THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND 1916.
GREAT GERMAN MASSED ATTACKS.
FRENCH MAGNIFICENTLY RESIST ENEMY.
RUSSIANS STEADILY ADVANCE IN GALICIA.
GREECE DEPARTS FROM NEUTRALITY. URGENT NOTE DESPATCHED TO GERMANY.
FRAHOO-BELGIAN FRONT.
(TREOUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.) BRITISH ARTILLERY. ITS DOMINATING. POSITION.
LONDON, September 20th. Reuter's Correspondent at British) Headquarters in France, in a message, emphasises the importance of our posses
FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT:
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.) STRUGGLE ON FRENCH. FRONT.
GERMANS DRIVEN OUT.
PARIS, September 20th. A communiqué states that a German attack on Hill 76 gained a foothold in
sion of the forward slope on the high our advanced works on the southern side, ground from the Ancre to Combies Valleybus a vigorous counter-attack immediate giving our artillery a dominating posily drove them out. tim, enabling it ceaselessly to pound the Germans, inflicting heavy losses and preventing then making. Trenches,
habitable
ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS.
REPULSED,
General Sir Douglas Haig reports that south of the Ancre several determined enemy counter-attacks have been rapulaed. The general situation is unchanged: Our. artillery destroyed two hostile gum-emplacements and an ammunition
store,
A successful minor enterprise was car ried out south of Arras, 200 yards of the
GREAT GERMAN EFFORT TO RECOVER POSITIONS:
PAR18, September 21st. A communiqué states: North of the Sonime the Germans made a great effort to recover their lost positions.
The battle lasted from nine in the morning till nightfall.
Successive waves of enemy masses wore
crushed by our machine-gun and artil lery-fire, and sometimes with the bayonet. The Frenel have retained the whole of the ground.
MAGNIFICENT FRENCH
RESISTANCE.
THE BALKAN S
(THROUGH BETTER'A AGENOT.] THE SERBIANS' SUCCESS.
LONDON, September 20th. Reuter's Special Correspondent at
THE BALKANS
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
IN
ROUMANIANS
TRANSYLVANIA,
BUCHAREST, September 20th. A communiqué reports unimportant skirmishes in Transylvania except in the Strein valley, where violent attacks by the
Balunike states that the capture of the Kajmackalan ridge by the Serbiane is most important. The ridge- dominates the whole region westward and north-enemy with superior forces recessitated wart and enables the Serbians to a slight retirement. threaten not only the line to Cernu but the communications with Monastir
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
QUEBEC.
M. SAZONOFF'S CAREER. THE BRIDGE DISASTER AT A MINISTER WHO WORKED FOR
THE ENTENTE:
QUEUE, September 21st.
Th resiguation of M. Sazon off Lust Af tho inquest on the victims of the have come as a great surprise to the Rus bridge disaster, the Chief Engineer
testified that probably the fall of the sian public itself, since ouly recently he span, was due to an unseen lay in the appeared before the Duma Military Com mittee and made a statement on the inter- steel casting supporting the span during
national situation which did not suggest the hoisting.
his carly retirement..
FLOODS IN CHINA.
WASHINGTON, September 21st A million people have been rendered homeless through floods in China. «
Several of the cities in Northern Anhui
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M Sergius. Sazonaff, who is now 56 years of age, has spent all his adult life in the service of the Russian Foreign... Office, and was long regarded as typical Singer's Bridge man (so called after the street in which the Ministry is situated)correct, áble, but without any original views or any individual initiu- There were few fatalities, but the crops tive, a purely bureaucratic wheel in the generally have been destroyed.
THE DOHRUDJA FRONT Two enemy attacks south-east of Coladin in the Dobrudja were repulses, SALONIKA, September 21st,
A communiqué announces a Roumanian The Serbians on Tuesday: continued. their successful attacks on the entire success in the region of Engica-brudare subnerged.
Ja, nineteen miles south of the railway front.
Bulgarian attempts to retake the Kajfrom Constanza to: Cernavoda. mackalan Mountain failed.
