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THE WAR.

FRENCH LINE GREATLY IMPROVED: BRITISH TROOPS CAPTURE VILLAGE OF

HAMEL.

AMERICA'S SPLENDID CONTRI BUTIONS IN MEN AND SHIPS.

GERMANY'S FEAR OF ALLIED AERIAL RAIDS.

PROPOSALS FOR RESPONSIBLE

MENT IN INDIA.

franco-Gelgian Front.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BRITISH FRONT.

TOTAL PRISONERS.

LONDON, July 6th. 10.45 p.m. 'Field-Marshal Bir Douglas Haig re- ports:-The number of prisoners cap tured in the operations yesterday on the Somme and in the subsequent German counter-attacks exceeds 1,500, including 40 officers.

There was hostile artillery firing at Beherpenberg. ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACK EASILY

REPULSED.

GOVERN-

INTENSE AIR FIGHTING. GERMAN CITIES IN CONSTANT FEAR OF ATTACK.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, JULY STB. . 1819.

General.

(THROUGH REUYER'S AGENCY.]: ARMENIANS OCCUPY ERIVAN

AMSTERDAM, July 5th

A message from. Tiflis states that 25,000 Armenian troops have occupied Erivan.

MEMORANDUM ON INDIA.

LONDON, July 4th.

The Memorandum by the Hon. E. B Montagu and Lord Chelmsford will be issued in London on July 5th for publica tion on July 6th.

HIS MAJESTY ADDRESSES COMMERCIAL DELEGATES,

LONDON, July 5th.

His Majesty the King, at Buckingham Palace, addressed the Delegates of the Inter-Allied Parliamentary Commercial Conference, at which all the British Dominions were also represented.

His Majesty emphasised that Allied unity of action, commercially, was prov ing one of the main features of Allied strength. He hoped this joint action would be as powerful an instrument in promoting the happiness and prosperity of the Allied peoples as it has proved in In a letter to the Times, Lord Syden-

defeating the schemes of our enemies. May ham says that where he differs from Sir Valentine Chirol is that as only the class the Entente of commerce be the guida to, of Indians which are influential at pre- and forerunner of, that universal peaco sent is working strenuously to destroy theo which we all look forward with as one safeguard of penes in India, he patient a confidence as the triumph of our gravely distrusts any experiment which would place power in its hands. There is. not yet the smallest democratic basis in India upon which Parliamentary institu tions can rest. He fully agrees with Sir Chirol that a progressive policy Valentino

arms.”

JAPANESE MESSAGE. TO AMERICAN PEOPLE.

NEW YORK, July 5th Ambassador Ishii, speaking at Fair-

· LONDON, July 5th During the week there was intense air- fighting, the outstanding features of which were the abnormally high peris necessary, and he will support for havon, Massachusetts, pledged that Japan centage of German machines destroyed reaching reforms in the Raj and India

Office.

by

the British and the increasingly menacing portent of British air-raids over Germany, whose larger and more distant cities are now in constant fear of attack. This is occasioning rapidly- spreading anxiety and alarm throughout Germany.

PROPOSALS FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.

LONDON, July 5th The momentous proposals for the estrib- lishment of responsible Government in

would

ild continue her full share in the war as she judged would conduce to the most efficient success.

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He characterized the rumour of possible rapprochement between Japan and Germany a fine specimen of Ger man intrigue designed to separate the

the Japanese character.

BOUMANIAN OIL WELLS FAR EASTERN CABLE

WORKING.

MILAN, July 5th M.Take Jonescu, interviewed at Lucerne, said the Germans have got the Roumanian petroleum wells working, One hundred motor-lorries aro, removing the eil for submarines, GERMAN TRAFFIC ON DUTCH RAILWAY

THE HAGUE, July 5th. The Allied Legations have issued u statement emphasising that the associated Powers never contemplated conceding the transit of tailitary supplies on the Lim burg Railway, DEMOCRACY

NEWS.

BY COURTESY OF THE

BAN FO AMMUNITION FOR THE ATTACK ON KWANGTUNG. The ammunition for attacking Kwang- tung was delivered at Hankow on the 4th insta

PRESIDENT AND PEACE.

The President hus notified the delegate, whom he sent to visit General Lnk, that an arinistico will soon be proclaimed it. the South-west provinces unbmit to the

Central Government.. FIRST, THEN ANOTHER JAPANESE PROPOSAL.

It is said that Japan has offered to PEACE

return to China the Boxer indemnity it she is allowed to establish yarn-factories and six iron foundries in Tientsin and Hankow.

LONDON, July, bth.

The Internationalist Socialist Leader, M. Branting, interviewed at Paris, said that at present it was impossible to talk of peace. It was first necessary to have a Democracy which the Allies represented ¡Continued Page 6.)

