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THE WAR.
THE HUNGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20г, 1918
ÁLLIES CLOSING · AROUND-ROYE
GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACKS DIMINISHING.
GERMANS SEIZE KRONSTADT.
SERIOUS RIOTS IN JAPAN.
Franco-Belgian . Front.
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BRITISH FRONT.
ALLIES CLOSING IN ON ROYE
LONDON, August 18th."
10.10 p.m. Reuter's Correspondent at British Head- quarters, telegraphing to-day, states: Severe patrol &ghting between Chaulnes and Roye occurred during the past twenty-four hours.
The Allies are gradually closing in on Roye, and the French are within a few hundred yards, of the railway station south of the town.
The Germans have not made heavy counter-httacks since Thursday and their beavy artillery firing has diminished, suggesting that they are withdrawing their heavy guns,
The enemy attempt to drive out the
Canadians from Damiery was made by
"Eve battalions.
Local guerilla fighting continues north
[of the Anciej
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Chauthes and Roye are outflanked in the north and the south, while the Germans' last hopes of being able to cling to La'ssigny have been shattered by the cap ture of Canny:sur-Matz and the further progress made by General Humbert's troops on the northern slopes of the all- important assigny ridge.
The success of the French troops in the Autriches region gives them views over the vast arvu south and unst of Noyon,
More than 1000 prisoners were taken by the Allied troops in the fighting worth and south of the Avre during the "past
24 hour
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FRENCH CAPTURE THOUSAND
PRISONERS.
PARIS, August 15th.
À communiqué states:--We continued to make progress in the fighting north and south of the Avre.
We capter the strongly-held Cæsar's'.
Canip, and trenches west of Boys and
General.
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AFFAIRS.
RUSSIAN GERMANS SEIZE KRONSTANT.
PARIS, August 18th
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STRIKE OF VEHICLE. WORKERS.
A message from Stockholm states it is LONDON, August 18thumoured in Finland that "the Germans A mas meeting of tram and 'bus have seized Kronstadt strikers held in London chis'etening pass
EARLIER CABES. SOVIETS BOMBARDING KAZAM AMSTERDAM," "Angust 18th, A message from Moscow, citi Berlin REstates The Soviet troops have surround
ed and are bombarding Kazan.
exò a resolution calling out all members of the Vehicle Workers' Union both in Lon- don and the provinces to thorrow, AUSTRIA AND BRITISH
COGNITION OF CZECHS,
AMSTERDAM, August 18th.
A Vienna official report repudiates the British recognition of the Czecho-Slovaks, and declares that despite it members of the Czecho-Slovak Army will be regarded
and treated as traitors.
DUTCH EAST INDIES TRADE WITH AMERICA.
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THE HAGUE, August 18th.
A telegram from Washington records arrangement, whereby tends between the United States and the Dutch East Indies will be fustered particularly in ugar, of which the American War Board will take 2,000,000 tons of the 1918 crop.
It is understood that 10 Dutch steners Indies at preynt idle at Dutch Enst porth will be utilised for the transport of the sugar, also tobacco, rubber. sopra,, coffee, tin, and quinine, to America.
IMPERIAL WAR CABINET.
Londos, August 19th.
The Press Bureau announed-During the past two and a half months the
vinity of Beauvràignes. pushed our lines south of the Avre to the Imperial War Cabinet has been in con- tinuous session. when every aspect of the Over 1,000 prisoners, numerous machine, policy affecting the conduct of the war Der patrols are stradily advancing ingons and much material were captured the question of peace have beenra the region of Hingebroek.
north and south of the Avre since yester-examined by the Prime Ministers of the day.
Empire and other members representative
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The enemy is very vigilant with en. siderable artillery activity at preseng, but it is not certain if this is andrely a diver- sipin... BRITISŲ, CAPTURE GULTERSTEEN, The British this morning attacked the Pourth Sason Digisign holding Oulter- steen and wiptured the village is the ridge
* MILITARY MEDAL CONFEËRED A UPON BRITISH LEADER.
Presidefit Poinenre visited Field-Mar- shal Sir Douglas Haig" and conferred
pon him the Military Medal.
