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THE WAR.
THE TINGKỞNG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15TH, 2947.
ENEMY SLAUGHTER IN FLANDERS.
RUSSO-ROUMANIAN CAPTURES.
AMERICAN STEAMER TORPED JED.
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SPAIN UNDER MARTIAL
LAW.
HENDERSON'S STATEMENT.
MR.
Franco-Belgian Front.
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BRITISH FRONT.
INCREASED HOSTILE ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.
LONDON, August 13th.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re! porte: There was increased hostile artil- of the Arras kery ring southward
als in the Nieuport Cambrai pad,
Boctur
Our aeroplanes heavily botibed four
branco-Belgian bront.
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TREMENDOUS BATTLE IN
FLANDERS.
GERMANS FALL IN HEAPS.
LONDON, August 13th.
It is impossible to realise from the compramiques the tremendousness of the battle which is proceeding in Flanders.
Russian ront.
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[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENÓY...]
THE RUSSO-RUMANIAN FRONT
SIX DAYS' BATTLE AT FOCSANI
LONDON, August 13th..
TOTAL CASUALTIES.
The total number of deaths at Southend is 32, including 13 women and 0 children Forty-three men, including 18 women and 12 children, were injured.
GERMAN VERSION.
Losnos, August 13th,
MR. HENDERSOY'S RE-IGNA- TION.
The Premier said that whatever any- one might think of the major point in Mr. Henderson's speech they would respond to his appeal for unity in | securing pictory. Three-fourths of Mr. LONDON, August 131..... | Henderson's remarks were irrelevant, and
NOT IN NATIONAL INTEREST TO TELL COMPLETE STORY.
In the House of Commons, when the he did not think the Hase wished him Communiqués, do not confṛui the, red wireless German official report | Government moved the adjournment in to comment thereon. - port that General von Mackensen's states:-Our avjutors attacked England, order, to enable a full debate, on Mr. The Premier re-affirmed that the im offensive against the Romanians is They bombed with goud results the miti Henderson's resignation, Mr. Hender pression left upon every urenber of the stackening. The battle aorth of Focsanitary works at Southend, and Margate. sau, immediately rose to make a personal | Cabinet, including himself, by Mr. Henderson's attitude at the Cabinet
has now lasted six days, in which the Roumanians, despito & very stout resist ande against superior numbers, were driven back five miles by retirement in the direction of Maraseti.
The Roumanians have presumably lost control of the loopline mentioned on August 10th.
General von Mackensen is now sixteen miles from Adjudul, on the retention of
which the safety of General Teherbatch- off's Army in the Trotus Valley largely depends
One neroplane is missing, GERMAN LIST OF AERIAL LOSSES.
Our adversaries in the month of July lost 34 balloons and 213 aeroplanen. We lost Co aeroplanes,
Generai,
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MARTIAL LAW IN SPAIN.
MADRID, August 13th. Martial-law has been declared through
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If Adjudul is lost the railway up the out Spain.
and Trotus Valley would be useless General Tcherbatcheff would be com- pelled to fall back.
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The Military Authorities in the Pro- rinces have been ordered to assume com- plete control.
The latest accounts of the correspondents RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CONTINUED.labouring classes are anxious to continue It is stated that the major part of the
confirm it as the most Litanie struggle Mr. Philip Gibbs, after of the war.
LONDON, August 13th. work.
A wireless Bussian official report: Only the Madrid newspapers are up- Those employing non-union
statement.
He complained against the unpreting prior to the Labour Conference redented Press campaign against him in London was that he (Mr. Henderson) sell and also of the policy pursued by would use the whole of his inhone to the Premier and his colleagues over the turn down the Stockholm Conference. week-end. Although he had never since The Bassian Government's telegraal in his resignation left the office of the the Premier's communication, called en ̈ War Cabinet,the Grst intimation that August 8th, meant that the Russian Government had nothing we do with the his resignation had been accepted game from the Pall Mall Gazette. After the
Stockholm Conference
Labour Conference he had an interview with the Premier, who made it clear that the Secretaryship of the Labour The Premier said that it came from Party and membership of the War the Russian Embassy. Did anyone
only one choice in such circumstances. Cabinet was incompatible. There was
Ile-
Mr. Philip Snowden- Who wrote the covering letter!
