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¬MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1916.-
THE
WAR.
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
THE WESTERN FRONT.
BRITISH PROGRESS.
LONDOS, Aug. 27. Sir Douglas "Eni's latest muniqué states:
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THE RUSSIAN FRONT.
FIERCE FIGHTING AT DIARBEKİR.
Official,
PETROGRAD, Aug. 37.
On the Stokhod near Toholy the chemy engaged in a violent bonbard ment, There is fierce fighting at Diarbekir.
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE FRENCH FRONT.
ARTILLERY DUELS.
PARTS Aug. 27. There were sevore artillery duels on the Somme, especially north; of Maurepas and west of Clery... TWELVE GERMAN AEROPLANES
shot down.
THE CENTRAL POWENS' ATROCITIES.
A TERRIBLE TALE-OF-BAVĄŬERY.
[FROM BRITISH ZIGATION, TEKING]
London, Aug. 19. Universal matisfaction is felt at the Prin
Minister's definite declamation that the British Goverment will tolemte no BROUGHT DOWN.
umption of diplomatic intercourse with Germany tall The day has been disastrous for Gerade for the murder of Captain Fryast, reparation has been On the Caucasian front columns au seroplanes, of which twelve were who was shot by order of German court-martial-for having attempted to have "ronchel Msola, on the Darusi
The French vintar Nungesser save his unarmed merchant-vessel from piver, a tributary of the Euphrites.brought down his eleventh machine in the attack of a German submarine
A similar case, ta be dealt with by the the campaign
decision of the Allied Governments is ARTILLERY WORK.
GERMAN ATTACKS ON FERDUN that of General Vesovitch, the Montene
FRONT.
grin Minister. On the fight of General Focoritch from Montenegro the Austrine Commander seized his old father and his brother and threatened to hang both unless the General surrendered himself. Subsequently the brother was actually put to death while his old father was reprieved as a special act of peace
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THE ITALIAN FRONT.
Rome, Aug. 27,
#PARIS, Aug. 27. An offejal report from Balonia A communique states: There has been considerable enemy states that there as been internit- com-activity in Treating, but no infantry tent artillery work on the right wing,
attack.
RUSSIAN SEAPLANES BOMB YARNA. The Italians are steadily extending their territory in the Cha Vallons
LONDON, Aug. 27. repipet
Bulgarian official statement The enemy shelled the Isonzo admits that Russian scaplanes have bridges and a few shells fell in bombed Varna (the principal Bul Gorizia
garian pert cu the Black Sea).
A further 200 yanly of German trench north of Bazentin-le-Petit has been captured.
Seven more machine-guns stere Baptured than were reported in the communiques of the ith inst...
The enemy's artillery was active during the night between the Somme and the Afe
The enemy shelled the neighbours } hood of Bethune. We retaliated on enemy railway stations and barmele, |
LATEST NEWS FROM BRITISH FRONT.
Loxtos, Aup DN. Sir Dong Hair reports: We hate gained ground north-west af Ginchy. The weather interferes with operations.
In the afternoon there"was consider able activity on both sides, "The army's fire was directed mainly against når support trenches, especially north-west of Longueval
Our guns blew up enemy boy stores and we explodet mines between Armentieres and Nerve Chapelle.
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ITALY DECLARES WAR AGAINST GERMANY.
CATALOGUE OF GERMANY'S OFFENSES..
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 27.
A Berlin efficial announcement states that the Italian Government. through the Swise Government, has antified the German Government that she will consider herself in state of war against Germany from the 29th inst.
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ROME, Aug. 28: : The "Foreign Minister, in truas hitting the declaration of war against Germany, says: fremman acts of hostility against Italy succeed each
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE WESTERN FRONT.
BRITISH PROGRESS.
PRÚSSIAN GUARD REPULSED!
LONDON, Aug. 263.
the Verdun front have failed.
Repeated attacks by the Germas on
There was an intermittent cannonade elsewhere, it being most siclent in the Thiaumont-Floury sector.
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RUSSIAN OPERATIONS ·IN· ABIA MINOR.
TURKISH POSITION HOPELESS.
PETROGRAD, Ang, 27. Military experts point out that the re-capture of Mush puts the Russia the flank of the Turkish force at Bitlis, regarding which news of its re-occupation is confidently awaited.
The victory at Bayam, neer Musul, on the 24th inst, knocks on the head the Turkish plans around Lake Urmis, while in the Hamadan direction the Turks are in no better case, and the enemy advance ir Persia is no longer regarded as practi-
cable.
