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THE WAR.

ALLIES' HUGE CAPTURES.

GAINS FURTHER INCREASED,

QINCHY-GUILLEMONT BATTLE. ENEMY TERABLY HAMM RED.

RUSSIANS ENGAGE

BULGARIANS.

GREECE MOBILISING.

[TRROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

FA ANGO-BELGIAN FROM T

TAROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

FRENCH, FRONT. HAMPERED BY RAD WEATHER.

Fans, September 5th.

A rojainniqué states:--A strong enemy counter-atrack in the region between

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7m 1916.

BRITISH OPERATIONS. -

AIRCRAFT ACTIVITY.

LONDON, September ötk. General Sir Douglas Haig, in theloon-

[TEROUBA EEUTER'S AGENCE) BATTLE OF GINGHY AND GUILLEMONT.

LONDON, Heptember Gl Reuter's Special Correspondent at the British Headquarters, in describing the opening of the latest offensive, states tint four times as many men as were concin- trated at the buttle of Waterloo païti- cipated.

The infuntry attacked along two slopes of the Ancre. The troops in the North soon rushed their objective, but progress in the south was slower, despite the British doggedness. Then the Germans | furiously counter-attacked, being finally drisch back to their trenches with tre mendous losBER

GENERAL

(TIROVUN BETTER'S AGENIX]

THE AIR RAID.

VICTORIA CROSS FOR FLYING

CORPS OFFICER.

LONDON, September 5th.

BADLY HIT.

[GY A MAN WHO “STOPPED A BULLET.;

The writer was wounded in an un- successful attack on the Sanna-iYat position thortly before the fall of Kus- d-Amara.

GEN, KALEDIN,

THE VICTOR OF LUTSK.

[BY STANLEY WASHBURN.]

As Kovel has suddenly emerged from

I slipped my left hand into my tunice oblivion of centuries to take its place and was surprised to feel the hot blood on the maps and diagrams of the mili pouring out. Then it dawned on me that toy writers, so has the army fighting here become at once the most conspicuous or- The Zeppelin which was wrecked in I had been hit, and pretty badly too. the air raid on the 3rd inst, was brought My equipment was hurting me, so I took ganization on the Russian front, and every one is asking "Who is in com muud?" This is too army which for so down by Lieutenant W. L. Robinson, of

many months was under the direction of the Worcesters, attached to the Royal

Great Fal Drustion BUKOCIT, General Flying Corps He has been awarded the Victoria Cross.

INTERESTING DETAILS.

it off.

I felt very dizzy and decided to try to get back as far as I could. I stood up,

The comma, is, not widely known in Russia, and probably not at all outside. With the developient of the situation there has suddenly fallen upon him the responsibilty of directing what promises to wo one or the bloodiest, most bitterly fought, and permaps most important actions that we have had on the Eastern front.

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a very uasise thing to do considering media, who has only just taken over tuac▲" was out 150 yards irom the Tur- ANA DAC Miki minte "Stakkal ure Külmik, ali, Busy' He attacked the Zeppelin under mostra, but i www dot ni uga di dangerous and dificult circumstances, atuly, bylegs gave way, sau i eslapsed

and my Ava: Vlast. tongue it after flying for over two hours. He had was now to seed to dean 1 must mas✪ ikk proviously attacked another airship.endre to put a noin vandage la place. 100 1 winically' d. pulled at trom my tanic pocket.lie outer covering came Du qasily, and 'I' took sub one of the pac- Robinson was up scouting when the sets, but could see no way to sit it open. inally gripped the cuge of the puckot Machine-sorchlights revealed the Zeppelin. He in my tecta and tors at it with both sands stulit opened. 1 put the pad on follower the invader for twenty milestre wound, as near as i could, but had then signalled to the anti-aircraft guns no means of keeping it there, so i stagger

ed to my feet and ran on, keeping the to cease fire. The guns stopped within pad in pian with my att hand. I believe half-minute, whereupon the intrepid dropped again and lay in a kind of 1 covered another fifty yards when I airmen accomplished his glorious ex-stupor ploit. The air hero narrowly escaped: the flaming débris.

