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TUNSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1816.
THE
LATEST
WAR.
TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)`
GERMAN SUBMARINES OFF FRENCH FAUXILIARY
"A CRUISER TORPEDOED,
AMERICAN COAST.
THREE SUBMARINES AT WORK."
NINE SHIPS REPORTED SUNK.
NEW YORS, Oct. 9.
The Nantucket Lightship reports that nine ships have been sunk and that three submarines are working.
A passenger from the Stephans states that according to the officers, the Stephans was attacked by 061.
NEW YORE...et. A.
NEARLY 2,000 FRENCH AND “SERBIANS ABOARD....,
PARIS, Oct. 0.
A French auxiliary cruiser with nearly 2,000 French and Serbians aboard has been torpedoed.-
So für 1,862 have been landed or the southern coast of Sardinia..
inst. A torpedo from a subraarine The cruiser was sunk on the 4th
exploded in the cruiser's powder magazine and destroyed the wireless apparatus, thus isolating the vessel.
The rafts on which the shipwrecked, with survivors and crew of the crew sought safety were met on the 5th Kingaton-possibly it is the Kingainst by a French cruiser.
Ainerican destroyers are now apeeding to Newport and Boston
Yonian, which is not accounted for.
The 1753 left Newport on Satur. ! day evening. Early on Sunday. morning she encountered the Ameri can steamer Kansan, inspected her papers and allowed her to presed.
“At 8 o'clock she met the Strath- Žene and torpedoed her after the crew had taken to the boats,
The West Point was sunk at 11.45,
only ten miles south of Nantucket
The Stephans was suck at 4.30 She had 10 passengers on bourd from St. John's. Presumably she was warned, for all got off safely and were picked up liter..
The Stephano was still afloat late at night, but badly damaged.
The Kingston was sunk, at 6 o'rlock. Then the Bloomeradijks, hound from New York to Rotterdam with wheat for the Netherlands Government, and then the Christian Knudsen, laden with oil from New York to London."
The news of the raid "sprend rapidly. Numerous steamers various porte ready to sail remained
at
In part where wireless warnings were Rent.
THE FIGHTING ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.
ENBMY'S LINES FORCED.
LONDON, Oct. 9.
A Russian communiqué states: Stubborn fighting continues in the direction of Vladimir Volyrisk where in some places we formed the enemy's lines and are consolidating our gains.
We repelled the enemy offensive Gift of Brezczany and fortified our newly-occupied positions in Dobridjs.
In the Caucasus region we continued our successful operations near Ognat
Chamirian.
THE RUMANIAN CAMPAIGN.
GERMANS CLAIM RECAPTURE "OF BRASSO.
AMSTERDAM, 'Oct. 9.
A Berlin oficial announcement claims the recapture of Brasso.
A Vienna official announcement claims
Many at sen were scurrying for the re-occupation of Szekely arboly the three-mile limit or outside in Transylvania.
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- steamer lanes, for roundabout routes
towards their destinations.
AMERICAN PRESS INDIGNANT.
The newspapers are indignant at "this Prussian warfare in American waters" and "ge that it is the "Goverment's highest duty to go any if Germany desires to incur the
length to end it. They affirm that
wrath of the United States that is the most effectual means of doing so.
GERMAN SUBMARINE'S VISIT TO NEWPORT, U.§.A.
SPECULATIONS AS TO HER MISSION.
NEWPORT, U.S.A., Oct. 9. The German submarine U53 was seventeen days on the voyage. She ia 200 feet in length and is equipped" with a particularly strong wireless installation, two guns and four tor
"THE HUMANIAN ADVANCE- TEMPORARILY CHECKED.
LONDON, Oct. 9. The Times correspondent at the Rumanian Headquarters reports that the advance has been temporarily checked owing to the arrival of
enemy reinforcements and the fact
to Dobrudia.
..
THE WESTERN FRONT.
ACTIVITY ON BRITISH FRONT.
LONDON, Oct. 9. General Sir Douglas. Haig reports; We progressed and established posts Feast of Le Sacs in the direction pr
Buttede Warlencourt.
We successfully discharged gas at different points from north of the Anere. The enemy's reply was feeble and our patrols were able to enter the trenches and secure prisoners.
..
We carried out several raids on the enemy's trenches in the usighbourhood. of Neuville St. Vaast and Loos, in- ficting many casualties and taking prisoners.
THE CHINA MAIL.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
BRITISH ADVANCE ON THE STRUMA.
MORE BRITISH CAPTURES.
LONDON, Oct. 9. The British official Salonika, com muniqué saya:-
Our advance on the Strums continues with little opposition.
We have occupied three more villages further north.
A BRILLIANT ACHIEVEMENT.
