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THE WAR.
QUIET ON WESTERN
FRONT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY GcH, 1916.
NEW TSAR MARCHING ON MOSCOW.
ITALIANS CONTINUE TO GAIN GROUND.
AMERICA'S HORROR AT SUBMARINE ATROCITY.
Franco-Belgian Front.
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BRITISH FRONT.
NOTHING.
LONDON, July 3rd. 10.15 p.m. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig says there is nothing to report.
AERIAL OPERATIONS.
Losnos, July 3rd. 11.20 p.m. The weather yesterday was fine but bazy. Our machines worked as usual, but the enemy was less active.
We destroyed 19 aeroplanes and drove down nine uncontrollable. Four of ours are missing.
A
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FRENCH FRONT,
ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.
PARIS, July 4th); communiqué states: Artillery activity was reciprocal in the Argonne, în the region of Vauquois and on the right of the Mense,
The total prisoners captured in the region north of Moulin-sous-Touvent has reached 437, niso 30 machine-guns.
GERMANS KILLING FRENCH WOUNDED AND PRISONERS.
PARIS, July 3rd,
Italian Front.
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ITALIANS' ENERGETIC
¿THRUSTS.
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HOLLAND'S FORTITUDE UNDER WAR HARDSHIPS. AMSTERDAM, July, Urd. Sir George Cave, interviewed, said:
CHANGES IN AUSTRIAN COMMAND.
Loxtov, July 3rd.
WHAT GIVES. HAPPINESS IN WORK.
Many are the schemes, nut forward, for ilustrial reconstruction, indeed it seems. the task or not, has views on this question as if every públic individual, fitted før
A telegram from Zurich states that im portant changes have been made in the I have always been an admirer of Austrian Command. According to Munich of the hour. A great deal of sich pub
Yon
FOR
Holland, and I LONDON, July Bru
am izopressed hy newspapers Field-Marshal Conrad and
lished matter shows a want of practical R35. p.m.
the fortitude with which the Dutch Generals Arte and Waldisteetin have knowledge on the part of these exponents An Italian official report states-We nation is bearing the necessary war been replaced by Field Marsim) Koewes of a new heaven and a new earth. Apart however, trom inside knowledge, when a carried out yesterday a series of energetic hardships, and the great courtesy and and General Krauss and Ardolfi, respue man of hire and proved pagination thrusts on the lower Piavo, gaining hospitality which have been accorded tively, while the German General Ottergs his theulties to bear upon indus
trin matters his views are worth. ground, despite obstinate resistance and to 115, I am delighted to hear
Below has been appointed. Consideration and patient attention.. the difficulties of the ground, which is the Netherlands speak so well of the con-
mander-in-Chiof on the Italian front: partly Rooded.
duct of the British soldiers who are the guests of Holland, and I hope the action of the Netherlands in connection with our war-prisoners will long form link of friendship uniting the British and Dutch nations.
We captured 1,900 prisoners, including 40 officers, many machine-guns and trench.
mortars
We repulsed a counter-attack north westward of Grappa, where our prisoner, are now 25 officers and 596 men: W captured 22 machine-guns and a large quantity of war-material.
French parties carried out a brilliant soup-de-muin in the Zocchi region on the Asingo Plateau and brought back prison- ers.
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AUSTRIAN REPORT.
LONDON, July ärde
6.55 p.m. wireless Austrian official report. states: There was bitter fighting all day yesterday at the mouth of the Piave,
The enemy was nowhere successful, except. ing for a slight gain of territory near Chiesa Nuosta
down
General.
A French Army Order has been issued showing that the Germans are again re- sorting to killing wounded and prisoners We dropped it tons of bombs on enemy The evidence comes from escaped French railways, dumps and billets.
prisoners from different parts of the ENEMY'S HOLD NORTH WEST OF Western Front. For example, on taking
ALBERT
Antseny the enemy massacred prisoners, of whom several were wounded. A French soldier saw the Germans kill' French rigoners with their bayonets at Olity.
