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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY .... PERSS
GERMAN AIR-RAID ON ENGLAND.
"TWO ENEMY MACHINES BROUGHT DOWN.
FEROCIOUS BATTLE AROUND LENS.
ENEMY MUST RETAKE POSITION OR QUIT CITY.
· GERMANS COMMIT INEXCUSABLE
CRIME.
ITALIANS REPULSE AUSTRIANS IN
DISORDER.
-#ranco-Belgian Bront
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BRITISH FRONT.
RITTER FIGHTING
ENEMY MUST QUIT LENS.
RIDAY, AUGUST 24ra, 1917
FRENCH DUN SUPERIORITY
LONDON, August 22nd. A French semi-official account of the battle of Verdun shows that the ending
Lian Bront
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caemy made several attempts to us back from the positions wO WOU ongo right bank of the Meuse, notably o of Mormant Farm and Hill 344. Her fire broke up, with great losses, the atting waves, which nowhere renched hundred batteries deluged the French battle is raging on the whole frout.
The success of the day was not achieved. owing to the centre being held up by a redoubt containing five machine guns d which held out throughout, despite the
held out thro fact that the Irish Rifles twice followal the Inniskillings and assaulted the re- doubt like tigers, also owing to the sup porting troops being held up and caught by machine gun cross-fire-
Throughout the worst hours un Irish padre, in the thickest of the fight, was giving Absolution to the dying. Four successive Bien were killed while he was
outines.
Aacks with liquid-fire north of the Unteres Wood merely increased the enet's larges,
Se the 20th inst., we have captured kneeling beside them. A subsequent shell 611nwounded prisoners, including 154 killed the padre.
THE OFFENSIVE RENEWED.
meant to resist to the utmost. They had five Divisions in reserve, while four
batteries and first lines with our shella aud gas shells, but the French opening homhardment on Friday was
THE most violent, overpowering the enemy's artillery.
The monster Franch 370-millimetre guns annihilated the enemy's village fortresses, while their 400-millimetre mortars pound.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ITALIAN SUCCESSES:
LONDON, August Mod. An Italian official report states:-The
We are overcoming the resistance north.. ward of Gorizia and gaining new successes along the whole line of battle.
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Our prisoners have now renched 13,311. We captured 30 guns and a gront quantity of booty.
ed the immense citadel of Morthoninte
Our aeroplanes hold the mastery of the office (not including the prisoners taken.
The effectiveness of the French boni. air. They bombarded enemy troops and yest day), also 600 wounded prisoners, We so captured important booty, bardment was evidenced even before the caused confingrations, in the communica Reuter's Correspondent at British espely in three tunnels at Morthotame attack by the surrender of a number of tions everywhere.
when the dressing-stations with their Germans, including a whole platoon. sitial apparations were found intact. The Near East. we tured here a whole regimental aff, corps comander, and an officer of Effneers.
Headquarters, telegraphing this evening maya: At 4.20 this morning we resumini the offensive against German positions along part of the ridge system forming the present battle-front in Flanders," Very heavy fighting occurred and con- LONDON, August 22nd. tinues with varying results. The new
SPENDID TWO-MILE CHARGE.. Reuter's Correspondent at British" liquid" defences of the enemy, consist-
LONDON, August 22nd. Headquarters this afternoon says there ing of numerous disconnected and often
Reu's Correspondent at French Head- was a ferocious battle, the whole of yes-
almost invisible posty organised in depth,quares, in fling in particulars of the terday around Lens.
present a formidable problem to the at-offense at Verdun, says the enemy had tacking infantry. Indeed, we are now fresh serve divisions and over 2,000
The latest news is that the Canadians are holding their gains on the western
against much the same species of
fringe of the city, but north of the rail fighting as during some of the Some beferoje attack, but our troops were gas.
way the situation is not clear owing to the sway of the great fight. It is increns ugly clear that the enemy yesterday had
battles. The enemy is desperately resist- to be a vital and strategic key to the ing our advance against what he realises
tenure of Northern Belgium, Never.
