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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10rm, 1918

BRITISH HUSTLE GERMANTM

RETIREMENT.

GOOD PROGRESS CONTINUES.

RED TERROR REIGNS IN RUSSIA.

NEUTRAL GOVERNMENTS' THREAT TO SOVIETS

ITALIANS IN NORTHERN RUSSIA.

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Franco-belgian bront

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(THROUGH ALCTER'S AGENCY.)

BRITISH FRONT.

HUSTLING THE GERMAN RETIRES

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HEAP

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Losnos. September 8th.

9.45 p.m. Reuter's Correspondent

British

Headquarters states: --- The trooja com Tinur to hustle the German retirement, of which the Alpine Corps' prisoners supply confimation by relating details of the| consequent confusion.

Hostile artillery fire nuustly comes from

extreme ranges.

We reached the Fine Beauvois-Roisel-- Havrin qurt. Wood,

Our advanced detachments in frequent encounters with the German rearguards fare staking prisoners and inflicting

pumerous "Casualties,

The stocks of coal and ruud avtal and quantities of other war material which have fallen into our possession prete the ene intention to remain in occupa sion of the Somme battle-felds during the winter months, and the hurried natur of the retreat that has been forced upon

him.

We exptured north of Hayrincourt a strong point called The Spoil Heap," Con the west bank of the canal, due porth

On the Nieppe, froït, a strong them and opposite Hermies, taking a number

af prisoners and niachine-guns.

altack forced back our outposts.

The latest Boche dodge is to use fero- -kiras dogs with entries afd' patrols.

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“A captured order pays a tribute to thei taciturnity of the British prisoners. especially men of the Londoir Regiments. who give, admittedly, the cleverest evasive

nawers.

BRITISH PROGRESS GOOD.”

LONDON, September 8th.

7.35 p.m. Renter's Agency learns that our pro- gress was good during the past twenty- four hours. The line runs from Havrin- -court Wood, thener through Hendecourt,

AERIAL ACTIVITIES.

We brought down 11 enemy machines and drove down 19 uncontrollable Fige British machines are missing.

We dropped 2 tons during the day and at night, heavily "attacking the railway connections at Armentières; Lille. Douai, Denaise. Cambrai, and St. Quentin,

All our night-fliers returned.

LONDON, September 8th. 10.50 p.m. Clouds and rains-storms hindered 'air

Villers-Faveau, Roisel, Berhen, Poeuilly, work yesterday.

Ville Verne. Vaux, the western outskirts | We destroyed eight hostile machines.. of Happencourt, Bt. Binion, thence along and three British machines are missing.

We dropped 13 tons of bombs. All our

anal to Tergnier.

The most important event is the cross-night-bombers returned. ing of the Crozat Canal at St. Simon, s

this waterway was a suitable bastion for

this part of the Hindenburg line.

As this bastion is passed, it can now be

VILLAGES AND WOOD TAKEN. LONDON, September 9th.

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FRENCH FRONT. FRENCH CAPTURE MEUNESSES.

PARIS, September sth.

A communiqué, states :--North of the Õise, we exptured Meüinesses, and reached the banks of the St. Quentin Canal.

South of the Oise we le progress to the outskirts of Servais.

In the region of Laftans, north of Cellos-sur-Aisne, we maintained our posi- tions, despite seunter-attacks,

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--- AMERICANS ENTER MUSCOURT,

Laxpos, September sth.

4.03 2.10.

An American communiqué statesi-- South of the Aisne our troops entered Murcourt, where 50 prisoners were cap tured

Hostile counter-attacks in

in this sector were regethiwed, "ind our line was slightly advanced..

Two strong hostile rails in the Woref were beaten off,

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...In Alsace à successful raiding party in. dicted Themes on the enemy.

FRENCH FURTHER ADVANCE.

PARIS, September 8th.

Italian Front.

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ITALIANS REPULSE THREE ATTACKS,

AIR FIGHTING.

LONDON, September sth. A British Italian oficial report states: - Since August 23th wi have destroyed. eight my airetalt..

One British machine is missing.

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FRENCH RAIDS.

