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THE WAR.

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DAILY PRESE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28г#, 1927

WAR GOING FAMOUSLY.

The counting of prisoners is not com- plete, but probably will total four figures, though in fighting of this character tha total prisoners is 'no criterion of the men- So far there are no tidings of German counter-attacks, al though our troops everywhere are pre- pared to meet them.

sure of success SUCCESS OF BRITISH

OFFENSIVE.

OVER ONE THOUSAND PRISONERS CAPTURED.

The tactics employed in this morning's operations were precisely similar to those which were so successiói on Thursday Inst As six o'clock the first wave of infantry followed the barrage towards the German positions. It is not known yet which were the fanks of attack, but I believe it has a front of not less than that of Thursday's battle, of which, indeed, it is practically n continuation. The first stage of the advance appears to have attained its goal with comparative ense in the left centre and right, but to have met with strong resistance elsewhere Uitter fighting is reported to be progressing in the neigh bourhood of the Tower Hamlets Ridge EARLIER CABLES.beyond Black Watch Corner and about Butte and Polygon. The Anznes are said to have taken a considerable number of

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Franco-Belgian Front,

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- LONDON, September 4th. Ficid-Marshal Sir Douglas Halg re ports: The attack this morning on a six-mile front southward of the Tower Hamlets to eastward of St. Juliet was entirely successful.

THE OFFENSIVE CONTINUED.

LONDON, September 26th,

LONDON, September 28th Reater's Correspondent at British Head quarters reported on Wednesday:The Flanders campaigu has been continued in manner which cannot but bere garded with admiration and satisfaction, Both the strategie idea and the tactical methods show the consummate skill with which all the teachings of the war have been applied. In the early days of this great struggle we learnt much from the Germans To-day it is the simple trath to say that they are learning much from us. On Thursday last we bit into the great Flanders ridge system to a depth of 1,500 yards, and today we have gono on to a scarcely less degree

Losons September 27th-

The ruins of Ypres have taken another long stride into the back tren since morn ing

BRITISH NAVAL AERIAL OPERATIONS.

LONDON, Bevember 26th. The Admiralty announces toil maval aircraft dropped many bombs on Sparap pelhock aerodrome at noon on Tuesday. Several direct hits were reported

Our äghter patrols over the Fleet ca countered six hostile senpinner and drove down two. Our pacal forces bombarded naval establishments at Ostend in the afternoon and secured several his on a

marine workshop.

TWO GERMAN SEAPLANES CAPTURED.

Reports regarding casualties vary. In parts we certainly suffered consider- whilst in others we reached our goal with almost ridiculously all losses. Therefore

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is reasonable to hope the aggregate will show a low proportion of casualties as the price of the valuable new type, were brought in last evening, military results attained. Once again we out of the four occupants wa

severely wounded.

-Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in a prisoners in the course of their first are great defeat which the German have got on famously with the war in this. -report, states :--We attacked this morn.vance The visibility was low, restricting | fretem concludes that the British suffers

ing on a wide front in the sector east and the work of the airmen north-east of Ypres. Good progress is

reported.

The Suffolks successfully raided east

of Conzencourt, in face of strong opposi-

The enemy later launched a series of tin. They destroyed two occupied dug. heavy counter-attacks along the new front.ouls, bayonetted many Germans and took Hard fighting is continuing at certain a few prisoners.

points,

The attack was carried out by English troops" southward of the Ypres Menin Rund, and they succcnsfully completed tw -capture of the Tower Hamlets apur, and took possession of the strong field-works -en the eastern slopes which formed our

objectives.

We repulsed a powerful counter-attack from Gheluvelt

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FRENCH FRONT,

MUTUAL ARTILLERY ACTIVITY,

Faris, September 26th,

vital theatre.

Aerial Activities.

