THE WAR.
GREEK CRISIS.
REVOLUTION EXTENDING:
CRETE CAPTURED.
THE LONDON AIR RAID:
INTERESTING DETAILS.
PROGRESS ON ALL ALLIED FRONTS.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
THE BALKANS
SZEĎUON KHUTER'S "AGENOX.)
BRITISH TAKE PRISONDAS.
LONDON September 24th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com muniqué, says: The enemy's trenches were entered cast of Neuville St. Vanst and prisoners were taken,
ARTILLERY ACTIVITY,
LONDON, September 24th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com muniged states that south of the Ancre there is artillery activity on both sides.
BRITISH REPULSE THREE.
ATTACKS. -
LONDON, September 24th. General Sir Douglas Haig reports that three enemy attacks west of Les Hoeufs have been ropulsed with loss.
There has been active artillery work at any points;
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 261a 1916.
(THROUGH RIUTRE'S AGENJOY.]
THE GREEK CRISIS.
IMPORTANT ISSUES PENDING.
{THROUGH. REFIER'S KORNÍT.] SERBIANS CO-OPERATE,
SALONIKA, September 24th. An official telegram states The Serba, co-operating at Dobrudja, inflicted very -heavy enaualties on the Bulgars · · Eight
guns were captured.
ROUMANIAN FRONT,
THROUGH BEUTER'S AUKNOT.)
THE TWO DESTROYED ZEPPELINS.
HOW THEY CAME DOWN.
LONDON, September 25tia. Details of the fate of the two Zep pelins brought down in Essex. are now available.
One fell blazing in a field close to the high road, striking a tree in its descent, tearing off branches, which partly broke
its fall.
BURHAREST, September 25th. The occupation of Szekely-Udvarhely assures the Boum alons possession of one-third of Transylvania--20,000 square kilometres. It also enables the Rou manian front in Transylvania to be shortened from 000 to 300 kilometres,
ROUMANIANS HARVEST OF MEN AND MACHINE GUNS
bombs. BUKHAREST, September 27th, 1 Some of the crew had apparently jump- A communique state. On the aortherned from it while it was at a great
The debris was piled up in a great mass 16 feet high.
PAVAL VITSER
(THROUGH REUTER'S "AGINUE.]
LINER SEIZED BY GERMANS.
THE HAGUE. September 20th: The Germans have seized a Batavier liner and have taken her to Zeebrugge. RUSSIAN FRONT,
(THROUGH DEUTER'S AGENCY.]
RUSSIAN ADVANCE.
SOME STUBBORN FIGHTING.
LONDON September 24th
A Russian coming says that there
HONGKONG ST. ANDREW 3 SOCIETY.
ANNUAL MEETING.
The annual general meeting of the Hongkong St. Andrew's Society was held at the City Hall last evening the President, Major D. Macdonald, presid ing over a large attendance of members which included the Hon, Mr. D. Landale, Mr. T F Hugh, Mr. R, Mi Dyer Mr W. Jack, Mr. M. A. Murray (Hon. Treasurer), Mr, W Nicholson, and Mr. R. Henderson (Hon. Secretary).
The report of the Committee was na follows:
Your Committee have pleasure in
is stubborn fighting in places from the presenting to you the report and state- ment of accounts, for the year ending In falling the Zeppelin emptied out 35 ripe to the Toumanian frontier, whereast August, 2010. The balance at the
the enemy is strongly resisting our credit of the Society now stands at advance.
26,037.30 against $5,127.13 list year. Sh Andrew's day was celebrated by a con-
On the Upper Sereth, we repelfed all front in the Caliman Mountains our altitude, as bodies, including that of the counter-attacks and took fifteen hundred advance continues, 73 prisoners and a Commander, were found as far as a mile Prisoners machine gun being captured.
At Hermanstadt we attacked the enemy, capturing 4 officers and 300 men, with machine guns,. ***
In the Jiu Valley partial
enemy attacks were repulsed, two machine guns being captured:
The prisoners captured on this-front-up-
away with, nreks broken.
Police and troops are guarding the wreck, which great crowds are visiting.
THE SECOND ZEPPELIN
The second Zeppelin came down close to a coltage near the const
Watchers were aroused by the drone
AFRICA
{THROUGH REDTRE'S AGENCY.]
PORTUGUESE __SUCCESS.
CAPTURE OF A NAVAL GUN
Lissu, Soptember 24th.
cert, which proved most successful. The
proceeds of the concert, 82,867.04, were distributed as follows:-$100 to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and £100 fo the Lord Provost of Glasgow for Bootéish War Charities; £50 to Mrs. Malcolm's London Scottish Comfort's Fond £25 to the Scottish Women's Hospitals and $34.65 to the Union Church Working Party for comforts to the Argyll and Sutherlands on active service. During the year applications for assistance were received and the sum of 8299.95 was ex- pended. Your Committee deeply regret Porto record the deaths of Captaan G. M. Alison, Liout C. C. F. Cunningham and Licut, Cunningham were killed in nction the Mr. C. Maxwell. Captain Alison and in France Seventeen new members joined the Society during the year and it is hoped
Mr. G. M. Young, the Vice-President, members will continue to give their assist auce by bringing forward new names.
