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THE WAR.

INDICATIONS OF THE ENEMY'S IMPENDING OFFENSIVE: EFFECTIVE SURPRISE SCARCELY POSSIBLE: OUR DEFENCE GREATLY STRENGTHENED.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S ELOQUENT APPEAL FOR THE RED CROSS SOCIETY.

GREAT BRITAIN'S SUPPLY OF “SILVER BULLETS."

THE SHIPPING SITUATION.

Branco-Belgian Front.

LATEST CADZES, (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BRITISH FRONT.

A THOUSAND GERMAN AERO PLANES ACCOUNTED FOR.

LONDON, May 22nd.

2.10 á.m.;

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig ro ports on aviation as follows: Twenty two tons of bombs were dropped in the daytime on Monday on the enemy's mail- way stations, aerodromes, and billets.

Enemy scouts attacked our reconnais- sanes and bombing aeroplanes,

We brought down 13 and drove down g machines. Four of ours are missing

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 24xя, 1915

Naval Activities.

LATEST CABLES, (THROUGH REDTERÍS AGENCY.]

THE RAID ON POLA.

GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION.

THE RED CROSS SOCIETY.

ELOQUENT APPEAL BY PRE-

SIDENT WILSON.

and your great channel for giving is the American Red Cross. Down in your: bearts you cannot take very much satis- faction in the last analysis in lending

BANK AMALGAMATIONS.

· LONDON, May 22ud. The Treasury Committen investigating the bank amalgamations, mentioned of

(The first part of the following address money to the Government of the United delivered by President Wilson is mis-States, because the interest which you February 5th, refer to the possible dan-

sing.)

draw will burn your pockets. It is agers of money trust owing to further lego amalgamations. Therefore, the commercial transaction, and some men even have dared to cavil at the rate of Committee recommend that the approval interest, not knowing the incidental com- of the Board of Trade and the Treasury

of your heart, something of your attitude. But when you give, something are effected, also preventive measures

against bidden amalgamations.

something of yourself goes with the gift,

SHIPPING LOSSES DURING. particularly when it is given in such ́a

APRIL form that it never can come back by way of direct benefit to yourself. You know the old cynical defnition of gratitude

soul,

LONDON, May 22nd,

The helpless and friendless are the very A Rome official message states:--A-- ones that need friends and succour, and participator in the raid on Pola, which if any man in Germany thinks we are took place on the 34th inat, as cabled on going to saorifico anybody for our own entary that that constitutes upon their should be obtained before amalgamations the 16th inst., relates that the operation sake I tell them now that they are was carried out in the early hours of mistakes, for the glory of this way, my the morning.

fellow-citizens, so far as we aru con- cerned, is that it is, perhaps for the first time in history, an unselfish war I could not be proud to fight for a selfish purpose, but I can be proud to fight for mankind. If they wish for peace let them

The weather was windy. A torpedo Boat containing Lieut. Commander Pellegrini and a gallant crow fired two forpedoes 55 minutes after leaving the supporting convoy, which was compossit of armed motor-launches. When

the

enemy realized the presence of a torpedo boat, a terrific hurst of artillerying ensued, during which, Pellegrini signal Betivity of the German aeroplanes and led: "I have torpedoed a ship," and,'

artillery the exceptional violence of

** My ship is destroyed, all help useless.” bombardments on the Avre and in the region of Albert are the only indications of the coming blow,

come forward through accredited representatives and lay their terms on the table. We have laid ours, and they know what they riv, but beliind all this grim purpose, my friends, lies the The squadron, chasing anaplanes, broke forces, which will be demonstrated to the opportunity to demonstrate, not only

down an attempted enemy aerial

utmost, but the opportunity to demon attack against a convoy. The account

strate character, and it is that oppor, states that a hostile vessel was indubitablytunity that we have most conspicuously struck and sunk, or was put out of action for a considerable time. All the men on the torpedo-boat were taken prisonera.

