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THE

WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10TH, 1917.

STRONG ALLIED ATTACKS IN WEST

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE RESUMED.

FATE OF THE GERMAN RAIDERS.

Branco-Helgian bront

BARLIER CABLES.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BRITISH · FRONT;

ANOTHER RAID

LONDON, August 8th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig ro porte-We raided last night near Lem hartzy do.

The enemy's artillery is active east and north of Ypres, particularly in the neigh. bourhoods of Westlook and the Ypres Staden Railway, ̈`

AERIAL BOMBING, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Baig re-

-ports: --In heavy rain, the French gained ground north-west of Bisschoote. We re pulsed ruidors porth of Roux in the neighbourhood of Oppy.

STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE.

LONDON, August 8th.

The greatest interest is being taken in the National Labour Conference, to take place on August 10th, which is to decide whether delegates will be sent to Stock holm Opinion in the party is sharply divided and

important preliminary meetings have been necessary in order to reach decisions regarding the course to be adopted by the bodies attending the Conference.

representative

LIBERATION OF SERBIA BRITAIN FIRM TO THE END.

Lospont August St,

STRIKES IN AUSTRALIA,

LONDON, August 7th. Twenty thousand railwaymen and tramwaymen in New South Wales have

SIBERIA AND THE REVOLU- TION.

ONLY ONE VICTIM AT OMSK.

letter of an Englishman, resident for, The following are passages from the

outbreak of the Revolution there

Mr. Lloyd George, upeaking at the Serbian Socisty luncheon at the Savoy struck, objecting to the new system of Hotol, said :-We owe more to M. Pasitch,supervision They have rejected, they yeŝta in Siberia, describing the the Serbian Premier, and M. Venizelos Government's offer of than we can possibly reveal at

present. Surbia, which has been covered by the dirt of Turkish barbarism, is about to be cleansed and will yet appear fresh and

conference in connection with the

matter, provided, work he resumed immediately?

The South Coast collieries have been endured idle owing to fuck of transport,

The Government has intimated to the

When the Revolution broke out I was at one of the most benighted spots on this. earth, called Alapajevak, near Irbit. The first intimation that the autobering. inhabitants received was in a railway telegram signed by one of the Ministers,..

It is stated that the Minors Fedora-wonderful. The first condition of peace strikers that they will lose their seniority / stating that the Duma had taken the gov

General Korniloff, interviewed, said: that the second phase of the war was only tion will hear a

ernment into its hands, and directing alb

just beginning. It was impossible for by Mr Arthur Henderson before decid- tion, howevor long the ke unless they resume work by Fridays servants to remain at their posts WIEL

ing how its 600,000 votes are cast,

when the public will be asked to volun- teer assistance.

personal explanation is complete restoration without reserva- Var may last British honour is involved in seeing that Serbia is freed. Serbia and Belgium erc the guardians of the gates, and bravely have they defended them, The Serbian troops, although overwhelmed, have never danger of estrang-been disheartened and are still guarding

the gate. Wo extend again the hand of KING ALFONSO SOLICITOUS friendship to Serbia. We will go through the war together to the end."

The division of opinion is reflected in the Press, one section denouncing the idea of British intercourse with enemy Socialists during the war, and the other section dwelling on the

Russia to conclude a aparate peace, which would convert her into a German Colony, The new Government must invite the Allies to reorganise the railways for war fare, and Augio French officers must help in the drilling of the ten million Russians who had enrolled but who were impering Russia if the delegates do not go, feetly

pointing out that in, such an event the impressionable Russians would be un easy prey to the German Socialists. GREEK PARLIAMENT MEETS

ATHENS, August 8th.

GERMAN CLAIMS,

A German efficits wireless message states: The

Austro-Hungarians stormed and occupied several summits in the wonded Carpathians. We extended our

succusses the north of Focsani after bitter fighting.

The Russ-Roumanian counterutinoks proved fatile. General.

