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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

BRITISH MAKE SATISFACTORY PROGRESS.

ARMY'S DESPERATE POSITION. AUSTRIAN

ITALIANS OVERCOMING ENEMY RESISTANCE.

AMERICA OFFERS AID TO RUSSIA.

Branco-Belgian bront

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BRITISH FRONT.

ENEMY ATTACKED.

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ENEMY DEFICIENCY.

LONDON, August 28th. Beuter's Correspondent at the French

fönture of the recent fighting the in- Headquarters mentions as an outstanding

ENEMY COVERING WITHDRAWAL

LATER

It is pointed out that the Austrians aro desperately throwing in reserves in order. to stop the advance on the Bainsizza plateau, probably endeavouring to cover their withdrawal of guns and troops

north-east of Gorizia, ·

Of the monitors bombarding Trieste on the 19th inst. four were British, carrying 15-inch gons with a range of 10 miles, -

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ITALIAN FRONT;

PROGRESS AND MORE PRISONERS.

· LONDON, August 27th. A wireless Italian official report

states:-At Bainsizza the struggle has in.. creased ja intensity,

with stronger forces, is seeking to prevent The eminy, in extrano desperation,

ability of the Germans to resist or coun us making progress on the eastern edge ter-attack in adequate strength. On the of the plateau. We are overcoming the

resistance at various points.

LONDON, August, 27th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re-right of the Meuse the enemy front is ports :-There was heavy rain all day. Layo'y vwo miles in advance of the line In the afternoon we attacked eastward from whence he started his staggering rush towards Verdun in February of last and south-eastward of Langemarck,

year. The first reports indicate satisfactory progress.

We drove off raiders northward of

Lens.

"Our aeroplanes vigorously carried out raids and observations effectively and machine-gunnei eremy batterica, trans. port and infantry.

Eneny aircraft were aggressive. We brought down four and drove down three. enemy machines. Three of our andines cre missing.

SUCCESSFUL RAID. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig te portsWe streessfully raided this morn. ing eastward of Oost Taverne, taking prisoners.

GERMAN REPORT.

-LONDON, August 27th. A wireless German official report

Russian Pront.

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RUSSIAN FRONT.

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Wa captured 600, prisumers yesterday. ITALY PAYING PRICE OF VICTORY. Correspondents contribute gruesome accounts of their visit to the battlefields at Selo, where the Italians sliced most. deeply into the heart of the Austring res sistanco.

Mr. Perceval Gibbon telegraphs :-- "Italy is not playing at war. She pays the price of her victories. The currency

RAID IN THE BLACK SEA.

with which she pays lies under the vehe LONDON, August 27th.ment sua, swollen hideously, awaiting A Russian official wireless message burial." states:-Enemy attacks to the south of Oena and north-east of Soveja failed.

Co-operating with the Fleet, we raided Orda, in the Black Sea

Within Selo itself there was a bloody .massacre. The air is poisoned with the stench from heaps of the grey corpses of Austrians slaughtered by the Italian bombers.

The enemy fired from hospitals, We destroyed official buildings and blew up eleven motor-boats and seven felnecas,

י,

GERMAN CLAIM.

wireless Germao official report A stats: We occupied positions which the states: We broke down violent British Russians yielded on the south bank of the attacks north-westward of Lens.

LATER.

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official report wireless German states:--A strong English attack west- wward of Ypres failed.

FRENCH FRONT.

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.

PARIS, August 28th.

A communiqué states-On the left of Athe Mense thore were fairly violent artil. lary actions, especially north of Hill 344. The enemy did not attempt to attack our new positions.

GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON, August 27th. A wireless German official report states The French captured Beaumont village and the Fosses and Chaune woods, but our counter-thrusts regained them, with hundreds of prisoners.

Fighting continues,

LATER.

The enemy gained local advantages Westward of Le Catelet.

Beaumont during the early engagements remained ours.

FRENCH ARMIES CONGRA- TULATED.

Duenta.

LATER. We captured important positions cast- ward of Czernowitz, and took 1,000 prisoners and six gons,

Aerial Activities.

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NAVAL AIR RAID.

ENEMY AERODROMES BOMBED.

Losnon, August 27th.

The Admiralty announces that the Naval Air Service carried out a raid on Saturday night on St. Denis-Westrem aerodrome and dropped many bonbs. One of our machines is missing.

on

DUTCH VILLAGE BOMBED.

