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DESDAY JUNE 12, 1917.

STOP PRESS TELEGRAMS

(Reuter's Service to The "Telegraph:"

THE BRITISH© OFFENSIVE.

A Terrific Explosion Described.

The whole story of the great explosion before the British affer-

London, June 11. sive at Hossines Ridge remains to be told, but an indication of elaborateness of the preparations and the immensity of the scheme is given by a French correspondeat at the British Headquarters, He says that neɑrly a year ago a demand was made on the coilfalde around Newcastle and Cardiff for a few hnadrad expert miners, skilled in digging and in the art of explosiór, Taey worked for a bootais moothe, digging for a length of two kilometre under the slopes of the ridge in nineteen mine-obambers under sineteen of the enemy'amoei formidable cemented and armed fortresses, The gallery for advanc ing had to be dug for one hundred and forty metres, and quadran- guler pits similar to the onge^of-a: lift` were constracted and crammed with high explo:ives. Electric wires, which were to cause the fatal spark in one secɔni, were ready at the end of last winter. Henos, sine: January, the first-line German troops bad been living- unconscion-ly above a sleeping inferno-

The correspondent adds that the convulsion was like a super- natural cataclysm. It wrecked the hill, filled up the marshes, changed † the wood into a lake and also changed the history of two yeste and the geography of two centuries. The mines, upon exploding, did not maks deep cratera similar to those at Posierra, but they-burled violently ▸kyward great ma-se of earth, which fell back slowly in showers on trenches and garris fortrees and transformed an saormous area into a cemetery. For hours after the attack. repeated dull wounds were heard in the earth below. In some asses, the Germane were dug on half-adffocated, and since then along the whole of the ridge soldiere have been listening between the crash of abells for the cries of frightened humanity coming from the underworld.

TWO GERMAN, SEAPLANES DESTROYED.

London, June 11.

An Admiralty announcement states that a Dover patrol drifter to-day engaged five socmy weapluas. Tas drifter destroyed two and took the cuspsate prisoner. The remsining seaplanes escaped.

TRIBUTE TO MAJOR REDMOND.

that.

TELEGRAMS.

(Soutar'a Servion to The

THE SPANISH PREMIERSHIP.

The Freimer having refused to reconsider his resignation

Madrid, Jane 11. the King summoned Senor Dato, who accepted the Premier- thip.

WELL-KNOWN BERLIN PAPER SUPPRESSED.- Saturday's issue of the Berlin "Lakalanzeiger" was sup

Landon, June 11. pressed for publishing and for printing reports of the arrival of the Austrian military peace deputation at Petrograd.

NEW HUNGARIAN PREMIER,

Zurich, Jace 11.

The new Hungarian Premier, Count Esterhazy, is only thirty-six and spent two years at Oxford. He occupies & middle position between the Constitutionalists and the Gov- ernmentalists and always followed a strong pro-British policy.

MAJOR REDMOND'S DEATH.

Leadon, June 11.

H.M. the King has telegraphed to Mr. John Redmond stating that he is grieved to hear of the death of his son, Major Redmond, who had "given gallant service and set a noble example in the war." Mr. Lloyd George telegraphed: "No man ever won the affection of the House of Commons more com- pletely without surrendering an iota of his political faith.”

THROUGH AMERICAN

EYES.

Mr. Palmer's War Pictures.

Continuing his statement in the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd the reasons of his acceptability

• London, June 11.

Mr. Frederick Palmer treats George said the late Major Redmond was above all an Irish Another is that he knows just how war romantically; that is one of patricis, and he felt "10 win

Ireland's greatest opportunity to weave the personal thread into liberty for herself was by fighting side by side his story of great battles so that with Britain in the grest world struggle for freedom. It was for his "With the New Army on, the Sreland that Major Redmond gave his life. Mr. Lloyd George quoted | Somms" (John Marray) becomes Hjor Redmond's last speech and recalled that he was carried as fascinating as fiction because Senderly and reverently from the battlefield by Ulster aoldiers of the it is the struggle of human wills. Gister Ambalance. He declared that the appeal he had just read Man speaks behind the monstrous now came to them all from the grave on the frontier of land which Major Redmond gave his life to liberate.

