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"THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1915

BY TELEGRAPH.

THE PROGRESS OF

WAR.

THE

THE BALKANS' SITUATION.

THE CHINA MAIL.

BY TELEGRAPH.

RUSSIAN SUCCESSES,

LONDON, Oof 6.

Last nights Petrograd communique stator that the Russians have ocoupied Cerman trenches north of Birshallen in the Riga district and; captured unher of trenches in the Lake region cast of Vilna; also south of Pripet, after strenuous fighting.

HARD FIGHTING IN THE CAUCASUS.

LONDON, Det.

A Petrograd muniqué states that there as been haid fighting in the Van region in the Caucasus buro tho Turkish attempts to advance in the direction of the frontier.wers easily repulsed, while the Russians after an engagement south-west of the city of Van pursued the Turks" along the southern skoro of the lake by msimtain reads lined by preci

ROUMANIA TAKING EXTRA-pics of high

ORDINARY MILITARY

MEASURES.

GREEK KING ACCEPTS THE CABINETS RESIGNATION.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

THE BALKANS.

CRISIS IN GREECE.

Cabinet Reigns Owing To King's Disapproval.

LONDON, Oct. 6.

M. Venizelos to-day had an anciones of the King, whe informed bin the he could not follow the entire policy of the Cabinet.

Consequently M. Venizelos tendured his resignation.

LATER.

M. Venizelos, in the Chamber of Deputies, announced the reason of the dissension of the King, whereupon the Cabinet resigned,

THE RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.

FRENCH STEAMER SUNK.

· Loxdan, Ock' 0, An Austrian submarine sank the French steamer “Provincia ** oft the Greek coast. The crew were allowed to steane în boufy.a

GERMANY DISAVOWS 'BINKING THE ** ARABIC,*.

LONDON, Det. G.

BY TELEGRAPH CURADERMA-

(Router'& Service to the China Math)

- PORTUGUESE" POLITICS.

LONDON, Oct. 6,

A telegram from-Lisbon states that the people are celebrating the annivers ary of the Republic. Seabar Machado took the oath as President, and the Cabinet remains office.

IMPORTANT INDIAN APPOINT-

·MENT.

Lasnos, Cat. đi Communting on the appointment of Mr. Louis Kershaw, G.LE., Secto- tary to Government, Financial and Municipal Departments, Bihar and | Grissa, as Secretary of the Revenue Department in the Indian Office, the Times remarks that the appointment Hallows the commendabla precedent: fot, 1901, when Sir T. W. Holderness was similarly taunsferred. The ap Gerpointment of Afr. Kershaw ensures

3 telugrain from Washington status tlust Count Benstaff, the man Amhasador, called at the State Department yesterday, and after, wards Mr. Lansing (Secretary of State), announced that Gorning had disavowed the sinking of the White Star liner "Arabia.and was pre pared to pay as indemnity for the American lives loss..

Com Bernstorff's letter to Mt. Lansing stated that the Koiser's orders to subuuzine commanders, were so stringent that a recurrence of incidents like the sulding of the "Arábie was considered one of the question. The attack on the "Arabic ** was contrary to instructions wind the Imperial (loverment regrats and disnrows it, and authorises the Ambassador to negotiate regarding the amount of the internity.

LORD DERBY AND RECRUITING

- Loybox, Ock 6.,

. Lard Derby, speaking at Rossendale, said he asked the Government tan days ago is they ful decided upon the number of men to be put" in the field. and, if it was impossible to get them voluntarily, if they were prepared to employ other means Lord Kitchener auswered asking him to become Director of recruiting, He felt like a receiver winding up a bankrupt concern. If he failed he would resign unless other methods, were employed.

HARROYTANS AND THE WAR.

Lostos, Oct. 6.

Banter's correspondent telegrapha that King Constantine has accepted the art the Harrow School Officers' Training Corpe, Field Marshal Sir John In reply to a congratulatory message from the residents of Elarros resignation of the Cabinet.

