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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1916.
THE
LATEST
WAR
TELEGRAM S.
(Reuter's Service to the Chind Mail.)
SUBMARINES IN NEUTRAL THE FIGHTING IN SOUTH
WATERS.
UNITED STATES RESERYES. LIBERTY OF ACTION.
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 The United States Government replying to the Monorandum of the Allies regarding belligerent submarines entering neutral ports, expresses the. opinion that the Allies have not aciduced any circumstances rendering the existing rules of international law inapplicable, and reserves liberty of action in all respecta It will treat such vessals 49,
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in its opinion, becomes the action of Power which may be said to have taken the 'first stops towards establishing the prisciples of neutrality and for over a century had maintained those princi ples with high impartiality.
The United States deems it to bo the duty of a belligerent to distinguish Between neutral and belligerent sub marises and the responsibility for any condict between belligerent warships and neutral mabraarines owing to any neglect an to distinguish them must reat entirely on the belligerent Fower.
THE TORPEDOING OF THE
*** STEPHANO."
AMERICAN DESTROYERS
OBLIGE.
LONDON, Oct. 11.
The Times correspondent nt Now
EAST EUROPE.
ENEMY CLAIMS.
ו
"LONDON, Oct. 1.
THE CHINA MAIL.
GREECE AND THE WAR.
ALL-NIGHT SITTING OF THE CABINET.
THE
SALONIKA, Oct. 11. 31 Venazalos has arrived hera "accompanied by. MM. Condonritis and Danglia and several of his former Cabinet, colleagues.
A strong detachment of Russian infantry also landed and was warmly
cheered, “
LONDON, Oct. 1.
The French newspapers hint that the Allies are taking up a strong line with Greece.
An Athons telegram says the Premier has admitted that the situation is serious, but he declared that no decision has bean reached by the Cabinet,
OPERATIONS THE
*LKANS
SERBS TAKE 816 PASONS.
Parts Out 10.
LATEST EDITION.
STOP PRESS
NEWS.
A communiqué states:-Our Ena Murri Army's offensive has been successfully ((Renter's Service to the China Mfall.! continued..
There has been very sharp fighting between Serbs and Bulgare in Cerna Bend, in which the Serba took 818 prisoners.
Our aeroplanes bombarded Monastir and Prilep.
THE WESTERN FRONT.
GATHERING IN PRISONERS
LONDON, Oct. 1, General Haig reports that nothing important has happened.
The work of improving our positions
BRITISH AIRSHIP ACTIVITY.
LONDON, Out. 11. General Sir Douglas Haig in report says:
Our.aeroplanes yesterday bombed and destroyed two enemy battery positions and damaged many others. They penetrated well behind the enainy front and bombed railway stations, trains and billets effectively. There was much fighting in the air, Two of our machines in one case
in which held an all-night sitting after south of the Ancre has continued with engaged seven bostile deroplanes and
A Bertia official announcement claims the capture of Toersburg, Transylvania, and Austro-German Com moniques claim the capture of an island
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in the Danube above Siştove.
BRITISH PROGRESS IN MACEDONIA.
LONDON, Oct. 11. mentioned in the British official
The capture of the three villages|
report from Saloniki marks import ant progress in the direction of Rupel Pass, from which at the nearest point they are seven miles distanty and they are within three miles of the Rupel-Serres railway Further to the south we nenace Serres, and four miles east the where the Vardar enters Lake Tabinos.
point
lengthy conferences had taken place! between King Constantine, M. Labroe (Premier) and the Foreign Minister and ths Minister of Marine.
It is noteworthy, that the acting Chief of the General Staf was present at the Cabinet Council.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE FAILURE OF GERMAN ** FRIGHTFULNESS."*
LONDON,--Oct-11
In an interview, the Secretary of the Liverpool Steamship Owners Association said that the renewed German submarine really was not a promising development wariare had not created any alarm, and for Germany. The fact of the operations not being conducted on both sides of the Atlantic showed that Ger many had not sufficient submarines. Our loss through submarine attacka during the whole war had been only ten shillings in every £100 sterling worth LONDON, Oct. 11. Lof cargo. We had imported A British official report from £900,000,000 worth of stuff up to the Salonika says:
end of July.
LATEST NEWS FROM BRITISH "
FRONT.
We have occupied Toplora" and AMERICA AND THE SUBMARINE Prosérik.
Our mounted brigade drove back York reports that when the German hostile cavalry for two miles south
submarine which fired at the Stephano of Seres.
found that two United States destroyers
Impeded the nim, the German ecm-
mander asked the destroyers to kindly clear out of the way.
