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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1917.

ENEMY AEROPLANES RAID ENGLAND.

BOMBS DROPPED AT VARIOUS PLACES.

THE GERMAN THRUST IN

GERMANS OVERPOWERING RUSSIA'S MELTING ARMY.

AMERICA'S PREPARATIONS ON WESTERN FRONT.

Branco-Belgian Bront,

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BABLIER CABLES, (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOX.) BRITISH FRONT. SUCCESSFUL RRITISH RAID.

LONDON, September 2nd. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- poris: We repulsed a third attempt to capture our advanced posts south-west of Havrincourt.

We successfully raided south-cast of Monely-le-Preux, destroying dug-ours and machine guns.

GERMAN REPORT.

A Gerraan

LONDON, September 3rd... wireless official message siates An English attack on the Cam- brai-Arras road failed. We reduced the French gain near Hurtebise Farm.

ENEMY AERODROMES BOMBED.

LONDON, September 3rd. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- raiding ports Our üre drove back party to the south-west of La Bassee.

There has been considerable artillery firing north of Ypres.

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Our aeroplanes dropped three tons of bombs on the enemy's aerodromes, with good results. We brought down aeroplanes. One of ours is missing.

FRENCH FRONT.

FRUITLESS GERMAN ATTACKS.

PARIS, September 3rd.

Aerial Activities.

USA, FIELD HEADQUARTERS

IN FRANCE.

Losnos, September 3rd. An Associated Press Correspondent, ut the American Field

Field Headquarters gives an interesting description of the pre

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RUSSIAN. AFFAIRS.

DEATH OF EX-PREMIER.

THE BRITISH MIS.

OVERSEA ̧e. UNTERSEE BOATS..

[RY OBRALD B198.]

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PETROGRAD, September 4th... Here is the romance of the “1⁄2 M.Jm.** The death is announced of the ex:(motor-launches) built on the other side

Premier, M. Stuermer, the notorious pro-

German intriguet.

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DON COSSACKS DEPRIVED OF

· LATEST VABLEN.

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ANOTHER RAID ON ENGLAND

LONDON, September 4t5. A British official report states-parations along the length of American

of the Atlantic for patrolling the watera round the British Isles against the Hon lines of communication on the Western Enemy aeroplanes crossed the south-east

U-boats, which has at Inst been given to Front for the reception of a big American const at eleven o'clock last night.

the public, on the other side owing to the Army in 1918. The raiders dropped-bombs at various

outerprise of the Moter Búnt of America, Many references to them Faye appeared, .places.

especially in Amerien; but very little has No reports of casualties or damageing, including the lending of thousands

| actually," been known either of the boats have yet been received.

The Time says that the Petrograd Gov. themselves the uses to which they were of German prisoners, the majority of ernment has cancelled the ancient terri-markable, accomplishment of their con- being put by our Admiralty, or the re- A number of our aeroplanes pursued the whom are preparing a remarkable aviatorial privileges of the Don Cossacks,struction at the rate of inexc than a boat tion camp, where accommodation will be It is unlikely that the Cossacks, who up financed by tackers, when oven American a day by comparatively small firm, provided for 15,000 student flyers. The to the present, have been very law-abiding, bankers looked nskance at this the biggest avintion field is several miles square, and

undertaking in the history of boat- will bamely submit.

building.

enemy

The Correspondent refers to the un- limited assistance the. French are renderi

is probably the largest in the entire war-

Major Baunatyne, D.8.0. had a terrible experience when flying with the Gloucester regiment. His cagine stopped

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RAID ON AN ENGLISH TOWN

LONDON, September 3rd. Taking advantage of the lal in the

zoug.

The Americans are at present studying schools with marvellous

in mid-air and the machine, catching storm, in brilliant moonlight, thy Ger- at French ire, fell to the ground. Major Banna-mans indulged in a tip-and-run raid machines. They are regarded as apt tyne, though scorched, crept out to the on a south-eastern town.

tail, followed by the flanies. He then hung on with bis hands to the framework and crashed into a shed. Bis condition is critical

Russian Front.

