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WAR.

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MORE VIGOROUS NAVAL POLICY

DEMANDED.

BIG ITALIAN OFFENSIVE.

GERMANY PREPARING FOR ENORMOUS EFFORT.

GERMAN "WAR MINISTER AND ENGLAND'S DETERMINATION,

NOVEL NAVAL INCIDENT.

Franco-Belgian Front.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY-] GERMANS EVACUATE FORT||

VAUX.

VIOLENT FRENCH HOMBARD-

MENT.

LONDON, November 2nd.

A German official announcement says: -Finding Fort Vaux untenable, owing to the French bombardment, we evacuated it and blew it up.

AMSTERDAM, November 2nd..

A Berlin official communiqué states.-- Under a violent French bombardment we evacuated Forty Vaux, after blowing up The important portions of the fort. French gained a minor advantage at

OPERATION.

(THROUGH, REUTEBʼB AGENOT.]

MORE VIGOROUS NAVAL

POLICY.

DEMAND BY CITY MEETING.

LONDON, November 2nd.

A crowded City meeting enthusiastical ly passed a resolution demanding a more vigorous naval policy, and also a Govern ment declaration that the ponce terme will includo Germany's replacement of Bunken Allied vessels,

DUTCH VESSEL CAPTURED BY GERMANS.

RESCUED BY BRITISH CRAFT.

AMSTERDAM, November 2nd. The Het-Volk states that the Batavier

Les Breufs, but Anglo-French attacks Line starter Oldamb, which left the elsewhere in the Somme were repulsed,

Hook of Holland yesterday was stopped SUCCESSFUL FRENCH by a German submarine, which placed a prize crew on board in order to take her to Zeebrugge.

This morning a British destroyer stopped the vessel and captured the prize crew, who endeavour ed to sink, the Oldambt by means of twn. bombs

GROUND GAINED AND PRISONERS

TAKEN,

PARIS, November 3rd.

An official communiqué says-North of the Somme we carried out a now opera- tion between Les Boeufs and Bailly Snillisel whereby an appreciable amount or ground was gained, and 200 prisoners taken. The total prisoners taken in this sector since yesterday is 730. incinding 20 officers. A dosen machine-gung have also been captured

BRITISH FRONT SHELLED.

LONDON, November 2nd. General Sir Douglas Haig reporia - The enemy shelled our frons in the Hebuterne and Arras regions Our artil lery has been active southward of Armen tieres and north of Ypres. Our aircraft bombed a number of batteries.

FRENCH GAINS.

Pants, November. Rod.

Another account says that a flotilla of German torpedo boats held up the Oldambt, but fled on the approach of British cruisers, after ordering bombs to be placed in the engine-room.

It is stated that the Oldumbt's crew is cather aboard a British torpedo boat or on the Maas Lightship.

LONDON, November 3rd. The Admiralty announces that the Dutch steamer Oldambt was captured by the enemy last night near the Noord hinder lightship. A prize Crew were taking the ship to Zeebrugge, when about daylight on the 2nd inst some of par light scouting craft overtook the vessel. The prize crew attempted to blow the ahip up, and with the crew took to the A communiqué states: Despite per-boats. The prize crew, consisting of an sistent bad weather, we followed up durofficer and nine men, were overtaken and ing the night the advantage gained be made prisoners, and the ship was taken tween Les Beoufs and Bailly-Baillisel in tow by one of our vessels. and consolidated the ground

won. We

Five German destroyers arrived on the carried several points d'appui and clear-scene, presumably to escort the prize to od out several machine-gun emplacements. port. They were engaged immediately

During these operations we took 188 and were put to flight. prisoners, including eight officers, mak ing a total of $30 in this sector since yesterday.

The night has been relatively calm on theo right bank of the Mouse, and there in nothing to report elsewhere.

Three enemy seroplanes were brought down in the Somme, one at Verdun and one in Alsace.

A French air aquadron employed its machine guns on an enemy column at Azannes, and on trains at Conflans and Mangiennes.

BRITISH FRONT HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES.

LONDON, November 2nd.

General Bir Dongiaa Haig states that heavy rain continues. There is nothing| to report,

Naval Activities.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGRNOY.]. LATEST SINKINGS.

The Oldambt was towed for five hours until she was six miles off the Hook of Holland when a Dutch tug took charge

of her.

