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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
FIERCE FIGHTING IN FRANCE,
Struggle Continues with Redoubled Violence.
GERMANS SEEKING TO ARREST FRENCH ADVANCE, London, October 7.
Field Harshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:—à suocesafal operation advanced our line on a four-mile front northward of the Scarpe, captaring Bische St. Vaust and Oppy, over a hundred prisoners and s number of machine gune,
We progressed in patrol fighting northward of Epinoy and -northward of Aubancheul aux Boin.
We dropped over seven tons of bomba behind the enemy'a lines, Gorman aitoraft being insotive, and destroyed one balloon. Five British aeroplanes are missing. Oar night flere dropped sixteen and a half tons, obtaining many direct hits on railwaya,
A Bitter Struggic.
London, October 7 A French communique states:North of 8 Quentin the struggle continued at night-tims with redonbled violence.
The enemy made several attempts to throw as out of captured positions, but his attacke were sil broken except in the region of Thilloy Farm, where he encceeded in regaining a slight advantage. The ight continues along the Saipps froot. The Germans remain very vigilant and are endeavouring with all their strength to arrest car advance on the north bank of the Saippe. The struggle was particularly lively in the region of Bertricourt.
Farther east, we captured St. Masmes.
WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE GERMAN PEACE PROPOSAL.
More Criticism of the Manoeuve,
STRIKING PROOF OF PRINCE MAX'S INSINCERITY,
London, October 75. German diplomsey was never more miatsken. When Germany
Commenting on the enemy Pants Note, the Morning Post says:➡ signifies her readiness to socapt the Allies' terms, then, and not before, will she receive the pesce she deserves.
The Daily Express ob÷errea :—If Germany really wants an give security for the acceptance of President Wilson's terma by s armistice, let her withdraw her armies from occupied territory and surrender of arms and fortresses. Toni was Bulgaria's road to pesca. It is the only road. Germany may not yet be ready to tread it; the will be when Marshal Foch has hammered her armies a few weeks longer.
The Dolly Mail remarks ;—Prinos Mar's offer only heartens us to strike home and compel a real peace. The request for an arraiation when the Germans have loet the game means trickery. There is not a word of repentance for crimes in Prince not pesce but Max's speech, and there is no admission that German Militariem ie defested and bankrupt. We did not allow Balgaria to tell us what to do; we told her what she had to do. We intend to set with Prussia and Austria in precisely the same way, namely unconditions! surrender. The Germana must leave occupied territories, also Alsace Lorraine, unredeemed Italy, Serbia and Bassis; restore stolen | property; pay all damage; and surrender for trial by the Allies the great war criminals, including the Kaiser, Generalā von Klack, von Buelow, Stenger and von Boehn, Major Kanteuffer, Captain voo Foerstner and also the Commanders of prison camps where British- A French wireless massage states:-The enemy bas ratrastaders have been done to death. Lastly, H. Leoin, M. Trosky and other in Champagne. The French line lies along the river Saippe from anarchist criminale maat not be forgotten. Farthermore, in no its junction with the Aisne as far as Bethiniville, where the Arne cironmatances will Germany be giren back har colonies. The meets the Snippe.
Daily Mail elsewhere points out that the Kaiser still inciele on authority when he says to his Army:-"I have resolved to cifer praca,*
On the right, we entered Haavine, north of the Arnes.
French Review of the Situation."
Lyons, Oct. 8,
The line of battle is now 20 kilometres north of Eheim The German losses were considerable north of Saint Quentin... The Army commanded by General Debaney captured Remancourt, The British have captured Beaurevoir, and passed beyond Mont Brebain, and, north-west of Cambrai, tbey took Freanoy.
Official news from Paris says that north-east of St. Quentin 700 prisoners were taken during the past 24 hours.
The Germans, as a resalt of their counter attack, relook St. Etienne, which we immediately recaptured.
Oar line has reached Laieree-St. Etienner-Saippe. We have passed the river near Acmensnoourt-petit, and we have taken Barry-s-Beo,
...
