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THE WAR.

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Italian Front

The Near East.

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) ARABS REPEL TURKISH ATTACK

Losos, September 4th. 2.03 p.m..

A "Palestine officia!

report states:- Since August 14th our activity was mainly confined 'to nerjal raids on the Hedjaz Railway, patrol encounters east | of the Jordan, and to raids..

The Arabs, who continue their raids on the Hedjaz Railway, repelled a Turkish attack at Akunaam, killing and wound- ing 50 and capturing 16.

Aerial Activites.

LATEST CABLES, THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

AND RAIDED.

OSTENDE

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· LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH HELTER'S AGENOT.] AUSTRIAN FAILURE ON MOUNT MANTELLO.

Loxoox, September 4th.

EARLIER CABLES.

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS, BOLSHEVIK OUTRAGE ON BRITISH EMBASSY,

AMSTERDAM, September 3rd. The Praedo says that in connection with

IN PARIS TO-DAY.

A LIVELY PICTURE OF I UNTROUBLED BY "BERTH

Last night a visitor arrived from land in a certain Paris Bat. ́§

banged a heavy ball door with a afterwards somebody down the

An Italian official statement says:- 1. the assassination of Uritzky · (enbled passionate abandon with which, a I

arrested, with heavy enemy losses, a strong attack south of Mount Mantello,

The enemy, however, occupied two posts on the crist between Mount Martello and San Matten Point.

The Balkans.

EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

BALKANS FRONT.

BULGARIANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES.

Loynoy, September 4th.

2.10 L.M.

A French Eastern communique states:

ZEEBRUGGE-The British west of the Vardar attacked

Loypox, September 4th.

The Admiralty states: Between August 26th and September 1st our aero- planes, working with the Navy, carried out successful raids on Ostende and Zee- brugger dropping 15 tons of bombs with excellent results.

Large fires were started. Two direct

a series of enemy works in the direction of Alt Chakmable, capturing 30 prisoners! and maintaining the conquered ground. despite the Bulgarian counter-attacks. which were repulsed, with heavy enemy Inisses.

August 31st) numerous houses were searched in Petrograd, including the Bri tish Embassy.

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An exchange of shots occurred at the Embassy, and a member of the Bolshevik Commission of Enquiry was killed and two Coinmissaries were wounded.

One British subject. who has not ben identified. was killed at the Embassy, Soveral persons wore arrested.

The Red Gaards occupied the building and seized arma and important doen.

ments.

NAVAL ATTACHE" AT 'PETROGRAD MURDERED.

Lösnes, September 4th. Reuter learns officially that the Bolshe. Vik troopy sucked the British Embassy at Petrograd on Saturday and murdered the Naval Attache Captain Cromie.

MUTINOUS GERMAN SOLDIERS

AND SAILORS. CHRISTINIA, September th Lack of discipline in the German troops in Esthoain has just become manifest at Feltin where hundreds of soldiers hoisted the Red Flag The officers had not the

SUCCESSFUL BRITISH COUNTER- ATTACK

power to re-establish order. LONDON, September 4th.

At Reval 400 German sailors manifested

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A British Salonika report. states:-Thein the same way. chemy on the morning of September 2nd

man sets himself to create unner noise. The visitor very tranquilly

Is that bombs}"

The question takes one wonder picture England has formed of Paris just now. A letter froun hon that the writer does wish he would our life in "shell-swept Paris" swept It is not even swept by ers, and the water-cart is rare in th If people at home really imagine to be a kind broon, whose very bi death, methodically sweeping up by quarter, they are wanting sympathy on people who deserv little.

There are aspects of our collective which it is not permissible to speak a pity, because they would all hope and confidence. "As to our dual existente, it is not only norm has been much ameliorated by the from the city of all those inha whose timidity can be measured "be uselessness.

hits were obtained on an anti-aircraft attacked our positions west of the Vardar] UNITED STATES RECOGNISE doing us wrong if she imagines

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on the Docks;

We destroyed two machines and drove All the down another out of control. British machines returned.

CONSTANTINOPLE BOMBED. Our aeroplanes maintained a constant reconnaissance of the Dardanelles and bombed Constantinople on the nights of August 25th and 27th with good results. Attacks

directed against the Arsenal. Deck-yard, War Office, and bar. racks.

Were

Ip co-operation with a Greek unis, we also beavily bombed an aerodrome at Galata, and a seaplane base in Gallopoli. One British machine did not return.

