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Franco-Belgian Front:

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOZ.]

BRITISH FRONT. SATISFACTORY PROGRESS IN

FLANDERS.

LONDON, October. 26th., Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re porer --The Anglo-French. Inunched at tacks at 45 this morning to the cast, north-east and north of Ypres.

We are making, satisfactory progress It rained heavily during the latter part of the night and is still contine

ing.

CLEARING OUT THE ENEMY. Heaters Correspondent at the British Headquarters states:The British, in conjunction with the French" on their Left, this morning aftacked the German positions along a network of Ridges, which are steadily and inexorably being cleared of the enemy.

GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT..

LONDON October 26th'

A wireless German official message snýs that there was most violent artillery, firing at Houthulst Wool as far as Holle beke, and increased drum-fire in the morning. The Anglo-French nocturnal attacks failed

MONDAY, OCTOBER 201H, 1917.

GREAT BRITAIN AND HOLLAND,

RIGA AND THE "BALTIC, SEVEN CENTURIES OF HISTORY.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT TO. “THE TIMES,

secular buildings the Castle is prominent, with a 400-year-old status of the last Grand Master of the Riga branch of the Teptonic Order: Until 1856, when tho camparts were dismantled, Righ was a

THE HAGUE, October 20th. The British Minister, in an interview, said-that-the-Dutch statistica regarding the transit of gravel were untrustworthy,

Riga, the fallen Queen of the Baltic, and the stoppage of the commercial cables was the mast German town outside Ger first-class fortress, defended by the Drinin would not cease while the transit con tinues The British Government did not many Riga was as German as Lubeck on-the-west-and-by-a moat, towards tho contemplate the arbitration which Hol-Bremen. Metz is not so French, nor cast. One bastion alone, the Powder land had suggested, and Amerien wond Trieste so Halian, as Rign was German. Tower, into which Swedish cannon-balls. The enemy attacked at several points not export foodstuffs to Holland while) since dawn.:

the matter remained unsettled.

The French yesterday attacked in the Aillete region.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR

PLANS."

After a short engagement at Pinon Wood, we withdrew to the northern bank of the Oise and the Aime Canal, and, also in accordance with our plans, we withdrew behind the Canal' near Charig- non. We stormed positions at Chaume Wood on a width of 1,200 metres and brought back prisoners.

GERMAN DECORATIONS

RETURNED.

LONDON, Oetcher. 26th. The famous Arctic explorer Sverdrup followed Amundsen's example in landing back his German decorations, and for the

same reasoa.

AIMS OF SINN FEINERS.

But Riga was no irredentist, no captive, weeping by the water of Babylon.". Rige was German of the good old northern... liberty-loving soft seafaring, patrician ropublican, like her elder sisters of the Hansa, not stuck-up and boorish, like the Buffle, us the men of the Russian Baltic

call the Boches.

Riga, no matter to whom she owed allegiance, has always been her own mis

That is the secret of her history 16 over seven centuries; that, and her

• Russian" association with the sen. „Riga had been, an' name, for only 200 years, and, in fact, for only 25. Before Beter the Grenk, who last subdued her.

*tress. LONDON, October 20th. A Sinn Fein Convention has opened at Dublin for the purpose of formulating an Irish Constitution.

have burrowed deep, has been preserved. Since the fortifications were diamantled the city had grown rapidly, on both banks of the river, around the kernel of the old town. Among the public buildings which sprang up during the last half-century were new post and police offices, a railway office Exchange, several barracks, a polytechmie and Rew station, the Colton

college for 2,000 students, a number of

near "German and Russia schools,

Lettish mirsoum | and -club- theatres a house, and above all the stately Orthodox Cathedral. Among the newer monumenty are statues of Peter the Great and of Barely de Tally. the son of t Scottish merchant family long settled in Riga, who commanded the Russian arzuŝes dur-

earlier car

A Provisional Constitution declares

ENEMY'S HURRIED RETREAT.

ternationis nim at securing in She owed duty to Gustavus Adolphus and in the Well phases of the Namecoin. dent Republic for Ireland and that this to his successors. But neither he nor spaces, with accommodation for football LONDON, October 25th.

