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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1916.

THE

LATEST

WAR.

TELEGRAM S.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE SOMME SECTOR.

THE GREAT ENEMY COUNTER-" ATTACK AGAINST THE

FRENCHL

"PARIS, Sept. 31. A communiqué statos Bad weather has interfered considerably with pur operations on the Somme..

An enemy attack at Four, de Paris, in the Argonne, was repulsed,

We carried enemy trenches south-east of the Thiaumont work, and made pro-

PARIS, Sept. 2

FURTHER BRITISH THE RUMANIAN VICTORY. gress in the Vaux Wood

ADVANCE.

TWO LINES OF ENEMY TRENCHES CAPTURED.

Losbox, Sept. 22. Sir Douglas Hoig reports: ̧» South of Aners we have advanced on a front of about a mile. Ing two lines of trenches, between Flars and Martinpuich.

MACKENSEN MEETS HIS MATCH.

LONDON, Sept. 22: The Rumanian victory in Dobrudja dispels the obscurity which has been hanging over the operations there and gives the lie to the Kaiser's recent boast of a decisive victory."

This boast is symptomatic of the grow capturing mendacity of German communiqués which, up to the present,' huve not

of Florina admitted defeat in Macedonia and the General Averesco, the now commander in Dobrudja, amivel there on the 18th inst when the great battle.Begin.

Our front now runs approximately In a direct lins worth of Flers and Martinpuich

The enemy's trenches south of Arras were successfully entered st night. Prisoners were taken and many casualties were inflicted.

We blow up a mine north of Neuville St. Voast and occupied the

Beater.

FRENCH REPULSE A POWERFUL

ATTACK.

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PARIS, Sept. 22. A communique states that a powerful enemy attack between Priez Farm and Rancourt was re pulsed with serious losses.

"

NOTHING IMPORTANT" ON

RUSSIAN FRONT.

LONDON, Sept. 22.

A Russian communiqué states that

there is nothing important to report on the West front of in the Caucasus.

THE OPERATIONS IN EAST AFRICA.

"FORTUGUESE THOOPS IN ACTION.

LISBON, Septu

It isofficially announced that Portuguese troops crossed the Roşuma River and penetrated three miles into German East Africa"

The enemy abandoned trenches after a fecble resistance.

AFTER THE WAR. -

FINANCIAL FACILITIES: FOR BRITISH FIRMS.

LONDON, Sept. 2%. officially announced that the It -Committee of Inquiry which has been considering the best means of providing £nancial facilities for British Firms after the war, particularly in respect of Enancing large overseas contracts, recommends the immediate formation of cow Bank with a capital of £10,000,000 in order to link up Home and Colonial and British and Foreign Banks with a new furthering commercial and industrial enterprises.

GERMAN BOMBS DROPPED NEAR DOYER.

LONDON, Sept. 22.

It is officially announced that a Ger- man aeroplane dropped three bombs near Dorar this afternoon.

There were no casualties.

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The Rumanian left wing Transylvania has sufered a set-back, retiring from Petroheny to near the frontier where they have taken a stand in the vicinity of Vulcan Pass, the heights on both sides of which the enemy claims to occupy, but the Rumaniana hold a fourth of Transylvania and are progressing north, as is shown by the occupation of Szeklyudvarhely, Their retirement on the left was possibly due to the despatch of reinforcements to Dobrudja

LATER. Field Marshal vou Mackensep has his match the ex-ranker General Averespo,

Reuter learns from high Rumanian military authorities in regard to the enemy plan in Dobrudja, which was to

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A communique abates:-On the Somme front our artillery energetically cUD tinued to fire enemy works.

Over 200 prisoner were captured by us on the Somme yesterday,

There was an intermittent cannonade elsewhere.

THE CHINA MAIL.

CHINESE AFFAIRS.S "OFFake Fox")

Tat Pa's Service.)

THE JAPANESE LOAN.

OPPOSITION ET GROUP BANKS.

