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·SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1918
TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from Page 1.)
THE
GREAT BATTLE,
SMASHING THE IMPREGNABLE"
HINDENBURG LINE.
vance
Tanrs, Sept. 19.
A Hacs essage BRYS
British and Frenele attack on Il Thoth Firi of St. Quentin is an ad
anile front. Over :60.000 10 pris, mes have been taken, the advance is into At ventoin points the impregnoble Hind-hburg defences
me.
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ALLIES BOMBARDING METZ. :.
JA NON-COMITANT FEATURE OF
PRESENT BATTLES!
"AuSTERDAM, Sept. 20.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE PEACE PROPOSALS
FRANCE'S LACONIC REPLY.
Pants, Sept. 20
In acknowledging to the Swiss A Berlin official message states:-Minister, the receipt of the Austro- The enemy for seven days has Hungarian Peace Note, M. Pichon been bombarding Metz with a long-(enclosed" in" his letter a copy of the mange gun.
Official Journal containing the speech TATRU.
of M. Clemencem, dablel on Septen The bombardment of Metz is aber 19th, declaring that the speceb nounced in the following official com constituted to reply by France to mumivation published in Metz 'news.the Note. papers, obviously intended to reusure the..population:
The enemy for
PEACE PROPOSAL
& PROCLAMATION BY HINDENBURG.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE GREAT BATTLE.
BIG ENEMY ATTACK REPULSED.
AUSTRALIANS HOLD OUTPOSTS, OF HINDENBURG LINE.
LONDON, Sept. 19. "Fiek-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
reports:-
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
A BUCCESSFUL "RAID,
LONDON, Sept. 19 A wireless Italian official message
states
tha
"We raided. positions southward of Col Caprile, taking 90 prisoners. Th rapidity of the attuck confures, enemy, who violently burn ed his own front lias, camming ha
vy losses among his advancing su
porta
The enemy opened a violent bombard. weat from many guns yesterday ator-po noon on the northern portion of the battle-front Their fire rapidly cut all
sions in the line. German infantry at five- o'clock in the afternoon strongly attacked
BIG FIRE IN AUSTRIA.
GREAT NUMBER OF VICTIMS,
NUMBER
LONDON, Sept. 19.
several days. Las teen bonbaring HINDENBURG AND THE AUSTRIAN telephone communicatice with the Divi Meta with a longtune gm. Tis baubarining as always been pos
ile hough all, the years of of the the war. It has ben burg ex- for several pected that modern guz would)
AMSTERDAM. Sept. 19. esses have have a longer range clan for
The Miffagy Zeitung publishes Her eptural. The Fremt took example, the distance from anth of proclamation by Feld-Marshal von jars in The drive, and advent-a-Mousson to Metz. The pre-adenburg acquainting the troops Hourly two miles 'un'n front of abot sent bonsfardment, therafon, in with the Austrian peace proposal, and erwise commented with the fact that intraubing that was operations are this enemy after ou evacuation of not to be intgrrupted, wkling? 42, the Se. Mihiel salient approached readiness for peace is net in 1917 meiner the town. At is only a non-tradiction with the spirit with which
unitant plienonation of the present we are currying a the struggle." battles west and south West of Metz
Hinesburg significantly drops his
A Vienna oficial message reports & on a wide front from the neighbourhood are at the munition works at Woollore- of Trescualt northwards. The Guards, dorf which caused a panic amongst the Third and Thirty-Seventh Divisions, workers. There was a great number of completely repulsed the enemy at all victims. The causa is not yet discovered. points with great loss. Another strong, alattack northward of Moeuvres was localities bodies of the enemy succeeded driven off with heavy losses. In certain in reaching and entering oar trenches, where our counterattacks overwhelmed them. Our line in these localities was re-established intact.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AMERICAN VICTORY.
