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THE

WAR.

TER

STORMY WEATHER ON

WESTERN

FRONT.

ENGLISH TROOPS IN THE WAR. ENEMY SLANDER REFUTED.

PEACE DEMONSTRATION IN VIENNA.

Franco-Gelgian Bront

LATEST UABLES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

BRITISH FRONT.

STORMY WEATHER.

LONDON, October 9th. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Baig re- ports: There has been storing weather all day long and heavy rain.

Both artilleries have been active on the Yps battle front..

Our acroplanes on Sunday dropped two and a half tons of explosives on Staden and Courtrai railway stations.

Two hoslite machines were brought down and, thres were driven down. One i of ours is missing.

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ATTACK BEATEN OFF

LONDON,- October 8th. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a report states:--We beat off an attack east of Polygon Wood, following yesterday's heavy barrage. We successfully raided east of Monthy-

GERMAN REPORT,

Naval Activities.

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ADDITION TO ITALIAN FLEET

Rome, October 9th.

It is anounced that the Austrian torpedo-boat captured Inst week has been incorporated in the Italian Navy. Aerial Activities.

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ITALIAN AIR RAID ON CATTARO.

LONDON, October St

An air squadron daringly raided the important but scattered Austrian naval base at Cattaro on the night of the 4th

instant.

All the pilots sucessfully navigated their aches over, the sea, a total distance of four hundred kilometers, despite a dense fog, and totally surprised the enemy airmen. They effectively bombed submarine, destroyer and hydro

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10ru,

ENGLAND'S SHARE IN THE WAR.

ARY

THE EFFECT OF A COMPLIMENT-

CUSTOM.

LONDON, October 8thi-

1917.

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. RECONSTITUTING THE COALITION GOVERNMENT.

PETROGRAD, October 8th.

EARLIER JABLES. THE REICHSTAG NISORDERS |

AMSTERDAM, October 8th. Herr von Helferich's attitude in the Reichstag, cabled on October 8th, has.

A complete agreement has been reached evoked bitter Press attacks...

The Times, reproducing the Renter between the Government, the Democratic The Government is accused of evading paragraph regarding the proportion of Conference and the hourgeois elements. the real

JASUS

British troops and casualties and refer M. Kerensky, consequently, is reconstitut- Decisive happenings are generally oxring to the preposterous enemy slandering the Coalition Governacent. pected on the resumption of the debate, on the subject, says: "The fact is that

THE UKRAINE GOVERNMENT. with a view to the possible adoption of the purely English contribution in mail- the Independent Socialist motion, imply. power and in money in this war has been ing a

vote

of censure against Dr. 50 greatly preponderant and all-pervasive Michaelis and Herr von Helfferich, }; that almost insensibly it became the com- Forwaerts says that if the motion is plimentary custom to dwell chiefly upon adopted, the Reichstag mest force the

the achievements of the other nations which make up the Empire Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor to elear

The share out if they refuse to resign.

of the English was taken for granted.”. GALLANTRY OF ENGLISH COUNTY

LATEST CABLES.

PARTY

FATHERLAND

PROPAGANDA.

AMSTERDAM, October 9th.

TROOPS,

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

[EY COURTESY OF THE + CHUNG NGÔI SAN PO."]

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE SOUTH-WEST PROVINCES,

SHANGHAI, October 9th. The Government have wired to Lak Wing-ting as follows:-

(Fi Liang-tso having arrived at Changsha hisappointment cannot be

(2)--Wu Kwang-shin will not be Tuchun of Szechwan.

Kierg, October 9th The Secrétariat. General of the autono-changed. mous Government of Ukraine has issued a proclamation stating that, having com- oted its organisation, it will now begin to govern the country.

..:

GERMAN ABUSE OF RED CROSS UNIFORM.

(3)The Yunnan troops may reside at

Szechwar

Tang Chi-yuo, Tuchun of Yunnan, has telegraphed to Peking that he will not

the Senate.

in Human is that Tan Yien-hai shall take The Government's plan for mediating

Loynos,, October 8th.