December and this vacancy has not been.
It is officially announced that the till the present time total 48 officers and boring scawards at a height of 300 fret. Rovuma Rive, at Nhica, occupied Tahidia
of the engines and saw a Zeppelin lua-tuguese column. which crossed.
4,836 men
ATHENS, September 24th Important issues are said to depend on the German reply to the Greek Note, which, according to the newspapers, de- mands that the Bulgars shall evacuate Macedonia, The Note declares that Greek public opinion, the irritation of which is manifested by frequent revolutionary movements, will not without difficulty countenaned any further sojourn of its AERIAL ACTIVITIE8. bereditary enemy on Greek soil and n continuance of his outrages,
NATIONAL MOVEMENT,
EXTENDING.
ATHENS, September 25th The national movement is extending. Army officers, escrping the vigilance of the authorities, aro- constantly arriving
KRUPPSV. BRITISH ORDNANCE at Salonika. Their number already
A GERMAN ADMISSION OF
SUPERIORITY,
LONDON, September 24th. Heater's correspondent at Headquar ters reverts to General von Falkenhayn's statement regarding the economising of musitions, He quotes a passage forbid ling unnecessary firing, which says that reprisals must be reduced to the lowest limits and that efforts are to be made, even where there is a necessity for s homirdiment to attain the object, with
ly the absolutely tactical necessary ex penditure. The passage urges that in the case of a barrage of fire the guns be fired in a Series, allowing each to cool,
It seems that Krupps' quality of endur- ainces does not compare with the British
urdmince. The correspondent dwells on the thunder of our guns, which do not economise.
General von Falkenhayn urges good observations, without which the fire will be a waste of ammunition.
Seeing that the Germans have been driven off practically the whole of the high ground between Thiepval and Flers, and that their aviators seldom venture amongst ours, it is difficult to understand how this is to be carried out.
THE SOMME SUCCESS.
GREATEST IN 2 MONTHS FIGHTING.
LONDON, September 25th. The Timer correspondent at British Houdquarters in France says:-The Bri-
tisk troops on the Somme last week won
the greatest success in 2 months' fight- ing.
We captured a German staff map which shows eleven points marked" Tital, où no account to be lost."
exceeds 300. Several have been arrested in the act of leaving various Other Volunteers are steadily flowing
Porte
into Salonika.
VESSELS SEIZED AND HANDEU TO NATIONAL COMMITTEE. The Crow of a Grock steamer Salonika mutinied and handed the vessel over to the National Committee for the transport of Volunteers.
ANOTHER NOTE TO BERLIN.
Amass, September 25th,
at
It is unnounced that the Government has addressed a new note to Berlin as regards the Bulgarians capturing a com- pany of Greek soldiers at Florina.
REVOLUTION IN CRETE.
A telegram froin Heraklion, Candia,
Ar Dobrudja our left Bank has pro gressed and have captured 1 officer and 53 men.
(THROUGH BHUTZR'S AGENCY,] BRITISH AERIAL RAIDS, GREAT DAMAGE DONE.
LONINA, September 24th, General Sir Douglas Haig in a com muniqué, says: --
Fivo raids have been made by our airmen on railway stations and enemy communications, doing great damage
Five hostile machines were destroyed in the air fighting yesterday and two others were driven down damaged.
Five of our machines are missing
ZEPPELIN OVER CALAIS.
IGNOMINIOUS RETREAT.
PARIS, September 24th. A communiqué states that a Zeppelin appeared at Calais but retreated from a furious bombardment without dropping any bombs.
Seven of our aeroplanes dropped fifty bombs on factories at Bombach and Thiouville.
FRENCH AERIAL ACTIVITY:
PARIS, September 24th.
to the Government, says that the military on the Bois la Abbo Farm, and south
A communiqué suys: A Gernian attack
ward, was dispered, leaving numerous. dead.
It suddenly turned inland and floated and captured a naval gun, down scraping the tree tops till it set- tled on the earth. Then curses came from seized war material which had been The main columu captured Tokoto,
the gondolas and some guttural English. abandoned by the enemy, also the bar-resigned on leaving Hongkong last The crew clambered out and the Com-racks at Migomba and a factory ower filled, Mr. A. Forbes having gone home
down the Rovuma,
GENERAL.
mander thundered at the door of the cottage, but-received no answer. All conferred together, then there were three explosions, smashing the windows.
