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THE WAR.

ENEMY MOVING TOWARDS

MARNE

*THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, JUNE 3RD, 1018

THE

ADVANCE APPRECIABLY SLACKENED.

SEVERAL ENEMY ATTACKS SMASHED.

GERMANS

CLAIM 35.000 PRISONERS.

FRENCH TAKE HUNDREDS OF PRISONERS.

AIR-RAIDS ON PARIS.

Branco-Belgian Front.

(THROUGH REUTER'S LORNCY.] BRITISH · FRONT.

1,168 PRISONERS TAKEN IN MAY.

LONDON, May 30th,

10.15 p.m. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig states: In the course of local fighting at Avelaswood, reported this morning, we advanced our line and took 30 prisoners.

We dropped 17 tons of bombs at night time and again attacked Bruges docks, causing large, fres.

ENEMY ATTACKS SMASHED. Italian Front.

South of Soissons the enemy has been driven back on Crise.

Further south, after obstinate fighting, Chaudin and Vierzy were captured and lost several times, but remain in our hands

The battle was no less violent in the region of Chouy and on the Neuilly front Our troopi sinashed the enemy's attacks and maintained their line immediately to the east of these localities.

On the northern bank of the Marne the caemy pushed his advanced elements from the northern and eastern edges of Chateau Thierry as far as Verneuil,

On our right there have been very lively eagogeincnts on the road from Dormars to Rheims.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.

·AUSTRIAN ATTACK REPULSED

LONDON, May 31st.

JEW AND SULTAN,

THE JUST CLAIM.

{BYT MOROCCO CORRESPONDENT OF THE

TIMES."]

CITY HALL "WORK PARTY-

During the month of May the City Half- Work Party packed the following:-190 vests, tonight shirts, 107 shirts, 33 dressing gowns, 147 pairs pyjamas, 197 An Italian official report states:We waved the crimson and gold parasol of pairs slippers, 30 pairs rattan slippers Over the end of the young Sultan bd-jackets, 23 reversible bed-jackets, 39 repulsed on attack against the bridge-Stafe. By his sido walked black slaves (kindly giver by Captain Hodgins), 10 head nt. Caposile

waving long scarves, that no flies or dust jurs invalid bos, 10 surgital coats, 10 might desecrato his holy person. Before surgical shirts, 78 milk covers, 78 shronds, General,

bim went spearbearers and led horses 16, mosquito nets, 11 oye bandages, 7 hear : trapped in coloured silks and gold, and bandages, 25 dozen handkerchiefs, 13 banners of every colour, and behind enme small pillows, 22 scrubbers, 78 mops, 1 the great rabble of an array which followly catcher, canvas and wool, playing ed the Sultan on his marches.

cards, and (by kind contribution) 38 vesta: and 13 bed-jackets. These were packed in

THROUGH-RECTEL'S AGENTS,] THE REDUCED CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR,

DEPRESSION IN DUTCH INDIA'S PLANTATION CIRCLES,

The Time

states that

LONDON, May 30th.. Amsterdam Correspondent Dutch Indian plantation circles in Amsterdam have recently been The situation north-west and north of greatly depressed owing 10 the reduced Rheims-is unchanged---

FRENCH MAINTAIN POSITIONS.

PARIS, May 31st.

A communiqué states:-The enemy

The people of Maknas had turned out in their thousands to welcome him, and the shrill cries of the women mingled with the blatant notes of the Sultan's parti-coloured hand, mounted on horse- linek.

Suddenly the guns on the city walls boomed out their salute. The bandsmen's horses took fright and galloped right and left into the olive groves, the seared riders, untrained to consumption of sugar in the Allied-countheir enddies while with the other they horsemanship, clinging with one hand to tries, and the restricted shipping facili endeavoured to hold their trumpets to ties. It is reported that 6,500,000 piculs their lips. A minute or two and they had disappeared, though an occasional of the last crop are still unsold owing long-drawn and inharmonious note from the depths of the olive woods bespoke

The Sultan did not enter the that day, and when his Majerry had sought the seclusion of his Imperiri tents the writer who was his guest, trolled into the walled city to pay a visit to old friends, Mordehai ben Suim and his wife Rahel.

5. cases, and d to the Red Cross distri bating centre at Bombay ............

