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THE WAR.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ·
LTHROUGH SECTER'S LUENCE.]
(THROUGH REUTER'S
ENCY.] AUSTRO-GERMAN CONCEN
TRATION ON SERBIA,
SIR EDWARD GREY SPEAKS OUT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
CONCESSION TO OUR ALLIES.
LONDON, September 30th. In the House of Commons Mr. Mo- LONDON, October 1st Much interest is evinced in the alleged Kennas said that, in order not to hinganSS Austro-German concentration on Serbia. the trade of our Allics (France, Tady The estimates vary from a mere handful and Japan), who were chiefly concerned, of troops to over half-a-million. They was decided to withdraw the proposed are reported to be between the rivera import duties on hats." Dring and the Save, as well as on the Serbian northern frontior.
The enemy fired w mine on the 29th The following Cables were received entrenches, and so gained a footing on the alt south of the Monin rond under our Saturday evening and issued in aur from line, Counter-attacks in the fol Early Morning Batra yesterday.
lowing day, however, recovered all but
small portion of the lost treach. FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT. There is no change in the situation
to-day,
Our aircraft were very active last week. Sorentoen air-combals were reported and only one British machine was worsted. Yesterday a German machine was brought hare been made on the railways in the to the ground inside our lines. Attacks hostile area and the main lines are known to have been damaged in fifteen different PARIS, September 30th. Prior to the assault, General Joffre
have been partially wreeked and the loco.theless, it is persistently stated that Gor issued the following Army Order: "The motive sheds at Valenciennes fired, con- many has arade extraordinary promises offensive is about to be carried on with-siderable inconvenience having thus boon in an endeavour to secure Bulgaria's out truce or respite. Remember the caused to the German railway organisa-support. Marue and conquer or die."
tion.
CONQUEROR DIE!" GENERAL JOFFRE'S MESSAGE TO
HIS TROOPS.
BRITISH FORCE ON THE FRONTIER.
ONE MILLION NOW SERVING AND MORE. TO FOLLOW.
PARIS, September 30th.
. Pichon, in a speech in Paris, said that a million British troops were now serving on the French frontier, and he believed there would be a million and a half before next year.
GERMAN ADMISSIONS.
FRENCH SUCCESSES AT FOUR POINTS.
LONDON, September 30th. To-night'a German communiqué con tains some interesting admissionn. It
says:—
North of Loos our counter-attack is proceeding slowly. South east of Souchez the French have penetrated our lines at two points. Fighting is still proceeding in the district between Rheims and Ar- gonne. Fighting is very severe south of Sainto Marie Apy, where an enemy bri- gade broke through our advanced trench Tine.
(
Telegrams from Athens suggest a large concentration, but Bucharest incasages in- diente that there are only enough troops
places. Five and probably six trains to guard the Austrian frontiers. Never
PROGRESS MAINTAINED.
į LONDON, October 1st. Sir Edward Grey has authorised a FRENCH LIBERATE FRENCH statement to the effect that information
PRISONERS.
has been received that Austro-German officers have been arriving in Bulgaria for several days with a view to actively directing the Bulgarian, army. This PARIS, October 2nd, notion is precisely sirailar to that taken
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in Turkey, where German officers forced A communiqué reports that some fresh Turkey to make an entirely unprovoked progrosa has been made in the southern tack on Russia. The statement con- part of Givenchy wood. East of Souchegudes by saying that since the Allied we took sixty-one guardsmen prisoners Powers are bound to support States and liberated a number of French pri- threatened by such proceedings in Bul- soners-A-surprise attack in Champagne, garia this news is regarded as being of between Auborive, Epine, and Vede the boost gravity. grange, resulted in the capture of more machine-guns and thirty prisoners.
BULGARIAN CABINET. KING FERDINAND AND M. MALINOFF.
