THE WAR.
GREAT ITALIAN VICTORY.
AUSTRIANS COMPLETELY ROUTED.
RUSSIANS” IMPORTANT SUCCESS.
TOLL OF THE ZEPPELINS.
BRITISH NAVAL AEROPLANES NEAR BRUSSELS."
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUT.)
RUGBIAN. FRONT.
(THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCË,]
FURTHER BBITISH ADVANCE. [ ANOTHER RUSSIAN VICTORY.
IMPORTANT MILITARY POSITION CAPTURED.
SOME BOMBING.
LONDON, August 9th. Gongral Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- muniqué, states:There is no change st Chilemont.. North of Pozieres we Farther advanced by "bombing?
INEFFECTIVE GAS ATTACK.
Loxtos, August 9th.
The situation in the vicinity of Guille anoat is still unchanged.
The enemy heavily bombarded the tren- ches in the Epres salient between Bello- A warde bake and the Yser canal. For two hours he was disbarging gas on a broad front, but the effect of it was small. Some. partial cuemy attacks were made, but the wenty was unable to enter our trenches.
AUSTRALIAN ADYANCE.
J
LONDON, August 10th, General Sir Douglas Haig, in à rom- muniigné, states:-North-west of Pozieres
taken.
PETROGRAD, August 9th."-
“NO BIJAKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11r», 1916.
AFRICA.
[HROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CLEARING. ENEMY FROM EAST AFRICA,
Losnos, August 8th. The Belgian General Tombour reports; that the north-west, portion of German East Afrien is entirely free of the enemy, who is retreating towards Tabor.
The Belgians are following the enemy
closely.
NAVAL ACTIVITIES:
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VESSELS SUNK.
LONDON, August 9th, The following vessels have been suuki-- The steamers Trident (British) and Achilpur (Greek), and the schooner De maris, the latter in the Channel.
DANISH STEAMER SEIZED,
LONDON, August 9th," The Danish stemmer Fun was seized
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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] PARLIAMENT.
BRITISH RETALIATORY
MEASURES.
LONDON, August 9th. In the House of Lords, Lord Lans downe stated that the Government were conferring with the highest commercial and banking authorities upon the ques tion of confiscation of German property
THE NAVAL SURGEON IN
ACTION.
HIS DUTY AND DEVOTION.
"What do they do with the wounded in those naval actions, leave them where they fall?' asked the man in the corner seat, folding his newspaper and turning towards his companion.
and positive.
WAR NEWS.
BOSNIA.
Bosnia, which now for the first time. emerges from the war cloud threatening insurrection against Austrin, has, like all the Balkan States, more than one romantic chapter in her history. With this break-up of the Serbian Empire in the fourteenth century Boenig, under the leadership of Stephen Tvartko, assumed
Just then the District Railway train and Tvartko had himself.
"Oh, no; take them down the cockpit; same as Nelson, you know," came the answer quite "pat resumed its clattering way along a tion. When the train stopped again 1 gloomy tunnel and drowned the conversa
king. A few years later he was calling himself "King of Serbia, But the Turk had still to be reckoned with, and Bosnia, sad the Sea Coast."
in less than a century the last King of Bosnia-in 1463, lost at ones his life and his dominions.
WHEN LONDON IS IN FLAMES.
The German Airship Longue has just methods issued an appeal for funds to enlarge the in the medical arrangements of our Fleet.air feet with a view to the nest war. It While the Nelson spirit" still animates refers with jubilation to the columns of officers and men because it is something fire which it would like to see asconding that cannot be improved on, in matters
as a retaliation for outrages committed could hear that the two men were still by the enemy.
discussing the great sea battle in a strain which showed they had sparse kuowledge DELAY IN PRESENTING A REPORT. of the manner in which the British Navy goes about its work, wherein they were LONDON, August 10th. little better or little worse than the In the House of Commons, Bir 3. majority of their fellow countrymen.
One finds no trace of any antiquated Jardine asked-Will the report of the same as Nelson, you know commission on medical supplies and transport in Mesopotamia be laid on the table before the House rises?
Mr. G. H. Roberts pointed out that Mr. Austen Chamberlain had promised to expedite the Report.
Sir H. Craik and Sir Edward Carson strongly protested against the delay.
Mr. Lloyd George stated that he was
by German torpedo-boats in the Kattegat satisfied there were now sufficient medical and taken to Swinenmuide.
supplies" in Mesopotamia."
EXPLOSION IN GERMANY,
ACTIVITY
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}..