The destroyers nequiesovi, "where- apon the submarine torpedoed the Stephans.
SHIPS SUNK.
LONDON, Oct. 11. The British ateaters Sidonia and Jupiter sad the Norwegian steame Resham have been sunk.
OUR HERCULEAN TASK.
'SIR EDWARD CARSON ON THE
SITUATION.
LONDON, Oct, 11-
PORTUGUESE OPERATIONS IN
→
EAST AFRICA:
LORENCO MARQUE, Oct. 11. An official announcement states that a Portuguese column is pro ceeding toward Newala, twenty lo- metres north of the Rovuma River A reconnoitring detachment repulsed superior enemy forces and killed many.German dakaris.
DANISH BUBMARINE BUNK IN COLLISION,
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ISSUE.
**PACIFIC BLOCKADE OF AMERICAN COAST,"
LONDON, Oct. 11. The English newspapers dwell upon the gravity and complexity of the fresh German American issue, raised by what the Times describes as being tantamount to a pause blockade of the American const, "a form of coercion occasionally adopted in peace-time to bring a wrong. doing State to reason."
While the newspapers are unanimoua that the main issue lies with the United States and Germany, they point out that the havoc wrought by the US emphasises the importance of the recens Afied Memorandum on the treatment of belligerent submarines in neutral waters.
out any especial incident.
brought in
A further 968 prisoners have been
Our aircraft yesterday renewed their activity.
FRENCH CAPTURE 1,800 PRISONERS.
PARIS, Oct. 11.
A communiqué states:- North of the Somme there has been great reciprocal artillery Are.
South of the Somme our infantry carried a position constituting an objective...
drove them dowu or dispersed them all
One of these, enemy machines was seen to be destroyed. Two others were severely damaged.
Four of our machines are missing:
ARMS IN IRELAND.
LONDON, Ost. 11.. General Maxwell has prohibited the manufacture, sale, transfer and disposal of military arms and af- munition in Ireland and gives
The hamlet of Bovent, on the out-instructions for the seizure of "con- skirts of Ablancourt, and most of the signments brought to Ireland. Chaulnes Wood have been captured."
We captured 1,250. prisoners.
The chemy greatly safered around Ablancourt.
A coupe-main south of Sailly-Saitlisel resolted in our capturing fifty prisoners. "MÁGNETO FACTORY AT
STUTTGART BOMBED).
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A communiqué státes-Our airmen bombed a German magneto factory at Stuttgart with apparently serious resulta
"ENOCH ARDENS" OF THE WAR.
HUSBANDS RETURN TO FIND "WIDOWS" REMARRIED."
There is a notable multiplication of domestic dreams of the type familiar to us through Tennyson's “Enoch Arden," and to the French to Balzac's ""Colonel Chabert, who, lost des
Napoleonia
battlefeld, returned home to find his wife remarried to a nobleman of the Restors
tiap.
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HIGH COURT CHANGES.
LoxDos, Oct. 13: Mr. Justice Scrutton has been! appointed a Lord of Appeal in suc- cession to Lord Justice Phillimore, who has resigned.. »
Mr. Henry MeCardie has been appointed a Judge of the High Court,
THE SERBIAN ARMY.
A REORGANISED FORCE.
The following telegraphic. despatch has been received from Mr. E Warner Allen, Special Representative of the British Frass with the French Armies:
The renewal of the activity on the Balkan front has recalled public atten- tion to the heroic Serbian Army, which; raitted by the French, is now prepared to take the field. On January 18 last the first remnants of the battered Serbian Army were disembarked at Corfu. On April the first elements of the reconstituted any were able to start embarkation was completed by May 27. for Salonika, and the whole of their
During these Ave months the French, Army and Navy spared no pains to which when they reached the Albanian give fresh bife to the gallant troops, coast had been utterly exhausted after four years warfare aggravated by starvation and terrible epidemics.
Thus, 1 Madame D of Arras, was informed at the beginning of the war that her husband had been killed. Be moving to Paris" she waited some months, and then married her brother-in-law. The Despite enemy mines and submarines household is now expecting child, and the Serbian soldiers and refugees were the first husband is on his way back from conveyed over to Corfu with the greatest despatch. An official letter addressed on April 11 to General de Mondesir by the Serbian Minister of War pays the following tribute to the generosity and self-sacrifice of the French troops: The French Chasseurs carried on land the Serbian soldiers, who were exhausted and dying, without
Telegrams from New York describe the excitement sa being greater than at Germany. the outbreak of war, and that an
M. Charles la Gothic sites other cases in explosion is boned to follow the loan of the Liberte."
American lives.