Chu Tau-kang has wired fo the Pre- The Paris, correspondent of the Jalin | rain to urge Wu Kwang-shin to go to Ms. Beach Thomas, writing from the with the British Armies says the English Chung Hing. front, says that the English county

have captured a German Order- of the troops who held the right flank in the Day relating to the enemy attack which A message from Berlin states that the Battle of Broodscinde showed a

was broken up by the British advance Reichstag postponed the debate on the remarkable power of endurance.

on Thursday. Fatherland Party interpellation, and had the hardest and least glorious job instead of passing the third reading of on the whole front. the snipplementary Budget kust it back to the Main Committen, despite the pre

tests of the Conservatives.

most They

One regiment nineking had to crass, dhe whole front of Polygon Beck, full in the The Socialist Herr Ebert said that boxes" that it resembled a long encamp- face of a slope so, covered with pill after Saturday's debate it was Boshment of tents. interesting to ascertain, how the Imperial funds were used for the Fatherland Party Propaganda in the Army. Therefore, the Budget, which 'nathorised another two

hundred million sterling worth of Trea sury Bonds, must be reconsidered, after which the Reichstag might insist upon the reorganisation of the Government offices, CHANCELLOR VISITS THE KAISER

Dr. Michaelis returned to Berlin from

These Beck valleys are so swampy that a General going to me the troops took twenty minutes to wade across one valley, and the men were still hiling dug out up to the neck

.J.

the Governor's post and Fy Liang-tso reside at Yu. Chow,

The Order says The British always respect nukulance bearers and the Red!. Cross. This is why commanders of units, unpussies and attacking sections should wear the Red Cross uniform when lending SINGLE CONFINEMENT IN A MOOR

men to assault."!

AUSTRO-HUNGARY'S UNFIT

LANDSTURMERS,"

Zurich, October 8th.

rities are calling my unfit land turmers. The Austro-Hungarian military autho

The Germans further south, in the greatly perturbed at the recent decive of The Austro-German High Command is direction of Commines," And the most the Emperor releasing for activa service over amalgamated, and it is doubtful if the necessity of repiscing 200.000 from interre concentration of guns they have all soldiers from fifty upwards, involving anything in the way of fighting surpasses agriculture and industries which are who bore the punishinant ninchingly and afterwards attacked without loss of dash.

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GERMANS MALTREAT FRENCH AIRMEN..

CAMP.

In an article dated from the Western- front and entitied An Eye for an Eye: a Tooth for a Tooth." Herr Karl Rosner supplies the Berlin Lukalanzeiger with a description of the German method of re

French, 1t will be remembered that Herr prisal against French airmen for alleged ill-treatment of German airmou by tho Kart Rosner has achieved special fame is fian Factory, but in the glorification of only in the matter of the Corpse Utiliza the description of German atrocities—not

writes the German devastation of France. He

plane stations, and set fire in a petrol a hurried visit to the Kaiser at Head the steady patience of some Midlanders, already crippled by the shortage of bis quarters. On an extensive moor,

depot and military sheds.

The enemy anti-aircraft efforts were. some futile, and all the aviators safely re

A Geroan wireless official message states:--Local. English attacks in sectors, following strong drumfire, failed. | turned.

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FRENCH FRONT.

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.

PARA, October 9th.

A communiqué sentes :-There was artil- lery activity in Belgium, at Hurtebis, and in the Craonne region. Otherwise affairs were quiet.

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AN ARTILLERY DUEL-

PARIS. October 8th.

A communiqué states:--The artillery duel is lively in Belgium. and on the Aisne.

A

GERMAN REPORT.

Losnos, Oetcher 8th- German wireless offieinl

report

General,

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CANADIAN STRIKE SETTLED

OTTAWA, October 8th.

William has been settled on the inter- The strike of longshoremen at Fort

vention of the Government.

Grain will now more rapidly from the head of Lake Navigation to the seaboard.

ECUADOR AND GERMANY.

WASHINGTON, October 9th. The Ecuador Minister to the United States states that his Government has decided not to receive the Gerruan ex-

quarters, the object of which is much commented apon.

BABLIER CABLES. SEAMEN'S WAGES ADVANCED

Laspos, October 8th.. The Press Bureau states that, in pur- suance of the notice issued on the 3rd instant, the Shipping Controller, am nounces that national rates will be settled within a month, vetrospective to the 6th

stant.

un

It was after a similar experience that the Lincolns and Desons went clean through to the final objective. Some of these troops on the right wing at the end of the fight were almost lenderless and, quite waterless, yet they held most firm, despite their dwindling numbers.

Londoners and South of England troops made one of the fiercest bayonet charges in

FORTHCOMING

REPRISALS ON GERMANY.

The Conference has arrived as in the attack. interim decision advancing wages foreign-going ships to £1 for seamen and £11 10s. Od. to fremen. The remune ration of officers, engineers and others will be advanced proportionately.