BRITISH NAVAL AEROPLANES BOME EVERE.
An official announcement states that General Letchitzky has occupied Tys mienica, four miles east of Stanislaus, and has captured an additional 7,000 prisoners, including 3,500 Germans. Sixty-three machine guns have also been | AIRSHIP.
RETREAT OF ENEMY EXPECTED.
Lasos, August 10th. Reuter's Correspondent at Potrograil dwells on the importance of the capture of Tysmienica, which is regarded as the key to Stanislaus" and Halic. The fact that the Dniester is usually flooded at this season apparently led the enemy not to expect any decisive move by General Lechitzky, whose operations in conjunc tion with General Sakharoff's advance
the Australians advanced their line 200 from Brody seriously imperil General yards on a frontage of 400 Fards,
Bothmer's canimand, and it seems inevit- able that the latter will have to retreat hastily westwards.
Otherwise the situation is unchanged. ARTILLERY AND AEROPLANE
CO-OPERATION,
As
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result of cooperation between the artillery and aeroplanes several enemy
ITALIAN FRONT.
【THROUGH REUTER’A. AGENCY.]
guns were destroyed and magazines were ITALIANS CAPTURE GORIZIA. explodel. A train was set on fire by aeroplane bombs.
Hostile airerait were more aclive, but in trying to avoid.combats several were damaged by our aeroplanes and rifle Bre
ACTIVITY ON THE FRENCH
FRONT
Roar, August 9th.
It is officially announced that the Italians have eriteryd Gorizia.
So far 10,000 prisoners have been taken.
ADDITIONAL PRISONERS,
HOME August 10th.
The capture of Gorizia has renewed the demonstrations of joy throughout Italy. HEAVY ENEMY BOMBARDMENT. The work of the Duke of Austa's army is
PARIS, August sta
especially praised. It crossed the Isonzo preceded by swarms of cavalry, inflicting
·A· communiqué states:-After than
heavy lossen. The Italians have taken an failure of numerous attacks, the enemy
additional 2,000 prisoners and much regained a footing in the Thiaumont
booty. work.
Violent enemy counter-attacks, north of Hem Wood, were repulsed with hensy losses, but succeeded in occupying a trench, most of which was soon, recovered. We are on the immediate outskirts of the
Thiaumont work," which we are energeti- cally bombarding.
- We have progressed at Fleury by means of grenades,
AUSTRIAN ISONZO LINE
CAPTURED..
LONDON, August 9th.
It is officially announced that naval seroplanes dropped bombs from a height of 200 feet on the airship sheds at Evere, Dear Brussels,
The aeroplanes returned anfely. Eight bombs were observed to hit a shed, from which heavy columas of smoke issued.
GENERAL.
(THROUGH HEUTER'N'AGENCY.].
TOLL OF THE AIR RAID."
TWO PEOPLE KILLED AND TEN INJURED.
were
A Zeppelin, at a great height, was seen travelling in a north-easterly direction,
COPENHAGEN, August 10th.
material and organisation the Navy to heaven from the buruing streets of keeps up to date-and a knot or so ahead London, and is signed among others by
Dr. Peasche, Vice-President of
the
of it
In handling casualties in land war and Reichstag, and Herr Engelbert Humper- sea war there is now little difference in dinck, the composer. practice, Exact uniformity can never be The appeal contains the following- against such a thing. But on sea, has attained beckin eirspinstances' are passage |---
When the column of fre springs up- pital ships have wrought a change wards to the night sky from the burning by motor-ambulances and similar to that brought about on land streets of London, the metropolis of the ambulance world, then new knowledge gleams from trains. If the Fleet should not return the fares. When the squadrons of bold to port after a battle, hospital the chief to England, then the new song of · would convey, the wounded from
airmen carry across the North Sea mis- fighting line in the shore hospital. If the new war resounds from their heroic the Fleet did come in," naval ambu-
decds." lance trains would always be available wherever and whenever required. All this was planned out before war began,
tion with Interesting in connection with the League's appeal is a Berlin telegram
A Geraian official statement announces and 50 far the system has worked most flamenting at considerable longth the re-
that the artillery depot at Rothenstein has been destroyed hy na explosion.. The casualties were 50 killed and injured.
efficiently.
cent air attack on Karlsruhe and Except for the "small fry," all Bri-threatening reprisals which will leave tish warships carry two or more surgeons, painful memories with the French."
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of whom the fleet surgeon is the senior
OBITUARY.
