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THE GREAT WAR

MABELLE

FROM THE FRONT,

A Letter from Lieut. Orchard.

In the course of a letter (dated June 7) to a chuas in Hongkong, Lisa E. Orobard, who was re- cently mentioned in despatches,

and

A Soldiers' Holiday at Salonica

KITTY

NEW BRITISH LINE.

!

Scenes on the Battlefield.

BRITISH GAZETTE.

in New Songs and Dances.

shells," was curiously impressive. The rain, however, deso:adej in torrents, making observation im- possible, turning every trench into a knee-deep rivulet, and the coada into running streams,

POLICE RESERVE ORDERS.

O-der issued to-day by Mr. F. 0. Jankin, D.S.F. (Reserve)

GERMAN TYRANNY,

Belgian Workmen' Driven into

Slavery..

"GERMAN PRISONERS,

Over 2,000 Pass Through Southamptou.

Chios Sugars. $115.00 Papy's staff, and also a member continually at a number of poin's. village of Friceart. It is a dread- | the dates named, will parade at Office. The attention of the left upon the minds of the apes.

b. $ 48 00..

b. 8

82.50. H.K. Wharves, b. 8 Kowloon Dooks. s. 8 127.00, Central Estates, sa $ 100.00 4:60. China Lights. b. $

9 80. 63. $ China Prov.

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41.00. 7.20.

Coments.

B.K. Electrics. sa. $ E_K. Tramways, 45. §

THE SITUATION IN CANTON:

A More Hopeful Outlook.

of the local Volunteers, esys :-

"Have little to report in the life over heres have shifted North since I last wrote, but there ie little or nothing really great to shout about. This portion

Wa now hold the whole of of the line is moderately quiet- or has been. Reosatly, we have Bernafay Wood, to the east of

raide busy with

on, Montauban, into which our patrols the Bosche trenches-probably penetrated yesterday. The whole Battalion wood was not in our possession

until nearly noon to-day.

been

our

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There are no streets or houses; merely so much of the earth'e aurison covered with ruin and

Mounted Police:

Friday, August 11th-Shirt sleeve drill at Stables at 6 pm, as per orders of 5th/7th.

Mr. T. F. Bough, has kindly presented "Corban" to this de

Lohment.

Joined.

On the Battlefield. "For soms hours before the state British Headquarters, July 4.

No. a Platoon. sa $133.00.and who is well-known in Hong-On the whole this has been a storm broke, I had been going

All members of this Platoon, kong, baving been formerly on quiet day; which does not mean over the ground newly won from Messrs. Loe, Crawford and Com- that stern fighting does not go on the enemy, in and around the except those warned for duty on But we bare made, and attempted ful sight. From what were our Central Station at 8 pm. sharp to make, no grand advanos. On front line trenches you go through on Monday and Thursday, August the other hand, we have gained remnants of rusted and torn barb--- 14th and 17th. Uniform, Helmets minor sucossess and have been fed wire over the narrow strip of and Rifles. Chief Inspector Mason industriously consolidating the ground between the lines, scross will take charge,

the writhing, twisted rails of ground which we have won.

No. 4 Company, “ what was once a railway lins,

Will report at Central Station through the wreckage of the enemy's wire, to the German at 6 p.m. sharp on Tuesday and Friday, August 15th. and 18th. front line,

You must not imagine your Uniform, Helmets and Rifles you SAW

self to be walking over level Sergeant Major Hoylanos will mentioned Mr Sir Douglas Haig's

leral; #bat | take charge. Near Contalmaison I learn that ground. It wei recent despatches. They bave livened things up a great deal, a battalion, or the remainder of it is now all ridge and pit and Nowhere--not for and I am pleased to say the hal battalion, of the 188th Regiment hummock, ance of success is well on our of Prugeian infantry surrendered one single square yard, I think ide. I think Vordua has put to us. It appears that they had can you see the true surface of the You go down the sides the wind up the equarehead been in support and bad only ground. they have seemingly lost a lot of been moved up into the trenches of a huge shell hole, the bottom their own but are quite a handlal about half an hour before. They full of a litter of equipment, and A far more hopefal note is ob-leven yet. I feel something of a could not stand it any longer, up the other, jump across a small- Berrable in Canton correspondence Teteran after twelve months' but, in advance of any infantry or one, fallow for ibros pices tum Rnent the recent disturbances. It trench life, but cannot-complain. attack, osme out-between 800 obliterated line of an old treach, je openly stated in the city that Received my second atar about sad 700 of them who were left then into another shell hole, Bo it is over the whole of Fricourt, Shem and his confederates are three months ago, anti-dated and gave themselves up.

