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THE

WAR.

ALLIES

MAKING

THE HONGKONG, DAILY PREES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19xx, 1915.

HEADWAY.

DESPITE FIERCE GERMAN RESISTANCE.

THE INVASION OF SERBIA,

SOME HEAVY FIGHTING.

!

RUSSIANS ON THE OFFENSIVE.

SEVERAL GERMAN REVERSES.

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOY.) THE ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE.

ENEMY'S SEVERE REVERSE ON BRITISH FRONT, AN ATTACK IN GREAT STRENGTH.

LONDON, October 12th.

RUSSIAN FRONT.

[THROUGH BEUTRE'S AGENCY.]

GERMAN OFFENSIVE

ARRESTED.

BIG MOVEMENTS WHICH FAILED.

INITIATIVE PASSES TO THE RUSSIANS.

W

LONDON, October 12th.

It is now clear that the German offensive in Russin is not merely arrested, but the

Field--Marshal Sir John French reports that the German attack south of La Basseinitative has passed to the Russions. Canal on the 8th inst, was made in great strength, but not a man succoded in getting within forty yards of our trenches. An attack between Halluch and the quarries was similarly repulsed,

Our reserves were not required at any point, and we certainly inflicted a most savere roverse upon the enemy.

Experts at Petrograd point out that the Germons in the Dvinsk region have failed to outflank the Russians, They have now shortened their front from seventy to twenty-seven miles, and are making stub born frontal attacks at ghastly, cost. The Russians, under General Evert, are grow ing stronger. everywhere, and are pressing

Our casualties prove to be smaller than the enemy back both in the Dvinsk reglas the first estimates.

ENEMY TRENCHES CHOKED

WITH DEAD.

PARIS, October 13th,

A French eyewitness of the capture of Tabure. Hill sayis it was the result strong artillery preparation preceding bravo attacks, The enemy trenches every- where were choked with corpses. Seven lines of trenches echelonned to a depth of three kilometres had to be carried, and thanks to the artillery work this was done The GermaA with comparative ease. prisoners, who were suffering from hanger and thirst, said that part of the garrison

in the village of Tabure actually panicked and deserted owing to the violence of the fire. The Germans terrific efforts on the 7th inst. to retake the Hill did not gain them an inch, and only resulted in a cartly defeat.

ENEMY'S HEAVY LOSSES.

PARIS, October 11th. 3.45 p.m.

and southwards towards Galicia, captur- ing thousands of prisoners. A strong attack om the river Styr on Tharaday night resulted in a Russian advance of four miles, and the capture of the enemy's first and second positions,

The feature

of the Russian operations is their doring bayonet attacks by night, giving the Ger mans no respite,

MURDEROUS RUSSIAN ARTILLERY FIRE.

PETROGRAD, October 12th.

The latest communiqué saya :——

The Russians north-west and south-west of Dvinsk are attacking the Germans, whom they dislodged from villages and trenches and pursued, and have occupied

fresh lino

(THROUGH BEUTER'S AURNOY.)

GERMANS DESECRATE THE

HOLY LAND...

LONDON, October 12th. Aged refugees from Syria and Palestinë have arrived at Alexandria. They state that the Germans have installed observa tion posts on the Mount of Olives, and a shooting range on Mount Golgotha They have also requisitioned thousands of peasants to dig trenches in the Holy Land,

NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

(THROUGH BECTER'S AGENCY, ]

FRENCH NAVAL CHANGES, PARIS, October 11th.' Admiral Dartige du Fournet has bear appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French feet in succession to Admiral Lapeyrere, who has resigned on account of ill-health.

RUSSIAN - TORPEDO-BOATS DESTROY TURKISH

SUPPLIES.

PernoonAD, October 12th.

A Naval communiqué states that two Russian torpedo-boats off the Anatolian | coast destroyed wineteen Turkish sailing. ships with cargoes for the Turkish troops. Ond blew up. The others carried grain. BRITISH SUBMARINE

ACTIVITY,

COPENHAGEN, October 19th- Yesterday a submarine, believed to be British, sank a German collier off Oeland and shelled and forced the German steamer Germania to run ashore,

The crews of both ships were saved, ·· AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S. ADENUZ.]

BOLD ASSAULTS.

ROME, October 12th. A communiqué states that the Italians. between the Adigo and Brenta rivers carried out bold assaults on the enemy positions, breaching the entanglements, destroying works and capturing prisoners

GENERAL.

{THROUGH EKUYER'S AGENCY.)

"RUSSIA'S GOAL IS BERLİN.”

