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THE

WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TA, 1917

ENEMY ATTACKS IN THE WEST.

RUSSIAN SITUATION.

MORE ENCOURAGING✨ SIGNS.

ITALIAN SUCCESSES.

Franco-Belgian front,

BARLIZE CABLES.

· (THROUGH ZEVTER'S AGENCY.] SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAIDS

LATEST CABLES,

ENEMY PREPARATIONS.

WARNING..

PETROONID, September 17th. General Valoniell, commanding the LONDON, September 16th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig western front, in an Army Order, warns states;--We again raided Cherisy and the troops that the reliably informed penetrated the far castern outskirts Innemy is intoxicated with the success at addition to prisoners and wounded we Riga, and is preparing to break through

killed over seventy Germans in these raids We drove off raiders north of Lens We repulser a counter-attack

on the Dvinsk and Minsk..........

It is hoped that the Proclamation of the Republic will clear the air. It is ex-

"LATEST, CABLES.

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

SHAKEN FABRIC OF STATE.

PETROGRAD, September 17ths

a strong The Government has issued manifesto announcing the Republic. This says that General Korniloff's revolt hus been suppressed, but the State is still threatened by mortel danger. The Government has therefore decided to buttress the shaken fabric of State by the foundation of a Republic. The first task of the Government will be to restablish order in the State and to regenerate the fighting capacity of the Army. With the co-operation of the whole living forces of the country, the Governmetit is confident of a speedy accomplishment of the task.

EARLIER CABLES,

FORMING A CABINET,

PETROGRAD, September 18th, Negotiations aiming at the creation of a Cabinet of five lasted all day on Fri-

SX COURTESY OF THE CHUNG NO01

BAN FO

TROOPS FOR EUROPE.

KING ALFONSO'S FRANK TALK

Soldiers Delegatce has now overwhelm CHINESE TELEGRAMS. A BUSINESS-LIKE MONARCH ingly rejected the resolutions and adopt- ed instead a Maximalist resolution de claring that in view of the necessity of tho constitution of a strong revolutionary pover free from all compromiso with the anti-Revolution and bourgeois elements,

Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates have decided to convoke immediately a conference of representatives of the whole organised democracy for the settlement of the question of the constitution of power capable of leading the country until the meeting of the Constituent Assembly, Meawhile, it urges the revolu- innary democracy energetically to sup post the Government. M. Tscheidze, the President of the Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates, has announced that the above Conference will be held in Petrograd not later than the 25th instant.

RUSSIA A REPUBLIC, The Government has proclaimed Russia a Republic.

COSSACESATTITUDE.

No one could fail to be impressed by the King of Spain's vigorous personality, his vim, and his extraordinary knowledge of men and officers both in Spain and abroad (writes Mr. H. J. Greenwall, to the Daily He is both grave and gay in turn, but his fascinating smile never leaves his face ledge is wonderful,

His business knowledge

SHANGHAI, September 17th. Fourteen Provinces have wired the Express). Government approving of the proposal to senil troops to Europe.

SILVER AND COPPER.

The Government will shortly issue un order prohibiting the export of silver and copper

EDUCATION COUNCILS.

LORD HALDANE'S SCHEME OF PROVINCES:

as evidenced when he spoke to me about the commercial relations between the Allits and Spain, and His Majesty's pre occupation is to steer the ship of State into safe waters.

Speaking about Span's part in the war the King said APP, 3M

Our parbinow and for the fature must be the rate of a neutrali Was nest. 1100 enter the war. We must remain. nentral until the end

exclaimed.

We shall be neutral.” speaking emphatically unless we kre attacked I cannot allow the honour" of my country to be besmirched.