AMSTERDAM, November 3rd The Handelsblad states that the Oldult is beached near the Book of Holland. She capsized, the cargo being washed out.

GREEK INDIGNATION AT SUBMARINE OUTRAGES. GOVERNMENTAL PACIFICATION.

TAN HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4ru, 1916.

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SUBMARINE OUTRAGES.

NORWEGIAN SHIPPERS' ACTION.

BERGEN, November 2nd.: Eight Horgen steamers valued at quarter of a million sterling, were sunk during October

One of the largest Norwegian shipping companies is negotiating for the sale of its fleet for from twenty-one to twenty- four millions sterling.

PROSPECTS OF GERMAN- NORWEGIAN SETTLEMENT.

LONDON, November £ud According to a message from Copenha- gen, a Christiania telegram says steam ship shares rose sharply yesterday on reports of the prospect of a settlement between Germany and Norway,

THE **DEUTSCHLAND.”

WASHINGTON, November 2nd. The German super-submarine Deutsch- land brought to America 760 ton of dyestuffs, medicinca and chemicals.

Captain Koenig stated that the sub- marine took a course to the north of the Orkneys and was not submerged for more than a hundred miles. He did not know the fate of the Bremen, which sailed on September 25th with supplies suficient for two months.

"MARIANA"! NOT WARNED.

WASHINGTON, November 3rd. The American Consul at Queenstown telegraphs that the afidavits of the Americans who were aboard, the arian agree that the vessel was not warned The Balkans.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE ROUMANIAN FRONT.

ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED.

ByonsBEST, November 3rd,

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CIVIL WAR IN GREECE.

VENEZILIST TROOPS OCCUPY

A TOWN.

ATHENS, November 3rd... The Government has sent reinforce monte, consisting of Evzones and artillery, to Ekaterini, which is reported to be occupied by Verezilist troops Ekaterini is thirty-four miles south-west

of Balonika.

The Daily Chronicle correspondent at Athens states that 800 Venezifists occupied Ekaterini. They were not resisted, but en route they had short fight with Evzones, who were guarding the Olcanon

Bridge

GERMAN TROOPS STARVING,

BUCHAREST, November 3rd. The German troops in the Carpathians are famishing as a result of supply difficulties. Many have surrendered because of their hunger. Italian Front,

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SUCCESSFUL ITALIAN

ATTACKS.

ENEMY TRENCHES OCCUPIED: MANY CAPTURES.

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Russian Front-

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

ENEMY ACTIVITY,

PETEOGRAD, November 2nd. An official communiqué states.-The enemy carried a salient on the west bank of the Stokhod in the region of Vitonese. Further southward We drove the Turks from an organised position on the heights in the region of Bakki. We still parsus the enemy in Jiul Valley.

GERMAN COMMUNIQUE,

AMSTERDAM, November 2nd. An official communiqué, saya:We stormed Russian positious on the left of the Stokhod, and made 1,500

prisonera..

General,

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ENGLAND'S DETERMINATION.

APPEAL BY NEW GERMAN WAR MINISTER.

AMSTERDAM, November 3rd. General Stein, the new War Ministèr, in a statement in the Reichstag, said. - The Kaiser has ordered ine to Berlin from the Somme battlefield, where I learned much. The enemy, especially the British, are introducing new and mor serious expedients of fighting, in order. quickly to attain their aims, and all the letters of Englishmen breathe determine- tion to bear everything for their national interests. It therefore behoves us to endeavour to surpass the enemy efforts immediately." Corps

ROME, November 2nd. An official communiqué states: -An at area occupied trenches tuck in the Gorizi on the east slopes of the Tivoli and San Marco beights, east of Sober. On the | Carso, front the eleventh Army:

stormed the wooded hills cast of and above Mount Pecinka, and advanced a kilometro cast of Segeti, We occupied several points south of the Oppacchinetta and Lacastagnovizza Road, despite coun- ter attacks. We made prisoner: 4,731. including 132 officers We have also taken six gens and niany machine-guns.

unchanged between the Moldavian tons of explosives on camps at Frigido A communiqué, states:-The situation | Our acroplane squadron dropped two

IMPORTANT ITALIAN

ADVANCE,

frontier and Predeal. There has been all and in the Vippach Valley day Sighting in the Prahera Valley, which resulted in the repulse of the enemy by counter-attacks. An enemy attack in the Dragoslavelle region, south of Toerzburg Pass, was repulsed. The parsuit of the enenly continues west of Vulcan Pasa Numerous artillery limbers, and much material has been captured,

SERBIAN ACTIVITIES.