The enemy intermittently bombarded our new positions with lachrymatory. shells. We replied effectively. A violent bombardment of our trenches in Argonne and North Houyette was silenced by
Sort, September 30th, reprisals from our trench mortars. on It appears that King Ferdinand did to the Gorman trenches. Shells were not ask M. Malinoff to form a Cabinet, dropped at long range on Verdun and but to onter, or co-operate with, the pro Nomeny. We replied by bombarding at ad Cabinet. M. Malinoff declined." long range the trains in the station at. Vigneulles, causing two violum explo AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT. sions.
A French airship, on Thursday night bombed the railway junctions au Amagne, Lycquy, Attigney, Vouzisres, and return. Cannonaded, especially at Yourieres, ed safely, though they were violently where they were surrounded by incen
French attacks between the Sommepy Souain road and the Chollerance Saint Monehould railway were partially re-diary rockets. pulsed after fiercs hand-to-hand fighting.
In the early morning the enemy made a strong attack to the northwest of Mas siges. Northward of Massigen we lost Height 101, which was much exposed to the enemy's flanking fire.
FRENCH ADVANCE.
COMPLETE REPULSE OF ALL GER- MAN COUNTER-ATTACKS.
PARIS, October 1st
5.40 a.m.
There has been further progress in Artois and the complete repulse of all German counter-attacks is the feature of a communiqué.
We advanced, fighting with grenades, in the trenches and communication tren. ches eastward and southward of Neuville, The Germans counter-attacked against s small fort we had won yesterday in the Givenchy wood, and also on the trenches we had captured southward of Hill 119. Both movements were completely pulsed: The enemy made a violent der monstration northward of the Aisse, near Soupir, but did not follow it up by an infantry attack. A German counter-at- tack in Champagde was stopped dead by our fire.
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We took last night six officers and 280 men during progress north of Massiges.
CHANGE IN THE GERMAN TONE.
RUSSIAN FRONT.
【THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.] GERMANS CLAIM A SUCCESS,
RUSSIAN LINES PENETRATED
EAST OF SMORGON.
LONDON, September 30th.. Tonight's German communiqué claims that in the Eastern theatre the Germans have penetrated Russian positions to the east of Smorgon, capturing a thousand Prisoners, but to the south of Smorgon fighting is still proceeding.
"PRACTICALLY UNBROKEN
SERIES OF SUCCESSES."? SPIRIT OF RUSSIAN TROOPS RE- CEIVES FRESH IMPETUS,
PETROGRAD, October 1st
6.00 4.m.
A communiqué, while mentioning the abandonment of the town of Luck Wo days ago, proceeds to record practically an unbroken series of successes along the
whole front,
It says that insignificant enersy al- tempts, in the region of Rign, were easily repulsod. Nothing of importance has occurred in the Dwinsk region. Else- where vigorous Russian strokes, includ ing cavalry charges, resulted in the oap ture of trenches and villages, and, even enabled the Russians, at some points, to advance somewhat westwards.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] FOGS HINDER ITALIAN ARTILLERY,
INFANTRY ABLE TO MAKE BOLD RAIDS.
ROME, October 2nd,
2.30 am. Frequent dense fogs are hindering the artillery operations in the mountains, but they permit the infantry to make bold raids on the enemy positions and destroy the outlying defences. The Italians on the Tolmino sector attacked along the whole front on Thursday night" and gained ground, but a violent enemy counter-attack forced the left wing to retire though the right wing held ite own.
THE
HEAR EAST.....
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
ARMENIAN MASSACRES.
AMERICA ASKS GERMANY TO INTERFERE.
WASHINGTON, October las The State Department has requested Count Bernstorff to use his influence to induos Germany to interefere on behalf of the Armenians in Turkey..
THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
NEW ZEALAND AND INDIAN REPRESENTATION.
WELLINGTON; October 1st, The Wellington Post urges the New Zealand Government to akt promptly in supporting the representation of India at the Imperial Conference, in view of the splendid services rendered by India during the war,
LABOUR AND VOLUNTARYISM GOVERNMENT URGED TO STATE THE NATION'S NEEDS.
