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THE

WAR.

THE RONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25ra, 1917.

BRITISH INFLICT HEAVY CASUALTIES.

GERMANS OCCUPY TARNOPOL.

RUSSIA ENDANGERED BY ANARCHY.

APPALLING OFFICIAL ACCOUNT.

Franco-Helgian bront.

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BRITISH FRONT.

RAIDERS PENETRATE ENEMY

POSITIONS

LONDON, July 24th. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports :~~~This morning's raid southward of Avion penetrated the enemy's positiona on a front of 600, yards to a depth of 300 yards We inflicted henvy ofrualties arid much damage.

•We successfully raided the strongly. hold farm eastward of Oosttaverne.

We repulsed on enemy attack north- westward of Cherisy.

There was aerial fighting throughout yesterday, when the visibility was excel- Jont

Our aeroplanes successfully co-operated with the artillery and dropped three tons of bombs on aerodromes, ammunitieri dumps, and railway sidings with good results. We brought down 'fourteen energy machines, including a raider from England. Nine of ours are missing.

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SUCCESSFUL OPERATION.

LONDON, July 23rd.

Aerial Activities, ...

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GERMAN

VERSION OF AIR

RAID.

ANARCHY IN RUSSIA

A DOLEFUL VIEW OF THE SITUATION

CONFIDENCE IN FRENCH GOVERNMENT.

PACIFIST MOVEMENT

DENOUNCED

PARIS, July 23rd.. The Senate has unanimously passed a vote of confidence in the Government. It trials the Government to suppress propaganda, against discipline for the recurity of the nation.

"Etnoqlab, July 23rd. The Soldiers' and Workmen's Delegates! Council and the Peasants' Congress, after an all-night sitting, passed a resolution LONDON, July Eird. shying that the country was threatened by military débâcle and internal A German official wireless mesange states-Our air squadron bombed Hur-anarchy, declaring that the State and the Revolution were endangered, and wich, with visibly good effects. All our

Pravietsly, M. Clemenceau delivered a machines returned.

proclaiming the Government to be aremarkable speech denouncing pacifism is Government for the safety of the Revolu-generat tion, according it unlimited power to re-establish the organisation of the Army and public order.

Russian Bront.

MUTUAL ATTACKS.

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LONDON, July 23rd.

RUSSIAN FRONT.

A CLIMAX APPROACHING

LONDON, July 23rd.: The situation in Russia is momentarily

A Cormanofficial wireless message states: There has been an artillery battle FAITHLESS TROOPS JEOPARDISE overshadowing the al night long in Flanders,

Air squadrons unsuccessfully attacked our balloons. We brought down eight auroplanes.

The enemy delivered a vigorous night

but we equalised the enemy's success, attack between Avion and Mericourt,

We attacked on the northern slope of Winterberg and carried, several lines of trenches on

a front of one kilometre, taking 230 prisoners.

GERMANS USING "SMOKE- POTS."

LONDON, July 23rd.

SUCCESS.

Western

Front. Events seem to be approaching a sort of climax.

LONDON, July 23rd..

The news that the Soldiers and Work A Russian official wireless message

inn's Delugates and the Peasants Dele anys:We attacked in the direction of

gatus have given the Government full Vilna, penetrating to a depth of two power is welcomed, as are the indications miles in some places in the neighbour-that the Government wilf sternly deal hood of Krevo. We took over one thou with the forces of anarchy, sand prisoners.

The instability and moral weakness of certain detachments are jeopardising the development of further success, but a great number of our officers have porished gallantly fulfilling their duties,

The enemy continues

tween the Bereth, the offensive be

Strypa and the

Zlotalipa and has occupied four villages.

At Petrograd the all-important ques tion is: Will M. Kerensky be able to stay the rot at the Front, which un- doubtedly threatens to create the most dangerous menace yet experienced 1:

APPALLING STATE OF AFFAIRS

AT THE FRONT.