FLUSHING, August 27th. An unknown airman, at 11.30 August 28th, bombed the village of Cadzand, north of the Scheldt. There was no damage.

Italian Front.

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THE ATTACK ON MONTE SANTO.

The Italians had to face a veritable

maze of machine-gub positions which would have been imprignable without a preparatory hombardment.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST LOTH, 1917.

POLITICS IN GERMANY,

LONDON, “August 28th, The Free Commission in the Reichstag on the Sith lust. received scant courtesy from the reactionaries, who fear it as a step towards democratisation, while the reformers regard it as a sop, thrown to them. The minority of the Socialiste refuses to recogniau its existence, their leader, Herr Ledebour, describing it as political hecus pocus

DISEASE IN GERMANY.

LONDON, August" #7th

THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE

Moscow, August 27th. The great Conference was attended by The German papers report that there is 2,500 delegates, 488 representing the four,e spread of intestinal diseases, especially, Dumas, 100 the Pessante, 220 the Council dysentery. of Workmen's and Boldiers of All-Russin, 147 the Municipalities, 118 the Zemstvos and towns, 100 the industrial organisa tions and banks, 313 the co-operative or- ganisations, and 176 the professional

anions.

The Cologne Gazrifle wants cabbages and hall unless the majority agrees to hand The Maximaliste decided to leave the

over all power to the Councils of Work- men and Soldiers..

coal rather than Committees, which

merely talk and do nothing practical.

AMERICAN RED CROSS SUPPLIES.

WASHINGTON, August 18th,

A Transportation Service has buen

panies of the Allied Governments have created to handle the vast Red Cross sap. plies going to the Allies. Steamship.com

givey free much of the necessary cargo

space.

INTER-ALLIED SOCIALIST- LABOUR CONFERENCE.

LONDON, August 28th.

An inter-Allied Socialist-Labour Con-

General Korniloff arrived and received most enthusiastic welcome. He declared.

GERMANY AND BELGIAN VALUABLES,

LONDON, August 27th. The Belgian Government has been in formed that the Germanɛ have ordered the

to Brussels. Courtrai banks to transfer all valuables

CANADA AND SOLDIERS' FRANCHISE.

OTTAWA, August 27th. The Soldiers Voting Bill is now prae- that he would tell the Army that the tically through the Dominion House of watchword of Moscow was not. Inter | Comunions us amended in Committee. It nationalism, hut l'atriotisne and Vicenfranchises all the overseas soldiers who

livered is speech at a military féle at the in the constituency in which they eulisted, tory"

enlisted in Canada. Those who are not The Prime Minister, M. Kerensky, derogilarly domiciled will vote as if living

Hippodrome. He declared that he was the right to vote in conferred upon convinced the revolutionary troops Hindus in British Columbia, also Cara- Moscow would not only drive back the dian hudinus serving overseas, enemy at the front, but would crush any attempt at a ccanter-revolution.

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ference meets in London to-izorrow, under RUSSIA IMPRESSES UNITED from Magdata, where he was surrounded

the presidency of the ex-Cabinet Minis- ter, Mr. Arthur Henderson, Two-thirds of the delegates will be British, a great majority of whom are pacifists, one South

African and one French delegate, and will also include the Munitions Minister, Mr. Abel Thomas

There is little prospect of any animity of views.

SIGNAL

APPRECIATION CANADIANS

OF

GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S REPLY.

AFFAIRS IN ABYSSINIA,

ADIS ABEEA, August 27th. The ex Emperor, Lij Yasu, has escape

STATES,

for three months. After defeating thro WASHINGTON, August 28th hundred Government soldiers he took

visional Government's, attitude, as

Favourably impressed with the Pro- refuge in a neighbouring mountain." The re Prime Minister has been arrested and. flected in M. Kerensky's speech at the put in chains for conspiring to Moscow Conference, President Wilson has throw the Governmost. cabled the Conference an 'assurance of the

BRITAIN'S FOOD OUTLOOK. United States willingmes to extend every material and moral assistance to

LONDON, August 27th. the Government of Bussia in the

The fund returns by the Food Prodng Promo- tion of the common

in which the cause, United States and Hassia are united

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roubles. His wife had nothing.