K
LONDON, Sept. 19. Bentor'% Agohey learns that the
striking was at St. Mihiel as will son use when these come previous boustfulness about sanishing
to stanistill. Therefore the regular ons regarding the entry to and departure from the fortress zote are
altereni,”
THE BALKANS.
e aclusively" (@monstrated to the whe world that the Amerigits are as highly trained ne a Righting amebite s the Germans or the British and French. The Fronth mostintedly prise the American staff) work. The surcess Prables the Allies: To att dry fitues they plense to begin ani
attack tie atoming the revarity of the wird the ium They merncing tiirA MOST IMPORTANT SUCCESS. Internal Bars of communication, the
A
förtiess of Metz and the Briey on
BULGAR FRONT COMPLETELY BROKEN.
Lesbos, Sept. 10
prit. I kewise threatens the The bians have completely whe line of the Meuse northwards.broken the Bulgarian Front. Hence the Americans' new line may
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Many prisoners were taken and great numbers of a dead lie before our positions on the whole front attacked
Southwards of Goizeaucourt, the British armies continued successfully in operations of the Third and Fourth the evening and at night, English up Germany's enemies, and dwells troops progressed northward of "Pont fuper the defensive nature of the Hindenburg Line. On their left the Ruet, ranching butpost positions of the struggle and the necessity for protect- Fourth Australian Division renewed ing the homeland, He warns the their attack as eleven o'clock in the taps that the enemy, eritip pre-evening and carried outpost positions of the Hindenborg Line after heavy fight- rimsly pejected" Gemany's peaceing, capturing many prisoners and a Loffers with acorn and, derision.
LABOUR WANTS ALLIED
DECLARATION...
Lisows, Sept. 10. The Flour Conterence War Ainus | Committes submitted a report regard- Serbian cavaby reached Polshaping the Austrian Peace Note, urging very greatly induence the future miles srthwards of the original the Allies to make a public and course of the war...
front. Other Serbian cavalry is dilective deshiration of their aims, Theke is evidence that the Gervancing upon the importante jucetion.
to subsribe to President Wilson's finding great diffculty of Prilep
fourteen paints, and to ask the ene to let his warnin arranging relies for the Divisions in line, vivl, is imposing an exceive
The report was adopted without a strain up the troops.
uns
BRITISH AVIATION ACTIVITY.
LONDON, Sept. 19. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, reporting an aviation, says tem
The front is now 25 miles with which is regarded as a most ireport- fant success. It looks likely that, the Allies will ekur the whole of thús
area
ALLIES SUCCESSES GREATLY EXTENDED.
There was elight enelny activity|BULGARIANS RETREATING IN
on the 18th. We brought down...four
enemy lines and drove down
three ut, of control.
machines a missing.
Four Briti
DISORDER.
vote.
AUSTRIA AND THE PEACE NOTE.
**OFFER STILL OPEN
Losnoy, Sept. 201
非 A Frebel. Eastem "examuniqué
British aeroplanes assisted the states:-"
vious days' successes and the Bul.
The Allies, on September 17th and advancing troops and bombed and machine gunned the caciny. We 18th, greatly extended the two pre dropped sixteen fors of bombs in 24 hours. Our anti-aircraft gunsgarians are retreating in disorder brought down a hostile machine on the Cern Front. Our troops" pur! the 16th and machine-gun re froining them have reached Cena, the ground brought down another snope, purt captured the mountainous
the 17th.
ADMIRATION, #1
PRESIDENT WILSON'S REPLY TO KING'S CONGRATU
zones of Djprovkamen and Cinzernü, crossed tlie river De La'Chichtza anti
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 20.
A Vienna oficial announcement acknowledges the rejection of the Austro-Hungarian peace suggestion. j After criticising Mr. Bullour's speech on the Note, the announce meat laconically concludes: The Austro-Hungarian offer is still open.
GERMANY'S OFFER TO BELGIUM
WHY IT WAS MADE.
Pants, Sept. 1. Belgium hus rejected the offer GENEROUS RIVALRY AND MUTUAL passed the Rozden region, and Blateo made by Germany for a separate mountain pass. The enemy aban peace. Belgium is a millstone tied dered Its prisoners und much to the neck of the Ruiser. Itbundi material.
Peps the German forces. The Ger The English and Hellenic tons uns want a shorter line and this attacked in the region of Lake is only possible with a neutrul Bel- Doiran and gained a footing in the gun-Heras. enemy's first positions, despite resist. nee. They have already captured numerous prisoners.
