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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1ST, 1918
THE STRUGGLE IN THE SALIENT GERMANS HEAVILY COUNTER-ATTACKING. ALLIES FACED BY NUMERICALLY SUPERIOR ENEMY.
MUNITIONS EXPLOSION IN JAPAN.
AUSTRIA READY FOR HONOURABLE PEACE,
OPERATIONS IN PALESTINE
Franco-Belgian bront.
EARLIER CABLES.
GERMAN HEADQUARTERS
J
FRENCH GAIN GROUND. On the right we passed the Dormana- Rheims road south of Villers-Egron and gained ground west of Bligny and St. Euphritise.
A German attack in the Champagne region uth of Mont Sananom failed:
AMERICANS IN SEVERE FIGHTING,
ти
LONDON, July 30th.
A American official report states:- There
severe fighting beyond the Où req
Sergy after changing hands four times, remains, in our possession.
The Near East.
EARLIER CABLES, (THROUGH REGTER'S AGENCY.] PALESTINE CAMPAIGN. SIKHS SUCCESSFUL RAIDS,
Loxnor, July 29th. 9.45 p.ni.
A Palestine official report states:- In the constal sector, the Sikhs snecessfully raided, capturing prisoners and material and inflicting Jasses,
Eastward of cavalty raided a post, killing and cap turing prisoners.
MUNITION EXPLOSION IN
JAPAN.
SHIMONOSEKI, July 30th. A large quantity of ammunition ex- pladed, with terrific force on a pier dur ing transhipment.
GOVERNMENT'S IRISH POLICY
MR. DILLON'S MOTION REJECTED.
- Loshop, July 28th,
Dillon, moving his nation condemning the House of Commons, Mr.
Bustøvernuletit'a Irish policy as alienating
In
It is feared that mang fatalities have and exasperating the Irish people, delar. resulted.
EARLIER CABLES. BRITAIN'S MIGHTY WAR
EFFORT.
ed that the Irish were holding back from the war because they believed the Gov- ernment was determined to break faith with Freland and that cofription was
the Jonian Indian AN ARMY OF EIGHT MILLION MEN.imposed upon Iceland in order to
The enemy's acroplanes, bombed camps at Amman, Shunet, and Nimrin.
DIVIDED.
GERMAN REPORT."
LONDON, July 20th, 10.50 p.m.
(THROUGH REUTER'S JOGNOZ.)
BRITISH FRONT.
AUSTRALIANS ENTER ENEMY
POSITIONS.
into.
The newspapers refer to the "ungrate
allack
ruin General Hindenburg, whereas General Ludendorff is
not criticised. Apparently Headquarters is divided
Ewe parties. THE GERMANS STRENGTH.
A wireless German evening report states:Seven attacks
on our new positions westward of Fere-en-Tardenois failed sanguinarily.
LATEST CABLES.
THROUGH HAVAS AGENCY
"EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'A AGINOY.] ITALIAN FRONT. AUSTRIAN REPORT.
ALLIES TOO FAST FOR GERMANS.
LONDON, July 30th.
8.35 p.m.
A wireless Austrian official states in Albania the enemy's counter-
LONDON, July 30th: 1.00 p.m.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re portas. We captured a few prisoners in a successful raid in the neighbourhood Axette
of
Australian patrols entered “enemp positions about Merris, and captured 10 prisoners.
There was hostile gas-shelling north Ewestward of Albert,
AERIAL ACTIVITIES.
LONDON, July 30th. 3.05 p.m.
The Germans so far have engaged. 71 divisions in the Marne salient.
Expert opinion in London discounts any idea of the possibility of rounding up the Germans in the salient, owing to the fact that the Allies there are faced by a numerically superior enemy.
The Germans are now heavily counter attacking.
NOTHING.
PARIS, July 30th.
LONDON, July 20th.
∙10.25 p.m. Despite the
low clouds yesterday,
A communiqué states there was nothing we dropped 10 tons of boints on dumps, to report at night-time north of the railway stations and billets at Douai, Marne, Armentières, Bapaume and Chaulnes.
'There was' some early morning fghting. We brought · down nine aeroplanes, Four British machines are missing.
A night
NO RELAXATION OF AMERICAN EFFORT. WASHINGTON, July 30th. Mr. Baker, War Secretary, states, bombed" Bapaume and regarding the American success on the
active batteries northward of the Sonume
Aft out anchines returned,
LATEST CABLES.
FRENCH FRONT
AMERICANS DRIVE GERMANS.
HELTER-SE ELTER.
