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THE WAR.

HEAVY FIGHTING

IN THE

WEST.

DETERMINED GERMAN ATTACKS.

REPULSED BY THE BRITISH.

RUSSIAN SUCCESSES MAINTAINED.

THE BALKAN CRISIS.

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT, (THEOUGH ASUTER'S AGENCY-J

THE ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE.

DETERMINED GERMAN ATTACKS ON BRITISH REPULSED.

BUT

GREATER

PORTION OF HOHENZOLLERN REDOUBTS.

RECAPTURED.

RUSSIAN FRONT

THE HONGKONG, DAILY BEAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6x1, 1916.

(THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY.} GERMAN THRUST BETWEEN VILNA AND DVINSK.

MEETS WITH SIGNAL FAILURE.

THE NEAR EAST

{THROUGH REUTER'S. AGENCY.]

HAVE ALLIED TROOPS LANDED AT SALONICA?

LONDON, October 6th. Though no official announcement, hay been made up to the time this telegram was despatched, despatches from Athens indicate that Allied troops have landed at Salonica.

GENERAL.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUZ.]

THE BALKAN CRISIS.

THE ULTIMATUM RECEIVED.

PETROGRAD, October 3th.

1.06. p.m.

M. Rodoslayoff, the Bulgarian Premier, only received the Ultimatum at four, o'clock on Monday afternoon.

BULGARIA RETURNS NO ANSWER TO ALLIES.

LONDON, October 5th. Router's Agency learns that owing to recent developmen to the Bulgarian Governanent mask be taken to have rejected the proposals made by the Allies, to which they have returned, no answer. Consequently the proposals have

PETROGRAD, October 6th. Eight German Arm- Corps partici- pated in the thrust eastward between lapsed.

the Vilna and Dvinek, which B> SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENTS. signally failed. The object of the thrust was threefold; to

the Dvinsk operations, to threaten the rear

смет

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

THE ARABIC" OUTRAGE,

GERMANY FAILS TO SATISFY AMERICA

WASHINGTON, October 5th. After a conference between President Wilson and Mr. Lansing, ut which the latter submitted the Note presented by Count Bernstorff on the and inst, it is learned that Germany failed to satisfy the request for a disavowal of the sinking of of the Arabic and the assumption of liabi- lity. While Mr. Lansing declined to say what the next step will be, it is ascer- tained

that Count Bernstorff will be asked to come to Washington to receive the views of the American Government. A final refusal by Germany to meet American views might result.in a rupture of diplomatic relations.

· THE HESPERIAN." Naval officer assigned to examine the metal found on board the Hesperian ase virtually convinced that a mine wrecked the steamer.

RUMANIA AND CONTRABAND. MORE SEIZURES,

LONDON," October 5th

SAVING THE WOUNDED.

and brought in. They had existed f theii "Iron" or emergency rations that they had with them. It is little short of marvellona that some of them have bee saved and are on the high read to health now, Evacuation of the wounded from the clearing stations takes place along two separate ystems of mil.

When the clearing hospital has done its hurried best for the wounded and the am balances have transported them to rail- head, they pass for the first time into pence.

GRIM SCENES OF ENERGY."

Niao timos out of tn the wounded can only be removed from the trenches at night, writes. a special correspondent of the Fest. In the midst of avere fighting between teenches nothing with life in it can survive in the opza ground. Indeed, in view of German methods, to sham dead

It is a matty of fact that the is the only chance a wounded man has, tet, alone, a stretcher.bearer going to his trains we are now using for the bringing assistance. Further, when we have down of the wounded are actually more advanced and captured some lines of Ger- comfortable than hospitals. In them the man trenches, in which we may be holding patient revels in the luxury of quiet after our own grimly against odds and amid the incessant sound of guns. His mind is a tornado of artillery, sometimes, as has relieved of its ever-present anxiety and frequently happened for several days, the strain. He has the expectation of getting own away among kindly falk in peaceful casualties in the ranks of our advanced troops simply cannot be removed. places, or perhaps even of faring forth w Such summary dressings as can be applied his own land across the sea. In the argot aro all that is possible. It is inevitable of the trenches, for our trenches have now that in cases like these the doctors are an esoteric slang of their own, the fellow very severely handicapped. On the other who cops a blightic" is positively en- hand, when circumstances permit of the vied, a "blightie" being a wound which, wounded being recovered promptly, so without being too serious, is serious rapidly is the preliminary handling per-enough to warrant its recipient's removal formed that the cases are delivered down to England. The word is undoubtedly in hospital at the sea base from eight to corruption of the Hindustani "Balaiat, ten hours after having received their the general term for England and English wounds, Indeed, many times has it been products. found possible actually to land m sick man home in England twelve hours after bo received his injury. In such cases the percentago of cures is extremely high, the number of deaths surprisingly few, and then always when the damage from the frat has been hopelessly mortal,

