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THE

WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4TH 1916.

BRILLIANT BRITISH ATTACK ON

THE STRUMA.

SERBIANS VICTORIOUS OVER BULGARS.

ROUMANIANS DRAMATIC CROSSING OF DANUBE.

·FRAHOO·BELBIAR FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BRITISH FRONT.

STUBBORN FIGHTING../

LONDON, October 2nd. General Sir Douglas Haig,. in a com-. muniqué, states: There has been stub-s born fighting north of Coureclette.

SLIGHT ENEMY SUCCESS. An enemy Counter-attack forced us to relinquish a portion of Regina trench.

THE BALKANS

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.} BRILLIANT OPERATION

BRITISH,

BY

THE ATTACK ON THE STRUMA

LONDON, October 2nd,

A communiqué relating to operations in the Balkans describes the British at tack on the Struma on the 1st inst. as a brilliant operation, in which fortified villages were carried,

950 PRISONERS.

An enemy attack On our advanced | CAPTURE OF TWO VILLAGES AND positions east of Eaucourt Abbaye was beaten off. We have now established our

A British oficial report from Salonika front there and cleared out the enciny says our captures on the Strung on Sep from the buildings of Fancourt l'Abbayetember 30th include two villages against

and farther west.

LINE ESTABLISHED. We also established our line from a point 1,200 yards north of Courcelette in the direction of the Hessian tronch

Successful raids on enemy trenches ware carried out north of Neuville St. Vaust and cast of La Ventie,

SEVERE FIGHTING..

LONDON, October 3rd. General Haig reports that there has about be severe fighting in and Fancourt, where the enemy succeeded in Jeguiling a footing in sorne buildings.

We improved our positions near Gura decourt and Courcelette.

AERIAL WARFARE. Today we captured one officer and sixty-three men,

Our aeroplanes bombed several points of military importance,

An enemy kite balloon was brought down ju flames.

There were many air-fights, in which two enemy machines were destroyed sad many driven down. We suffered no

צ'אאנו

FRENCH FRONTS.

TRENCH CARRIEL.

Pants, October 2nd.

A conopsiniqué states:We carried a trench east of Bouchavesties,

GERMAN DETACHMENT

DISPERSED.

Paris, October 3rd.

A rommuniqué states:--Wo made some progress east of Bouchavesnes,

which repeated counterattacks had been heavily repulsed. We took 250 prisoners.

SERBS DEFEAT BULEARS

HEIGHT CAPTURED AND EIGHT

BATTALIONS BEATEN,

PARIS, October 3rd.

A communiqué stater: – The Serbians ats tacked a strongly-held-height in the

region of Kajmakalan, overpowering the Bulgarians, who left numerous corpses fand abandoned a battery,

BULGARIANS. PURSUED.

A Serbian comique states:We advanced half a mile north-east of Kajmakninn, pursuing the Bulgarians. We have completely beaten eight of their battalions

AERIAL ACTIVITIES:

(THROUGH-LEUTER'S

AIR RAID DETAILS. AIRSHIPS WANDER AIMLESSLY.

LONDON, October 2nd. An official statement knys: Ten sair ships crossed the East Coast last night,

approached Nurth London, but was driven off by gunfire and pursued by aeroplanes.

Un attempting to return she was again attacked by gons and an aeroplane, and was brought down aflame in the neigh bourhood of Putter's Bar.

The dirship thus destroyed was of the latest type...

A second airship attempted to attack London from the north-east, but was

driven off.

The remainder wondered aimlessly over the Eastern Counties and Lin colnshire. They dropped honds pro- miscuously, but mostly in the open country.

MAN KILLED AND A WOMAN

INJURED.

It is officially announced that the casualties in the air raid wore a man killed and a woman injured. The damage done was insignificant, although the raiders covered a wide area and denfred a great number of bombs.

Four houses were seriously damaged, some glass houses demolished and a min her of windows broken, a

ANOTHER ZEPPELIN APPARENTLY

CRIPPLED.

It is reported that a Zeppelin passed over an East Coast town very low as if crippled

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GENERAL.

(THROUGH ARUTER'S LOENCY.)

RECRUITING IN AUSTRALIA.