EARLIER CABLES.

AERODROME. RAILWAYS AND WORKS ATTACKED.

Losser, September 3rd, The Air Ministry reports:-In addition to the morning attack on the nerodrome at Buhl yesterday, we attacked the same objective, this afternoon, obtaining

very good results, hitting hangars and causing a fire.

which we had captured the previously day

On the right the enemy failed to reach! our line, and we drove bim back on the We left by a successful counter-attack. captured 660 prisoners on Sunday and Monday,

General.

LATEST CABLER {THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]

OPPORTUNE REQUEST FOR GERMAN WAR-AIMS.

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LONDON, September 4th. The Trade Union Congress passed, by an overwhelming majority, a resolution calling for the war-aims of the Labour and Socialist Parties of the Central Powers, in answer to the inter-Allied Labourites wat aims, cabled on Febru- ary 24th.

The resolution Further urged "the Government to start peace negotiations immediately the enemy voluntarily, or compulsorily, evacuated France and Bel. gíom.

GERMANY'S . "ELASTIC DEFENCE."

AMSTERDAM, September 4th.

Last night we dropped 17 tons of bombs The German Crown Prince, interview- and again heavily attacked the Buhl ed, said: "The enemy onset continues. aerodrome and works, the Burbach rail- We are withdrawing in accordance

Ways trains.

nt Saarbrucken and Ehrange. with

and the Boulay aerodrome. Our Several fires were started at Buhl and three tangars were demolished, and direct hits were obtained on many others.

Our attack was carried out from as low nя 300 feet.

Over 18 tons of bombs were dropped on this aerodrome in twenty-four hours.

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sistem of elastic defence. misinterpreted withdrawals in Germany owing to our "numerous successes, but it must not be forgotten that we are waging a war of defence. We don't want to annihilate our enemies, but only to hold our own."

CZECHO-SLOVAKS.

WASHINGTON, September 3rd. The United States has recognised the Czecho-Slovaks as a co-briligerent nation. SUGGESTED POSSIBLE GERMAN PEACE OFFER.

LONDON. September 4th. The Times expert suggests the pos- sibility, of Germany evacuating France as a preliminary peace offer on Western Front, conditional upon recognition of her Eastern claims.

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LONDON, September 4th. His Majesty the King has approved of a special medal for war services rendered by the Mercantile Maripe, also a special uniform for the seamen,

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We attacked the Ebrange railways from DISASTROUS MUNITION EX-high old time and help others to have

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PLOSION NEAR ODESSA.

Evidently England has painted ture of a heroic vity bearing up lips that peculiarly exasperating a rain of deaths, and wearing ap which is the attribute of the cons courageous martyr. I once knew boy who fell out of a hammock particularly soft haycock. There' possibility of his being hurt, and fore nobody congratulated him crying. whereupon he announcer an a very brave boy." England have as yet declaimed ourselves as We have not even fallen out of th mock, and the authorities are so bu paring haycocks that we feel qui mayed when generous spectators hu with tributes to our heroism.

Our heroismi

has be very tested as yet. Bertha makes an oct loud explosion, sometimes adin during one day, sometimes not fo or four days. Sometimes we re peace for several rights running sometimes the early-to-bed brig roused, and the sit-up-late brig the terrible mid- annoyed, by whooping of the sirens, which tell must get ready to go to the cella addition to these dangers we are st the privations of war. That is. days a week we cannot buy fresh m Apart from these facts, we are

lap of

luxury verdow with comfort. eas beauty The shops the restrictions we have are all on t liberal basis, and are ver observed either and Paris wears h ficus robe. The Bois purged smelly and noisy taxi-cabe and cars: the vivid green and rose emerald, and the intoxicating smal spring has melted inte acacia flings itself at the passer every wandering breeze. The rh drons are offering their richest col

the

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A meeting of German steel and iron-the sun, and the pine trees by ti masters at Berlin, discussing the post-have put on that dowagerinn war policy, deprecated a Central Euro- which they only wear when the gre pean Customs Union as being calculated perisheth is enjoying her brief reiz to aggravate the difficulty of obtaining Bois have gone blind.

The houses that overlook the Ave It is fro extra-European raw materials.

region that the idle and the ric with the greatest unanimity themselves. Shutters are closed, RESPONSIBILITY.

boxes are empty; there are but le dren to play beneath the trees. Co "Smart fellow that," said the major soldiers, effectively clothed in pal

"You've met

guard the dusky balloons whic rouses to life at the call of the size or visitor departed. him before?"

