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"TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1916.
THE
LATEST
WAR.
TELEGRAMS.
[Router's Service to the Ching Mail.)
THE ALLIES' DEVASTATING | RUMANIAN EVACUATION
ARTILLERY.
GERMAN, VIEW OF WHAT INFERNO MEANS."
THIS
́OF TURTUKAI.
THE EXPLANATION.
TELEPHONES REPLACED BY
CARRIER PIGEONS. E
New York, Sept. 11. The Associated Press Correspondent with the German armies cables from the Somme that the Allies' artillery firing precoding the latest attacks shook windows at Cambrai, **
Some readsution of what this inferno means may be obtained from the fact
BUCHAREST, Sopt. 11.
The enemy forces which attacked Turtukai (a town in Bulgaria which the Rumanians occupied and sub sequently evacuated) consisted of 25,000 Germans, 10,000 Bulgarians and 10,000 Turk, while the defen ders numbered only 23,000.
Reuter's Agency is agtboritatively infonaed that the present enemy forces are quite inadequate for a serious offensive against Rumania.
the Danube.
WAR
TO END NEXTËAUGUSTA
GENERAL BRUSSILOFF'S
PREDICTION.M.
THE CHINA MAIL.
do the Commander-in-Chiefs bidding or to furnish him with what he desires Out of the necessary chaos of a war that was unexpected, save by the Army and for prescient students, have emerged Armics in bich Booth Penda courage,
tenacity Australian LONDON, Sept. 11. Irish define ANDA.
The Daily Chronicle states that in anand Canadian Herce gallantry all interview Geners) Brusiloff asserts that their proper parta: Sir Douglas Hang the game is already won. The end will Afty-four years of age. Many of his
are greatly his junior. They are grave come next August.
and serious body of men who have in spired conádence. from one and of the ling to the nther. They are not dail; there is plenty of familiar badinage at the proper time. There is deep devation and loyalty in their labours. N
SIR DOUGLAS HAIG.
SOME IMPRESSIONS,
BY A RECENT VISITOR TO THE WAX IN THE "TIME"] When history, relates the story of the great battles of the Somme, it will tell how Bie Douglas Haig and his Staff had their Headquarters in a rendest dwelling, part of which was still occupied by the family who owned is
BLIGHTT ”
ORIGIN OF THE SOLDIERS"
WORD FOR HOME -
A good deal of curiosity is being ex pressed about the origin of the word Mr. JE Maolanus, the Blighty-r
editor of "the soldiers paper of that Hame, inform us that it was chosen för the title because it in the soldier's word for home o
It has been used by the Army in India, and by officers as well as men, for a long time,” he said recently ton representative at The Observer. We A TALISMAN OF STEINGIH, have had a great many correspondents It is said that most of them have and wating to us on the subject. One.} a little in their ceaseless mound of work decharts that the word means not home. and anxiety, but they are all at a period but abroad. He traces it to the Hindu of life when responsibility can beat be borne
War, says Sir Douglas Hai Velati. He tells us that Hindus word Valath," the genitive of which in "la a young man's game He made that remark in regard to General Tren-peak of soda water as Belati pani, chard's onng airmen of whom all
meaning foreign water, and says that the front are so proud. soldier who going belati' means going abroad. had fought in the frat battle of p pree spoke to me of the Command-in-Chief as
follows:
"A cultured Parsee lady on the. other hand, writes:
i
that the troops are going to the first Moreover, they are stil(south of times larger than that of the great The Commander-in-Chiefs presence was 1 Cheford Eriglish Dictionary, replying to
lias prepared to hold out for a week without communication, while pigeon carriers have replaced telephones at the front and reur, owing to the lines being regularly smashed up ally aven the pigeons fail
Occation-
THE BRITISH FRON
FRONT.
LONDON, Sept. 11.. Sir Douglas Haig reports: Two enemy counter-attacks at Ginchy have been repulců.
•
RUSSIAN OPERATIONS IN
BULGARIA..
BUCHAREST, Sept. 11. The Russians have severed the
to
Thus it is that the voices of children runting up and down the corridors mningin with the senseless murmur of the guns and the work of the earnest little company of men whose labours are never out of the thoughts of their countrymen throughout the Empire.
