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MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1916..

THE

LATEST

WAR.

TELEGRAM S.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail. J®

THE WESTERN FRONT."

BRITISH PROGRESS.

GROUND LITTERED WITH GERMAN DEAD,

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LONDON, Oct. 15. Rautar's "Curro pondent at Head- quarters writes

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We advanced well over the plateau on to Gentli down the slope with "the result that the Germans regained to some extent direct observation for

artillery fire. The ground was very daad and there was practically no shelter. We captored several positions of real tactical advantage beyond Cuedecourt.

The Germans, who were in great trength, counter-attacked with "very great cost to, themselves. Our casual- ties were light but in many places the ground was absolutely littered with German dead.

Our heavy artillery is now plastering the German front, crumbling the de- lences and exacting a big fall of. casualties.

ENEMY COMMUNICATION TRENCHES CLEARED.

General Sir Douglas Haig reports Further reports show that the enterprises undertaken yeaterday in the neighbourhood of Stuff and Schwaben Redoubts were highly successful.

North of Stuff Redoubt two lines of enemy communication trenches were cleared for a distance of nearly 200 yards and 100 prisoners werd taken. The operation was carried

out by a single company.

Our line has well advanced to the north and west of Schwaben: Re- doubt. Heavy losses were inflicted.

The total number of prisoners taken in both these operations was .900. *

"Ezemy trenches were entered at night west of, Serre,, and north of Reclincourt," north-east of Festhu bert and north of Neave Chapelle. Prisoners were taken and consider. able damage done to the enemy's defences

LATER. General Sir Douglas Raig reports: Our line has been advanced alightly north-east of Guedecourt."..

Enemy, artillery has been active between Les Boeufs and Courcelette and also in the neighbourhood of Schwaben Redoubt and the. Ancre Valley

A further-47. prisoners were taken

FRENCH, REPULSE ENEMY-

COUNTER-ATTACKS.

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FARIS, Oct. 16. A communiqué states:

Enemy aqunter-attacks on our new positions south of the Somme have been repulsed."

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FRENCH CAPTURE. 1,100

· PRISONERS..

GOOD WORK BY AEROPLANES.

PARIS, Oct. 15.

A communiqué states:

Eleven hundred prisoners were captured on the 14th inst. 'in thei Ablaincourt-Belloy sector.

We maintained and consolidated

: all our gains.

THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS REPELLED WITH HEAYY LOSSES

LONDON, Oct. 15.

A Russian communiqué states: Enemy attacks in the region of Skroboy were repulsed with heavy losses.

THE CHINA MAIL.

RUMANIANS FIGHTING

DESPERATELY.

BCERAREST, Oct. 16.

IMPORTANT BRITISH GAİN.

PARIS, Oct. 15.....

It is semi-officially reported that the British already occupy na outsinrts of Trausloy, which is ' A communiqué states:

being defended most In the Caliman region we fell back desperately its fall would compel the snemy abandon the line of heights

ween Quedecourt and Morval"

THE ITALIAN FRONT.

towards the frontier.

Desperate fighting is proceeding along the entire northern region.

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BOLLAND AND EXCESS PROFITS.

LONDON, Oct. 15,

It is understood that a Bill will be presented in the Dutch Parliament providing for an extension of the excess profits duty to Companies in Dutch East Indies.

The Times points put that if this proposals adopted it will imposa a serious burden on British owned Ditch entatas. Possibly they will be allowed Profits duty from the amount assessable to British Excess Profits duty, in which cass the British Tressary would be the

The Rumanians are holding up the FURTHER ITALIAN SUCCESSES. to deduct 30 per, cant. Dutch Exce enamy by day and night fighting in the Predeal region.

Oct. 14. ROAD A communique haya Woma The Rumaniana drove out the extending our occupation of Sober chemy from the Blistock Valley, and Ridge, south-east of Gorizia, where the THE WILSON-ELLERMAN SHIPPING captured the summit of Mount Negronomy has abandons isoners and in the Jiul Valley,

large quantites of arms and ammunition. Comparative quiet obtains in the Carso, where a hundred prisoners have been taken.

