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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 418, 1917.

GERMAN POSITIONS ON FRENCH

FRONT.

ADMITTEDLY UNTENABLE.

SIGNIFICANT ITALIAN SUCCESS.

SOUTH AFRICAN PARTY CONGRESS.

SPEECH BY GENERAL BOTHA.

anco-Belgian Front.

LATEST JABLES.

THROUGH NEUTRE'S AGEKOY.]

THE FRENCH- GAINS.

GERMANS ANXIOUS.

LONDON, October 3rd. Renter's Correspondent at French Headquarters states that the Germans are very anxions regarding the situation at Bois-le-Chuume and on the right bank of the Mreuse, and have ordered that the

dominating points in the wood must be recaptured at all costs, as their present without Croix de la Vaux; positions, which is a height on the eastern margin of the wood and is in the hands of the French, are untenable; hence the third determined counter-atlack yesterday, which fulled, with heavy enemy lossen,

· HEAVY GERMAN ATTACK.

PARIS, October 3rd. A French communiqué stutes:-There was fairly violent artillery activity in Belgium and on the Aisne Front.

The Germans heavily attacked after the bombardment mentioned this morning, on the right of the Meuse, between Hill 344 and Samognoux. They gained a foot ing at a joins to the north of the Hill, but were driven out from part, after violent fighting.

the

'greater

EARLIER CABLES.

BRITISH FRONT.

SIX ENEMY ATTACKS COMPLETELY FAIL

Losnos, October 2nd. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Huig re ports: -Yesterday and last night the onemy made five attacks with fresh troops between the Ypro-Mein road and the

northeastern corner of Polygon Wood.

They also attacked Zonnebeke,

Aerial Activities.

EARLIER 0ABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE SIXTH AIR RAID ON LONDON.

OFFICIAL CASUALTY LIST.

Losos,tober 2nd.. The Press Bureau says that in last "night's air-raid ten persons were killed and thirty-eight injured.

LATEST CABLES. AIR RAIDS ON STUTTGART,

AMSTERDAM, October 3rd, The Frankfurter Zeitung states thut Stuttgart was twice air raided on Sunday night.

EARLIER CABLES,

SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS:

NATIONALIST

REPUBLICAN

PROPAGANDA REPUDIATED.

PRETORIA, October 2nd.. At the opening of the South African

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

[BY COURTESY OF THE

BAN PO.”

CHUNG NGHI

THE . 8. A. LOAN.

PEKING, October 3rd.

The agreement respecting the U. S. A.

LOAN TO HELP FLOOD VICTIMS.

Two people were killed and five injured, Party Congress, the Chairman, Mr. Van loan of $5,000,000,000 gold dollars will Italian Pront.

Heerden, the Minister of Agriculture, be signed shortly. dealing with the subject of industries, congratulated the country on its grent progress and unprecedented prosperity,. notwithstanding the war."

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:] It is officially stated that all our pilots] SIGNIFICANT ADVANCE have landed safely during the last eight

lays' air raids.

GERMAN VERSION.

A German official message states: Our Mist hampered the airmen at the out-on, Sheerness, Ramsgate and Dover,

aviators, last night, again attacked Lon- set, but the conditions improved later..

The first attack was launched at 6.15 on a wide front astride the Menin road.

The first and second waves were 60 badly harpered by our artillery that they did not reach us.

The third wave got into contact, but broke and fell imek in the face of n stendy, devastating machine-gun fire.

men.

Simultaneously a body of our cheering, broke forward in pursuit and established themselves one hundred yards in advance of the previous line.

The second attack at 8.40 was alıngst verywhere repulsed. Our posts were slightly bent back at one point, but the fighting continues.

These operations have been terribly costly for the enemy. ENEMY SUFFERS FRIGHT-

FULLY

LONDON. October 2nd. Reuter's Correspondent at the British Headquarters says:As a result of the fighting arising from the German counter altack yesterday, our position beyond Cameron House scens to be largely if noti quite restored, while elsewhere we ad vanced over a hundred yards, owing to the gallantry of the Welsh troops, who

drove back the enemy

We learn that the ground in front of cur lines is strewn with German corpses. The enemy suffered frightfully in his unsuccessful attempts to regain some shell hole areas which he professes to regard as tactically valueless."