"SEEADLER'S" CREW CAPTURED.

SYDNEY, October, Sth. A launch, with' a crew of six Germans

LONDON, October 8th.

Jabour.

The Emperor has now issued an Army

Merit on all those of fifty years, derespece Order conferring the Iron Order of

Live of tank, remaining in active servies MINER L RESOURCES OF

THE EMPIRE-

LONDON, October 8th. The Times says that, as the outcome of an official enquiry, it has been decided to create the necessary machinery for the protection and advancement of the metal and mineral industries of the Empire,

i lately visited-one of the French airmen formerly a French aviation ground, are other, the enclosures in which the pri placed at a certain distance from one

yards is surrounded by posts over soners ET confined singly Each enclosure measures about forty square over 6ft high and is secured by barbed wire. In the middle of the uncovered space is a low tent, just big enough for the prisoner to creep under it. Under the tout are a few wood shavings and a short blanket. A jug of water Exponet is allotted every prisoner by completes the furniture, A. sentry, with day and night.

five days and five nights in his reprisal The officer to whom I spoke had spent camp.. Thus far, they man has although, of course, he complains of the stood his open-air imprisonment well, ralessness of the days and nights, of the lack of any occupation, and of the im- possibility of taking proper care of his

on.

AIR and for this purpose a body, styled the Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau, is to be formed; representing the different

The inimitable Herr Bosner takes care parts of the Empire..

to explain how little reprisals accord MEXICO'S FOREIGN MINISTER and how very revolting it is for the Ger with the German way of thinking in war, ms to practise severity against defence less prisoners."--Times.

A Times correspondent, discussing the possibilities of an aerial offensive against Germany, predicts all-night raids in the densely populated Rhine Valley, carried

New York, October 8th. The correspondent of the World at on with mathematical precision and to Mexico City foreshadows the appointment

States:--There is very vistent artillery Minister to Pera, who has left Lima for with machine guns, has been captured He says our long-distance machines and

This is regarded here as equivalent to] a rupture with Germany.

firing between Ailelie and south of Pargny. Quito. There is strong Freich fire between Samognenx and Begonvaus. Our artil lery frustrated an attack south-west of Beaumont,

The Balkans.

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BALKANS FRONT.

ENEMY EVACUATES SOMAN.. KANILA

LoNDox, Celuber 9th. A British Salonika message states:- Our artillery forced the enemy to evaenate Somankamila, south-west of Seres, on Thursday.

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, October 8th. Silver is quoted 432d, and the market Lis dull.

EARLIER CABLES.

AMERICA AND THE WAR.

WEEKLY WAR REVIEW.

WASHINGTON, October 8th. The Secretary for War, in his weekly review of the war, declares that the supreme test in battle strength on the Western Front is now taking place. The British drive in Flanders is such that the German submarine basee on the

We successfully raided Akindzali and Ralimas, east of Doiran Lake. Our aero-Belgian coast will soon be unterable. planes, co-operating. bombed

machine gunned batteries. Africa.

and

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LATEST CARLES,

THE COALING OF DUTCH SHIPS.

WASHINGTON, October 9th. The Government has refused to grant a licence for bunker coal for the liner, Neurcamsterdam, because Holland would not give assurances that the ship would return to the United States after discharging her Belgian Relief cargo.

a regular time-table, like Tube trains. without firing a shot by an unarmed steamer near an outlying island of the been brought to perfection,

bombing taclies and machinery have Fiji group.

These evidently belonged to the See- adler, being detached for raiding. The Germans were most angry at discovering their captors to be unariued.

THE ESCAPE OF "U 293."

GERMAN OFFICERS' WORD OF HONOUR.

as Foreign Minister of Mr. Palavicini, the editor of a newspaper which is strong- ly advocating a rupture with Germany.

BRITISH MUNITIONS AEMY,

Lexpos, October 8th. The latest returns show that in July there were 700,000 women munition in July, 1015-an increase of 400 per cent. workers in Britain, compared with 140,000.

GERMAN PRECAUTIONS.

