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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1916.

THE

LATEST

WAR.

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Masl.)

THE BRITISH FRONT.

TRENCHES RETAIEN.

LONDON, Aug. 15.

Genami Sir Douglas Haig in J Communique says:

RUSSIAN PROGRESS.

IN THE CARPATHIANS..

FETROGRAD, Aug. 13, In the wooded Carpathians the Russians occupied Jablonitza and

Nearly, the whole of the remainder the towns southward, taking 1,090-

thetranches north-west of prisoners.

Posieres, in which the easy gained |

a footing on the 18th inst. have been

retaken and an entry fored into the THE KING AT THE FRONT:

enemy's trenches at Mouquet Farm

THE FRENCH FRONT.

BRILLIANT ORENADE ATTACKB.

PARIS, Aug 15.

IN THE DANGER" ZONE.

Loynor, Aug. 15. R.M. The King motored to the danger-zone, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Staff, and watched shells bursting on both sides

"A comnéanique "states: Our artillery has been very active His Majesty quitted it at a point in the Somme region,

post the old British line and walked We carried by brilliant grenade over to the centre of the area of the attacks portions of German reaches conflict at the beginning of July, and on a fènt of 300 and a depth of 100 then crossed the old No-man's metres north of Chapelle Ste Fine. land pitted with shell-holes and

An enemy counter-attack was strewn with the debris of the war His Majesty remarked: It's won mashed up by our curtain fire. "

There has been a violent bombard (derful how human beings could have ment in the Fleury-aux-Chapitre lived through it.'" sector,

BRITISH QUIPUT OF MUNITIONS.

STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER OF MUNITIONS,

THE CHINA MAIL.

BIKK STAFT REESASED IN PERSIE:

London, Aug. 15.

The Staff of the Shima branch of the Imperial Bank of Penlo has best released and has arrived at Bushire

THE TRANSPORT DIFFICULTY IN

MESOPOTAMIA.

"BRITISH DESTROYER

British destroyer

It is officially Man for mined and sunk on the 13th inst.

the Dutch cest

Two officers and four men kre missing. 1. One offear and a man, warn slightly

rounded.

HOLLAN

AND: COMPULSORT SERVICE

LONDON, Aug: 13- In the House of Commons Mr. Chamberlain, in reply to Sir Edward

THE HAGUE, Aug. 1 Carson, said the difficulty of trans

A. Bill has been introduced in Parlia, pors in Mesopotamia Ead not been ment to enable the introduction of gen eral compulsory service for Europesas wholly overcome and could not and Natives in the Dutch East Indies. be overcome for some time He believed matters Ead been much improved and he thought everything possible was now being done regard lag medical arrangements.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE.

GERMAN AVIATORS BOMB RHEINS.

BAD WEATHER ON FRENCH FRONT.

PARM, Aug. 15. A commaqué states:-Bad weather has hampered our operations on most of the front.

There was a-sharp artillery del south of the Somme and east of the

Medce.

Elsewhere there was intermittent cannonading.

German aeroplanes yesterday evening dropped inceliary and other bombs on

Rheims

German batteries meanwhile shelled different quarters of the town.

THE FIGHT FOR

CON

CREGGEE.

Writing to the “ Daily Chronicl

the Philip Cibor, states "Prior Capture of Contalmaisot the enomy's shellfire was more interrine and wide- spread than it had been during the past few days. They were bombarding our positions from

From La Boiselle to Montauban Bervaly, searching apoor, broken wood of La Boisselle with shrspoel.: High explosives were falling into Montauban village, raising volumes of rose-coloured aloads, posibly from the dams of the red tricks of the rained houses. At half-past threo in the afternoon, the enemy heavily barraged in a straight line below Cantal. Iniaison, and formed a wall of black moks, with only a few gape. At A o'clock our guna" concentrated on the SALONIKA, Aug. 10, The Allie hare slowly Bat inexorably Contalmaison ack drop" oopsea poor, closed up on the Bulgarian line along little straggling wood to the right of the whole front from Lake Frispato to Mametz, and the German trenches Demir Himare The enemy is being defending Contaimaison ridge. Smoka unintermittently wonied by heavy belehed over the battlefield, and, the bombardment of the principal lige song of the shells was land and high. Between thebelligerenta,south-westward

Under those shells, through the smoke, of Doiran, thare, are two minor hills, on

our, nien" moved forward to the assault.

ALLIES PROGRESSING ON

*** BULGARIAN TRONT.

which the Allies are gradually creeping

AMERICAN. CABLES!

[FROM THE MANILA CAULKNEWS."

THE NATY BILL

WASHINGTON. August 8. The House and Sensts conferees on the Naval measures have been unable to agree thus far. It is understood at the differences are over the construction programme and personnel.