NOTABLE AIR DUEL. FAMOUS GERMAN AIRMAN'S DEATH.

ITALIANS.

BY

UDINE, October 3rd.

the Bainsizza plateau, between Podlaka The Italians, at the extreme end of and Madorie, made a small but signi- firant advance, capturing a valuable hill 2,500 feet high, after an heroic struggle, The hill has changed hands frequently during the recent fighting. Russian bront.

A

BARLIER CABLES. [IMBOUON REUTER'S AGRMOY.) RUSSIAN FRONT. FURTHER ADVANCE IN RIGA.

LONDON, October 2nd.

LONDON, Oetober 2nd.

Headquarters, giving instances of the Reuter's correspondent at the British

feats of British airmen, tells how tho famous German airman Vous was killed. Two British aeroplanes saw Voss' triplane with another aeroplane engaging a British machine and hastened to the

A Russian wireless official message. Jutter's assistance. One of the British

'sta'es :---We advanced a mile in the Riga machines was piloted by a

in crack area,

the Kronenberg Grounduli airman and the combat resolved itself sector,

into duel between him and Voss

For a while they made a running fight, mini- a stream of bullets from their machine-guns and maneuvring for posi tion so that the wings of the acroplanes were frequently within a few feet of each ther, When the Englishman hud trợ placed his ammunition drum for the third time, he succeeded in getting above Voss, who shut off his engine and dived to the earth. The Englishman followed and got

taining

good barst of fire right upon Voss whose machine glided down until it bumped on the ground, and it is evident that Yoss was killed in his sqat.

An airman, who crossed the enemy line at Zonnebeke had an exciting experience. He dived down from two thousand feet, and, firing his machine-gun,, scattered a party of Huns. He boinbed a munition There is a considerable proportion of dump and was attacked by superior Poles and Alsatians among the new troops forces. He dived through the baringa which the Germus hurried up to defend into the British lines with his acroplane the Menin Ridge. The Germans are crippled. He was wounded in the leg. desperately anxious to impress their Two stretcher learers were carrying bu people with the extent of their "victory"

in, when a shelf killed one and wounded the other. The aviator rose to assist the injured man, when a second shell again wounded him, whereupon he limped to

in Flanders, wherefore they are resorting to an old trick. The mere handful of prisoners they have taken in recent fight

All six attacks ended in complete falling have been sent to a town where a ure, with the exception of the postare number of prisoners previously taken are ported lost yesterday.

assembled, and the prisoners are marched through the town whilst they are cinema tographed for the bencfit of the German public

The enemy suffered heavily and did not gain any advantage.

We repulsed raidors south of Leis. TALLY OF BOMBS DURING SEP- TEMBER

FRENCH FRONT. FRENCH WIN DESPERATE FIGHT.

PARIS. October 2nd.

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re poris:--We twice attacked Gontrobe

A communiqué says:~There were some aerodrome on Monday, and several tons frons and on the right bank of the Meuse what lively artillery actions on the Aisne of bombs burst on the sheds.

After a violent bombardment, the Ger maus attacked between Chaume Wood and Betonvaux. A desperate fight ensued in our advanced trenches, ending in our favour, the line being completely restored.

We also hombed Carnieres acrodome,

Cambrai, and twice attacked German long-rango gun.

near

We brought down five machines and drove down three. Two of ours are missing.

ex-

AERIAL BOMBING ATTACKS. over two thousand kilogrammes of

Our bombing machines also dropped prosives on depots at Roulers, six thou- Our aeroplanes, during. September, Mazsudwoippy and Thionville, an aero- sand kilogrammes on railway stations at dropped 123 tons of bombes

drome at Chumbley, bivonacs at Spincourt and Tilly and a munition depot ab Longeau Farm, where a violent explosion aeroplanes yesterday. was observed. We brought down two

LONDON, October 2nd. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports that there was only reciprocal artillery firing.

