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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1916.
THE
WAR.
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
(Peuter's Service to the China Mail.)
RUSSIANS CROSSING
THE RUSSIAN FRONT.
RUMANIA.
BrenAREST, Aug 90.
It is officially announced that the Bussians continue to cross Dobrulja and are received with enthusiasm.
Debradis is the eastern part Rumania, bordering on the Black Sen. Presumably the Russians are proceeding Southward, towards Eulgaria.]
ENEMY REPULSED NORTH-EAST OF KOVEL.
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PETROGRAD, Ang. 81.
An official announcemens US:
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
TURKEY DECLARES" WAR ON RUMANIA.
THE CHINA MAIL.
NEWS WELCOMED IN FRENCH TRENCHES.
·PARIS, Aug. 30.. Rumania's intervention was celebrated in the French,trenches most enthusiasti- cally. Officers and mon embraced, double LONDON, Aug. 30.
rations were served, with wine, and there Turkey has declared was on Rumania.were entertainments in the evening
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 31.
Airmen distributed the news broad cast among the eḥomy, vo
A celogmm from Constantinopla shows that Germany and Bulgaria are associated with Turkey in declaring war on Rumaria.
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THE RUMANIAN INVASION
COF HUNGARY.
LONDON, Aug. 31.
That the Rumanians are well inside Hungary appears from admission in an Austrian communiqué, which says: We repulsed repeatel Rumanian attacks
· NORWEGIAN STEAMERS "BUNK.
LONDON, Aug. 31. The Norwegian steamers Islalen and Keuleria bara been julk, g
DIPLOMATIC CHANGE.
LONDON, Aug. 31. Sir Horace Rumbok, P.C., G.GR C.M.G., succeeds Mr. Evelyn Mount
STORIES FROM THE FRONT.
GERMAN MACHINE GUNNER UP A TREE.
SERGEANT'S LIFE SAVED AY 1.8005.
The following picturesque description of the assault on Montauban was given by a British nas-cemmissioned officer
who took part in the battle :--
"We went over in, grand "style, and found nothing much in the way until we got into Montauban. Hare the place was in an awful mess. Most of the bonica had been knocked head over hesia-the only ones I saw stauding were a equple of cafer. As we came on we saw lots of Germans running ont of the back of the village, but when we got into the streets there were plenty of them monkeying about the ruins,
We bad divided the company, ng into groups of six, but sa we neared
We repulsed attacks thirty-four miles on the heights north-east of Orova.tuart Grant-Duff. C.M.G. as British the village we all joined up again. My
north-east of Kovel with heavy enemy losses.
RUSSIAN ADVANCE TO DIARBEKTR
PETROGRAD. Aug. 31.
Otherwise cur advanced troops have Envor to the Swiss conferleration. been withdrawn according to plan." The enemy will boast of the occupation of Petroseny, Brassey, and Rezdivascrholy. The Ramaniane farther north reached the Gyorgyo mountains.
LONDON, Aug. 31.
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NEW PRO-ENTENTE CABINET IN PERSIA
PETROGRAD, Aug. 31. It is stated in Rome that the A new pro-Entente Persian cabinet Rumans are already in possesion has been fortel with Vowsouged It is nunounced officially that of all the passes leading to Transylvania Douleh as Fremier and Foreign
nd the province of Banat. Turkish attacks on Giunishan have been repulsed with sanguinary buseS "ADVANCING RUMANIANS. the enemy, and that the Russian advance towards Diarbekir continues.
AUSTRIANS RETIRING
BEFORE
...Losbos, Aug ÿl.
A Vienna, official announcement dis- closes a retirement to fresh positions westward of Chikszereda before the advancing Rumanians..
An Austrian corentuniqué admits the retirement of achanced detachments on the Hungarian-Rumanian frontier, awing to an encircling movement by strong Rumanian forres.
BULGARIAN REGIMENTS
REVOLTING.
INDON. Aag 31.
It is reported from Bucharest that a number of Bulgarian regiments have ravolted.
BULGARIAN UNOPPOSED OCCUPATION OF SERES.
LONTON, Aug. 31.
It is rumoured at Salonika that the
EAST AFRICAN OPERATIONS.