RELATIONS WITH ALLICS Passing in review Spain's commercial relations with the Allies the King said:-

and

BASIS OF RECONSTRUCTION,

Lord Haldane, presiding at a confer ence on educational reconstruction at the summer meeting of extension and other three years had passed since the greatest France are excellent. We are able to students at Oxford last month, said that My relations with England war in the world's history began, and we supply these countries with materials they were not at the end of it yet. We must require. I am glad to say that our rela be prepared to spend the whole of our jous with Italy are of the friendliest resources-if necessary to learn to live character, and if England could send us on 6d. a day rather than be defeated, coal and the United States could send us. The first duty therefore of every citizen entton everything would be perfect. was to concentrate his mind, his heart, France and England are dar nearest and his soul on victory. But these coneighbours. It is like the man who lives ferences, assembled under the regis of a perfect harmony with the neighbours duty of importance, only second to the passing friction. This does not affect the one to which he had referred

real and traditional ties between Spain and those two nations. have not been touched by the war, admire Some Spanish people, like ethers who the pre-war reputation of the German Let

north of the Inverness Copse in an effort pecled that the next step will be the day and throughout the night. The The War Cabinet of five, mentioned great university, were none the less non either side of him. Familiarity breeds

to retake the strong point we captured

yesterday.

BIG BRITISH ATTACKS.

LONDON, September 18th. A German wireless official message, states:North of the Menin Ypres Road the English forced our foremost treaction over a company's breadth. The English broke forth on a ifteen hundred-metro Front at Cherisy, using fame throwers and armoured cars. We threw them out in hand-to-hand fighting. A second attempt also broke down, ENEMY RAIDS DRIVEN OFF.

LONDON, September 17th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haigre ports--The enemy raided in the neigh bourhoods of the Ypres Comines Canal and to the cast of Mossines. A few of our men are missing. The enemy heavily bombarded to the north of Langemarck and his infantry attempted to advance, but our counter-barrage prevented the attack from developing. There is con- siderable artillery activity in the Ypres

dissolution of the Duma. Preparations are being made at Moscow to accommo. date the Government offices in case of necessity,

The cotton planters of Turkestan have decided to grow corn in order to avert a famine.

Generul.

LATEST CABLES. THROUGH MUTER'S AGENCY.]

AMERICA'S WAR PREPARA TION.

HUGE BUMS OF MONEY.

LONDON, September 17th. Lord Northcliffe, in the Ziais, describ ing America's war preparation, says that after barely five monthe preparation the United States has close upon a million and a half soldiers undergoing intensive training. For the upkeep of this force sums of money have been voted which make one's brain reel. For aeroplane construction £128,000,000 had been appro printed. Upon merchant ships building £227,000,000 is to be spent In all the United States' war expenditure already:

this morning, is confirmed oficially,

y To sum up the situation. some people in this country who are pro-Ger-

an are by no means anti-Ally."

expoRT OF FRUIT of the commercial relations between The King then returned to the ques Brain and the Allies, and said:

tion

friendly manner the decisions of England I quite understand and interpret in with regard to the importation of fruit. It is quite obvious that England has not the ships now with which to import oranges. Before the way we sent half orus

to those countries, but I hope next year Crop to Germany and Russia, Now, of course, it is quite impossible to send fruit. that Hugland will see her way t

to allow

The end of this struggle would not find society as it was when the struggle began He looked on education as the most in portant element in reconstruction. them begin with education, tak it as this foundation, and social problems would solve themselves. The educaled on did not Luke starvation wages, he did not live irong drink. He did not say that these things were universally true, but they were true with a prodigious majority of Education was a thing of tremendous educated people. significance, not only because it broke down the barriers that separated class from class and gave people as sense of ledge and new interest in the hands of equality, but because it put new know

of Labour was how to make Labour the importation of oranges. the workers. One of the great problems teresting they had too little imagination It might be possible to send, say, 1 about the grievances of the labourer. Une hundred tons of oranges in every ship of his great grievances was that to that leaves our aliores. was mechanical and dull.

