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Evening Star, Issue 16784, 12 July 1918, Page 5

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WO ROAD TO PARIS, Australian and N.Z. Cablq Association and' Reuter. LONDON, July 11. (Received July 12. ni 9 25 a.m.) French ■communique : South of theA:sno COf infantry fina.ily overcame t':c_ er.emy feslstanee at different point*. Vv e c:u>tured I*i Galle Farm and flic quarries north of Chaviirn-y Farm. To tho cast•wartl cur patrols reaehol bortrp-oTit, ;;nd entered the northern part of Corey, taking some prisoners. Australian and N-2. Cable Association and Renter. LONDON, July 11. (Received July 12, at 12.30 p.m.) American official : Sirens French forces advanced seveia! times, and established themselves westward of Antkcuii and northward of Lcngpont. EAST OF AM JEMS. THE INDOMITABLE AUSTRALIANS. LONDON, July 11. (Received July 12, at 12.30 p.m.) Mr Philip Gibbs writes : It wou'd be dangerous to underestimate the lighting qualities of the enemy. The prisoners captured by the Australians on July 4 were as sturdy a crowd of men as were ever seen. The Australians northward and southward of the Somine have established the initiative in their sector in a remarkable way by a series of progressive operations, in which the enemy offered no counterattack. The German guns yesterday niyht and' to-day heavily bombarded the Australians, and some Hun infantry unsuccessfully attenuated to enter their trenches eastward of Tillers Bretonneus. A!R SUPREMACY BRITAIN'S. LONDON, July 11. (Received July 12, at 11.40 a.m.) Mr Pereival Phillips writes; British air strpremaev has been verv marked in tho past few weeks. The quality of the Germ m pilots has; deteriorated, as i» shown by the frequent collisions between 'unskilfully driven machines when attacked by the British Our aviators always accept battle, despite tremendous o-lds TV'i of our machines fought 20 enemy ma -bines en July 4. cut-mana-uvred them,, and forced t-hem to run for safety. On another occasion four British ma- < V.nes attacked 40 German phnes and downed two, whereupon tho remaining ?,3 fled. our men frequently bomb targets from a heiirbt of only 200 ft or less, the Germans rarely descend c c> low. Other oerraaornde'it-, state that one British airman Lass brought down 75 tier na'.i atror.la.ires. im.-hidlmr 25 in a single month, while some other British airmen I h-we reached a total bis; -,.-f 50 enernv machines "THE GLORY OF BELGIUM." KING ALBERT W ENGLAND. A SEAPLANE VISIT. lONTION Jih- ±1 Re 1 1° tl',r lffl ) r e ]> t- c'- -<- \* u Tlrsl r,] tl ■» t idte" o ' P -.=(- T f Pr- 1 11 v 'B ' l eK i < All t 1 » ir t w ] ] i ie i 0»i1 J p t i'i " ! n t*-« r t tl*> f -.pp ' t r \ *• If b V -Ml r 1 1I 1 1 tl It-\ „ 1 O c t r t til t i icro '«. i CI ' ' ll 1 <■ I x 1 em ! o 1-Ifll t t i o t t, F i II i 111 r sim l ip p K iU ill c o 11 \ icji , 1 H •xj-, p I 'el it e t rumir i re ~» ad tha hj i n i \p i \ Z \'be t 1 M O L t \ ' 1 t f € ' T a r r -> d - I t i t Ft i i" l i>- hbe *t i 1 trr t " ort dt v pr~ AFTER-DINNER SPEECHES BY NEW ZEALAND STATESMEN. PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC. LONDON, July 11. (deceived July 12, at 3.45 a.m.) Mr Massev and Sir J. G. Ward wore tfndered a lrnch-eo.i at tlie Australian Gentlemen's Hub. at which Sir Tboma? M'Kenrie presided .Mr Mass?y, replying to the toast of h'-s tenltla. cbaraclevised the bombing of a Canadian hospital and the sinking of tho IJyndov-ery Castle "as work of the mi.rderei's' friends." New Zealand, lie said, had also to settle with the Oilman.-! became of ih? rccr-ut tniniu.tf "f the steamship Win:r.!i-ra oif [)w New Zea land coast. Submarining had diminished. but- he protested again.it pacifist dictation j of t.-rm.j of peace, and lie demanded the j continuance of th■:• war until conditions j conducive to a permanent peace can. be [ attained. .Mr Massev eulogised the Imperial Cabinet Conference, and urged that British! Ministers should visit the Dominions, who j vr-.-re !;ow partners in the Empire. Tho | Dominions should be represented in the National Fla-s; tc-jretin-r witli the United Kingdom. He said he mictht take the opportunity to submit this to the Imperial Conference. Sir J. G. Ward said the war was reconstituting the Empire constitutionally, industrially, economically, and soeiallv. The old class conditions were destrov.'d, and the forei!:ii dumping of goods in Britain and the Dominions had ended. He urged an unwritten alliance between Britain, the Dominions. America, and Japan for th« protection of line Pacific. If Germany wmre allowed to return to Samoa and New Guinea si l ? would inevitably dominate the Pacific. The prolon^ai ; on of the war :'or five or etvsn ten years vouid he justified if British caminion in the Pacific were preserved, he believed tltat | the Pacific would become the world's j greatest strategiKtl centre. It did not matter what r>ressuro was exerted. A us-1 tralasia" would protest against allowing j Samoa and New Guinea to revert to Ger I many, otheru-ise tlie future of every man,! woman, and child in Australasia would br.; endangered. It was imperatively important to induce Imperial statesmen to study the Pacific, and it surely should be possib;..: aft«r the war for Empire statesmen to Like a hand in_ adjusting any dtffeivn.jes ; between the unite of the Empire. This j would remove friction and irritation ' amongst ourselves.