Loxpos, September 8th. An Italian, official report states: South of the Asiago the Frunch raided the enemy positions on Siseutel, indicting wery "beavy losses, destroying lafeners and elipturing 47 prisoners.

We repulsed three attacks at Solarálo,, in the Grappa region.

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ITALO-BRITISH AERIAL BOMBARDMENTS.

LONDON, Septemle sth.

An Italian official report states: Italiau naval and British-neroplanes on the 5th inst. carried ous several bombard. ments in Albania, inflicting low and damage.

A communiqué states: To day's ad Russian Front. vance reached between seven and eight kilometres in depth on the Somme front. The enemy, whose resistange has greatly increased, failed, despite all his efforts, to prevent our passage of the St. Quentin Canal, which we crossed at Pont-de- Tugay and St. Simon, after heavy fight ing. We possess theke placek.

FANIJER PARGES. (THROUGH EIGTER'S AGENCY.)

'ITALIAN CONTINGENT

We hold the line running through the Western outskirts of Waux, Fluquieres, Appencourt, east of Pont-de-Tugny, St. Simon, Avenes, the western outskirts of Jussy

railway, the Ham-Tergnier Amigay and Barisis.

ARRIVES.

Rose, September 5th. A antingent of Italian troops Eas arrived in Northern Russia,

General.

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AMERICAN" COTTON MARKET DEMORALISED.

NEW YORK, September 6th.

ALLIED REPRESENTATIVEŠ HURRIEDLY DEPART,

LONDON, September Sch." The tense situation in Bussin is re-

vealed by the harried departure of the Italian. American and Japanese Govern ment representatives, accompanied by a number of their nationals, who haya

arrive at Stockholm homeward bound.

LENIN AND KORNILOFF DEAD. The former Chief of the Italian Mission asserts that Lenin and Korniloff are dead. The ex-t'zagina and her children ansprobe ably alive.

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GERMANY'S FEARS FOR HER

·TRADE.

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After-war trade is a positive obsession with the Germans, who are daily discuss ing new means of recovering the position they have lost in the business of the world. An article in the Weser Zeitung, “Against Englund's Economie War," is the latest revelation of the real terror which Ger many's present prospecta produce. newspaper declares that if anyone reads now what was written into the German, newspapers in August and September, 1914, by Gerninn politicians, of all ways of thinking, he will see with the trmast only not prepared materially for was with clearness that the Germans were ot

England, but that they were not even says; intellectually prepared for it. The pap

It was then debated whether England could furnish an army adeqanty inpoins of numbers, and whether she would risk a big sea battle. intelt on the military aspect of the was

In short, we

that even those who strove to bring ques Lions of international law and of the law of naval warfare into the foreground if interest woven how Never was there t toword or even a suspicion of economic war.

We did

not see that England's heaviest and sharpest weapon in the war against her greatest competitors would be that abon which the remotest dweller, in this WAR interior of Germany talks glibly today namely, black-lists, trade barriers, the annulment of patent rights.

REMAINS OF CAPT, CROMIE. M. Thicherin has not yet replied to the British donand (eåbled on September

body the Bolsheviks handed over Jah) in regard to Capt. Cronie, whose

Neutral protection, after Neutral, pros surd.'

GRAND

VIZIER SAYS IS USELESS. AMSTERDAM. September sth. The Grand Vizier. Talaat interviewed in an Austrian paper, states that there is nothing more to be got from the war, and its continuane is mani festly useless. Pence inust come before the winter.

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The newspaper proceeds to say that, while Germany was thinking only of mili Pasha,tary successes and was justly proud of yivtory after victory in the fold. “Paz- and was saging a wad on il territory in neutral States nay by neutral traders afforded by every German business hous themselves who dealt in German Koda or exported goods to Germany. In this territory troops could be marshalled with out waiting for compulsory military ser vier. These troops were special troopsi prepared by long Years of most splendid AMERICA.training. On the economite war theatre WASHINGTON, September 7th The Food Administration has decreed 'that all breweries must close on December Ist, and beer and other malted drinks mast disappear from the market as soon ns the stocks then on hand are exhaustul. BRITISH AND TURKISH WAR

PROHIBITION IN

· PRISONERS.