With the

That would march of science

marched also greatly relieve the distress among the Subsequently, the Revolutionary Commachine, which took away very much of Valencia orange-growers. They now only message condemning the the dull and monotonous work. The high earn a shilling where they used to each

er the application of knowledge to dustry, and the more thoroughly seen penetrated their industrial organization, the more closely they would get to the time when every man, even the great hulk of those engaged in manual labour, would realize that brain power was as necessary NE FISHER'S LASE

problem was to surmount the refusal of

The Council of Don Cossacks has re the Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates to

fused to obey the order of the Govern collaborate with the bourgeoisie, with a complication due to the withdrawal of ment to arrest General Kaledine, on the the Moscow commercial and industrial ground that General Kaledine must elements, on whom M. Kerensky counted, attend a Cossack Confereres to-day to and the uncertainty of General Alexeiff, furnish explanations. It has also passed who is threatening to resign. The Work-resolution protesting against the charge that the Cossacks sympathise with the men's and Soldiers Delegates, adhering

anti-Revolutionists and declaring that to the attitude. expressed in the resolu

it has always supported the Government. tion cabled yesterday morning, submitted to M, Kerensky a list of Socialist Minis ters with M. Kerensky or M. Tseretelli as Premier. This was not acceptable to, M. Kerensky, who did not wish to bar the entry of Cadets into the Government. The discussion résulted in the resignation of M. Skuebeloff, M. Aksenticff, and M Zorudny, who disapproved the settle- ment and. opposed the resolution of the Workinen's and Soldiers' Delegates. "After a protracted discussion & Wer Cabinet of five will probably be formed, consisting of M. Kerensky as Premier; General Verkhovsky, Minister of War; Admiral Verderevsky, Minister of Marine; M. Therstelenko, Foreign

NAVAL OFFICERS SHOT. A message from Helsingfors says that the crew of the Russian warship Petru perlesk shot four of their officers owing to their refusal to sign a pledge of fidelity to the Provisional Govemment.

ittee sent a

crew.

PROBABLE GERMAN NAVAL OFFENSIVE

telegraphed from the Baltic Fleet, con

A message from Admiral Verderevsky,

tains a warning that a German naval offensive is highly probable.

SWEDISH REVELATIONS.

muscle power.

TASE.

a pound."

coincidence that this year's orange crop His Majesty told me it was a cynical was a record one. He closed his remarks on commercial relations by saying that from the United States, about 16,000 tons Spain required coal from England, cotton of nickel per annum from England or America to revive the couning industry: bee, and a certain quantity of sulphur from England or Italy to help the wine.

of Spain.

Mr. Fisher's programme, and not less his exposition of it, had lifted the con- troversy about education to a higler industry stage, but his task was gigantic. He was I asked the E CRESS.

the King if he would explain deeply convinced that in education, as in most other things, unless there were des the origin of the crisis through which hin volution-devolution to those who were country is now pussing. is Majesty

replied: localities they would not make very much the effects of the war. She is suffering progress. Local self-government

from what I may term financial indiges there as elsewhere.

sector. Aeroplanes co-operated with the amounts to well over £1,000,000 per day; Minister; and M. Nikitini, Minister of NO EXPLANATIONS FROM BERLIN. able and willing to work in the various Spain is now only beginning to feel.

artillery, despite the wind favouring the Loans to the Allies account for another enemy, and dropped three tons of explo£2,400,000

sives on two acradomes east of Courtrai,

on an aerodrome sad ammunition dump.

to the north-east of Cambrai and also on

MORE INTRIGUE.

Posts and Telegraphs,

CONCESSION TO FINLAND.

Losnos, September 17th.

Was

The Swedish Minister, in an interview their price prosecded to Baggest that tion. One part of the people has become.

The Provisional Government has issued with an American correspondent, declares a manifesto granting the Finnish Senate that he telegraphed on the 10th instant the right to decide questions formerly to the Swedish Minister in Berlin mak

Lord the education authorities might use their prosperous as a result of the was the organization of our great armies and course, resulted in a certain amount of reconstruction on the modern method of The other part auffers severely This, of that educational maters might be left in

industrial unrester the hands of educational provinces. Scot

Mexico City, September 17th. The newspaper which publishon Herr billets and butments. We brought down Eckhardt's letter demands his expulsion the prerogative of the Grand Duke of ing strong representations against the land would be one, Wales another, Lan by the patriotic movement in the Army,

six and drove down two enemy machines.