The battle of Ginchy and Guillemont way of the most determined, character. We had made up our minds to take Gail lement, but the Germans were equally determined to prevent ́us. gunters lay it shell-holes and snipers lurked in every furrow. The German Combles and Le Föret was repulsed with uding part of Tuesday's communique, artillery barraged unceasingly, hut we heavy losses by artillery and machine-eived yesterday morning, states:-Up rattled our mailed first with even more to last night the prisoners captured by thunderous effect. Exactly what hap us excceder one thousand. The fightingpened in the maelstrom of fire was an at Ginchy continues,

known until we had stored the gains at ready reported. The enemy bad terrible hammering.

gun fro..

German attacks east of Belloy-n-Sau- terre were repulsed.--

Bad weather bampered our operations/ on the Summe. We are organising sur new positions.

Hostile aircraft have been displaying grent activity, and air fighting is con- thuous. The enemy aircraft are forced We took prisoner one hundred of the to remain miles in the rear of the enemy etong on the east of Belley-en-Sonterrelines and have entirely failed to inter- and filty at Fleury and Le Chenais.

Au enemy attack south-east of the Thinumont work was completely repulsed. ENEMY SQUAD REFUSE TO ADVANCE.

PARIS, September 6th.

rupt the work of our machines. On two separate occasiong our machines fired on Two hostile machines were troops. brought down, Beemingly wrecked, and many others were driven down damaged. Ony of our machinės destroyed kite

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RUSSIAN FRONT.

[THROUGH REUTER'), AGENCY.]

RUSSIAN ADVANCE. FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH BULGARIANS.

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LONDON, September 3ta. A. Russian communiqué states :--In the direction of Vladimir-Volynski, between

Robinson is twenty-one years of age anti pas born in Polibetta, India....

ANOTHER RAIDER HEAVILY

DAMAGED.

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At the beginning of the war General Kaledin was in command of a division of cavalry in General Brasiloff's army. He and ka unblemisel record, and distin guished himalt in every action in which that hard fighting, army has been almost continuously engaged. The shrewd cyc of Brusiloff soon' picked out this quiet, earnest cavalry loader, and last year saw am commanding an army corps with the rame success that made him conspicuous as a divisional leader. When Brusiloff took over General Ivanoff's command, General Kaledin succeded him as head of theth Amy. Barely had he settled himself in his new post when the offensive began.

i was aroused by the almost continuous krock of burst ng sarapael. Socis were dropping right nad leri, had the air was full of mountag and screaming as the bullets new hy. I masaged to get on my Icet again, although the effort made the

Coming to this army from General blood spurt ont auew. The sodden pad Brusiloft himself, I was promptly wel nad slipped down and a burning pain in | coined by the Staff, and, though the Äght to pit of my stomach caused mo, to

was raging forcely at the front, was ab double up in agony and slide on to my

once presented to the commuinder. Ho KNCLA 1 started cowling painfully was in his office, engrossed in the study It is officially stated that an import along until I came to a small mound of a map, elbows on table and best rest

heading on his hands. General Kaledin is a ant part of one of the raiders vas picked which woul at least attord

crept behind it and lay in the short, thick set man with close-cropped up in the Eastern Counties. It is un-only position i could, on my left side. moustache and sober eyes which look at

I pased my hand over myself to feel you from between half-closed lids. With doubled that this airship suffered heavily for a wound, but could not and one. out hesitation be accorded to me such faci from our anti aircraft gunfire.

The bullet had entere the small of my

lifes needed and referred me to the back and lodged under my breast bone. General of bis Staff for such legítimate Gradually the more intense pain passed information in regard to the operations away, leaving a not pleasant sense of as required numbness over all my body.

Part of a Zeppelin car and the wireless telephone attached to it have been picked

The diary of a captured officer states hallonn. Tw of our machines are miss August 31st and September 2nd, we pup on the East Coast,

that a squad refused to advance in face

of the terrible allied fire. It adds:- "There is Do need to state what hap-

persed.