THE EXPERT IN RETREAT. Amsterdam, August 19th. The Bestier Fayellent - Munich Cor- respofidant states that the Crown Prince Rupprecht has arrived "at" Munich from "the front for a short stay.
The foregoing announcement may be significant in view of the fact that Prince Rupprecht's. Command, was recently cut down when his Armies on the Summe front! per transferred to the new group com. ruanded by von Bochn, described in Paris -nean expert in retreat."
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POSITIONS IMPROVED..
LONDON, Augint 15th.
12.20 p.. Field-Marshäl · Sir Douglas Haig re ports:We slightly improved our posi tions southward of Bucquey and drove off riders in this neighbourhood.
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"FRENCE FRONT.
LIVELY ARTILLERY FIRING.
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PARIA, August 18th... A communiqué states: --Thero lively artillery firing on the Avre, also between the Dise and the Aisne..
Enemy raids in Champagne voinpletely failed....
Lieut. Fonek brought down three aero- planes on the 14th inst., making his sixtieth
THROUGH HAVAS AGENCY.] ENEMY'S DEFENCE GRADUALLY COLLAPSING.
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Farther south we -Eaptjired Canny-xus- of all its parts. -
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strong chemy: quimber-attack Carney Farm was repulsed.
North of the Aisne in the region of Autrees we captured enemy positions on a front of five kilometres to a depth of "1,500 metres, taking 210-prisoners..
Twelve German neroplanes were feiled Festerday.
AMERICANS CAPTURE VILLAGE.
LONDON, August 19th.
11.00 n.m.
An American communique issued yester. day stated: In the Vosges we captured the village of Frapelle.
Italian Front,
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ITALIAN FRONT. D.
EXEMY ATTACK COMPLETELY FAILS.
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3.30 p.m. An Italian cficial report states-A Strong enemy encircling attack in at tempting to retake the islet to the south. west of Grave-di-Papadopili failed, with heavy enemy losses.
Aerial Activites.
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HOSTILE AERODROMES
ATTACKED.
LONDON, August 17th. The Air Ministry reports: Last night our squadrons attacked four hostile aerodromes and two railway junctions.
The visibility was poor and the observa tion of the results was difficult.
Naval Activities.
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TWO BRITISH DESTROYERS
SUNK...
LONDON, August 18th.
PARIS, August 18th. Under continued methodical pressure the French and British forces between the
The Admiralty announce:-Two British Homme and the Oise, the enemy's defence destroyers struck mines and were sunk of his vitally important battle line centres on August 15th.
is gradually collapsing, and the progres "Twenty-six"men""are missing. It is pre- made yesterday is regarded as making it 'imperative for the Germans to effect a quick, retreat to escape disaster.
sumed they were killed by the explosion or drowned. One man died as a result of hia injuries.
These meetings have proved of such value that the Impeñal War Cabinet thunght it essential that certain modi- heations should be effected in existing channels of communication as to make consultation between the various Govern. ments of the Empire regarding the Imperial policy as continuous and inti- mate as possible. Therefore, it was decided for the future that the Prime
Ministers of the Dominions as members of the Imperial War Cabinet have the right to communicate on
matters of Cabinet juporiame direct with the Prime Minis- ter of the United Kingdom whenever, they Her fin Also it was decided thit. each Dominion should have the right to nominate a visiting or resident Minister in London to be a member of the Imperial War Cabinet at meetings other than those attended by the Prime Ministers. These meetings are to be held at regular inter- vals, and arrangements have been made for the representation of India at these meetings,
Troops are being called out in nearly every important city, and at several places they have been compelled to fire upon the mob.
A number of English and French sule
CORRESPONDENCE.
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BACK TO CIVIL LIFE.
A DRESS REHEARSAL,
from a conuKSTÜNDENT TO THE TIMES."}
A DANGEROUS PRACTICE
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]
Sis. I wonder how many people tending service at the Cathedral this morning observed the bailly beat "danger" signal-post at the criss-roads nearby, and realised the object-lessondernit. conveyed by the condition of that post.