Four of ours are missing.

GERMAN ATTACK.

LIVELY ARTILLERYING.

PARIS, September 17th. "Arammuniqué states:-There has been considerable artillery fire in the region of Braye and Cerny. A fresh German attack on the right bank of the Meuse, to the north of Caurieres Wood, was repulsed: On the left bank there has been lively artillery Gring in the neighbour hood of Morthornme. Italian Front.

BARLIER CADLES. THROUGH REUTER'S AGINOX,]

ITALIAN SUCCESSES,

ROME, September 16th.

if the Government wishes to preserve neutrality.

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

FAIR TRIAL FOR GEN. KORNILOFF.

PETROGRAD, September 17th.

It is announced that the Government does not intend any revengeful measures against General Korniloff, who has been given every facility for his defence.

KING AND THE WORKERS.

LONDON, September 17th The King has started on a visit to the Clyde Yards, including a public investi. ture in Ibrox Park, Glasgow, whero pro parations have been made for 100,000 spectators.

KARLIEN CABLES.

MORE MEN WANTED.

LONDON, September 16th. official message states: We gained

Replying to a deputation on Saturday; ground on the south-eastern margin of the the Minister of National Service stated Baipsizza Plateau, taking 416 prisoners. that the Department was being rear- We dropped two-and-a-half bombs on troops massed east of

Monte San Gabriele

Russian bront.

BANLIER QA BLES, THEOUGH REUTZE'S AGEŅUY.) STUBBORN FIGHTING, RUSSIANS HOLDING ON

A Russian official wireless mozsago

to

coming demand for more

the forth

Finland.

The situation is further complicated

calire and Cheshire another, then York which wants to se the money voted for it abuse of Sweden's good faith and asking hire and the West Riding, then they Parliament put to the best possible use for explanations from Berlin, but no North-Easter Counties and Northumber The Army also demands that i shall be land and Durham would be yet another, modernized, but it is quite untrue to say reply has yet been received.

and so, like that, they might map out the that the Army's discipline and loyalty country. If this idea came into practice are in any way impaired,

Another complication is the movÇMENG AMERICA TO CONTROL SUGAR would not be interfering with the Act

of 1902-3 or the local education authori in Cathionin. Some Cataluniang ask for INDUSTRY.

ties. If they took England they could sure of Home Rule They want to havs divide it into from seven to ten great al affair settled in Barcelon. It is educational provinces. The important separatist movement only in that sensu thing was to see what they wanted to do in & friendly fashion any demands made in My Government is disposed to discuss and how they were going to do it.

The general object in his mind was to a legal manner. It wants to see Catalonia break down the gulf between elementary and Barcelona even more prosperous than ed to see them unified into one great- and post-elementary education. He want.

As regards the other parts of Spain, the

a

GOVERNMENT HAS ACQUIRED

TREMENDOUS POWER.S

LONDON, September 16th. Well-informed Russian opinion in Lon- don considers that the recent events have finally moved the national spirit and eliminated the danger of the extremist The United States Gvernment has propaganda. There has been widespread assumed contront of the entire sugar complaint that there has been too much industry, The manufacture, importa talk, but t

the Government by its action tion and distribution will henceforth be organic whole of national education, and King said the Government intended to

in this crisis has acquired tremendous Power. The arrest of General Kornilof and his accomplices was effected much more easily than was thought possible, and has greatly eased the tension.

A telegram from Petrograd states that General Alexieff had General Korniloff arrested. Whatever General Korniloff's personal motives, the revolt must have developed into a reactionary movement. backed by landowners and capitalists, aa the bulk of the Army and population did not support him. A realisation of this

LONDON, September 16th.

conducted by licence.

GERMAN DREAM.

Zurich, September 16th,

A Constantinople telegram states that the new railway station, built by the Ger mans as a terminus for the Bagdad Railway, and two huge warehouses, have been burned down. The damage is esti- mated at four million franes."

EGYPTIAN COTTON SCHEME.