THE ALLIED WAR AIMS.

declared ihat

[The message is incomplete.-Ed. H.K,T.]

FRESH ITALIAN SUCCESSES.

not

London, June 11.

V. A. D. ORDERS.

Orders issued by Miss Wilkin- son, Acting Adjatsut of the Hongkong No. 1 V. A. D:) St.

The second lecture on first aid

THE ROOKY.

EMPIRE DAY.

FISHMONGER'S CLAIM.

(By Patrick McChill; Author of The King Acknowledges Hong Statute of Limitations Pleaded.

***The Great Punk" etc.)

kong Chib Massage.

At the Summary Court thi

That the youth's name Dick Hirst has nothing to do with Hongkong Club will no doubt be (Mr Jaatide Gomparts), a claim Members and subscribers of the morning before the Paime Jadge. the story. That he was a youth of gratified at the receipt of the was brought by Cheng Fo, trail nineteen, newly out with the late following telegram in replying as the Tim Shing firm, of 5, eas draft, will explain why the message from the Chairman Si Street, Tai Ping San Corporal MoManus saw fit to take sent on Empire Day to His Ha. fishmonger, agitat a junk master the youth's education in hand. jesty the King. The undernoted The first lesson was given in the telegram was kindly forwarded attic of a mach shelled hoses up to the Club by His Excellency near the firing line. This was the Governor " how it happened.

The men, & section of seven, were sitting on the floor cleaning their rifles by the light of a candle. The newly-out was standing under the roof looking out at the near firing-line and its evening lights through a chink

in the tiles.

From Secretary of Sate,

To Governor. Please

med Chen Yan, owner of junk 61, for $187.39, being the balance defendant for the supply of fish, of payments made by him to the which the defendant had failed to deliver.

Mr. J. H. Gardiner appeared Chairman Hongkong lab ex-Haywood for the defendant.⠀ ** convey to Holyoak for the plaintif, and H. G. B. pression of appreciation with bich the King has received his telegram on the cocasion of Em- pire Day.

LONG.

that plaintiff way a middle man Mr. Gardiner explained that and bought fish from junk people med sold it to shops and the msr- ket stall-holdera. "It was onatom ary for men of his class to make junk people wanted considerable payments to the jank people for fish to be supplied, because the advances before they would

At this moment, somebody Flifted the latch and, the door of the sitio was pushed inwards. A dark form showed in the doorway, time since and we wor a raw then made its way into the circle rigiment thin and most uv a8 as of light, bearing a number of innocent and sa awkward 18 caps of coffee on board. It was Spring lambe that has neither apply fish, especially towarde a stiff, angular woman dressed inse in their heads or their feet they would not undertake to poorly in bare-worn clothes. She We, wor comin' through the supply it. Plaintiff had dealt the end of the year; otherwise placed the coffee on the floor, village by broad daa-light being with defendant for about ten and Hirst could see her anquiet on our way to the trinches. Even hands had been worn by many s in thim days the villege was years, and the money now claimed long day's work. Her wrinkled knocked about a bit; now~ akin wa

atretched taat” over

was paid about three years ago. bigh cheek bones and queer little up to the firin' line, so whin the which feh had not been delivered, "And it was our first journey the amount of money paid for Books had been supplied showing brown cracks showed round her inimy began to scatther shrapnel and the amount now claimed was thin lips..

over our beads we didn't know the balance owing. And

4t

at the women.

The defence was based on the

Corporal MecManus as he looked marchin', all of us, barrin' thim Statute of Limitations, it being

Bong soir, Maway" said what to do. But we kept on John Ambalance) state-

"Ah! mon petite soldat; mee stretcher-bearera stopped with than three years old, and had that was fallin' down, and the contended that the debt was more on Thursday next, at 3.15 p.m. will be given by Dr. Johnstone, enfants", said the woman. P.M.O.at the Helens May Institute soldat Augleis!"

