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THE
WAR.
FURIOUS BATTLES IN SERBIA.
MAGNIFICENT RESISTANCE TO INVADERS.
ALLIES
OCCUPY
STRUMNITZA.
THE ZEPPELIN RAID ON LONDON.
FURTHER RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.
BRILLIANT ITALIAN VICTORY.
THE SERBIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGUNDY.]
THE INVASION OF SERBIA.
TERRIFIC FIGHTING,
HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES.
N18u, October 17th.
The fighting on the Belgrade and Somendria front is terrifie in its violence. The Germans, in trying to turus Serbiar wing, got badly trapped in the marshes It was estimated on near Semendris, Thursday night that the German losse had been 25,000 killed and 60,000 wounded. The Serbians themselves lost heavily, but nothing compared to the invaders. The Serbian spirit is splendid, and on the arrival of the Allies they will be invincible, ALLIES OCCUPY RAILWAY DOMINATING POINTS.
ATHESS, October 18th." "Offielä! advices-from-Salonika say that the Allied and Serbian Armits have occupied Stenmaitza; also various peinís dominating the railway, wisse procetion is regarded as assured.
FRENCH TROOPS BAPTISM OF FIRE
FRANGO-BELGIAN FRONT (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
VIOLENT ARTILLERY
ACTIONS.
PARIS, October 17th
1.55 a.m.
A Communiqué states: Violent til- lery actions have continued along the front at Lous and cost of Sonchez. We have consolidated and extended our post- Lions in the Givenchy Wod. There hos heen, elese grenade fighting on the Aisne, and an intense bombardment in Cham- pagne, particularly in the Tahure region. We vigorously replied to the enemy ban
THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, COTOTMER 19гH, 1916.
bardment in Lorraine, starting several. conflagrations in the enemy lines. Repeat-
AIRSHIP ACTIVITY.
THE NEAR EAST
(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY.] THE ZEPPELIN RAID ON LONDON.
(THROUGH EXUTER'S AGENCY.]
AT THE DARDANELLES.
KING AND QUEEN VISIT VICTIMS. MINING AND COUNTER MINING.
LONDON, October 17th. Their Majesties the King and Queen paid a surprise visit to the civilians who were injured in the Zeppelin raid, at the Charing Cross hospital yesterday,
THE INQUESTS. Inquests were held yesterday on twenty- The ono victims in the London Ares, verdiets simply stated that the deaths were caused by bols thrown from enemy aircraft,
One Coroner directed the jury not to follow the foolish precedent of calling it "wilfäl murder against the Kaiser." He said that if the public knew wore there would be an enormous feeling of gratitude to Sir Percy Scutt and his staff.
Death in right cases was the restilt of
shock.
WITH THE COMMISSARIAT.
ADVENTURES IN THE VAN OF A
'SUPPLY COLUMN.
STAFF
inch of black ferocity on the upper lip, expressed the opinion that the stationary character of the war had robbed life of its joys, and yearned for the time when the old column would get a move again.
"Not that you were anxious to get al move on, Dolhie," said the captain, when we were going hard, day after day, with not more than an hour's sleep. | 35" was as difficult to wake you as
drunken man
AFF OF LIFE OF THE ARMY,
Philip Gibbs, the Daily Chronicle's PARIS, October 17th. A communiqué dealing with the Dar-correspondent, at General Headquarters,
Dobbie blushed at this reminiscener.
By Jove! I knew what it meant to denelles operations states that during the writes to his paper at follows:-
Pics on in the trenches, who are
A Blcoming agony. first fortnight of October we stoppedalsu very hungry men, ter their little without sleep in those days.
They had all known that side of o enemy, mining operations by exploding morning prayer of five us this day
cur daily bread, and, after saiping horrors of war. I had full details of it counter-mines. The Turkish artillery was German "or two, wait impatiently for from the two drivers of old Hurtley." breakfast. Their prayer is not unanswer- the
We used to call the captain-he was ed, and already at the break of dawn, active, but ineffective, thanks superiority of the French batteries, along my highways of war in Flanders,ly a lieutenang then- The Man who coming up from inilheads to acflling when we were driving incessantly, day French aircraft every days bombed the Divisional Supply Columns are Never Slept That was on the retreak, stations with the army's food. They aa, day out, conveying the supplica, and Turkish establishments and camps.