Lexpos, July 30th. 2.15 p.m.
Western Front, that while it is, of course,
Corpedo Home Rule
LoxDos, July 30th. Earl Curzon, speaking at a banquet question be referred to a jury of Ame Mr. Dillon proposed that the irish in Gray's lan, said that af the begin.ricany appointed by President Wilson.
The Arabs surprised a Turkish, detaching of the fiftheyear of the war the ment in southern Hedjaz, killing or cap.
purpose of the nation and the Govern
M. Shortt, in replying, declared that turing
Ireland was the garrison.
nient showed no weakening, abatement
now infinitely more quiet since the Sinn Fein lenders had been re- or modification. He believed that in the Italian bront
meetings of the Imperial Wer Cabinet
moved from, harm's way. They Authori lay the solution of proteins which
Lis had dimevered an elaborate military had bewildered them for years. This
system in parts of frekind, including in- structions to the people how to destroy machinery aust pon take a more per. mauent shape, and the sister nations of inevements of troops, and that explosives the communications and is proven tho the Empire must continue to have a voice had secretly been brought from Glasgow. in the grent decisions of the Council The Government had been forced to take Chamber, just as their soldiers arti- strong measures, and to declared that cipated in the decisions in the field. the Nationalist A Havas Agency message states:-pressure has strengthened. Five violent
Events during the past fortnight were The Germans yesterday, threw in troops enemy attacks in the Semeni salient brokerobably destined to exercise are influorice from their best regiments to dispute the down sanguinarily,
the whole course of the campaign ground with the Allied tide.
nut less remarkable than, the battle of tin Marne in Jolda
General.
m
LONDON, July 9th. 10.50 p.m.
report.
the whole front north of the Marne, but Violent counter-attacks were made along
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AĢENT-] the Allied forces surged forward and
AUSTRIAN PREMIER'S POLICY made very important captures of ground. It seems as if during the last few days the Allies have bon driving ahead too
AMSTERDAM, July 30th, In the Upper House of the Reicherat, Inst for the Gerninns, who had no time the new Premier, Baron Husarik, in for carrying out their plans for destroy stating his policy, and that Austria was ing stores and constructing new defences.ready at any time to minke an honour The revival of the enemy's desperate re-able peace, bus, so long as her enemies sistance is probably due to the desire adopted the standpoint, of a' nesided gain time for the better execution dictation of term there was nothing to
do, but to continue the war with
solutes and intensity. (Loud mi plause.) DEATH OF LORD LICHFIELD,
LONDON, July 30th, The body of Lord Lichteld was found in the river near deceased's, Staffordshire residence, with a gun shot wound in the head.
easures nessary to protect their
of
re-
a cause for rejoicing, it in no way justi-treat, but the Allied Armies will prove
the stronger and impose their will.
fes any relaxation of the American afforts. It rather mours that the efforts must be redoubled.
BRITISH ON TWO SIDES OF SALIENT
LOMON, July 30th.
7.40 .m Reuters. Correspondent at American
The capture of the formidable Butte-de. Headquarters, telegraphing last evening,Chalmont, where once it was expected the deals with the hard fighting leading uri to the Saal capture of Sergy by the Americans who also captured Seringes and Roncheres.
The fight for Sergy resolved itself into a fierce struggle with the Fourth Guards Division, one of the crack divisions of the German Army. The Guards swept down the hill when the Americans were
Germans would be able to stand, shows
that the German retreat has in nuwise
ended. 11 is now even doubtful whether the enemy is able to hold the Vesle line, for the Allied pressure on the two pivots of defence, namely, south of Boissons and sauth of Rheime, is increasing,
In this connection the communiqués”
EARLIER CABLES;
ENEMY RETREAT IN FULL SWING,
PARIS, July 30th Along the line the enemy is pressing ip The German retreat is in full swing.
The north.
Breaking the rearguard resistance, Generalissimo "Foch's victorious troops Fere-en-Tardenois, a very important road crossed the Ouray yesterday and occupied
junction.
Ever since the beginning of the German retreat the Tanks have done remarkable work. After resking in the enemy front
DEATH OF TURKISH AMBAS- SADOR TO BERLIN.
AMSTERDAM, July 30th. The death is announced of Hakki Pasha, Turkish Ambassador to Berlin. FRESH GERMAN BARBÁRITY EXPECTED
LONDON, July 30th. The question whether Germany in con-
071
merlers themselves were to blame for the situation.
They
Nationalists, instead of taking Sinn Fein
the throat, tried to go and better.. They had not helped Viscount French, who wanted to avoid conscription.