By Authaille we have slight except that in the village itself loving heart at the reverses which to October 2nd lost, and

our footing in the shapeless piles of brick and have been isЯiated apon them have now a minor staff aply increased and at their shortness of money,pointment ie. Brigade Bombing the German front line, and, masonry, bera heaped man high, Sham is reported to be still send-Officer, so live near Headquarters by running sapa out from our there battered flat, cover all the ing re-inforcemente down from just behind the line. Of course, line at both ende, have, as it earth.

in the were, bitten a piece out of the 8bia Bing, but a great deal of my work takes beed does not seem to be paid to reaches quite as much as balore, German front trench and in- and, if soything, is more corporated it in ours. The this story.

Fighting cannot be said to have trenuous, but it has its com- gallantry of our men in holding ben resumed on any very excit-pensations,

"I heard from Alex Storrie ing scale. Another big fire broke

It is easy to see where our men out on Tuesday night on the some time ago-he has been to

went, The work of gathering the western side of Fati Creek, and the Cameroone, and is now in-

To weigh against these gains dead and preparing them for. Some burned till four o'clock yesterday valided me with a smashed morning. It is reported that three elbow he was then going before the Germans have won nothing burial is still going on. o al godowns were destrored. a Medical Board, but have not We have lost no foot of ground still lay to-day where they had which we hold yesterday, but fallen, fall length with their heads *The wind was light, in s southerly sinos heard if he has hie ticket.

direction, and the heat from the "We caught a big fat Bosch in everywhere we are better off, more towards the German trench. fire could be felt on Bhameen, front of our line a few nights ago, sure of everything that we had Others, laid in orderly rows and There is still, we anderstead, one of a party of three. The other taken. At various points we have being very gently and reverently and handled, were side by side along ne serious anxiety on Shameen-two got away but in their harry picked up mschine-guns though, as a correspondent points left rifles and bomba bakind. There other things, and prisoners coa a narrow open piece of ground at pat, it would be interesting to in every possibility that the fellow tions to be taken in small batches.the village edge. There service was to be read over them at 5 knew why the Ocstome authoriwe tid get will walk with a crutch. If the story of the day is not a tion have not stopped Lang's gua- for the remainder of his daye. thrilling ons it is in all waye o'clock this afternoon,

"Please give chin obins to satisfactory. boats from anchoring off the Caesion, thereby drawing the all the old friends. I do not fire of the other aide and exposing suppose I shail ever find myself' Shameen people to at least the in Quins again at present I have ponsibility of injury. Why are Australia in the back of my head, these boats allowed to drop anchor but it would be foolish to talk of within the harbour limits at all ? the future just now.

On Tuesday night there was a opinion there are a few too many further exchange of fire between of the Conscientious Objector the opposing forces, which ap class in England to think of parently did not last long. Earlier settling down there,” in the day there had been sharp. fighting in the Back Reach. It is now stated, however, that Li Lish-kwan has definitely prom

Mesars, Benjamin and Potts ined to obey the orders of the Central Government and to with advise us that the Langkat output draw his troops, and that he has is as followe already applied for sick leave." August...” 1

oa to the short stretch of trench in the enemy's lines for the two days since they first seized it is beyond all prales.

Pushing our Line Forward. The centre of interest to-day

wreckage. And everywhere are the more immediate, the more terrible, relice of the fighting.

The German Dead.

How the Germans are tyrannis- When between 2,000 and 3,000 ing over the unhappy people of German prisoners passed through Belgium is shown by a document the streets of Southampton on issued by the British Foreign July 4 the deepest impression Foreign Office has been drawn to lators was the contrast between decree said to have been 'issned. these men and those who were by the Governor-General in Bel-capturen earlier in the war.

They did not march along; gium on May 15, which adde to and makes more stringent the they slouched through the streets laws against workmen who refuse as if they had never made the acquaintance of the drill square. work.

On September 22 last a protest | Many of them were" above what was addressed to the patrons of we regard as the military age, were of youthin! the Relief Commission against and other decrees of August 14 and 16 re-appearance. The absence of men" garding labour in Balaiam. Since from twenty five to thirty-Kve was then, the Foreign Office states, very striking.

reports have been received of

The crowds of spectators made further attempts by the Germans ao demonstration of any kind. to requisition labour for their

Formerly on Chins Station. military needs. Now all those stories are confirmed by the

Rear-Admiral Nelson Ward, arowed policy of General von M.V.O. who has just besn ad- Bissing, embodied in the new vanced to flag rank, was an affi- decree of May 15.

Another

"This decree rupersedes the cer of the old Barfear when the Chies War of 1900 broke out: Chinese Command.

Decres of August 15. It enacte Chief Inspector J. M. Wong re-heavier penalties than the first le served with the Naval Bri Workmen refusing to gade landed from the Chias games commend as; from date, decree.

