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THE WAR.

ROUMANIANS

OCCUPY ENEMY POSITIONS.

RUSSIAN TROOPS IN ROUMANIA.

TEL HJAGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER lær, 1916.

TURKEY DECLARES WAR ON KOUMANIA.

RUMOURED FLIGHT OF KING CONSTANTINE

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT. {THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]}

THE BALKANS

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]"

BAD WEATHER CONTINUES. | ROUMANIA'S FIRST VICTORY.

MINOR OPERATIONS ONLY.

LONDON, August: 30th.

General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- mnaiqué, saya:-We have engaged in minor operations only. The bad weather continues.

Half-hearted enemy attempts to ad vance in the vicinity of Guillemons were easily frustrated.

Detachments of sur troops reconnoitred what remained of Moquet Farm and re- Lurbed.

We carred out a successful raid neer Neuville St. Faust, inflicting casualties and taking prisoners. We sustained no

1058.

MUTUAL ARTILLERY ACTIVITY. Lospon, August 31st.

POSITIONS AND PRISONERS CAPTURED.

BUCHAREST, August 30th. An official communiqué states: -Our- troops have crossed the Austro-Hungarian frontier, and after a lively action have occupied several dominating positions, capecially near Brasso, where the main railroad crosses the frontier.

We have captured 741 prisoners.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE] INVASION OF HUNGARY.

LONDON, August 31st. That the Roumanians are well inside Hungary appears by the admissions re- vealed in an Austrian communiqué, which

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BULGARIA'S PLAN IN EVENT

OF DEFEAT.

LONDON, August 31st.

Dr. E. J. Dillon, the well-known cur respondent to the London Telegraph, telegraphing from Acqui, in Italy, states states:-We_mpalsed repeated that a Bulgarian plan in the event of Routan an attacks on the heights northe east of Orsova. Otherwise our advanced. troopis having withdrawn recording to a a plan, the enemy will boast of the occu pation of Petroueny, Brasso, Kezdivaserholy. The Roumianians for ther north reached the Gyorgyo moun. tains.

MAVAL ACTIVITIES.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

and

ROUBLE.

LONDON, August 31st.

The Rouble has greatly appreciated in

NORWEGIAN STEAMERS SUNK. London, where Petrograd exchange had consored, and, morvidors in the field

LONDON, August 31st

fallen from 155 to 135 in the course of a

THE SMUGGLERS.

FOOD FOR GERMANY,

The Germans have organised the smug- Egling trade out of Holland with their usual thoroughness. It is true that the total amount of contraband which gets out of Holland by means of smuggling is possibly not sufficient in the course. of a year to affect the duration of the war by a fortnight (I believe that that is a recognised calculation), but the one fortnight means thousands of lives well as many millions of money.

as

THE GERMAN PLIGHT UNCENSORED STORIES OF THE FIGHT FOR DAILY BREAD. With her Press and Parliament stiffed, her police ready to pounce at the first protest,, her censors putting our own to shame in severity, Germany of to-day must needs be a terra incognita to the Truth will out, however, under the nations that invest her.

Some most tyrannical of officialdom. times the veil is lifted for a moment in defeat is already prepared. The Ras the Reichstag itself. Often credible new-

Therefore, die light-hearted way in to the trals throw a lurid light on: Germany's sophiles will make overturen

sufferings in the catastrophe she has which the smuggling business is obviously Entente to depuse King Ferdinand and wrought, but it is left to the pen of the regarded by some Dutch authorities (not point of view of the Allies. And the proclaim Prince Boris King, on condi-soldier in the field and his loving ones at all!) is by no means justified from the home to paint the real agony of our

Allies have evidently rarla their point tion that the Serbian Macedonia Eenenty

It there were only a score or two of of view understood, for I learn that the Midia line will be accorded Bulgarin these letters speaking the despair, the Dutch Government has recently appoint disillusionment of their writers they ed yet another thousand marechaussées -APPRECIATION OF THE might be fabricated by a clever enemy (a kind of special police), in addition to the two thousand who were appointed buoy us up here with baseless hopes. But these letters are found by the hun-some weeks ago, dred on the bodies of fallen Germaans or From a frontier correspondent I have in the pockets of prisoners, ready to be received a description of the scenes in a posted after the battle which for many well-known smuggling village in Hol was their last. Therefore they are un land.

