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TEE, BRITISH “PUSH."

Charges to the Skirl of.

the Pipes.

The Daily Chronicle Special Correspondent, Mr. Philip Gibbe, writes as follows-

Wonaded men who are com- ing out of the ighting lines sak one question, "How are we do ing?" Man suffering great pain have a smile in their eyes when the answer oɔmION, We are doing well.' The spirit of our men

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is

wo high that it is certain we shall gain farther ground, however

great the cost.

Fought to Win.

trench life and in hard times.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1916.

deferos. The Germans came on in close order, vary bravely, rank after rank advancing over the dead and wounded bodies of their comrades, who were caught by our machine gun fire and rifle fire and mown down. Only a few men were able to enter our tren chrs, and these died. Montauban remains in our bands, and so far the enemy has not attempted an other attack.

"Scots' Great Charge.

which were blown to dest-heapa, with the bodies of the "men who had held them In the second lins there were men still living, and still resolute enough to defend themselves. They were bombed out of this position, and our men went on to the third line" etill ander machine-gun fire.

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"It seemed to me," said a

MONTENEGRIN SENTENCED

In Possession of "Morphine."

Describing himself as an inter

THE SITUATION IN CANTON-

top.

Affairs Much Quieter.

G

Can-

Out Canton correspondent

It was the fire of German had an easy time over the front machine-guns which was mort line, but when the second was from the position known as the trying to our men. Again and reached had to engage in a battle Crucifix. Large numbers of Ger- again soldiers have sold me to-day of bombs with a large body of mana wers killed and wounded, that the hard time came when Germana. This resistance was but the garrison of Fricourt thees bullets began to play upon broken down and when there was maintained a very stunt resi them. In spite of our enormous a show of bayonets the enemy stanos, and until this morning writes under date of August 8 as bombardment there remained surrendered. They were haggard our attacks did not succeed in here and there, even in a front-men who bad suffered like most taking this stronghold, although trench, a machine gun emplace of our prisoners from long banger it was nearly surrounded." ment so strongly built with steel and thirst as our bombardment girders and concrete cover that it bad cut off their supplies and had defied our bigh expasives. broken the water pipes.

Their Wonderful Men.

Farther north again there was

"Come on, My Lads.”

follows:

Meeting of the Charitable Institutions.

MODERNISING TIN PRO-

DUCTION.

In Yabain Province.

SHARE MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Up to the Miante,

Banka H.K. Fires. Donglass. [odos-(Def.) Indos-(Pret.). Steamboats.

$170.00. $ 400.00.: b. #^-135.00, #132.59.

b. $ 4800. b- 22.50.

hiss Sugars. 88. $ 115 00: Kowloon Decks, b. 127.00,

Cements.

Roper

b. 9.75...

# 84.50.

7.00.

Tin from the mines in the Judging from correspondence vicinity of Kotohin forma_the_

the Colony this principal export of the Province Linoolnahire Ind," as ifthere was prater, and giving his nationality received in Press Camp, July 2.

machine gun toerery five men." se Montenegrin, a man was charg: morning, matters have consider of Yunnan. For the years 1912 Without exaggeration there were ed before Mr. J. B. Wood at the ably quietened down at Canton 1913, and 1914 the amounts It is possible now to get some-

Our line winds round the village many of these machines and they Police Court this morning with and there he, presumably, been exported and their values were

H.K. Lands. B. $ 100.00. thing like a clear idea, though

historical in a sharp unlient which drope ware served skilfully and terribly having in his powession 16 oz. of little or nothing in the way of 1912, 9.222 tons, 38,428,600, nothing like an narrative, of the fighting which south-eastwar is to Mamels, which their gunners Beyond Lamarphine, valued at $8 per on hostilities since Monday night. 1913, 8,552 to $7,854,050, China Prov. b. $ 3.75.

It was stated in Court that It is reported among de 1914, 7,483 tons, · 85,124,160. began yesterday morning at 7.30, is full of German dead and of Bisselle, which was pressed on when the farions tempest of our wounded, who are being found in one side, the fire became very in the man came to Bragkong Chinees here, whose inform Comidarable quantition of this H.K. Electrics b. 51.00.

the the cellars and taken back to our tense. High explosives, shrapnel, Į from Shanghai by the Kamakgration is" deuslly reliabla, xong tin are shipped to Hongkong and R.K.Tramways, b. $ passed farther over germ lines and put infantry hospitals. It was in the taking and trench mortara ploughed up Soomen's Institute. Here a con- definite instructions from Paking report on these mines was pre- Maru and pat up at the Lá Lich-kwan has recatred chance to the United States A left their trenches for the great of Hamets that me of the the ground. adventure.~-

They threw everthing at us venation was overbeard, as a not only to cease Eghting, bas to pared at the request of the Ameri- | - Gordons fored hervily. With The battle goes on, with success English troops they advanced except half-crowns," aid a man result of which-bis-boxes were withdraw himself within three can consulate at Canton by Mr. FIRE FLOAT COXSWAINS.