He was navigating Acting Chiel lospector Wei, re-work are liable to imprisonment Squadron, and took part in the verts to his rank of Inspector.

from & fortnight to a year; all expedition.

officer of the Ophir when Their persons, communes, associations or other groups giving relief to Majesties visited the Colonien No. 2 Company J. H. Beltran.those who refuse to work are liable some years ago,

to a fine of not more than 10,000

"Though the grounds to be Headquarters' Club, The General Committee will marks (2500) and. imprisonment cleared or dog consisted of quick- whole administration of the allow the elementary preosations August 11th,

decres, with the exception of each as the use of propaneceOOMBLY meet at 5.45 p., on Friday, for got more than two years. The sands, the Germans refused to minor provision relating to fales in sach dizosmstances. It was declarations of indigence, is obvious that they wished to make Stolen Fish. A Chinese employee of the placed in the hands of the Ger- the work as difficult, dangerous and unhealthy as possible. The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf man military tribunata.

Led to Work by Force. aentinels forbade all rest; if "But above all, Bicention must } workmase stood up to rest for an and Godowa Company was 500D to be leaving the godowns with a quantity of fish in his possession be drawn to the following provi instans be was stack with a stick 10 pansieven prodded with a buyɔast. Ia When charged before Mr. J. Raion in this new decree: Instead or with the batt of a rifis, and Wood, at the Police Court this of having recourse morning, with larceny, he was prosecution, the governors, the general, the nourishment given

the same functione, and the unhealthy. sentenced to three months hard military commandsats having them was insufficient, bad and heads of districte, can order that "The least mistake, the slight- the recalcitrant workmen shall be {est breach of rules, was severely labour and four hours' stocks. ·

led by force to the places whers pasished. "The punishments were Inside the trenches was every ❘ they are, to work.

of various kinds, but always oraal, sort of human wreckage sad "Comment seems unnecessary | One workman was placed for Beyond the German front line remuant of equipment. There on this provision, bat if comment several hours, with haze feet and has been pushed forward to the are the other dead, not less were immense quantities of is necessary the only one that can his face exposed to the sun, on

besause they are unused cartridges, of unneed be made is to quote the fallowing the roof of shed. north and east from the Fricourt pathatio

of hand grenades and unused bombes passages from the 19th report of punishment consisted in making Mamelz region to a line running dressed in gray instead Am of

with a sok of bricks on his from La Bosicelle and Cantalmai- khaki. But, most of all, the and anyone who has a taste for the Belgian Commission of In the victim ran for several hours Following upon the refusal shoulder, or with a brick in each on, through the Bois de Mamets German dead lie in their trenches thore horrible relice known as qui (some 3,000 yarde north of the and inside their dug-outs, where "aoqvenics”—dead men's helmsta

A rest of village of Mametz), past Man-they had find when our men at and personal possessions can of workmen to work on the band, and two bricks attached at tagban, to the Baie de Bernafay, iset broke in upon them. Some load himself here with trophies.requisition of the German autho-each side of his coat.

Strength of Enemy Defences. rises the latter attempted to five or six minates and « glass of We have penetrated at points were killed by ehell fica or bombs,

What impresses one in all, the starve them. They forbade the water were allowed to the unfor into the former wood," and some had been bayoneted. Ap- Bernafay has sinos noon been parently ame must have gone places which we have taken in communal authorities to give innate man every two hours, entirely in our hands. Fighting into the dugouts, after they were these last few days is the immense them relief either in kind or in Sometimes the victim was bound tres with his face exposed to the still continues in the outskirts of wounded, to die. Others were strength of the German defences money. Some time afterwards, for several hour to a stake or a La Boissello, where, though the bombed inside. In one place a One does not wonder that they with a view of depriving them of village is in our hands, the enemy man had been killed at the mouth believed them to be impregnable all resources, they proceeded to san.'

Broken Promises. retains footing. Fighting also of his burrow and had fallen on They would be impregnable to to arrest and imprison "all

| Thie in bút a sligut indication State functionaries and continues about Contalmaison..the steps leading downwards, any troops less heroic than our the

At Montauban, after the disse half-blooking the entrance. La ven have shown themselves, Nor agents, as well as private persons of the fate which awaits work- I another was a man who had both in it only the actual positionuin the assisting them in the distribution men who are led by force to the trous counter-attack which mentioned yesterday, in which « legs blown Z. A third had been frontline trenches which are, so of relief. The workmen were place where they are to work, ' German Division was practically used as a dressing station and strong. All the little villages and threatened with having their It is presumably useless to urge upon the German authorities the Annihilated, the enemy has con- five men had esamingly died woods, each eminence and hollow, houses burnt,

-- "The workmen ware requisi- inhumanity of their sotion, and tented himself with attempting to there while waiting their tarn or in all this area between the firml interpose a long-range barrage on had been brought in and died and second lines has been convert- tioned at their houses by soldiers his Majesty's Government are this aide of the position to annoy before they could be attended to. ad into a fortress as formidable as with fixed bayonete; in the ab- therefore reduced to basing their as in bringing up new troops. Is War in itu dotaila is, a, gruesome the character of the gound makes serce of the workmen, members protest solely on the fact that she possible. In the year and a half of their families were taken as deesse of Mayli in jet another does not seem to have done us anything. harm.

