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TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1918-
TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from Pagë 1.)
THE GERMAN RETREAT,
ALLIES' SLOW, PROGRESS EXPLAINEDY
kosmoŃ, Aug. 12. Mentor's Correspondent at Fresch Headquarters, telegraphing on Sun
day aftgeneon, syste
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AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA
COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES GAINING UPPER HAND.
LENIN AND TROTSKY FLEE TO,
KRONSTÄDT,
Lespox, Aug. 19.
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE ENEMY IN 'RAPID RETREAT.
LONDON, Aug. 11. Router's Correspondent at British | Headquarters, telographing this evening,
states:-
The enemy is in rapid retreat and is tacrificing immense quantition of material
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A great fra was seen at Chaulnes The situatii at Moscow is very
Fosterony afternoon,
The battle, which the British and ancortain. The count-riflevelation.Americans cleared up the Chipilly juris, if good netually"in central, pre triangle was a remarkable fent. The taylaunted Hygeiving the, japper hind, Americans arrived after a forced marsh without halting for a moment, and with fired bayonets followed the barrage and lasted the ground and made way for a further advance. They captured over 300 prisoners
The latest repub, i Berlin, that M. Levin and M. Trotsky have this is Kronstadte
KRYLENKO IN COMMAND OF RED GUARDS,
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Laspas, Ang, 12.
The English, who took Chipilly, had some of the haleat fighting in the offensive, carrying the place on the afternoon of the 9th inst, in less than three quarters of an hour.
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Our gains. Bosny are thoroughly. safshurtig, # # the progress dres Sarkened," this, is that less to the antony's mosisteme than to the fact
The Lokal Aneriger states that that to toads are "so encumbered with the enemy's abandoned material | General Krylenko has been appoint- and nám maps tives which have beened to command the Heal thards felled, as in the case of the tienen Jagame the Czechoslovaks,raphieiz) "wetreat in the spring of 1917, so that ineral Muravleff, who conjoittime to receive the fulf waight of the our staminitiga supply celmus fiut suivirie.
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It is confirmed that the enemy's asualties aga vory deavy.
Prisoners state tha the 7th Bavarian Division, which arrived at Lions in
Australiens asanit, is inespable of
it difficult to add the infantry and Heneral Krytenks has erently farther fighting at present. cavalry. Che times other diands the keen a quiltrenian,
retrent differs from last pair's in that,
to mine the roads and set sieuth
mm in villages.
ÂMSPEHAM, - Aug! 12.
↑ visited Montdidier mid formal it ¦ & message from Kof-states that Crompietely wiped chat, bit. in Panki, who assassinated
already sady lead! inchions in the ↑ Marshal - wehi Bichlam, lk, Jon fire. katste hur troops at Bantong, refoxovtitele alles baryona" Moradidier, are thred miles tronu Beve
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RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
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ARRESTED. CONSULS RELEASED,
STOCKHOLM, Ag, 13.
In consequence of the efforts of Swedish representations to Moscow the British and Franch Consuls have been
released.
KARLSRUHE.BOMBED.
LONDON, Aug. 11.
The Air Ministry starea Our aquatroon this morning, attack the railway station at Karlsrahe and
one aerodrome.
Clouds hindered observation but aj large bomb was seen to hit the station causing an explosion.
We drove down three machines out of control and one of ours was driven
down under control.
VICTORY BY AIRCRAFT.
suffer
THE H.K. 1 8. QUNNERS."
of the Flongkong and Singapore bat tery" at the battle of Magbgabe 1 will mention what General Cox told me. The battery was attached to the Camel Corps but for a time it was placed at the ex said The Major in command of disposal of the Light Horse. General
the battery would do anything. When Lever I showed him a target I wanted attacked he hurried up his guns, pounted it and destroyed it. The gunners came up with smiling fates, took their guns Tiuto exposed places and served them
unday heavy fire. Their magnificent
work are in the afternoon did much
to bring the action to a successful issues. And just the same warm raise was bestowed upon the battery for its wart later on, at kafa, when at least ones ilur- ing the day they, took their little, píp squeak guna up to the very line held by our riflemen. The curious plaintive port of the mountain gang suggested the name of the Bing toys for the batters
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and Canadians will doubtless pardon this appropriation of their own rick- name by
by comrades from the Far East. The Australians will tell yon that the Big Boys with us were superb.—Front W. T. Massey' The Desert Campaigns"
Constable and Co.)
