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THE WAR.

THE BONGKONG

GERMANY'S CASUALTIES DURING THE WAR.

LORD NORTHCLIFFE ON BRITAIN'S EFFORT.

IMPENDING GERMAN ATTACKS IN BUSSIA. .

BRITISH FORCE IN PERSIA.

MORË GERMAN BRUTALITY TO BRITISH PRISONERS.

Franco-Belgian Front.

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(THROUGH REUTER'S AUKKOT;] BRITISH FRONT. BRITISH TROOPS MAKE PROGRESS,

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Losbox, August 17th..

19.45 p.m. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Hinig re- porta:-We progressed to the north of the Frye road and north of the Ancre.

We also progressed in the neighbour- hood of Vieux Berquin, after sharp patrol fighting. A few prisoners were captured here and in the neighbourhood of Mercis. There was considerable hostile artillery aring at Mont Rouge. Scherpenberg and

Zillebeke Lake.

PROGRESS NORTH OF LIHONS. Lospos, August 18th.

19.15. m.

Sir Douglas Haig states: Qur line orth of Proyart was advanced slightly last night, and to-day progress has been made on a front of nearly a mile north ..of Libons.

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Roye region, where, as a result of rester- day's gains, the Allies hold an' absolutely straight line, deyencourt St. Mard-Lan court, maning north and south, only

į mile west of Roye. This advance yester day was two miles'in depth on a front of nearly four miles.

DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, AUGUST 1915, 1918.

OLD FRENCH CRUISER TORPEDOED.

PARIS, August 17th. The old cruiser Dupetit Thouars, co- operating with a naval patrol in the Atlantic, was torpedoed on August 7th, American destroyers rescued the crew, 13 of whom are missing.

[The Dupetit Thouars wan launched at She had a complement of

Toulon in 1901.

| 610.]

DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN THE CENTRAL POWERS.

THE PRICE OF AUSTRIA'S

ASSISTANCE, ..

LONDON, August 17tä.

'[THROċda RAUTER'S AGENCY.]

GERMAN FIENDISHNESS. BRITISH PRISONERS

MALTREATED.

LONDON. August 17th. Details are officially, published of the The Prity Mail correspondent at The Hagu states that the discussions at the gross-outrages, perhaps unparalleled for German Headquarters are based on the Bendish cruelty, which were committed German demand that Austria should end upon British prisoners and wounded sien from 10 to 13 picked divisions to the in March last. The facts are authenti Western front and remain on the defen-cated by the sworn statements of Scottish sive in italy, and on the Austrian counter-soldiers who were of a party of the demand that Germany should make s further declaration regarding Belgium THE EMPIRE AND THE WAR. and also make a powerful move in the

direction of peace, and solve the Polish- question favourably to Austria.

General

(THROUGH RELTER'S AGENCY.)"

STARTLING NEW FACTS.

LONDON, August 18th. Lord Northcliffe entertained the

Canadian, Australian and American Pressmen at a luncheon in the historieni courtyard of the Times-office at Printing House Square, which had been roofed with a spacious tent for the occasion Besides, visiting Canadian, Australian New Zealand editors, there were also, present Lord Reading, the Rt. Hon. W. The capture of the bulk of Bois-des-. Hughes, Hon. W. F. Massey, Sir Loges removes the last remaining obstacle Robert Barden, the Australian. New

The German hold upon Roye is most precarious The Frente are west and the Canadians north-west of the town.

maltrented.

A private of the Royal Highlanders tells how he' and a number of comrades were surrounded and compelled to sur renler near Monchy on March 29th. - Qur`rifles" and equipment were taken We consisted of one office and sixteen met, teri of whom were wounded. We were lined up on the original front fine trench and were left without a guaril

from us.

THE BERLIN VERSION

AKSTERDAM, August 17th. A Berlin offcial message declares that a conference of the Emperors. Austro.Ger. man statesmen, and generals, at the Ger- man Headquarters, again manifested com.for some time; then der German offieer and plete agreement with regard to political two men appeared on the edge, of the and military tasks, and gave an identivni trench." interpretation to the Alliance,

The Frankfurter Zeitung says that as a result of the Conferences, Polish problems are considerably nearer their solution, It is believed that the Austrian Arch-

to the defence of Lessigny on the north-Zealand and Canadian High Commisdyke will be elected to the thrm west. The gains secured by the Germanssioners, and a host of other prominent Poland.

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

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[XOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT-] EXPORT OF RICE TO JAPAN.

PENING, August 16th. Owing to the rice riots, the Japaness Government has approached the Chinesa Government with a request to remove the embargo on the export of rice. The Chinese Government accede to the re- quest and rice will be exported from Ringsu.

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[THEODOH RICTER'S AGENCY.] CHINA'S CURRENCY.