THROUGH RECTER'S AGENOT.) At another place the Germans. hayonets and finished off all the THE LATE LORD RHONDDA. Freuch wounded. These instances occur
TRIBUTES IN PARLIAMENTA red, recently,
LONDON, July 3rd In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar
LONDON, July 3rd.
4.10 p.m. Reuter's Correspondent at British Head quarters states-The enemy's desperate
fixed
xiety to hold on to the ligh ground north-west of Albert is interesting and significant. Since the March offensive he bay carried his line almost to Bouzin court, and we have been, steadily pushing
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THE AMERICANS: SUCCESS. tion of his movements in the Anero Valley, We have been thereby enabled to keep
LONDON, July 3rd. his communications ander a harassing: Reuter's Correspondent at American fre, and it was not surprising, therefore, Headquarters, telegraphing yesterday. that he found the position intolerable. | stated :--The Germans are bringing up
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THE BOCHE AND HIS BOOTY.
OBJECT LESSONS FOR SPAIN,
That the German joing both grand and retty larceny to the conduct of war is notorious, but fint he should boast of h DUTCH CONVOY TO DUTCH thievish propensity and use it as a means
of terrifying neutrals is a further ind cation of the depth of infams to which he has sunk.
INDIES.
Tux HAGUE, July 3rd, The following is the concluding portion of yesterday'a message
But Great Britain would not oppose the carriage of purely German dyestuffs if it could be shown that they were not obtainable except from the enemy.
Holland replied that, the dyestuffs should not of themselves be regarded as merchandise of enemy origin, because an
As agreement cannot be reached on the inatter, however, the convoy will mail after the removal of the dyestuffs.
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
BOLSHEVIKS ACCEPT GERMAN DEMAND.
LONDON, July 3rd
In a message through American stations (transmitted by the Admiralty," per the Wireless Press) the State Department at Washington makes public a circular which is being distributed in Spain by German propagandiste, setting forth as to what armies have accomplished. The Department says that of Gernian origin has been established the authenticity of the document as being The circular,
is in Spanish,
Protessor Licks, Principal of Manchester College, Oxford, and editor of the libbere woerner, the author of some charming bunks distinguished by their penetrang magmative quality, asks in a Loudon evening paper as to who in the future will do the uninterest- ing work like shovelting coals, posting dull things into dull books, and so forth. His views are distinctly Ruskinian, be wants the quality of work improved that the workman may be raised. A perusaj of the article by a skilled mechanic is educative, since he finds That his lot i life is really cast in pleasant places Take, for example, the formula as to desirable work atalicized by Mr Jacks. "That every man shall enjoy.
his day's work, and a good article come out at the end of it. Ho further defines Work that can be enjoyed is work that wo thoroughness, or its beauty, or for the know to bo worth doing either for its benefit it confers on mankind, or for all these reasons together,
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Wherein is the skilled work of the engineer craftsman different? There is the mouth of the social reformer, but tho the usaal gird at machinery so often in author admits that machinery" provides a great deal of this class of work," g Besides an unfold amount of war desirable work. agreement had long existed permitting material captured on the battlefield, the locomotive driver is the illustration
Curiously enough, Germans have taken possession in France chosen A trained cogincer would per of the free transport of this merchandise and Belgium of incalculable booty, includ-haps have chosen differently; indeed, it is to the Dutch Indies provided they were ng high grade watches, 417 average certain that he would, says Engineering watches, #3,018 underwear, 18,076 ch There can be no quarrel with the state An enemy attempt to land near Re, consigned to and distributed by the Goy-broideries and women's handkerchiefs, vedoli, supported by naval forces, broke ernment of the Dutch Ladies-
ment which follows: linngine oil the 15,123; mubrellas
bad
parasols, 3,705; multitudes of earnest men, who are now silver
spoons, 1,870 bottles of chamondering the question of education, with pagne, 023,000. These figures show a large their eyes suddenly opened to the primal increase over those of the campaign truth that the only educated man is tho against Fraure in 1870.
