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THE FIGHTING AT RIGA.

RUSSIANS THROW BACK AN ENEMY OFFENSIVE.

LONDON, Jan. 9. Russian official report, ran mitted by wireless, states:

We threw back an enemy ofensive west of Riga and captured an island Ten the Western Drina river, north of Dvinsk, taking even machine guns and four trench mortars.

FIGHTING IN SNOWSTORM.

PRO-GERMANISM 'IN SPAIN.

SPANISH CABINET RESIONS.

MADRID, Jan. 9.

The Spanish Cabinet kas resigned, t

ALATHE Cabinet follows on a violent pa

The rraignation of the Spanish.

German attack on the Romanones.

Ministry, in consequence of its refusal to support President Wilson's Note.

As an instance, the pro-Germa journal Lanation recently published

A German official report transmitted an interview with a high diplomas by wireless, states :

understood to be the German Ambas

In a beary snowstorm the Russians sador at Madrid-declaring that the recaptured Glandon Island, north

submarining of Spanish ships woukā, -

severe lesson" to Spain, in view Illuxt

An attempt against the west bank of the Drina failed.

be

of the Signor Romanones siding with the Allies and not taking the chanNÍ of mediating in the war. The Op-

The enemy is tenaciously defending the valleys from the Bereczk mountains position organ Laiporu declared that into the Moldavian plaio. We are, step

| by step, advancing.

Wa stormed positions on both sides

of the Carinu and Sunita Valleys, and we reached the Putna sector.

Spain could not accept lessons from foreigners.

GERMANY AND PEACE.

The enemy is bolding a new position CENTRAL POWERS' POSITION BO

on the opposite bank.

We drove back the Russians to the Crangeni-Nanesti line and stormed Garlenska

Yesterday's captures now amount to -99 officers, 4,400 men and three guna..

THE OPERATIONS IN RUMANIA.

LONDON, Jan. 9.

A Russian official report stater: We defeated attacks south of the Oituz RiverS

The Rumanians fell back six verate) wesf of Monestar Kachinul, on the Kasino River.

We took up new positions on the line of the Putns Serath Rivers,

THE SITUATION DESCRIBED.

LONDON, Jan. 9.

• BE DEFINED;"

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 2. After the Entente have replied to President Wilson's Note, the Gempaz Chancellor, in the Reichstag. will. further define the position of Ger- many and her Allies.

i

Germany will simultaneously ad dress representations to the Neutrals who supported President Wilson's Į proposal.

GERMAN SUBMARINE ACTIVITY. - (MALTA

LONDON, Jan. 9.

3 Berlin official an

announcement: claims that a German submarine torpedoed and sank in the Aegend Sea on December 27th the convoyed French battleship Gaulois; in the Mediterranean on January las the Inerris, a fully-laden British troop*"

By the capture of Fochani, the Germans have turned the western transport, convoyed by destroyers, extremity of the so-called Sereth and on January 8 an armed heavily. lines, which run for forty miles laden transport of 6,000 tona.

ENEMY CAPTURE OF GRAIN:

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 9. German correspondents claim that 300. waggon-loads of grain were cape

eastward from Fochani, but the Rus- signs, who have been maintaining the brunt of the fighting while the Rumanians are refitting in their rear, have another defensive position ang the Biver Sereth, behind which is tured at Braila, They confirm the the formidable line of the River destruction of the factories and stata Preth.

that most of the population remain.

......

♫ Both rivers must be forced before General Mackensen is able to enter Russian territory unless he attempts a hazardous crossing of the Danube, from Dobrudja, below Galatz.

The length of the front on which General Markensen is operating with three, Armies, exclusive of Dobradja, is 120 miles, between the mouth of the Sereth and Gyimes Pass. Halt of this front lies in the mountains where the fighting consisted of a succession of struggles for isolated heights The enemy still has to face the main positions on the

ITALY BUILDING MERCHANT

Italy:

SHIPS.

ROME, Jan. 9. signing £6,000,000. aferling for the construction of mer- chant,shirs.

AGRICULTURAL BRANCH "OF MUNITIONS MINISTRY.

LONDON, Jan, 0. The Minister of Munitions has created an Agricultural machinery

Importers-Exporters A or an Estance, heights west of the Trotus and the branch as Deal for the manufacture

Commission Ageuts

HONGKONG

Branches —

SAN FRANCIBOO, CAL,

TUKURAMA, JAPAN, BOMBAY INDIA:

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Central Locatier. And Lilia Fans and Ligeting Sereth. Haropan Bathe and Samimry Pittiar Has and Cold Water Syswim throughout. Best of Food and Service.

TELEPESES S73. TELEGRAPHIC ADDLEM

VICTORIA.

WITCHELL,

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the labs BIEN FING,

TERMS VEIT: MODERATER)

of machinery and implementa which Meanwhile the Russians are are classed as munitions work. heartened by the success" ga Na

INCREASED SHIPMENTS OF

COTTON CLOTH

twenty mile front west of Bign, THE BRITISH TAXTILE TRADE. where a spirited advance across the frozen marches" has put for |ward their lime at one poins four milca, Despatches from Petrograd indicate that the Russians are most hopeful of making the Germang poy dearly for the Rumanian operations by shattering the whole fabric of the Germia defence in the north,

LONDON, Jan. 9, The Board of Trade returns shty that Lancashire shipped '5,255 lion yards of cotton cloth in against 4,7481 million yards in 1918. AUSTRIAN BEFORT

The exports of grey falling off, while those, strian message says the and printed dyed goods are increas onomy has been driven bäck, southe ing.

of Foosanforthe mouth

pieac