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THE WAR.

SUBMARINISM AND BRITAIN'S

FOOD SUPPLY.

AN ENCOURAGING SPEECH.

AMERICAN REGULARS FOR FRANCE.

STRENGTHENING RUSSIA.

GERMAN ATTACKS IN THE WEST.

ITALIAN SUCCESSES.

Franco-Belgian Front

ALATEST CABLES.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]

LIVELY FIGHTING-

FURIOUS GERMAN ARTILLERYING,

Pants, May 20th."

Italian Front.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 22ND, 1917.

LATEST: CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ITALIANS EXTEND POSITIONS MANY CAPTURES.

Bous, May 20th.

A communique says: The enemy artil- An Italian official m lerying has been most active at Chemin extended our positions at Vodice, and I message saya :-" We

des-Dames Bince midnight and

drove back dense masses of the enemy increased in fury in the morning. The who were attempting to stop our pro Germans, from the east of Hurtebise to grese. The enemy, in the evening, the north of Sancy directed a rolling abandoned his counter-attacks and con fire of heavy shell and asphyxinting pre-centrated artillery on the lost positions, jectiles against our positions, but the which we maintain We captured, several strength of

our counter-preparation

guna, trench-mortars and machine-guna rendered abortive the general assault We entered the stommy's lines castward of which had been prepared and the GerGorizia and prisoncred 254 during the mana masaed on the greater part of the day's operations. The enemy's diversion

threatened front were unable to leave tho trenches.

There was, the liveliest fighting at different points where they approached our lines, which ended in our favour, and the enemy, who lost heavily as the resalt of our barrages and counter-attacks, only gained a footing in our advanced elements -northeast of Cerny on n front of 200 metres. Everywhere else our positions were maintained. 55⠀

ARTILLERY STRUGGLE.

ENEMY ATTACKS ON FRENCH

FRONT

Panis, May 20th.

conemanique "says:There has hero most violent artillery struggle in the region of Chemin-des-Dames and along the whole front between Labovelle, Cerny and Hartebise An enemy attempt on the salient of La Bovelle was easily repulsed. A small action enabled us to carry some elements of trenches north east of Laffaux Mill. 4

BRITISH ATTACK. ADVANCE ALONG HINDENBURG LINE.

LONDON, May 20th. Field Marshal Sir Dongins Haig re ports:-As a result of an early morning attack we occupied a further section of the Hindenburg line, over a mile front, between Footaine-les-Croiselles Sand Bullecourt. The enemy unsuccessfully counter-attacked. Fieron Gghting con tinued all day long. We inflicted heavy casualties and took prisoners.

means that the heavy bombardment and infantry attacks in the Trentino were unsuccessful.

EARLIER CABLES.

STRONG ITALIAN ATTACK. KEY POSITIONS TAKEN.

General

LATEST CABLES.

[TAZODOR BEUTER'S AGENCY ]⠀⠀

GERMANY'S CASUALTIES,

OFFICIAL FIGURES,

LONDON, May 20th.

The Press Bureau announcey that the

German official casualties for April were 42,838, of which number 11,979 were

deaths. The total German casualties up.

RUSSIAN PREMIER ISSUES STATEMENT.

NEED FOR STRENGTHENING THE

ARMY

BRITAIN'S FOOD PROBLEM. EFFECT OF SUBMARINISM.

LONDON, May 20th. Mr. Kennedy Jones, Director General PETROGRAD, May 20th of Food Economy, speaking at Edin The Premier M. Evoff, in a weighty state-burgh, defended Lord Devonport's ad- mon to Prassment dwell upon the necessity ministration and said Lord Devonport for reinvigorating the fighting capacity of had thoroughly grasped the difficulties, the army, and so enable an offensive to and dealt with problems daily with vigour expel the enemy from the invaded ter and determination. If everyone ate two

RANDOM REFLECTIONS,

However ignorant the outside world. may have beer of the existence of Hong- kong in the plust-and that it was very ignorant is proved by the omission of the Colony's nome from a foreigo Government publication in my possession giving statistics relating to the chief

ports of the world there will be no excuse in future for anyone who says that he has not head of the place. The

to the present are 4,245,804, of which ritories. To actively support the Allies slices of bread less daily we might face Government seem to be bent on advertise-

MAN-POWER.

Western democracies. Russians cannot remain indifferent to the fate of the overrun allied countries. LONDON, May 20th.

He declared The Government has decided to recruit that the existing armistice at the front coalminers who have entered the industry was incompatible with Russian honour since August, 1814, excepting engineers and dignity and must cease. and mechanics..

AMERICAN DIVISION FOR

FRANCE

The Foreign Minister, M. Torealchenko, mede a similar statement, and showed the dangers of complying with the de- mands for the immediate publication of treaties by the old régime.