nms who understands his job, and has a In Belgium, besides many art treasures, job that is worth understanding and the German armies have confisented oil
that the only education that is worth the paintings alued at £120,000. Owing to
name is education of Labour by Labour the treachery of Cardinal Mercier and for Labour Labour being in Professor other priests, who did their utmost to stir Lethaby's fine phrase, the very subject. up the people against the good-hearted matter of life and the German soldiers, they were forced to teach that makes life worth living,
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to al severe lesson to Belgian and French. Catholics. Cathedrals destroyed mutabertion of machinery is to do as much as Nor with the passage. The right fures four rendered unserviceable, eight possible of the dirty nontonous, in- churches destroyed, 27; rendered inser viceable, 34: total of 73 In Poland cusative work of society, leaving as huch
as possible of the skilled, enjoyable, educa been destroyed for military reasons. again: The kind of work a man does also a large number of churches have tive work to be done by it." And Figures concerting these have a
fitcior that determines, more than every As the result of the stupid stubbornness thing else taken together, wicther tho of the Belgint people in coutiming the
man shall be happy or miserable, satis struggle after their sanguinary and final fied or restless, moral or immoral. Bal defeat on the battlefield, Carman officers work makes bad men, good work makes were forest against their will to impose good menus is the work so in the long punishments on many rich individuals run is the mai and wealthy citizens. This procedure has German Treasury. This addunt includes argumentverse places formulated the sarna u fine of £600, imposed on Alsatiani, however, interesting to find an Oxford much the same words. 'L children who insist on speaking the Professor endorsing the claims of the French language and refuse to study the skilled mechanic that his work is of the beautiful German language. These highest calibre This nerensing interest. statistics are useful warnings to neutral in manual work on the part of highly countries. If there are any still thinking intellectual men, aside from its practice, of siding with the Allies let them take leaves room for future hope. It is the dream of the engineer-ralized in part from drudgery, free from bondage, so tu
to set man free from drudgery, organize and transform the worst features of industrial toil, that the future world shall be a better place to live in, free from degrading and soul destroying metal inks.
The Daily Chronicle's Correspondent at Stockholm states that the Bolsheviks have cepted the German demand for the
Law and Mr. Asquith paid warm tributes disarmament and surrender of the Czech been published as vet will remain to the end of the chapter the
to the services of Lord Rhondda.
Mr. Bonar Law said that his courage. tenacity and ability had enabled him to- inrgely overcome the difficulties, due to
Slovaks.
UNION OF SIBERIAN GOVERNMENTS.
We may stili hayo something to say nhout considerable reinforcements consequent submarinism, the mentioned that the dis stockholm states that the two Siberian contributed a total of £4,300,000 to the he present writer has at various times the ownership of the apparently him upon the American success north-west of
Chatean Thierry, when a complete enemy regiment. was virtually annihilated, Heavy fighting is expected. The
enemy is furiously shelling Hill 201, in front of which fighting is proceeding.
portant acres.
DUKE OF CONNAUGHT'S VISIT.
Loxios, July 3rd.
12.45 a.m. Reuter's Correspondent at British Headquarters states that the Duke of Connaught's visit to the British front concluded to-day, when, accompanied bying the past three days. the Earl of Athlone, and in the presence
There have been three successful Ameri-
can raids in the Montdidier region dur-
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of the King of the Belgians, he bestowed decorations upon Belgian officers and INTENSE RECIPROCAL ARTILLERY
men.
The Duke of Connaught inspected some Auxerican units and expressed his high appreciation of their fine physique and soldierly appearance.
A great event during the visit was the
-sports of the Canadian Corps on Domin
ion Day, which formed a magnificent
FIBING.
LONDON, Jaly sth.
2,10.a.m
case from which Lord Rhondda died. originated from the exposure suffered on the occasion of the sinking of the
Lusitania.
The Prime Minister telegraphed Lady Rhondda, saying that Lord Rhondda gave his life for his country.
THE CASE OF GENERAL
GOUGH
LONDON, July 3rd. In the House of Commons, replying to Sir Ivor Philipps, Mr. MacPherson stated
The Daily Kaprens'. Correspondent at
Governments, the Eastern with its capital at Han, and the Western with its capital at Onisk, have united, and have chosen Tonisk as their new capital. Their
wilitary force consists of Creclio Slovaks, besides several corps of volun- cers and officers. The whole movements are directed by M. Kerensky from out
side.
