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THE BALKANS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BULGARIANS REVOLT.
DISLIKE THE TURKS AS ALLIES:
BUZHAREST, October 22nd.
1.10 p.m.
It is reported that the population of Starazgors has revolted on learning of the arrival of Turks às Bulgarian Allies ou desiring to address the people at Jan Gendarmes fired on them, and the Prefect, bull, was assessinated.
GREECE AND THE WAR. SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
EXPECTED.
BRINDISI, October 22nd.
1.10 p.m.
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The arrival of Franco-British wound ed at Salonika has deeply impressed the
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AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT. (THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]
ITALIAN SUCCESSES..
PIERCE ENEMY LINES AND CAP- TURE NUMEROUS POSITIONS.
ROME, October 23rd..
1.35 am.
(THROUGH RIVÏHE'S AGENCY.]
DEÀTH OF SIR ANDREW NOBLE.
FAMOUS SCIENTIST AND ORDNANCE EXPERT.
LONDON, October 22nd. Sir Androw Noble, Bart., F.R.S., FR.A.S., F.C.S., D.Sc., D.C.L., dead.
the
WAR THE LEVELLER.
FRENCH SERVANTS AND MISTRESSES.
HARDSHIPS IN COMMON.
FROM A "TIMES " PARIS CORRESPONDENT] Mistress and maid are alike in their common sorrow and anxiety in the Fauce of to-day, and they do not differ very greatly in the way they face their prob- A communiqué, announces that
lems, for love and death are great social the
leveltors. great Italian offensive, which opened
The servants show the m [The deceased baronet was chairman of courage, the same patriotism as the mis- successfully in the Tyrol and Trentino, has extended along the whole front to frm of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth ried couples in French households has well-known northern engineering tress, and the customs of employing ar the sea and has resulted in the capture & Coy., Ltd., with which he had been brought the women of the household very of numerous positions with much xorg- have been pierced at several points, the terial. The strong enemy lines at Care
close together in their present trials. In some cases the women are now doing defenders annihilated or scattered, and
their husbands' work, for parleurmaids 1,209 prisoners taken.
are necessarily the rule now that the valets de chambre are fighting, and corduns-ideas are replacing the chefs; Ordnances Select Committee.
nly a few venerable butlers remain, and nentber of the First Committee on Exploit is the young strong women who have Hives from ita formation until it was to do the hard work of the house just dissolved and was also a member of the now, Board of Research. Ho was the holder
The powdered Mackeys of the ante-chum- IN of numerous decorations and distinctions,bers in the houses of the great are sery including the 1st Class Sacred Treasure of ing in the trenches, the fastidious chris Japan, the 1st Class Rising Sun, and the of the kitchens in princely mansions are Dragon of China,]
RUSSIAN FRONT.
[THROUGH REUTER'B_AGENCY.}
RUSSIAN COUP-DE-MAIN
GALICIA.
CAPTURE OF NEARLY 8,000 MEN AND MUNITIONS.
PETROGRAD, October 22nd.
6.15 p.m. The Russian forces have effected a powerful coup de main in Galicia in the region of Newolexinetz twenty miles northward of Tarnopol. A communiqué GREECE REJECTS OYPRUS.
says: We carried part of the enemy positions yesterday and further positions LONDON, October 22ud.
2.30 p.m.
northward to-day. We captured during According to The Times, it was under the day 148 officers, 7,500 men, two stood last night in well-informed quar-howitzers and numbers of machine guns. ters that Greece had rejected the offer of Cyprus.
UNABLE TO ACCEPT ALLIES' PROPOSALS AT PRESENT.
LONDON, October 22nd.
10.25 p.m. Reuter's Agency learns that the_Greek reply to the Note of the Entento Powers (offering to code Cyprus and indicating other concessions if Greeco fulfils her obligations under the Serbo-Greek Treaty) has been received tonight, and that in it Groese states that she does not. see her way at present to accept the proposals of the Allies.
ITALY FAVOURS FIRMER? METHODS.
ROME, October 22nd.
1.10 p.m Some difficulties are indicated among the Allies in respect to Greece, The Italian public are described as being dispirited at the generosity of the Allies towards Greece, who, the Italians con- sider, should be constrained and not cajoled.
