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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27TH, 1917.

GERMAN LOSSES ON THE SOCIALISTS DENOUNCE THE ROLL OF MODERN WAR

SCARPE

DEMORALISED BY OUR GUNS.

Visibility could not be better, and our perfect command of all the approaches to the German lines in front of Douai enables the British gunners to do their work without wasting a single shell (writen the Morning Post, corrispondent the British Front; on May lab)

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fantry by cutting off ammunition and

CANADIANS AT ABLEUX.

GERMAN ABSOLUTISH.

PLAIN SPEAKING AT

STOCKHOLM:

held in Stockholm on May 17th under the An international Socialist meeting, was presidency of M. Branting, the leading Stockholm Socialist-

SACRIFICE OF BOTH BODY, AND SOUE

THE FRENCH STRUGGLE FOR

JUSTICE..

Evident, to any observer is the con- adencs i Paris that for the first time the allied armies on the west front are

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sirable enemy aliens To-diny, sa for three days past, they have duty of neutrals now was to work, not Prepared. The English have taken over One of their first visits was to the

Russian revolution, declared that the risolated portions of the entrenched in for peace at any prios, but a peaco just with their new armies many of the sectors palatial Fifth Avenue: home of Mra. food supplice, while pounding the men and durable founded on the principles of previously held by the French, permitting politan Art Museum. The daughter of Hugh Reisinger, opposite the Metro-

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honours from the Kaiser, Mrs. Reisinger steadily and in such numbers in the into permit them to come after all. That tervals between the infantry attacks would be our arst victory, but if the home paper. Whatever rumours of asset of Germany in New York. The plain of Douai has become a absolute German Government romain obdurate, exhaustion in France may have been distinguished visitors from Germany ALL AT WHOLESALE PRICES DIRECT TO YOU. inferno for the troops forced to sit there then it will be a great moral victory for spread in America by German pro magnificent home. There Count Berns-Four Million Families all over the world supply their needs

were: accustomed to foregather, in her under our fire, unable to move from ones, because we should then havo laid bare village to another, or to emerge from the the fear and uneasy conscience of the Paganda, you will find no confirmation torff and Privy Councillor Albert, the from those who know the situation. And Emperor's ascal agent in this country, gates of Dousi itself without being seen German Government. by our gunners,

the awcouragement that naturally attack- used to hold important conferences.

the civilsen derriere. after the The Secret Service officers has been Roumanian

blunder became evident, informed that a powerful wireless station which expressed itself in a political was established on the roof of her house.

organisation, hus not affected the spirits of the nien who must do the fight Moisiuger admitted the correctnes the armies was never botter. So the great existence of the wireless installation. It ing. All reports are that the morale of of their information but declared that she course.

was ignorant until recently of the ting its difficulties. One may hope, bow-effort under Nivalle and Haig will be for ever, thut the German Government will the first time without hampering condi was dismantled. have to make certain concessions of tions that has limited previous efforts. If Parliamentarism."

The Russian Socialist, M. Axelrod, successes in France, they will get them best-known German electrical experts in the Allies are ever to obtain decisive was to Dr. Karl George Frank, one of the said that the propaganda of Lenin for soon. Ona heary no more of the war the United States Mr. Frank, who is the sabotage of the Army was an act of of vaury folly, the only possible consequence of

head of the company which controlled the which would be to crush the Russian Re-which gives reasonable grounds of hope together with Captain Arthur E. Biel- With all this stated as preliminary, Sayville wireless station, was arrested, valution by German absolutiam. Neither for a successful decision, and the end of kowski, an octogenarian officer on the That would be treason to Belgium and to German pance, it is not out of place to tain Bialkowski, celebrated as the master was a separato peace to be thought of the war in a form more durable than a retired list of the German army. Cap other small oppressed nations.

look at the situation here in France from Gorman epy," was taken to the Tombs another, a purely human, angle saorifices that Frauve hus already made parole.

The Prison, but was subsequently released on are known, gloriously, throughout the world. Yet few probably, even an onion, ardont admirers of the French Nation, realise quite concretely the price that France has had to pay thus far for her honour..