ENEMY'S STRONG FIRST LINE

An unbroken artillery duel is in progress on the Southern front, along the Danube.

THE POSITION IN GREECE.

ALLIED CONTROL IN GREECE.

ATHENS, Oct., 15. -

"The Pireaus is controlled by the We carried trenches north of French whe occupy the forts over-looks Korynitza and repelled countering the barbour. Allied officers control attacks with heavy losses.

the police of Athens and the Pirests,

Enemy attacks At Kirlibaba.

Dobridja Dornawatra and repelled.

were

THE WORK OF THE BRITISH

ARMOURED CARS.

TSAR RECEIVES THE COM MANDING OFFICER.

PETROGRAD, Oct. 15.

The Tsar has received Captain Locker-Sampson who is in comround of the British armoured cars.

The cars have had exciting, times in Asia Minor, operating 100 miles from railhead and dependent on bullock tracks.

“A CONSCIENCELESS MONARCHY."

M. VENEZILOS AND THE KING OF GREECE..

Ross, Oct. 18..

"A semi-official report states that the Austrians considered their first-line positions in the Case of the strongest kind. They extended only seven miles, thus nullifying the numerical superiority line Riso entailed an attack on its whole of the Icaliana. The straightness of the extent,

Wach the Italians captured important. points on this line.the Austrians feverishly began to prepare a second line which they had then only laid out. The Italians are now attacking this.

DESPERATE FIGHTING IN

:

TRANSYLVANIA.

BUKHAREST, Oct. 15.

A communiqué saga The Rumanians recaptured the villago of Sosmezoe, in Eastern Transylvania, after desperate street fighting.

SALONIKA, Oct. 15. M. Venezilos, in a message to Reuter, says that half of old Greece and nine- tenths of the population of new Greece and all the islands are on his side. The Provisional Government did not con- template further representations to the King as it was hopeless to expect King stormed three heights in the vicinity of Constantine to change..

the Vulcan Paas, inflicting great losses on the enemy, who retired in disorder.

At Guivala, in the. Toersburg Pass, the Rumanians were compelled to retire to Rucaru.

LONDON, Oct 15

A telegram from Salonika, dispatched on the 13th inst., says ---

We repulsed two enemy attacks in the Predeal Pass, south of Brasso, and

An enemy attack" on the Rumanian left wing in Dobrudja wat repulsed.

Boats containing Bulgarian troops were sunk at several places on Danube.

GALLANT BRITISH AIRMEN PROMOTED.

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AMALGAMATION.

LONDON, Oct. 15. The Wilson Line states that the amalgamation with the Ellerman was necessary to meet the post-war com petition of neutrals, who are making larger profits than British shipowners,

The transfer bringi 200 vessels with a deadweight carrying capacity of nearly a million and a half tons under the control of the Ellerman line.

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THE GROUP BANKS IN CHINA.

GRAVE INSINUATIONS REFUTED.

The following letter has been publish- ed in the Fating Daily News

SIR-In your isste of the 29th Sep. tember you reprint an article from the Journal vie Pekin containing some grave insinuations against the London Man- agement of this Bank, namely:-

1-That the American Group having been applied to by the Chinese Government for a loan, telegraphed to Sir Charles Addis last June suggesting that they should advance funds on behalf of the consortiam

-That Sir Charles Addia replied that it would first be necessary to consult the German Group, requested the American Group to do so on his behalf.

And

3.That Sir Charles Addis deemed it unnecessary to inform the Allied Groups of the communications that bas passed.

At a banquet last night M. Venezilos, On the mountains in a speech, said the people had been they had to be hauled up gradients led to the brink of a precipice by a and then lowered by ropes. Fre-conscienceless monarchy which had been quently rocks ripped the tanks. The forced to disown the alliance with Serbia

I am now in a position to state the rents were ingeniously patched with The people must be organised militarily

acral facts, which are the following shaving soap and medical plaster and to expel the Bulgarians and to do

1-The American Group having been applied to by the Chinese Government the cars restarted, in a couple of their duty to the Serbians whose heroism

for a loan, proposed to

Ito the United States hours

had won the admiration of the world.