All the Turkish movements are paralysed, notably the grandiose scheme for the taking of Erzerum, notwith A communiqua from General Siring, the employment of all available
reinforcementa. Dough Haig states-Near the Mou- quet fara the British progressed another for hundred yards. Trenches were taken along the Courcelette Thiepval |
road.
Last night the Prussian Guard, after Tery heavy artillery preparation. attacked our new trenches southward' of Thiepval The attack was pressed determinedly, but it was everywhere repulsed with heavy enemy losses..
Our success was largely due to the shires and the Worcestershires.
THE BALKAN FRONT,
ARTILLERY ACTIVITY."
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Lospas, Aug. 27.
the flesh. The
But indeed Austro-Hungarian outrages bulk so large that have now been compiled in a definite record or fro fessor Reiss of Lausanne. Abundant testimony is brought to show their special ferocity against the Servians, na, illustrated by such crimes as the use of explosive bullets that tear their way out of the body in a huge burst, pulverizing bombardment of open to was also formed the henes and Incerting part of the programme, which further embrace the destruction of hospitala. and museumna. Ample overpowering evidence is given of the terrible cold- blooded cruelties perpetrated on Servian captives and non-combatants. been the German methods in Belgium But even more notable of kite have and the occupied districts of France. Here the civil population, have been directions for purposes of forged inboar summarily drafted away in different
ધ for Germany. Amid harrowing scenes of courage and leapair, families and households have been torn asunder and their members dispersed in such a way as to leave scant hope that they will ever navet again. This distribution has been accomplished by military methods and under military discipline with so much calculated disregard of humanity that on representation of the case, Elis Holiness the Pope found himself com pelled to lodge a protast with the German Government, though without
BLUE 'FUNNEL BOAT XFIRE.
FEARED INCENDIARISM AT "
BATZA VILA.
An official comunique states:-result-Reuter There has been artillery activity on the Struma und Doiran fronts,
Our acroplanes bombed the enemy
BULGARMASS RETREATING,
Paris, Aug. 27.
The enemy blew up to small mine!oller, with growing frequency. It is steadiness and gallantry of the Wilt camp south of Dr. Hissar,
south-west of Auchy and south of Ypres, but there were no exenalties.
Our latest explures include four officers and 56 others.
BITTER COMPLAINTS OF THE
GERMAN SOLDIER..
THE UBIQUITY OF THE BRITISH AIRMAN.
sufficient to mention the regular supply of Naval and Military ärme
LATER. Sir Douglas Haig reports:--The and equipment to Austria-Hungary
enery bombarded out front line at and the uninterrupted' participation intervals throughout the night. He of officers, soldiers, and sailors in attacked (millemont as well as Thiepval | different operationis directed against | but did not reach our lines. Italy. It has been due only to the lavish assistance afforded Austria that the latter has been able to con centrate on a very extensive efort against Italy.
Lasooy, Aug. 27: Router's Correspondent at Head-
The Minister refers to the retum quarters in France states that the by way of Austria of Italian prisoners captured, diary of a German soldier who have escaped from concentratica bitterly complains that during the camps in Germany and to the request day one hardly dares to be seen in the German Fereign Offee that. a trench swing to British neroplanes fying so low. There is nothing to use of the Gerinan "hero-airman pone due payments. The royal He says: "One can hardly calculate Government, the Minister says, con bow much additional loss of life through strain on the ferves this
costs us."
A captured letter says the writer's Division lost nearly 7,000 before it was relieved at the end of July. The carspalties returns of the 179th Regis ment show losses amounting to per cent. German oficer prisoners admit that the view is hell that our Offensive is only beginning, which is contrary to what the German news- papers say; also that there was con- siderable disorganisation caused by the attack developing where it did instead of in the Arrus region, where it was expected."
*TAIN ENÉMY ATTACKS ON FRENCH
FRONT.
PAB, Aug. 27.
financial institutions should consider Italians alien enemies and so post-
ENEMY'S ANXIETY,
A communiqué from Saloniku stoles:—
The British guns coaselessly bom The importance that the enemy attri-barded the enemy positions on this butes to the Thiepval sector is shown left bank of the Struma. by the deformined efforts that he is making to regain Icat ground in the Leipzig salient (where he is effecting a great concentration of guns), and also by Last night's assualt by the Prusion Guardi
LONDON. Aug. 27.
Sir Douglas Haig Feports The enemy's artillery were active around the Mametz wool and north of Delville Wood.
The Bulgarians" in the centre delivered six counter-attacks north west, of Kirkungs which were repulsed by the Saskians.