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ed durishes well. May we be utterly crush- ed by the same terns! Doubtless we shall The fighting throughout to-day's Anon battle has been severe and frequently of a desperate character. Some of the pri souers state the attack was not expected, but the preparations of the enemy do THE AERIAL RAID ON LONDON not, bear this onf. Ou Thursday last our

THE NEW DEPENSIVE MEASURES. A pounique states: --There was mark-success threw the encing into such a state ed artillery activity on both sides at of alarm that it seems he has been burried. points of the Aisne front and only milking his divisions in the north Various

and south of the battle frout reinforce the right bank of the Monse

ments and throwing these into the furnace as fast as he could rush theo tip,

Since then von Arnim has stiffened the resistance to the full extent of his re- sources, has become almost a habit of phrase to speak of each fresh battle as

LONDON, September 25th. tead. The first attacks succeeded at some.

the hardest of the war, but I honestly believe it will prove literally true lo apply Contrary to Monday's moonlit sky, pciats in driving back our advanced

that description to the fight which cereyesterday evening was overcast, with low- posts, but our men re-attacked with great battalions including & Hohrsturm Battloped at nylight this morning. There-lying clouds Again it was notierable

the situation was restored. Some fighting

HEAVY ENEMY ATTACKS FAIL.

LONDON, September 26th... Reuter's Correspondent at British Headquarters, in message sent on September 5th, says that though it is steted in an earlier despatch that there "hus been no infantry action of importanc today on this battle front, he learns now that the enemy before noon began atlack

We met an obstinate resistance on theng heavily in the area south of the Menin

right of our main attack northward of the Ypres Menin Road.

There was heavy fighting in the area

yesterday.

English and Scottish battalions elected

ery fring

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FRENCH COLONIAL TROUPS

REPULSE GERMANS.

Loxpos, September 26th. Bleuter's Correspondent at the French Headquarters says:-The enemy used five

LONDON, September 25th. Some of the newspapers attribute the fewness of the raiders reaching London to the new system of defence by a vortion! barrage. It is generally agreed that the arti-aircraft bring at Londan yesterday

Was

heaviest ever known FUTURE ENEMY ATTACKS. DOOMED

FLUSHING, September 26th. Two German seaplanes, one of a big

-LATER One of the seaplanes, flying, very low, was shot down by a Dutch torpedo-boat on her refusal to surrender.

The other seaplane descended at Cad- zd, where the occupants were interved. GUYNEMER KILLED,

Loxton, September 26th. Router's Correspondent, at the Frenc Headquarters reports. that Captain Guynemer, the champion airman, has been missing since the 11th inst. He had felled fifty-three German machines.

Panis, September 28th. Captain Guynemer, on the morning of the 11th inst, went on an expedition. He so

encountered a whole squadron of chasing aeroplanes. Ho might have avoided combit, but straightway he dived into the enemy and shot down two.

Subsequently he was overwhelmed by numbers, falling into the sea,

Egypt

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THROUGH REOTEK'S · LOKNCY:]

THE CAMPAIGN IN EGYPT. Business-like celerity, There was ample

LONDON, September 26th.* room to take refuge, whicle was done most

An oficial report from Egypt states: calmly in the nearest buildings offering On the railway wear Maas we succesfully

ower which, the enemy counter attacked spirit and in the course of the afternooniph which is a model school for the fore, it speaks volumes for the skill in how London hus learned to lake cover. After severo daylong struggle the continues and there is very heavy artilfurmtruppen, commanded by the offeerdership and the gallantry of our troops The thoroughfares were cleared with

who introduced the system into Germany that we achieved another such fine success The objective was the trenches surround- ing Hill ¿C). At this same time diversions the teeth dritter opposition. fwere attempted by units of other division The battle began with a Gerlaun atackshelter and in Tales, ew. But the enter-sttacked a bridge, which we destroyed. A

at Bezonvaux on the right and Beaumonteerday at the worth on the left. In the cant and right the

the enemy from his positions and accom plished their allotted task of securing the We flank of our principal Attack relieved two companies of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders who held out with great gallantry all night a forward position in which they were isolated,

The enemy later developed another counter-attack in great strength in this sector, where fieree fighting continues,

The Australians further north cleared the remainder of Polygon Wood and cap tured, a trench system eastward, which

formed their fate objectives

A counter-attack castward of the Poly gon Wood was repulsed.

AUSTRALIANS HEAVILY

ATTACKED.

LONDON, September 26th Rent Correspondent at the British Headquarters says:-This morning the Britisla Atmy in Flanders again pushed back the Geramus from the big ridge system to the cast of Ypres. Although the attack was planned for dawn and was carried out as arranged, it may be said to have boiled up again yesterday in con- sequence of heavy German attacks. The Urst of these developed shortly after day light, when the ground was still shrouded

To-day's operations were with almost faultless precision, possibly due to the

much less determined than further south. stance fast the opposition was

umber of Saxons surrendered gratuit

attack was repelled after very hard fight. ing at close quarters. On the left of the Hill, the Germans met with still worse luck. Colonial troops, who were awaiting them, left the trenches and with magni-sly lo our men, declaring they were sick font dash and courage met the assaulting Germans half-way, driving them back to the starting line with bomb and bayonet. The bombardment still continues

HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES.

