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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1918

TELEGRAMS.

(Continued from Faqe 1.)

"THE AMERICAN FRONT. CAPACIOUS ENEMY UNDERGROUND MANSIONS IN ARGONNE

BELONGINGS.

MR. BONAR LAW'S' ́RETIENN

THE CHINA MAIL.

BRITISH AERIAL ACTIVITIES.

BRITISH EMPIRE'S CAPTURES 2 MACHINES BROUGHT DOWN.

SINCE JULY 10TH.

1,000 SQ. MILES AND 120,000 GERMAN PRISONERS.

Lussos, Sept. 30.. Field-Malu Se Douglas Haig, reporting on avistiom, states 2-

THE WESTERN FRONT.

FURTHER PROGRESS BY BRITISH.

LONDON, Sept. 30. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

reports -

Northward "of St. Quentin, on There was much aerial activity on Sunday, the Forty-Sixth North Midland LONDON, Sept. 80,-

September 20th. The weather turn-Division captured 4,000 prisoners and M. Bonar Taw Jus stated thated to rain in the afternoon. We40 guns. The enemy's resistance was the victory in Palestine has resulted brought down fifteen balloons nilame, obstinate between Ballicourt and in un plmost complete destruction of and also brought down 27 aerophines LUXURIOUS WITH PHFERED another Turkish Army and the up-and drove down nine out of control. ture of 10,000 additional prisoners.Nineteen, British machines are miss The Belgian conventious meanting. One British acting, reported Losmos. Sept. 30. tbus communication between Oer missing on September 28th, has now Renter's Correspondent at Auermany and the Best in that direction returned. gan Headquarters, legribing the has ceased and tennany's dream of country in which the Americans are fighting in the Forest of Argonne,

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German Mille Easter empire mikay

We dropped 30 rous of bomba on

ributi had gone for ever. (Whers). Since Night dying was impossible.

junctions.

July 16th the forces of the British ENEMY DESTROYERS BOMBED, The extraordinary darkness and umpire" hn cptured 1,000 square density are implicated by the difulles of territory, 230 villages and

The Adrairalty #tas:In addi ficulties of the ground with rivines over 120,000 Gernan prisoners. The ion to co-operating in the Belgian so abrupt that it is possible to step casualties of the forces of the British offensive, our aeroplanes, between Septeinher 23rd and 27th, Kept

THE BALKANS.

SUCCESSFUL OPERATION BY SERBIANS

LONDON, Sepa 30.

A Serbian official message saya — By a bold mancouvre northward of

Pljachkavitas we captured Caravofeld. cutting of the Bulgarians' retreat.

We captured 700 prisoners and 20) guns here. giments attempted to defend St. On the western front 10 enemy ra Nicholas, but our strong attack com- pelled them to abandon the position. We are now 10 kilometres northward of St. Nicholas

and English troops had heavy fighting Gonnelie The American, Australian until night but, despite strong opposition, gained ground and took many prisonert. Counter-attacks pressed us back slightly Fillers Gouislata. We maintained cur to the western outskirts of Bogy and gains elsewhere and again made progress French and Serbs took the dominating northward of Gommeliga, in the direct-height on the lift bank of the Fobinja. ion of Les-rues-de-Vignes.

In the direction of Veler-Uslub' the

*THE SIBERIAN CAMPAIGN.

ADVANCE CONTINUES.

PEKING, Sept. 30.

Heavy fighting on the left battle- front compelled our advanced troops.to withdraw from Aubencheul au-Bac and Arleux. The enemy was unable to prevent our progress westward and Darth-westward of Cambrai. Que advanced detachments reached the

The Czecha, co-operating with the junction of the Arris-Cambrai naď Espaume Cambrai roads and we entered How Russian forces, attacked the Ger repulsed determined conurer-attacks in railway on the left bank, of the Volga. this sector and inflicted heavy losses and, after heavy fighting captured the is still stormy.

Heavy main fell at night-time and it villages of Uren and Ivsuovka

The advance is continuing.

upon the tips of trees immediately Empire during the past two years Jeremy shipping under observation,the northern suburbs of the town. Wana and Bolsheviks northward of the

benth.

The enemy for years lived in man- sion lug enesth the hill sides with porchos of stone leading on one hand

exceeded three of any of the Allies,

BULGARIA SIGNS

ARMISTICE...

ALL ALLIED CONDITIONS ACCEPTED..

