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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1916,
THE WAR.
A
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
(Reuters Service to the China Mail.)
THE WESTERN FRONT.
HEAVY RAIN IN SOMME REGION.
RENEWED 'RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE IN GALICIA.
RUSSIANS VIGOROUSLY ATTACE- SITUATION UNCHANGED.
ING GERMANS AND TURKS, Loknow, Sept. 10. General Sir Douglas Haig reporta:
PETROCELIT, Sept. 19, With the renewal of the Ruslan. In the neighbourhood of Riche fansite in Galicin, the bruns of the bourg and „La Roue watered. enemy 'trenches in three plus,ghting has been transferred from capturing prisoners and dietid Southwards to Northwards of Halice
many "casualties. ·
Our casualties are very slight." Heavy' continuous rains have fallen "during the last 25 hours and the
general situation is unchanged.
Since last night "five more of our "dersplines have failed
ATTACKS ON THE RUSSIAN SECTOR IN CHAMPAGNE,
1
PARIS, Sept.
A communiqut states:
Eurmy "attacks in Champagne
where General Stcherbatchof is vigor ously attacking Germans and Turks, while the Russians to the southward, who are faced by a most powerful system of defences, the capture of which would have involved pretreated positional warfare, are firmly holding the positions won.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
included fire on "the Russian sector PROGRESS OF THE ALLIES
-which-wer-everywhere- checked by barrage and machine-gun fre.
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MR. PIKE PEASE'S SON KILLED...
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Texas, Sept. 19. Lieutenant Renal Teise of the Coldstreams Charts, son of Mr. Pike Penaò," formerly the Unionist Whip and now Assistant Postmaster General, has hee killed
MILITARY PREPARATIONS IN HOLLAND.
DECLARATION BY THE QUEEN..
IN FRANCE
Jar lines
ENORMOUS GERMAN LOSSES OF FRENCH FRONT.
PARIS, Sept. 18, communiqué states:We carried a trench coat of Clery and repulsed enemy counterattacks hore, cass of Berny and south of Deniecourt with benvy enemy losses. Wa progressed: east of Berny and advancel to the eastern edge of Deniecourt, which is completely surrounded
We have taken up to the present 1,200 prisoners, and tot machine guns. The Germans made three violent
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE FIGHTING IN THE
A BALKANS.
ALLIES OCCUPY FLORINA.
SALONIKA, Sept. 18 The Allies have occupied Florina BULGARIANS FALL BACK IN DISORDER.
*RÜPERT" AND "ARCHIBALD,"
THORNS IN ENEMY'S FLESH.
Tho special correspondent of the Morning Post with the British army pays a special tribute to the qualities of Rupert. Who or what is Rupert! The following chars up the mystery — 3.
"One department of our air service is deserving of the highest praise-the LONDON, Sept. 18. kits balloon section. The kite-balloon, Salonika says the Bulgars are falling vation in the air. In the army it is A French ocial message from or sosage has a fixat post of obser back in disorder from Florian towards do not know, any more than anybody known 45 "Rupert Why Rupers I attacks south of Delecourt.
The losses of the 10th Ersatz Division with the French and Russian foceased Archibald I have visited Rupert's Monastir, following a desperate battle knows why the anti-aircraft gun is call- and the 125th German Reserva Regi- lasting the whole day of September 17 Retreat when he has been at home to ment at Berny yesterday were enormous, and the following night. The Bulgars his friends. He is rather an unconth Two battalions of the 38th Regiment of offered a furious resistance and fre looking object. He really does resemble the 11th Division
were almost an-quently counterattacked, the cavalry sausage in the air, with a caudal nibilated.
charging.
Appendage the utility of which may not The Serbs are progressing every where.in his head, and from his fixed position be disclosed. But he has wonderful eyes he is able to note the affecta of
Jong- range artillery dreina fashion which is extremely useful to the men at the ends
our guna
BRILLIANT FRENCH ATTACK.
ANOTHER 1,600 PRISONERS.
PARIS, Sept. 19.
FALL OF MONASTIR IMMINENT.