COPENHAGES, Oct. 11: A Danish submarine was sunk) But for the activity of the "American" In a small commune near the chan. yesterday afternoon in collision with destroyers, much greater hardship and hel two-soldiers' wives remarried in this Fay. The deaths of their first husbands were registered, and all the papers were in order. But these husbands reappeared thought that many of them were one fine morning, both of them with suffering from very serious contagious amputated limbs.
diseases; the Chasseurs received the More curious la the tale of the Serbian soldier not merely as an Ally hell, was found on, the battlefield, while Breton soldier, whose art, out of by 4 but is a brabber.
Quarters were built for the Servisna
a Norwegian steamer. It was salved possibly loss of life would have resulted at midnight, Five out of the six members of the crew on board were found to be alive, but the com-
Sir Edward Carson, who followed Mr. Asquith, declared that it would be a dimater if Germany were per. mitted to crush Bumania. It was magder was dead in the comming
tower?
IRISH PARTY AND THE GOVERN MENT OF IRELAND.
LONDON, Oct. 11.
of no use concealing the fact that wa were faced with a herculean task in securing ultimate victory. He asked Mr. Lloyd George (Secretary of State, for War) whether he could give assure ances that we possessed the neces- sary man-power.
A meeting of the Irish Party in If alepa were Decessary to recurs this. then they the House of Commons has passed should be taken without delay. The resolution opposing conscription and question of the man-power of Ireland demanding the release of untried must also be debated soon. We Irish prisoners.
must be prepared for more sacrifices Involving for greater inconvenience
to the country's trade.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR BRITISH SOLDIERS TOYOTE,
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It has also requested Mr. John Redmond to ask for a day for the discussion of a motion declaring the system of government in Ireland to
Treland.
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GENERAL
BELLIGERENT SUBMARINES IN NEUTRAL WATERS.
UNITED STATES DECLINES TO ACCEPT ALLIES CONTENTION,
NEW YORK, Oct. 10. The counsellor of the State Depart -1 Polk) has announced shat the United States refused to accept the Entente's contention that belligerent submarines, however utilised, should be
and that those entering sentral port prevented from using neutral waters, should be detained.
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WARNING DEVICE IN GERMAN BUG.OUT.
I suppose the Colonel is on the Somme just now and doubtless he will have written some interesting things about the place. I was among the German dug-outs as soon as the first line was hashed in, and I don't think I ever forget the An officer who has been serving insights I came across then they were now France wrote early in-August
pretty. One of the moss tragie pictures saw in very short, narrow, rig-zag tree. Suddenly I came on a Britis sergeant facing a Bavarian--the Germ
the rest of him had disappeared. As the immediately. Flentiful supplies and All of us are bucked at the recent arm carried the identification plate, its medical comforts were provided. With events, which must not be judged by the owner was reported dead. The wife iu a few weeks the daily number of
mar. 16 seems perhaps but a little received a certificate to this effect, and deaths fell from aundred to tevi. territory regained, but the moral effect on his tree, the sergeant with his was permitted to remarry. The first The Mercian High Command lost ho! husband, however, proves to be alive, and time is reforming its uning of our gain has been supendo pointing forward. For moman
Germans are practically expected to see them, spring at each other oce thing the inclined to insist on his
Detach beginning their instruction.
blind. We bave got the trick of bula other in mente of Serbian artillerymen were sent
mountain gune Several officers of the at dusk that one could almost imagine One comes across so many silent stories in ores to learn how to mancave row of them which are so close together red of the same time. Both were dend to serve with a French mountain battery their observation balloons, whilst we have two had come face to face and both fak
Serbian Staff were sent to France to they were the day's washing put out to like that the saddest of all when you visit the front and collect the latest in the evening breeze. And talk and too comrades together ons had been
rights". DECIDED TO REMAIN DEAD
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tragic misadventures was found in Swit
But the foost unfortunate of these ferland recently, in one of the parties of seriously wounded soldiers returned from Germany Frough visitor stopped information concerning modern warfare, about aeroplane superiority. And lomu before an unfortunate fellow whose face In Corfu itself special courses were I haven't seen's Boche plans within two wounded, the other tried to bring Was so diafgured to ecer no longer organised for the instruction of officers! miles of our lines for & week, I think
friend to exfety and falled! human. He asked if he could do any and non-commissioned officera..
**Immelmann's death gave the whole Hog beds, it was not, apparently a clearing I saw one underground hospital of 300 thing for the sufferer if he could seek his The transport of the Serbians to air service frozen fent. The way in which family and tell them.
