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ITALY'S VICTORY.

THE PIAVE BATTLE,

ENEMY FRONT SMASHED.

(FROM A BEAUMONT, Į

Miis, June 24th,

TWO PICTURES.

(BY HOWARD.)

1918.

KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB. "PAREWELL DINNER TO SEVEN MEMBERS.

ALIENS ON THE LAND The necessity for the introduction of Legislation to regulate the sale of land during the period that safegards the emphasized by the many purchuss which interests of our OWNI count.ment,

House counties, says the Globe. have recently been made by alicas in thCricket Club entertained, at dinner seven

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of their members who are leaving the

Two, pictures a study it contrasts, presented again uld again-rise before the eye, demanding mutely but sternly The Italian victory on the Piave has return of our prisoners shall be entrusted that the business of negotiating for the been rendered complete by the precipitate to people who are capable of appreciating you ask a safer guide? and disorderly retreat of the Austrians I the human side of life." Certainly no one is better qualified ed, an event already foreshadowed by Sention when a hundred or so of our at the main points where they bad cruses,

Ta quote only one example, a large pro- Colony on war service. The guests of the The first is the scene at St. Pancras tion of the aliens engaged in the tailorsening were:- Messrs. W. T. Elson, J. C to judge a musical instrument. their immobility during the past threerces, rescued from the horrors of Han

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extreme of the Piave two kilometres of the road leading from the old bridge of t Sap Dona alone remained, and this also

was under continuat fire.

The first newa of the retreat of the enemy in disorder was received in Milan and Route towards six o'clock last even- ing, and created enthusiam everywhere. Signor Luigi. Barsini, in a short wire to. the Corriere della Serd, describes the first moments of the enemy's precipitat retirement. He says.

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Occasionally vong smiles-it is almost pailu: to see him try to not when you wave

angie NG kind salle that would ween his four years previousty ney do not talk much, these meng truy have been brokes, starved, Hounded ir sablement for a period so tong about like cattle, forced to work in spite hut they enturn with only a remnant of taxon spirit alive within them. They are in all sorts of nondescript uniforms, portions of several people's outfits.

land. It may be added that, while they Guests." have made their money here and continued

He said that those who were their business anty so long as it suited leaving them were sports" and "jolly them, their closing down in the midst of good fellows.". the war, when the authorities are greatly and as good friends in Kirke as they He hoped they would exercised to get sufficient uniformua tarned dilficulties of the situation. out to time, bas added materially to the bad found in the Kowloon Cricket Club,

Some surprising facts

and that ia connection

when the war was overs New South Wales and co-organizing secrand asked the Company to drink to their given by Mr. David Fell, M.P. for the K with the purchase of land by aliens were they would return to their old friends in He wished them ham qayaye tary to the British County Homestead Association, who has been doing much health, prosperity and success. useful service in regard to the develop ment of our land for British soldiers. tind! it was awful!. wonder if ray missus is here!

IMF. Fell stated that in the district where ours. again they tell little bits of their grim

Now and be lives many aliens who have amassed wealth in munition works have been in. atories and, worse, of the sufferings of vesting it in property. the friends they have left behind.

Outside the station, stretching far lown Euston-road, are 10,000 people, many of them wondering whether they catch a glimpse of a face that is dear, Once a woman. broke through the police cordon and claimed her husband as be was hebbling to the motor-car, Two other women followed suit, and for the time being three returned prisoners were officially reported lost in St. Pancras Station.

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The Austrians are recrossing the Piäve pell-mell. They are not only beaten hut routed, since in the setor where their effort was greatest and where the struggle wis most desperate their discomfiture culminates in a rout of which we cannot yet measure all the extent. General Borovie in his last order to his army thanked the Austrian troops for the success obtained in what he calls the initial stage of a "long" battle," and the success referred to consisted precisely in the crossing of the Piave But the con- stant pressure of the Italian troops, the uninterrupted bombardment of the bridge and foot bridges rendered the situation of the enemy troops on this side of the Piave tragically hopeless, and on

The second picture is to be seen almost the night of Saturday they began their anywhere in grieultiral Britain. Parties retreat, which they hoped to exerute un-of well-fed, well-dressed Germans are observed by us.

But our patre, which swaggering or dolling or riding about penetrated into the enemy lines during fields and country lanes, ostensibly at the night.pererived, these preparations, work cre the land, and immediately afterwards the Italian

Char-i-banca parties of them proceed guns opened an intense fire on the river to and from their quarters in Sussex-- passages. Early in the morning the the only present-day reminder of the old Italian infantry with extraordi original English beanfeasters. Detach "nary enthusiasm resumed the affen-nents of happy Huns are sunning them: sive, and attacked the enemy resnately.selves in meadows in Essex. watching the At eleven o'clock they smushed in the aeroplañics, and looking as happy in their front at the Montello, after having driven indolence as overfed animals. Parties of the enemy from the slopes of the hill, them are laughing boisterously, and and soon after the Austrian retreat was ogling girls as they drive their own converted into a rout. Nervesa was re-lorries through picturesque villages in occupied and there we found Austrian Surrey or ramble about the fringe of the guns untouched, with their menit Fighway looking after their horses. and, glo our own guns, which had been It is people who can see the human lost in the first days of the offensive site of these two pictures who should be The waters of the Piave were teeming entrusted with the work of securing a bodies

were floating down str. present coldly calculating authorities Italian aeropland mercilessly parted the enemy on all the passages, dropping immersed in theories about the risk of confess that all along they have been bombs on the bridges, which became prolonging the war, the mere mortal encumbered with Austrians. An in-naka, Surely, at any rate, it will last describable frenzy of victory pervades as long for. Germany as for England" the Italian troops. We are living in--Daily Mail. describable moments.