GOING

OVER

THROUGH LEUTER 6 AGENCY.] CHINA TEA IN GREAT BRITAIN. LONDON, July 4th. In the House of Commons, Mr. Parker propertion, stated that all, except a small

of the 3,000,000 pounds of Chizu tea It was half past seven of the evening, and the five company officers lucky which it was intended to purchase, if company, that, to have five officers in the sumerent tonnage were available, would line-were baishing dinner in the dug

India are now published. The documentet betrayed an utter ignorance of which the Boche had been doing extensive was poor and of average quality..

Ambassador Ishii delivered the follow

out. At eight o'clock three of them were be obtained from the new craji. Present going over the top, with eighty men, to raid that nasty little corner redoubt from advices indicated that the crop generally. damage with machine-guns for By Work B

Possibly the three ought to have past been saving their prayers or making their nothing of the doing wills. They were

They were tup their mess acerunts

and Bill, who already had the M.C.,

ing message from the people of Japan toork the people of the United States: We

PURCHASES OF CHINA TEA. LONDON, July 5th

In the House of Commons, Mr. W

The now British Independent Flying was signed at Simla on April 24th by the Hon. E. S. Montagu, Secretary of State Foren has been especially consipeaous byr India, and Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy a series of heavy and telling blows of India. It is based on a joint invest trust you, we love you, and if you let us had vague hopes of a D.S.O before the Tyson Wilson asked whether the Govern against the big industrial centres in the gation of nearly six months' duration in Rhine provinces.

LONDON, July 5th. 1.00 am. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Hoig re ports: The total prisoners from Thurs day's successful operations in the Somme Naval airmen also vigorously and exceeds 12,000. A Gerninn field-gun, 100 daringly engaged in an offensive over a mschine-guns and a number of trench-vital enemy sea station on the Belgian mortars have already been counted.

A counter-attack on our new positions castward of Hamel on the night of July 4th was easily repulacit.

We carried out a successful raid in the Beaumont-Hamel sector, and repulsed an attempted raid in the neighbourhood of Sirazeele.

PATROL ENCOUNTERS.

LONDON, July 6th.

12.20 p...

Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ports-We captured a few prisoners in patrol encounters in the neighbourhood of Yures,

Hostile artillery was active between Villers-Bretonneux and the Ancre.

AERIAL OPERATIONS.

LONDON, July, 5th.

11.55 pm. Our aeroplanes co-operated successfully in an attack yesterday southward of the Somine by heavily bombing the German

the throughout

previous positions

and night sad by machine-gunging

altitudes the bombing from low

during enemy troops and transports

the actual operation.

We destroy-

ed 11 machines and drove down ten, un-

coart

NAVAL AIRMEN

ACTIVE

LONDON, July 6th The Admiralty announce that during July 1st and 3rd naval seroplanes dropped 15!" tons of bomba. "Fires were started at Bruges also at the Varssenaire acro

drone.

Bursts were observed among the sheds, hangars, and warehouses, and on the Marinater aerodrome, also on the lockgates at the Zeebrugge sheds, and warehouses on the quay at Ostend.

Naval Activities.

(THEOUGH REUITE'S AGENOY.]

NORWAY'S LOSSES IN JUNE,

LONDON, July 6th

Twenty Norwegian vessels, aggregating 96,33 tons, were lost in June owing to

the war.

Italian Front.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

ATTACKS

controllable Four British machines ITALIANS REPULSE COUNTER-

All engaged in that area are missing. engaged in other parts of the front returned.

We dropped 333 tons of bombs on July th, and at night, on July 4th-ath

GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON, July 5th. 10.45 p.m

wireless German official report states: -Southward of the Somme the enemy penetrated the village of, and wood at, Humel. Our counter-attack frustrated his attack eastward of Hamel.

FRENCH FRONT, RECIPROCAL ARTILLERY FIRING.

PARIS, July 6th A communique states:-There was moderate reciprocal artillery firing, which cularly in the

Buns of Cutry and Mont- Gobert

We raided west of Bussaires and brought prisoners.

ENEMY POSITIONS PENETRATED

Lospos, July 5th. 11.61 p.m.

pursuance of a pledge given by the British War Cabinet on August 20th fast year, that substantial steps should be taken as soon as possible in the direction of the policy then announced, namely, the gradual development of a self- governing institution with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible. Government in India as an integral part of the British Empire."

we will walk by your side in loyal good fellowship down all the coming years. BARON KUEHLMANN'S LIBEL ACTION.

PUBLICITY WOULD ENDANGER SECURITY OF STATE.