village during the daytime you will be the letters writ If you walk round the outskirts of the ten from home to seem, in many cases, to be granted special surprised to see lying about on the grass The Norwegian steamers Todalen and Week. This is attributed to Roumania's immunity by the blacking out official.in the sunshine a considerable number of Read in bulk these letters form the most able-bodied men, well dressed, and clearly valuable symposium at present cbtainable not in the least vagabonds. They are of the true situation in Germany and talking low or simply lying and smok- ing or even asleep. A little farther on of the intelligent German view,

Writing in the Rivne des Deus Mondes, a factory is being evacuated and tran- M. Louis Madelin passes in review asferred inland because here on the fron- collection of these Germaur letters and tier it is impossible to keep hands. Within a few days of his arrival the new diaries startling by the sincerity of their revelations. Passages from these and factory-band has joined the ranks of the other letters are quited below:-

smugglers.

THE DROWSY MER. CRY FOR FOOD.

The village consists of one long street The following letter, dated May. 14th last, from Leipzig, was found upon a of houses ruaning practically parallel to German sirman captured on June 1st the frontier, which is only about 300 were yards away. A little before sunset you Last Saturday evening there execution at Lindenau, Plagits, Beutsch in the sun all day got ap and stroll with and Kleinschachor. In the Frankfurter the post innocent air in the world to strasse they broke the windows of three wards the street. They disappear behind shops and ransacked them. They assem- the houses, and a deep peace broods for bled in thousands shouting and yelling a little time upon the whole village.

Suddenly from somewhere sounds one Two hundred police, mounted and on

The shrill whistle: there is an interval 'and foot, found themselves helpless,

(OL crowd seized the bridles of the horses and then the signal is repeated twice. prevented them from moving. At Beutsch course, the signal varies: sometimes it is not an audible one at all.) And then chocolate shop was taken by storm. Early this morning they started afresh from behind the row of houses, dashes a breaking windows until about four company of men, often as many as 200 o'clock Yhlans arrived with their lances of them, bearing loaded sacks or small bags on their shoulders. They spread and infantry with fixed bayonets,

like a fan and dash towards the frontier line, some of them apparently right into the arns of the soldiers watching the frontier.

Renteria have been sunk. BERERAL.

(THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY.} FLIGHT OF KING

CONSTANTINE.

LONDON, August 31st. Mr. Ward Price, the well-known cor-

inthevention, Americans buying and the impending flotation of a Russian Rail way Loan of 350,000,000. roubles.

TRENCH EXCHANGE,

Simultaneously the French exchange has improved.

DEPRECIATION OF THE MANK, The German Matk, after a period of This is stagnation, has depreciated,

Our artillery silenced the Austrian respondent, in a message from Salonike, tardly propitious for the impending serious riots, and the people did much will see the men who have been drowsing

monitor batteries on the Danube.

AIR RAID ON BUCHAREST. ▲ communiqué states that a Zoppelin No and aeroplane bombed Bucharest. dulange was sustained. The raiders were driven off. by artillery.

Enemy zeroplanes bombed Baltchic A later communiqué slates --Between and Neamto, without inflicting damage,

the Anere and the Gomme there was artil

lery activity on both sides.

PRISONERS CAPTURED,

-The weather continues adverse.

ROUMANIA POSSESSES PASSES.

LONDON, August 31st.

states it is rumoured that King Con- stantine, hus fled to Larissa, where n German escort of 300 Uhinns is await- ing him.

ALLIES FIGHTING THE GREEK ARMY.

Another unconfirmed and probably

Army le fighting the Greek Army at the imaginative report is that the Allied King's country house at Tatoi, and that

It is stated in Rome that the Rou-several Greek Princes have fallen.

NEW PERSIAN CABINET. maniana are already in possession of all

the Province of Banat.

We extended our lines south of Marthe passes leading to Transylvania and tinpuich scross & email saliont, capturing prisoners, the number of whom have not yet been counted.

Thirty-eight other prisoners were cap- tured in minor operations during the

day.

TRESOR FRONTS.

INCLEMENT WEATHER.

PARIS, August 31st.

A communique states-There has been moderate activity.

SALONIKA OPERATIONS. ALLIES STILL PROGRESSING.

LONDON, August 30th. A French Salonika communiqué states:We bombard the enemy"é, or- on the Struma and In the region of Lake Doiran.

We progressed west of the Vardar and in the neighbourhood of Jumnice.

There was violent artillery fire in the

Bad weather continues to interfere Veretnik and Ostrovo sectors. with the operations.

