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THE WAR.

HEAVY FIGHTING ON BRITISH

FRONT

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 1er, 1917

APPALLING GERMAN SACRIFICES MANY

PRISONERS.

CONSCRIPTION FOR AMERICA,

AMERICAN DIVISIONS FOR FRANCE.

Franco-Belgian Front

LATEST CABLES. THROUGH REUTER'S AGENDY.}.

RECIPROCAL ARTILLERYING. A MONTOW

MORE PRISONERS TAKEN.

LONDON, April 30th.

A French communiyze states that at Chemin des Dames thore was energetio reciprocal artillerying. At Hertehise. there was a grenade duel and the front lines in this region were equally lively German organisations north west of

Rheims were effectively bombarded. Last

of maxim and rifle bullets till the coun- ter-attack utterly collapsed. It was often the British rifles that decided the rout of the Germans, but frequently there were deadly personal grapples in which baycueta, but more often butts, were

used,

The muddy battlefield of last week haa disappeared and has been replaced by clouds and dust, obscuring the sunshine. of an otherwise blub and golden day.

BITTER FIGHTING.

AN AMERICAN ARMY FOR

LONDON, April 29th,

FRANCE Router's correspondent at the British

VIEWS OF GENERAL JOFFRE Headquarters states:-Bitter fighting

WASHINGTON, April 30th continued throughout last night and to. Gendrat Joffre has addressed a state- day The Germans are throwing in fredli ment to the American people. He troops at vitul points as fast as possible impresses the need for an American, Army Our artillery is gradually subduing in France. The essential thing is a the machine-guns, and our positions are efficient unit sent as swiftly as possible favourably established in the Scarpe without waiting to raise an Army of half Valley

Roeux has been the scene of the million. Americans in the French bittorent fighting, owing to its tacticalry were needed for training, and the value, The ensiny is being sacrificed in American forces might retum to the droves in trying to keep us out -

United States.

FUTILE GERMAN ATTACK

LONDON, April 29th. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Hig sny

strong night attack on our new posi- ties to the north of Arleux en Gobelle was broken up-

Fighting continues at pinces to the north of the Ecarpa

FRENCH PENETRATE ENEMY

LINES

PARIS, April 29th, A commuisque saysIsolated opere tions took place in the region north and

SILVER MARKET

LONDON, April 29th. Silver is quoted 37 3/10d: There is buying from India, and the market is

firm.

EARLIER CABLES.

GALLANT MR. ROOSEVELT.

TO RAISE FOUR DIVISIONS FOR FIGHTING IN FRANCE.

WASHINGTON, April 28th. The Senate has adopted an amendment

Colonel Roosevelt to raise four infantry divisions for service in France

RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

There have been rare doings, in our parish lately. First, there was the breeze at the Legislative Council meeting over the rejection of the resolu-

tion in favour of excinding the Gor

"MADE A PREMIER, ROMANCE OF MR LLOYD

GEORGE'S EARLY DAYS.

The Prime Minister's programme in connection with the Welsh Festival on

cancelled in consequence.. March 1st was This was followed by a largely attended Lloyd, who passed away at Criccieth, mans for a prezeribed time after the war of the death of his uncle, Mr Richard meeting of the Charnhor of Commerce, Laged 82 Mrs. Lacyd George was with which re-affirmed, with practical un him to the end, and the Premier was uimit the policy advocated by the him in London, he has unable to go to troubled that, urgent matters detaining Committee on this subject Finally, North Wales The Premier has received came the public demonstration at the large number of messages of sympathy, and the King and Quero have sent con- Incatre Royal, which was crowned 'n dolences, every part--I dare not any packed from This is perhaps the saddest day in Mr. flour to ceiling, for fear of being mis Lloyd George romantic life, says the London correspondent of the Manchester understood to show the Colony's dis Guardian, for in the death of his uncle, gust for the Getmum and disepproval Mr. Richard Lloyd, he mourns one who of the Government's action in seeking Premier, I think, never saw his father, was to him all that a father could be. The

to lease the door open for their return and Mr. Lloyd, who did everything for A him and his brother in their early days, The result was a great triumph for † lived to see his nephew Premier of Eng- the Ho Mr. P. H Rolyoak and has his day in Europe

land and the most brilliant figure of given huir position in the public esti- mation which it is quubtful if any of his predecessors Tevar enjoyed. The re- sponsibility for calling the public meet- ing rested entirely upon his shoulders. 16 is an open scoret that attempts were made to dissuade him froin taking this bold step hy those who feared it night