the life-preservers of the fighting Ben-picking up wounded, and giving a lift who take their grub for granted.
to refugees. We had no sooner hafted AUSTRO.ITALIAN. FRONT.
and put a few sieks together to make a fire, or flung ourselves down, fairly drank with sleep, than up would come the captain and say, Wind up, there! Wind : We're off again. Often the but to shake us to wake us up. We were often se dog-tired that we would fall asleep, over the steering wheel, and 1 en mber one that one of the drivers went into a hedge followed by the next It BY who was drowsing in his seat WE Daly the captain who pulled us.
by F
Those men of the supply column went rough those days. He never seemed to
through esperances, witch will be writen red to history, strugging through h wd chaos of Belgian refuge after the battle of Mons, whose pihable condizion brought tears to the eyes of these drivers, and cading up their lorries with Ger
(TEROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
ITALIANS MAKE MARKED · PROGRESS.
The other morning, sitting by the side of a young captain of one of these columns, whose motor-car led the way for alf his lurries, 1 realised the romance of our pregion in the ligh of dawn. Out warty there was nothing romantic or advenardus about us. A artist, would not have found picturesque subject, ROME, October 18th.
perhaps, in this long line of heavy meter- The Italings stormed the fortified posi-wages, painted a dark green spaced nt along the road like a feet in line of tion of Pregasin," an important advanced battle, and fended with bread and neat our wheels, frowsy Flemish girls came A number of peaceful houses were blown point of the fortified Riva group, in and groceries, Fowls clutzeed away from the difficut mountainous region west of yawning to the ders of squalid cottage
7501 the sick and flung out dirty water to pieces.
walks: only the ben of guns, rumbling intermittently, came as a reminder the We were in the war-zone, and not melt bevand range of the enemy's great guns Where was the romance here?
area.
Garde.
Seventeen borabs fell in
The communiqué states-Action - began Three boys were killed while sleep in one
on Tuesday night, and the troops, despite house, and the father was badly injured.
a heavy fire from powerful Riva batteries, In another case mother, her daughter
the reached the entanglements and took cover and son were found dead under
for the cutting of openings in the wire wreekage of their ville,
They resumed the attack next morning, nd, under a fire of rifle, artillery, and asphyxiating bombs, advanced bøyinul Pregasim to the heights dominating Ledru Valley, where they solidly establish ed themselves.
FRENCH REPRISALS.
PARIS, October 17th. A conimaniqué states that as a reprisal
for the German nur raids on English towns n squadron of acroplanes to-day dropped thirty bombs on Treves. INTERESTING OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF DAMAGE.
· Loýdox October 15th.. The Press Bureau issues an account of
ed, violent. "Garisan attacks north of the damage caused in the latest Zeppelin Reillon were stopped by a curtain of fire.rait by a writer appointed by the Home
FRENCH
PROGRESS.
GENERAL.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) GERMAN MISREPRESENTA-
TION.
GREECE.
PETROGRAD, October 17th. The German staternent that the Russian pure Minister is leaving Grades 143 invention
AVELDAMA OF ARMAGEDÚÍN. ̧ Well I knew where it was, bezakis. for attle while had her living with the coin, ad suaking in the spirit of it, and having all its stay since thust days in August a year nd more age, when it wone up the Seing to Rouen with 35 lorries in an eight kit ramp, and the plunged straight away into the bloody tumuit of Armageddon.
Frenen, Belgian and British wound- ed after they harl-got their supplies.. though to the fighting lines.
1 had a Gerinan officer sitting where you are," said the driver of Hartley." He was frightfully wounded, so that had to put one arm round his neck to. kop him from slipping, while I held the eering wheel with the other hand. My chin offered him a piece of bread, Inas shook his head and said, The men first. After we had fed the others-all is a farfal and famished state-he ate ravenously, I think that was fine of him shall never forget the awful condition of the wounded. I shiver when But we helped 1 think of it all now.
to save their lives, and I'm glad of that"
As the captain led the way to the refill ng station there was more behind him than bily beef and biscuits, or pickles and maynalade. There was history behind him of wild days and nights with an army in retreat, of a column of sup: plies searching for brigades which had gene astray down the roads, of arrow escapes from bursting shell and hostile cavalry, and of winter months when mud ditches on the slope of a steeply-cambered THE MAGNITUDE OF GOLF. pave had bad au irresistible attraction
"LIFE"} for all his lurries. The division had That was the main result of all his struggles, and the chief credit to the column," Good enough, it
suges me.