The Gaule contains the announce. / Government at W3D behalf of the on that they On one occasion Captain Locker King Constantine believed himself King

should advance funds on Quintuple Consortium; at the same time Sampson was ambushed in the region by the grace of God, thus violating the

they telegraphed substance of this of Mush He drove down a hillside Constitution.

communication to their London repre A National Assembly were promoted to the rank of Flight-sentatives. A member

of the letter firm mary miles, finally charging into must be convoked after the war to Commander, are now made temporary informed Sir Charles Addis verbally And a river, and escaped; though the enrerect an invulnerable rampart against

Captains.

confidentially of its

The proposal Iwas found on examina- was riddled with bullets."

future violations by the monarch..

The cars were frequently in action with great success, damaging Turks and capturing villages.

They were travelling night and day in the treeless Mush plain, and had constantly to bridge gullies, bogs and rivers with wood obtained from sparse villages.

A number of the officers and men were decorated for bravery.

The speech was received with cheers | and cries of "Down with the, King":" and "Down with Traitors 1"

"OUR DAY"

DONATIONS BY THE KING AND QUEEN.

LONDON, Oct. 18. The King has given £5,000 and One squadron is now operating in the Queen £1,000 to the Funds of Persia, south of Lake Urmia, the Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John on the occasion of the

Our Day" appeal.

THE KAISER'S BRAGGING.

A3STERDAM, Oct. 16. The Kaiser, addressing the Austro German troops in the East, id

When you again attack the enemy, let your war cries to He shall not break through He shall be benten

The King in an autograph letter says he fully appreciates the splendid work these Societies are doing. As only by a United Empire can victory

LONDON, Oct. 15,

Lieut. Prandon, who played a brilliant ment that Lieut. Robinson, F.C., and part in the recent Zeppelin raids, and

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THE "POTTER'S BAR ZEPPELIN.

tion

the

of its contents.

1 to present two pracvical difficulties," which were as follows:

(a) The four Allied Groups could not co-operate with the Germans.

of

be

(8) The American Group, as citizens not ignore the Germans in any proposal La neutral and friendly country, could made by them to the Quintuple Group. 3-The difficulties being found 10 superable, the proposal was dropped; and Sir Charles Addie, who had merely cussions that were going on, and had

informed in confidence of the dis- cansions authority

no

LONDON, Oct. 15 Second Lieut. Tempest, P.S.Q, tho hero of the Potter's Bar Zeppelin, was dining with some friends when the Zep polin warning was issued. Ho imamedi- ately ascended in a biplane and was in the air two hours. After the Zeppelin was on fire he travelled parallel to it, and when it began to descend he had to resort to nosediving to escape to disclose them to the other allowed the matter to drop also. collision with the faming mass: After- I think that a comparison these wards he returned to finish his dinner, two statements will not fail to bring out Second Lieut. Tempest was educated in their true relief the misrepresenta- on the Stoney burst training ship, tions which

the compose former, and Worcester, was afterwards a mining appears to me regrettable that charges

of the serious nature implied should engineer, and subsequently engaged in

have been made against this Bank by farming in South Africa and Canada.

your French contemporary, when en quiries in the proper quarter would have shown them to be groundless.

THE TIMES" AND GERMAN BANKS.

be secured, so utat they be equally SPEEDY ELIMINATION WANTED, united in the rebel of the sufferers.

Each of you is the equal of three, of THE ADVANCE OF THE SERBIANS. even six, enemies... The enemy's front will be crushed against our iron wall.” à

RUSSIANS CAPTURE A TURKISH TRANSPORT,

Loxton, Oct. 15.

A Russian communiqué sanounces that a Russian submarine captured

SHIPS BUNK. a 6,000-ton Turkish transport com.

LONDON, Oct. 18, manded by German officers in the

The Russian steamer Mercaler and the Black Ses, near the Bosphorus, after Rumanian steamer Butritza have been an hour's fight, and took her into sunk Sebastopol

ITALIAN PROGRESS.

