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THE WAR.
GREAT
GERMAN ATTACKS
THE WEST.
ENEMY COMPLETELY DEFEATED.
IN
RUSSIAN VICTORY ON THE STYR.
CROWN PRINCE'S GRENADIERS. BAYONETTED.
FOUR LARGE GERMAN MERCHANTMEN TORPEDOED.
BULGARIANS OVERTHROWN BY ALLIES,
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT
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THE BRITISH FRONT.
LONDON, Detolar 20th. Field Marshal Sir John French reports very active artillery work on bulb sides. Bombing attacks by the enemy ropulsed.
were
Sir John French denies the "German reports of British repulsts north-east of Vermeiles.
THE FRENCH OPERATIONS. "VERY SERIOUS NIGHT-ATTACKS"
REPULSED.
PARIS, October 10th. To-day's communiqué mentions that the very serious night Germans made
of Souchez.
attacky"! north-eastward
i.
THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21sr 1016.
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MERCHANT-
FOUR GERMAN
MEN TORPEDOED,
LONDON, October 20th. British submarines have torpedoed four large German merchantmen in the Baltic Sea during the last few days, GERMANY LOSES ANOTHER TORPEDO-BOAT.
COPENHAGEN, October 20th. There is trustworthy" confirmation of the sinking of a German torpedo-bont by the collision with the steam ferry on the 15th inst. Only five of a crew of it were
rescued.
Dar infantry, it says, supported by RUSSIAN FRONT.
batteries, easily repulsed cach attack.
The communiqué adds that there has
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beer bomb-fighting in Champagne, and GERMAN FLANKS TURNED.
the rain of the French gum silenced- un
intense bombardment on Les Eparges.
CAREFULLY-PREPARED ENEMY ATTACK COMPLETELY DEFEATED.
PARIS. October 20th.
1.25 a.m.
ANGRY RUSSIANS BAYONET
CROWN PRINCE'S
GRENADIERS,
PETROGRAD, October 20th.* Stubborn fighting has developed in the The latest communiqué states that the attempted enemy attack yesterday morn Riga district, where the Germans, accord- ing east of Rheims on a front of toning to a communiqué, succeeded in advan kilometres with large forces ended in
eing northwards in the vicinity of Mitau. complete defeat.
Fighting along the Dvinsk front has
The attack was prepared most care-
THE SERBIAN FROMT.
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THE INVASION OF SERBIA.
FIERCE FIGHTING ON ALL FRONTS.
ENEMY TAKING NO PRISONERS.
LONDON, October 20th. The latest news shews that there is fierce fighting on all the Serbian fronts, Owing to the heavy enemy artillery fire the Serbian army near Belgrade retired to a fortified line a little sonthward, while in order to avoid a turning move- ment the
which cracuated army Pojarevatz has withdrawn to the south- Last.
The Bulgarians are still held, despite their superiority...
GENERAL..
(THROUGH BAUTER'S AGENCY.] INDIANS IN GERMAN EMPLOY
IN CHINA,
re-
(THROUGH /REUTER'S AGENCY-] SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS.
INTENSE CONTEST
ANTICIPATED.
LONDON, October 20th, The elections take place in South The contest will he Africa to-morrow, intense, The Nationalists are using every
LONDON, October 20th. In the House of Commons, Colonel Yate asked what measures were being taken to prevent British Indians maining in the employ of Germans in effort against General Louis Botha. China,
THE NEW DUTY ON TEA. DISCUSSION IN THE COMMONS.
Lord Robert Cecil said that Sir John Jordan (the British Minister at Peking) was being asked to report telegraphically on the subject.
TORPEDOING OF A BRITISH TRANSPORT,
THRILLING STORIES.
