THE
BRITISH
WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10TH, 1916.
CONTINUE TO ADVANCE.
GERMANS DISPLAY MILITARY DECADENCE
AUSTRO-GERMANS PREPARING DESPERATE BLOW.
GERMAN SUBMARINES RENEW ACTIVITY.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT
(THROUGH RESTER'S AGENCY.} BRITISH ADVANCE. BLIGHT RECOVERY BY ENEMY. LONDON, October 8th.
General Sir Douglas Haig's com man says:-We have considerably advanced north and north-east' Courcelette,
of
An enemy counter-attack last night, nurth of Les Bœufs, recovered a small portion of their lost trenches. Elsewhere we secured our gains.
The wholes of Le Bars is now in our hands. Over five hundred prisoners have already been reported.
An enemy attack on the Schwaben Redoubt was completely repulsed.
Successful raids were carried out during the night by the Irish, Midland and Yorkshire troops in the Fauquissart, Givenchy and Loos areas.
879 PRISONERS IN TWO DAYS." In a later report Sir Douglas Haig says:
South of the Ancre our front was heavily shelled during the day, especially in the neighbourhood of Guedecourt-L Sars. There has been severe fighting north of the Courcelette-Warlencourt Road. We won ground. The prisoners taken in two days numbered ́879,
We have advanced our line south-west
of Ginedecourt.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
FRENCH FRONT.
ENEMY ATTACKS SHATTERED BY CURTAIN FIRE.
PARIB, October 8th.
A communiqué states: --Thore have been intermittent reciprocal bombardusents in the Somme region,
The Germans, after violent artillery preparation, stacked our new positions west of Bailly-Sailisey, The attacking waves were shattered by curtain fire with- out one reaching our trenches.
French heavy gains shelled convoys and cantonments in Wavre and also the station at Thiauruont
FRENCH AEROPLÄNE ACTIVITY.
A communiqué Bys that French nera planes located numerous enemy batteries and some were bombed at Moislans and Vaux Wood and north of Peronne.
ENEMY INACTIVE.
A communiqué states: The night has been rainy. Nothing of importance transpired, and the enemy displayed little activity. ITALIAN FRONT.
[ROUGH REUTED'S AGENCY:) ITALIANS CAPTURE IMPORT ANT PEAK. ANNIHILATE STRONGLY ENTRENCHED ENEMY
ROME, October 8th.
It is officially announced that Alpinists have captured the Busaalta Peak, which
The enemy again attacked the Schwabena 8,187 feet high, at the bend of the Redoubt unsuccessfully.
GERMANS DEMORALISED BRITISH COOLNESS AND COURAGE. LONDON, October 7th.-
Vanoi Valley, practically annihilating the strongly entrenched enemy. Twenty kurvivors were captured.
SEVEN ATTACKS REPULSED
It is officially announced that seven consecutive enemy attacks, all preceded
THE BALKAN 8
[THHOUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE ROUMANIAN ADVANCE IN TRANSYLYANIA,
BUSHAREST, October 9th,
A communiqué states -There have g been patrol encounters in Northern Transylvania,
The Romanians repulsed several nt tacks west of Brasso,
Artillery actions are reported from the Aluta and Vulcan Passes and also from the Danube and Dobrudja, PREPARING A DESPERATE BLOW.
BUKHABEST, October 8th. A semi-official statement is published that on the northern, front the Rouman- ians withdrew to strategic positions be fore stronger enemy f
forces, mostly Ger man, so as to assure a powerful defence of the four passes leading from Roumania to Brasso.
Everything shows that the Austrians and Germans are attempting to strike a desperate blow, and ure collecting troops from all other fronts
ROUMANIANS RESUME
OFFENSIVE,
An official message states that there is minor fighting on the northern front.
The Roumanians have resumed the offensive in the Canani and Vulcan Passce.
The Roumanian right wing in Dobrud ja has advanced and occupied enemy trenches.
PROGRESS ON TWO FRONTS,
PARIS, October 9th.
THROUGH REUTER & AGENCY 1
“BUSINESS" CABINET FOR
GREECE.
HISTORY PROFESSOR CALLED ON
ATTENE, October 8th.