The British crossed the German line south of Courcy and north-west of to the Conscription Bill authorising spoll disaster, but he had confidence in standwy, where, he had succeeded to his

to the west of Oppy hence the village Was the centre of day-long fighting,

Rheims

We took 150 prisoners, and we appre

evening two hundred prisoners were tako especially at Greenland Hill, which is ciably enlarged our positions.

in the region of Courcy.

FARLIER CABLES

HEAVY FIGHTING ON BRITISH

FRONT.

ENEMY SACRIFICING RESERVES.

LONDON, April 29th.

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- porte: There has been severe fighting, in which we have held the advantage, all day long from the Scarpe River to the Acheville Viny road.

We captured Arleux en Gobelle und

the enemy's positions on a front of over

two miles to the north and south of the village.

We also progressed to the north-east of Gavrelle and Rooux,

knoll to the south-west of Oppy, over looking the Scarpe Valley.

GREAT STRUGGLE ON THE FRENCH FRONT.

There was somewhat lively artillery CONSCRIPTION FOR AMERICA opposition and that the meeting would duel in Champagne,

Between Prunay and Auberive, our detachments penetrated as far as tho enemy's second line at several points

In Upper Alsace, lively grenading end ed to our advantage and cost the Gør- mans losacs. We brought back prisoners,

LONDON, April 20th Router's correspondent at the FrenchNG Headquarters, writing on the 37th inst saysBince the battle began, reinforce- ments cqualling almost the whole of the original defending fored have beca poured into the German position. Gen- erul von Hindenburg is throwing in reserves and accepting appalling sneri licen in a voin offort to recapture the lost

ground

The adversaries in Champagne are in no wise resting. The bombardment rage, daily, and most furious tornadoes of

On the south of the river, we gained precede the German attacks on the

*to the north of 3Lonchy le Freux

The clismy in many violent counter,

attacks with considerable forces, suffered heavily from artillery and machine-gun

fro

French positions, which the French have maintained, despite assaults by enorm Dus masses of Gorman infantry this week.

It must be remembered that the battles

Heavy fighting in the neighbourhood in Champagne and Artois form two wings

of Roux and Oppy continues.

We have taken several hundred pri

Boners

Four enemy aeroplanes were brought down, and three of ours are missing.

DETAILS OF THE FIGHTING,

LONDON, April 20th.

Bouter's correspondent at the British Headquarters writing on the evening of the 28th inst, states:Oir First and Third Armica have been engaged to-day on a front attack which extended from the

Scarpe Valley, northwards, to the east of Viny The main goal was the Oppy switch line, otherwise the Drogourt Quent line, which is a hastily-construct ed northerly extension of the Hinden

burg Line.

The fighting was heroest between Oppy and Roux, where numerous traverses, redoubts and machine gun posts between our positions and those of the Germans

HEAVY FIGHTING.

LONDON, April 29th.

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- Ports:-We captured this morning a trench systent southward of Oppy on mile front. There has been heavy fight

ing, and stubborn resistance. There have been several unsuccessfu1 counter- attacks We have personexed, since yes. terday morning, 970, sad brought down

three German aeroplanes Three of ours are missing.

General,

LATEST VABLES. [TERODOR BEUTER'S AGENOT.]

DI TINGUISHED SERVICE.

WASHINGTON, April 9th. The House of Representatives and the Senate have passed the Conscription Bill by 327 votes to 24 and 81 votes to 8 respectively.