The following lotter has been received by a Hongkong lady from her son-
"By the time you receive this you will probably have read of a transport having been torpedoed in the Aegean Sea. You will be terribly surprised to know that
It all old Sonny But was aboard. happened sn suddenly, and when we were least expecting it. We were only about 30 miles from our destination. We didn't see the submisrine at all, Some saw the LONDON, October 20th.long tell-tale streak of bubb'es na it caso swiftly towards us, but it was too late. There In a debate on the Finance Bill, Mr. Infor scouds it struck us. P. Snowden (Labour)"ntiæeked the in was a loud roar and splash, the stermor seemed to ris slightly and quivered. evensh in the Tex Duty, and moved 16 Most of the men couldn't make it out, but. rejection. He declared that for thus it didn't take them long to realise what earning £1 a week the breakfast-able had happened when the smoke from the In the House of Commons, Mr. H. Jduties were equivalent to su income-tax torpedo drifted over the vessel, necom- panied by the abominable stench of burnt for -War) of 47-
explosive. Tennant (Under-Secretary
It hit is in the No. 2 hold, and blow everything to hits. Fortunately practical clasers, there was no reliable evidencely all our men were up on deck having. amganiton and rations supplied thum that the duties were pressing so heavily prior to embarking on trawleys og Galli.. as to reduce the consumption.
BRITISH PRISONERS IN GERMANY.
LONDON, October 20th."
stated that the total number of British
Mr. McKenna contested this Though
The enemy are committing unspeakable prisoners in Germany up to September the increase was hard on, the humblest atrocities among the civilian population. I was approximately 25,000,
It is reported that the Austro-Germans ZEPPELIN COLLIDES WITH and Bulgarians are taking no prisonera.
GERMAN CLAIMS.
AMSTERDAM, October 20th.
also
CHIMNEY:
crew
The motion for rejection was negatived by 201 votes to 25, and the top clause was adopted.
:
EXPORT OF COTTON PRODUCTS PROHIBITED,
Loxnes, October 20th, The Gazette anatunes that the export 'the' line All
is prohibited 10 neutral countries con- were killed,"
tiguous to the enemy (including Scandin MORE GERMAN INTRIGUE IN ) f all manufactures and products of cotton, except cotton lace, cutton AMERICA.
whte, furs, dress ch and undressed.
RUGBY FOOTBALL PLAYER KILLED IN ACTION.
LONDON, October 20th. Messrs. Pilkington & Sons, glass manu- A Berlin communiqué claims slight facturers, having a plant in France, progress southward and westward of received the following telegrain from says that the Paris: Cur Maubeuge works chin- Belgrade. It Bulgarians have reached Egripalanka,ney destroyed in collision with Zapper of the Zeppelin. thirty miles south eastward of Vrania.
AN UNCONFIRMED REPORT.
PARIS, October, 2011. The Temps states that the report of the cutting of the Nish-Uskub railway near Vrania is not confirmed. Only a wooden bridge near the line has heen destroyed. FRENCH COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
Pants, October 20th. General Sarrail. Commander-in-Chief ernment of a of the French Orient Army, has left Salonikn for Serbia. ENTIRE BULGARIAN BATTALIONS
FITTING OUT PRIVATEERS TO ATTACK COMMERCE.
NEW YORK, October 20th. The defeation by the Colombian Gov. American yacht with an unusually large crew, whose Captain be a German, Heart is believed to
the to confirm Buonaventura, tends suspicious that German sympathisers are filling out privateers for the purpose of LONDON. October 20th. Reuter learns that the feeling regar-preying upon cotamerce in the Atlantie
and Pacific. More ing the position in Serbia is hopeful.'
CUT UP.
Accounts received at Athens of the fighting prior to the occupation of Strumnitza show that 40,000 Bulgarians attacked, and at first hard pressed the Serbian's north-east of Doiraa and gene Valandovo, but the timely arrival of the Allies turned the tide and drove back the Bulgarians with heavy loves beyond the frontier.
INTERNED GERMANS ESCAPE.
NEW YORK, Octuber 20th, Half a dozen officers and FOD have escaped from the interued German vessels at Norfolk, Virginia, in a motor boazi It is believed that they have gone to Cubs,
LONG CABINET SITTING, SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
ANTICIPATED.
|
ali, only 30 mile distant. My bunk was only a few feet away. Had the torpedo struck us ten feet further aft very few would have been saveil, as the engine- room would have been swamped and the.
As it good ship gone down like a stone. was we wired for help, and although very claw at two bows she made her way into
·port under her own steam. We were not to know that, however, As sean as struck, she commenced to settle as No. 2 hold filled, and the order came to man tha boats. All this happened in a few seconds, although it takes a long time to write.
