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FRENCH PROGREFS.

LONDON, April 7th. A French communique states that between the Somme and the Oise and north of Soissons, there have been artillery engagements at different points. There was a costinned advance by bombing to the west of Sapigneul. The enemy. violently hombarded Rheims,

The French earried out #successful coup de main at Fille Morte.

THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, APRIL 9rm, 1917.

The Germans attempted big diveramne in Argonne end Obampagne, especially the latter, where there was every kind of bombardment, and the employment of élite troops, but only an ephemeral success was gained,

ENEMY ATTACK FAILS,

LONDON, April 8th. A French communiqué of yesterday evening, issued to day, states:-We silenced vigorous enemy artillery firing north of Les Villiers,

The enemy, using liquid fire, attacked north of Vienne le Chateau, on the western boundary of Argonne. He was repulsed leaving dead and some prisoners,

A German attack at Sapigneul and Godat farm developed on a front of 2,500 metres. The enemy collected numerous selected storming troops, but the attack completely failed.

THE BRITISH ADVANCE.

SEVERE ENEMY LOSSES.

LONDON, April 6th,

A GERMAN REPORT. Sir Douglas Haig reports that we

LONDON, April 6th. carried the village of Lempire, to the

A German wireless official message Some prisoners morth of St. Quentin. were taken and many German dead were states:-Four British aeroplanes which reached Douni were chased and all de found.

We further progressed to the north-eaststroyed. Apart from these, the enemy lost of Noreucil and drove off counter-eight machines. Three of ours are missing

attack.

The quemy's severe losses during the past week between St Quentin and Arras are evident from the large numbers of dead in many. localities.

Our aeroplanes, in the course of several king distance raids, sucessfully bombe important railway junctions, munition dopots and aerodromes.

ST. QUENTIN SURROUNDED

ENEMY. FORCED TO ABANDON GUNS.

LONDON, April 8th, The progress reported in last night's

CONSIDERABLE FRENCH

PROGRESS.

LONDON, April 8th. A French communiqué ismed on Satur day afternoon states. There has been fairly lively artillery firing during the night, hetween the Somme and the Oise..

A German counter-attack was stopped dead north of La Fólie farm.

We made considerable progress south of the Oise and north of Landricourt.

We made progres, by means of grenades and re-occupied fresh portions of the trench north-west of Rheims.

French communiqué is part of a great Russian Front.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE RUSSIAN FRONTS.

REVERSE IN VOLHYNIA PURELY LOCAL

Naval Activities.

TENOTUM O'TAR'S AGENCYT.] THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN. SIX HOSPITAL SHIPS TORPEDOED.

LONDON, April 5th.. In the House of Commons, Mr. Mac pamars, state and ore 50% Jospital ships, had mined or torpedoed six

7 people being killed and 73 injured thereby. BELGIAN RELIEF STEAMER SUNK.

YMUIDEN, April 5th.

GERMANY'S COMMERCIAL

POLICY,

← THE LONG CREDIT SYSTEM.

M. Ernest Sons, an Italian, commis voyageur, who has travelled extensively in all parts of the world, recently wrote a pamphlet in French, entitled, "The Truth describes the About the War in which he evolution of German trade manu explain how the Gerions facturerea came to introduce the long- credit system in foreign markets. When the Germans entered into the export trade they found that it was almost entirely in the hands of the British and the French. A German submarine torpedoed without The manufacturers of these two nations houses warning yesterday, twelve miles off did all their business with wholesale Scheveningen, the Belgian relief steamer of

importing countries entirely through The British and Treeier, bound from New York to Rotter commission agents. dam with a cargo of grain: Twenty four French manufacturers never sold to of the crew were brought to Ymuiden retailers, not wishing to fall out with the eight of them wounded, owing to the sub-wholesale importers. The marine shelling the boats,

commission

agents paid the manufacturers by bills at days, and opened accounts with the esalers,

them longer or shorter credit, according to their fusncial rating. The retail merchants thus depended upon

supplies

and the wholesale houses for their the wholesale houses being in a to judge as to the standing of the in the district or country the stability of local and international trade was assured