EARLIER CABLES. (THEOVON NEUTER'S AGENCY.) RUSSIAN FRONT. RUSSIANS ABANDON RIGA REGION.

LONDON, September 3rd.

A Russian wireless official message Buys: The Riga region has been aban doned owing to the threatening situation. West of the Riga wo retired to the line? Bitderlingshof, Medem and Dalen, in the direction of Ikskul. The enemy pene- trated positions near the Jaegel River. Some of our detachments voluntarily left their positions and retired to the north. We repulsed attacks with heavy losses in the direction of Focsani.

RUSSIANS RETREATING.

ONLY ONE RAIDER.

LONDON, September 3rd:

A British official message states that a single aeroplane carried out last night's raid. It dropped seven bombs on Dover. One man was killed and four women and two children were injured.

Italian Front

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ITALIAN FRONT. ENEMY RUSHING UP REINFORCE-

MENTS.

UDINE, September 3rd. Bad weather is interfering with the Italian advance. The enemy is rushing up reinforcements.

A FRESH ITALIAN ADVANCE.

LONDON, September 3rd. An Italian official message says:-We have advanced further east of the Bresto vizzo Valley, capturing several dolinas. The prisoners taken on Saturday and Sunday, on the Julian Front, number 347.

ITALIAN AIRMEN BUSY.

LONDON, September 3rd.

An Austrian official message sintes: Italian aviators bombed several towns on the west coast of Istria. Our ueroplanes drove back air squadrons making for

A German wireless official message states: -We crossed the Dvina on both sides at Ikakul. Our troops are progress ing in denso colawns and

are hastily proceeding north-cast from Riga, Barn- A communiqué states: --There is a vio-ing villages and farmus mark the routes of lent artillery duel between Cerny and the retreating Russians. We repulsed the Hartebise. The Germans made four Russo-Romanians between the Susita and

Putna Valleys. Since August 28th we Trieste. attempted attacks west of Hurtebise, but were everysbero checked by our fire. An have captured 1,670 prisoners and six: attempt on Aillies Pleateau failed also. guns, There is great activity on the Samo- Keneux-Beaumont front, on the right)

A SERIOUS OUTLOOK.

The German thrust against Riga is now serious. A crossing of the Drina seems bank of the Meuse. German aeroplanes to have been effected eighteen miles from homhed Dunkirk and Belfort.

kick.

Several

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the town. The German thrust is moment-

The Balkans.

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THE BALKANS CAMPAIGN.

LONDON, September 3rd.

pupils.

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There are big quartermaster stores having specialist managers.

There have also been established ro

SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM.

WASHINGTON, September 4th. President Wilson, in a message wei- coming the new soldiers recently selected

PRIVILEGES.

LONDON, September 3rd.

GRANDIOSE GERMAN SCHEME

A MILITARIST STATE OF

NEGROES.

LONDON, September 3rd. The Time in so article on Germany's grandiose world policy, anys:---The Ger- man oversõas policy is essentially one of

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Bankers would not evedit that a com pany which, in time peace, built perhaps down yachts and twenty or thirly smaller craft, could tackle, a 22,000,000- dollar (£4,400,000) contract and turn out so many boats on totally new lines in such a short time; bus Mr. Sutphen, tho vice-president, of the Elen Company, of Bayonne, NJ., and outside financiers were prepared to back their opinion. Our Admiralty bad awakened to the urgency of the German submarine campaign and

States in February, 1915, who got into had sent a special commissioner to the touch with Mr. Sutphen and cottoned

serve bases, from which the field and base Machtpolitik, whatever may be the garb it wears for the moment. Germany wants hospitals will be supplied.

