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THE WAR.

THE RONGKONG DAILI PRESS

General.

KERENSKY'S SENSATIONAL

PROCLAMATION.

GENERAL KORNILOFF DENOUNCED AS A TRAITOR.

ALLIES AND THE SWEDISH DISCLOSURES, NO ACTION CONTEMPLATED.

FRENCH SUCCESS IN THE BALKANS.

Franco-Belgian Front

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{THROUGH REUTER'S AGEKOE.} BRITISH FRONT.

LoNDos. September 10th. Ejeld-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re ‚ports; -We captured a few prisoners in the neighbourhood of Lagnicourt, also southeastward of St. Julien.

The enemy raided an advanced port south-eastward of St, Jansheek, but wa re-established the position.

Russian broni.

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(THROCAR SEDTER'S" "KOENCY:} RUSSIAN FRONT.

ENEMY HELDBACK.--

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A wireless Russian report stats: --La the direction of Riga, in the region ri Pskov, one rearguards are holding back attacks on the Bartzek line.

Enemy hydroplanes over the Battie dropped forty bombs am the Tzerel hat-

There was reciprocal artillery ring teries, hot without resul eastward of Ypres.

Sistren machines twice attacked our

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1211, 197

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EXODUS FROM PETROGRAD,

Losnov, September 10th. Telegrams from Petrograd indicate o growing nervousness.

GREAT SENSATION IN RUSSIA,

KORNILOFF DEMANDS CIVIL AND and booking offices.

MILITARY - POWER.

PETROGEAR, September 10th. On the 9th inst., M. Kerensky issued a Proclamation announcing that General Korniloff demanded, that he (M. Keru sky) hand over all civil and military powers to the Generalissimo, who wouhl form a new Government.

M. Kerensky refuses, and orders Gene- ra! Korniloff to hand over the po of Comanander-in-Chief to General Klem-) bovsky,- Commander-in-Chief: -on-the Northern Front, who will be provision- ally Genrralissimo, remaining at Pskov.

M. Kerasky a proclainia martikla law in the town and district of Petro- grad.

M. Kerousky appeals to all citizens to maintain order for the defence of the

country,

General Korailoff's demand for supreme power was conveyed to M. Kerensky by ile ex-Premier Lyoff.

The demand nid dat General Korniloff

We brought down three neroplanes and | torpedo-butts in the liga Gulf, but won't form a new Government at his drove down four. Five of our machines without result. me missing.

Enemy minesweepers are working at the entrance in the Gulf of Jiga.

POSITIONS CONSOLIDATED. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- purts: ---We consolidated the positiongth: capture yesterday south-eastward of Hargicourt.

We drove off raiders eastward of Look and Armentieres.

GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON. September 10th.

A wireless German official report stales; -The English pressed in back at Hargi court and Villeret.

FRENCH FRONT. ENEMY'S DEFEAT CONFIRMED. Pants, September 10th. 'A communiqué states: The artillery quel continued violently all night long on both banks of the Mease.

We have completed our successes of the

Sth inst.

the Fosses anth In the scEÁIN Caurieres Woods, we overcame the resist. ance of isolated groups and look more prisoners.

The Gormnos did not renew their at- tempts here.

The importane of the enemy's defeat He counter- yesterday is confirmed. attack successively with great fury, despite extremely heavy lossca owing to our fing

We replied at several points to as many as five simecresive attacks, annihilating part of the attacking units.

VIOLENT ARTILLERY DUELS.

PARIS, September 11th.

A communiqué states:-On the right bank of the Heuse, there were violent artillery duels in the region of Hill 314 and the Bois des Fosses.

GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON, September 19th.

A wireless German official report states: -We penetrated the French lipes cust- ward of Samcgneux, and esptured one hundred prisoners.

Aerial Activities.

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pleasure.

The authenticity of the summons was confined in a telephonic conversation An enemy submarine blew up a tug in between General Korniloff and M Keven

Finland Gulf-

BEST GERMAN TROOPS TRANSFERRED. PETROGRAD, September 10th.