PROGRESS NEAR FLEURY.

Preis, August 30th. A communiqué states:We have pro- gressed east of Fleury.

RUSSIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH RIVIER'S AGENCY.)

RUSSIANS -NEARING

A Bulgarian attack west of Ostrovo Lake was repulsed, with serious enerny losses, by Serbian artillery.

SUCCESSFUL AIR ATTACK... The enemy shelled Kopriva Bridge over the Strama. We retaliated and silenced the enemy hatteries.

Our arroplanes bombed. Drama station. BITLIS, and trueps and transports at Borna with

apparent success.

PETROGEAD, August 30th. The Russians are now within six miles * Bitlis.

VILLAGE CAPTURED.

A communiqué states:- We captured the village of Rafailov, west of Nadvorni and the Panker Mountain, on the Hun garian border.

TURKS RETIRE.

The Turks south of Nimrodzinal re- tired near the Bitlis Pass,

The enemy in the direction of Mosul was dispersed, abandoning arms, am- munition and prisoners. THE NEAR EAST.

HOUMANIA'S ENTRY INTO THE WAR. PROFOUND IMPRESSION IN

GREECE.

ATHENS, August 30th. Four Entente Ministers have visited M. Zaimis, the ex-Prime Minister.

The news of the entry of Romania into the war has created & profound impres sion.

Re-mobilisation of the Army and re

national constitution of the Cabinet on Ա basis, with M. Venizelos as a member, is. being considered:

ENTHUSIASM IN FRANCE

PARIB, August 31st. Roumania's intervention has been cele-

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN. ENEMY CAMELRY DRIVEN OFF.

LONDON, August 30th. General Murray reports:--Enemy camelry, attempting to approach Birol Bayud, were driven off by our patrols. The French airmen delivered the newa and pursued six miles.

TURKEY DECLARES WAR ON ROUMANIA.

LONDON, August 31st. Turkey has declared war cu Roumania.

AMSTERDAM, August 31st.

A telegram from Constantinople shows that Germany and Bulgaria are 2580- ciated with Turkey 'n declaring war on Boumania..

brated in the French trenches most en thusiastically, the officers and "mên embracing. There were double rations and wine, and entertainments is the evening.

broadcast to the enemy..

IN

RUSSIAN TROOPS

·ROUMANIA.

PETROGRAD, August 10th: It is stated here that it may be assumed. that Russian troops are now well into Roumania.

RUSSIAN TROOPS WELCOMED. PETROGRAD, August 31st. The Russian troops entering Roumania are being received everywhere with en

thusinara.

PETROGRAD, August 31st. A new pro-Entente Persian Cabinet has been formed.

Vossoug-ed-Dowleh has been appointed Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs. AUSTRALIA AND COMPULSION. GOVERNMENT PROPOSES

LEFERENDUM,

MELBOURNE, August 30th.

German War Loan.

DIPLOMATIC CHANGE

LONDON, August 31st. Sir Horace Bumbold, P. G.C.B. K.C.M.G., succoeds Air. Evelyn Monat stuart Grant-Duff, C.M.G., as British Envoy to the Swiss Confederation,

HONOUR.

Mr. Evelyn Mountstuart Grant-Duff, C.M.G., and Mr. Algernon Law, C.B.,

have received the Order of K.C.M.G.

BYE-ELECTION.

Mr. A. K. Loyd, K.C., the Coalitionist candidate, has been returned unopposed for Abingdon,

WAR NEWS.

THE GERMAN SUBMARINE LINER BREMEN."

A telegram dated Amsterdam. July nd, says: The German submarine her Bremen, sister ship of the Deutsch find, according to reports here, is on her way, to a Brasilian port, presumably Rio de Janeiro, carrying a precious" The Government proposes a Referen-cargo of millions (sic) of marks in gold, part of which is to be in payment of the dum on the question of Compulsion. long-standing account of German mer chanta with Brazilian coffee traders, while the remainder is to be used in an extensive publicity campaign in behalf of the German cause to be carried on throughout South America.

A MONTH'S GRACE.

GERMAN SALORS' SENTENCE FOR ENDANGERING DUTCH NEUTRALITY.

The writer does not say what happened after the troops arrived, but he concludes on a pathetic note. The potate allow ance per week has just been cut down froen 7 to 8 lbs a lead.