LONDON, Oct N Reuter's Correspondant with the British Macedonian Headquarters
reports:-
Our guns are terribly punishing the Bulgars in the Strums operations." "Our losses are quite small in comparison. Our BRITISH GAIN FURTHER GROUND.;ground littered with enemy corpses Teomanry in one region found the They counted over 300 st one spot. "Our anccess is a brilliant achievement.
LONDON, Oct. 9...
Sir Douglas Haig reports that ground has been gained north of
taken Stuff Redoubt and 200 prisoners
Engmy trenches were taken south of Artus.
"
THE FRENCH FRONT.
FAR EASTERN NEWS,
(Router'a Service to the China Maît.)
THE NEW JAPANESE CABINET.
TOKYO, Oci. 9.
In the now Cabinet Count Terau- cht will be Premier and Minister of Finance, and Buron Motono, Minia- ter of Foreign Affairs. There is no change in the Ministries of War and
Marine.
JAPAN AND CHINA.
BESUMPTION OF NEGOTIATIONS,
PESING, Oct. 0.
vacancy in the Ministry of Foreign After a long delay, due to the
Affairs, the pegotiations arising out
heen re-opened. of the Chengcbiatung incident have
us under ideal conditions the enemy fell In a, attempted Bulgur attack into a trap. They bad to creas an
It is stated that the Chinese open plain in full view of massed batterich, who fally used their Government has adopted a concilia- opportunity. The Infantry also wertory attitude and accepted in pria- splendid, especially in the night counter-ciple all the Japanese demands, attacks. One regiment at Jenikow
tenaciously held hastily-repaired trenches except the establishment of police in face of deadly fre. Finally by steady stations and the employment of accurate rifle fire they beat off a strong military advisers.
attack. PARIS, Oct. 9.
A communique states: The night has been quiet on the north of the Somme and reciprocal hombardments have taken place south of the Somme.
There has been a lively enemy bombardment at Chany-sur-Matz in the Roye, district. Our artillery replied.
FIGHTING IN THE MOUNTAINS.
AUSTRIANS CHASED DOWN THE PRECIPICES.
ROME, Oot: 9
An official communiqué states that artillery activity is increasing along the whole front.
A violent attack on Peak 2456 at Bukhaalta forced back our right wing, but the arrival of reinforce ments led to the enemy being-driven. out and chased down the slopes of the precipices, losing very heavily.
THE LATEST GERMAN
LOAN
RESULT APPROACHES A FINANCIAL REVERSE:
ZURICH, Out. D. Swiss financiers, regard the results of the German Lody as unsatisfac Gory, even approaching a financi)
reverse.
£2,000
BRITISH STEAMERS TORPEDOED
打
OFF NEW YORK......
ST. Jous's, NEWFOUNDLAND, Oct. 9
The British, steamer Slephano, “3,300 tons, has been torpedoed off New York. Thirty Americans, including four women, were on board.
NEW YORK, Oct: 9. All those on heart the Stephane have been saved.
LATEE.
The West Puini tas sunk..
MORE SHIPS SUNK.
LONDON, Oct The steamers Kingston (British). Bloomarpdyk (Dutch), and Christian Knudsen (Norwegian) have been sunki
All those on board the above steamers
except some of the Kingston's crew have been saved.
NO TEARS IN ENGLAND.
MR. S. S. McCLUBE, ON AN INCREDIBLE PEOPLE.
(Wah Tax Yat Po's Sercice.)
GRAND REVIEW OF THE TROOPS AT PEKING.
PERING, Oct
A grand review of the troopa took plice to-day in celebration of the anniversary of the outbreak of the first Revolution at Wuchang. **
Machine-gans and artillery lined the principal streets and aeroplanes few over the city.
CHANG FAN TO BE IMPEACHED.
PERING, Oct. 0.
A Bill is to be introduced in Parlia ment impeaching Chang Fan for lewissness in collecting local taxes; for treasonably harbouring advocates of the late monarchical movement; for dispatching insolent telegrams to the Central Government and for. plotting against the Republic.
Chang Fan has tendered his Pursuing his stadly of contemporary resignation as Military Governor of civilizations, which has already.occupied Anhui, but asks to bo allowed to him fifteen years, Mr S. F. McClure is DEce again in England, says the "Ob server" of a recent date, and has kiven a. Press
representative his impressions of
I the effects of the war.
upon English people
I have
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Eve
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IN MACEDONIA.
gain ground at one point and be decisively defeated at another only a mile or two À DIFFICULT CAMPAIGN.
sway, without knowing what was taking place. The nature of the ground, in fact, Me. E. Ashmead Bartlett, saye a brief tive on the part of subordinate commanda
gives endless scope to a diaphy of inftig description of the character of the countryers and to commanders of batteries, but over which the operations in the Near imposes the greatest difficulties cur East will take place may not be out of those in supreme command.
