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THE

WAR.

THI HONGKONG DALLY PRESS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14mm. 1816.

GREAT FRENCH SUCCESSES ON THE

SOMME.

RUSSIANS GAIN IN THE CARPATHIANS.

ENEMY WITHDRAWAL IN TRANSYLVANIA.

ALLIED OFFENSIVE ON THE STRUMA.

ANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH BRUTEN'S AGENUT. ] BRITISH FRONT. ENEMY'S AMMUNITION DEPOT ON FIRE

LONDON, September 12th General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com munique states:Last night our artil lery caused conflagrations in the enemy's anununition depot at Grandcourt,

THE BALKANS

(THROUGH KNUTEL'S AGENCY ] VIGOROUS ALLIED OFFENSIVE

LONDON, September 12th. The French official communiqué issued at Salonika states: a British troops have been engaged in violent lighting on the Strusua

They stormed the village of Nevoljen. In a vigorous Allied offensive north of

There was intermittent hostile shelling Majadag Bulgarian trenches on a front

on the front south of the Anore

of three kilometres to a depth of 800

Wo destroyed enemy gunpits and fired inctres were captured, their ammunition store,

Fifty prisoners were brought in

LATER.

A communique states:The situation is unchanged,

FRENÇA FRONT.

AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS,

PARIS, September 19th. communiqué states French air uqundruis bombed cantonments at Semnon- court, the railway station at Metzsablons, and military factories at Dillingen.

A French pilot brought down an enemy aeroplane on the Somune.

▲ communigut states;--Enemy attacks east of Belloy-ch-Santerre were easily repulsed.

A Bulgarian attack on the Serbians was repulsed with heavy losses.

BRITISH ON THE STRUMA,

LONDON, September 12th. The British official communique states: Our detachments which crossed the Strumn Beized the enemy trenches on the east bank at Neoltori,

The French detachment co-operating with us captured the village of Yenimah securing prisoners,

The enemy suffered heavily during their retirement and in their counterattacks,

Our artillery carried out a systematic bombardment of the enemy trenches north of Machukovo on the Doiran front.

TURKEY AND ROUMANIA.

We occupied a German trench south of LATE OF DECLARATION OF WAR Berny.

REMARKABLE FRENCH ADVANCE.

PARIS, September 13th.

A communique states:- The French at mid-day vigorously offensived on a front of six kilometres between Combles and The Somme.

GERMAN LINES CARRIED IN

THIRTY MINUTES.

The attack developed-most-rapidly and the whole German first line was carried in less than half-an-hour.

FRENCH CAPTURE HILL, WOODS

AND ENEMY TRENCHES.

The French irresistibly pushed on, and successively carried Hill 145, Marrieres Woods, and the whole of the enemy's trenches as far as the Bethune-Peronnc

road,

We hold the order road between the *** southern outskirts of Rancourt to soull of Bouchavésnes

Further south we advanced our lines to Crest 76, west of Feuillancourt.

The total of prisoners hitherto cap- tured is 1,500, of whom

officers.

MADY

are

BUKHAREST, September 10th.

Although Turkey did not declare war

THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY) ZAIMIS CABINET'S FALL,

CONTRIBUTING CAUSES:

From

LONDON September 12th, Benter telegram from Athens it would appear that the fall of the Zuimis Cabinet was due, inter alia, to the Gounarist Reservists Leagues defy- ing the Government and continuing to terrorise their political opponents, there by placing M, Zaimie in a difficult posi tion:

RESIGNATION NOT YET

ACCEPTED.

ATHENS, September 13lb. Apparently, the resignation of the Premier, M. Zaimis, has not yet bren accepted.

It is believed in official circles that even the King is unable to avoid a change of Government, which is now the only hope of settling the crisis,

M. ZAIMIS PROBABLE

SUCCESSOR.

PARIS, September 13th. M. Dumitra Coucculos is regarded as the probable successor of M, Zaimis. He

favours the intervention of Greece on the side of the Allies or a definite neutrality

till the end of the war.

FRENCH PRECAUTIONS AT ATHENS.

ATHENB, September 12th, French bluejackets have been landed to form a guard for the Legation at Athens.

RU881AN FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) RUSSIAN SUCCESS IN THE

CARPATHIANS.

PETROGRAD, September 12th.

[THEODOH LEUTES & AGENCY.

TROUGH ELUTER & AGENCY:]

INDIAN TROOPS IN FRANCE | DISASTER ON, ST. LAWRENCE

RIVER. QUEBEC SUSPENSION BRIDGE COLLAPSES.