Lighting continues against the priu-
The Serbians inflicted enormous louses e pal enemy forces. on the Bulgarius in the vicinity of
Florina
BRITISH AIRCRAFT AT DRAMA
LONDON, September 20th
A British official report from Salonikn states that our aircraft dropped bombs on rolling stock and stores at Drama.
There have been no developments on t'e Doiran front.
THE GREEK ORISIS.
THE QUESTION OF NEUTRALITY.
DECISION TO DEPART FROM IT IN
PRINCIPLE.
ATHENS, September 20th. Greece has decided in principle to de part from neutrality,
URGENT GREEK NOTE TO GERMANY.
The Germans attacked on a front of RELEASE OF KAYALLA GARRISON
enemy's trenches being cleared and five kilometres from the Priez farm to the
ensualties inflicted.
WASTAGE OF GERMAN GUNS A captured document signed by General Falkenhayn, dated the 24th of August, atatos:- The wastage of guns during the last few days has been considerably in excess of production. The same is true of ammunition, in the main reserves of which there has been a serious diminu tion, and all ranks must make a serions endeavour to assist in the preservation of material, otherwise making good the losses and the placing of new formations in the Geld will be rendered inpossible.” A report from General Sir Douglas Haig states--There is rainy weather. The general situation is unchanged, Hastile artillery have been active south of the Ancre, but nothing has transpired elsewhere,
A hundred prisoners have been taken during the last forty-eight hours
RUSSIAN FRONT
(THROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.]
south of the Abbe Wood farm, attacking in masses, ou each occasion preceded by
furious canonado..
The Freech magnificently resisted all the assaults and repulsed the enemy by cross-fire of machine-guns and artillery, Everywhere we maintained our post
tions.
The Aghting has been most fierce in the vicinity of the Priot farm in the region of Bouchavesnes.,
FOUR WAVES OF ASSAULT ···
BROKEN.
Four wayes of an assault in front of Priez farm were successively broken by our gun
The enemy masses were, seen to disintegrate and flow back in disorder
behind the ridge. Jearing the ground covered with corpses.
The Germans in the Bouchavesues sector, after several sanguinary defeats succeeded at one in the afternoon in gain ing a lodgement in the north-eastern, part- of the village, but were driven out at the point of the bayonet by an irresistible counter-attack.
Fifty prisoners, including several RUSSIANS NEARING HAMA DAN officers, were captured.
PETROGRAD, September 20th.
& enmaistuinqué reveals that the Russians
are within twenty miles of Hamadan (Persia), the Turks having fallen back forty miles owing to a Russian attack from Tabriz threatening their renr.
RUSSIANS AROUND HALICZ.
LONDON, September 2192. The Times correspondent in Galicia reports that General Seteherbatchoff's Army is advancing steadily, although confronted by heavy: German reinforce
neots.
The Russians are now only a few hundreds yards from Halicz railway station, and just across the river from the town,
The seizure of the junction and tho railway is of the utmost importance, as it makes the capture of the town of Secondary importance.
Farther advances north will probably result in the enemy's abandonment of the
town
DEMANDED.
BULGARIAN COUNTER- ATTACK REPULSED.
LONDOK, September 20th.
A French official report from Salonika states-We dispersed a Bulgarian counter-attack, supported by cavalry, in the region of Brod River, cast of Florina.
The enemy are still resisting in the heights north of Pisoderes on our left wing
CLEARING OUT FLORINA. A French official report from Salonika states We cleared out some houses in Floring and made prisoners of the Bu- garians who were huddled in them and who had been savagely defending them.
A French air aquadron has heavily bombed Monastir.
BULGARIANS INTERN A GREEK DETACHMENT
ATHENS, September 20th.
It is reported that a Creek detachment in Eastern Macedonia has been taken to ATHENS, September 20th.
Philippopolis by Bulgarians and intera The King, the Premier and the Ministered in the barracks there.