M.・・ Troelstre, the Dutch Socialist leader, declared that the Central Empires, surrounded by the Republics, were in The Canadians and Prussians engaged lust refuge of absolutions, It is hardly in hand-to-band fighting for nearly two isely," he said, that Germany will hours in the streets of Arleux before that imitate the example of Hussin, each village was finally wrested from the oc-country having its own methods of set cupation of the enemy. It was much stiffer work than the taking of Vimy tidge for some of the troops concerned, The 11th German Division, which was entrusted with this portion of the Oppy line and with the so-called Arleux switch which ran around the west side of the village, sent battalion of regiments-the 3rd, 78th, nad 161th into the defences included in these trenches. Between Oppy creat of a slight slope, and the Canadians and Arleux the German line held the had to advance against severe inschine- gun fire; but within a very few minutes of the beginning of the attack they were clearing the front and support trenches band driving the Prassions along the two

roads into the village.

Arleux is, or rather was, a community of one straggling struct banked by lisolated groupe of cottages, small gardens, and orchards. These were employed to great advantage by parties of the enemy which sought to hold up our advance until reinforcements could arrive from Fres

open and killed those who still showed.

M. Huysmans then spoke in the name of Belgium, which, he said, symbolized the wish of the small nations to live in liberty, and demanded independence and

reparation.

Finally, the Bulgarian Socialist, M. Sachasoff, pointed out the powerlessness of the Bulgarian working classes against the bellicose spirit of the leading classes.

Wireless Press.

moy. The Chaadiona drove them into the THREE YEARS FOR A CENSOB fight. There were stout and very dogged PENAL SERVITUDE FOR "TITBITS

Prussians among them. Some surrender-. ed, but others had to be bayonoted before they saw the futility of their resistance. Beyond the northern end of the village the usual sunken roada screening the usual machine guns remained a thorn in the side of the Canadians until nightfall, but sewhere they were masters of the day An isolated enemy detachment was left to its own devices until the village had been cleared, and then our batteries levelled its strong point effectively.

DUST AND THIRST.

their work to hunt the Hun. Roada

OF NEWS,"

Anthony T. Spalding, 48, assistant een sor of cables at the Press Bureau, was out to three years' penat servitude at the Old Bailey recently for collecting and com municating information calculated to be useful to the enemy: The hearing was we

camera.

TRANCE'S SUFFERINGS.

One of the next visits of the detectives

Captain Eno Bode, ono of the pier

superintendents of the Hamburg-Ameri can Line, was the next to be arrested. He was taken with Mr. Heinrich von Stade, another offioint of the line, to Ellis Island, where more than a score of suspects are now confined. More than a million and a quarter of her dead. already lie in her soil, more, course of the day.

Sixteen others were taken to gnol in the One of them, an ously crippled and diseased. What these trying to enter the Brooklyn naval yard probably many more than these are ceri-American citizen, was caught as he was nine millions any one can resolve Whole possession of arms and explosives. Their facts imply in a nation of only thirty Beveral others in Brooklyn were found is families, whole names have disappeared," are disappearing from France. It is the activities, thus nipped in the bud, caused peasant class that has suffered most; they the authorities to issue a proclamation took their livelihood from the soil, is a with a map warning enemy aliens to keep French writer has said poignantly, and away from the vicinity of naval yards. A list of street which they may not enter they have given their bodies to the soil,

is sho published,

been in the habit of sending to a friend Mr. Justice Low said Spalding had in the country what he called "tit-bits of information," many of them most un- desirable to end, and one of such a kidd sapping the race

constable.

nor

At Chicago more than 50 Germane, including two women, were lodged in destroy property and to poison the meat gaol after the discovery of a plot to at the stock-yards. Another arrest was that of Mr. Hugo Schmidt, the director of the Deutsche Bank, who came here shortly after the outbreak of the war.

icht Sparrowhawk and arrested its crow Transatlantic che lines off the Massa chusetts coast. The prisoners are Ernest of the Hamburg liner Cincinnati, and two Swedes hired by him. Bethge, formerly a member of the crew

What is less easy to formulate than the actual loss in killed and wounded are the incidental drains on the nation's vitality Man's three great enemies alcoholism which a prolonged war has brought tuberculosis, and syphilis have reared their hands on this battle ground and are We have arrived with a rush at the that the judge could not allow it to be that the Government has appointed naval patrol to-day scized the 38-foot-