PETROGRAD, October 11th.

M. Khrastoff, the new Minister who is succeeding Prines Cherbatoff, gavo sudience to a number of pressmen and declared himself unequivocally against a preventive censorship, which he likened to seridum. He was strongly in favour of the development of trade unions, and fully sympathised with the desire for internal reforms, but he disapproved of the methods of the Moscow Congresses.

There has been fieros fighting on both sides of the Kovel-Borny railway, the Russ artillery developing a murderous Fundamental changes were only possible in the calmer atmosphere after the war,

fire.

THE SERBIAN FRONT.

[THROUGH REGTER'A-AGUNDT.]

THE INVASION OF SERBIA.

WHY BELGRADE WAS ABANDONED,

HEAVY FIGHTING.

NISH, October 19th. A communiqué dated the 9th inst, states that the enemy crossed the Danube be- tween Semendria and Gradischte all day and night on Thursday, and, over- ed by the most violent fire from the Belgrado front, reached the railway on the Danube quay, the Serbians abandon

Meanwhile, the ing Gypsy Island, enemy's advance on the Save was arrested, his attacks were repulsed with the heaviest lass, and attempts to force a crossing of

brinn were defented. the

Fighting was continued at Belgrade on Friday, when Serbian artillery sank an enemy gunboat, and another was badly damaged and ran ashore. The enemy's artillery firo was especially heavy, and the guns were most violent all day and night- on Friday in the Semendria Gradischte sector. Nevertheless, the enemy were unable to advance beyond Ram, Even tually, the Serbians abandoned Belgrade in order to spare the city from bombard- ment by heavy guns, and withdrew to positions near the town. Te commnaliqué emphasises that the occupation of Belgrade gives the enemy no military advantage.

Four enemy attacks on the Save our Obrenovatz were repulsed with heavy losses. The Serbian guns destroyed one. or two bridges of boats; and prevented the Enemy enemy repairing the same, attacks on the Drina on Friday proved ineffectual and very costly.

THE GERMANS USE POISON GAB.

LONDON, October 11th.

A Henter telegram received to-day announces that the Germans invading Serbia have many twelve-inch howitzers among their array of guns.

The enemy on Saturday used poison gases at Shabitz, in the north-west corner of Serbia

GERMAN CAPTURES.

LONDON, October 19th. A Berlin communiqué says the crossing of the Danube between Bhebats and Gradishte has been completed, and the heights between Zarkowo and Hiryowo, south of Belgrade, have been captured. So for the Germans have captured 1,542 prisoners and 17 guas, including two heavy

guna.

POMPOUS GERMAN NEWS.

AMSTERDAM, October 11th. The bulk of the Serbian news is still from German sources and is pompously

the

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY-)

ROUMANIA TO MOBILISE?

LONDON, October 12th. A meeting of members of the Chamber at Bukharest unanimously passed a resolu tion demanding mobilisation.

THE ENEMY'S STRENGTH,

LONDON, October 12th. A telegrami From Nish to Paris states that the enemy crossed the Save at Semendria in masses of troops estimated at more than an Army Corps. So far Gorman Army Corps, & Bavarian Division and a Prussian Division are reported. This army is strong in artillery, has an enormous quantity of ammunition, and its firo is extremely deadly.

ALLIES' PLANS CHANGED.

LONDON, October 12th.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

THE PEOPLE AND THE

MONARCHY.

PEKING, October 11tä.

The President, in mandate, states thas according to the Constitutional compact sovereign rights are rested in a body of citizens; consequently the question respect- ing a change in the form of Government must be decided by the will of the people.

authorities The

Lo -instructed maintain order in the respective districis, and Await quietly the final decision of the people.

are

MR. AGLEN HONOURED.

PEKING, October 11th. The President has conferred upon Mr. Aglen, Lispector-General of the Chinese The Athens correspondent of the Daily | Maritime Customs, the First-Class Chaho News reports that the original plans of decoration. the Allies have been changed. Troops are still landing at Salonika, but, instead of small parties going steadily inland, large numbers are being massed at Suloníka,

RUMANIA CONCENTRATING

TROOPS.

LONDON, Octobed 12th. Rumania is concentrating troops ou

Bulgarian frontier.

A SERBIAN MINISTER'S

PREDICTION,

PARIS, October 19th,

THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY.

PEKING, October 11th. The 10th inst, which was the President's birthday, was observed quietly.

FRENCH ART AND CHINA.

MEMORIALS OF THE DAYS WHEN CHINA WAS GREAT.

