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THE WAR.
BRITAIN'S AIR
DEFENCE.
STATEMENT BY THE PREMIER.
PLIGHT OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
BETHMANN-HOLLWEG'S FALL IMMINENT.
FRENCH RAID GERMAN TOWNS.
Franco-Belgian Front,
Naval Activities.
LATEST CABLES.
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{THLOUGE REUTER'S AGENUY.}
(THROUGH REUTRE'S AGENCY.]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 12ra, 1917.
LATEST UABLES.
Mr. Norton Griffiths related his experi CHINESE TELEGRAMS. ences at the front, confirming the British aerial supremacy there.
[BY COURTESY OF THE SAN PO."
BRITAIN'S AIR DEFENCE.
REPORT OF SECRET SESSION.
LONDON, July 10th.
The report of the Secret Session of Parliament in connection with Britain's |-aerial defence says :
Mr. Lloyd George pointed out that our naval aeroplanes, during the last four oi five months, dropped 70 tons of explosives on German nerodromes in northern Bel giun, dropping six tons on the night preceding the c raid, whereas the Germans only dropped two tons on England. The Government's first consideration was e ace that the army in France was suffici ontly supplied with aeroplanes, without
DARING FRENCH AIR RAIDS. GOOD WORK BY TRAWLER. which advance was impossible. The 28
AN EXCITING STORY.
LONDON, July 10th. Bouter's correspondent at the French Headquarters sends the story of the bou. bardment el a Krupp factory in the town of Essen by Sergeant Aviator Gallois on Friday. Gallois' machine was one of 64 which started simultaneously for various objectives behind the enemy front. All carried out their mission and returned to the starting point, except two machines, within VG hours. Gallois says:-" We started at 9.20 in the evening. Four of in ande for Essen. The night was dark and I soon lost sight of the others. The course lay over Metz and Theouvillo, down to Novelle' and then to Coblentz
French batteries fired at me when travers. ing the line. There were searchlights playing at Metz but I passed undetected, I continued steering by compass to Treves, where I heard my comrades bombing the town and knew I was keeping my direc
tion.
I threw my earge of bombs, counting ten between ench throw. Then I made for
home, safely travelling the same route. Frequently.I was fired at."
TWO ENEMY SEAPLANES
DESTROYED.
Mr. Claude Lowther asked for more cohesion between the air and land de
fencek.
*SECRECY DISFAVOURED Another message says thut the reports of the Secret Session were too late for detailed comments by the morning papers, but the secrecy evidently meets with little favour
--BARLIER CABLES,
COTTON WORKERS AND THEIR WAGES.
LONDON, July 9th.. The Card-Boom Workers Amalgamation, representing half a million operatives mostly women, have applied for 25 civilian fatalities were regrettable, but por cont, advance in wages. The Spin- unless there was a suficiency of aero ners' Federation will consider the demand planes of the front the army's keses on the 13th. The card-room workers' might enaily be 28,000. The Germans wages have been advancod 20 per cent. realised as much as we did the importance since the war. of aeroplane work to secure the protec
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LONDON, July 10th. The Admiralty reports: The Commo dore at Lowestoft reports that on Mon day evening the armed trawler, feelandtion of soldiers' lives. destroyed two eneany seaplanes and brought in four prisoners to port.
AUSTRALIAN STEAMER
BEACHED.
EXPLOSIONS IN THE HOLD.
Meznouuse, July 10th.
The 9,000 ton steamer Cumberland,
seriously damaged by two explosions in the hold, which rented the buil The
vessel was bouched at Gobe Island.
FRENCH LINER SUNK.
PARIS, July 10th
Nothing would encourage the Germane more than to know that by bombing! English towns we were forced to with draw fighting squadrons from France. Nothing would be more disastrous to the conduct of military operations than to encourage the Germans to believe that the
*** COTTON
ABROAD."
LONDON, July ath. The Cotton Control Board states that the expression, cotton abroad applies to cotton not shipped prior to June 29th. Unsold cotton shipped, or in transit by sea, prior to June 20th must be considered stock in England and dealt with accord-
FRENCH COTTON DEALING.