Bon thim. That was in the days ever been acknowledged.

whin we hardly kaew our way! She brushed back her hair about here, and whis the road to tiff, with costs. morning at 10 o'clock. All mem- Corporal. Ha caught the cap,

Classes will be held at Mra. with a lean hand, lifted a cup of victory was not as plain a one al

Judgment was given for plain-

ber of the V.A.D., are invited to drank a anp, then muttered "Tray Tiedall's house every Wednesday

coffee and handed it to the it is now.

bong, Mawmy, tray bong.”

attend.

Losa

Loyal India

of

ever

At

"Saddiat the ordber came back PRINCE ALEXANDER OF

BATTENBERG.

from the front to fall out and git

100

To be Married to Lady Irene Denison.

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2. They repulead the enemy and attacked south of Castag his little chateau, extraordiasrily pat up on the door of that small you at once ?" McManus asked work and began to carry the months ago, she was Lady-in-

into the shelter av the bosses. machine. His personal touches $10,000 at the disposal of the They endured these tokens of away at thim. The Commandin As he spoke the women reached We did fall out, thim that hadn'e forward, esaght him round the fallen down. They wor pic? Sir Dorabji Tals has placed kissed all the others in torn. the divil's own shrapnel peltin' Foook and kissed him. Then abe there clawin' at the cobbles and And thombasil sketches, con-Government for a squadron of affection with stoical calm. atitute, indeed, the chief charm of seaplanes for the defence the book, which is vivid with Bombay and the coast. Mosers. not in France-bat anyhow the ter, you min! There are His Majesty's Government's reply to the Russian Note regard with the cause which to-day is London, Jane 11.

Officer said to us that was tryin' to sensibility, and informed through Tate, of Bombay, have subsoribed women treated them as children. many of ye out in the open, he the engagement announced re-

If they were in England and help our castes 'get into shel- fing the Allied war sime states that it heartily concure with as American as it is English. War

oas with a strong racial sympathy £740,000 to the Indian War The rooky who watched the per-says. the sentiment in the proclamation to the Russian people is pageant to him, for he is which

Society is keenly interested in to dominats over other people or to deprive them of their the novelist. If there are dall

free Russia doaa

formance drew nearer the wall iveryone of us was doin' our, best Prince Alexander of Battenberg And be the same token cently of Captain his Highness national patrimony or foreilly tooccopy foreign territory. The reply moments he contrives to conceal propose blessed with the imagination of

and trusted that he would not to take in the wounded and to Lady Irene Frances Adza proceeds: Britain did not enter the war as a war of conquest, them. The mere fact that there pride is when he exhibits a the thought was tragic.

be seen.. To be kissed by a woman gettin' cat up wholesale. and are not continuing it for any such object. Their purpose at are gathered upon the field maen portrait of Pere Joffre, given to crouched against the wall. Bat into the middle of the street she son of Princess fleury of Batten Nivelle's Simplicity.

whom he did not know, or by any The outset is to defend their existence and enforce respect for in- of different nationalities, tempera-him, with a dedication, after the Madame Lablanc saw him,

The only time Nivelle shows rades! To his absurd bashfulness sleeves tarned ap and her boots

women in the presence of his comblong appeared with a barrow, ber borough.

Twas thin that Mawmy Lay-Eail and Countess of Liades Denison, only daughter of the ernational engagements"

ments and types is officient for battle of Douaumont:

He clatterin' on the cobbles. Out is in his 31st year, is the eldest Prince Alexander Albert, who this oraftsman and colourist. Be gives as a picture alive with feel-to be Commander-in-Chief, only shoulder. He took a step back him into her own doorway. Thin the early days of the war.

"I did not know that he was said and put her arm round his strong as a horse then, and wheels Prince Maurice, was killed in Mon bor petite soldat," she him bleedin', for she was

goes, lifts a man in her arms and berg, one of Queen Victoria's ing, Shrewd, kindly American fast all. France thrilled with his warde.

as daughters, whose younger BOD, - An Italian official massage says:-Oar artillery destroyed the great test.

eyes look at our behaviour in the name, which time will temp's complex defence at several potuts of the Asiago Plateau. All the leaders are there, touc-once you feft the dynamic quality ? rooky?" shouted MoManua, the barrow.