Earl Curzon, continuing, craphasized | world inve adopted the same measures if
Mr. Short asserted thuit Mr. Dillon:
particularly the enemy's failure, his loss he had been in his Mr. Shortt's) shoes. of initiative, and the importance of the The general feeling in Ireland had vastly blow inflicted upon the morale and improved, and the seditious feeling had prestige of the enemy troops. Althoughestors that state of feeling which would largely disappeared. He hoped to it was early imagine the enemy was maks Home Rule not only possible, but desired by substantially everyone in Great Britain. Irishmen had only them. selves to blame if they rendered this im possible,
beaten, the Allied forces and found a genius ia Generalissimo Foch.
Earl Curzon described the suddenness of the American entry into the fields of France is electric, reducing the enemy superiority to moral value of the enemy's ultimate un «quality, while the
numerical inferiority would-be ennula Live ng time passed. Great Britain war had been clothier, during the
all the Allies. banker, almoner and universal provider to
France would have been impossible The supreme efforts in
except for us, therefore, in view of our industrial services, it was remarkable our armies were not so small, but that they were so large.
Mr. Asquith said he believed nothing
to consult the leading Dominion's states- had been done as regards the suggestions men in England with a view of arriving at a solution. Moreover, be appreciated that the Dominions representatives might be reluctant to undertake any respon- sibility concerning the matter. The
President Wilson. Irish question could not be submitted to
Concluding, Mr. Asquith emphasised the necessity to the Empire and Allies of finding an ultimate settlement;
Mr. Bar Law emphasised that the Sir Robert Borden reaffirmed Canada's men and Irishmen, but between Irish- real difficulty was not between English- ́. determination, despite all her sacrifices, inen and frishmen. The same right to fight to a finish and justifying her
of self-determination claimed by the entry into the war.
Nationalists could be claimed by the General Smuts paid a tribute to prepared to publicly recognise that Ulstermin, and until Mr. Dillon was Great Britain's mighty efforts, which had difficulty ettlement was impossible. Mr. not been given sufficient publicity. Dur- Dillon himself admitted that
mention of the Scots at Buzancy, south of lines and preparing & way for the advance templating some fresi barbarous innova. Jing the four years she had raised 8,000,000 majority of the people in Ireland sided organising their hae. The Germans, Sissons, is interesting as showing that the British are now engaged on the west as well as the castern side of the
The wore all picked and fresh men, were determined to strike terror into the hatel
of the infantry. the Tanks throughout tion is suggested by persistent illega continued to exploit the success gained. tions that the British are using unlawful Yankees, with whom this was their first salient. Should this pivated position go batteries and killed the gunners, thus the British Government concerning this Some even attasked the enemy artillery bullets. Germany recently protested to
engagemen The Americans. overburne by_the
the vast weight of numbers, gave ground foot by foot to the brink of the Qureq, but fiercely recoiled and drove the Germans helter-skefter at the point of the bayonet From the ruins of the village.
The Germans suffered fearful asses, their dead lying in heaps on all parts of 10 field.
GERMAN EXPLANATION OF RETREAT.
AMSTERDAM, July 30th
A Berlin semi-official message states The renioval of our front in the neigh bourhood of Fere-en-Tardenois and
Villet-Tardenois was carried out at night, but only after the thorough destruction of everything likely to be useful to the enemy, who at first did not observe it.
WHY THE ENEMY ATTACK WAS, STOPPED!
news-
there is still a possibility of the retreat bewoning a disaster. Hence the Germans
bastion between ar desperately defending the triangular
which General Mangin is hammering at Soissons Oulchy-Aisney from the west, while General Dégoutte is
endeavouring to turn jt. advancing northwards from Fere and
EARLIER CABLES.
A BRILLIANT ACTION.
PARIS, July 30th.
Permitting the advancing infantry to matter, and the Foreign Office's reply capture many guns.
showed that the protest was absolutely GIGANTIC OFFENSIVE FAILS. unjustified. The British Government Marne, admit the collapse of the gigantic kind is usually advanced as an excuse The Germans, in retreating from the knows that a German accusation of this offensive they opened on July lath. This for some prepared concerted violation of was to have cat the French armies in the laws and customs of war, and the two and was to be followed by an advance Foreign Office notified Germany that any on Paris. In it one million men were such fresh outrage would be met by
prompt and stern reprisals.
eniployed by the enemy.