The head of this band of brathors, the Army 10 Commander-in-Chief of an Duke, is Sir Douglas Haig, well known troops s from the bass to the front to the though hardly known at all masses of his fellow-subjects
these days of subjects at home tion by telephone, dispatch rider, tele graph or wireless, a great part of the life of the Commander-in-Chief is spent at his Headquarter offices. In times of stress be rarely moves from them. Out wardly the life of Sir Douglas Haig might
soom to be that of some great estates himself.
if
"It was just when the Germans had Vilaget is the Peran word for broken our line and little parties of our home. The popular corruption of this men were retreating, that moment word in Hindustamis Blast. The Sir Douglas Haig, the commanding the adjective is Vilayeti, meaning of home First Corps, came along the Menin rond in Persian meaning cf. Thomas with an escort of his own 17th Lancers, Atkins, with a fine scom for grammar all as beautifully turned out as in peace and pronunciation makes the word time. The approached slowly, and
and the effect upon our retreating-men was Bilati or Blighty which to him means instantaneous As Sir Douging advanced England his home g they gathered and followed him. In theIt is enough for us," Mr. MacManus event the Worcesters attacked Chelavalt, added that in the trenches Blighty," which had been taken by the enemy, whatever it's exact origin, means home, drove them out, and restored the lino.
Dr. Henry Bradley, editor of the and is a talisman of strength to
an inquiry, writes: are the last night of:
visit to this I see no reason to doubt little company I was walking with one nisa of the common quote the correct watching Blighty is a corruption of the ordinary gardens, wat the dashing of the guns, which looked Hindustani word for Europe. Io. Yuls like summer lightning dickering con- and Burnell's Jobson, 1996, the angli tinuously. We had been things other than war, though cised form is given as Binyut: Billait, was never out of our bars, for the thrbet (sic). This may be taken as indi bing was perpetual. It was late, for the cating that the more corrupt form, warm night was a temptation to sauter Elights, was not known in 1886.
should think it probably cames not
from the adjectival derivative Bilayati, European as in Bilayati pani, Euro- pean water that is, soda water.
war
railway (in Bulgaria) ruaning towards Scotch; laird who chooses to direct his ing and exchange of view half on our directly from the proper naine, but
Dobrudja (the Rumanian seaboard province) while the Russian Fleet are bombarding.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
A WAR IN THE AIR.
THE ARMOURY OF A FIFER.
As we passed through the way upstairs the door of the Commander in-Chief's room was open. We paused At exactly five and twenty minutes for a moment to watch him bending over past & each morning Sir Douglas joins the mag on which-the whole world is bis immediate Staff at the usual informal gazing today, the map which he is slow- breakfast of English life. Though he ly and surely altering for the benefit bas selected, his Staff without foar or of civilization and the generations un favour for the best elements of the born. He was about to begin his nightly British Armies that have been tried for vigil.
two years
as in the field there is something
in the atmosphere! Scottish
Small hostile detachments attempted an altack hear Moquet Farm and in the vicinity of Pozieres, but were driven off. We entered enemy trenches in several places between Neuville St. Vast NCREASED AERIAL ACTIVITY of Fife, so that the spear of our British
and La Basser Canal and,tock priseners.
THE FRENCH FRONT. ..
PARIS Sept. 11. Several of the enemy attacks reported in the last communiqué were accom panied by liquid fire..
Our agroplanes bombed important military factories south of Bruges with
ON ALL FRONTS.
LONDOS, Sept. 11, A feature-of-the-commninipis is the increasing aerial activity on all the fronta, which is developing literally into a war in the air
In the fighting at close quarters on the French front, machine-guns are taking a prominent part.
indefinably The Commander-in-Chie
of his
PROSPEROUS EAST END...
DISAPPEARANCE OF WORKLESS.
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"The modern Indian language turns or w into b, and there can be no doubt that Bilayat represents the Arabic wila
ab, a province, governed territory (in: its Turkish for usually transliterated villayet) etymologically related to wate, governor. In Persian the word wilayah came to mean foreign country,' and the specifically Indian application as a namo for Europe is a very natural further step
The authority adds. the suggestion that the likeliest source of information gle Judging from outward signs a star of respecting the early history of the Anglo prosperity has risen in the East End of Indian word would be the recollections London writes a correspondent who has of veteran officers of our Indian Army returned to London after two
It is certainly in Indian publications abroad.