The Arbeiter Zeitung recognises that Germany is no longer eapable of taking the initiative. Her effectives are melting away, and her Divisions have to be transferred from one sector to another,
GERMANY'S BLACKMAIL METHODS,
The Times aaye:-It would be idle to regard the proposal for an armistice sa having any meaning whatever. The Germans are well aware that Niagara could'as easily be switched off as the flow of modern war temporarily suspended. Austria's Note last month recognised this; hence Germany's futile proposal can only be the measure of her military necessity. What ambiguous and disingenuous stuff is the Chancellor's treatment of the vital questions of Belgium, the Baltic Provinces, Lithunis, Poland and Alsace-Larraine! The Times, after ridiculing the Chancellor'e assertion that the now. Government marks s new democratic epoch in Germany, con cludes:The Chancellor's desire for peace is undoubtedly sincere. He discerns the spproach of an overwhelming defeat and appracistes the consequences. What he does not appreciate is the absolute and unalterable determination of the Allies to end the menace to viviliss- tion whose ravages have been stayed at the cost of such an appall- ing sacrifice. The Allied people are determined that the defeat of the war-makers shall be complete and absolute through the uncondi tional surrender of Germany.
American Press Opinion.
از همین
'New Chancellor's Inslucerity Proved.
British Aware of the Danger.
London, October 7. The Prees Barena, commenting on the Germans withholding ratification of the Anglo German War Prisoners Agreement, says:➡ It would be intolerable if Germany were allowed firetly to ill-treat
New York, October 7. British prisoners and then decline to improve their condition comment on the Garmsa pesce proposals, assert that no proposition The morning newspapers throughout the country, in editorial unless Britain put pressure on her Alliea to refrain from doing is acceptable except unconditional surrender. something they are clearly entitled and probably well advised. Evidently if Britain were to yield on such a point it would open the door for unlimited blackmail by Germany and ultimately result in still worse treatment of British prisonere so that Germany might Reuter's ourrespondent at Berne says a letter which Prince Max extort from Britsic still more valuable concessions, Britain is ready wrote on December 14 last year to Prinas Alexander von Hohenlohe and willing to ratify the Hague Agreement. If Germany declines to throws a singular light on the mentality of the Chancellor. The ratify it, the responsibility mast rest on the Germsus, and when the latter, who now poess se the bead of a democratised Germany, then day of reckoning comes their conduct in this respect will not be wrote: The newspapera of the Left are overpowering me with forgotten. Meanwhile, Britain, in default of ratification of the praises, although I have condemned plainly enough the Demcorstic Agreement, will take whatever steps are open to it to promote watchword and all theoretical and political formulas comprised in better treatment of Britons in Germany,
the word Parliamentarisation."
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA,"
British and French Subjects Sale.
London, October 7. Mr. Lockhart, the British representative at Moscow, has arrivod at the Finnish frontier with 31 Bitish and 25 French anbjects.
"FEEDING THE GUNS."
A New War Bond Campaign.
London, October 7.
A new "Feeding the Guns" War Bond campaign was opened. in-Trafalgar Square at noon by the Bishop of Kensington in the presence of en immense crowd.
THE ALBANIAN, FRONT,
Italiana Still Pressing Forward.e
London, October 7,
An Italian official memage gaye :—Io Albanis in the coastal ares we are continuing to much towards the Lower Stambi,
Northward of Berat our advanced guards overcame the resistance of the enemy's rearguards, taking prisoners, and crossed the Devoli, continuing their march on El Bassan.
GERMANY'S "DEMOCRATIC" GOVERNMENT.
Hostility of Independent Socialists.
Amsterdam, Ostaber 7.
A messsge from Berlin says the Independent Socialist Frons is solutely hostile to the Governmen L
THE BALKAN CAMPAIGN.
The Flosing Austrians.
At London, October 7.
French wireless meenage ataten-The Austrians, foein algeria, hará resched Badsposth.
London, October 7,
In order to judge of the sincerity of Prince Max's espousal of the Reichstag peace resolution, it will raffice to give another passaga from the same letter:-"Nataraliv 1 desire a more comprehensivə political exploitation of one military successee. I also am sa opponent of the abominable peace recolation, which is the fruit of fear. I am anxious that we should obtain the moet ample reparations possible, whatever form they take, id order to save an from improverishment after the WET.”
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE GERMANS IN CHINA.