immagine if that telegram was read at the Labour Conference it would have made any difference to the proceedings! The Premier said, regarding the general position, there had been a charge during the last few days. Efforts were being
It would not he in the national in-
Stockholm Conference at present. terests to tell the complete story of the plying to the charge that be withheld
made to restore discipline in the Russian information from the Labom Conference, Away, and the first step taken to prevent Mr. Henderson affirmed that whereas his fraternisation with the enemy. In these
aerodromes. The ency aircraft were emphasising the greatness of the enemy states:--We, supporting the Boumanians, pearing.
artillery, which, however, is not so great drove back the enemy in the Okna-labour have been promised Government proposed visit to Paris was considered circumstances nothing could be more fatal
aggressivo,
Seven of our
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NOTHING SPECIAL"
LONDON, August 13th.
Sir Douglas Haig there as thing special ben
We brought down nine enemy machines as ours, says the whole countryside ik ablaze with fire and stupke, especially and drove down eigla.
round About Glencorse Wood, monchus are missing.
Inverness Cops Stirling Castle and Frezenberg, whore a perfect hell-fire rages. Sucressive heary enemy waves counter- attacked these places on Saturday, but were smashed to pieces. When our men were consolidating the Westhook Ridge on Saturday, they bad to call for fur ther help from the gunners. Simultane ously aeroplanes signalled that there; was n greng gathering of Germans at Nun's Wood and Polygon Wood. Their valls were answered by large groups of batteries "[ Lifteen-inch gutis, which swept their fire downwards across the
Field-Ma raha
Blattes kikl
report.
LLABLES
FRENCH FRONT.
RHEIMS SHELLED.
PARIS, August Baby
A communique states: The artillery dud continued most lively.
The Germans, between Cerny and Craonne, again attempted to eject us from the trenches which we carried south of Aillex. All their attacks were repulsed
We appreciably made progress eastward of Rbeims, which revived 850 shells, of which some were inceadinřies. Four tivi- lians were killed and two injured.
Grozechti region.
We captured a series of heights. We are continuing the offensive. `/
Sloniks Valley.
We repulsed counterattacks in
protection.
The strike has assumed the character of ́a general movement with a revolutionary the tendency.
We have captured 600 prisoners- The Roumanians are obstinately at tacking in the direction of Forsani, and We hold positions westward uf Focsani--Jud railway.
A counter-attack yielded
soflers.
the
pri-
report
GERMAN CLAIMS. A wireless Giermann official states:We extended our gains south ward of the Trotus Valley.
We captured Panein, overcoming desperate defence.
big stretch of country miles deep. The Gormats, with rifles at the slope and. We repulsed attacks between the weighted with bombs and trench spades, Buzee and the Danube. fell in heaps. One of our airmen sub-
Aerial Activities, sequently reported that he had never
seen so many dead.
ENEMY RANKS BLOWN TO BITS.
This is only one of many such slaugh- Here is another. Gunners re-
" report that Germans were
teza,
ceived
There were violent artillery actions in Champagne, on Mount Cornillet, on both assembling in the Valley of Hanebeke
banlis of the Meuse, and the Forest of
Parroy,
GERMAN REPORT,
LONDON, August 13th A wireless Germa official report states:-We repulsed strong French at tocks northward of the Laon-Soissons road and southward of Ailles.
A
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THREE ENEMY ATTACKS FAIL,
PARIS, August 13th. CENI MADHU YIL states:-Artillery âring is most active between Cerny and Craonne, notably in the sector south of Aillea, where Gorman attack trenches which we captured on August 11th was repulsed with heavy losses and
A
on
the open Then,
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(tarʊtua reuter's AgENOY.)
THE RAID UN ENGLAND.
GERMAN MACHINES DESTROYED.
LONDON, August 13th.
The calling up of the Reservists has been authorised, and they are to prepare for emergencies.
at a special meeting of the War Cabinet the day before he left, Mr. Bonar Law
the arrangements for the visit were made told the Hons on July 30th that all
without the knowledge of the War Cabinet.
Mr. Bonar Law, intervening, employ sised that the War Cabinet knew that Disturbances are reported from differ- Mr. Henderson was going to Paris, but. ent points.
only after all the arrangements All is quiet in the capital,
made.
I
Mabrin, August 14th. In the evening, the strike still continued peaceful. The bakers, gas and tram- workers are still working.