It is reported from Headquarters that the fiermans sent their best regiments, including nearly ifus whot, of the Gnards,

from the South west Front to the North.

GERMAN REPORT.

Loxto, September 10th.

sky

Departing trains are crowded,TM and there are long queues at all the stations

The Government is offering facilities for the removal of stores, cargoes and

private effects.

ROUBLE STILL, DEPRECIATING.

REGENT INCIDENTS ON BRITISH FRONT

LONDON, September 11th Field Marshal Bir Douglas Haig, in a despatch, gives an account of recent incidents indicating the general nature of the work at the Front. The ecount includes the following :--

PORTUGUESE UNDER FIRE.

OUR CALLANT ALLY ON ERITISH FRONT.

THE SOLDIERS ANTONIO,

(FROM THE TIMES SPECIAŠ, CORRESPONDENT.].

The cordiality of the relationship bo tween British soldiers and the Portuguese A small party of the London Scottish day be taken as finally cemented by the patrolling the Bapaume-Cambini road fact that the latter now have a nickname. were ambushed by two parties of the They are Antonio." There were some who, at first, were disposed to call them They

"Pork-and-beans, as having a general The rouble is steadily depreciating after a two hours' wait.

killed and wounded several, without resemblance to the name Portuguese, but Thirty roubles are equal to £1.

our Allies have proved thesiselves in the suffering a casualty.

renches, and custom is settling down to On the 94th August, a New Zealand | the friendly sobriguz? of Antonio,” which is already being shartened to non-commissioned officer swam

a river

Tony, fit counterpart to "Tommy," and reconnoitred for five and a half showing that the rapprochement is con- hours. He found a raft, upon which he secrated and complic

To the behaviour of the Portuguese in returned later, led a patrol across | the trenches the official communiqués have and surprised a German post killing the occupants, and returning safely.

THE SWEDISH INTRIGUE EXPOSURE.

DUTCH COMMENT.

AMSTERDAM, September 11th. Dutch comment dwells upon the enor

of Count Luxburg's offence as harmonising with the record of German representatives abroad. It believes that the Allies

are not inclined to hold the,

The enemy forced a patrol of dismount ed Indian Cavalry to withdraw from a wood in the Epsby sector. The patrol **** | counter-attacked and cleared out, the

Swedish people responsible, that they enemy.

will be satisfied with the punishment of

ANCHOR.

the guilty, and states that adequate menas“ VANGUARD” BLOWN UP AT are at present in the hands of the people by throwing out the present Government. SWEDISH NEWSPAPERS VIEWS.

Sresiou, September 11th.

The Sopink Demokraten says that is is needless to emphasias, the seriousness of the case, which is aggravated as if there were willing helpers in Stockholm, the accusations are true, Herr Lowen

If

HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE.

The battleship Funguard blew up while an anchor in July (as announced in our cable columns at the time) owing to an

internal explosion, and sunk immediately. Thirty-seven officers were killed and ong

died of injuries after being picked up

already borne testimony, and some weeks ngo I spoke of the excufent, and sturdy quality of the Portuguese infantry, and this new kind of war. When I sent that the quickness with which they had learned

dispatch the Portuguese were in the act the line, but it would obviously have beco of taking their fest formal position in indiscret to say so. Since then they have held their place with gallantry, although severely tested.

PAYING THE ENEMY BACK,

Perhaps the Germans thought these new troops in the line would "be" easy." They have bombarded them heavily with hot big guns and trench mortars. They have inade vicious raids on them. Ther have attacked them with gas shells. But they have got very little satisfaction, though they have officially bragged of taking a small number of prisoners. On the contrary the Portuguese have paid back in good coin. They have mided the German trenches, broken into them, and held them till it suited them to come back. And on that occasion not only those in

the actual assault, but the troops in sup

has hopelessly compromised, the country's | There were two survivors of the men who port, who have an even more trying time,

honour.

