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THE WAR.

RAID

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, OCTOBER 18T, 1917.

ON ENGLAND REPEATED.

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LONDON DISTRICTS ATTACKED,

BRITISH ACTIVITY IN THE WEST

JAPANESE DESTROYERS RECORD

RESCUES.

Franco Belgian Front

Aerial Activities.

LATEST CABLES.

LATEST CABLES..

[THROWOK REUTER'S AGEKOT.]

THE VITAL WAR THEATRE

LONDON, September 29th.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.] ANOTHER RAID ON ENGLAND SEVERAL ATTACKS ON LONDON.

LONDON, September 30th. Reuters Correspondent at British A British official report states -Aero- Headquarters reports:The chief feature I planes crossed the coasts of Kent and| of the weekend has been the renewal | Ebeds in groups between eight and ning efforts of the Germans to retrieve their o'clock last evening. losses, Our artillery has dealt most su cessfully with the enemy, and the wastage

Beveral attacks were made on London. Bemis were dropped in the North

of enemy man power upon the Flanders Eastern and South-Eastern Distries;

General.

LATEST CABLES (THROUGH REUTER'8 AGENCY.]

FALSE TURKISH COM-

MUNIQUES

LONDON, September 30th, General Maude, replying to the General.

CHINESE MINISTER TO AUSTRIA.

AMSTERDAM, September 30th. The Chinese Minister and Legation staff have left Viesta for Denmark, vid Berlin.

EARLIER CABIES.

AMERICA AND THE WAR CHINESE TELEGRAMS, THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF

THE WORLD.

WASHINGTON, September 20th. One hundred and fifty indictments have been found hy Federal Grand Jury in Chicago investigating the activities of the

Staff's enquiry if there was any founda.ENEMY SUBMARINE HUNTING Industrial Workers of the World.

DIVERSITY OF METHODS AND RESULTS.

Over a ton of documents were seized in a recent raid on the headquarters of various pro German organisations mas querading as "Socialists, including letters and cheques, showing that German money had been plentifully supplied.

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[BY COURTESY OF THE CHUNG NGOL

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NATIONAL COUNCIL TO BE CONVENED.

PERING, September 30th. Mandate announces

that

the National Council will be convened within a mouth, followed as soon as possible by the convocation of Parliament..

The Council's duty will be that of revising and passing the Election Laws, the Mandate stating that the former laws

duties are to await the election of are impracticable. All other legislativo

formal Parliament. The importance of a representative legislature is emphasized." CANTON LEADERS TO BE ARRESTED.

tion for the various reports of British reverses appearing in the Turkish com muniqués, says: I do not intend to

LONDON, September 20th. contradict the Turkish communiqués,

The following authoritative instances of Regularly they are consistently fictitions, successful encounters with enemy sub General Maude mentions that regarding marines illustrate the diversity of

The bulk of the incmbers of the organ the Turkish claim on Wednesday of the methods employed, to deal with them.

sation are Austrians who have been, complete annihilation of ong vfur

The first instens eiled is that of a hitherto unrestrained, because the United cavalry detachments in the Euphrates forpedo-boat which sighted the periscope States has not declared war against region, the actual facts are that three off of a submarine on her starboard bow, 600 Austria, our troopers were wounded in a patrol yards away. The Captain swung his ship It is stated that the evidence, shans brush.

round all the periscope, was on his porttie exästekes of wide" conspiracy to bow, travelling slowly in the opposite amper the Government by organising | Cauton leaders are ordered to be arrested Sun Yat-sen, Wu Ching-lion and other direction The Periscop disappeared anti-military demonstrations, strikes, and punished. when nhaut 50 yards from the torpedo and the burning of forests and whent bont, which altered her course sons to fields. It is reported from Turkey that Dimal pass directly over the submarine. The Pasha has organised massacres of Arals impact of the collision was fell, and. in Syria, recalling the Armenian tro-afterwards two cxplosive charges were cities.

dropped in quickerxion.

Substr

ORGANISED MASSACRES

OF

ABABS.

PETROGRAD, September 29th.

All the lenders of the Arab ational &quently large palehes of oil were seen vai

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AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. THE DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE.

PETROGRAD, September 9th. The Minimalist and Revolution Social

PASSPORTS.

It is notified in the Gazette, for general information, that persons travelling to or through Norway should be provided with Passports rised by the Norwegian Legation or Norwegian Consul en carriere for the

Ridges during the last ten days has pro-also at various pinces in Kent and Essex, movement have been ordered to be hanged. the surface and mint-sweepers reported is a ti democratic Conference rated district in which the passport had been an obstruction at the bottom of the sea at in favour of a Coalition Cabinet, includ issued for by other Norwegian Consul

are

corded at a rate which is already bearing tangible fraile. The troops which quite lately were identified For the Russian front now opposite the British. These confessedly regard the circumstance having been pushed back westward at a time when there was so much talk of a great" Russian offensive në auguring ill for. German Success in the west, This

again emphasised that the west is the vital why theatre.