MELEDURNE, October 3rd. Eight thousand Voluntours enrolled in September,

AUSTRALIAN MINISTRY

CHANGE

MELBOURNų, October 3rd. Mr. Hughes has taken

the Ministry of Trade and Customs, owing to the resignation of Mr Tudor.

over

AUSTRALIAN WHEAT.

MELBOURNE, October 3rd. The Wheat Board had shipped 14 millions bags of whent down to September tith and local sales realised £13,250,000.

THE DEPOSED EMPEROR OF

ABYSSINIA.

LONDON, October 2nd.” Reuter is informed that according to a telegram received from Abyssinia there. have been no disturbances as a result of he deposition of the Emperor, who is still at Harray.

NUSSIA'S MINISTER OF INTERIOR,

Periograd, October 3rd. M. Protopopoff, the newly-appointed Minister of the Interior, is a Progressist He has been an active member of the Defence Commerce, and Industry. He Duma and bus serred on Commitless of holds liberal views regarding labour, Ladvocate of decentralination

Jewish, and Polish questions, and is an

PATCHING UP THE WOUNDED

WONDERFUL WORK IN OUR

|BLÆCTRICITY IN PLÄCK. GF THE KNIFE.

To the lay mind, there is something particularly surprising about an opera tion such as the following, which was completely successfat." A fragment of in the shoulder had severed the main nerve controlling the muscles at the buck of the wrist, which ganbied a soldier, to raise his right hand. For certain reascus the usual operation in these cases, Viz, the rejoining of the nerve ends, would not be undertaken.

NEW FEET FOR CLU,

The bringing down of the Zeppelin at most impressive Patter's Bar was a

But the surgeon refused to be beaten. spectacle, and was visible from all the

Opening the front of the wrist (on the northern suburbs on the outskirts of Lon-palm aide of the hand), he took six out of the fourteen muscle to be found there, den.

COOL SUSSEX MEN.

COLLECTING SOUVENIRS UNDER BULLET AND BOMB SHOWERS.

A RETURN PASSAGE.

CLAIM AGAINST THE NDL

CASE TO COME BEFORE THE COURT

The Chief Justice (Sir William Rees.

When the Sussex men (recontly praised. Davies) delivered his judgment yesterday for their gallantry) got the order to go on a summons for a stay of proceedings forward the Australians cried out to until after the war in the easy in which | know where they were off to To rout Charles William Boswick; of Messrs. out the Boches?" enne the answer. Jardins, Matheson & Co., is suing Mears. Then, blowed if we don't come with Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, the liquida you!" retorted the Wallabies, tore of the ND. Co.'s affairs in Houg kong for 8806.18 us damages for breach of contract to supply the plaintiff's wife with a first-class passage from London to Hongkong--$7.90 of this mount being the sum paid by the plaintiff to the P. and 0. Co. on September sib, 1934, and the balance representing the interest on this sum from September 8th,

1914, to June 30th, 19765

Mr. C, D. Wilkinson, of Messrs. Wil kinson & Grist, appeared for plaintiff and Mr. Davidson, of Messrs. Hastings & Hastings, defended.

The order had been to take Itation French, and to push on if prudent. The they went on for another 400 yards, to Sussex Inds so far dremet it prudent that a trench right upon the ridge. So copy- pletely had they got the Boches going of this time that they covered this ground in open daylight without opposition and with no casualties. Yet these were the positions which the German High Com- mand hnd ordered to be held at all care threatening to court-martial those who retired. It was a very assorted crowd of foes which the Susses into found. They | rounded up prisoners from the h Jaogers, the 63rd Prussian Infantry, the 11th Silesian Division, and the b Schleswig Holstein Corps. Apparently, however, they were pretty unannous in one thing a ready disposition to sur render,

In March, 1914, plaintiff paid to the N.D.L. the sum of £107 59. Od. and re- ceived in retura a first-class passenger ticket in the name of his wife from Hong kong to Southampton and an order for a return passage signed by the Com-sounded more like the fusillade of pany's agenta in Hongkong. The out break of war prevented the plaintiff's wife from returning to Hongkong by one of the ND.L. ateamers and plaintiff therefore secuted a passage for her by

