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THE WAR.

FBR BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 915, 917,

BRITISH SUCCESSES IN FLANDERS AND EGYPT. PASSCHENDAELE AND GAZA CAPTURED.

THE ITALIAN SITUATION. AUSTRO-GERMANS BEACH LIVENZA LINE.

MAXIMALIST COUP IN PETROGRAD.

KING GEORGE'S MESSAGE TO HIS PEOPLE. DAY OF PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING APPOINTED.

Branco-Belgian ront.

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BRITISH FRONT.

BRITISH LOSSES LIGHT:

LONDON, November 8th. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Hnigre ports:We have continued organising

GERMANS REFUSE TO STAY.

The walking woundeds are in high spirits over the day's achievement; they say our barrage was wonderful, und the best they had ever seen.· The fewnces

Italian Pront

Egypt

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ITALIAN FRONT.

LONDON,

November 7th.

of prisoners was due to the Germans not FIVE ARMIES AGAINST ITALIANS. staying to fight at close quarters. It may therefore he expected that we have collected a respectable number of machine- BULS

According to a message from the Austrian Headquarters, there are ve Armies operating against the Italians

Wurms, and Henriquez. ! under Krobatin, Krase von Buelow,

The Centre Army is commanded by von Buelow, and Wurms is moving along the Adriatic.

The prisoners are mostly of a better type than usual, being well-nourished and well-clad, indicating that the Ger mans are using all their picked troops in an endeavour to arrest our encroachments into the keyline in western Belgium.

There was a lot of firing from Pass chendaele Church, which our artillery and infantry eventually silenced. We encountered in the catre of Mosselinackt states:We have ronched the Livenza a large conereted redoubt, our men, after line. a lot of trouble, having to surround it in order to reduce it.

The Germans have been so heavily re-shelling this village that there is some doubt at present whether we would have been able to remain there.

By nightfall the Canadians were ported to be well dug-in round a half moon of the captured ground, and were plentifully provided with machine and Lewis guns

The principal feature of the fighting was the enemy's consistent refusal to allow our men to come to close quarters Their resistance consisted mainly of long range machine-gun fire, which

tions, was not very effective.

THE VALUE OF OUR GAINS. Measured in terms of territory. the operation has been relatively small, but the strategic value of our gains, if held, is very high, because we are now at the summit of the little bit of ridge system remaining in German hands, with direct

GERMANS REACH LIVENZA LINE

LONDON, November 7th wireless German oficial report

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GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON, November 7th. wireless German ofheial report states:We continue in pursuit of the Italians in the mountains and the Vene- tian plain. Thousands have been eap- tured.

ITALIANS WITHDRAW IN GOOD

ORDER

Au Italian oficial report states We have withdrawn in good order to

Tagliamento river was differit owing to the low water,

our new positions at Passchendaele and wing, to the anfavourable weather condialiservation of the enemy everywhere for Ards Livenza, as the defence of the

on the high ground in the neighbourhood without being disturbed. There was no reaction, despite the great importance the enemy attached to the locality.

Four hundred prisoners were captured yesterday, including 21 officers ng

Our losses in the highly successful operation were light..

AERIAL ACTIVITY. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re porte-A high wind and rain yester day morning greatly interfered with work in the air. Nevertheless, low-flying aero- planes were in constant touch with our advancing infantry and fired many machine-gun rounds at the enemy in shell holes, in the back areas, at many feing targeta, and signalled to the bat- ...teries, enabling them to successfully deal with the enemy. Many acroplanes during n fair interval were acting in conjunction with our operations on the ground,

They penetrated well eastward of the line, but

in were caught Budden mist. Soven did

not Bixty-two heavy bombs at night-time were dropped on railways, communication, billete, and aerodromes

return.

in the vicinity of Roulers and Courtrai.

Our walking woundeds agree that the Germans did more running in this battle than usual.

miles around.