BRITISH FRONT.

PATROL ENCOUNTERS.

LONDON, September 30th.. Field-Marshal, Sir Douglas Haig re- ports :---We ́repulsed an attempt to ruid two posts, on Hill 70, northward of Lens. We captured a few Germans." Two men are missing. We also captured a few prisoners in patrol encounters in the neighbourhood of the Bapaume-Cambrai |

roach.

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.,

Our artillery were active on the Ypres Front.

There was considerable artillery fring at points between the Ypres-Comines Canal, and St. Julien.

AERIAL WARFARE.

Our aeroplanes dropped four tons of bombs on the aerodromes at Goatrodo and Carnieres, dumps, and the Neillets rail- ways. Another six tons were dropped or similar targets, including the Goatrode aerodrome. Despite a heavy barrage, all. Cour machines returned safely.

During the raids our flyers used their

broops and transport.

Reports of casualties and damage have not yet been received.

DETAILS OF THE LAST R·A·HTM

LONDON, Septeraber 29th.

The raiders did not penetrate the outer defences of London,

Bombs were dropped at a number of places in Kent, Essex and Suffolk

There were no casualties, and the dainage was insignificant.

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TIGHTENING THE BLOCKADE

Loxos, September. Mih. The tightening of the blockade is in

JAPANESE DESTROYERS RESUCE 550 PERSONS.

this place.

She

ing representatives of the bourgeoisie,

authorised by the Foreign Office to do so.

The second instanter is that of a torpen.but excluding Constitutional Democrats

It is also notified that aliens travelling bont patrolling in the Atlantis,

· MOSCOW AND THE CABINET, Les or through Denmark should be M. Kerensky conferred with the repre- provided with passports. The passport sentives of Moscow commeres and in should contain the full name and descrip- dustry regarding the entry into the tion of the holder, his profession, of which t'abinet. They stipulated that the country he is a citizen, his domicile, the Cabinet must is wholly non-partisan.

The Press Bureau reports: The latestdicated by His Majesty the King sign-observed a steamer being sunk, and she reports indicate that 20 enemy machines ing a proclamation prohibiting the export circled round in the vicinity searching of certain articles to Scailinuvia and for the submarine. She sour sighted a participated in last night's raid.

Holland

white patch on the water right ahead. The torpedo bout me straight for the spot, actually grazing the sabuarite. Am explosivo charge was dropped as the sub- LONDON, September 30th. inarine passed under the stern, and Reuter learns that the Japanese Ad:second and third charges were detonated miral reports that Japanese destroyers at the place where oil and air bubbing were escoring a liner and transport were coming to the surface, and the air when, the liner was torpedoed. The was heavy with the smell of gasoline. Japanese produce smoke-screens to pro- Sultsequently wine-sweepers confirmed the fect the liner from further attack, while presence of a heavy obstruction at the of Suffolk penetrated a few miles inland the others rushed to discover and attack luottom. and hombed a rural district..

the submarine, the Japanese alternately So far no damage and

protecting the liner and firing at the have been reported

Jocality of the subiriarine. They rescued

One hostile aeroplane was shot down in the Thames estuary and second enemy machine off the coast.

LATER

The raiders on the south-eastern coast,

110 ensualties

SUBMARINE TORPEDOES, SUB-

MARINE.

Xo shadow of doubt is, fortunately,

GERMAN VERSION.

550 persons from the liner, including | possible regarding the fate of a submarine A wireless German official report

women and

children, in less than an hour, recently torpedoed by a British sub- states:Our aviators bombed London and bought then and the transport, to marine. and s overal places on the south coast

safety. BEIRUT HARBOUR BOMBED

LONDON, September 29th. The Admiralty announce that Naval aaroplanes on Thursday bombed store houses on: the south-western side of obtained and fres started. All our ma Beirut harbour. Many direct hits were chines returned.

A eruiser shelled and set fire to store- houses on the mile. GERMAN AEROPLANE LANDS IN HOLLAND.

SPANISH REVOLUTION LEADERS SENTENCED,

THE MAXIMALIST LEADER. · The Maximalists decided not to permit their leader, Lenin, to appear at the Conference as the Government refused to granted his inviolability outside it. DELIBERATE

DESTRUCTION

OF PORT KEMBLA”

WELLINGTON, September 29th."

