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Barometer 29 76.
September 19, 1916, Humidity
Temperature 6 a.m. 79 2 Puth
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TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 19. 1916.
7461 日二十月八
TELEGRAMS.
CONDENSED.
THE ENEMY IS FURRYING UP REINFORCEMENTS ON THE ITALIAN FRONT. BY BOMBARDMENTS THE ENEMY SEEKS TO CHECK THE ITALIAN ADVANCE. THE ITALIANS HAVE BEPULSED ENEMYMOVEMENTS WITH HEAVY LOSSES. NAVAL AIRCRAFT DROPPED BOMBSON AERODROME ATŠT. DENIS WESTBEN. ABRITISH AEKOPLÄNE LANDED IN HOLLAND & THE PILOT WAS INTERNED, FRENCH HAVE SUCCEEDED IN FELLING TWO MORE GERMAN AEROPLANES. FRENCH AIR SQUADRONS BOMBED RAILWAY STATIONS, CAUSING DAMAGE. A MOBILE COLUM ATTACKED THE TURKS 65 MILES FROM THE SDEZ CANAL,
[Al telegrams appearing fa large type are the fatest, having been received during the course of the day. Those in. small type have come through over-night.]
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
Enemy Seeks to Check Advance.
[Renter's Service to The "Telegraph.")
September 18, 12.10 p.m.
A Rome semi-cfficial message a6y4:-Tae enemy is hurrying. up reinforcements and trying by bombardment of unprecedented violence to check our advance in the Carao region. He alo attempted diversions sast of Civaron and the S igaas Valley, which were repulsed with heavy losses.
THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE.
More Aerial Activity.
September 18, 4.35 p.m. A Paris communique says:-Two German seroplanes were brought down. Our air eqas frous bombed the railway stations at Nantillois, Villiers Carbonel and Horchy, causing serious damage.
NAVAL AEROPLANES' SUCCESSFUL RAID,
September 18, 1.20 p.m.
An official sanouncement states that a squadron of naval' aeroplanes dropped a large number of bombs on an enemy aerodrome at St. Denis Westrem on September 17 with sucosssful reculta.
One of our machines was forced to land in Holland and the pilct has been interned.
BARON SCHENK.
Athens.
TELEGRAMS.
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ENEMY ATTACKED NEAR SUEZ CANAL.
- [Routarʼa Servios to the “Te'ograph.”]
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September 18, 120 p.m. General Marray reports that a mobile column of Aɑsao mouni- od men, Camel Corps and artillery left Bir el Abd on the 8th fast. to reconnoitre west of El Ariah,
The column attacked the enemy at Bir el Mɛxer, sixty-five miles from the Canal, on the 17th ins',, peostrated the trenches at several points, and inflicted considerable casualties; while the artillery heavily shelled the enemy camps,
The Turks were apparently suprised, for our aircraft fired at parties of them, including German fire, which were riding rapidly towards El Arish,
We took prisoners, and our casualties were slight.
لاد
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE.
French Capture Villages..
September 18, 1.30 a.m.
A Paris communique states: The French in an attack south of the Somme captured the villages of Vermand Ovillers and Berny and also the strongly fortified intervening ground, after a desperate struggle. So far seren hundred prisoners have been counted.
Macked French Successes.
September 18, 1.30a.m. The text of the last Paris, communique is as follows:- North of the Somme our artillery bombarded enemy works.
South of the Somme we attacked several points and at 2.30 in the afternoon gained important successes.
The villages of Vermand Ovillers and Berry, hitherto partly occupied by us, were conquered by a brilliant struit. Some houses are still resisting.
All the ground between VermandOvillers and Deniecourt, and between Deniecourt and Berny defended by several systems of strongly fortified trenches, fell into our hands after a desperate
lruggle.
Fighting continues around Deniecourt.
We captured a number of trenches between Bérny and Berlear
All enemy counter-attacks at the close of the evening were shattered by gunfire with heavy loss.
Up to the present 700 unwounded prisoners have been counted.
the
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TELEGRAMS.
THE BALKAN SITUATION."
Conflicting Stories.
[Renter's Servios to The "Telegraph.”] .