case

COUNT BERNSTORFF ON PEACE.

ANGLING FOR AMERICAN SENTI- MENT

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So highly developed is the skill of our Murgeons and so minutely careful the

(FROM THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT.) attention of our nursing staff that even

NEW YORK, Sept. 2. then it is very difficult to say when a

I have seen a wound is hopeless,

The Chicago Tribune publishes where a fragment of shell was removed dispatch from a writer in close touch from the spinal cord, the man being entire with the German Embassy, who attri- lastly paralysed from the waist down. Underbutes the promised settlement of the sub- treatment this man, apparatly mortally marine controversy to the Kaiser's de wounded, has now recovered so that he iesire to gain the aid of President Wil- able to stand, and after a time there is no reason to suppose that he will not be walk beening about again fit and well. Another through,

wore

A diplomatist who left Bukharest week states that the greatest activity then prevailed throughout the country, and that precautionary measures have taken along all the frontiers. attempt to smuggle contraband for Turkey has been stopped. ATHENS, October 5th.

An Austrian courier with despatches Six Germans aviators Have arrived at

for Constantinople had with him thirty

which of the Russians in the Ovinsk region, inSoña,

German skilled labourers are leaving six large and heavy cases

confiscated by the Rumanian authori the direction of Polotze, and to advance

Minsk and Borisoff. The Constantinople for Bulgaria.

ties.. A despatch from Field-Marshal Sir towards

the thrust and the

ITALY AND THE CRISIS. John French yesterday afternoon states parrying of

оте westwards. primarily

PARIS, October 4th. that the enemy commenced a heavy bom Russian bardment and delivered repeated relieved the pressure on Dvinsk which

The Mutin states that an important of the attacks

the open against our becomes an integral sector

the Russian front.

Although the Germans conference has been held at Rome, at trenches between the quarries on Vermelles-Hulluch road.

have pughed nearer Dvinsk from the tended by the Premier, the Ministers of The attacks were pressed with doter- west and south-west of the town and the War, Marine, of Foreign Affairs, of Trea our bridges of the Drima, it is believed that sury and the Under Secretary of State for

over

mination but trenches.

LONDON, October 4th.

failed to reach

AMERICA AND TURKISH ATROCITIES.

WASHINGTON, October 5th. The Ambassador at Constantinople been instructed to inform the Porte that unless the Armenian masseres case the

son, as the head of the foremost neutral nation in the world, toward the estab- lishment of peace while German arma are still on the high tide of success.

Din

The cession of part, if not all, of Courland

by Rusia to Germany,

of Finland.

All were repulsed with severe they are still out of range of gun-fire Munitions General Porro was specially riadly relations between the United And, with all fights out, the ambulance The provision by Russia for the autonomy

loss to the enemy.

States-and Turkey will be threatened.

OVER YOUR HUNDRED MOTORS AT WORK.