Commenting ou the occurrence, The Times Bays:

M. Kerensky's Proclamation continues:

The Couservative Dagblad is unrepension. There were, however, 24 officers and - Considering the demand as an attempt

tant, and sarcastically advises Argentina 71 men not on bourd the ship at the time, in ertain quarters to profit by, the cour-

| tbus bringing the total numbers of to follow the majority of the South try's difficult situation to extablish a

survivors up to 97, state of things contrary to the ging of American States into an alliance with the the revolution, the Government recognised Entente. It counter-charges by deserib the necessity of charging me, for the ing Mr. Lansing's method of exposure safety of the Fatherland and the freddows a gross and wilful insult.

NO ACTION CONTEMPLATED BY of the Republican régime, to take urgent ; and indispensable mesures to cut the

A wireless German official report states:ronts of all attempts uguust the supreme -We repulsed tite Russo-Roumaninus be-

power of the revolution. tween the Trotus Valley and the Oituz Valley.

The Balkans.

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THE BALKAN CAMPAIGN.

FRENCH CAPTURE VILLAGES.

Pants, September 11th.

An Eastern communiqué states :-- The, enemy violently bombarded the Russian positions between Lake Preapt and Lake Malik and to the west of these points.

Our detachments crossed Devoli and saptured thirty Austrians.

We advanced northwards and occupied

the villages of Gradista, Bubac-Monastir, Luger and Gribai.

A wireless German official report statrai Our advaper guardy retreated before the French north westward of Lake Malik.

Naval Activities.

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(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCY.] GERMAN SUBMARINE ≈

INTERNED.

CADIZ, September 10th.

RUSSIAN GENERALISSIMO A

TRAITOR,

LONDON, September 19th-

CIVIL WAR AT FRONT POSSIBLE.

ALLIES,

Londos, September 11th.

• Renter's Ageney learns that no action is contemplated by the Allies regarding

the Swedish disclosures.

General Lukomsky is also declared to be a traitor, as he has refused to accept the Provisional Government's order to the view of the world at large of the take over General Korniloff's command, iniquitous and barbarous intrigues of indioating the possibility of civil war at Germany.

the front.

The Daily Express states that Count General Korpikoff will be punished for Lasburg was formerly German Consul at

It is just six months since the Navy suffered the loss of a battleship, when the Cornwallis was destroyed by a submarine in the Mediterranean. Fortunately, on that occasion the loss of life was sojali, but the nation has now to deplore not only the Navy's deprivation of a first-class vessel, but also of a number of gallant and precious lives.

new to the game.

That the Portuguese should have had a good deal to learn when they came is not surprising, for we and the French bayes been learning for three years, and th Germans no less. Moreover, it would bave been neither reasonable for practic- able to transplant with the troops the whole army organization, and it was necessary, for the sake of uniformity and scoth working behind the lines, that most of the auxillary services should be

British.

were on board at the time of the explo-behaved with conspicuous coolness for men On another occasion they destroyed the whole of a German patrol at night in No Man's Land. It was very completely done, two of the patrol being killed and the rest taken prisoners, among whom was a non-commissioned officer wearing the Iron Cross. For this net the officer commanding receiving the congratulations of the Communder of the British Army to which they are attached. And with each incident, almost with every day, the men gain confidence in themselves. They are naturally fighters, very eager to learsi these new-fangled fighting ways, and are untworlly bard-working. British officers in contact with the Portuguese may that Fanguard is the fourth occurrence of a similar work will labour as hard as and The misfortune which overtook the parties of Portuguese set to digging or,

similar character in the British Nary conscientiously when left, to themselves as It is not a question of a quarrel between during the war. Of the three earlier if under the comand of officers, and this disasters, that which happened to the is as true of the infantry in the line as the Allies and the Swedish people, who Buleurk was the only one incurring the of the detachments engaged in such A wireless report states:--M. Keren-are expected strongly to disavow what loss of a battleship, the other vessels being social work as railway construction, etc.