THE MISSION TO AMERICA.

RICHMOND (Virginia), May 20th. Mr. Balfour and his colleagues have arrived here, and were accorded an

LONDON, May 20th. The United States State Department announces that a Division of regulars, commanded by General Fershing, has been ordered to proceed to France at the

in addition to the nine regiments of enthusiastic reception. earliest possible moment. This will be

engineers recently recruited for service in France.

mayed.

connec

number 1,041,029 are deaths The naval duty to observe her alliances with the

he ardently insists that it is Russia's the German submarine menace undis ment at all costs, and they cannot com

Mr. Jones pointed out the pinin that their wishes in this direction losses are not included.

dificulty of complying with the domand are not being gratified. By their last that all brewing should conso, mention two ventures in this direction they will ing that no barley had been malted in get enough publicity to satisfy the must Great Britain since February.

gluttonous, appetite.· It is advertisemeans Hence, beer brewed to-day involved the iss of that I would not have had no, not even no new grain. While the Admiralty was Quos Deus vult verdere dementat

for $40. It reminds one of the old working day and night to defeat the It all helps towards Constitutional Re- submarine mensee, which, perhaps, was form, and is cheap at the price. not so far from being aurmounted as some people were inclined to think,

Properly viewed, the recent Polica surely we were asked to do little in.

Court proceedings against this paper are a remarkable, if involuntary, tribute to making small individual economies i

He believed we were beginning of the local Press. Everyone knows that the value and importance of the work

losses had decreased and not increased. all its news of the war on the varioua master submarinism Our shipping the newspapers furnish the Colony with The long days had helped sea fronts, but how many until Thursday planes to convoy foodships. Moreover, ever dreamt of the enormous responsibi the ingenuity of the Admiralty, and the lities which they discharge in courage and skill of the sailors had tion with the suppression of information. enabled them to attack the U Boats by that might be useful, directly or indirect- a new method which up to the, to the enemy information of such frementious import that when, by one of present had been

successful. Mr. Jones,

those mistakes which only extraordinary. thought that the success would continue,

mortals like ourselves could be expectedt and that Germany in the next few to avoid, a little trickles out, the local months would realise that she cannot, civil and military representatives of the under any circumstances, starve us out, Crown are thrown into convulsions. My ing as expensive and likely to lead to being distributed at the end of the war, Mr. Jones condemned compulsory ration only fear is that when the rewards are

unequal distribution.

nnd the various local Editors are being So far as our stocks were concerned

decorated like Christmas trees; our little we were in a

lapse will lop off the K and leave me better position than we were six weeks with a sirople C.M.G... ago, The country had shown distinct de signs of obeying the injunctions, and we had been lucky with our wheat consign: ments. Nevertheless, the greatest economy was essentia),

DEALING WITH LABOUR TROUBLES;

RUSSIA'S DEMOCRACY. WHAT IT MUST UNDERSTAND.

PETROGRAD, May 20th, M. Terestchenko, the Foreign Minister, in the course of a speech, stated that the Russian Democracy must understand that the publication of Treaties will mean rupture with the Allies and the begin ning of a separate peace, which the Russian people repudiated because they understood that an international peace alone would guarantee justice to the peoples. The facts of the Russian revolu tion and the intervention of the United States must increase the mutual fidence of the Allies, but to reach an understanding with the Allies, based on Russia's declaration *_of_April_1th,

ROMB, May 20th: An official communiqué says:-Yester day morning we attacked and captured after a long and severe struggle, Hill 652 and Vodice, which are the keys to the ençay's defences northward of Monte Santo. We captured 379 prisoners. We her military power. It maintained all the positions eastward of Gorizia against persistent attacks.

AUSTRIAN CLAIMS. An Austrian official message, after do- claring that Italian ass attacks on the Vodice heights on the 18th were repulsed, admits that the Italians as a result of s week's fighting, extended their bridge head at Plava by two kilometres. Naval Activities.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.) FRENCH NAVAL LOSS.

PARIS, May 20th.

The French naval vessel Colbert was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on April 30th. Fifty-one persons were drowned.

EARLIER CABLES.

SPANISH ST EAMER ATTACKED

Manib, May 20th.

The Spanish steamer Patricio, mention- with her kall holed by shalls. ed on the 18th, was found adrift and

THE ADRIATIC ENGAGE

MENT.

[con-

Russia must prove that she was loyally fulfilling her engagements by re-creating

was ridiculous.

to speak of the annexation plans. of the Allies as being menacing to a just, peace, when Russia, Belgina France, Serbia and Roumania were partially occupied by the enemy. He mentioned that France

was justified in aspiring to the recovery of Alsace Lorraine

THE

EARLIER CABLES,

LATE RAJAH OF

SARAWAK.