HUNGER FORCES AUSTRO-GERMAN
PRISONERS TO FIGHT
AMSTERDAM, July 3rd. The Cologne Gazette admits that the
front the fate of others
In connection with claims regarding the THE ALTRUISTIG KRITUSAID extent of territory ccupied by German troops, the following footnote appears
When it is claimed that, the Germans had occupied no English territory, and that, on the contrary, they had lost all their. African Colonies, amounting to some 8,000,000 square kilometres, it must be remembered that the English, according to declartions of their Ministers, are not intending to secure any extension of the that they have entered the struggle
that it had been impossible under the Austro-German prisoners are fighting for British Empire one aim only, namely,
present
arguments in
CONTEMPT FOR AUSTRIANS.
GERMAN OFFICER'S VIEW.
circumstances to collect all the Bolsheviks against the Czecho-Slovaks of befish have practically pledged shown by the remarks of a prisoner taken.
An American communiqué states:-information bearing upon the case of There was intense reciprocal artillery General Guaigh so as to enable Sir Douglas firing north-westward of Chateau Thierry. Haig to submit a definite opinion. The We repulsed three raids in The Vosges. Army Council were urging that efforts
should be made to complete the investiga tion.
spectacle, the arena being almost encircled Naval Activities.
with grand-stande thronged with soldiers
from all parts of the Empire:
In the evening the track embraced “a baseball ground, tennis-courts, boxing ring that events, which were contested and other Olympic paraphernalia. All the events, between the divisions of which the Corps 1 composed, aroused the wildest
enthusiasm of the spectators. The spec- tacle of the day was a march round the arena by the massed pipe bands of the Canadian division. Overhead aeroplanes, on guard circled the arena.
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SINKING OF "LUANDOVERY CASTLE."
AMERICAN PRESS COMMENT:
New Yous, July 3rd.` Newspaper editorials reflect the horror caused by the torpedoing of the
Llandovery Custle
The Duke of Connaught on the day of |--The Timex" demands Allied action to
his arrival lunched with the Commander wards the excommunication of Germany.
in Chief, and His Highness unet General Petain and Generalissime Foch, and bestowed decorations upon French troops, which he inspected and he was initiated into the mysteries of the latest tank developments,
* EARLIER CABLES. GERMANS RECAPTURE GROUND.
LONDON, July 3rd Field-Marsha Sir Douglas Haig, re- ports:After a heavy bombardment the enemy last night attacked and recaptured a great part of the ground taken by us in the minor operation we carried out on the evening of June 30th
We carried out successful raids in the nighbourhoods of Boyelles, Moyenneville and Merris, capturing a few prisoners in each case.
from civilized nations.
The Sun says the crime will make Ger- many's name a reproach. -
The World declares that Germany is inviting a fearful retribution.
The Herald says the torpedoing is another reason why everything German should be execrated by decent people for all time.
GERMAN RUSE.
AMSTERDAM, Jly 3rd. On receiving the first hare itelligence that the Llandovery Castle had been. submarined, Berlin semi-oficially hastily issued & report attributing the loss to a British mine.
Sir Edward Carson-Has Sir Douglas Haig reported on the conduct of General Google?
Mr. MacPherson-No
THE MIDLANDS EXPLOSION:
LONDON, July 3rd,
In the House of Commons, Mr. H. F. Kollaway stated that it was feared 100 were killed and over 100 injured in the munitions explosion in the shell-filling
factory in the Midlands.
The employés behaved magnificently
after scattering at the first explo returned and assisted in rescuing
the wounded. There was no panic. Threa shifts are already running in parts of the factory.
AMERICA AND THE WAR
TROOP TRANSPORTATION RECORD.
The paper says that they were forced to do so by hunger.