GERMAN REPORT.

of

MASSED ENEMY FORCES DISPERSED.

A communiqué states:There was mark- ed reciprocal artillery firing on the whole of the Aizne front, especially in the sector of Craonne.

LONDON, October 2rid. A German wireless official message states:-We captured. - a portion Polygon Wood, five hundred metres deep, and withstood repeated counter-attacks. SMASHING ENEMY COUNTER-vaux.

ATTACKS.

Our artillery dispersed enemy forces massing in the region north-west of Rheims.

The artillery duel was particularly intense on the right of the Meuse doring the night,, from Bamogneux to Bezop- We stopped tye attacks in the Beau- mont sector, inflicting appreciable losses LONDON, October 2nd,

on the enemy. Beuter's Correspondent at the British ed Dunkirk. There was serious material

Enemy acroplanes v

very violently bomb Headquarters states:The enemy coun damage, with numerous civilian victima. ter-attacked most heavily in the neigh-hombs on Stuttgart, Treves, Coblents and We carried out reprisals by dropping bourhood of Tower Hamlets, this morn Frankfurt-on-Main. ing, on a front for which they have. already fought most hard. A bombard- ment of great intensity preceded the attacks, but our reply was considerably

more violent

GERMAN CLAIM,

LONDON, October 2nd.

cover.

Four British aeroplanes attacked nine German unchines and sent down five, one of which was on fire. All our machines returned safely..

BOMBS DROPPED IN HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, October 2nd. An aeroplane of unknown nationality, dropped two bombs on Sluis, destroying two houses

There were no fatalities.

FIFTEEN GERMAN AERO- PLANES DESTROYED.

AMSTERDAM, October 2ad. It is reported that fifteen German pero. planes were destroyed in the Allied air raid on the St. Denis-Westrem aerodrome on September 30th.

SUCCESSFUL NAVAL AIR BOMBING.

• OUTBREAK OF FIRES.

LONDON, ctober 2nd. The Admiralty announces that naval aircraft, on Sunday, bombed hangars at St. Denis.Westrem, the aerodromo ignit We also bombed Zeebrugge dock-gates. ing. The fire was visible for thirty miles

Westrem at noon on Monday. There were We made another raid on St. Denis several direct hits, and we also ignited

two sheds.

The shed hit on Sunday appears to be completely gutted.

RAILWAY LINE DAMAGED. During the air raid on St Denis- Westrem, a bomb made a big hole in the railway line. A troop train was bombed and derailed. casualties.

There were number of

FURTHER PROGRESS,

LONDON, October 2nd. An official message from East Africa states:-We are stadily progressing the south-west of Lindi, and have re- pulsed strong counter-attacks.

to

A wireless German official report statesWe penetrated a rear French üftern Europeans, 160 nativa troops and A German detachment, consisting of position near Bezonvaux, taking one several hundred carriera, surrendered, hundred prisoners.

south-east of Kondoe Irangi.

DISORDERS IN RUSSIAN TURKESTAN,

PETRUGAAN, October: 2nd,

A United States merchant will lend 1,000,000 dollars to the Government to assist the victims of the flood. There is no security..

CHINESE MINISTER TO AUSTRIA,

Vienon on September 20th.

The Chinese Minister to Austria left

CUSTOMS DUTIES.