London, Oct. Lo
The Press Bureau states that it appears certain that the real reason for the Germans' withholding ratification of the. Anglo-German war prisoners agreement is the question of the Germans in China. If so the action of Germany is en- tirely indefensible. The treatment of Germans in China is a matter for the Chinese Government and has nothing what- ever to do with an agreement dealing with prisoners in Ger many and the British Empire. Until recently the Germans in China have been treated with very remarkable considera" tion. It is believed that most of them were left at complete liberty. If now China has decided to follow the example of all other belligerents and intern the Germans, who otherwise. will be the centre of German intrigue in China, or worse, that is a matter clearly within the competence of the Chinese Government.
THE BALKAN CAMPAIGN,
London, Oct. 7.
A French eastern communique states: After a vigorous" pursuit of the Austro German forces, which are retreating in disorder Dorthwards, the Franco-Berbians on Oct. 5 tape tured Franjs and took several hundred prisoners with woma gura We continue to adranes in Albania and the Serbians have beczyled, Dibraznos
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE PEACE MANOEUVRE.
Trenchant Press Criticism,
London, Oct. 7. "The Daily Chronicle": The German peace more will be given the closest attention. Nobody wants to prolong the yrar, but no statesman who believes in the Wilsonian policy of trying to eat the war now can be content with anything less than the final elimination of the Potsdam war-maker, Prince Max's speech and Note to President Wilson do not en- tirely harmonise with the Note's general acceptance of Pre- sident. Wilson's declarations. It would be more impressivS if we did not remember the readiness of German statemen to endorse our general propositions and frame a policy in flagrant contravention thereof. Prince Max's own speech justifies caution. His reference to Belgium is inadequate. We insist on Germany confessing the wrong she has done and paying for it. As regards Poland he evidently means Russian Poland. But the Allies demand the reunion of the Polish nation with the cancellation of the partitions crime, Prince Mix, referring to the army, implies that Germany is not beaten. If this is so then the time is not ripe for a world peace. The "Chronicle concludes that Germany has andergone neither change of outlook nor change of heart which alone can assure & permanent world peace.
The "Daily Telegraph" says: It must be obvious to the Chaneclor that negotiating with an enemy established in one's own territory means admission of the enemy's military superiority, therefore we are again compelled to believe that the peace offer is not seriously meant. Otherwise the speech marks a considerable movement towards the stand- points of the Allies on the subject of Belgium, the Baltic provinces and the Brest and Bukharest treaties. But this... gradual method of approaching peace is the method of a people trying to strike a bargain and peace is not going to be a bargain peace. The only question that matters in con-" nection with the new offer the question of the value to be attached to the change of attitude of the new German Government, "Unhappily we have no security whatever that Germany will not in future be ruled by the same elements as made the war. The Kaiser and these influencing him are still the real rulers of Germany, Until the world is freed of Hohenzollernism we can take no promises from Germany. We seek peace in no way except on the battle-field.
The "Daily Graphic" says: The Allies' reply to Germany. must be identical with that given to Bulgaris
The "Daily News" says: Long and pamfal experience has taught us to be distrustful of German diplomatic methods, but this episode strikes a new note of defeat and acceptance of facts. Prince Max tries to prove that the authority of Germany has passed from the military to the civil power, President Wilson and the Allies will want guarantees of the reality of this vast revolution if it has indeed happened. Victory for the lies is in sight.
The "Morning Post" sees no difference between Prince Mar'a proposal and the Austrian request which President Wilson refused and says the Chancellor's attempt to repre- sent the recent superficial Government changes as democratic is too palpable. Therefore the offer does not fulfil the cor "ditions postulated by President Wilson. Its object is to
divide the Allies and the United States.
The Manchester Guardian, after pointing out that the Kaiser is still the supreme power in Germany, where there bas been so real constitutional change, suggests that, a con- dition of the armistice shorld be the withdrawal of the Ger-" man armies to the German frontiers. This would be an acknowledgement of defeat, without which our work will not have been done.
