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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1917.

TELEGRAMS.

(Continued from Page 1)

THE EVACUATION OF RIGA.

RUSSIAN UNITS SHOW EXCEP- TIONAL VALOUR.

1.

Lospos, Sept. 3.

A Russing semi-ethical massage states: ----

"AftoPotli forcing of tla in the 'evacuation of Riga was undered to

be expedited.

„Socerb- units shewoud" option valer. The first Battalion of bath charged into the midst of the melee at art critical undinent and thug back the enemy, pursuing him for

tamil

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A DEMAND FOR GENERAL KORNILOFF'S REĢIONATION.

PETROORAN, Sept. 5. "Certain members of the Conneil of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates are trying to utilise the fall of Riga to force the resignation of Ggueral Korniloff, but the officials declare that bis resigna- tion is impossible.

THE RUMANIAN FRONT. »

ENEMY STILL HOLDS THE INITIATIVE.

THE CHINA MAIL.

BRITISH NAYAL ZIRCRAFT ©BOMB ADRIANOPLE.

Loxtos Sept. 5, The Admiralty announce that Naval aircraft effectively, bomberk a bridge and milway station ab Adrianople, on the night of Septein-

ber 2-3.

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THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S

DISCOVERY.

REVELATIONS" AT THE SUKHOMLANOFF TRIAL

Dr.

Loscos, Sept. 3. The Tins Correspondent with the Rumanian Army states that the enemy still holds the initiative and is atent present confining himself to local actions and rectification of his front.

towards an agrect railway junction, in His afforts keem again to be directer

an attempt to split the Rumunian Army, which has sworn not to surrender,

THE ITALIAN FRONT.

HIGHLY IMPORTANT POSITION CAPTURED.

With regard to the tents of September 1. rio Germans conven- trategist position bell by a

Laspas, Sept. 5. The Daily Mail understands that; Russion Division. Their prepon. Jorating artillery silenced the Bashe trulis have captured Monte

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE WESTERN FRONT. GREAT AERIAL ACTIVITY.

LONDON, Sept. 3. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig | reports:

Last night's raid, northward of Lens, vielded a number of prisoners and four machine guns. There has been considerable artillerying antes The uuemy bomber various

froat

COST OF THE WAR.

REASSURING STATEMENT.

[FROM THE "DAILY INDERKAPIT

From the lengthy explanation just given by the Chancellor of the Exche quer concerning the national experidi ture from April to June 9 two poŝata of the Exchequer, in the weekly official energo. The first is that the issues ont returns do not disbursed by the

the full amount 2312618,000, ainst £51:51 if the figures for the period being

*not reprey. Mr

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places behind our lines, there being at Secondly, while the

returns a difference over

few soldier and civilian casualties.

There has been great aerial activity, Losnos, Sept. "5. We dropped tive, tons of bombs on rail Michaelis has issued a state-way stations, billets and aerodromes, intaining that certain revela down five enemy machines. Seven of and brought down thirteen and drove ons at the trial of the Russian fours are missing ex-Minister of Wir, M. Sukbon

slut Germany, is not responsible for linoff, support Germany's contention

the war:

The revelations in question, have not reueled London,

Dr. "Michaelis say that the Tear Sancplled the Russian mobilisation. but this order was thwarted, among others, by M. Sazonoff, the Foreign Xhinister.

Dr. Mihalis ash-Who was list these pro-war crimiks?

sian lateries and the first in San tabrielle, a light of 2,000 feet. Aggressive plans against Germany

frenches weggesubsequesitig destroyed by gifire, and owing to thegendr- mous bosses, the Division retired.

The erection of a Front this piofeed, was rendered ungere difficult By the great extent of the gaps out

the dysnes of artillery.

The wiminder of this Division Rods, reinforced by reserves and of second line of defence was organised, and, öwing to energestie contre-attacks with the bayonet. the enemy ut times, was drivu: Luek as far as the

fiver..

RUSSIAN MORALE GOOD.---

Terzograd, Sept i The d'entral Excentive Conninger States flat the Bussians her s Fainel ensihrable losses out the morale of the May is" good.

