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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 20TH, 1017.
RAPID CHANGES ON WESTERN
FRONT.
BIG ALLIED ADVANCE.
GERMANS POISONING WELLS.
AFFAIRS IN
RUSSIA.
The fall of Bapaume is the climax of the buttles on the Somme and the Ancre
LATEST, CABLES,
(THROUGH KESTER'S AGENOT.] THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.
A DIFFICULT RETREAT.
LONDON, March 18th.
The Near East.
General.
A LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH RAUTENʼN ACIDICE"]
BAGHDAD.
MAUDE
Major Morably the German military expert, writing five months ago, describPROCLAMATION BY GENERAL
LA DUMA
ed Bapuame as a little Gibraltar " adding, it would be rasier for the Spaniards to capture Gibraltar than for Prem Bareu reports that General
LONDON, March 18th.. the Anglo-French to capture Bapaume. Mando has issued a Proclamation in Baghdad, in which he saysTac British The place is a centre of great roads, have come, not as conquerors, but as and, with these commanded by the liberators, to relieve you of the tyranny British, the further retreat of the Gur-and bondigo of the Tarco Germans, who Bits across the plain stretching into have despoiled you and made Baghdad, Belgium will be most difficult. It will for twenty years, the contre for assailing certainly be on a much bigger scale than British power in Persis and Arabia. The hitherto, now that the French are making sise to greatness. The Crown invites Entente hopes the Arab race will again their pressure feltro PORT
Dapaume is the first big town captured our representatives to participate in tho WALL by the Allies in the Wost since Arras, civil management in collaboration with after the battle of the Marne. Its fall the British representatives accompanying was inevitable when the Germans were the Army. expelled from Grevillers and Loupart Wood.
THREE AMERICAN SHIPS TORPEDOED.
Franco-Belgian Front.
LATEST CABLES, {THROUGH ARUTAR'S LORMOX,}"
FRENCH ADVANCES.
ENEMY ON THE RUN.
PALIS, March 19th.
A communiqué states-The French advance has continued on a front of over
·00 kilometres between the Ayre and tho Aisne: North of the Avre, Frenchi cavalry
have
Neule. antered
Wo immediately threw out patrols.. towards the Somme, and fought several engage ments with the enemy rear-guard, which feebly resisted. The French advanced 20 kilometres to the northeast of Lussigny,
in the direction of Ham, and further south pur cavalry and light detachments, following the valley of the Oise, occupied Noyon at ten in the morning.
Between the Oise and Soisson, the whole of the German-first line, with the villages of Carlepont, Morsajn and Nouvronvingire fell into our hands. We gained a footing on the plateau north of Soissons and antipied Crouy. Wo easily repulsed an enemy attack near Rheiros. There has been lively artillerying in Champagne, and at Verdua.
German
A
-collapsed.
attack at Chambrettes
GERMAN RETREAT
BXTENDING.
INTERESTING DESPATCH
LONDON, March 19th, A despatch from Reuter's correspondent at the British headquarters shows that the British advance is resulting in a very wide extension of the German retreat The northern and southern pivots of the forward move new represent nearly one third of our whole line. The enemy is falling back at a rate probably unpre cedented since the days succeeding the buttle of the Marne. There is no doubt that the mobility of our advance has caused him to much accelerate his retreat, and has led him to quit strong defensiv positions rather than let our columns come into close contact with the covering luxe. Our pursuing tactics have been greatly favoured by the dry weather, and the grantly improved condition of com munications. There is a comparitively good surface to the new ground over which we are moving. The correspondent adds that throughout his experience at the front he has never witnessed such activity in the rear of an advance,
The
THE NEW GAME
The spirit of the troops is buoyant, and all are anxious to participate in the new game of open warfare.
Bapaume was found to be considerably 'less damaged than was expected,
The correspondeat, specifying the latent progress mentions a string of towns and villages, the most important of which are Porone and Chaulnes, which have been captured, In one instance our patrols caught the enemy in the trenches and bonib-attacked
effect
with considerable
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EXTENT OF A DAY'S RETREAT: PARIS, March 18th.
MORE DEVELOPMENTS.
LONDON, March 18th.
RUSSIA'S REVOLT. CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC
FAVOURED.
LONDON, Mareli 18th. The inconginity of the Tsar's manifesto and the actual situation in Petrogred is becoming manifest
Any idea of an Imperial Regency seems
A telegram from Petrograd, dated 18thfeding. instant, states: Nicholas Romanoff,
The latest telegrams from Petrograd as the abdicated Taar is designated by show that popular feeling strongly one of the newspapers, line gone to inclines towards a Constitutioni Repub Lividia.
lie, of which the Premier, Prince Lyoff, shell, momentarily be the head.