The toast was drunk with musical hon

The Chairman next made a presentation of souvenirs in the shape of silver-match- boxes, hearing the names of each reviz

Ra well-known fact," he said, "that before the war a number of Ger mans purchased laad in this particular pient, to those who were going away. He heights overlooking the valley. Unless the on the voyage they would receive somA district, and their houses commend the said that if the men behaved themselves Government realize the strong feelings: existing in the minds of our soldiers in thing else when they reached Kirken, regard to this land question there is bound to be trouble. The men who have offered y. C. Labrum with a gold watch from

· Mr.-W. J. Owen then presented Mr. their lives for their country will not that is their birth-right. It is bad enough Club. Loleente aliens taking possession of land the Committee of the Kowloon Bowling to have aliens stepping into the businesses of thesmen away fighting, but it is an

Mr. Elson, said that, being the oldest even more serious matter when they be member of the K.C.C. who was going some owners of the fee simple. It is cosmopolitan "to & great extent, het we true that the 'hited Kingdom has become away he was called upon to reply on

behalf of all the others. have learnt a terrible lesson from this.assure the gathering that though they a

He wished to and if it is to remains the heart of the Britons be birth. great Empire it must be held by true were going away they would always re- to house property, surely it can be done hoped that they would be able to return

If it is possible to legislate in regard

nember the friends they left behind. He in respect to land. The British County to the K.C.C. and find that the bowling- Home Association has received numerous green, tenniseourts, etc., had been laid tion at their inability to obtain land and out. testers from officers expressing indigna

He spoke from his heart when he

at the lack of any financial system to help said that they all" felt deep regret at them to secure a honestead. They realize that the policy of the past has been to leaving their friends. They were, how- discounting foreign bills, which are freely do everything in their power to carry that assist foreign development anancially by ever, going to do their duty and would exists for those who desire to settle on out. circulated, whereas no system of

eredit

He thanked them all for the plea- land in this country.

sive policy is

is immediately initiated. others who were accompanying him:

Unless a comprennt farewell they had given him and the there will be trouble, not only after

Cheers were then lustily given, alter moment, All

through, the party dispersing at about midnight.

with, wreckage, and hundreds of dead general exchange of prisoners. When the the war, but at the pres indicate this, which a musical programme was gon

LORD BERTIE AND SON YAT SEN.

the letters we have received difficult one, but it can be surmounted if one quite realizes that the problem is a there is an earnest desire to do so. naturalized Germans who have been living It may be urged that there are many! here a lifetime and are perfectly loval; PIERCE ITALIAN ATTACK.

and that any drastic legislation would be. The number of the Austrian losses fo

unfair to them. But they would ret suffer more than the families of the men days ago was already estimated at seven were sent to fill up their places, tween 150,000, and 200,000,

Some divi. and the struggle continued stubbo yes to fight for their country. We have with the imprisonment at the Chiness Lord Bertie probably never had a more who are being dragged out of their basi-curious experience than in connection sions, according to prisoners' statements, for days, to the enemy's constant dis all to suffer, and the loyal Germans, if Embassy same years ago. of Dr. Sun Yat had already lost 5,000 men: The corre advantage. The San Marco banks because they exist would have to look upon it Sen, the famous political firebrand of the pandent of the Secolo at the Montello tried in vain to make progress towards allowing 200,000 of our people to leave this a graveyard of Austrians. The enemy

in this light. The policy of the phet, of Far Eastern Empire. The battle, which seemed to enter a

Meola, the nearest point, and column cou

country every year for oversens countries on his way to church was passing the period of lull, suddenly, was resumed demolished. Others tried to cross the

after column, was urged forward and and 130,000 undesirable aliens to come

One Sunday morning in 1895 baker with extreme violence on Sunday morn

writes:-

here, has sapped to a great extent the Chinese Embassy when a small hall of ing all along the Piave from the Montelloer by fording it higher up, and two bigher British sentiment. In the interests bread fell at his feet and broke, disclos The onrush of the Italian out of three men were invariably drown and those men who wish to go abroad addition in English, asking the finder to infantry was sublime and heroic. It wased, and their dead bodies went floating should

of the Empire this How must be stopped. ing a note written in Chineee with an

to the sea.

an explosion of courage, of the spirit of down the river. The Austrians attempt. bounds." remain within

the Empire's take the note to the house of a certain. doctor in Bloomsbury. The baker, who had thus found bread flung et him in the strect, followed the instructions, with the

nd thus to cross at Casa Gradegno, at where met with the same disaster. Con- Croce, and at Capo Argine, and every- staatly opposed and violently counter STEEL HELMET AS WEAPON result that during the rest of that Sunday attacked by the heroic Italian Brigades,

certain machinery which lica deep down their losses were immense, and their Many remarkable stories of the pluck in the hull of the ship of State was met progress was nit. Each new Austrian,

and resource of non-commissioned officers in motion. assault was met by a resolute Italian don Gazette of D.C.M. awards which was at the Foreign Office that afternoon, and and men are recorded in a special Lon-

Lord Bertie that now is was in charge

saunter-attack

BRAVE CZECHO-BLOVAES.