BOYCOTT AFTER THE WAR RECOMMENDED.

purpose of his journey and the probable duration of his stay in the country. Tho passport should further contain photo and specimes signature of the hoider both certified by the authority who issued tho

· passport.

RUSSIAN AMAZONS' HEROISM. Mr. V. G. Shepherd, Petrograd corre sponden, of the United States of America, sent the following megange pn July 31st

On Saturday evening, lying side by five girls of the Legion of Death. They side in beds in the town hospital were were suffering from shell-shock, aft paralysed in various parts of their budies.

One peasant girl had a German helmet beside her saw a German in front with my bayonet and pulled the trigger of me," she told me, and 1 atabbed him

the same time. I killed him, and took his hat as a souvenir." She smiled de-. lightedly

A Court of Enquiry into the sinking of (the s. Purtenible (cabled on 9th September) has found that the explosion alward was due to the placing of high explosives in the lower forrhold, with the deliberate intention of destroying the vessel and crew.

What did the battle look like?" said BRITISH SEAMEN AND THE Another girl."It was very nervous work just before we charged. I knew the order GERMAN

to charge was coming, and 1 think I got a little frightened, but as soon as the order came I forgot everything and ran forward and heard lots of girls yelling and shouting to advance. None of us were afraid when we started shooting.

Terrine big shells were breaking all around. frightened me a little, but we had to jump The first dead man' I saw ver corpses, and soon forgot them," the taking of German prisoners Wa I talked to a third girl, who decribed

where," he said," Mme. Bolchwareva could not tell what was going on any was everywhere among us, calling upon us to fight, to die like Russian soldiers. right aheed of us Then they were in our LENA'S SELF-SACRIFICE. Suddenly we saw a bunch of Germans midet, or we were all around them. threw down their rifles, lifting up their hands. They were terribly frightened. "Good God, women!' they exelaimed:"

LONDON, September 29th.

A British submariur while patrolling sighted an enemy submarine. Both boos were on the surface ir a-heavy son. The British hot dived, and a quarter of no hour later picked up the enemy's peri- scope. She fired, estimating the range at A demonstration at the Albert Hall, 600 yards, and a minute after beard the organised by the Seamen's and Firemen's concussion of a violent explosion. Sh Union, passed a resolution recommending then rose to the surface and sighted & that the citizens of the Empire be in I patch of oil, with survivors swimming informed after the war to employ Germans, KING OF ITALY ON FRENCH. These were made prisoners. They purchase or use German gonds, and that

MADRID, September 30th, The leaders of the abortive revolution in August have been sentenced to penal servitude for life. They include three Socialists

FRONT.

PARIS, September 30th, The King of Italy has visited Alsace, Verdun, Reims, and Soissons.

Poincaré.

His

AMSTERDAM, September 29th. A German aeroplane of the newest machine-guns with good effect against type, with three machine-guns and six Majesty was accompanied by President

bombs, descended at Sas Van Gent.

One of the three occupants was severely wounded. The others attempted to escape, but were captured.

They will be interned.

We brought down

enemy machines and drove down four Threa of our machines are missing..

NOTHING TO REFORT"

LONDON, September 29th, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig says there is nothing to report except the usual artillery fring

GERMAN REPORT.

A wireless German official report states: We repulsed English local attacks-at- Zonnebeke and drove out the enemy from the crater-line on the Ypres Passchendálo road.

Italian Front,

EARLIER CABLES. [THROUGH BRITER'S AGENCY.}

ITALIAN FRONT.

ITALIANS RECTIFY LINE:

LONDON, September 29th. Ab Italign official statement says:-We rectified our line between Selladidėl and

AMSTERDAM, September 30th.

ALLIES FOOD PURCHASES.

PARIS, September 30th-

In the Chamber, the Minister for Sup-

stated that the torpedo struck the just all master mariners would refuse to before the conning tower. The submarice salute the German flag. The boycott may rolled over and sank. The survivors be mitigated if the German people estab GERMANY'S REPLY TO PAPAL Kaiser and the Government. were blown up through the conning tower.lish Parliamentary control over the

NOTE.

WHY BELGIUM NOT ALLUDED TO.

Roy, September 29th. The Vatican denies that it has received

A German biplane descended on Fries-plies, referring to the food supply, a separate German Note regarding the announced that France, Great Britain, restoration of Belgium on certain condi the United States and Italy would make tions purchases on a common account as a single committed.

land. Its three aviators set it on fire..

EARLIER CABLES; BOMBING BELGIAN COAST DEPOTS.

