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SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1916.
THE
LATEST
WAR.
TELEGRAM S.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.).
"PROGRESS OF THE
FRENGH AT VERDUN.
THE OCCUPATION OF FORT VAUX.
LONDON, Nov. 5. It is remarkable that the French communiqués yesterday did not men Gon the capture of Fort Vaux.
Curiously, also, the Dutch papers prior to the issue of the German communiqués, published a telegram from Berlin intimating that Vaux would be evented. because it was mostly destroyed and was now only an excellent target for the French
| ITALIAN CAPTURE STRONG POSITIONS.
3,498 PRISONERS.
LONDON, Nov. 3.
An Italian official states:
announcement
The XIth Army Corps, despite violent counter-attacks, captured strong pon tion eastward of Velikiribach, and Mount Pecinka.
THE CHINA MAIL.
RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP DAMAGEN BY MINE.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. The Dagblad "staten, that the Russian battleship Sebastopol has been damaged by a mine.
AN EXPLANATION NEEDED.
ATHENS, Nor. 9.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
IMPORTANT ADYANCE.
ENEMY'S PRINCIPAL LINE IN CARSO CARRIED.
Fox Nov.
The Venczelists are astonished an official communiqué states:-o attacked in the Gorizia area and occupied that the Royalists officers at Larissa trenches ou the east slopes of the Tivoli were permitted to send reinforce and San Marco heights, east of Sober ments to oppose the advance of the On the Carso front the XIth Army encalists from Ekaterini, as the Corps stormed the wooded hills east of andabore Mount Pecinka, and advanced Larissa railway is controlled by the Allies,
kilometre cast of Sageti. We becupied saveral points south of theOppacchiasetta and Lacastagneria Road, despito
THE BUCCESSION... TO- THE DUTCH Counter-attack..
THRONE."
The Hague, Nov. 3. "In the Second Chamber the Minister of Foreign Affairs declared that the Government would not propose a Billin regard to the succession to the Throne, We extended our lines westward to It was not in the interests of the country the Oppacchusselra-Castagnevizzs real,to give the reasons for this decision.
We took 3,458 prisoners, including
THE -U.S. PRESIDENTIAL 116 offers υπο mountain-guza, numerous machine-guns and quantities of munitions.
ELECTION.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.
We made prisoner 4,731, including 133 officers. We have also taken six guna and many machine guns. -
Our aeroplane squadron dropped two tous of explosives on camps at Frigido and in the Vippach Valley.
ROME, Nov. 3...
A semi-official message says. The Austrian positions east of Gorizia are on summits and steep slope inter cepted by ravines, and covered with woods, while the delances of Carso, be sides ruined villages, included numerous boundary walla
The principal line of resistance in Carso was carried by the Italians, who The betting on the election has veered advanced two kilometres over thickly artillery, while with the French can- the previous day, makes a total of about round to 10 to 7 in favour of Mr taking 3.000 prisoners, we inflicted-the wooded ground and up a slope. Besides
Hughes.
ture of Danaumont there was no longer any justification for making sacrifices in order to retula' Vaux
This is significant in view of the enghmous sacrifices the Germans made to capture Vanx. It took the Germans 104 days to free the 24 miles between Vaux and Douaumont, while the Frenzle recovered both forts in nine days.
PARIS, Nor! 3.
This, with the 3,000 prisoners taken 8,500 in two days-ED.]
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THE SUBMARINE
"BREMEN."
CAPTAIN OF SISTER-SHIP ADMITS
THE LOSS.
THE RHODES' (CHOLARSHIPS.
THE GERMAN SCHOLARSHIPS
ABOLISHET)
heaviest losses. Aa-on-instance, the 21st Landwehr Regiment was wiped eut, and its Staff, with three battalion Commanders and 1,500 men were captured.
AUSTRIAN ADMISSIONS,
LONDON, Nov. 3.
THE FRENCH OPERATIONS NEAR LES BOEUFS.
GROUND GAINED AND 736
·PRISONERS TAKEN.