+earched and morphins was found. days of recaipt of inusractions, Frank K. Filson, of Yunnan-fu, to our arms. Fricourt, partly across the open with sloped arms of the Royal Boots, surrounded yesterday, was taken “Suddenly,” says one of their It was the Royal Scots who in the conversation, an appoint and set out for Yannen. Another who recently paid a visit to the by sssault to-day, and a German officers, "a machine gun opened charged with the bayonet into ant was made near a dairy section, however, maintains that, district. He sai

The Huang Moa Shan tract is Oplum Possession Charge Fails. counter-aitsok upon Montauban fire upon us point blank, and body of German troops, and the farm shop in Pottinger Street, and in everything that he does, Shum was repulsed with losses that tore caught us in the face. I shouted to other battalions advanced at the whilst defendant was there he Chan-heua is soting on instruo the best known of the tin districts

Two corswains of the No. 1 gaps into the enemy'e ranks. my men to advance at the double, double and captured batches of was arrested, Defendant had been tions from the President. -Prisoners come tramping down in and we ran forward through a parmen who had no more stomach employed at Shanghai and was There are conflicting stories, in Yunnan. It is about 13.to 26 Fire Float were charged before

proceeding to Manils.

Loo, as to the doinge, whereabouts milee in circumference, taking Mr. F. A. Hassland this afternoon batches, weary, worn men, who feet stream of shattering bullets, for the fight.

Defendant said he wanted to and intentions of Lak Wing-ting. The deposits are of the class pounds of raw opium in Coa- Kotohiu as the approximate. with being in possession of 18 have the gallantry to praise our Many of my poor boys dropped, Dorsets' Hard_Right.

make a few dollars to help pay Some Chinese hold the view ex- own infantry end remember with and then I fell and knew nothing

Farther north of Lt Boisselle, for his passage to Manila. Pussed below by our Canton usually designated as decomposed naught Road Central, by Queen's a shudder the violence of our more for awhile. But afterwards]

in the neighbourhood of Authuile,

A fine of $2,000 and two correspondent, while others mayor and ore. Not much rock ore Statue Wharf, on Saturday. I heard that we had taken Soma hard fighting

Mr. Mattingley appeared to de- gunfire,

Mametz, and bold it still... Mdone by some men of Dorset and months' hard labour, was imposed, that be, will never dream of at. has been excavated, although it Gordons were fine, but we had Manchester with Highland Light

tempting to came to Canton. At exists in many localities. These fond

It appeared that a Chinees de- - prosent it is understood that he deposits have been worked by Infantry and Borderers. They

fat Kweilis, the old capital of the primitive Chinese methods tectivs saw the men come ashore bad luck."

for upward, of 200 years. Kwang wi-somewhere about!

in a sampan, and, on searching a The warface ore is from one basket, be found the opium. fifteen days' journey from

thoussadth to four-thousand the The story for the defence was tin. This constitates about three that the men detected the opium tenths of the whole Kotchin being smuggled on shore from a outpot and because of the port small bost and went and seized it water for washing. The rainy to the police, they took it back grade requires a large amount of. Instead of giving it straight over. season rarely lasts more than on the float sad were bring The ground we have already

three months, and for Isok of ing it ashore to give to gained was won by men who

artificial means of conserving the fought to win, and who went "all

In view of the present condi- water supply surface ore can, bergeant Clark when they were

Arrested, out," as they say, with a fierce

tion of Canton, a mass meeting of worked with profit only four or Evidence waegiven by Sergeant enthusia.m to carry their objec

the members of the Nine Charit five months of the year. Heroic acte were done by our