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**THE FOUR WAYS.
The flat irision is practically
Anong people who believe that the AMERICAN SILVER IN INDIA. wiped out.
war will be decirled by aircraft there is. The Australians on the first day cup. I considerable diference, of opinion as to-
The Power of July 19th understun.Is which the decision way tjaldi ormans Intrried hul too" qua EICHHORN'S ASSASSIN EXECUTED test 1,600 prisoners, five times, that will betrought about. Some look to the that since the commencement of the
owen total caenalties for the day and l
current month three steamers, have night of the 11th inst.
wholesale bombing of great cities crest- We are pushing forward at Provarting an overwhelmine peace, movement arrived in India. each bringing a large along the Faucirt road, and meeting from the civil population; others picture mount of American silver, the gotul the achievement of so nearly complete a agregating to well over thirty million Fehl-with very heavy artillery and machine-mastery of the air by one side that the ounces. enough to coin upwards of Armies of the enemy would be deprived crores of rupees, "hese forin only At more than one place we are back of the all-in portant serial observation secured, which will all arrive in due
initial instalments of the ou the old. Somme positions, and at and as a conseguenes, quickly cale course enabling the mints to keep up Fransart we are across these.
defeat another line of reasoning lates on the nation so completely though the mints have been handicapped coinage programine, paralysing by aircraft of the continuous that the side weak in aircraft would be
in the last two or three weeks by the powerless to strike and helpless in de influenza epidemic which broke out Brat The retreating enemy is continuinglence. There is satisfaction in the to set fire to villages and to blow up knowledge that, so-far as c be seen, in each of the directions indicated the Allies are now making the pace,
Take the first. With regard to such raids, last week's attack on Paris add the effective attack by the British on Saarbrucken may be cited. More important work, however, has been on hand, and the great struggle on, the Western front has employed most of the Available serial energy
WHY THE GERMAN EMBASSY WAS TRANSFERRED FROM MOSCOW.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 199
In all 30 enemy Divisions participated in the fighting ten being from the
reserve.
Here somet the railways Trans Montaldiers Cospeigne and Chaal- tes en which tite enemy depends to degh his whole line in the salient It is officially amoured in Berlindumps a long way back. Moved by Begenii. Dobën sui-that Dr. PleUterieli bas" inborinel the
the region 20 TEBAN | Soviet Goverment that the Social town Roje niet by Genemi Hum-Resolutionaries threat, zo employ best sand dance between the Matz andte for us » fighting method onlymerra then, the fiorants are throwing the smely "of the members of the thole who mvailable strength, int German Rindassy which, Diretore,
an endeavour to make a strend' on
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STRONG ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED.
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All the attacks were repulsed, after
LONDON Aug. 1. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:---
Fresh enemy Divisions from the will be ref-forged to Pakoff reserve, this morning, strongly attacked the Rey assigny, line in order to Petrograd is equally as datigerous usour position at libens and to the south-
ward and northward. to withdraw their Vast Moscow. stores, artillery, or that they decmamint din aliis, fegion for the Fame offensive "Cur traps are comi fident at the en sum er dring the debemus, fram ny le hunt they can.
Almonly we have bitten off
- APERITIME
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third of the lange packet the Gre ide in our lip lost March,
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THE VESLE SECTOR."
THE ENEMY'S INTENTIONS."
COMPLETES HIS DEFENSIVE
SYSTEM:
Londos, Aug. 12
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE NEW OFFENSIVE.
BATTLE DEVELOPING ·
VICTORIOUSLY.
ALLIES CAPABLE OF HOLDING
LTE GROUND. ·
As to the blinding" of the enemy by the destruction of his aircraft, this does not appear to be likely, in spite of the very great sucresses of the Allies aerial fighting during the past two weeks. There is no doubt that the enemy has
in aircraft of all kinds.
Bombay and then at Calcutta. Stocks of rupees actually coined in the paper currency reserve continue to show stearly improvement.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR COTTON."