This is not hysteria Everge of summer warfare. Tho sur sbines

It is so publicly admitted with real warmth, and the plagues of ferrod to even in court. This friend Parliamentary commissions to study the winter have vanished before the trial communicated with others, one of them situation and recommend measures of thres on a charge of plotting to cist the retained copies of the letters. Ultimately prevention (which, if the commissions of the now season. Our troops go to battle through blinding clouds of dust, in the course of their circulation they work with the usual Parliamentary lan- their faces, hair, caps, and tunics so special const bowledge of a Manchester guor will not come into operation for thickly powdered that they look like

If this had been done to assist the enemy impossible to get, and would be merely legions of millers hastily summoned from Spalding's life would have been forfeited. approximate, meaningless. Those who another year.) Figures, of course, aro

that were ankle deep in mud are hard The judge was satisfied that it was not should know the truth admit the facts. again, but unpleasantly obscure in the one corruptly, otherwise he would have And that the conditions are probably as choking fog thrown up by heavy lorries posed one of the longest sentences in bad or worse on the enemy's side of the sand orawling ambulances around the is power. But Spalding was employed lines makes it no better: it is an inevit columns of fighting men. It weeras only

in confidential position. He had said able result of modern factory war. yesterday that we saw the tramping for that he did not get the nows in that Millions of men cannot be kept herded ward wrapped in heavy greatcoat with position, but the judge could not accept in the terrible conditions of trench, life, in the Mexican' quarter was entered by the rain dripping from their helme; but

Persons entrusted with not for weeks and months, but for years, terday they marched with shirts unbutton-responsible duties in the Censor's offiés without an undermining of physical and ed at the throat or lay on the dry grass a word ought to be breathed outside the of manhood in modern war is not on the must observe the highest good faith. You moral hygiene. The most terrible waste easing their parched threats from water battles cursing the grey waggin as it office in which knowledge had been acquir, battlefields. The incessant hardships, rumbled past, but thankful, in spite of If a censor is found guilty the coursexposure, and unui of treach life maky the dust and other minor trou Seance or fortance of the matters in in the quarters behind the lines,

will nut weigh the comparative insignia certain laxity of discipline inevitable the long winter had been broken,

Both England and Frauce have bees. volved but will nk only to the breach of weak in the treatment of alcohol, but even by the sun Therman prisoners, fat

ionteficed, did their easy tasks in faith involved. No piency will be ex if such restrictiong as they have imposed their shirt sleeves, far from the discon-banded to persons guilt of a similar on the consumption of alcohol had been eerting thunder of our batteries. The offence.

Mr. Justice Low said he ctno reflectary life the situation would be better, rigidly enforced both in civil and mili-

that statement.

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world tragedy is that in the case of One of the special cruelties of this France it has put through the awful ordeal many men of the most sensitive, perfectly able to see what it means with most delicate understanding, who are

by any sentimentality: They know por- fectly well what they are doing and why, the necessity of their sacrifice; but they also realise ne only the highly intelligent man can realise what the sacrifice means to them, even when fare permits them to survive. And they know also that even Mr. B. Bowman, Mr. J. M. Bowman, with final success with the brutal P. F. Caney Mr. E. B. Davies, Mr. there will never again be the France for Johnson, Mr. M. Kavanaugh, Mr. L invader forever driven out of France. Ferguson, Mr. I. Ferguson, Mr. P.

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The gunners served their guns in the advised that all persons engaged cannot be enforced. The strain imposed minimum of army clothing and demanded censor work should abstain from frequent by the continuation of the war has been a heavy toll of the water carriers, who ing clubs or any journalistie atmosphere great for human beings. Therefore, laboured over the hattlefield with their where they might be tempted to make disro.only now but after the war France woleome tins. Never have perspiring

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musight for her race against these three artillerymen been so anxious for news of

fright corses of humanity. SUITLER BEBNACH.

nother, And there is annot be stated in subtler menace,

the battle they could not see. Their guns lle cunningly conerated from the anxious

SUFFERINGS OF THE ENEMY.”

