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THE KAISERS THE LATEST AIR-RAIDS ON

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CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE TSAR.

LURID LIGHT ON GERMANY'S INTERNATIONAL DEALINGS.

GERMAN OCCUPATION OF „DENMARK CONTEMPLATED,

» Laxnoy, Sept. 4.. „Further; devinnenes which passe between the Kaiser and the Tier are

| published in the New York Herald.

ENGLAND SHEERNESS AND CHATHAM DISTRICT BOMBED.

107 NAVAL MEN KILLED.

Losnas, Sept. 4.

A British official statement states lat six aeroplanes participated in last night's air raid. They proceed-

['ed as far as Chatham and dropped:

tits on the Isle of Thanet, Sheer- ness and in the Chatham district.

There were many enaualties. One civilian was killed and six were

Fle Kaiser quentés à Reuter teleira. The material damage was gram, dated July 1005, announcing

slight.

ห

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Our ridelines went up and anti-

the fortheuning visit of the British Fleet to the Baltic, on which their craft guns fere fired, without Kuiser expresses his opinion that result.

this was intended to frighten bina - The Secretary to the” Admiralty The Kaiser, in a subsequent tele. reports that during the raid, 107 gram, complains of the bluess of naval atings were killed and 8- hix reception at Copenhagen and the wounded. Bush distrust of Germany byt said!

he thought the Thanes wete, gradu- ally renciling themselves to the

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heaviest „don-civilian losses of any Á telegram; from the Kaiser to the raid that hus yet taken place. Tsar, dated September 2, 1945, sin It not stated officially where the conageti with the Russers Fapanese avab ratings were killed and injered war, suggests that France left Rusia ( but unotheinl reports mention tit notoriously in the lurch, whereas the naval barracks at Chathum wuro Germany helped her as far as pos- struck, välving serious loss. sible. The telegram states: "Tlut! Apparently the raiders were over pats" Iussia orally under, öblign: the crust for 2 considerable time und

it was a clear meenlight night,

tions to a

Other telegrams from the Kaiser Indvíard Hike Taue to put, the respon- sibility, for the peace negotiations on the Dum so as to shield himself from possible disasterous

Mequences

JUN-

Altogether, the correspondence. Juvia the impression of alus ip credible duplicity on the part of the Emperor, and it seenelles with the typic parsage: "We have joined Finds belare God who has heard our VOWS. What is signed in, signed. God is nur

LATKU.

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„GERMANY'S NEW AEROPLANE- FACTICS.

HARVEST MOON MAIDS.

Luxoox, Sypt. 4- The Gennaseem to be develop tervest moon aids are not confined ing wetopline thetics, and the

to the south-east.

Correspondent report ruids in Flanders and messages conterning- list night's raid on the south-east cast by that several heavy this

The complete text of the Kaiser wet bard, in Kent, some miles and die Tsar pelogrons regarding the inbind. The midnight air resounded Baltie and Danzark has now beep with the mess of aftergit engines" Leevived.

and the bomb dropped on September 2nd were very houry, making a crater forty feet wide.

The correspondence shows that after the meeting of "the two Eu perons at Bjorkce, the Kalar, in"} agreement with the Tsar, undertank. the rulisation of the scheme tôl declare the Baltic, a closed sea, but owing to the resistance of Deminark and the threatening attitude of Greut Britain, the Kaiser decided, in 1905,

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ANOTHER RAID.

SOME MACHINES REACH

"LONDON, DISTRICT.

LONDON, Sept. 5.

A British official message states with Great that a number of enemy acroplanes Britain to treat Denmark us, he crossed the south-east const, at Tented Belgium later, naziely to elever last night, and dropped occupy neutral Denmark with ins borbe on a nuinber of places. annies in order to secure advantages. Some of the machines reached the which Denmark refused by declining London district, where bombs, were to join in the secret, Russo-German dropped. combination..

No reports of damage have yet been received.

LATER,

The British and Allied newspapers

give prominence to the correspon BRITISH NAVAL AIR-RAID. dence between the Tsar and the Kaiser as throwing a lurid light on the poiquous methods of German international dealings and the appul fing danger.cf autocrats controlling diplomacy,

LONDON, Sept. 4. The Admiralty announces that naval aircraft, on Sunday night, bombed docks, subinarino shelters and railway sidings at Bruges, caus

The inexpleteness of the corre- spendence, which continued throughing a' fire to break out at the lock out 1005, and perhaps later, leaves gates from the Cluse Canal, one guessing as to why the plote elu bombed Vararefiere aero- build; but it begins certain that it Irome, yesterday morning. was owing to the growing Franco- Russia-rapprochtuent before und during the Algeciras affair

Six aeroplates attacked one of our

rubines, who shot down one of the

The Times says that the correspois enemy Other combats occurred. dence is fresh proof of the Keiser's One of our machines is missing insincerity and points out that, this was the maf who furnished Great THE PRICE OF FETHOL Britain with a plan for a campaign against the Boers Who gun trust hie Bonour, and, good faith et 15. is on the rotter foundation the the Peace fanatics desire to build the Inture cafety of the world.

LONDON Sept

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