The "Figaro" says: The kind of peace suggested would involve ruin and dishonour. It is no more our peace than it is the peace of President Wilson. The "Petit Parisien" asks what guarantees the German institutions can give and' what confidence can be reposed in the German Government. Nevertheless the Central Powers have proclaimed "before their own peoples and the world their inability to continue the wa
The "Matia says: We cannot ask the heroic Allied soldiers to stop, in the midst of their triumph in order to allow tr Germans with all their war material to peace- fully regain the frontiers and strongly entrench thereupos in order to infuence' peace negotiations.
All the Socialist press is distrustful. "L'Humanite" says: No peace except the peoples' peace. No ingenuities can prevent that.
The "Democratie Nouvelle says: No peace talk with- "out enemy compliance with the safeguards we have already demanded. No precaution is superduous in dealing with the nations for whom treaties are scraps of paper.
An Awkward Coincidence.
Paris, Oct. 7.
The newspapers point out that simultaneous with the peace offer the High Command has ordered its hordes to kindle conflagrations everywhere. Not only Douai but all villages And the smallest farms east of Lens and west of Lille be tween Thomain and Douai are blazing, while all the villages in the valley of the Suippe are lighing up the enemy retreat, The hope is. unanimously expressed that President Wilson will not forget this,
Austria Explains.
Amsterdam, Oct. 7, Vienna has issuedan explanatory semi official message emphasis- ing that the peace offer is the logical outcome of the develop ment of ideas in favour of no annexations and no indemnities, a League of Nations, no economie war after the war and freedom of the seas.
TERMS OF BULGARIAN ARMISTICE
-Amsterdam, Oct 7
A Sofis message says that it is semi-officially stated that the terms of the armistice provide for the demobilisation of the Bulgarian Army, except three divisions of infantry and four regiments of cavalry, the capitalation of Bulgarian units which were west of Uskub when the armistice was signed, and the departure from Bulgaria within four weeks of all Austro-Germans, but Tarks are allowed to remain. 3
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TELEGRAMS,
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THE SILVER MARKET.
London, Oct. 7.
The silver market in g
A RECRUITING STEAMER?
A Rangoon Scheme.
Speaking of the proposed re- oraiting train says the Rangoon Times, a well-known authority on recruiting resident in Rangoon, while fully believing in the sno cess of a recruiting train, express- ed the opinion that a reciting ates mer in the Delta creeks would be even more roccessful. He that there ате many parts of the Delta from which No nita have not yet been obtained, and it is certain that with proper arrangements the advent of a recroiting steamer at at some of the villages along the outlying creeks would ioralaste
desire for betterment on the part of the labouring cr oultivat ing clases who at present work hard for a eum seldom smounting" to more than Ba 50 plus 50 baa- kets of paddy, for the whole of the working sasson. When the men come to know that in pay in the Barma Rifle, for a period of six months, they can earn Ba. 75; receive a beans of Rs. 10 on ezraiment, Rs. 40 on joining their regiment, Rs. 15 when they pass for real test or are sent lo India, and R. 24 at the popola sion of six months? service, or a total of Rs. 174 in six months, and when all this isa boas pro- perly and carefully explained, together with the fact that they are clothed, housed and fød free in addition; and further that after ees vica in the army they will stand better chance of obtain- iog employment under Gar- ernment than those who do not, our informant felt that a consider- able number of young man would be found willing to enlist. Our...” informant also thought that the advantages of joining the servios were not yet as clearly understood by the Burmese people as they might be, sed if only for the reason of advertising these faste, the running of a steamer would bave very far reaching results, possibly a greater effect than the proposed train. Of course there must be the attractions of a band, pes, ele, to draw the people..
Mr. J. A. Polson offered to | place a steamer at the disposal of the War Loan Committee some time sgo, bat the soceptanos of the offer was deferred pending the result of the War Loan Special Train. The proposal might now be revived and the stesmer made to serve the two proposes of adding to the War Loan receipts, and increasing recruiting:
Typhoon Causes Damage in Japan.
Communication between Oaska and Tokyo, which was interrupted |owing to slyphoon, has been partially restored. Rice prices soared owing to a repot that crops had been damaged. The extent of the damage caused by the typhoon is not yet known owing to the interruption of com- munications. It is certain that many rivers will be flooded and one town eitusted between Kyoto and Omka inundated: 2,500 acres, of riosfields are flɔoded..
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