APPROACHING EAR-ES-SALAM.
Losos, Aug. 31. An oficial report from East Africa states that columns are approaching Dar es Salam.
Warships are coperting and engaging the const defences.
A KITCHENER MONUMENT FOR THE ORKNEYS.
LAYDON, Aug. 31. It has been dociled to erect.a monument to Lord "Kitchener as Marwick's Hed, Bisay. Orkney Islands, near where H.M.S. Hamp shire sunk.
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PETROGRAD, Aug. 31. Russian troops are entering Rumania and are everywhere received with
enthusissen.
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THE SITUATION IN GREECE.
REPORTED FLIGHT OF THE KING.
Losos, Aug. 31.
Mr. Ward Price, a well-known w corresponent, reports from Salonika that it is runicured that King Con- stantiuc has fed to Larisan, (Thessaly) where a German seort of 300 blans is awaiting him.
Another unconfirmed and probably imaginative report is that the Allied army is fighting the Greek army at the King's country house at Tatoi, and that several Greck princes have falles.
BULGARIA'S PLANS.
WILL JOIN THE ENTENTE WHEN DEFEAT THREATENS.
LONDON, Aug. 30. Dr. Dillon, writing from Auqu Italy, states that the Bulgarias plan in the eventuality of defeat has already been prepared. The Russophiles will
Bulgarians occupiwi Seres without THE REPORTED FLIGHT OF KINO make overtures to the Entente to depose opposition by the Greeks,
THE STRUMA AND DOIRAN FRONTE.
LONDON, Aug. 81.
A British official report from Salonika states that there are no
developments on our Strums and Doiran fronte except artillery activity.
BRILLIANT ITALIAN
SUCCESSES.
LONDON, Aug. 31,
An Italian communique states:-- We have had brilliant successes in
Trentino.
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We drove back the enemy with heavy, losa in Mount Majo and the Posina Valley and compelled him to evacuate part of his front at Mount Cimone.
Wo captured Mount Cauriol, over 8,000 feet high, in the Dolomites.
LATER.
CONSTANTINE.
LONDON, Aug. 31. The Greck Legation in. London does not believe the report that King Constantine has ded.
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A RIOT IN SUMATRA.
TWENTY POLICEMEN MURDERED.
King Ferdiunid and preclaim Prince Boris King, on condition that the Serbian Macedonia Enos-Midia Tine is accorded to Bulgaria.
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'THE WESTERN FRONT. ·
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Minister
OLD AGE" PENSIONS INCREASED.
LONDON, Aug. 30.
The Government has decided to in- crease the old age pensiona by half a crown weekly in cases of hardship due to war conditions.
RECRUITING IN AUSTRALIA.
CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH
AS WELL AS MEIN, ***
five puls were five of the best, and wo kept well together. We saw some Euns in a ground floor room, so we dropped a bomb through the window, and didn't wait for an answer.
As we turned the corner we saw L German lying round the end of a wall He'd got a machine gun and had made little emplacement with bricks. He turned this damn thing on me and got me in the foot. It didn't stop m though, and when was getting near him I felt two kicks over the heart, I didn't wait to she what had happened, but simply went at him and bayözeted him.
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MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
I couldn't go on much farther so I ast down to see what was the damage. My foot was pretty bad, but when I looked at my left hand breast pocket I saw two holes in it. I opened my pocket and found that two bullets bad gone through my metal shaving mirror, through my pocke: case, and had nosed their way into a book I was carrying. MELBOURNE, Aug. 30 Strangely enough, earlier in the morning presentatives, said that in addition to could read it when I got into the Mr. Hughes, in the House of Remy officer gave me the book and said I calling up the single men, the Gorera- German trenches; so I put it in my mens would not hesitate to compel pocket, little thinking that I should be others to sacrifice their wealth. He able to read a bit of it on, hospital ship asked for joint session of both Houses coming back.” “ to-morrow,
In the recruiting boom at Sydney 693 volunteered in three days,
ABUNDANT YOLUNTARY ENLIST- MENTS IN NEW ZEALAND,
WELLINGTON, N.Z. Aug. 30. Mr. Allen declares that conscription has so far been unnecessary in New Zealand, as there have been abundant voluntary ealistments.
