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THE WAR.
The following Cables were received on Saturday evening and issued in our Barly Morning Extra yesterday.
RUSSIAN FRONT.
(TEBOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMANS REPULSED.
ENORMOUS HEAPS OF
GERMAN CORPSES.
AIRSHIP ACTIVITY,
(THROUGH REUTER'S 'JIENOS.]
ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID, SIX PEOPLE KILLED -AND TWENTY-THREE INJURED.
LONDON, August 13th.
4.15 p.m. The Press Bureau announces that two Zeppelins visited the East Coast last night, dropping incendiary and explosive bombs on various places.
Four me and two women were killed, and three men, eleven women and nic injured, all of them
children wero civilians.
BOMBARDMENT NEAR
• SMYRNA.
BRITISH AEROPLANES AND
A
HOWA ZEPPELIN DOES ITS ergauis of these men is nothing but threads. The tissues, according to medi- cal testimony, are literally eaten up by" poison,
WORK.
NARRATIVE OF ATTACK ON A BRITISH TOWN.
But philosophical speculation is no part of Krupp's business. It is a splendid sear -the record year of the rational industry. of war: Each will have his share, from the biblest stokers, puddlers and ham- merers, to the officer-engineers, and staff- generals, up to the Kaiser himself, why will receive his dividends on the 200 and Hoodd millions (of Marks) entrusted by hi
A German writer in the Cologne Gazette gives an interesting, if possibly a some- what imaginative, description of a raid by a Zeppeliù upon the British coast. sys-
It is barely grewing dusk when Lieuten ant-Commander X, in command of L ;- Luftschiff-airship), receives an order through the telephone to cruise on the morrow in north-westerly direction in the latitude of Terscclling. He gives the
of the maste}],
to Krupp's. At Essen the question of victory is of minor moment. Munitions. are being expended and the bill is grow- ing. Even in defeat the Empire will pay.." and to-morrow it will refill the arsenats. which were crammed by forty-four years of frantic labour, and emptied in seven
months.
In the midst of this
Fourteen houses were seriously dam PETROGRAD, Augu£ - 13th. aged.
The Zeppelins were engaged by British ecessary orders, lies down, and next Inferno the Grand Palace, the Essener- 3.15 1. A communiqué says that the Russians aviators at some points, but succeeded in morning carly enters the hangar The Hof, where the Austrian, Bulgarian and Ono crew of 2 deck officers and 12 non-commis Turkish officers are entertained as the near Kovno continue to repuls German evading our aircraft patrols.
guests of the firm, is a blaze of light. attacks. The enemy on the Narew front Zeppelin, however, was probably damsioned officers is already at work with a
group of her under the orders of the officer These presentatives of their respective. is still persistently attacking on the roads aged by our mobile anti-aircraft section.
f. Kontenant Governmeal: have the right to watch over from Lomza, Sniadovo and Kosovo, but,
see that everything is in order. Sailors in the execution of their orders. All the further south, on both sides of the Kieff
the gondolas tent the motors. Their looks luxuries of modern life ar theirs. A Malkin railway, the Russians have
betray their love for the engines und pleasant existence, plaintive Tzigane ssumed a counter-offensive. There i
their car The skipper dimb into the music champagne, choice flowers and deperate fighting between the Vieprz and
gondolas, and after a brief inspection fruits, costing Bertha Krupp's consort and Bag rivers, and along the Chola and Vlodava roads, where a series of per-
DESTROYER CO-OPERATE. presses his satisfaction with wind of the the firm £20,000 a year. Essen spou is sistent enemy attacks have been repulsed
£20,000 a year on merry-making. What a with very heavy loss;
LONDON, August 13th:
percentage on all this suffering and crime ! German corpses, especially east of British seroplanea and u destroyer on
This year the firm can afford more, for bombarded Idjadik Ostrow, are lying in enormous heaps in Tuesday
the downpour of stel is producing front of the Russian positions.
Kmy mak
milliards daily. German attacks in the Riga district; have been repulsed, and the Russiaus in the direction of Jacobstadt and Dvinsk have continued their advance, - taking prisoners.
FRANCO BELGIAN FRONTTM
THROUGH EEUTER'S AGENCY.]
FRENCH COUNTER-ATTACK.
"LOST" "TRENCH REGAINED,"
NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
[THIOCORREUTER'C-AGENCY.