An appalling offcial account of the

Amid cheers, M. Ribot said by he knew the whole of Parliament was at the back of him he could govern more strongly Germany needed peace and meant to secure it in any way she could.. In the presence of the campaign of treachery, the police must redoable its viligance. The foul German propaganda must be suppressed. If France wished for peace through war weariness, she mo longer was worthly to be called France There must be no blind optimiam and also no excessive uneasiness,France could Bot be conquered,

PROHIBITION.” THE NEED FOR DEFINING TERMS,

BY CANON HORSLEY.)

It is well known, and generally for getten, that to define terms used in urgu- hunt or controversy avoids waste of time and the probubility of mutual misunder standing. The old parable of the knights and the shield: that was golden on one side and silver on the other shows that often men would see that there was no reason for variance when they under stood by definition what was only cause of difference while it remained undefined And, at the worst, accurate definition would only result in its being so evident held by cach, but they must agree to that nothing could reconcile the views

differ.

This need for definition is much in evidence in what is being now, said and written for or against the various pro- posals for the restriction, for the control, of the abolition of the traffic in alcoholic liquors. To begin with, some use the word alcobol as if it corinated and in- it as the equivalent of spirits only while cluded all intoxicating liquors; some use others avoid confusion by using it only in its real sense as a narcotic, poison and jam, in beer, and in vodka, found in varying proportions in hrenri

But especially it is necessary just now for writers and speakers to define what they mean by Prohibition. There are five ways in which it is being commonly used

REPAIRING GERMAN RUIN INn discussion:

FRANCE,

THOUSANDS OF MAIMED TREES RESTORED.

spondent of the United Press of America Mr. Henry Wood, the Special Corre, with the French Armies, describes how the French have rescued many of the trees mutilated by the Germans in their retreat Ho says:-

"There were thousands of trees that the close pursuit of the French prevented the Germang from completely cutting down

I heard at a conference this week the argument used that we need not be afraid of the word, since the Control Board had introduced Prohibition in the Carlisle aret.

Reuter's Correspondent at the French There is intense enemy artillery netivit situation on the South Western Front instead the tree-killers cut off a cirole off in measure a prohibition of ardent spirits

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Headquarters says that owing to the fact that the bombarded position is usually entirely cut off from communication with the rear, the Germans are now using “intelligence” bombs and shells in order to communicate with the rear during a bombardment, The boints are fired from trench mortars with a range of Ove hundred yards, in order to establish com- municntion with the first line under Bombardment and the battalion or regi monial commands in the rear, while shells

south of Berezovica and Velka/

GERMAN ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHTING.

has been received by the Russian Govern ment. It says that a fatal crisis has

occurred in the morale of the troops.

Most of the units are completely dis organised and the offensive spirit has A German oficial wireless gutterly disappeared. Orders ats not

LONDON, July 23rd.

states:A Russion attack to the south- west of Dvinsk failed.

A Rassian attack at Krevo penetrated our position, but a counter-attack drove the enemy out except at two points,

Sereth developed and the Russians re

Our counter-attack to the south of the

treated into the Carpathians.

heeded, and exhortations by comrades are replied to by threats and shots.

Sonie elements have voluntarily evacuated positions, without awaiting the approach of the enemy. Sometimes

urgent orders for reinforcements are discussed, for hours

For a distance of hundreds of vorsts,

are proceeding to the rear, and frequently

`entire units desert.

Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig rare fired from mine-throwers at a range We occupied heights immediately to long file of robust and shameless desesters porta:--We carried out a successful local of thirteen hundred yards in order to operation to the south of Avion and

the south local of reached our objectives with little loss. commands with the artillery and brigade link up the battalion and regimental

We took over fifty prisoners.

headquarters These bombs and shells. Fall in an agreed spot, thus reducing the danger to a minimum.