Office, who says that the darkening of the RUSSIAN MINISTER NOT LEAVING always been fed. Metropolitan area and the height ot which tin enemy few prevented · him The PARIS, October 17th.
locating places of importance. Progress in Artois and Lorraine are the Berlin official report shows that, as on the last occasion, the raiders were grossly features of to-day's communiqué. “The
mistaken in most cases garding the French captured a strong position south-
If they had any do-- east of Newville, and maintained the gain, lowlitica bombed,
fite objective beyond the haphazard despite two night counter-attack reciprocal bombardment
destruction of lives and property of į THE Lions. Some ground was gained north-non-combatants they had entirely failed to attain it. Except for one chance shot, ward of Redlon and Lorraine in the course of close nad stubborn engagements.
the damage was exclusively to property French mir sadrons attacked three no connected with the conduct of the important German victualling centres,
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continnes at
ATHENS, October 18:. The French troops had their baptism of fire in Macedonin, near the railway
idge at Hudovorilandov, when they | BRITISH FLEET AGAIN BÜST. were attacked by 40,000 Bulgarians. Fighting continues.
SEBBIAN POSITIONS STORMED.
LONDON, October 18.
AMSTERDAM, October 18th.
The British Fleet again heavily bon barded the Belgian Const.
Austrian and German communiqués | A U38 IAN FRONT
state that the Serbian positions in the Avala Mountains have been stormed, and the whole of the hilly district south of Belgrade is in Austro-German bands.
REAR-ADMIRAL TROUBRIDGE IN
SERBIA.
LONDON, October 15th.
Tonight's casualty lists contain five headed Naval unit, and under Rear Admiral Troubridge, in Serbia
FRANCE DECLARES WAR ON BULGARIA.
PARIS, October 17th. France has declared war on Bulgaria.
NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.]
BRITISH SUBMARINE'S
EXPLOIT
CONSIDERATE TREATMENT FOR GERMAN CREWS.
AMSTERDAM, October 17th.
The Swedish capitain who took aboard the crew of a German steamer suck by a British submarine says that the vessels sunk were of a splendid type of from 4,000 tons. The British behaved is a most con- siderate manner, and gave the crew ample time to leave the vessels. Then, without
(THROUGH BELTER'S AGENCY.]
RUSSIANS SUCCES SFUL IN LAKE FIGHTING.
PETROGRAD, October 18th.
on
A communiqué says:--The enemy: con- tinued his persistent attacks the Dvinsk front at 4 o'clock yesterday, and was repulsed. The Russians caught the attacking Germans north of Lake Srenten in the flank and rear, cut off, and cap dured a large number.
Further south the Russians pierced the enemy's front on the western shore of Lake Boginskoe and crossed the River Drisvialitsa.
We also captured the enemy positions on the Styr above Czartorysk and to the west of Dorajm.
PETROGRAD, October 17th.
An Imperial Ukase proclaims a state
one save
*
tw
war. Of the 197 killed and injured none were combatants, suldiers in the street,
Hundreds of thousands who heard the bombs and the guts remained cool and free from panic. If possible, there was even legs excitement thin on the previous occasion. Most of the people, after the bombardment, went quietly to bed, and were undisturbed by a second raid in another part of the London area at mid- night, In the theatres, whence the bomb explosions and the firing were plainly hoard, there was a commendable absence of panic.
Damage was done in five distinct; areas. In the first, there was little or my resid ential property, but some large business buildings.
MISS CAVELL. "FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
OF BRUSSELS."
LONDON, October 17th: Mis Cavell, who was executed by the German authorities at Brussels, was: 49
years
of age and was known as the Florence Nightingale of Brussels," where she had worked for nine years in reorganising the nursing system at several hospitals.
When the Germans entered Brussels, Anglo-French nurses were prohibited from working in the hospitals, but Miss Cavell was allowed to remain at her former Private nursing home
Her brother-in-law, who is a doctor at Henley-on-Thames, interviewed, said that after the Mons retreat hundreds of Anglo- French and Belgian stragglers wandered aimlessly about Belg Many were hidden in farm houses. They were assist Here five bombs feli, four of ed ultimately to reach Brussels by Miss The buildings Cavell who provided them with shelter them being in the street.
