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و فرزد

THE WAR.

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Fanco-abiely lun HOTL

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]

FRENCH FRONT.

ARTILLERY FIGHTING.

LONDON, September 11th.

Italian Front.

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

ITALIAN FRONT

BRILLIANT BRITISH COUP DE

MAIN

LONDON. September 11th.

LABOUR IN FRANCE. TWENTY THOUSAND CONTENTED" CHINESE.

Twenty thousand well-clothed and well- fed Chinese Inbourers are, says a Shang- hai correspondent of a

home paper, working in France in almost every department of labour in connection with

A British official statement from Italy war, such as munition factories, food tao says:-We effected a brilliant coup de tories, wills: farms, railways, dockyards, main on the Asiago Plateau inflicting aerodromes and what not. They are well considerable losses and taking 79 prison-treated, happy and contented. The men get from $30 to $30 per month or its

We captured enemy positions in the equivalent in francs, a portion of which Monte Asolone aren" and sanguinarily is retained here and paid to their fami repulsed counter-attacks.

ties in China. EARLIER CABLES.

A French communiqué states:-There|ors. was nothing, except artillery 6ghting, at various points on the Aisne and the Fesle. and in Champagne,

GERMAN LINES OF "DEFENCE, PARIS. September 12th. The enemy has three lines of defence behind the Hindenburg Line. The first is the "Hunding-Bruhahilde line." run- |ning from south of Lille, along the west of Douai, through Cambrai, east of Le Catelet and Fresnoy, along the left bank of the Oise and the right of the Serre, through Sissine, south-east of Mouziers, crossing the Meuse north of Verdun, and joining the present front on the Moselle, a dozen miles south of Metz,

The second line is the "Mrtz-Lille Line" from the Scarpe, seven miles east of Douli across the Scheldt through Ln Cateau, Hirson, west of Mezieres and

Sedan, along the right bank of the Meuse, west of Briery and Confans, joining the Hunding line at Pagny-sur-Moselle,

The third line is from Valenciennes to Givet, in which the Germans are working feverishly at present.

EARLIER CABLES;

FRENCH OCCUPY TRAVECY.

REPEATED HOSTILE ATTACKS

FAIL.

LONDON, September 11th.

5.00 a..

An Italian communiqué states:—In the Dosso-Cassino region, north of Maltis- simo, repeated attempted hostile attacks failed under our fire, and the enemy suffered sensible losses.

We carried out a raid in the Alane

basin.

"North of Grappa, also in the middle Piave, there has been very active artillery firing and reconnoitring. We exploded large enemy dump at Zugnatorta.

M. CLEMENCEAU: He is the spirit of France incarnate old in years-16 at least-young of heart; clear of mind. rugged of countenance. sturdy of build, terse in speech, quick of decision, and prompt of deed, he knows his mission is to save France, and be is saving her. Why does Clemenceau, the "Tiger," the Destroyer," the terror of Governments innumerable, stand to-day as the conscious, recognised head of all that is truly preservative, truly national in the French people? Early last Novum. ber, while the Painlevé Cabinet was still Fighting occurred along the St Quen-pilgrimage to the Tiger's lair," high in office, I made, as so often before, my

PARIS, September 11th, A-communique states: -Between the Somme and the. Oise, our troops made progress, despite sharp resistance..

We advanced beyond I sancourt and repulsed a counter-attack debouching

from Essigny-le-Grand-

tin-La Fere road

We occupied Travecy village.. South of the Oise we threw back several counter-attacks in the region of Lafaux,

A special office is established at 25, Rud Soeur Allegre, French Concession, Shang- bai, managed by the able and courteous M. Bourgignoy, who speaks excellent Alandarin. The office handles all the cor respondence between the labourers and their families in China. On the 20th of each month a member of the family of adeh labouret calls to receive a portion of the wages of the man working in France, and also whatever letters parcels there are from his or her relative If the payee has a letter to send to the man in France be hands this into the office, which promptly forwards it..

In France the men are provided with bealthy living quarters and wholesome food and clothing. These who are really intelligent and worthy are given special lessons in French after working hours. Physical drill is given daily as recreation, in addition to other amusements, one ef

which is boating on Sundays. It is in- teresting to note that the men are placed in the same factories with Frenca girls, and, according to the statement of French authorities. they work well and behave well also. In fact it is difficult to sea how the men could fail to work well under such ideal conditions and patriotic in-

neuer

GOOD DISCIPLINE.