PAKIS, Nov. 3. An official communiqué says: North of the Somme we carried out a new operation between Less Boeufs and Sailly Saillisel whereby an appreciable amount of ground was gained, and 300 prisoners taken. The total prisoners zaken in this sector since yesterday is 736, including, 29 officers. A dozen machine guns have also been captured.
GERMANY PREPARING FÖR ENORMOUS EFFORT.
EVERY MAN AND WOMAN UNDER STATE CONTROL
!
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 3. Germany in preparing for another enormous effort. It is expected thas n mass levy will shortly, be decreedi, and that every man and woman will be called up and placed under State control The military age limit wil also be raised. The organiser will ba General von Groaner, who is vested with the widest powers.
The Frankfurter Zeitung says there are signa" that Count Ludendorff's statement that every man and woman must be placed at the disposal of the
military, will now be carried out.
APPEAL BY NEW GERMAN
WAR MINISTER
General Stein, the new War Minister, in a statement in the Reichstag, said. "The Kaiser has ordered me to Berlin from the Somme battlefield, where I learned much. The enemy, especially the British, are introducing new and LONDON, Nov. 8..
An Austrian official message states-order quickly to attain their aima, and more serious expedients of fighting, in In confinittee of the House of Toe second and third Italian armies, all the letters of Englishmen breathe. Commons en the Rhodes Estate which have been brought up to full determination to bear everything for Bill, Counsel explained that the big batties, have opened an offensive in behoves us to endeavour to surpass the strength by fresh troops since the last their national interests. It, therefore, trustees proposed to abolish the the Gorizia region, The Italian artillery enemy afforts immediately." Gormar scholarships and establish fire was of extraordinary violence, and instead twelve scholarships of £300 in massed formations, seven Brigades at after this the Italian infantry assaulted sterling early. each tenable by one point advancing on a narrow front, students from the Colonies, Depen-Several attacks were repulsed, but the
The Director General of Clothing is Italians in northern Corso gained ground to America to defend the Bremen in He referred to Lord Hugh Cecil's while Bonavica remained in Italian bands out of contracts to non-British firms.
dencies or places within the Empires beyond our advanced ruined lines," taking measures to prevent the giving.
New York, Nov. 3. The Captain of the submarine Deutschland has admitted that the A counnunique states:
Bremen is lost. He said he believed Owing to the violence of our bomit to be the result of an internal hardment-for-several-capa-past, the accident
He also said that the U33 was sent enemy, without waiting for an attack by the infantry, whose pressure was
closer, - yesterday
afternoon evacuated Fort Vauxin which very Feary explosions were observed. "
We occupied this most important Work last night without loss.
ever
The belt of the exterior forts of Verdun is now, entirely re-established and firmly held by us.
Тто enemy aeroplanes were Brought down in the Somme region and one in Alsace.
THE BALKAN ZONE.
BRITISH STORM A VILLAGE.
PARIS. NOV. 2. A French official report from Salonika states that the British stormed the village of Alita on the Ift bank of the Strumn.
Al
THE"" PREVENTIYE ARRESTS.?' IN ALSACE.
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A REICHSTAG MOTION.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 3.
case of attack."
THE GERMAN WAR ON MERCHANT SHIPPING.
THE GLENLOGAN"' SUNK.
LONDON, Nov. 3, The British steamer Glenlegan has been sunk. NORWEGIAN STEXMER SUNK
NORWEGIAN WATERS,
suggestion which the House adopted that the scholarships should be avail- able to persons without as well as within the Empire, but the trustees felt that the Empire should have the first claim.
after an attack by eight Divisions
The communiqué claims that the Aus- trians captured 1,000 Italian prisoners.
ITALIAN AIR ACTIVITY.
ENEMY WORKS AND VESSELS' BOMBED.
The
CLOTHING CONTRACTS.
LONDON, NOV.
"SHIPPING DEAL.
LONDON, Nov. 3" Owen-Philippa group have acquired the Moss Steamship Company,
CONSTANZA "BOMBARDED.
Lord Milner said the trustees hoped the new scholarships would be a
ROME, Nov. 3.*** going concern next Autumn, There An official announcement sayı---ÂN would be only, four scholarships Italian airship dropped seventeen bomba annually. The trustees already had on enemy works and vessels in Santhe sen INfifty applications from Educational Pietro roadstead and Sebenico Bay, and
bodies.