Our acroplanes and airships repeatedly bombed enemy troops repairing the

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LONDON, November 7th. Reuter's Correspondent at Egyptian Headquarters, telegraphing on the 6th int reports—The fifth counter-attack ou our new positions on the left flank | was repulsed with heavy enemy loss,

are now

now bombarding strong points We on the enemy second line. AT

Our captures since the beginning of the offensive are now 207 officers and 2,400 men!

aviators have been most active in hombing communications.

The cavalry captured ground on the Limestone Hills, north-cast of Beetsheha, the enemy feebly resisting. R

The spirit of our troops is marvellona, despite the dust, sand, heat and fatigue.

Goneral Allenby makes prodigious journeys visiting and encouraging the troops during the hottest part of the day.

In the afternoon we engaged the enemy in broken country north of Beersheba. An enemy raid in the Gaza sector repulsed with heavy losses. -

was

Our guna again demolished the rail- way embankment Deinrainted, which the cachent at Del

The bombardment of the Gaza defences continued.

TILS

THE KING TO HIS PEOPLE.

A SPECIAL DAY OF PRAYER AND.

"THANKSGIVING

LONDON, November, sth.. It officially announced that His Majesty King George the Fifth bas issued the following message:

TO MY PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLDS

The struggle for liberty is entering upon its last and most difficult phuse. The enemy is striving by a desperate, assault and subtle intrigue to perpe tuate the wrongs already committed and to stem the tide of free civilisation, and we have yet to complete the great Lask to which we have dedicated our

I would call upon you to devote a specin! day to prayor, so that we may have the clear-sightedness and strength ncocasary for the victory of our cause. This victory will be gained only if we steadfastly, remember the responsibility resting upon us, and, in a spirit of

Almighty God upon our endeavours. reverent obedience, ask the blessing of

Let us seek to be enlightened, in

our understanding and fortified in courage in fucing the sacrifices that we tay yet have to make I, therefore, appoint, January the Sixth, the first Sunday of the New Year, to be set aside as a special day of prayer and thanksgiving in all Churches through- out my Dominions? THE POSITION OF TURKEY'S ARMY.

Our lino has been carried nearly due day's. battle resulted in another consider. bridges of the Tagliamento and crossing than usual eply was more vigorous GREEKS TREATED SIMILARLY TO:

north and south along the Broodseinde Passchendaele ridge, and

We command a very wide observation over the plains of Belgium.

CONSOLIDATING YESTERDAY'S:

GAINS.

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- ports :- The Liverpool troops carried out a successful raid north-westward of Queant, and captured a few GermanS,

GERMAN REPORT.

The present series of offensives against the ridge systems have probably cost the

ablo stride towards the mastery of the Germans at least 100,000 casualties. To

chany's most powerful system of defences, which have been gained at the cost of comparatively light casualties.

AFENT LA BLES.

A LUCKY CAPTURE.

LONDON, November 7th.

A cnsiderable number of the enemy We are consolidating the positions we being brought in, otherwise the total were killed by their own side as they wore gained yesterday.

prisoners would have been considerably higher The defensive works in the Village itself were mainly in collars, and there were only a few "pill-boxes

One of the prisoners captured at Passchendaele was the commander of a Supporting battalion, whore duty was to counterattack The fact that no counter- attack materialised was probably due to

LONDON, November 7th. A wireless German official report status: There was desperate fighting in Flanders yesterday-

The enemy penetrated Passchendaele. We retook the eastern portion of the village.

Our line now runs along the eastern this lucky capture. edge of the village.

Strong attacks against Becelaere and Gheluvelt failed

the ver

ENEMY SCOUTS REACH MANIAGO. Tha Dony Mad's Correspondent at Italian Headquarters reports:-Hostile seouts reached Manings, twelve miles west of the Tagliamento, on the ith inst.