The infantry attacked during a violent storm in the directioned off impressively. It is easy to under his agreeable manner and

Asociate with Doanamont.

"Where the divil are ye goin', shrapnel was hittin' the shaf of Gaarde, and he has seen service

out she goes for another, and the regiment

His Mounts Zebie and Forno, and carried Agnellopei. They captured see his admiration for Sir Douglas knew that General Nivelle did

the Grenadier arly the whole of Mount Ortigars and made prisoners totalling Haig, now more than ever the things swiftly and quietly. Some Corporel and received his kiss.

"Let the woman' kiss you."

daring the present war in Egypt Hirst, newly out, obeyed the to her, 'Get inside'; but sorrs the Denison is the only daughter of a "Say the Commandin' Officer and in France. Lady Irene- British bero. He finds hit in day, I suppose, a plaque will be

"Why didn't you let her kies this time a party of ae got on the ined royalty and antil a few bit of beed she took of him. B family which has frequently enter. calm and removed from every house (his headquarters) with the the youth angrily when the woanded in and in a Union Jack hangs in front of the dining room saying that woman wanted to presa her lips who had disappeared, and we aught, she is on terms of in- thing that could distract him narrow hall and plain hat rack man made ber-exît. building, there is no parade or General Nivelle lived here during against yours. Men she's an found her where? Down in the timacy.

A wisp of a and the sitting room turned into should feel honoured when that look round for Mawmy Layblong

the job was done. Then we had Connaught, with whose daughter wee while Waiting to the late Duchess of in law, Princess Arthur of Con- fase. He is the periert type of the Battle of Verdun." the English officer, at once a

angel." grest fighter and a quiet country in the battle were of direct con (General Mangio, whose exploita

But I didn't know.", eaid the breast to her little baby girl.

cellar by her house givin' the Lady Irene Denison, who is 27 gentleman. He rerer neglects to sequence for victory, is attractive McManus. “It's not to be exsid the Irishman. "Por ora-

Books.

years of age, is not unknown to keep himself fit :

"Bouras ye didn't know", said

"Thim are the raisons that the music loving public. She gone through, campaigns in India

ly drawn. Five stripes on his

makes us cahteen the woman, "le amounts to a talent to have arin for wounds, all won fa pected that ye would know, being thur i she has her own throubles

composed the music of a "In some good, hour," which colonial work, ean-browned,

newly out here. Some day maybe well as two

achieved considerable popularity to appear as fresh as if one had

yo'll know about half as much ar

childer. She last year, and she made her debut chin and an never known anything more

eye that .said Attack'! strenuous than the leisurely life humour of Irishmen, of the tanks hilet to cap the shrapnel, or to up to us to see that they ziver

aze things that ye'll never know. on the head afterwards, and Javalry Bide, which was por Humour is not lacking, the of an English gentleman."

I'll never come yer way to be

now. what she is,

formed for the first time at the ahraphelled and not have a trinch two childer, as I've said, and its

wee bit orsoked. She bag Spa, Scarborough. even the ironical humour of a

za, isking' prisoners.

A GREEK INCIDENT RECALLED. Rentere correspondent at Athens states that the Bucsilants of

London, June 11. utenante Campbell and Burns have been committeed for trial a charge of murder, and for anlatally carrying arms.

OUR DAILY WAR BILL.

London, June 11

from his task.

You

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In the House of Commone, Mr. Bouar Law stated that the daily ge expenditure of all sorts during the first nine weeks of the al year was £7,884,000. He hoped that the rate of expendi and South Africa and yet always swart, with a strong abuting as old sweats know. Bat there got hit with a linter of shell as composer with a march, "A

roald decrease.

A FREE PARDON.

London, Jane 11.

tie stated that His Majesty the King has granted a free, si in consequence of valuable services in the war, to Lient. on, whr, with his wife, were each sentenced to three years' vitade at Ladinburgh in June, 1911 (7) for fraud in con- with a pearl necklace.

KONG TRAMWAY PANY LIMITED.

NORTH POINT BATHING FUND.