TEN DAYS IN AN OPEN BOAT

MADRID, April Twenty survivors of the as. Ainick Castle have arrived at Carino and describe their terrible sufferings from cold, hunger and thirst. They were in an open boat for ten days. The voyage began with thirty persons, including a Frenchwomen with a four months old baby and an English The Germans have completely upset this nurse. Rations of water and two biscuits wise arrangement, for the following rea latterly the Bons. When, many years ago, they offered in apiece were served daily, but water ran short and rainwater was col their goods to the wholesale importers lected. An Italian cook died on the 21st, each foreign market they found all doors an Englishman went ined and died on the closed against them. The importer con quality, 22nd, 8

pinasenger, ʼn staker and a seaman sidered Germen goods inferior in

Moreover, the succumbed on the 23rd, a steward died on though much cheaper. the 24th, a cabin boy on the 25th and the import houses had been doing business for same day a seaman jumped over hard a great many years with the commission whom it was impossible to resete owing to houses, and, through these houses, were on the roughses. An officer and a steward good terms with the British or the French died while landing at Carino. The sur-manufacturers, who supplied goods to vivors declare that if they had icon which they were accustomed. Finding a wholesalers another day at sea they would all have great difficulty in

getting the been dead. The mother, baby and mure to take German goods, the German manu- have all survived, thinks to the constant. Eacturers often through German kindness of the other survivors who are mission houses which they established and Enanced for the purpose in each country began to offer their products to the local directly over the heads of the at such prices and with

-all- Britishers

"

com-

retailer how that the wholesalere were

THE LIMITS OF THE GERMAN BLOCKADE

LONDON, April ölk, such long Commenting on the returns of sub-secn compelled to come to terms with the marinism the Times naval correspondent German commission houses. remarks that some features of it indicate that the German blockade has, its limita The volume of trade passing through the danger zone shows no great difference since the increase of sub marinism in the middle of March. Thus, it may be assumed, that neutral traffic being resumed the losses from submariee any decided and mines will not show tendency to increase and they are appar ently much below the total which the enemy confidently anticipated and which von Bethmann Hollweg claimed. Mean while, the number of armed ships which It escape or beat off attack is growing. may reasonably be expected therefore that the fortitude of our merchant scamen and the energy of the Navy will shortly reap their reward. The tables of the Allies do not show any sign, that their meresatile. marine is suffering very heavily rither from interference of traffic or undue centage of loss w

NORWEGIAN LOSSES.

CHRISTIANIA, April 6th.

were vessels Forty-one Norwegian torpedoed in February. Fourteen of the Sixty-four vessels were torpedoed in March, when 46 were killed and 100 are missing.

French encircling movement south of St. Quentin, the fate of which is already sealed. The situation is dramatis, as the British to the north are only two miles from the town and the French to the south 3 miles distant. It is expected that the honour of the capture will fall to the French, who, at Moy, are on the Hinden- burg line. The suddenness of the British

LONDON, April 5th. advance disagreeably surprised the enemy

The reverse admitted by the Russians in whose over-confidence in employing artil- lery forced him to abandon six guns Volhynin was of a purely local character, His attempt to recover them led, to It does not seem to be the prelude of a most dramatic close-quarter fight with big. German offensive as the country le very bombs, bayonets and clubbed rifles in which the British steadily drove back the marshy and woody and suffering from the crews were killed and 22 are missing of all kinds, including faked" bank. ]

Prussians through Savy Wood,

FURIOUS BOMBARDMENT OF

RHEIMS,

PARIS, April 5th. The Germans are furiously bombarding Itheims, The Mayor has requested many of the inhabitants to leave.

LATER.

The chemy has not attempted any further sotion from the Somme to the Oise on the new front which we conquered yesterday. Our reconnaissances were pushed forward during the night north of Gandy and north of May and Fars to the enemy lines which were found to strongly held., There has been inter- mittent fire east and west of the Somme. Our gunfire last night stopped dead

thaw,

THE FIGHTING ON THE STOCKHOD.