ATHENS, Sept. 19. The Bulgarians are fleeing from French, Russians and Serbiana, directed Monastir. The tail of Florina was the to an entitling movement by the
"Precisely how Rupert does his work I may not disclose. But he is a A communiqué states — Somme, captured a cluster of trenches
wonderful creation. It is only within the The French, in an attack north of the
past six months that he has been adopt- 260 yards south of Combies.
ed definitely as a trustworthy adjunct of by General "Cardonnier.
foar military service. I have counted Desperate fighting continued atgarians, in attempting to retreat from twenty-six of our Ruperts in the air The Bul within the purview of vision as many as French, riter capturing the village and by a murderous fire and broke in dis recognized his worth and use him freely. Deniscourt, south of the Somme. The the combined pressure, were decimated at one time. Uur French allies, too, have the last defenders, advanced a kilometre order, abandoning guns
The Germans, ikewise, Eave sausage southward in the direction of Alban- Thousands of Turkish and Bulgarian ver
Ба Достя, court. In simultaneous operations they passants joined in the Bight, increasing trading very large number of them we have succeeded in but captured a trench west of Deniecourt the pani
whereas ours
ours are 80 wall
protected south-west. and occupied several treaches to
age of accidents is infinitesimal. against enemy devices that the pervent
Over 1,600 unwounded prisoners have so far been counted as the result of two days' Eghting in this sector, including
25 officers.
There was reciprocal artillery activity in Champagne.
The French on the left bank of the Mense captured a trench on the southern slopes of Morthomaio.
THE BRITISH LAND
- DREADNOUGHTS,"
THE WORK OF THE NEW ARMOURED CARS.
LONDON, Sept. 18. General Sir Douglas Haig reports The general situation is unchanged A minor attack upon the elements of the enemy trenches east of Coarcelette | was entirely successful.
LONDON, Sept. 1 Feuter's Correspondent at Hend advanced appreciably here. The enemy quarters telegrapha that the advent of Mouquet Farm murder lover of heavy as the Tommies have dubbed the new entered one of our trenches west of the Tanka" or "Land Dreadnoughts," shelling, but were immediately Iriven armoured cars, has caused consternation out with lose. We have taken a further among the enemy and inspirited the portion of be enemy, trench system British. south of Thiepval. The enemy heavily The first to enter Flera bore a news shelled various parts of our line at paper placand on the side, on which was intervals during the night.
inscribed Great Hun Victory extra, A FURTHER BRITISH ADVANCE special edition. Eventually it put out of action a battery and a half of enemy Beld guns. This was followed by cheers and laughter from the Tommies?
Another sat at a dugout, whence a German battalion commander, emerged and surrendered.
LONDON, Sept. 19. General Sir Douglas Haig reports South of the Auere we made another important advance to-day un the Bouleaux Wood and Ginchy, styled strongly fortified German work between The Quad Interisland which has
were most curious
The Boche prisoners near Pozieres to learn of the
When the Alles entered Florine the German garrison, after a slight resist anco, fed
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The Allies are following on the heels of the Bulgarians towards Monastir, while another Serbian force is advancing north i Monzati The fall of this city 13 oxpected in a few days
THE RUMANIANS ADVANCE IN TRANSYLVANIA.
All her to Rupert and the bove men who daily ascend with him into the skies. He is a terrible thorn in the flesh of the enemy?
** OLD STICKFAST:"*.
AN INCIDENT AT THE FRONT..
LONDON, Sept. 18.
"Stickfast is the nickname of one of The Times correspondent, at the Ru- the oldest British privates fighting in manian Headquarters telegraphing on France. His exnet age is not known September 17, says the Russo Rumanian bus his hair; or what could be sour of it under his bandages for he was wound- forces in Dobrids are taking up strong od near Longueval is quite, white positions on the line from Rastva, ten his appearance generally is that of
and of a miles south of Tchernavoda, to Tuzla man well past middle-age. It is a safe
The Ramanians continua, to advance perjury when he enlisted. twelve miles south of Constańcza.a. in Transylvania and have occupied the
wager that he committed a gallant
town of Fogaras, taking 1,800 prisoners.
man never wora khak said the
led warmin soution
com Rumanians have reachek Szekelyud-never bowed it more than which we
A German commanqué states that the pital ship at Southamp
mander
per him on board & hos- varohl, fifteen miles north-cast, of Brassu. made a clean job of a bit of trench and And he
THE POSITION AT KAYALA...
...
Losnos, Sept. 18. Turkish civilians. At Kaval from the The Bulgarians bare armed the Greek arsenal
LONDON, Sept. 18.
dug-outs in a raid near Longueval. we had made all tidy car beutenant ordered as to retire We had not gone many paces when the lieutenant shouted: "Hi Where's old StickfThat's never known to fall outer give up. the nang we gave him because he was
Qurdieutenant ran back to the Boche trench velling Stickfast Loud enough 嘘が
way with helputed the
A Russian communiqué says: On the bolted like rabbits we couldn't see their
THE Hance, Sept. 10.