The wool department packed one case etnining 330 pairs socks (70 of which were contributed by Mrs. Green, of the Little Bits Society" o caps, 30 bed-

caps. These were sent to the Red Cross jocks, 21 opagti ́n stockings, and 19 white

Depot in Bowhay for distribution to Hospitals in India and Mesopotamia. Besides the above, they gave locally 13 mufflers, 22 pairs sucks, 1 pair operation:

Our long distance night - squadrans continued his effort on his right as far to inability to ship it. Sugar prices now their still retreating presences. stockings, 14 helmets, 10. knee-caps, and 1

dropped 43 tons of hombs on railway as the Oise by means of violent attacks in stations and sidinga at Metzablons, the region of Ailette. We fell back fight Thionville, Courcelle Karthau,anding to positions north of the Blerincourt

· Esch. All returned.

GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON, May 31st.

A wireless German official report

-Epagny line.

In the region of Soissons and farther south the enemy attacks were smashed against the heroic resistance of our. troops, who maintained the positions at

We took 1,158 prisoners in May, includ. states:--Our attack is favourably. pro the western entrance to the town and

ing 29 officers.

AERIAL ACTIVITIES.

LONDON, June 9nd..

1.30 a.m.

Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, re- porting on aviation, states-Our aero planes did successful work on May 31st. Long distance bombers, in the morning, despite strong opposition from the enemy aircraft, dropped over a ton of bombs on the station and workshops at Karlsruhe. One British machine did not returni Another group of British aeroplanes cropped a ton of bouls with good effect -on a railway triange at Metzablon

We dropped a further 31 tons of bombs during the course of the day on different targets behind the enemy's lines.

We brough; down 20 German machines, "while six were driven down uncontroll

able.

gressing from Noyon to westward of. Rheims.

FRENCH FRONT.

ADVENTUROUS AIRMEN.

Losmos, May 1st. Reuter's Correspondent at the Amerienn Headquarters reports: Two British hirmen who were forced to land on German territory have achieved an in credible adventure. They walked twenty miles along the

and course

swam nerossa tributary of the river Moselle, and reached the enemy a front line. They crawled through the barbed wire on No Man's Land, where they said there was

Juxuriant vegetation. In creeping to f shed for shelter they drew several shots from a Carinan sentry, who luckily, was almost an scared as the fugitives.

The

airmen all das remained beneath a thick

Our anti-alteraft machines, shot down hedge, one watching while the other was another machine.

One British machine is missing

We dropped 16 tons of

of bonds, during the night, including a ton, on Bruges Docks and Zeebrugge and Bruges canal. In addition we dropped 4 tons on railway junctions and stations in Metzsablon, Karthaus and Thionville, All our machines returned. One German night- bomber, was brought down in flames on our lines.

NOTHING TO REPORT.

LONDON, May 1st.

10,00 p.m.

Haig

Field-Marshal: Sir Douglas states there is nothing to report.

CHIEFLY ARTILLERY ACTIVITY: Loxpox, June 1st.. 2.00 p.m. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- sports: We reputed raiders eastward of

Villers-Bretonneux.

There was local fighting to our advan

a: Aveluy Wood and northward of Allert, in which we captured a few tria

tagn

oners.

There was considerable hostile artillery firing this morning in the Villers

Bretonneux and. Hebuteins sectors,

and

sleeping, and at nightfall they made their way to the French trenches,

ALL ENEMY ATTACKS BROKEN.

· Panis, June: 1st.

A communiqué states: -On our left, in the region of lower Ailette, the Germans contimed their pressure.

We broke ull enemy attacks in the region of Blerincourt and west of that place.

***

An enemy attack, which succeeded in crossing the Oise east of Bampigny, Was thrown back to the right bank.

along the Chateau Thierry road.

The Near East.

„ĮTAROCON REUTER'S AGEROF.)

OUR LINE ADVANCED.

LONDON, June 1st. A Talestine official message states:- We advanced our line to a maximum depth of 15 miles on a front of by miles in the coastal area southward and south- eastward of Tabsor, capturing two posts- und repulsing several counter-attacks with considerable enemy loss.

The Arabs renewed their attack in the Hedjas railwng, northward of Maan taking 1 prisoners and effecting im portant remolitions,

MOUNTED TROOPS WITH

DRAW WITHOUT

INTERFERENCE,

LONDON, June 1st. A Mesopotamia official message states: Our mounted troops, which drove the Turks over Lesserzah, withdrew without interference.