THE BLOCKADE”
BRITAIN.
near
OF
TWO STEAMERS AND SEVENTEEN FISHING SMACKS SUBMARINED. LONDON, August 13th.:
-3.45.g.m. The Admiralty announces that two British steamers and 17 fishing craft were sunk during the week ending August 11th. ..$
Paris, August 13th...
3.43 am,
A communiqué says that fresh counter attacks regained, for the French, a po: tion of a trench proviously lost in
Elsewhere there have beb Argopno. artillery actions.
CROWN PRINCE'S ARMY.
ATTACK DEFEATED AFTER A
LIVELY STRUGGLE.
PARTS, August 13th.
5 p.m. A Germen attack in Artois was casily repulsed.
The Crown Prince's Army re-attacked at various points 'n Argonne, but every Attack was defeated, after a livor struggle.
THE NEAR EAST.
{THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
COMPLICATED SITUATION · IN | THE BALKANS.
SERBIA'S RESISTANCE WILL "LASTONISH THE WORLD."
LONDON, August 13th.
3. p.m.
The Balkans are engrossing interest, as it is believed at the Germans contemplating reinforcing their diploma- tic efforts by the invasion of Serbia, hoping thus to come to the aid of the Turks before the Allies can reach Con- stantinople. This prospecs has not mayed the Serbiane. The Premier, M. Ristich, in an interview, said that the country is now so well organised that its resistance would astonish the world. Moreover, he
convinced WAS
that invasion would immediately arouse the Balkan States to help the Entente
Fresh difficulties have arisen bolwon the Austro-Germans and Bulgarians in
on
the Premier
most
GERMAN
SQUADRONS DRIVEN OFF. BOMBARDMENT OF RUSSIAN LIGHTHOUSES.
PETROGRAD, August 13th. A communiqué states that German squadron 03 Tuesday simultaneously bombarded the lighthouses at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga, and on the Asland Islands, but fled from the fire of the Russian varships aard the shore batteries. AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE SUNK. SURVIVORS TAKEN PRISONERS.
head.
There is silenc in the great kall of which the doors have been opened. The men who hid down the vessel are in their places. The crew are at their stations in the gondoles, The officer in charge re ports “all in order” to the skipper, who calls out instruction to discharge, the water ballast. There is a rush of water OUR FRIEND THE ENEMY.-. and the regel-gradually "rises above:bee props and floats in the air: The new with the mooring wapes Jow her into this open
OVER THE TRAWLERS.
A cry entien," and a long, shriff blast from the boatswain's whistle, the last ropes are dropped, and almost simultane- ously the engine-room telegraph signals Motors full speed ahead. With a nois like thunder the propellers spring into life, the vessel shoots forward and up- wards. It advances in a straight line to the northwest. A number of fishing ves sels can be Bren at sea, all flying the Dutch flag, but the skipper thinks his own thoughts. He knows that British fisher- inen, even close under their own coasts, now seldom Hy anything but the Dutch colours. By 3 pm. his mission is at an end. He find received oriler to be back at the hangar before dusk, but, the weather he ing so favourable, he telegraphically anks permission to act on his own initiative, and profit by the favourable opportunity
Agrond" is the reply.
VIEW OF THE TURK.
The Turk, it grens, is not as black 68 he is painted; scupared with his German ally, he's a gentlewin. This view of the Turk is given by the official Commonwealth correspondent in one of his Intest latters.
While our army," he writes, “doca not contain a man who is not in this war heart and soul, to see the end of the sort of régime that sank the Lusitania the Turk has very often not his heard in it. We know you British are the friends of liberty, said one Turkish officer to a friend of mino on the day of the armistice. We know that you have always been our friends-we didn't want to fight you-but why did you take our two battleships!
Those two battleships, by the by, which wo were building for Turkey and took over for ourselves at the beginning of the war, seem to have bon a great den mure prized than we had any idea. Of course, Britain Continuing his flight to the north west, could hardly se, then sail away in the lie determines to deliver a blow against the hands of a Power that was practically a English coast. It is yet twilight when he member of the Triple Alliance; but our #pproaches England" and aspends to taking of the created a good deal F height of 1,800 metres in order to keep out | Keling in Turkey. They had been pari of sight of the watchful eyes on board for largely by public subscriptions, thut England's guardships. Through a riit is to say, the people's pay had been docked- A communiqué announces that the in the clouds a destroyer could be sean make to pay for then-and the nation rather Austrian submarine 23 was sunk yestering the rennd of guardships. There is stakel 'its hopes upon them for the war day in the lower Adriatic. The second nothing yet to be seen of the land, but against Grecce in which Turkey waste. in-command and eleven of the crew were blackish mistintas on the distant horizon i recover her loss s of the Balkan war, rescued and taken prisoners.
reengnis d by trained eyes as smoke from the chinuera of an jodustrial district,
ROME. August 13th.