September 18, 6.20 a.m.
The situation at Dobrudja is confusing. The only de- faite information as to the alleged enemy victory comsa from Bulgarian` sources, claiming the capture of £2,000 Russo-Rumanians; but the dates are conflicting and the total obviously includes the garrison at Turtukai,
The truch appears to be that the Russo-Bumauians were forced back.
It is noteworthy that the German communique does not give details of the victory, but merely says that the pursuit continues. Indeed, a Rotterdam telegram describes Berlin as plunged in depression as the result of the official failure to confirm the Kaiser's boast of victory. It says that there is growing bitterness against the Kaiser, who is believed, deliberately to have misled his subjects, with a view to diverting attention from the Somme, where the Germans had been taught to believe that the positions, captured by the British, were impregnable.
The Fighting at Dobrudje..
September 18, 6,20 a m. Reuter's correspondent at Odessa states that a Ser- bian division in the early fighting at Dobrudja repulsed eighteen attacks by Germans and Bulgarians. They routed with the bayonet German cavalry who tried to take the Serbians in the rear, after three hours close quarters, fight- ing. The enemy lost approximately 5,000.
KAISER ON TWO YEARS} OF WAR.
Hard Times for Germany Still Ahead.
"
Germany is Invincible."
To the Imperis! Chancellor the Kaiser eent the following message:-
$36 PER ANNUM,
"CHOLERA PLAY"
AT "OSAKA.
New Method of Popular Education.
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What is called a "sanitary comedy," which is now being given at the Yayoisa, Omaka, in said to be denwing full houses every day. The play is intended as a sort of popular lecture to teach people the importance of hygiene and sanitation at a time when the city is sufering from the invasion of an epidemic of cholers. The idea of the play in stated to have been conceived by In- |spec'or Tomioko, of the Hinami police-station, and his iden has been properly dramatised. Tha police officer naturally feelspread of the success of a play conec ived by himself and a number of policemen in plain clothes are detailed outside the theatre avery night to follow some of the audience as they leave in order to eas the effects of the play on them.
From the reports of the polios it appears that very few of thoan who have seen the “mnitary- play" visit on their way home | ice-cream shops or fruit halls for [the consumption of water-melons, ice "cream" or shaved ice, or waters mixed with saopinions in- gredients. · This abstinence is taken as an indication of the beneficial efect of the play, and the policeman-playwright is n turally jubilant about the succeNE of his overture.
There is no doubt as to the For the second time the samediam of education among the effect of a popular play as a Amsterdam, Aug. 1.-accord-oiversary of the day arrives when lower-class people, on whom long ing to a Berlin telegram, the par enemies forced me to call discourses on hygiene, however Kaiser has issued the following Germany's sons to. proclamation to the German forces'; protect the honour, and
arms to erudite and scholarly, will make on land and en£;****
the bat little impression. The cxistence of the Empire. The popolarisation of hygienio ideas Comrades, the escond year of German nation has bern through by means of a play seems an ex- the world war has elapsed. Like two years of unprecedented heroic cellent plan, and Inspector Tomi- the first year, it was for Germany's deeds and sufferings, The Army aka'e cforts for the well-being of a year of glory. On all and Navy, in anion with car loyal his fellow-countrymen ought to fronts you have inflicted new and and breve Allies, have gained the be brought to the notion of heavy blows on the enemy. Whe-bighest glory in attack and de-Marquis Ökums when the Premier ther the enemy retreated, borne fence. Many thousands of our is making up the next batch of down by the force of your brethren have sealed their loyalty recipients of decorations-Japan attacks, or whether, reinforced to the Fatherland with their blood. Chronicle...