Out of the 90,000 men working in France under the French War Office and there are many more under contract with the British authorities-less than two hun- dred have been sent back to China for.

This is certainly a disciplinary reasons. labourers are much liked and well treated good showing, and for this reason Chinese in France. One of the men was asked what he thought of France. He said it was a wonderful country. Asked what he thought was the most wonderful thing, he said that he could find good roads every thought was most wonderful the man where. Pressed as to what he really

under the river was a wonder which he finally disclosed his mind by saying the underground railway which travelled had never seen or heard of elsewhere.

above the Seine, near the Trocadéro. The Socialist Party had just placed their veto What an influence these men will bave upon a Clemenceau Government. Yet his on the life and industry in China after their return can better be imagined than tone was the tons of a Prime Minister stated. It has been said by a French offi already in cffice. Sitting sideways incial that after the war there will be mary the bend of his horseshoe table, a square China than those who speak English. Den speaking the French language in grey cap cocked above his strong fore-The knowledge the labourers unt head and Mongolian cheekbones, the sum acquire during their stay in France in connection with up-to-date methods and pouring in from his tiny garden and machinery will surely have a beneficial

of their greatly improved skill

In order further to facilitate the Chinese labourers in France

social school

MONTH'S AERIAL OPERATIONS." During August, in the day-time, 960 tons of bombs were dropped on objectives on the battlefields between the Somme and the Aigne, while at night our bowh. 'striking full on a bronze Hermes. which, result on Chineso industry, to say nothing

Lers, in attacking railway stations and

communications, dropped 362" tons

bombs.

of

Two hundred and eighty enemy aero planes were brought down and 66 enemy balloons were destroyed,

OUTFLANKING ST. QUENTIN.

PARIS, September 11th.

A semi-official report says:-Travecy is om the right bank of the Oise, three kilornetres north of La Fere and the same distance cast of Fort Liez, while Hinan court is between Clastres and Moy.

We are outflanking St. Quentin from the south and threatening to take the St. Gobain mountain mass in reverse, having recovered the excellent positions which we occupied prior to the German offen- sives at the beginning of the year.

The bad weather is hampering ope- rations on a great scale, especially

aviation.

ENEMY'S ARTILLERY RESISTANCE

HEAVIER.

LONDON, September 10th.

10.35 p.m. Reuter's Correspondent at French Headquarters, telegraphing this after noon, states:-Despite the hindrance by

by an inspiration as daring as happy, he had crowned with the battered helmet of a British Tommy, he carved out the situation in a dozen trenchant phrases in forceful English or French as he chose, and

concluded:

for interpreters has been opened in Shang- hai, where a reasonably educated Chinesd young man may get a good vocabulary, of French in a short time.. ing is free of charge, and after graduation The school- the men are seat to France as interpreters at a salary of about 200 francs per month.

I do not seek power. The country calls for me. There is my strength.

Four months later, at the Ministry of War, on the second day of the March.

The Chinese labourers' recruiting office offensive, I found the same man, slightly in the Rue Soeur Allegre is a place whien " paler, somewhat graver of mien, but plays an ever increasing role in the equally direct, equally forceful; plainly Franco Chinese relations, and after this the embodiment of the will of France. war when thousands of Chinese return to Clemenceau stands at this supreme hour their homes dressed in Parisian style and for France because he understands the speaking French sprinkled with all the war as France understands it; because be patois and argot spoken in the Parisian has lived it for twelve years at least; mills it is that small house in the Shang because he foresaw it, knew how it must hai French Concession they will have to come, and strove to prepare France and

thank

There they entered timidly the friends of France against it; because humble and ignorant coolies, turning twice his faith and vision, his firmness of heart back before they finally signed the con- and hand, bave never faltered. There tract to go to a strange country far away fore France trusts him as she has trusted where the sun sets. no man since Napoleon.