Olark to the effect that the men tive, quickly and utterly and

able Institutions was held with The shaft ore rous from 2 to had been employed for nine years A young officer of the North

| a severe struggle for the passes-men, as I know from the com- cleanly. This wonderful spirit of amberland Fusiliers paid a high sion of Thiepval, which was once rades who were with them. Ons Mr. Chan Bung Lam Woo in the 20 per cent, tin. Since it requires and one year respectively, and bed the men is praised by all their tribute to them, They are in our hands but is now again in boy of 18, to give only one chair. He made a great speech in much less water, this branch of been of good character. The officers as a kind of new revela wonderful men," he said, "and the enemy's grip. At the moment instance, was so good, a captain, which he reviewed the shocking the industry may be carried on firat defendant had previously tion, though they paw them in work their machines until they of writing I do not know what although a private soldier, that and pitiful state Canton is now in, for six months of the year. given information about opium- are bombed to death. In the troops first attacked and went when the officers of his pistoon all business enterprise being The Yunnen The Trading Commuggling and had been in- They went across toppingly," treacbes by Fricourt they saved through the village, but it is clear had fallen he rallied the men and abandoned, the price of eren daily pany conducts en entirely modern structed what to do should he Paid a wounded boy of the West on when all the other men bad from all the evidence I can get led them forward. "Come on, necessities increased storming ore dressing plant and emelting see any more. Yorkshires, who was in the first either been killed or wounded, that they passed beyond to a my lads," he cried. "We'll gety, and many human being shot works at Kotchia. The ore The first defendant deposed. allack OD Fricourt. The and would neither surrender nor farther objective without staying them out!" A pipe-major of the down in sold blood. The monetary dressing plant contains 5 tram that he seimad the opium followe were gloriou-," esid escape. It was the same at Loow, to clear out the dug-cute where Royal Scots led this battalion loss to the city is already beyond mele for first, washing of low

J it Whe being loaded nother young officer who and it would not be sporting of Germans were in hiding or to forward to an old Scottish tane, computation and if the trouble begrade ore, 2-ball milla with 4 giga and that the people who had it would hardly speak for the pain as if we did not say so, though search for all the machine-gan and daring the attack stood on not speedily brought to an end each for grinding cores ore, 1 ran away. He waited for some in his left shoulder, where a piece they have knocked out so many emplacements. The enemy came alone in No Man's Land playing fire will complete the destruction large tabe mill for grinding the time to see if a constable came of shell strack him down in of our best."

out of their hiding places and still until be fell wounded. of the place. He asked the fast ore, 52 washing tables of. 3 near, bat, seeing none, he went Mametz Wood, "Wonderful While the attacks were being served their machine-gune upon Early this morning a very fine meeting to appoint a committes to modela-the Wildey, the Ferraris, back to the flost with it. Whilst chapa!" said a lieutenant of the made on Montauban and Mamels the British troops who and gone flanking attack was made on wait upon the warring generale and the Drue Vanner and 12 he was bringing it aahore again Manchesters. "They went cheer very hard fighting was in pro- forward.

classifiers. Fricourt by the man who had held and try to arrange bae's for hydraulic

Small he was arrested. ing through machine gun fire asgress on the left, or western, side A sergeant-major of the Man-on to the ground during the pacification. The members of the quantities of rook ors are be

The men were discharged. though it were just the splashing of our line from Gommecourt chooters who took part in one of night, and Urepifix trench was committee appointed are Mesere. ing handled by the bell mills. of rain.... They beat every-downwards. So far I have heard the attacks which followed each taken after the explosion of two Chan Hang lum, Chow Fan-ynk, The emelting works contain 3 thing for real pluck."

very little of the action at Gom other in waves upon the Thiepval big mines. The stack then Les Ping-sun, Chan Hing-wen, gas generators supporting & rever- They beat everything for plack mecourt, where the German positions, says that he and his closed in, one body of troops and Lam Chek-fong.

beratory farasces, 3 refiners, and eroept their own officers, who, as exlient Was most difficult to comrades forced their way across working round to the north and

Peking Gunboat. al, led their men forward assault owing to formidable de the front trenches and had to another fighting their way round Negotiations are now proceed. Each furnace has a capacity of 4 ithout a thought of their own fenoce. In that direction our walk over the bodies of large the south side in order to get the ing concerning the arrival of the tone of ore per charge, each charge

progress has not been great. numbers of German dead, who village within a pair of tonge,

gunboat, Hoi Yang from Peking, of course being mixed with sand The attack on Montauban Further south at Authaile sad had fallen in the bombardment, The operation succeeded and General Lung has ordered the and charcoal in proper part was one of our best successes Ovillers and La Boisselle our With his regiment he went for the village was taken, but fighting Commander of the Fa Man forts socording to the grade of ore, yesterday. The man were attacks were rather more forward into a wood known to the still went on to gain possession of to take all the guns and ammani- The average requires 18 hours or mainly Lanosshire troops, sup tunate, and some ground was man as "Blight," and then fell the high ridge above. A whole tion from the boat before allowing from 12 to 33 hours, according to The .. Harims Marn, which in -ported by men of the gained with great low in life to the wounded.