The Senate members seek adherence so the, programme adopted in the Senata.

and captured the village. ***--

The enemy Contalmaison new posi- tion was hopeless. When our gune lifter and they beard the cheers of our infantry, on both sides” of the village, many of those still alive and unwounded stresined Fout of the village in a disorderly retreat; only to be caught by our extended barrages between Contalmaison, Pozieres and Basentile Petit, so that

THE BOUT BECAME, A. SHLERLEM,," Our men entered the village, and thoroughly searched the machine-gun emplacements and the dag-outs, to prevent farther trouble from this wasps Best. The enemy within Contalmaison were in a dreadful state. They had suffered to the very brink of human endurance, and even beyond it. They were surprised to find themselves auf- fciently alive to be taken prisonera. One stated that their rations were SOON exhausted, and it was impossible to get fresh supplies, owing to our conseless

suffered great

AGONIES FROM THURST, and their dead

and wounded increased steadily. There was one dark hole in the ground, which held to men, lying heaped together This explained

** was the only dug out, my com-

A civilian hospital, which adjoins the church Sainte Remy, was destroyed. A ARMY FINANCE BILL AGREED ON. guzare dispensary was also destroyed. Sir] civilians were killed.

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and FRENCH CAPTURE THIRD LINE POSITIONS IN 80 MINUTES.

PARIS. Aug. 15 A communiquf states:-The French captured their objectives in the German third line positions in eights minutes. Their losses were wonderfully small, considering that four lines of trenches had to be crossed). There was desperate close fighting.

The King scrambled up the parapete, refusing help, and- visited, the graves of the fallen British His Majesty walked отер maoy yards of what once were German trenches. the He was greatly plause with result of our gunnery

His Majesty entered 40tt dugouts «. Losbox, Aug. 15.

And

remarked that the Germans Speaking in the Home of Com-evidently thought they were going to mone the Hon. E. Montague, Minis- make a long stay but. they were not tor of Munitions, said eer output of firing so well row. shells had increased so much that comparisons with 1914 were useless Besides a large amount of munitions and gras

we were supplying our Allies with metals for munitions to the value of £6,000,000 a month. and sending to France one-third of] our production of steel for sheila, The French experts praised our new beavy artillery.

The King next witnessed the strafing at Pozieres. In the very midst of tha action, to the accompaniment of shreiking shells, bis Majesty reluctantly withdrew after overstopping his allotted time.

HIS MAJESTY'S MESSAGE

His Majesty a message paid a tribute to all branches of combatant and non-combatant service, men and Speaking of the increases of luni women, and rejoiced that their noble tions fro Montague stated that we efforts are heartily seconded by all are now manufacturing monthly parties at home. His Majesty added: twice as many heary guns as we The heavy sacrifices made by possessed at the outbreak of the the Armies has not been made in war. The weakly output of machine vain. The sins of the Allies will guns has increased sixteen tines never be laid down until their cause. since the foundation of the Muai-has triumphed. tions Department, while the weekly output of high explosites was sixty times and of field howitzers eight times groater than, at the beginning of 1915.

W

ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.

Rove, Aug. 15.

The Anglo-Italian agreement has

Mr. Montagu added that our been signed

equipment of 18-pounders was pract tically complete. We should shortly

have satisfied our own requirements

in machine-guns and should be able

THE KUT PRISONER'S.

LONDON, Aug. 15. Lord Robert Cecil stated in the House

to devote attention entirely to the of Commons that he had no further requirements of the Allies. The information regarding the treatment of weekly output of munitions covered the prisoners taken by the Tarks at the expenditure of munitions, so if Kut. The United States, Minister the workers and employers continued would be sending money and comforta to play their parts as nobly sa hereto to them as soon as their arrival at intern fore there, would be no fear of the ment camps was known. The main offensive breaking down owing to cause of uneasiness was the refusal of shortage of ammunition

THE BRITISH AIR SERVICE.

NO PROOF OF CHARGES OF -NEGLIGENCE.

LONDON, Aug. 15.

The Commission which has held

Turkey to allow the United States officials to visit the prisoners, but private menges recently received were rest

THE RUSSIAN FRONT..

RUSSIAN ADVANCE CHECKED AT SOME POINTI.

PETROGRAD, Aug. 14

past few days reached an agreement prisco It was necessary for us to i

.out.

WADHINGTON, August 8. The members of the Senate and House Committees who have beer conferring on the Army Appropriation Bill for the

yesterday afternoon according to an pany announcemen; made this morning. The theter in turns, while the English ahalla were banting everywhere. Two or sum agreed upon has not yet been given three men would be dragged out to miske room for two or three others, Then those who went outside would be ofther killed or wounded. Some had their heads blowit off and some lost both legs and arms. But we went on taking turns, although those who went out knew. It was their tum to die. At last most of those who came into the tole were wounded, some badly. So we lay in our blood and the doctors band- aged us until the supply of bandages

For the first few days of the conference there was an absolute deadlock, the House conterces refusing to add to the total of 3267,570,003 appropriated in the House, while the Senate members held out for the expenditure of $313,070,000 provided by the Upper House measure

Concessions were made by both sides towards the end in order to permit the messure to be reported to Gangress

A Russian official communiqué stater; In the upper Sereth region the enemy FUNDS FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS retired westward to a fortised position, tehind which he is checking our advance. at some point

We continue to pursue the enemy in

EPIDEMIC.