LONDON, August 10th. . The death is announced of Colonel Arthur Moffatt Lang, C.B., (retired).
small
SHELLS UNCOUNTABLE,
white
Under the doctors there is a trainerl staff of sick-berth stewards and attendants who have been taught their job in OIK of the big naval hospitals. As naval One of the correspondents at the front, terminology rather puzzles the landsman, all of whom have been forwarding very one may explain that the ship and its of shells. There were positions, he says, that the sick bay is the dramatic accounts, writes of the supply doctor's shop temporary hospital. So far as appear which were like the mouths of furnaces. R.E.ance goes it somewhat resembles
a permanent glov flecked and illumined hospital ward fitted with swinging cots with never-ending streams of Men who * go sick!!
or ato hurt "are
One ordinarily measures the sparks. treated in the bay" until they are able weight of a bombardment by the number to return to duty or an opportunity of of shells that burst in a minute. In this sending them to hospital comes
along.
tried to wink them as eye on one spot For some years past there has generally case, counting was hopeless. Fixing my been a hospital ship in regular atten- fast as the lightninga flickered, and the dance upon the Fleet whenever it was shella beat me badly. I then tried chat- at sea. For a long while this duty was fulfilled by the Maine, a vessel given to da by American women during the Boer War. Now we have quite a fleet of these floating naval hospitals.
and retired in 1849.
(The deceased entered the Army in 1852
H served in the Indian Mutiny, and was present at the malt on Delhi sud Age the relief of Lucknow, and Cawnpore, and at the siego and capture of Lucknow, He wna mon÷- tinued in despatches four times and nxrived the Indian Mutiny medal and three clasps, Later ho held various appointments in India, including those of Principal of Itootkee Engineering College, Deputy Tripector. General for Fortifentions, and Chief Engi- neer in Baluchistan, in Burmab, and în the North-West Provinces.]
history.
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For years
the
The whole of the Austrian Isonzo line ZEPPELIN PURSUED OUT TO SEA jocular efforts attach themselves here and the Naval Medical Service is second to sample was brought out for their inspec-
from south Tolming to the sea has been esptured by the Italians.
COMPLETE ROUT OF AUSTRIANS.
The Austrians have been completely
routed at Gorizia.
They abandoned large quantities of war material.
An quemy attack on Vaux Wood was Cavalry and the Bersaglieri" "eyelista -repulsect.
pursued the enemy beyond the Isonzo
The enemy heavily bombarded our new positions between Hem Wood and the river.
An enemy attack penetrated our posi- tions between Lihons and the Chaulnes Railway, but the enemy was immediately driven out at the point of the bayonet.
GOOD, AEROPLANE WORK. An enemy aeroplane was destroyed at Luneville and six others were driven down on the Somme front.
A CREFULLY PREPARED
OFFENSIVE. REMARKABLE WORK BY THE ITALIANS;
LONDON, August 9th,
According to an official announcement, it is estimated that from seven to ten-
airships participated in the raid, operat ing singly and in pairs. Apparently
serious and caretaí chronicles. The sober
})
tering my teeth, and I hink that in that way I approximately held my own. Testing it afterwards in the light, where 1 could see a watch face, I found that could click iny teeth some five or six times SECOND TO NONE.
in a second. You can try it for yourself The medical department of the Navy and, clicking your own teeth, will get has not always been so good as it is now,
some idea of the rate at which shells were. Although that was not the fault of its
There were Losbox, August 8th.
officers. Until a couple of decades ago bursting on a single spot.
always three or four points within the Unoticial reports of the air raid indi- SOME HISTORIC PUNS.
the sick-bay arrangements were rather filed of vision at which they were bursting crude. Surgeons had to provide their. at that speed; and always in between over cale that both explosive and incendiary
The English are declared to take their
own instruments, which meant tint their bombs were dropped.
pleasures seriously. Perhaps they do, cases were not too well filled sometimes the whole circuit of the field they were bat on the other hand they often show
More than once in these casual days I bursting with great, if lesser, rapidity. Apparently most of the casualties an admirably gallant gayety in the tate have been shown in sick bays antiquated
RUSSIA'S NEW EXPLOSIVE. sets of surgical instruments that had occurred on the Enst Coast, where scores
of danger, difcualty and discouraging been handed down from surgeon to sur circumstances. As abundant corres[[A][="
geon and told that they were in use at In a recent cable reference was mado of bonus, chiefly incendiary, ence from the front has recently reveal rafalgar. But this I regarded as being to a new explosive which the Russians are
says the Youth's Componian; Tommy dropped.