French telegraphed: "No words of nine can sufficiently express my adinitation of the goot work done by Old Harrovians,"

THE ENTENTE MINISTERS AT SOFIA:

LONDON, Oct. ǎ.

The Eritish Minister at Sofia has made a similar notification to that of hia French colleague,regarding the Russian ultimatuni,

GERMANS GUNS TO REPLY.'

LONDON, Oct. 8. According to a Berlin telegram received here, the Lokalansieger sige the reply to Russia's ultimatum must be given by German and Austrian guns on the Dacube,

ROUMANIA TAKING EXTRAORDINARY MILITARY MEASURES.

LONDON, OCL 6. An Athens telegram ays that news from Bucharest shows that Roumania is taking extraordinary military measure, Troops have gone to the Bulgarian frontier and Giurgeva is being feverishly fortified. Oteers of Balgarian origin have been transferred to the interior while young reserve officers are being called to the colours, while other reserves, izatend of bring dinaded,

are retained in barracks.

ANOTHER PEER KILLED IN ACTION.

Losos. Oct. 64

Lord Crichton Stinet, M.P., has been killed in action.

Lori Ninian Crichton Stuart had been Member of Parliament in the Con servative Party's interest since 1910. He was born in 1887, and was the son of the third Marquis of Bote In 1000 he married the Hon. Imay Preston, dangh ter ad the ith Viscount Gortaustois-Ed.)

MR. KIPLING'S SON,

Lespos Oct, 0. Joly Kipling, son of Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the well-known author, unorfieinly reported as missing, and is believed to have been killed.

BRITISH CASUALTIES.

LONDON, Oct. 5.

HAMLET AT THE FRONT.

Impromptu Acting by a Khaki Company.

It is difficult to realise that before lewing France I sar Hamlet performed by sokliers of the Briti b Expeditionary Force within few hou s'distance of the firing line, says correspondent in The Times, An officer of bigh standing who saw the play bit of the situation: Our men de active by bully beef aleue; they need some ford for the mind, and there is nothing better for them than the great thoughts of our grens writers." The play was peformed in costaine, with scenary painted in camp, and with not a ward. misplaced or forgotten in the readering.

behind the scanes was distinctly of the emergency type. A caroless gunder smud- red out of existance a whole tower of Elsinore with his shirt sleeve. Men noous tomed for many months to oboy suddenly found themselves in command One was told to stitch up a hala in silk hoss with darning needle; Another wanted a bolt

Give him a patree Bly face is too white for the footlights Rare, stick on some rei distemper" and I believe the red distemper is still stuck on,”

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AN ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE The company got itself together in aa hour; it learab its parts from two books in the spare time allowed in three days; it. painted and erected ita scenery in loss than

a continuity of the representation of | expert Indian knowledge in the Por ninent. Staff at the Indian Office,

THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE OF BENGAL

LONDON. Oct. 8..

Sir Lancelot Sunderson maile his! Larowell, at Wigan. Sessions prior to: proceeding to the Chief Justiceship at Bongal The Bar presented their congratulations.

(Wah Tas Yat Po's Service)

- THE ALLEGED RAILWAY

SCANDALS.

Pxxx, Oct. 6. The Administrative Court yesterday publicly tried the Tientsin Pukow rail- way case and Fernanded it for a fort night. The Peking Hinkow railway case will be publicly tried on the 11th inat

MANDATES.

Mandates confer upon Lak Jing Chering the Third Order of ferit and upon Tee Yu Lam the fourth Order of erit: Tong Fa Loong is permitted to csiga; and Cheung Yat Lan has been appointed Minister of Education,

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AN OLD BRASS, GUN.