AMSTERDAM, July 5th, Baroa Kuehlmann's libel action against Here Lohan, Editor of the Deutsche Ze

Herr Dimeke Editor of the The outstanding proposals are:--| rsely, the completion of the dice of Altdeutsche Blotter, for allegations of local self-Government in India; secondly, his immorality at Bukharest, has been a considerable measure of responsibility opened.

night was out he was in charge of the ment is prepared to sanction the purchase red-was hotly disputing one day's mess ing because be bad been on a twenty-four of a further three million pounds of hours gas couree. He didn't care China tea? Mr. J. R. Clynes replied hang whether it was three francs or

C

ciple of the thing that made him kick. thirig, he said it was the beastly prin that the scheme was being considered, but,

Never mind, Bill,' said the Crushowing to difficulties of tonnage and ex- e," who for his sins is company mess pre-change, he suggested that purchases were. sident, you won't need it in Berlin;

and, anyhow, the first Hun that gets you undesirable until those authorised had will collar your wad Far better let me have it

been shipped.

BRITISH INTERESTS IN CHINA,

LONDON, July 5th.

Bill didn't agree one little bit. *

That's all very well, he ad, but what if I get a blighty one I should look nice going down the line without a penny in my pocket, shouldn't I?".

Eventually they played a poker hand in the House of Commons, repiring to

and the Crushers

Sir C. E. H. Hobhouse, Lord Robert for it, double an

papers out Cecil promise to consider the question of their pockets and carefully handing over to the Skipper" the confidential of making representations to China in the front line. They had already dis- documents" that must not be taken into order to ensure delay in the final grant

Won

The three

cussed the momentous question of what to the Japanese of the iron mine they should wear, on the raid Tommy's

tanie or officer's. Bill voted for the concussion in the Yangtse Valley until

but Lightning and the

ght of the enemy Tonny S being youths who looked well full consideration of British interests in

– Herr Lohan said that he did not desire to wash dirty linen in countries, but the article had a political aim, namely, the removal of Baron Kuchl mann as politically harmful. Therefore, if Baron Kuchimann promised to resign shortly be was prepared to assure Baron Kuchlmann that he had not intended to affront him in his privats capacity.

in the various fields to the provincial. The Judge naked the accused to settle

mainly the matter by a loyal explanation. Legislatares, which will be composed of directly elected representa tives with as brond a franchise as posible ander Indian conditions; thirdly, the viceregal Legislature to be bifurcated, the second Chamber being called the. Council of State; fourthly, the provision of machinery for a periodie inquiry for considering whether further subjects can be transferred to popular control; fifthly, the setting up of a select committed in... Herr Duneko concurred, and the Judge the House of Commons on Indian affairsid that was impossible for Baron sixthly, to inquire into the constitution Kuchiwaun to give such a promise. and working of the Secretary of State's Council and India Office; seventhly, the creation of an Indian Privy Council and a Council of the Indian princes.

The proposals, in which the Govern ment of India and the Council of India concurred, are published not as being

of dis- definitely adopted in all details by the War Cabinet, but for

purposes eussion and criticism. The Report em, phasises the complexity and difficulty of

Wrecker,

ahead, foresaw the possibility of spending assure), decided that they would look like officers the rest of the war in Germany, and at all events.

STRIPPING THE DEAD.

ON BATTLEFIELDS. B. Paul Ginisty, war correspondent of the Petal Parisien, writes:-

They loaded their revolvers and put them in their jacket pockets holsters are GERMAN GHOULS' GĦASTLY WORK cumbersome things on a raid. They put a couple of homes in the other pocket to balance, and spent a certain amount of care in chousing theit knobkerries. They Billed their flasks and cigarette cases, and

The German assaults were assuredly not

been forgotten. Then they called for uw to it that their field dressings had

conducted with the greatest energy, "but more coffee and smoked.

some of the prisoners admit that it was (magine thing less, like what I could The Court decided to sit in private, lady novelists call tremor of the

under 2 murderous

barrage to a trench acted upon that they continued advancing because publicity would endanger the last half hour. They were going over" under threats promptly and mercilessly full of desperate Boches were under fire Ghastly details are given by security of the State.

going to return-those who would return ander an equally marderous counter And- barrage from the encray's guns. there

SUPREME WAR COUNCIL. CONGRATULATIONS TO ITALIAN ARMY AND PEOPLE.

LONDON, July 5th. The Press Bureau announce: The Supreme War Counei), during its seventh

You

the

didn't care a damnord

is only the one phrase for it-they At five to eight Bill gave the shook hands Skippers

The raiding went up into the trench.

jaise still outhing

ייו

some of these prisoners, and corroborated Special squads were told off by others. 5

to strip the dead, so that their boats and niforms might be used again. This is Do new iden in Germany, for making good

his memoire on the war of 1870 Louis ne scarcity of leather and clothing. In Behneider, secretary and biographer to

by their soft caps among all the steel party was waiting you could tell them helmets of the men who were not going and they were laughing and joking as Every one of them had volunteered for An Italian official report states:-On

the Indian problem and testifies to the session, earnestly congratulated the though they were off on a holiday jaunt. the Einperor William I, narrates that Malian Army and people on the memor the raid; in fact, the whole company had his sovereign, while going over the battle Some of the others were held of St. Privat, halted to look at the the lower Fiave, having repulsed courage, patience, and high purpose with

able defent of the Austro-Hungarian volunteered.

they had not been body of a young hussar shot through the violent counter-attack and destroyed the which the cxisting edifice of the Govers army. They regarded this victory, at a chosen.