GENERAL. of Foreign Affairs, after examining the situation, in principle decided to depart from neutrality with a view to allaying distrust on the part of the Entente
Powers
An Ultimatum to Germany regarding the interned Anay Corps is spoken of
ATHENS, September 20th.
A semi-official report states that the messages of the Greek Government to the Commander were carried out through the me ium of wireless.
The British warships beat out these statements regarding the Commander's disobedience.
LONDON, September 21st. Beuter's Agenor sauõunces that Greece has despatched an urgent Note to Ger- many demanding the release of the Kavalia garrison who are interned in Germany.
THROUGH REUTER'S „LOKNCYⱭ" DUTCH EST INDIER
STRENGTHENING THE FORCES."
the
THE HAGUE September 20th- Queen Wilhelmina, in her message to the States-General. stated, "that" Government would as far as possible strengthen the military forces in the Netherlands Indies and continue extend the Fleet
AUSTRALIA AND CONSCRIFTION.
to
MELBOURNE, September 21st, The House of Representatives eat all night debating the Conscription Refereo
Tum Bill
The Premier, Mr. W. M. Hughes, said he was determined to sit till the Bill was
passed.
An ancadment opposing conscription was defeated by 49 votes to 12.
After a vehement speech by Mr Hughes
The Note states that the Commander of the Kavalla garrison was instructed to embark the troops and transport them with their equipment to another Grank | denouncing the undemeratie amendment The enemy's losses everywhere were part. It is not clear why be disregarded of a secret janta of Porth's Legislative the orders and delivered the troops to Assembly, the Premier said that if neces The Germans and the Bulgarians sary the Haim would adjourn to enable The Note proposes the conduct of the the members to actively participate in troops from Switzerland to a Mediter the conscription campaign. ranean port, from which they may be
very great.
AVERAGE LIFE OF GERMAN DIVISION.
LONDON, September 20th.
It is learnt from a trustworthy source embarked on Greek ships and conveyed that the average life of a German Divi-to Greece. - sion in the Somice region is about 19 day's
More than two Divisions have had to
TONE OF NOTE DECIDED AND FIRM.
Reuter's Agency states that the tone ho brought up weekly since the end of of the Greek Note to Germany is firm June to replace the wastage! GENERAL
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
EXPLOSION IN MUNITION
WORKS
LONDON, September 20th.
It is officially announced that seven persons were killed and 72 injured in the recent explosion in a munition works.
BRITISH WAR COMMITTEE,
LONDON, September 20th. Mr. Chatuberlain, Lord Hardinge, Sir The incessant fighting of this Army Arthur Hirtzel General Sir Edmund sane the 31st of August has resulted in Barrow and Lieut.-Colonel Sir Mark the capture of 25,000 prisoners, of whom Sykes attended a meeting of the War *2,100-were Germans, and 22 guns.
Committee yesterday.
and decided.
LATER.
The House of Representatives passed the third reading of the Couscription Refrendam Bill by 47 votes to 12,
THE FRYATT MURDER. FORMAL BRITISH PROTEST. The following letter has been addressed by count Grey to the United States Embany - yu egogo
great machinery of Russian diplomacy. His career, first as clerk in the Foreign Office, then as Secretary to the Embassy. in London and to the Vatican Mission, then again as a functionary at the For eign Office, afterwards once inore at the London Embassy this time as a council- or seemed the stereotyped advancement of a good official who might end his days as a Minister at some second-rate capital The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the in Europe or South America, Happily United States Chargé d'afinires and has in 1908 the post of Russian Minister at the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the Vatican became vacant on the ap Mr Page's Notes of the 29th and 31st pointment of M. Tavolsky to the head of ultimo relative to the shooting of the Foreign Office, and M. Bazonoff was Capt. Eryatt, Master of the ss. Brussels, appointed to fill it. This was the real on the charge of having attempted, on beginning of his carcer and influence, for the 28th March, 1015, to ram a German in the Russian diplomatic service tho submarine by which his vessel was Vatican post has ever been regarded as the stepping stone to the Ministry itself. Three years later M. Sazonoff was already back at Petrograd as one of the assistant ministers, and when M. Isvolsky retired, in 1010, M. Sazonu was appointed to succeed hun