In April, 1908, Clemenceau, then, as through the bureau de recruitment and

have passed now, Prime Minister, attended in Lona number are now in France working in don the funeral of a British Prime Minis- the munition factories, on the railway ter-Campbell-Bannerman. After the stations unloading goods and as dock. funeral he asked Sir Edward Grey what labourers in the ports. The contracts are England would do when the Germans very liberal; they provide for a three to should bolt through Belgium into France, five years stay in France with the option seek to seize the Channel ports, and cap. return or to settle down in prac Cure Paris before resistance could be France quite evidently wants the diligent. organised.

Chinese workmen to settle down

+

of

Thousands

4

FRENCH WELCOME.

of coolies

It would make a great stir in Eng- land," was the answer,

Stir! We shall want help, not stir," returned Clemenceau. dred thousand British soldiers across the that letters received here daily by the Channel within a week would not stop relatives speak in enthusiastic terms of the rush.

Two hundred and fifty thou- the life they are leading in France. The

In special evening, schools they are, taught the French language and other useful knowledge. One buning sales and theatres, and it is no wonder Already they are visiti

wind and rainstorma yesterday, a further sand would stop it. Five hundred thou- letters arrive in thousands by every mail sand would help us to turn it back. You steamer nad are all addressed to the have not got even 250,000. You must get recruiting office in the Rug Soeur Allegre them--and remember that, if men can be which has become a veritable letter clear- improvised, you cannot improvise rifles, ing house between the labourers in France ammunition,

and artillery."

court.

vinces.

considerable progress was made between St Quentin and the Oise.

We are closing in on Essigny-le-Grand village, the enemy toughly resisting the line from Esaigy-le-Grand to Hiesa- In the following August Clemenceau their relatives in the different pro lunched with King Edward on the balcony

Every month on the 20th an enormous Further south our patrols made proof the Hotel Weimar at Marienbad. Ger. ezred assembles there. The minimum gress without serious opposition in the man journalists watched the scene from Inbourer mutt grant his dependents is 76. direction of Travecy, and are well in below and reported that Clemenceau en francs a month, about the third

gaged the King in lively conversation of their average earnings. Many are touch with the Hindenburg positions on

accompanying his remarks by forcible remitting much more than that minimum the bank of the Oise Bambre Canal.

South of the Ailette, the enemy's Hestures upon the subject of that talk, is reaping from their sons who were made: The whole German Press thus showing how great a benefit Chins artillery and machine-gun resistance is becoming steadily heavier.

ALLIED PROGRESS SLACKENS.

part

but failed to guess the truth. Clemenceau destitute by floods and famine in their was repeating to King Edward his con provinces and out of sheer desperation verantion with Sir Edward Grey, and plunged themselves into the adventure

PARIS, September 10th adding, "I am convinced that the con- from which German agents desperately A Havas mesinga states:-The Allies'ng insularity of British statesmen will tried to prevent them.

Gruesome tales were spread broadenst !~ rate of progress is slackening as they one day involve Europe in a catastrophe." approach the Hindenburg Line, but a France incarnate, because, foreseeing, he eat a hole in their ship so that it would Clemencean is to-day the spirit of Huge fish would appear in the ses and recrudescence of the battle seems immin warned her and her friends of the peril, sink, and if by luck they arrived in kept a stout heart despite their blindness, France they would be sent against the An artillery doel is already raging.

upheld their cause against other French-Germans, who are force men and would It is more and more doubtful if the men who would fain have sold the British swallow them, pigtail and all. Instead. Germans possess sufficient numbers to Empire and the independence of France every letter which arrives here tells of the to the enemy, and because he has acted wonders and of the pleasures of France, throughout as a spur, a tonic, and a fear- FRENCH DEPUTY DIES OF

less augur of victory, He leads France which peak of the metropolitan railway which goes under the ground, the streets WOUNDS.

because he has knowledge, fire, and a firm of Paris, compared to which Nanking road PARIS, September 10th,

grip of principle. President Wilson may is a village path and they speak of the The Deputy for Maine et Loire, M. be the prophet but Clemenceaunch girls working with them together Gaston Dumesnil, died owing to wounds moral spearhead of the Alliance-H.W.8. in the factories. Photos sent prove ther yesterday.

in The Daily Mail.

the Chinese is quite a favourite there.

avoid a further retreat,