It is emphasised in Government circles at Rome, however, that Cyprus is not the sole subject of negotiations: between Greece and the Entente, whose possibi- lities of deterrent action towards Greece are in no wise exhausted.
ENEMY'S SLOW PROGRESS IN SERBIA," BULGARIANS CLAIM OCCUPATION OF KUMANOVO.
AMSTERDAM, October 22nd.
8.15 p.m.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
-{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
FUTILE GERMAN ATTACKS.
EFFECTIVE FRENCH BLANKET- ING FIRE,
PARIS, October 22nd.
4.65 p.m.
158 and to the Committee on Plates and conected since 1860. He acted us Secretary to the Committee on Rifed Cannon in
Guns in 1859. In the latter year; also, be was appointed Assistant Inspector of Artil- lery, and in 1880 was given a seat as the
He was
SEIZURE OF ARMS AT SHANGHAI,
CONSIGNED BY A GERMAN TO INDIA.
SHANGHAI, October 22nd. The police have seized 130 revolvers and 20,000 cartridges, which were dis covered packed in tius hidden in furni- ture which a German had engaged Chinese to take to India,
MEDICAL MAJOR AWARDED ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY'S MEDAL.
LONDON, October 2nd.
3 p.nl
The Royal Humane Society has award ed its medal to Major W. C. Croly, of the B.A.M.C, for attempting to save the Two further futile Garman attacks in life of a man of the Norfolk Regiment Artois and very violent bombardiments who jumped overboard in સ At of io Champague are the features of a insanity from a launch at Busra on June communique. The Germans were parti- | 18th. cularly cannonading the districts of Tahuro end Mesnil. The French guna responded with a blanketing fire, which was observed to be very effective against the German batteries and trenches.
FRENCH ARTILLERY
TRIUMPHANT.
SUBDUES ENEMY'S CANNONADE AND DISPERSES ASSEMBLING FORCES.
LORD DENMAN ON CONSCRIPTION.
cooking for generals at the front, some. of whom say they have never eaten better, or even so well, and wherever you go in Paris to-day in the quarters where the rich man hath his dwelling, you will and closed shutters, empty corridors, and stately roons showing ghostly furniture forms in holland covers. lu the few homes that are open, everything in the way of service is reduced to the utmost Hit, and every sign of pomp and cir cumstance is put away. Two, women ser- yats often make the whole staff of a household which in normal times employa 10 or 12 men and women to keep it going, and the common-sense economy which rules in all classes in France deeTVES that the wages shall be reduced in ue, cordance with the demands m'de on the service of those who earn them.
The old-fashioned French lady who could address her maidservants, as *ma with that niceness of tone which made the social gulf between them im- passable still exists; and Republican- though the maidservants mag there is no people which shows a line of demarcation between servant and employer that the upper middle and aristocratic classes in France. Only since the war began has this abyss been at all lessoned, and when the war is over 21 ill. it will wider again. There is feeling on either side as a rule, but each sees the rights which belong to its own claw and insists on them with an equal determination,
fille"
THE LOSS OF PERQUISITES. As a rule French servants get gued wages and an infinity of perquisites, but they are expected to work hard and to have just whatever off-duty times suit Lord Denman, who presided at a great their mistress. Their sleeping quarters, meeting of women in London last month, in even very expensive flats, are poor, said he did not suppose the like of the and in inexpensive flats they are miser-
been seen present gathering had ever
able, and not always clean. Their kit before, to understood that every woman chens are built and arranged solely for in the amblage had at least some of there is no corner which a servant can work, and in middle-class households hermen-folk-possibly all of her men- folk-serving at the front, either in
call her own. To say that they mind any PARIS, October 23rd. France, at the Dardarelles, with the Fleet true, for, they are accustomed to them; of these things very much would not be 1.30 80,
in the North Sea, or in the wars which but what they do mind is any reduction A communiqué reports: The Germans the country was waging in other parts in their wages, or any cutting off of their bombarded the environs of Lombaertzyde of the world. Some of them-doubtless porquisites. At present they are suffer- fire dispersed the and prepared for an attack, but our many of them in letting their men-folking in their tenderest affections, and also assembling enemy go to the front had made the supreme in their pockets, for the tradespeople, sacrifice of their lives, and that in itself as well as the mistresses, have cut down should entitle their opinions on the ques the domestic servants' means of earning: tion of National Service to considera- they no longer give the cooks & sou in. tion and respect, (Cheers.)
every frane they spend, and they do not on the bills they are sent to pay. Neither to give the femmes de chambre a discount do the cast-off clothes go to the maids in these days, for there is such a call for. them from the philanthropic sociotics.
forces.