GERMAN ACTIVITY ON THE DANUBE.

LONDON, April, 20th

the public; and events showed that his confidence, was not misplaced. It was rumoured that there would the organised

be" pocked" with a hostile crowd, but nothing of the sort happened. The mere suggestion of such a possibility prob- ably sorved 4 induce some to attend who might othervies have remained away in the easy belief that the result of the meeting was a foregone conclusion.

The proceedings were marked by the ufmost enthusiasm and showed that Hongkong" can throw of its habitual torpor on occasion; that its heart beats in unison with the rest of the Empire;

A Berlin_official_message says:—Ger- nian scapleres on April 26th bombed the port of Sulins, on the Danube, causing that it contains some men who have the serious Dres in the harbour and encourage of their convictions that it lighters..

respects homeity of purpose in an oppon-

Our machines returned safely, despite

violent anti-aircraft.

INDIA AND THE WAR.

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It was a great joy to Mr. Lloyd that his nephew had so distinguished himself” but his age never permitted him to visit 10, Downing Street, whore his portrait had an honoured position. He, how. ever paid visits to 11, Downing Street.

When William George, the Pranier's father, died suddenly in 1864, leaving the widow in straitened circumstances,, her brother, Richard Lloyd, took the family into his bachelor home at Llany-

income was at that time small, but ho father's business of shoemaking. His never shrank from making the widew and orphans the first charge upon it; he never married is written large in and his self-denying devotion to them

the early history of Mr. Lloyd George.

Blunyatumdwy is approached by the coast road from Criccieth, and the cob blef's house, a plain stone dwelling is on the right-hand side of the village the door with a boot and top-boob street In those days sign hung over

painted on it under the words "Richard Lloyd Gwneuthurwr

But be was more than a cobbler, ha was student and a member of the Disciples of Christ, a community of Baptists who disbelieved in “a paith ministry. Ha preached at the little chapel at Criccieth every Sunday until a few years ago, took his nephew there him in the baptistry in the brook whiche regularly in his boyhood, and baptised flows paat the chapel. On his working days he made it, as Mr. Lloyd Georges said in 1878, his scored and supreme duty to educate the children of his sister." To that duty he gave his time,, his energy, and all his money.

ent; and has a full measure of the British loves of fair-play Mr. Holyka is to be When it was decided to enter young. commended for not taking advantage of David for the Preliminary Law Exami nation, then, as David Evans, the vil the occasion to move a vote of censuro Inge schoolmaster, taught little Latin upon the Government, but contenting and no French, the uncle, who know. himself, with asking Mr. H-P White to either,-got, a grammar and a dictionary. take the chair in order to give ocularself and the boy the rudimenta of the and slowly and laboriously taught him-

LONDON, April 29th Speaking at a luncheon of the Empire Press, Sir James Mestou said that there demonstration of the fact that we still was a time when it was thought that have at least he really hig man" left India had done less than she ought to in HonggorIE, have done. The reason she did not do Sandwiched in between these stirring

French language. - The method succeed- ed young Lloyd George passed his cyamination at the age of fourteen.

For nearly sixty years Richard Lloyd remained the devoted and unpaid pastor of the little Cricoleth chapel,

of a single strategical operations The AWARDS TO OFFICERS OF INDIAN more was that the was not told what to events we have had very successful A STORY OF MRTOWYN JONES,

front is really continuously active be tween Lens and Auberive, and the French for the time being are wearing down the German reserves.

GERMAN ACCOUNT.

LONDON, April 29th.