BRAZILIAN LINER SUNK

It will be seen that the object of the German manufacturers, was to intercet the retail merchants in the exclusive sale of German products thus detaching them saving middle. from the local wholesalers, mon's profit, and freeing the retailer frow the matter of credit the sort of tyranny in exercised by the local wholesale firms. Thanks to the long credit granted by Ger- man manufacturers, the retailer was able to enlarge his business and get rich quickly without risking very much of his own capital, for he had six or nine months in which to sell the goods, and he only paid for them, in actual practice, when he had sold them. In order not to lose their con nection the local wholesale houses were reluctantly compelled not only to truy but also-even against their German better judgment to give the same long credits to retailers as the Germans did. perfusion, disorder, and insecurity in th The consequence has been to cause con valuation of credit. It is difficult to con- trol the stability of a retailer who is able to obtain the same goods from several firms, all obliged to supply them on long terms, and the result has been abus.s ruptcies and compoundings when it suited the interest of dishonest dealers. One result, according to Mr. Sona, has beca that the German houses, manufacturers and commission agents, in order to protect themselves against the large number of bad payers, have found it necessary to rais, the level of their prices all round, and this has produced a gradual, but steady, increase in the cost of living. No dout the system of easy payments was instru mental in prodigiously increasing Germán trade, but the system was bound, sooner or later, to lead to disastrous competition." The year 1913 was the culminating point of this huge commercial crisis, and Ger urmany's losses, owing to the long credit system that she is responsible for, threatened to ruin her entire economic systems Hence, according to M. Sona, the only way out" for Germany was a great European war in which she would be victorias within twelve months, and which would leave her in undisputed posse siou

i foreign markcis.

LONDON, April 6th..

CHERUNG, April 8th A Russian official message says: --In the

The Brazilian liner, Parano, has been sunk. Thirteen of the crew are missing. fighting on the left of the Stockhou on

According to Reuter's correspondent at April 3rd, which ended in our crossing Rio de Janeiro, the Foreign Minister the right bank, the troops defending the referring to the above. stated that Brazil bridgehead lost severely. Daly a few score. men out of two regiments reached the right had been prudent in the past, but all the

world should see that she could be firm bank. Both commanders were killed. AT PO third regiment lost half of its effectives. Only some hundreds of two other regiments survived.

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MARE LIBERUM.

A SOLE SURVIVOREN

LONDON, April h A water-logged boat has been picked ALLEGED HUGE GERMAN on the ocean with a single occupant, who was unconscious. He was a carpenter on terrible, CAPTURES.

a British barque, and he told 3 tale of suffering. He left the submarined LONDON, April 6th. barque in a boat with twelve occupants. German counter-attack which was being A German wireless offbial message but the boat capsized in a gale. Eight prepared to debouch on the Laffaux-save During the capture of the bride managed to get on to the bottom Margival front, where the artillery due! head at Toboly, in the fighting on the the boat righted itself, but again capsized. continues. The Germans unsuccessfully Stockhod, we captured: 120 officers, 9,500 Once more it was righted. bin sever attacked between Bapigneul and Godet men, fifteen guns, 250 machine guns and died successively in the course of the farm. Some enemy detachments advanced mine throwers.

following twenty-four hours from expo- Our airmen blew up and took a portion of trench but were extensive munition depots in the Vardar ure immediately driven out, “

Valley

A HELPLESS GERMAN SUBMARINE

COPENHAGES, April 6th. The Norwegian stetner Wound, from Cadiz, towed a helpless German submarine of Roussor and Basse-Boulogne after of the latter a word sis

A Russian wireless official messace from the North Sea toda a der sharp fighting. The enemy in retreating ing chemical shells, the became entangled in their own wire and occupied a portion of trenches to the east suffered heavily We continue to pro- of Plakanen, south of the Riga, but were grets, in spite of resistance north east driven aut and east of Meizencouture. We reached the western and south-western edges of Gonzesucourt and Havrincourt Woods, where we took sixty prisonere, two trench mortars and five machine-guns.