PARIS, September 26th.. A communiyue states:There is an in-

of the war and were glad to be finished with the beastly business, and that there were others only awaiting a similar chance

to surrender.

In the centre tie attack also went

tainments, as on Monday, carried on as train was derailed Sixty-eight Turks sunt, What was noteworthy was the and two German officers were killed. We coolness of the conductorettes on the captured 30 Turks

The raider that penetrated the drifting omnibuses in sticking to their posts. Africa. niet masses dropped bombs on small houses where there were no works.

munition

There was apparently a big air fight some distance from Loudon, as heary machine gun firing was audible in the sky, Probably British formation was

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{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.} EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN MPAIGN LONDON, Septembyth. An East Africa omcial report states :--- Our mounted foros destroyed all enemy food depots between the Mhemkaru River and the Kilwaliwate toad, and they are

successfully, though there was some hard driving off the raiders, and there is 120 nearing Nangano, an important supply

doubt that, besides the veritable barrage, British aviators were most successful in

fighting The Anzacs pressed forward in their usual irresistible way, and carly in

and Bezonvans, on the right bank of the tenso artillery struggle between Beaumont the morning low-flying sirmen reported repelling London's assailants.

On the Australian Left English,in mist. It came on in great strength and Scottish and Welsh battalions, penetrating pressed back our line to Long House, the defences nearly a mile in depth, storied enemy reoccupying Carlisle Farm The Zonnebeke and gained their objectives,

resuit was a considerable bulge in our front line, just north of the Menin rod

At about eleven o'clock the Germans Meuse. attacked the Australians with great weight, and for a while there was most heavy fighting in the neighbourhood of Polygon Wood, with the result that the

The North Midland and London Terri- torials, attacking on the left on both sides of the Wicltjcg Gravenstafel and St.

Julien-Gravenstafel roads, captured this objective and bent off a counter-attack

Our line here was advanced to a depth of Germans penetrated our positions" in half-a-mile ross country defended by some local spots,

задку redoubts.

fortiled farms and concreted

forces

During the first of these attacks, some Highlanders made some most gallant. The enemy in the afternoon launched a rashes into the dent in our line and second counter-attack with large and pressed us back a short distance on narrow front, but our counter-attack recaptured the bulk of the lost ground.

Over 1,000 prisoners were captured. The large numbers of German dead show the enemy's losses were again heavy.

AERIAL ACTIVITY.

checked the Gerinan onslaught.

The Anzacs fought must determinedly, and the enemy's slight temporary gains to their territory cost them dear. At about two o'clock yesterday afternoon, British and Australians attacked so vigorously that the Germans shortly afterwards were LONDON, September 26th,

driven out, except for a short length of Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Huig re- our front. This was the situation on the ports -Our acroplanes were extremely eve of this morning's offensive. nctive yesterday. We made successful

We ma raids on the aerodrome and railway sid- ings near Gheat, where a large fire was storted. Wo also raided the zerodromes at Courtrai and Cambrai, the billets cast wards of Lems, and the hurments south westward of Foulers, on which we drop that these suffered very heavily under the ped five tons of bombs. A further five tans were dropped and many thousand acrially-regulated fire of our batteries.

machine-gun rounds were fired at night on -the Menin railway, on troops and trans. port, and on the roads leading thence to the battle-front

A record number of hostile machines Was accounted for, seventeen being brought down and six driven down three-seater bombing machine was shot down. One of our machines is missing.

The German efforts yesterday olearly

proved that he was determined to fight

desperately to try and check our advance Fo had been bringing up many fresh troops since Thursday last, and we know

British air squadrons last night dew over the German reserves, and, by the

Prisoners confirm the fact that the

worth of Chaumo Wood on the 24th inst, enemy lost beavily in fruitless attacks

We took prisoner then 121 men.

GERMAN REPORT.