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Loxnos, Sept. 30.

stopqum trenches and on tieg other imnd to a series of capacious: chambers papered and floored witli. mert geithuber and furnished with) whites of oul, walnut and nethogany pilfered from the adjoining platumalix. They, are hivuriously lighted with electricity and bundreds of miles of! -wire woven auting the trees, booking Nalonika nal hostilities, suspemukul,

like a work of some inccaccivitile |

Bulgaria las crepteit all the ent- spider. This wing is mostly hidden fiditions, cabled in the 28th. by week.

BALKANS THEATRE.

·CONTINUED PURSUIT OF ENEMY

REARGUARD

An official report states:--- The armisti

was signal

ALLIED CONTROL OF BULGARIA.

Logos. Sept. 30. Mr. Bonn Law in a speech at the Guildhall anounced that the on- "BRITISH, FRENCH, SERBIANS tkin with Bulgaris gave the Alles

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AND FREEKS CO-OPERATE

SPLENDIDŁY..

LONDON, Oct. 1,

A French Enstem comuniqué | states':...

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The All Continued to pusde the enemy Pengvards towards Ricevo and advangend north of Ocbrida,"omi reached the El Bassan mut, west of Jake Ochrida. French avalry} have ent-mi Umkab.

complete control of, the Bulgarian railways, which ant the "control ví Bulgaria.

THE BULGARIAN CAPITULATION.

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AN ENEMY JOURNAL'S PREDICTION.

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Aмstopa, Sept. 30. The sieht Zeitung, writing before the Bulgarian capitulation, The Serbians, supported by French predicted that such an event would and Greykt tionps, continued to art-lead to vapitulation, by Turkey, and France on Sanganovo, Epripalan the resin of the Entente and and Djumala. to the eunt.

British and Greek, divisions ad- vanced in the direction of Pechevo and Petric.

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Rumanin, in finally the capitulation of Austria-Hungary,

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NEW GOVERNOR OF BOMBAY.

UNIONIST M.P. SUCCEEDS LORD WILLINGDON,

Lesbos, Sept. 30.

The Truse Bureau states:-*

Boribedal ze bine-gunned destroy ers and raided avbrugge, Ostend and Bruges and aerodromes in the vicinity of Ghent,

We' destroyed twelve enemy machines and drove down fourteen. eut of control. Ten British machines are missing.

A squad of large sen-planes carried out a long reconnaissance in the Heligoland Bight..

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

. FROM NORTH SEA TO

NAZARETH.

SEYEN BATTLES RAGING.

LONDON, Sept. 30. With the outburst of the Belgian blaze seven battles in which 4,000,000 men are engaged are now raging between the North Sea and Nazareth.

Our week ond achievements include the capture of 50 important towns and (positiona nnd' 40,000 prisoners.

Marshal Foch's tacties in tackling the thorny problem of the Chemin-des- Dames are greatly puzzling the Germans. Instead of frontal åttacks, he is advanc- ing along both sides of the knife-edged but to retire along it .. ridge, leaving the Germans no choice

Similar tactics were most anccessful in Argonne, where the enemy holding the forest had to retire to keep his alignment, with General Gouraud, on

other.

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BRITISH ENTER CAMBRAL -

LONDON, Sept. 30. Field Marshal Sir Douglas" Haig reports --

We have noterel the northern suburbs of Cambrai.

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FRENCH TAKE, FURTHER POSITIONS.

LONDON Cipt. 30. A French comdanniquà says; During the night the Germans deliver- ed violent, counter-attacks in the region of Urvillers, which is south of St. Quentin:

Our fra smashed their attempts to seize Hill 88.

Lively artillery activity took placa between the Ailette and the Aisne.”

There was no infantry fighting last night in Champagne, where the battle was renewed af dawn to-day.

Further west we captured Mont Fauxelles and Vieme and carried our lines to the southern outskirts of Aure. . On the left we penetrated. St. Marie on the Fr.

FRENCH ADVANCE CONTINUED.

розвевайса

LONDON, Sept. 30.

Between the Ailette and the Aiene wa advanced to day two kilometres on both sides of Chamin-des-Dames and occupied Pargny-Filain, Filain and Ostal.

A French communiqué saya — A one side, and the Americans, on the the front from Urvillers to Cerizy and South of St. Quentin we attacked on The capture of Dixmade and Moors.jected the desperately resisting enemy. lede Ridge is most important. Dixuude, from these villages, which are in our a formidable position on the Ypres Canal commanding the road to Dunkirk, resisted all efforts of the Belgians to re-capture it after their retreat from Ostend. The operations involved the crossing of swamps in addition to the Canal, but this region of death traps is in the rear of the Allies. The capture of Moorslede Ridge is even more significant us the extension of the main bulwark of the German extreme right.