LONDON, September 20th. At a Conference of Committees of the great labour organisations to-day a reso Jution was passed that, having beard the sentiments expressed by Mr. Asquith and Earl Kitchener on Tuesday, the Con ference declares its belief that the men required for the Navy, Army and Muni- tion work to carry the war to a succCSS- ful issue are obtainable by voluntary means, and pledges itself To assist the Government to the utmost and to organise a special recruiting campaign through out the country. I considers that volun- tary enlistment will be more successful if the Government state as far as in com- patible with the public interest what the voluntary system has already done and what are the present and the future needs in regard to men, and insist that em ployery coase from preventing the enlist- metot of men.
RUSSIA'S COUNCIL OF EMPIRE.
A JEW APPOINTED.
PETROGRAD, September 30th. For the first time a Jew has been up- pointed a member of the Council of Eu pire.
COURAGEOUS LADY.
(INOCULATED WITH GAS GAN- GRENE TO TEST ANTIDOTE.
LONDON, October Isl Miss Davies, the youngest daughter of the late Bir John Davies, formerly Lieu. tenant Governor of the Punjab," inocu- lated herself with the bacillus of gas gangrena in an American hospital at Neuilly, in order to test the antidote devised by Dr. Taylor, of the Imperial Cancer Research. The antidote was com pletely successful
NOTORIOUS DR. DUMBA, GRANTED SAFE CONDUCT HOME.
WASHINGTON, October 1st. Sir Cecil Spring Rice has given the
Damba's return to Vienna.
BRITISH SUCCESS IN State Department a safe conduct for Dr.
MESOPOTAMIA.
A CORRECTED ACCOUNT ISSUED.
LONDON, October 1st. The Secretary of State for India has issued a corrected account of the success at Kut-el-Amara
NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
AMSTERDAM, October 1st
3.45 p.m. The wounded who are arriving inland From the different situations on the
The communiqué concludes The un Western front are preoccupying the er broken spirit of the Russian troops has man Press, whose tone has altogether received a fresh impetus by recent suc changed. The Lokalanzeiger says: I..
cesses in innumerable rearguard setions, NEW AUSTRALIAN CRUISER cannot be denied that the new enemy the successful acsumption of the offensive, including hand-to-hand encounters, and
LAUNCHED. offensive is of the greatest importance particularly north-east and south-east of and is obviously aiming at a decision. The Fossische Zeitung says: In view Vilna; also from the Allies' great offen-
SYDNEY, October 1st.
The new Australian cruiser Brisbane
of the bitterness and the indefatigalle sive on the Western front. On the con has been launched as Cockatoo faland. savority of the daily repeated attacks, it trary, the depression of the Germans must be concluded that this offensive recently has been most marked; it is NEW ITALIAN MINISTER OF surpasses all previous ones.
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BRITISH CONSOLIDATING THE POSITIONS WON.
LONDON, October 1st
3.45 p.m. The absence of a further report fr Field Marshal Sir John French is ex- plained by Berlin communiqués, which stated that the Allies offensive on Wed- nesday was continued only in Chum pagne, while the British were consolidat- ing their positions on the captured ground.
LORD KITCHENER'S
CONGRATULATIONS.
ON THE SUBSTANTIAL SUCCESS ATTAINED.
evidenced by the abandonment of arms, munitions, wounded, and waggona, and by their nervousness when firing
THE BALKANS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BALKAN IMBROGLIO. GREECE DETERMINED TO FULFIL ITS TREATY OBLIGATIONS.
MARINE.
ROME, October 1st, Vice Admiral Camillo Corso has been appointed Minister of Marine. GENERAL,
(THROUGH EEUTER'S AGENCY.]
RUSSIA AND ENGLAND,
JOINT FINANCIAL ACTION FINALLY ARRANGED.
ATHENS, September 30th. first reading of
The Greek Chamber has passed the Bill for loan of a
LONDON, October 1st. hundred and fifty million franes M.
