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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1916.

THE

LATEST

WAR.

TELEGRAMS.

[Rester's Service to the China Mail.)

THE ZEPPELIN RAID. ≈

LATEST DETAILS.

Losnos, Oct. Puj

An official statement says: Ten airships crossed the East Coast last night.

One approached North London but was driven off by gunfire and pursued by acroplaness

On attempting to returns she was again attacked by guna and an aer- plane, and brought down adanie is the neighbourhood of Potter's Bar.

The airship thus destroyed was of the latest type.

There were no casualties, and no damage was caused.

STUBBORN FIGHTING ON

BRITISH FRONT,

A SMALL ENEMY SUCCESS.

LONDON, Oct. 2 General Sir Douglas Faig in communiqué states:

There has been stubborn fighting north of Courcelette.***

An enemy counter-attack forced us to relinquish "a portion of Regina trench.

FARLIER

GERMAN ONSLAUGHT

ON RUMANIANS.

'AS A COUNTER TO THE ILLIED OFFENSIVE..

THE CHINA MAIL.

ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID ON

RUMANTA

AIRSHIP DESTROYED NEARS NORTE FONDON,

LONDON, Oct.

DECLARATION

WAR

TEXT OF THE NOTE.

The following is the text of the Nute presented to Austria-Hungary by the Rumanian Government

An official announcedant stars Hostile airships oressed the East Const between nine o'clock and midnight. A few bomba were dropped near the coast Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy The Alliance concluded between but no damage has been reported. The had, according to the declamations of LONDON, Oct. 1.

raid contingen

Bongofthe-Governments. themselves only an Some of the airships appeared in the sentially eonservative and defensive It has been generally expected vicinity of London where they were character its principal object was to that Marshal von Hindenburg would engaged by the anti-alraft guns guarantee the added countries against attempt an audacious stroke somjes It has just been reported that an air attack from outside and to consoli- where in the East as a counter to ship has been brought down in damos previous treaties,

date the stato of

to of things accepted by the allied offensive in the West

North London: bitterness of the Germanag

Its with the desire to harmonize Her policy with these pacifio. tondencion Chancellor a reces to Rumania The night was starry and very clear, that Rumania joined this alliance De are interpreted as indicating that the and the Zeppelin was by the voted to the work of her internali

construction, and faithful to her frm blow would fall on Rimmania.

Searchlights at midnight. mument

sucon, to minain in the region of the The mention that General ven later the airships burst into Bamon and

swer Danube an element of orders, and Falkenheyn is commanding on the fell dowy to light!

bim Rumania has not ceased Tanssiranian border seems to show country for inite that the onslaught, for which the

mana paro doubtless been accu mulating guns, and supplies ha already begun

from Hungary to Rumania lies The straightest ling of adroned

though Hermanstadt, and Roten

s

Lariz

The Zeppelin's downfall was greatest with ebears by thousands of spectata

Four bodies and a machine gun hare

beat recoveredha

The Zeppelin fell in several parts the The destroyed airship is apparently major portion being impaled on a très of the large moderat type.

à flame was observed in the sky, and this grew into a tremendous conflagre

seen to be white hot against the black sky

dicularly, the couds singing rod The doomed midar slipped parpen- Save the King

An enemy attack on our advanced, turn Fasa, is one of the two main positions coas of Eaucourt l'Abbaye gateways of the Transylvanian Alps.

A Rumanian communique bastiou was beaten of. We have now estabbeen prompt and tank in admitting The Zeppelin was borning from and lished our front there and cleared out, a reverse, but is confules the German to end, and the framework could be the enemy from the buildings of assertion that the retreat of the

Rumanians has been cut "off" Eaucourt l'abbage and farther west. Te is evident that the Rumaniaus A second airship attempted to. We also established our line from fought with desperate valour to attack London from the north-east (à point 1,200 yards north of Cource extricate themselves from a difficult but was driven off.

lette in the direction of the Hessian position. They will be nerved to supreme exertions by the sinister wurning conveyed in a sentence in the German communiqud which says: The German troops fought with great Berceness when they learned that the covetous Rumanians murdered the wounded."

The remainder wandered aimlessly over the Eastern Counties and Lin- colnshire. They dropped hombe promiscuously, but mostly, in the open country.

THE CASUALTIES AND DAMAGE,

LATER.

It is oficially announced that the. casualtics in the air raid were a man -killed and a woman injured. The damage done was insignificant, although, the raiders covered a wide area and dropped a great number of bombs.