LATIONS.
THE OPERATIONS IN NORTH RUSSIA.
LONDON, Sept. 20.
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THE BOMBING OF COLOGNE AND
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COBLENZ.
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 20. The Sittard cornspondent of the Folk stutes that Allied airmen are daily bombing Cologne and Coblenz.
number of machine-guns. This Division and the First Australian Division hold outpost positions of the Hindenburg Line on the whole of their respective frouts.
Forthernorth, severe ighting cecurred eastward of Renssoy and Epeby, Wa took possession of L'Empire and beat off determined counter-attacks.. In the Villers-Guisain sector the Seventeenth Division, which_took"soveral hundred prisoners yesterday, re-captured Gancha and later repulsed, with heavy loss, a Wood, which the enemy had regained,
strong enemy counter-attack from Villers-Guislain. Repeated enemy at- tacks on Gauche Wood in the afternoon
and evening were repaised. A success ful local operation yesterday morning improved our positions southward and asstward of Ploegstreet. A number of prisoners were captyred.
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ENEMY RESISTANCE STIFFENED,
LONDON, Sept iş. that the stiffening of the enemy, reais Correspondents in France emphasize tance made yesterday's British advance all the more remarkable. The German gun-power was unusually strong. Long range high-velocity guns were employed to draw a line of fire almost equal to a barrage acrcas a wide extent of country, hence for the first time for a long period
it
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
MASSACRES CONTINUE
PARIS, Sept 19. A me sage from Petrograd alates that massacres continue despite the vigorous protest of Neutral diplomats (and the Austro-German representatives.
Two thousand residents of Petrogradi bat: so far been killed,
BRITISH BOARDING STEAMER SUNK..
58 MISSING.
LONDON, Sept. 19. The Admiralty announces that German submarine, on September torpedoed and sank a British armed boarding steamer.
Eight officers and 50 men, including 25 of the mercantile crew, are missing!
THE PEACE OFFENSIVE.
VIEWS IN ROME.
Hour, Sept. 19.,,
An official Note says - Although the Austrian Peace "Note has not yet been officially communicated to the Italian Government it must be pointed out that the proposal aims at the creation of phantom negotiations without the probability of a pretical issue. The recent declarations of Austrian and German statesmen I- elading any cession of territory and recognising as definitive the iniquitous treaties of Brestlitorsk and Bukharest make a useful opening of negotiations ment recognises the aims andounced by impossible. Until the Austrian Govern- the Entente and the United States, including the Italian aspirations, Italy will continue the struggle for a durable peter founded on liberty and justice.
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most of the British casualties were from THE SIBERIAN COMPAIGN. shell splinters and not machine-gun |
CLOSING IN ON BLAGOVESH-
CHENSE.
bullata This more intensive artillery fire gives an inder of the strength of the British effort necessary to clear the the ridges, with their numerous fortified villages, lying immediately in front of the main Hindenburg Line into which the Germane are Boing pushed by irresistible British pressure.
FRENCH ADVANCE CONTINUED.
LONDON, Sept. 19,
A French communiqué reports:- In the region of St. Quentin, contian ing Our advance, we penetrated Contescourt, where the enemy is de fending himself desperately.
North of the Aisne there is great- artillery activity,
A strong enemy counter-attack on Moisy Farm was without result. We maintained all our posts and inflicted losses on our assailants.
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VLADIVOSTOCK, Sept. 12. The Japanese Staff announces that their gunboats landed an armed party at Nicholaievak on the 8th which disarmed all the Soviet forcer in the town There was no resistance.
Blagoveshchenek, the great centre of Bolshevik activities in the Far East since the revolution, last October, is being closed in from all sides. Japanese troops are advancing from Eaharovsk and Chita, while the Chinese forces are Concentrating opposite the town on the south bank of the River Amur.
REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE VOLGA.