9,30p.m.
THE TORPEDOING OF THE-
** INDIA."
THE MOUTH OF A HIVER
The skipper now knows that he has steer SOME OF THE CREW SINGING❘ed at true course, and that his destination
a harbour with enemy dockyards-is be *TIPPERARY WHEN RESCUED.
fore him. He remains above the clouds until it is dark, then pushing on to the coast, he detects in the dying daylight the two mole marking the mouth of the river which he is socking.
CHRISTIANIA, August 19th. Commander W. G. A. Kennedy remain. India, which was torpedoed while on ed on the bridge of the auxiliary cruiser patrol duty in the North Sea, until she went dorn, but was subsequently rescued Many of the crew were in their berths at the time the vessel was struck and they rushed up on deck half-naked, and suffered from the cold water.
Several ships came to the rescue and saved many who were clinging to wreckage.
Some of the crew were standing on kind of raft singing Tipperary when they were rescued.
Twelve more bluejackets have been buried at Bodoe with full military hon
ours.
There veze. many wreaths,
connection with the payment of the first including one from the Norwegian Navy, part of the German lean, at the Austro- and a squad of Norwegian soldiers. fired German bankers are unable to provide the last salute. The British officers werd gold and are offering paper,
The Opposition and Socialists at Such affected by the generous honours
puid to their dead comrades. (Bulgaria) insist convoking a special session of Parliament SINKING OF THE BATTLESIP to explain the situation to the country,
Italy is making the
áctive
** BARBAROSSA," diplomatic representations to the Balkan States. Senor Salandra, The Premier, is A HEAVY BLOW TO THE TURKS going to the front to coufer with the
MYTILENE, August 13th. King about the matter, and Baron
3.90 p.m. Sonning, Foreign Minister, has postponed his holiday. Italy
After sinking the Turkish battleship is particularly anxious about the threatened invasion of Barbarossa, a gunboat and a transport Serbia, as she would have the chief tack in the Sea of Marmora the two British
submarines went instore and shelled-a- of foiling the German plans.
il reported ut Bukharest column of troops who were marching (Roumania) that the Austro-German towards Gallipoli. Governments have decided to prohibit the The destruction of the Barbarosis is & importation of Roumanian maizo if heavy blow to the Turks. Her accurato
the Peninsula Houmania persists in refusing to tais fire over
seriously
** Why did you take eur battleships?'
When told of the sinking of tho Zasilanie horadmitted that il-it-were tru
That is the view nothing could excuse it.
of an officer, and there are many men it the army even Turks-who have less wish to fight, Many of them think they am fighting the Russians,
"At the same time there are stout. hearted old fellows with them who believe that their country or their religion is in Almost simultaneously come flashes of danger, and they show not the least sight of giving in. Once or twice men have The rudder been lying in the front of our trenches, artillery fre from below. swings round, and, strering past the awho would welcome a chance of coming in tacking fortress, the airship is over the We have sent interpreters up to talk a yards, arsenal, and munition factoria. them and tell them, they will be decently The airship's gunner is lying on his face treated. This has sometimes had success. by the sighting apparatus, and hires at the At other times this sort of scene has follow- targets, over which he is being steered ed, as is told by the interpreters them- There are now flashes beneath us, which selves. do not proceed merely from the enemy artillory. The displacement of air due to A tremendous explosion is felt in the gondola.
19
The interpreter: goes into our outer. most trench, puts up his periscope and tarts, his conversation through a mega- phone.
Brothers, I have come to tell you that
Below us a large factory is seen to col lapse upon tself. The windows of the if you give yourselves up you will be other workshops suddenly become dark kindly treated (bomb) We love you- The men in the gondolas are under the im(another bomb) We British protect tho pression that they see policemen hurrying Mohammedans (rice shot)-We will give through the streets with cries of warning plenty of food and cigarettes-(shrapnel) because house after house is suddenly swak and so on. Whilst another interpreter lowed in darkness, mutil the town and
was talking to a number of Turks who suburbs are in complete obscurity,
were really inclined to listen to him and But the work is done. After making
who eventually came in, a stout old fanatio batons-for-half-an-hour the return journey is begun.