It would only cause dis-returned safely, despite a cannonade appointment if all the world were from shore batterice... invited to apply.
TROMSOE, Nov. 3. The crow of the Norwegian steamer Kongdag state that the vessel was sunk ia Norwegian waters.
THE TORPEDOED GREEK VESSELS!
ATHENS, Nov. 3. Admiral Fournet has announced that
the view that the scholarships were The Cominittee decided to accept needed within the Empire and the Bill was accordingly reported without amendment.
INDIAN QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.
THE RUMANIAN FRONT.
ENEMY ATTACES REPULSED.
BUCHAREST, Nov. 3.
*
A communiqué states :---* The situation is unchanged between the Moldavian frontier and Predeal.“
There has been fighting all day in the Prahova Valley, which resulted in the
investigations show that the Angeliki AN APPOINTMENT QUESTIONED repulse of the enemy by counter-attacla
and the Kilisaia were either torpedoed or mined by the enemy.
A GERMAN TREATMENT,
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 3.
-LONDON, Nov. '3."
In the House of Commons, in reply
An enemy attack in the Dragoslavelle region, south of Toerzburg Pass, Wag repulsed.
to Mr. Kinloch Cooke, Mr. Chamberlain" The pursuit of the eremy continues said that ex-Brigadier General Roc lost west of Vulcan Pass.
Numerous artillery limbers, and much his rank, while his prestige prospects material has been captured
Wag.
A German official announcement and pay were considerably reduced. states: "Oa the night of November His appointment to Lucknow The Reichstag Committee has been 1st German light sca, forces from due to a shortage of Engineer officers in discussing the "proventive arrests "Flanders stopped and examined India. There was no reason to doubt in Alsace and it bas adopted a motion several, steamers on the London to his fitness for the post, which was
Holland route. by the Progressives that such arrests
They took two entirely different from his previous post. are only tolerable if the security of suspicious vessels into harbour; a It was thought that his punishment had the Empire is threatened.
third which was ordered to follow been sufficient for a grave error of has not yet arrived. English cruisers judgment. unsuccessfully shelled some of our torpedo-boats."
A member of the Centre Farty wamed the Government to take the question seriously, for the entire
#
Probably the third steamer men- people supported the Reichstag intioned above was the Oldambt. demanding that the Government
should not disturb the splendid spirit GERMAN SUBMARINES SIGHTED. of the Fatherland. The member added that the Reichstag expected the Government to introduce a Bill
dealing with the question before the Reichstag meeting in January,
Colonel Wreisberg on behalf of the Government promised the Bill and added that a list of the persons preventatively arrested had been demanded from the General.com. manding.
"THE RECRUITMENT OF THE NATIVE RACES.
LONDON, Nov. 3.... A meeting of thirty members of the House of Commons passed a resolution calling on the Government to take immediate steps to recruit for the Army
the races of the Empire, particularly
the African races.
STOCKHOLM NOV, 3.
THE HOSPITAL QUESTION.
Mr. Kinloch Cooke again questioned the Secretary of State for Indis regard. ing the condition of Wellington Hospital in July.
AUSTRO-GERMAN. CLAIMS,
LONDON, Nov. 3. An Austrian communiqué states: Austro German troops repulsed Rumanian attacks south and south-cast of Brasso, on Rumanian territory, and progressed south-east of Ratertara Fass. THE RUSSIAN FRONT.
FIGHTING IN THE STOKEOD REGION.
PETROGRAD, Nov. 2
An official communiqué states - Mr. Chamberlain repeated that the The enemy carried a salient on the. shortage was purely temporary. The wast bank of the Stckhod in the region German sabmarines, sighted near totements quoted by Mr. Cooke were Turks from an organised position on the
position now was satisfactory. The of Vitonese
Further southward we drove the Helsingfors last week, have passed gross exaggerations and he earnestly heights in the region of Sakki Soeborg,
deprecated the uncritical condemnation We still pursue the enemy in dial GERMANY AND DUTCH SHIPPING. of the officers of the Raji, who felt Valley.
deeply the unjust aspersions to which
GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. they were unable to reply.
