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YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

THE WESTERN FRONT...

London, November 3. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a communique, states: We have taken taken a few prisoners. There was a patrol encounter west of La Basses, There was great hostile artillery áring during the night east of Ypres.

London, November 3..- According to Renter's correspondent at Paris, a semi-official message etates that the enemy's evacuation of Chemin des Dames means that they have abandoned the heights from which they viewed the French lines, and have taken up positions in the mareby region of the Ailette which the French dominate. Moreover any serious enemy attempt to adopt the offensive on the Aisne front will from now on be cat of the. question, while the defense of four position in this region has become easier and will require the fewest men,

London, November 3. «A German wireless official message states:-We are reconnoitr ing and bave taken prisoner North Americans on the Rhine-Marne Catal.

London, November 3. A French communique etatea :-During the night we continued the idvance between the Oise Canal and the region of Corvany, and resobed the southern back of the Ailette, along the entire front. The enemy fell back on the northern front to bridges, the passages to which have been cut. The artillery struggle continued to be lively in the sector of Obavignon and at some points in the region of the plateaux. Among the material captured since October 23 xa) have already captured" two hundred heavy and field guae, 220 trench guts, and 720 machine gune.

Right of the Meuse there are violent artillery sations on the Chaulzea Wond Front. Between October 21 and 31 twenty-one ́enemy aeroplanes were brought down by piloss, and two by aircraft guun. Moreover, twenty-eight enemy machines were seriously damaged and were brought down in their own lines.

ENEMY DEFEATED ON BELGIAN COAST.

London; November 3. An Admiralty announcement says:-An electrically controlled high-speed boat attacked our patrole on the Belgian Coast to-day The attack was defeated and the boat destroyed.

RUSSIAN SOLDIERS FRATERNISE.

London, November 3.

A Russian wireless official message states-Our soldiers fraternieed with the enemy at Vishncil ke sector. We successfully raided to the north of Hasistyn and took some prisoners.

NAVAL ENCOUNTER.

London, November 3.

An Admiralty announcement states:-Oar forces, operating in the Kattegat, destroyed an auxiliary cruiser armed with eix-inch gune, and also ten armed patrola. Sixty-four prisoners were rescued. We had no casualties.

London, November 3.

The Admiralty announces :-Our Naval Forces operating in the Kattegat have apparently been engaged with saemy forces, probably patrols. Official informatics only intimates that certain of our vesele bave been detached to bring in prisonere, and are nearing their bases,

London, November 3.

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Beater', correspondent at Copenhagen says it is stated that the German Baziliary crasier, which was sunk, is the Maris, of Port Flensborg. She was four-thousand tone, and carried crew of eighty-one. The fight lasted only filleen mindtee.

London, November 3.

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Reater's correspondent at Copenhagen states that a steamer has arrived with the wounded on board from the German saxiliary craieer which was sunk in the North Sea.

THE KERENSKY INTERVIEW:

London, Nonember 3. Renter's correspondent at New York, giving further details of the interview which took place with M. Kerensky, saye that H. Kerensky langbed when the correspondent asked if Russia was out of the war. He said: "That is a ridiculous question. The Russians are taking an enormous part in the war. She was already fighting while England was preparing and America only observing. Russia at the beginning bore the brunt of the fighting, thereby saving England and France. We are now worn out and are entitled to claim that the Allies shall take the heaviest barden". H. Kerensky emphasised the need of America sending Rossia boote, leather, iron, bat more especially

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1917.

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London, November 3. Renter's correspondent at Italian Heacquarters gives a graphic pictars of the retreat. He says that Staff Headquarters worked all night long on October 26 packing documents, destroying. correspondence and tearing down maps from the walls. The exodus of the population, alarmed at the reports of fugitives of the 29 nearness of the enemy, began on the previous day. People of all M. K. & S. Banks n. classes poured into the road in the direction of Treviso, Some were in motor care, others in carta drawn by oxen, donkeys and mules. Cantons Hapdoarte, pushed by the owners, ware piled with baggage. Women North Chinas were arrying babies, others were weeping, and children were lost Unions in the confusion. Wounded, aged and sick were cetried in the Yangiszes arms of their relations. It was strange to see occasionally men and women in evening dress hurrying through the mud, all jamme China Fires among a mass of infantry and artillery men plodding wearily among H. K. Fires su interminable procession of lorries, ambulance tractors and gun carriages. These very often fall into the ditches, and had to be dragged out by oren or abandoned. A heavy rain ceme on, adding ; Douglases

Steamboats to the miseries of the scene. As the crowd increased civiljads.

Indos (Pref.) stresmed into the fields on either side, such was the jam of dos (Def.)

Shells pedestrians. Progress was quicker in motore, but correspondent and bis colleagues six hours to cover eix miles. When Ferries they cached Pordenon they found nothing to est and had nowhere to sleep.

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Renter's correspondent at Italian Headquarters states that be was the last to leave Uline, which was evacuated on October 27, the Astro Germans having taken Caporetto and Plezz), on the Kailans right bank of the northern portion of the Isonzo, sad about the Langkats croes st Santa Lucis and Santa Mariv, south-west of Tolmino, The Raubs

Tronohs Urais Military Headquarters were stripped bare before the departure. Information from the battle zone. told how the Austrians, through eheer weight of numbers forced the Italiane, who were outnumbered iamen by twenty to our, and in gans ten to one. General Gonzs reached dine, he having been wounded eleven times. All the Staff were casualties, and only three of his escort out of fifty were alire. The Bereaglieri fought most stubbornly without say idea of surrender. Of the three regiments only one officer was alive, and be was wounded.

London, November 3..

The Times correspondent at Rome states that it is practically certain that speeds offer to Italy is a matter of weska, if not daya.

London, November 3.

Mr. Macpherson, in a written reply to Major Laneford, says: "No doubt was expressed by General Cadores or the Italian Government to the British General Saf, of their inability to meet the attack, which they knew was about to be made on them. No request from Italy for help to meet the attack was made before it took place."

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a from of forty miles, down steep twisting roads, across several MISCELLANEOUS. river to the Tagliamento, where there were only three Borneos bridges, sad on which the vast mass of men and material had to China Light & P.. converge. The General Staff had reckoned on a month to withdraw Providents the Army under normal conditions, but they had to do is in Dairy Farms three days. The principal Italian line of defence on the leon Green Islands was the so-called Plec line and was, bresking,' The line, owing H. K. Electrics.

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Trams, Peak, old 8. General Cadoras delayed an hour from ordering the retirement Trams, Peak, new s of the Third Army from Carso on the collapse of the Laundries Second Army, the Toird Army would have Usen captured. It was U. Waterboats eleven o'clock at night when the Infantry of the Third Army left Watsons" the trenches with each good heart, that, failing transport, the men Wm. Powells hauled the gane with ropes thirty miles to the Tagliamento. Some Morning Posts'n. heary guns bad to be abandoned bat were first destroyed.

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The Daily Telegraph correspondent at Milan, describing the patristic stirring up of the people as the extent of the dissater becomes knows, mentions that the troops are cheered as they pass,

London, November 3.

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