Sixty out of the 130 witnesses informed the Court that they were unable to coine and give evidener,

OTTAWA, August 25th. TRIAL OF SUKHOMLINOFF Replying to the Secretary of State for

PetroOrad, August 2714. the The British the Colonies congratulations on

Asked in the course of his tried whether guns alone fred 15,000 shells on the first splendid work of the gallang Canadian he possessed a fortune. General Sukhem.

day.

troops, the Duke of Devonshire, Governortinofi replied that he had only 40,000 The booty in Sela is incalculable, and General of Canada, cabled as follows:- it includes namerous howitzers.

"Please accept on behalf of the Goverment and the people of Canada their most grateful thanks for your tele- gram, which is deeply appreciated throughout the Dominion. We are proud of the part that Canada is privileged to take alongside our gallant, Allies and fellow-subjects from all parts of the Empire, I assure you that we will con tinue to make our best efforts fill the com.

The Austrian Brigade Headquarters underground were fitted up with every luxury.

ENEMY IN FULL RETREAT.. Information from the Italian Head quarters coiphasises the Italians" great progress towards "overcoming the ob stacles mentioned on the 21st inst, The Italians now possess most of the platong Bainsizza, between Tolmino and Monte plate and final victory. Santo, which the, Austrians had trans formed into the most formidable en: trenched camp, with several lines of de fences bristling with guns.."

The enemy is in full retreat, his machine-guns and light artillery engaging in sharp rearguard actions, but not hindering the Italians, who advanced to a depth of six to nine kilometres in a straight line over the most difficult. ter. rain.

ITALIANS' TERRIBLE TASK.

UDINE August 27th.”

THE SILVER MARKET.

Loxoox, August 28th. Silver is quoted at 45d. The market is firm, with buyers.

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AMERICA AND LABOUR DISPUTES.

WASHINGTON, August 27th Representatives of the Governuent and the Federation of Labour have agreed upon the adjustment of disputes in ship-

It is reported that the Austrian Em-yards. This example is likely to be fol-

The defence asked for a postponemen

QYSI-

tion Department of the evenge under corn and potatoes for the 1917 harvest, show that instead of a total increase of 241,000 acres there is an actual increase of 388,000 acres or the area under cultivation in 1918. The figures do not include the vast increase in the potato harvest from gardens and allotments. Taking into account the decrease whicht was originally anticipated, the total grose. increase is 030.000 acres on farms alone.. This is equivalent to five weeks" oXMLS foodstuffs for the entire population."

of the, trial, but the Court refused tho | ROMANCE OF THE AEROPLANE

request.

IN BUSSIA DEVELOPMENTS.

PLAIN TALKING AT MOSCOW,

Moscow, Angust 27th The Minister of Finance, M. Nekrassoff,

The seroplane was born yesterday; i will dominate la-morrow The anroplane may decide, indeed, whether Europe is to be militarist or democratic. The destinies of in hang. in the air..

Brothers made tur first fight in

On Decemiler fru, 1900, the Weigu

in addressing the Conference, indulged in a motor-driven inroplane Only fourte some plain talking. He pointed out the years ago. The flight took place enormous increase of paper money, which Worth Carolina, lasted fifty nine

seconds. The distance covered was 200- was admitted by the new regime to be mutrea! much more costly than the old New Santos-Dumont, the-Brazilian, Bew eighty yards at Bagatelle,, outside Paris, administrative “boding. were absorbing en October 23rd, 1900, and all the worki

wondered enormous SUDS. Financial difficulties were largely due to the increase in the pay of the workers and the reduction of revenue. He foreshadowed monopolies, especially in tea.

·STRIKE EFFORTS FAIL.

PETROGRAD, August 27th, The efforts of the Moscow agitators to

A yene later Henry Farman, a French subject, but the son of an Englishman, flew 311 yards. On January 13th, 1908, Farman succeeded in flying just over 1.000 yards at an average speed of thirty-

miles an hours p Jour

These men, the Wrights, Santos- Dumont, and Henry Farman, were the pioneers of aviation, but they inherited the results of generations of experiments.. The most valuable of the spade work was done by Chanute in America, and Ferber

169/ 11LES AN HOUR,

peror personally witnessed the Austrian lowed in other trades, thus obviating any incite a strike at Petrograd failed Work France. S RATS.

retreat at Monte Santo,

possibility of troulle during the war.

COALITION GOVERNMENT FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

APELUDE, August 27th.

A Coalition Government for South Aus tralia has been formed, comprising three Liberals and three Nationalists, with Mr. Penke as Premier.

