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THE

COMPLETE

WAR.

SUCCESS OF OPERATIONS,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 101, 1917.

FRENCH

FIVE HUNDRED PRISONERS.

GRAVE INDICTMENT OF SWEDEN. >STOCKHOLM USED AS GERMANY'S TELEGRAPH OFFICE.

SITUATION IN RIGA REGION.

GERMAN INTENTIONS UNCERTAIN.

Branco-Belgian bront

LATEST CABLES,

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BRITISH FRONT.

ENEMY ARTILLERY ACTIVE.

LONDON, September 8th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Hnig re- ports: The enemy artillery has been more active in, the neighbourhood of Har gicourt.

› marked.

Elsewhere it has been less

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ENEMY SHELLS LANGEMARCK,

! LONDON, September -8th, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re-

ports:- -We successfully raided in the neighbourhood of Gavrelle. ...

Raro fighting is going on north- castward of St. Julien.

The enemy heavily shelled Langenarek Last evening.

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FRENCH FRONT.

IMPORTANT FRENCH SUCCESSES.

PARIS, September 9th A communiqué states: -On the right of -the Meuse, the French attacked this morna-)

ing the enemy lines an a front of two and a half kilometres in the sector of Fosses and Caurieres: Wooda.

The operations were a complete success, despite a desperate enemy resistance.

We extended our positions north of the Fosses Wood and carried the whole of the Chaume Wood, and the line to the west dominating Caurieres Wood. We captural over 300 prisoners.

GERMAN VERSION

LOON," September 8th.

A wireless Germán official .... report states:-The French attack en Fosses Wood, north-westward of Begonvaux, failed. At Chaume Wood, where the znemy gained ground, fighting continues.

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GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON, September 8th.

A German official report says →→The French attack between Samogacux and Beaumont-Vaucher-Anvill road, : on # front of twenty miles, was repulsed with heavy losses.

Fresh fighting has developed this morning.

Russian brott.

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INVASION OF RUSSIA.. GERMAN INTENTIONS STILL NOT

CLEAR.

LONDOS, September 8th.

The intentions of the Germans on the Bags front are still not clear

The fall of Freiderichstadt and Dvinsk

as threatened by their advance, but though it is practically unopposed, except for rearguards, the fact that they are operat ang on a small front, and the stoness of the season, suggest that the Germans do not contemplate the extensive operations involved in a march to Petrograd.

The Germans will probably be satisfed with the occupation of Livopia, and

RUSSIAN FRONT. SITUATION IN RIGA REGION

UNCHANGEDAR

LONDON, September 8th.

Africa.

LATEST. CAELES. [IKROUGH SHUTER'S" AGENOTĄ] BRITISH SUCCESSES IN AFRICA.

LONDON, September 8th The War Office announce :—We are pursuing the Germans we dislodged from Upepo, and have occupied Malinje.

We repulsed enemy counter-attacks in the vicinity of Uponda.

General.

LATEST CABLES,

.......

THROUGH REUTES'S AGENCY.]

SWEDEN VIOLATES DIPLO-

EN VIOL MATIC PRIVILEGE.

ACTING AS GERMANY'S TELE GRAPH OFFICE.

WASHINGTON, September 8th,

AUSTRALIAN WAR LOAN

BILL PASSED.

MELBOURNE, September 8th. The Commonwealth Parliament has, repealed the Daylight Saving Bill.

The Representatives have passed tho War Loan Bill mentioned in yesterday's cable.

RECRUITING IN GREECE.

ATHENS, September 8th Telegrams from the provinces stato that there is an enthusiastic response to the call to the 1910 and 1917 classes, The recruits are clamouring for war THE MURDER OF AUSTRIA'S PREMIER.

DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED.

Amsterdam, September 8th. The Austrian Emperor las commuted the sentence of death passed on Dr.

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NGDIŲ

HAN PO

ENTENTE MINISTERS AND CHINA.