MOUNTAIN GUN BATTERY CAPTURED.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

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Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation,

Peking, 8th October, 1916.

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IMPORTANT. SHIFFING' FUSION.

P AND O. AND; NEW ZEALAND LINE AGREEMENT.

The City Editor of The Globe wrote on. Anguist 29:!

EMPLOYMENT OF CHINESE ON BRITISH SHIPS.

PROTEST AT THE TRADES UNION. CONGRESS.

against

At the meeting of the Trades Union LONDON, Sept. 15. The Times says there is a growing

On September 7 next the stockholders Congress at Birmingham on September feeling in the City in favour of the

of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam 8th, Mr J. Havelock Wilson, moved - complete and speedy elimination' of

Navigation Company are to be naked "That this Congress views with alarm LONDON, Oct. 15.

to approve and confirm the agreement and cheap Asiastic labong on British the increased employment of Chinese enemy interests, particularly of German

which has been entered into between ships during the progress of the present A French communiqué states: and semi-German banks, which did an

their company, and the New Zealand The Serbians are advancing left of enormons business in acceptances with the object of discovering secrets of

Shipping Company, Ltd. At the same war, and enters its emphatic protest the Cerna.

the Government engaging British trade, such as who were best DRINKS TO BE PAID FOR IN HARD time, a resolution will be submitted Chinese on British Admiralty chartered French cavalry has cut the railway buyers and best sellers. These particu

increasing the capital of the Peninsular ships; and further requests the Govern line south of Serres.

Jazy ware forwarded to Berlin and

and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ment to introduce a Bill into the House distributed among German business men,

from £1,798,133 deferred stock to of Commons, be repatriate all Chinese On September 19 the following £2,704,853 deferred stock, thus making proving they are of British nationality

who cannot produce a satisfactory evidence thus enabling them to successfully com circular was sent out by the Collector with the existing preferred stock, and that in future no Chinesa be rigné plete in buisness:

of Customs to all hotel and restaurant total capital of 25,744,903 The British ships west of the Suez Canni proprietors in Calcutta:-

consent of the Treasury has been Mr J. Cotter, in seconding, said there Your attention is specially invited to obtained to the increase and fatue of were over 15,000 Chinese engaged on conditions 7 (a) and 8 of the general deferred stock.

British ships sailing out of this country conditions and conditione 2 of your The agreement provides that each Chinese living in places which no

In Liverpool

there

were over 4050 restaurant license.

ordinary share of 10 fully paid of the English boarding-bouse or lodging house LONDON, Oct. 15,

Under condition 7 (a) you are New Zealand Shipping Company shall keeper would be allowed to conduct, and Mr. Austin Chamberlain has authoris prohibited from serving liquor to an he exchanged for 10 of fully paid Pyet up to sw

wooks ago nothing had. ed the Indian Committes of the intoxicated person, and under condition and O. deferred stock. The total issue been dous by The municipal authorities. Imperial Institute to inquire into and you are prohibited from selling liquer of P. and 0. deferred stock to effect to alter the paditions. He described Despite low-lying clouds, our Bezo.

report on the possibilities of extending on oredit as is done by the signing of this arrangement and for which power Chinese boarding-house in East L THE WESTERN FRONT.

the industrial and commercial utilisation chita. Under condition 2 of the police is naked is therefore 4905,720 where 10 Chinese sat round an

table

was placed -planes co-operated most effectively.

BRITISH POSITION APPRECIABLY United Kingdom and elsewhere in the allow reputed prostitutes on your number of your beat the British four yards

of Indian raw materials throughout the conditions you are not permitted to ZOONOMY, STRENGTH AND EFFICIENCY, between £30 and 240. Thi The fighting surpassed all that, was

