THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16Tg, 1916.
GREAT FRENCH SUCCESS ON THE
SOMME.
PRINCIPAL GERMAN STRONGHOLD ISOLATED.
ROUMANIANS STEADILY ADVANCING. PREPARING TO ATTACK AUSTRIAN ADVANCED LINES.
GREECE AND NEUTRALITY, INDICATIONS OF ITS ABANDONMENT.
FRANGO-BELUIAN FRONT.
[TEROVOM REUTER'S AGENOT.] BRITISH POSITION
UNCHANGED.
LONDON, September 18th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- menseignet sinden --The general situation; as unchanged,
ENEMY LOSE HEAVILY IN ATTACK.
LONDON, September 14th.
A communique states-An evenly ai trek in the direction of the Mouquet furm shis stopped by our fire with considerable Joss.
FRENCH AENIAL-ACTIVITY.
PARIS, September 13th.
· communiqué states: There were #sevomeen aerial fights on the Soname."
Two enemy aeroplanes were brought down and four others were apparently brilly damaged.
Our ai squadrons bombed the railway station and hutments at Guisenrd, caus ing explosions -nod fire, and also the (railway stations at Noiser, Montmedi-and Thiruville, the railway line at Mets and Pont-a-Mousson, depots at Headicourt and, Elgin, bivouacs at Danvillers, and fron foundries at Uekingen and Rombach. TRENCHES TAKEN BY ASSAULT
PARIS, September 14th A communiqué, states: -Our: positions have been appreciably extended before Combles.
An entire system of strongly-organised enemy trenches were taken by assault south of the Priez farm.
THROUGH BEDTER'S AGENCY.).
THE FRENCH. PUSH.
WHAT IT MEANS TO THE
GERMANS.
THE BALKANS
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ROUMANIAN ARMY COMMANDS:
BUSHAREST, September 13th: Guneral Cirainiceanu, foriner Minister
(THROUGE BEDTEER'S AGENCY.}
VIOLENT FIGHTING BY THE ALLIES
LONDON, September 13th:
A French official report from Salonika states that there is no clunge on the Strume
MESOPOTAMIA.
A MILITARY COURT ON THE EUPHRATES.
{BY LYE-WITNESS. ]
Nasiriyah when we first occupied it during the flood sensor last year was more than a physical island, it was an
for War, has been appointed to command The Allied artillery violently bombard island in an abstract sense, a small ogs
the Army in Transylvania, in succession
to General Averescu, who will command the Third Ariuy.
· CONTROL OF DANUBE TRAFFIC.
The Roumanians have occupied the island of Adakale, opposite Orsova, and are completely controlling the Danube traffic"
IN CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY.
BULMAREST, September 14th. A communique states-There was slight skirmishing on the north and north-eastern fronts, and 378 prisoners wero captured:
Firing continues on the Danube, and in the Dobradja, where we are in contact with the enemy along the whole front
There have been lively patrol affairs, detachments of the enemy marching along" the Danube being repulsed, losing cight
ed. Bulgarian organisations north of Maukova and Majadag
There has been violent fighting north West and west of Lake Ostrovo, and south westward of the Lake we have made a considerable advance. BRITISH ARTILLERY ACTIVE.
PREPARING THE NEXT
MOVE.
that the enemy has found time to cover from le maggering blow swich. wo have deitverca aglaise nim during: tano monta of Jiny, kid is now begining 10" get back Als Wind:"
THE SPIRIT OF THE BOCHE.