"We had a boat-drill the previous day, so it lidn't take us ling to get to our pluses and even at that time it struck how quietly anil-orderly they went w twir posts. Our lot stood in two rows facing the boat till the order. 'Get in,' LONDON, October 20th. and we got in. Just at that time our 4.7- Lambert, the International Rugby foot-ncher on the stern spoke up and we could
see the shell strike about 300 yards awayê. baller, was killed in action in France on the 18th inst. ·
The rotter beast came up to give us the coup de grace. Some way they saw the shell strike her, with the usual oil-on-the- water story. Others say she fired a second torpedo, which is very likely, and would account for the oil on the water,
COLONIAL
AFFAIRS.
LONDON, October 20the Mr. Bonar Law had an audience with the King yesterday morning in connec 4ion with Colonial affairs.
THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE,
LONDON, October 20h. The Committee Stage of the Indian Civil Service (Temporary Provisions) Bill will he taken in the House of Lords tu-Diorrow.
The first few bents that were lowered ranie sadly to grief. The men lowering them did not take sufficient thin arounil the davit with the rope and the conse quence was they would go down with a ran, one end, leaving the boat hanging perpendicularly by the other, throwing the occupants headlong into the sea. I've seen a good many dekening sights, but it made me absolutely sick to see these men thrown out of the boat pell-mell, and the dull thuds as they fell on each other.
Lord Islington, in the course of the debate on the Second Reading, intimated
1 always thought pictures of sinking. that the Government, in temporarily and in past changing the methods of recruit- steamers, depicting men falling over the ment, was most anxious that by no means side in all sorts of extraordinary positions this year or in the following years should all arms and legs-to be exaggerated, the Indian proportion of admission but new knew it is only loo true. This 1 got a -bit suffer. Therefore it was contemplutad happened to our host. that, if with the examination of our damaged, the skin being torn off both fourth there was not as a Iesult the arms in places and my body bruised. I Same proportion of Indians successful as
was right in the bow, and as the steru LONDON, October 20th."
in former years, that number would be fell all the lads fell out. I got caught
Even treatment Yesterday's Cabinet meeting lasted for made up by selection, three hours.
It is understood that the would be meted out to European and between the boat and the bow falls. It Indian. The rules would also provide wasn't many seconds before the other fulls Conseription controversy was not touched, that a minimum standard of education gave way, and the boat fell to the water and released me from a most dangerous
It is a as Mr. Asquith was slightly indisposed, should be laid down in the ease of select- Advices from Athens state that the but the Daily Chronicle declares that the ed European candidates, and a condi- and undignified position
tion of eligibility would be that caadi-wonder I caped without brokem ribs.
The principal fighting has been 'at: Valandovo, five miles from the frontier, where entire Bulgarian Lattalions were cut up.
BULGARIAN DIVISION. ANNIHI- LATED.
PARIS, October 20th.
decision, and there may be sensational It is reported from Doiran that a Bul-developments before the week is finished,
M.P. PRESSING FOR INFORMATION. garian Division was completely, annihi-
nature.
fully by prolonged bombardment, in. I been confined to fierce artillery actions. first trainload of French wounded from compulsionist Ministers have not aban- dates have rendered service with the Fortunately our boat fell right side up, cluding the use of suffocating shells and but the Russians developed a success in the fighting against the Bulgarians has doned their intention of forcing an early forces of the Crown of certain length and | but the lads who were thrown out and clouds of chlorine gas. Enemy infantry the middle styr, capturing the town of arrived at Salonika penetrated some sections of our first line trench, but immediate counter-attacke almost completely ejected them, and w vigorous counter-offensive in the after- noon expelled the remainder, The enemy lost heavily.
Tehartorysk by a sudden attack, taking nine guns, numerous machine-guns, and another 700 prisoners,
The success at Tehartorysk was due to the simultaneous turning of the German Banks. The prisoners belonged to the violent artillery Crown Prince's 1st Grenadier Regiment. There have been
The commuraqut ways that in their actions along the rest of the front.
extreme resentment, provoked by the FRENCH SQUADRON DESTROYS
ENEMY AERODROME.
PARIS, October 19th.