We raided and bombed dug-outs to the south of Harrincourt and in the neigh- bourhoods of Bullecourt and Hollebeke. We repulsed raids at Lambarizyde and south-east of Loos.

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FRENCH FRONT.

VIOLENT BOMBARDMENT

CONTINUES

the west of Tarnopol and crossed the Rohatyn Ostrow Railway, while we have begun a forward movement astride the Dniester. The Russians strongly resisted to the south of the railway.

Extreme measures are newczary to nvert a catastrophe, and the Commander in-Chief of the Western Front has ordered Russian activity has increased along the deserters to be fired on, as he must the ridge of the Carpathians as far astake merciless action against the cowards

Patna. Lively fre on the Lower Seroth indicates impending battles.

GERMANS OCCUPY TARNOPOL

Another ruse to which the enemy is in- creasingly resorting is the concealing of positions with smoke. A recently captur ed Order to the enemy artillery announces that a larger number of smoke-pots will bo issued to batteries. When a battery is under are directed from an aeroplane, theac will be placed to the windward of the battery, which the furnes will concent.onenpied Tarnopol, Obviously smoke can also be utilised to conceal trenches and redoubts, provided the wind is favourable to the enemy,

PARIB, July 24th. A communiqué states -The bombard ment of our positions at Hurtebise and in the Craoane region continues most violent, especially on the California Plateau. There was no infantry action.

Eight hundred and fifty, shells were ed efficers are instructing artillery com thrown into Eheime to-day.

In Champagne a German attack.north- west of Moni Cornillet was completely repulsed.

Our batteries were most active against organisations in the Morenvillers region. A long-range German gun fired one hund red shells north of Nancy. There were no casualties. We carried out a reprisal by effective fire on works at the Chatean. Salins.

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VIOLENT FIGHTING.

ARIS, July 23rd.

The enemy is also giving more atten- tion than ever to the possibilities of gas- shells, in the use of which specially train-

manders,

Africa,

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EAST AFRICA OPERATIONS.

TWO ENEMY POSITIONS EVACUATED.

LONDON, July 3rd.

An East African official message. statesThe enemy evacuated Mtabakama out the 17th instant. We pursued the main body which occupied a ridge to the A communiqué says:-German attack, north of Narongombe, which we attacked accompanied by violent bombardments, on the 19th. There was severe fighting, continued last night on the plateau before the enemy stubbornly resisting and fre- Craonne to Casemates After the finish of quently counter attacking, sustaining the bombardments and extremely violent heavy losses. Chur casualties were also attempts, the enemy succeeded in pene trating our first line, but an immediate vigorous counter-attack ejected him from all but a small portion.

The struggle on the California Plateau only ended late at night, and, despite all his efforts, the enemy was unable to drive us off the Plateau..

considerable.

The enemy evacuated Kitope, and wo drove the rearguards towards Madaba. The enemy retreat towards Mahenge con- tinues.

Belgian columns are pursuing a road German column southward through Engaruka, to the west of Lake Natron.

LONDON, July 3rd. Reater learns that the Germans have

The Near East.

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THE EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN.

LONDON, July 23rd..

An official message from Egypt states

The Balkans.

who are selling Russia and the Revolu- tion.

AGA KHAN CHAMPIONS VISCOUNT HARDINGE.