Atkins in the field is far from being intended to emphasise the unfitness of reported to be using with great effect. Two people were killed and ten in serious minded person much of the time, the tools" rather than to tell their true It has been suggested that the shells are
he is often as" larky as a schoolboy, and his exuberant nonsense is frequently
Somebody at last put a dose of probably filled with an improved variety jured, and slight fires were caused.
with deadly results in touched with gleams of real wit as well hager into the Admiralty, and the introduced power, which the Japanesia avy began to move towards its present | as humour.
But it is not British Tommies only who ate of unprecedented efficiency. One of Russo-Japanese War. joke in war time Throughout centuries the earliest steps taken along this road Germans made every attempt to discover but soen disappeared out at sea. Search of English history jokes, from sources was the equipment of sick bays with full the secret of this explosive. On one occa- Fights, lit up the Zeppelin and anti military, literary, noble and even royal, sets of modern surgical instruments. Son some German naval officers were
have occasionatsy, enlivened · momentous
Arrangements were likewise made for visiting a Japanese arsenal, and they aircraft guns were fired at the raider.
events. Puns, the most frivolous and naval surgeons to keep abreast of the were all most anxious to see the Shimone professional knowledge. Now powder. No objection was raised and a times in trivial, sometimes the most disdained, of
tion A German commander when he there, like impudent bars, to the most one-and ahead of most.
While a battleship is in action the surthought he was not observed grabbed as two much as he could conveniently hide in his historian, who writes fully of the dis geons and their assistants occupy aft. hand, and, having no other place to put it without exciting suspicion, rammed it. the final fail of the royal house of Stuart,
trous battle of Culloden, which decided atations, one forward, the other
Both are down below in a place pro-
loose into the tail pocket of his coa when he relates that the advance of Gena, tected by armuur. Also, both places are Within a few hours the sample was i fitted up like perfectly equipped operat Cope, Wide and Hawley was delayed by in theatres. When, at the call of the the hands of the German Minister a the now-filled glens and icy slopes of wild Scotland, condescends to record in bugle, sailors go to their guns in readi- credited to Japan, and in twenty-four a footnote that the opposing forces drew ness for action the sick-berth staff and hours or a special messenger left by those detailed to assist them start fitting the first outgoing liner with the precious A naval seroplane pursued one out to mirthful encouragement from this punched medical stations. Thither they sample addressed to the Wilhelmstrasse. Some weeks Inter, when his squadron put ping couplet:
Cope could not cope, nor Wade wade carry operating table and all necessary into a European port, the coinniander
justruments, a medical chest, an A through the snow,
gency chust, bowls of antiseptic, and all received a dispatch inquiring in the best Nor Hawley haul his cannon to the fosse that is needed for the grim work that official German what the blazes he meant When, in 1797, the fleet of Admiral Duncan was about to engage that of the lies ahead of the surgeons. A peep into by trying to pull the leg of the Wilhelm- Dutch Admiral de Winter, the British one of these stations, with its white clad strasse authorities, as the sample of captains came aboard the flagship for in staff, would make one think he was louk- Shimose he had sent by special inessenger ing at a section that had been taken from was composed of harmless materials address of memorable brevity and point into a warship. One would not, in fact,
a hospital and by some means dropped coloured by a little mustard. Gentlemen," said Admiral, Duncan, find in any hospital ashore better equip- you see a severe winter approaching:
stations when it has been fully laid The naval surgeon has to carry on " good fire." Their enthusiastic compli
in far more trying conditions than fall Stretcher parties move about the ship to the lot of his Army confrère. All the after the Aght has begun and gather up time a battle is in progress he remains the wounded, whom they strike down in the heat of the fray, for be cannot (lower through a hatch to the surgeons get out of it. For him there is no such After being attended to there thing as a dressing station outside the the wounded are carried to the sick bay, zone of fire or on the edge of it. With the ward-rooni, or any other part of the the thud of falling shells and the poise ship that has been turned into a tem of near by explosions ever in his ears, porary hospital, and remain there under he inast go steadily along, doing his best CLOCK THAT HAS NO HANDS.
the charge of sick-bay men until they can for the wounded who are coming to him be removed.
in & continuous stream. All the while he does not know at what moment his Newspaper advertising is to business, what hands are to a clock. It is a direct Foresighted as well as thorough are the ship may be sunk, in which case his own
like that of and certain means of letting the public methods of our naval doctors. If posebne below, would be small. Even if know what you are doing in these days sible, before going into action everyone the extreme calamity does not happen, of intense and vigilaút commercial con aboard the shin bathes and puts on clean test, a business man who does not adver- white underclothing. This is done be there is always a possibility that a stray tine is like a clock that has no hands cause it has been found that
tion" or
fill the place with choking/ fames.
