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GERMANS PREP · RING DEFENCE OF THE HINDENBURG LINE.
FEVERISH STRENGTHENING OF THE LAON DEFENCES.
CARDINAL · BOURNE ON THE DANGERS OF PACIFICISM.
Franco--Fielgian Front
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ITHAOCON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BRITISH FRONT.
RAIDERS REPULSED.
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VIOLENT FIGHTING.
PARIS. September 9th. A communiqué states:-To-day we made further progress north of the Somnw, and carried Vaux, Fluquieres, Happencourt: and Hamel.
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South of the Somme the enemy resist. LONDON, September 9th..
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anes was most stubborn and violent fight- Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig ning raged north and east of St. Simon. ports: We successfully repulsed raiders north of Arleux-en-Gobelle.
"There was reciprocal artillery activity. chiefly in the neighbourhoods of the Arras
· Cambrai road, La Bassee Canal and Ypres
Sertory,
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BRITISH GAIN GROUND:
LONDON, September 8th.
10.30 p.m.
The Germans attacked and partly ra- took Avesnes, after which, as the result
General.
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MUTINY AMONG 'GERALAN SCBMARINE CREWS.
STOCKHOLM. September 10th. The Handelstidning sharply replies to the protest of the German. "legation against the "reports of the mutiny among German submarine crews. The paper derlines to submit to German dictn- tion and "points out that there has already been one mutiny in the German Fleet.
AMERICA'S FIGHTING STRENGTH IN THE WEST
AMSTERDAM, September 9th.
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
IF LENIN, DIES 2.
STOCKHOLM. September 8th. The newspaper Svetska Dagblad reports from Helsingfors that 36 British sub- jects holding official positions have bea arrested and threatened that they will be put to death if Lenin dies.
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LENIN'S ASSAILANT EXECUTED.
AMSTERDAM, September oth. The Lakelanzeiger states that Dora Kaplan, Lenin's assailant has been
executed.
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ENEMY SCATTERED IN SIBERIA:
THE CZECHS' FEAT.
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.}
VLADIVOSTOCK, September 4th. The unexpected news of the exploit of the West Siberian Czecho-Slovak Army in suddenly bursting through the forers that hemmed it in, emerging. were. from
as it darkness into light,, has crestedën sepsa- tion here which becomes greater the more the significance of the event is realized.
All classes of Russians are proud of this kindred "race that has so conspicuously displayed such qualities of daring and undaunted spirit in circumstances of un- paralleled difficulty. The surprise and relief experienced here at the sudden Mappearance of the Czecho-Slovaks from what had already become a land of myth and mystery was unbounded..
The Siberian front has disappeared
According to German telegrams, Tehitcherin, in an impudent reply to the |British Nate, sidtes that the Soviet Glow- The Foreverts points out that out of erament is prepared tu exchange 3 strong American divisions only nine diplomats if the Yeutral Governments avernight or, in the words of sa American have been employed in the big fighting, guarantee that Great Britain will grant military authority. It has moved to and ten have not yet been engaged at alt. Moreover, only the larger half of the British divisions have been thrown into the Sght.
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ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST MARNE BATTLE.
PARIS, Septembed 10th, The anniversary of the first battle of the Marne was celebrated impressively on the battlefeld itself. The Allies, includi
of a desperate encounter, we regained ing representatives from the Dominions, the whole of the place, capturing 100 participated. prisoners.
We captured Artemps, north-east of St. Simon, and gained ground on both sides of the Oise, east of Fargniers, on the outskirts of La Fers, and west of Servais,
ENEMY FEVERISHLY REINFORC
SING LAON DEFENCES,
PARIS, September" 9th,
Field Marshal · Sir Douglas Haig res parts:On the southern portion of the! hattle front we have now entered the area. "Uh almost the whole of the battlefront of our defensive systems constructed prior the enemy artillery is thundering as it to the German March offensive.
has not done for a long time, indicating that the Germans are preparing to stand.
General Mangin's advance to the ap- proaches of Servais threatens to cat the St. Gobain La Fere road.