ONE OF BRITAIN'S HEROES.
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The two bullets mentioned by the sergeant, after piercing the mirror and the case, met and joined themselves together in one lump of metal. They carried strips of the metal into the case, and bound the two firmly together. The book was "A Knight on Wheels, by Ian Hay. The sergeant said he bad read the "First Hundred. Thousand," bet he was certain to find Kaight on Wheels much more interesting.)
I saw," he said, continuing, “three Germans come up to two of our fellows and throw down their rifles. Sd our lads chucked down theirs, too, and went for them with their fats, and they didn't half give 'em a dusting.
As we ware going inta Montauban caw a German machine gunner up á He'd got the gun so that it was almost invisible. We shot him down, but he didn't fall clear. The last we saw of him was that he was hanging by his boots from the branches."
The following story of a "hameless, hero in the British advazes in Freno trec.. a man who was afraid of fear-is related by a wounded effcor, Major Hocond in command of a Service Battalion which has made a great name for itself in the field.
BRITISH OPERATIONS.
LONDON, Aug. 31.7 General Sir Douglas Haig, ua Our new army is full of naturaliy communiqué states: Between the brake lads," he said. Here and there. Ancre and the Somme there was artillery of course, there is a man o naturally activity on both sides. The weather brave, yet sometimes it may be he's the AMSTERDAM, Aug. 31. coftinues adverse We extended our bravest of the whole let. Now, let me Riotors at Mocaraembeci and Djambi, linea south of Martin Puich across a small alient, capturing prisoners, whose Sumatra, murdered twenty policasennumber has not been counter. Thirty- the District Administrator, a native eight other prisoners were captured in doctor and the village chief, burned the minor operations during the day. post office and prison, and seized the police weapons. Troops have been THE FALL OF YON FALKENHAYN-afraid, afraid of Feat. dispatched to the scene.
GERMANS CONTRACTING FOR *POST-WAR COTTON..
A despatch from New York to the
· Times" states that.iz. the latter part 1914 a number of German cotton brokers came to the United States and established connections with the various A ömmuniqué statea: We repulsed Southern centres with a view to buying. an attack at Tivoli, east of Gorizia
It was reported at that time that they The enemy intensely bombarded our but nequired for immediate delivery new positions on Mount Cauriol, which 500,000 bales of action at an everoga commands the. Fiemos Valley and price of 8 cents (3.9td.) pound. At threatens the enemy's communications that time also Americans with German between Cavalese and Avizio Valley, ....
connections were heavy bayera el cotton
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ATTRIBUTED TO RUMANIAS INTERVENTION.
„LONDON, Aug. 31.
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"BIT OF FANCY SHOOTING."
A platoon sergeant told the following
story:
We had carried the first two lines, and on getting into the third we sair the Germans coming up from the two exita of a deep dug-out and tearing off down
off as they come out. He had a mouth got into the trench and picked the Huns
of the dugout oa either side of him, say 15 yards away. A German would rush out of No. 1 exis. Over he went. Then one would come out from, No. 2 erit, and over he went."
tell you about a boy in my battalion. the trench. One platoon commander advance, when we were back at billets, It was two nights before the first that I first learned he was afraid mortally afraid, not of Foches or of being killed, but mortally terrified of being
We were in the first advance, and
"Ourofficer was as cool as a cucumber, others. Ten minutes before I she simply turned from right to left and knocked out, young was killed by fired fust as if he was in a shooting
bomb. He lived for about threc minutes after he was it, and he died in He had lived, without being
A telegram from the Hague attributes y ames the fall of General co Falkenhayn to wounded, rough nearly a fortnight of the intervention of Rumania, causing the most belliah filting, ever known. the Kaiser to side with General von That fortnight was not less than Sac Hindenburg against von Falkenhayn's long intolerable enefiction to him, view that the western front is the because of his glustly fear of Fear; the decisive area, and troops should not be read that he was going to be afraid and sent eastwards. It is stated that troops disgrace himself. are being hastily despatched to the Russo-Rumanian frontier.