M. Kerensky has quashed the banish ment of the Grad Duke Dmitri and Prince Tusupoff. The monk Rasputin was killed in the latter's garden.
Order is gradually arising out of the food chous. CHANGES IN CHURCH SERVICES.
PETROGRAD, March 19th.. The public are generously donating for the common weal. A group of banks has generously given M. Kerenskyen million roubles for political purposes,
Prayers for the Teas and other Im RUSSIAN CAVALRY ACTIVE. the church services, for prayers for perial personages have been replaced,-ia- "Great Russia and her rulers."
Hundreds of political prisoners have been released at Moscow. Seventeen escaped, but most have been re-arrested. hundred criminal prisoners have also
PETROGRAD, March 19th, A communiqué states:-Russian cava- falling back on Sonnoh, in the direction tistry attacked an enemy column which was
altogether the Germans retreated yester
An expert commentator Saya day on a front of about fifty kilometres and to a depth of about ten kilometres..
This is the largest extent of territory they have lost in a single day since their that their retreat will stop there. front was solidfied, It seems unlikely
BRITISH ENTERING PERONNE. Headquarters says our troops are enter- -Reuter's correspondent at the British
GERMANY'S FAMOUS
OF STEELS SERIOUS BREACH MADE..
LONDON, March 19th. Events on the Western Front
are moving with bewildering rapidity, and well- known lines on the maps are changing hourly. The German still cling to the formula that they are
withdrawing according to plan," but there is no longer
doubt that any
serious breach bas heen made in Germany's famous wall of steel. The breach extends from Monchy, south-ing Peronne. west of Arras, to the Neyon Plateau, a distance of about 100 miles. As tho trenches go all the German armies in this vector are falling back towards the Belgina frontier, with the Anglo-French cavalry pursuing. There is, naturally, no question of a general German collapse, but the retreat is certain to have a demoralising influence on the harassed Germans, especially as the main direction of the Anglo-French offensive threatens Likewise, it also strikes at his communica- the most vital part of the German line.
tious.
The
GERMANS POISONING WELLS. The Allies are now within eight miles Cambrai, both most important centres, of St. Quentin, and five miles from
There is considerable speculation as to where the Germaus will make their next stand, but, undoubtedly, they will not have undisputed choice of ground.
The capture of Noyon was a most important moral and tactical achievement, since it breaks the nose of the German salient which menacingly pointed to Paris Germans have left an appailing scene Dewanton destruction
possible has been destroyed, except
the
wire entanglemuts of the trenches, which, in many cases, were intact, but this is nothing compared to the crowning iniquity of poisoning the walls, which have been filled with arsenic
The German papers are laboriously paper declares that the Germans still hold explaining the retreat,
Munich
the initiative. As theey can attack or burg pursues his way undisturbed, lead- retreat when they like, and that Hinden- ing his troops forward or backward, but certainly to victory,
PERONNE OCCUPIED. ANOTHER SURETANTIAL
ADVANCE
LONDON, March 18th. communiqué, says:We have occupied Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a Nesia, Chaulnes, and Peronne, and pressed back the German rear-guards.
IMPORTANT FRENCH PROGRESS,
*PARIS, March 18th,
of Kermanshah. The Turks fled in dishe Kieff police have unanimously sup
ported the new Government. urder to the trackless mountains
Fighting continues in the neighbour hood of Kermanshah,
GERMAN, MESSAGE.
UNDECISIVE "FIGHTING.
LONDON, March 19th.
portant progress between the Avre and A communiqué states We made in
the Oise. Wo took possession of the whole of the ground between our old lines 13 EARLIER CABLES. and the Roye Troyen road from Damery to Lagay height,
A German wireless official message states that there has been fighting between her, but no decision has been crida and Lake Prespa, and northward
Lively engagements with detachments of the enemy's pearguard ended in our favour, these in no wise checking our pursuit, which continues to the north of the Rhoirs region and to the north of Solcheprey.
IN
MESOPOTAMIA.
ADY TURKS FLEEING.
LONDON, March 18th,
IMPERIAL FLAG LOWERED.
LONDON, March 18th Reuter's correspondent at Petrograd. states that immediately, the abdication of the Tsar was announced, the Imperial flugi was lowered at the Winter Palace and replaced by a bage red flag. The Cou- atituent Assembly will meet in the
Winter Palace.