Supposing the ear which caused the damage and, which was so badly out of
control an. #ecount of an obstruction in
the
the rond, had been preceding down jects have been arrested.
gradient instead of up it, what is likely to have been the result? Something The Soviet troops are advancing" on than a bent sign-post, as any motorist Omegn
They have occupied Kirillovka. Of one thousand comter-revolutioäary officers arrested at Moscow and Petrograd nad sent to Kronstadt, 236 have already been summarily shot.
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THE SILVER MARKET. · WEEKLY REPORT.
LONDON, August 15th." Messrs. Samuel, Montagu & Co., in their weekly report, state that a change in the price of silver is not likely to beeur unless the cost of transit from Ameries, elters.
Shanghai exchange is remarkably firm.
af
A achenie for the demobilization of tha Aring after the declaration of peace hua" been prepared_by_the_War Office in con- junction with the Ministry of Labour. It has been rebearsed by small bodies of proogs, and elosely watched by many colo. petent military "obærvers five Haws of
One of these rehearsals or experimental disperals took place out"a camp not very far from London, and occupied 24 houri, In that time, a number bi men went through" the process of being freed frau the Aring and retumed to civil life.
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Of the men who part in the rehearsal one-half were supposed to have just arriv. electing pines in the United Kingdom. All ed from France and ong help from, a col-
were bound for hemes in a certain speci- experiencé can certify!
bed district. If they had come from the trin hungry they would have been fed; "Something ought to be done to prevent and if they had lwen in need of sleepi the reckless driving on this portion of would have been housed. A dispersal the road. There is a notice near the station will have these conforts ready, bottom of the hill that ears shall proceed The men were in full nipient, and had though they will not be always wanted.
* dend slow,“ bur as a rule one sees Cars Erst to rid, thensselves of this. Having
been collected on the arrival paradis free-wheeling down the slope at "ground, and having paraded in conveni,
to 13 miles an hone past the cross-roads. The road carries a good deal of chair and pedestrian traffic, and cars coming down this smooth surface at this pace are quite out of control, if they have to brake quickly.
A limit of miles an hour aing down and 10 miles an hour going a would be quite a fair, one to be insisted
pon. Natura, séry driver tries to rush the hill going up so as to avoid changing gear, but that is no reason why
nt order, they entered an improvised oflice or store, where each man received a sandlung. In this be placed his private belongings. At the same time he hand tř over his equipment, including his rif France) his steel helmet and gas masks. and (presuming him to have "core from
If any important article were missing- say the riffe the man had to repair to another place to give an explanation. Here the afficer in charge of the draft was, called in to corroborate or comment bu the man's story. A satisfactory · PRE- planation ended the matter. Other- wise the soldier was debited in his 'dis- persal certificate with an amount corre
kind would be reintively few.
A mar left the equipment shed in his uniform and carrying only his greatest and the sanding containing his private belong.
business being reported as high, as 3. pedestrians should be pheed in danger spondent to the deficiency. Cases of this
fid.," although the cabled, official rate 4/10,
ment, on July 3rd, stated that 84,000.000 The United States Treasury Depart silver dollars had been “melted, most of
which had been exported to India.
EARLIER CYBES. LONDON, August 15th.
The silver market is quiet. AMERICA'S, NAVAL BASE IN
FRANCE
Panis, August 15th. President Poineare visited Brest and inspected the huge new docks and Ame.
enormously developed, rican naval base which has recently been
Hazing landing stage, whine construction
It includes:
15gr advanced that one convey from the United States had already disembarked 33,000 men and Stores in ten hours
warch-
President Paineare witnessed a past of three American "regiments just leaving the training camp for the front, and saw a convoy of merchantrien arrive escorted by an airship, seaplanes and destroyers.
most impressive sight.
or made to dash to the side-suddenly s that a driver (often in an unoccupied car) may, save himself a little troubleYours inishfully,
가
PEDESTRIAN. Hongkong. th August, 1918.
THE SITUATION, IN SIBERIA.