Faced by all these risks, and amid
i indiscriminate destruction of pro perty was their main object.
se for several miles,
REVISED CASUALTY LIST.
LATER.
It is ficially announced that the revised list of casualties resulting from the air raid shows that one man, two women and three children were killed,
structions. He received them im an
emer.
The Italian offensive had been carefully and that five men; six women, and six 1 have only to advise you to keep up a ped operating theatre than one of these
prepared for weeks, and there was cap tured at one stroke such positions 2x1 Sabotino, Podgora, San Michele, and Olavia, which had been contested for a year. The Australians were completely
The sunimit of Sabotinio is two thou
children were injured.
A GERMAN CLAIM.
AMSTERDAM, August 10th. The German newspapers state that the A French aeroplane crossed from the surprised. Vosges to the Black Forest in the dark-
German artillery set fire to the Peronne rss and barubed a powder factory at sand feet high and dominates Gorizia. Library and Museum. The famous pic- Hottweil, causing groat fires and explo-The southern slopes of the mountain were ture gallery containing pictures by
honeycombed with caverns drilled into Anglo-French masters was destroyed the rock by the Italians for months past,
sions.
way stations.
FRENCH REGAIN TRENCH.
PARIS, August 10th.
Moreover, a tunnel, eight-hundred and fifty feet long, had been secretly bored
nce with his advice resulted in a bril- liant victory,
Perhaps the briefest and wittiest of his toric English puns was the Latin an nouncement in a single word of the con- quest of Scinde, attributed to the con-
(I have sinned.) queror, Sir Charles Napier: Peccaví."
out,
below.
MAGNIFICENT WORK.
the
and thus
Our air squadrons bombed several rail- each containing a company of infantry. MURDER OF CAPT, FRYATT
LONDON, August 9th. Viscount Grey, through the United
trenches. Eight hundred men in the most strongly against the shooting of tunnel opened the attack, by Capt. Fryatt, which could only be the
century success with nineteenth century would otherwise be. As it is not alwefening pandemonium of roaring g north of the Hem Wood in which the men pouring out of the caverns. Patches scribed as judicial murder. He denounces boyhood, Within fifty years it has become diately they fall, sailors are taught first nerve, as the preservation of life
of pornbby undergrowth had been pre-
to within ninety feet of the Austrian States Embassy in Berlin, has protested He has no way of recording his move coloured clothing infect wounds yes in Projectile may find its way to his "Sta
A communique states:-North of the Somme we entirely re-occupied the trench
enemy had gained a footing last night.
We have continued to make progress
north of the Hem Wood.
Both the French and the enemy artil- Jery have been most active on the right of the Meuse, but there has been no anfantry action.
mets. He can to more expect a twentieth make a man's injuries worse than
for
shoes as a man which filed him in his bulanse parties, to pick up men inine-
and
covete
and as vital to industry as steam to commerce. Bid, and a bag of first-aid dressings is limb depends upon his skill. Tand Advertising is not a luxury nor a debat supplied to every gun's crew, so that situation is not one to be able policy. It has proved its case. Its prompt, though temporary, attention never gives thought to its diffic the record is traced in the skylines of cities may be given to every weunded man.. dangers. Duty is the supres and DARDANELLES COMMISSION
he it stand as a lesson of reproach to the mea handkerchief around their waists when North Sea battle the naval ork, LONDON August 8th.
who had the opportunity but not the going into action, and this handkerchief foresight, and furnish a constant inspi comes in handy as a triangular bandage
in an emergency.
viously set on fire to deprive the Aus- the circumstances in connection with the trian snipers of cover. The Italians crept
trial as unparalleled. through the low-lying pall of black smoke and carried three lines of trenches in twenty minutes, and a redoubt on the sumit within an hour. They also swept, down the slopes to Isonzo, collecting to the Dardanelles Commission. prisoners in
in droves.
Mr. Justice Pickford has been added
racion to the young merchant at the thres hold of his career,
(Continued on next Column.)
their staffs did magnifice/poste. All many of them died at courage and
honour to then for th
2. Daily
devotion!
Nail