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In response to the suggestion

that subscriptions should be raised

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Ha is as opposed to advertise-giustion in which the Prussian be gsesed and not have the know want. It's not much that the ment as he te to precipitation. Guard at Coutalmaison, captured boy that has some book larnin' es wice at a penny a bowl. She of Queen's Colleg, referring to Though he represents Orford in by factory lads of the New Army, if I can jadge be yer con" won't take any charity money the late Corporal Cyril Hence," his training, there is something finaly believed (until enlightened) versashan. Well, whin yer go from

pirator to save yer ÷langs, Ye're poor woman can make be sellin

Late Queen's College Boy. in common between hisa and, Sir that they were being faced by back to England agin and meet goin' ap

The Yellow Dragon, the organ William Bobertson, it only for our own guarda! But to-day craok has studied his profession. You newly formed units in the com bestowed on ye was & the systematic way in which each regiments take their places with Fer well friends, tell thim that we make a point of havin' action in France on February ne, so whenever we're 19th Battalion of the Australian see him comforting, General, mob line, and there is no dis given to ye by a poor ould ragged and batter and cheese, and bully Olass 4A on September 11th, 1890

the trinches Imperial the greatest honour. and again in that awful moment tinction. Guards officers, however, half-crased Frinchwoman be the beef. And rimimber, me bboy, at the age of 11, sad left in 1893 Forces, killed in declaring "We met wait here, cannot forget to fiolid even in name av Mawmy Layblong. As that if yer's ever in this village when in Olaes L His father for

irer a lot of things on that we cannot 28 last, has the following if we die for it "fast as if it face of death, and colonel of I've said afore, ye should go down and have a parool from home, a many years was British Consul kiea carry in our packa, anch as bread "Cyril Bance entered Q. Ö. in for dinner. Then he is like the charge. were, a mere question of waiting that ilk blew bis heating horn in on yer knees afore the woman and good part of the contints are; be General in Canton where he died Joffre in the order and method of Finally we like to hear a delightful portrait. He is arm his life-Jafre of whom we have " Our Gibtle":

in minory ur her, whin she's not the right of decency, the property some years ago. Cyril went to:-/ near, ge, go down on yer kuses of Mawmy Layhlong." in-arm with Castelar, the hero his heart out every night in the

Ever sweet tempered, writing afore ivery Frinchwoman that re "And keep in mind what I'm aing of of the defence at Nanoy; they are human wonder of all be sew, ig

Australis, and at the begin- ! meet. That's if you're not in full after tellin ye, me boy"; said teered for the front. His younger whilet sturdy gund follows crowding to his pencil point, walking slowly towards a wood, burning sentences that them, carrying custiions upon which raced on until he was ex-

marchin' order.'

the war volun--

which they will sit The one is hausted, though he always revived Irishman: "What! Well, I'll and afther her from us, and was England and to his uncle Air, voi mies

But what did Mawiny Leblanc honour bestowed on yer to-night, is now the representative of MoManus. "Te've had a great brother, Julian, also an O. Q.,0., do?” asked the Booky. 3rd, has reached Unzen in Japan small and alert-lookin, the at dinner to undertake any con- tell ye for yer better ednication, day ye'll be a glorious soljer wid G. A. Woodcock, formerly of var 8,136 where he is waking treatment.

What did she do pastry and live up to it. Take an Mesera. Butterfield and Barire in the example from Mawmy Layblong Swatow. To him, to his sister-in Marshal rather manure with troversy on behalf of a better seein' that ye're new to the coun- no indo' decorssbuna and ribbods Buffé send our sinceront say mont rheumatism in his lega

future for tiba’whole human race." they. It happened a good long whin the war in på am indi? pri

llowing is the approxi ifities at North Point, the follow for the providing of bathing fae ment of the Hongkong fing donation has come to bend

Company'e trafic for the week ending

The Hon. Mr. R. Shewan...$100. OW:-

for week

Receipta Receipta for

Aggregate 23 weeks.

In Japan..

We lesra that Mr. Grant, of 13,376 8302,276 Queen's College, who left the 12,830 310,411 Colony on short sick leave on May

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