SHANGHAL, Sepp 23. The advance of $5,000,000 by Japanese Syndicate is not only opposed by Parliament and the Four Fowers Group of Bankers, but it is also noc unanimously supported by the Japanese capitalista.

The preliminary agreement can be cancelled by the payment of half a million dollars as comperisation.

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THE SUPPRESSION OF THE OPIUM "TRIDE

SHANGHAI, Aug. 32.

A Mandate was izrded on the 19th Yesterday's great German counter inst announcing that the period of ten attack on the north bank of the Somme was delivered by the 18th Corps, which year fixed for the entire suppression had been withdrawn from the Aians of the traffic opinto expires this front and the 14th Division.

The month latter had entrained for the Rinia front, It is ordered that go bas skall hoca and when it bad proceeded half-way-is- wa ordazed to return to the Somme, forth plaat oglum, trade is it or smoke which was reached on the 14th instit

They were put into line on the 19thday person ignoring these instrue inst, and were engaged on the 20th tions will be neverely punished. inst., in the Bouchavesnes district, where they suffered enormously.

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THE ANXIETY OF THE GERMANS.

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THE TERRIBLE “TANKS".

LONDON, Sept. ' 22.

BACKING OUT:

SHANGHAI, Sept. 32.

“NATION ON ITS KNEES,”

THE GREAT REVIVAL OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

PICTURESQUE POSTERS TO

APPEAL TO EVERYONE.

**What we want is the nation on ita “ knees.

Lord Robert's great appeal, attared not long before his death, is to form the watchword of the Church's Nasional Mission of Repentence and Hope, which stars in excriest this month says, the Daily Chronicle which adds --

Following in the steps of the State the Church has realised the value of act vertisements and the pictorial appeal which the Government has found so effective for war purposes is to be utilised by the National Mission in its endeavour to draw the mass of the nation into the spiritual renaissance which the war has brought about

An acressing picture has been drawn by Mr Eric H. Kennington, showing in

facing a great crowd of people in the foreground the figure of Christ,

chimneys beich out their smoke in the modern manufacturing, town, whose background. In the crowd are a soldier, tailor airman, Bed Cross me, work- men, clergy, beggars, women and little children. There is a vivid and striking contrast between this diverse

STOW with its sombres background. and white appealing figure of Christ. Porters.

and placards, bearing Lord Roberta's up

peal, are also to play

rentapiritual movement, while the kaoTE taught by the phenomenal success of the flag-days has also been taken to heart, and a small badge, bearing a crimson cross upen a ground of gold, will be distributed

"We consider it war work

of the highest kind, the secretary of the the movement originated in the new mission told a Fress representative, "for estimate of spiritual values which the war has given people. That spiritual re- vival has made the Church want to give the message to the nation, but the GERMAN THADE COMPETITION IN moment she tries to do so she finds she must sweep her own front doorstep first.. "HEALTHYBELI |

Tang Shao Yi in reported to have said in Tiantain that his coming north is not so accept office in the Ministry,

important matter. but "connection with another

in

Somme is revealed in a captured private The anxiety of the Germans on the order by the Chief of Staff of the Group Armies to the Commanders. The order refers particularly to the "Tanks, and states:"New engines of war equally cruel and effective are urgent. Take all possibla measures to counteract the ~~~A-CONVERSATION AT THE | monstrous engines,"

PEAK HOTEL

THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

RUSSIANS REPEL ENEMY

OFFENSIVE.

PETROGRAD, Sept. 21. A communique states:-We every are the great bridge and town of where repelled the enemy offensive in Constanza that it failed definitely, the region of the Kovel-Rovno raz was |

We captured a height in the region. The Bulgarians are unlikely, owing toast of the Panther Mountain, in the the distance and lack of railways and Carpathians.

the lateness, of the season to send. We dislodged the Kurds from a further reinforcements, while the Rus position south-cast of Mush.

snow Fog and

sians and Rumanians, can pour troops CaucasUS. into Dobrudja

The enemy movement in the Vulcan Pass is probably only a local movement to secure the mines.

