heretofore.

When the village was cleared the OSAKA, KURE, TOKYO, TOKOHAMA, All the new villages on this side, indeed traordinary experience. Its skipper and HANKOW, PER LONDON, NEW

"Tank" seems to have had a most ex- NAGOYA, TSURUGA VLADIVOSTOJK. Morval, and Lesboeufs, and Combles its crew apparently grew bored with sit- YORK, are still recognizable as villages and ting still while other men were fighting; HAIPHONG AND CANION."

BHANGRALKONGKONG, Combles, partly because it nestles in a so Leviathan went on alone into the wilds

in the earth.

" PRICKLY GUEUDECOURT.

1

climbed on top of itfantry had les

There was a short period of hollow and partly because there was no beyond, to see what it could find. It gunners and the rest of the defenders of the least destroyed of all. There are real beyond the village, when it was sur the place who were not killed surrendered roof if no glass or other fripperies-and, wrong with its insides and it could not houses standing with four walls and a rounded by the enemy, something went Another Tank used in the attack did nobly until it came to an obstarit can quite imagine people living there bald, and, creeping up to it, under cover a the place is seen from a distance one move. The enemy, discovering this, grew which even it could not climb over. Then above ground. In villages like Thiepval of trenches and shell-holes, they fairly it sat down and converted itself into and Pricourt and Montauban and Ovil- stationary fort, and did most usefullers-la foisselle and Guillemont, there is swarmed all over the poor thing, like the work

Lilipate on Gulliver. They peppered it not ang scrap of shelter except in holes with bombs, shot through the crevices in its hide, and, so it is said, actually

Meanwhile our cleared the village and they also wanted more to do. Then they discovered the plight that the Tank was in fighting like & buffalo ringed: round with wolves. So they went to its rescue, and there seems to have been some fighting of the best, and when the enemy had been driven off he left between 250 and 300 dead on the ground around the Tank" Behemoth himself was not seriously hurt, but was scarred like a bear that has been worried by terriers. The derangement of his in- terior has been repaired, and he is full of ight again.

The.

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As the fight raged through the rains, The trouble with most people who appear our men inevitably began to ran short In my dispatch of September 25th like "a bag of bones" is not that they of ammunition, but they found abundant told of the difficulty contronting the at- don't get enough to eat, but that they do storce of German bombs, and, as on tack on Gueudecourt. Before the village not assimilate what they do eat. They several occasions before, fought with on the west and southern sides ran simply go through the natural motions of them, There was hand-to-hand fighting double line of strongly fortified, trenches, eating, but the flesh-giring part of what and bayonet work, and duels with club protected with barbed wire-known as they eat just pass away without being bed rifles and even with fista. Again and Gird Trench and Gird Support. assimilated, and consequently does not do again the enemy's machine-guns rose from road from Ginchy, running due north, them any good..

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excursion on its own account the Germans untold tragedies went on in the dark in between these trenches and ravines from one of the nearer trenches, after labyrinths, and unseen deeds of heromm were all manner of minor defended holes Goliath had passed, came running back were wrought which never will be known, and hidden strongholds. The village, in to the British lines to surrender in sheer The 1,000 unwounded prisoners who have fact, was & veritable porcupine, with terror, and an airman who was flying over already come down from Thiepval are prickles in all directions. but a small number in comparison with On Monday our troops had fought their head gives an absurd description of the

"Tank" the German dead who are left there and way up from the line which they had held country, its progress marked by an effor

marching majestically - across the wounded who are being got out to the cast of Flers, across about 1

escence of white handkerchiefs and similar How cunningly the German burrows yards of ground and trench and shell emblems of surrender waved from the are hidden is shown by incidents which hole close up to the village. occurred to the right of here, near they had to face extremely heavy artillery capacity for carrying prisoners is limited, But trenches. Unfortunately, a Tank's" Mouquet Farm, where for some time past, fire, through which supports had difficulty and when the monster was seen to be in the enemy's positions and ours have been in getting up, while a post on the right difficulties the enemy who had given them- close together and, amid the wilderness of of the line at the junction of Gird cives up changed their minds and fell broken masonry and shell-helen and bat Trench with another trench; swept their tered trench, the Germans hate had exits front with machine-gun fire; and that old it with the results that have been to the air behind our lines which our men day they were unable to get at the village belp yan. They dispel Constipation, our could never find. On one occasion two itself. The post on the right was eventu of Guendecourt is that the Tank

An incidental advantage of the taking rect torpid liver, bad breath, foul tongue, Germans were seen behind our lines and ally cleared by a most gallant direct at which was left crippled and deserted out bilious headaches. As gentle as nature.

Of all chemists, or 80 cents the phial, an officer went up to them, supposing tubs, with bomb and bayonet, and the ahead of our ultimate lines on the day

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shot him as he approached and diss watched, declare that it was a magnificent when the new engines were first used and peared, nor could say que discover the early hours of yesterday morn both sides, has finally passed into our

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Everything confirms what I said yester situation except by getting all the grounds Tank having been brought up to day as to the comparative smallness, of into our passion, so that we might have help The Tank was of undoubted our losses. Rarely was great success more all the bolt holes and connecting passages Vines both at the formidable position cheaply won. Our airmen tell how, dy- in our hands together. Yesterday, when where the two trenches-Gird and Girding overhead, they saw our men go for- the attack on Thiepval was made, we ad Support-crossed the sunken road in the ward splendidly in even and unbroken vanced, also on the right of these and ravine before the village, and again at lines. The fighting at Thiepval, I have twept over the enemy'e front positions, a still stronger post in the seath-east side said, was stabborn. Elsewhere at some while other troops behind same along to of the village itself With the help of point we had considerable local losses clean up. In the rear of our front wave (the Si Tandel in dealing with these ob But on the front se a while the ferngo the Germans kept rising from the ground tacles our men romped through the vil resistance vanished before us, and the and machine gann lifted out of holes, sad go, taking, as they went, great numbers much the same scenes, were enacted here

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