Some time ago, the writer states, Count At the fied dressing station the active work of the British Red Cross and St. Bernstorff sent the Kaiser this message: John Ambulance Societies, in conjunction "In my opinion peaor could be achiev always with the R.A.M.C., begins to comed only by the influence of the President into prominence because the ambulance of the United States." The Kaiser cal vehicles carrying the wounded back to the culated the necessary increase in his mediate. Henceforth casualty clearing hospital are partly pro moral status with America before asking vided by them. Of the six ambulance the President to conroys now working at the front, two the German campaign to win the favour are entirely provided by these two Socie of the American people will be carried ties, and additional ones are in process on with full vigour in the light of the sident could be induced to offer his ser- organisation. In all, over 400 motor vehi-lessons the war has taught. If the Pre- cles are being employed in conveying vices as mediator, Germany would un- wounded to clearing stations and mail doubledly accept Germany would then heads, where the ambulance trains await demand the following termg!--- them. The motor transport from the field The erection of an independent Kingdom

and Germany. hasdressing station has its share of dramatic of Poland, as a buffer Stote between Rus

interest, too. The ears are in waiting at convenient spot, connected by telephone

nearest to the required station, dodging with the dressing stations. The call comes,

as best it can in the darkness of the night way, not to speak of the shells themselves. bursting all round. They may have to wait some bime in this exposed position before the stretcher-beaters sppear, be cause these, to have a perilous task, and it is not easy to find a precise spot on a dark night. Loaded up, the ear makes what speed it may to the clearing station, to stand by again for the next call. Like the field dressing stations, the clearing when rush is on. There are no beds there, the lying down cases remaining LONDON, October 5th. on their stretchers. The premises are The Red Cross Society (Russian) still near enough to the firing line to be are carefully concealed in ruined build- pablishes a list of forty-six Sisters of in danger of shell fire, and so they, too, Charity who have been killed in bomings of all descriptions, arranged as well te possible to suit their purpose, but bardments of hospitals.

always scrupulously representing the last word of hygienic care and cleanly precau- tions, Septic wounds can never be said to arise the treatment of the wounded after they come in."

Boma accounts state that the Germainelled from the front to particOfficials of the State Department sy that the deep pits dug by the shells in the road- Further northward the enemy recap cavalry participating in the thrust lost in the discussion which is understooit to

Lurod the greater portion Hohenzollern redoubts.

of

the

half of their number. returiving.

FRENCH PROGRESS CONTINUED,

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The refugees are

RUSSIAN ARTILLERY. LEADS TO FURTHER SUCCESSEN.

PETROGRAD, October 5th.

A communiqué again indicates the increasing effectiveness of the Russian artillery, and the vigour of the infantry attacks resulting in the capture of a num ber of villages and some hundreds of prisoners at wrious point along the

PARIS, October oth

4.30 pt. Further progress in Artois and a loll the features of in Champagne aro:

The French pr to-day's communiqué.

continued in the gress has bren Givenchy Wood and at Hill 119, whero occupied important eross-ronicis. There were incessant cannonades, in

trench which

EWT mortars played important part, in the districts ufront, while the pressure of the Russians Quernevieres and Nouvron, while there westward is evidenced by their crossing wand reciprocal bombardments in Cham of the iver Styr at several places between pagne in the neighbourhood of Navarin. Two German counter-atlas were ropulsed northward of Mesnil,

Air squadrons dropped forty large bombe om Sabrons railway station, Metz,

and other French seroplanes attacked the railway lines at junctions and stations behind the German front.

TRENCH TO TRENCH FIGHTING.

Paris, October 5th. 1.30 .m.

A communiqué states that fighting from trench to trench was continued all day in Artois. On the crests south of Givenchy Wood the enemy regained a footing at the crossing of five roads, but repeated counter-attacks were everywhers repulsed. There has been a hot artillery duel an I treach and engine fighting-south of the Sommo and north of the Aisne.

Pinsk and Rovno.

near

a diplomatic rupture is not contemplated, The intention is to impress Turkey of the effect of the continuance of the atrocities on the public sentiment of the United States.

have concerned the Balkans. TOURPARLERS.

So813, October 5th. M. Malinoff, Leader of the Domocrats, as plenipotentiary of the entire Opposi tion parties, began on September 9th, SISTERS OF CHARITY KILLED. ambulances are grim cen's of carry

pourparlers with the Ministers of the Quadruple Entente with a view to a pacific settlement of the Macedonian difficulty.

OUTRAGE ON GENERAL SMUTS.

THE WORK OF HOOLIGANS.

LONDON, October 5th,

Official news has now been published of an outrageous attack on General Smuts at an electionering meeting an Now- lands, near Johannesburg, on September The meeting was largely composed 9th. of hooligans armed with sticks and pick handles.