HATED OFFICIALS
"}
KILLED. LONDON, March 18th..
states that apart from the killing of
Reuter's correspondent at Petrograd few hated oficials, including the Gover- zor of Tver, who resisted the now Govern ment, to bloodshed is reported from the Provinces.
The latest arrests include the Cossack General Recenkampf, the ruthless sup pressor of the Revolution of 1905, the
In some provincial towns the abdicu-ex-Minister M. Krijasowsky, the author tion manifesto was road from the stages of the Electural Law restricting the of the theatres amid tremendous entbi siasm.
An auspicione incident happened in Petrograd during the week ond, when a procession of 5,000 officers, going to the Duma to declaro adherence to the new. regime met a column of returning troops, who halted and enthusiastically cheered. Prices of staple food-tuff, have been LAST STRONGHOLD OF THE OLD fixed.
REGIME
suffrage; and Count Kokovtsoff. The last-named was seized when he called at. the Treasury to draw his salary as a member of the Council of Empire
M. Pranyk, a member of the Durna, who has been liberated from ten years given an ovation on appearing in Duma. imprisonment Schubsselburg, MBS
at
the
the grandmother of the Revolution, who A wonderful reception awaits the venerable Madamo Breshkoffsky, stykk
has been for twenty years, a prisoner in Siberia,
SIGNIFICANT FACT.
LONDON, March 18th.
himself nathorised the publication
It is noteworthy that General Brusileg
revolution, Kieft of the telegrams announcing the
POLICY OF NEW GOVERNMENT.
LONDON, March 18th. Renter's correspondent at Petrograd says:-The Government has telegraphed to its representatives abroad as follows:
PETROGRAD, March 19th. Reuters correspondent tells a graphic
FUTURE GENERATIONS. story of the fighting at the Admiralty, which was the last stronghold of the
LONDON, March 18th. troops of the old regime. At the first Petrograd, the ruins of the political According to Reuter's correspondent at sign of the revolutionary movement by prisons will be preserved as historio, the army, M. Khabaloff the General Com-relics, A Mesopotamia official message says:manding at Petrograd. overriding the trenches only resulted in enemy losses. kish rearguards were driven from the the Admiralty. Fourteen canoa and Several enemy attempts on the Calonne the Tigris on Wednesday, when the Tared a strong force of all arms to occupy Fighting took place on the right bank of opposition of the naval authorities, order- We took prisoners.
Four quemy aeroplanes were broughtridges to a position covering the railway twelve machine-guns were posted at the down, including Lieutenant Guynaymer's position in the early morning of Thure gan a siegs on the following morning, station at Mushaidie. We captured the main entrance. The Revolutionaries be aeroplanes altogether on the 16th inst thirty-fifth We brought down ten days and by Friday the whole of the There was a duel between machine-guns enemy force the remnants of three and rifles throughout the night, but the THE UBIQUITOUS BRITISH divisions was in full fight in the direcanperior number of the revolutionaries
tion of SamAITO. LONDON, March 18th,
resulted in the gradual exhaustion of the Reuter a correspondent at Headąnar-
defenders. The Minister of Marise was or writing on the 18th inst., says the
notified at daybreak that unines the Ad German retreat has been continuous
miralty capitualted in twenty minutes it throughout the might, and the area cover.
LONDON, March 18th. would be razed to the ground by the heavy ed thereby hay spread very widely.
Renter's correspondent at Petrograd guns of the St. Peter and St. Paul for The news has just arrived then only the Russians have entered Van. tress, across the Neva: which was manned troops are entering Peronne
by guardsmen M Khabaloff was the persuaded to withdraw his troopa, owing to representations that much invaluable apparatus might be destroyed:
Eventually M. Khabeloff ordered the 'cease are, and the garrison aurren dered. M. Khahloff and his staff were Arrested after the evacuation, and the mob started pillaging, M. Rodzianko then sent a guard at the Admiralty's re- quest, and the gates and doors were Placarded with protected by the Dume Steps were also taken to pro
Favoured by fine weather and drying ground, our columns are everywhere pressing the enemy. The scenes of activi ty behind the lines eclispe even the busiest days in the Somme offensive The spirit of the troops is one of demon- strative enthusiasm,
GERMAN COMMENT.
LONDON, March 18th. states: Between Arzas and the Ciss, A German official wireless message Anglo-French troops occupied sections of our formar positions, including Rapaume, Roye and Noyen, which we evacuated in accordance with plans. Our covering troops inflicted heavy losses,
A French attack to the north of Cham brettes farm failed.
and we lost three
The enemy ost twenty-two neroplanes,
GERMANS BURNING VILLAGES: We have advanced several miles during
FARIS, March 18th. depth of ten miles on a front of forty-five the systematic burning of all villages by the last twenty-four hours, to a maximum
M. Marcel Hutin drava attention to miles from the south of Chaulnes to the the retreating Germans, which circum neighbourhood of Arras.. We have also stances totally fail to justify. occupied over sixty villages. north-east of Vermelles.