IMPROYED,

Empire expected of them. One returned

promises g

were four body placed LONDON, Oct. 15. riddled by over 200 bullets. Two

The Committee has appointed sub I hereby convey to you a timely India Steam Navigation Company has front bedroom

close together and on each two mil An Italian official announcement

General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com-Committees to deal with the more warning regarding all the conditions of maintained service between this country pilots machine-gunned the enemy

says: The Italians have progressed muniqué, anys In local attacks today important groups of materials and to your excise license, and especially the and Australia. in alliance with the opium. In another, ose state from trenches at short range, firing very further towards Mount Boite and the neighbourhood of the Schwaben and inquiries already conducted by the requested to put a stop to such practices the New Zealand Shipping Company fourteen upwards, ho gaid

we appreciably improved our position in consider the results of investigations conditions quoted above; and you are Federal Steam Navigation Company, the 39 opium strokers In particules shares in which company are held by " district, which he named, girls from captured a battery of four mountain Redoubt, taking 200 prisoners.

Imperial Institute and to obtain the if they exist in your establishment. guns, und much ammunition in the There is nothing to report elsewhere views of leading merchants, man- If in spite of this it is found that The object of the proposed combitation son going into and leaving these house

(Shame.) These Chires were now Cosmangone area.

apart from artillery and trengh mortar ofacturers and other users of India's these conditions are not observed their to make a complete fusion between two or three o'clock in the már- excise lirezse would be liable to cancel the New Zealand Shipping Company penetrating into some of our inland activity..

raw products.

An important sepect of the Comlations. R. SINHA (lor Collector of and the F and O. and British India town and codacting

Isundries, hich Companies, thus promoting cocnomy were gambling houses and something TWO BRILLIANT FRENCH

mittee's work will be to suggest openinge Customs). ATTACKO.

for the employment of these Indian

Residents in hotels will still be able strengthening the portion of all the worse than det er

arton said that in Me J. Baxton

tin Liverpool materials which went to enemy countries to get drinks on their signature. Con companies and generally increasing the before the war edition 8 of the restaurant license says efficiency of their joint work. The they found the Aliens Act was only 500 UNWOUNDED PRISONERS. The Indian Committes includes No holder of a license for the retail terms of exchange are subject to their who came over as members of crower at

Irand. It was being evaded by

by Chinese Mr. C. C. McLeod (Chairman), Ford sale of country liquor,, ganja charras, being accepted by not less than 70 por the pay of 14 month This matter PARIS, Oct. 153 A.communique my Two French Islington, Sir Marshal Reid, Sir John or opium, and no bolder of a license for cent of the New Zealand shareholders ought to be dealt with in the intern

The F. and O. directors are astisfied the morality of the whole country. He pondente said the advent of the new

Hewitt Sir RW. Carlyle, Bir J. retail sala of foreign liquor for con- In the course of a debate in the attacks were brillantly niceasfel In Dunlop Sraith Professor Wyndhara amption on the premises, shall under that the terms offered to the sharehald JCR Bell (Hall) supported the motion- British armies was an event of the Reichstag on the treatment of prisoners one to the west of Belloyen-dan-Terre Damefazend Mesonderstehlicante, call such saciable artichean of the New Zealand Coureur are which was car kiguest importance. - 'keir deal, had Kol war & representave we capturae tal finer GLAVNI on a George Alles and Yusuf A£%%

01. Govern

on credit, or receive any pledge for fair to both parties. The property of how astonished the Germans. The speeches mat stated that Germany had asked front of two kilometros, In the other to folly

payment of thể

the New Zealand: Shipping Company thereof, or say includes the New Zealand's Company a we captured Genermont and sugar

but money in hange therefo orth mat of BRITISH STEINS. Malaincourt. Nameron

how.

GENERAL': CASTELNAU ON THE BITUATION.

"WE HAVE THE GERMANS BY THE EARS.”

PARIE, Oct. 15. Reuter's Correspondent at the French Headquarters reports that General Castelnau, addressing the Pram corres

LONDON, Oct. 15.

PRISOMERS OF WAR GAMPS IN INDIA.

GERMAN COMPLAINTS.

AMSTERDAM, Oct 15

in the Raichstag showed that the for the abortion of prisoner camps in rosary 1,200 metres British Army now was Germany's main Trimaand added P

Abe care, General Castelnan aided

and we

thraíza are aciclo

"any other pada: fde rezi

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had bee