A French squadron bombed a German nerodrome at Burlioncourt. The hangars and shelters were obviously demolished. NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
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BRITISH NORTH SEA HAULS.
AN ESCORT WHICH BOLTED..
LONDON, October 20th. Twenty-six German trawlers have been brought to Grimsby. They include many modern steam vessels.
German
lated.
It is rumoured that the Bulgariun
GREEK GENERAL STAFF AT have evacuated Petritch and Melnik.
'SALONIKA.
The Greek General Staff has arrived at Salonika. The King is expected to
use of explosive bullets, the follow shortly. - Russians bayonetted an enormous number of this Regiment. The pursuit of the enemy in this region continues.
ITALY'S AID TO SERBIA.
LONDON, October 20th. In the House of Commons Mr. Lloyd Above Tchartorysk a vigorous Russian | George, on behalf of Mr. Asquith, said attack put the Austro-Germans to flight the methods by which Italy could best co-operate in helping Serbia or in the and two villages were stormed, numerous
common cause are under discussion by the machine-guns and prisoners falling to the
Allies. (Cheers,) Russians,
The skilfulness of the Russians and the results obtained are demonstrated by the fact that units which on the 18th inst. took 1,950 prisoners at one point, besides a large quantity of abandoned munitions and arms, themselves only lost 5i men.
An Austrian communiqué admits that
"THE BETRAYER OF THE BLAV CAUSE."
PETROGRAD, October 20th. The Tsar, in a Manifesto, 'say's - "The Russian people draws the sword against Bulgaria with a bleeding heart, and leaves the fate of the betrayer of the
LONDON, October 20th. The papers emphasise that Members of Parliament are assuming a most critica! attitude towards the Government, and are pressing for information about the Dardanelles and the Balkans and the prospects of recruiting. It is considered improbable that Mr. Asquith will yield debate on his to the demand for a Balkans speech. MR. ASQUITH INDISPOSED.
LONDON, October 19th. Mr. Asquith, the Premier, is suffering from gastro-intestinal catarrb, which will necessitate a few days complete rest.
RECRUITING CAMPAIGN. EVERY POSSIBLE MAN WANTED.
LONDON, October 20th. The
to Lord instructions issned Derby's canvassers have been published. These show that the
men ordered to approach unmarried conduct the campaign with the intensity When necessaTY, of a general election. a motor service will be organised to take Every recruits to the attesting station. possible man is wanted for infantry.
SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER. THE CARSON AND NATIONALIST ARMIES IN FLANDERS.
canvassers
are
One trawling fleet was being escorted the Russians by persistent attacks reached Stov cause to the just punishment of first. to be polite and not b lly, and to
but the escort bolted when the British the west bank of the Styr at several points patrols sighted them.
There have been threo successful British raids in the North Sea during the past fortnight. SUBMARINE FEATS IN THE BALTIC.
STOCKHOLM, October 20th.
A British submarine yesterday sank a German 5,000-ton steamer Pernambuco,. laden with
and torpedoed the steamer Soder Haom, which was afloat by its cargo of wood.
OTC,
BRITISH SUBMARINE'S
CAPTURE.
hept
GEFLE, October 20th.
near Tchartorysk.
AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
IMPORTANT ITALIAN -
ACTIVITY.
SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS AT VARIOUS POINTS.
1
ROME, October 201b.. A communiqué says that the Italians, after intense artillery preparation, success- fully attacked at various points on the It is officially reported that the Tyrol and Trentino frontier, capturing stearier Nike, bound from Lules to important heights in Upper Cardevole Stettin, laden with ore, was captured by and a peak 7,500 feet high in the Falzarego
a British submarine and taken to Boval. district,
God."
THE ATTITUDE OF GREECE.
ATHENS, October 19th. Twenty-four hours have elapsed since the British and Russian Ministers con- ferred with M. Zaimis (Prime Minister) and informed him that their Governments did not agree with the Greek interpreta- tion of the Serbian Treaty, but nothing has transpired up to the present
AUSTRALIA'S GREAT
LOYALTY.