Levenge for the defeat of October, and every man was a hero. As I am writing nearly the whole line of the Piave has been cleared of the enemy wherever he had crossed. The river is littered with the floating bodies of the enemy dead. Our soldiers in the first fighting line are thrilled and fired. with the spectacle of the enemy in full ront, and are every- where in parauit. The Austrians, who

issued last night.

The feat of Rifleman received the Bloomsbury doctor, who was bad erossed to this side of the Piave, had lived hours of hell. No respite was given Czechoslovaka vied with the Italian which was surrounded during an enemy floor of the Chinese Embassy.

And here, also, a detachment of brave typical. When holding a bombing block was being detained in a room on the top H. Barker of the London Regiment, is able to inform him that Sun Yat Sen them. They were shelled day and night it was at this point also, as if to produce prisoners and were led into the hostile of

troops in the battle. Curiously enough; attack, he and his sergeant were taken by our guns, their bridges were demo lished, their boats were sank, and those

a. counter-effect, that the Austrian bulines by an enemy officer and N.C.O. Ca Lord Alverstone, and in the course of Lord Bertie at once sought the advice

the who succeeded in climbing up the river Czechs were fighting bravely. It was and killed the N.C.O. while his sergeant leting announced in Vienna that the

Attorney-General, afterwards hanks were mercilessly shot down. The

passing a bomb store he seized a bomb about twelve hours the Chinaman was coup de grace was given them at the quite true but they were fighting on the killed the officer. They then made their set at liberty. I believe it was never Montelin yesterday morning.

Italian side. During the first three days escape and returned with valuable in-made public, but the papers beard of it intended, that the incident should he some of our troops got to the left bank, an enemy's offensive here was kept formation. north of the mountain, and took the steadi, in check, and the Austrians Keant G. H. Pollington, M.M., of the at once, and it made a fine sensation for

The manner in which Ser- enemy in the rear, others smashed in the Were confined to the occupation of a anar German captors is illustrative of the many line of the Collesella della Madonna,

Norfolk Regiment, freed himself from his rather a quiet period. row triangle, from Capo Sile to Capo and drove them pell-mell into the river, Argine, and Casa Malipiero. Grádegno

uses of the tin hat, whilst par right wing drove the enemy and Croce were abandoned after the first and of the, me past when a large raid. from. Nervesa.

day, and the retreat was already begun front line and fired into the post from ing porty of the enemy penetrated our The Austrings had penetrated into the fear with a machine-gun. He imme

Whilst

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their river. The battle continued fori-

knocked

which he was Uniform, helmets and spikes. The abov ously all the afternoon of Sunday, and By the third day the Austrians were across the enemy machine-aan positions were caught as in a trap, and were entirely. on

No Man's Land by the enemy. taken one after another. The ground the defensive. The Italian artillery, from his two cuptors in the face with it, and ir. T. R. King, D.S.P., reports the fol-

He then pulled off his steel helmet, hit was literally strewn with heaps of dead. that moment left them no repose. Day tande good. his escape.

The sector of the Lower Piave, accord- and night shells poured on their passages

Thanks to his initiative and great courage the enemy ing to Austrian statements, was entrusted and bridges, till nearly all were demo-Were prevented from capturing the post. to the troops of General Csiereica, who lished. The wooden bridge at Code, commanded the Third Army Corps, and near Musile, was set on fire by the is noteworthy as having taken part in Italian shells, and only burnt posts were the conferences

сп. the Brest Litovsk pit Austrian engineer troops, who treaties. He came from a diplomatie de a desperate effort to reconstruct it, victory, and promised his soldiers a great were shelled and killed, and their dead military victory. In the initial attack hodien floated down the river. Another his troops had succeeded in crossing the bridge, & little higher up, at Balgareda, Piave at San Marco, where there was a was likewise demolished by shells. Whole road, between Fossalta and Capo file. convoys of supplies were drawn up on It was but a small advantage, immediate the opposite bank of the river, unable to ly magnified as a great success in the There only remained another bridge. at orass, and an easy mark for Italian guns. Vienna reports, Many of these troops. were killed or disabled, and most of the Grisolera, farther south, which was then remainder were taken prisoners. But bombarded likewise, by plunging fure (Oontinued as foot of naze Volumn.) dropped by Aviators-Daily Telegraph. from the Italian guns and by bombs

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