SHANGHAI, September 9th.

The Entente Ministers held a meeting at the French Legution yesterday and

decided:

'CHURCH AND STATE-

THE NEED OF LIBERTY FELT.

In the Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury, recently, the Bishop of Oxford moved “That this House cordial. ly welcomes the Report of the Arch-. bishops Church and State Committee, and calis the attention of all Church people to the recommenda tions which that Report Contains with a view to speedy action." He said (1).—To agrow to Customs being increas that the need of liberty was felt by every ed 5 per cent,

ono in the world at the present time, and : (2) To postpone the Boxer indemnity the Church ought to make it manifest for 5 years.

that it look ifs share in bis movement for (3).-To allow Chinese troops to pass freedom. Churchmen insisted on freedom through the Tientsin Concession.

for themselves. They needed greater self- reforming energy and a more vigorous claim for liberty. The method of the Archbishops' Committee had been to con centrate on the formation of a Central- Church Council as the instrument of wif reform and through which they could pro- for would be in the direction of a re- ceed to corporate action. Tho chief re-s

EDUCATIONAL CHIEF FOR KWANG

TUNG AND KWANGSI Amaudate appoints an Educational chief for each of the Provinces. The

and for Kwangsi Wu Ting-shin,

INDEPENDENCE CANCELLED.

The State Department has published Adler, who assassinated M. Stuorgkh, official for Kvangtung is Fu Ting-shing ofeial documents showing how the formerly Prime Minister of Austris, to Swedish Legation in Argentina, eighteen years penal servitude. A Russian official report states:-The Reting as a secret means of communication situation in the Rign region is unchanged.etween the German Charge d'Affaires ut

DESPERATE BATTLE IN Enemy aeroplanes bombed Jacobstadt. AEROPLANES 'ATTACK RUSSIAN

WARSHIPS.

Five enemy aeroplanes unsuccessfully attacked our torpedo-boat patrols in the Gulf af liga.

GERMAN REPORT.

A German official report says: -Qur cavalry are fighting on a fine westward of Wenden to Kenheidenhof, where the Buemy, are hastily entrenching.

The enemy have evacuated positions westward of Kokenhusen

Buenos Aires and the Berlin Foreign Oflice, transmitted information regard ing the sailing of ships, with directions for their destruction by submarines. TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENTS.

· LATER.

TRIPOLI.

ITALIANS HEAVILY DEFEAT: REBEL TRIBESMEN.

A desperate fight ended in the defeat of the tribesmen, who left a thousand dead on the field, two guns, numerous

rities and munitions.

ROME, September 8th. Au Italian column near Agilah, in Tripoli, moved against 5.000 rebel tribos Mr. Lansing. Secretary of Staten with five guns directed by a Turkish announces: The Department of State

officer. has secured certain telegrams from Count Luxburg, German Charge d'Affaires at Buenos Aires, to the Foreign Office in Burtin, which, I regret to say, were despatched from Buenos Aires by the The guns captured on the Riga kattle Swedish Legation as

its own official Gold number 316.

messages and addressed to the Stockholm REMOVALS FROM PETROGRAD TO Forsign Office. The following are trans-

NIJINOVGOROD.

lations of the German text: May, 1917, No. 32-This Government has released the German and Austrian ships, upon which hitherto a guard has been placed, in consequence of the settlement

PETROGRAD, September 8th. In view of the possibility of the Ger man invasion continuing beyond the Riga sentor, the Russian State Bank and the artillery headquarters are being removed froni Nijinovgorod,

GERMAN PRAYERS GRANTED. AMORERDAY, September 8th. The Kaiser, in a boastful speech to the troops at Riga, zaidi:-

This town, founded on the old Ger- man spirit, his again been liberated from oppression. Your success has been more rapid than As expected. The enemy has sustained a crushing blow. We will defend ourselves, wo matter how lang. Such blows as Rign will hasten the victory. The Lord of Creation has granted our prayers, giving us our daily bread. Therefore, onward, with iron will, to victory"

GERMAN GOVERNOR OF RIGA. AMSTERDAM, September 8th. A Berlin message says that General von Altep has been appointed Governor of Biga Italian Front

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ITALIAN FRONT.: THIRTY THOUSAND PRISONERS IN OFFENSIVE.