There Wasn't A Nigger Loft."

cofont-sergeant, who has #egyed in

1 hours and acted, in a way that balled India frutier fighting, tell a story of Four scenes were chosen the Obost the keerest critics, to an Relienca Those scene; the room is the cutie where vociferous approval would make any actor-at wid bass gu

Shakespearian.cr variety, green with cary. We englared the base guns at Muzi Bulet decides of revenge: the cab Enniet will long, be rearmbereit, a 6

The cast way

Kha, on the Northen routier, where solticquy and the graveyard. ahosen on the spet, neighbouring towns and in. femtio and imping with a convales the blackies had been giving trouble be libraries were scoured for copies of the cent antle could not, through play, as there was no time to send to Eng disparity, keep himself, within his hatom casting lelegrapf, communications. It Lack turned our way, copies were, the Ghot wore a Sisa suit of old Frosch was guts funny to see them cut a secured, and in a town close by as proceedings were brought ta oleme by other across

shrouded in white muslin. The length of wire and try to speak to each Branch of a Paris, theatrical costumierenry V, clothed in all his shining Somcano suggested a plan to dispose Hotatio looked more like Henry Vill, on

Accoutrements before Hardeur. Blabing

the Field of Cloth of Gold than the friend his great sword ha cried out the famous of the canon to the, best advantage, as

of Hinlet : while Hemlet's cosieme re- minded ove me a of Madame Tussad's than of Sir J. Forhes Robertson; but on active service one canna be particular.

SCETLAY AT BORT NOTICE."

speech before the Table:-

Once more unto the breach, dear friends,

once re

Or close the wall up with your Bogliab and zo on, right through breathlessly to

The game foot, follow your spirit And upon this charge,

Cry God for Warry, England, and St.

we, were tired of carrying it along. W plugged it with a good charge of powder, then jaraned, in meks and stones, and we it for activa.

s

It was very to make it look pigs if we left the gun behind by areident, and we ruited on neighboring bill to see the from. The niggers pounced on the

The Colonel Commanding the Base was informed of what was in progress. on the Saturday evening; he suggested sconery. Imagina the barst al joy when we discovered a sergeant major who had

and painting it our way, pulled the Loen stage carpenter. We wont to

The effect, was electrical. Had the buglelanyard. The cannon larss, "and thera gether to the YMCA.. where the play was to be performed; there we found sounded the charge every min world have wasn't a nigger left. two A.5.0. men working at the stage, rushed out of that building, on the instant, All the Intent warrior spirit of and actually preparing footlights. The be thrilling moment in the preparations. Our met met to leip to a Bame. A WE came when two pris.tes of the London went out into the still night our hearta Scottish offered to paint this scenery if we courags high, and in the quiet stars above were, siringar, our minds brighter, our could fic paint and brushes. The desty of bringing together all the landed, the cortain promise of sterious.

and listing peace. equipment left its until Monday morning If there bolore we began, and I still wonder if is anything in military or civil lífs to ↑ apt ach the eum confidence of there men

The latest list of Casualties includes: Killed at the Dardanelles: Captain H. T. Cawlay (Manchester Regiment), -Dind of wounde: W. F. Proctor (Bential Horse).

Wodded: Liontennate A. M. Eynaud (Malta Militia), H. F. Southonwho were to play Himot, that night, and (Manchester Regiment), Second Lieutenant R. N. Galloway (East Lancashires) Reported wounded and missing: Captains E. H. Burnaby and I. C. Wi- Jonghby (ucester Regiment).

ON THE WESTERN FRONT.

·GERMANS USING SUFFOCATING SHELLS.

LONDON, Oct. 6. A Paris communique reports an artillery duck east of Arras and bomb fighting at Libona and Andechy,

The chemy in Champagne continued the bombardment of the ground behind our new front with suffocating shells, our artillery replying most vigorously,

Them has been an almost continuous artillery action in

BRITISH WARSHIPS BOMBARDTM BELGIAN COAST.

LONDON, OP, 0.

at 10 am, of the same day word isced with for boxes of dry paint, som beastiem. and several square yards of canvasstiched on tent poles; but thy did it, and just Lefore the play begin the last scene, was carefully alung: up, still wet

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