FEXINO, August 1416.

The Government, for the convenience of international trade and to pave the way to the adoption of a gold standard,” has decided to issue, gold note through · the banks iaated the Currency Bureau,

The Government is negotiating with Japanese bankers for a Joan of

in 1.20.000.000

One man carried a container on his scheme.

turned i

དྷྭ་

connection

with the

back, while the other was armed with a-THE CANADIAN CONTINGENT. rille and a short bayonet. The officer enrried a revolver, The other gave an

Orrawa, August 5th. order and the man with the container ¿ Brigadir Elmsley, Royal Cañadiare'

stream of liquid-fire straight Dragoons, has bien appäinted to the down the trench in which we were stand-command of the Canadian contingent of ing. He could plainly see that we were the allies Expeditionary unarmed.

Forde in Ha continued to play on us Siberia six or seven minutes. The witheas aided The Brier Zeitung's correspondent in that he and a few companions who were teen' conting ever since to help the O2 Fionna states that the Austrian Premier able to move scrambled down a communi, :

in this region last larch are now com- Dominion representatives, pletely wiped out.

FRENCH FRONT.

FRENCH REPULSE STRONG ATTACK:

PARIS, August 17th.

wax

A communiqué States: There great artillery activity at night-time west of Ruye.

We continued south of the Avrete

The enemy attacked reftain of our posts make progress in Bois-des-Lodges, reach- in the Scherpenberg sector and was ring the eastern isdge. pulsed after sharp fighting.

When beat off an attempted maid in the "neighbourhood of Loere. The eneurs left

prisoners in our hands.

We repealsed a strong attack against the Monolith and Carnog-farms anți between the Matz and the Oise.

TWENTY THREE MACHINES DESTROYED IN A DAY,

Lostos, August 17th.

A French official report states that 23 German aeroplanes were felled on the 15th inst.

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HEAVY AERIAL FIGHTING. We brought down thirteen bostile mit ehanes and drove down two uncontroll- ble. Six British machines are missing.

Hostile aerodromes at Hanbourdin and Loine were heavily attacked “on the mornings of August 16th and 17th, respe tively, by large numbers of our machines, which dropped bombs from a low height.. At the former aerodrome six hangars were

A Havas Agency Message states :-The demolished, and two machines standing in the open were destroyed. Three hangarsersans yesterday rontinued the tactics

(THROUGH HAVAS AGENCY.] TIGHTENING THE

CORDON

ROUND ROYE,

PARIS, August 17th.

of

Tosting the guests, Lord Northcliffe said the way" our boys from Overseus canie at the beginning of the war and havo

AUSTRIA HUNGARY AS A FEDERA

1TION OF STATES.

is prepared to plan the conversion of the Dual Monarchy into a Federation of States, Recording to nationalities; e

RUSSIAN

AFFAIRS.

MOVEMENTS OF RUSSIAN

LEADERS.

Country"was one of the most moving and touching things in history. (Cheers) What they did at Gallipoli and Vimy the American boys have been doing at Chatean Thierry (Cheers.) The Ameri cans had proved to be the goods." What the Germans had called a

mob. in uniform" proved to be an entirely new and most efficient kind of an Army.

Lord. Nörtheliffe instanced the question of air engines, and, said the potential output of these in the United States was far greater than the combined output of Austria and Germany or the whole of the German ship at Helsingfors or Reval. British Empire. The new American

Liberty motor was #

wonderful pro- duction. The public would learn the particulars of their output, because the Americans were fighting a public and not a sert war. Cheers.) Lord North cliff. estimated that America would

produce 10,000 air motors monthly,

One of the great miracles of the "world was the way the Americans were trans.

STOCKHOLM, August 16th.

An unconfirmed report has been received from Finland that M. Trotzky arrived at Helsingfors on August 18th.

It is believed that M. Lenia is aboard a

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SPAIN TO CONFISCATE GERMAN SHIPPING.

cation trench and got over the top of the British lines.

MARTIAL LAW TO BE PROCLAIMED IN VLADIVOSTOCK.

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Loynos, August 18th. The Daily Mail errespondent at

A private Says that after he and some Vladivostock. telegraphing on August other prisoners were captured and disarmth states that the Allies have derided to ed they were marched down the trench to proclaim martial law in Vladivostock. an emplacement about, & feet deep. O fort FRENCH TROOPS REACH wide, and from $ to 12 feet long.

NIKOLSK.

The sides were perpendiculär, except at one end, which stoped. The prisoners were tightly packed in this enclosure, when

twe Germans appeared at the entrance of the emplacement. One had

I imm

The Timed correspondent at Tokio, tele

graphing on August 19th states that the French "troops have arrived at Nikolsk north of Vladivostock.