back her colonies, not primarily for iron to his idea of a "mosquito" flent

| big enough to patrof our coasts) waters. economie value but for their military

The idea soon crystallised into a type, value. It aims at the creation of a great and early in April a contract for 50 of militarist State of aegroes commanded by by February, 1916. Then in May came the these "chasers was sigued for delivery. German officers and disciplined by them torpedoing of the Lusitania, which gave things such an impetus that an order for mure was that same month fixed up in German methods of warfare.

by cable for delivery by November 15th, 1010, which only allowed the Elco 501 working days, Sundays excluded. How- ever, Mr. Sutphen had realised from the beginning that the only possible way and standardisation, such as bad in compara- immense output of the huge American tirely small machines made possible the

motor factories; but, to produce a bout with twin six-cylinder "Standard" motors, capable of making high speed in all weathers, and a carrying capacity in addition of 20,000 pounds of supplies, guns, ammunition, and water. involved half a million separate and distinct parts. Each one of these picces, large and small, hari to be duplicated as many times as required and assembled, and any one of those half million parts a fraction wrong would have thrown out the whole series.

for the National Army, declares that the eyes of the world are upon them, because they are, in a special sense, the want such a State with their own sup

for plies, their own munition factories and soldiers of freedom. Let us act

their own naval bases, because it would dominate the African Contient and destroy the security of the Mediterranean. The Suez Canal could be casily linked up with Central Europe, which it could flood THE DYNAMITE OUTRAGE IN|with black armies and threaten from

MONTREAL.

ourselves a standard so high that it will ben glory to live up to it. Then let us live up to it and add new laurels to the crown of America.".

SUICIDE OF A PERPETRATOR.

MONTREAL, September 4th, Le Duc, one of the anti-conscriptionists who exploded a charge of dynamite at Lord Athelstane's residence, committed.f suicide when surrounded by the police. Lễ Duc, who was well connected, was a drug victim..

TO ACCELERATE SHIP. BUILDING.

LONDON, September 4th. A Committee of employers and men of the shipyards on the Tyne has been formed to accelerate shipbuilding and avoiding wastage of man-power.

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score of naval bases the Cape route to India, to Australia and to the Far East and thereby prevent England from again concentrating her full naval forces in the North Sea.

AFFAIRS IN GREECE.

ATHENS, September 3rd. A Commission has been appointed to investigate the charges against preceding Governments. It is reported that the members of the Skouloudis Government are accused of plotting for an absolute monarchy and conniving at murders:

DOWN WITH THE

the touchskine of success was scientific

To meet market shortages white oak from Virginia and yellow pine from the south had to be contracted for-four million feet of it in 12 feet lengths, and as much asb, pine, and other wood for joinery work. Three million pounds of various metals and piping, enormous quantities of electric fittings, 150,000 gal. " fons of paint, $11,050 feet of Manila rope, 310,000 feet of galvanised nails, 260,000 pounds of copper nails, 400.000 pounds of galvanised washers and rings, 1,000,000 Fron halts and nuts, 3,700,000 wood plugs these represent a few of the figures in- KAISER | volved in this colossal new frat of noval

engineering against time.

BELGIAN SOCIALIST APPEAL AGAINST THE EMPEROR. The Belgian delegates to Stockholm Messrs. Vandervelde and Brouckere--have issued a memorandum setting forth their

wai

con.

The crux of the whole job was the mak ing of the templates, moulds, and patterns for the first or master boat. After that it was simply duplication, with perfection of accuracy, and the assembling at Montreal and Quebec.

civilians were killed and injured ai Darily directed against the Riga-Petrograd

Then when compléte, by, express across of meeting German Socialists in A German wireless official message | WHAT THE KAISER PROPOSED views on pence ternis and on the question

ference.

the thousand-inile stretch of rail from They declare that the Railway. The German offensive on the states:We repulsed the French north-

is one Quebec to Halifax, for their tests and between democracy and feudalism, that subsquent shipment to this country after A communiqué says there is a lively Mitan rond is also ominous, as the latter west of Monastir.

events have proved that in the enemy they had been handed over to the British is the misin thoroughfare across the Tirul General.