BRITISH TRIBUTE TO

·ROUMANIA.

years! In 1910 tors

was not interrupted, except in a few. From less than 300 yards to forty-two In 190 Farman flew forty-two mileg.

factories.

miles in six years! In 1910 Sopwith Bew 160 miles!

In 1911 Paulhan, the French prophesied that the aeroplane would one. day be used for military purposes on land and for naval work at sea. Think of it! Oply six years ago the military value of the aeroplane was only a possibility lished in 1912 foretold the construction Mr. Charles Turner, in a book pub-

of aeroplanes capable of travelling a hundred miles an hour Nowadays

Losvos, August 27th, The Press Bureau announces that the Prime Minister, Mr. Lloyd George, has dispatched a message to Roumania on the

A visit to the captured position enables one to grasp the terrible task with which General Cadorna is faced, for the side of each mound affords protection to the Aus LONDON, August 27th.

trians, whose machine gun muzzles only. LONDON, August 28th.

ehow over the crest. Once these are rusb Router's Correspondent at the British

Correspondents state that the enemy is od every cavern and clump of bushes are Headquarters states that Field-Marshal

endeavouring to har the way to the shattered to bits, and the trenches become Sir Douglas Haig telegraphed to General Chiapovani Valley, which has been the scene of a bloody hand-to-hand strug THE SALONIKA HOLOCAUST anniversary of her entry into the warplanes travel two hundred miles an hour, Petain on the 21st instant as follows reached and passed at various points. gle for a few yards of mountain side. **All ranks in the British Armies in

Our aeroplanes are intensifying the France join in hearty congratulations to disorder of the retreat, swooping low and you and your gallant Armies for the

bombing and machine-gunning the roads,. splendid results gained at Verdun yester-which are crowded with lorries, infantry day. The enemy will not be able to and guns, endure many more such blows,”

General Petain replied on the 22nd instant as follows:-"Hearty thanks for the kind congratulations of the gallant British troops, who have brilliantly, dis tinguished themselves again during the last few days in Flanders and at Lens, They will touch the hearts of the soldiers at Verdun, who are united to their allies

by a common determination to win and

“a common assurance of success 2.

seven

in the

General.

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BELGIAN SOCIALISTS AND STOCKHOLM.

VISIT OF THE KING OF GREECE.

SALONIKA, August 27th The King of Greece has arrived. His Majesty visited the devastated quarters and camps of the homeless.

Mr., Perceval Gibbon states that the

His Majesty was received by the Allied troops nasaulted Monte Banto after an

Generals and a guard-of-honour, and was intense artillery fire at

LONDON, August 25th. loudly cheered by the populace. morning from three directions: North: The Germans have been pressing "the CHINESE PROPERTY IN wards, along the high saddle couceting Belgian Socialists to attend the Stock-

GERMANY. Santo with the Vodice summit; front holm Conference They permitted n

AHSTERDAM, August 27th. ally, up the steep face overhanging the meeting to decide. This was attended by

The Berlin papers state that the Com Isonzo; and southwards, from the low 600, when it was resolved that, as a pro- | mander-in-Chief of Brandenburg has or saddle named Dol. By ten o'clock the test to German cruelty, they would not dered the seizure of all the property and frontal attackers reached the summit and participate, even if the British and į banking accounts belonging to the planted the tricolour..

French delegates went.

Chinese Government.

He pays a tribute to Roumania's courage Britain was still sceptical concerning the When war broke out in 1914 Great

and endurance in the cause of freedom aeroplane's military employment We had few machines and few aviatore against dulceracy. This cause can never France, always eagerly interested in m fail, however long its triumphs are delay.new, was much wiser. Germany was wiser, too, only happily for us, tha

her

to

Zeppelin

and the

ed. The re-creation of Roumania's artis ar

airmen have proved.

British, air service has developed

and the resistance it is now making against the enemy under diffenlt condi tions are magnificent examples of the themselves supreme in skill and daring.

The enemy has observed and profited. strength freedom inspires in at The achievements of British aviators people, and is also a proof of the Allied have taught the enemy the enormous possibilities of the aeroplane as a weapon determination to win victory,!':

of offence.

STRIKE IN AUSTRIA-

ZURICH, August 27th. Four thousand smiths in a munitions factory at Prague struck work." The troops arrested 300 and compelled them

to resume

PAPER COFFINS IN GERMANY.

An Amsterdam telegram reports that paper coffins coated with chemicals are being used in Germany owing to the scar city of wood. Paste is being employed instead of naila