AND FLANDERS

PICTURES OF THEIR ACTIVITIES.

LONDON, September 13th.

the

QUEBEC September 13th. A large and distinguished nudienos,

The centre spao of the Quebec Bridge, including many representatives of India, the largest cantiloves, suspension bridge attended the first exhibition, in London in the world, collapsed this morning and of the cinematograph films taken by fell into the St. Lawrence, precipitating Girdwood, oficial photographer to the Raj, depicting the part played by Indian troops in France and Flauders. The pic Lares are among the finest yet shown of the operations on the Western front, and were greatly admired.

Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, said he was proud to par- ticipate in an exhibition of the heroic efforts of the soilers of India on behalf of the Empire The Blums would be a worthy record of the part the Govern ment, princes, and peoples of India hind played in the war. The people of Indis had contributed and were continuing to contribute generously alike to the forces in the field and to charitable objects such as hospitals for wounded soldiers, India

won renown on the battlefields of France and had also fought with credit to theniselves and advantage to the Em pire in other thicalres of the war,

workmen into the water. So far 27 are missing. Five bodies have been recovered.

The Chief Engineer fell into the river and was picked up by a tug badly in

jured.

Navigation is suspended. The collapse occurred during the un- precedented feat of lifting the cantilever 250 feet from pontoons,

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE GERMAN WAR LOAN. ANTICIPATING FAILURE.

AMSTERDAM, September 12th. According to the North German- Gazette, General you Blume in appealing for subscriptions to the new War Loan, says the success of the loan is boing systema- tically thwarted by people saying that whoover subacribes to it prolongs the

war.

FRENCH WAR LOAN.

CONFIDENCE IN VICTORY.

Fans, September 13th,

M. Ribot, in introducing an unlimited 3 per cent. War Loan in the Chambér, said the confidence of the country was stronger than ever. doubted victory,

They no longer

It remains for us,”?

Tho undertaking was being watched he added, to complete the Allies' task by vast crowds.

and to achieve the triumph of civilisas tion.!!

GOVERNMENT JUTE CONTRACT. CRITICISM BY THE

TIMES

LONDON, September 13th.

TO DRAIN THE ZUIDER-ZEE.

AMSTERDAM, September 13th. Legislation has been introduced pro-

The Times says that the War Office viding for the draining of the Zuider- estimate that the Ralli jute contract Zes, at an estimated cost of £11,000,000, would save £1 per ton, or £600,000 on the work to extend over a period of 80,000 tons supplied to Dunder industre JOBS, months, is regardeti ns greatly exaggorat- ed.

Continuing, Mr. Chamberlain said that

It is pointed out that £5 of the all recognised the heroic efforts of the Indian troops to relieve the garrison of "saving" is due to reduced freight, Rut and sympathised with and shared and 37/8 due to nonpayment of insur the disappointment of the relief force anco pad remission of Indian export tax, that they were beaten by physical difi- both of which could be realised without culties, climatic conditions, and floods. the appointment of a single firm as The Mesopotamia effort, great as it had buyer. Thus the net saving would be bren, was only one of the many under-only 12/0 per ton, or £60,000 annually.

Meanwhile an important point has, takings to which India had contributed.

He hoped the comradeship in aruis thus apparently, not yet been considered, A communiqué states:We occupied established would rouse throughout the namely, what the Dundes spinners are to several he ghts in the region of the whole Empire a keener interest in India do with their own stocks which were Bielytcheremoch river, in the Carpa problems and sochte for Indian aspira acquired at higher prices than the jute thians, rep.laing the cuemy's contortions the entire sympathy of all parts of supplied by Government, attacks

the King's Dominions.

Wa occupied the Kapul Mountain, in

the wooded Carp thians, and the ridge A "YARN" OF THE JUTLAND in the sand vicinity, taking 1,000 prison- ers, seven machine guns and other war material

We further progressed on the Caucasian front, where snow is falling on the mountains

against Roumania till September 7th the presence of Turks in the Dobrudja is in-ITALIAN dubitable.

The Roumanians are bombarding Rust chuk in reply to the shelling of Guirgevo,

ENEMY RETREAT CONTINUES

BUCHAREST, September 13th. An official communiqué states: The enemy continues to retreat in a westerly direction in the Maros and Alt valleys.

The enemy navigation on the Danube is completely paralysed.

ENEMY WITHDRAWAL IN TRAN- SYLVANIA ADMITTED.

AMSTERDAM, September 13th.

A Vienna official communiqué mentions the withdrawal on the right of the Ney Hranian line in Transylvania.