LORD SCARSDALE'S ESTÄTE.
for future delivery. Later, on cotton zon) left £454,694. ising 3 to 4 cents (1jd. to 2d.) a pound and us peace was apparently remote, theso purchases were all resold.
-RUSSIANS NEAR DITLIS.
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HUNGARY AND PEACE.
AN INTERVIEW WITH COUNT.
TISZA.
(lower Street)
DOKI
the rightness Germany's international policy. He characterized the anti- Hungarian agitation which bad sprung up in Bucharest · EA expedient of the Ruzosnian opposition Hungary's treatment of her subject races had, in the past, been mis- derstood, even in Germany, but there was no question of the German clement in Hungary having been oppressed, and a better understanding might now be looked for.
Budapest, July 18. The Hungarian papers quote and con- ment on an jaterview recently accorded by Count Tisza to a representative of the Berliner Tageḥlatt, in which, the con- Commenting on this interview, the versation turned on the prospects of Pester Lloyd remarks that the declare pence. The Count's statements weretion of Count Tisza that from the guarded, bat be sterillastly maintained moment when we defeated the aggressive
designs of our
the position he adopted in December no, secret of opponents, we have made our readiness for peace is last, when discussion regarding the sub-highly gnificent, and confirms the ject took place in the Bungarian Reichur motive in the war is so simply and statements of the German Chancellor the stag, sad when be distinguished between clearly stated in this sentence that Anyone else would have been killed The Peking correspondent of
objective and aubjective conditions of surely henceforward no one will dare te fifty times over. He showed literally po Peking and Tentair Times"
writes
question it." peace. regard winstover for his own safety. He
Commenting further on Germany's Undenbtedly," said the Fremier, ability to hold out, the Peater L courted Death, and Death looked the ander date of the 21st August dem
the objective postulates for peace remarka that the Chuadruple Alliance other way every time. I don't zacna in. Some consternation has been caused by tins least that he committed suicide, an order issued by the Minister of Com which have existed as far as we are conneeel not hope that Germany will starve LONDON, Aug. 31. What I mean in that he showed mora munication to the effect that all orders, cerned have been stren thened during during the next three weeks, have
recent months
The Inst thing after that time has elapsed she will be Lord Scarsdale (father of Lord Cur-utter and self-forgetful, unconsious communications, and inquiries in the which, we erald perhaps desire in this able to command, plentiful supplice rom bravery than anyone I ever saw in my telegraph, servies which heretofore have connection is being acomplished at the the new harvest In Hungary until her life. At least a dozen times he must been given in the English language shaft present time, namely the expulsion of own is ready that in Hanger the have deliberately stopped out into e hot in Future be writion in Chinose. In this the Ifann from our territory. In the year the corn is ripening earlier than enemy's camp sisa, there is some progress asual, and that it is anderstood t'iat, by fire to pick up and carry in one of his branch of the Government servico Eng to be noted as they no longer speak of mutual arrangement, about 100,000 Hum The Russians are within six miles of knowledge, the wounded man was hit and this. sudden change will now not ontstroying Germany and dividing up sian prisoners will be sent from Germany
own wounded, and three times, to my liah is used more than in any ether and
Aamina" and Hungary.. That sub to Hungary to supply that cause seraiderable convenience but jective postulates exist cannot be labour there after which they will resurs BRITISH DISCHARGE GAS OVER A were being made with Southern shippers
Pánt; | killed in his arme, while he went
· "A communiqué "states: We captured
much delay. It is said that the reason conluded from the latest etterances of to reap the German harveste BROAD FRONT. „
for shipment thirty to ninety days after the village of Rafailey,
untouched." the end of the war, Liverpool brokera Nadoora, and Panks mountain "oute about than he performed dozen time the effcial in charge know nothing of setting their hopes upon, for they were who have been making roads in the wast of Mordfearless acts no pcet ever wrsta that this has bean decided upon is bocanes foizdare and Sir Edward Grey,.although number, it is stated in conclusion, will
cannot see what our opponents are probably be augmented by prison ure demanding a premium of deepts Hungarian border.. (14d.) a pound on purchases for delivery The Tarks south of Lake Nimrodzhal day during that fortnight. And all the English, and it may be mentioned, in mistakes in the expectations they enter Balkans and who must be taken through
the attitude of Romania and the United in January at Bremen of good middling retired near Bitlis Pass. The enemy in time, I knew, and nobody else but himself cidentally, that he knows nothing of tale the megarding Laly's intervention Hungary on their way to Germany
[Circumstances have greatly clungen German agents, one in cach the direction of Mosul were chispersed, knew, that he want in mortal fear of graph work. It would be, interesting to States, and their Balkan enterprise in the nr weeks since theso views were“
being affald. He wu smiling like-like know, what is the real meaning of this Now, before, it depends entirely upon a woman, when he died. He and retrograde move. It cannot by any our energies when peace shall be restored expressed-ED, CLM
They never guessed. I'm so thankful stretch of imagination be said that it is from the moment when we crashed the
for the advancement of this department2ressive dosigns of our that I And then he was gone.