PARIS, July 9th..
bound from Sydney to England, has been raids excite a clamour in England resulting to the regulations issued on July 6th
ing in the Government being unable to relating to spot" cotton. resist the demand for the withdrawal of aeroplanes from the front. If they were unable to provide aeroplanes for the front as well as for defence against raids, the army must come first. It was vitally important that Germany should know this. He saw the people in the district a few hours after the raid, and he had never seen peoplo face disaster better.
There was cheerfulness and constancy, and ng signs of panic.
The French liner Caledonien was sunk in the eastern Mediterranean on June 30th either by a mine or a torpedo. There were 481 aboard, of whom 380 were saved.
PLUCKY FIGHT.
PARIS, July 10th.
The Freuch steamer Diane pluckily fought a submarine of June 5th until the latter was sunk, after åring 100 shots,
The Captain has been decorated with the War Cross,
The 84 machines participating in the operations distributed rearly seven tons of high explosive. Eleven dropped two and half tons on Treves. The correspond. ent emphasises the unquestionable superi. [zneral. ority of the French air-service over the enemy, reducing the enemy activities to occasional hurried raids. During the Aisne buttle 1,008 air fights occurred over the Gornun lince, compared with 395 over
ourg.
BRITISH ADVANCE.
LONDON, July 10th, Field Marshal Sir, Douglas Huig re ports: We advanced our fine slightly last night wastward of Oosttaverne,
We
also successfully raided southward of the
Ypres Comines canal.
AIR-RAID ON ESSEN,
GERMANY VERY SECRETIVE..
AMSTERDAM, July 10th. According to reports which are trick- ting through the German censorship re- garding the air-raid on Essen, the first
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(TROUGH BITTER'S AGENCY.] "HANGING IN THE BALANCE."
FATE OF BETHMANN HOLLWEG,
LONDON, July 10th.
The fate of Dr. von Bathmann Hollweg, the German Chancellor, is still hanging in the balance. Numerous political con- ferences are being held in Berlin. Dr. Bethmann Hollweg is making a last effort to rally a narrow majority of National- Liberals and Conservatives with a body of Clericals. The latest report is that General Hindenburg will succeed Beth- mann Hollweg.
PLIGHT OF AUSTRIA,
FAST BECOMING DESPERATE.
ZURICH, July 10th.
The Decree of June 22nd, teraporarily closing the Havre Cotton Exchange, has been repealed, but the transactions have been restricted by rules Axing the prices, MESOPOTAMIA DEBATE.
LONDON, July 7th.
In the House of Commons, replying to Col. Lynch, Mr. Bogar Law said that if, the House so desired, as he thought was probable, he would give two days to the Mesopotamia debate, which would occur on the motion for adjournment,
ALLIED AND NEUTRAL
SHIPPING,., FIRM CONTROL TO. BE
MAINTAINED.
CWUNG NOOI
EIGHTING IMMINENT.
SHANGHAI, July 11th Chang sun troups will not surrender
THEY'RE ALL DOING IT.
LITTLE THINGS THAT HAPPEN AT-
THE FRONT
BY CAPT. ALAN H, BURGOYNE, ALIU
i had much enjoyed my lunch, and was weking repose :. Our mess is recounted scrond to none," thanks to the acquisition as cook of a muster chef who had also stipendiary magistrate, an adept in com heen proved, to the satisfaction, of a
mandeering, An army fights on its stomach; when I started to wakefulness, Tan Chisni opposes the restoration of two rats were fighting on mint. Not that the old Parliament.
and the Republican troops will therefore attack then.
CHANG HSEN'S SECRETARY, KILLED.
Wang Shengshi, Chang Hann's secre tary, was killed at Poking.
Feng Lin-kits, Li Chin chun and Chang Chiu-fang escaped to Tientsin, but they have now been caught by Republican troops,
THE WAR AND BIBLE PROPHECY.
BY THORPE LEE.]