attacked,
There is no harm in stating now that
appointment was due to a reaction against the anti-Austrian and anti Gor- man policy of M. Isvolsky, who from the time of the Algeciras Conference had been steadily carrying on policy of rapprochement with the western. Powera. M. Sazonoff at once, brought about the change in Russia's foreign policy which was crowned at Potsdam in November,⠀⠀ 1910, during a meeting between the Tunne and the Kaiser, by the conclusion of an agreement on the Bagdad railway and the Persian question. To this agreement, which was but the expression of a renewal of the Russo-German friendship, M. Sazonoff faithfully adhered right through the Agadir crisis up to the spring of 1912
Viscount Grey will be grateful if Mr. Laughlin will request the United States Ambassador at Berlin to be good enough to inform the German Government that his Majesty's Government desire to enter the most formal protest against this pro- ceeding, which they only describe as the judical murder of a British subject, held prisoner of war by the German Govern ment, under conditions in direct violation of the law of nations and the usages of From the information already in tho possession of his Majesty's Government there can be no doubt that the trial of Captain Fryatt was conducted under circumstances · calculated to cast the graves obloquy on the authorities con cerned. Independently of the fact that no time appears to have been afforded for any other effective steps to be taken on behalf of the accused man by the United States Embassy, the German Government themselves appointed an officer to conduct the defense, instead of allowing Mr. Gerard to choose counsel whom he night consider suitable for that purpose, and The Balkan wars and his visit to Eng the unseemly haste with which the trial land to stay at Balmoral as the King's was instituted and the sentence carried guest marked a return of Russian diplo into effect is a sufficient proof that the mary for the paths marked cut for it by Gargan amborities were fully conscions predecessor in 1906-8. The rest is of the warrantable nature of their well known. M. Sazonoff remained thence- faction, and anxious to forestall the legiti- forth consistently a ataunch supporter of mate outburst of indigention which must the Anglo-Franco-Russian combination. necessarily be evoked in this country.
The reason for his retirement, apart: The reason ascribed by the German Government for this precipitancy from health, has not been divulged. namely that it was impossible to detuin It was rumoure in the Russian press longer those witnesses whore evidence was little while ago that M. Sazonoff was in of the greatest importance the officers disagreement wtih M. Sturmer, the and crew of the submarine cannot but | Prime Minister, on the question of Polish be regarded as unparalleled in circum- reforms being in favour of granting to. stances such as those with which the Poland a measure of autonomy without unduly weakening the links which united Further, the fact that the grave intel- the country to the Russian Empire. The tribunal had to deal. ligence of Captain Fryatt's execution was question was to be discussed and finally merely communicated verbally to Mr. decided, so the ranimour, mid, at the Gerard by the German Foreign Office on Taar a headquarters. If this was true, the 28th July can only be interpreted as would appear that he has had to retire showing the reluctance of the German because & different conception prevailed Government to bring their proceedings to his Excellency's knowledge in official in the Tsar's councils as to the place of
Poland in the reorganised Empire.
form.
COST OF LIVING/
HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATE.
In communicating the foregoing to the German Government, Viscount Grey will be much obliged if Mr. Gerard will re- quest the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to farnish him for the information of his Majesty's Government, with a copy of the finding of the Court-martial, as well as with a statement of the manner in which the Court was constituted, of the persons The high cost of living was debated in of whom it was composed, of the line the House of Commons last month. adopted by the defence, and of the wit- nesses who were called upon to give evid enco, bath for the defence and the pro-Secretary to the Board of Trade), who scation to one
Foreign Offico, August 7th, 1910.
**THE PERMANENT AND ONLY
TRUE PEACE.”