The soliters retired on a front of seven miles, rarrying their wounded corporades and officers. The mujority of the wounded qprívesďat the stres Ting stations with their weapoiss, Na panie was manifested on the battle, Hebt and all the efforts of the on inül are at prosent directed towards phe possibility of getting the Russians gut, of the Pul-de-ar which has been formed in the Region of Bigu ini a north-westerly dbertion, in omler te resist on the line the Rign-Veralen Hemily

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After ble "vacilation of the Roga sector the Russian lines will be con siderably sheartened and their frontTM will probably devupy a fine between Fredrichstadt and the Thalf of Riga, hallway litwon Bist and Venden, being partially based

the lower Bourse of the Bivostian All.

Geral Suvinkoff declared in an. interview that there is no danger of the enrichment of the Amy and the Russians as retiring in perfect erdor and in conformity with a pre--- korringoal "plan,

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RUSSIAN RETIREMENT ALONG THE GULF CONTINUES.

Lospos, Sept. 5.

A Russian official message, by wireless," states:----

Our. tirement along the Gulf of Rigi continues. The enemy have reacted, and are crossing the river

As, 50, versts to the north-east of Rigu.

"Our troops, operating to the east of Riga, retired to Zegewold, Lem- burg und Detmesinbruzd.g

GERMANY'S ENDEAVOUR.

four miles tirizia!

to the northeast of

FRENCH AND BRITISH IMPORTS.

AN ACT OF HOMAGE.

expen-

estimate, we are really spending any diture will probably exceed the Briget thing like an average of £8,000,000 day, s that, although it is impossible to of 400 a day may be exceeded, uos hy how much the Budget estimate there is no

no ground at present for an alarmist view

Brfuging the figures up to the end of last week.

the issues out of the Exche quer monated to £383,963,893, and it we add another 2,000,000 for disburse

THEATRE

LAST NIGHT!!

ROYAL.

LAST NIGHT!

J. R WILLADSEN

presents the

FRAWLEY

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"PAID IN FULL”

AND

TWENTIETH CENTURY VAUDEVILLE.

FROM TEXAS and KENTUCKY

ments not passed through the account. GEO. A. MOORE AND CORDELIA HAAGER

early £1,000,000 more thanation it

we get

a total

ouil for twelve weeks to Juno 23 of 11881 or £1,120 day PARIX, Sept. 4. since the emmencement of the financial The French and British Governments year. Although this is a spod deal less have agreed to an unrestricted exchange than £8,000,000, it is a Вгада

a daily

of af imports, with specified exceptiona

was anti- Board of Trade, stated that the BritishThere are, however, arious sons

Sir Albert Stanley, President of the cipated and wit

without might well Government hail consented to this as an for ex

well appear disquieting.

act of homage to France's valour and reducxl. In the first place, it is obvious for expecting that it will gradually be heroism and her itameasurable service that the national expenditure is not to the Allies,

ncurred at aniform rate in successive weeks. For instance, the distribution of for dividends on the We will not recur!

early in

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BRITISH SHIPPING.

had long dieen prepared by influential politichins in France. England and Russia. ineluding 34, Suzo 63 NEW VESSELS IN 6 WEEKS 1. Poinen,”

Dr. Michalis quotes Reuter's degraus five. Petregel berwe

and July 30, 1984, in th

endencour

to show that British

The position is of most vital im portange bi the defetue of Triste. AS Hernang, in the south; supports the Austrim left for Trieste Sun tilaille, a veritable fibraltar, protected the seem right. It had fliron prequired for defence with officiatintluence then was pro-war, ordinary vali, the guy and maching i concludes by reitencing that gun päkitions being excavated out solid reek or debodol by arience and wrote, and the steep slopes were a intigle of the thickest Barbed wire.

LATER.." „Eenter, confirtis" the report the!

fermany is determined to contious

town and the people for their tasty to fight in loyal harmony of the

rights and the Tregon of pracefal [ developingut.

a hali ya cuptured Monte of against the astounding revelatio

preably intended as a tinbrielle, and have taken 10in the correspondence of the Kaiser with prisomers,

the Tar discovered In The Russian This Sueres is of the highest archites. The dungerous staty of un- nilifury importausee.

preparedness on "the part of England, France and Russia to mat such a foe Germany ny the beginfilig of the war sufficiently disproves the Tale out*

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THE WESTERN FRONT.

BRITISH AND" PORTUGUESE REFULSE RAIDS.

LONDON, Sept. 3, Field-Marsko Sir Douglas Haig reports:-

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We drove off, raiders in the neigh- bourhood of Armentieres.