The Germans have, between Zonnebeke and Noyon, nearly one-third of their whole strength in

France, namely, 64 divisions out of a total of 210. They have carried out a redistribution of their forces along the whole front and have notably withdrawn considerably to the ALLIED TRANSPORTciate, and admire, but their duty is the

rear.

ENEMY'S EXCELLENT COM

MUNICATIONS.

His method of attack can hardly differ in essentials from that of March.

It must be borne in mind, as before March 21st, that the cremy's excellent communications will enable him to move Night-fliers dropped 13 tons of bombs grent masses of troops & considerable dis on aerodromes in the neighbourhoods oftance during 48 hours preceding the blow * Ghent, Tournai and St. Quentin, and a further 4 tons on railway stationg in Thionville, Metz and Coblentz-on-Rhine, Twenty-two heavy bombs were dropped: during the morning of the 21st inst, on railway stations at Namur and Charleroi,

One munchine did not return.

Since the commencement of the Ger- man offensive 1,000 German aeroplanes have brought down or driven down and over 1,000 tons of bombs have been

dropped over the enemy's lines. SERIES OF SUCCESSFUL BRITISH

RAIDS.

LONDON, May 2nd.

12.36 p.m. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig states: We carried out a number of successful ruids on the night-of-the-21st inst., and entered German trenches at two points

On the other hand, the events of the past two months have greatly strengthen- ed our defence and an effective surprise is scarcely possible a second time. The intermingling of the Allied armies on

the front enables us to make the best use of all our resources, while the single com mand ensures unity of action and will on the part of the Allies.

EARLIER CABLES.

TORPEDOED.

ALL ON BOARD SAVED BY JAPANESE DESTROYERS.

New York, May

A Tokio telegram states that escorting Japanese destroyers, on May 3rd saved all on board a torpedoed Allied trans port in the Mediterranean.

in the work of the Red Cross. Not that

the work of our men in arias do not represent our character, for they do, and it is character which those who see and realise, appre

duty of force. The duty of the Red Cross is the duty of mercy and succour and friendship. Have you formed a picture in your imagination of what this war is doing for us and for the world? In my own mind I am convinced that not one hundred years of peace could have knitted this nation sogether as this single year of war has knitted it together,

·U.S.A NAVAL PATROLS TO and better even than that, if possible,

BE INCREASED.

The Near East.

EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY-]

IN MACEDONIA.

LONDON, May 21st.

ADMIRALTY RETURN.

LONDON, May 22nd. A publication on Thursday by the Ad- miralty announces that 220,700 tons of British and 84,393 tons of Allied and Neutral merchant shipping were lost during April owing to enemy notion and marine risk, compared with 55,056 and 338,821 tons, respectively (1) in April o

of The Ministry of Shipping and Just rear

Channel traffic, the tonnage of steamers, thing, excluding constwide and cross-

of over 550 tons, entering and clearing the United Kingdom ports during April was 7,040,309,

announces

CLEVELAND, 3foy 21st ranged an agreeinent with the Great The Shipping Controller line- LT Laken shipbuilders to construct 130 4,000 tons, delivery to be completed by vessels, wich with a gross tonnage of over.

the nutumn of 1819..

GERMAN PIRATES AND NEUTRAL SHIPPING..

LA PALMAS, May 21st. been brought into port. She was found,

The Spanish sailing, ship Joaquina han

a big signs of gunshot damage in- a drifting derelict, to African ficted by a submarine.

“The fate of the crew is unknown.