"We Sussex chaps don't think much of the Boche infantry," a correspondent was trenches was described to me by an officer toid. Our barrage upon the German. as so terrific that the beat of it. machine gun battery.. The Germans shouted and genticnlated wildly when coming ou te counter-attack the Sussex strating frigin fulness, or whether because broops, but whether from an idea of th they had been "doped, is not clear. As a rule. I understand, they advanced as coolly as our own men,

one of the P. and O. boats. The action:

A somewhat diminutive sergeant in is to recover the amount paid to the jumping into an enemy trench, dasbed N.D.L, for thei

into a erouching German return ticket, and a summodestly described as about twice his size

whom lie nons was taken by the defendants asking The starlied Bocho, uttered a yelp and for a stay of proceedings on the ground threw up his hands. The plucky sergeant that there was not sufficient, reason why Sussex soldiers seem to have a keentess made aine prisoners in that trench. Tius the matter in dispute should not be re- for collecting souvenirs, A bombing off- Ferred to arbitration in accordance wither told me his had several times to shont the terms set out on the passage ticket wands. Undeterred by grenades and bul- to them to leave the trophies till after that This contract should be construcd lets, they would pause to gather menzel- and the rights of the parties thereunder determined in Bremen according to the laws of Germany."

After dealing with the law on the sub- ject the Chief Justice said: "I am clearly of opinion that it is impossible to give practical effect to the clause in question at the present time or in the immediate

brought them round to the hack, and con.. The airship was picked up by the nected them up with Lae useless used future, and that this is an amply anff

FRIGHTFUL HAVOC IN BULGARIAN searchlights shortly before midnight had to raise the hand and oight to lower ita

RANKS.

LONDON, October 3rd..

cient reason why the unter should not be referred, and for refusing to grant a stay of execution."

Continuing, Sir Willian Rees Davies

there, Thais six muscles were available quite useful arrangement, giving sufi cient powerf

for any light task like writing.

Fine results are being achieved in deal- ing with long-standing cases of trench fook. And frostbite, by means of clech said it had been clearly established that massage and stimulation, combined with the suspension of a legal right upon the bone surgery. One man whom I met (says outbreak of war cannot apply to the de he Daily News special correspondent) triment of a British subject and for the had been crippled for 13 months by fresi bite of the left foot (frostbite by the way, benefit of an alien enemy. To acquiesco in

and is merely a kind of trench-foot, duc

she was coming from the East, and the gans were instantly brought into action. A telegram from Salonika dated the The airship turned towards the south, Ist inst, states that the Serbians had then towards the North, vainly attempting an important success the previous day at to escape from the searchlights and shells, Kajmakalan.

Suddenly a white are of flame appeared After-violent artillery preparation, in her side, and this spread like a wave which greated frightful havoc in the Bulstill she was a mass of fire. Then the airs little or nothing to do with frost, the application for a stay of this action garian ranks, the Serbian infantry brilliandy attacked, capturing all the remaining points of the position:

The ground was covered with Bulgarian

dead.

The Bulgarian survivors fed panic

-stricken.")

The Serbians captured a battery of mountain-guns, many machine-guns wid war material, besides a good number of prisoners.

ship dipped by the nose and broke in two The Zeppelin regched the earth in white-hot fragments within twenty minutes of her first coming under the fire

of the gun's.

to damp), the foot being so distorted us for an unfixed and inceânite period to be useless. A considerable quantity of would certainly be to the detriment of diseased bone and tissue was removed by the surgeon from the centre of the foot, the plaintiff and possibly for the benefit and the remaining bones were brought of the alien enemy company. closer together. The man now has a con- siderably smaller, foot than before, but it

The summons was therefore dismissed

is fairly well formed, and promises to be with. costs and the case will now come The remains were scattered over two quite serviceable. What has practically

before the Court. been accomplished is to make a new fook miles of the countryside, but the bulk ont of the sound parts of the old one. the wreckage fellulose to a cluster of work is being done without using the Some of the most valuable surgical

MACAO NOTES, Life In hundreds of instances the

EPROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] nicles of a limb say those of the entire leg below the knen become atrophied by

MACAO, October 2nd. disuse following an injury at some higher point. They are so entirely lacking in On the stb Otober, the sixth anniver ono when the opportunity for use recars sary of the establishment of the Portu that they cannot even, start on the road

houses.