In, whatever way General Ludendorff day there was very violent fighting on the public, it was imposed on him by the A communiqué states-During the explains this retreat to the Cermav whole front north of the Marne. The victorions pressure of the Allied forces increased, disputed every foot of ground An order had been given the German enemy, whose resistance bag strongly operating between Soissons and Rheims. and attempted to drive us back by troops to resist at all costa. numerous counter-attacks.
We repulsed all assaults and made
further advance.
the
'DECREASING SUBMARINE
MENACE
LONDON, July 30th.
を
Neutral shipping completions during the Geddes stated that British, Allied and In the House of Commons, Sir Eric
half-year ending June 30th balanced the importance to keeping and supporting same period.
The High Command attached great shipping losses of all kinds during the
the positions on the River Marne, which The Daily Express Correspondent at Burney the Scottish troops captured the attack from the starting point. Evidence work inshore, and were again going far Sir Erie Geddes said the enemy sub- outskirts of the village would have eventually set up a fresh marines now found it too dangerous to The Hague states the German papers are painfully endeavouring to positions, despite repeated German document found on
park and chateau and maintained their of this is to be found in the following out. The number of ships damaged, as convince the public that everything is assaults. going well. They take the line that the
an officer prisoner well as the sinkings, was declining. So object of the offensive was not to gain Chateau, we passed the Chateau Thierry be defended and kept at all costs. Every submarines, but the flow of
East of Plessehula and Oulchy-le The positions worth of the river must borne the burden of the fight against the
belonging to the 42nd Infantry Division :
far Great Britain had preponderatingly ground, but to destroy the enemy forces. road, and captured Grand-Rozoy and When this was found impossible the Cugny, also Buttede Chalmont, after a
position abandoned, will be immediately submarine craft from the United States attack was stopped in order to apare the brilliant action, capturing 150 prisoners. taches the greatest importance to the torrent, which will enable Great Britain
recaptared.
The High Command at would ere long become a formidable kroops, while the enemy was allowed to our gains and entered Sergy, Farther possession of the heights commanding the to divert some of her resources froin
North of Fere-en-Tardenois we extend- sacrifice his troops without result, south, Roncheres fell into our hande.
passages of the Marne "
naval to mercantile ennutraction.
anti-
with the Germans How, therefore, could Home Rule he given under these circums stages. He believed that not merely the Irishmen in the trenches but Irishmera throughout the world who were willing the men, who held back in this the great- to fight for liberty would ask whether
man. Great Britain had the greatest army in the field. Of all the Allies she
had increased her food-producing capacity, was the only country which in war time
Her achievements bad been done silently, with characteristic calinness and dignity, and the country had become the mainstay est struggle in the world's history really
whatever intervened we were determined impossible to predict the future, but of the whole, Allied resistance. It was represented the race for which they were
civilization of the world; to preserve the British Empire and the
to die. fighting and for which they were willing
Mr. Dillon's motion was rejected by 245 votes to 106.
COTTON OPERATIVES' STRIKE MUNITION WORKERS RESUME
LONDON, July 29th.
The Press Bureau states:--The Minister of Munitions announces that work has
heen generally resumed at Birmingham pointing a Committee of Enquiry. and Coventry. He is immediately ap-
THE MERLIMAU DECISION. DECISION BENEFICIAL TO .COMPANIES.
LONDON, July 30th. The Rubber Share Brokers' Association
LONDON, July 19th. The Wigan strike, owing to a disputo. as to whether the recent 23 per cent. advance in wages was on the present or
pre-war wages basis, bas been settled. It has been agreed that, 25 per cent. ad- vance in wages be paid car the current wages.
THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, July 20th. The silver market ja quict,
ouring the Company's claim against the states that the Merliman decision fav Revenue Authorities, gives the Merliman
WORLD'S RIVET RECORD. At Messrs. Workman, Clark & Con pany's shipbuilding yard, Belfast, or Company a statutory ten per cent, on June 5th, John Hoir eclipsed the world's "recurring" expenditure in development
riveting record, driving in 11,209 fix. since the inception of the Company. It standard ship in nine hours. Previous rivets on the double bottom floor of a will then save £25,000 upen £99,000. Lowry at Messrs. Harland & Wolff's is estimated that the Merlimau Company best figures were 7,541, put up by John Vallambrous decision for income-tax pur. hour Moir bat his own world's record Every Company which in affected by the Belfast establishment. In the seventh poses will benefit similarly to the Merli of last week of putting in 1,113 rivets in man Company if the decision is upheld was 26 rivets.
en hour by 294. His best, minute's work.
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