There were till they could be snuggled out of the were considerably damaged. also a number of casualties in the second country. area. A bomb fell on a garden in su large block of residential fats, and several rooms on the ground floor, were totally wrecked. On the first floor there Another fell was considerable damage. on top of another blook, demolishing the There were no casualties in top storey. this area. Two business premises were damaged.
STATE OF WAR IN MOSCOW. The fourth area was a poor working- class district. Many houses were over- erowded here. More bombs were dropped here than in the above-mentioned arcas. One group of small houses was entirely of war in Moscow and district. Large destroyed. Only a single bomb was drop forces of hardly Kirgizes tribesmen, if not | ped in the fifth area, where there was not or busances borsa. the whole army, are likely to appear in a single faetory
There were hardly any shops, us encamp even search ments, aerial defences, or
the held on behalf of Russia after the
lights. Here for some obscure reason the necessary training. Kirgis has a popula
largest number of bumbs were dropped in tons of approximately 12,000,000
[Kirgis, more familiar to the reader per- any fuss, they opened the valves and sankhaps as Kirghiz Steppe, is the same girer less than a minute. The distance between to a very wide territory (nearly 185,000 the first and last bombs was only 600, the steamers, and thus invaluable cargoes
Five fell within a 60 yards area. square miles). limited by S. E. European yards. of iron ore destined for Germany went to Russian, southern W, Siberin, the land of the bottom. The Captain emphasised that the Turcomans (Transoaspean Terr.), Buk and three in a single small garden. The hara and Kbira, the Pamirs and Kash-fortunate feature of the whole raid was the steamers were sunk in the open sea, garia, By their ethnographic features the the number of bomba falling to the and that the stories of their being sunk in Kirgizes are described as belonging to the
Eastern Turks, with a strongly pronounced ground, nut on the buildings. Only three houses were actually struck in this area. Swedish waters were a pure invention.
Mongolian type in the upper classes.]
ITALIAN LOAN IN AMERICA,
NEW YORK, October 18th. Ily is about to place a Luan of £5,000,000 in the United States for the purpose of stabilising exchange.
[BY NORGE FITCR IN
This is a nighty country, and any little thing in it, when multiplied into a national total, becomes an awe-inspiring...... mes of figures.
Twenty years ago a few Americum gulf enthusiasts we bombarding. cows in a pasture with overgrown pills, while rows That Sort citizens surrounded tue fones and tappa, their heads sadly as they watched
I understood the sentiment of his young officer-carefully enculed behind a slight air of bureddin and the upward twist of a fair moustache-when as the drawing parade in the afternoonshe wenb along the line of lorries and pointed out
characteristics their anus" drivers and lustlers were greasy men just then squatting beneath the chassis with oil rugs, or polishing up the engines until they whone like silver and gold, but as the captain passed telling the tale of each lorry, as rough of an heroic chariot of war, the men listened and their eyes brightened with the pride of engineers who have taken a tramp steamer, and urged on its tailers to rough many a
ugly sea.
VOL.
1
Todas half a million tired business untu march put out the 3,000 gelf courses of this country every Saturday afternoon. If these men were to drive off together from a tee five miles long, they would mow down an approaching army of 50,000 men at one streko
Ifthey were to use their niblicks in the stuin place, they would dig a cual 100 feet wide, cen feet deep and two miles. long in four halt holidays.
li they were to drive off in turn, the last man would have to wait 176 years, four months and three days for his numb-longer than it now takes on the Jackson Park course in Chicago.
Ah!" said one of them," that was a great day of Meaux, when we nearly get cut off by the Germans. Do you remem- We'd hardly time to crous her, sir, the bridge before it was blown up.'
To me each lorry seemed the twin brother of the next until I had learnt
The tins open in hunting gif balls But the offers more about them. men of the column knew each one at a during one Saturday afternoon in this sident for Mexico, another Ty Cobb aud glance, and for then it had an indivi-courty would find Charky Ross, a Pie a now idea for comic operą, It takes 250,000 caddies to carry the clubs of this army. The time spent in waiting for these caddies to catch up would complete a government post-office or allow Tour women to dress for the theatre que after. the other.