LONDON, May 20th The first part of the late Rajah of Sarawak's funeral will take place at Cirencester on the 21st. There will be a memorial service in the erypt of St Paul's Cathedral on the 24th, which will attended by relatives, officials and others. The body will then be removed to Sarawak for burial.

COMMERCIAL CONFERENCE

MARITIME TRANSPORT.

Rowe, May 20th. The inter-Ally Commercial Conference has concluded, after unanimously carry ing proposals for an economic union based on an understanding regarding an

Fighting continues in our favour. We drove off raiders last night near Oppy and south-westward of Wytschaed. Wa successfully raided southward of Armen- “dieres.・ We brought down night sero Commander Fane, was killed in the fight international system of maritime trans

LOEDOW, May 20th. The Commander of the Dartmouth,

* in the Adriatic Sea,

planes and one balloon. Four of our aeroplanes are missing.

EARLIER CABLES: BRITISH FRONT.

ENEMY ATTACK BROKEN UP..

LONDON, May 20th.

Field Marshal Bir Douglas Haig re ports Our artillery broke up the enemy's attack on advanced posts south- eastward of Epchy. We captured Ger han prisoners daring patrol encounters in the neighbourhood of Fauquiseart,

FRENCH FRONT.

Paara, May 20th.)

A communiqué says: There has been no infantry, action, The artillery was sometimes violent at Chemin des Damre, Hurtebise and on the Californis Plateau.

SWEDISH STEAMERS

TORPEDOED.

STOCKHOLM, May 10th

Three Bwedish steamers which were re turning from England were torpedoed.

Ten people were drowned. Russian Front.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH BAUTRE'S AGENCY.J TURKS AND KUBDF. COMBINED ATTACK REPULSED

PETROGRAD, May 20th.

A wireless Russian official message says:Our artillery repulsed an attempt- ed attack pastward of Kalncem. Our fite dispersed an attack eastward of Kovorka in the direction of Bystritda. We re- pulsed a combined force of Tarka and Kurde northward of Bitlie

port.

BRUTALISING THE JEWS.

APPEAL TO ALL SOCIALISTS:

ANOTHER ALLY.

WASHINGTON, May 20th. Nicaragua has announced a rupture

with Germany.

LANCASHIRE COTTON

As the

SPINNERS.

LONDON, May 20th.

in favour

the necessary 50 per cent. majority your of a stoppage of the Lancashire Cotton Spinning Mills during Whit week has not been secured, any restriction of output will be voluntary

AMERICAN FOOD SUPPLY.

A SCHEME FOR SAFEGUARDING.

WASHINGTON, May 20th.

Mr, Hoover, Food Controller, announces that he intends to regulate essential com modities, and to enlist women house kospere to avoid waste, and to substitute

staple foods, which will be exported to As far as possible other commodities for

their Allier Also, he intends to co-

oporate with the Allies regarding exports from Americe, and common imports from

President other countries.

Government will investigate the food stocks, prevent hoarding and profiteering, requisition food supplies for the public

Wilson states that the

profit to farmer, and to protect consum- ers. The organisation will be on a volun- tary basis.

LONDON, May 20th.

At & conference of the Engine re Executive Council Mr. Lloyd George presiding, the following proposals were

agreed to:

have been recently issued have proved The now Harbour Regulations which

very perplexing to many of those who, with the approach of summer, are busy arranging for week-end bathing parties. The long legal rigmarole has mystified bathers and left them in a state of ner- tous collapse for fear that they may, com

it some terrible crime if the least little thing goes wrong with the gear of their launch. Would it not be as well if some regulations could be specially drafted for bathing parties telling them in plain may not do! No one is eager to contra English what they may and what they vene regulaticus at the present time, and bathers would appreciate a straight- forward announcement on the lines. indicated.

Stewards to issue instructions to the men The Engineers Excentive and Shop

Apropos of bathing parties, I over- to resume work forthwith.

heard a suggestion the other evening that the examination pffecre should fory a toll The Executive Council to negotiate of 20 cents upon each occupant of the

the harbour, the proceeds to be given to

use, fix prices in order to guarantee the with the Government regarding the many launches which pass in and out of existing difference, and endeavour to War Charities. This would produce a continue this pratice with a view to goodly sum, during the season, and no- avoiding future stoppage.

1 one, it was argued, would begrudge 20 cents for the privilege of disporting themselves in the briny during war time. But why worry about tolls and rates on houses The Censorship Regulations con- tein unlimited possibilities. As revenue producera.

No further arrests to be made, the eight arrested men to be released at the earliest moment on their own recogni- zances, pending the hearing of the case of the men who were victimised in con sequence of the strike. PETROGRAD, May 2th.