M. Spyridon Lambros, Professor of History in the Athens University, has been asked to form a business Cabinet It is not expected that the result will be known before Monday, when Prinec Andrew arrives.
In Court circles it is believed that the King is awaiting his brother's report on the attitude of the Anglo-French Governments so as to guide his course.
A SUCCESSFUL AMNESTY.
CANBA, October 8th. Following the Provisional Govern mont's proclamations of amnesty for resistera of the Venczelist movement provided they deposited their arms within a day, the few remaining natatandera have yielded and voluntary onlistment is proceeding satisfactorily.
GENERAL.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
A NEW WAR VOTE.
THREE HUNDRED MILLIONS.
[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] GERMAN SUBMARINE
ARRIVES IN AMERICA
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, Oct. 8th. Submarine Uss arrived from Wilheim- shaven with despatches for Count von Bernstorff, and sailed again after two hours.
BRITISH AMBASSADOR PROTESTS.
WASHINGTON, October 8th.
Sir Cecil Spring Rice called at the State Department, and, it is believed, protested against the visit of the U23 in view of the recent Allied Note, urging neutrals to prevent submarines from entering their ports,
AMERICAN STEAMER HELD UP.
NEWPORT, October 8th. The Captain of the Nantucket light ship wirelessed that a submarine held up an American steamer bound from New York to Boston on Sunday morning but the steamer was permitted to proosed.
why she was held up as she was flying The steamer radioed the lightship asking
the American flag. The message did not identify the submarine.
JAPAN'S METHODS WITH CHINA
TOKYO, October 9th.
TRANSYLVANIA AND ITS
FRONTIERS.
THE PASSES FROM ROUMANIA, A RUGGED MOUNTAIN BARRIER. Against invasion from Roumania Nature has protected Transylvania by a formid- able barrier of mountains. Transylvania is a highland, broken into innumerable bills and with plains scattered about its surface. From the west, this country rises towards the mountain barrier that separates it from Roumania in a com Paratively gentle slope, to the heights of the south-eastern and southern Car- pathians On the east the mountains break into huge and precipitous walls-- a tremendous natural fortress. The by the eastern Carpathians, which are northern part of the frontier is formed out by the Strel or Kirlibaba Pass almost at the pointcre the frontier of Buku- vina joins the of Roumania. Thence the castern Carpathian mountains go south in a great semi-circle to the point where the Predeal (or Tomios) Pass provides a to Bukarest. Rising on the south-western gateway for the railway from Kronstadt aide of the Predeal Pass, the Tran sylvanian Alps form almost the whole of the north-western frontier of Roumania. which go to the bank of the Danube, and They merge into the Stretenye Mountains,
side of the river, form the fatuous gorgo of the Iron Gaten, near Orsova, B there, with the heights on the Serbian
The chief passes in these mountain ranges are the Borgo Pass, just south of tho Bukovina frontier, the Turgyos, and the Bekas, close together; the Predeal, already mentioned; the Torzburg; and in the Transylvanian Alps the Rater Turm or Red Tower Pass, carrying the railway from Bukarest to Hermanstads; the Ful- kan, tho Teregova, and the Iron Gate Through the last the railway from Temesvar in Transylvania goes to Craiova The highland of Transylvania has a menn altitude of from 1,000 to 1,600 feet. A fertile plain about 60 miles in length and 50 in breadth lies above sea level. almost in the centre of the country. The on the frontier attain adi Thus Negoi,
The Kokusai News Agency authorita- tively denies the reports current in tho in Roumania. LONDON, October 7th.
United States that Japan intends to adopt militarism or active and harsh
Mr. Asquith will ask the House of Commons on Wednesday for a fresh vote
3,132 millions.
mountains
of three hundred millions, making a total measures in China. The News Agency spent on the war up to the present of Bays that the Terauchi Administration points to great heights.
favours friendly commercial and indus-just west of the Roten Turm Pass, reaches 8,345 feet; Buseoa, just west of the Pre- trial expansion without Chauvinistic doal Pass 8,230 feet Pietrosu and Königstein, farther north, 7,544 and 7,952 feet. The climate of Transylvania ja healthy, with no very great rainfall, but the winters are very cold and the summers correspondingly hot.
An official report from Salonika statos THE FIFTH GERMAN WAR tendencies.