I heard of it first from the wife of a private schoolmaster. When she spoke of "the encouragements we night receive from prophecy" I looked rather blankly at her, and she then went on to explain clearly a fulfilment of the prediction that that the operations in Palestine word
in the last days the Jews should go back to their early home,
I ventured the suggestion that there was nothing co prevent their going back at any time, but that they refused Laltoger to entertain the idea. She shook
her head sagoly and said, "Ah, well, wej shall see."
this roused me we of our compnay are made of far sterner stuff. It was tho voice of my most joyous subaltern, to wit, Little Herbert.
that muddy
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I started 14 Platoon on that boyau behind Curly Trench, sir, and they got going well. Now Corporal James re- ports the pump has sunk-will you come And have a look?
*The power of the eye is proverbind, mine to raise a pump from the mud, oh, but it requires more than a look from Herbert, replied engagingly,
With which we proceeded. It was a lovely day in spring, and a lark (disre- garding the official warnings) and ex- posed itself bodily far above the parapet Forty yards away we heard two Huns singing a dust from Zig-Zng" in per- fect English. Burring this, it was a most pleasant war,
We soon reached the fatigue party. The French here was, thanks to the sub- sidenes of both sides, eight feet wide, and about te men, led by a blasphemous ser pride of place as deep divers in the mud. geant, were apparently competing for
Do
you believe in preerniment? I do first shoil, and instinctively knew it
soptimes. I heard the whistle of the
WEB meant for us. Next only to manly beauty, courage is the striking charac teristic of 14 Pintoon; in this they fellow
not a little their company commander. Bang! This expresses a very rude and loud noise representing the bursting of whizz-bong or pip-squeak, The four men carrying the rescued pump 'dropped itinatanter.
"Owl Rite on my ---
foot, you par- rot-faced cheese-mite!" only it wasn't that.
After this two or three references in print to the Messianic meaning of the people in a train talking on the subject, war caught my notice. Then I heard two Still I should have paid little attention to what I had read and heard if I had not found that one of our most trusted | be cheaper fer the country. " and most competent admirals, holding a high command, is fienly convinced that the events we nie living through must develop in accord with the prophecies
Bang --some more noise.
Men I said, get back to the front ne--you mustn't take risks; they're on to us." Bang 1 saw Private Mugg's cap go sailing into the air.
There," he cried, looking after i lust this week,'
that's the third blooming bonnet. I've
ope they takes yer blinking 'ead next time, Ugly!
said 2
pal will
Bang, soap?
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Oh, ell shrapnel, is it? and we all ducked, mechanically but quite use- light shelter where reserve bombs rested lessly, Then the C.S.M. remembered a contained in the Book of Daniel and in the Revelation" of St. John the Divine.
in their thousands.
Bang This is how the admiraj explained it
#{ went another shell, much louder this time. to mo There were two peliminaries to Tuning op with the heavies mur be completed before the end could be mured Little Herbert. They must have looked for One was the return of the learned you're here, sir, and are frighten Jows to Palestine, all the Jews. minded we might break through! I think y you, including the Ten last Tribes, who young man was pulling my leg, but ho have got to be found." The other event didn't-show it. is the reconstitution of the Roman Empire. Now, if you consider car fully," he anid, you will find that all the countries which did form the Roman | bigger. Empire are coming together. Germany Cru-ump and our whole shelter shook. aver did."
He was convinced that if the country realised that it was necessary to establish air-supremacy in order to win victory at the front it would be prepared to tak: risks. The Germans realised the im portance of air-supremacy: We hard made prodigious efforts during the past twelve months. We had enormously increased our capacity for manufacturing machines in the last half-year, inrensing the number of employees in acroplane works by 23,000. We had also improved the methods of organisation and the type of machines arrangement is under negotiation design-French and of ourselves. It is significant, The Government's information showed ed to give America and Britain a firm isn't it?" that the Gerruan capacity for production grasp of all allied and neutral shipping was inadequate for competing with ours,
|by the strictest control of coal and fuel
Hitherto our increase in production was
supplies.