On the whole ling the enemy was sanguinarily defeated, and he is re treating, being continuously pressed by the Serbians, whom he is resist ing stubbornly.
Fierce fighting continues on the left ring.
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· The Straita Fiņus of the 19th instant reports:
On Sunday evening at 7.30 a fire was discovered in the fifth hold of the Ocean There has been interruittent, artil-Steamship Co.'s steamer Fangte while lory pativity on the right wing
ying at the ponding wharf at Tandjong Batavin. The ship was Inden with. copra, train oil rubber and sugar She was quickly towed out of the harbour so as to avoid danger to other shipping and help was soon at hood from other vessels and vessels lying off Weltevreden. The fire extinguisher Jacotra soon got her hoses' working in the burning hold which contained-rubber and train oil The fire in the rubber was quickly sub- much difficulty as the oil floated on the daed but that in the train oil caused water and spread. The steamers Dordt of the KP.M. and de Jong of the Coal Maatschappij and the fire brigade from. Weltevreden all jent a hand so that in all eight hoses were played on the confia Fighting continues at Monquet Farn.
gration and at 12.30 it was practically We captured 67 prisoners in the
In the region of Ostrovo, Lae Ser-extinct. Little damage was done to the Mouquet harm aren muid south of Thiep.bians allowed the Bulgarians to vessel hersel. Masara Maclaine Watson approach within 150 yards of their and Co. are the Batavia agents for the no longer tolerate such a state ofval during the last twenty-four hours.
The hostile attempts against heap trenches, and then with a devastat was for England, hus not yet been Hinc. The damage to the cargo, which afairs, and he points out that the south of the Bethune-La Bassee mating fire they mowed down the enerny. estimated, but it is great.. situation is aggravated because Italy were driven back by rific-fire.
Two hundred and fifty Bulgarian
A ter tolegram states. Are was dis- that early on The enemy shelled Roclincourt, La corpses were found in front of a surend in the Fangiss in her sixth-hold
morning stother gl Germany belong to opposing
Couture and east of Zillebeke in the day single trench.
covered groups of belligerente,
time. There was also much reciprocal
which was. Prisonera adroit that the Serbian Patavia correspondent of the Sumatra being fumigated. The trench-mortar activity near the Holenartillery indisputably dominates the Post states that the whole of her cargo has been kinded and after being survey- Bulgarian artillery."
be ed by Lloyd's agent will
put up. An inspection has proved the fact that the fire could not have been the result of apontaneous combustion, but must. have beat the work of incendiaries for so rapid was its cutbreak that coolies at work on board had not the time to get their coats before leaving the vessel. The whole of the cargo in holds five and six has been destroyed.
THE BALKAN FRONT.
BRITISH SHIPS BOMBARD KAVALLA FORTS.
Pans, Aug. 28. An official report from Salonika states that two British monitors and one cruiser on the 25th inst. bom barded the Kavalla forta, which are, occupied By Bulgarians with ollo exception.
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TIERCE ATTACKS BY BULGARIANS.
There has been a annonade on the Strumas Lake and Doirun fronts
Five Serce attacks by Bulgarians against Vitrenik, north-west Kukurus, were shattered by Serhion
A communiqué states:' There is relative calm on the Somme. front, as the weather is waterfering with operations.
The Germans attacked three times artillery.A
at Vaux Wood, but were forced to. return to their trenches,
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of
'Desperate fighting continues in the region of Lake Ostrovo, where several The Germans attacked on 800 Bulgarian attacks have been driven jards of front in the direction of back by Serbian counter-attacks.
Croix St. Jean, Lorraine. They
were caught by 'our Bre curtains and completely defeated.
BAD WEATHER CONTINUES. "Pants, Aug. 27,
An official statement says there is nothing important to announce Jad weather continues.
“ALLIED ÄR 5SQUADRON BOMES
NEIGHBOURHOOD OF GHENT.
AMSTERDAM, "Aug", 27. The Echo Bilge states that on alled air squadron bombed the neigh- bourhood of Ghent on the 25th inst.
WHAT WILL RUMANIA DO?
COUNG
A COUNCIL SUMMONED BY THE KING,
BUXAREST, Aug. 27.
Iollera redoubt.
Dur counter-batterics yesterday encuessfally engaged many of the enemy gun positions, some of which were destroyed and others damaged.
enemy's rear,
PRICE OF COTTON.
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LONDON, Aug 27.
Our aircraft attacked many points of SMALL AMERICAN CROP. unlitary importance in dropping altogether five tons of bombs.
One hostile machine was felled and another was driven down damaged.