LATEST CABLES,

There in grout activity by the enemy' artillery east of Ypres. Despite the

(THROUGH REUTERS, ADENOT.] weather,

aeroplanes bombed ᏋᎷ

THE GERMAN RAIDERS. ammunition depot and abio rail-tracks and sidings, as well as trains forty miles

LONDON, August 8th." behind the German lines. There was such

In the House of Commons Mr. R. P. darnage and a derailed train blew up.

Houston asked for information regard- another British aeroplane is missinging the Cerian raider Wulf in the GERMANS ADMIT STRONG ALLIED Indian Ceran, and the raiders Seradler, Marus, Verde, Puyme and others lately

ATTACKS,

At the first sitting of the Venizelist

M.

Melbourne tramwaymen and two thousand railwaynenin Queensland have also struck, the latter demanding a retrospective increase of pay.

FOR WOUNDED.

In the course of a speech, Lord Robert

LONDON, August 9th. Cecil declared that he was convinced that It is understood that the suggestion there was no inconsistency between the that Spanish officers should be present aims of Italy and Serbia.

on hospital ships emanated from King M. Pasitch, whom Lord Robert Coal Alfonso, whe, throughout the war, bas described as the Grand Old Man of Ser-heen consplenously solicitous for the

wounded.

Parliament of May 31st, 1915, Venizelos, replying to a petition by the Deputies of Northorn Epirus for adbi, after expressing his thanks for what mission into the Chamber, said that the Britain had done for small nations, said union of Epirus and the Motherland in that Germany now spoke of an honour- the near future was a foregone conclu-

able peace. Such a peace could only bo sion.

secured if the peoples under Austro- German rule were set free. If France gets back Alsags Lorrain, if the Italians accomplish a unity with their still un redeemed brethren, if the unity of the Serbs, Croats and Blovines is achieved, the Czechs and Slovans are united and

A THOUSAND.

AEROPLANES

ANNUALLY.

NEW YORK, August 5th. The Government has ordered the con- struction of an aircraft factory at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia. The cost will be a million dollars, it is to be completed

independent, and if (the Polish and

FORCED LANDINGS.

BY A BRITISH ATIMAN.J

I sit in a colossal machine with a small engine, known as a Long-Horn.".

The pilot sat in front of me, giving instructions. It was my first flight."-

A try of ̈* Switch off, suck in," which

peller and get the engine cylinders full means that a mechanic is to turn the pro-

Then contact,” and presently, with a

suelt meagre information I was appicher-, sive, not knowing that the Revolutiva had succeeded, and left for Ekaterinburg on my way back to Omsk.

On the way through Tiumen the frat signs of the change were visible. Instead of the notorious gendarmes, there were lacter consisted in this that passengere troops on the platform, and order! The desirous of alighting were allowed to do so before those who wished to take acats wero admitted. It was quito a novel. sensation to emerge from a carriage with all the buttons on one's cont; no barked shins, and luggage intact, and all with- ont loss of time. Yo

Eventually we reached Quask, where things were quiet, but the town bore wit- be slow at many things, but they manage Dess to the change. The Russians may ernor-General's house had been christened their revolutious promptly. The Gov the

House of the Republic," and in it a coalition committee was already sit ting. Everybody had become a "citizen, and one could not go far without bear- ing the Aurseillaisen the streets were animated crowds; soldiers wers overywhere. All the halls and cluirs, the theatre, and most of the cineuns were politicians shouted themselves hoarse day given up to meetings at which embryo and night. One day was much like an- berg of immumerable committees, which other, nobody working except the mom sprang up like mushrooms, everybody talking, and rumours of every degree of extravagance in circulation. The war respect only was unity visible, there was was momentarily forgotten.in Ole general determination to maintain

Apte under.

A German oficial wireless mentage operating in the Atlantic, of which in a hundred days, and is to employ two Ruthenian questions are solved, then only whirr, the engine is running? AL. (? Only in Petrograd, were there a few

salutes The English, after deumfire, ad-nothing reently had been heard,

thousand workers. It is expected to vanced from Nieyport to the north and

Dr. Macnamará stated that the Ad-produce a thousand will aeroplanes. north east, but were driven back after miralty were not without knowledge of

annually. band-to-band fighting. Wo - repulsed the movements or fate of these vessels, strong enemy attacks in the neighbourhood but disclosure of that knowleilge might of Bixschoole and penetrated Bois des be valuable to the enemy. Usariores.