Bronsterful Charles XII.. nor Peter hi-1 and frisis. A death-rate of only is to be achieved for the Irish

People

the excellent bygienic Correspondents at the French Head-ments of the Referendum, by which they self, ever attempted to infringe the 18 per 1,000

which Protestant

clan policy of the municipality. will freely choose their own Governmehistoric Charter It is stated that there are 1.200 Sinn Feined the right to

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The Dvina, which at Riga is half a mils is spanned by a massive from ruii. and wide. Clubs with a membership of a quarter of a million.

structure below it. On the brand aterani any bridge, that dwarfs the old pontoon of the river steam-ferries used to ply between the old town and the further shore, where are the shipbuilding yards

the fortess of Dünamünde.

nutters emphasize the hurried retreat of the enemy, who is trying to evacuate the district north-east of Pinon, including The weather was very bad, rain falling the forest. His difficulties are very great, heavily,

as be hard to cross the sand and marsh to the north bank of the canal under fire. It was here that many gube and prisoners were captured".

The attacking front extends from Houthulst. forest to the neighbourhood of Gheluveft.

POELDERHOEK CHATEAU

CARRIED.

Shortly before seven o'clock our mon could be seen entering pill-boxes "*. upon the Bellevue Spur, which was one of the most important points of attack. A few minutes later signa! lights dis- played from Poelderhoek Chateau signi- fed that we had carried this strongly fortified plane. The enemy's retaliatory. fire go far, has been desultory, giving evidence of the effectiveness of our pre- Timidary Bombardment when various cx- "plosions were observed.

GERMANS EXPECTED ATTACK.

Prisoners admit that it was expected that we should attack again, and conse quently, the most vigilant defence had bejn maintained.

DIFFICULTY OF GETTING UP

SUPPLIES,

Yesterday the French reported that the enenty was cutting down fruit trees and destroying "farms beyond the Ailette Valley, as he did prior to the retreat from the Same last year.

HUGE GUNS CAPTURED: Puris papers report that the captured German guns include two of tremendous power, each served by forty men, and

ring torpedoes.

Italian Front

{THROUGH RECTER'S AGENOT.}

ITALIAN- FRONT.

READY TO EVACUATE RAINSIZZA PLATEAU

Losnos, October 26th. An Italian official message states Powerful enemy forces have continued their offensive against our left wing the Julian Front We have withdraw on our boundary line between Mount Maggiore and to the west of Auzza and provided for the vacuation of the Bain šizza plateandm

GERMAN CLAIM,

A wireless German report states:--On our Northern Wing the Italian Army is retiring, and we are advancing beyond Karfeit and Rongina.

There is already fighting at many places on Italian territory.

Wonderful work has been done against stupendous ødde during the last few days preparatury to this battle, many bat dations of roadiakers and railwaymakers. and also tamelling companies having laboured ko Trojans to enable our heroic transport units to get up the neces

Que prisoners now number 30.000 of sary supplies.

whom 100 are offings, and the booty in RATEWAY. DAMAGED ANDcludes 300 guns.

REPAIRED FORTY-EIGHT TIMES.

General As illustrating the intensity of the fighting in this ares, I may mention that during one night a short length light railway was damaged by shell fire forty eight times, and forty-eight times repaired. This railway was maintained in running order for the bringing up of the heavy gammunition. The gunners, too, accomplished marvels, getting forward

THRUGGH BETTER'S AGENCY.) THE SOLIDARITY OF FRANCE CHAMBER HAS CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT.

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POLITICS IN ITALY. VOTE OF CONFIDENCE REJECTED).

Nous October 20th. The Chamber has by 314 votes to 24- rejected a vote of confidence in the Gov- ernment.

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FALL OF GOVERNMENT ANTICIPATED.

Lox DON, October Bith,

thee, the

Anguage. religion, independent jurisdiction. The Great Catherine did, indeed, instalare for Nigh and Livonia, Riga bowed to the waim of a woman who had danced id lost her show in the city but after her death the Viceroy disappeared.

In 1889 the Tsar Alexander III. made determined effort to Russiantize the Aministration of his dominigus. Riga, o, was to be transformed. Riga suffered and was

still, until the Revolution ef 1605, when her workmen caught the infer

on hom the fevered countryside. But revolution was seen by Arch

Riga's way The old Hansa city, ruled bishops, by Teulunie Grand Masters, by

The fall of the Italian Government has been anticipated for some time.

The Premier, Signor Boselli, who is vigour, and there is, moreover, dissatis- | elosted as her Chief Burgomaster` the faction in connection with the food quas- | brather of a British peer. fr

and

THADE, BEFORE THE WAR.