ITALY'S FATE DEPENDS UPON RALLYING POWER. British and French critics are of opinion

ing power of her Army. They declare that Italy's fate depends upon the rally

that ground must be sacrificed in Venetia in order to provide the Allies with field of action adequate for a counter offensive. The principal line of defence walk noble he Lake, Garde and the distance separating Munich from Milan, Adige. The critics emphasise the short

compared with the distance between the

that the enemy will make attempts to de- Somme and the Marue, and anticipate

tack the Albed communications, but they bouch through the Trentino in order to at-

think it improbable that the enemy will the move be made it will be effectively able to do this ingreat force, and that if countered. The Garda and Atlige are We now have thrust the Boche well out vided that Switzerland remains neutral. garded as an insuperable barrier, pro into the open.

The marshes around Passchendaele are now in our faveur, affording considerable protection against attempts to retake the

There were several large explosions ALL OBJECTIVES GAINED BEFORE village.

and fires at Roulers station and in the town.

MID-DAY.

LONDON, November 7th. We brought down three machines,

Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- Four of ours are missing, besides thoesports-The Canadians' operations this above-mentioried.

NEXT FEW DAYS FULL OF

INTEREST"

Pants, November 8th, Le Temps' Military Correspondent at the British Front, in the course of an eulogistic tribute to the British capture of Passchendaele, significantly adds, "He need not be a great prophet to announce that the next few days. will be full of interest."

CANADIANS

FRENCH FRONT.

morning were completely successfulERMAN POSITIONS, ATTACKED. against the defence is and around Passchendaele and on the Spur north

PARIS, November 7ta and north-west,

After a successful assembly the assault was launched at six o'clock, as arranged. The enemy, had been ordered to hold this important position on the main ridge at all costs,

There was hard fighting at a number of points, particularly on the high ground to the north of the village and for the collection of fortified buildings and strongpoints on the Goudberg Spur.

Nevertheless, ou troops made steady progress and captured at an early hour Passchendaele village, Mosselmarkt and the Goudberg hamlets, and we had gained all our objectives before mid-day. We took a humber of prisoners, It was raining at intervals. Our guns are dealing effectively with the enemy's batteries and concentrations of infantry.

SKILLFUL TACTICS

Lesnos, November 7th. Reater's Correspondent at British Headquarters reports-The capture of Passchendaele by the Canadians was due chiefly to their most skillful tactics and, secondly, to the German whse of im inunity. The place is hemmed in on the western and southern approaches. ly marshes, and therefore the attack had to be planned with a view to taking advantage of the smal area of accessible aproaches, the troops having to advance from various directions, and often cir- THE BATTLE OF PASSCHEN- enitously.

DAELE

BRITISH HOSPITAL PARTY RETURN SAFELY.

ARMENIANS.

AMSTERDAM, November 8th."

A. Correspondent of the Handelsblad. states that Djemal Pasha, the Turkish Commander-in-Chief in Palestine, at luncheon, adnitted the possibility of a further retreat. He declined to say that

Telegraphing on the 5th inst the Correspondent reported:There heavy shelling practically all night and most of to-day on the left Bank.

The

sual, onbentrating upon dur men in the position west of Gaza, which the Turkish infantry assaulted, but were repulsed

subsequently bombing of communications and stores.

Our aircraft continued the destructive

TURKISH INFANTRY ROUTED. LONDON November 8th. Reuter's Correspondent at British Headquarters, on the evening of the ath inst

states: -The ~~~~ Turkish Jerusalez was safe against attack. infantry who attempted a

The a bayonet

Correspondent adds that the attack op the New Zealand Grecke in Asia Minor are being treated mounted troops on the afternoon of Beersheba were caught by machine whole districts are already depopulated. the 5th

of Just in the hills northward similarly to the Armenians, and that 80 fire and dispersed. There casualties

Our airmen effectively bombed bodies.

Coffee

THE GRAVEL AND SAND of cavalry and the railway station at

DISPUTE. Undabkhal, scoring direst hits train

The bombardment

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The enemy reply was not effective. Neutral Courtice has published ite

Amsterdam, November 7th. The Dutch branch of the League of infantry engaged the enemy north-west towards the sand and gravel question

On the morning of the 8th Inst our disapproval of the Govenment's attitude of Beersheba, when prisoners and gunk were captured,

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CAPTURE OF TURKISH LINE.