Owing to news that a large body of German regulars is being sent to the Volga, the Czech Staf has decided to despatch two contingente immediately On the Vesla front a German attack to that front to reinforce their com-
B LONDON, Sept. 20. President Wilson, replying to the King's congratulations upon the St. Alihiel victory, says: "The generous rivalry now going on between the forces of the great anuntries engaged against Germany is touched with an enthusiasm and a heroism which must certainly bring victory with
A British officiul communiqué Many are killed and injured. The north-east of Courlandon was broken ap patriots, without waiting for supplies of quicker and quickes pace, and it is regarding the operations in North daily fgures given by the German by our fire before it reached our lines. warm clothing, although, the best one of the happiest circaristances of Russia atates:
authorities are far below, the facts. Enemy raids in Champagne Heights season is already commencing in Siberia. On the Dwins a very large enemy
The British troops are now guarding annuured steamer has been captured Refugees are fleeing into Holland and on the Mouse were repulsed.
the railroad from Spasski to Ussuri......
BURIATS' GRATITUDE TO
the war thus the Armies can admire
cach other's achievements with
·équal enthusiasm."!
GERMANY'S INTENTIONS TO BELGIUM.
On the 18th inst. General Kare. liyas
troops. severely defeated Gernian-led forces at Ukhtinskaya, forty miles costwurd of the Finnish frontier. They pursued the enemy who suffered heavily...
BRITISH EVACUATE BAKU.
LONDOS, Sept. 10.
LONDON, Sept., 20, Reuter has received the following telegram from the Belgian Foreign Minister:-The Belgian Govermhert das received, through an indirect channel, communications which have
It is now permissible to state that Brown Egus upon the intention of Baku has been evacuated. The Germany towards Belgium. The British forces have safely withdrawn communications were tunernitted to north-west Persia. from Berbe to the Belgian Forelyn
daily.
.."MARSEILLES EXPRESSES IN
COLLISION.
30 KILLED: 100 INJURED.
"Panis, Sept. 20. Thirty persons have been killed and one hundred injured by "a col- fision between two Murseilles ex- presses in the Tucy tunnel between
American soldiers effectively assist
THE BALKANS.
SERBIANS PURSUING A BEATEN ENEMY
AN ADVANCE OF OVER 12 MILES.
LONDON, Sept. 19. A Serbian communiqué states Surmounting the formidable difficul
GENERAL GAIDA. Delegates from the Bariats, the great native race, of Siberia în the trans-Baikal region, bare presented General, Gaide with a silver image of Buddha as a token and thanksoffering for their liberation from the Bolsheviks,
Reuter.
CIVIL SERVANTS.
La Roche and Dijon. *ties of the high mountains we are Sir Henry Gibson has informed Mr. The Comptroller and Auditor General, punting day and night the completely Fisher, director of the Imperial Associa beaten enemy way
tion of Commerce, that & Civil Servant We have taken Tupoets, Kuchkurks holds office at the pleasure of the Crown men, Pollchichte, Bechichte Melynitsa, and is subject to dismal at any time Vitolichte and Basimbuy. Our advance by the head of his Department without now exceeds 12 miles cause assigned, nor will an action for
Minister who immediately acquainted THE BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE INed in the rescue work.
tie Allied Governflients, Belgium
is not received a formal proposition,
directly from the Gerthun Imperial Government. M
RUSSIA.
REQUESTED TO LEAVE.
AMSTERDAM Sept. 201
leave
MAILS LOST
LONDOX, Sept. 20. The Post Office announces the low at sea through enenty action of civi According to the communications
The Weser Zeitung's Berlin cor received, the intention of Germany would be to demand that Belgium respondent states that the Soviet letter nails for Aden, British East bind herself to affect a solution of Government Is equested the Africa, Uganda, British Somaliland, Ceylon, Dutch East Indies, the Lake the Languages question, in conformi British representative to
Area of German East Africa, India, Malay States, North Borneo, L'er- si, Philippines, Sarawak, Sey chelles, Sium, Straits Settlements
aden for dispatch be
of the
sty with the German Imperial polles, Russia
thus requiring Belgium to abdicute
the right, interers to her sovereignty,
to solve one of the problems
het
Internal political organsition in
forthwi
A GOOD SUGGESTION.o
New Balgarian reinforcements have been beaten and forced to retreat. The fleeing enemy is burning villages and stores
The prisoners and booty are ancnunt ed owing to the rapidity of the advance.
TREATMENT
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