A note under date of the 8th August mentioned that the number of ten desert-

ing their pets was increasing enormous-, ly. One regiment declared positively that they would not return to the trenches, and the flimsiest exouses were found to go on the sick-list.

GAINS MAINTAINED, Yesterday's battle was on n front of Torty kilometres. The town of Combles, which the Germans had transformed into

g.

MORE PRISONERS.

LONDON, September (45. Sir Douglas Haig's communiqué adds -Bixty taken

anerc

prisoners have been

Notwithstanding th unfavourable weather, our aeroplanes have sucessfully.

operated with the artillery..

THOUSAND YARDS OF FRONT

'CAPTURED.

We have advanced to 1,500 yards cast. of Guillemont and obtained a footing in the Leuze Wood.

The enemy's defence on

thousand

a regular fortress, is now invested by the yards of front, in the vicinity of Falle- French from the south and the Britishunt, has been captured. from the north.

All the objectives were carried againat the enemy's 'obstinate resistance.

The gains have been entirely maintain ed, despite furious counter attacks, in which the enemy lost heavily.

CAPTURES OF GUNS AND PRISONERS.

Up to the present, 14 guns and 60 machine guns have been captured on the Frosch front alone.

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The prisoners aro pouring in. At leuat 4,000 have been taken by the Allies in

two days.

··LATER. A communique states that 6,650 pri- soners and 36 guns, including heavy guns, have been captured on the French front since the 3rd inst

IMPORTANT ADVANTAGES

SECUREĎ.

DVANTAGES.

GAINS INCREASED.

Despite a stubborn resistance and an incessant deluge of rein, we increased our gains in the neighbourhood of Gail- lemont, pushing forward 1,500 yards east, and obtaining a footing in the Leuze Wood'

ENEMY. DEFENCE SYSTEM

CAPTURED. Further south, after severe fghting,

captured the whole of the enemy's strong system of defence on a front, of

1,000 yur da

COMPLETE CAPTURE OF ENEMY SECOND LINE.

In and around Falfemont, the fighting since the 3rd inst. resulted in the cap

enemy's second line of battle front, from

tured 115 officers and 1,514 men, and a quantity of guns,

la the Carpathians our advance con- times, and several more heights have

been taken.

The first encounter with the Bulgarians took place in Dobrudja on September 4th the enemy being sabred.

GERMANS DEPLETING THEIR * FRENCH FRONT FORCES.

PETROGRAD, September 6th. The Gerznals are reinforcing their south-eastern Russian front from the French front

A small body of Turks is reported on the south-western line, south of | Brezany, out of 40,000 sent to Lemburg to

be arined.

THE BALKANS

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]. NOTHING IMPORTANT AT SALONIKA

LONDON, September 5th.

The airship which was felled near London was also heavily and separately Gred on, but it is established beyond doubt that the quain factor in its destrue tion was Lieutenant Robinson's acre plane, from which he attacked the Zeppelin wits the utmost gallantry and

udgment and brought it down.

OBITUARY.

REY. EDWARD MOORE.

LONDON, September sth. The death is announced of the Rev. Edward Moore, D.D.. Canou of Canter bury

PROTECTORS OF Chows.

cover.

Lutor. In the evening I dined with him The persistent calling of a man in pain and the Generals of his Staff. During brought me back to consciousness. The the meg! any telegrams were handed in ptiless sun was blazing high in the heat various officers at the table, most of

the vens, and I felt hot and dry. Somebody tam going to

Quartermaster- was shouting, Fach the stretcher- General and to the Chief of the Staff. bearer, you fools; are you going to leave The former is a scholarly looking ma ne here? At first felt very sorry for who in a frock coat and high hat could him, but soon wished he would stop, for Iasily pass for Mr. Hughes, the candi- date of the Bublican Party for Frosi find a shocking headache. I judge 1 it to be about midday, and thought that in at of the United States. With prac another six hours I had a good chanertised eye be hurriedly tanned the tele of bring Trought in.

grazus, making notes on sonic with a red pencil and on others with a blue. Occa

1 was horrified to see that the watersionally he would hand one over the tabla to the Chief, who would glance over it ufthe Sawaichia March, which was on our right flank, had risen considerably, with a sudden tightening of the lids of and I feared for any of our wounded is half-closed eyes, ftly murmur a few who were farth out on the right and words, and then go on with his dinner. anable to crawl away from the mennee.mediately after his dinner General The man who was shouting stopped, and everything was strangely calm and peace ful. I felt very happy and cousiented then, for as long as I kept quite still the pain was very dull, so began singing and raubing away in a quiet voice:

Kaledin and his officers retained to the study of the mups upon which they were working out the problem that means su much to the campaign now in full swing.