Jual character:
cases.
CHANGING GROUND..
sone-
Half a million dollars' wenth of golf There are tails are los each Saturday. also found golf balls to the value of $348.75.
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There WES "good old Hartley "- always cheered along the road by the boys who were at Mons and Le Cateau. travelled on it myself, back from the refilling point, and sure enough is we passed a battalion on the road, the men and shouted out, “Good old grinned,
For months Hartley: Still running! she has never failed to bring up the supplies to the ammunition train, dodg ing shells on her morning trips.
Then there was old Lagenby,
The energy expanded by this army in She had born one half day would, if applied in times called Pickles," got hugged scores of times, and had thus throwing 3,000 men permanently ont This energy varies with the Chick Evans does, nu ag through many a narrow shave, and had different manner, beat 100,000 carpete, almost been scrapped until the master of work. mechanic, had put in same new spare individual. parts and tightened things up a bit, and enough strokes to beat a carpet in a week, It was the same while I finish an entire houseful in an kept her on the road. with Hovis and Jacobs and old afterton,
The remarks used by American golfers Carter Paterson "their medical history. is so full of details that there are not in ne afternoon would, if transcribed, only the outer body and the inner soul angels and keep four celestial book-
Since many of their original parts left, and occupy the full time of 25,000 recording of the lorry remains unchanged after all binders working nights..
the five-yea This patching up and wefting of fans, the telephone and radiators, cylinders, magnetos, curda automobile have been added to the com has been enlarged twenty-seven times and is now larger than the Ford factory. shafts, axles, valves, pistons and dieplication of living, the recorder's office The golf courses of America cover a It would total of 288.345 notes, by measure, and THE MIKADO'S CORONATION.
one poud seven miles around. take a poor player 7,345 years to mow I heard pain of the story of his supply this much ground with a midiron.
These courses represent aur outlay of ROME, October 17th,
column when I sat in the officers' mess,
And yet the holes Monsignor Petrelli, the Apostolic Dele-where there is a pleasant little band of $200,000,000, of which only 817.35 has been most important part of the gate to the Phillipines, had an audience brothers in a red-brick vill. which looks spent on the holes.
ut to the repairing workshops in a field are che
With all the money that hav with the Pepe prior to his departure for beyond there is no need to send down for Japan where he will represent His
base for refitting and repairs round the been lavished on golf, no improvement Sometimes corner from where the column lies along has been made in these holes. They are our boasted Yankee inventiveness sozus Holiness at the Mikady's Coronation.
the road between its journeys.. One of as hard to get into as ever. the offers (his name is a famous one in Deven) spread great map on the table, a trifle overestimated.
Golf has added a total of 543:768 years But the exer“ and, dodging the Hy-papers hanging from above, we all leaned over and studied to the lives of ite players.
tion of getting away from the office early potted from Warminster, Wilts. At he wanderings of the lorries when Saturday has removed a total of were changing,786 years, thus leaving a net loss of Golf has also produced wedding at the Minster the bridesmaids," refilling points upon arriving at the west door, were quickly as the Germans came hard on 8,882 years.
Friends came to the Marne, and afterwards. when the Briwell have no husbands at all on Saturdays
Force
changed. refused admittance because they were not Paris, and then boat a retreat to the 1,000 partial sidows, who might as
and Sundays. wearing hats.
thry assistance of the young ladies, lending tish Expeditionary
It costs about $25 to lears a fair game ground from the Aisne to Flanders, and thew silk handkerchiefs, which
They later still, when, as a week or two ago,
8500 to learn it from friends. were then permitted to enter the Minster they had to alter their depo: because, the of golf from a professional and about
strafing hurriedly tied over their heads.
in a most per- wishing to play the game may join a moment or two before the arrival of enemy was
was insistent way. the bride. Whilst the service the incident closed with general merri progress friends brought them hats, and
ment.
An usual wedding ineident is re-
Ont of the 38 lorries which came out a year ago, 23 still remain, and were spick and span on the road when I travel. led with them a day or two ago,
"
Those
A young lieutenant, whose pat-cams of good golf club for from 850 to $200 Dobbie denotes an amiable character. Players wishing to give up the galle
Burg at reasonable rates. weich he tries to disguise by a square may have an arm and leg removed by any