Four bouses were seriously damaged, some glass-houses demolished and a number of windows broken. ANOTHER ZEPPELIN CRIPPLED

DALONDON, Oct. 2.

It is reported that Zeppelin passed over an East Coast town very low as if crippled.

THE BRITISH ATTACK ON THE STRUMA.

Pinus, Oct. 2.. 'Acommuniqué relating to oporaž tions in the Balkans describes the British attack on the Struma on the. 14t inst. as a brilliant operation, in which fortified villages were carried.

LONDON, Oct. 2, .

A British oficial report from Salonike says our captures on the Struma on September 80 include two villages against which repeated counter-attacks had: "been heavily ropulsed. We took 250 prisoners.

!!

SERBS CAPTURE ANOTHER HEIGHT "FROM BULGARIANS.`

trench.

י.

Successful raids om enemy trenches were carried out north of Neuville St. Vaast and cast of La Ventie.

FRENCH SUCCESS NEAR BOUCHAVESNES.

Paris Ott. 4.

A communiqué says: We carried trench east of Bouchavemen.

AUSTRALIAN WHEAT "SALES.

MELBOURNE, Oct. 9. The Wheat Board had shipped 11 million bags of wheat down to September 11th and local sales renlised £18,250,000.

THE DEPOSED MONARCH OP

„ABYSSINIA.

LONDON, Oeta 5. Bouter is informed that according to a telegram received from Abyssinia there. have been no disturbances as a result of the deposition of the Emperor, who is I still at Harrar.

MALAYA AND THE WAR

Mr. E. Macfadyen, member of the Federal Council of the Federated Malay Lumpur with reference to the States, writes to the Times from Kuals "A Chance for the Outer published in the "Empire Supplement of "The Times of May 24

The War

raised LOAD ment of the Federated Mals y Stater re carried to a successful issue in.

was

This, like the falsehood against the British which was a prelude to the use of poison gas, clearly indicates the most savage wariate against the Rumanians..

Apart from batred of Rumania, is is clearly in the Genoan interest to secure the Rumanian grain and the road to the Eust.

THE SOMME REGION.

BRITISH CENTRE ATTAIN OBJECTIVE.

N

LONDON, Oct, General Sir Douglas Haig reporta- This afternoon our Centre attacked

The sound of distant firing heralded the approach of the raider, and the population in the neighbouring districta turned out in the streets

OPERATIONS IN EAST AFRICA.

"destroying

to contribute us the maintenance - OL peace in the Balkans. The last Baltan the status quo imposed upon her a new Gine

conduct. Her -intervė: tened, "pener and restored 'equilibrium. For herself, she was satisfied with

ation of frontier which gave ber "security against an aggression d. which at the same time repaired the tice committed to her dotriment at Berits Congress. But, in the porsait this and Rumanin was disappointed the Cabinet of Vienna the attitude to observe that she did not meet front which the was entitled to expect.

EXAMPLE OF ITALY.

herself with the declaration of war by When the presing war broke out Rumanin, like Italy, declined to associate

Austria-Hungary, of which she had received. Cabinet of Vienna In the spring of no previous notice from the 1915

& declared war on Austria-

the Triple Alis existedim k

riple Alliance no longer The reasons which had determined the adherence of Ransania to this political system disappeared. At the same times THE CAPTURE OF TABORA BY instead of a grouping

of Utates seeking THE BELGIANS.

by common effort to work .in agreement in order to assure peace and the main- tenored of the situations de facto and de juro created by treaties, Romania found herself in the presence of Fowers making war with the very object of transforming from top to bottom the old arrangements which had served basis for their Treaty of Alliance The profound changes were for Bunzania evident proof that the object which sho the Triple in adhering to the Tri Lad On entering the town, the Belgians Alliance could no longer be attained and- released 189 European prisoners of war that she must direct her views and her efforts towards new paths, the more so or interned persons, of whom 103 were co British, and 35 missionaries, of whom 30 the work undertaken by Austria were French

Hungary assumed a character threat-

the essential interests of Lig

LONDON, Oct. 2. Belgian official communique states; General Tombeur reports that of the capture of Tabers the enemy left. 50 Europeans and nearly 300 natites dead

A hundred officers and non-coms and numerous natives were made prisoner Four guns were taken.

DEPOSITION OF AN EMPEROR.

ALLIES DIPLOMATIC SUCCESS.