BY CORTESY OF THE, CHUNG NGOI

PEACE DISCUSSIONS..

PEKING, August 17th. Cho-Kun, Chang Wai-chi and other" "

cus peace with the South-West.

CHINA'S FIRST WAR ANNIVERSARY.

no ride, or equipment; he carried a revolver and appeared to be an officer; the other, also, wore no; equipment but had. strapped on his back, a cylinder with a flexible pipe over his shoulder, the end of which he carried in his hand.leaders will proceed to Hankow to dis- Just as he reached the entrance of the Los Dos, August 18th. enclosure, fame spurted out in a striam. The Time correspondent at Santan- from the pipe and caught the men who der, telegraphing on August 15th, states were nearest to the entrance. that the Spanish Note now received in ately dropped as far as I could, and got

they have been forced, to employ during

Berlin announces that Spain will con.my face on the ground." were destroyed at the latter aerodrome. "AL"

fiscate German shipping in Spanish (A portion of this message is here They are making des the past week both places living quarters were heavily, Bred on, and several fires were started. I perate efforts to stave off our farther Ported by sea and land. The railroad ports. to an amount corresponding with

A private shows how an officer, wound- Over 40 tons of bombs were dropped by f advapee, and to gain time for the removal handling alone had been a great achieve, the German outrages on" Spanish ship-ed from head to foot, and," also four wounded men and three unwounded men, including the narrator, were in an old trench when two Germans came to it with fiquid fire. Ong stood with a revolver in in his hard and ordered the party to get baer to the German lines. Another Al squirted liquid fire over all the members of the party. The narrator's hands and right ear were burnt. Three of the party Peking. He has announced that he will

us in 24 hours.

REDUCED.

LONDON, August 18th.

All was done with order and of their supplies and the organisation of ment

astounding punctuality, far in advance GERMAN BATTALIONS' STRENGTH their defence.

By a commer-attack on a large scale of their Government's promises. (Cheers.) tlay, endeavoured yesterday 10 secureLikewise, their efforts as regards food Reuter's Correspondent at British Head-orary relief for Roye, which is con-production and shipbuilding had been quarters, telegraphing to-day, says: stantly under a close range of fire, but in unimaginable America was turning out

this aim they completely failed.

every kind af, sahip at an unprecedented

ngareil.

Since the 8th the Germans have employed

the

Two hundred and fifty prisopers and 26. Divisions on, a front of 48 miles. 15 of which were from the reserve. Opposite several machine-guns were left in the Fourth Army alone we have taken and of the Allies, 315 (1) prisonery.

Fifteen thousand and sixty-one men

have been captured from 17 Divisions, and "the fighting value of these units lips been

destroyed for the time being.

A captured order shows that the enemy has experienced the greatest diffé.:Ity in getting drafts. The average fighting strength of the battalions of Rome Divi- sions. is little over 300.-

The French and Canadian troops Loge ther followed up their success and closed the cordón tighter round the town by advancing along the river Avre, Naval Activities.

(THROUGH ZEOTER'S AGENCY.)

BRITISH NAVAL AERIAL

ACTIVITIES

The frankness of the American Govern- ment had a great deal to do with the acceleration of ship-building.

pink

There" re about 90 German

stdamers in Spanish ports.

IRISH COAL

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MORE EXTENSIVE WORKING

DECIDED ON.

LONDON, August 18th. A Select Committee of the House of Commons on transport reform bas ap painted a sub-commitice to investigate the condition of Irish ports and canals with a view, ultimately, to the more extensive

WAANGLO-FRENCH AGENTS "IN

RUSSIA.

„Loanos, August 17th

Lord Northcliffe proceeded, to criticise the British Government's secrecy and censorship, owing to which the world had never realised the magnitude of Great working of Irish coal. Britain's silent effort. As an instance, be pointed out how Mr. Holman, the Premier of New South Wales," when visiting America, was asked by newspaper-Ten if the Australians had not done enough; if it was not time that The Admiralty states:-Between the Great Britain began to fight. We occupied. Puisieux-8th and 15th of August our Naval Air proof of what Great Britain had done The host

sur-Mont, where a patrol of New Zealand troops penetrated on the 13th inst.

The Canadians repulsed attack at Damery on the afternoon of the 15th. inst., taking 250 prisoners and kill ing or wounding 1,300.

There was sharp fighting this afternoon near Bucquoy.

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counter.

LONDON, August 17th.

Force dropped to tons of bombs on the Zeebrugge and Ostend docks, the Vars senere aerodrome, La Brugeoise works, the Bruges docks, and Blankenberghe and Middiekerke; also batteries and billets.

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existed in the casualty lists, which are not permitted by the censor to be known to us or to our Allies.

missing.)

The Peking Government has ordered preparations to be made for the celebra- tion of the first anniversary of the de- claration of war on Germany.