Before the war, although Libau carried the Russian trans-Atlantic traffe, the trade of Riga, inward and outward bound, stood at 4,000.000 tons, and its value at This trade was borne in £40,000.000 Russian, the German, and the British the almost equal proportions under

There were direct services, with

upwards of eighty years of age, has lost alien captains and Kings innumerables and Libaut with Danzig

New party combinations in the Cham ber had rendered the position of the Ministry precarious. The crisis does not imply any weakening concerning the

war

LATER.

CABINET RESIGNS.

The Italian Cabinet has resigned:

THE ENGLISH JEWISH CORPS.

EAGERNESS TO FIGHT FOR BRITAIN.

The following particulars have been published of the dewish corys now being Faised in Britain:

Lübeck, Hamburg, aid Bremen with, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Antwerp, and Rouen; and with Dundee, If the Brennraders, who, towards Lith, full, and Londen. the middle of the 12th century, drifted to Among the chief exports were Bax, the mouth of the Dving and settled there. hides, and timber,, to the: value and landed on an island, another Eng Ex.000.000 each. Eggs Cane next; land night have arisen in the Eastern 1000,000,000 of them, valued at £3,500,000. Sea. It was, ton, a next-door neighbour Mest of these together with "about" of the English in their Schleswig hume, £300,000 worth of Siberian butter, found Bishop Meinhard of Holstein, who in 1185 a market in the

el of Christianity to this Cereals accented for another dom brought the gospel

£1,000,000: distant shore. His successor, Bishoplinseed for $750,000; indiacubber Albert, founded in 1201 the town of flign

the mouth of the Rege, a tributary of the Dvina, and his town guard, was called the Bretherhood of the Sword,

The Brothers went into partnership with the Tentonic Order against the

for

achi £2,500,000 indiarubber and machinery. and copia, £2,000,000 cotton and jute, $1,000,000: herrings and ten, $500,000 each.

Danes, and soon the Order started and spring up, including Foun

But Riga had long trused to be contents

to fetch and carry for others. the last 20 yen's several hundred.

dries, cotton-inueries.

quarrel with the ccclesiastical and tem porn head of the town, who had been There are 40,000 Jews in the British During the three centuries for which Army at present, and of this number struggle lasted the burghers usually took 32,00NAL English Jews, the remaining the side of the Church, whom they found S.000 are from the Empire abroad. to be an enlightened patron of trade, There are 8,000 Jews in the forces at The strugge between Archbishop and in Britain, and these men should be very Grand Master ended with the extinction useful in training and stiffening the new of both at the Reformation, in favour of It appears to be essential that which Riga pronouneed as early as 1629. comers. before the scheme for the formation of For nearly four centuries the city re- the Jewish Corps goes much farther rained one of the chief strongholds of rangements should be made for the draft-futheranism in the world.

in ung in of many of the Jews serving

But the Great Merchants' Guild of St. rotes still it Britzing should such Mary continued to inéet in the Vistiletton and doubled, course, be followed it will ent

s from The period of training

The formation, of a Jewish division or brigad is t a matter that must be handled very carefully. The men will be subject

| raised to the dignity of Arch his factories, and an indiarubh

to

the

TARU

This indus facturing company, which was the largest of its kind in the Empire. trial development had brought abolit a marked change in the city and its sur oundings. Two years ago the Russians. started scrapping and dismantling all this complicated machinery, and left little more than an empty shell. It mains to be seen how far Riga, after the war, will be able to get back on to its new During two high road to, prosperity. decades of industrial activity the nonula

numbered, before the exodus. over 300.000. The brickchone the Baltic-German efenient. mounted to between 40 and 45 per cent. Together with an enterprising Lettish element, per cent,

and

net, uzbering 15 to 20 led about 50 per cent. The Russian and Orthodox element numbered about 20 per cunt., and the dews about 15 per cent. The Russian element was largely accounted for by the Bureaucracy.

presence of an image of the Virgin, the Symbol of the Ronian faith, which was old as the Guild and nearly as old as the city. Eiga's debt to the Church was

The instinct which the sauc discipline as the British usted the Prince Archbishops of the soldier, will be given the same pay, at 13th century to affiliate Rign to the will have all the privileges of pensionsalmighty Hansa League was politically and allowances that are enjoyed by the as well as economically, sound. This act Army They will, anovenver have their

was the greatest service of all. own butchers for killing" kosher INOAT, and all their food will be prepared by of their own faith. Rabbis will g