Salonika, began on April 12, in accord the Gorman papers emcked Immelmann
station, but obviously per Veelees, was, the reply. He is ance with plans thede in Paris. Its
Institution. All the dug-outs
gatit
mero
shoete looted from the There were Totes of evil tasting bread, in which wer And
gars one the Impression
loset, for the fire owners
IRELAND AND COMPULSORY
KMILITARY SERVICE.
SPEECH BY THE VICEROY [This preemiarbie is a speech made on be inconsistent with the principles for -the Premier's expected motion for a fresh which the Allies are fighting, and was
LONDON, Oct. 11. War Credit. The fritonert of the mea.
The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (Lord stige had not come in hand when this mainly responsible for the rebellion Wimborne), in a speech delivered at doad
g.excontion was rendered particulari i PP made him appear & sort of Hayes furnished with real beds and fine iseze went to press-ED.]
and the present state of feeling in Dublin, stated that the Irish Divisions The soldier, had risen to the berde dificult by the difficiency of the Intelli- protected areiging angel, bearer of a
needed 40,000 men before Christmas delicacy of deciding that rather than gence Servies maintained by the enemy charmed existence, but when he go There were 34,822 Catholics nuc 16,224 borrify those he loved he would laate in Greece. None the less, it was carried in the neck (actually), the courage, of Protestants the Army before the them to believe him dead.
cut without the smallest accident or loss the others: evaporated.
Imagine and with the greatest despatch and them saying. What pbance have been made from chopped bay war. Since mobilisation 187,594 had There is a ray of light in this case, regularity. It was originally expected against the English when joined including 92,405 Catholics, for the singers hold out hope of a great lake (ransport operations wound-not youngster vangalabed-our-great-Immel locks, and there we plen 63,391 Protestants and 2,798 uncinased improvement, and if it is accomplished be concluded before the end of Jane meant
It was estimated that there were be their patient will give up his cane and Events proved that it was possible to us the German dugouts word I BOG sure the genera tween 100,000 and 200.000 eligibles In t Ireland to day. He had never advocated me to life again. But perhape, at a month on this date
they were thing of beauty, art, and German Army is vastly lowe pulsion in Ireland, because: ganema); adds M. le Goffic, it may be then too Opinion is unanimous as to the splen- safely. Thirty and forty feet deep : some consent was lacking, hut in view of the
y did condition of the Serbian Army to with tea or a dozen rooms, electric light. Schained hand and font to theiz: maridon conversion of Englanil to com- [This is no question of a few curious day. It has been rested trained and hob and gold water bath mome Bound the moment, the men get war workers to vote without return: Euromation during the ward Ho has been of convincing the Irish democracy of authority that there are 70,000 French under the command of Prince Alexander The graintest thing I saw vor in the heels up they do i
Mary General Horne foived his pulsion, there was no reason to despair duasters. It is said with some show at arzaed, and ita only desire is to fight like a nice eligia ville nat Brox ing to the cometituency in which they amanding the 2nd Division] the overwhelming logic of facts prinosers in Germany who have not been editing toom papelle
in the closest union with the Allied. previously resided.
PRESS COMMENT able to communicate with their families. On May 12 the SerialNone the PRESS.CO
The French law, requires ten months of official organ of the Serbian Govern of inspended by light unly to tion is being asked whether this delay to Franco and General de Mourlasir, tho those 1, could not a The Belfast Telegraph points out that widowhood before remarriage. The que ment, addressed the following homage four bells the The darth is announced of Admiral ↑ Infantry.
should not be extruded, and Maitre Henri Chief of the Fratch Military Mision faceva a German prisoner model of the one S William R. Kennedy, S.C.B., aged 78.
Robert the amipeat pleader, is one of The Serbian nation owes the inspent explained thom who think that soldiers wives gratitude to the French nation; it had should not remarry before the end of already supported us with Rumah and is werd the war
Enghud in our war for freedom against the Turks in the your
Lorax, Oct. 11. Lord Lansdowne, in the House of Lords announced that the Govar- ment nrannand- to intending
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petition
LONDON, Det 11. The Granite announces that Major General Henry Sinclair Horne has been appointed a Commander of the Bath
OBITUARY.
LONDON, Oct 11
It may be nasumed, says writer in apartina London contemporary, that
the Ictters 3
CONVICTION OF AN IRISH MP.
CONFIRMED THE APPEAL
late
these desirable, cou
three recksA All pinchi
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If I am right in judging from the made prison
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At least, our
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