The Government will appoint Sun Po

General Botha, in the course of un address, emphasised the fact that the war

the only thing to do now was to fight to had been forced upon the Allies and that

Quish. An inconclusive peace, he said. would only mean another and perhaps. greater war in the future, which would constitute a serious menace 10 Africa. Let the ponce, General Botha added, bethi to revise the table of Customs Duties Fond which will be beneficial to the whole in consultation with the representatives world and enable every country to shape

of the foreign nation concerned, its future on a sound basis. Referring to PREMIER SENDS FOR EX- the republican propaganda, General,

PRENIER. Both pointed out that the people of South Africe lived under a Constitution which granted every kind of liberty. It now seerned, he said, as though the Nationalists wished to break down the Constitution which they themselves had SUBSTANTIAL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO helped to dealt. The Nationalists, he

LIBERTY LOAN. asserted, were not in carnest but only

New York, October 2nd. wished to gain a few votes. He was

The Liberty Loan has started auspi- second to none in his love for the etionaly with two subseriptions of ten publican system, but he warned the pro-million dollars each, by the New York

The Premier has sent Chin Yun Tantsin to fetch Li Yuan-hong.

to

AMERICA AND THE WAR-

..

WAR TAX BILL.

War Tax Bill, raising $2,575,000,000 in From Washington it, is stated that a

Representatives, without a roll call. The taxes, has been adopted by the House of Senate is expected to adopt it to-morrow.

Agitators at Tashkent, supported by pagandists that they were playing with Life Insurance and the Kahn Loeb Com- two regiments, have declared their indefire. In conclusion, General Botha denied

panies. pendence and rejected an ultimatum from the rumours of coalition

with the the Government, which sent troops to Unionists, maintaining that it would be suppress disorders.

dangerous to swop horses in the middle of a fast-running stream and also dan. gerous to go in for new ventures when the main object should be to see the war brought Laastecessful issue.

The Musselmans and Military Cads at Tashkent are opposing the rebels. Cabels have occupied the fortress.. General.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTZE'B'AGENCY.]

STEEL HELMETS WORN

LONDON.

CREDIT TO GREAT BRITAIN. extended to Britain, making a tonỉ thus A further credit of $50,000,000 has been far of $1,240,000,000.

Congress debated a rounion with the WAR DEPARTMENTS OFFICIAL Nationalists and finally passed`n resolu-

COMMUNIQUE. tion of preparedness to bring about a

WASHINGTON, October 2nd, IN better understanding on the basis, first, communique in commenting on the im- The War Department's second official.

LONDON, October 3rd. The guards at Marlborough House and St. James' Palace were wearing steel hel- meis yesterday.

of the maintenence of the Union Conmenso strategic importance of the British Mtitution, secondly, the carrying out of thrust on the Menin Road and the futile obligations connected. therewith, thirdly, the maintenance of South African superiority of the British over the enemy

and German counter-attacks, Party principles. Both the mover and has been conculsively proved during the says: The

they could have nothing to do with the more, it shows that the fighting stamina seconder of the resolution emphasised engagements of the past week. Further- Nationalist Republican

of the Grmans has deteriorated, not that propaganda which would be fatal to any possibility the enemy did not display great skill and The Special Constables are agitating of a reunion. The subsequent discussion determination in his repeated counter for helmets.

disclosed the clear and emphatic repudia attacks. It finds the the outstanding tion of the Republican progapande, an feature of the fighting on attended motion unanimously endorsing front is the enormous wastage of German the French Mr. Merriman's anti-Republican resolu-man-power." tion, as accepted at the last session of Parliament.

A NEW AIR MINISTRY.

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LONDON, October 3rd. The Daily Chronicle states that the War Cabinet has practically decided upon the creation of an Air Ministry with separate war service." GERMAN PRECAUTIONS AGAINST AIR ATTACKS.

AMSTERDAM, October 3rd. An Essen newspaper publishes a mili tary order which states that all lights must be darkened in the district of

NAVAL COMMUNIQUES,

Mr. Daniels, the Secretary for War, is

hoping for his safe return, and also a on the progress of the Navy's war pre-

The Congress passed a resolution thank- ing General Smuts for his services and preparing to issue a weekly commanité resolution in favour of providing land parations, also disclosing, officially, same settlement for returned soldiers was thing of the work done by the American unanimously passed.

naval forces in European waters.

Party has presented General Botha with The Cape branch of the South African an eulogistic address, emphasising the support of a large majority of people in the Cape province.