BOME, Oct.

ng well as her most. legitimate national

surationsgitim

In the 1

dicals presence of so

modifica tion of the situation created between the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Rums ma the latter resumed her. liberty of action.

of the Royal The acetrality

of a

of war. made

and captured the whole of our objective Baron Sonn£to, munounced that the deegten inposeck upon itself in con At a meeting of the Italian Cabinet Government will and contrary

on a front of 3,000: yards: between East

North-east of the Destremont farm of cont-Albert-Bapnutie rand and Eaucourt is reported to be, in our hands. In today's action the new armoured. cars rendered valuable work in alcaring. the enemy trenches behind the infantry

a diplomatic victory of the Allies over position of the Abrasiman Emperor was

the German schemes abroad.

WAR CHARITIES.

The Hon. Me 16

Wax

Brit instance, as the result of asurances to its interests had been adopted i in the given at the outset by the Imperial and Roval Government that the Monarchy

war upon Serbia, had not been

a spirit of conquest and no way aiming at territor that it was in no way siming at territo

without referenes to its w

Our artillery effectively bombarded Truslogan ammunition dump ya blown up and two enemy aerodromes were successfully bombed yesterday. | Sec At least one inchie was destroyed informs us that

Four enemy machines were brought down in the air fighting over our front. by anony One of our machines is missing paix binocul

Further east we pushed our posts Nichol, C 31 Curtons, Kowloon, are spirit of the Triple Alliance, had en

Halifax, Honed. Today we find ourselves confront Charities Committee, by situations de facto from which may telescope contributed and political changes of a clister o

ariso great ferritorial transforms tons

iorgkong and one stitueme a zrave menace to the contributed by Mr.A peace which Rumenis, faithful to the

now to be added to the list of glasses

Well beyond our original frontson.

So far 300 prisoners have been taken. Our casualties are small.KAS received and forwarded to the Lady Enemy troops with transport vers Roberts Field. Ghas Fand repeatedly attacked from the air by

a Antil, of Imachine-guns and several hundra The total now stands ; BAN

having ever

this year Pink Federation--which Mantry were disperse

been issued in the

1077

to issue

PARIS, Oct. 8:

has to national debt local BRITISH TOLL ON THE SOMME

was naturally very

much of Fowers

"AND ANCRE were obtained

Since the 18th September we have issue of contemplated. The hois Is taken between the Ancre and the

P to 15 million dollari

Griginally cop

A communiqué states: The Serbs fr

and

of six millions -was

were obtained, and in Somme 24 field guns and air howitzers,

One Stand Telespeope

Twelve Hand Telosco Thirty-mine Binocular Domition of $75.00

LOINS

of the fature of Romania. The

com

of

deavoured to accomplish has thas been rendered fruitless by those very Fowers who were called upon to support and defend t

THE PRINCIPLE OF NATIONÁLISI In adhering in the Central Powe forgetting the bes popmixtions of

relations

thred Grent

by a liberal margin and since the Tse July we have captured THE STRAITS BETTLEMENTS WAR her internal millions came attacked a strongly held hoight in Chiness subscribers, a few hundred from 588 offers and 26,141 men

sands from other Asia and the bel

the region of Kajmacklan overpower ance from British merc ing the Bulgarians who left numerous plantera in the Federated Malay Ntates,

traits Fettlements, and neighbour

corpses and abandoned a battery ing part. Fradicany ne

A Serbian communiqué states We advanced half a mile north-cost

made avaliable for Imperial Icen

money which con

of Kajmakalan, pursuing the Bul-Straits Settleme

garians. We have completely beaten eight of their battalions

STUBBORN FIGHTING ON

RUSSIAN FRONT

ontinues, are

teria

"Loxoox, Oct-8-

Contribur

[not have)

large money sury, and that of the States is still paying for its battleshi HUMB. Malays

With regard to the 815,0 the Federal Council of the tal placed at the dispeal of the Government, the following minute has been issued

Conveyed by the Seër

Colonies to the Feder

of State communiqué states that Many Biates, but the Chancell

Hallicz and south-Exchequer presumes

will wish to bring to stubborn fighting of Parliament the spor have taken 1,800 generops: action of the

place or formal record appreciation of the hear chitaky captured 2,600 offers to his Majesty's Gover

the terms

Ewooded Carpathians lett 46 hi thand 28th Septern-decide in what Iso considerable war isposed OL

should advances States

HECRUITING IN- XUSTRALIA.

mer the lacZE

FRENCH GA

aniqué statem

STRENCHES,

A draft of the Straits Settlem War Loen Ordinance has been publis in the Government - Usfeste" of s Colony

There Were

Somm

inifig in tan capture of trenches at Rancourt and Morvalima

Enemy attacks in Champagne in the

Butte Meani

of

Divisio

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USE OF WAR

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