the Natal, an armoured cruiser, and the sky has despatched a message to the civil has happened. It is hoped that the Princess Irene, a vessel of the auxiliary and military authorities throughout Swedish Government will take an early feet. In each of the three cases, an official inquiry made it clear that the destruction Russia declaring that General Korniloff opportunity of expisining the affair. of the ahip was not brought about by has betrayed the Fatherland and the It is well known that there is a soal! enomy action, and it may be hoped, from the warding of the official communiqué, Revelation,

militarist group in Sweden, who might that preliminary investigation has afford approve of such behaviour as hus occured cause for believing that the explosions which destroyed the Vanguard were also red, but it is confidently expected that of an accidental character.

General Fernando Taningnini It may be recalled that it is not only the has had difficulties in the process of the bulk of the Swedish people will share British Navy which since the war began adaptation and the establishment of has suffered from mishaps the circum. solidarity, but he has shown exceptional stances of which make the precise cause qualities, and his designation to the chief difficult to determine. Two of the Italian command of the Portuguese Expedition- battleships, the Benedetto Brin and the ary Force was extremely happy. All our Leonardo da Vinci, were destroyed after officers, also, have conceived the greatest fires and internal explosions, the latter of regard for the soldierly character and these two ships being of the Dreadnought abilities of General Gomez da Costa

FATE UY THREE ADVENTURES, class, like the Fanguard. Russia has also

During the bitter winter the men, com lost a Dreadnought, the Imperatritsa ing from a sunny country, had a trying Maria, which, like the da Vinci, sank as time, and there was in the early days the result of explosions following an out much sickness both among the troops and break of fire. Unless or until there is among the horses. Care and better went forthcoming evidence to the contrary, and

have, however, rectified that, anci remembering the stringency of precau- stories are told which symbolize both the tionary measures in use in the British Portuguese love of the sun and their Navy, it would be catively wrong to at-bravery. It was an icy day, on which tribute the present mishap to the the trenches were cold and tomb-like, Mspontaneous combustion of explosives on when a British officer discovered a Portu-

board the Vanguard.

gusse who had climbed out of the trench It has already been mentioned that the and sat conspicuously on the

parados, n ship was of the Dreadnought type, and her lovely mark for any German shiper. The loss will probably affect the homogeneity him, but had difficulty in making the British officer shouted remonstrances at of the squadron to which she was attach other come down. There was a ray of sun ed. At the anme time there is some salis. up there, he said, which reminded him faction in remembering that so far as the Portugal, and for the sake of the sun ship is concerned the relative superiority he was willing to take the chance of being of our Fleet over that of the enemy shot cannot be materially affected by it. It is On another occasion three men who were impossible, however, to make good the ex-new to the trenches, deceived by the perienced and devoted seamen who have silence and apparent desolation of the lines opposite, decided that there could perished with her.

bu very few Germans there, and that thera The Funguard, which was launched at] was an opportunity for three bold men Barrow in 1909, was a vessel of 19.250 tons, to achieve a great coup and capture the ber length being 500ft., beam 8tft, and enemy trunch alone.. So, without orders. draught 271t. She had a speed of 22.1 or permission, they slipped over. When knots and an i.b.n, of 24,500. Her arma- they reached the opposite trenches thero ment consisted of ten 12in., eighteen 4in.. and a moment of chaos and the thre

was a sudden clamour and firing of rifles, four 3-pounder gons, and three torpedo brave men did not come back.

What tubes; and her complement numbered about 800.

happened is unknown, but one hopes that those three are the prisoners of whom the Germans are so proud

Besides the infantry, as I said some time the Portuguese field artillery is parti- cularly good. The gunners are methodi- cal, conscientious, and brave, and their indeer, there is every prospect of the In all ways, shooting is admirable. Portuguese continuing to prove them. selves an increasing valuable element in the Armies on this front.

his treachery.