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B. De Souza, Miss B. H. Adderbrooke, country before Vir-en-Artois, "the Eng physical conditions of trend te fald give when ons is conscious that the very Fisher, Mr. C. Blancaffer, Mr. EE Is this not the supreme sacrifice to Mrs. Jacks and 2 children, Miss J. C. fish are again shooting the whole country to the horrors of the modern by at first; object of one's giving is fated not to be Botelho, is "It is maddening," said the major of with their artillery as if mad. It is This danger is not so apparent

Conceicao, Mr. heen pounding bolca in the German are better off than we are. Only half the end to the business, finely organisettish Yes! But nover more that France, whose Wolle, Mt W. Zacharias Mr. E. M

Mr. men under the heal of the brutal conqueror Roos My JW. Savage, Mr. B. D. counter-attacks for three hours. My men ure left in some of the companies. could endure the disgustingly bres children have died by the million, and Joseph, Mine M. R. Jenkins, Mr. F. W. observer, he continued, Lept telling It's a scandal that the troops who were conditions in which they found theunsel will continue to die in to-morow's battles Richardson, and Mr. D. J. Wudan me of the fine show over the hill, of Boche bere before gave up to the enemy quickly the foul smells, foul sights, hellish noise, by the thousands. Not that France for Timbers galloping up with fresh ammu- that beautifully-built position, and that and the slightly lesser evils of mud, fith, ch they have given what is more than nition, and infantry battalions forming we have to lie out in the open. The vermin, which were reducing them, to a whi but a new, a strange, an unknown up in the open to be plastered by my next day he wrote: aholls. I have only dreamed of these lery despite the bad weather is still shoot borne heroically with the thought of France. 67EUGGLS YOR JUSTICE.

The enemy's artistate of primitive squalor. All this was

life, things, and I am not sure they reallying continuously. We have a great deal afterwards home, friends, civil life, exist." The gunners demand news of of artillery in position hereabouts, but pesce,

A But now that "it" has lasted for

there is peculiar significance every person who passes their way from unfortunately it is often short of am- natural order of life, and to many with the naFrench almost never speak Therefortage which is so often linked the higher ground. What are they doing munition. On the 19th be referred to soldier it must seen, as if there is no hope Droit The straggle solely for the so many months it has come to be then that phrane of French pour le now?" they ask. Are we getting into the sufferings of his men in the cold and of ever egenping from the inferno except of the war as a for the right, their infantry? Could you really see wet: It's a tragedy to see the sorrow by a fatal or crippling wound. In many patrie, but as one Frane has become them over in three waves? What does or anything of those ges hand do not instances he must give up all idea of justice. The ideal of the larger ideal Douai look like? Are there many villages know anything of these conditions or the return to normal life. Often his family inextricably woven matrifise on firet.

feelings of the poor infantry. On the has been broken up or his family ties ar fes, makes possible the au It is not a The forward observation officers are 21st, during a continuous British bom so loosened that his permission and that the French have made of one's what digni right, of justice. really happy at last. They are recom- From early morning the mad artillery world. He is content to return to the simple patriotism, a defence That has

bardment, he made the following note: pensed for many months of weary dan are continues the whole day. None of us squalor of his trench and "the comredes "home and one's own people,

him virtually alone in an unfamiliar gerous work in front of the trenches, where they never saw a single grey-coat. dare leave our holes. Our artillery does Proof of this can be had from talking become absorbed in the They had to sit for days and nights is very early. Not one of our airmen officers diaries, which are now being of sacrifice for the sink of all the wY60 nothing. Enemy airmen have been netive with the end right, justies larger altar

shim Ender a torrent of German shells, to go shows himself. On the 2nd, the day published, where highly intelligent, clear that is why, I take it, the homage of over the top," to take their chance with before we attacked, he made the last entryyed men, without a trace of whimper

France has been made the bloody world. the first-line attacking infantry in order in the diary The English began an record the terrible sacrifice of soul that many strangere has gone out to het that the eyes of the artillery might ge forward with the bayonets, they flirted absolutely dreadful artillery and inschine has been exacted from the r. In the because instead of faltering or evision sh with death a score of times each nerve gun fire. Our men never got forward doing of their highest duty they are has acepted the sacrifice to its last bitter racking day, and sometimes they died It appears that our troops could not get giving all the best possibilities of them drop. In these fateful days to come she suddenly at the end of the telephone wire back to our line, and have to lie in the ideally as well as physically that the further the fine fabric of her civilisation, and were buried by the shell that killed open till the evening. No one has any atrip" shall be saved, that the right in order that right and justice may pre- selves; they are wrecking themselves must pour out more lives, weaken still protection. Arras will certainly be an eterual memory to all. Everyone saka to

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