NEW AMERICAN NAVAL PROGRAMME.

WASHINGTON, October 5th. The Government has decided on a new naval programme to include fast battle.

cruisers.

AN INDIAN WEDDING.

A hurricane od artillery fire Dvinsk, including the use of eighteen inch guns, enabled the Germans to capture trenches, but the enemy in their turn were unable to withstand the hail of Rassisa

LONDON, October 5th. shells and fled after losing enormously,

Maharajah Sir Pratap Singh (who is the Russians re-occupying the trenches.

The platform was rushed, at the front) is going to India shortly Altogether 500 Germans were made pri- soners by the Russians when the latter, and the police just succeeded in wabling on leave, to attend the wedding of the with the bayonet, stormed the villages General Smuts to escape assassination Regent of Jodphur. halfway botareen Dvinsk and the Vilas,in his motor-ear. and in the vicinity of the Kovel and Sarnay railway,

HOW 9,000 HUNGARIANS WERE CAPTURED.

PETROGRAD, October 5th. Some 9,000 prisoners, including 185 officers, who have been brought to Kief, five Bungarian regiments belong to which were entrenched on the hills near the famous Fotchaeff Monastery in the province of Volbyn. The Russiaris

them, and

the cleverly outflalaked Hungarians fled to the valley.

The Russians seized the hills and devastating fire forced the Hungarians to surrender.

An enemy aeroplane was brought, down in our lines, and the airmen captured. FIELD MARSHAL FRENCH'S THANKS TO AIRMEN.

LONDON, October 5th. Fidd-Mersal Sir John French, in an Army Order expressing appreciation of the raluable work done by the Flying Corps in the great battle last week, NAVAL ACTIVITIES. recognises that the adverse weather necessitated flying low under heavy gunfire

The Field Marshal especially, thanks them for their plucky work in operation with the artillery, and also in photographing and in bombing lines of communication.

(TAROVON REUTER': AGESOY.] GERMAN STEAMER SUNK.

AMSTERDAM, October 5th. The German steamer Sniona has beer. sunk by an explosion off Ruegen.

The crew, who have arrived. Sassnitz, assert that the steamer was torpedoed by a British submarine.

The chauffeud was knoelded down when starting his engila. General Smuts was not hurt and went to Pretoria.

DEATH OF MR. JUSTICE BUCKNILL.

LONDON, October 5th. The death is announced of Mr. Justice

The Times believes that the outrage | Buckaill. will produce ai strong reaction in favour of the Botha party.

BRITISH BRAVERY.

LONDON, October 5th. The conferment of eighteen miere Military Crosses is azmotnoed in the Gazette. Among the recipients is Cap

42 Batnett, of the tai Robert Deolis. attached to the 89th Punjabis, for most conspicuous gallantry near Neuve Chapelle on the night of August

With one non-comissioned officer and four Sepoys he advanced from a sap- heast under machine-gun fire and resend officer. wounded non-commissioned The whole party had to stand up under fire in order to lift

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over barbed the wounded man

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cases,

In these articulars we can confidently claim to be ahead of our Continental colleagues, and doubly so in regard to the Germans, who are very lax in such matters, I have had occasion to observe German Army doctors at work under precisely similar circumstances, particularly after n railway disaster last September, when a train of wounded fell into the Barne with ghastly results. Four captured Ger- man doctors who happened to be in the vicinity helped as with the injured in the ruined chateau where we carried them from the river. Though obviously clever attention to some of the most elementary surgeons, they apparentily paid little rules of cleanliness. We have tried them ourselves, too, in treating their own wounded prisoners, with no more satisfac tory results, and Colonel-tells me he has had to take the instruments away from them with his own hands, so orekss and slipshod were they in their work.

HOW EVACUATION IS CARRIED OUT. In the clearing station, which is still, of course, within the R.A.M.C. organisa- tion, the casts are rapidly but carefully

The partition of Sorbia between Austria and Bulgaria, with possibly a portion of the little Kingdom going to Groce many, as compensation for the evacuation: The cession of the Belgian Congo to Ger-

of Belgium.

The cession of African colonial territory to Germany by France, as compensation for the evacuation of Northern France. The restoration of her African Colonies to

Germany by Great Britain.