ARMY

LONDON, April 30th. The following awards to officers of the Indian Army are published in the

Gazette:

D.8.0

Major Robert Baker, who showed a

do. If India bad known the position, celebration of St. George's Day. Again she would have done a great deal more Mr. Holyoak was the moving spirit. By in resources, in treasure and in other becoming more or less familiar, a sum various devices with which we are all ways: The whole of India was anxious which, I am credibly informed, will not to help. (Cheora). She only wanted a fall below $30,000 was coaxed out of the lead to mobilise her great resources and community for charitable objects con place them unstintedly at the service of nected with the war. Scenes from

A Germunn official wireless message quick grasp of the situation and secured the Empire. Sir James dwelt on wie Shakespeare brought in nearly $10000ed him.KARANAEN

says:The enemy's principal thrust to

his leftflank with great ability at a criti

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Latterly Mr Lloyd's preaching was of quiet, conversational character, but Mr Towyn Jones, M.P, who first met

of the Carmarthenshire College, and him in 1878, says that he was then a man all nerve Towyn was student was on a tour preaching and collecting been doing this for six weeks or so when subscriptions for the college. He had he got to Carnarvonshire, where Richard Lloyd heard him and warmly commend

Mr. Lloyd went to hear. Towyn

Now that the Englishmen in the Colony him This he did, and in the course of have at last asserted themselves to sachgoing to make a man of Lloyd conversation Mr. Lloyd said he was good purpose it is to be hoped that they George, who was very brilliant.”” Noticing that Towyn's boots were the will not ugiat to do homage to their worse for wear he had tramped ten to Lalion saint in future. As a safeguard fifteen miles a day for six weeks-he against backsliding a branch of the made him take them off. And as the Royal Society of St. George is to be the boots and sent Towyn on his way conversation went on Mr. Lloyd mended formed, Perips next year it will be re-shod and rejnicing. This was typical possible to find an Englishman fit to of Mr. Lloyd all his life, l Gif the role of St. George. The selection character which made him act the father His strong face was an index of the

the north of the Scarpe yesterday, was cal time, enabling the organization of courtesy of Mr. Austen Chamberlain in on the first night of its presentation. second time, and invited him to call on

against our positions between Acbeville and Roeux, where the battle was most violent.

The British forced their way into Arleux and Oppy, and positions near Garrelle and Roeux. We regained, in a hand-to-hand struggle, the former post

tions, with the exception of Arleux.

There was also a desperate battle to

British attacks failed heavily. the south of the Scarpe lowland, where

further attacks elsewhere. His fearless personal example contributed largely to The success of dificult operations

Captain Arthur Luan, who assumed

MILITARY CROSSES

command of the third wave and led it to the enemys trench He returned under heavy Bre and reported the situation Later, when communication failed he re-crossed the open and further reported. Subadar Imaudio Kan who twice dis played great coolness and courage under

were the scens of fluctuating struggles DESTROYING THE GERMAN ARMY heavy fre He always get a fine example

as the determined British pressure was met by the most desperate counter- attacks.

LONDON, April 20th Router's correspondent at the British Headquarters says:-Doubtless the Ger

to his men.

DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT

MEDALS It is reported that General von Hinman communiqués will continue to make Havildars Fatteh Singh for great cool denburg is so annoyed at the Vimy defeat what capital they can out of the factness ander fire He set a fine example that he is now throwing in reserves which, that we have not yet broken through, of determination during nightmarches. have been lordered to stand, regardless although none knows better than the

of the sacrifices.

German High Command how inisleading the phrase really is. What we are doing" is pressing back the Hun legions upon front which so far has reached a length

assisting in the work of India's repre- sentatives at the Imperial Conference,

NO MORE HORSE RACING.

LONDON, April 29th. Horus racing fixtures after May 4th have been cancelled in accordance with a request by the Government.

usstun Frank

BAUMER CABLES,

[TUROCOH REUTER'S MOLNOY.]

RUSSIAN SUCCESS.

LONDON, April 29th

of a Scotsman, last week was rather a., to his orphaned nephews and niece, which KWA UMEME made him an unpaid preacher all tho rodection upon the manly beauty to be while he was carrying on his brunet found south of the Tweed

& prosperous one, which, enabled him to Wilim Gergo in the ranks of tra place Mr. Lloyd George and Y- solicitors profession.