His Excellency Mr. Lou Cheng-hsiang, Minister for Foreign Affairs, invited M. Vesnics, the Serbian Minister to several members of the Corps Diplons- Paris, declared to representatives of Letique to luncheon on Monday. In con- Matin after he had learned of the capture nection with the event our French cou- of Belgrade: If the army which we expect from our Allies permits us to devoto all our forces to fighting our asilast who comes from the North; we shall do this without uneasiness; the enterprise of our enemies will turn against them, and once more Serbia will victoriously oppose u wave of invaders,"

A Berbian Captain who is on a mission to Paris, said. Let the Allies look after the Bulgarians We shall go to battle singing."

A BULGARIAN MINISTER ON BULGARIA'S TURPITUDE,

temporary, Le Journal de Pekin, has published an interesting article of which the following is an English version:

With a happy inspiration His Ex- receive the cellency had arranged to Ministers in particularly artistic Chinese interior. The guests of the Minister for Foreign Affairs had the rare pleasure of admiring several specimens of the artistic treasures of China.

A PRESENT FROM LOUIS XV.

Among these figured four piece of exceptional and rare value; we refer to four magnificent flobelim tapes'rics, re- cently brought, over from the Palace of Jehol, where they had probably remained carefully rolled up for over 150 years. This explains their remarkably good stał of preservation. These splendid products. of French art of the 18th century, were sens, it is said, to the Emperor Chien Lung by Louis XV. They possess from the purely artistic point of view, all the beauty of the best producte that over came out of our great-French manufactory But, they also possess the curious pecu-

LONDON, October 12th Interviewed by the Amsterdam Tele. praf's correspondent at Petrograd, the Bulgarian Minister, M. Madjaroff, stated that the Bulgarion Government's adven- ture would remain in ignominy in history. He dwelt on the fact that Bulgaria had

liarity of representing Chinese or Mongol heen liberated by Russin, and he regarded

types, although in a perfectly.conven Bulgaria's future as very dark because she had failed in her moral obligations. tional forn. It is evident that the car He was returning to Bulgaria to tell the toons were arranged and the type drawn full truth.

ITALY AND THE CRISIS.

ROME, October 18th. Signor Salandra, President of the The Russians have occupied the enemy's His appointment, he said, disproved the phrased in order to impress outrals.

Tonight's Berlin communiqué states that Council, is going to the front to-night to third-line trenches on the left bank of the

consult with the King. It is understood Further battles have developed on Drina between Shabatz and Gradishte. that important Balkan affairs will be Styr below Kolki,

The crossing of the Danube has been com- discussed, pleted and two heights southward of

Eight enemy counter-attacke west of Dorajno were repulsed.

A communiqué states that the German artillery has been only fair in its inten- sity. The French batteries replied every where very effectively. The communiqué adds that fresh reports confirm that the violent counter-attacks by the Germans during the last few days against the

FATE OF VILNA. British and French fronts before Loos.and

LONDON, October 12th. northward thereof have resulted in com-

Fugitives from Vilna who have arrived pleto and costly defeat, The principal assault, by three to four German divisions, at Petrograd state that the town burned was completely ropulsed and dispersed. for three days after the Russian oveens. The number of enemy dead in front of the tion. Only 12,000 inhabitants remain, Allied lines is estimated at between 7,000 or mostly children. 8,000. FRENCH PROGRESS CONTINUES.

PARIS, October 12th.

A communiqué says: We very appreciably progressed in the wood west of the Bouchez-Angres railway in the Souchez Valley and east of the Givenchy wood redoubt.

We also gained ground on crests towards La Folic. A hundred Guardsmen were captured.

THE NEAR EAST

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] FRANCE AND THE NEAR EASTERN POSITION,

Panis, October 12th. The Premier to-day makes an import- ant statement on the Near Eastern posi- tions to the United Parliamentary Com inissions.

We made fresh progress in Champagne, north-east of Tahure, and captured by vigorous attack the whole German work demanded to discuss the whole position. south-east of the village on the flank of

It is not improbable that a secret session of the Chamber will be afterwards

LATER-

rumours of German influence on Russia: "Our goal is Berlin" he said. WORK FOR GERMAN NAVY.

LONDON, October 12th.

It is stated in Copenhagen that the

crows of all the warships at Kiel and Heligoland are being transferred to the

Eastern and Western fronts.

BRITISH BRIGADIER- GENERAL KILLED.

LONDON, October 19th. Brigadier General Frank Wormald has been killed in action in France.

ANOTHER M.P. KILLED.