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NEW TREATY PORT N SZECHUAN,

asked that the Man Ynen district, in

The Foreign Ministers in Peking have-

Szechuan, he opened as a treaty-port. -

CHAIRMANSHIP OF UPPER HOUSE...

Liang Si-yee has recently returned to

lines. The Germans must have either suffocated or burnt all the five wounded House, them. men as nothing further has been heard of

to the German Government against these

The British Government has protested PUBLIC TRUSTEE LIBELLED. outrages.

FORMER CITY SHERIFF'S APOLOGY IN COURT

Montinued on Page 6.3

open sessions

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Kindly bear in mind that when baving dealings with C. J. Stewart, the Public Trustee, that ever since Novem- ber, 1914, I have alleged that, he is a blackmailer, hypocrite of the meanest kind, inhuman brute, waster of trust funds, and ought not to be a member of decent society."

Sir Henry George Smallman, the well- known City man and a former Sheriff of OPEN DIPLOMACY..

London, was the defendant in an action. for libel brought by the Public Trustee, MR. WILSON'S SUPPORT." Sir Charles Stewart, in the King's Bench

Division, London, recently. The proceed President Wilson, in a letter to Mr.ings came before the Court on a criminal Lansing, Secretary of State, which has information, and the Attorney-General, been submitted to the Senate Foreign representing the Public Trustee, said the Relations Committee, gives an interpreta following words contained in, a booklet tion of the statement favouring open were those complained off diplomacy contained in the President's A Russian official report states:-The address of January 8th, in which he Great Britain and France that their sider foreign treaties in Russian Government has proposed to appealed for open covenants of peaco openly arrived at A proposal to con- agents in Bassin will be free to depart if instead of in secret sittings, as at present, like facilities be given to M. Litnivoff and Wilson explains that he particularly re- is now pending in the Senate. President

other Russian officials in. Great Britain those treaties which have already been arose over defendant's connection with

ferred to the practice of keeping secret The Attorney General said the dispute and France.

ratified, and that he did not propose to house at Eastborne, and one of his im- advocate the open discussion of negotiauginary grievances was that. Bir Charles tion, which might embarrass their course, Stewart had informed him that he would but advocated the publication of treaties not allow him to sublet the house as it after their ratification. After expressing could not be done under the lease without- opposition to the Senate's proposals, the landlord's consert. Strong objection AERIAL POST IN FRANCE. Freudent Wilson said. is pronouncing for was taken to the house being let na a lodg-

diplomacy, open

did not mean that || ing-house. ALLIED PRESSURE CONTINUED.

there should be no private discussions of Mr. JB. Matthews, K.C., interposing PARIS, August 17th" LONDON, August 17th...

delicate matters, but that no secret agree for defendant, said he had received jo- ments should be entered into, and that all structions to withdraw unreservedly all We also fired on large petrol dumps.

A Havas Agency message states:-The international relations, when once fixed, the imputations made on the Enblic 7.05 am. Yesterday's communiqués show that tho. We successfully attacked enemy ship-italino, American or Dominion soldiers regular air pest in France is to be should-be-open, above-beard, and expliTrust, and to express regret. Counsel mentioned that defendant had been in a ping, directly hitting a destroyer, on British and French continue their viewhich a big explosion was observed.

Concluding, Lord Northcliffe stated established between Paris and Bt. Nazaire,

The Senate supported President Wil-state of nervous break-down at the time Later we destroyed 16 aeroplanes and that every Pacifist newspaper in Great Nantes. Including stoppages, five hours 3 the resolution submitted by Berator

with stopping places at Le Mans and on's views as expressed in his letter to these statements were made, and for torious pressure on the Somme battle

Mr. Lansing, and defeated by 50 votes to long afterwards. front, having transferred the main attack drove down 15 out of control.

Three British machines have not re

Britain was subsidised, indicating a fuck will be allowed for the 400 kilometre discussion of a treaty on the floor of the ints his own recognisances in £500 to His Lordship ordered defendant to pay William E. Borah, of Idaho, for open the costs of the prosecution and to enter from the Lassigay area northwards to the turned

of demand for such publications.

Senate-Reutér..

keep the peace for twelve months.

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We advanced our line at several places. We pushed on in Flanders west of La

Couronne.

on

many enemy

As a result of the Varssenaere attack we set on fire six deroplanes and hangars and hit two Gotha hangars, one of which, was demolished.

Remarking that the Germaans knew our casualties to a man, the spenker estimated that We had 000,000 killed during the war, and that last year our total casual- ties were over 800,000,"

These figures were a sufficient answer to the German, propaganda that. England was ready to fight to the last Frenchman,

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journey.

ETHROCOH HAVAS AGENCY.]