1916-09-25 — Page 6

Hello! Are you there? Oh, no, it's not nearly finished yet, and Haig's simply pouring shells across into the Hun positions north of the Somme.

Hand grenades, too, are the order of the and our boys do day, REALLY GOOD WORK with them.

Eh! What's that?

What do ther cost?

Well, a £100 EXCHE- QUER BOND repre- sents about 800 hand- grenades, and these in the hands of a fast bowler

you

won't need my help to draw a mental picture.

Lively picture, eh? Yes, the Hong- kong Bank gets the Bonds for you.

I'll Think it over. ring off now. Bye- bye.

Hello! Did you think over that business about the Bonds? Yes, it's pretty certain now that an UNREMITTING PRESSURE on all fronts will lead straight on to Victory, and you can help in some mea- sure by lending money to the Government.

you can do

The least

is to convert all avail able cash into EXCHE- QUER BONDS. The HONGKONG BANK will buy them.

What do you say? Only 5 per cent.? Well, I don't think any of us should mind whether it's 5 per cent. or 6 per cent. so long as we get through with the War.

What's that? Oh, you're writing a chit to the Bank now. Alright! I'll ring off Good bye, old man

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TF,

THE WAR.

The following Cables were received on Saturday night and issued in our Early Morning Fatra yesterday.

THE BALKAYS

TH20FOR REGTER'S AGENCY.) THE GREEK CRISIS.

SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES

A STATE OF ANARCHY, **KINGDOM OF GREECE ONLY A

NAME

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].

SERBIANS FROGRESSING.

1918.

LONDON, September 22nd. A French official communiqué from Salonika states: The Serbians have reached Vrbani,

We cleared out the district north-west of Armensko and advanced after heavy fighting against the heighta dominating the road from Florins to Popli.

Mist interfered with operations, along the whole front.

BRITISH WARSHIPS TAKE PART.

LONDON, September 22nd. A British official report from Saloniks states that our warships shelled the enemy in the neighbourhood of Neohori.

There is increased artillery activity on the Doiran front.

LONDON, September 23rd Luo Duly Mail's Athens correspondent says:--The removal of the Greek consor sap permits of the truth being told,

kho kangidom of Greece is only & mumbin

mks, Thasos, Lemnos, Chios, Bande, aud Mytilene are no longer governed Scom Athens, and Crete and Cyclades are

out to follow suit,

PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDENUL,

A proclamation of independence has been issued at Epirus, and the people of - Lartis district are only biding their Limo Puocis and Acaruauia aro waver- 4125 Only Athens and Peloponnesus retain, and Athens is placard with such appeals to ** Draw the Sword, King, For Abutesia??

in a declaration made by tho ex Quartier, the Prominced, in the Asty news- paper, he says bo and other anti-Liberals Are hastening to join the revolution be cause of the Ravalla treason. Such statements are allowed to go unpunished. LING'S AUTHORITY ALMOST GONE

The King's authority is almost gone. Even su entrenchment has been thrown up to protect the palace at Tatoi. Houses 14 Athens in which are stored arms only aro guarúúú,

VENIZELOS UNUROWNED KING.

BULGARIANS HEAVILY,

DEFEATED.

LONDON, September 22nd. French official report from Balonika states that a violent Bulgarian attack against Zborsko, between the Vardar and Cornn, was heavily defeated. of Florina.

We also repulsed an enemy attack north

FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BRITISH STILL ADVANCING. A DIRECT LINE ESTABLISHED.

LONDON, September 22nd. General Sir Douglas ffar in d con- muntque, says-Bouth of the Ancro we have advanced on a front of about a mile, capturing two lines of trenches, between Flers and Martinpuich,

Our front now runs approximately in a direct line north of Flers and Mar- tin puich.

The enemy's trenches south of Arras were successfully entered last night. Prisoners were taken and many casualties were inflicted.

We blew up a mine north of Neuville B. Vaast and occupied the crater.

The King dare not challenge the least act of M. Venizelos. If the latter chooses, to love Atbous and lead a separate Gov erument elsewhere no one would oppose him,

THE CRUX OF THE TROUBLE.

The crax of the whole trouble is that the King, at the beginning of tho War, promised the Kaiser ho would not in tervene and then mistakenly clung to his word.

GREEK REVOLUTIONARY

ARMY

BATTALION LEAVES FULL THE

FRONT

SALONIKA, September 23rd. A battalion of the Greek Revolutionary Army paraded preparatory to proceeding. to the front General Zimbrakakis, addressing them, exhorted them to expel- the invaders, and called for cheers for the Allies.