FRENCH FRONT.

MARKED ARTILLERY, "ACTIVITY.

PARIS, August 8th

A commonniqué stated There was most marked reciprocal artillery activity last evening on most of the Aisne-front..

Our fire repulsed enemy detachments attempting to approach our lines to the

poke the

Dr. Maenimar ord "fate"

with emphasis

COLLISION INQUIRY.

LONDON, August 8th. The Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the transport Mendi found that the collision was due to the muster of the steamship Darco not complying with the fog regulations, also that he unreason-

CONTROL OF U.S. EXPORTS

NEW YORK August 8th.

The Exporty Council recommends that Jumber, sugar and cotton should be placed on the list of goods for which export licences are requinesh I desire especially to control shipments of cotton, of which Germany is in desperate need. NEW ZEALAND'S DETER MINATION.

WELLINGTON, August 8th. Parliament has passed a resolution to

east of Vaux Ailion and west of the ably failed to send out boats to ascertain carry on the war until Germany is

California. Plateau.

ARTILLERY ACTIONS..

A communiqué states :---There were some fairly violent artillery actions in the

region of Pantheon, right of the Meus Caurieres Wood and Doaamount, Russian bront.

BARLIER CABLES. [THOUGH, REUTER'S AGENCY.}.

RUSSIAN FRONT

RUSSIANS RESUME OFFENSIVE.

PETROGRAD, August 9th.

the extent of the damage, and to render assistance. His certificate was suspend ed for one JERE,

batch of South African native Inbourers,

The transport fendi, with the final collided with another vessel in a thick fog

off the Isle of Wight on February 21st.

Twelve Europeans and 191 alives were suved; 10 Europeans and $15 natives were drowned.]

EARLIER CABLES.

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS,

THE NEW GOVERNMENT MEETS.

PETROGRAD, August 8th.. At the first meeting of the now Govern An official wireless message states:-In ment, M. Kerensky, who presided, unid the region of the confinence of the Zbracz that attention must be concentrated on wo took the offensive and captured the national defence and organisation at the villages of burychkovoy and Wygods, as war. wel as heights to the west of the last-

mayed We took 300 prisoners.

We repulsed attacks to the north-west

of the Seroth.

The enemy occupied two heights to the west of Dzsokni and south-west of Botchi.

We retired eastward on both sides of the Kimpolung road.

vanquished. It paid a tribute to the gallantry and courage of New Zealanders fighting, The members sang the National Anthem.

TROUBLE IN SPAIN.

LONDON, August 8th. There is a recurrence of trouble in Spain.

It transpires that there has been railway strike,

regarding which the Council of Ministers considered measures to prevent an interruption of traffe and

re-establish the Press censorship. sabotage. The Council also agreed to

GERMAN SOCIALISTS DEMAND ****** | POPULAR GOVERNMENT WANTED

THE IRISH CONVENTION.

LONDON, August 8th. The Press Bureau says that at the Irish Convention to-day Sir Horace Plunkett suggested a procedure whereby the existing schemes of the Government The enemy pressed us back to the north of Ireland be axamined and presented for. of Binigestchi..

TWO TOWNS EVACUATED.

the Convention's consideration. The Convention decided to appoint & stend- The Novoe Vremya says the Russiansing committed to consult the Chairmen hava evacuated the towns of Kamenuzpo- Tegarding general procedure.

dolsk and Proskuroff.

THE ENEMY'S OBJECT.

LONDON, August 8th, The Times Correspondent at the Head-

quarters of the Russian Seventh Army, wiring on August 2nd, says that the immo diate objective of the enemy is apparent Ty a bold attempt to cut off the troops remaining in the Carpathians and Rou- amania bence they are striking between Kamineizpodolak and Czernowitz, where the Russians are unable to continue the advance.