CAIRO, September 16th, The message from Alexandria on the

STATE SOCIALISM.

for that reason he would like to see the satisfy those whose demands appeared to universities a permeating influence i be justified, and to show the others the

every province no province without A

education to

4

university at one extreme, and. reunreasonableness of their requests.. presentatives of the local

But, said the King, the crisis cannob authority at the other. They wanted be

before the end of completely settled bring their local education

the warm gue authori ties into this.

When They were not Fry-

questioned as to revolution to superende them, but to extend rumours, the King sailed. When it was their work, He wanted to see the best explained that England believed the coun- men in the locality co-opted and to see they in the throes of revolution teachers, secondary and elementary on because it had been practically isolated this Council and of course, the secondary look to the future with confidence.

he replied: continuation and technical schools, which would play a larger part in the future Four, I regret that reformers who than they had done in the past, would wear ago, were pro-qonarchists now side have a permanent place. A body like with the republicans and say I belong to that would be administrative to this past decade, but is there a more modern tent, that, as in Scotland, Instead of them of opinion that the war

King than I will grant being cut up in little bits and administered by codes and regulations, cause an immense upheaval, in all coun it would be handled by the provincial tries, and that future Governments will the Board of Education for approval, and Socialism Buch as you have now in Eng emphasised that in order that the Army else could, and the separatist movements apprehension. The decreo provides for the Board of Education would give as

land, should be well-balanced and that the civil in Finland and Ukraine have already the cultivation of one-third of the cheer of rigid regulations, they agreed with me that it had a

mich latitude as possible to the provin discuss the Russian revolution, but he His Majesty said he preferred not to cial authorities. If they could get vid population should do necessary war work

perennial area, thus approximately would have got a Bows what the nation in Spain. 1 told His Majesty that I had certain repercussion in the minds of seme people and maintain a healthy public opinion,

1,355,000 feddans are left under cotton, could accomplish when we were put to found in Spain that the Allies, seemed to men of all military ages must be recruit-

representing a reduction of roughly it, and we could accomplish far more be identified with the revolutionary move ed, and some men of all ages must re-

for education if we bad a little more ment main at home,

orderliness in our composition. This was

You must do all you can to combat the time to think, Peace would come that idea," said the King. The King was come time. It might come soon and it greatly interested in all that was told him might not, and it might be sudden. The about France, and spoke with deep feel risk we ran was that before that peace ing of the sufferings of that country. came we might not have thought out how On the subject of penes overtures King The result of the first week's working and be upon us. Let them concentrat must go on for a long time yet, but peace. to deal with the grant problems which Alfonso said 1 believe that the war on this war, which was their Best Lasitust conte-and the sooner the better. at the moment; but let them not exclude After the declarations of Mr. Lloyd the other task, which was to think it George and M. Ribot, I do not think it the line of action in the golution of prob possible to offer my services as mediator, Jams which lay in front of them but I am prepared to go on working for (Cheers.)

humanity.

ganised with a view craits. The contingency has united Russin as nothing 10th instant was enbled under mis. aathorities who would submit a scheme to learn towards Socialism-a sort of State

U.S. WAR CREDITS BILL.

-states-A stubborn battle is proceeding on this Pskov Road, in the region of

WASHINGTON, September 16th. Zegorola Farm. Our troops are showing

The Senate has unanimously passed the great firmness and stability in repelling War Credits. Bill authorising the issue the enemy. We repulsed attacks in the of bonds totalling 11,538 million dollars direction of Focsani, north west of which the House of Representatives had

already passed.

weakened. It is officially announced io Petrograd that authority will be tempor arily centralised in some members of the Provisional Government.

DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE.

LONDON, September 16th.

It transpires that the Maximalist resolutions adopted by the Workmen's

320,000 feddans on last year's area..

COTTON RESTRICTION.

LONDON, September 16th.

and Boldiers' Delegates, as cabled on the of the cotton restriction scheme is that 15th instant, were passed in the absence seven huured operatives at Rochdale, of most of the soldier delegates. A three hundred operatives at Bury and plenary session of the Workmen's and two mills at Oldham are idle.

Fof

great