In any case, our gun positicus on the heights take the German cost positions in the rear, while Dutgh telegrams speak of an unprecedented British naval bombardment of Zeebrugge, etc.

On the Champagne front our troops in following ap attacks obtained im portant results, and captured, on their their positions to the north. right, Boyconville, thus enlarging

Captain George Lloyd, 1.5.0.,Fictory will mean the breaking of the Westwards we carried Mont Cavelet,

THE BATTLE REVIEWED. In reviewing the fortnight's rie- torique operations the communiqué points out that the armistice wus signed at Salonika at 11 mjelock on the evening of September With. The offensive begun on September 15th,{ with only two French divisions and one Serbian division against the Unionist M.P. for Staffordshire, hus mountain barrier from Vetrenik to been appointed Governor of Bom Sokol. Through this breach, which bay, in succession to Lord Willing had beer gradually enlarged, thedon, who becomes Governor of Serbian armies, supported by French Madras, in succession to Lord and Greek detaglients, poured an-Pentland... ceasingly, despite the exceptional difficulties of the "gmond and a' desperte resistance, towards the principal objectives in the region of Kavadai and Demirkapu which were reached on September 29.

NEW JAPANESE CABINET.

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A SHUFFLE.

LONDON, Sept. 80.

The populace of Flushing spent the night on the dykes, watching the awe- inspiring spectacle.

despite bitter enemy resistance..

The French, pushing northwards, carried Secbault and advanced two kilometres beyond in the direction of Challerange,

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THE TURKISH KOUT IN PALESTINE.

PRISONERS TOTAL 50,000.

A HEADLONG RETREAT.

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GREAT SUCCESS. BY BELGIANS.

LONDON, Sept. 30, Cutting simultaneously the line of

Renter's Agency learns that the | A Belgian communiqué on the 29th communications of the Fimt Bul-new Japanese Cabinet is composed | says: gerian army operating on the Vardar as follows:-

During to-day the Belgian Army and the British Army under General Plumer and the Second Germang-Bulgarian Mr. Keibur, leader of the Seilukei continued their susceas, beating the army north of Monastir, in which Party, Premier.

snemy after s severe fight on the whole operation ull the Allied furges. Viacount Uchida, ex-Ambasador of the great Flanders Ridge and aho rivaled each other in endurance,

the whole of the Mesines Wytschsets position. courage and pellcrifice. The British and Greek divisions, after desperate struggle, carried on. September 19th, the enemy posi. tions at Doiran, holding up big enemy forces. From September 21st and onwards, Italian, Greek and French troops of the Monastir Aray have participated in the operations."

to Russia, Foreign Secretary.

Lieut. General Tanaka, Secretary for War...

Admiral Kato, Minister of Marine,

REPORTED RESIGNATIONS. OF HERTLING AND VON HINTZE

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 80:

On the 22nd a general pursuit Á message from Berlin says it is began and was carried out with the unofficially reported that the Kaiser utmost ardour and splendid vigour. has accepted the resignation of Court On the 23rd the Serbians crossed the Vardar near Krivolak, and on the Hertling and Admiral Ton Hintze.

21th French cavalry entered Priep. On the 25th Tihtip was carried and likewise the Belaskitza mountains. The English forced the road to. Strumniten, entering the town on the -28th. When the Serbians reached Kochanu" and Veles the French aril Italian-rmarched on Kicevo,

The Bulgarians asked for an armis.

ENGLISH EXPEDITION TO SPITZBERGEN.

ARRIVES IN NORWAY.

attacking the Roulers-Meuin road at St.

THE BULGARIAN PEACE OFFER.

REPORTED UNCONDITIONAL

SURRENDER.

LONDON, Sept. 30. Reuter learns that Bulgaris bas aurretalered unconditionally.

THE KING OF BULGARIA.

LOYAL TO THE QUADRUPLICE

Lospos, Sept. 30.

The Culogne Gazete states that Twic Ferdinand remains loyal to the Alliance. The paper adds that the rainforce- [ments proceeding to Bulgaria form a

really powerful army.

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CARS on HIRE

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POLITICAL PRISONERS PARDONED. New and Comfortable Cars

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 30.

A message from Sofia states that the Taar Ferdinand has pardoned all politicians imprisoned at the time of Bulgaria's entry into the war, restoring their civil and political rights

A message from Vienna says that Tear Ferdinand has sent a mesange to Emperor Charles assuring him of his loyalty to the Quadruplice.