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA,

IRON DISCIPLINE FOR THE.

ARMY

M. Kerensky, who is Minister of Marine in addition to Minister of War, visited the Peasants and Boldiers' Con greas, and he asked them to help him to show that the Russian army was still formidable. He intended to introduce an

iron discipline in the army,

WASTAGE OF WAR

PEACE NOT IN SIGHT.

The successes scored by the British com petitors in the various events at the Anglo-American boxing contests on Saturday evening were thoroughly de- served. The winners throughout boxed LONDON, May 20th. splendidly, and the American spectators Sir A Henderson, M.P., speaking at who had big hopes of at least one success, of lives and property in the war, and and Navy men who represented the Richmond, referred to the colossal losses were the first to admit that the Army aid that, nevertheless, there was no im British were very amart lot indeed. mediate prospect of a cessation of hos It was very gratifying to see Scott and tilities. The severe character and pro- Richards retain their respective cham

M. Kerensky was ovated, and after longation of the war tempted some to pionships at opposite ends of the scale. wards departed for the Front,

DISTRESS IN JAFFA.

GEEMAN ACCOUNT.

LONDON, May 20th.

ask why peace had not been attempted. This was Scott's farewell appearance in by other means. He replied that Ger the local ring, and it may be said, with

many's challenge made in 1014 still held

good. The Juab for world out fear of contradiction, that a mere

worthy heavy-weight champion has never continued to be supported by the and his Prussian advisers, and the Ger- been seen in Hongkong. He was ther mans armies continued to threaten the admired of many and that camiration existence of independent nationalities, was increased by his very sportsmanlike Hence, victory for Germany would im behaviour at the end of the third round perial the future Democracy of Europe of his brief contest, with his Americans However much we may welcome peace, we challenger The Police Reser cannot falter tall the great act of libörn. again, to be congratulated upon their tion is fully achieved. He sympathised successful efforts on behalf of war chari- with the proposed League of Nations to ties Mr FC, Jenkin, the Deputy enforce peace, but said there must be a Superintendent, added to his reputation

as a pleader by persuading & legal col-- of the fund to supply cigaretics and league to buy the gloves for 8100 on behalf

tobacco to our troops,

A Berlin telegram admits that the entire population has evacuated the Jaffa district for military réssons, in- cluding 7,000 Jalla Jows. The telegram STOCKHOLM May 20th also says that as transport is inadequate, league of free peoples. The Jewish Societies in Palestine have and isolated excesses have occurred, dis- FAR EASTERN MAILS LOST telegraphed the Secretariat of the Social-tress naturally prevails, and deaths bareba ist Conference that the Turks are occurred from exhaustion, disease, and evacuating, and ill-treating and pillag accidenta

ing the Jews in Judea, Jerusalem and LONDON Galilee

The victims appes] to Socialiste overs where against the cruelties, which are threatening to culminets, in a massacre aunmilar to that of the Armenians.

AUSTRIAN MINISTER'S

ASSASSIN.

AMSTERDAM, May 20th.. Adher, the assasin of Count Stuergkh, the Austrian Minister has been sentenced

to death

STRIKE

OMNIBUS ENDED,

LONDON, May 20th. The London omnibus strike has ended. a conference of employers and employers, presided over by Mr. Henderson, agree ing to certain proposals.

SILVER

LONDON, May 20th. The silver market is featureless, but

steady. The latest quotation is 37

LONDON, May 20th

The Post Master General announces Those who hanker after Yankeeisme ** that letter mails from the Far East, 26 would have received liberal education Siberia, and from North Persia, have et Saturday night's boxing contests been lost at sea through an enemy action. Amongst the remarks which have etched The probable date of posting at some of themselves into my memory are the the representative places are as follows:

following Say, that's real bully,

G20March 13th to March Guess, he's some mut, that sleep pro

March 13th to March 19th,

Peking, March 20th, Shanghai Tientsin, ducer, Whistle when you want to send March 16th to 31st, Hongkong, March him dreaming, Got him guessing. 11th, Tokio and Yokohama March 19th are give him the Haymaker Manila March 4th to 11th, Teheran Everyone was amused when ons wit call. March 18th to 20th Enzole, March 16th ed out Mind the censor while Mr. to 18th, Tabriz March 17th to 24th. Jenkin was referring to the approaching

The mails from Chius Japan and departure of Scott. To say the least Manila are latters only. The others are the representatives of our latest Allies. all classes of correspondence, except wha are in our midst are a very jornal parcels. The Post Office does not pay lot of fellows, and judging by Saturday compensation for losses due to an enemy evening's performance, some enjoyable, action. If more definite information is sporting events should resolt from their renied, the sender should apply at presenco. Lbe office of posting

Horamic KEDOK.