company of German soldiers were it to come to Canton. It is also the grade of coal and to the purity the third ship contracted for by Home Counties, including those enemy, though not without many

the French Government to chery of Surrey, Kent, Essex, Badford casualties to ourselves. Fortunate nel were slashing through it with open with their hands up. Other the express object of putting an

Machine-gun bullets sad alrapen to come suddenly sorow the reported that s boat coming with of the ore.

The coal comes from the Yao Chinese labourers to France, has and Norfolk. They advanced in is, ss in all this fighting, the pro- a storm of lead lopping of men struggled singly over the end to the trouble will arrive Ko district. It is entirely trans- completed her loading of bamas

plendid order straight for their portion of lightly wounded men branches and ricochetting from shell beaten ground to surrender to-day, the eighth.

ported by males. The cost of cargo at Tientsin and has left for objective, swept over the German is wonderfully high. Ose of the the tree trunks. The men stood this to our men.

così at the mines is about $2.50, Marssilles. Fally 5,000 labour- tranches, and captured large officers of the Suffolks who fought ordeal superbly, and those who

(Mexican), or about $1 U.S. ers are asid to have been sent to numbers of prisoners, without on the way to Contulmaison tells

Position is good.

Attempts are now being made currency, per ton, while the cost Europe during Jans. great loss to themselves.

me that he was on the battlefield were not wounded fought their

But the enemy's guns put up a by

Krun the Tin way through towards the village.

to of the same article at the smelter,

Entitled To Four Wives. British Guns' Havoc. for 24 hours until be we wound. Some battalions working on the heavy barrage of shrapnel and capture the Macso fors, one of the 20 miles away, is §18 (Mexican), The detence put forward at the Their commanding officers were ed and carried away, and in that left of Thiepval had a very severe high explosives when our men most important of Canton's deor about $6.50 U. 8. currency Old Bailey on behalf of the suxions about & German eirong time, in spite of very heavy fight-ordeal. One of them, wounded, tried to advance along the ridge, feness. General Li Fuk-lam has per ton. In spite of the cost of Indian stadent, Abdal Hamid, point called the Briqge:terie, or ing, he saw only one dead man sold me that they seized the firm and from the apper end of the been appointed commander 10 onal and the lack of water, it is who was charged with bigamy brickfeld, which had been full of among the British troops engaged. msobine guns and minsawerfers, The advance past La Boisselle yatem of trenches in the face of Friouart Wood there came the defend the fort. Nam Shek Tan, claimed that the modern process at Hampstead, was that socording and the original intention was to to Contalmaison was & splendid machine-gun fire and captured incessant clatter of machine-guo just outside the city, is also being accomplishes a saving of 10 per to the tenets of his faith mon piss this without a direct attempt and memorable thing. The men

the men who remainst alive in fire. Our attack did not falter, multed, so far without success. cent. in metal as compared with were entitled to the doubtful pri- the 'dug-outs,

and as far as I can learn the posi: Three captains and their form the work of the native fornsons, vilege of having as many as tone to take it,

who took part in it were hard, But the position was found to tough fellows who fear neither

Dug-Outs De Luxe. | tion to-night is good.

bare been sent to guard against There are about 200 native for wives. Sentence of two months" be utterly destroyed by our bom- man nor devil, por engines of waring 30ft. below ground, and in fact about a great battle still in possession of which would be of region.

They were deep dig-outs, go- "Bere, then, are some scraps of the seizure of Pak Wan San, the naces in the Huang Mos Shan imprisonment was passed. bardment, and a party of men They went forward cheering, some cases, even at that depth, progress and covering a wide great advantage to the outside

The smelting works cast the were detached to seize it, which and the Tyneside pipera played had trap-doors leading to still stretch of ground, in which many forces in their attempts to storm ingot in the iron mould, ayat and the coal permits the smelter they did with comparative ease. on their men. The German gant lower chambers, so that our bom- separate actions are taking place. Centos. The remainder of the men in those were flinging Jack Johnsons over, bardment had not touched them. It is impossible for an eye-witness battalions went on to the ruined but they did not infiot much Many of them were elaborately to see more village of Montauban and, in spite demage, and the man jeered stated and furnished, and were of these battlefields, and st of spasmodic machine-gun fire them." from some of the broken" houseė,