This is most significant in vius of the
o startle the Kaisers Three of us tol At the opening of the Slates
Bulgarian assurance that permanent General, Queen Wilhelmina declared
occupation is not intended
lowed him, 4 There was old "Stickfast that he is firmly resolved to defend
dating amoking a pipe, waiting for Bothes, and Boches came just at that moment, round the independence and rights hitherto resisted our efforts. I fell happenings at the sugar refinery, which
THE RUSSIAN FRONT.! the edge of the traverse, feeling their thinking we had Holland.
completely into our hands, resulting in a nest or machine guns, and which
Give' em gone. The Array is constantly thousand yards on a front of a mile. The fact is a Tank" coughing bullets, westeru Russian front there is nothing tails formoke. Old Stickfast' wouldn't
the advance of our line to a depth of a they were convinced was impregnable.
fieutenant. We did, tange Germans
Seven machine guns and namerone burst in the harricaded door, scattering important prisoners were taken in this most the sandbags, and disposed of the
Het so his rifle, so we had to yank it out In the Causaus Turkish attacks in of the big Boche he had askewered. Then successful operation
machine gunners most effectually. Then the region of the village of Adisa have wo drugged the old warrior away. He The enemy counterattacks north of the infantry marched in and took the been repulsed.
got wounded on the way back but we Flers were driven back with Joes and place unopposed. While the ungainly
had him ante. That liet tenant offiours we progressed. Hostile troops masing machine clumsily bumped out to con-
would have run to Berlin to get him." for a counterattack at Les Bocnts and tinue smashing the enemy defences.
A MEVALOA Morval were caught by artillery and dispersed.
strengthened.
THE ITALIAN OPERATIONS. PREPARING THE GERMAN PUBLIC
FOR BAD NEWS?
AMSTERDAM. Rpt. 10. “A bilogram in the Cologne Gazette boon captured since September 18:- The following additional guns have statea that the Italian attacks in the 3 heavy howitzers, 2 field guns, 3 heavy platoon of Komer, near Gorizia, Aur-and 3 light trench mortars and pass any hattle of the Italian cam?
number of machine guns. paign which has yet been fought They are only corpable with the Aghting in the west, or with the last
have been captured within the last Ten German officers and 500 men
twenty-four hours."
There was considerable serial activity yesterday, several enemy machines being are missing.
The French papers are enthusiastic regarding the Tank," which they atate
་ན་ are fitted with rams.
OBITUARY.
SIR LAUDER BRUNTON.
The Daily Mail says that this practical
W LONDON,, Sept. 18,4′ application of travelling lurts is de Lauder Brunton, Consulting Physician. The death is announced of Sir Thomas to Colonel Swinton, formerly the Official to St. Bartholomew's Hospital Eye-witness. They were constructed secretly in a Midland town.
A BRIGADIER-GENERAL KILLED.
LONDON, Sept. 18.
LORD RALPH KERR The death is announce of Lord Ralph Drury Kerr, R.CE
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NEWSPAPERS*** PRODUCED
UNDER FIRE.
It angme meals proof of the bound moval and high spirits. of the British army in the field, he may find it in a few extracts from the amp's trench journals. Of trench journals there is no end, and they come from every sort, of unit.
The
Whizz-Bang LB
His Lordship hds 70 years of age, had a military career. He joined the monthly organ" of the officer und
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Russian offensive. The Italians are driven down Four of our pachines Brigadier General H. F. H. Clifford Army in 1967 and reached the rank of men of the Durban Light Infantry.are this season is detailed in a report!
adopting General Brussikoff's tactics of making continuous assaults with denise masses of infantry
THE BALKAN ZONE.
BRITISH FRONT.
LONDON, Sept. 18.
D.8.0, has been killed"
The deceased officer was a younger TRENCHES PAYED WITH ENEMY brother of Sir Hugh Clifford, formerly of
the Malay States Civil Service CORPSES.
LONDON, Sept. 19.) Reuter's Correspondent at Headquar- ters says the feature of the ghting do September 15 and 16 was the colossal
THE PRIME MINISTER'S ELDEST BON KILLED.
LONDON, Sept. 18, Lieutenant Raymond Asquith, of the
In the title of the "Iodine Chronicle
The
estimate. If any event the actual result-of-the-barvests any not be so bad as predicted because, it is reported that in Oklahoma an increase by 15 per cent is expected over last season, in Texas an inerease by per cent, and in Arkansas by 5 per rept
FEELING THE PINCH."