THE GREEK FLEET. ORDERED TO SURROUND A BUSPECTED CRUISER

LONDON, September 3rd. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent in Allens reports that on September Sud the Greek feel was ordered to surround the cruiser Averoff, which was suspected to be preparing to proceed to Balonika for the purpose of joining the Revoln

cionists

ROUMANIAN SUCCESSES.

KAISER'S EMPTY BOAST:

LONDON, September 22nd." The Roumanian victory at Dobrudja dispels the obscurity which has boon bauging over the operations there and gives the lie to the Kaiser's recent boast

of a decisive victory,

This oust is symptomatic of the grow ing moudacity of German communiqués which, up to the present, have not ad- mitted defeat ·Macedonia and the loss of Florina, o

General Averesco, the new commander in Dobrudja, arrived there on the 10th inst when the great battle began,

EROUMANIAN SET BACK,

BRITISH PUSH FORWARD.

LONDON, September 23rd. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- muniqué, says: There has been heavy reciprocal artillery fire, p.

By isolated actions we have improved our positions and pushed forwari detach ments in several directions,

GREAT AERIAL ACTIVITY. There was great aorial activity yea terday. Two enemy inachines were de stroyed in the course of the agiting, and another was forced to descend damaged. FRENCH HOLD THEIR OWN.

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PORTUGUESE PENETRATION, THREE MILES INTO GERMAN TERRITORY,

LICON, September 2nd. It is officially announced that Porta. guese troops crossed the Rovama River and ponstrated three miles into German East Africa.

The enemy abandoned trenches after

feeble resistanco.

RUSSIAN FRONT,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AUKNOX]

RUSSIAN FRONTS,

3..

„NOTHING- IMPORTANT DOING.

LONDON, September 22nd. A Russian communiqué states that there is nothing important to report on the West front or in the Caucasus, GENERAL.

(THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY.}

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POST-WAR ARRANGEMENTS. FINANCIAL FACILITIES FOR BRITISH FIRMS,

The Roumanian left wing in Transyl-Special Divisional Court, consisting vania has suffered a set-back, retiring from Petroheny to Dear the frontier, of the Lord Chief Justice and Justices where they have taken a stand in the Darling and Brant, have reserved their vicinity of the Vulcan Pass, the heights on judgment in the case of Dr. Miran both sides of which the enemy claima te Warud Din, a Mahommedan from occupy, but the Roumanians hold a fourth Madras, and a member of the English

LONDON, September 22nd. of Transylvania and are progressing Bar

It is officially announced that the north, as is. shown by the occupation of Owing to the fact that his first mar Brekly Udvarhely. Their retirement on riage with an English woman, though Committee of Inquiry which has been considering the best, means of providing the left was possibly due to the despatch dissolved under Mahommedan lawasnancial facilities for British Firms after of reinforcements to Dobrudja,

still valid under English Inw, the Regis trar had refused Dr. Miran Warad Din MACKENSEN MEETS HIS MATCH licence for marriage with o

with a second A later, message states:-Field Marshal English woman yon Mackensed bae inét liis match in the Dr. Miran Warud Din then secured s ex-ranker General Averesco rule is bringing up the matter for Reuter learns from high Romanian argument on the terms of the rule com military authorities in regard to the Indnding the Registrar General to issue enemy plan in Dobrudja, which was to a marriago certificate. www capture the great brings and town of The Solicitor-General, opposing the Constanza, that it failed definitely. The rule, contended that a Mahommedar making a valid marriage in England Bulgarians, are unlikely, owing to the distance and lack of railways and the could not dissolve it at will. lateness of the reason, to send further reinforcements, while the Russians and Roumanians can pour troops, «inho Dobrudja,

Vulcan The enemy movement in the Pass is probably only a local movement to secure the mines.

THE SITUATION AT DOBRUDJA,

BUCHAREST, September 23rd.

AIR RAID ON DOVER: AEROPLANE DROPS THREE BOMBS.

LONDON, September 22nd.

It is officially announced that & Ger man acroplano dropped three bombs near Dover this afternoon

There were no adultães,

1 Anti-aircraft guns came into action and seroplane went up in pursuit of the raiders which immediately made off in a north easterly direction.

A communique says:-There have been minor engagements in Transylvania. 24

The enemy at Debradis had ceased to retreat and has fortified himself. The Roumanians put to fight ber of units on the enemy's right wing.

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