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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1918.

TELEGRAMS.

(Continued from Page 1.)

THE

GREAT BATTLE.

CLOSE ON, ENEMY'S HEELS.

'GERMANS BURNING TOWNS

IN BETIREMENT "

"Parts, Sept. 5. Plouny, Tussy and Lafete are in Blanes,

SUBMARINES DESTROYED. BRITISH ADMIRALTY PUBLISHES LIST OF 130 COMMANDERS.

BRUTAL COMMANDERS MARK- ED FOR SPECIAL ATTENTION.

Loxpos, Sept, A

The Admiraly announces Although its not intended to adopt the practice of giving prooi to the ficial ulteringes of Hix: Majesty Ministers, it is thought (desinches to give the marges of the

Cogamamine Pattires of 150 Gernian, sultuarine's wingh here bec

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

PROGRESS OF THE BATTLE

GERMANS IN STATE OF, SEMI- PANIC..

HOW THEIR RESISTANCE TURNED INTO FLIGHT.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LONDON, Sept. 3.. Renter's Correspondent, telegraphing on Tuesday evening from the British Headquarters, saya :---

The long bitter battle which was dis-expected to develop ont of yesterday's Į powd of, ha Order 1 substantiate controck against the famous switch-line,

FRENCH ADVANCE FURTHER.

1,600 PRISONERS TAKEN.

LONDON, Sept. 4.

A Frosch communique states "Last ovoning and during the night we continued to push the enemy cast of the Canal-th-Nord and hotween the Ailette and the Aiano,

Wa captured Bois-du-Chapitre, north-east of Chevilly, and Bussey, farther south.

Our advanced clamenta, pursuing the enemy, are approaching Crisolles.

North of the Ailette, we carried our lings to the weatern outskirts of Coucy- le Übatean and Juvincourt.

To the south, we advanced east of Levy, reached the outskirts of Ciamenney and Brave, and penetrated

prisoners in this region.

ENEMY'S RETREATING POSITIONS

PREPARED IN ADVANCE.

K

PARIS, Sept. 4

The Petit Purisien reports that some German". Generala have had several retreating positions prepared and strongly fortified at the frontier. The paper remarks on the fact of the German Star having considered retest, is the best proof of the Allies' victory and the enemy's anxiousness,-Haves Agency."

GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON, Sept. 4. A wireless German official mes statae:

We withdrew an Morday night our

and Manancourt.

The French are still elses on the the wild the fatement made by the broke suddenly during the afternoon Baby-le-Long. We took over 1,500 troops in the line af Arlenx, Moeuvres

heels on the ring shiny,

THE PRESENT SITUATION, BUFTISH FIRSILY ESTABLISH

BU»MT»MENJANCOUBT ANDE"

ETRICOUNT.

Prine Minister in the Vonse of C TEEN August 7th, and stored in Jtly tieriaus paper, natuvly, that at kuust. 154) el tiesa "Svean" pests Place bersy destroyed.

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into a general enemy fight...

From the time we carried the switch On the Veslo front our elements system at 7.30am until well after mid-crossed the river at several points. day the resistance atiffened, then died that the enemy was withdrawing as down so suddenly that it was evident

hastily as he could

The statement dnes or inhals At 10.30 this morning our airmen [the officers commanding the Austrian reported that no Germans could be seen Istimonines, or which & nuruber image Sensee, which funs nearly due sunth

west of the Capal-dn-Nord and De le London, Sept. A

hon destroyed, and does not from Douai, save at a fow outposts at Vairs Gas been cleared mass of the German sul places along the bank. of the enemy "lend we are firmly Marines put out of action, estrilishike at Menamour piad Hari-

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Between" Mogustes and thrige "Nartos. The line pus along the ens Lamle of Min- Eph.

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Our airmen are having a great time The svugde show the 116 free Wherever the enemy is met with, ha #ping at a little more than 200 feet the 15 Charmanders are dead, seems to be in a state of semi-panic... taken prisoners and six insemned. The number of machine-guns we have wilde oge sucoteclad in returning t3] already rollected is said to run into thousands. We captured the crews of

sunk.

BRITISH CAPTURE MOEUVRES.

LONDON, Sept. 4. Reuter learns that the British have

captured Moeuvres and have crossed the Nord Canal on a three-mile front. reaching from the eaten outskirts of Neuville Bourjoural, to the north-wes which are north-east of Ytres. teen part of Havrincourt Wood, both of

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GERMAN ARMY PURSUED."