One hundred and thirty countries democracy has been powerless authorities." at gritical moments, and must remain 80 transporís, were required to take the so long as the constitutions of the way, 31.L." across with all their spares and countries remains unchanged. They note equipment: and every one of them got that the German minority Socialists also ver safely. Two days after arrival they hold this view.

eannounde on the left bank of the Meuse.

GERMAN WASTAGE.

Marsh.

FALL OF RICA.

A Gorman official wireless message! states: Riga has been taken.

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GERMANY IMPRESSED BY PRESIDENT'S REPLY.

AMSTERDAM, September 4th. It is reliably stated that President

The Socialist duty, they assert, is avere in the water and ready for their Franco-Russian-defence against the aggression of Gerwan Admiralty tests.

imperialism, but they declare against any It was * colossal masterpiece of He scheme for the dismemberment of Georganisation effected by standardisation,

G/ or Austria-Hungary, any and show, what, unexpreted things can many. economie league against Germany, or any be done when they have to be done.~

tribute,

Daily Mail, attempt to submit Germany to

PARIS, September 3rd. Telegrams from the Kaiser to the Tsar of Russia at the end of 1914, taken from the Russian archives, are published in the New York Urrald. They show that Loxoos, September 3rd. Reuter's Correspondent at the Freach

the Kaiser. during the Russo-Japanese Headquarters states:-Since the begin

A MARCH UN PETROGRAD.

crisis, dreamt of a ning af the battle of Verdun, teu German After the recent happenings on the

German alliance again Britain. divisions have been withdrawn on account Russian Front, the fall of Riga was not

attempted to induce the Tsar to sign of bases. The enemy s

seven unexpected. It is too early to speculate Wilson's reply to the Vatican has pro- secret Treaty, whereby France and the divisions in the line on both banks of the on the posibilities which will accrue there foundly impressed German political world would have been faced by an fait Meuse therefore, seventeen German from, but it is recalled that General circles. divisions are in process of exhaustion by

It is expected that Herr Erzberger, at the operations begun on August 20th.

Conference: If the Army docs dot the next Reichstag meeting, will demand Since the beginning of August, the enemy

help us to hold the shores of the Gulf the immediate installation of a Govern- has been obliged to withdraw thirty

ment responsible to the Reichstag. divisions facing, the Franco-British Army of Riga, the way to Petrograd is open." in Belgium. The enemy altogether had While it is recognised that owing to the forty-two divisions in the Flanders great distance the advance

now

Korniloft solemnly warned the Moscow

arcompli, but the Tsar, after momentari- ly appearing to agree, changed his mind in view of the wreats at Algeciras,

The telegrams which passed between the Tsar and the Kaiser show that the Kaiser He will also propose that the allegiance took advantage of the Dogger Bank in

towards of Alsace-Lorraine should be decided by

We do not," they say, conceive any | durable peace to be possible while the Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs retain their prezent power. The greatest danger is lest the free countries should accept a precarious peace."

GRAVE SHIP LOSSES.

ADMIRAL JELLICOE'S URGENT APPEAL TO BUILDERS. It should be thoroughly understood,"

The Iron and Steel Trades Confedern- they add," that we refuse not to meet Germans, but to associate with the creation recently received a message from tgres of the imperialism of William and Sin E. Carson, Fire Lord, and Admiral Karl. We bava no objection to make common action with those in the Central Jellicoe, Fist Sea Lord, which said:

The Board of Admiralty wish to im Empires who oppose the policy of aggres- to meet the majority Socialists if, pairing ships how serious are the times. renouncing their present errors, they in which we live. Every day merchant openly and powerfully took part against chips are being sunk, and we need to are all our resources to prevent our being their Emperors."

threatened with starvation. The enemy knows this and has staked everything. upon it. If he succeeds, victory will rest with him, but if he fails, his defeat is

battle: therefore, in a single month the Petrograd would normally be stupen- the inhabitants of Alsace-Lorraine, and vident and the difficulties of coaling the ion and conquest. We would not refuse press upon ull engaged in building or re

Allies bave put forty German divisions dous undertaking, it is possible the a general disarruament after the war.

ut of action and at present nineteen others are being reduced by the same methods to the same condition.