The Portuguese also 'drove off a raid ENEMY ATTACK FRUSTRATED BY

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GERMANS BOMB MORE HOSPITALS:

* LONDON, Sept. 5.

aggressive action against theemuny hiting been fange prepared by these Power Roj

Loxtos, Sept.

Lloyds Register shows that #3 new

British ships mostly large, were arided to the Register within six weeks.

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TRIBUTES TO AMERICA'S NEW

·ARMY.

mil next December Then the Chan- cellor inertions that his Bgures, as

distinguished front the weekly returns,

represent the total cash placet by the Treasury at the disposal of pending udicers, and past experience suggests that they are in excess of the real expenditure. They include all outgoings in respect of advances which may be muoverable, either in the summer year or in a subs quent year. or in respect of the purchase of com modities which are resold. Emphasising this statement, we are told that as regards, loans to the Allies the WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. which included Congresmen high commitments undertaken before the Government were liable during the open- The President headed a great parade, ing weeks of the, current year to fulfil officials soldiers and trines of the entry of the United, Sistes into the war Civil War and other veterans, as a but that the advantage of the entry of tribute the recruits of the dew.army.

Country is now being lelt.

THE STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE'S

REPORT ADOPTED.

LONDON, Sept. 5.

it is

Bas

partment remembered-that-the-f

2171 enormous of food supplies and other commodities which are subsequently resold, presumably at a evident that the amount of given by Mr Honar Law: the miscellaneous cathy in the

supply services under vot

votus of t

fcredit up to June

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*prove to be very much over-stated, are further told that the

The vote passed at the Trades Unión / Were

to

or advances

the expenditure a munitions

renditure on Arany Services is partly Parliamentary Committee's report sifirm which will be nitimately recovermbie, ing that the Conference nt Stockholm at while present would not be successful, ant THE ANTI-REVOLUTION PLOT IN urging that everything possible should

RUSSIA

MEMBERS OF LATE IMPERIAL FAMILY UNDER ARREST.

PETROGRAD, Sept. 3. The newspapers state that the ex- Heir

Presumptive, Michael Alexandrovitch," and his wife, url the Gond Duke Dimitri Pavlovitch, have been kept under arrest in con- nection with the anti-revolution plot valled on September: 2nd,

THE ANTI-CONSCRIPTION TERRORISTS IN CANADA.

SUSPECTS DETAINED.

MONTREAL, Sept. 5. "A terelant, with German connec- tions, is suspected as being the head of the anti-conscription terrorists.

Eleven sispects in connection with the Athelstan outrage have been detained.

then, it

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also affected by temporary-causes, such then, it apud seen that the freres

apid delivery, &c. Altogether, be done to secure general agreement as

not convey a a reasonable idea of the pro- to the aim of the working classes of all able daily.

Average expenditures

this

ough- condition for a successful International considerably better than it looks. the the Allied nations, as the fundamental out the year, and thus the position is

Socialist conference.

burden 19. heavy enough with-

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PLOTS IN MONTREAL,

NEW YORK, Sept. 5. Messages from Montreal state that plots to assassinate Sir R. L. Borden, and Solicitor General, and to dynamite frustrated by the arrests in connection the Parliament building have been with the dynamiting of Lord Atholsten's house.',

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, Sept. 5.

ont

On being allowed to appear worse th

it really is when the proper explanations are forthcoming, and the contents of the Chancellor's statement show the growing importance of a greater control over ex- penditure by the House of Commong... CLOSER CONTROL "AND AIMPLIFICATION.

Since the Treasury surrendered its became a hage spending departiment in functions as a financial watch-dog and

connexion with schemes of social reform all check on expenditure" seems to have vanished. Indepedent members with sound knowledge of finance, like Mr.. Harold Cox, or Mr. G.

G. Gibun Bowles, or Sir C. Ernest Tritton, no longer fund A place in Parliament, but there must be other business men pable of exercising the supervision which is go- needed. for the waste that is ing on

We We may patina ples

Silver is quoted at 471. The Market is on ison of nurs

DENEROUS BLACK WATCH

OFFICER.

The Army Council desire gratefully to acknowledge the receipt of two gifts of £3,000 each, which were presented to them in December 1915 and January PRESIDENT WILSON ON THE 1916, for the provision of guns and

THE AMERICAN ARMY...

WAR AIMS.