have:
ve made no secret
no secret of our r But I know well what he would have end. In fact, on the contrary, it is likely to peace
throw the whole organisation out of gear. arrangements for a settlement I've been a soldier all my life. I've For years past, with the exception of stria, Count Tisza continued, "would?"
THE WESTERN FRONT.
AN INTERESTING SURRENDER.
LONDON, Aug. 31 General Sir Douglas Haig reports: We discharged gas over a broad front near Arms and Armentières with good resulta
During the past two inniha there have been many reports that German contracts
cotton:
Bitlis
PETROGBAD, Aug. 30.
RUSSIAN ROUBLE RISES.
GERMAN MARK FALLS STILL LOWER
district, are working on this bacte abandoning arme, ammunition and throughout Mississippi, the Memphis prisoners. district, Arkanaus and northern and central Taxis, but American cation merchanta are unwilling to do business The enemy last night shelled on these terms. Lately, Bormans have Bethune, which led to heavy retalia- been buying for delivery as early as October, expecting, it is thought, to buy tion from our
the collox for immediata delivery as they In the ope
south of Martin sell the purchases of cotton for future Puich, 2 officers and 124 men, delivery. Bavarians, surrendered. Their wil-
The Germans bought 60,000,000 pounds linguess to surrender instead of return to their lines is interesting:
THE FRENCH FRONT.
PARIS Aug 31 communiqua aays calm ulla on most of the front
coppor
Wo
seen more than one in the V.C. But those holding the highost, executivo poal which had always characterize the be o carried out with the same friendliness if you ask me what's the best and bravent ticos, it was impossible to recurs en Freistions between the two states. Con- I've seen, why I tell you, of all the brave
of copper bere early in the war. The 155 to 136 in the course of a week. Junios platoon commander of 10
fa vtill in the warehouse. in. This is attributed to Rumania's faterven, battalion, young ——— Baltimore waiting full payment. If tion, American baying and the impending
conversation, wit
story
going. Ase
the Fire
LONDON, "Aug 31,"
men bared behind the Somme sed the appointment in this service without pas ferences would be held in Vients and founde, showing Tos rouble has recently greatly Ancre rayo, or behind Verdun there log an amination in the Duglish lang Budapest for the promotion of porce are not to be pus approcated in London, where the
Hand in hand with these nogotiatiāna, Petrogrd erchange mate has fallen from not one, in my belief, braver then the age Messages in all foreign languages preparations were in progresa Lor elach way
roquire the operators to know the English commercial relations with Germany,
phabet, and all orders and regulationstar slight dator to questions of have been published heretofore in the nationality, the conversation revertal to home on learo,
* its original starting point the war and had boez English language. During recent years the prospects of pero Count Taza theelegraph sardes had shown much declared that, in the universal: 000- progress and has been commanded on all flagrating that which had give him lant manner in which the greatest pleasure was the une pincu
devotion which the Hungarian nat ent liste been alities had shown towards sema, a great pity ad In this category be
ding affect Ramaniku Slovnes
not known what purchases have peen internal flotation of a Russian rüilway zande here, but big American tealers loan of 350,000,000 roubles
bave been repeated warnen, by former Simultaneously the Fronch
German agents to barready for a great
and the instant pesov is, in There are my unstfumed "rarnotes tabber purchased,
ban improve
The German mark, after a stagnation, Ims depreciate
rehange:
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