GERMANY OBSTRUCTING

AGREEMENT.

English soldier fought on ground of which he had known the trost intimats Here were guarantees for victory which nooks and crannies "from his youth p. could he brought to waught by the gramy,

And England has gained this victory.. That must daily be drummed into th whole German people till all also ideas are rooted int for ever."

As regards England's attempt to defeat Germany militarily by depriving her of rave and has been deleated, but her economic materials, the newspaper says that Eng-

war had yet another object--namely, the destruction for decades of German Trade This has suvereded, and has so far up- proached completeness that there scarcely Baist any way to repair in the Fang treaty with England the damage done Germany, says the Wever Zeitung, must arm herself against tais,

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LONDON, September 7th. The Foreign Offer announces that the Austro-Hungarian Government Premised The cotton market was almost des that the vessel used for the repatriation The enemy everywhere left vast quan. tities of material,

moralised by the amounement that the of British and Turkish war prisoners There was no change on the Ailette and War Industries Board, had" planned for under the Berne Agreement would not be the stabilisation, of entton prices, Ex-attacked by their Naval forces, but the trepte losses of 222 to 234 points were German Government bad nu made the registered under tremendous selling, then same promise, despite repented repro- there was a recovery of 100 points on buysentations to Berlin and Constantinople.nertion of trades with the Government, ing by foreign trade interests, especially | Japanes

Aisne front.

We advised north of Vauxillon, car-

ried Celle-sur-Aisne, and repulsed two violent counterattacks south of the Laffaux Mill, the enemy's artillery" vio Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig relently countering.

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turned either to the northeast or to the ports: By nightfall yesterday we had

south-east......

The empture of Reisel is important. veruse it is the junction of two lines, numely, to Cambrai and St. Quentin.

We possess the whole of Havrincours Wood, except the north-east spuri

Between the Oise and the Ailette the

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taken Ville Vequi, St. Emilie, and gained possession of the greater part ol Havrincourt Wood

There wit local fighting yesterday evening at at night east of Hermies and in the sector west of Armentières, but without material change in the situation, West of La Bassee our patrols made further progress in the enemy's post- tions.

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GERMANS NOW SIXTY MILES

FROM PARIS.

WASHINGTON, Septimber 8th. The Chief of Staff, in a statement, says,, the German movement and general re- treat are primarily due to the British stroke on the Arras-Peronne road and the Freach and American advance on the Soissons" Plateau. He emphasises that the Germans are 50 miles miles from Paris, compared with 40 miles on August 15th.

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GENERAL MANGIN'S TACTICS. PARIS, September 8th. General Mangin continues to pursue his infiltration tactics, which gave him possession of Anisy-le-Chateau, bringing the reverse slopes of Chemin-des-Dames within artillery range.

French have reached the Alberich line a

ontinuation of the Hindenburg line.

The enemy has now engaged 107 divi Mots, since August 8th, of which three are dismounted cavalry, 32 divisions have SEDITIOUS LITERATURE CIRCU been engaged twice, and three engaged

LATING IN GERMAN RANES. three times. We have courted, roughly, 142 | " divisions north and south of the Somme,

LONDON, September 7th.

8:50 p.. representing approximately 6,000 rifles to

Reuters Correspondent at British a division. Thus there are 1,250,000 men Headquarters, telegraphing to. day, between Switzerland and the sea.

Ger states: Prisoners say there is much many's full strength is probably less than seditious literature now freely circulat

The booty at lower Coucy Forest in- 2:500,000 on the whale front. Their Easting in the German ranks. For example,

several heavy", and medium batteries, countless machine-gun, mor rn forces have been combed-out, and it is revolutionary and violently anti-Prussiantar, and hundreds of thousands of believed that there will not be fresh leadets are circulating among the Bavo abells. divisions from the East for the Westernrians, urging the men not to fight. This Frant, either German or Russian.

doctrine, anyhow, is certainly being cat- ried out. For example, three German machine-gun

surrendered companies without aring a shot. Also the General Commanding 234th German Division complains of the number of men he is having to punish owing to self-inflicted wounds.

GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON, September-8th. 8.30 p.m.

A wireless German official

report states:-Everywhere on the battlefront we are in our new positions.

South of the Peronne-Cambrai. "road the enemy attempted to approach them. Our rearguards yielded in fighting to a numerically superior enemy, and we re pulsed violent "altacks west of Gouzeau- Court, Epehy and Templeux.

South of the Ailette the enemy reached Your line east of Yauxaillon."

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GERMAN RETREAT CONTINUES.

LONDON, September, 7th.

11.40 p. Field-Maralal Sir Douglas Haig re- Lorts-On the whole front south of Havrincourt the German retreat con- -tinues under our close and constant pres

gure

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[THEOCOK HAVAS "AGENCY,],

CHEMIN-DES-DAMES MENACED.

PARIS, September 8th. Through and owing to the latest pro gress the Allies have come to almost im mediate contact with the Crozat Canal on its whole length, between the Bomme and the Oise.

Between the Oing and the Ailette the centre of the Hindenburg Line has been reached at the outskirts of the St. Gobain wooded hills.

Bince the capture of the plateau and Fort Conde-sur-Aisne the Allies will soon threaten Chemin-des-Dames from the south, which is already menaced in its western extremity by LaffaoE-

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Aerial Activites.

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"THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

BOMBS DROPPED ON MANNHEIM

LONDON, September 7th The Air Ministry reports:-Our squadrons attacked two hostile zero- dromes last night, causing free. The weather hindered observation of the results. All the British machines re- turned.

Our squadrons this morning attacked the railways at Ebrange and the chemica works at Mannheim, obtaining good burata on and beside the railway lines good burate on the chemical marks, over and eight direct bits and many other

two tone of bombs being dropped on 3fannheim

Our seroplanes met with ferce op. largely superior numbers before and after Position in the Mannheiro raid, fighting

the attack

One squadron fought hard and con. tinuously for a distance of 70 miles before reaching their objective and the fight continued for 70 miles on the way back.

We destroyed one aeroplane and drove down two uncontrollable. Four British machines are missing.

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

REIGN OF RED TÉRROR.

AMSTERDAM, Septeniber 8th. A message from Moscow sites that the

Red Terror continues.

Members of the Social Revolutionaries

It appears there is no doubt the Turkish Government is willing to execut the agreement as speedily as possible, but the influence of Germany,is being used to obstruct it partly owing to a desire

perpetunts all causes of ill-feeling be tween Turkey and Great Britain, and partly owing in the apprehension of the

have been arrested almost everywhere. effect of Turkish opinion of the reparts The Burgeoisie former officers have been which would be brought by the repat- taken as hostages and many have been riated Turkish prisoners, shot, including a Bishop.

"RUSSIAN MASSACRE REPORTE

"EXAGGERATED.

The Lokalodzeiger states it oficially learns that the Russian massacre reports! are mostly exaggerated. Nevertheless, the paper adds that 500 have been shot during the rising at Petrograd, besides others in connection with the recent assassinations. JOINT NEUTRAL THREAT.

AMSTERDAM, September 8th. The Tuges Zeitung's correspondent at Moscow states that the Neutral Govern- ments have jointly threatened to expel all Russian Bolsheviks if the Soviet Government does not abandon political terrorism, and they especially protest against the wholesale execution of officers

and civilians.

PEASANTS' REVOLT SERIOUS,

THE SILVER MARKET. WEEKLY REPORT..

LONDON, Septemler stl. Mears. Samuel, Montagu's report

tion.

England's economic weapon, her bril- linnt organization, must he defeated by thras Hanseatic Chambers of Commerce With this object the wen pon

have submitted to the Imperial Chancel, the Reorganization of our Foreign Ser memorial entitied Proposals for

Vice."

These plans embrace the com- pleting of Germany's foreign official ser view, in respect of economic representa-

Then follow a humber of suggestions about the Consular service, the closer coa- and so forth, the most interesting of which relates to trade commissioners as explained in the Memorandum by the Board of Trade and the Foreign Ofic with respect to the future organization of mercial intelligence." The Dewr- paper says that commissioners resembling these British commissioners. adapted to German conditions, should be appointed, with the title of Economic Plenipoter tiaries."