LONDON, September 29th. The Admiralty announces that Naval aircraft dropped seven tons of explosives on Thursday night on the lock gates at Zeebrugge, and St. Denis Western, aero- dromes at Houttare and airship sheds at Gontrode.

All the machines returned safely.

Africa,

LATEST CABLES. fraROUGH UTKE'S AGENCY.] EAST AFRICA SUCCESS.

LONDON, September 30th. An East Africa official report states:- After encountering considerable resist ance, cur troops occupied Nabungo,

the northern slopes of Monte Sen south-westward of Kilwa, and captured a Gabriele, and maintained the position, gua. We are progressing in the Lukelidi «nothwithstanding repeated counter Valley...

The Belgians are within seven miles of Mebengs

attacks

We took 224 prisoners. ̧

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, September 29th Silver is 491d. The position is un- changed and the market is dull..

LONDON, September 30th., Messrs. Montagu's report on the silver market attributes the fall in the pries of silver to the few remaining holders

The meeting resolved to form a Mer chant Seamen's League to boycott Ger.. mans after the war.

ARGENTINA AND GERMANY

They

Another girl said the German wounded raised themselves on their elbows, shooting. at them. We forgot ourselves entirely, we were not ourselves. We were Russia fighting for her life.**

The loss of Lera, most popular mem ber of the company, was keenly felt, Dur ing the battle she heard Mme. Botch. forward, saying, I am going to flod. kareva had been killed, cand she dashed. ber. She want across a space where shells were flying. A big shell blow her to

BUENOS AIRES, September 29th. Despite the practically unanimous opinion in the Chamber and with the public in favour of a rupture with Ger-ragments. many, it is said that the President decid

According to reliable information from the Vatican, the Holy See asked Berlin to explain why the German reply to the ed against it. Topol Note did not contain any allusion. The strike has been made worse by the

bakers and tax-drivers joining in to Belgium and the occupied French territory.

LATER. The strikers derailed & train laden with Germany replied that acceptance of the provisions. The train fell into a stream Proposals of the Pope concerning the and twelve persons were injured. evacuation of occupied territories was implied in the decision of the Reichstag

(Continued on Lage 6.)

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killed by machine-gun fire, The exact Sonia Romanoff, a concert singer, was death list is not yet published. It appears. that at least i dozu big shells fell amongs the girls, killing perhaps a dozen and wounding 25 before they captured the prisoners. A

GERMAN WOMEN FIGHTING ALSO.”. wonen in men's apiforms. The number Five of the captured Germans were

of women in all armies of the Eastern fronts i believed to be growing to large. proportions

Mrs. Pankhurst declared to me that Russian women are stepping into the

realizing the bulk of their stocks owing regarding annexations, to which the Ger- PRESIDENT WILSON WOULD LIKE Drench, as they always du whenever men

to high prices and the vague rumours regarding what America will do with its large stock of silver dollars; and, second- ly, to the almost complete cessation of the Chinese demand.

man Government still adhered.

recently headed

TO BE IN THE TRENCHES. COPENHAGEN, September 29th.

President Wilson ra Dr. Michaelis in the

of this great parade, including members of Con- German Government regarding its war to the recruits of the New Army. Speech, stated that the

of the gress, oficials, soldier mariner and

Civil War

and other veterans, a tribute

need them, Professor Ross says that womeng fighting constitutes a nenace to what re mains of civilization. what, re Huge crowds daily surrounded the Ea- singer School, where a thousand more front. Moscow has a thousand girl girls are drilling in preparation to go to

ups was clearly expressed in his reply President Wilson in a message to the soldiers, Keff and Odessa smaller bands. United States contingent, said I envy Kerensky authorizes the formation of girl be on the field and in the trenches, where soldiers in streets are common in Petro- the men across the sea. I should like to marines, promising a ship to them, Girt

aling-like ourselves to make an end of and stories. The girls make no attempt the real final battle for the independence grad, and pase anooticed of the United States will be fought, along The heroines arrival today was kepu side the other peoples of the world, struge secret, but the newspapers carry bienzea those things which are threatening the and the very character and independence integrity of their territory and their lives of their Government.””

SLUMP IN AMERICA

to the Pagal Note. He declared that the NEW YORE, September 30th.? statement that Germany had already

owing to the decreasing coinage demand occupied territory, was untrue Germany Silver stumped seven eents in two days communicated with an enemy Govern ment and had, in advance, renounced the afid the readjustment of its values in such hind free hands for eventual peace new coin as is being made, and the negotiations. This also referred to Bel release of silver from hoarded applies.

gium.

decorations of any sort. They have Every girl carries a ration of cyst of shaved their heads and wear ugly boots. potassium in case of capture,