THE SERBIAN ́ADVANCE.

LONDON, Sept. 22.

A French official cominunique from Salonika states:

prevails in

THE BALKANS.

VIGOROUS FIGHTING AT

-KAJMAKALAN.--

the

.HONGKONG.

A Neutral Diplomat

who con tributes to the Cornhill an article on Germany's bid for trade supremacy throughout the world recounts in the following paragraphs a conversation with 4

German shipper only a shade leas powerful than Herr Ballin, the head of the Hamburg-Amerika line," with whom he chificed to be spending a week end at the Feak Hotal some years

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"Our programme, so far as we can have a programme, has been first for the Church to find out her own shortcomings and why she has not appealed more to the masses of the nation and only after spending some months in doing that is the hoping to be able to

approach nation. These past three months we have been concerned with ourselves, getting the clergy and Church werkers to find out what has been the matter, been sufficient for the spiritual warfare why the supply of munitions has cot. Now we are prepared in September, October and November to enter upon an attempt to give our message to the

The movement How are German trade prospects

vigorously is being in the East. I asked him one evening taken up in Londen, and there as we eat over after-dinner coffee and great meeting at the Guildhall on cigars on the verandah of the hotel September 23, as which the Lord Mayor preside. On the same day the first Colossal, simply colossal, was the of a series of huge park me in the will be reply. Quite beyond anything I had held at Victoria Park at whic hoped to find. To-day-on the strength Biskop of step all be held at

will of the official figures of the represent speaker. Others

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kong's trade. And next year it will have more, and still more, the year

opening message to the nation after. What do you think of that 1'4 general will be delivered by the Arch- SALONIKA, Sept. 22. "Emperor. William well-politik is bishop of Canterbury in Westminster The sighting has not abated in vigour the worst almost he said the one, Abbey on Sunday afternoon, October 1, at the Kajmakalna ridge where the menace to the continuance of our com Bulgarians are making desperate efforta mercial triumph. We have done what to wrest the peak from the Serbians, we have in spite, of, not because of, this their gains

The Serbians haves ilightly added to The Bulgarians fired parts of Florina before evacuating the place.

The Bulgarians attacked in fores the village of Foroy, east of Doiran, held by a small Italian garrison, who fought

The Serbians have reached Vrbeni. We cleared out the district north- *west of Armensko and advanced after heary fighting against the heights dominating the road from Florina........to. Popli.

Mist interfered with operationi along like lions. the whole front.

BRITISH WARSHIPS SHELLING

THE ENEMY.

Lospos, Sept. 22.

A British official report from Salonika states that our warships shelled the enemy in the neighbour hood of Neohori.

There is increased artillery activity on the Doiran front

BULGARIAN ATTACK HEAVILY DEFEATED.

ENEMY DEFEAT IN DOBRUDJA.

ENEMY BURNS VILLAGES IN

RETREAT.

LONDON, Sept. 2

Rater Eucharest message and adds A Rumanian communiqué confirme that the enemy, which included Turks, burned villages in their retreat.

The battle gradually increased in fury till the evening of the 10th inst

inst, and withdrew..

COSSACK GENERAL'S DARING ESCAPE.

The following telegram bas been handed to Reuter's Agent at Peking by the Russian Legation

Bukharest, September 8th..

Agirl, BRADLEY & Co., Ltd.::

Βοτακύτο.