LIFE WITHOUT NEWSPAPERS

Aleading article in the Prater Lloyd of July 1st beacled Without Newspapers," in describing the effects of the strike on Budapest, saya :---...

The Hungarian public will never forget the preceding five days during which they remained wholly without Dews-Eve sultry, anxious days, throughout which millions of the nation, struggling against an enemy superior in numbers, were de prived of news concerning events so close. states:-There was no change in tone ar

ly affecting their destiny. They were price during the work.

days of helpless uncertainty, impotent. craving for enlightenment concerning at 5.

Shanghai exchange is officially quoted world becurgenees. Remembrance of these dent and dumb days will long remain in the minds of all who experienced ther' like a bad dream whose suspense and eme Lions continue after, awaking.

The silver market is quiet,

The silver market is steady.

LATZH.

Just when the offensive against Italy began, when Parliament was about to OFFICERS FOR MERCHANT SHIPS. disense electoral reforms and wha the first premonitory symptoms of the mast The important question of the manning strike showed themselves in the capital of the British mercantile marine has been amidst this combination of circumstances, which subjected the power of endurance engaging the special attention of the Shipping Controller. A meeting of re to the strongest test, the whole country presentatives the principal shipowners was deprived of newspapers. Que day

followed another, each bringing tortur who carry apprentices was held at the101 Ministry of Shipping, under the chair. ing hours of vain search for calming manship of Sir Leo Chiozza Money hunger after concrete certainties which news, of humble waiting, of yaappearable M.P Parliamentary Secretary to the should dispel the painfully paralysing Shipping Controller, to consider the feeling of standing bound and blinder supply and treatment of recruits to the before a world of perils. What once ap The Kreuz Zeitung'a 'correspondent at that, in order to meet the normal and fatelligent masses without the far Bowing tank of officers. It had been estimated peared inconceivable namely, the life of Petrograd states that the peasants' revolt war wastage of officers, it will be neces

airwaves of publicity undecume 2. de- without the at Jamburg is serious. The insurgents, sarp at least to double the number of who are marching towards, Petrograd, month. The chairman pointed out that, the battlefields yonder hundreds of thou- have captured the railway stations on the while up to the present the supply of sands of our brothers are fighting and officers had been more or less maintained shedding their blood; in the interior" a Jamburg-Ghatchína line.

by those released from sunk ships, when battle is being waged against the supply of new tonnage exceeded the econonic distress resulting from the war, EARLIER CABLES.

tonnage lost, as would soon be the case, and civic discipline, social equilibrium. the difficulties of providing officers must threatened by grave dangers. And while the continuity of fruitful labour "are increase. THE BOLSHEVIKS' PROSPECTS.

The owners expressed them all this is happening no newspaper in selves willing to assist, so far as accom- AMSTERDAM, September 8th.

modation would permit, but urged that forms the public of the development which some part at least of the cost of provid. affairs, forced to the neatest pitch, assume

on the front and in domestic politica The Cologne Gazeite depicts a gloomy ing any increased accommodation neces Never has Hungary since the Pres picture of the Bolsheviks' prospects, and sary should be met by the Government. hecaine an indispensable necessity of the

The general sense of the meeting was life of nations, experienced worso daja points out that 30,000 Cossacks are to the effect that every ship which had or that this time without newspapers. Fan mastering in the Don, the mountaineers dation, abonid carry one or more appren corner without any possibility of testing could be provided with suitable pocommotastic rumours arise from every nook and in the Cancaaus are revolting, thousands tices, and the chairman promised that their genuineness by passing from moul this view should be submitted to the to mouth a stream of unverifiable reports Comacks and Czechoslovaks are Shipping Controller. It was stated that grows ever higher; incredible things are Larrying the eastern front, and disturb the accommodation for apprentices on repeated sa incontrovertible facte, and anoes and terrorism are general, i

the new standard ships would be in.

in this stupefying confusion there are ro cressed

newspapers which might have given glimpse into realities.

light diffusing apprentices at present entered each pressing and inconsolable reality.

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