Rome, September 8th.

now

of the Monte Protegido case. There has been a great change of public feeling, and the Government will in fature only clear Argentine e ships

Palmas.

ox fur as Las I beg that the small steamer Orangnazo.

bes that the 31st January (meaning, which sailed on the 31st January), 390 tons, which is now

of fing, may be spared if possible, or else nearing Bordeaux with a view to change.

sunk without any trace being left (Signed) LEXBURD.” ”. REVELATIONS CREATE SENSA

TION IN GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON, September 9th. Mr. Lansing's revelations have created A sensation in Great Britain.

AND

The Italians are pursuing them. GERMAN AMMUNITION TRAIN IN COLLISION. GENERAL LUDENDORF

STAFF "SLIGHTLY INJURED."

AMSTERDAM, September 8th. A Berlin telegram discloses that train by which General von Ludendorf

olli was travelling at the end of August collided with a munitions train.

contitution of the Lower House of Con- vocation and a more adequate representa tion of the laity. The present House of Laymen was no precedent for the future House, which would have its recognised It is reported that Li Yao-han hus part in the government of the Church. wired to the Cabinet to cancel indepen-chial Church Councils at first proved dis- We must not be too critical if the Paro-

derico.

**THEY ALL LIKE IT."

Last night I went across to the Club, And in the Portico Was one who leaned his head on the wall

And let the salt tears flow..

He had his cont upon his back, His pouches on his breast; And a martial belt with a bayonet Encircled his lower chest.

appointing, for this was also the case in the small parish councils throughout the country. With regard to the lay fran- chise, he would strongly urge that the vote should be given to those holding the status of a communiennt, He did this both on the ground of principle and ex-

franchise which embraced every baptized pediency. It was the mean between a adult and that which would restrict it to comminnicants.

The bishops already bud agreed that women should take a more active part in the new bodies than the Report had indicated. We could not hope, at any rate for the present, to get the same kind of freedom for the Church of England as that of the Established Church of Scotland.

That Church was never so involved in Acts of Parliament Why are you weeping there! I said: "Dear me, you pour old thing, as was the case with the Church of Eng

I took him gently by the hand; I smoothed his tangled hair.

At first he took he notice, but Continued to sob and sigh, Till I had to tell him firmly That a soldier shouldn't cry.

At last he dried his swollen eyes By the light of a rising star, And I led him gently up the stairs,

And steered him into the bar,

former was smashed and overturned. And I called the least incompetent boy

The And there upon his upturned-paltos

He dropped his weary head, General Ladendorf and his Staff were And ordered an Old Tom red. slightly injured by splinters.

{Telegrams received on Saturday and on Sunday morning and published in an *Extra Page 1.1.

on Sunday, will be found on

WAR NEWS. SOUTH AFRICAN GIFT TO THE EMPIRE,

The House of Assembly recently passed by 33 votes to 13 the gift of £1,000,000 by South Africa to the Imperial Govern

ment.

So then at last his woeful tale To me he did begin,

And a terrible deal of gin. But it took a lot of tiine and tears

Last week than I was no prouder man From West Point to Taikoo Yard, For then I knew, Oh, Toorntool I was warned for Scutters guard." ".

And, Oh, once more to tread the path, That akirts the Beutters.' strand: Once more to pass the tennis court, With a rifle in my hand.

pass,

"And wow! to pace the guard-house front, And scale the little winding path With solemn step and low;.