SIR ALFRED KEOGH RESIGNS

LONDON, August 8th. The Daily News says that Surgeon General Sir Alfred Keogh has resigned in consequence of attacks on the Army Medical Service, of which he was Director.

THE PRICE OF BREAD.

LONDON, August. Bih

It is alated that a nine-penny load will

AMSTERDAM, August 8th."

Then

will an honourables peace be secured ground, and a smooth slipping of into otherwise in the centre of disturbance.

away, bamp, bump, bump over the space, and the earth suddenly far below. (Cheers.)

and tree-tops disappearing beneath the planes.

SOLDIERS AND POLITICS.

BEGULATIONS TO BE STRICTLY ENFORCED.

LONDON, August Bil

In the House of Commons, Mr, Mae Pherson stated that the War Cabinet had decided that Paragraph 131 of the King's Regulations, forbidding soldiers to par- ticipate in polities, - should be strictly and impartially enforced, and that sol diers should not be permitted to join Soldiers and Workmen's Ceila, HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES.

LONDON, August 8th. A Departmental Committee appointed. by the Governinent is meeting to-morrow to consider the provision on an extensive. scale of houses for the working classes. The Committee on Labour Problemg-after the War reported that a million houses, costing $200,0000,000, must be built. The Local Government Board admits that the present shortage is at least half million houses,

hundred victims, and this could not he It was evident that, the Provines, always of a more liberal temperament, would give no trouble. In Moscow only three or four lives were low; in Omsk only one, that of a lonel, who died from injuries inflicted by as outraged soldiery. He had been wont in the old days to in- 2 tliet corporal punishment on the men und deserved his fates the Russians say, "fur a dog, a dog's death," "A

The signal caine to put my hands on the controls and feel the pilot's move ments. They were incomprehensible, busy all the time, while the machine, rocked sud swayed in the uir

It WILS

"bumpy" day. Sharp gusts of wind, striking trees and hedges and building, and folds in the ground, would With the disbanding of the police and, set upwords like ocean breakers against the gendermere the maintenance of order the sea wall. These could he felt at has be depinled to the soldiers, who 2,000, and would throw one up and fulfil their task witisfactorily. down soft, and more ni a time, Not will be a pleasant surprise for me if the very good day for a first flight, Army is now properly supplied with pilots were in demand and time precious matious and food. I know is a fact Then suddenly the rhythmic rear of the that before the Revolution one regiment, agine was broken. Crash, bang, bang. at any rate, in the trenches below hung, and it stopped. The phot's arms was on the verge of starvation. waggled furiously and I let go. He did Wis no bread, occasionally the merest sharp bina into the wind and we serap of meat, and sometimes nothing grazed over the tree tops and down into whatever. Could you fight well on that! a field among horses. A smashed rod in To keep the men up to the mark a sound- the engine and forced landing from 1,000ft--not an easy job in a clumsy machine in wooded country on a bumpy day!

My word." I said,

*

1 Impped out. “this is interesting !?!

That was all I folt and I worked like a slave all day on the repairs.

A little later was in a much more machine, not a “bus," he delicate type of machine-a real flying

There

tagging was administered on the slightest pretext me to mention the ubiquitous standing to attention with a rille for hours at a stretch, a punishment which reduced the strongest to a state of collage. These iniquities have now been abolished.

As you probably know, one of the first acts of the new Government was to release all political prisoners, and whole train- loads of them are passing through Omsk.

strikes one as curious that they should De so mucheer and more moderate The occasion was first flight alone than the blatant lead rs of Labour. under higher instruction."

T'ínica Flying was were stil unknown. still air interesting geme; its terrors

Aguín I experienced that sudden silence Trees, trees everywhere, and one little from the engine and only trees below. patch of green, and the machine gliding lower overy second at 60 miles an hour. Suppose one hit a treb

A notable instance is the immediate need for housing for 100,000 workers at Glasgow, Rosyth and Dundee. It is certain that in the near future the

I passed too high over thous trees to hit the patch of green where there was Government will have approved of you to run. The opposite hedge loomed schemes for the building of at least half up, just where 1 ought to meet the a-million houses within the first year or

ground. 1 charged right at it, and at the last moment zummed up and hop It has already proped it, and flopped down on the other

Bide. Strange to

It is reported that Herr Scheidemann, two after the war.