ORDERS.
you catch the scent of the RAM.Ccently sunt home by the Deputy "Vics Patrol is run by a Japanese Consul-General at New York, new Canadian Battalion justly proud Mr. Akamata says that according REVELATIONS IN GERMANY KRMI of its recent affiliation to the
Victoris Rifles of Canadr
The Canadians are
to the official forecast published by the the most prolific pt trench journalists. Board of Agriculture on August 1 the Besides the Vies Patrol bring index number on July 25 was 72 per out the Trench Echo, vivacious battalion from Winnipeg the month. The estimated restilt of harveste Listening Post and several grower is also shown to be 1,350,000 bales less,
THE NEW GREEK CABINET
LONDON, Sept. 18. British diplomats consider that the new Greek Cabinet can only be satisfac, tory if it is made clear that it is a business and not & political Ministry. ATHENS Sept: 18.
and the
Forty-niner,"
Written
by a
the
blockade. This has been verified br Army Orders found on prisoners, a nipeg, the cont. sgainst el per cent of the previous Germany is feeling
pinch of the ingent British
lossus of the enemy, which are up Grenadier Guards, eldest son of the The new Foreign Minister yesterday more wantieth rosette" are-namen or 12,915,000 bales, 2000 pressing German soldiers with the fact A British official report from doubtedly record for a battle of Prime Minister, was killed in action on received congratulatory visits from the "Now and megimental The title of This last figure is the smallest wit that home-grown food must be made to
Salonika states.
Our pickets east of the Orljak bridge repulsed-an enemy attack.
Our aircraft bombed an enemy camp at Prosenik apparently success-
have been no developments the Doiran front...
SHIPS SUNE...:
·
GERMAN RETREAT » MOST PROBABLY."
it'
of the Entente Pow
LLOYDS AND PEACE.
Breat
go
as far as cent
the
In these journals, results of football had signs are noticed and crops, are soldiers
barcity of fodder
"frequent
held have one
similar duration. Enemy dead observed
is itself a frank connessed during the past forty sit years, numbered these of the British bight out. Raymond Asquith sna, 8 years on a wide front on Friday evening out September 15, but
posibleand each war în" dificulty, of coming out excepting 1909. The causes for this charge of a horse b. punctually to the day in a ti
in a time of to one...Whole trenches were literally of age. He had an even more distinguish
pushes. The "Brazier is full of happy decline in the result of the season's the animal is kept strictly within the pared with corpses.
Associations for ald in midwin- operations are to be found in the allowance it will be impossible to hold ed recced at Oxford than his father.
dwellers ter trepcbox Like his father also be, chose the legal
and suggestive
ve all of its picturesque weather conditions and blighting dis-sit to the end. There
all that
eases. Though in Tennessee on the allusions profession, being called to as Bar at the
Dead Horse Corner Gazette."
in the West banks of the river Mississippi, no The Paris edition of the New York Louer Temple in 1004. He was Junior Herald has the following London dis matches behind the lines are tabulated rather good, in other places, the East Fration of 1lb. 1002
I meal and two mir
minor es daily, Conusel for Great Britain in the North patch in its issuo of August 12th
the basis of all threa next prospects, discussed
being thread
huster Hague, in 1911, snd Junior Counsel town Lloyd's, peace may be expected which in the Britis, and plenty been quite unfavourable, frequent kedry allowance of coffee or tea Atlantic, Flabories. Arbitration 86 The Fadging/ by opinions expressed just There is any amount of posing on topics banks at the Misiasippi and Louisians Prace 100% head h...sta
Expeditionary
in particular weather conditions have each sider receives a fairly liberal the Inland Revenue in 1914. He mar
toward the close of next-year.