The enemy is offering increased resist ance among these prepared defences, and -sharp ñghting, occurred to-day at a num-
ber of points.
NEW DUTCH CABINET,
· THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, September "Toth. The silver market is steady:
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M. Litvinoff safe conduct to Russia. Con- sul Lockhart and other British subjects how imprisoned will then be permitted to
leave.
HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATOR
DIED AT HIS POST.
Mr. Godfrey Issacs, at a meeting of the Marconi International Marine Com munication Company at Cannon-street Hotel, said the directors had been glad
rendered by these young men, popularly known by the name of "Sparks." ..
miles westward."
OUR PACIFISTS-
MR. TILLETT'S PLAIN WORDS.
Mr. Ben Tillets has addressed a letter to Mr. Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labour, in the course of which he says: German propaganda Press représentation is as rife in this" country as I daresay it is in your own, In this country what is really the most insidious form of German propaganda is actively expressed by a conglomeration of political frenks and faddists who appear to he possessedl of immense funds anti incans of doing their reprehensible work.
They are able to buy halls for £15.000, whereas before the war they could not raise 15 pence. This has actu. ally taken place in one of the northern woollen districts in England.
A very small but disfignantly active number, ". mostly of the middle-class, parasitic tre of political and social adventurer, are engaged in what is really the most sinis ter aut treacherous work. What marks Communication has them as sneaks is that they will not been completely established with Irkutsk. admit their pro-Germanis, and they do The enemy has senttered. seemingly this on their history as Pacifists, which overnwed by the presence of the Allied is as repugnant as it is despicable. They troops. Some ate going to Kinchth, while have never done other than excuse Ger- others are supposed to be fleeing north-an atrocities, they never uttered a pro..
test against the sinking of the Lusitan 'a, ward the Amur, railway and it would the sinking of the hospital ships, the not be surprising to find that they have Belgian Prince, the U-boat Horrors, the dissolved into non-combatant groups in massacre of the Armenians and Polish tent only on weking an amnesty at the on the Russian front. They did not even Jews, and the outrages of the Germans hands of the Allies
help to circulate the remonstrances of the small but plucky coterie of Germans who have denounced the Kaiser and Germany as forcing a war of annexation and im- perialistic ambitions.
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the enemy forces in the Priamur, where A similar dissipation is anticipated of the Allies are slowly making progress and their scouts are inding no evidence of serious efforts to oppose their advance.
The employes of the Chinese-Eastern Railway have chosen this inopportune moment to declare a general strike. which with the exception of military necessities, at present is only affecting freight traffic, It is stated that the Japanese Have ud- vanced tire Chinese Fastern railway Furthermore, General Otani trol of the lines, including the railway in is reported to have assumed military con Transbaikalin, but the Japanese Senff deny that they are assuming administra tite functions and only acknowledge that they have taken over the traffic arrange
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Our relationships with the German are so estranged at the present moment industrial organisations and Socialists'
that one cannot expect very much from the clap-trap and make-believe efforts of refusal for thirty years of the German an International Conference
The Socialists and workmen to discuss war prevention and the reason thereof, or to the same, is only too obvious at the pre- take universal economic action against
Some of us are of the sent moment. well play a large part in the settling of opinion that whilst the military might" the war and determination of treaties, frontiers, anil geographical areas, the great military potentialities now at the cou¬ whelming force in the calculating German mand of the Allies will weigh with over- mind.
Belgium, representing her as a pawn in Hertling's heartless words on the game, have done muck to open the yes of our people here, and the German workmen perhaps realise that they too ara the cannon-fodder man imperialism and blood last. They
pawns of Ger-.
are now attempting to foist a bogus In-
The enemy is feverishly reinforcing the THE INCALCULABLE Died at his post, in the hope of geted both from a military and political ternational upon us. I sincerely believe.