They point out that Germany's wur expenditure to the end of
A novel application was made at the Mixed Court at Shanghai last September amounted to
lions were covered by the four pe will have by the end of the war,
No less wonderful to my mind, is week in connection with an epium case, sterling, of which only £1,825 mil-working ability of the people,
the development of the reserves of the by the solicitor for the defence, who ious loans, leaving a floating debit of million wouen who, for the first time obtaining a comet son arose in the case
What
hat sought to obtain a commission for the interests me most is that you have, or taking of evidence in Hongkong relative 1 to the possibility or impossibility of $775 millions, which will be increased have had the mental and physical The application
development and uplifting that eames of Kau Ah-sung, who is charged with at the next meeting of the Reichstag from earning money and training in 340 End that several Divisions have been so when another"War Credit must be work. In addition, you will ̈
the 340 Eiukiang Rondossession of demanded
four million trained men survivors from Mr G. D. Museo and Mr R.F.C. Master The Rumanians now hold a strong
the battlefields, who will have had thee for the defents harrohet i place at the present time. This part of
for the
prosecution and Mr G. natural defensive line from Predeal the Loon had little support from the moral training required for soldiers
German advices go to show that derived from the physical, mental sad been brought againss his client.at: the Macedonia strongly resembles the High-
educational advantage. Wright
Mr Wright said that the Pass south of Brasso to Orsova with industrial and commercial circles there will be many millions of men and with. He submitted that the presecu with open patches more susceptible to provides successive lines of defence, which "The most interesting renle is that end of July and had not been proceeded lands of Scotland, minus the lakes, and defence. The jumbled antars of the lis The youths who will have advanced from tion had had ample time to proceed and cultivation. The hills and mountains must be carried one after another; the from skiled work, so that something between dismissed
quimportant commonplace labour to asked that the case should now bowlck rise to considerable height dead ground provides excellent apporta to and 15 millions of the population will Mr Musso, in reply to the Court and places to nearly 4,000, asume no well-sities for counter-attacks, or the suddett made an enormous mental and phy- that the case had not been tried before defined formation but seems to have been entlading of an efficking force; whilst {sical advance.
because the Court had not had time to thrown from the skies to fall at random the artillery commanders have ideal posl In walking Losos,
through your cities of take it when it was brought up and no Manchester, Laverpool, Birming date for bearing it had been fixed,
on this troubled soil; some are well tions for indirect fra everywhere a ham and other places I have been struck The Assessor said he thought the pro-wooded and green with small trees and hand. There are but few roads worthy a new alertness, a sort of mental and socation should keep their eye on such shrubbery to the very summit and others of the name within the theatre of win physical abiaration that gires one the cases
sce that
a
of
the intervening lofty mountains traversed by a few defiles.
The Rumanians north of Bm550 are still in Marvos Valley in touch with the Russian Left.
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ALLIED PROGRESS IN THE BILKINS
outside the war contractors. subscriptions came mainly agricultural sources.
GERMAN "SUBMARINE FOILED.
AN ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE M. VENEZELOS.
·PARK. Oct. 9.
An official report from Macedoniae states
and
girls
CLOS
hanging on
an
ADVANTAGES OF THE DEFENCE.
Almost every advantage rests with the
pedo-tubes She for the German East of the Struma thard have beca leave Crete on the steamer Atromi way stations to browding the rail-reason, if the counsel for the prosecno sover. Ou ebbe it is easy owing to and their country carts. In places these
faces
in Denver or Chi-up within they were brought are rocky and bare, like tho kopjoë "of 'he troops, the guns, and the transport impression of
for the pressed de approval time a ex Bouth Africa; some are Hat on the topi must move from point to point over rough There cago."
nothing: so good
во mind
and soul as physical labour.
for such a length of time, but he did not and offer plenty of rooms for infantry to tracks which Have been formed in the LONDON, Oct. 9. *Another fact I have noticed is the think the had authority to dismiss entrench themselve hers are also courua of ages by the passage of the
absence of tears M. Venezelos had arranged to seen women and
mourning I have it on
it on the
#pplication o
counsel, for that backed, and provide but little space and country, folk, their focks, their herds, flag and was commanded by Lieuten engagements between the British and tos, but embarked on the Hesperia was eagerness
good-byd. to their tion wished to proceed ant Hans Rone. Sho carried four the Bulganan rearguard which is falling at the last moment,
soldier sweethearts and relatives. Ther Mr Musso intimated that the prosc
the oftase of the soil, to dig entrench tracks fade away altogether, or else end other officern and 38 men. A United back on the railway
longing, ad- cution wished to go on with the case.