Aerial Activities.

(THROUGH LECTER'S AGENCY)

RAIDS ON FRENCH CAPITAL

LONDON: May 18t

range from 18: 10d. to 11a. 8d., which is said to be below cost price,

Herr 8. W. Zeveryn, of Messrs. Tiede man and Van Kerchem, and Dr. J. W. Ramaer, representative of the general syndicate of sugar manufacturers of the Dutch Indies, are proceeding to London to endeavour to remove the difficulties.

THE EDUCATION BILL.

~LANION, May 30th.:

In the House of Commons, during the Committee stage of the Education Bill, the section abolishing “half-timers" in clementary schools was accepted without

a division.

Mr. Fisher, the Minister of Education, explained that it was not proposed that the change should come into operation during war-tinie.

· TREATMENT OF WAR PRISONERS, STORIES OF SHAMEFUL BARBARISM.

Now Mordehai ben Suim was the prin cipal Jew merchant of Meknas, and a man of wealth and importance. He dealt in many things and flourished in all, and his wife arrayed herself in much fine rainent, and wore many strings of seed; pearls upon her neck and many rings upon her fingers, and grew exceeding fat.

VA WELCOME.

pair gloves,

The Mother's Union.contribution tờ May's packing consisted of 16. vests, I shirts, 7 pyjamas, 7 bed-jackets, 23 hand- kerchiefs, & pairs socks, 4 pairs gloves, 4 night shirts, and 4 knee caps."

PRESIDENT WILSON'S

GUARDS. SHARPSHOOTERS ON THE ROOFS. Federal, State and City officials were congratulating themselves on April 7th When the writer arrived at Mordehai's that President Wilson's visit to the Balti- hours in the Mellator Ghetto move on the occasion of the first anniver Mekans he was embraced by the whole sary of America's entrance into the war family and the neighbours were called bad been without toward incident- precautions had been in and fery drinks were served in minute Extraordinary. glasses, and lumps of sticky quince jam taken to safeguard the President while were offered him on the end of a fork in the city.. So stringent and drastic and the juice dropped on to his coat, and were the regulations that he virtually was Rahel filled his pockets with creamy surrounded with a human cordon from cakes, and the servant upset the coffer the time he came here until he departed. over his knees and into his shoes, and the whole neighbourhood crowd ed round him and asked him a thou- sand questions at once. And they brought musicians who beat druns and tambourines und howled songs of welcome- at the top of their voices, and called him The reviewing stand on Mount Royal ** blessed *--until the courtyard of the avenue is surrounded by apartment house of Mordehai was a veritable pande. Dionium. Never Was sucht veloute euses, the Calvert and Mount Royal the largest. One hour before the given for did not the writer at that tendent at ved Culond Biggs, of the moment stand high in the favour of tienda onded, rifles to pure the roofe

Maryland Infantry, sent soldiers of Sultan and Mordehai had a claim with

In that upper chamber Mordehai de

Laited States Marshal Stockham Bent an under to the deny aliens that they were to remain indoors during the bours of the parade and under no circumstances were to be found in the vicinity of the building where the President spoke for

third Liberty Lom, 5

on the lookout for alien enemies, but only

niore ́inorey.

LONDON, June 1sk An official report on the treatment of prisoners of war, published to day, con-again the Moorish Governmcat.these buildings, with orders to shoot down At last a more was made to an upper anybody who tried to get close to the firms the unofficial stories of shameful chamber, gorgeous in painted woodwork President. The sight of theses sentries and piled with great divans of mattresses right al ten stories in the air, marching barbarisus. One man, captured on March where only Mordehai and his wife re-up and down with rifles unslang, sent an 23rd, 1918, was compelled to work mained. It was here that the merchant apprehensive shiver up many a backbone.

told the writer of his claim.

Leanwhile Captain Santry was in immediately, serving a German Geld-gun

charge kept vigil the

of several police, who with mainition and digging out scribed the looting of the Jews' quarter Schubad 1 Caputics especially of the town a few months befow during position for it under British fire.

an incursion of the Berber tribe, and LWO

vo ventured within, the forbidden zone. A working party, including Warrant both be and his wife wept copious tenis | Dae of theer was 68 years old, and after officers, N.COs. and Medical men were rapid calculation on the part of the marshal sent him home, with strict orders. during the narration of their losses. A looking at his identification card the

made to work on the roads, and on light; writer soon convinced him that these not to leave it.