GERMAN MAILED FIST
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ings. The intention is that soldiers shall keep their uniformis, but, shall return the greatcoats on the conclusion of their fur Tough. Their uniforms they may wear for s days after dispersal, and thereafter on
special occasions only. The documentation of the man is at more complicated business, and..he innst pass through several offices before it is rompleted." "First, he gets an out-of-work instrance policy securing him, in the event TOR, August 13th.
of un-niployment, a werkly sum, the The Czechs in the Maritime Province ningnitrile of which will be determined left for Harbin on the sth, travelling over litter. In return for his dispersal certi- ficate he receives a protection certificate, which he takes away with him for four. the Chinese Eastern Railway,
The Ussari front is quiet. The seemgweeks" furlough. It entitles him to su
in advance at awe. the remainder of his this freat is 100,000 strong. All men deferred pay and whatever gratuities may between 1 and 45 years of age were cun. bo vound by the Government being payahla the command of Austriana and Germans. Tough on presentation of the certificate scripted last month and are now unde in three mal instalments during the fur.
joined the Red Guards out of fear of his greateat at the end of days is The majority of the newly enlisted men
až a post-office. A label for the return of recurrence of the Revolution. The Aus also issued to him, and the papers, which trians and Germans are unpopular with include the record of his military service the inhabitants of the region and are and a railway warrant for his journey, obliged to assume faise naEKS.
The
The Cossacks near Alexieft in the Amurare put into an Envelope, on which is Provine are confident of the ultimate plainly marked the number of his railway sympathy with the Horvath Government. those of his courdes who are going the victory of the Allies and are showing group. By means of that number he finds en ibly affected by the despatch time of the train's departure, and finally The Bolsheviks, Austrians and Germansame way home"; they nie warned of the of Allied trans to Siberia and deserters taken to the station and seen off. are increasing, despite their efforts. man is at Inst dernobilize.. Cossacks of the Zabaikal are also desert. ing on the pretext that it is necessary for them to reap the harvest, and it is belleveri AMERICA'S WAR CONTRIBU-that those who are prepared to resist the
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WASHINGTON, August 18th.. General March announces that appro- ximately 1.450,000 American troops have embarked for or are en route to France, Italy and Siberia. MEXICO CANCELS OIL DECREE
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NEW YORK, August 18th.
decree
oil lands might be seized by the Mexican Government if the owners failed to submit to excessive taxation.
Allies may be limited go Austrians and Germans, convicts and unruly labourers."
The Siberian Government at Tomsk is gradually growing in strength owing to the assistance of the Czechs.
The report of the despatch of Allied troops to Siberia is welcomed by the residents there. The which was restored by the Czechs, con. telegraph between Irkutsk and Tomsk, tinues to be frequently cut by the Bol Sheviks--féruter.
ENGLAND.
AS SEEN BY AN AUSTRALIAN.
We sailed half round the world, leaving behind the sunshine and the tempered winds of our Australia.
We came through Egypt, through Italy, and France, wondering at this old world which had always been to us fantasy of story books.
We dashed across the Channel" in the night, and then were banished to the plains of Salisbury, in the winter. Wo were cold and very wretched.
We wandered when it did not rain, but nowhere jound those things we loved; for whispering trees we saw dead boughs; for birda, discordant lands of rooks; and for our Southern sau, a lenden sky?
WAR AND POPULATION. RICE RIOTS AT OSAKA
In connection with the British and
The Registrar-General Sir Bernard TROOPS FIRE ON MOES, American, representations to Mexico, re- Mallet) gave some striking figures of the LONDON, August 18th. garding the oil decrees, the Associated frets of the war on population at a
meeting of the Royal Institute of Public At night we huddled, round our glow An Osaka imessage, dated August 14th, Press Correspondent at Washington Health recently. Dealing with the decline ing stove and wrote to those at home. in births occasioned by the war, he said Such letters, too, we wrote, full of what states that the rice riots are developing earns that General Carranza. on that in England and Wales the births England was and what she was not-w and are the most serious in the history of August 12th, cancelled the
registered in 1913, numbered 881,890. In wondered why we had come to fight for 1015 they fell to 814,814, and in 1016 to her, and said, but half in jest, that this Japan.