Mr. E. G. Pretymon (Parliamentary replying, said that the price of food was w matter which could not be isolated from the general conduct of the war. It was only part of the war problem, and not of first importance. It was largely w of shipping, and the claims qu ship- ping had been many and conflicting. Baron von Stengel, a Zurich professor The Government was daily engaged who was one of the German delegates at negotiating with difierent interests for The Hague Conference, has been writing the purpose of keeping down prices. In to the Dutch Auli War League on a was calculated that the consumption of future Peace Conference The Times food by the soldiers was 50 per cent, higher uotes from the Frankfurter Leilung the than the consumption in civilian life. text of his utterance, which would be That was sufficient to account for & con- quite incredible if it did not happen to siderable increase in prices. The evil be true A Peace Conference is declared had been increased by the simultaneous to bo "
quite superfluous, since a vic lowering of supplies by the withdrawal: torious Germany will be able to secure of labour from the land. These factors. and-maintain for the whole of combined were beyond Government control humanity the permanent and only true Mecting the charge that the State was The war is said to have shown sharing in crime by taking excess profits, that Germans for the crown of Kultur Mr Pretyman agreed that from one point, in all creation," To them accordingly of view that was so, but it was better that will it fall to give peace to all the world : was so than to stop trades and industries **The result of this is that it is unneces which were essential to the successful com sary to continue peace labours of any duct of the war. The Government, prae- kind, because we Germans, with our domi- nation over our restless neighbours, shall tically controlled shipping, and steps had been taken to prevent the cornering of also assume the duties and the office of commodities. The rise in freight repre the police of peace. The policemen will be able to nip in the bad any hostility to sented one penny out of a rise of sd., in the cost of the leaf. Freights bulked less peace. The Baron has, however, some advice to give to neatrals which deserves 10 the increase of food prices than was Mr FD. Acland (Parliamentary Sec- IN reproduction in fall. Subjection to generally thought,
our control, which is in every respect. superior to any other, is the only and the retary to the Board of Agriculture) and surest way to prosperous existence for the number of stock and horned cattle every nation, and especially for neutrals; in June was an absolute record, Ho their best course would be voluntarily to thought the area under grain showed a join themselves to us and to, trask them moderate decline for 1016, but it still selves to us. In these hard times of divi- showed an appreciable increase over the sion it is wise and prudent to join one year 1914.
BYE-ELECTION.
LONDON, September 21st. The Mansfield bye-election, caused by the death of Sir Arthur Markham, re- sulted as follows.
Col. Seely (Coalitionist)
Mr. Turnball (Independent)
Majority
The Government disavows the action of the Commander of the Kavalla garrison, and demands that the troops be brought to the Swim frontier and redelivered under a guarantee that they will not be stopped or compelled to serve against THE
the Central Powers.
ALLIED FLEET DECLARE AN
BLOCKADE.
ATUSES, September 20th,
7,597
4256
3141
RAILWAY DISPUTE
ENGLAND.
peace.
LONDON, Beptember 21st It is officially announced that the rail way dispate mentioned in a message It is semi-officially announced that the dated the 14th inst. has been bettled,
seif to a mighty head. To deserve well Mr. P. Houston (who is ship Allied Fleet has declared a blockade from [The message alluded to stato A con of a mighty hereditary lord is to sow seed owner) said that Mr. Winston Churchill the mouth of the Nestos to the village offerance of railway managers and delegates for the future. There is no people richer had been responsible more than anyone of the Railwaymen's Union has discussed the infeeling and ideals than we Germans for the rise in freights, through the Chaingbizi
demand of a half-sovereign weekly advance are and so, under our protection, all wasteful use of shipping when he had in wages. According to the Press Buroae, international law is perfectly superflu been First Lord of the Admiralty. MA the Companies offered three shillings,, inous, because we of our own instinct give Churchill was crudely amateurish in sug- addition to a ave anillinga, bonus given last every one his rights Little wonder geating that the State take over all ship October, and proposed arbitration in regard that the Frankfurter Zeitung pictests ping. He forgot that from one-third to to a further grant. This offer was not against the professorial utterance as one-half of our food was carried in
compromising aopted by the men's representatives.]
LONDON, September 21st- The blockade mentioned last night in cludes Kavalls and the other Groek porta commanded by the Bulgarians.
neutral bottonis...