Marshal Steckham also broke up in railways under shellers and were knocked good people bad loss in the pillage of

their store more than the whole year's alleged enemy alien plot to harass the about with riflebutts and sticks, One trade of Meknas, which was, to say the visitors to this city gathered here for the man was thrashed until he lay on the least, probable, but in Morocco nar- celebration. Germans employed us wait- rators of their woog ay not hampered by ers in two of the largest hotels struck The ground groaning. One working party an exactitude of detail, and the Oriental and asked for hours, tore bad in corporal killed and three men ind is prone to exaggeration. Would and better working

not the writer obtain justice for these this strike. He got a list of the aliens marshal wasted scant tune in breaking At 11 o'clock Inst evening, and at mid-pounded by shellare. Many, who were

From the Commander of the Faithful and sat his deputies out to arrest them.

Now this ene subject to which the They found four at their homes and night there were alarms of raids on Paris, behind the lines died through weakness. Mourish Court paid remarkably little of these men asserted there was to he

The first group did not reach Paris. When fresh batches were captured, they attention was justice, The writer knew meeting of the others at a place on Lex- but the ercond group dropped bombs on

that it would be dilleul indeed to arouse ington Street. Storkham got in touch were kept working behind the lines instead any interest in Mordchai's petition, but with Marshal Carter and the Federal and the Capital

of being sent to registered

he could not refuse to do his utmost. Soferty police raided the place and captured camps.

be bade. Rahel put on all her most two others, said to be leaders in the strike. MEXICO'S MINING ROYALTY. gorgeous apparel and jewely on the morrow and stition herself-if she could WASHINGTON, June 1st. climb up on the pedestal of one of the The Mexican Government has notified great marble columns of that most magnificent of Moorish gateways, the Bab American companies operating in Mansur el Alj ju the Kusha at Meknas, through which the Sultan would ride on Mexico that it intends to double the his State entry into the town, She was

to cry with a loud voice as he passed: amount of bullion they are required to

Will my Lord the Sultan, on whose life be blessings, allow his lundmaiden SETRANG THE CLAIM to die of hanger? Justice O, my Lord Justice! Anything more fantastic than good fat Bahel dying of hunger could not be imagined, but that was

GERMAN HYPOCRISY

LONDON, May 31st.

It was expected in some quarter, that

The enemy's effort was chiefly made in

the sector of Soissons and further south in the direction of the Nenilly front-

Westward of Soissons we rigorously | Germany would observe towards Paris on counter-attacked and stopped all at

ed and tempts of the enemy, who suffered heavy losses and was unable to progress,

On this side, however, he succeeded in gaining ground west of the Soissons Chateau Thierry road and towards that town, passing beyond Oulchiy-le-Villo and Outchy-le-Chateau. tean

In the centre weak German elements reached the north bank of the Marne between Chartere

and Jeulgonne. The

at night time southward and westward situation is unchanged on our right, also

of Lens and in the neighbourhood of north-west and north of Bheims. Givenchy.

FRENCH TAKE HUNDREDS OF PRISONERS.

PARIS, Jude Ist

Corpus Christi Day the same considera, tion which had been solicited on behalf of Cologne, but it turned out otherwise.import against ore exported Not only did the bombardment of Paris continue yesterday is usual, but the Germans succeeded in hitting a church, The Balkans,

[TAROVON REUTER O AGENCY.]

GREEK SUCCESS IN

MACEDONIA.

LOYDON, June 1st.

Under the present arrangement, which the United States approved of 25 per cent, of the value of the gold and silver in the ores shipped must be returned to Mexico.

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, June 1st

The silver market is quiet.

(Continued on Page 8.)

A French Eastern communiqué states:

-Greck troops, supported by French artillery, attacked the very strong enemy BEDFORD SCHOOL, WAR RECORD

At a meeting of the Old Bedfordians

positions of Skradilegen on a 12 kilo-

matter.