of July ist, under which undeveloped 783,520. The slightness of the fall from bleak land should be offered to the Hun,
the boom in marringes in 1915, when the land, the previous year was undoubtedly due to and all her millions come to our bright
the record figure of 380,855. In 1917 the and still when we have time to spare from number of marriages celebrated reached Still we are here on Salisbury Plain. effects of this boon were rapidly passing eager preparation we wander on the bills. away, and the birtha registered fell to making long trips sometimes to Bath or
4,646, the lowest since 1858. Up to the Bristol, to Balishiry or to Wells. present we had lost in England and Wales 800,000 potential lives on the standard of And still we write to those at home,. 1913. Had the birth continued at the wondering now why England's HOTA same level as in 1013 there would have should need conscription, why everyone at heen 3,500,000 births recorded up to the her just enll bud not sprung to the de It is considered that the high prices of
The Frankfurter Zeitung has an amaz-end of the present year, but there would fence of all she is and stands for. For ingly outspoken criticism of the Kaiser probably be only 2,850,000. rice are only a pretext for venting for describing the war in his anniversary
we have trod the sweeping hillsides, gilded, I am not adently expect a sud. We have seen dead woodlands wake to the those," said Sir with dandelions and salted with daisies. popular antipathy against the war pro-speech as a struggle between two different Bernard, who
views of life. It says:-
den and sharp rise of the birth rate when call of spring and changing day by day, The German people was not told on peace does come. That there will be some through infinite glories, to their present EARLIER CABLES. August 4th, 1914, that it was going out increase is more than probable, but it will, wonder of maturity.
to fight against a certain view of life I think, be long ere the birth-rate, renches LONDON, August 18th.
We have seen the dandelions, tiring of. until this was unconditionally conquered. even the very moderate figure that obtain their golden glitter, ding webs of downy A message from "Osaka, dated August If that bad been said, even in the mosted before the war. Serious as is the loss, silver on these hills, and when the breezes veiled form, the unity of will of the Ger- there is, reason to believe that we have stole them the buttercups and clover 13th, states that all the rice shops have man nation would have been torn to suffered less than the other belligerents, spread a richer and a brighter tapestry.
pieces the very first day. Further, it We may assume that. Germany has lost in while violets and primroses sought af been closed."
must be said there is something very re- potential lives equivalent of 4.5 per cent, tanry in sterner growths and then the An armed mob of 2,000 attacked volting in attributing to two whole na of its local pre-war
A Tokyo message states: The polics are strongly guarding the bridges and parks, also the residences of Ministers.
fiteers.
police station, demanding the release of the raiders of a rice mill last night..
The police dispersed the mob with their sabres.
One hundred arrests were made. Troops have been sent from Kobe. " A despatch from Tokio states that the relief of the sufferers owing to the abnor Emperor has donated Y.3,000,000 for the mal price of rice.
The Cabinet disburses Y.10,000,000 for the rame purpose.
THE KAISER ATTACKED.
OUTSPOKEN GERMAN PAPER.
tions certain views of life. We dispute over 5 per cent., and Hungar Austria | bluebells came}
that people should be expected to ister pret the limitless misery of this war in such a manner. It is too astounding that the Emperor abould pick out the English from all his enemies as specially despic- tble in their views of life. He has been
7 per cent. The war, by the fall in Births which it has occasioned, has cost the belligerent coun tries of Europe not less than 12,500,000 of potential lives.
eroerald twilight amid that haze of blur.
We walked, stepping tenderly, in the This is the fand from which our fathers came; the wonderland that we have heard them talk of this is England! And we "While the war has filled the graves, it no longer wonder why we came hus emptied the cradles. At the present You English.
means to us. We've means a loss of 7,000 potential lives to the read your books and from your posts United Kingdom, France, Italy, and the learned to love the beauty of it all-but Central Empires. Race suicide among only just as children know and love tha Europead peoples, in short, on a most land of fairies. colossal scale has been the outstanding And now we're here! That is the won- „result of German militariam.
often enough to England, and has not time every day that the war continues what your Peopls can never know just
seldom given free expression to his sym, pathies for English life..
The article. concludes: It is not for such ideas that the German nations willing to bleed, and its leaders must not allow it to do so.”
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der of it all—to find it true!--Garriz.
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