The Zurich and Vienna papers state that the Russian pressure in the Car pathians is constantly increasing Vehe ment attacks are being made on the Austrian positions on the ridge of the Tomnatik

FRONT

(THROUGH REUTER'B AGENUT.} ITALIAN PROGRESS.

LONDON, September 12th.

An Italian communiqué states-We have progressed at Valiarea, in the Upper Posine Valley, and have repulsed an caemy attack in that region.

AFRICA

THROUGH BROTER'S AGENCY.] GERMAN RULE ENDED.

ON THE BANKS OF THE VICTORIA NYANZA.

AMSTERDAM, September 12th.

BATTLE.

{COPYRIGHT BY ALFRED NOYES, 1010;}

LONDON, September 13th.

The concluding article by Mr. Alfred Nuyts on the Navy contains a number of breezy yarns of the Jutland battle, in cluding the following:-

[We are unable to reconcile the figures given abore, The nett saving would appear to be 2/0 ton, but this would not amount Lu,900 on 80,000 tons s year-Ev.] THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS. SIGNIFICANT RESULTS.

PORTLAND (Maine), Sept, 12th The Repablicans assisted by the Pro gressives, have gained a most significant victory in the State elections for Maine by returning Milliken as Governor with a majority of 13,000, also two United States Senators for Congressmen

OBITUARY,

FIR JAMES SIVEWRIGHT,

LONDON, September 13th. The death is announced of Sir James ivewright, KOM.G, for many years associated with Eouth African affairs.

CHINESE NEWS.

LUNG ALLOWED 6,000 SOLDIERS.

The Chinese Government has despatch-

ed a telegram to Lung Chi-kwong (saya The Peking Gazette), ordering him to leave Canton for Jungchow in Hainan Island without delay General Lung is allowed to leave the province with five thousand soldiers under his command. The Minis try of Finance has also been ordered to remit four hundred thousand dollars to General Lung to enable him to pay his troops and meet urgent expenses, while more funds are promised later

THE SECOND REORGANIZATION

LOAN

Now that the appointment of tho Cabinet Ministers has been confirmed by the two Houses of the National Assembly, the Government is preparing some memorandums concerning the proposed loan and how it will be disposed of, for the information of the foreign financiers, previous to the opening of formal nego tiations for fifty or one hundred million dollars on the security of the enlt surplus.

The reasons for the loan of one lindred million dollars are reported to be as follows:-$30,000,000 to be used for the The increase in the Republican vote is resumption of specie payment by the

Bank of Chiun and the Bank of

regarded as an indication of the growth Communications $40,000.000 for the dis of anti-Wilson sentiment,

AMERICAN AND JAPANESE RELATIONS.

TOKIO, September 13th, Judge Gary, the President of the United Sicel Corporation, in addressing the Tokio Chamber of Commerce, appeal

The Warrior was being badly mauled and the Warpite steamed in between the Farrior and the enemy, taking all the punishment, while revolving like a cat chasing its fail, with all her guns going The Warrior's ship's company, being most grateful for having been saved by the new and startling maneuvre, s

sent a boat to the Warspite bearing gifts of cigars and bottles, which were received with Homeric laughter and shouts of→ Take then back; we did not try to save you ed for the promotion of harmonious re- we were chasing our own damned tail, lations between the two countries, and and could not help it. Our helm was for the co-operation of Japan-American jammed

business-men, in order to avoid post-war competition. The speaker said that ||America wished to see Japan fleurtuis,

AMERICAN GOLF CHAMPION-

SHIP.

BRITISH WAR PRISONERS.

COMPOSITION OF CONTROL COMMITTEE..

LONDON, September 12th.

The persoanet of the special committee

LONDON, September 13th Chick Evans has won the American

Gardner by 43.

bandment of superfluous troops in the various Provinces and the reorganization of their civil administration which has been affected by the recent revolutions; $30,000,000 for meeting the reorganization expenses of the Central Government.

Dr. Chen Chin-too, Minister of Finance, will report these to the National Assembly shortly.

MILITARY EXPENDITURE,

According to a report from authorita the military expenditure for the present live, quarters (says the Peking (faseite), year is estimated at $158,715,786, exclusivo of incidental expenses

The above figures constitute almost one third of the total expenditure in this year's budget. It may be remarked that the naval expenditure is only onc twentieth of the military expenditure.