While the official bulletins of the last few days have contained no heroic newA of our advance, it must not be assumed either that we are hold up by the enemy. or that we are pursuing a policy of in- activity, wrote a correspondent of the mos isolated in chaon, but à cosmos, that
|Daily Express on August - 2nd. was always extending its bounds. Outresent situation is due solely to the sido the walls of the town tho anarchy that had ruled for generations was rife; inside was peace and content. The mors. an appreciate a settied government; anu shout, "jandowner, suupkeeper and arti
the Arab as a rule, with all nis taliing,
Our successive attacks have inflicted on | bas a saving commonsense which tumbies
ann very neavy, and, in certain quarlera, to expediency as soon as it becomes apie to mi up the gaps in his ranks, to quite unexpected losses; out as is still parent
uring forward large reintorcements, in- A student of British methods could neeruding many heavy guns, and to put up do better than pass a day in a town hasil round a big barricade against us,* Naxriyah year after occupation. He is also poweriua chuugu to organiso open a morning in the court of the nalind endeavour to push home counter- tary governor. In the seat or sutuority attacks cer, one of the type who has been in the you will probably find a very young of Our high command knows all theso angs, and, wie wo hold and continue nabit of spending his leave, butore tre
4. Balsojume our gatus, wo taso" all war in Persia, Arabia, or too Himalayas,ecessary precautionary measures to en- shooting strange beasts, picking up suru the success of our further operu strange dialects, and studying the ways os hero La no distinction between {THROUGH: REUTER'S AGENCY.1 of stranger people. Here you have kmur, pians and those of our allies of tho pire in the egg, and such young men- renca army, who are now tinged up AUSTRALIA'S CONTRIBUTIONS|subalterns, generally acting captains, w us on right of our line or offen-
Bive, for captains, generally acting majors
LONDON, September 13th. The British communique issued at Salonika states-There have been only patrol oncounters east of the Struma.
There has bech most active artillery are on both sides of the Doirnn front, GENERAL
MELDOVENE, September 13th Two thousand four hundred and seventy-one men enlisted between Septem ber 1st and 10th.
LONDON, September 13th. The French push is most likely to have serious consequences for the Germans, as it not only drives a big wedge between Peronne and Combles, the most import ant German strongholds on the Somme,
German guus, but for the first time completely bincka ADVANCE ÎN TRANSYLVANIA. » Mr. Hughes, the Premier; announces the
great into road behind the German
Zubici, September 13th.
that the necessary monthly reinforce- front, which has been invaluable in the
Telegrams from the Austrian Headments will be obtained on a population shifting of guns and stores to threatenedquarters to Viennese papers admit that basis, and cach State's liability will points.
the Roumanians are steadily advancing restricted to the number so fixed. Moreover, the push brings the French in Transylvania, occupying the evacuated into the positions- imperilling the com- districts and concentrating strong forces munications with Combles, and also in the Upper Maros, and in the valleys of within a short distance of Mount St. Osik and Gyorgys they are preparing to Quentin, the fight for which will decide attack the Austrian advanced lines.} the future of Peronne. COMBLES TOTALLY ISOLATED,
PARIS, September 14h. Communications between Combles and Peranne are now cut completely, and as the British at Clinchy ean sweep the other ronds from Combles towards Bapaume with their artillery, Combles is totally isolated.
GERMAN COMMANDS.
„AMSTERDAM, September 13th.
A German official announcemerit son; tions that General von Mackensen is commanding in the Dobrudja,
The Kreur Zeitung states that Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria commands the whole Summe front, and Duke Albrecht of Wurtemburg- the front fron The total of unwounded prisoners taken the Somme to the sea, while the Crown yesterday and to-day is 2,300.
BOUCHEAVESNES BRILLIANTLY
CARRIED
The whole of Boucheavenes, where the enemy was strongly entrenched, was carried brilliantly.
We have organised the conqueréd, positions.
The encuy did not attempt a counter- attack.
ENEMY ATTACK REPULSED.
A cummuniqué states-Artillery fire has been most active south of the Somine, in the regions of Verman d'Ovillers and Chaubies.
A strongly prepared' enemy attack on the right bank of the Meuse was on pletely repulsed, 70 prisoners being taken. There is nothing to report elsewhere. VILLAGE AND FARM STORMED.
A communique states:-We stormed the Village of Bourheaveshes and the farm of Bois Labie to the south-east of it and cap tured prisoners and a large amount of material.
FURIOUS HAND-TO-HAND
ATTACKS.
There was fieree fighting during the day on our centre and right.
The
enemy vigorously attempted to regain ground.
Two regiments were told off and they succeeded in retaking the farm at Bois
Lable, but we expelled them completely.
Prince is still at Verdun.
RUSSIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH REUTRE'S AGENCY, ] RUSSIANS REPULSE ENEMY. ENEMY'S AERIAL ACTIVITY CON- SIDERABLY INCREASED.