ACCIDENTS OF WAR
friendly bands from Vladivostock to The Siberian railway is apparently in
to recommend improved terms of employ- Perm, while the Czechs already hold ment of wireless operators, for their con- Samara and Kazan and are pushing for duct as a body had been magnificent durward towards Vologda in the expectation ing these very perilous times. No praise of effecting a junction with the Allied of the wireless "operators could be too troops from Archangel. high. One day their brave deeds would LosDox, September 10th. be recorded, and it would then be general. The Times correspondent at the Haguely recognised, what great services had been states that in the new Cabinet : Ruys de Beerenbrouck will be Premier and Minister of the Interior Doctor van ship was some 140 miles from the coast
During the latter part of last year Aarnebeck will be Foreign Minister, and which launched a torpedo at her. For- when she was attacked by a submarine, M. Idenburg will be Minister for the tunately the torpedo passed under the
ship without doing any damage.. Colonies.
Very soon afterwards the summarine appeared on the surface at distance of about four miles, and commenced to shell the ship This continued for about an hour, during which period the operator remained in bia cabin, and got late communication with and station, trom which he was ments for the movement of material heces promised the inruediate assistance of a Bry for campaign.
Now it is recognized that the turning destroyer. During the whole hour the ship was being shelled the operator re-arrived and a new era has been inaugurat- point of affairs in the Far East has
ting into touch with a ship which would point of view.
the peace muddlers will be frustrated. be able to give earlier help. The captain sent a message by the first mate to the will now pala inte insignificanes as with
The Japanese expedition to Habarovsk We shall have to take the International out of the hands of the political and operator to the effect that having obtained Chita and Karimskaya occupied, Bla- middle-class adventurer and parasitic communication with the coast and the govestchensk, and Habarovsk are cut off politicians and substitute bond-fide work- promise of assistance, it was advisable from all points from which men and men's organisations in all representation AMSTERDAM, September 9th.
that be should leave his post, which was supplies can be furnished and Bolshevism of peoples of the countries interested. in a most exposed position, and take will die a natural death. Co-operation We are now demanding that just as our Another instance of the Authorities shelter. The operator replied that be was with the Allies will follow instead of own people have laid their cards on the endeavours to stay the present moral cruiser, which he believed was nearer, than ing in, which shows that the Cossacks of man Congress and German trade union- into touch with an American light opposition. Already information is com- table. the German Socialists, by Ger-. panic in Germany is the lecture in Berlin the British destroyer, and was therefore the Ussurisk, Amur and Transbaikal reis, shall ngres, as we have agreed, to likely to give earlier assistance, meantime gions are mobilizing to co-operate with the LONDON, September sth.
by General Freytag Loringhoven, deputy he could not leave his cabin. As soon as Allies. Thus the realization of a reform. terms of discussion that shall be authori chief of the General Staff, who admitted he was able to get his message throughed Russian front is brought nearer. To-day's news leave, no doubt that the
tative. The crowd who are try to the ship and obtain a satisfactory reply that
we expected too much from un-be would take shelt r.
During recent days Vladivostock has ing to engineer a false peace are those German Command has finally decided to turn upon their pursuera, or, at least, settle Headquarters, telegraphing yesterday, beginning of the Spring offensive
Reuter's Correspondent at French restricted submarinism, and, again, at the abandoned solid shell for shrapnel, and and the surrounding districts, who have men, women, and children, unds of the Within a few moments the submarine the number of refugees from the interior the murder and outrage of millions of been extraordinarily congested owing to responsible absolutely by their acts for
down on what remains of the. Hindenburg
fired a shot which passed directly through states:-The hardest fighting by the
Bought the protection afforded by the they have strengthened the hands of the He enjoined the people to bear the cabin, decapitating the wireless opera Allied cruisers, while many other people German, but they have not wenkened Line and challenge the Allies to eject
tor. When the captain and officers went French troope during the past week has against the incalculable accidents of war, later to the wireless cabin they found his have been bottled up here owing to the the hands of the Allies." them. The Armies are now taking up
sudden breakdown of communications. been by General Mangin's Army among and said the fact that the enemy was headless body sitting in the chair with With the opening of the interior a great their positions for a pitched battle on anthe bills and woods before the Hinden- unable to dispose of Germany and had cruiser in front of him. Only the timely ditions.
the completed message from the American exodus will occur, restoring normal con- unprecedented scale.