WASHINGTON, August 9.

RAILROAD MEN PAYOUR STRIKE.

became exhausted. Last night we know that the end was coming, because our guns began to fire altogether. Shelli burst and smashed up the earth about us. We stayed in the hole, awaiting the end. Then we heard your soldiers boating. Two boys, laden with bomba, came into the hole sad seemned to wonder whether they would kill na But all the wounded cried, "Kameraded and surrendered.

.. "Other prisoners state that the

EFFECT OF OUR FIRE WAS TERRIFIC, (!

at least half of those holding the village being either killed or wounded: Wher our soldiers entered, they walked over corpses, while those who had escaped death lay on the ground, face to earth, utterly exhausted, or perhaps to blot out fram vision the things they had seen. A

the region of the middle Stryps and the President Wilson yesterday #igned river Koropiec, and we have reached the bill providing the sum of F170,000 to be northern bank of the Dnsister before used in the campaign against the infan Mariampol

tile paralysis epidemic in New York city, The enemy attacks in the wooded Carpathians were everywhere requlsed RUSSIANS STORMING POSITIONS.

PETROGRAD, Aug. 15. communiqué, states that the Russians contiune to advance in the Sereth and Zlots Lips regions, fording their tributaries, sometimes breast-high, by all of the important lines in the brace the sad storming positions on opposite. United States have voted to strike despite the efforts made to prevent a walk out at this time. The men are seek ing shorter hours and increased wages

banka

The village of Tastobabe, north-west of the Dueister, was stormed after a fierce fight, the Russians having to carry endless lines of trencher exposed to the fiercest machine-gun fire. »

BELGIAN CYCLIST SECTION CAPTURE TOWN.

The Belgian cyclists and motor-guns | have distinguished themselves by capturing the town of Zboroff on the Strypa

WARFARE ON THE AUSTRO ITALIAN PRONT.

OBSERVATIONS BY LORD:

NORTHCLIFFEND

WASHINGTON, Auguaf 9.

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BRITISH CREDIT THE BEST.

GREAT BANKER'S PRIDE IN OUR WAR FINANCE.

letter found,

und, written by a German isol dier the day before our great attack, TRADE PRINCIVED BY-NAVE'S UNGRAL-

keep up such a thatit is

LENGED SWAY..

Over 400,000 railroad workers employed min. The Enebla It must bo

SIE “DOUGLAS HAIG'S OBJECT.

woven days since he bombardment began. We cannot hold out much longer, as everything is shot to pieces. Our thirst is tenible. We hunt for water and drink out of the shell holes Our thirst makes us almost mad,

SUFFRAGETTE LIBRE.

A notable tribute to the British ar finance Revelstoke, the emin interview granted to the

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(Flower Starts

"OUR TRADE BALANCES CAN Although the orders placed in America hare had the effect of treating a trede balance adverse 50 de allied countries the fall in the american exchange ha been arrested by the "mobilisation

and the restrictions on certain

If the necessity for, more energetid measures for the protection of our trade ability of balance arises as time goes on, there i

by Lord little doubt thatcavaibstantial and aker, in an hitherto untouched reserve could be made available by a stricter regulation nited Press

of our imports and a greater economy ha their distribution

London has been

able to meet all die herself, has been able bo Bor- and a director of the Bank of England, row abroad, when necessary, on reason

of Americ

Head of the firm of Baring Brother,

I be is well qualified to give an authorita-able terms, and in other cases to meet in

tive opinion, save the interviewer, on gold all obligations abroad, to those who

GERMAN EXPERT'S OPINION OF £750 DAMAGES FOR HOLLOWAYur war will of nearly” £5,000,000 a day?" refer that form of payment. S

BRITISH THOOPS.:

“An account of the progress of the British Offensive, written in the midklle FolJuly, says sam

gunners

GAOL DOCTORS,

in

Whatever may have been the case. BEITIAN MONEY FÖS. in Berlin, be said, "English Lan