NEW SOLUTION OF THE

POLISH QUESTION

LONDON, May 21st. An authoritative statement from Polish

a lively expectation of favours to cone. Well, there is no expectation, of favours to come in this kind of giving. These things are bestowed in order that the world may be a fitter place to live in, that many may be succoured and hamiss restored and suffering relieved. That the race on earth may have the blight of

wherever force goes thure also shall go destruction removed from it, and that

THE SUBMARINE MENACE. mercy and helpfulness. And when you

A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK. give, give absolutely all that you can spare, and do not consider yourself

WASHINGTON, May 22nd. liberal in giving. If you give with self. A diminishing menace of submarinises is indicated by the recommendation of adulation you are not giving at all. You the United States War Risk Buram to giving to your own vanity. But if reduce the insurance on officers and crews rou give until it hurts then your heart's of merchant-men crossing the way-zona

from $22 to 811 per $1,000, - blood goes into it. And think what wo Mr. Daniels, speaking at New Bruns- have here. We call it the American Redwick, New Jersey, said: Before another sunner we shall have enough ships to Cross, but it is merely a brand of carry, not a million but millions of troops great international organisation which is to France, and enough destroyers to see not only recognised by the statutes of each them safely there of the sivilised Governments of the world, but if in recognised by the inter

EARLIER CABLES. national agreement and treaty as the recognized and accepted instrument of SHIPBUILDING IN AMERICA, mercy and succour, and one of the deepest stains on the reputation of the German Red Cross. That gory, to the rout of the Arny is that they have not respected the matter. They have not respected the in

in setting up as a thing which nobody strumentality they themselves participat-

was to touch because it was the expression of common humanity. By being mem it is knitting the world together. Look bers of the American Red Cross we are at the picture in the centre of the scene. members of a great fraternity and come NEW YORK, May 21st

radeship which extendis all over world, Four nations are engaged against the and this Cross is the emblen of Christ The United States Government is ins

world, and at every point of vantage are unity itself. It fills my imagination to creasing its naval patrol, in Europe, also showing that they are meeking selfish think of the women all over this country its naval aircraft.

aggrandiscnent, and against them doing the work of Red Cross, busy with

who busy every night and twenty-three governments, representing greet eagerness to find out the most ser the greatest part of the population of viceable thing to do, busy with forgetful.. the world, have been drawn together into nos of all old frivolities of their social relationship, and ready to detail the new sense of community of interest and duties of the household in order that purpose and a new sense of unity of life they may contribute to this common work President Wilson continued:-The that all in their hearts are engaged in, and in doing which their hearts become Secretary for War told me an interesting acquainted with each other. When you incident the other day, He said that think of this you realise how the people quarters firms that the Central Powers of the United States are being drawn have concluded a reciprocal agreement when he was in Italy a member of the together into a great intimate family for a new sclution of the Polish question. Italian Government was explaining to whose heart is being need, not only for. him the many reasons why Italy felt near service of civilians where they suffer and the service of the soldiers, but for the to the United States. He said, if you are lost in the onze of distresses and want to try an interesting experiment distractions. You have, then, this noble go up to any of these troop trains and picture of justice and mercy ng two ser.. rants of liberty, for only where men are fish the soldiers in English how many free do they think thoughts of sympathy, of them have been in America. The War only where they are free are they mutally Secretary tried the experiment. He went realise their dependence upon one an- helpful, only where they are free do they up to a troop train and said, "How other and their comradeship in the many of you boys have been in America common interest and common nesessity

Inconelusion, President Wilson said; And he said it seemed to him as if half-If you could read some of the touching of them sprang up Me from Ban despatches which come through official Francisco Me from New York there come voices of humanity that are channels, for even through those channels over." There was a part of the heart of infinitely pathetic, if you could calch America in the Italian Army and people some of those volers that speak of the NO who had been knitted to us by association, peoples all over world, and hear some utter longing of oppressed and helpless who knew us, who had lived amongst us, thing like the Battle Hymn of the Re- who had worked shoulder to shoulder public, hear the feet of the great hosts with us, and who were now the friends of liberty going to set then free to times been the Socialist candidate for the set their minds free, to set their lives Presidency, in statement emphasises of America, and were fighting for their free to set their children free, then you the fact that, despite the persecution and native Italy, Friendship is the only would know what comes into the heart subjugation of their Eastern neighbours, of those who are trying to contribute is imprisonment of Liebknecht and cement that will ever hold the world all the brains and power that they have Rosa Luxembourg, the German Socialista together, and this intimate contact of the to this great enterprise of liberty. I are not only disinclined to protest, but. great Red Cross of the peoples who are

summon vos to comradeship, I summon are incapable of revolting against suffering terrors and deprivations of and how sincerely and how unanimously allowing themselves to be used for tho you in this great week to any how much barbarous militarism. They are even

this war is going to be one of the greatest you will sustain the heart of the world." bas, purpose of refastening the yoke upon their revolutionary neighbour. instrumentalities of frienship that the

EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IN It is of no use any longer exeusing or world over knew, and the centre and

extenuating their servility. LATEST CABLES, heart of it all, if we sustain it properly. THOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

will be this land that we so dearly love. My friends, a great day of duty has ARREST OF SINN FEIN

come, and duty) ands a man's soul ax no LEADERS.

kind of work can ever find it. The duty MR. J. DILLON'S STATEMENT. of us all now is to serve one another, and nobody can afford to make a fortune LONDON, May 22nd.

out of this war. There are men amongst "Mr." Dillon, the Nationalist

us who have forgotten that if they ever Leader, interviewed, in Dublin, said :--

saw it. Some of you are old enough, I We are all waiting to know the am old enough, to remember men who grounds of the charge. Unless the pri-made fortunes out of the Civil War, and goners are put on trial the Government you know how they were regarded by

their fellow citizens. cannot "expect" America or the world to believe the statements put forward. I have no opinion until I know, the

The German numbers may be as ENEMY ARTILLERY ACTIVITY posing ne before, but re-formed Divisions cannot be equally as good as the originals, and the German soldier must have lost his faith in an overwhelming victory, GREAT ARTILLERY ACTIVITY ON BELGIAN FRONT.

LONDON, May 21st, 11,45 p.m.

A Belgian communiqué states-

in South-Eastern Arras, taking 14 pri- Reciprocal artillery activity has been

sonere,

Other raiding parties brought back a few prisoners from the neighbourhood of Locon and Nieppe Forest and the Meteren sector,

We took prisoner, 16 men northward of the Ypres Comines Canal.

A raiding party is approaching our lines northward of Albert.

The enemy's artillery wag active in the Leighbourhood of Dernancourt and con- siderably active eastward of Nieppe Forest.

The enemy heavily gas-shelled our sector north-eastward of Bethune.

EARLIER CABLES. UNSUCCESSFUL ATTACK ON OUR NEW POSITIONS

LONDON, May 21st. 10.20 p.m.

very great during the past 24 hours,

LATEST CABLES:

FRENCH FRONT.

ALLIES AERIAL SUCCESSES.

LONDON, May 22nd.

12.55 a.m.

A French communique states --There was intermittent artillery activity south of the Somme, on the Oise, and in the Vosges.

Six German aeroplanes were brought down and nine others were forced to descend, badly damaged, into our own lines during the 19th instant. Moreover, 25,000 kilogrammes of bombs were dropped on enemy cantonments: railway

Sir Douglas Haig reports: After a stations, and aviation grounds. heavy bombardment the enemy counter attacked in considerable strength on a front of 1,200 yards.

Despite the intensity of his artillery. preparation, his infantry only succeeded in reaching our positions at two points. where they were dealt with effectively by

our troops.

Our whole line is intact

Italian machines bombarded the rail- way stations at Mont Cornet, and the aerodrome at Ville-aux-Bois, where great damage was observed.

ATTEMPTED AIR-RAID ON FARIS.

LONDON, May 22nd.

12.30 p.m.

A French official message states:-

The French repulsed two night raids Enemy seroplanes were reported to be northward of Bailleul.

I took a few prisoners end one machine-gun in a patrol encounter in the neighbourhood of Royelles.

GERMANS MASSING BETWEEN ZONNEBEKE AND NOYON.

LONDON, May 21st.

9.10 p.m. Heater's Correspondent at French Head- quarters reports, on May 21st, that the

approaching Paris last evening.

We kept up a violent barrage and our.. airmen went up.