LOAN. that fighting continues from the Cerra bend to fake Prespa.-
The Serbians have occupied Dobron. pulle Peak, and the French bave cap
tured Kikovo in the Baba nipistains.
SOFIA BOMBED BY FRENCH AIRMEN
French airmen have arrived here from. Monastir and the Salonika front after successfully bonbing Sofin
They encountered and shook off n Gor man aeroplane which endeavoured to bar their approach to Sofia, 1,500 ENEMY DEAD NEAR BRITISH LINES: SALONIKA, October 8th.
A British official report says:On the
A correspondent writes that the Ger mans in the neighbourhood of Le Sars by an intense bombardment, were launch-Doiran front there has been the usual and Eaucourt l'Abbaye are demoraliseded against our new position in Vanoiartillery bombardment. beyond record. British assailants had Cismun Valley. All were driven off, the surprising alterations to their fortune enemy suffering heavily as our reconnoi owing to the collapse of the Germans. terers ascertained.
A
THROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.] GERMAN SUBMARINE
One battalion had only five casualties NA VAL ACTIVITIES. while crossing a quarter of a mile of open country to occupy strong trenches. German division, which was most de- moralised and which had just come from Armentieres, where the dugouts are deep and where life is easy, found on the Soume a desperate change.
Prisoners say that owing to the British cassonado the Germans had no time or inclination to extricate their comrades who had been buried when a shell hid
burst; even men with their heads out were loft to dio where they were.
ACTIVITY.
TWO BRITISH STEAMERS ATTACKED.
On the Struina front chemy working parties have been aumewhat active.
Close to our lines over 1500 enemy dead were counted.
MORE BRITISH CAPTURES.
LONDON, October 8th. The British official Balonika communi que-states:---Our advance on the Struma continues with little opposition.
We occupied three more villages fur-
BULGARIANS TRAPPED.
ther north BOSTON, October 8th.. The British steamer West Point wire- lesses that she was attacked by a sub- macing in 40.25 N. and 69 W
A private message says the West Point was torpedced and is sinking. The crew have taken to the boats. The position
BERLIN, October 8th.
It is officially stated that the result of the fifth War Loans is 10,680 million marks. The total of the foreign sub- scriptions has not yet been received..
GERMANY'S RESERVES.
SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD BOYS,
AMSTERDAM, October 8th, Germany is calling up for military service youths of seventeen years of age.
MR. BEDMOND'S SPEECH.
PRESS OPINIONS.
LONDON, October 7th. The newspapers comment on Mr. Redmond's speech at Waterford accord ing to their political views, Some are disappointed and disgusted, others are | donouncing conscription in Ireland as an insane proposal, declaring that the Irish Unjonists are not in sympathy with such A proposal.
It is worthy of note that the Times, which describes Mr. Redmond's speech as a conciliatory one, says: - We have no wish to press compulsion unduly on Ireland at present, but we are entitled to nsk Mr. Redmond for proof of the ruth of his confidence in the success of the voluntary system. A limit should be set and a time allowed for voluntary
OBITUARY.
DR. JAMES - BURGESS;
LONDON, October oth..
THE PRESS AND THE DEFENCE
Transylvania formed part of the Roman province of Dacia. It has three The death is announced of Dr. James" privileged nations" the Hungarians, The the Szeklers, and the "Saxons. Burgess
Hungarians are the descendants of the [The late Dr. Burgess, CIE., was Hon. Magyar conquerors. The Szeklers are LED. of Edinburgh Tiniversity. Born at closely akin to them. The Saxons *** Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire, in 1982, he engaged are the descendants, of Gorman emigrants in early life in educational work in Coletts who came from Flanders and the Lower and Bombay, and latterly was appointed thine in the twelfth century to re-people Director General of the Archeological the Hungarian plains, desolated by con Surveys in India.j
stant invasions of migrating peoples. Those three races are altogether outnum Į bered by the Rumanes, who are spread all over the country and have long been OF THE REALM ACT.
excluded from power and political equality. In 1849 Transylvania was WARNING TO IRISH EDITORS.