Fis there an Indian Punch" he asks- Sir Douglas does not waste words. It
that I should expect to find the carliest. Last Sanday afternoon I took a printed evidence for the word is not, because he is silent or unsympa thetic-it is because he uses words ae he
Sir George Birdwood, one of the best uses soldiers, sparingly, but always with Canning Town of Commersal authorities on India and Hindustani, subject, as in talking of his gratitude to I marveled at the change. In the sum The word 'Blighty is a corruption and admiration of the new armies and their officers, OF in testifying to the stub mer of 1914 there were deep poverty and by our British soldiers in India of the born
bravery
very of the German machine-strite rista, throughout the East God. Hindustani word vilayti. sometimes guaners, it is not difficulty to discera Bare-legged, badly clothed, ill-courished protonuced by Indians themselves as from his accent that he is what is known children filed the sluzi, sullen, work-wilagti and bilayti; meaning literally, In numerous air-fights on the Rign North of the
Eiter. Tweed
lesa mer stond the street corners, front the Germans were always beaten Fifer one of the many ruze
people near the confines of India that have helped to build up the women were receiving charity to feed that is foreigners this term being Romanian agroplanes have bombed the stocked with pledges on t
Ppire and is
is probably the best of their families, the pawnshops were over-applied by save Indians to Persians, Turks and English men. The word is of all the armoury of the Fifer Now all is changed. Well-shod, wan: formed of the Arabic vala, used by the patience, then oblivion to all external
good effect, and also cantonments and / attacking Chaulnes made two journeys method. When he is interested in his Road and the Fast India Dosk Road, add) whom we have also consultan, saya ime!
ammunition depots.north of Semmepy, causing violent explosions. Serious damage was also done to the parracks and aerodrome at Sarrebourg.
GRIPS 'SUNK.
Many of the French aeroplanes to replenish their bombs.
Seven aeroplanes raided the Kovel Rojistehe railway. A Russian armator tackled two of the enemy machines, which fled."
off.
Turtukai.
LONDON, Sept. 11. The British steamer Lezit and foren soras Greek merchantmen have been sunk.
MARRIAGE OF THE NEW" EARL KITCHENER'S" SON.
LONDON Sept. 11.
Viscount Broome, only, son of the
FRENCH AIR-SQUADRON FIGHTS FORTE ACTIONS.
A communiqué atatea pim A French air-squadron on Saturday fought forty actions, inflicting beavy Ковбел.
1.9
surroundings and pressure, with a fed children looted smart in their un
preme concentration on the object to day hast, there was an air of alertness and be attained. Fifeshire is the hoine of the prosperity about the men; women gazing
affairs,
Contented, and "cheerful.
Ambs themselves of Arabin,"
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In these days of war economies the
brilliant example of 6 certain Householders
Fnadibualicum
game of Scotland; and it the
15 on the traffic from fat windows looked imperturbability of eat in golf, in
of the Fifer that makes PARIS, Sept. 11. him so difficult to beat in
ani in war. Eehind the dourness of the. The motor omnibusies for Wanstead man of the East Coast is the splendid
and Epping Forest were crowded chiefly The Retch publishes the following enthusiasm that occasion sometimes by well-dressed girls who, while still dis significant letter which was found in the The Singapore Free Pren of the fith demand, though there is no undae depression or clations at an anexpected playing their chareteristic and gorgeous pocket of a German officer who was inst., says bunker.or On Saturday night the air-squadrons leven pausually fortunate colouring and elaborate headgear, wore killed in one of the battles on the Styr Soon after Sunday midnight fame with a genius for labour saving. mechani by expensive blouses and ornate boots. In front towards the end of June For broke out aboard, the motorship Glenore cal devices is worthy of wider notice abas doachment on the Drinsk front, and middle wharf at Tanjong Pagar, where mathaniel maid whose punctuality and the Austrian front. serious fire which damaged her and her Precisely is the alarm goes off in the
The letter, which was addressed to cargo an considerably. Preparations for his wife, made it clear (mys the Central the salvage work had been well ad morning she lights the fire, in due time but the vessel is now once more boils the kettle, releases the gnf front criticisms of the Commander-in-Chief MR. LEOPOLD FRANK'S BLANKER NAWs Petrograd correlpondent) that he roded, and has a broken cofferdam afted the kitchen cupboard, and opens, the door- at home mainly because the majority
was about to be sent to Vilna Eeferring the people know nothing about him. He
to events on the Austries front, he Bald
It the news that has reached us of the
present Efi Kitekener, has been marriep dropped 450 bomba on stations in the war with the little family place of the old rabbit (urs there were four months: he had worked with hisney; in course being raised at the it has yet received. Elu hae invented # to Adels," daughter of Major Montns, of region of Chauny, also on Ham and party at Headquarters there came news to be seen many handsome and expensus then his division was hastily removed to she was scuttled during the recent efficiency have never failed him "yes"
Ringvouk, Dover
Lord George Hamilton, in a speech at the reception, mentioned that the bride- groom's father, although" a septringen arian was doing-good work in East Africa
HINDENBURG.