That leads to the Bungalow, It appears that the Foreign. Office at

Mr. Patrick Duncan, Stockholm has been acting na tele Nationalist arguments in favour of That can't recall the

answerings Once more to halt one sleepy soul graph office for the German Govern- neutrality, urged the Nationalists to And hold my bayonet under his nose

ent, regularly transmitting German grasp the meaning of the world situation, And make him feel an ass" cypher cables

as Swedish Government to realize that this was a war dividing messages during the past three fears,humanity on questions of ideals. "Even Thus the German Ministers in various pire," he said," she would not be neutral if South Africa were not part of the Em foreign countries have been in free tele way, it would be folly to think that South Oh, for the super mosquitoes,

to-day, Standing on the great sea high hie communication with Berlin by Africa could be neutral. Her fate inust That hardly ever bite, graphic banding their cypher messages to the Swedish Minister, who signed and de- spatched them to Stockholm, whence they were sent to Berlin.

The British Government learned of the

An Italian official report states-existence of the system in the Spring of North-eastward of Gorizia the enemy's 1915, and told the Swedish Government lines of communication were subjected that unless the practice ceased it would to an intense barrage fire.

be necessary

to placc restrictions on During the actual offensive wo have Swedish cypher telegrams using British captured 30,671 prisoners.

AUSTRIANS CLAIM SUCCESSES. LONDON, September 8th.

the Austrians have pressed back the An Austrian official report claims that Italians from Monte San Gabrielle, in- flicting heavy losses; and also that the Austrians have recovered ground lost in the Hermada sector and captured 6,400

prisoners..

controlled cables

The Swedish Minister in London, after some delay, promised that the practice would ceaser

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, September 9th.

Silver is firm.

AUSTRIANS STRIVING TO STEM AMERICA AND

THE ITALIANS,

UPINE, September 8th.

The concentrated efforts of Austria's foremost Generala Hoezendorf, Koc- wess and Boroevic-are striving to stem

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THE WAR

PROHIBITION OF COIN AND BULLION EXPORTS.

Washington, September 8th- The President of the United States of

perhaps Esthonis, and the establishment the Italians, whose positivas are being America prohibits the exportation of of bases on the coast in order to relieve bombarded most violently from Ca

Castag the pressure on the railways.

nevizza to the const, while successive coin and bullion currency after Septem. columns of fresh Austrians have launch-ber, except under licence, for the pur long prepared a line of defence. This ed attacks, regardless of losses, especially pose of conserving the gold supply, may mark the limit of the German ad against Selo, where the Italians threaten which Japan, Mexico and Spain have

It is believed that the Russians have

sance before the winter.

the northern slopes of Hermada.

recently drawn heavily upon.

Oh, for the muddy blankets, and The slumber sound and sweet,

And my boots upon my feet." With a bayonet hilt in the small of my back

be decided by the issue on the European But help you to lie awake, and wait battlefields. Mr. Duncan concluded with For the end of a perfect night." an eloquent appeal for a real South african nation undivided by the quarrels. of the past.

MEMORIAL TO SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY.

£100,000 FOR YELLOWSHIPS AND A ZABORATORY,

The Committee, of which Mr. Asquith is president, formed to raise a suitable

**

But, alas, my dream was shattered? (One more the salt tears ran),

For I found when I reached the elderly

room

I was only the waiting man.".

"How I watched the others arriving- I felt like a bundle of nerves- But I thought there would surely be one

unfit

In a bunch of six Preserves." "

:.

land Either this scheme of the Arch- bishops' Committee must be accepted with modifications or nothing would result. He was not in the least persuaded that anyone had a right to say that disestab lishment was niceessary. It was the duty of the Church to press forward for emancipation.

The Bishop of Chelmsford urged speedy action, and uttered a caution against the policy of drift

·

The Bishop of St. David's cordially wel. comed the scheme. The position of the Church in Wales at present caused grave anxiety, owing to the refusal of the Gov- ernment to postpone the operation of the Welsh Church Act.