burg Line.
to get more Allies was in itself the the ship from being sunk
arrival of the American vessel prevented An important result will be that the
This story complicated and intricate political situa The Germans unquestionably have greatest tribute imaginable, to Germany. outstanding feature of it was this: Hadtion developing in the Far East owing to ADVICE OF GERMANS WHO HAVE
they would agree, was sad one, but the decided upon and are prepared to make a stand in the region of Quincy-Baase and of the opinion that the tactics which were Pont Saint Mard, where they have, the Ruccessful then are not likely to succeed | advantage of position, now," in view of the vastly increased
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We gained ground in the direction of Vermand, Herbescourt, "and Epehy, and repulsed local attacks south-west Ploegiteert and east of Wulverghem.
The British forces have captured 15,000 prisoners since the beginning of Septem- ber.
GERMANS MAY CHALLENGE THE
ALLIES.
The German strategy seems identical with that followed after the retreat or the Marne in 1914, but French experts are
lied resdures and the fact that Marshal Foch still retains the initiative and has already breached the line twice.
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GERMAN COUNTER-BATTERY WORK PUERILE.
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lefences before Loon, and preparing for prolonged, halt in the vast subterranean carities of the Monampteuil plateau,
The whole country north of the Ailette and the environs of the railway from
Scissons to Laon and north of Cracane are gorging with guns and bowitzers.
MEMORABLE FRENCH CROSSING
OF THE AILETTE
LONDON, September 9th.
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The French, after a memorable struggle crossed the Casal Ailette at Coucy-le- Ville. The canal is 18 yards wide and seven feet deep, and the Boche, with scores of machine-guns, fined the east bank to the water-edge.
after which the
GERMANY'S ENDEAVOUR TO STAY MORAL, PANIC.
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up
getting
the irreconciliable struggle between the the operator left his cubin as he was authorised by the captain to do, the ship political parties, which has been accen- would probably have been suak, and it haement, with the opening of the interior tuated by the local environment and con-.
DO NOT APPLY FOR
REPATRIATION."
RETURNED TO THE FATHERLAND.
Germans who have been interned in
is much more serious situations, he said was more than likely, that many, if not and contact with the more chastened poli-England and German prisoners of war
After declaring that Germany had been
all on board, would have been lost, but tical forces there, will readjust itself more that the positions the Germans occupied by remaining at his post be obtained the favourably for the Allies' and the real who have recently been sent back to prior to Marshal Foch's counter-offensive assistance of the nearer ship, and to use interests of Russia
Germany from England are not happy" were the result of an abortive German His plucky action in sticking to his pint sudden withdrawal of General Horvath they write prove their surprise and dis the words of the captain and the officers: An immediate effect of the news was the when they reach the Fatherland, Letters offensive, and were therefore unsuitable was undoubtedly the means of saving the from Vladivostock. Other interesting may when they discover the true state of
ship; its officers and crew numbering in developments are expected. for defence, the aim of which is the offer all forty-five souls. This was an ex- ample of the conduct of wireless opera tive economising of forces, as the positionstars, on board ships of the mercantile. were not properly consolidated. General marine. It was a very sad case, and he was glad to say that many who had acted Freytag concluded with the customary equally bravely had been more fortunate, afthough the list of those who had lost their lives in the last year was again a
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considerable one.
PRINCESS MARY AS A NURSE WASHING THE BABIES IN HOSPITAL.
AMERICAN ARMY CHAPLAIN
CONVICTED OF DISLOYALTY.