EIS DIVINE APPOINTMENT
As long agons June an inspired poem pared in the semi-official N. D. Alige. cinc eitung. It reads like a satire, but is evidently seriously intended, shough to many it will read blasphemo ons The latter lines read,
Almighty, hear The hour draws nears Daagera beset the Fatherland.
Last,
West, are grinning shapes of fear,
The enemy's bloodthirsty band...
south of Peronne, Numerous fires were that was good and some that was not observed
ENEMY ATTACKS ON BERNEY FAIL.
80
good. Neither affected the Commander speciments of white fur." To-Chiefs attitude
the war or towards the day's work, in the least degree what ever. There are all sorts of minor
of
PARIS, Sept. 11.
A communiqué states -Two German
falled.
is probably not
Xnot interested in home com "ments, but is concerned that the Karpire
-STOCKS.
A succession of small outbreaks of fire for the milkanah, before the humen lä- seems to have been due to the spon-mates of the house have risen from Lar taneous combustion of chemical become exposed to the air. The firemen is solid lack.. A correspondent who knows" attacks south-west of Bernay completelylour of his officers and men Con- shortage of blankets, Jargely due to the events on the Austrian front is only halad to get busy once more, and their the inventor vouches for it. De astas.
valou know of the unprecedented Singapore has been sufering from
statices as these have from time to time beds. This sounds like a fairy tale, ban
sequently the doings of the Army xhsition of the reserves usually stocked correct even then the position is horr efforts were soon attended with good of the house acts the contriraud with the frankness that is part of
all our pisze for the present summer yesterday from the place where
"GERMAN FOOD PROBLEM..
CUTTING DOWN RATIONS.
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 11 The German Food Dictator Batock
#8
rising
are put before the world each day in the warehouses of the wholesale firms.e because it not only disorganises results though smoke 62 overnight and the mechanical maid dose Sir Dougins Haig's own character.There is at feset on firm in London, but threatens as with great danger. outbreak had occurred, but the rest, without the post hypnot He is opposed to secrecy, except where capable and ready to day to dispose of The Russians facing us on the Dvinak The pump will two days of hard which seem so be recomanry in the case
be got to work again geation or say of the other. military necessity occasions it. He dis the most urgent and most comprehensive front are extremely strong, and the wo had prior to
night likes secret reports on officers. Those...
missdof the ordinary maids who visit him are treated with great demands. M. Leupold Frank, whose same may be said of the Rigs front
Some difficulty
Toan aura to the owing to the and there is always a suitable connection with the wholesale trade hasIt is dangerous for us to remove a is likely to bo replying to criticisms on the clitting selection of guests at Headquarters to extended over 30 years, hos in his several single man from here, and yet wo are ship being held at the after end, by nie beds trigger down of food, says that it is false to bring variety to the meal times of those warehouses thousands of blankets and being sent off Hugo will give you this considerable gap in the quay wall made which, when the arts ees off imagine the harvest is a record one took they are interested in any rugs, zeka ore stocked in different letter, and will tell you of our frame of as a result of the fire, and by the grind
vessel
rations in Berlin are at present, half
car
Candour
* who are engaged in their all-absorbing
Thus have they sworn, the German folk shortage of labour and manres medical transport, artiller top of wool, and also selection of camant of the Austrians, but how can we com
Utterly to annihilate
they are invited to ask questions and,
Roal-armed they come with poison-smoke. I pound of meat and"nie pounds of possible, to suggest In many large har rugs. Buah ugs run to five sizes. low-sparited, and am tortured by evil"}
They come with gold and lice and hata, potatoes.