Thanks to five questions which are to be put by Mr. B. L. Bowley, the nice ing of the Hongkong Sanitary Board He was full of common sense and to-day promises to be less prosaic than steeped in the bardic and eisteddfod usual. The reply of the Medical Officer fore of the last hundred years. He ba to the question whether he considers the the curious habit of meeting practically A Russian official wireless message flowering privet injurious to health will every train that entered or left Cric says: We recaptured the height lost be waited will considerable interest, cieth station, though he was an no sense yesterday in the direction of Erzingan. cal men a

on for it is well known that even local medi-

are not in agreement upon th19 It was on the occasion of his visit to - Turkish attempts to attack near Take controversial question. Some condemn his constituents at Carnarvon that Mr. Havilder Nawab Khan who twice dispinari, to the west of Belumer, were fectly innocent shrub. Many residents ing his journey then to Criccieth AL-

the privet and chers regard it as per Lloyd George last saw his uncle, extend played great courage and coolness under repelled

claim to be affected each Spring by the that time there was no hint of coming heavy fire and always act & splendid

pollen of the shrub, and others who trouble, but shortly afterwards M allow the privet in flower in their own Lloyd developed bronchitis, being taken example,

grounds, mile denaively at the sugges ill at the home of the Premier a brother, EGYPT'S FINANCIAL CONTRIBU.tion Should the Medical Officer on Mr. William George, Mrs Lloyd George dorse the verdict of his colleague in hurried off to her relative's bedside, and TION TO THE WAR

Shanghai and condemn the privat, some kept her husband in constant, telephonic The ascertained total of subscriptions entertaining correspondence on the subtouch with the patient's condition. ib Egypt to the now Loan, including that Ject may be anticipated and the same MILITARY CROSSR

of the Egyptian Government is close on result is not unlikely if he decile in Captains, Harry Beaumont, Northlance money. It is noteworthy that Egypt's £5,000,000 of which £3,750,000 is new Once, near Oppy, fire waves of Ger resistance broken. The complete defeat Dudley Evans, Riffes; Robert Macfarlane, Lotal subscription to British loans The questions relating to the bathings are truth, that the

favour of the privet,

It is common talk all over the Con mans advanced, blindly facing an appall of the German Army is only to be accom-Royal Highlanders. ing fire in an attempt to re-take the lost plished by this process of destruction, Lients Donald Bell, Engineers Erach These totals do not include the sums launch but see no reason why they Crown Prince and the Crown Princesses ficates is to far estiranted at £35,000,000 by those bathers who do not patronise acuto domestic, differences between the Exchequer bonds, and war savings certi beaches of the Colony will be welcomed William has become beyond

exasperated by the long continuod An explosive torrent of and its present tactics of massed resist Daboo, Army Medal Corps. Munscribed by the london offices should have to share the sanda with pigs for which alone his son is responsible. heavy shells made gashes in their ranks.

Second-Lients Joseph Archer, Engi-residente having accounts outside Egypt attempt to drive the awing into the constant cry of the Emperor for years past, ance are all hastening our approach toneers; James Collins and Richard Under Egypt also has substatially subscribed to His other auggestion, that the various in defiance of which command the Crowa Egyptian companies, business houses, or Mr. Bowley is to be congratulated on his Point d'esclandre has been this care The survivors who progressed were met the only and which can glorify our great wood North-lanes, Heary Emas, Lanrench and Italian ans. The direct bathing beaches should be scavenged Prince has rashly caused all Germany Ka casters and James Gray, Indian Reserve.dered to the Allies in therefore very con-

financial assistance this country zen periodically, will also meet with approval ring with the echoes of siderable

RODERICK RANDO

what are charit ably described as his indiscretions

There was nothing on the Somme to compare with the number and fury of the present counter-attacks. For in stance, the counter-attack at Gavrelle of fifty miles, wearing them down as they to-day was the fifteenth since the Gergo, until the final stage must inevitably mans lost that place.

positions.

by feld-gun fire and continuous sprays

be reached and their powers of further

The following awards granted for dis

also mentioned in the Gusette tinguished service in Mesopotama are

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