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Hienmany are the sharing warsonie heavy howitzers, who, bad just GENERAL PLUMERS ADVANCE. blown up their guns. They complained Fided include the Cannetaders that they had scarcely been able to fre lo torpedoed the grassed hunnel at all owing to the wat, of abells. Signner Suede, the rubi, Lusiour hands, since the enemy early in the Comparatively few guns have fallen into Povo Bidethe Belgian Prince. battle sent bis batteries scumpering to therwendent Blant race edheer al sink the the rear.

The French mal Anerkans ensstal Tik Voule secth-west of Fisines, where they inained a ghooting st Matigue-di-fieless, and alky are also need heat if Bazarlas,

Noancicos fiosa indiente the 10 Virmirsal Trom the V

AMERICAN FORCES IN SIBERIA,

GENERAL GRAVES IN

COMMAND).

Wasaixoros; Sept. 1.

|_ Belgion Privee_orbarously droweal 40 of the even when he ordered to Juga on the submarine's deck. felt iş simale sex tint this suburitie was unk witi, and a fortnight Sauter the outrage.

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LONDON, Sept.

Headquarters telegraphing on Wednes Reuter's Correspondent, at British day morning, aavat

The great purauit of the retiring Germana continues. The German FIVE DAYS OF HARD FIGHTING. rearguards are quite unable to check!

our galloping np batteries, which frequently fired on masses moring cast- ward at point blank range. Wo appear to have reached the outskirts of 3here as this is a village connecting the Moeuvres. Stiff fighting is probable

ENEMY FRITTERING AWAY HIS MAN POWER

Losos, Sept.

It is further related that the-it-Renter's Correspondent at French new switch hue with the main Hinden Headquarters, telegraphing this afterburg line, with which it ja linked ba

redoubt covering a square mile.

Twine which sours, the Fasilania was lost by the Danish rasghten

Gieteral March has announced to montis inter, in the Command arrival of Gongal Graves at Vlidis furvived to bring disaster to another vestock to the command of thisabuadringe"which wat het with all Americe jors.

OVER 1,600,000 AMERICANS IN

FIRING LINE.

Washiseros, Sept.

Over Totyön Ansericon Troops had be y sent abroad up to August,

31st.

INTREPID BRITISH AVIATORS. CEASELESS ACTIVITY.

"Boxins. Sept. 1.

Their Ministry state. On the afremoòu of the, drị we sucresbally aftackink un, niebelrome

• bangos anfühlowing my two murhin-a- cm the ground. A our machines returned.

de the night of the 3rd we again heavily boobed the aerdouent Morlenge, hitting are hangars und starting fing

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unds in September 1917. ..

noon, says:

yesterday's French attack, also the airmen. The enemy is naturally defend ing the plateau tooth and nail.

Tanks played an important part in

The Prussian Guards delivered five fitile counterattacks, leaving the ground Rittereri with their lead.

The Achiralty carefully-bles tim Tunes of officers guilty of patien

Five days of hard ghting between Jarly wurton and despicable me good results. The first powerfully the Ailette and the line lave given Find sperind endeavours ang made to organised line across the Terry Soruy [swith terminate their active careers. Platean has been taken and the second

Bye names o congiunder who, wrong, gather wink several points. The battle has used up

d include the line is already being attacked.

The French are across the Ailetts at ings spelfie, torpedoed the Persia: several of the enemy's best Divisions, also the extusameter" who excels irwho do not match General Mangir's sinking tropital ship" the Colonials

commander why sunk the "Palaba sn| the Aguile, ander vireunstunees of the art beutality.

MERCHANT SHIPBUILDING IN UK.

OUTPUT INCREASING.

Lesios, 848. 2. The Admiralty notes that the tonungs of inerchantmen completed in the United Kingham in August was 124,875, conspired with 111,9 in July.

"The totul for the twive bath

Inchy it should not he difficult to turn

As, however, we occupy Bussy and

the Moouvres position by coming down

the rear of it..

Last evening we were reported to be entering Ytres. We established posts along the western bank, of the Canal du Nord The opposite side of the Canal that is simply stiff with machine gues

does not appear to be held in strength,

The foods caused by the enemy dsm- ming the Sensee Scarpe Capul increased

war material to be cleared up in the yesterday, but did not seriously hinder our progress. The amount of enemy territory over which we have swept is immense. The enemy had no time to destroy all the Canal crossings.