Two British machines are missing.
IMPORTANCE OF MAUREPAS AND
THIEPYALA. ་ '
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LONDON, Aug. 27. The French capture of Maurepas and the British, success at Thiepval are typical of the new allied method "of advancing piecemeal, intensely bombard ing patches of the front, then sending
The Times, commenting on the rise in the price of cotton, says there is little doubt that the United States crop will be small, but in some quarters the last official report is regarded as unduly pessimistic. Moreover, the market in America is under dual control
BRITISH LOAN IN AMERICA.
SPEEDY SUBSCRIPTION.
of
NEW YORK, Aug 26. patrols to ascertain the damage, and has been over-subscribed in forty-eight The new British loan of £50,000,000 afterwards drenching other points with a storm of shell, the infantry meanwhile hour attacking along the lanes formed by the
The lists close to-day instead first bombardments, thus rendering both Monday. frontal and lateral attacks possible. Greater gains are thus obtained at a smaller loss of life than bitherto
The value of the succo is apparent
SHACKLETON ELFEDITION.
BUENOS AIRES, "Aug" 27: from the importance attached by the Si Ernest Shackleton has left Pants Quillemont Cinchy Arenas on board the steamer. Felche on enemy to the region, where aloue he retains an effect third attempt to rescue the party tive footing on the ridge. The two macooned on Elephant Istand. strongholds, with the Thiepval plateau, remain the most formidable bastions in the enemy's line, but the pressure around them is growing constantly more severo.
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASE.
The Hindu letter-writer we have always with na, but the following lotter written to a Hindu father asking for the hand of bir daughter in marriage is well
penasuship that I write to worthy of preservation:
Dear Sir, It is with a flattering Theret compiled by the Medical
to have communication with you. about the Officer of Iealth for the week ended prospective conditios of your damsel Auguit 26th shows one Chinese case of offspring. For some, remote time to cholem, which ended fatally; 9 cases of past, & secret passion has bera firing enteric fever (1 British, 1 American, my boeur internally with loving for 1 Japanese, 1 Indian, and the rest your daughter. I have narigated Chinese). Ons was an imported case. every channel in the magnitude of There were four deaths. The only my extensive jurisdiction to cruelly Brother the growing love knot that is other cases in the list are, three fatal being constructed in my withinside, but Chinese cases of small pax, and one the humid lamp of affection still nour fatal case of puerperal fever.
shed my love sickened heart.
"Hoping that you will concordantly corroborate in espousing your female progeny to my tenler bosom and there- fore acquire into your family circle, your dutiful son-in l
A GIGANTIC GERMAN INDUSTRY KILLLED-
THE PHILIPPINE SUGAR.
INDUSTRY
Sugar milling, reports the sonor in- spectar of constabulary of Occidental Negros, has ceased except in the centri- fugal mills and on a few plantations in the northern end of the province, where the rains have caused less trouble than
that the King has summoned repe open, ap the slope, and then pushed the conscription, but he declined to say.
The Gronauer Nachrichten draws a in the central and southern parts. sentatives and statesmon of all enemy by inches to the farther edge of It was noticed that the Ministers picture of the Germed textile Indslry as parties to discuss the situation.
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the whole plateau, is the outstanding known to be in in favour of conscription it stood before the war. The industry, it fell to the great smount of rain that
feature of the battle. ⠀
Eight miles of German lines botween coked pleased.
The political parties are now consider SIGNIFICANT MILITARY CHANGES Thiepval and Ginthy are described by ing the matter.
the correspondents as a huge fortress fasked by the bastions whose outworks- (Continued on page 3.1 wore stormed on Thursday,
ATHENS, Aug. 27 Two big explosions were beard and General Moschopoulos has been is beloved that two munition appointed Chief of the Genem] Staff, were blown up. It is run replacing General Dousmanis who shit the damage and the num-has-been given leave- ber of victims were very great.
Colonel Metaxas had been relieved the course of an attack a gun from the post of Assistant Chief of
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Contracts have been entered into workers, and had in output worth nearly between the planters of Victoria and five thousand millions of marks"; it capitalists in the United States for the ** Imported from abroad raw material to erection of a large centrifugal mill at Victoria, and construction of the same, the value of 3,000 million marki."
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They have hundreds of batteries of all CHAMBERLAINE Colic, Chokers and States: then came wool (60 million calibros and these, like the troops, nee Diarrhoes Rariedy should be packed marks), chiefly from Australis and massed at sertaita loca bekinthe line in your hand luggage wheri gong on oZealand silk-(150 million mark jute
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