taken from Hungary and made an Aus trian Crown-land, and in 1880 it became In the House of Commons recently, Mr. for a short time an autonomons province T. P. O'Connor asked whether a warning with its own Diet. In 1803 the Dist met had been issued to editors of Irish news and decreed complete separation from papers on the subect of Press criticism of Hungary, union with Austria, and re- the Government, and whether the Chief cognition of the Rumanes as the fourth Secretary was acquainted with the terms nation." The Magyars refused to re- of the warning before it was issued. cognize this Diet and packed another. Mr. Duke (Secretary for Ireland) said which met at Kolzavar in 1865 and a notice was recently issued warning declared in favour of union with Hun-
.. The editors in Ireland against making publi-
"compromise!' of 1867 The Cary. tions likely to cause disaffection.
wrested the grant of this from Austria, Press Censorship was at present the deand a year later Transylvania was deprive partment of the military administration.ed of the last remounts of its autonomy He was aware the warning would prob and was embodied in the Kingdom of Hungary. Since then it has been completely Mr. Lynch We want to know who is Hungarian, and its political control by bly be issued, but not of its terms. governing Ireland, and whether we can the Magyars has been steadily completed rely on the assurances of the Prime and strengthened, in spite of all protests
Saxons
and Rumanes, Minister that General Maxwell has no both from power to interfere in the civil side of Ilungarian is the official language, and the government of Ireland. (Cheers.) a-Hungarian university was set up at
Mr. Duke replied that he was informed; Kolozsvar in 1872-Times. when in Dublin last week, in view of certain incidents, it would probably be Recessary that a warning should be issued. The warning was directed at publication of matter which offended against the terms of the Defence of the Realm regulations (Cries of "Oh !'” and "Good old days.")
Mr. Scanlan. Can the right hon. gentleman point to a single provision in
TYPEWRITER AND PIANO. MACHINE TO RECORD ALL MUSIC
PLAYED..
LONDON, October 8th. Reuter's Correspondent with the British
Mr. Hernian Darewski will shortly in- Macedonian Headquarters reports Our
the Defence of the Realm regulations. Lroduce to England the most wonderful guns are terribly punishing the Bulgars recruiting.
which prevents newspaper editora critiinvention in the world of musical in the Strumu operations. Our losses are
The Times understands that the Govericizing either the Government or any mechanics since the coming of the auto- quite small in comparison. Our Yeo-
matic piano-player. Mr. Duke-There are provisions which manry in oxo region found the groundment has taken no decision in regard to Department of the Government! littered
thenemy corpses. They recruiting in Ireland, but that the lixe prohibit the publication of malter tende ordinary musical notation whatever the
cutive favours ́ an immediate recruiting ing to excite disaffection in the country,
I am perfectly sure. | counted over 300 at one spot. Our success
abrilliant achievement. In an at campaign.
INTERNAL tempted Bulgar attack on us under ideal Twenty of the crew were taken aboard conditions the enemy fell into a trap, They had to cross an open plain in full the Nantucket lightship.
NEW YORK, October 9th.
The British stenmor Strathdene, bound from New York to Bordeaux, has bee torpedocd.
The British suffered enough to dewhere the attack was made is directly in moralise any troops. Advancing along a
the line of the trans-Atlanie-traffic- Both slope, they were entirely expodest not only to a storm of shell but to deadly snipers. Tet such was their coolness and confidence in their artillery that their losses wore comparatively light. One large unit that took eleven lines of trenches during the last few weeks and advanced two and a half miles remains a splendid fighting force and ready for anything.
"HOT" IN ENEMY RANKS.
The West Point has been sunk.
BRITISH STEAMER
LATER
is
The piano typewriter reproduces in performer plays. A pianist can make a copy of any plecy of music by merely playing it through. By the insertion of DISSENSIONS IN carbon papers half a dozen copies may be
made in one operation as with an ordi FAM GERMANY.