LONDON, September 20th. A German oficial wireless message states-Wo recaptured yesterday a por.

them moving across the Polygon racecourse, Before this their patrols penetrated well into the farther part of the Polygon

tolerably sure of their ground, but it was Wood mopposed, and therefore they were

south of the Anzac right that the severest opposition of the day was

encountered The troops here had borne the full brunt of the heavy German attack the previous morning, and the Germans shelled them heaviest. Nevertheless, progress was

tion of territory to the north of the made, but slowly in comparison with the

The Daily Expres quotes a high official ng saying, “We have stopped the day raids, and the time is not distant when Ilun machines will no longer come to this country-

WELL-KNOWN JOURNALIST

KILLED.

The fatalities in Monday's raid included Mr. G. J. Stevens, till lately the Athens correspondent of the Daily Telegraph,

RAIDERS DRIVEN OFF.

The Press Bureau says that gunfire

Wa

centre "south-eastward of Lowale, engaged the Germans at Mtun, south

westward of Lindi, where fighting is in progress. We dispersed & company at tempting to cross the Luvegari river and inficted severe losses.

ORIENTUL.

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AMSTERDAM, September 27th.

A message from Vienna states: The Lower House of the Reichsrath reaslem- bled yesterday?,

Menin-Ypres road and repulsed four viol Auzao push. This was early in the day, turned back the first group of raider socjal and economic matters, the necessity

to relieve the pressure at this spot to and necessary steps were promptly taken

steure uniformity in our advance. The The Australians took 300 prisoners in dug-outs The Polygon Wood in their first in

ent counter-attacks, taking 250 prisoners Following crumbre, the English attack- ed this morning between Houtbolst Wood and the Comises-Ypres Canal, battle is in full swing. The enemy lost fifteen aeroplanes

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The Premier (Dr. Seidler), in outlining his policy, dealt with the urgency of

of a constitutional settlement in the rela approaching London last night, only two tions with Hungary, the regulation of penetrating the defences. These dropped trade, political relations, especially with a number of bombs on the south-eastern Germany, and the bringing about of outskirts of London, and damaged some full realisation of the principle of dwelling houses, killing six and injuring equality of all nationalities as the basis. of national autonomy while preserving the three people.

unity of the State The

advance.

second group of raiders was driven. The story of the fighting is still some what obscure,

but the latest news is of the off without reaching London. They drop best Although the situation in part of pod bombs on the south-eat of England,

been reported. IMPORTANT CONFERENCE ON the line which crosses the Ypres Menin but no damage or casualties have yet

BRITISH FRONT.

road is not yet quite clear, there is good

OFFICIAL CASUALTY LIST. reason to believe that the dogged valour |

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LONDON, September 28th of our troops has largely overcome the Press Bureau report gates:-Mr. German resistance here, and that the Lloyd George preceded to France on advance has been carried well forward. Monday.

LATER Elsewhere along the long front of attack we gained our objectives, This means na of about three- extremo penetration o quarters of a mile across ground of the They visited Field-Marshal Sir Douglas utmost tactical value, densely scattered Haig at British Headquarters, and rewith camouflaged strong points and held

in exceptional strength in depth.

light of flares, dropped hundreds of Mr. Lloyd George, accompanied by Sir bombs on troops who were bivouacked or William Robertson, conferred with M. moving up. The airmen also co-operated Fainlove on Tuesday. with the gunners, who plastered the whole back area with gar shells, shrapnel and high explosives,

turned to London this evening.

It is officially announced that last night's air raid casualties were seven killed and twenty-five injured.

GERMAN VERSION:

4 German official wireless-masage states-Our aviatore last evening bombed Ramsgate, Margate Dover Boulo Calais and Dunkirk,

using fires. of our machines did not return,

Dr. Scidler declared, The basis of our foreign policy is loyalty to our allies."

Referring to the Papal Note with the possibility of agreements and the reduction of armaments ca the basis, pleasure," he again affirmed his belief in

amongst other things, of obligatory inter national arbitration

He declared, their readinesH TỐ COUG on to an agreement with their enemics thate lines

He was serious and sincere, and was inspired by the consciousbess of our trength, but if our enemies did not take the proferred band we would continue tha defensive war to the atmos. A strong Austria, in which all the reces are happy, is the best guarantee for a lasting peace. We are, therefore, striving to reform thes constitution, and resolutely condemn the view held by certain parties that the salvation of Austria is to be hoped for From the enemmes of Austria

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