Part of the British sharo leset, had no foreknowledge of the the Allen Over £400 calamity that was to strike Europe in advanced to the Allies and An echo of the suffragette agitation August 1914 But after nearly two is not likely to

during the last financial was heard in the King Bench Inst

in a manner for kill is provided for is the Be of a war waged years Bir Douglas Haig's object is to keep month when three medical officers at the Genmans on the move, knowing that Holloway Gaol were awarded: £750 more exhausting. than any nation had - tiona Madre their successive positions will afford

anticipated, one can say that the edifice asked how Lotidea viewa them less and less, protection Ae the damages in respect of a libel appearing of credit in London stands firm and that financial power of the c arancs, connues ill no longer be in the Suffragette on June 12, 1911 the delicate barling machinery wetits Lord Ravaateka sudan kere stiri, that zes feasible for the Germana to carry on a There had been a hunger strike by smoothly. For this the world has chiefly THE MAILS FOR MESOPOTAMIA”

with detachments of imprisoned safirgettes, and in an article to thank the courageous policy adopted and England been more cord machi Kraggle/

while the infantry ate Dr. Frank Moxon used Dr. FE by the Cabinet and the Treasury during which he could personally coul LONDON, Aug. 15. massed at convenient stations for coun- Forward, Dr. F.J. W. Sa and Dr. W. D. the first months of war the intercourse he had dar LONDON, Aug 15. Lord Northcliffe, in a despatch date ter-strokes. Subterranean machine-gau In the House of Commons Mr. Cham 13th inst, from the Isonzo front, emplacements will soon be rare Trend Higson, the medical officers, of making London's credit is not like Berlins, he last six months with leading

Manjuna pada predaocale can be dig quickly, but underground the task of forcible feeding easy by went on, it is being testet every day by respect are steriler both nations an inquiry into the alleged short berlin announced that he had received The Austrian trenthil in the Corsa abelters take weeks and months to link means of drugs by which their lifes the standards of other tries over in aring their mong po

sen, and if it were formd wanting, the comings of the Air Service has found a report from the Raj stating that he region were blasted, and drilled in the up into a systematic defence, and reason were imperilled Inere was world would quickly know it Lemon development of these wer that there is no proof a substantia hoped by Angust lat to forward the rock with machinery similar to that TEX SPLENDID SUPPLIES OF AMMUNITION word of truth in the story sad is the centre of the sensitive network of flon of charges of negligence.

whole English mail to Mesopotamis by used in constructing-the Simplon available have put heart into the British counsel nerves which constitute they foreign and your of the

*Banks; and, merebants way of Baer on the day of its arrival hal. Hordes of Croats and other infantry. There is no chance are Dr. Moxon, who is now working in exchanges

races worked day and night with petition Loos and Neuve Chapelle France, had fully apologised, and a over the world have credite

London hag attained meumatic drills and dynamite making the War Office announces complete withdrawal had been made by an which they may dis

July 2šty owing to the success | the following defendants-The Womed's

cwing largely to the dugouts

of the Bribal bombardment, the proper From Lot Mrs. Fankhurst, Mr Tuke trade to and from Mr. Lloyd George announced in insecure packing must account for imagined when is known that the serious wounds

The ferocity of the lighting may be tion of slight wounds as compared with Nors Decre Fox, Beatrise Banders, and England.

Tery high, provĚ -the House of Commons that the good many miscarriages. He proposed capture of the Calvaria position, outside that the enemy

Artillery in being

the Scottish Newspapers Publishing Waz tends to cripple exp Tribunal under the Army Act to communicate further with the Rajon Goriais, alons cost Italy fifteef months. The troops are at last conrinced that defendants that judgmense given

vessfully

Company Limited. it was against these it turns produ Amendment Bill would be compose the subje

A MILITARY TRIBUNAL.

LONDON, Aug. 15.

of Field-Marshal Sir Ar: Nicholson, Lont Cheylesmore, Mr. Justice Atkins and Mr. Mackan M.F.

AHIPS SURK

BY INTERNAL EXPLOSION,

LONDINE Aug, 15.2

They had not traced suy cases of pilfer: Ing. Inadequate or Igst addressee,

Mr. Chamberlain also stated that he

Was Communicating with the Bay with? "view to the amplification, aid acco tion of rangements regarding

staston --

of bloodshed, they have the mastery of the

the divery of meeting bodies muimified by the scorching hest testides

to the character of the clim

As an example of the ene

of the Italians, Italian wou

Veffects of soldiers dying in Mesopotakniswers found mutalsted

| having been amashed with

Augurious fact is tost.

ARE YOU GOING ON A JOURNEE the only language com

NHAMBERLAINE Cole, Cholera and Italishw such, their Deon Bunk Diarrhoes Bemedy should be packed have stone tints been

la your hand luggage when going on.

United States or Cani Sorwegin journey Change bl water dink d

fanperatura all tend te produce bowel

ouble and

cured of bur

•batred -soldiers

More WE Suth and Sons, who had a far as possi been also pzed as distributors of the Journals were dismissed from the notion

Mrs Justice Dackagy obsarved that

wer once

Te American and British idland

of the whole world

Great Britain that,

will look when the

and the hour, fat

To-day