AMSTERDAM, October 8th. The German authorities are taking the British threat of air reprisals, seriously, Police in the frontier towns nightly patrol them to ensure that ro gleam of The mon munition workers have increased light is visible in the houses Severe

during the same period by 60 per cent. Penalties have been fixed for the slightest ENEMY MONARCHS TO CONFER carelessness in this respect. Ela

Elaborate

Mannin, October 8th. The crew of U-298 had been given.full official regulations have been issued in liberty at Cadiz. The officers gave their Cologne and elsewhere, notifying a system word of honour not to attesept to escape of warnings by means of sirens and The King has signed the suspension of rockets and enjoining the inhabitants to Rear-Admiral Buhigas, the Commandant remain indoors and extinguish lights. of the Arsenal, and Vice Admiral Puenti, Commanding the Naval District of Cadiz, and appointed Rear Admiral Rubaleaba and Vice-Adoxizal Mirand us successors.

SPAIN'S REGRET-

PARIS, October 9th. The Trops says that Spain has express ed her regret to France at the escape of the German submarine.

PEACE DEMONSTRATION

IN VIENNA,

GERMANY'S HOPELESS

OUTLOOK.

AMSTERDAM October 5th. A message from Berlin states that fierr Gothein, a member of the Reichstag, addressing the Central Committee of Progressives, declared the hopelessness of attempting to crush the enemy on Jand. No British disposition towards peace was discernible, and, notwithstanding the heavy shipping losses, the British had not even introduced rationing of food. An East African official message says:

Thousands of people, attended an im- stuffs. America cannot be forced to make IS is stated that this aetion forecasts posing peace demonstration at Vienna, peace, and Germany's allies are not in- -We are pursuing the retreating caciny a complete embargo on the large fleet of prganised by the Christian Social Party dined to continue the war for pan-Ger- Lowards Nahungo. The Belgians and the Dutch ships now in New York harbour Speeches in favour of Eritish are pressing enemy detachments unless Helland permits her ships to carry peace, general disarmament and arbitra strikes in Germany if the war is con- an honourable man plans of conquest. He anticipates towards Mabenge.

cargoes for the United States.

tion were enthusiastically cheered.

tinued for similar reasons,

THE CAMPAIGN IN AFRICA.

PURSUING RETREATING ENEMY.

LONDON, October 8th.

AMSTERDAM, October 8th.

WAR TRUTHS FOR AMERICA A WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR HARD FACTS.

Miss Lynch, a prominent American woman journalist, has arrived in England

a representative of the Vigilantes to Gather facts which will enable her to tell

erica what is wanted to win the war.

iz society which began its work during The Vigilantes are an American, patria Preparedness period before the United States came into the war, and is. earrying on now as an unofficial pro paganda bureau,

the

LONDON, October 8th. of Austria, the Kaiser and the Sultan are A Munich paper says that the Emperor shortly proceeding to Sufis to hold a contes feres with King. Ferdinand, to which great importance is attached,

OBITUARY.

HON. ALEXANDER BRUCE.

LONDON, October 8th. The Hor. Alexander Bruce, son of the fate Lord Elgin, has been accidentally killed in East Africa.

AL HERENSKY ON A WORTHY END

"

A

What we want to do is to let tha

said diss Lynch to American people know just how hard they have to work to help to win this way," Daily Br representative. We reached 15,000,000 renders with special articles in 2,000, papers before America, bad been in: the war six weeks, and now we have to keep alive the interest that we have droveed

I have been over in Erance at the front and in several naval bases where not enter. I have sei General Pershing, who oman has previously been permitted to cordially approves of our efforts.

Now I am in England to learn facts. The American public wants from Plain old, hard truths about the effort is to be made, figures that can be fathintedy TO THE WAR SA

and plain statements of requidemts s from one business man to another. Sl Kerensky rout the following reply sent is very well, and tentiment has George addressed to him at the beginning facts tow to the message of good will which King played its part. Now we have to talk of the fourth year of

wart

In the name of the Provisional Gov Mastrature-four hundred of the best.

The Vigilantes are all writers end- ernment and the Russian people I von:

tre to express to your Majesty their own hou and women publicists banded. Bentiments of gratitude for the message together to give publicity to the Allies of good will which your Majesty has war work. Gertrade Atherton, Rex Beach, heen good enough to address to rue en de Colett Burgess, Dana Gibson, Richard threshold of the fourth year of war. Illiente, Mary Roberts Rinehart, am certain that the Russian people will. Theydore Roosevelt, and Booth Tarking frad the necessary strength to surmount to those are a few names that one can the serious trials of the prefent time recall at once from the list of members. and to conduct the world-war to an end. The work is organised and directed by which will be worthy of the terrible Mr. C. J. Rosebault sacrifices already made by every wation Miss Lynch was formerly on the staff which is struggling for right against of the Vew York Sun, and has written might. Reuter

great deal of popular action.