LONDON, September 13th
A Russian communiqué: states that in the region of Riga and the Dvina river the_enetuy's "aerial activity has consider ably increased.
The Austrians are not awaiting the
Romanian offensive, but are retreating to their next line of defences.
ITALIANS CHASING
BULGARIANS.
Rove, September 13th. A communiqué states: --On the Salenika front, to the west of Butkowo, we drove Bulgarian detachments beyond the Demirhissar Doiran railway,
The Italians are engaged on both sides of the Vardar in the region of Mount
·Beles.
SERBIANS CAPTURE
SOROVITCH.
ATHENS, September 14th.
GERMANY'S PLANS.
ANOTHER OFFENSIVE.
FORESHADOWED,
are indispensable during the incubs How long the present lull may last I tions of any new imperial blood. Deci do not know. Great preparations on the sion is a habit with them; they are used part of the Germans demonstrate the to hard cases; they have acquired an in- measure of their anxiety. They indicate sight into obscure motives. Their judg.also the need on our part to feel our way ments are quick and summary, free of forward with a prudent respect for the pedantry, and seldom hampered by strength of our enemy. doubts and hesitations. And the proof, While German soldiers have freely sur of this system is its popularity. In the rendered themselves as prisoners to our mornings the approach to the military troops, it must not be supposed that the boiect in the passago haughty Arabs, meck own invincibility has been breken. A
Governor's court is crowded, you will spirit of the Boche or his belief in his Sabacans, furtive-looking Jews, mysteria casualty clearing station which I ous women wrapped from head to foot in
visited this afternoon I spoke to a wound- black weeds, Here are some of the prob who had lived for six years in London ed German prisonera Brandenburger lems they submit to the decision of youth, and was perfectly familiar with our Enter Mohamed Ali. He has lost his language and our people. His lower jaw seal. Decree: Proclaim by best of had been fractured by a shell-splinter. drum in the bazaar."
and he was quite auxious to bo com municative. Enter Shafraz Hussain; he claims a Two thieves fallen out Court re- horse from Shaukat now in jail. Decrevi fuses to pet.
LONDON, September 13th.. The Times" military correspondent is of the opinion that General von Hinden burg will again adopt the ofensive in Enter Sabhi (Sabacan), mukhter and
oriest. Complaint: that the Sabacen the East, more especially in the South girls are all marrying Mohammedans East, and, by abandoning the Verdund the race is in danger of dying out Petition that the Governor may summon offensive, and adopting a general defen all the Sabacan ladies of Nasiriyah and sive on the Western front and elsewhere they will be persuaded to change their address them on this matter; doubtless. may release thirty divisions to hold up wayer or they persist in error, that a General Brussiloff and oppose Roumania may be passed prohibiting such undesirable alliances. Decree-Sabhi, PORTUGAL AND THE WAR,
mubitar and priest, informed that the Sabincans must settle their own affairs.
Enter a mushbulchi, Petition Licenses 10 caput five dead bodies (for interment the Holy Shrine) to Najad. Decree: Granted,
LISBON, September 24th. Reuter's Correspondent foreshadows the active participation of Portugs] ALLIES CONFER HONOUR ON VERDUN
Pants, September 14th. There was an unique ceremony at Yor dun, when President Policare, in the presences of the Allied representatives, presented to the town the Declaratious On the 13th inst, the Serbians capconferred on the town of Verdun by the tured Borovitch at four in the afternoon.
Allies in recognition of its defence.
President Poincare, in a speech, de- against the walls of Verdun, where Ger- clared that supreme hopes were shattered many sought an astounding spectacular victory, The debris of the Germans dreanis lies at its own feet The name of Verdu will ring throughout the ages as the ery of liberated humanity:
The Serbians occupied an important position north-west of Kovil and inflicted losses on the CHBY
THE GREEK PREMIERSHIP.
"ACCEPTED IN PRINCIPLE
ATHENS, September 14th, After a series of conflicting reports as to M. Zaimis intcutions, it is definitely stated that M. Dimitra Copulous has accepted the premiership in principle and
In the region south of Ezupol we frus- will probably be received by the King trated enony attempts to eross the to-anorrow. Bystritza river.