ENEMY CHECKED WITH LOSSES.

LONDON, November 2nd.

ENEMY'S PRINCIPAL LINE IN CARSO CARRIED,

Home, November 3rd.

A semi-official message says: The Austrian positions east of Gorizia are on summits and steep slopes, intercepted by ravines, and covered with woods, while the defences of Carso, bosides ruined villages, included numerous boundary walls,

The Carso was carried by the Italians, who principal line of rmistance in

advanced two kilometres over thickly and up a slope.

A Serbian official message says:-We remised an attack at Dudumirci and advanced and captured trenches on the right bank of the Cernareka

The French are now holding Gardilovo, ouded ground

5.000 prisoners, froides taking LONDON, November 2nd,

A French official announcement from

Salonika saya--The Serbians repulsed Bulgarian counter-attacks in the region of Cerns and progressed well, despite lively resistance by the enemy, who suffered appreciable losses and left pri-

soners.

AUSTRO-GERMAN CLAIMS..

LONDON, November 3rd. An Austrian communiqué

states:- Austro-German troops repulsed Bou manian attacks south and south east of Houmanian territory, and progressed south-east of Botertura Pass

THE DOBRUDJA CAMPAIGN.

CHANGE OF COMMAND

Brasso on

Arusus, November 3rd. Seven Greek steamers have been torpedoed during the past twelve daya, including the Angeliki and Kiki. The

BUKHAREST, November 2nd, Government at Athens is striving to

Generel Bakharoff, who has been com- diminish public agitation at these out-manding in Galicia, has arrived here rages, insinuating that the vessels were and will take over the command in the destroyed by floating mines, bat indigna Dobrudja, tion is growing,

Petrograu, November 2nd,

An official communiqué states that nothing important has taken place in

An immense concourse attended the funeral of the soldier victims of the Dobrudja. Angeliki.

LONDON, November 2nd Pineus the shops were closed, and the flags were half-masted. The Entente Legations sout wreaths. The Civic

The latest sinkings reported are the Norwegian steamers Delta and Tromp and a trawler.

The British steamer Brierley Hill is re- authorities of Athens and Piramus, and ported susk

algo Admiral Fournet, attended a service

The Greek steamer Kikuta has been at the Cathedral, but the Govitrent wa

nof representett.

GERMAN CLAIM.

CONSTANZA BOMBARDED.

Ameerdam, November 2nd.

A German official communiqué, says We have Loinbarded Constanta. from the

inflicted the heaviest losses. As

We

MEDICAL OFFICERS

HONOURED.

FOR HEROIC WORK AT GARDELEGEN.

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GERMANY PREPARING FOR

"ENORMOUS EFFORT.

EVERY MAN AND WOMAN UNDER ETATE CONTROL.

AMSTERDAM, November 3rd.

Germany is preparing for another enormous effort. It expected that

is

mass levy will shortly bo duureed, and that every man and woman will be called up and placed under State control. The military age limit will also, be raised. The organisor will be General Grosner, who is vested with the widest powers. * The Frankfurter Heilung says there are signs that Ludendorff's statement

that every man and woman must be pinced at the disposal of the military, will now be carried out

BRITISH BARONY BECOMES EXTINCT.

LONDON, November 3rd. Lord Llangattock has died of wounds, and the Barony is now extinet.

Lord Llangattock was a brother of the Hon. C. 8. Rolla, the well-known airman who was killed at Bournemouth a few years ago.]

MR. GINNELL IN PRISON.

LONDON, November 3rd. Mr. Ginnell, M.P. has been imprisoned for default of payment of the fine imposed

for his recent offence,

CLOTHING CONTRACTS.

LONDON, November 3rd. The Director General of Clothing is taking measures to prevent the giving out of contracts to non-British firms.

SHIPPING DEAL.

LONDON, November 3rd.