There was a feeble attempt to hold up the trams at Barcelona and Saragossa, but it was casily suppressed,
BRITISH
il than
conference with the enemy at Stockholm. That conclusion had been come to by the United States, which was a great democracy, by the French Re public, by Italy and by Grest. Britain. (Lord, cheers.)
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Four of the Allied countries bad de
finitely concluded that peace teriis, must“ be discissed by representatives of the whole nation. He was the Fast an disparage th
power of Labour, but Lakona
14 SEK at the whole community. Prace must be made by the whole sintion. It has brcome clear that the Russian Government was not responsible for the Stockholm Conference, and we should not be doing our duty towards the Allies,
Mr. Henderson, continuing., said bej informed the War Cabinet of his recoto- mendation to the Labour Party Executive to accept the invitation to Stockholm if the Conference omuld be made consulta- tive instead of mandatory." There was the sharpest division of opinion, in
in the Cabinet over his advice, and he offered least of all towards Russia, if we to resign. When be returned from countenanced such ગ project. Load Faris
August lat, he gave Mr. Lloyd cheers.) ·
WAR CABINET.
MR. G. N. BARNES APPOINTED.
LONDON, August 14th The Press Bureau annees that Mr.his position and his trasons for advocat dual position as a member of the War
G. N. Barnes has been appointed to the War Cabinet,
Prior to the above aommunerwent, it was. oficially stated that the Labantr members The Admiralty announces that a hostile of the Government had unanimously ap. aeroplane of the Gothra type was destroy-proved of his acceptance of the appoint.
ment as the Labour representative. ed during its return to the Belgian coast.
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| George a full and faithful statement of
Mr. Asquith described Mr. Henderson's
ing attendance at the Conferener,
Cabinet and Secretary of the Labour Thereafter Mr. Lloyd George asked Party as impossible. He declared that his to attend a special Cabinet meeting. Mr. Lloyd George's statement that peace but when he arrived he was told to wait.must be approved by the peoples of all He waited an hour, when Mr. Barnes the countries concerned would be echoed was sent out with a toessage to him. through all the Allies, He insisted upon his right to address the Cabinet, and was the invited in.
Two battalions advanced in before our guns found them. when the storm broke upon them, they A hostile sexplane was destroyed off the AUSTRALIAN STEAMER LOST Mr. Lloyd George explained that be had tried to escape by running or throwing Flanders coast. themselves down, or plunging into shell Fraters. But not many escaped, whole | naks being blown to bits. The enemy cannot evade such slaughter, because these bite of high ground which we are capturing guard vital centres. He simply must fight 'and defend them with the full weight of men and guns. His bragge, where the enemy was lost. On
fre last Friday and Saturday was the greatest which any of our men have ever
faced.
WHOLE ENEMY BATTALIONS.**
MASSACRED.
Latest reports show that in the coun-
A large number of Naval machines ing decisively engaged the raiders at sea.
One pilot, who destroyed the Gotha machine, first pursued the enemy at an altitude of twelvo thousand feet from the North Foreland to fifteen miles off Zee-·
returning to the Thames south be obserT- ed anti-aircraft fire at Southend, He flew there, and, climbing, observed eight Gothas, followed by four British machines, Steering to the north-east, he climbed up to 18,000 feet and attacked
MELBOURNE, August 15th. The coasting steamer Mutunga, bound for Brisbane and Rabaul, has been miss ing for ten days. Searches for the vessri have proved fruitless.
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The Mutiago carried a crew of forty, and there wore several passengers aboard.
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STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE. DECISION BY THE ALLIES.
Londox, August 13th,
In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar
Mr.
Asquith emphasised that the Laborites did not wish to go to Stock- lindy in order to prepare a precarious
pence.
The Labour Party's declaration
asked him to wait outside out of regard for his feelings,‚'Île" protested, and the
of their policy, cabled on the 16th inst., Cabinet then discussed his visit tu
showed that British Labour was determin Paris.
ed to continue the fight until our great Dealing with the charge of breach faithbjects had been achieved, (Cheers.) in not quoting the communication from
The subject then dropped. the Russian Government at the Labour
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Conference, Mr. Henderson pointed out that he attended the Conference as the Secretary of the Labour Party, and it AMERICAN AIRCRAFT BOOM. would not have been right for him, when speaking in that capacity, to quote a Government télégram.
informed the Labour Conference that Mr. Henderson emphasised that he
was without result for the enemy. Two ter-attacks on the Westhoek positions ruthlessly when thirty miles out to sea Law anounced that Great Britain, the the position of the Russian Government
enomy suprise attacks at
Boir
a
Stockholm Conference (Cheers.)
information he was legally entitled to
use.
