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THE WAR.

TO-DAY'S

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Maul.)

THE WESTERN FRONT.

BRITISH BEAT OFF AN ATTACK..

LONDON, Oct. 8.

Field Marshal, Sir Douglas Hig re. ports We beat off an attack, to the eastward of Folygon Wood, following upon yesterday's heavy barrage,

We auccessfully carried out a raid, to the cast of Moochy,

ed

LONDON, Oct. 8. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

reports:

The whether is stormy and all day long there has been heavy rain.

Both artilleries were active on the Ypres battlefront.

Our acroplanes on Sunday dropped |

3 tons of explosives on Staden and

Courtrai railway stations.

Two hostile machines were brought |

THE REPRISALS QUESTION.

ALL-NIGHT RAIDS PREDICTED,

LUNDON, Oct. 82%

& Times Correspondent, discussing the possibilities of an aerial offensive againat Germany, predicts all-night raids of the densely populated Rhine Valley, which will be carried on with mathematical Precision and by a regullir time table

ka that of the Take trains.

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APPREHENSION IN GERMANY.

AMSTERDA, Oct. B

The German authorities are taking the

down and three driven down. Oue of British threat of air reprisals seriously.

purs is missing.

ARTILLERY DUEL-

LONDON, Oct: 8:

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The police on the frontier tower par rol nightly to ensure that no gleam of light in visible from the houses and severe penalties are fixed for the slight est carelessteen in this respectat Elaborate official regulations have been issued in Cologne and elsewhers notifying a system of warnings by means

of sirens and rocketa and enjoining the

A French communique reports artil the inhabitants to remain indoors and

ery activity in Belgium at the to extinguish their lights. Burtelise Cragune "region. Otherwise quiet prevaile

*GERMAN REPORT.

Loxnox, Oct. 8...

A German oficiul nesuge states: Local English attacke, on .some sectors, following a strong drab fire. failed...

There was very violent artillery activity between Ailette and to the aith of Pargny, and a strong French fire between Samogneux and Bezon

FOUN

Our artillery frustrated au atinck, to the south-west of Beaumont

GERMANY BECOMING

DISHEARTENED.

FRANK SPEECH BY MEMBER OF THE REICHSTAG.

ASSTERDAY, Oct. 8.

A message from Berlin states that a) member of the Reichstag, Herr Gothain,

dressing the Central Committee of the Progressiver, declared the hopeless ns of attempting to crush the enemy on land. No British disposition towards pence was discernible, notwithstanding the beavy shipping losses, and the British had not even introduced the

ENGLISH COUNTY TROOPS IN THE rationing of food stuffs. Ameried rannct be forced to makce peace and Germany's LATEST BATTLE.

Allies are disinclined to continue the

LUNDON, OC. 8 way for a German plans of conquest. Mr. Buch Thomas, the War Corres. He anticipated strikes in Germany ponient, states that the English County if the war ecutinged, for similar troupe, who held the right flank at the reasons. Battle of Broodeinde, showed a most remarkable power of endurance. Thus had the hardest and the least glorions: job of the whole Front.

One regiment." in attacking" had to crom the whole Print of Pol; gonbeke full in the fifce of a slope severed with pill boxes and lockhouses that they resembled a long entrapment of

BITTER PRESS ATTACKS ON DE HELFFERIGHT,

Dr Helfrich's attitude in the Reich- sag, when he said that if they had no confidence in the lenders of the Army and the Government there we

tents These Beak valleys are o no object in his coutinoing to speak, swampy that the General, then going hit esoket bitter Press, attacks.

to see the troops, took twenty minutes The Guremment le accused of erad to wade across one valley and the mening the real issue and decisive bap were still being dug out, who had sunk penings, generally, are expected m up to their necks."

the reumption of the debate, in vic The Germans, further acuth, in the of the possilde adoption of an Inde direction of Corines, had the most pendent Secialist motion implying intenie Poncentration of guna vote of censure against Dr Michaels they had ever amalgamated and Dr Helferich and it is doubtful if anything in the fighting surpasses the steady patience

of some of the Midlanders, who hore

The orders eava that if the mo tionis alter to Hechte

Free the Chancellor and

the punishment without flinching die Chanceller to clear out, if they reinso

afterwards attacked without any loss of to resign.

dash

CALLING UP UNFIT AUSTRIAN LANDSTORMERS.

It was after a similar experience that the Lincolns and the Devons went cles through to their final objective and some of these troops on the right wing, at the end of the

fight, were almost leaderless and quite - without rities water, yet they hold most firmly laudat despite their dwindling numbers

ZURICH, Oct

The

tro-Hungarian. calling up

The Londoners and the south of IMPORTINE England troops made one of the fiercest bayonet charges in the attack

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