TURKS"

ILL-TREATMENT OF

OUR PRISONERS. HALF OF KUT GARRISON REPORTED DEAD Evidence is steadily accumulating of bad treatment of the British pri soners-of-war in Turkey, It is learnt from the most trustworthy sources that

in a speech to a meeting of six thousandmised, considerable financial assistance, ber was broker only a shock-absor. a large number of British and Indian

exceed the pre-war basis,

BRITISH SHIPPING

people at Mannheim, demanded, in the also to ensure that the rentals shall not interests of peace, a speedy.sbstitution for the present Government of a Govern ment really representing the people's will. LIBERIA DECLARES WAR AGAINST GERMANY.

WASHINGTON, Angust 8th. Liberia has declared war on Germany. GERMAN AIRMAN INTERNED

FLUSHING, August 8th.

LODON, August 8th- The Admiralty announces that the arrivals of vessels for the past week totalled 2673 and the sailinga 2,796.

Twenty-one vessels over and two under 1,000 tons were sunk

Thirkoen were unracstssfully attacked.

A German seaplane visited a Dutch | ITALIAN SHIPPING BETURNS fishing boat. One airman came aboard. and ordered the boat to Zeebrugge, but a Dutch patrol boat came up and took the vessel to Flushing.

The German aman has been internod.

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, August 8th Bilver is quoted at 41.1/2, Continental. boying; Indian bear covering,

The

be able to be purchased from August 15th. market is steady.

ROME, August 8th.

arrivals of vessels bumbered 487 and the For the week onding August 5th the

milings 442

The sinkings were two steamers and one atoall sailing vessel.

A GENERALS DEATH.

LONDON, August 7th. The death is announced of Major General Bir George Pretyman, K,C.M.G.

Cif

In another flight long after came the same sudden, sickening cessation engine.

The wind was blowing strongly from the west, blowing one away from home country.

On that occasion I was high over the Hun lines, 15,000ft, or more, sitting over a town while Archie" burst furiously around you can never get out of range of "Archie.

prisoners in Mezopotamis have succumb ed to ill-treatment or lack of proper mediest attention.

A nun who was for some time near a prisoners of war camp in the Tanras states that more than half of the unfor tunate men captured at Kut are now Red Cross Commission, whose report was dend. It is noteworthy that the Swiss sufficiently damning

camps which they were allowed to ng with regard to the approach this

camp or other camps the same type. Thirty-

British

The same long glide down, but the wind prisoners were sent to vender was so strong against me that the machine gement: The European

simply hovered. We were settling the machine and I, on to that town, with

Archie getting nearer and nearer I watched the height meter hand recede. I watched a certain cross roads in front of my right wing: it seemed to remain

just the same distance ahead.

Suropean

with proper care he could save 35 of was of opinion that

them, but he and his assistants were during the first 15 days 22 of the men, driven away from their own hospital and died from sheer neglect,

At less than 1,000ft, with machine gun Aleppo. They could hardly stand from Fifty prisoners captured at Katia in April, 1916, were sent to a hospital at and rifle bullets whistling past me, dods weakness All of these prisoners were ng frantically left and right with what suffering from dysentery due to starva remained of my height, I realised the tion. machine was going forward. At the A German subaltern who spent the lower altitude the speed of the wind was winter at Marmurea saw the bodies of less and progress possible 400 Indian pritoners who had died of

I

sat down at length on the ground starvation, Another witzem Kaw 150- a little behind our lines with Hun shells British prisoners at Katma in Northern bursting all about me. Then, a scramble Syria, in the most deplerable condition tion. ...... for cover and the collapse of utter exhaus Their only ration consisted, he stated, of