M. Dimitra Copulous will only accept In the region of the Carpathian woods office if the Entente Ministers, are favour
repulsed attempts to recapture the able. He is of the opinion that departure heights- mentioned in yesterday's com- from neutrality is the only remedy for muniqué,
the present situation.
KING-RE
ITALIAN "FRONT.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT. ] ANOTHER ITALIAN SUCCESS.
ROME, September 13th.
IVES PREMIER-
LATER The King has received M. Dimitra Copulous, who asked to be allowed forty eight hours to sound" the Entente
RACING IN ENGLAND. SEPTEMBER STAKES.
Enter (1) Fatima, veiled and shrouded in the prevalent black (2) Fatima's bus band Complaint: Fatima's husband has confiscated her house and jewellery and cow bent her and turned ber out or doors
She folds pitiful tale. But the voice proceeding from the black bundle is the roles of a shrew. Altercation ensues The husland is a browbeaten creatico. There are faults on both sides-chiels thas won uns, whose lies are the more
Are you comfortable here?" I asked him. Yes, thank you, quite comfort able. They have been kind to me at this hospital. They would not have dono more for me if I had been an English man."
those years in Lordon you knew that our But, aurely, if you have lived all people would not treat you badly!
DEVIL'S WOOD,
"Yes, of course, I knew that. I have many friends in England now. I don't know if they are friends any longer be cause of this terribic war, which has come between us. I would shake hands with any Englishman to-day and try to would not. They think that you English. forget the war. But many of my friends planned and plotted this war. Of course but, really.
know it was not so..
I must not talk like that. I was wound ed in Delville Wood. I believe your sol- diers call it the Devil's Wood, and your artillery fire was so awful that the devil might well have been let loose from hell against us.”
"I suppose you are sorry that you nave been wounded and taken ri Boner!??
Well, I am sorry that I am here as prisoner, because I am a good Ger- since I came here I am told you an; but I am very glad to be out of it
fought
any that no Germans have not f
To be quite frank, we think you have Yes, that is everybody's opinion.. not played the game, and we shall re comber against, you the many bad deeds you have done when the war comes to an
gross and pain, and gesticulates and so generally gives herself and her farewish that she shricks and gesticulates and so tempor away that she is given a week's imprisonment for contempt of court. “y
family disputes, maintenance allowances, Most of the morning is taken up with divorce-and-the like. A Jewish-woman-nd." complains that her husband has desertod her and her child Decree: Husband to live with w fo or pay ber eight annos a day; woman to report again in eight
daye. LONDON, September 13th. substituts, for the Doncaster St. Leger, Tuo Newmarket September Stakes, the resulted as follows:
Harry Ou Clarissimus Atheling
to remarry her husband being reported Applicant is mother of a girl who wishes
dead or prisoner of war in India. De- cree Inquiries to be made at internment: eamp, and if husband is not traced, the a girl to be permitted to marry again.
2
evil,
THE GERMAN VIEW.
The Brandenburger raised himself up and looked me in the face." You are at: Englishmen," he said; "I am a Ger nan. You would fight for your country. arried out my orders, I am not respon have fought for mine. I liave simply ible for anything but that. As I told you, I do not hate the English. But let ne tell you this, too, that we Germans are not yet beaten. We are fighting for on think you will conquer us? Per- hur lives, and we will go on fighting.. haps, but we are a proud people, as you we are near the end of our resources. are, and you cannot erush us You think Before I fell into your hands as a pri soner I saw thousands of our men coming up to join us, and some of the best of. our guns. And more will come too."
Having listened to this defiant utter- ance I left my Brandenburger. I have set down the conversation exactly as it uccurred. He was quite a good type of he has lived in our country (probably s the honest but truculent Hun, who, while spy), will know a good deal more about The Govs before the war is over.
Won by three lengths, five lengths Wife charges husband with frequently separating second and third. Five ran. and undeservedly chastising her; husband On tags. Clarissimus; and to worth three medjidicha and not to beat The betting was:-11 to 10 agat. Hurry agree to give wife a pair of earrings. 1 agst Atheling
her any more; the pair depart amicably.