Our batteries in Champagne and the Argonne mastered the enemy'e cannonade in the environs of Tabure and at other points.
A Berlin communiqué states that the Austro-Germans are still making slow progress in Serbia. They are approach-GENERAL. ing the hills, where the greatest difficul ties begin.
The Bulgarians claim i have occupied Kumanovo, twenty miles north-eastward of Uakub.
SERBIANS ENGAGED IN HEAVY BATTLES.
ATTACK REPULSED IN REGION OF "PIROT.
NISH, October 22nd.
8.15 p. A communiqué says that the Serbians have been engaged in heavy battles and have repulsed an attack in the region of Pirot (35 miles E.S.E. of Nish).
RUMOURED BIG BATTLE AT · KUPRULU.
ATHENS, October 22nd. According to reliable information from Salonika there has been a big battle be tween the Serbians and Bulgarians at Kupralu (27 miles south of Ushkub), whero Turkish Cavalry were observed.
It is reported that the Bulgarian, are fortifying the defiles of the Rhodope mourtains. Large numbers of refugees are arriving at Monastir from the northern districts.
BRITISH
FLEET'S
BOMBARDMENT,
FORTY MILES OF THE BULGARIAN
COAST.
Amsterdam, October 22nd.
9.50 p.m.
[TYHOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
POLITICAL INTRIGUES,
CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE
CABINET."
PREMIER'S HEALTH
IMPROVES.
The gathering, he ventured would also become historic, for it would inaugurate a new movement movement which would add to the fighting power of the nation. It would give adequate organization for the purposes of the war
Undoubtedly the domestic servant in and ensure, 60 far as it was possible to France is feeling the straitening process casure, oquality of service for all, irres of the war as well as the midinefte and pective of rank, or wealth, or position.
He was interested in this cause be may be, it is none the less hard. Fer- the shop assistant, and fair though that cause he was Governor of a great Domi-haps the bonus-a-tout-faire is feeling it nion, Australia, at the time when uni- less than any, because, although some versal training-compulsory service for mistresses have reduced the wages of that home defence came into oporation; and hard-working, woman who slaves from it was followed by none of those evil the moment she rises until she goes late effects which some of its opponents anti-to rest in her little attic, the majority cipated. The agitation against it quick-lave not done so, and in some instancus
LONDON, October 22nd.
12.45 p.m. The Daily Chronicle makes a feature of what it calls a conspiracy against the Cabinet, aiming at the expulsion of Mr. Asquith, Sir Edward Grey and Mr. Bal- four, and the inclusion of Bir Edward subsided. The whole nation must be she is reaping the advantage of her mon- Carson and Lerd Milner, with Mr. carry it to a successful issue. He ad become of greater value than ever to a organized for this war if me were to grel-like propensities in that she has Lloyd George and Mr. Churchill as the mired the splendid patriotism which had mistress who is deprived of the support only Liberals therein, and Lord Curzon enabled us to raise an army of about of her husband and sons. She now helpa as Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
It says that the position of Mr. Lloyd than that. Hundreds of thousands more charge of the house while her mistress 3,000,000, but something more was aceded to run the little shop or takes complete George in the wirepulling is peculiar, mon would be required. He objected to goes to Paris to take her husband's place as he is very loyal to Mr. Asquith, but the voluntary system because it was hapin the office; she makes her mistress in- a strong believer in conscription. Mr. hazard, unfair, and unequal.