KRUPPS.
THE STRAIN AND THE GAIN..
The following is from an account of Krupps by a neutral published in Paris:
It is not the man employed in casting operations that are the most to be pitied
clage in front was stolidly getting at his
periscope. As a rifle pointed at your peti- scope appears to you, looking into that periscope, to be pointed directly at you the sensation was an interesting one,
"Of course, there may have been atroci ties committed by the Turk. There are probably wild-men in the Turkish army who would be responsible for anything, One can only speak as far as one's actual knowledge goes-and that up to the pre sent coincides with the experiences of many other people; that the Turkis
of the last half century in the Far East Juice is the drink in hot weather. Ora mi munitions to Turkey, hoping in this hampered the movements of the Allied It is the pyrotechny factory which is be rather maligned person, who certainly
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AUSTRIAN ATTACK
FRUSTRATED.:
BRITISH STEAMEE
SUBMARINED. THREE OF THE SHIP'S COMPANY
DROWNED.
LONDON, August 13th.
-------3.20 p.m. The British steamer Summerfield has THE VIGILANCE OF THE ITALIAN been sunk. The mate, his wife, and the Chief Engineer have been drowned. Two. of the crew, who were wounded, have been taken to hospital; the remainder were landeil
ALPINISTS.
ROME, August 13th 3-45 an
A lull continues on the Carso platus but there is a stiff fight in the region the glaciers on the lofty peaks at the ap of the Adda valley.
A communiqué says that the Austrian
GENERAL,
(THROUGH SEVTIR'S AGENCY.] ·
on Sunday night crossed the Forne IN THE NORTH CAMEROONS, Glacier and attacked the Italians kolding hostel near the Vioz Post, 11,000 feet high Another Austrian force simultanes. usly crossed the Covedale Pané, - stout 12,000 feet high, and attacked Codeb, but watchful, the Italian Alpinists discord the approaching Austrias whom a counter-attack drove back in
disorder.
ALLIES SUCCESS.
PABLE, August 13th: The Allies in the North Cameroons bay occupied the important post af: Tingero, The enemy, who fled, returned re-inforced and attacked the garrison, who repulsed
real inferno upon earth. The army of does not compare with the German in chemists, artisans, makers of shells, offrightfulness. It is true that the body of incendiary powder-all these dispensers of a dead New Zealander was stripped of its death are literally devoured by the clothes and thrown up on to the parapet. atmosphere of the workshops, in which the of a trench which the Turks re-took. There acids vaporise a more subtle fire, the is.no evidence whatever that this body had artificial fire of mes. The air of the muni boen harmed in any way, and it may quita tion factories is, as it were, a cancer that well be that the Turks wanted his clothes fastens on to sach individual, cating him for purposes of impersonation, which is. minute by minute, organ by organ, and perfectly fair in war, provided you are. only relaxing its grip when he is dealready to stand the consequences.
The Turk is a brave enemy some of Truly a place where all hope muss he abandoned There the meh no longer him-I know that. He stole up two nights ago-one of him and carried off some of sem made of flesh and blood and muscle. They remain nerves and intelligence the the barbed wire from beneath the parapet deadly reactions fight for their possession of our own tranches, the beggar. He is and their spirit alone carries them a courteous carmy-some of him better through to the end of their task. Some than the manner of his officers on the day of these men are so longer able to retain of the armistice. He may have belled it any food. They are shadows. They work or he may go and belie it yet, but it is ence goes up to the present the Turk seems tion. After the war we will take a rest;" on all the same not realising their coadi only fair to say that, as far as our experi- they say, allured by the system of bonuses. to have shown himself a very superior To thee no coffee is served out, but barrel ceny to some of the Germans. If some of milk several times a day, as an antidote misdels are proved against him, we havo to the poison they have absorbed Medies at least this to remember that it was the specialists patch up the most exhausted commander of a Turkish torpede bout that by means of special hypodermisinjections, gave the troops on a British transport - Chemistry kills them and chemistry keeps certain time to clar their ship before The machinery of the fired a torpedo at her." them alive.