1. WYNDHAM ST.

(krone Steve)

survice, but she had overlooked the diffi osity of passing the keen scrutiny of the Army doctors, which put an end to her

kind of well-politik. What is more, it is the one thing that threatens to bring all- our achievements to nought. Yes, gt, only to check our advance, bat even to put us back so far that we may never be able to regain the place we hold to-day, to say nothing of the one we might attain to in the course of another: decade of peace. Do you want to know General Kornilor who some year WOMAN WHO PASSED AS Army and take all the make of military the reason Germany has already the ago was Russian Military Agent in greater part of the trade of Hongkong? Faking, and commanded the 48th- Why Germany, if left alone will Dirison of the Russian Army during altimately control the trade of Hong the retreat from the Son last kong Why Germany, if left alone, year, when he was taken prisoner, has will ultimately control the trade of the arrived in Bukharest after escaping

read it world? There's the answer. Can you from the prisoners' camp in which he

was interned in Austria Hungarye the buildings are dark and deserted, and after a month's travelling on foot by **You see, do you not, that some of General reached the Bamanian frontier

turned on? Well then 1 The lighted had to go without food for several days that in others the light are being night through Hungury Sometimes be

ones are German, the dark ones English. and more than once he barely escaped

killed

A MAN.

STRANGE STORY REVEALED IT adventure.

TRIBUNAL

FOREMAN TO

ESCAFE HER HUSBAND,

Truth, it is commonly hellered, is

The disclosure of the Mill Hil certifi cate care sa a greab. surprise to the employer A

MINNESOTA CHARTERED,

In a recent issue of the San Francisco

The enemy was crushed on the 20th That is the answer.The English are with his life from the enemy's. pursuit. stranger than fiction, and Truth haer Chronicle" the following was published).

"The Hilliner Minnesota, the largest The communique states that a Rut the Cricket Club (see the lights on During one of these advantures excelled itself in the story revealed manian force has entered Szoklyud the verandah) and at Happy Valley prisoner who escaped with bim was recently before a North London tribunal vessel on the Pacific Coast, has been It is the story of a woman, who, for Oriental line for two voyages to the chartered by the Toyo Klsen Kaisha varhely, fifty miles north-east of Brasso. Fou saw them trooping to one or the

General Kornikov, a Siberian Cossack reasons of her own, passed as a man, Orient, it was learned yesterday un other all the way from three o'clock LONDON, Sept. 22.

onward. But in some of the German by origin, and, one of the most dis, and for whose exemption from military officially from officials of the Japanese GREEK CABINET AND THE A French official report from

offices those lights will be burning at tinguished officers of the Russian Army service an employer made an company. The charter was negotiat Salonika states.

ENTENTE that a violent

nine and ten o'clock, and even up to was taken prisoner last year while lying appeal. The appeal was urged on the in Japan, and unofficial advices twelve or one on the nights before mail unconsisens after fighting with thegunda fast tas foreman was here state the rate will be $8,000 i Bulgarian attack against Zoorskoo,

ATHENS, Sept. 22,

day. That is the answer. Wa Germans rearguard of his division, which he réplendid workansa,” Indispensable, and the TEK company to pay in add between the Vardar and Cerna, was The Director-General of the Foreign are winning the trade of the world fused to leave in spite of his wounds.

Office visited the British Legation, and because of our capacity for our wiling. By his personal bravery he saved most married man with two children the crew and all operating

In answer to the employer's sppeal, the The big steamer still load for the We also repulsed an enemy attack assured Sir Francis Elliott, the British neas to, work, work, work, he concind of his troops in the perilous treat chairman of one tribunal, hating first under charter to the Japanese firm, upon

Minister, that the Greek Cabinet was ed punctuating the final words with which they were engaged, inflicting, only a business Cabinet, and not a blows upon the wicker arms of his chair with the most limited means, the A political Cabinet. It was ready, if re-

heaviest losses on, the superior enemy cognised by the Entente Powers, to

forces. Hacrifice the Germanophile Ministers OF EWO who, before assuming their portfolios, bad indulged in attack upon the

Anti-aircraft guas came into action heavily "defeated."

and aeroplanes went up in purazit of tho raider which immediately made off in a north-easterly direction.

THE MARRIAGE "LAWS."

INTERESTING CASE IN THE

··HIGH COUET.

LONDON, Sept. 22. Special Divisional Court, consisting of the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Darling and Brant, have reserved their judgment in the case of Dr. Miran warnddin, a Mahommedan from Madras, and a member of the English Baz.

north of Florina.