THE DREAM,

D

Justice -- but she got no further for her hot hand slipped on the smooth marble and she dived hend foremost intu the gaudy band, disappearing among the Effrighted musicing and the brass instru- ments to the blatant notes of the Moorish National Anthem,

But the Sultan had seen and heart. He turned his head and caught the writer's eyo for he was close behind in the procession. And then the cortige passed on. An hour later the writer was

ozoned to the Sultan's presence- In the evening the writer was received Your dream was miraculous," said his in audience of the Sultan, and, having Majesty. You must find out what it discussed the events of the day, he in means, and at once. Go, I am impatient to know the result." In a few "boure the formed his Majesty that he had had H strange dream. Now the Sultan was Sultan had a complete report of the firm believer in dreams, and listened with matter, Convinced that Providence had the greatest attention to the narration intervened in a miraculous manner in the of how in his sleep the writer had seen interests of justice, he charged one of the Sulten pass through the great gate his venerable uncles to settle the claim way of Mansur. And as he emerged ho by a draft on the Minister of War, who Bawa Jewish woman in gorgeous clothe at that period, having amassed a great and decked in jewels, standing on the fortune, was being systematically squeez pedestal of one of the columns, who cried edge aloud, Will my Lord the Sultan, on So the Sultau's uncle settled the claim. whose life be blessings, allow his hand and told the writer how happy he had by Lieut. Commander N. C., Craig, Lord, Justice 1" The Sultan cloud find tent of justice, but he did not say that no interpretation for the dream and he had kept half the money for himself. KC, MP BN.V.B., the following decided to wait for the morrow. It was Mordehai who told the writer fatement of the service of Old Bed On the following morning as the Sultan that adding that, she was re fordians in the war was read:-Serving, passed under the great gate of Mansur such would be the case, he had taken the 2200; lalled, 330; wounded, 230; mention a very fat Jewess, gaudy as a Macaw precaution of claiming just three times ed in despatches, 503 C.B. 7, CMG, parrot, cxcited and perspiring, was to be the value of the goods that he had lost. 19 CLE 4; Bar D.S.O., 3; D.8.0., 83; seon abopo the heads of the Sultan's So all the important people were satisfied V.C., second bar M.C., 1; bar M.C., hand which was stationed at that spot the Sultan for having on this rare oc 14; M.C., 144; D.S.C., 4; D.C.M., 2 She was perched on the pedestal of one casion done justice, his venerable nncle M.M., 5 French bonours 16; foreign of the marble columns, to the smooth for having unexpectedly and undeserved. orders 13 and Albert Medals First surface of which she clung with one army obtained a considerable sum of money, An official message, states- Bul Class, 2. The committee resolved unani while she wildly gesticulated with the and Mordehai and Rahel for having We brought down 28 German machines less energy, have driven back the enemy garian counter-attack against our new moudly that a memorial hall, with other, crying in loud voice. Will my gassed more than they had lost. The

AERIAL OPERATIONS.

LONDON, June 1st. 12.40 a.m. Qur aeroplanes and balloons on May

A communiqué states-The entry's 30th were very active, the fine weather drive was continued yesterday, towards enabling much work to be done. Bomb the close of the day and during the night ing was carried out rigorously all day with redoubled violence on the front

Soissons to the Chateau Thierry,

In the region of Soissons and on the

on different targets, including railways dumja, roads, and billet, at Merville, Armentieres, Bapaume, Albert and Chaudin-Fierzy line, our troops, con- Valenciennes,

and two balloons and drove down six

tinuing their counter-attacks with tire

metres front and two in depth and cap Committee, at which the ebair was taken meid to die of hunger. Justice, O, my been to have been chosen as the instru

tured their objectives.

An enemy counter-attack failed. Over 1,500 Bulgar and German prison ers are so far counted, and a large quan-

tity of material was captured.

OVER 1,000 PRISONERS TAKEN.

PARIS, June 19€ ̈

10.15 p.m.

asses hurled against this front and have

positions in Skradilegen failed. prisoners now number 1732.

machines uncontrollable. Five British gained ground everywhere and taken machines are missing.

bundreds of prisoners.

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library and museum, should be built to Lord the Sultan, on whose life be bless only person who might have complained The commemorate those who have died in the ings, allow his handmaid to die of hunger pocket the many had came, but he was way the Minister of War, out of whose

(Continued at foot of next wolumn-) in disgrace so be did not count,

war.