SPIRIT OF THE REPUBLIC, In the Chamber, M. Barthon. in a statement

Under the régime of martial-law the French foreign which is to regarding

be established within 30 miles

This tradition was ordinances the Easter-ings. policy, re-affirmed France's solidarity with

prohibiting the German will, in most British officers

cases,

never lost. Although not as wealthy language, not only in official intercours. Army. The enemy's military offensive; be superintend the training and staff the magnates of Hamburg of of Bienen, but also in private. Bat Russia would said, had been broken and he is now

BURGHEE AND BLACK-HEAD. Under the Hamburg code the Merchant-

Pans, October 26th.oksted as chaplains, and at the cap Venturers of Riga prospered exceedingly

gins through mud frequently angle.dear Russia and confidener in the Russiardon, there will be a synagogue and learned to rule it with the best of German element could but bow to the

Practically all our guns had to be moved

forward, and although this seemed in pursuing an intense diplomatic offensive searched and the Army is being the merchants of Riga enjoyed a dignified be the poorer if the spirit which created

almost superhuman task, nevertheless, by six clock last night the final howitzer battery was in position and registering.

Il-luck as regards weather was by no means one-sided, and the enemy will ad any attempt to counter-attack in mass

-

for suitable warrant, non-cen

sity for the return of Alsace-Lorraine to of all Paterson who is taking charge find to be wit. The dining-A tradition which goes back 300 years

the

the

very costly, since the advantage of a vote of confidence in the Governments their escape from Palestine. They land. Periodicals. There were also a yacht cuts dens, the goods sense bred of indepen

ground is largely in our favour; and

he is bound to come under a tremendous conci utration fire as soon as he tries to deploy for an advance.

ease. For the last contury and

more

they the great Republic of the Baltic should the object being to disunite the Allies.missioned, and commissioned officers, who as their

elnh which, for he

for he crushed out of existence. If the city The approaching Allied Comference would will be transferred as occasion requires. sureness of

anything of the "did not exist it would have to be created- Colonel

found in meet this peril. He re-affirmed the arces.

arrangements, and

and will be given room, and the library were thoroughly before Peter founded his Burgh on the Command of the force when France, who would never make this con-.

in the reading-room Neva is an asset that any Empire may be well appointed: soldier

proud of. cession to Germany,

with similar matcomplished wonders

material in Gallipoli.

Westpidister Caseffe, the

the

With all her intense M. Albert Thomas approved of M

was the commandant of the Zian at ware to be found The

pursuit of practi with Figor, together Barthon's statement.

Corps, ther extraordinary unit of Rus Vatin,

innumerable Russian, Germini, and other

and of association with a larger. The Chamber, by 258 notes to 121, passed sian Jews recruited in Alexandria afte

across the sea saved. Riga From and two automobile clubs, the members of

narrowness of mind, Riga already a ability to secure victory.

ed with

first troops who set foot on which made nothing of a run to the hundred years ago was more cultivated the peninsula and stayed there until the Caucasus of the Cranes to thn. Austrian than either Moscow on St. Petersburg, last, always doing hard and gallant work Alps, Switzerland, or the Riviera. under the most

more appreciative of artistic, sweetness trying conditions.

It was tradition that inspired and dis-and light even than Kouisberg, or many Colonel Paterson and his corps earned the praise of every general under whom ciplined all this Exactly five centuries another Prussian town. Riga was never ngo the young bloods of the city founded a university town. She never gave birth served,

work now is much

the to n Kant. She preferred to give birth to bachelors härder, The Congress of Politicians, chiefly of

association, culled theter Black Heads but th

(Schwarzhdupfer), after his publisher. But she welcorned Herder the Bourgeois elements, and numbering are signs that Colonel Paterson will be

their chosen patron

St. Mauritius, the and Hardenberg within her walls, one thousand, which has opened at helped a great deal by the men whom he Moor. They noted as a sort of 1837, too,

Wagner's Masrow is inferesting, as Sinowing the is trying to enlist. Many of them do Pious police by land and sed, and, overtitre Rule Britannis, and sheltered tendency of the stabler forces to unite, not deserve the slights that have been put

while he wrote the musto land of their birth doing a bit of buccaneering on their own to Bulwer's

ina With the same just sense of proportion. A communiqué says We attacked at and Workmen's Societies to meet the bus to

building

which rivalled the Greas Guild the City Fathers have not allowed the Paterson Look his Mile Corps to Colonel six o'clock this morning between Dricg-reds of the situation. The Firesmia or for their adopted country, England account. On shore they foregathered

which is the Society's organ, adinita that

Baltic

of the new era to efface the historic rachten and Draaibaak, in Belgium. We the power of the Societies is waning, Gallipoli four weeks after he formed it, for splendour and still stands as a warehouses, elevators, and factory shafts

they walked straight into an inferno memorial of their prowess

can hasport of the city. The towering suires of shot and

FRENCH FRONT.