Help us for if thou helpet is not, All-merciful! the end is nigh
And these that for Thy kingdom fought
Most whelmed in all disaster die."
The All-Father bent His quiet eye.
And cised a slow majestic hand Behold in shining panoply
The Archangel Michael before him
stande. How deia the flamin
flaming falchion glance!
A salean frown and wrath divine fits on that heavenly countenance, Thus, God commands: A mortal be, Kichab while on earth below. Lead Gertian hosts to vistory, And site the overweening too! Sed like the lightning'
He spoke; and, The mesings fashod, and hope
General Hindenburg is made Supreme Commender in the East 1 The Kaiser's order 1 Sword in band
d'in Caren
burg like are unbound,
venly ardoors fanbed
rited round chivalr
from God
THE BALKANOJ
BULGARIANS EVACUATING
VARNA
hooses of business there is a
suggestion
specialties in blankets and rugs of cot. The soldiers are not told of the defest ceal this feel very depressed and box in which the staff or employees are blankets to eight, and camel hair rugs to presentiments invited to put forward their ideas in two sizes. Blankets are daily necessities. ↑ P writin is such an institution in the army, but certainly all sorts of new ideas are dis cussed at the table at General Head
carters in every case
I do not know whether there and in Fiew of the Hizuited supplies, whole.
sale merchants should to use this JAPANESE MACHINERY opportunity to lay in stocks, and secure.
ments.
done 1" takes procedence of so goods to meet their future require- Mr. George Scidmore American
that the Com Nor, despite the fict that PETROGRAD, Sept. 11. mander-in-Chief is a. Caralry "otheer, The Bulgarians aro evacuating Varna does he show any obsession with the arm (their chief Black Sea port).
with which the roster part of his, mill- tary life has had to dent Surrounded by a group of the best experts our Em-
RUMANIANS BOMBARD BULGARIAN – pire can provide, most of whom have
TOWNS.,
had 24 months war experience, he is conference with them from morning late at night. During his daily exert BUCHAREST, Sept. 11 ride he had one or other 4 his staf It is officially enpooned that the experts with him. The wonderful s Rumanians are bombarding Widdin, tem of communication. Lota Palanka and Rahors, which are in throughout the leng fame
bis zone, has linked up tary mac
inst the
WAREHEAVY FIGHTING
On the muniqué continue Toplitz
We do
380
nhed
able
the vesse
aattip of sand-paper
fire, on which the
position. At a certain progress wiring buz fastening the door whereupon tha
HERR HOUSTON CHAMBERLAIN.
ENEMY DOES NOT AFFEOVE OF HIM
nar misters and
bailing
what t
Houston Stewart Chamberam, who for All goods, are
Consul General at Yokokens, reports to was recently reported by Beuter to have mileman lara shipment and cabled orders bis Government that clacmals of the become a German subject, is sharply partic
rebuked by the Frankfurter Zeitung on British merchants will secure a Mitsui Buatan Kaisha are quoted as says me of propriety in not
not holding his
·X they fa no postpon
ofing that the exports of machinery are go
regarding their duties. Leopold Frank ing to figursvery prominently in Japan tongue and daring to lecture the Ger
Jazy sament appears
trade returns partly because Japan's The immediate cause of the
dquarters!
reet. Wood Street
with
ed throu
joe-making industry has lately furter Zeitung's anger is an achieved a striking development, and written by Mr. Chamber partly or account of the influence of the man paper, in which that sober politic war on Europe's trad
ties in the germand, who thin
Pobjectivity and
Equipments for tories, which have so far been supplied ategy work
day