COALITION GOVERNMENT FOR

AUSTRIA.

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 30.

A Vienna telegram forshadows the ionnation of a coalition Government in which the Czechs are offered a portfolio.

COUNT HERTLING RESIGNS.

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 30." Coust Hertling'a visit to Headquarters ie regarded the preliminary to bin resignation

A message from Berlin says the assiche Zeitung understands that Count eating and von Hiutze have tendered their resignations.

GERMANY AND A LEAGUE OF KATIONS.

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 30.

A German semi-official statement protesta that Germany is really in earnest in regard to a League of Nations. Germany believes there can be no place LONDON, Sept. 29. in such an international association for A British official report from black armies or anbmarine stations

threatening peaceful trade. Palestine states:

Throughout the 27th the enemy resisted in the Lake Tiberins_arza, holding the crossing over the Upper GERMAN PROFESSOR'S REMARK. Jordan at Jisrbenat Yakub and Mezerib and Dernu,

A brigade of the Australian Light

ABLE APPEAL.

LONDON, Sept. 30.. The Belgian army captured Dixmude, Home in the evening forced a pus- The Times publishes a remarkabla Zarren, Terest, Stadenberg, Westroose age south of Jierbenat Yakub, and appeal from Dr. Nicolas, a professor of beke and Moorslede and repulsed strong on, the morning of the 28th the enemy Berlin University, who has fied to counter-attacks between Staden and was driven out from his positions on Denmark on account of the persecution Tereat, and by the end of the day it was the Upper Jordan, we crossing the of the German militarista. Dr. Nicolaa Pieter and also at Colliemolenboek, four left bank and undertaking the repair was his countrymen that they must upset the present rélora if they wish to of the bridge kilometres west of Roulers.

restore the German Constitution which General Piumor's army, after capler- Our cavalry arercome the resist the militarists have trampled upon. He ing the Messines Wytschsets ridge, ance of the Turks at Irbid Erremte is convinced that millions of Germans encountered very strong resistance. The and on the morning of the 28th drove abare his views, enemy vainly attempted to defend the the enemy to the north through heavy losses, especially in Floorschoede with King Hussein's Arabs at Deras. approaches to the Lys and suffered veryMezerch, establishing a junction

Wood By the end of the day. General The latter captured the stations Plumer's army had passed the eastern of Ezra' and Ghazale and entered outskirts of Ploegsteert wood, Gapabrd, Derao and Sheikhsaad, 161 miles

X'WAR BOND CAMPAIGN.

LONDON, Sept. 30.

Mr. Donar Law this afternoon la

Bond campaign to raise a second We, in conjunction with the Arabe £1,000,000,000.

St. Temprielen, Terhand and Daritele north-west of Deras, on the 27th, augurates at the Guildhall

During the 28th and 23th the Belgian Army and Goooral Plomer's army bad wiking 1,600 prisoners, taken over 9,000 prisoners and over 200 guns, including some 240 and 280 were approaching Mezerib on the A festure of the campaign will be the millimetre guns, also

considerable evening of the 29th. We took in camouflaging of Trafalgar Square to TROMSOE (Norway), Sept. 30.

quantity of material: General Plumer's the southern area by the 27th 5,700 represent section of the front com The English expedition to Spitz-army had taken 65 officers and 3,600 prisoners and 28 guns in operations plete with guns and dugouts

men, also 90 field-guns.

east of the Jordan, ad are in con The British Air. Sårvice contributed tact About Elkastal, 144 miles south very powerfully to the success of the of Ammun, with the Turks, who are operations by hombing incessantly the retreating from Maan. quemy's columns, trains and lines of Up to the evening of the 27th communication.

50,000 prisoners and 325 gure had boen counted.

tice and announced the d'spatch of bergen b's arrived. plenipotentiaries. In the course of these opemtiong, which the hasty despatch of German reinforcements were unable to hamper the Allies captured a large number of prisoners and immense booty

Allied aviator, took very active and a must successful part n the fighting informing the movements of the enemy to the Staff, and bomb- ing enemy ing and machine-gur

fusion and preventing the enemy

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BIR D. HAIG CONGRATULATES PORN WEBELGIANS, ASEAN

LONDON, Sept. 30,

The Press Barsautates that Sir Donian Hair has heartily onngramlar the King of the Belgians and the protection Belgian Army on the magnificent results

(they have achievedztek

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