The Government is taking measures to prevent General Korniloff directing detachments.

The Petrogradi Workmen's Committee: suggests that the Army and the Navy refuse to obey the orders of General Korniloff and General Lukomsky.

LATEST VABLES.

The German submarine 23 entered KORNILOFF HEAD OF COUNTER- the harbour owing to lack of lubricants. The 1993 was immediately interned.

LATER.

REVOLUTION CONSPIRACY,

Culeutin.

LATEST CABLES.

FRENCH CABINET RECON- STRUCTION.

PARIS, September 11th. President Poincaré has invited Painleve to form a Cabinet.

M. Painlove has reserved his reply.

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LONDON, September 10th.

Socialist party.

It appears that the Socialist refusal to participate in the new Ribot Cabinet PETROGRAD, September 11th.

is mainly due to the non-fulfilment of The subnuriae Vans is one of the] A wireless report states:-The Execu

tives of the Councils of Workinen and their condition that Socialist Ministers -600-ton type, carrying a crew of thirty.

Her commander is aged 26, and his Soldiers and Peasants' Driegates have should remain under the orders of the despatched a message to the Army and Hieutenant possesses the Iron Cross.

Naval Committees dedaring that General THE NEW GERMAN PATRIOTIC Korniloff is heading a military counter- revolution conspiracy, and that be moved the troops towards Petrograd with the object of deposing the Provisional Gov ernment His troops were deceived, believing that they were sent to crush a conspiracy of the Maximalists which was

non-existent.

GERMAN AERIAL STATISTICS | Italian Front

FOR AUGUST.

LONDON, September 10th.

A wireless German official

report states:---During the month of August sixty-four of OnF aeroplanes were missing. Four balloons were brought down.

Our enemies lost thirty-soven balloons and two hundred and ninety-five aero- planes.

··HALF-CENTURY FOR GUYNEMER.

PARIS, September 11th.

A communiqué states: -Captain Guyne

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ITALIAN FRONT.

ITALIANS CONTINUE PRESSURE.

LONDON, September 10th. An Italian oficial report staten :--Tha enemy attack on our positions at Monte Granuds and Cueltarond, on the Carnis front, failed.

Our pressure continues north-eastward out the demanda of the Central Committees,

The Executives request the Army Com- mittecs to disobey the orders of General Korniloff and fellow traitors, and carry

PARTY.

AMSTERDAM, September 10th.

The Forunerts states that the new patriotic party mentioned last night is merely a metamorphosis of the pan-

Germans.

The newspaper is of the opinion that it signifies a growing nervousness,

RUSSIA'S PURCHASE OF

SILVER FROM CHINA,

LONDON, September 11th.

THE VANGUARD

ADMIRAL VON TIRPITZ'S SON: In the House of Commons, recently, Mr. J. F. Hope, answering an inquiry by Mr. Billing as to who was responsible for granting the release from impiin ment of German prisoners of war, said

In the case of civilians, the Home Office; Among the men are necessarily all in the case of combatants, the Army shades of Portuguese political opinion, Council. I am informed that Admiral hus all political differences tend con- ven von Tirpitz's son has not been at shantly to become more and more merged The booty captured since the battle and that the Provisional Government The New York correspondent of the liberty at any time since bis capture in the one great aim of winning the war except in so far as he takes exercise as in combination with their country's began includes 145 guns, 94 tranch should explain to the soldiers, especially London Times states there is an uncon-one of a party accompanied by a British ancient Allies, and reflecting a new mili officer and two orderlies, in the same tary glory on their beloved Portugal. 942 machine guns and 11,195 the waverers, the true meaning of Gene-bred report that Russie Ime bought manner as British officer prisoners in The men are kron, sound soldiers, and

zal Korniloft's plot..

£1,000,000 worth of silver from China. Germany

their moral to-day is excellent

of Gorizia

mer destroyed his fiftieth German acto mortars, plane.

rifles..