torests hore in the market when she goes Lloyd George made two very significant
Some time in the future there would to buy food; and she undertakes the appointments this week-that of Six I come to the Allies a great victory which washing for the entire family. G. Chiozza Money to be his Parliament would be hersided by the optimistie ary Secretary, and that of Mr. Arthur Press as the end of the war, and on that French servant of to-day is sharing with But whatever her domestic rank, the Les to be his Military Secretary in the Ministry of Munitions. Both gentlemen might be courting disaster by no having porting her family and sending comfort day recruiting, would stop dead We all French women the heavy task of sup are strong conscriptionists.
enough men and letting victory slip when to the front. Very few of these women complete victory should be within our can put by to-day even if they would, grasp, We were obliged to look ahead and the few who can are not doing so, because it was only men with many for it is their pride and their pleasure months of training who were of use for to spend a proportion of their wages on fighting this war. Conscriptionists were parcels for the front. They Bee asked if they wanted to Prussiani Eng clearly and not very far. They know land, but was France Prussianized, Rus that they must ears money, and the cus- sia enslaved, or Italy no longer free! toms of the country have legitimatized Each of those countries had conscript a certain avarice among their ranks, but armies. He should like to hear any man where their own people are concerned tell the average Australian that, he was they are quite capable of giving away being Prussianized.
their last fou, for the power of the family He repudiated the suggestion that the tie is as strongly emphasized among the advocates of National Service were rais women of the people as it is among tho ing a bitter controversy. He could not best blood of the upper classes. see why, if there was a controversy, it should be bitter, why the question could not be examined calmly 'and temperately upon its merits.
He emphasized the The results of the polling in twenty-point that the movement was in no way seven constituencies are still unknown, directed against the labour movement, bat General Botha, with the Unionists, and denied that there had ever been any is assured of a safe majority.
suggestion on the part of those who were The Bothaites number 37: Unionists in favour of National Service that the 38; Herzogites 21; Labour 4; Indepen- pay of the rank and file under compul-month ago said: dents 5, four of whom are Bothaites, sory service should be reduced.
A majority of the outstanding twenty-thing was quite unthinkable. seven constituencies are expected to be in favour of General Boths.
LONDON, October 2nd." 19.45 p.m.
Mr. Asquith is now much better and has gone into the country for the week.
end.
GENERAL BOTHA ASSURED OF A MAJORITY.
A telegram from Sofia states that the SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS. British Fleet have bombarded Dedo Agatch (terminus of a branch of the Belgrade-Constantinople Railway).
ATHENS, October 22nd.
11.20 p.m. An official message says that the whole coast from Dede Agatch to Porto Lagos (38 miles W.N.W. of Dede Agatch) has heen bombarded.
On the Day Preceding the Defortzure of the English Mails from the Year of the Cloudug THE NEAR EAST. of the Indian Mints to the Fres Cainage or Silver
FROM 1893 to 1909;
ALSO
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PSIONI și Cach.
[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
NO LONGER ANY COMMAND.
Q.C. TROOPS LANDED AT SUVLA
LONDON, October oth.
4:25 p.m. (Received midnight 23rd:)
In the House of Commons, Mr. Tengant announced that the officer in command of On Sale at the "Dany Penss" Chim or the troops landed at Suvla Bay has no
longer any Command.
Loma Pinoksellers.
CAPE TOWN, October 22nd:
12.45 p.m.
The
"GENERAL AUTUMN
very
RUBBIA'S INVADERS MEET FOG, FLOOD, "AND COLD.
A correspondent writing from Geneva a
Swiss papera quote German special cor- respondents with the army in Russia as agreeing that the weather has turned too bad already to allow of the German offen- sive being pushed, any further.
In nearly every district the roads have I say, Bandy," said Jock, handing THE POPE AND PRACE.
back his friend's photograph, when ye been flooded and are well-nigh intpassable. ROME, October 22nd. had those photo taken, why didan ye The floods have given rise to fogs, which
1.10 p.m.
saile
becloud vast tracks of country at a time. The Vatican official organ has denied
“And those pictures costing me twa It is becoming very cold everywhere, and the story concerning the Papo and the dollars a dozen replied Bandy. "Are the troops have begun to suffer badly from King of Belgium.
those adverse conditions,
ye crazy, món ?”.