Force never grow old or
midday ried in 1907 a daughter of Sir John underwriters, who are quoting 30 guiness at all trench journalism is not lit Florida, Mississippi, and Alshame, and from shoz to 7oz if it be frosh and That, at least, is the impression of of good humoured caricatures and comic rains having heen witnessed. In the bo on the ring-lime, he generally Harner. There are two daughters of the percent to ease For inquiries morous Behind, much of the thunft, too in some districts oven floods threatesset from soz to sloz. if tinned. T
illustrations.
early, part of July typhoons visited oves s hot meal of ment and vige marriage.]
tables, the Tuent distribution varying to December 3 marle of Alesdifly Lustrance broker the can be read plainly the passionate de- Fall Wall Gauti learns that in the termination of
The rege these circumstances crops have been beans Potatoes are a rarity. In the gravaly affected, while growers evening the soldier is given coffee or tom activities were bampered to no small and margialade, and ocassionally butter degree
SEA or cheese. The daily meat ration, Buse At the end of July, Alabama showed what it was in the early part of the wer over has been reduced to one-half of a declina ta its cropa by 25 per cent, and. Each san may draw two cigars and two Mississippi by 20 per cent. Georgia and Cigarettes a day.
ayline and bro
-bees are
have been sunk. The Tat-cablo to New York from Berlin that it THE OPERATIONS IN EAST AFRICA case of a policy covering the period to sent business my about its pre-Blighting diseases also were noticed. In tables are usually; barley, ricolor haricot".
NEWS FROM BERLIN.
LONDON, Sept. 19.
LONDON, Sept. 19. steamer Deun, and Lord Carl Wiegand, has been permitted to The German American correspondent,
is most probable that the Germans ou the Somme, will have to retreat at various peinta te the result of a "tremendous and splendidly executed INTERNAL LOAN. Anglo-French attackHe says it will not be surprising if Peroane and Combles fall to the Allies:
ser was on a Toyage from New York
Bombay."
NEW
ZUSSIAN
PETROGRAD, Sept. 10, A new Internal 5 per cent. Lont
of £800,000,000 sterling, redeemable
in ten years, is to be issued in October at 95.
INFL
OF THE FRICE OF SHELLAS.
he Unperal Gove
CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY
THIS remedy has no superior as cine for colds, cran whoopies
YOUTH'S DYE DISCOVERY;
the crud of the present year the rate BRITISH OCCUPY THE LAST
quoted is 85 guiness, percent, While taken out
for three months later a policy. REMAINING PORTS
would rule at 70 guinte per cent. The Patel to ruiness to June 30, 1917, or 10 LONDON, Sept. 1 grine cent lest If the ame be
extended to September of next year Alexander Ca General Smute report that the Expressed in tabular manner, the uncha who has fronted for fine British have ocospied Lind and derwriter: Lloyd's are willing to pa dye, which la being acccessfully exploited Mikindani, the last remaining porta held losses at the following rater fpedice is often entis haremment, his returned by the Germans in East Afriend declared between England and Germany to London after brief holiday with
The occupation was affected by Nared at the dates specified men, marines and African troops Small
per cent. Hols being paid £660 quarterly, but The lowness of the official estimate On mextless German forces have retired inland.
As he is a winer the balk of the money is being invested for him{},
The enemy has been dislodged t
the Uguru Hila, having lost zasny
It has been a favorite with the methors men dad, quantity of stores and most
of young children for almost forty year
of his artillery and ammunition
Charoberlain's Cough Remedy can al Ramante of the enemy have retired to
ways be depended upon and is pleasant toitake
It not only cares colds and grip, but preverite their resulting in pneumonia.
Chamberlain's Cough Rem
Contum or other
the south-east, absaddning 65 Germans, of whom were sick, and agreral lige prisoners:
West of the Ulugara Hill Goneril is approachrag the wrest
Maxienge and
Dec 30, 1913
Mar:# Jude
Elopt. 30
Dec 31, 1917.
Florida presented a decrease by 2, and sated at frequent interval youthful Irish
11 per cent respectively In South A captured Order issued to the th Carolin, Arkarina, and Texas the Reserve Corps on stay 31 explains that damage amounts to for cent. Per sution, it is now neceuary
order that our stocks of enttlerowy
Jane day an
Gumesej a relative ätiWhite Abbag: Bálfast cent and 3. por cont., respectively cỗ go 16 days nearly thoz of vilinge
TREATMENT FOR DYSENTERY RHAMBERLAIN'S Colle
Bernedy' follo close at castor of trill effecti
good for sumÍ ZROK
caused some surprise, though it was dour and 2log of dried fruits a anticipated to touch at least 75 to 77 An Order issued by the General Sur per cent, while the most pessimistic of Sixth Army Corp commands is
all predictions was se low ss 74.4 per and men to draw ne more than: cent. Therefore, inimidiately free and if anythi the publication of the official estimatesis dot estable prices began to rise and on August
FIRING LIBIZ-CROPA-FROM
BRITISH
ing line near previo
over to eat it at the next
nything fit 14
Cother purp scraps, and deliver Tud
the Order