An international agreement on freedom of the seas, guaranteeing that, private pro- peaty at acs shall be immuno from a inck by naval forces.

To these "terrás an unnamed official of the German Embassy this afternoon added this one:-" World-wide recogni- tion of the rights of the Jews."

The official is anonymously quieted as admitting that the prime purpose of the Memorandum filed by Count Bernstorff with the State Department on the sub- ject of submarine warfare is to pave the way for peace. The official repeated the stock German hypocrisies about never and added, in having wanted war, Count Bernstorff's best manner, that Ger many had been willing, at any hour since August, 1914, to make ai honour- must answer to civilization not only for ble peace. The Allies, he proceeded,

hour's continuance of it. the inception of the war but for each

SEPTEMBER 3.

is

The German Embassy in Washington is now receiving journalists daily for the purpose of serving out to the Ameri- which the can Press "terms of peRCE writers are allowed to describe as autho. ritative, though not official.

"Not in Good In a leader entitled, When Germany is ready to talk 'peace Faith," the World says:- seriously, and to talk that kind of pouce which will not only render justice to the bus which will guarantee to wronged,

of protection civilization some against the Moloch of militarism, the Gov- erament and people of the United States will immediately respond,

ANOTHER VERSION OF THE

TERMS..

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.

measure

Mr. Hearst newspapers, which al-

[The Hon. Sir Thomas Townsend Buckmill was a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division

peace chants, publish the following list of the High Court of Justice from 1899 looked over over and sorted cut for they beat faithful time to the Prussian

during trains. Urgent operations are performed of German terms until about two years ago, which time

dealt with many in a separate operating tent, and, in I. The establishment of Poland into an in- The deceased, wha word, the sufferers are put in the bost important

a barrister of the Inner Temple, possible shape for the journey. In some was Recorder of Exeter in 1885, and from cases, where caneds are convenient, they

are sent down 1802 to 1899 represented the Epsom division of Surrey in the House of Commons in the Conversative interest,

BAK

The Hon. Mr. J. A. 6. Bucknil, foruery Attorney-General of Hongkong, and now Chief Justice of the Straits Settlement, is a stop-son of the decensed judge)

DEATH OF MR. GEORGE EDWARDES.

LONDON, October 5th.. The death is announced of Mr. George Edwardes, the famous impresario.

[The deceased was Chairman and Mana- ger of the famous Gaiory Theatre, and sole lessee and Manager of the equally He brat entered into famous Dalys. partnership with John Hollingsworth at the Gaiety in 1885, and at various times was Manager of the Duke of York's, Garrick, Comedy, Criterion and Tick's theatres.]

advance bases by water,

dependent Kingdom,

new international established through a II. The absolute freedom of the seas to be declaration of rights, to which all mari- Ger- timo Powers-aball he signatory. many will agree never again to establish a submarino blockade, England never again to make the North Sea tributary

a pleasant and easy method of transport ing serious cases. The barges in usa are fitted at completely as hospitals, their roomy holds forming comfortable wards. They carry nurses and doctors, and float smoothly and noiselessly down the water-III, Co-equal rights and liberties for Jews in all lands to be guaranteed by the ways. Naturally they are used for cases

signatories to the treaty of peace," which, although serious, are in no imme

VI.

water.

the Black Sea to be ceded to Rumania.

Austria-Hungary be given dominating influence in the Balkan States.

Belgium to be restored to her sover- eignty and her neutrality guaranteed, VII. French territory held by Germany to

he restored. „AM

diate danger, because their locomotion is IV. Bessarabia, now Russian territory on of necessity slower. When an action takes place the pressure on the clearing stations is terrible, but the first day of the rush is always the mast satisfactory from the doctor's point of view, for on it the wounds are almost all clean and the cases can be kent down in good shape. But as the time VII. That portion of Alsace held by France to remain part of the German goes and the dregs of the deadly business

Empire, come filterig in the state of the wounds gets worse before they reach the doctor IX. All German Colonies seized, durng the at all. I have one case in my mind where fifteen men had to lie for nine days out X. An indemnity to reimburse Germany in the open before they were discovered for the cost of her military operations.

war to be restored.