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TOTAL FUNDE AT SAT DECEMBER, 1914,
£23.970.387.
I-Authorised Capital £6,000,000, Subscribed Capital £4,500,000 Paid-up Capit★) ..........................£2,437,500 -Fire Fund.............. 3,837,047 HL-Life & Annuity Fund.... 17,587,60
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ESS.970.307
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THE WAR.
TO-DAY'S
TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the Chino
THE RUSSIANS FIGHTING. GERMAN SOCIALISTS AND
PATROL SQUADRONS IN-ACTION IN SOELASUND
LONDON, Oct. 16.
THE WAR
PEACE A VITAL NECESSITY.
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 16.
Her Ebert, the President of the
A Russian official mesange states — A German Dreadnought shelled a patrol squadron off Soelasund, severely Socialist Party in the Reichstag. damaging the torpedo boat Grom poosiding at a Socialist meeting at Subsequently, twelve German torpedo Wuerzburg said that the speedy con- boats of the newest type penetrated clusion of peace was a vital necessity Sociasund and engaged our patrol to workmen in all countries. The squadron. They put the Grous guns)
palier of the nailed, fist "after the est of action, and soc ire to ami aank her. The bulk of the craw were sare disappear and it a ballot were taken. war and the frightful horrors would We sink an enemy torpedo boat and
aine-tenths of the people would ap apon other of one warships appearing
prove of peace. Hr declared that, on the scene, the enemy turned back.
Our Fleet Commander testifies to the the Michaelis réginic spells the col good firing and the stubborn spirit of pse of the present Government
arstel in Germany
our crews.
A
Herr-Schiedroant, referring to the Naval muting, asserted that if the· Government, wanted to catch all
An eyewitness reports that two enemy torpedo bouts were sunk and two! were damaged.
The enemy has been reinforced and those connected with similar incr- continues to develop his success on dents they would have to prosecute Gesel Island, and endeavouring to 300 persons simultaneously.. He inptare the batteries at Cerel, covering said: “Every day soldier came to the entrance to the Gulf of Rigs
us with complaints and a special RUSSIANS STILL DESPERATELY RESISTING.
LONDON, Oct.
A Gerumu official message states:
possession
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portion of Oesel Island.
states that Herr Ebert said that the
The Russians are isolated on the Socialists favoured Alsace and Lore Sworbe Penmeul, but artilfruine baring & complete Repub desperately resisting Only portious lien antonomy and constitutional of the enemy, on the east coast, have equality with the other federu escaped in the direction of Moon,
We took 2,400 prisoners and cup- tured 30 guns and some seroplanes," We cccupied the islands of Ituno
and Abro,“
AN APPEAL TO THE RUSSIAN FORCES.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 16..
States."
WESTERN FRONT.
ACTIVITY ON FRENCH FRONT,
LONDON, Oct. 16.
A French communiqué states On the Aiste Front there was
The Executive of the Centrul Com-ciprocal artillery activity but it was |mittee of the Council of Workmen's less intense.
and Soldiers. Delegates appeals to On the left of the Meuse wa 14- the Forces, to vigorously resist the pulsed an attack to the north invaders. It promises to see that Hill 304. sacrifices shall also be made in the
On the right of the Meuse, the reur au to do its best to prevent artillery deel was particularly lively, the war lasting a day too long. to the north of Bois-des-Cauneres.
Meanwhile, group of political German aircraft, last night, bom undesirables recently expelled from barded Dunkirk. There were co Russia but allowed to remain at visits and no material damage wo Helsingfors, by the locul Council of i.done
Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates
there, have returned to Petrograd.
THE BRITISH FRONT,
To chemista and chemists":
LONDON; Oct. 16. ssistants have decided to strike owing to the refusal of their economic Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig.
reports
The Irish troops successfully car A REGENCY COUNCIL FOR POLAND-ries out a raid, to the north-west of
Bullecourt.
deniunds.
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 15 The Centrul Powers have appoint
There was considerable hostile
ed the Archbishop of Warsaw, the artillery activity during the night Mayor of Warsaw, landed in the neighbourhood of the Ypres
Staden railway, proprietor. named von Oatmwaki to
the Regency Council of Poland,
THE DESTRUCTION OF NORWEGIAN SHIPPING.
LONDON, Oct. 16
BRITISH NAVAL KIRCRAFT. ACTIVITY.
TONDON, Oct. 16, Admiralty announces that naval attruft carried out a cou lost during Septeraber, of which nine-siderable number of patrola yester
Twenty-eight Norwegian ships were
teen, representing 30,000 tons, were due to events of the war.”
THE BALKAN FRONT
day and encountered several enemy formations. They drove down two machines. One of ours 19.missing.
We carried out bombing raids on BRITISH SUCCESS OF STRUMA Bruges Docks and the aerodromes at
PLAIN
LONDON, Oct. 1B Getinan official report statęs
rians ceded some villages
Struma Flai
dropping explosives will?
Varssevere and Houtt Barge quantition:
good effect
All out machines returne
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