And
things in Germany. One letter from a prisoner sent back to Germany, reads:
About 10 o'clock in the morning we left for the good old Fatherland.. The hrst step we made. Was it Goch, in The French Engineers actually
Cermany, where we were kept six days bridged the canal under showers!
for examination. From there I was sent of grenades and murderous point-blank appeal to the people to stand fast and
Franz J. Feinler, former chaplain 'in
to Dortmund, where I was forced by trust the army. machine gunning,
the United States army and attache to military authority to work in a muni- the American Embassy in Tokyo until tions factory. I stuck at it for three Engineers were first to go across to get CARDINAL BOURNE'S WARN-
last year, will spend 15 years in the federal days. 1 tried my best, but I was not into grips with the machine-gunners.
prison on McNeil Island, Washington, strong enough. The third day I told ING AGAINST PACIFICISM.
for his disloyalty to the United States, them I was too weak to do such bard Across the water lay woods in which
LONDON, September 9th.
the sentence of the military court having work and left the place. been approved by President Wilson. the Germans had installed machine-guns
"In the Bezirks command I got the Cardinal Bourne, dedicating a War
Feinler, who was with the American order to do only Government work, other- Reuter's Correspondent at American behind every tree. The oldest veterans Shrine in Kensington, uttered an empha-
expeditionary force in France, was con-wise I should be taken for the army- Headquarters, telegraphing yesterday, are emphatic that the fighting here, and tic warning against pacificism."Be not pital for Sick Children, Great Ormond-me and of making, born in Germany theated into Holland. It was a Princess Mary is displaying keen invicted of having attempted to bring and I thought to get my liberty in the terest in her nursing work at the Hus about insubordination among enlisted fatherland. I am really worse off than at states:-Repeatedly during the past week, the volume of fire, surpassed everything misled by some pernicious things.occa-street. She attends regularly two mornin
of making disloyal utterances English camp. On the night of the -even when the German infantry were very in the whole campaign,
ings, a week, and goes through the or in March: 28th, 1871, and entered the army sionally said and written about peace dinary duties under the guidance of the as a chaplain in February 1909. While foggy night and a long and dangerous hotly pressed, the German "artillery did
The enemy machine gunners literally Do not be carried away by formule such matron and sisters. It is intended that serving in France Feinler, because of march. Well, dear friend, I think you fought to the death, and for five days this as no indemnities and no annexations," in the same way that Princess Arthur dered to the United States by General them. If they had enaght me, I should she shall qualify as a fully-trained nurse disloyal utterances and actions, was or would have done the same. So much for
continued unremittingly.
because justice may demand indemnities of Connaught, is doing which her irisband where sufficient evidence for his convie- I am out of it and I'give you one word.
at St. Mary's Ho Pershing, He was sent to Hawaii, have had a bad time, I believe. But now pital, Paddington, of For example, the German counter-båt- A single Gascon division, advanc. and annexations. Pence without justice is the president.
tion was presented.
of advice. Whatever you do, don't apply. tery work on the occasion of the sanguin- ing" foot by foot. no more than would be a peace which would not last
In 1014 Feinler, who had the rank of for repatriation." captain in the United States army, was Another prisoner who was sent to Ger defeat of three German divisions at 100 yards daily, engaged five, German and would not be worth having.”
placed on the unassigned list and sent to many writes: "I have been here about rely-au-Mont was puerile, One is divisions, and on the sixth day, with the
Japan on detached duty. He left Tokyo ten days. But what a disillusion! It is last year and was assigned to active duty no more as it used to be All is strange," in France int
and one rashes about like a lost sheep. David A. Henkes, a captain in the United States army, who was sent back Our business here is absolutely dead." to Amerios from France with Feinler has prisoner in England from Germany:
The following is a "message sent to been sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment You are in heaven as compared with un at the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth Don't come to the Fatherland, if you can for disloyalty.
help. We are all famished.","
not provide anything like that assistance which might have been expected.
forced to conclude that this was perhaps help of artillery,, the French won through partly owing to the loss of millions of to the Hindenburg positions, freeing! rounds in the retreat. The enemy in Coney-le-Chateau, which looks to-day like certain sectors in short of ammunition. a stone quarry.
GENERAL, E W. COX
DROWNED. .'.
LONDON, September 9th. i General E. W. Cox has been drowned He commanded a battery in France.
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Her work up to the present has con- sisted of washing and dressing the young er babies and assisting in the care of the older children.
Princess Mary is already the com- mandant of the Buckingham Palace group of the Voluntary Aid Detachment, and holds the highest certificate of pro- work. ficiency in home nursing and frat aid Princess Beatrice is also taking a very deep. interest in practical nursing.