SYDNEY, October 20th. The Hon. G. F. Pearce, Minister of Defence, has declared that if it was necessary to do more to combat succes- fully the new position in the Balkans, Australia would answer the call, even if it meant the sending of brigade after
brigade,
were swimming about with lifeboats on all started getting in and turned her up- NEW BISHOP OF NEWCASTLE. | side down. As she was going over I dived a bit before deep down and swam out LONDON, October 20th.
conning to the Surfüer so as not to bump The Ven, H. L. Wild, archdeacon of my hend. I hadn't a lifelelt on, hut there Nottingham, has been appointed Bishop was any amount of wreckage floating of Newcastle.
THE AGA KHAN,
LONDON, October 20th. The Aga Khan lunched with their Majesties the King and Queen at Buck- ingham Place yesterday.
A TOKIO TRAGEDY. SUPPORTER OF YUAN SHIH KAI ASSASSINATED.
about
"Some of us got on a flat-bottomed affair, and floated away, but we had lost all our oats. Our next difficulty was to get away from the steamer to avoid being Sucked down in the vortex, because she was still settling at the head, and we expected to see her plunge at any time.
To our, horror we found the wind was blowing her nearer to us, We called out to other boats to give us a tow, but they, being full themselves, would not risk giving us a band. We managed to pick TOK10, October 20th." up an oar, atal by hard work put about Chiang Shi-li, a prominent supporter 300 yards between us and the ship. The Shih-kai and Chinese cries for help were pitiful, but water- Monarchy, was shot at and mortally logged and upside down as we were, with culy one oar, we could do nothing. There wounded by a young Chinaman.
were 32 of us sitting with the waves wash. ing over us now and then.
ul.
Yuan
狼
HOME BOXING. FLY-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP.
We never lost heart for a moment, and were singing all sorts of patriotic airs including an Occasional hunn, and LONDON, October 20th,
Nearer my God, to Thee,' which was At the National Sporting Club, in the most appropriate, as we were pretty near contest for the fly-weight championship, that time. We were floating about for "Young" Symonds of Plymouth heat about four hours and were picked up by "Taney" Lee of Leith in the sixteenth
a hospital ship. Our wireless brought round.
ships from al quarters. I had my wounds dressed on the hospit! ship. It is mar vellous how nicely they have these ships fitted oat, with everything so beautifully clean. which is so different from the WHAT ITS FAILURE WOULD MEAN squalor of a troop-ship. Our losses were
TO AMERICA.
AMERICA AND THE
LOAN,
BIG
not very high. The returns have not all come in yet, but I'd pat it between 20 and 30.
The World in the course of a loading
"The Southland (formerly the Foder article on the loan to the Allies, points outland) is beached in harbour now, and the that if, because of the breakdown of the divers have managed to get five bodies out foreign exchange, Great Britain had to of her so far. The ship's officers, behaved LONDON, October 20th: Replying to an interrupter at a meet muke war bread," American farmers spendidly. There was the grey-haired old was now owing to the fall in the price of wheat, folded over the bridge; the mate went ng at Hull, Mr. John Redmond said that would lose hundreds of millions of dollars Captain, giving orders with his arms Sir Edward Carson's ariny
hope to and that if the Manchester cotton mills chout directing the lowering of boats. where they
"We had General Legge on board, and in Flanders fight shoulder-to-shoulder with their had to close owing to the collapse of the
loan the commerce of the South would I think it more than a cvicidence that we were the chosen victim and not the Nationalist brethron.
suffer un appalling disaster...
The World continues: The pro others. The General has earned the German pacifist of plain crank, whoever admiration of all the mer for the splendid secks by threatened bank-run conspiracies way be behaved. For from getting into or other mears to render partially imper boat himself, he went about smoking & fect the pending operations for belaucing pipe, helping the men to put on lifehelts. the foreign exchange, is erdeavouring to only lost my coat, which I took off on inflict on American commerce and indus the boat, sg. I hadn't ray lifebelt on. They sty we go on to the Peninsu'n to morrow; try, especially uper American farmers, a
Is on y four hours from here." irreparable injustice money loss of gigantic proportions and of it so we shall be right into it because it
DEATH OF MISS CAVELL. UNITED STATES SEEKING INFORMATION.
LONDON; October 20th. The United States Government has instructed the Arabassador to Borlin to inquire into the circumstances of the execution of Miss Cavell.