There is abundant evidence of these food riols which are never mentioned in

the German Press

HOME LAMENTATIONS." Imagine the kelings of a British Tommy fighting out there in the trenches, facing death every hour and suffering indescribable discomforts, if he received

What are the soldiers to do! Even if they were quick enough they could hardly shoot more than a few of the smugglers, since the latter are perhaps forty to our Some shots de ring out, and probably two or three of the smugglers tumble into the grass or the sand, almost always the leg But probably out with a shot

the

of the 200 fully 100 have got ucrusa

where the German State-

a letter from his loved ones at home frontier, telling him that they know not where to organised receiving station awaits the But such bags of fat (especially fat!) or other turn for their daily bread.

Then ther laments, that bear on them by their very contraband brought across. crudity the stamp of truth, are frequent smugglers disappear and dribble home by a roundabout route across another part in these pathetic messages to German

of the frontier. Somewhere and some soldiers

how the profthecare shated outy and the of men who were wounded as well as any

serimmago who may have the snuggling s been arrested beforehand receive their proper share and also compensation for arrest or injury,

A woman's despairing cry last March from Linden (Hipover) to her husband: —“' I can't continue this life any longer can't keep up this fight for daily bread"

The same month a Berliner writes There is no mere butter, sugar, coffee. Pork has completely disappeared for some time, and potatoes, now the staple food of the working classes, are becoming delikatessen and the price is rising in colossal mahiver.

J

If this particular village becomes rather too warm a corner the smuggling scrimmage takes its afternoon siesta some way off and the rush is made from a new lair.

scrum

MELBOURNE, August 30th." In the House of Representatives Mr.

RUGBY FOOTBALL METHODS, Many of the soldiers have a consider- Hughes, the Premier, announced that,

Another Berliner discourses dolefully on the prohibitive price, of the Prager able sympathy with the smugglers. The pending the Referendum, if the enlist-

wurst and the sausage genus generally rush-tactics appeal, perhaps, to their ments were insufficient within a month

Saveloys are (le writes) as tough as dry sporting instincts, and in any case they & Proclamation would be issued calling A Hague mesage states that reports on bread, for there is no grease to put have not the least desire to hurt men who from Batavia confirm the sentences passed in them, and they cost 4 marks 50 (4s. 6d.) are only smuggling." So they fire low, up single men with no dependents.

by the Supreme Court of Justice of the a pound. In the minced liver sausage are not arices to make examples," and

sider shooting these people at all as part. The Government would not hesitate to Dutch Indies on two Gerinan sa lors of a, there is nothing but oatmeal and bread; it is difficult, no doubt, for them to con- year's imprisonment for endangering crumbs, and it won't keep more than a

of the, soldiers' trade. Sometimes there compel others to sacrifice their wealth. Datch neutrality. The two sailors were day.

"on the goal- You are forbidden to make any other resalts a regular

fine (the frontier). A soldier will grab The Premier asked for a joint session stationed on the Hamburg-Amerika tiner

Preussen, interred in Babang harbour, sort of sausage. What we used to call

one of the smugglers, collaring hin of both Houses to-morrow,

Island of Sumatra, and they bad Thuring, or butchers' sausages,

according to the legitimate Rugby game, RECRUITING BOOM IN SYDNEY. established on the ship a secret wireless consist of gristie,

Tallow, which they used to throw at and fully intending to bring him down station through which they communicated

But to the raider Emden and indicated ships you, costs 3 ks 50 (5, 6) bound first and capture the ball, which is the

anything else which can be bought smuggler's sack, afterwards. is horribly dea and exists for the rich most equally often the soldier happens to be sunk. They helped the raider to

to have a late leg that evening, else escape the British cruisers which only. At the margarine depot women hunting her. There is no appeal front take their stand at three in the morning, the smuggler happens to be unusualy this judgment. The German Government always under the surveillance of the slippery, or the soldier trips up just having petitioned the Dutch Government

You can make a round of muggler, and the latter runs on grinn AND for their release, t'e ducuments concern police. A herring which used to coat id when he has got his arms round sack and

is 5d. now. ing the trial are now being considered by Berlin to get lh, of sugar. We shalling and makes a touch-down. the Netherlands Indies Council of Jus probably have cards for that soon, ti, says the Gazette de Hollande.

SYDNEY, August 31st.

There has been a recruiting boom in Sydney, 653 men having volunteered in three days. NEW ZEALAND CONSCRIPTION.

WELLINGTON, August 31st. Hon. Mr. J. Allen, Minister for De fence, declares that conscription hitherto has been unnecessary, as there have been abundant voluntary enlistments.