A score of men are believed to be buried beneath the pile. Others were shot out of

The Bulgurians sourdered and watila-the gondolas as the wreck fell, and were Bad weather is hampering the Summeed the Serbian and French wounded.

jicked up in corners of the field. operations.

ROUMANIANS CROSS DANUBE.

BUCHAREST, October 3rd.

There was an intermittent cannonade

elen here.

In the Bouchavesnes fighting, we cap Lural forty prisoners and six machine

gifs..

A German detachment was dispersed, with fifty killed, in the same region,

South of the Somme asiall enemy auack south of Verman d'Ovillers" was

usily repulsed,

GENERAL JOFFRE WELL SATISFIED

Paris, October 3rd.

An offcial Roumanian communique states-On the southern front we crossed the Danube between Rustehuk and Tur- tukaj.

An extraordinary statement was made by the Commander of the Zeppelin, who was picked up alive, but he died soon afterwards.

GERMAN VERSION OF THE BAID.

Amsterdam, October 3rd.

On the north front we captured 511 pri | The German official report of last soners at Thurnhuil, in the Margitta night's raid is characterised by misstate Mountains.

We attacked along the whole front in the Dobrudja and repulsed the enemy's contre and right flank.

"A MOST DRAMATIC STROKE".

ments.

It asserts that the airships successfully pelted bonts on London, when in fact they never reached the Metropolis.

It is further stated that the destroyed Zeppelin tell above London, while on the contrary the airship was brought to earth

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]

RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.

LONDON, October 3rd. The Roumanias announcement of their General Joffre, in an Order to the crossing of the Danube between Rastehuk fifteen miles from the city. Northern Arnies, states that he is well and Turtukai is a most dramatic stroke, satisfied with their efforts of the Somme, as it threatens General Mackenson's rear,

RJ881AN FRONT.

which struck a blow at the enemy from

The exact

spot where the Roumanians which he will hardly recover. Verdun crossed is unknown, but in any case it is a had been relieved, twenty-five villages most brilliant operation, counterstroking had been reconquered, 3,000 prisoners and the German claims in Transylvania. 150 gans had been taken, and the enemy

NAVAL ACTIVITIES, Lines had been smashed to a depth of ten kilometres. The Allied Somine Armies wore assured of a glorious part in the final victory,

THE SUMATRA REBELLION.:

AMSTERDAM, October 3rd. Three Brigades attacked the Insurgents in Bamatra, inflicting losses."

THROUGH EEUTRE' AGENCY.]

MORE SINKINGS.

LONDON, October 3rd. Two more Norwegian steamers have been submarined.

MORE PRISONERS TAKEN.

LONDON, October 3,

A ̈Russian communiqué states that

1.

to recovery, and threaten to

become ጆሮም

gucre Republic, the Colonial Secretary anently valueless will be At Home at Government Some twenty patients with links in

this condition were in one of the wards House from 1 to 3 p.m.

I visited. A nurse bent over ench man, Great numbers of snipe are to be seen she was applying at regular intervals of in the fields around the town and the n few second a small pad, connected by

wires with an electrical apparatus, to the sportsmen are obtaining some excellent chief muscles of leg or urn. at each a shooting. plication one could see the atrophied

The house taxes are due to-day and muscles tighten, and the foot or hand rise for about an inch from the bed. The payment must be made during the course movements were entirely automatics at the present month. It has been an experiment showed, the patient in each case was unable to impart the slightest old custom to pay on one day and to call the next for the receipt. This should motion to the extremity.

not be allowed Money should be ex- changed for the receipts. A little mor attention to this detail will help to avoid. trouble in the future.

Under this gentle system of training the muscles slowly regain their tong until the man can take exercise in the elabo- rately Gited hospital "gym.'

GYMNASIUM, FRATS.

FIBRE WITH MANY USES.