The Bishop of Birmingham was in favour of making baptism the basis of the qualification for the franchise.

The Bishop of Winchester said that such assemblies as were contemplated would give an outlet for the critics and restrain a temper of cynicism.

The Bishops of Norwich and Bristol were in favour of a wider franchise.

an error.

The Archbishop of Canterbury drew n tention to the importance of the occasion. He believed that the resolution would hearten many people whose pessimism was Sonte movement of the sort contemplated was absolutely essential. He felt this now even more than when the committee was appointed four years ago: No committee of corresponding quality. to that which had presented the report bad met in recent years. The report had been criticized by many who had no great, experience of practical Church affaire or were in positions which relieved them from any immediate responsibility for them.

It was impossible to make the schome & felt accompli during the war. For that they must wait for the return of the mon now engaged in active service. The resolution meant business.

The

adopted.

resolution Was unanimously

LUXURY IN WAR TIME,

FINES FOR DECORATING A HOUSE. Mesers. Harrison, builders, of Engle- field Green, Burrey, and Howell J. Williams, Ltd., builders, of Bermondsey, were recently prosecuted at Chertsey for carrying on building and constructional work at Bishopsgate House, Englebeld Green, without a licence from the Ministry of Munitions, contrary to the "And, Oh, how I hated their bright old Defence of the Realm Act. Gerard Jur. Ramsay, announce that, after careful con And their stiff but sturdy knees. sideration, it has been decided to aim at What earthly chance had a waiting raising £100,000, and to devote that sum With a husky crowd like these 7" to two principal objects--the provision So they marched away and left me, of Ramsay Research Fellowships, tenable And it wrings my heart with woo, wherever the neocmary equipment may be To think that for twice four long, long found, and the establishment of a Ratasas Memorial Laboratory of Engineering Chemistry in connection with University College, London.

memorial to Professor Sir William

eyes

weeks

shan't have a chance to go.**

gens, Dutch margarine merchant, owner of Bishopsgote House, was summoned for wanaiding and abetting,

The Committee state that they would He censed and renewed his sobbing. hesitate to ask for so large a sum of So I softly and silently vanished away,

Poor lad, he was cruelly hit, money in such exceptionally difficult times

GOLIATH.

were it not that the objects, are of real And left him alone with the chif and urgent national importance. It is im portant that the fund should be raised so that the plans for the spredile, laboratory and the scheme for the award of fellowhsips may be prepared before the end of the war, and so that both schemes. may begin to operate with as little delay Acordingly, the Committee appeal to received by the American Consulate as possible after the return of peace, The following telegram has been friends and admirers of Sir William, to

TYPHOON WARNING,

old students, and to all persons who art General Hongkong, from the Manila interested in chemistry and its applica Observatory: tion to industry and manufacture to con- bute to this memorial, and to send their zubscriptions, to the hon. treasurers of the fund at University College London.

11:45 am, Sept. 8th Typhoon in about 114deg. Long. E. and Gdeg, Lat, N., direction unknoWD,

Mr. H. T. Roome, for the Ministry of Munitions, said patriotic persons had informed them that work of a luxurious house. An inspector was sent, and found description was being carried on at the

carpenters, plumbers, decorators, plaster. ers, and paper hangers at work. Mr. Jurgens had purchased the house for £17,500 It was being decorated in luxurious style when labour was urgently required for the erection of munition works

Mr. Crawford (for Messrs. Harrison and Mr. Jurgens) said the former thought the regulations applied to constructional works only, and Mr. Jurgens had no knowledge that such a large amount of work was being done, leaving it to his architect and wife.

Williams said they had refused private Mr. Cecil Whitley (for Mesars. work valued at hundreds of thousands of

pounds. They simply carried out a little Einer work at Mr. Jurgens' request to the extent of £350,

Jurgens was fined £50. Messra Harri son £30, and Mesore, Williams £20.