wary typowiter:
"It is not my own invention," said Mr. In a very chearing article on "The Internal Difficulties of Germany," in the Darewski to a representative of the Daily Mereure de France M. Paul Louis writes Express recently, but I have secured that. Germany is suffering from internal the sole rights for placing it on the mar dissensions in a larger degree than any ket in the British Empire and the United of the Allies. Her people, buoyed up States of America. Throughout the rest a large indenmity, are beginning to aak rights. The inventor, an Italian, retains with the hopes of a speedy victory and of the civilised world I have half the Buch an instrument will be simply ture of men and money after nearly two what has been the result of the expendithe sole rights for his native country
The financial outlook is invaluable to the composer, though it has years of war. The Professor says that the successors very dark, and is causing troblea bo far wider uses than might at first be tween the small States and the Imperial imagined. Think of the innumerable to Princess Juliana, being all German Government, owing to the dislike of the msical ideas that have been lost or spoilt ANOTHER SERBIAN VICTORY. officers, the succession to the Dutch former to any interference with their because the music an has not been able to
Greece,
DUTCH PROFESSOR'S VIEWS ON MONARCHS.
AMSTERDAM, October 8th. An American destroyer fotilla has left view of massed batteries, who fully used Newport to rescue them.
their opportunity. The Infantry also Professor van Hamel, in an article in A later New York message says the
were splendid, especially in the night the Amsterdatmer, examines the relation Strathdene was sunk at six in the morn- LONDON, October 8th.ng. The West l'oint was still afloat early counter-attacks. One regiment at Jeni ships of monarchs and dwells on the
kov tenaciously held. hastily-repaired Renter's Correspondent at the British in the afternoon.
trenches in face of a readly fire. Finally Hohenzollern pressure on Rumania and Headquarters states:-Prisoners say that
by steady accurate rifle fire they beat off during the past month symptoms of "rot" bave developed to a surprising
a strong attack: degres in the enemy ranks. The experi- eces of our troops quite bear this out.
The German infantry, both in defend ing and in attacking, gives unmistake able tokens of military decadence, doubt less owing to a growing sense of the superiority of the Allied troops, suggest ing the possibility of the German Army's refusing to continue to face the music on this front.
TORPE- DOED OFF NEW YORK,
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, Oct, 9th The British steamer Stephano, 3,500 tons, has been torpedoed off New York
Thirty Americans, including four women, were on board.
NEW YORK, October 9th. All those on board the Stephano have been saved,
CAPTURE "IMPREGNABLE”
FORTRESS:
SALONIKA, October 8th. The Berbians, after stubborn fighting, occupied positions north of Pojar, com- pelling the Bulgarians to a precipitate flight, and obtained a footing at Dobro The steamers Kingston (British), jolich, which is a most important nation-
ADDITIONAL SINKINGS.
LONDON, October 8th.
individual scheme of taxation, this prob
Throne no longer corresponds with the lem, however, has been shelved till after reproduce a second time the idea which highest interests of the State.
the war. What cannot be shelved is the came to him as his hands roamed over scarcity of food, which is making itself the keys improvising. The famous lost felt, and which not being confined to chord might never have been lost at all the poorer classes, is causing vast discon if the piano typewriter had been invent
od at the time, st tent
Class
is incensed against class- owing to the "corners" which have been Few people outside the large world to be in made it foodstuffs; workment complain of professional musicians realise the enor
of insufficient wages; great landowners mus amount of copying tha refuse to sell their grain except at exer done, antwithstanding printed musIC..-
copies the bitant prices, and they jom with the want, perhaps, twenty fire manufacturers enriched by the war in score sheets of a new air of my own for
FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA,
MELBOURNE, October 9th. Twenty thousand acres of land Eastern Victoria have been flooded
A fortnight's rainstorm in Bydney has
seven inches of rain in Ulladulla, while the general average rainfall in the River
Deserters have been reported in larg Aloomersdyk (Dutch), and Christianal barrier on the frontier and is strongly just ended. Thors, have been twenty endeavouring to shift the burden of taxa small orchestras. Until now this Ep.
bodies. The men only await the oppor Anadsen (Norwegian) have been sunk. fanity to surrender, and officers have been All those on board the above steamers ortified. It was considered impreg shot for attempting to restrain their except some of the Kingston's crew have uable. A number of prisoners has been
been saved
in this purpose,
taken, as well as much booty,
Ida wheat areas is four inches
The author conclades that to proclaim the twenty five times. tion on to their poorer neighbourers meant having each part copied by banki, solidarity the discipline, and the "The instrument can be fitted to any strength of the moral on in Germany ordinary sized piano. It will cost about is to proclaim a fiction;