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AMSTERDAM, July 3rd The Ukrainian Telegraph Bureau at Kieff announces that Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch has been proclaimed Tsar and is marching with the Czecho-Slovaka and Cossacks against Moscow.
and exen of Belgium German officers said, according to a tele
tion The Ger
What Orman officer's think of the mili- the Belgiana. That is to say, tary value of their Austrian allies is the themselves to return the German Colonies during the fighting around Villers-Breton- after the War in
for the oracunneux on April 24th. One of the captured Germans therefore are to recover ull have lost in Africa CE
60,000-British have been made prisoners,
High Commissioner for Australia: and in this connection the following statements are madh
they count is that more than Australian correspondent, reived by the
Although to these figures the English oppose 124,806 German prisoners taken by then on the Western front, it most he remembered that the English treat their prisoners, with notable kindness (lan dure notoria), while the regime imposed on English prisoners by the Germans is one of
extreme rigour, so that the Ger- mans, with the number of prisoners they have have secured a much superior moral To the 2,244 officers and 1,25 effect. sands of English prisoners who have died soldiers must be added the several thou
You cannot wonder. We had good men like those once, but look what wo have got left. He waved his hard towards the window, outside of which wro atanding a couple of hundred German prisoners guarded by Australian and British privates. We have spent too much good German blood-it is always the Germans who are being killed.
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have served in the East with the Aus POLITICS IN ROUMANIA.
trians, and I have seen how they fight- very fine cavaliers, dressed up very pretty AMSTERDAM, July ærd.
with flash uniforms, and any amount, of A telegram from Bucharest, referring
Austrians are not getting killel-it is swagger, but useless as fighters. The to the impeachment of the Bratiano Gov-in consequence of disease, scanty food, erament, states that the Vice-President of tion camps. As
and other accidents in Germina concentratime after time. have seen our big men we Germans who have to bear the louses
the Chamber said that it would be pro-
scruted not because it began the war, but because it had riolated the constitution.
THE AUSTRIA-HUNGARY ALLIANCE.
the figures regarding British prisoners of left to Chameny now, the nien who The State Department points out that gradually go down since the beginning
refer to the total prior to the recent offensive.
CANADIAN OPPOSITION TO HEREDITARY TITLES.
TRIBUTE TO THE MEDICAL SERVICE
AMSTERDAM, July 3rd.
Opening extensions to the 4th Northern The Premier, Sir Robert Borden, au- General Hospital at Lincoln, recently Count Hertling is on a prolonged visit nounced in the Dominion House of Com General Sir William Robertson paid a to Main Headquarters. It is understood passed an Order in Council, addressed to service in the war. Of the many great mons recently that the Government had warm tribute to the work of the medical his visit is chiefly for the purpose of dis-the Imperial Government, requesting that things we had done in this war, he said. cussing the question of the Alliance of created in Canada, and also that a time development of the organisation and no farther hereditary titles should be nothing has been greater than the Austria and Hungary, as regards which the problem of Poland is causing difficul
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WASHINGTON, July 3rd. by ties. Mr. Baker states that 276,382 American soldiers sailed for France in June. Al- together only 391 were lost at sea-
President Wilson says this record must cause universal satisfaction, be- cause the heart of America is unquestion ably in the war.
OBITUARY.
limit should
of those
be
upon the effective efficient working of that service. Never granted, ku
*****before had we seen such an appalling the member for number of casualties, but never before urging the total abolition of titles ficiently cared for. Although millio
Mr BYTTE moved a
resolu- had the sick and wounded béen ef
Springfield
tion
throughout and
After some
Sir Robert men had been engaged in many different Borden stated that the Dominion Pre-theatres of operations, some here miers would consider the whole question notoriously unhealthy, there had in (re
the Imperial Conference in London.
a single epiderio of any kinda hes
MR. J. A. BAKER, -MP-
at LONDON, July 3rd Mr. J. A. Baker, M.P. in the Liberal interest for Finsbury (E.), was taken 11 in the House of Commons last evening, and died this morning,
Sir Wilfrid Laurior expressed oppost-achievements of the service and of Lad tion to the whole system of hereditary many devoted women, constituted a very titles, and declared that he was willing bright and pleasing spot on a picture burn it on a bentre, if it could be done be regarded only with sorrow and saɖa to take his title into the market place and, which in other respects he feared could without disrespect to the Crown.
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