JAPANESE PATENT.
A substitute for cotton has been lis covered in Japan in a sea-weed called This wved gume, or gumo games. grows abundantly in Japan, where it las hitherto been known as a go! fertiliz ing material. In the process of manu facture the reer! is bulled in ashy rice bran afterwards it is benched.. The Tokyo Fibre Laboratory has taken outa patent for the process.
severe fighting in which we inflictel last very heedrichshafen, the beavy Water, aul then, in water mixed with
great loss upon the mivancing lines A big fire
At one point immediately northwards of Lions the salting troops broke into our positions and penetrated the western side of the village.
We coinser attacked with determina tion, and, in the course of fierce lighting on difficult ground, drove back the enemy to eastward and northward of the village, and the line was completely restored.
On our right, the French, co-operating with us, continued to attack and pre- gressed south-westward and southwari of Roye.
bombing of enemy aerodromes, sad the have created in German fighting squadrons by British, French, and American airigen; have indeed aroused hopes, where before they were scouter, that the second method may, after all. be a winner.
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ENIVY'S ENOBLOCS LOSS.
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DECLINING MARRIAGE AND BIRTH RATES IN JAPAN.
The destruction of enemy aeroplanes in March and April rewbed a four figure
The statistics Bureau attached to the total. The loss in skilled personel and costly material, and the shattering of Cabinet bad issted an official report organisation, een caly be realised by ex-the number of marriages. divorces, perts. In the present month the rate of births, deaths, etc. in 1916.
From this report we learn there were loss has been greater than ever and in thủ new
LONDON, Adg. 11. The battle which opened on August by the Fourth British Army and the on the remainder of the British Front. will reap material profit from this crease, the compilera of the
phase of the great battle there 435,755 carriages in 1916, a decrease of is good reason to hope that the allies 11,415 on the preceeding year. This de
First French Army is developing victoriously,
The Third French "Army, under. General Humbert, attacked cast of
Beuter's Correspondent at Arseri-Moutier, which was captured ou Saturday morning. The whole salient com Readquarters, telegraphing on
near Manulidier is greatly reduced. Alonlay evening, says
The French infantry operating in
Our patrols captured few prisoner
INTENSE AIR FIGHTING.
LONDON, Aug. 12 Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:
circumstance. The losses in observation balloons buve also been very heavy, owing to improvements in the methods employed, so that it is even foretold by me that the days of the observation balloon are numbered.
As to the attainment of a complete dislocation by the bombing of the encray this appears to bit less practicable, although undoubtedly both sides have suffered. In this respect the Allies
was apparently due to economie
a world wide character consequent upon the progress of civilisation. Thesita tion in Japan resembles the conditions in Frussia
after the Franco-Prussian war. Against the large falling off in the ever, must be set the fact that in number of registered marriages, how. Japan there are many couples who wives are living together as such."
Tis evident that the eng in this region made its junction with the August 10. We destroyed 41 machines lines of supply, at the present moment though not regarded as hushands and
There was intense air-fighting on
and drove down 20. out of control. British troops south of the Aralens-Twelve of ours are missing. Roye read
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tends to make a pay the fl price for any attempt to drive him beyond the Vysle. He.Begins to have en ploted his defensive system and is nów adde to bring heavy guns to be on as from across the dime, and as lus an extraordinary profusion: the pivot of Chipilly, which was very
An encircling movement round, the massif at Lassigny is now apparent.
The booty taken by the Allied troops since August & exceeds 35,000 prisoners and 500 guns.
We dropped 23 tons of bombs in the day time and 31 tons, principally upon bridges and stations in the Somme Talley, at night-time.
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The number of divorces was 60,538, shows an increase of 330 over the
alone dropped 36,170-bombs to the
I be on top. In March the Britishing Fear. enemy's 2,468 and in April 25,500 to
The amount of small arma ammuzi-pose that, bomb for bomb, our work in 1 fm of 4.507, while the number of
the
In the northern part of the batticfelttion fired from the air upot the retreat. The contrary. The figures, by the way this country is again much like condi-
sinnen on this front, which would valuable to the Germans, has been taken make que suspicious of some smuterby the Americans.