The Gerasa treaches are, as for which he has been in posees hostages. Women and children direct and deliberate infraction of When I left the neighbourhood, always, more elaborate than ouri,sion of this country the German were héquently arrested, one litle the undertakings of the German st about 3 o'cloak this afternoon, Here they are deeper and wider, has laboured, assiduously, omit girl 14 yesen old was detained. | Government to the Commission intimidate the population, actually "They have promised solemnly A obair coolie was charged, the enemy was throwing a fow They are therefore more open to ting nothing which could protect Unisas patrolled the streets to for Belief in Belgium.

Contineally one sheer new charging peaceful inhabitants to abstain from all interference in Two men were charged before before Mr. F. A. Huselend, at the shells 5.9-promisonovaly over a shell barating directis shore; him against such a day as this. Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Police Police Court this afternoon, with the whole ares, back, to Friopart but, when under fire, the German Court this morning, with sterling with assaulting a Chinese Police and Mametz. The latter place soldiers keep as much as possible stories of some trickery on the with obair lances. : Two; paman, the work of relief and to les re rammelled; rot, openly by tha from a person at West Point, var Reserve constable. Complainant was for a time rather severely in their dugouts, which are here enemy's part. To many of them war wounded in one of the those dispenningɛis, froo;and un-

extensive, sales I am inclined to pay little charges. -always- more

degrees which they, have jersed Deportation to Germany. ious small articles, valued at $1. said he had arrested defendant's shelled from positions, apparent a

Finally, not being able to and by the oppressive masenros Each were anntenced to ons co-worker for an cffence and ly, in the direction of Longuerbi, deeper, and better built than bark attention. A story, however, was months' hard labour.

defendant rushed at him, dragged As an artillery display, however, The trencher immediately about sold me to-day by an eyewitness

Fricourt were not very seriously which. 1 understand, has been overcome the resistance of the adopted in, parausnce of thom Football Meeting. the other man away, and strack it was not impressive, !

On the other hand, por guns damaged by, our bombardment, officially reported by others to workmen, the Germans resolved decrees in all parts of Belgiamų to "A meeting of the United him on the chest, three times with Services Football League was his fist. Defendant denied that were very active. The point at is contrast to other points near the affoot that in the course of the to deport them to Germany. be fed and red from starvation held at Victoria Barracks Jester he was the man, and disclaimed La Boisselle still in German hands here, an about Montanhas, whom Aghting about Thieprała German The prisoners were sent off in solely by the efforts of the Allies, day, the Box. Beoretary, Chief any knowledge of the affair, was subjected to very heavy bom-they were practically destroyed, appeared abovan battered parapet | groups of about 50.. Daring the and the charity of the United +19, the internment that the Balgiana, mbali be «Staker Caldwell, R.N. announcing. A married woman, liring in Well-bardment. Shortly before Bo'clock, The barbed wire in front, had waring & Red Cromdage period i mi ktheir Cotransportanon State," but sino nork to necjira. enabled, by the maintenance than enpp,

Fallarded them, to work dor his resignation, owing to his im|ington Street, said, she sawa, fight | however, a tremendous shauder- been out and blown to bila, except was allowed to come down, suil fron poeding depectam from the in progress. Defendant said. ha storm, which had been threaten in certain spots, and allthe ground was seen to lift something back

snemies and thus postpone" Colony. The meetingy which was enw a fight, too, but he was not ing all the morning, broke over around wanyama Lykavaəmid, "de-into the trench. It was not unti

their own labour the restcen of their freedom and the inder poorly castandak, decided that taking part in it. He did not the whole of this area. For a vastated :: kayond description, too late khan wa nhw that

wounded. max; but s HSEG An uke over know bow it began Defand, while the combination of the Ballika, divot. demanackthe hell LA

ship pro tem. The ant was bound avar in the sum thunder and the guns, the lighta« trenobes themselves:Was e

ing fashou anywering tas barato tivaly slight of $100.

The stories as to the where. abouts of Lak Wing-ting are still | confisting; the general opinion is, however, that he is at Ksilin still Native telegrams say that he will leave that place on August 13, in which case he should arrive in Canton about the end of the month. Soms reports add that, antil his arrival, Lang Chai- kwong has been requested by the Peking Government to hand over to Tam Ho-ming. -

Small Theft.

LANGKAT OUTPUT.

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120

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Total to 9th inst.

1,163

Daily average 129.22

Assault on Police Reservist.

works