The Owen Philippe group have acquired

SIR D. HAIG'S VICTORY. CONGRATULATIONS FROM GENERAL JOFFRE,

LONDON, November 2nd the Moss Steamship Company, His Majesty the King has conferred the CMG, decoration on Major Philip Dovy, D.8.0., Captain Augustus Wil

the Royal Army Medical Corps, for lians and Captain Arthur Brown, of

services rendered during the typhus epidemic at the Gardelegen camp.

HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY AS

INFANTRY:

Day"

The following Special Order of the WES isred by General Sir Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Fores in the Field, on Sept. 29th

TO GENERAL AIR DOUGLAS HAIG, My dear General, I desire to convey to you my most sincere congratulations. LONDON, November 2nd.

on the brilliant successes gained by the His Majesty the King has wished God: British troops under your command speed to battalion of the Household September 15th and 16th. Following on during the bard fought battles of

Cavalry which is going to the front as the continuous progress made by your infantry,

Armies since the beginning of the Somme offensive, these fresh success BIG ☎ sure guarantee of final victory AUSTRALIA AND CONSCRIP-

over our common enemy, whose physical TION.

and moral forons are already severely shaken.

THE GOVERNMENT AND COUNTRY'S CONFIDENCE.

MELBOURNE, November 3rd. The Anti-Conscription Majority is now 80,800, and the final result will probab be known within in a week.

Mr. Hughes has returned from New South Wales. He declined to discuss the stance, the 21st Landwehr Regiment situation, but intimated that Parliament attalion Commanders and 1,500 mes was wiped out, and its Staf, with three would probably meet shortly.

were captured.

AUSTRIAN ADMISSIONS,

BYDNEY, November 3rd. In the Assembly, Mr. Durack, the leader of the New Party, gave notice of a resolution to the effect that the Govern- ment did not possess the confidence of the

A STRENUOUS CONTEST.

WASHINGTON, November 3rd.

A clos estimate gives President Wilson

LONDON, November 3rd. An Austrian official message states:- The second and third Italian armies, country. which have been brought up to full THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY. strength by fresh troops since the last big battles, have opened an offensive in the Gorizia region. The Italian artillery fire wee of extraordinary violence, and aftor this the Italian infantry secsulted in 197 certain votes, and Mr. Hughes 199 massed forinations, seren Brigades at one certain votes. Both candidates are point advancing on a narrow front, strenuously pushing their candidature in Several attacks were repulsed, but the the doubtful States, especially in New Italians in nurtborn Carso gained York, New Jersey and Connecticut, whose ground

Our advanced ruined wotes total on The successful candidate lines,"

Boskwing rensined in MODEL DOCUTO 286 voter. Italian hands after an attack by eight. captured 15,000 Italian

MAN AIR ACTIVITY.

ENE WORKS AND VESSELS

FORCED,

TASMANIAN LABOURITES RESENT CONSCRIPTION:

Permit me, my dear General, to take this opportunity of mying that the combined offensive which we have carried on now for inore than two months has, the tick which unite our two Armies. if it were possible, drawn still closer

Our adversary will find therein proof of our firm determination to combine our efforts until the end, to ensure the complete triumph of our cause

I bow before those of your soldiers. by whose bravery them successes have. been achieved, but who have fallen be fore the completion of our task; sud I ask you to convey, in my name d in the name of the whole French Ariny, to those who stand ready for the fights. to come, a greeting of comradeship and confidence.

(Signed) J JOFFRE, G.HQ of French Armies,

September 17th, 1914,

TO GENERAL JOFFRE,

sincerely for the kind message of con

My dear General, ~ I thank you most

gratulation and good will that you have addressed to me and to the troops under my command on their recent socosmes. This fresh expression of the good wishes of yourself sod of your gallant Army, without whose close co-operation and support those anocesses could scarcely have been achied, will be warmly ap

British Armica. preciated by all, ranks of

I thank you, too, for your noble tribute to those who have folien. Our brave dead, whose blood has been shed together on the soil a four great coun- try, will prove a bond to unite var two peoples long after the combine taction of our Armies bra cheras, the cause for which they faare và tht to its ultimate triumphant ba

The unremitting efforts of our forces north and south of the Somme added to the glozione deeds of your Armies un- vydanided at Verdun, have already begun

king, do konak down the enemy's power, of Tokelauce while the energy of our kroopa and their confdents in nach other dieressen From day to day. Ev tres

WHEAT.

like you, I look forward

(Bigned) D. HA