LONDON, November 7th, Allenby bas made an important further Reiter's Agency learns that General advance, attacking from Beersheba the has captured the next Turkish line and Turkish positions towards the sea. He has advanced about nine miles.

CAPTURE OF GAZA.

ur

LATERA

The Telegraaf has printed an appeal from a groap of businessmen inviting signatures to a petition for presentation to the Premier, urging that stops be taken to obtain the restoration of telegraphio communications

ITALIAN SHIPPING.

LONDON, November 7th.

sailings 312 Two steamers under 1,500 An Italian official return gives the arrivals for the week as 352, and the tons and three sailing vessels under 100: tons wore sunkii

KING GEORGE CONGRATU

LATES BRAZIL

Loknow, November 7th.

Mr Ward Price, a Correspondent at the Italian Headquarters, states:--The It is officially announced thra General whole British Hospital party who were Allenby has captured Khastellfen, cloven lost during the retreat have turned up miles northward of Beershecha A communique statesThere was re-safely. Although they marched day and At midnight on Monday we repulsed it in ficially announced that is ciprocal artillery activity north of the night in the rain, picking up soraps of repeated Atane, in the sector of Filam and bread from the ground, they are in good Tuesday attacks, and all day on Majesty the King has dispatched

troous further south, ad- Meuse, in the region of Chame Wood. at Chavignon, and on the right of the condition, though

ing vancing north-west from the neighbour-ange to tho President of Brazit of Beershecha, carried the whole tulations on the occasion of Brazil'e from enteric, some are

tendering cordial

greetings and congen t appears that

two men brought Turkish defences southward of the line the man positions north-west of Altkirch, and the British Quartermaster and a Cor last named places, thus advancing nine. The people of the Republic are proud

There was a successful attack on Gerup at the rear of the whole Army were Telereshoria Abuhoseira, capturing the declaration of war the

declaratione replied as follows We captured 60 prisoners.

poral of the Medical Corps....... miles.

that they are fighting on the side of the of October 29th,

Allies, and are ready to make every ordnance stores. The town was on fire,

Sacrifice to secure victory;' 33 and the population had fled twenty-four hours which pusly. They found a hur harnessed to a cart filled with officers kits, and proceeded some dis tance glong a deserted road littered with debris. The horse became exhausted, and they finished the journey on foot. FRANCO BRITISH TROOPS FACED Aerial Activities.

WITH HARD TASK

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ENEMY ATTACK DRIVEN BACK

PARIS, November 7th. : A communique states-A violent bom bardment in the region of Chaume Wood on the right of the Meuso was followed by an enemy attack, were able to reach our lines.

Our fire drove back our assailants, who

Naval Activities,

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THE "HUSH-HUSH” EOATS,

Patia, November 7th.

till the The stayed at Palming to save the

The troops displayed magnificent dash

endurance

Estimates of our captures are not yet available

Six guns were captured at one portion of the front.

Alster telegram announces that Gaza was captured this morning, but there are no details.

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OBTAIN

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IMPERIAL WAR GRAVES COMMISSION.

LONDON, November 7th. The Imperial War Graves Commission, established under Royal Charter and charged with the duty of caring for the kraves of officers and men of the Mili- tary and Naval Forces cf the Empire who have fallen in war, has now beca constituted. The President is the Prince DIRECT HITS

of Wales. There are nine officials, name.

the Secretaries

the of War for **** ~ Laydon, November 7th, The Admiralty reports: Our aircraft

Colonies and India, the Commissioner of Works the Commissioners of Canada, can be held, we explosives on Thourout and Lightervelde and D. Green, Newfoundland. last night dropped large quantities of Australin New Zealand and South