The sergeant-major reported all present forehead. Was he moved by any feeling new centres of the enemy's resistance, ment of India has been built up and to critical period of the war, as an invalu

checked the numbery. The Wrecker"

prematurely cut off in the prime of lifet up his proper position in rear. we considerably extended our occupation the hearty and genuine spnyathy of the able contribution towards the eventual al correct Bill went along the line and of pity for the youth who had thus been All ready tumbled Bill in a No. The only observation his Majesty

could make was the following south-eastward of Chiesa Nuova and people of India with the cause of the northward of Cavn. Zuccherina, captur Allies, to which India bas so largely con A feature of the session was the pretrench whisper. Good! Right in file here is a uniform there which is

gence at the third meeting of Sir R. quick march 19 m), maar

They led out of the trench in single file still is good condition. It should be

admit ing 419 prisoners, a battery of six howittributed.

The Report shows that the declarations Berden, Mr. W. M. Hughes, Mr. Massey, passed through the gap in the wire, and Schneider found this remark ters and many machine-guns

of British and American statesmen refr. Lloyd, and other Ministers of the were swallowed up in the gloom of Noable, and indicative of the wise economy garding the liberalising aims of the Allies British Overseas Dominions, whom Mr. have given a new force and vitality to the Lloyd George presented.

We penetrated the enemy positions north-eastward of Grappa,

We repulsed two counter attacks on the

was very lively south of the Aisne, parti Asiago Plateau, engaging the enemy in Browing demand among the progressive

Herial Activities:

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ATTACK ON GERMAN TOWNS

LONDON, July 6th.

The Air Ministry, in an official report, state: Yesterday morning, our sero planes heavily attacked the railway station at Cobleng Observation was difficult owing to the clands

the bayonet and bomb and inflicting severe losses

The British destroyed a post at Canove

The Near East.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

ARABS CAPTURE POSITION

A Palestine official report states that the Hedjaz Arabe attacked and captured

We also auccessfully attacked Saar bracken, where we brought down one of Kalaat-el-Ahmar on June 28th and took the attacking aeroplanes and drove down another. All our machines returned.

60 prisoners.

section of Indians for self-Government.

success of the Allied cause.

Man's Land. Wh

Ten minutes afterwards the first gun barked-R. F. WR.

THE GERMAN TANKS.

in an army leader, but the special squads who strip the German lead also take the uniforms of the fallen French soldiers left on the battlefield, doubtless for ru purposes, although stratagems of the kipu "On behalf of the Supreme War Council,

are invariably quickly seat through end

The correspondent of the Havas M Clemenceau and Signor Orlando ten-

some on the French front telegraphs: Ch dered to these representatives the thanks I gather from various sources

d to these of the Allied nations for the very great rather interesting particulars about the battle has shown us a German inovation new German tanks, one of which is lying the creation of specially equipped unit services rendered on the battlefeld by the deroljet within our own lines (writes known as the Ausbeut comunando, wh Renter's Correspondent with the British are given the task of completely strik

There

Seems little ping and despoiling all the bodies Army in

friends and enemies.

picked up on proving a disappoint battlefield.roblers collect Dominions troops.

The Council considered all aspects of doubt that these are

wenty having developed various

These official

DUTCH ELECTIONS.

AMSTERDAM, July 5th. The Dutch clections, conducted on the basis of proportional representation, havaa

resulted so far in the defeat of th the war situation jointly with Generalis under conditions of netual service nothing and equipment from the corpe simo Foch and other military advisers. Ley are more like the French Liberals, who now tie with the Right and came to important decisions in re-

The groups with about 50 seats each.

gard to it.

THE SILVER MARKET. Catholics and Socialists have the largest

LONDON, July 5th. gains.

The Cabinet has resigned, and a Cœali. ition Ministry is very probable.

Silver is quict.

tank than our own. They are very and send the booty to centres whi

despatch them to the rear about weighing

forty-five lons, ponderous,

The extreme shortage of leather which makes them dificult to manœuvre over bad ground. Under the most favour clothing explains the creation of th able conditions they can do about Len death units without reckoning that miles an hour, but can only keep this up Germans who are more than ready French for a very brief spell owing to the over treachery, will be able to clothe cert heating of their motors. Their protective of their units as British or l

diers in an attempt to doceive, 18-** qualities are poor.