THE CAMPAIGN JN FLANDERS

ARMIES FLOUNDERING IN THE MUD.

Lospos, September 3rd. The armies in Flanders are still floun. dering in the mud, the enemy having the worst experience, living in continual suspense under unceasing shell-fire and the wierd spectacles of the flashes of the

German High Command has decided that there could never be a better time than now, when confronted with the melting Russian Army.

Some military writers are of opinion that the season is too late for such an operation.

The Westminster Gazette says the at- tempt would be sheer madness, with such forces as the Germans have, and with winter coping on.

Other writers point out that the Ger- man Baltic Fleck any operate at the rear

of the Russian Army, and that this will probably lead to interesting naval

THE RECENT HURRICANE IN ENGLAND.

DAMAGE LESS THAN WAS FEARED.

The Belgian delegates are clearly in favour of an Allied Socialist conference in London to formulate a pence policy before a general conference in Stockhole

Russian Baltic Fleet on the way to the Far East to impress the Tsar with the pro posed new Russo-German alliance against Britain, Assuming that France, as an ally of Russia, would be compelled to join them. The Treaty of Alliance was actual

There are only two weapons that, we The Food Production Department rely drafted. The Taar wished to show the

can use, and both can only be forged in ports that the actual damage caused by the draft to France before its signature, but

the shipyarda of the country. One is the class of warship that enables the Navy to recont gale has proved less than was the Kaiser was of opinion that this would

That transport difficulties are increas-hunt and destroy the enemy's submarines, be dangerous, as France would immedi-ing in Germany is shown by the following the other is every new merchant ship that

announcement in Germining what

feared.

LONDON, September 4th.

TRANSPORT DIFFICULTIES IN

GERMANY,

certain,

takes the place of a ship that has been There are hopes of saving the bulk of ately inform Britain, and Britain and

No more Berlin children can be sent ank Upon the men of the shipyards and the corn harvest.

doubtlers immediately on u holiday to the country, unless the engineering shops depends entirely the Japan would

sum of 3s, be paid for the transport of output of the weapons. We who are NEW ZEALAND LOAN OVER-attack Germany, of whose small fleet their ich child, regardless of the distance secure in our homes, owe it to the brave

SUBSCRIBED.

enormous maritime superiority would travelled. Free transport is entirely susten who are dying hourly for us on art pended. Moreover, the choice of allied WELLINGTON, September 4th so make short work. On the contrary, or neatral countries as a place of teman land, and in the air to spare no effort mporary sojourn for Berlin children is to give them the weapons with which to The first instalment of £12,000,000 for if the Treaty were signed, France would becoming very restricted. In Hungary, win the war for us,

The Board of Admiralty are confi for certain reasons, all further facilities. Tcherbatcheff, who recently took over the War Loan has been heavily over urge Britain to remain quiet, through have ceased, and persons who have alreadyent that in the supreme crisis of our lises be downhearted at the first touch of command on the Northern Front, has subscribed, the subscriptions already fear of France's position being jeopart in demands for accommodating their try the men of the shipyards and the children in that country are requested to workshops will see to it that this appeal the Flemish winter.

sufficient dependable troops,

amounting to £16,000,000.

withdraw them at once in writing." shall not fall on deaf ears???

guns in daylight and darkness, accou panied by bursting shrapnel, storm clouds and the explosion of the heavies developments elsewhere. However, almost throwing mud far and wide the spirit of our Tommies is splendid. They refuse

everything depends on whether General

dised