Tamics.

well.

The dressing was by no means

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Where my caravan has rested Flowers I'll strey thee on the grass.. Isang again and again, accompanied by painful, but they left my hand untouch a strange roaring in my chest. My eared. anked for something to drink, but van, I thought, had rested in some very the doctor said they would give me all I unusual places, but none so mustal as wanted at the field hospital. this: And what was the use of talking about grass in the deart of Mesopotamia, Then began the worst experience I hav: where there is nothing but the yellow ever been through, I was taken to earth, the blue sky, the hot sun, and dirty native springless mule cart, with a few Backs and blankets thrown in the bottom, and helped off the stretcher. The slight st movement caused great pain, but when the cart started bumping off I was in a positive interno. I will not dwell on that four-mik journey from the marsh to

water ?

Not long age wỡ (Singapore Fre Press) gave what we considered an ex treme instance of the squeamishness of Jains, and certain other sects regarding A British official communiqué from the taking of life. In this case a com Salonika says there is nothing import-munity existed in Bombay which sem ant to report

round and collectul insects which ought PARIS, September 5th.

to have been destroyed at once for the ing up and running back. I slowly put he riverside; suffice it to say that what

A Balenika communiqué reparts that there has been an intermittent cannonade over the whole front, but no infantry operations. BULGARIAN CHIEF OF GENERAL STAFF MURDERED,

LONDON, September 8th.

purpose of feeding them alive in more or less luxurious surrroundings. A Bur ma correspondent of the Times of India Darrates how the Jains and Hindus of a certain street in Rangoon haw petitioned the Municipality against a campaign against crows that has been instituted in It is reported from Roumania that M. that city by destroying nests, eggs and Justow, Chief of the Bulgarian Geroralnelings. In their memorial they say:

There were a water bottle, equipment, and rifle lying-close to my head, and 1 have a vague remembrance of a Sikh ly- ing beside me for a time and then jump

my right arm up, caught the sling, and dragged the bottle nearer. I pulled the cork out somehow and propped the bottle against my face, with the neck to my lips, but was much upset to find I had not the strength to lift it up Tears rolled down my checks after I had made two or three attempts, for I was very thirsty. I sang no more, as my throat was harsh and lumpy. do I lay saring at the yellow and binc till I lost consciousness once

ttle breath I could summon was used in praying the driver to stop and leave ne on the ground.

my

We came to the field hospital at last. The natives pushed a stretoler into the cart beside me and one intelligent fellow nimbly jumped up and stood on smashed hand. That was the last straw. cursed him. When I stopped for want of breath they attempted to lift me on to the stretcher, but I begged them to stop. I tried to get on by myself, but This time I was roused by our own could only manage to get my knees on

more.

ture of the whole of the remaining staff, has been murdered, in consequence The very constitution of the Jains gnos, and the sound was most comfort and could not lift my body. The natives A communiqué states: -Our advance Mouquet farm to the point of junction is efforts in the direction of the with. and Hindus is such that they cannot bearing. "Giving 'em hell," I thought glee-were chattering round the cart, so I stari-

On the Bomme has continued, and im portant advantages have been secured," "

We have joined up the positions' north of the river with those on the south.

with the French.

We are in possession of all the ground between the Fallemont farm and Leuze Wood, and from the latter to the out

Our captures in the northem sector since the 3rd inst. include 32 guns and a skirts of Clinchy, large quantity of machine-guns

Numerous enemy aunterattacks south

of the Somme failed.