THE ULDAMBT INCIDENT.
WHY BURMESE ARE NOT ENTASTED
THE HAGUE, Nov. 3. An official enquiry, is being made In reply to Sir Edward Cornwall, regarding the Ollamh and three other Mr. Chamberlais stated vessels which the Germans Hold up Burmese had not been sucked to caline Two of them were taken to Zeebrugge because previous experiments with them
had not been successful."
EXCHANGE OF ANGLO-GERMAN
THE INDIA OFFICE AND ITS GERMAN PROFESSOR.
the
CIVILIAN FRISONERS.
Mr. Dalziel called attention to the LONDON, Now!
case of Professor Eths (a German White Book has been published employed by the India Ofice since 1872 in reference to the exchange of in compiling a catalogue of Persian British and German civilian prisoners Office) and strongly denounced the MSS for the Library of the India over 45 years of age.
retention of a potential apy in the service of the Ladis Offee.
Mr. Wedgewood urged that the It shows that the agreement Indian and Egptaia Governments applies to the whole Empire. Ger Mr. Charles Roberts again explained ought to be pleased to co-operate.
A GERMAN CENSUS ORDERED.
the circumstances Professor Ehe, he
AMSTERDAM, NOV. 29 An official communiqué saya-We stormed Russian positions on the left
prisoners. bank of the Stokhod, and made 1,500
GERMAN TROOPS IN CARPATHIANS
STARTING.
· BUKHAREST, Nov. 3. The German troops in the Carpathians are famishing as a result of supply difficulties Many have surrendered because of their hunger.
THE SITUATION IN GREECE.
VENEZILIST TROOPS OCCUPY A TOWN AGATHENS, Nov. 3.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 2 A German offcial communiqué states that Constanza is being bombarded from
Presambly by the Russians Ep].
GERMANY'S WORTHLESS PROMISE TO AMERICA.
"MARIANA" NOT WARNED.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.
The American Consul at Queenstown telègraphs that the affidavits of the Americans who were aboard the Mariana agree that the vessel was not warned.
AUSTRALIA AND CONSCRIPTION.
MELBOURNE, Nov. 3. The Anti-Conscription majority is now 80,800, and the final result will probably be known within in a week
M. Hughes has returned from New South Wales. He declined to discuss the situation, but intimated that Partis- ment would probably meet shortly,
SYDEY, NOT. 3. In the Assembly, "Mr. Darack, the leader of the New Party, gave notice of resolution to the affect that the Gorerament did not possess the cor fidence of the country.
REDUCED BRITISH WHEAT PRODUCTION
LONDON, Nov. 3.
The Board of Agriculture estimates that the English wheat production in 1918 will be a million and a hálf quarters less than in 1915.
BRITISH BARONY BECOMES EXTINCT.
LONDON, Nov 3 Lord Langattock has died of wounds, and the Barony ja now, extinet
MR," GINNELL IN PRISON.
LONDON, Nov. 3. ME Ginnell, M.P. has been imprison
for default of payment of the fine of £100 imposed, for his recent offence under the Dafence of the Realm Act.
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY,
A CLOSE RUN EXPECTED,
WELLINGTON, Nov. 3
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ENGINEERING FIRME WITH CAPITAL OF £20,000,000,
candidature in the doubtfal States, this week remarks the "Light Car and Bazkampter Hughes 193 certain votes. Both candidates are strenuously pushing their
The most important item of news
The public especially in New York, New Jeracy and Connecticut whose votes total 66. Grelocar" in an culitorial, “in the state Bridget Royae, drachbedi
ment that a number of big munition Flace, and late-of-71, said, was & septuagenarian The Indis ments, consisting of Evzones and 266 votes
The Government has sent inforce The siccessful candidate must secure concerns are GOODE B pool their capital disclosed the fact tint bince, Office would be sorry to lose the patient artillery, fo. Elesterini, which is reported. labours of such a scholar who, had to be acompied by Venezlist troops. all the threads of the work on which he Beiterini is thirty four miles south-west ... wds engaged in his bands. The Tédia of Salonkees de ang-and-Office Embragers not input of the The Daily Chromate vorrest
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