ments; ou others the jagged rocks defy in deep rullahs through which it is miration. and
on their
Corsal for the defence then said that, the space. Some possess almost precipi dificnis to drag carts and guns. Ele -States submarine escorted her into
but practically no tears. The people are in that event, he had an application to tong slopes whilst others are approached where they are so narrow and bumps When the Atromited left she was beyond test The effect of this per- make that the Court to take evidence by gentle spars, which form & glacie down that the utmost care is required to p Fifteen hundred Bulgarian dead were the harbour.
pursued by a German submarine but les everybody and results in a mission to Hongkong to take evidenca Numerous visitors, including news recent fighting
France are not simply renewed,
pared spine. He had information from fire on an advancing fee papar men, were allowed to inspect
heing overturned in fact, there is hardly. Allied destroyers arrived and enabled are re-born. The British Empire is the experts at Hongkong, including the The valleys vary almost as much se tbocraft.
Correct
lovel stretch anywhere and all wheeled Government Analyst, The English are an incredible people. analysis of prepared opiam could not be as ille for some are little more than Tehicles mnat crat along at a shall's pace They are incredible
le in what you might obtained. He had received letters from narrow ravines, and others are wide and to svald sudden and frotzierable dis call their slowness and deliberation, in a firm of solicitors in Hongkong on the highly cultivated. The so-called risers anter their immovability; bat, after having subject. He made the application owing are at this season of the year little more The Serbian engineers, assisted. By made up their minds, they are incredible to the fact that decisions had been given than dried-up afeams, and offer but few gangs of country folk, bave done some in their implacability and their achieve on evidence of analysis,
The Assessor did
obatscles to the passage of troops of all thing in the course of the last thres yers that agree decisions had been given of evidence one. Scattered amongst the valleye and to make these roads on the lines of cons of analysis and suggested that counsel dales are the small village, composed of munication practical for all arms, but the could get the firm of solicitors in Hong wretched hata of mud and thatch, wherein toil is Immense, and will take years to kong to take a statement from the
1
The Commander said he saw no hostile craft on the voyage: He had provisions for three months. He doclined to say whether he had been ordered to search for the Bremen:
THE QUESTION OF AN ARMISTICE,
Big
New York, Oct. 9, The U63 emerged closed to this maneuvong American fleet.
The Commander was astounded to laurn that the Bremen lind Lot
found in this region as the result of the in response to her calls for a great spiritual exaltation, England and with reference to the analysis of pre- which the defenders can pour a deadly venta gun or a transport wagon fruct
In the neighbourhood of the Vardar and the Cerna the Serbians continue to cross the latter, making progress and driving off obstinate counter-attacks.
On the left wing the French and Russians have reached the new enemy defence line from Kenali towards Lake
Prospa
THE DUKE OF. CONWAUGHT, AND CANADIAN IMMIGRATION..
OTTAWA, OCK 9.07 HRH the Duke of Connaught has
the Canadian Club.
her to escape.
youngest nation, in the World.
THE GREEK SITUATION.
KING'S EFFORTS TO FIND A ment
PREMIER
, London, Oct. 9. Telegrams from Athens state that the King is summoning all the dis- credited political jobbers in an effort to find a Premier.
been entertaintxt to a farewell lunch at ene has postponed consideration of It is reported that King Constan- The Premier paid a worm tribute to intervention till after the 18th inst. arine mission was to the services rendered to Canada by His the date fixed by the Raiser for the escort the Bremen ou the return Royal Highness
arrived, giving the impression that
not
BEGGAR TENDERS LOU.'S. «
persons there, have them signed and dwell the inhabitants of this dark and complete. The hily nature of the coun The native convert charged at the with the noccssity of issuing a
Bent to the Court. This would dood-stained, "land." Twin a country of try and the roughness of the tracke Mixed Court, Shanghai, with begging aion and counsel concerned could arrange which general trained in the schools means, of keeping an army supplied fo inficite variety and the vary Inat into reader bullock transport the only possible. from various missions was sentence to to have their representatives present. s month's imprisonment.seused had during the taleing of such statements of Berlin or Purib, would choose to lead the Beld, Forses are in part employed been making a living out of his various Mr. Musso applied that a rash security great my Put the hardy Serbian by the Serbians, but it is the sturdy victimised up river advert professions of poverty for many months to cover the expenses should be given vessants acers to revel in the very difficul indefatignoles bitlook, with his willing and one missionary who had bec
but the Court thought that an arrange ties which will not be so readily overhead over beneath the yoke, on them the the fr
men between the mirties should become by the troops of the Allies
"ived"
dat N. C. Daily News
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given
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