"Billy old fire-point-nice well stocked with wine and beer. this hour for one man to write a has at last oopsented to come to the sand mould is not sold upon The works of the Yunnan Tin carried it in one great flood of crumpe!" said a young officer to was found and sent back to our great an adventure. I have been is also assorted shat Genstal Lang ditations of the ingot form the operation for five years. The A great deal of correspondance clear, straight chronicls of so replace Lang in Kangtang. It analytis, but the warface in Trading Company have been in day who had been among them.

travelling to-day about the lines, will withdraw at once and that basis upon which the purchase is plant employs about 110 men, Large numbers of Germans" They only made a beastly stink lines in sand-bags. were taking cover in dug-onts and | and the devil of a noise. It was It was when our men advanced trying to gather the threads Tam Ho-ming will not for him mads. Since the ingots from the with Mr. H. T. Chen, graduste bellars, but as soon as our men the machine-gans which did all upon the Thiepral woods that together, talking to many of our until the arrival of Lang Wing and moulds are not uniform in of the University of California, entered they came up into the the work"

they had their hardest hours, for fighting men, going among the ting. This seems rather improb- purity, this gives rise to a certain, who spent sight ⠀ yonen: /at open and surrendered. Many of The mechine-guns were enfiled.the enemy's fire was heavy, and wounded and the prisoners, and able in view of the other report amount of speculation among the school in the United States, as them were so cowed by the groating our men from La Boisselle, they had to pass through an in the intense and immediate that Lang has sent a mepenge to tin shops in Hongkong and engineer in chief. Mr. Chen has bombardment they bed suffered and from the high ground above intense barrage. Meanwhile big interest of this great drams of the Governor of Fukien saking to Canton. The amsiting company's plan to carry an adequate supply and by the waves of men that their ballste came pattering down Aghting A in progress st war which is all about me, trying send an army here to sasist in is...aware that, mush of their of water across the neighbouring swept into their stronghold that in showers, so that when they hit Fricourt, and some of the North to get at the istent (sots of our repelling the invadeen: they fell upon their knees and mrn in the ehoulder they came countryman had a great ordeal progress from hour to hour, -begged most piteously for mercy, out at the wrist. They swept No of fire. They have done magni. But what I have written is

risks.

invasion....

which was granted to them.

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The loss of Montsaban was

Man's Land lika a soythe.

No Gratuities!

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Macao Fort.

The China Society.

The balance sheet of the China I biset furnace for handling elag. Society for the year 1915-16

shows that the fande in hand after the payment of all expenses

amount to £191 11s. 8d., which is £30 larger than the balance

the previous year.

of

Chinese Labourers for France.

and well according to purity, bat they also conform to the peculiar to operate only six monthe of the Chinese practice of pasting in year and limite the daily outpat It is stated that Lak Wing-ting and moulds. The ingot cast into about nine tons,

Lak Wing-ting.

The T.K.K. Office,

ficently, and Fricourt is ours." only the odds and ends of a long, Other troops were engaged, for herojó story which must be writ- serions to the enemy, sud they But our

troops passed on mass of men of many British tes later with faller knowledge of Oo and after the 12th inst. Mr. prepared a counter-attack, which steadily with fixed bayonets at regiments advanced on both sides man and deeds. Only one Thing T. Daigo will seks, obargs of the was launched this morning, at 3 parade step, not turning their of the village endeavouring to get in really very clear and, simning Hongkong omge of Lie Toro

sion- "of", Bhalear Wood, in all this turmoil of two days of Kisen Kaisha in lipn of Mek o'clock, at 's strength of two rag. heads when comrades dropped to pos imenta, Oar men were expect right and left of them. They took Loseage, Wood and the high batsleit ft the shoonquerable Dai, bo has been, känsferred to

to the north of the village, spirit a ing this, and had arginised their the first line of German irenobat,

the Camis

metal which has been cast in the valley by means of a steel con- and moulds at the amalter is duit sapported by iron stanchions recast in the fron moulds for to the company's reservòir at "the foreign" export, and they are smelter, where it is proposai anxious to deal direct with foreign eres high power, pump bayers with a view to discontin- station to lifi 3,000 tona dalys

the use of the sand, monid. Ja height of 2,700 ft.

capacity of the Kotokia | Por

is about 18 tóns'

both the org