Africa

Le Tempe gives an authorised descrip- held to-morrow, he eneY

having

railway stations nod on a moving trajn

oficial embers have been

Varrant namely, Bir unctions were William Garstin Mr. Harry

arry Gosling, Lieut-General Macready

PARIS, November 7th Le Temps in the course of a grave Warning, says that the Allies must

dandon illusions. They must not think NAVAL that the intervention of the Franco-Bri- ish would in the twinkling of an eye change the enemy success into a rout. The positions the Italians had lost w extremely strong others, which will tion of the British Hush-Hush" beats be much weaker. They are a species of battle-cruisers of shortened his front, is all two sizes and of equal power, ero ved The Franco-British for stronger near the latter station Beveral direct pointed by Roy

Bro faced CANADIANS DIGGING IN from the experiences since 1916. They are with the necessity of restoring a dificult it on the track sod

long and low-lying with immense decks situation, and we are firmly convinced obtained. LONDON, November 7th. fors zud alt, two tripod maste, and with a that they will succeed, but they will have Reuters Correspondent at British gaps firing two shots a minute. They ENEMY OFFENSIVE IN TRENTINO

equat castle amidships, carrying enormous a heavy tank. north of the village, was very strongly Headquarters statesSignala bave been a tapered like a yacht at the stem for fortified and held a considerable garri soaring skywards with gratifying fre the fleetest pre-war cruisers, and

PROBABLE the highest speed. They are faster than son. Nevertheless, it was carried, after

A semi-official statement says that it stiff

with forty prisoners,

turned

dout.

retresting Italian They are 18 to be hoped that the designed have been fighting through Passchendaele torpedo proof. Their steadiness is in a reconstitution, profiting by the short and beyond, but details of the situation dicated the fact that they carry apite afforded at the Tagliamento to thereabouts have not been elucidated billiard tables.

pat up a vigorous resistance und It is christ comforted by the thought of assistance Prince Albert from the Anglo-French reinforcements, to take up work

eedier arrival they could not

The successful assemblance of assail auts was consequently somewhat, mar vellons.

It was known that.Vine Cottage,

ress box north of Pass A large chendaele, also stubbornly resisted t Otherwise the Germans was not very determined.

The prisoners number about.

aboat 400 b

are

quency during the early forenoon. We being rapidorike actions and are Army will escape the invadera and effect

longing to the Eleventh Prussian Divi-The Canadians, were digging in at some

.sion

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MADE THE GERMANS RUN.

**** LONDON, November 7th."- Reuter's Correspondent at British Headquarters, telegraphing this after noon, says: The Order attributed to General von Hindenburg, that if Pass chendaele were taken it must be retaken at all wosts, has not borne fruit,

points east of Passchendaele during the morning. This was several times report. ed, but the enemy was massing beavily for a cunter-attack, and at midday an intense barrage opened along the ecction where the enemy is presumed to be in line ou our new front

FATE OF ELECTRICALLY, CONTROLLED BOATS.

LONDON, November 7th It is authoritatively stated that four enemy electrically-controlled Boata been destroyed

The first collided with a pier off the Cernian Coast and two others were destroyed two months ago,

We reached par final objectives in large The Admiralty regards there as freak numbers, with our guns well forward, vessels. They are petrol-driven, control and therefore in good position for supled from the shone and convoyed by any porting the infantry.

aeroplane.

expect impossible to foresce the definite

lines where the Italians are able to hold up the enemy, especially as before think of stopping their assailants on the ing

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SERIOUS NDITIONS AT CONSTANTINOPLE

TEAM, November 7th. The Coloque left which Caric and

Gazette describing the adora Mountains and also the rear nople, states that three meatless days.

which rests upon the serions con mie pinch at Constanti

Small local attacks have already ge- There is a fuel shortage. resting in the Tre

Tentino

-week commenced on November 1st. rarred near Lake Garda, and these may The Turkish newspapers to the precursor of a more important at the continued offensive in the Trentino.

peper money,

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Ware

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