The enemy dropped bombs on the suburbs, resulting in material damage and some casualties. The enemy has not

yet reached Paris.

Our artillery brought down one enemy machine..

A French Eastern communiqué says Enemy artillery violently bombarded the British trenches cast of Doiran and our. positions north-west of Pogradec. Italian bront

BARLIEM CABLES. THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY-] SUCCESSFUL ITALIAN

ACTIVITIES.

LONDON, May 21st.

An Italian official messago states:-We defeated the enemy, who twice attacked on the southern slopes of Sasso70:59.

Our thrust in the direction of Fener inflicted considerable losses.

We carried out a successful coup de main on Mount Seninoncia, almost de stroying the garrison and reinforcements, and taking 5 prisoners.

We extended our lines at Caposila. Allied airmen brought down sero planes,

General

CHILI

NUMEROUS CASUALTIES.

LONDON, May 22nd. The Times Valparaiso Correspondent reports:-A violent earthquake occurred at La Berena on the 20th instant. Many important buildings were destroyed It is believed that the casualties are numer

us. The shock extended to a large zone and was felt at Valparaiso and Sanitago. MARTIAL LAW IN BOHEMIA, HERR SEIDLER'S PROMISES TO

THE SUPPLY OF SILVER BULLETS."

LONDON, May 21st.. The total subscriptions to National War Bonds received by the Bank of England to May 17th reached 60 millions. sterling,

26 millions and the number of War The Post Office issue of War Bonds was

Savings Certificates 195 millions, in both cases to May Hth an AMERICAN

SOCIALIST'S IN DICTMENT OF GERMAN SOCIALISTS.

EXCUSE FOR OR EXTENUATION

OF THEIR SERVILITY.

NEW YORK, May 21st. Mr. Eugen Dobe, who has several

INDIAN LABOUR CORPS. INSPECTION BY HM THE KING

LISBON, May 21st. HM the King, at Buckingham Palace inspected a party of the Indian Labour Corps Consisting of officers and non.. commissioned officers of the North-West Frontier and Burma Companies, under Captain H. L. Holman Hunt and Lien West Front His Majesty invested Capt. J. C. Smith, who are on leave from the

Holman Hunt with the insignia of a Companion of the Indian Empire, v DUTCH GENERAL ELECTIONS

That was a war to save one country. This

Amsterdam, May 21st The first fought General Election since is a war to save the world, and your re-proclaimed in Bohemia, in consequence of the war has been fixed for July 3rd. Lust lation to the Red Cross is one of the popular excesses. Many have been im-year's Dutch elections resulted in the re- charges, as I am not in the counsels of relations which will relieve you of the isoned. The estates of Prince Fuer election of the old House by inter-party stenberg, the Kaiser's friend, have been agreement, and it is expected that a

itbreaks have plundered and the building burned. regular party Ministry will replace the

Pilgen, present Extra-Parliamentary Cabinet Nachon and other

either the Sinn Fein or the Government, stigma You cannot give anything to Other arrests of Sinn Feiners are ex- the Government of the United States.

posted in Dublin.

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, May 2rd.. Silver is steady. There is small trade

business.

It will not accept it. There is a law of Congress against accepting even services without pay. The only thing that the Government will accept is a lean and doties performed, but it is a great deal better to give than to lend, or to pay,

THE MINERS. SEPTE

LONDON, May 2nd: A telegram to Berne from Slovenski Narod states that martial law has been

occurred in :( towns

Herr Beidler visited Prague and the This is the first election under the North of Bohemia and informed the revised Constitution with univereat striking miners that he hoped Ukrainian suffrage and proportional representation, food supplies would enable Austria to and the result is unusually uncertain. The pull through till the harvest and he Socialists hitherto have refused to parti- promised to consider a reduction of the cipate in the Government, but now they working hours. He said the Emperor are ready to enter the Ministry if satisface Was working incessantly for peace, which tory guarantees are forthcoming. Twenty was not so hopeless as many thought. "one" rarties have nominated candidates.