WASHINGTON, August title Neutrals are showering orders for acro- planes at such a rate that in order to coune the supply to itself and the Allies the Government has probibited the export of aircraft
ARMY CLASSES.
ROME, August 14th An order has been issued for the re- examination of the classes of 1874 to 1899.
da the Germans did not all die from shell. Simultaneously he observed hostile ma United States, France and Italy had de-had been modified. He never intended Courieros and Bezonvaux Iailed ander fire. The Lancashire. Fusiliers and the chines four thousand feet below. This del not to grant permission, to attend the to withhold from the Conference any RE-EXAMINATION OF ITALIAN our fire. Two enemy aeroplanes and North Lancashires fired their rifles all enemy formation he attacked. He drove captive balloon were brought down, and day on Friday and Saturday at human down au enemy to the water, the hostile three other aeroplanes were, forced to
targets v
which they could not miss. Ger- machine overturning. One of the occup. land severely damaged.
man reserves were hurried up to relieve ants was hanging to the tail, and to this the shattered battalions and were flung man he threw a life-belt. straight into the counter-attacks. They often wandered into the open in full kit, ignoraait of our whereabouts. The riffe here reasserted its old prominence and whole battalions were massacred.
Naval Activities,
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AMERICAN VESSEL SUB- MARINED.
WASHINGTON, August 13th. The American tank steamer Campana
After referring to the big efforts to dispute our sir superiority, Mr. Philip Gibbs concludes by saying: "The enemy
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PILOTS REPORTS.
LONDON, August 14th Reports of pilots show conclusively that the air raid on Sunday was making for
The Law Officers of the Crown had ad- vised the Government that it would be illegal for any resident in His Majesty's dominions to confer with enemy subjects without licence from the Crown.
AMERICAN LABOUR LEADER'S CONDEMNATION.
Mr. Gohmpers, the President of thị American Federation of Labour, hos tele- graphed to Mr. Havelock Wilson saying that the Federation will not be represent O sighting the large number of oured at the Stockholm Conference, which
Louden.
Mr. Henderson stated that he never received a telegram from M. Kerensky dissociating himself from the Stockholm Conference. The telegram was received through the French Embassy after the Labour Co
Conference closed
After again emphasising that it was. not in the national interest to tell the full story of Stockholm at present, Mr. Henderson concluded by deprecating discassion at present in view of the
AMERICAN STEAMER'S FIGHT
WITH U-BOAT.
** The American tank Bleamer. Alorenz (4,045 tons, owned by the Standard Oil Company) was set on fire and sunk by a German submarine, following a battle in which over 300 shots were fired. Four Americans were killed
wns sunk on the 8th inst. off Iledere is all out. It seems he wishes to ma erorilanes which were sent up against it regards as prejudicial to the cause signs of unrest in the country and the marine captain, congratulated the Morent
Ireland
this battle the decisive one of the war I do not see how he can win it after the It is believed that the Captain and four loss of the Pilkem and Westhoek Ridges,
Torty-seven survivors were landed.
of the Company's armed guards are pri- but he is out to kill, regardless of bis soners on the submarine,
own losses."
them, the Germans turned abruptly and made the best of their way out to sea again, dropping bombs at Southend and unloading the rest when at sea.
The petion of the anti-aircraft guns greatly assisted our fighting squadrons
permanent peace and detocracy.
He is unable to accept Mr. Havelock's Wilson's invitation to visit England, his duties forbidding him to leave the United Atates as present,
lifficulties he believed the Government must face before the Stockholm question was finally disposed of, and he appealed for unity in order to bring the war to a
successful conclusion.
The Moreni fred 200 shots. The sul captain on the splendid fight, he had made. Forty-three survivors were picked up by passing steamers half an hour after crew were saved; six were injured. the sinking of the vessel. All the win
Tho battle started at 4 o'clock in a smooth sea. the submarine firing at a range of Su yards.
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