LONDON, October 12th. The Hon. Charles Thomas Mills M.P., has been killed in action.

The deceased represented the Uxbridge Division of Middlesex in the Unionist He was a Lieutenant in the interests. West- Kent Yeomanry.]

THE GERMAN WAY,

LONDON, October 12th. the La Goule ravine. One hundred and The Government has suddenly decided eight prisoners were taken here.

Lieutenant Colanel Brottel, the tallest Our guns effectively countered the Ger-nob to furnish the joint meeting of the man gun violently bombarding our new Parliamentary Commissions with the man in the Indian Army, has arrived at positions. There have been particularly promised explanations of the military Brighton. With six wounds he lay help intenso artillery duels at Les Eparges, situation, preferring to make a state less and alone for three days and nights Pretre Wood, north of Reillon, in ment publicly in the Senate or the between the Anglo-German lines in Lorraine, and in the Vosges south of Chamber as soon as possible; probably France, during which time he was robbed

by the Gerntans. Steenback and the outskirts of Thann. on Thursday.

from indications applied by the mission- aries. The result is an amusing ethno- logical combination, which and this is not the least remarkable-does not de

from the artistic beauty of the tract whole,

For what purpose and at what parti cular time was this truly royal present This is not sent to Chien Lung? known, Ono notes, however, that the. subject of the four panels is intended to glorify some Mussulman princess, pro

Belgrade and at the band of the Danube DUC DE MONTPENSIER TO bably one of the Imperial vives. Dane

at Ram have been stormed. Local artillery

KING OF BULGARIA,

A COUSIN'S CONDEMNATION.

also finds in the four tapestries the figure of the same princess," in different attitudes. One of the most interesting scines is one which represents her as assisting at a performance given by some conjurers.

DRAWINGS FROM CH'IEN-LUNG. ·

LONDON, October. 12th. The Duc de Montpensier has sent

Que kaows the extraordinary taste for art shown by the Emperor Chien Lang. to the King of Bulgaria, who is his cousin telegram in which The Jesuit missionaries who lived at the Imperial Court of Peking in the

communiqué claims that the Germans have actions have taken place at Orsove. The

taken 1,500 prisoners, two heavy guns, ten field guns and five machine-guns. ALLIED TROOPS STILL LANDING

LONDON, October 12th. French correspondents at Balonike state ho says, inter alia: Your saintly middle of the 18th century were well. protected In his work on Peking, Mgr. my Aunt Clementine, your favior colates that in 1771-1772 sixteen that the Allies continue to land regularly. mother,

ep-

they of Chien Lung were sent to France by Pere Benoist, where they were

These under the direction of Cochin. grased at the cost of Louis XV, and plates with the original drawings and two hundred copies were returned from

The first seve Europe in two los.. arrived in Peking in the month of De- cember 1772. One ean, therefore, with- out presumption attribute to this date. the exchange of artistic compliments be tween the courts of France and China, the four tapestries of Jehot being the Tesult.

A complete division with artillery started uncles and those noble and unsullied magnificent drawings depicting the bat- inland on Saturday,

soldiers Orleans, Aumale, Nemours and THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE FOR Chartres, if they hear the earth's uproar,

SERBIA

must rise from their graves to hurl their LONDON, October 12th.

curse in your face, and 1, who so often The French Press is keenly discussing have sent you my affectionate and loving the question whether the Western front wishes, know you no more, and abandon ean be thinned in order to send an ample you to your apostasios and remorse, your expeditionary force to Serbia.

Turks and your Boches.” POPULATION READY TO RESIST BULGARIANS.

Whatever chis may be, for those who love the past and social history there LONDON, October 12th.. A Muroran despatch to the Asahi says are curious researches to be made in the Chinese as well as the Jesuit archives, the British steamer Shimosa (4,231 tons), in the Gobelins ead in the Ministry for Telegrams from Rona slate that the

fabulous countries. The sending of these population of Macedonia, and Serbia which left. Yokohama for New York, vid Foreign Affairs. Franco and China have gathered together in armed bands Panama, on the 25th ult, was overtaken were to each other at that period, deck was washed away. Being short of of those periodic passing contacts be to repel the Bulgarians Men certified by a storm and 105 tons of coal stored on Gobelim tapestries of Jehel marks one tween the two countries would to God se unfit, women and old, men everywhere fuel, the vessel entered Muroran. Her they could all have been a pacific as crew consists of eight British officers and this one-which have now culminated in our time to more intimate and fruitul in Serbia are arming to defend their

country.

41 Chinese sailors.

relaticus-Peking Gazette,