DOMINGO.

A STRIKING' PARALLEL.; In the summer of 1813 the armies of the European Powers who had combined to crush the domination of Napoleon were converging on the last armies of the TIDAL WAVE AT SAN Emperor in Saxony. In the autumn the converging armies closed like a vice at Leipzig. That was the end of the great Emperor's attempt at "weltherrschaft.

To-day neutral countries throughout Europe are asking whether the situation is parallel. The Central Powers are held by a continuous line from the North Sea, where the Belgian army holds guard, to the Alps, where the Italians are attack ing. The line is continued from here to Salonika by su but the grip is not less be-effective than on land.

AMERICAN CRUISER WRECKED.

NEW YORK, August 30th. As the result of a tidal wave at Ban Domingo, the American cruiser Memphis

(formerly Tennessee) was thrown upon the rocks in the outer harbour, and came a total wreck,

Twenty of the crew were drowned.

OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

Eust of Salonika the Central Powers have a corridor of communication with Asia trough Constantinople, but this corridor stops short on the plains of Meso potams, where the English army holds the approach to the sea. The eastern wall of the coridor is turned by the long Rus The Government has decided to increasesan, line beginning in Armenia, which is now wholly Russian, since the capture the old-age pensions by half-n-crown of the last great Turkish fortress of

Erzingao weekly in cases of hardship due to the war conditions.

LONDON, August 31st

SECRETARY FOR WAR INDISPOSED.

Lospor, August 31st. Mr. Lloyd George, Becretary for War, is slightly indisposed.:

DOG SOUP,

NOW

From Wilhelmstahl (Westphalia) comes the complaint that people are stealing, dogs with which to make soup.

It is terrible," said a letter from Halle in April to have nothing to eat but slices of bread with "compote: marmalade In fact, there seems

to

have

Frankly, the mir changes is a dif ferent and a less sympathetic goalkeeper. He is not paid to be a sportsman but to stop smuggling, and the result of his efforts is unquestionably considerable, so

has unpleasant, that the great game and soldiers may

been replaced by the risks, because you never know when the special police.

It Such is my correspondent's story.

more like a romance of Troy reads Town than of the Great War. You have to shake yourself to remember that these mugglers, bribed with German gold, are in a way responsible for some part of to-morrow's casualty list, a fact which they themselves will never, never realise until they too are fighting Germans fed by friendly neutrals." And from that fate the victory, of the Allies is about the only thing under Providence that can

and one letter suggests that a regiment be a plethora of marmalade in Germany, threatened to mutiny because marmalade comprised their staple of nourishment.

We find that even Essen, the Krupp stronghold, it unable to escape the com- mon lot. "We shall soon be able to institute & Famine Committee," wrote philosopher on April 18th, for you can't Ret anything for your money." Brusseldorfer wrote next day If the

hunger." war lasts much longer we shall die of

A

save them.

the English," against the police who reply to plainte by blows with the flats of their sabres, and against officers who One of the most valuable contributions are always given precedence. 'comes from a man of thought and sub- stance, a banker officer on leave, writing to a comrade at the front on April 28th-

Seme more extracte Aplerbeck, April 2nd.-At Dortmund yesterday a woman asked for more relief as her husband is at the front, and she has not enough for her six children. As they would not give her any more she struck the Commissary of Police. He killed her. Then there was an assembly of women and in the evening mounted troops dis persed them. If the police had ventured but they would have been lynched There is an unparalleled excitement here.

"For eight days past there has been, and also at Dortmund and Cologne and

for instance, no meat at K the muni The line continues along the Austrian the surrounding district, German frontiers to the Baltic. There is

Konigsberg, May 4th-There is no cinality supplies the needy with bad meat only one gap in the line. Roumania thing more to eat. At Konigsberg you which no man can eat. The doctors have held that gap and all Europe was asking an get neither butter, nor meat, nor already reported on the manifestly in- adequate food available for the civil when Roumania would abandon neutral-bread, nor four, nor anything.

population of Germany. BANKER'S SOBEE VIEW.

the ity and join the Allies. The pan is now

"The only people satisfied are losed Roumania has fulfilled her dest- We read of another riot at Breslau, of j

LE speculators makers of monitions who are making Everybody else groans Powers, a step which must undoubtedly who are causing famine more surely than their millions.

and complains,” iny and do lared against the Central bitter complaints against

(Continued on next Column.) hasten the Gual elimine of the vice.