In the mote
case a husband and wife came BRITISH PRISONERS IN RAGS," to court with tales of domestic strife and the judge noted that the name of a third OFFICERS IN BAVARIA CHARGED party was continually cropping up FOR RATIONS THEY DO NOT their complaints At last the
ACCEPT
husband disclosed the root of the Dr. A. E. Taylor, who on behalf of the my wife he said, "but I cannot "I do not wish to divorce United States Embassy at Berlin visited ot endure that the mother of my wife Bavaria, says in his report: ernor's advice," Remove the mother-in- the prisoners camp at Ingolstadt, should dwell in the house."
"The officers now pay £2 9 per month law delivered with the authority of a A communique states-Alpini have diplomacy,
for subsistence. They take very little of deerce, was acted on with no great reluc- the food supplied and subsist practically captureda position commanding the
entirely on their supplies from abroad.tance on either side, and the issue was Travenanzes Pass, interrupting the enemy M. Dimitra Copulous was Minister of payment for this subsistence, desiring in tamilies should be sox renely to confide They desired release from the enforced It augurs well for future relations that
pence communications between Traveonies Justice in the Vencielos Cabinet, but own responsibility. The officers take of their troubles in a judge who is not only
stead to find themselves entirely at their Valley and the L'Azuoi district.
resigned in 1913 on the question of the camp ration practically only potatoes very youthful but a stranger to them in AERIAL ACTIVITIES.
admission of Crotan Deputies.
and lettuce. These they would wish to accents and mien and habit of thought. purchase from the canteen. The canteen A large proportion of the cases which afterwards bitterly attacked M. Tene is now practically empty of foodstuffs, come to court are domestic, crime is rare, zelos. He is believed to be an able man,
containing only beverages. The officers clams for compensation frequent, dam complained in particular that the but has no great following. INDICATIONS OF ABANDONMENT OF NEUTRALITY.
(THROUGH BRUTEE'S AGENCY.] SEVEN NORWEGIAN STEAMERS BUNK.
CumeriANIA, September 14th.
furious attacks; in which there were Seven Norwegian steamers have been
aud-to-hand encounters, with swaying Bank in two days.
THE NEW PREMIER.
Be
ATHENS, September 13th. The crisis has not been solved, and is aifficult to forecast, but there-are-indica
In the south our infantry maintained AUSTRIAN GENERAL RESIGNS.tions that the King has decided to emerge
ELIDS.
Ten guns and forty machine-guns were aptured in one sector alone,
unable to buy they were 1ges torried,
were ages to crops or date trees, or advances to
BRIG GENERAL OF 34.
time, in only thirty-four. He has been. Ford, reported wounded for the third Brigadier General J. & M. Minsul-
thrice mentioned in despatches awarded the Military Cross-
arid
and summary aheap, and at the same timu final; capable of error, but not of cor Debts as a rulo ars -ruption. The Turkish system was too At the camp for privates Dr. Taylor mitted, and poverty pleaded. An osta umbrous; it was difficult to get a decree found that the men took only boiled on the Koran before the kazí generally executed; and the balance of the scales potatoes from the camp'rations, and sub tatishes the other party, but in import would not respond to a lean purse Tho sisted for the rest on their own supplicant cases the man must go and testify at general impression seems to be that the They
were all in need of uniforms and El Kedher. Then there are charity posi British officer at the seat of judgment may shoes
The Foreign Office, acknowledging re- the blind and widows, and maintenance often right than wrong, that he does not
tions old age pensions, gratuities to
not be a Solomon, but that he is rare table that, notwithstanding the frequent reipt of the report says It is regret of the wives of prisoners of war.
keep you waiting, and that he risis protestations of the German Government
nothing to approah. This last advantage that they perform their obligations in
may have something to do with the filling I was told and it is probably true or of the court for no one is indifferent to the matter of clothing the prisoners held
PROMPT, JUSTICE, <!
Much depends on the course of events by them all the British prisoners in the the courts would not be so crowded that the privilege of getting for nothing some":
AMSTERDAM, Beptember 13th
from neutrality without delay.
A Vienna telegram says that General Pflanzer Baltin has resigned.
on the Roumanian front.
men's camp were found by Dr. Taylor to be in need of uniforms and shoes.
the Arabs regard our justice as prompt thing for which he has been in the habit
Continued on net. Columa)
of paying a great deal.