LONDON, August 23rd. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re. ports ;-We were successful in our opera tions this morning eastward and north eastward of Ypres for the capture of the series of points at fortified farms organised a big attack, possibly with thetheless, we advanced and carried the line the come of a spendid two-milė Į astride the Xpres-Menin Road,
and between the pres-Roulers railway and Langemarcke.
idea of retaking Hill 70. Its synchroni wation with the renewed Canadian offen sive upset his whole plans, but the enemy There was bitter fighting at all points. is putting up a formidable fight with The enemy repentedly counter-attacked, fresh troops and the heaviest of artil and our artillery and machine-gan firelery fire yet experienced.
inflicted heavy losses.
At Leng the First Prussian Guards Reserve Division in the latest to be thrown in to try and retrieve the situa two and three o'clock
The struggle was most fieres on the highs ground in the neighbourhood of the Ypres Menin road where we advanced tion.
The enemy resisted most
Between
to a depth of 500 yards on a mile front. ¦ yesterday afternoon the battle was simply We captured an importani obervation | baiting: The Germans launched two position, also the western portion of counter-attacks north of the railway, and Inverness Copsie. · Our Fine further streams of meu emerged from cellars and north was advanced to a maximum depth the heart of ruined mounds where houses once stood: When the last of these bad been fought to a finish, the Canadians at one place counted over 100 Prussian corpses on a hundred yards of front. Il is mainly a soldiers' buttie, and methods of frightfulness are impossible owing to endangering one's own people equally with the adversary. Few prisoners were taken last evening. It appears that the Bocho barrage started "five reinutes before
of over half-a-mile on a front of two-and- a-half miles.
stubbornly.
TOTAL PRISONERS CAPTURED,
LONDON. August 23rd.
We captured 250 prisoners. Owing the obstinate nature of the fighting these are unusually small in proportion to the enemy's total losses. We captured 104 yesterday at Lens, making 1,378 since the
15th inst, and in addition 34 machine- guns and 21 trench-mortars.
Was
There
Gerve air-fighting. We brought down swelve and drove down äve Twelve of ours are enemy aeroplanes. missing.
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ADDITIONAL GROUND GAINED.
ours yesterday morning, but luckily our infantry had been formed for the attack. The German tronches were packed, and our, artillery inflicted heavy slaughter.
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ARABS DEFEAT TURKS,
LONDON, August 22nd.
A Meagotumia official report states We caponed Shahraban, on the left, bank of the Didlab, and forced the enemy to retreat to the Hamrin Hills.
The War Office announces that Arabs
carried out extensive operations and sie.
We repulsed attacks in the Trentino.. and Curnia, The enemy's bigger attack...
in the Ledro Valley failed after a lively struggle.
AUSTRIAN COUNTER-ATTACK. REPULSED IN DISORDER.
LONDON, August 23rd. Correspondents state that the Austrian counter-attack on the Carso front with 190 Bottalions was repaleed in disorder. The enemy centre on the Cargo in broken, menucing the whole left flank.
A deserver revealed the whereabouts of a cavern holding a detachinent, which was wiped out. Numerous machine.gins were captured,
gens. Je poured out poison gag for days
mnaks he whole time,
344 reectively 1,080 and 1,300 feet, were
The ptures of Talon Hill and Hillstroyed a part of the railway northward
of Medina. They captured Turkish posts, Several caverns at Monte Santo and Sản and on more than ope occasion overcaine | Marco fell in, wiping out whole battalions, charge ade by gas-masked infantry from captured 700 prisoners in the Mann Dis. are operating against the Italians.
superior forces. They killed 700 and It is stated that a million Austrians
the nonern slope of Pepper Hill, bombarment had driven out the enemy
trict alone, capturing four guns. from defences on the crest-line, and they fed the valley between with gas,
to the left of the attack forward and straightened the pretty little thrusts which the Tanks made on Sunday. The Tanks were again active to-day and served excellently. On the right of the attack the situation is rather obscure, as the but noctually. Germans have taken advantage of every little farm building, every little knoll and every hedge in order to develop isolated points of resistance.
The
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AUSTRIAN REPORT.
It is evident that the King of Hedjaz.
LONDON, August Paed
aims, which is bound to embarrass our states:--Eastward of Canale we abandon- is definitely associated with the Allied A wireless Austrian official report
enemies.
ed a village. The Arab movement is apparently Enemy attacks southward of Descla and: gaining support and is spreading east.editword, of Gorizia and Biglia failed.