THE BRITISH ADVANCE, Fid-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig states: We have captured the villages

GERMAN CLAIMS.

LONDON, April 5th, A wireless German Official report statesThe English strongly attacked to the north of the Peroane Cambrai road We inflicted heavy bases before retiring The French occupied our evacuated positions south-west of St Quentin Our batteries Axploded a mucitions depot near Tendresse. The explosion was heard and Holt forty kilometres behind our front. We inflicted a defeat to the north of

SHORT-LIVED GERMAN SUCCESS.

LONDON, April 6th.

Germans

Ten Russian aeroplanes bombed, railway buildings at Kuty, south-west of Sviniaki

French aeroplanes in the Dobrudja twice bombarded the battery north of Garvan,

Our seaplanes successfully, bombed forti fications of the Bosphorus, SUPPORT FOR THE GOVERNMENT.

--- PETROGRAD, April 5th. The Union of Republican Soldiers ins resolved to support the Government most vigorously in the continuance of the war and until a durable peace assures the safety of the Russian Republic,

POSITION RECAPTURED.

LONDON, April 5th.

A wireless -Russian official message

Eight German torpedo

Dr. Henry van Dyke, relieved, by his resignation from the post of United States Minister to Holland, from tha bonds of diplomatic silence, contributes Germany to the New York Times this intensely passionate expression of his feelings in

off the Jutland coast and took the suna to Cuxhaven, refusing to pilet the boat back through the mine field.

The Naum is detained at Hamburg. despite protests by the Norwegian

authoriica.

The Near East.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGAHOY.] THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA. COSSACKS ATTEMPT TO JOIN BRITISH FORCES.

LONDON, April 8th. A wireless Russian official message states:We have occupied Khanikin and Kasrichirin. A battle is proceeding with the Turkish rearguards, who are making an effort to hold the Diala river crossing.

You dare to say with perjured lips;

We fight to make the ocean free"-- You whose black troil of butchered ships.

Bestrews the bed of every sea,

Where German submarines have wrought Their horrora! Have you nover thought What you call freedom men call

piracy

Unnumbered ghosts that haunt the wave Where you bure murdered cry you

down, And seamen whom you would not save

Weave now in well grown deptus a

Crown

Of shame for your imperious head, A dark memorial of the dead,

Women and children whom you left

to drown,

Rheims and took over eight knadred potfes:The enemy attacked us in the A Cussack detachment han left Khanikin The gold, and corsairs called to keep

sonera,

We have captured French trenches to Zelotcher region, making six assaults in for Kyzlrabat for the purpose of joining

the west of Monastir; ONWARD MARCH OF THE ALLIES.

PARIS, April 6th,

According to the views of a French expert, no obstacle checks the offensive of the Allied armies, or atous their dash Yesterday was another day of sanguin- ary defeats for the enemy, for, despite a desperate defence, the Department of the Somme was entirely freed of the invader French reconnaissances reached to within 1,500 yards of the gates of St Quentin

the neighbourhood of Tebeveli village. We eventually dislodred the enemy, completely restoring the position,

THE MACEDONTAN FRONT.

LONDON, Aril 6th

A French anmmunion from Macedonia that there is cannonading on the whole front..

British arintere bombed an enemy cero drome at Hadova.

the British

OBJECT ACHIEVED.

PETROGRAD, April 6th Renter's correspondent at Petrograd states that the Russians have joined hands with the British at Kyzlrabat

THE POINT OF CONTACT. 16 META LONDON, April 8th:

A Mesopotamia official message states that the Russian and British detachments established touch on April 2nd on the left bank of the Diala River. The Turks are reported to be retreating in the direction of Kifri

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And honour rules in peson and war. With these we hold in soul and heart, With these we choose our lot and part Til liberty is safe on sen and shore

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