Two German raids reached our trenches
Saturday. We dispersed a number of large There was great aerial activity on German format ons, and downed seven nine. Eight of our machines are missing, machines and damnged and drove down
GERMAN WIRELESS.
LONDON, March 19th.
Russian Front.
EARLIER CABLES. THROUGH EXUTER'S AGENOT.] RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. FORCING THE TURKS::
A wireless German official message
LONDON, March 18th, states:-In the sections of territory we says:--In the region of Ognot wo pesupi- A Russian official wireless message have voluntarily evacuated betwvered an Arabi village. fighting at a few points. between Arras and the Aisne, there has only been covering troops and the enemy's cavalry, The infantry have been more lively.
EARLIER CABLES. THE GERMAN RETREAT. MANY POSITIONS TAKEN.
PAE18, March 18th.
In the direction of Sakkiz, we occupied the pa sagca through the snow being Sarana Bana, under difficult cone higher than a man on horseback. The troops sheltered for the night in snow caverns.
A Zeppelin raided the south-west of BigaŁ
Our cavalry forced a Turkish column ret'ring towards Kermanshah, into the roadless mountains,
We captured a bridge to the west of Kermanshad
The Balkans,"
EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. ]- FRENCH ADVANCING.
A communiqué states:On the whole front between Andechy and the Oise, the enemy is refusing battle. He has aban doned, under our pressure, powerfully and scientifically fortified lines which ho has occupied for two years The correspondent also refers to many rapidly Patrols entered Roye and are Our advance to-day has continned fres behind the enemy lines, caused by pursuing the enemy, who blew up the burring villages, particularly a great cross roads nad streets. Eight hundred conflagration at Peronne A dastardly time to remove, gave an ovation to the that the French have succeeded in pene Inhabitants, whom the Germans had no
LONDON, March 18th. Bulgarian offcial message admite act was the poisoning of the wells in the troopa course of the retreat, as perpetrated ined and passed, to the north-west thereof, Monastir.
We also occupied Lassigny, and reach of the village of Mogoro, north of trating an adva oed trench to the south German south-west Africa. The Medical the Roys-Noyon road at several pointe Corps certified water supply at Barlour The prisoners taken during the pursuit was poisoned, and it is believed at shit are not yet been counted,
being generally carried despatch concludes "I bave just boon
informed that British cavalry are pur saing the enemymorth of Bapaume.
There has been severe artillery Ering Mense. in Champagne, on the right bank of the
Bapaume. Trench aeroplane today reprisal for the burning of
bombed Frankfurt-on-Main,
BULGARIAN PRISONERS
Beuter's correspondent at the Salonika
LONDON, March 18th
thousand Bugarians have been taken course of the last two days' fighting over Headquarters states that during the
Prisoner,
RUSSIANS TAKE VAN.
Naval Activities.
LATEST CABLES (THROUGH REUTER'E AGENCY.} DESTROYERS TIRE ON KENTISH COAST. NO CASUALTIES SLIGHT
DAMAGE
LONDON, March 19th. The Press Bureau reports:-Enemy de stroyers approached the Kentish coast at 12.45 this morning and fired shells on Curst towns,
was
There were no casualties, and slight damage
done to three houses.
LATER. The naval raid lasted five minutes. Nino shells were fired.
TORPEDOING OF AMERICAN SHIP.
OUTRAGE AGAINST AMERICAN FLAG.
LONDON, March 19th, The third engineer of the City of Memphis states that the torpedoing was deliberate, and in broad daylight. It was an outrage against the American flag, which they were flying. The Stars and Stripes were painted on the aides of the vessel, and also, in huge letters, U.S.A.
GERMAN SAILORS IN AMERICA:
have been interned at Philadelphia navy
WASHINGTON, March 19th. Seven hundred German sailors, who yard, are being removed to the forte at Georgia, where regulars will guard them
EARLIER CABLES.
AMERICAN STEAMERS
SUBMARINED;
LONDON, March 1stk. The American ateamers Illinois and City of Memphis have been sunk, the Tatler by gun-fire, Part of the crew of the latter vessel has not yet been landest
The American, steamer Vigilancia has also been torpedoed without warning. Italian Front
EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH REDIER'S AGENCY ] ITALIAN ACTIVITY.