CHINESE STUDENTS FOR AMERICA,

Eighty young Chinese students 65 men and 15 women-sailed on September 8th, to study in various universities and colleges

The colonial correspondent of the Cologne Volkszeitung says that German rule on the German bank of the Victoria Nyanza has ended after a gallaut fight by the occupation troops. The English advance was systematic and unopposable. Two naval engagements occurred on the Lake in which two German boats the controlling all matters relating to British Amateur Golf Championship, beating in the United States All are Govern 31uenza and the Qllo Heinrich were war prisoners includes Sir Leander Stars Jameson (President); Mr, W. E. Bunle Williams, B.C., M.P.; Mr. A. Y. Gipps Campbell, CIE, and Sir John Prescott Hewitt, G.6.1. The two latter repre sent the interest of Indian prisoners.

GERMAN CASUALTIES.

OFFICIALLY ADMITTED TO BE OVER THREE MILLIONS:

sunk.

Elsewhere the Germans and Austrians) are being compelled to withdraw their THE CAPTUBE OF GINCHY,lines towards, the south-west over the GENERAL

LONDON, September 12th Beuter's Correspondent at the British Headquarters, in describing the capture of Ginely, says it was defended by an immense concentration of enemy guns, but our infantry entered the village within ten minutes from the time of starting the advance. The officers had to make frantie endeavours to arrest the

time

Upper Cirobach.

ROUMANIA'S FREEDOM ON THE DANUBE.

to

[ZHROUGH EBUTER'S AGENCY } HUNGARY AND

TRANSYLVANIA....

POLITICAL CHANGES.

ZURICH, September 12th.

LONDON, September 12th. Reuter's Agency is reliably informed

It is reported from Bucharest that the that, as a result of the Roumanian ceu Apponys and Andrassy groups are join. pation of Orsova, the Austrian rivering the Coalition Cabinet, and that the Beet on the Upper Danube is

Karloys party is standing out, but not The Reichpost attributes the settlement to a repugnition of the necessity for national unity in view of the invasion of Transylvania.

impetus of the Irish in pursuing the Gersist or communicate with the Austrian opposing. mans into the thick of their supports. units below Orsova. There are unimport ant Austrian craft in the Bulgarian Their spirit was amazing. He mentions that the night before the attack soldier waters, but they are compelled to hide, "deserted" and left notes to and they dare not venture out to bombard the effect that they had not been in the the Roumanian towar. In consequence last scrap, but were going to participate of the intensity of the Roumanian artil- in the capture of Ginchy. The notes lery fire, the river from Bilistria fo the concluded with "If all right, will be Black Sea is free to Roumanian naviga

servants

back to-morrow.”*

tion:

D

LONDON, September 13th- An official report of German casualties: to the end of August puts the total at 3,376,143, over 800,000 of which are deaths.

EARTHQUAKES IN JAVA.

AMSTERDAM, September 13th.

A telegram to the Telegraaf states that four very strong earthquake shocks MR, RUDYARD KIPLING.

were felt in Central Java on Saturday LONDON, September 18th, Reuter's Agency is informed that Mr. night. Rudyard Kipling has no intention of going to Italy

Houses were damaged. There are no reports of casualties.

NEW YORK TRANSPORT

STRIKE.

A GENERAL EXTENSION

THREATENED.

NEW YORK, September 13th Following a failure of striking street car cmployés to tie up local transportation, a general strike in the city, involving 800,000 workers, is threatened

THE SUMATRA RISING,

AMSTERDAM, September 13th. A telegram to the Telegrauf states that a patrol killed 18 and captured 21 of the Insurgents in the Dutch East Indies,

DUTCH OVERSEA TRUST.

HAVRE, September 13th. The Dutch Oversea Trust have obtained the release of 422,000 kilograms of kapok They have also arranged for the importa tion of cocoa beans,

ment scholars, that is, they are to be supported in America from the indemnity fund of some 14 million dollars gold that was remitted to the Chinese Government in 1909. About a dozen other students sailed with the Government scholars.:

GERMAN SOLDIERS AND THE FOOD SHORTAGE:

A circular found on a prisoner states:It is the duty of every soldier to economies in food and forage to coun- teract the enemy's efforts to starve us out, Batisfy only your natural needs; eat all the crumbs. You have a right to bo get erous with your rations, but you need not eat all. Don't eat for the sake of eating. It is your duty to hand in the leavings and apprently useless articles tins, old clothes, bags, leather, and metal.

THE TEA INDUSTRY.

The tea merchants of various provinces at Shanghal are reported to bo or ganising a large Tea Company in order to improve the industry and to extend their business in the United States of America, where, at the recent Panama Exhibition, Chinese tea was much appres cisted Begulations have already been made and the cooperation of the Chanı- ber of Commerce secured for the enter prise, says the Peking Daily News.