THE DESTROYED RAIDERS OF THE
NEWEST PATTERN.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE SINGAPORE WAR LOAN
SINGAPORE, September 24th..
Losnos, September 4th.
A Government War Loan, în the The official account of the air-raid form of 5 per cent. local bonds, will be concludes:-The casualties in London issued shortly in the Straits Settlements. are:-Twenty-nine killed and ninety.
on leave Mr. W: Nicholson was invited by the Committes to take bis placo Your Committee are indebted to Mr. G. B. Dunnett for kindly auditing the accounts.
The PRESIDENT, in moving the adoption of the report and accounts, said that mention was made in the report of the deaths of Capt. Alison, Lieut. Cunning ham, and Mr. Maxwell. Since the report had been compiled they had heard of the deaths of Lieut. I. G. Munro and Lieut. 4. B. Shewan, both well-known to them all, and who had fallen fighting in France. Their names would be added to the many gallant Scots who had made the great sacrifice in defence of King dom mid justice, which they all valued so greatly. (Applause) During the year there had been very few applications for assistance, and that had enabled them. to pay to the credit account 8510.23. The concert held on St. Andrew's Day proved very successful, and, profiting by experi enco, they were able to reduce their ex- penditure, and to hand over to the War sent Home for various purposes. Charities a sum of £295, which had been
nine injured Detailed reports of the CHINESE TELEGRAMS, and Empire, and the great cause of free-
casualties and damage have not yet been received. The two raiders which were brought down in Essex, are both large and of a new pattern. Fourteen or fifteen | airships participated in the attack.
The south-eastern, eastern cast-mid- land Countica and Lincolnshire were the principal localities visited,
COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NOOI
JAN FO,"
THE MILITARY GOVERNOR OF
CANTON.
SHANGHAI, September 25th. The Military Governor of Canton, General Luk: Wing Ting, has informed the Central Government that he will unanimously approved. ... .
The attack on London was carried out by two airships from the south-east, assume his duties at Canton on the 20th
inst.
tween one and two o'clock in the morning, and one from the cast, between twelve and one o'clock. Aeroplanes were sent
up.
THE PREMIERSHIP.
The Premier, Duca Ree Shui, has ten dered his resignation and recommended Bombs were dropped on the southern as his successor, Chai Sai Cheong, who and south-eastern districts,
was Premier under Yuan regime,
A later message says:-The details of the Metropolitan casualties are-Seven- tean men, eight women, and three child- ren killed; and forty-five men, thirty-
PROVINCIAL DAMAGE SLIGHT.
LONDON, September 24th.
The Hon. Mr. D. LANDALE seconded, and the report and accounts wore
NEW PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT.
On the proposition of Mr F. GRAHAM, GORDON was elected President of the seconded by Capt. CARTER, Mr. A. G. Society for the ensuing year:
he had had nich, experience of the In returning thanks, Mr. GORDON said Shih-kai's Society's work, and he would do all he could to carry out the duties as far as
TYPHOON WARNINGS.
lay in his power,
far as
MR. M. DYER was elected Vive Pre- sident on the proposition of the Hon. Mr. D. Layne, seconded by Mr. GORDON, The following telegrams have been and the new Vice-President briefly re-
turned thanks
General, Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory
attacked the demonstrators, and several were killed and wounded in the fighting which cusaed. The Revolutionaries cap- tared the town and abolished the civil We easily repulsed Cernian attacks on nathorities. The gendarmes sided with Pepper Hill and southeast of Thiaumont, seven women and seventeen children in received by the American Consulate the Revolutionaries, who are preparing There have been twenty-nine nerial jured. to enter Canea. The whole of the rest of fights on the Somme. Four enemy aero Creto is in the hands of the Revolation planes were brought down, two of which aries,
were on fire; three were badly hit and fell disabled; foar were compelled to descend in their own lines; and sis were brought down between Chaulnes und The authorities have surrendered all Avre, one on fire. A Fokker was felled, Government buildings.
on fire, north of Chalons, and another seemed badly hit. An enemy aeroplane riddled at close quarters, came down at
CRETE CAPITULATES
ATHENS, September 25th Thirty thousand Insurgents completely control Crete. Ph
Mr. MURRAY (Hon. Treasurer), and Mr. HENDERSON (Hon. Secretary) were anonimously re-elected to their respective positions.&
The retiring Committee were re appointed as followDr., Forsyth, Messrs. W. Nicholson, W. C Jack and
1.15 p.m. September 23rd. Warning Low-pressure ated extending from the China Sen to the Pacific across It is officially announced that there is northern Luzon and tho Balintang Chan R. Sutherland, "with the addition of Mr.
slight damage in the provinces, with the
exception of "one east-midland town, where there were two killed and eleven Injured,
There is some damage in the Metro politan area, but not of a military
THE BRITISH BUSY.