Thus the growing victory of the effort here, werd he now so busily
rupied elsewhere, but this batir ally greatly increases the difficulties of our aerial reconnaissancez
Allies makes
the sitration
more
enemy broke ali receat records. fore being a giant German machina with We brought down two night-bombers cagines and a heavy load of bombs, Our tinircraft guns brought down two other hostile machines recently...
TRIUMPHAL MARCH BY OLD YETERANS.
precarious every day for the Germans in the curve outlined by the Somme between Bray, l'eronne and Ham. Frum henceforth they will only have the choice of retreating to a line of
LONDON, Aug. 12. about ten kilometres up to the river, Lowards which their convoys are already Renter's Correspondent at French FIRST AMERICAN ARMY FORMED turning, and the Allied aviators werry Headquarters, telegraphing on the even
their retreat in every way by blowinging of August 10, states:
How General Debeney, attacking in up bridges,
DISLOCATED TIME-TAILE
promise
Male births number 935,949, an in- 2,033 Nor is there any reason to su
births was 306,992, no increase of less effective than
3.436 over the preceding year, Tüken enemy's quite
as a whole, the position as to births in dispose of the suggestion that our rosy a colour upon the situation by official dispatches any by day put to tions in Prussin after the Franco- Prussian war. Whether this also means making much of our work and belitting that this country resembles Prussia in those days in regard to economic und that of the Germans.
social conditions is a question which
leserves close investigation.
Male and But, after all, may not the decisive female still-births totalled 130,998. effect of aircraft in this struggle lie' in Male deaths, numbered 619,908, an in- delaying the German successive attacks crease of 48,543 over the preceding year. suficiently to react upon German public while female deaths numbered 389,000, opinion and endurance, and make it which also shows an increase of 46,720.
the birth rate in this country Whereas impossible for the military party to fulfil Wh
and justify that policy 1 has already reached its height, and there than the others, and would give as fast hunter of deaths is increasing. This, Such
would be no less emphatic is even a tendency for it to decrease, the
na satisfactory terms of peace.
says the report, is a very serious matter, The evidence, in the
Morcover," the increase fast-given polution, declining. Amiens was reduced, then the one at swept past the Ansainvillers platesa Looking at the bombing and aerial deaths in this country is more in regard Montidier. This battle, which was and reached by noco Faverolles and fighting figures combined, he cannot to infants and members of the rising The formation of the Arst Ameri-conceived and is directed by Marshal fan bour later took Etellay, completely avoid coming to the conclusion that the generation than among the aged, a fact
Foch, is developing logically and arrounding Montdidier, is described as movements of the enemy have been and which is a matter for great. cor.cern. Array in France is officially victoriously.
a triumphal march by the oldest are still being seriously prejudiced and Foundlings numbered 244, 128, being bis time-table dislocated; and this very boys and 119 girls. The number of miss- announced,
The French Third Army is vigorously veterans.
Possibly a
detailed and authentic male and 54 female. General Pershing comnuls it, attacking on the high ground in the Meanwhile, between Martdidier and largely owing to the work of our aircrafting people was 174, of which 622 were while retaining the chief command neighbourhood of Lissigny and is pro- the Oise the French made a bound history of the operations woukl bring gressing satisfactorily. Having advanced forward of two or three miles. Oficars this point out. Without counting the of the American Expeditionary between three and five miles since state that never before have they figures for the present month, which yesterday in this region an early enemy pressed back the enemy at such a rate would make the comparison even more retirement to the line Peronne.Nasle The light Tanke played a great part telling, we have 60.979 bombs against Noyon canal is expected. His reserves in the drive, saving a great number of 4.488 from the enemy a superiority of are believed not to exceed 20 Divisions casualties. Sag
GENERAL PERSHING IN COMMAND?
Forde.
Paris, Aug. 19.
LONG-RANGE SHELLING OF PARIS,
GUNS SILENT FOR TWO DAYS.
PARIS, Aug. 11
After the Marne salient that of the early morning from the, south-west, rather points to the writer's view, for in Europe the death-rate has heen
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LONDON, Aug. 11.
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standing the enemy resistance.I
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