MISCELLANEOUS CAPTURES. The French booty includes, besides guns, a big depot of six-inch shells, a captive balloon, and numerous maching

guns,

ENEMY MASSED COUNTER-

ATTACKS

REBELL'ON IN SUMATRA.

THE HOVE, September 6th. The Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies reports that the rebels hase looted Maura, Tambesi, Mauratebo, and Burulangeon.

Mauratebo is on fire. To-day's fighting south of the Somme Fifteen of the rebels were killed in was particularly violent, the enemy in skirmishes with the Government forces, creasing his massed counterattacks at Controller Walter, his staf, and many points, notably at Barleux and i party of armed police have been murder. Belloy, but all were repulsed with bloodyed at Surulangeon.

losses.

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A hundred machine guns were captured

in a single day.

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Dutch troops have been sent to Palem- basig.

drawal of German influence from Bul Karin, and the replacement of Czar Fer-

and by Prince Boris. 'ALLIES' DEMANDS ON GREECE, GERMAN PROPAGANDISTS TO BE EXPELLED.

ATHENS, September 5th. The Greek Government have agreed to expel during the duration of the war all subjects or foreigners whom the Anglo- French Ministers have indicted us Ger- man propagandists, GREEK PREMIER'S OBSTRUCMON

Notwithstanding that King Cousten- time has completely recovered from his illness, M. Zaimie, the Premier, has de- dined to transmit to him the Venezelist meeting resolution on the ground of His Majesty's state of health.

GREECE MOBILISING, «

It is reported that five classes of con- scripts have been called to the colours.

the sight of the crows disturbed." The Fresident of the Rangoon Municipality has agreed to spare the crows, with the very appropriate hope that the crows of Rangoon will recognise their friends.

It may be that the objection to the disturbance of thic crows springs from quite another source than mere "sque mishness" regarding

painful bell tent, where I tossed about in the birds are the destruction of was paint work getting on the high lever ved about

In the morning I was put in a paddle- getting on the strelchor, as I could not boat, and I slept till it started in the gard it as lucky to have a crow's nest near

bear to have anybody touched anywhere afternoon. We were taken ashore at their houses, and deprecate and, if posHowever, it was managed at last, and Orals that night, and thore reived bet sill prevent their destruction either

tur attention, was placed on the operat for the production of "crow, pie" or other reason.]

fully. They bombarded for about an ed shouting, English, English. Fetch hour, and then I dipped back into un-Englisa," and at last a Jock came up consciousness. It was getting dark when to see what was wrong. I begged him I came to again. A man was standing to put his hand under my shoulder and close to me, staring round the field. help ine on the stretcher, and in a moment Somebody had put my san helmet on my I was lying on my stomach-not very head. He came over to me. "Are the comfortable on account of my laboured stretcherbearers coming?" I asked, and breathing, but it was a reat from my leit he told me I was the next to be moved. When my hand had been cleaneat It was not long before the bearers came, and dressed I was put on a mattress in ad they put the stretcher behind me. It

BRITISH QUARRYMEN FOR -FRANCE.

Skilled men from the granite quarrics of Leicestershire who were liable for mili. tary service either under the group sys- ten or under the Military Service Act have been invited to volunteer for quarry work in France, and numbers of theri. lave accepted the offer,

Iny on my left side. I suppose they went as gently as they ing table and the bullet located and s could, but every step racked my body so moved. much that I was marly mad with pain: I will not describe my stay at Orah or I cannot remember how far it was to the the trip down the Tigris in the padde dressing station, but I remember passing boat to Bassorah. My hand was a fear. through the artillery lines, where the ful size and very painful. When the ship guns had started again. I was put on a was moored in front of Bussorah Hos table, still on the stretcher, and was pital I was very weak, Two orderlies pleased to see our battalion doctor.holped me on to the stretcher, and I was | Well, laddie," he said, "how are you "arried down the gangway to the on- I replied that I was all right, but trance of the hospital. A major took par thought it a bit thick" having to lie ticulars and corsigned me to a verandah ward on the second floor. And so I was out there all day. Then he started cut- ting my clothes up, jersey and shirt as placed in one of the whitest, cleanest, and most comfortable beda in the world. -Daily Mail,

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