YOU

just nor politic, with restriction,--which This was ernfusing Probibition, which the Board has considered neither has always been co-existent with any tolerance of the liquor traffic by national law. One might as well say that sugar to the novel restrictions so salutary and is now prohibited, as to apply the term so efficacious in the last two years. There may be locally, or temporarily, ar bark around the trunk, which with a few (and most believe that a general prohibi days exposure to the sun would be tion of such soon after the war began sufficient to kill peach, plum, apple, would have met with quite insignificant apricot, and cherry trees that had been opposition); but nowhere has a prohibi half a century attaining their productive ness. These trees presented the asics tion of beer been carried out. problem. The wounds were merely hound up like the wounds of a soldier. Thoa- sands of Army surgeons and Red Cross ambalance drivers and stretcher-bearers ouses, and this Braids of feetotalers assisted in this work. The circle where have adopted for all their life, or at any the bark had been cut away was first rate since they seriously considered the davered with a special grafting cement question. In this sense the King is and the entire wound then carefully prohibitionist, And, as one who anticipat- bandaged up-often with bandages that ed his advice oy nearly forty years, I had been prepared for human hubs. So can only regret that so very few havo great was the aunber of trees that had followed his advice and example. Against to be dressed in this way that the entire this personal prohibition of what at the available supply of grafting preparation best can only be described as a luxury, was quickly exhausted. Tar was then there can nothing be said while we are

about the dressed wound was as effective used as a substitute and bandages also called upon to self-denial even in the had to be found, and in the end it was necessities of life. discovered that inoss twisted and tied as anything else, geng

2. There is the personal prohibition which denies all entrance of all terns of aleholic liquurs to our bodies ur on

There is the now ancient ery of kome

A nigth more serious problem presented zealous temperance advocates and or itself where the trees had been entirely ganisations. The total and inediate cal or sawn down. But here French suppression of the liquor traffic,*** which gus also solved the problem. The having failed in our land for two fer from the ground, were first trimmed that the stress of war-time will at last suus, protruding usually two or three generations at least, now thinks, or hopes, off so as to conserve the with the grafting paste and carefully tion, consider that the demand for sap and prevent give it some chance of prevailing Others, the steach of the roots, and then treated equally strong in their personal prohibi- bandaged till the cut-down tree lying, a national veto is a hindrance to national the side hudded from the sun and life that remained in it. Branches that sowed progressive restriction. It is a pious great numbers of bads and other signs of opinion, an aspiration after an ideal, bur exceptional vitality were then cut off there is no evidence that Parliament or and finally grafted into the carefully the nation consider il a matter of pras prepared stumps To-day these grafts are

tical politics_der in full leaf and blossom. The roots 4. There is the cry with much more to appear to have been entirely saved by this process and years have been saved in restoring France the cut-down orchards of On every hand are also to be seen care ing its little painted sign fully cultivated and sown fields onch bear cultivé par l'Armée.”

Terrain

LONDON, July 3rd. The Aga Khan, in the course of a long letter in the Zines supporting Viscount Hardinge, says If any Indian were now in either House of Parliament, no matter of what religion, Province or the fields are those whose guns arid The few horses that are being used for political complexion, he would have been the side of the field to be taken up again ammunition caissons wait unharnessed at eager to testify in the Mesopotamian as soon as a little ploughing or harrowing debates to the strength and unanimity sional old man or old woman working is done. Likewise, txcept for an occa of Indian admiration for and attachment way on small gardens, all of the

work of the fields is being done by the ignorant attacks made upon him into or from the front, they stop and to Viscount Hardinge and to condemn soldiers. As the troops pass, either going dedicate the day to the cnitivation of the redeemed fields. The next day they pass on and other troops take up the work

commend it, of war time prohibition, urged with a wealth of figures that none should ignore by the Strength of Britain Movement. This is supported both by those who have consistently and persia- tently advocated an entirely dry Eng land, and by others who do not agree with them, but yet think an exceptional, But there is one most important ques time justifies an exceptional measure,

pension to be given to those whose tion which they generally eyude. Is com licences you temporarily abolish? The sation and in correspondence I have had, great majority seem to me,in conver to scout the idea of giving compensation. some evidence must be adduced that the But obviously this must be faced, and

nation, which for good or for evil ha deliberately made compensation part of its policy, in ready to prohit without. any solatium the trade which Mr Ba four's Act established and endowed in w

SMUTS THE APOSTLE OF way hitherto unknown..