There was a severe struggle on the Carso front. We undertook minor defensive retirements.
ward.
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Russian Bront. PARIS, August 22nd.
The hottest of the fighting took place in the vicinity of Inverness Copse, which
A fimmuniqué atates: - There was is the most strongly fortified spot in that someht great reciprocal artillery region. The Boches had run out a peract in the region of the Vaux Aillon' feet new network of wire between the Plata, Cerny, and Craonne. trees and strilded the place with machine, Deractive fire in Champagne against guns. They had filled it with concrete pill the erman organisation in the St. box blockhouses and burrowed it into a Hila sector caused an explosion of the labyrinth of dugouts and short trenches. gas rervoirs, Shortly afterwards scout- The battle is being fought by Englishing arties found the enemy trenches and Scottish troops, who are finely main faining the fame of the old British fine.
FRENCH FRONT.
ENEMY GAS RESERVOIRS DESTROYED.
PARIS. August 23rd, A communiqné states:-The artillery duel was somewhat violent in the regione of Brave and Cerny.
Our batteries in Champagne carried ent an effective fire and destroyed more
It looks as if the Germans realise they must retake Bill 70 or quit Lens. What further price they are prepared to pay for this effort remains to be seen. MAGNIFICENT VALOUR OF IRISH TROOPS. Correspondents unfold stirring details] memy gas reservoirs. of the Irish troops attacking on the right Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re-
flank on August 16th, when the left flank ports:We maintained the positions we captured Langemarck. The captured yesterday morning on the out-Irish again fought at the side of the Southern
skirts of Lens.
Ulstermen, but, unlike their achievement
Londos, August 22nd.
On the Verdun front the energy reacted in the course of the day with artillery, especially on the left of the Meuse.
The enemy did not attempt to attack.
We made further progress at certain at Wytschacte, their luck failed. The our new positions. Six enemy aeroplanes
points and secured additional ground Dublin Fusiliers, Irish Rifles and laiskil- north-westward and northward of Lens,ings advanced parallel with the Roulers as the result of heavy fighting, in which Railway into a tremendous barrage We repulsed strong counter-attacks.
against a system of concrete blockhouses. driven in, efter
were destroyed in air fights, and five others fell damaged.·
POSITIONS MAINTAINED, There is great artillery activity east-Enemy outposts were
A communiqué states:-The enemy at ward and north-eastward of Ypres. which a fierce enfilade of machine-gun fire night time violently bombarded different
swept over the advancing Irishmen. The points of our first-line on the Aisne.
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LONDON, August rd.
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A wireless German official report states-British attacks eastward Ypres on a 15 kilometres front failed with heavy losses.
GERMAN ADMISSIONS.
LONDON, August 25td. A German communiqué states:--Artil Jary fire on the coast and from Bixschoots in Warneton was again intense.
Fresh fighting is developing at Lens. The French gained ground at Awocourt Wood and Samngneux.
Irish Rifles reached the railway lovel crossing, taking thirty-two prisoners.
The Germans made several strong attacka in the region of Mennejean farm,
The Dublins were held up at Bremen east of Braye, south of Lebovelle, be. Redoubt, but their valour and tenacity tween Ailles and the Hurtebise Monument transpired in a message from a subaltern and the California Plateau. which said: "I am lying out here in a shell hole. All the officers and men are killed or wounded."
Qo the loft, the--Inniskillings crossed
We entirely maintained our positions everywhere and took prisoners.
We repulsed a violent counter-attack
A brilliant counter-offensive drove out the enemy from elements in which he had gained a Looting on our new front line.
the Zonnebeke River and progressed last evening between Hill 304 and Mort rapidly. They captured two redoubts homme, and seized Hill 37, one of the keys to the position The Ulsterman opposed a series of concrete forts and advanced over boge. They captured gun pits and Hill 35, but were unable to hold either. Afterwards heavy counterattacks drove back the foremost unite of both flanks in a series of the most bloody rearguard fights.
evacted and full of corpses.
On the Verdun front the battle coll- tinnefat several points, and everywhere to ou advantage.