only gradual. Now it was going up by leaps and bounds, April's strike lost us between 150 and 200 machines
The Government hoped, as soon possible, to meet not only the army re- quirements, but to provide sufficient aero- planes to make raids impossible. He believed that if the situation were ex- plained to the people who were suffering,
WASHINGTON, July 9th. The Guvernment has announced that an
Russia never did," I interrupted;, "No," he admitted." thay is true. But let me go on,
A heighteen-hinch," said the C.S.M., enunciating with curious emphasis. might have been a 5.9in, but it wasn't
I og right, muttered Little Her- bert, it's you they want, sir, I hate dying so young and fresh salmon for
dinner, too!" France, Eugland, Italy, Roumania, Spain on the verge of joining in, the northern parts of Africa. which were Roman, in the hands of the
I find not the heart to drag in Russia
up for the advent of the next hostile dose, Herbert," I said, both ears pricked if I am spared I will tell you the tragic story of a useless subaltern who was mur dered in a horrible fashion by his com
cours said there was ample justifica pany commander. The president of the
hullo here comes a banch
again.
This cannot be Armageddon," the Crump! Roar herr-r crash This admiral went on. I am clear about means in unimaginable amount of noise. that. This must be the period of wars Please think of an ammunition dump exporting to Germany enormous quandon there must be the Tribulation
and rumours of wars which was to come exploding a foot from your ear. I did before the Last Days. Before Armaged- not lose consciousness, Fin sorry to say, titles of material, including copper, zine,
of so I heard most of my companious re
It is revealed that Sweden has been
manganes, sulphur, and cotton, sub, stitutes for high explosives, for the manu- facture of munitions. Similarly, iron ore shipments have been supplemented by imports from the United States,
Sweden, moreover, has used her rail
In debate in the Reichirath the de they would be capable of rising to the ways against the Allies, and has held up a
their return to Palestine.”
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bombs fell at twa in the morning near paties from all parts of Austria-Hungary great appeal.cheerfully, and accept-rinarge amount of shipping at her ports. Cranks of the type of the Pev. Mr. Baxter, only a hurried glance was apparently
Almenrath, in the vicinity of Cologne, declared that the situation of the mass of wrocking houses. The inhabitants rushed the population was fast becoming deeper for shelter. Shortly after a storm of fire ate. Galicia, the granary of Austria, was broke out from the anti-aircraft guns at completely bars. Duesseldorf, Oberhausen, Essen, Muel heun and elsewhere, while searchlights searched the sky in all directions.
The greatest secrecy was observed, re garding the extent of the damage, but travellers speak of the perturbation of the local population. Russian Front.
EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.] GENERAL ACTIVITY, WOMEN OFF TO THE FRONT.
PETROGRAD, July 8th.
A battalion of the Rietal garrison, com- posed of 400 mon and seven women, were warmly welcomed en route to the front.
A telegram from Minsk describes the beginning of military activity on several parts of the front, including a prolonged and intense artillery due) in the Bravo Bmorgon region.
A German Socialist declared that it was impossible to tell how long the workers would bear the privationa. The wrath of the lower classes could not be kept down with bayoneta
AMERICA'S ARMY.
WASHINGTON, July 10th. President Wilson has issued a preclams, tion to the effect that he is drafting the entire National Guard into the army on August 6th.
EARLIER CABLES:
GREECE'S FINANCES. PROMISE OF SUPPORT.
Mr. Bonar Law, replying to questions,
Consequently, it has become imperative to force Sweden's tonnage on the world's trade routes, which can be done by the control of oil and fuel.
SILVER,
said the opinion of experts was that our types of machines were as good as the Germans. He profoundly disagreed with the view expressed that the Prime Minis ter's speech might have been made in public, as the most vital passages were
July 9th:
asentially of a secret character. Mr. plks are short. There is
Silver is quoted at 30 15-16. The sup general Bonar Law pointed out that he French demand, and the market is steady. front was nearer important German cities. than oars, therefore it was natural that the French should play a larger part in offensive operations against them, which they had done with remarkable success and immunity during the last few days While not regarding the raids on London as unimportant, the balance of military advantage must be considered. People who were demanding an instant produc tion of vast numbers of acroplanes were
GENERAL BRUSILOFE SPEAKS OUT.