PEACE"

Two enemy cavalry force on the 19th,

some portion of the Press. My country instant pushed nine miles to the west of

men of all shades of thờnght feel that lie Beersheba. Our mounted forces drove them back to Beersheba.

has been most unjustly and ungratefully We successfully treated, and I am constrained to write raided trenches to the south-west of on their behalf. Viscount Hardinge's work Gazz

in India, both in peace and war, should be judged as a whole and not alone by Under the heading Satuts the Apostle time prohibition, distinctly mean.com- B. And others, while upholding war- a temporary breakdown of military of Peace," the Cologne Gazette commenta arrangements in Mesopotamia. The hold as follows on a brief report of the mecz pensation as a matter of justice. In this Viscount Hardinge has upon the affectioning of the League of Nations Society:

case some estimate should be afforded of and gratitude of India has not been Smuts and the English and indeed also the sum required, and also of what would diminished by the findings of the Com Wilson and the United States, France, happen if peace quickly followed the mission The Mesopotamian breakdown nad Russia should use their new peace prohibition. Is the enm paid to be was the inevitable result of a mistaken broom on their own door-step, where it measured by the duration of the war, or policy so long pursued in relation to is most wanted. Who repudiated with is it to be adequate to the continued Indian military resource, actual and contemptuous laughter all attempts to and eternal prohibition which the more potential. Every well-informed man tanke peace? Who for decades preached ardent disire and profess to expect as a knew during the last ten years of the and practised revenge Whe promot result of a temporary measure? Canada inevitability of war with Germany, but ed the Pan-Slav agitation policy and lit has shown us that this is matter as to spective utilisation of Indian military made the encirclement policy the motto of sulted, and not merely those who remain no attempt was made to adjust the pro conflagration after conflagration Who which our men abroad should be con- strength to such a contingency. Yet Europe Who sent masses of munitions at home, and our officers and men in Our aeroplanes bombed Demirbissat came, Viscount Hardinge, rightly trusting, which to-day, in spite of everything, is whether, in the years of demobilisation

when the monient of the world crisis over the seas to destroy a free and Puljovo.

free people, the Army should be consulted as to India's profound loyalty to the Emperor General,

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THE SALONICA FRONT.

LONDON, July 23rd.

An official message. from Salonika states:We successfully raided Homon dos, south-west of Berez.

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AGRICULTURISTS' WAGES.

LONDON, July 23rd, The House of Commons has rejected the thirty-shillings minimum wage amend ment in connection with the Corn Pio dnetion Bill

and her indignant repudiation of for maintaining itself in victorious de- and return home, there is to for them

TUELA

A

to

total abstinence in every club and res taurant and home,

lence against all these hostil aseüuits? efforts to induce her to revolt, sent Who was the diplomatist whom the Eng the flower of the Indian

France,

list ought have watched better 1 Was and it arrived it not Peace Grey And the others, were mind, each one of us and a nation, as time to share in the glory of they not Peace Edward; the Peace Tsar, to what we mean by Prohibition, and Obviously we should make un our saving: Calsis No request from Engand Peace Wilson with his Notes When land for help in any of the theatres of war one reads Smuts speech and thinks of what we desire it should entail. Use was refused. Viscount Hardinge relied England one is tempted to suppose that personal abstinence should not make na on his military advisers and on the the South African ironically holding deny all liberty of thojne to nthère. Our unanimity of expert official opinion up a mirror before the English. But un bright visions of an seal tonlil at sa sponse, considering the means immeing to le habit of all who are English difference between what we cho. ld like to His fault was one of tea generous re fortunately he is only a hypocrite, accord- darzin us that we beenma kind to the upon India, Indian opinion heartily united war agitators are how badly things as in many things, diately available, to the many calls made by nature or by choice. Now, when the got and what we are likatn endorses the refusal of Mr. Balfour to are going, they might perhaps make peace, the enemy of the Recept the resignation of Viscount Hard But they had peace. Why did they pet of a shadow

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