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too, for a

of our nation accounts. When expenditure is denit with, why is it necessary

statements of what

of

with

to

the lay or Consolidater Fund, and

ences other than votes .nt: votes of credit? It is doubtless necessary and the sum disbursed under

for the Treasury officials to keep sepa- rate accounta order know when the proceeds of a vote of credit' bave been nearly exhausted so that a fresh one may be asked for. Eat for everyone else it is absolutely immaterial, whether machine gune, by the late Sec: Lieut. money is spent out of what has been H. E Tyner, Black Watch Mr. Tyser sanctioned by the Budget or out of votes had stipulated that his name should not

credit And the votes of credit do not even be disclosed in connection with these keep the war expenditure separate, for, as this officer has been killed in action, and Navy, as well as the war costs gifts, at any rate till after the war; but on the one hand, they include the

his executor has agreed that his while on the other the interest on debt normal peace-time cutlay on the Army:

generosity should no longer remain

war is fexcluded incurred through the war and unrecorder. Tyser had also made services. Consequently the

added to the Consolidated Fund

the chat

of the many "contributing in aid “of his war cannot be gauged by the votes

of credit alone. President Wilson, in a letter to the regiment, and of charitable foud to be necessary to have to look back Apsin ught now New York contingent, said that he connected with it; and by a codici to for two years to discover the amount of temporary advances asing by the Government Yet such is the case.

New York, Sept. 5. within a week in honour of men The second great demonstration

called up by the selective drafts was attended by thousands, who paraded on the eve of departure for the train ing camps.

..

deserving cases

Subinarines shelled the Rigu coust. Our counterattacks drove the

A French communiqué. states:-envied the men across the seu and his will executed a few days before his enemy from some heights neur

After a lively bombardment, the child like to be on the field or in death, be left a legacy of £2,000 to his Solizeia. We took 200 prisoners Germans attacked, last arening, the trenches where the real and final battalion for the benefit of hard and and restored the position.

the Casernates: plateau. Our fire huttle for the independence of the checked the atthekers "who were United States would he fought, unable to reach our lines.

ulongside the other peoples of the world, who were struggling like PETROGRAD, Sept. 5. Military authoritics state that

themselves to make an end to those things threatening the integrity of Germany is endeavouring to extend German aeroplanes, last night, their territory, their lives and the operations to the eptire Baltic bombed the hospitals in the rear ut very character of the independence littoral All available men and Verdun. There were wore casual of their Governments. material Have been assembled for ties. They also heavily bombed Athia purpose.

Bar-le-dye and there were some civilian casualties.

„GERMANS CAPTURE HEAYY COAST GUNS.

LONDON Sept.

A German official, message, talean, etates:

The operations at Riga have fur kucr. devalopet. «Heavy scast güney

cluding some thirty cen

were captured, undamage,

The artillery struggle continued during the night. ** violently on both banks of the Micure,

Six enemy ueroplanes were brought down and five fell in their own lines, seriously damaged.

A REPRISAL

THE IRISH CONVENTION.

LONDON, Sept. 5. The Press Bureau announces that the Irish Convention met at the City Hall, Belfast, and continued its consideration

In the last weekly returns it will be found since April 1, while £183,000,000 that since haheen horrored on

on Ways

advances, the 1spaymenta of these advances have reached

£203,500,000 This particule form of Boating, debt, should be a minus quantity. bat it is not because at the end of 1910-12 teuporary advances for 8197,600,000 were carried forward, in addition to 219,000,000 from 1916-38 the result being

and Means advaness on June 23 was that although there is nothing in the accounts to show it the amount on Ways

196,631,000

Since 1895 Mr. Traer had lived the ordinary life of a young nish of wealth engaged in business in London, says the Times No one of his friends of those days would ever have anspected

loving friend, always at the opera or that the generous but somewhat pleasure- the bridge table, would turn into the keen soldier who joined the Black Watch at an age at which no one could have pointed the finger of scorn at him for stantling aside with neither special aptitude for, nor special knowledge of a day young relative who had been A friend of mine welcomed the other life and det who gave his rescued from silestroyed merekaut shifi. anyu a writer in some paper. He heard lowed to from bhn's quest story mended that

and | the ship was stopped, by boarded by its command

Who needed Tu showing his way.

where

of the draft schemes, based on the tako hus

As a reprisal for bambing hospitals, Dominions, principle of self government who spent: Im

a for pidis, Moner tonsborned with the the two paired in bombed Treves. We also carried out members of the Cousention, who after-

uide on-railway stations,-

avand inspected the barbon end pines" berrocks, factories and ips, causing u violest

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