LONDON, September 24th, According to a French official an Popper Hill. A Fokker dived with her. nature nouncement from Salonika, on the left nose down into its own lines east of St. TWELVE RAIDERS PARTICIPATE. bank of the Struma the British attacked Mibiel. strong Bulgarian detachments north of
LONDON, September 24th. A French pilot chased a German pilot Kopriva and toward Lake Tahinos, twelve miles over the enemy's lines in participated in the raid.
It is estimated now that twelve airships Violent Bulgarian counter-attacks on Lorraine, killed a passenger and com
losses.
A considerable number of small dwell-
el. A real typhoon may develop later.
9- A., September 24th Cyclone or typhoon W of northern Luzon, more than 100 miles distant, developing.
11 am, September 25th. Typhoon in about 117 deg. Lang. E. and 19 deg. Lat. N., moving W.N.W.
DISGUST WITH TURKISH
ATROCITIES.
CAUSES-OF-GRAND-SHERIF'S REVOLT.
4. 0, Lang in place of Mr. M. Dyer ST. ANDREW'S DAY Regarding the clebration of Bt. Andrew's Day, Major MACDONALD said that in view of the fact that the war was still on he dit not think they could do better than hold a concert ou St. Andrew's Day. It was for the incoming President to say what was best to be done on that day. Want was best to be
Mr. GORDON said he thoroughly agreed with Major Macdonald that a concert should be held in view of the success achieved last year -
It was subsequently decided to again calebrate St. Andrew's Day with a con- cert, the proceeds to be devoted to war charities.
the com
SOCIABILITY
our left wing were repulsed with heavy pelled the machine to descend. Another ing houses and shops were demolished in It is reliably stated that the Graud
The Serbians progressed north-west of enemy machine came down in the Forest the Metropolitan area, and a number of mass which prompted him to take President urged a return to the "good Bherif of Mecca has declared that the In the course of few remarks, the new Kajnackalan.
of Germany. Two machines dived abnor-fires broke out. Two factories were in action were the wholesale hanging and old days" when they had convivial LONDON, September 24th.mally in their own lines in the Vosges, jured, empty railway trucks destroyed Syria and Armenia, the departure of the history throughout the year. In that persecution of Arabs, the atrocities in gatherings for every festival in Scottish A British official message from Saloni after fights with our pilots. kn says:-On the Struma froot we cross In the aerial battle on most of the in two places.
and the permanent way slightly damazed - Turkish Government from the traditions respect previous Committees were far laid down by the old Sultans, and the ahead of the present one. There wENS front, a score of enemy aeroplanes were
Forte's treatment of the Sherif's family always somethingthappening which tend- brought down.
in Hejaz
ed to keep Scals together; now they had When the news of the Sherif's movement nothing. He thought something more reached Syria, Djemal Pasha stayed the could be done in regard to s cial gather executions thead cided on for fear of ings; after the war of course. We aggravating the situation, but be ulti-want to revive the spirit of our fore- mately deported & great cumber of the fathers he added, "and bring this most prominent Arabs. It is interesting great Scottish organisation once more to note that the prisoners include one of into life.” (Applause.) the crew of the Khedivial yacht Mah- Major MACDONALD said that that was ruma, which has been in the Bosphorus a question which was entirely the since the late Khedive, Abhas Hilmi's, de hands of the new President, and it was fection. He states that he and 20 others in his power to carry it through,
We captured the whole ridge of a coned the river at three places at Jeviman, tinuous chain of fortresses, and there has which, is on fire and was occupied by the been a ceaseless body to body straggle for enemy who has been driven before us..
ten weeks.
The actual territory won amounts to 33 square miles, but if all the lines of fortresses could be strung endwise they would reach several hundred miles.
The expenditure of artillery aminuni- tion on both sides must have been 25,000,000 rounds.
We met with strong opposition when. attacking Karadzkovhala.
A counter-attack from Neveljen was entirely dispersed.
Naval field artillery successfully, bom barded enemy trenches east of Neoheri,
Our patrols are most active on the Doiran front, where there are unfavour able mist conditions.
Our artillery was active north of the Somme; the enemy replied but feebly.
ESSEN BOMBED.
A DARING EXPLOIT.
FARIS, September, 24th A communiqué states that two French aeroplanes dropped twelve bombs ou Essen and returned safely.
The flight was one of 500 miles.
METROPOLITAN CASUALTIES.
LONDON, September 25th." An official return of the casualties in the Metropolitan area gives the follow ing figures:-
Killed Injured,
Mon,
Women, Children
Total
37
were forcibly enrolled. The Sherif's son The meeting terminated with the pass- before the rising specially went to Damaging of a hearty vote of thanks to Major cus to persuade Djemal to cossa hanging Macdonald for his valuable services as the Arab notables, but be refused.
President during the past year.