SHOES MATS AND RACKS FROM ** FIQUE

The commercial possibilities of a veget

These “gyms are highly ingenious places; they provide essence of exercise in all sorts of familiar and les familiar forms. You find one man riding a bicycle that never gets any farther; another. doing something that looks like sculling, though there is no boat and no water; qadable fibry known as fique, which is in third playing with a kind of Indian everyday use in Colombia, are pointed club fired tantalisingly to a pivot. The out in an article by Mr. M. T. Dawe third stage of the cure incudes a daily Director of Agricultura, Colombia, in the visit to the full-sized “gym,” with vault Kew Bulletin.

ing horse and parallel bars an unexpectA sample of the fibre, which is usually ed place in which to and an erstwhile known as Mauritius heap, was sent to cripple para frm of brokers in London and was

One of the first points an observant valued at £40 a tong

visitor is bound to notice at our military Fique is grown everywhere in the sub bospitals is the small number of cases of tropical parts of Colombia, and is put major operations, in particular of ampu- to a great variety of uses. The alpur. in foremost "conservative" its aim is to soled with fique, and it is used in. tations: Modern surgery is first and getas, or shoes worn by the masses, are

bags, and

the region of Halies and southward of mend the whole body rather than to prune making sacks, pack-saddles, girths, ropes.

it of its injured parts. If amputation cords, matting, marketing is unavoidable it is generally performed cash bags for banks. at one of the hospitals near the front, Perhaps one of the most novel vees of and the wounded man who gets as far as sque is the employment of the green London hospital without losing a limb leaves for thatching purposes. By the for in this true that out of 2,400 recent isation of the fibre extraction on modern may generally count on keeping it. So we of suitable machinery and the organ operations at one of the biggest institu- lince. Mr. Dawe believes that the industry tions here only 2 are described as is capable of sound and profitable com

major?

merosal development.

that city, stubborn fighting continues. We have taken 1,600 prisocers here.

General Letchitsky captured 2,600 pris- oners in the wooded Carpathians between The Norwegian steamer Ifelf Jarl has the 19th and 28th September, and also

been sunk,

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considerable war material.

toes of the fight.

I asked a bomber who had been blown. Frem the bottom of a trench right on to the parapet what his sensations were that I can realember us to that is that Well," he answered reflectively; Call it took me at least ten minutes to make- up my mind whether I was still here." Yrt a little later he was leading two men of his party up the trench, which they had bombed clear for some hundreds f yards, right up to a machine-gun post,

These Sussex men had been for several days in the trenches, under almost cease less shell fire, before they delivered their They were so dog-tired that attack. many of them fell asleep while standing. and waiting the order to get out and go over. Yet they went through the German second line system and beyond it.

ITALY AT WAR WITH :-

GERMANY.

TEXT OF DECLARATION;

An official announcement issued in Rome on August 27th says:-

The Italian Government declares, in the name of the King, that Italy con siders herself to be in a state of war with Germany as from August 28th, and begs the Bwiss Government to convey this intimation to the Imperial German Governnient.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs has conveyed to the Swiss Federal Govern ment through the Lalian Minister in Berne: the following communication

Acts of hostility by the German Government towards Italy fallow ous another with increasing frequency. It suffices to mention the repeated su ply of arms and instruments of land id sea warfare by Germany to Austria Hungary and the uninterrupted porti cipation of German officers and soldiers: and sailors in the different operations of war directed against Italy. It is only, thanks to the assistance which has thus been lavishly bestowed by Germany In the most various ways, that Austria- Hungary has recently been able to con- conteste against Italy her greate effort

It is necessary to add

(1) The surronder to our enemy by the German Government of Italian prisoners who had escaped from Austro- Hungarian concentration camps and had taken refuge in German territory.

(2) The invitation addressed credit establishments and German bankers at the initiative of the Im- perial Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to consider all Italian subjects as alien enemies and to post- pone all payments which might be due to them on you (3)The suspension of the payments to Italian workmen of pensions owing. to them in view of the formal deelarg tions of German law

These are all facts which reveal the real feelings systematically hostile, which the Imperial Government cherishes with regard to Italy. Such a state of affairs could not in the long run be tolerated by the Royal Government, since it ag gravates exclusively to the detriment of Italy the deep contract between the situation de facts and the situation de which has resulted already from Ee fact of the Alliance of Italy and Germany with two groups of Powers at war with one another

For the shove mentioned beacons the Italian Government declares the name of the King, that Italy will cin- sider herself as from August 29th in-a stale of war with tormany, and re- guests, the Swiss Federal Government to convey the above communication to the knowledge of the Imperial German Government-Reuter,