So rapidly bave var guns got across We rounded up yesterday over 2,600 the entrenched zone that six inch high prisoners, and to field-guns. The booty velocity guns since the early morning at Richebourg-St. Vazat, in addition to have been maintaining continuous that already cabled, included two 4.2 harassing fire on the Marquoir crossing howitzers.

of the Cambrai road, whence all the The", news this morning is that beavy German transport had to escape. General Plumeria Army wivanced By 11 o'clock the old Royal Naval another 1,500 rards in the region of Division had advanced nearly eight miles La Motte. sinuo yesterday morning, and was still going

We repulsed four French attacks against the high ground between Cam pagne and Bussy.

We repulsed, after bitter hand-to- hand fights, renewed French, American and Italian attacks between the Ailette and the Aisne.

A SYSTEM OF ELASTIC

DEFENCES.”

CROWN PRINCE INTERVIEWED.

"AMSTERDAM. Sept: 4.

The German Grown Prince, in an interview, said: "The enemy's onset continues and we are withdrawing in defence. The withdrawals have been accordance with a ayateny of "elastic misinterpreted in. Germany, owing to our numerada accesses, but it must tot

our enemies, has only hold our own." be forgotten that we are waging a war of defence and do not want to annihilate

GOOD

AERIAL WORK BY BRITISH

AVIATORS"

LONDON, Sept. 3. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, reporting on aviation, says:

tur aeroplanes worked all day long in front of the advancing battle line, while observation alloons followed closely.

Large formaatiota of bostile machines

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frequently attacked our airmen, who New and Comfortable Cars persisted in their various tsaks of main taining contact with the infantry," artil lery, and Tanks, and bombed and machine-gunned hostile troops and transport. They also silenced anti-Tank guns and dropped supplies of small- farmi aramunition to the infantry in the

forward zone.

There was much air-fighting. We destroyed 10 hostile machines and drove down two out of control

We dropped tons of explosives Twenty British machines are missing. during the day and night

THE ITALIAN FRONT..

HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES.

Losnos, Sept. 1.

An Italian oficial message states:- losses, a strong attack adath of Mount We arrested, with heavy enemy

Mantello.

The etiamy, however, occupied two

Martello and San Matteo point.

North of the Scarpe, our troops have AMERICAN AND FRENCH TROOPS. posta on the crest between Mount done little more than steadily throw forward the "covering flank. Our in- fantry untran the support guns, despite the fact that batteries galloped forward maneuvres. is a way reminiscent of the Long Valley

Enemy gunfire is desultory and is nowhere formidable. The enemy is

ammunition on this part of the front. »

PUT BEST ENEMY DIVISIONS OUT OF ACTION.

LONDON, Sept. 1. Renter's Correspondent at American Headquarters states

We also attacked an aerodmane jup to August 31st is 1,512,510 tons, evidently desperately, short of artillery the past week on the Soitaonais Plates passed, by an overwhelming majority,

Jord Pirie eogaments on the reduc-

Boulay and has hurmargs at Esel, directly hitting the furnaces and to as partly attributable to the starting fires at Bonlay, All our jufluent epidenne, while plane, to nuchiues" returned.

increwe skilled labour in the yards

THE FLANDERS LINE.

LONDON, Sept. 2.

The long, and stubborn struggle of has been crawaid by a vistory, in which some of the best German Divisions were put out of action by the French and American troops:

Plateau

On the "morning of the 4th we were frustrated by events on the in Flanders runa from Voermezeela, im-

Reuter's Agency learns that the. line. We are now in possession of the again attacked the aerodromat Western Front, but he was pleased mediately west of Wulverghem, through The enemy incurred the heaviest forlange, hitting at last seven to me that there is an early prob- Seure Eglise and Steenmercy, to the losses in his endeavour to check our Jars All the brass bust well ability of a reduction in the present east of Bataires and La Conture. The progress, especially the Prussian Guards

We also attacked aerodromes

whose dead were piled up in five futile Bull with good results. All ur

counter-attacks.

Juzchines returned.

26 ENEMY MACHINES BROUGHT DOWN.

#Losdox, Sept. 5. Field-Marshal Bir Douglas Haig, reporting on aviation, says:---

Our aeroplanes and balloonse,c67 operated, offectively in the advance on the 3rd.

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Navil programme, which will result in the transference of men to mer elut shipbuilding work. He is of the opinion that the output, will pre materially towards the end of the year.