the Children of Israel which will follow marks; the CBM. was not in it with Little Herbert I opened my eyes and I was listening with amazed attention, fished my pipe stem out of my throat, pinching myself furtively to make sure thus relieving the tension. that I was awake. "I see you have given
The shelter had been hurriedly recon- some thought to these matters," he constructed without any human help. When tinued, Many people would regard all we entered into occupation it had been that I am saying as foolishness.
oblong and fairly regular in shape. It there are so many pieces that all fit in ance, for the door had been transferred was now largely impressionist in appear- I used to have an idea that all this out of one side. together in
wonderful way."
to the roof, and a nice tree was growing kind of thing, was confined to a few of our stat-major-of-course, it was who used to warn the world in a wokly roasting in the lower branches. He was newspaper that it I mean the world; not content with his perch, and struggled not the newspaper-was about to come to vigorously, crowing the while. A curious an end. But I have had my eyes opened, noise made me look behind Little Her There is clearly a large body of opinion |bert was trying to tunnel to Australia in favour of interpreting the war as a with his head, and had got well past his fulfilment of Biblical prophecy. Even chin. men of influence and ability share this
I took one thousand and forty-seven view. I conclude, as the Arab physician exploded but quite good. Mills bombs in Browning's great poem concluded his off my own body and put Herbert right letter on the death and revival of Lazarus, side up we then both gripped bandy with the comment, “ It is strange.
parts of the C.S.M. This all took, say, eight seconds, and then some of my other senses returned to me. I observed that the choice of exits was varied, though.. cramped; then we all caughed, and we' observed a drab green air altering in Es, upon us this from the
It's
northern front that two German officers MAN
RUSSIAN GENERAL S BLUNT REPLY TO GERMAN PEACE OVERTURES.
The Busskaya Volya learns from the
nippy, I oried, chowing my with a white flag and a bugler recently thaki bandkerchief, which, fortunately A great impression has been produced approached the Russian lines in the had been washed less than a fortnight in Odessa by a speech in which General Dvinak region and asked to be conducted hack. We jumped awfully nippy and Brusiloff pointed out certain serious short to the General in Command for the did a record hundred yards down that comings in the Army and deplored the purpose of opening pourparlers, trench towards the front line, agitation for the conclusion of a pre- General Dragomiroff authorized them Pretty reader, have you ever licked a mature peace, the relaxation of discipto be taken in i motor to Dvinsk with toad Have you imagined your tongue line, the number of deserters, and the their eyes bandaged. In reply to General looking and feeling like a yellow plush tendency to fraternize with the enemy Dragomiroff the Germans made vague sofa? If not, you cannot bring to mind that has manifested itself since Easter. statements as to paving the way for more the joys of your first gas-shell. These He stated that the enemy tempted the concrete negotiations with the Russian two examples are but the hors d'espre of troops by offers of vodka, and endes Government They anggested that they imaginings; as a liqueur, gas is a voured to deceive them by proclamations, Russian and German armies should fix failure, as a meat, over satisfying. Before leaving for Balonika, M. Jon-ant to forget the inherent limits to the He mentioned an instance in which the a neutral zone, such as the Alexandrovsk nart announced that he would devote his extent of the rate of such increase, and on Germans advancing with vodka and tions General Dragomiroff bluntly re. Russian artillery had prepared to are road, for the purpose of peace negotia efforts in Paris and London to strengthen the imperative demands of other services white faga, te also dwelt on the nam jected the proposal, adding that it in ing Greeco's finances He referred in a Mr. Jonson Hicks and Sir Henry influence in the rear along the railways, the Cermace stated that they had no bers of deserters, who exercised a baneful volved treachery towards the Allies. As Battering manner to the uniform mode Dalziel criticised the measures taken to and in the villages. He declared that orders to proceed to Petrograd General rateness of M. Venizelos attitude,
lack of discipline must entail the ruin Dragomiro sent them back to their own of Russia
lines f
ATHENE, July 8th,
cope withe raid.
Were we given the Victoria Cross, o despatches? Oh, dear, no we kept quiet moted on the field, or even mentionea in and joined that other thres and a half million or so who are having similar #1- periences twice a week, winter and sun- will, while & Hun is here tough de ter, and (being England's Oliver Twist, daily ask for more. [Hut * shall not.Daily Papress SMP
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