arma
by foreign assistance, nollect in the West and the Esat our
ed and pressed into service from beroic men in field resist in
The
all parts of the world, he tried to ansbeken fortitade the terrible Canton's Steel and Iron Importă. rob you of the traits of former odslanght of the enemy, Oar victories, you have always proved young fleet on the glorious day of There was a considerable fall- nese. The papers declined to at once. Schenk waited until we evident. Last summer the Central where England's tyranny was blow on the British armada imported into Canton in 1916 yourselves superior to him. Even the Skager Rak inflicted a heavying off in iron and mild steel bars print his communique, so he put provided the weapons and then, Theatre produced an. Eatente uncontested, namely, on the free Deeds of antiring escrifice and when compared to 1914. it to them that thie was Dot profiting by our disregard of his Venezalist revue; this season is waves of the sex, you have vie loyal comradeship at the front total for 1915 was 43,028 picula neutrality, and cffered his wares activities, our ill-conceived_Dar stages the same framework filled The Notorious German Agent in as interesting copy which pos-danelles expedition, our offer of 10 with Germanophile tableaux toricusly fought against gigantic glow brightly before my eyes. and 14,221 picala in 1914, show-
sessed the additional advantage Greek territory to Bulgaria, the and patter. A year ago the Bul superiority.
At home also we see the heroism ing a decrease of 28,807 pioule. of being paid for at advertising dispute between
Your Kaiser's appreciation and of men and women, of old and There was a very slight decrease rates on publication. And the and Veneselos and the axial cave set the Greek nation sisme; admiration are assured to you for bearing mourning and anxiety, of steel angles when compared to the Crown garisa occuption of Kapel would your grateful country's proud young, sil quietly and bravely in the import of iron and mild ommuniquee, being long, were ing, if still limited, antipathy but yesterday it wasreceived with these deade, for your unshaken all who organise and help to previous year. In 1914 the total
to the Cretan statesman, profitable...
be nothing more than a dull exhibi- loyalty, your bold daring, and lessen the sufferings caused by was 4.320 picule and 4,128 picuis rashed in with his money-bagetion of painful discontent. and completed the conquest. 01
your tenacious bravery. Like the the war, of all who labour day and in 1915, a decrease of 203 piouls. It is beside the point to suggest the memory of our dead heroes, night unasssingly to supply our Galvanised iron sheets, cor- the fourteen journale, len are that cannot stoop to similar your famesleo will endure through fighting brothers in the trenches rugated and plais, imported into Little by little he worked his to-day advocating the policy of methods. We are fighting all time. The laurels which our and at es with the necessary Canton in 1915 show, when com gening of the German propagan way in, and then developed plan the great German propagandist. determined and unscrapulous, ever-confident forces have won armaments. The enemy's hopes pared to 1914, a decrease of 1,679 dist movement in King Constan- number two. Articles extolling One newspaper, indeed, is erect foe, and just as we had to against the enemy, in spite of trials to outstrip our production of war picais. The totals were 2,711 tine's capital.
the achievements of the German ing a new five-story edifice, which} tullow the German Baron von Schenk arrived in Army, written by a so-called is facetiously referred to as "La the use of poison gas (a much linked with devoted and antiring able as their plan to secure by in 1915.
lead and dangers, are inseparably material will prove as unattain pioula in 1914 and 1,182 picals Athens in the summer of 1914 military expert, were sent around maison de Schenk (cino) etages."nore repulsive weapon) so we labour at home. This strength at starvation what their sword could ostensibly charged with the task with a note attached: "Please
Schenk's activities are not con- seed not heietate to copy the home has sent ever fresh inspira- not attain. God's blessing on
Athens, July 25-When the story of Greece's part in the Great War comes to be written, a special chapter will need to be devoted to the doings of the notorious Baron von Schenk, the presiding
:
A Policy of Corruption.