SUNDAY GAMES AND GODLINESS,

The Rev. B. G. Bourchier, Vica of St. Enteate Tode'a, Hampstead Gården Subory, hos replied from the pulpit to what hu described as the gratuitous insult "*' that the Hampstead Garden Suburb was godless. He was at Imane, he said, with the statement that persons wors godless

THE KITCHENER RECRUITING LETTER.

A STORY OF THE FOUNDER.

Apropos of the above story

in

the Shanghai Mercury says,

writer

DEFÁ ULITZER.

I have no doubt whatever that work HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE. in the foundation of all prdinary success

To in "businessjas in other chinga. The founder of J. M. abt Co, so the story Inspectors answering Inquiries issued goes, when in harness in cal Canton, had by the ABF (R) are required to note no chan in his office He was there toon the papers any case in which the work, and he stood to do it. His alleged defaulter resides in Kowloon

because they played games or mowed In aid of the Lord Kitchener National business and if they, too, and to stand, Sergeants (not Crown Sergeanta)

mal visitors were expected to come only on BERGEANTË SJELA their lowes on Bunday. It was the duty Memorial Fund and the British Bed

of every one not to let the Sabbath pass Cross Society, Messe Rapimel Tuck and they would not be likely to take up

will draw Rifles at Central Station st

pin on Friday, Sept 29th, prior

d

Owing to the fact that his first man without publicly rendering praise to God, Ltd., have published & facsimile of more of iris time than was absolutely to the General Parade 20 P

expressed his surprise at the employer's discharge of her present cargo Wheat argument, produced a certificata from the to the amount of 13,600 tons in now Min Medical Board to the effect that being discharged upon Crowley get

at pier 32, opposite the TKK du the person named thereon and the per

The Hill Ene, due to the rapid rise son for whom exemplion was asked-wasis prices of the merchandise and Hans for the Army by reason of the fact

with which the Minnesote was loaded "that"-" the said parson was a woman hes made profit approx to the "employer's answer to thi dia- 81,000,000 on her cargo, according shippers The Minnesota has been closure was that the woman with w

What

that after the Ma! Hill

his foreman had been firing came to port amce 14th December 1915 his wife nad sald that the military has been equipped wit

usband:** to | She left Zenitis: 14th Nove authorities and so ar Salisbury Plains.

pened) 984 for a voyage around the Horn

the United Kingdom. Because of defacuto. 24. man-wodza rolazed to friends bolers she was forced to put back into

this? port and has since been at another part of the country,

SAPAMBANO ACCUnion. Works undergoing

TOTERCARE HEL HUBHANDS steamer has gross tonnage of 40,718 from this date no PatrolmALITHAY

Bahind the masqueredo lies, It Is be and a net tonnage of 13,3 provide a substitata tiore than once in THE PORT OF THIESTER

Calendar Month

lieved the motive that the woman whose long, has a beam of seventy türbe" any one

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physical appearance anahi her to keep and a draft of fourteen feet five inc Should Count Cadorna add to his-con-Friday, ept thosL2, 3 and

up the deception-wished to gets by the seizure of Trieste the blow Companies,

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from her hoa

CLOSING SHARE, QUOTATIONS Maxim Gunners will pa ada at. Central London contemporary remarks, will t

niform-with-Helwhom shë avily upon Gebabymets and

este in?

Cure, the

Lord Kitchener's famous recruting letter necessary. but, after that he cared not what they which was sold at a Red Cross Gifs House with an English woman, though did. A pasion was lae buttar empleyca Sale in London for 6600 aud presented Tiare dissolved under Mahommedan law, war in healthy game or keeping his garden by Mr Fenwick Harrison to the nation the tidy tann in aleeping off a heavy dinn Mr Frank Brangwyn and Firrthar It is placed in a cover designed by still valid under

Miram Some of the avab godly and charming Conan Doyle has written an appropriate

thon in the Army were those who afler : monograph, while a tribute to the per church parade went for a bid of golf. War Minister's work to jinîth by

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