IMPORTANT ADVANCE..

PARIS, October 28th.

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. TENDENCY TOWARDS UNITY.

LONDON, October 96th,

and

in view of the failure of the Soldiers upon them, and others are honestly anxi-when occasion.uffered, they were not above the compose Rienzi.?!

crossed the Saint Jansbeck and the Cover chiefly owing to their, technical incma- and they shell. Some won decorations, tow and certainly not of the old Catholic churches and the heck shoulder deep in water. We had petenee to carry on the war and the the corps gained the golden opinions show anything so fine as the

important progress, despite the difficulties of the grounds. We captured the village Draaibank, the Pagegord Woods and many farms organised as points d'appui.. We took one hundred prisoners,

ENEMY SUFFERS SERIOUS LOSSES.

country's requirements.

BRAZIL DECLARES WAR AGAINST GERMANY

LONDON, October 20th. Brazil han declared war on Germany. .THE REASON FOR WAR DECLARATION.

and

ailed and often lard down thefr lives decorated front it bears elaborately Castle still dominate the foreshore of the

FRENCH SHIPS; FIGHTS WITH SUBMARINES.

of thousands of the men for whom they House On its gabied

the arms of Riga old town, with its mile of open market water flanked by those of Hamburg, Lübeck, on the quays, under the shadow of gables Colone Paterson lives in an atmosphere

Bremen. Its collection of armour that bear the hall mark of the Hansa- of Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian, and and

and helping hi

him is a most able Russian author and presentation plate was priceless, journalist. This man has been work in the real banqueting hall contempor and

r-many months at the scheme, and ary portraits of Crustarus Adolphus, recently he showed his enthusiasm and Charles X11, Peter the Great; and the Great Catherine looked down upon the genuineness enlisting a "A

by

Drivate.

An investigation of the conditions in. He speaks eight languages, and has now guests

encounters took place between already

risen to sergeant's rank.

Other monuments of the period endure which There are 10.000 Jews of military age in the shape of a dozen churches, several French merchant ships and enemy sub- The night was calm on the entire front

in London, so it will be seen that there of which, together with the Cathedral, marines between Jan. 1st and August 1st.. morth of the Aisne, and the enemy only

is ample material to work on. After were founded 700 years ago, These 1917, establishes the fact that the Frenchr serving for three months with the Colours emerge prominently from among the ships were successful in 106 of these en- re-acted feebly with his artillery. We are

the Jewish soldier, if he wishes it, will never Orthodox foundations, including counters.In 34 cases this was due to organising the captured positions on the

become automatically naturalised with also a Cathedral, erected to the number manoeuvring to avoid torpedoes, and in 68 cases to the use of artillery, chiefly south bank of the Oise and the Aisne

at expense to himself. The formation of another dozen in more recent

to the subtoarine, In 13 enes Canal, on which the retreating enemy

* RIO DE JANEIRO, October 20th, of medical units from the same source is The last Catholic Archbishop of Riga, blew up bridges. The Germans re-attack The President, in message to Con- being undertaken.

William of Brandenburg, died in 1583; however it was not the submarine which ed north of Chaume Wood on the right bank of the Meuse. After a most lively gress, states that it is impossible to avoid The first move will be a series of debut, although the churches were converted began the fight. On even occasions

recognising the state of war imposed on monstrations in East London and Leeds to Lutheran uses, the edifices themselves merchant vessel chased her adversary. fight, in which the enemy sustained Brazil by Germany, and he proposes to and Manchester. It is intended that the remained, rich in memories. Many of Thres cases are also quoted in which the serious losses, the enemy obtained a fost the German warship anchored at field of operations for the Jewish force these are enshrined in the old Convent French vessel escaped by beaching or

attached to the Cathedral. Among anchoring ing only on one of our advanced elements. Babier.

Reuter is officially informed that Brazil's declaration of war was finally due to the torpedoing of the Brazilian steamer Macaz off the Spanish coast.

GERMAN WARSHIP TO BE SEIZED.

be in Palestine.