The Press Bureau, announces that con- Venizelos reiterated that while the Goy-ferences between Mr. McKema, Chia- ernment had declared is determination cellor of the Exchequer, and the Russian to observe neutrality it had not con- Minister of Finance were brought to al cealed its determination loyally to fulfil successful conclusion to-night, whem al its treaty obligations towards Serbia, joint course of action between the Gov- should a casus Jader's arise. M. Gouna-aramente of the two Allied Nations was ras, the leader of the Opposition, de finally arranged. clared that the Opposition recognised that the Government were following the Ear! Kitchener has telegrapud to position and the Government
only possible course, and in this the Op- Field-Marshal Sir John French his accord. The complete absence of party warmest congratulations on tk suhatan-spirit from to-day's sitting has made an tial success attained and expressing his excellent impression. best wishes for progress in the important operations now in progress.
LONDON, October ist
2.35 a..
WHAT WE'VE GOT WE'LL HOLD.
VALUABLE CO-OPERATION OF BRI TISH AEROPLANES,
LONDON, October 2nd
12.35 a.m. that the enemy on the 29th ult. made Field Marshal Sir John French reports Beveral attacks on our positions north west of Hulluch. Severe fighting con tinued all day, but we maintained all
trench, Our positior has been firmly There the enemy gained 150 yards of a our positions except on the extreme left.
consolidated and the hostile counter
attacks have now weakened.
were 10
A GRAVE DANGER TO PEACE, GREEK PREMIER ON PROLONGED MOBILISATIONS,
BRITISH REVENUE,
APPRECIABLE INCREASE.
LONDON, September 30th. The revenue for the last quarter was £51,580,628, an increase of £15,888,345 compared with the previous three months,
THE BUDGET.
IMPORT, DUTIES CARRIED BY LARGE MAJORITY.
ATHENS, October 1st. M. Venizelos, despite the mutual as- surances of Bulgaria and Greece that the
LONDON, September 30th trobilisations are only intended as a gafe In the House of Commons the extreme guard of neutrality, says the situation is Free Traders insisted on dividing the serious, as mobilisation cannot be pro-House in the afternoon against the Bud- especially when one of the mobilised precated a division, affirming emphati langed without grave danger to peace, get Import Duties. Mr. Asquith bad de countries does not disguise its dissatis cally that no Free Trade questions were faction at the territorial status que involved, and that the duties were purely The Greeks ardently desired peace but war measures and were in no wise sug
derant position. They would however, of amy Balkan State to create a prepon Cabinet. would oppose any attempt on the part gested by the Unionist members of the
welcome a prompt simultaneous demo see that the extremists numbered only The House cheered loudly when it was
eight,
bilisation.
ANGLO-FRENCH LOAN. AMERICAN SUBSCRIPTIONS ESTI- MATED AT $400,000,000.
NEW YORK, October, 2nd,
2.30 mi
It is estimated that four hundred mil- lion dollar's have already been subscribed to the Anglo-French loam.
OBITUARY.
SIR GEORGE FARWELL.
LONDON, October 1st, 70 of the Rt. Hon. Sir George Farwell, The death is announced at the age of
P.C., a Lord Justice from 1908-1913.
MR. HAROLD CAWLEY, M.P.
LONDON, October 1st. Mr. Harold Cawley, M.P., has been killed in action.
WIRELESS TELEPHONY,
BETWEEN AMERICA AND HONOLULU,
NEW YORK, October 1st, Wireless telephony has been established between. Honolulu and America, a dis tance of 4,600 miles.
AMERICAN SHIP ON FIRE. OFFICERS INJURED.
LONDON, October 1st. The American ship Vincent is reported to have been burned, and the captain, mate, second mate and carpenter in- jured. No details are available.
TERKIFIC GALE AT NEW ORLEANS.
WIND'S VELOCITY NEARLY 100
MILES AN HOUR.
NEW YORK, October 1st. There has been a terrifio gale at New Orleans. Many buildings and churches are in ruins, and there is scarcely a window unbroken. The velocity of the wind was nearly a hundred miles hour.
PRIVATE CABLES TO CONTINENT STOPPED. FOR FORTY-EIGHT HOURS.
LONDON, October 1st. grams to the Continent for forty-eight A sudden stoppage of private tele hours was notifed last night.