On he left of the Meuse we captured and tirely occupy Goose Hill and Regneille village.
Ou he right bank we brilliantly con- ducted an attack and conquered Samogeux, also the entire system of fortid archebes connecting the village with the organization.
At Hill 344 we repulsed counter-attacks and have taken more prisoners, which hile not yet been counted.
HOSPITALS BOMBED AND MEDICAL MEN KILLED.
PARIS, August 22nd: urinted by the defents at Verdun, the ermans have committed a fresh and
inemable. erime,
Gen aeroplanes last night set 'fire. by sins of incendiary bombs, to three Finch hospitals full of wounded, and tuned their machine guns on the medical me rescuing the wounded from the bling buildings...
The victims, include seven medical men kilid and 20 injured, and seven wounded me killed and 12 injured.
he wounded nien were killed in their
bed
A Red Cross nurse and a male nurse we killed at the bedsides of the wound- ed joldiers;
here was no panic,
He wounded able to walk assisted in reshing their comrades, while the entire endeavoured to extinguish the
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faces.
though Red Crosses on the roofs of the buildings were quite plain in the We captured 80 prisoners. Our recon. glat of the conflagration, the Germans noitrers rushed on as far as the edge of returned a third time and bombarded the Forges village.
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RUSSIAN FRONT.
GERMAN OFFENSIVE,
LONDON. August Brð. A wireless Russian official report states: The Gericans took the offensive
at Inkkum and drove back our envalry advance posts,
There was a vigorous German artillery fire in the Dvinsk and Brody regions.
The enemy attacked south-westward of the town of Sereth, and occupied a forti ́fied height.
Fighting continues in the diretion of Okna with varying success.
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Loxpos, August 22nd.
The Italians again attacked this morn.
Ing.
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TRIESTE BOMBARDED,
Rome, August 22nd.
British and Italian monitors,
operating with the Army, effectively
bombarded the enemy positions on the
Lower Isman.
Simultaneously Italian monitor bom-
herded the dockyards at Tricute,
Subsojaently they were unsuccessfully
attacked by hostile aircraft, which they brought down.
ITALIAN ARTILLERY COM
PARABLE WITH BRITISH.
LONDON, August 22nd,
Mr. Perceval Giblum, telegraphing from the Italian Front to the Daily Chronicle,
states that General Cadorn's massed
A wireless Russian report states: We artillery is comparable with the British repulsed several enemy attacks an the
Bistritza River, south-eastward
Krutche.
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Fighting at Staklerie Factory on tinued all day with varying success,
-After fierce attacks the enemy occupiej a small section of trenches in the region of Soveià,
guns on the Somme
The Italian Grenadiers participated in
the furious fighting, and they have been
The memy slightly advanced in the in and out of the triple line of defences on the Carso front several times, where direction of Okna.
thy result is still in abeyance.. DIRIGIBLES CO-OPERATING WITH ARMY.
A Correspondent of the Giornale d'Italia states that dirigibles are ca operating impressively in the new offen- The Roumanians, after counter-attack-
sive. During a bombardment in the re ing, reoccupied trenches eastward of the gion of Tolmino a dirigible bombed the Fucsani-Jad railway and beat off attack:quarters of the Austrian command. to the westwarā.
Naval Activities.
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SUBMARINE SINKS FRENCH SAILING VESSEL.
PARIS, August 22nd. The French sailing vessel Cambronne, from Brazil, sailing to France, was bota barded and sunk by a submarine on July 8th, 120 miles from the French coast.
The captain and twenty-one of the crew, three of whom were wounded, scaped in whaleboat and reached land after a prolonged struggle in a heavy sen.
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A series of formidable lines in the central sector on the Carso front and a ction on the slopes of the Hermado have been captured.
AUSTRIAN REPORT.
An Austrian communiqué states:-On the 28th inst., south of Auzza, the enemy slightly drove in our front, After the attack our troops maintained the posi tions until they were completely sur rounded. Then they eat their way out between Dersela and Wiffac
An enemy attack on the Carso front failed at the cost of thousands and they captured the rained. Selo village.
In two days' fighting we captured 5,000 Primers and 60 machine runs.
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