Rowe, March 18th An Italian official messez aya-We drove of with heavy enemy lose do al tack in the Coaiba Valley, in the Sun- artillery fire on Friday night, destroyed gas reg on, The enemy, b heavy
March 4th. We accedel in occupying whined in the San Pellegrins Valley on the defensive works of the position wa
the upper portion.
"The Government, which assumes Power at noment of the gravest external and internal crisis in Russian history, is fully conscious of its immens to repairing the overwhelming errors of jesponsibility. It will apply itself, first, the past, ensuring order and tranquility in the country, and, finally, to preparing the
neccesury
in order that the
Hovdition
pronounced on its future lot
will of the nation may be fully
Cabinet will remain mindful of the inter- With regard to Foreign Policy, the national engagements entered into, by the fallen régime, will honour Russia's want, and will uniting Russia with other friendly and carefully cultivate relations Allied nations, The Government is con-
tect the Royal Palace at Tsars Koesofo fident that these relaions will be the
even
when the news of the revolution was more intimate and more solid received. Machine-guns and armoured ew regime in Russin, which in rewived Cars were concentrated. The Guards to be guided by democratic principles, by joined the revolutionary soldiers in due the respect which is due to small nations were still within the palace buildings. course, but a few officers and soldiers by great nations to the liberty of their development, and by a good understanding between the nations."
The Tsaritsa asked these not to fire, and then addressed the revolutionary officers as follow I am now only a Sister of Meroy with my children.".
The Torrevitch and his sisters have measles
RED PREDOMINANT.
Moscow, March 19th During the parade of 33,000 troops many of the regiments prominently dis played red flags, and most of the soldiers and some of the officers wore red favours, THE LATE DUCHESS OF
CONNAUGHT
LONDON, March 10th. Connaught have been cremated.
The remains of the late Duchess of
EARLIER CABLES.
THE L. 39. HOW SHE WAS POTTED!
Headquarters states that the Z 99 was
LONDON, March 18th.
staggering homewards,
Reuter's correspondent at the French
winged, with a French aeroplane over-
having hauling it, when it was sighted from Compeigne, at daybreak,
Russia did not will the war, but was a The Government re-emphasises that victim of premeditated aggression. She will continue to struggle against the spirit of conquest of a predatory zacen riming at the subjection of Europe to the intolerable shame of domination by Prussian militarism
The manifesto concludes bs,
follows Faithful to the pact which unites indissolubly to her glorious Allies, Dussia is resolved, like them, to assure to the world, at all cost, an era of peace-on the basis of stable national organisation guaranteeing
Justice. She will fight by their side respect for Right and against a common enemy until the end- Goverment will devote all in energies incessantly and unfalteringly.
preparation for victory, and will apply itself to the task of repairing a
as possible the errors of the have hitherto paralysed
the
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tiona and self-sacrifice of the Russian people, firmly convinced that the mar- vellous enthusiasm of the whole nation will multiply it strength ten times and hasten the final triumph."
been GERMANY'S MISCONCEPTIONS
An incendiary shell, fred by the anti- aircraft battery, hit the stern of the airship, which, in a few seconds, was a
blaring the cargo of bombs
exploded ground.
A REMARKABLE ARTICLE.
AMSTERDAM, March 18th Herr Maximilian Harden, in the course the airship came to the of a remarkable article, says only a According to Reuters correspondent blockhead would deny the importance of at the fall of Ragaded in changing the Compiegne the Deputy M. Butin, saya power in Asia, the crew threw themselves out and came hopes of submariniem, and point out when the Zeppelin was falling, loss of singing
ally refers to the gushing orashing to the ground that ruthlessness has merely resulted in buttons and the clothes of the the greatest Republics in the world--the crow cash.od officials to identify the United States and Chin breaking off vessel as a naval airship, with a cubic relations with Germany, He mendown rapacity of 50,000 metres, similar to those a Triple Alliance, composed of America,
brought down in England,
China and Japan, vigorously entering CHINA AND GERMANY, GERMAN INTERESTS.
Last
PERING, March 18th, Holland has taken charge; of German interests in China
Dutch soldiers have disarmed the Ger-
in the war.
FRENCH CABINET RESIGNS.
PARTS, March 18th The Cabinet has resigned.
THE TIENTSIN CONCESSION The sum of £3,000.000 has been anb man Legation, Guard, oo MAN M
cession At Tientsin, with the permission surance Co., Ltd., and Ire allied Com ermed police occupied the Germina Con Liverpool and London and Glche In- A Feking message states that Chinese tcribed to the New War Loun by the
of the Consular authorities,
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