to
of selling Kropp guns to an army insert this article and send the fixed to the newspapers. Lie Fans featon in the handling of public tion to the armies in the field.It has Germany's fields has rewarded already equipped with Creusol account for same. The amount an efficient spy, system, in which opinion. But half-bearted me continually quickened our swords, the farmers more bountifully than anch an end that our Empire will We shall bring this struggle to artillery. On the outbreak of war will not be questioned. Baron women of ill repute figure pro- diocrity will stail nothing. We kindled Germany's enthusiasm, we hail dared to hope. Boath be protected against fature attack he had to seek other employment, von Schenk." Plan number thres minently, cultivated everything have need in Athens of a Baron and terrified the enemy. My and North in friendly rivalry and that a free field will be and, cariovely enough, he blos consisted in the seeking out of and everybody of even probie Schenk; s cleaner Schenk, if you gratitude and that of the Father-strive to find the best means for snored for the peaceful derslop somed forth as the correspondent journalists (of whatever political matics! valus his case, like, bat nevertheless one capable and are due to the nation at the even distribution of foodstuffe ment. of German genius and of the Wolf Telegrabio Agency.colour) who frequented resorts fiascially assista theatrical of pitting his tact, initiative, and home. He was admittedly the most sffla- fo denbtful reputation, and the revuse replete with offensive organising ability against this ent journalist in Athens, and again, persistent faistering upon them references to the Entente, and clever byproduct of Prussian by happy coincidence, he found of "presents" with which to pays a claque. to applaud the militarism.Crawlard Price in
most ospable assistant drink the health of German arme, gibes,
the Pall Mall Gasets,
An Allled Counter Agent.
Smaller Newspapers for Philadelphia.
and other necessaries. To all labour." We shall live free, secure,
But the strength and will of the those fighting either on the battle and strong among the nations of enemy are not yet broken. We field or at home my heartiest the world. This right nobody must contione the severe struggle
aball or will anatoh from 128.
thanks.
DON'T FORGET.
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in a certain Dr. Caro, an indiv Bohenk was clever enough to
in order to secure the safety of Still hard times are ahead, ask you to make this manifesto idual whp ceaselessly devoted walk warily and to smile over
the beloved homeland and pre. After the terrible storm of two public. himself to the direction of the rebuff and discouragement, of
serve the honour of the Father- years' war the desire for sunshine Germen Arel a logical School which, in the early days, there
laad and the greatness of the and pesos is stirring in all hamIM ZA until create called. bim so dis was a good and sufficient supply. Those who doubt the value of
Empire. Whether the enemy hearia. But war continuen be- charge his debt to the Fatherland. His intermittent bombardment, propaganda xeed only study what
wages war by foron of arms or by cause the baille ory of the enemy The Schenk-Caro outfit had to however, disclosed the weaknesses the Germans have scoumplished
cold, calculating malice, we shall | Governments is stiff the destruc- face a problem of no men the enemy lines, and one day in Giresos by that agency. A dioakty. Of the fourteen At be attacked in mass formation positive "ank" of Teuton prowessings of the newspaper publishers year of the war.
As a result of a scrise of meet continue sa before into the third tion of Germany. The blame for farther bloodshed falls only on henisu newspapers then in ex-and gooured the first of the hostile a dread of war, a blind confidence of Philadelphis, called early laat
The spirit of daty to the our enemies. The firm con- istence, twelve were Venezelist positions, in the shape of one of in the mounichy, a hatred of month to consider the serions Fatherland and unbending will fidence has never left me that and Eatsntist, and the other swole smaller fry of Athenian news- Venesslos, sevols against the situation agnfronting them saneed to victory permeate our homes Germany is invincible, in spits-9.16 merely anti-Venenelist Prodiests which had ever led a per- Entente Powers, a desire to live by what are practically famine and our fighting foros to-day as of the superior numbere Germenism went around with iterious existence.
and suffer and be left alone all conditions in the nowe print
in the first days of the war. With of our enemies, and every day tail between its lege, and,
us encouraged, be gobbled them have been dinned into paper market, all daily, evening God's gracious help. I am con- confirms this now: Germany > continus the rimile, Bebek had an the lesser lights one by one, Helenio exre day after day by 75 and Sanday newspapers will vinced that your fature deeds will knows that she is fighting for her neta dog's chance of success until are remained but the gress per cent of the Prees, until immediately reduce the size of equal those of the past and the existence. She knows her strength Bat, undismayed by the difficulties basso public opinion. A there has been wrought their issues to 156-extent of a present.
and she relies on God's help, of the task, the Tonton set to low cape, general would have gigantic, if saperficial, trans-total in excess of eighty pages Mein Handguarters, 81/7/16. Therefors nothing can shake har work with characteristiethorough-I tried to dri, home the advantage formation. The results are self- wesklý,
Wilhelm.
determination or har!
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