BRITISH-BORNEO PETROLEUM

SYNDICATE..

An agreement has been entered into

with the D'Arcy Exploration Co. (a sub-

retirement is continuing. achieved on the whole 23-mile front, Considerable progresa has been

As a result of yesterday's fighting we from the Bearpe to the Somme.

greatly strengthened our position along The Drocpart Queant switch-line is the Affette, and brought our lines with. definitely smashed in on a front of six in a few miles of the line held before. the last German advance over the

miles.

We penetrated from the western edge Chemin des Demes. What the enemy of Etainte to the western edge of considers to be his first line of defence Cagnicourt, and from there approaching in that region is now entirely in French

hands. Queant

THE POSITION AT. LENS.

LONDON, Sept. 4.

A MYSTERIOUS GERMAN, ARMY,

LABOUR AND PEACE.

TRADE UNION'S RESOLUTION.

LONDON, Sept. 4. The Trade's Union Congress hos resolation calling for the war-aims of the Labour and Socialist parties of the Central Powers in answer to the Inter- Allied Labouriter' war-aims, cabled on February 24,

The resolution further urged the

Government to start peace negotiations iramediately. the enemy voluntarily or compulsorily evacuated France and Belgium,

THE PALESTINE FRONT.

AERIAL RAIDS AND PATROL ENCOUNTERS,

LONDON, Sept. 4.

A Palestine official message saya Since August 14th activity bas mainly been confued to serial raids on the Hedjaz Railway, patrol encounters east of the Jordan and raids,

The position at Lems appears to be 20 POUNCE UPON THE ALLIES. The Araba continue their raids on Ridiary of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., that the British advanced guards are is

the Hedjaz Railway. They repelled a Ltd.) for the exploitation and develop the western and south-western parts of

LONDON, Sept. 4, Turkish attack, on Akunaam, killug We dropped £1 tons of humus nont of the Burnce oil interests owned the city, which the enemy abandoned,

by the syndicate. The agreement pro-

-There is still not the slightest sign of and wounding 50 and taking 10 during the day and 21 tons at night. vides that the D'arcy Exploration Co. but owing to gas traps, etc., progress the expected German counter-stroke, prisoners.

We destroyed 10 hostile machines shall procure" that the petroleum must be very cautious.

which must soon be delivered if General territory in Borneo com- resources of prised in certain leases held by the nection that Sir Douglas Haig never Prisoners speak of a great mysterious It should be rememberol in this con- Ludendorff wishes to save the situation. syndicate shall be proved and tested, so claims the capture of a position until he army beaded by Genetal Blackensen, ns to enable them be developed and worked to their fallest extent. The

has consolidated it. period provided for this work extends to Dec. 31021, except as regards the ter ritory ever which the Kuhara Mining

and drove down Beven out of control.

Ten British machines ere

THINKING

DERMAN REPORTS.

Lospus, Sept. 5,

12.5 3.m.

Co. holds its sub concession, ha to which

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WHAT CAPTURE OF CAMBRAI WOULD MEAN.

which is ready to pounce on the Allies, but its whereabouts are unknown

area the perical extends for three years SERIOUS MENACE TO CERMANS Brebieres Moeuvres line, but this will be

from the expiry of the sub-concession. The agreement aiso provides that the D'Arcy

OPPRESSED NATIONALITIES OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

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Exploration 40.

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The enemy folt a way forward

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LIGHT IN DARK PLACES.

Lille very difficult the Line has not yet appeared in the

Moreover the loss of Cambrai would German communiqués while i bes ADMIRAL YON HIHTZE AT VIENNA. mean the fall of St.. Quentin which in utterly vanished from the German tarn, would make the retention of the papere, in which it had been the chief great St. Gobain height, between La feature for weeks past

KUKAN AMSTERDAM, Sent),

· Admiral von Hintze, the German, Kamiga

✅ Showing 3rd & 4th Episodes of THE SECRET KINGDOM

Etc.

Premalar, Herr WEDNESDAY, 11th Bep

Tat us hope you will continue to let fere and the Ailette, impossible. Howe So far here has been no indication of Foretan Serretan beiniriyed at Vientinh most stubborn crack dysentery. If isatican ecently, a anting three man line on the eatern Front really Crown Prince's official into dark pinten wil vir Donald It is worth iterating that the Gerthe, fealing in Germany, especially good for summer diarrhoen in

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