In the Champs Elysees a of "Yes," replied the"adjutant; "he was

commerces de luxe are closed. & gunner in my old battery. I take some down beneath the trees, the little and the French Funch and Jud How?"

delight the children and their purs of the credit for the making of him"

"Well, he enlisted in the ranks; had the Place de la Concords four un too much money and no sense of discip- hats of wood and earth protect the line. Quite willing to work, but no ary which guards the entrances idea that an order was an order and Champs Elysees and the Tuileries had to be obeyed. He seemed to think Louvre itself, for the few people w that the proper thing to do was to have obtain permission to penetrate ita

the same. We had a deuce of a lot of

most restful place in Paris. recesses, is the coolest, the quiete trouble with him in England. Nothing seated is that of a pre-war Augus In the rest of the city the aspe very serious, you know, but little acts of that the trees are green and the insubordination and absence that we eastern breeze has not yet begun t couldn't pass by. If he were put on cate 1 with the odours of the glue am-jankers he'd wait until his punish and the rubbish, destroyer which

ment was over and then he'd get revenge less municipality permitted to e ITS and th by taking half the battery down town them elves between and getting everyone most hopelessly breath of air we ever get in late s drunk. As you can see, he has had a

in this city. Omnibuses, tramen pretty good education; that and his cash, taxi cabs rush about. They have th gave him a certain standing with the to do so, and occasionally displa men, and it seemed that he was on the immerse skill of their drivers w way towards putting the whole unit oa small American car, driven by an

can chauffeur, appears on the вседе sufficiently alarming to watch #

the habits fourth-floor windo Az erican chauffeur. To sit in his ten minutes one has already died so The climax.came when we were on deaths, and shaved the eyelids off s the Somme. He got drunk and raised a viclent and unseetened has be ends, that th row that we could hardly overlook. We city for being talked it over, and the Old Man decided hausted. That I am here to pay t on a court-martial as the best means of bute to the American chauffeur disposing of the case and getting him than I ever hoped for. He is, lik

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AMSTERDAM, September 4th. A large former Russo-Roumanian munition depot in the subarbe of Odessa bas exploded. The damage is estimated at millions of roubles. The loss of life is uncertain. Incendiarism is suspected

LABOUR DAY IN FRANCE. Lospor, September 4th. The Association of "Organised Labour of Chicago" Clemenceau on the occasion of Labour Day" in the name of its 500,000 members, expressing their sincerest loyalty. GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS VIENNA.

the rocks.

"We thought that when we came to France he would settle down and we

to worse,

has telegraphed to could handle him, but he went from bad this advantage-that at the end of

AMSTERDAM, September 4th. Admiral von Hintze has arrived in Vienna and conferred with the Premier. M, Hussarek, and Baron Burian.

FEDERATION OF AUSTRO- HUNGARIAN STATES.

away.

spiders, express trains, and "I had an. idea and put it to the Highlanders, n being to whom. colonel. Why not give him a stripe and always be as polite as I can at as make him responsible for something! range as possible...

There are very few Englishm They thought I was mad, but finally con sented to the experiment for one month. Leave, but Americans are by no

The cut of their coats and "It worked. By George L the way that rare. fellow backed up was surprising Ho very stiff caps, are so distinctiv became an awful disciplinarian and put have such an air of cut-out-squar the fear into every man under him. that the British cannot understan the French are unable to distingu After a time he found his feet and learn- ed how to handle men. We minds him tween the two nations, and even two language. The highest Hoping to escape from the difficultien sergeant, and soon he had the best sub ment in the French tongue just now section in the battery. Last year he got attribution of American nationalit created by the movement for independence the D.C.M., and now his commission. Iour Allies can certainly over te among the oppressed nationalities in feel a bit proud of that." graid praise and gratitude. They have

the French with having stinged" led, if not eclipsed, the Highland popular French favour, and this v the assistance of that mysterious an fascinating garment, the kilt.-The minster Gazētie.

LONDON, September 4th.

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Bit of a gamble all the same," Austria-Hungary, the Austrian Govern- ment is actively working out a scheme for the major

Sure it was a gamble," returned the the Federation of the States, greatly to adjutant, who is rather young. the disgust and resentment of the Magyars don't you think we could do with a few and Germans,

mote gambles like that1-JOHN JAY

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