BRITISH EXPORTS TO SCANDINAVIA AND NETHERLANDS.

MATTER PROHIBITED.

Dusseldorf, a large part of Westphalia ALL ARTICLES EXCEPT PRINTED and at other places in Western Germany, as a precaution against possible air at tocks.

THE SWEDISH CABINET

CRISIS.

STOCKHOLM, October 3rd, The King has summoned the leaders of the three parties, including M, Branting, with

a view to forming a coalition Government.

HINDENBURG'S BIRTHDAY. "NO MORE PEACE TALK.”

AMBRDAM, October 3rd.. Germany is celebrating Field Marshal von Hindenburg's birthday.

Replying to congratulations, von Hin denburg, in a telegram, said that the watchword of the German people must be "no more peace talk" until the bloody work was done and victory theirs."

THE RUSSIAN DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE. DELEGATES DEMAND PEACE.

PETROGRAD, October 3rd. At the Democratio Conference, the majority of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates protested against coalition with the bourgeois.

LONDON, October 2nd. A notification in the Gazelle probibita the export of all articles to Scandinavia and the Netherlands, except printed matter..

CAPTURES IN MESOPOTAMIA THIRTEEN THOUSAND TURKISH PRISONERS.

LONDON, October 2nd. According to Reuter's correspondent at Paris, the British troops have taken pri- soner thirteen thousand Turks in Meso- potamia.

AMOUNT OF THE CAPTURES.

A Mesopotamia official message says Owing to the extent of the fighting area give the complete captures, which include at Ramadie, it is at present impossible to thirteen guns, twelve machine guns, 800 wounded and 3,200 unwounded prisoners, of which 200 are officers. We have buried 900-Turks

GERMANO-TURKISH PREPARA- TIONS FOILED.

PABIS, October 2nd. | Mesopotamia victory, which, they point The newspapers give prominence to the out, has upset, the Germano-Turkish pre- parations for an attempt to recapture Bagdad.

SWEDISH CABINET CRISIS.

STOCKHOLM, October Pack

FOOD CONSERVATION WEEK. ·

peals to the country to observe a huge Mr. Hoover, the Food Controller, ap- food conservation week, from October upon the United States, and declaring :---- 21st to 28th, emphasising the demands The Allies are our first line of defence. They must be fed, and food will win the

familles war" The movement includes a house- to house canvass of twenty-two million

EXPLOSION. IN

MUNITIONS

FACTORY.

LONDON, October 20d. The Press Bureau announces that a serious fire and explosion have taken of the England, wit place in a munitions factory in the North There has been much damage to the factory.

No deaths

are yet reported, but a number of workers were injured. GERMAN AEROPLANES FOR DUTCH ARMY.

AMSTERDAM, October 2nd.. The Handlesblad states that Germany is supplying twelve seroplanes to the Dutch Army

INTER-ALLY CONFERENCE. ENEMY GOODS IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY.

LONDON, October 3rd. Reuter's Agency is informed that an Inter-Ally Conference to deal with the territory is to meet in Paris. treatment of enemy goods in occupied.

POPE ISSUES NOTE TO ENTENTE.

GERMANY'S READINESS TO

EVACUATE BELGIUM

The Cabinet has resigned. The King has requested the Ministerss issued a Note to the Entrate Powers

ROME, October 2nd. The Giornal Italia states that the Pope.

BUILDING COLLAPSE IN

that they represented half a million

A deputation of 200 Delegates, declaring to remain at their posts for the present. Workers, accompanied by soldiers, at

to demand an immediate peace. tempted to force their way into the Con- ference to protest against a coalition and Sex members of the deputation were admitted.

CALAIS

PARIS, October 2nd A building collapsed in Celer Twenty perans were killed.

intimating that His Holiness hse reasons to believe that the Central Powers replies to his Peace Note may be regarded 28 an intimation of E Germany's readiness to evacuate

Northern

France

The Pepo naks whether he shall request Germany to state its precise conditionE.