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THE WAR.
FRENCH
THE
LAUNCH NEW ATTACK.
TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED" PRISONERS.
BRITISH
REPULSE GERMAN ATTACKS.
ITALIANS ATTACK IN BRENTA VALLEY,
AMERICAN ARMY'S
SUCCESS.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND PRISONERS.
AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN PEACE NOTE,
INVITATION TO CONFIDENTIAL NON-BINDING DISCUSSIONS
Franco-Belgian Front,
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BRITISH FRONT.
HOSTILE ATTACKS REPULSED.
Losnos, September 13th. 12.50 p.m."
BRITISH PUSH FORWARD.
LONDON, September 14th.
10.43 p.m. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re-
in the Gouzmaucourt sector.
HONGKONG. DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, vid.
One division captured 1,000 prisoners, making a total of 1,500 on that front.
The enemy, reactions apparently are very wik, although the front line is strongly held. Prisoners say they were
ordered to hold on at all coste,
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LAON ENDANGERED.
Besides liberating over 130 square miles The Balkans.
of territory and tuking 18,000 prisoners, we captured a man of material Over 100 guns of all calibres and hundreds of machine-guns, and trench-mortars, were
taken.
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"LONDON, September 14th. A Bulgarian communiqué states: - We repulsed a British attack near the village Schovi, south of Gheegeli, after hand-to-
Despite the enemy having during their retreat burned large stores, a. partial South of the Alang progress was al examination of the battlefield shows that satisfactory, and the number of prisoners great quantities of ammunition, tele-hand Eghting. captured is unknown.
graph and railroad material, rolling | General. stock, clothing and equipment were abandoned.
The advance threatens to turn the west Bank at Chemin des Dames and endungsre
Laon.
Further evidence of the haste with Inside St. Mikiel the pocket” is not | which the enemy retreated is revealed in "yet cleared up and more guns are ex- the uninjured bridges left behind."
pected.
THE LEAST SAID THE BETTER
LONDON, September 14th
6.30 p.m.
Reuter's Correspondent at America. Headquarters, telegraphing last evening at 10 o'clock, state-General Pershing, General Petain, and Mr. Baker, Ameri-
can War Secretary, entered St. Mihiel this afternoon. The Germang had not [ports--We successfully repulsed a raid had time to evacuate the inhabitants, but had previously deported all boys troma ten to sixteen. They had forced the old people to work, and as for the rest the least aid the better. What a relief it was from all the years of oppression
We pushed forward in the Havrincourt Hector, and established new posts in the trench lines cast and north of the village. In local fighting astride the La Basses
The French pursuit by bombing 'recon- naisance units, also British and Italian bombing units, divided with our air ser- vice the contrd of the air and contributed
materially to the success of the operation. FRENCH PRESS COMMENT.
PARI September 10th. A Havas message says:-Enthusiastic comment by the French Press is evoked by the swift and powerful blow in the St. Mihiel salient with its powerful defensive observation position.
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AFFAIRS IN. RUSSIA.
RUSSIAN EX-ROYALTIES.
Austarbu, September 13th. According to the Czicho-Slovak organ Sumarkije, a list.published at Samara cited a Kieff telegram in the Inges
her four daughters were murdered in the Zeitung stating that the ex-Tsaritsa-and
neighbourhood of Ekaterinburg, cons trary to the wishes of the Soviet Govern-
ment.
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GENERAL BRUSSILOFF.
LONDON, September 14th, Reports have bien received both ei Sweden and Germany which tend to confirm the recent rumours that General Brussilof was shot dead by the Bolsheviks
at Moscow.
GERMANY WILLING TO ACCOM. MODATE THE ENTENTE.
STOCKHOLM, September 14th. The German Legation at Helsingfors
AUSTRO-HUNGARY, ISSUES A
PEACE NOTE, · ·
AMSTERDAM, September 13th. A Vienna official message, issued on Saturday, santes: With a view to examining whether the conditions are such as to make the inauguration of peace negotiations appear-promising, the Austro-Hungarian Government, to-day, has declared to the Finnish Government invited the belligerent Governments to confidential and non-binding 'disenssiona at a neutral centre, and has addressed to them a Note drawn up on this idea.
that the German troops will not enter the province of Karelia if Great Britain and the other Entente Powers bind them- selves to withdraw from Karelia and the Murman, Coast within a period to be
The papers say the Anogions Army is
A special Note has also been sent to a worthy inheritor of the traditions of
the Holy See, bringing this action to its fixed. The British Generals, Grant and Lee. continue to bite the German salient notice, and appealing to the Pope's
Field-Marshal Sir. Douglas Haig recanal we made progress,, taking pris may be judged from the transports of joy around La Bassce, and more progress is interest, for peace.
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porta:North-west of Saint Quentin, wel made further progress yesterday and at
There was hostile gas-shelling in the night south and north of Holnon Wood.
We repulsed local hostile attacks in the neighbourhood of Neuve Chapelle, where
"we drove off an 'attempted raid.
Trescault and La Bassce sectors.
Hostile artillery were active at night- time in the Reisel, Moeuvres. Marquion and Givenchy sectors, and with gas-shell north-west of Armentières.
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STRONG HOSTILE ATTACKS REPULSED.
Loxpos, September 14th.
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2.10 p.m. Field-Marshal Sir, Douglas Haig re- The number of prisoners cap- tured by us in the operations carried our by the Third Army with complete sucess in the Tresenult and Havrincourt sector on September 12th exceeds 1,500.
As a result of the progress made by us esterilay north-west of St. Quentin,
oar dine has been established east of
Phecourt and Jeancourt.
During the past twenty-four hours the enemy mad several determined but unsuccessful attempts to recover the positions. recently captured by us in the neighbourhoods of Gouzeaucourt and Havrincourt
Yesterday a strong, hostile attack, in which the enemy employed Rummen- werfer, was repelsed, with heavy loss, south of Gunzenucourt.
At Havzincourt the enery attacked yesterday morning in force under cover of a heavy artillery bombardment, and penetrated the eastern portion of the
village
The weather again interfered with air work yesterday, when ten tons of bombe were dropped. We brought down three machines and drove down two uncontrol- fable. No British machines are missing. GERMAN REPORT.
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LONDON, September 14th
5.00 p.m." wireless German official report states: Our advances and enemy nd vances led to violent fighting at Moeuvres and Hayrincourt.
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FRENCH FRONT.
THREE COUNTER-ATTACKS
STOPPED
#PARIS, September 15th. A communiqué states:In the region of Vaux Aillon, at night-time, we stepped three enemy counter attacks against our new positions.
FRENCH CAPTURE VILLAGES.
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PARIS, September 13th.
with which the Americans were greeted. It was the same at all the other towns and villages.
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NOTHING TO REPORT.
PARIS, September 14th.. A communiqué states there is nothing
report.
GERMAN REPORT,
Loxous, September 14th.
3.00 p.m.
4 wireless German official report states:The enemy attacks between the Ailette and the Aisne failed-
The enemy felt his way forward at Combres and north-westward of Thiau
court.
KING GEORGE CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT WILSON
Luscos, September 15th.
His Majesty the King telegraphed to President Wilson as follows:-- On bè- half of the British Empire I heartily congratulate you upon the brilliant
achievement of the American and Allied
We repulsed several raids in Champagne troops under the leadership of General Pershing in the St. Mihiel salient. The and Lorraine.
far-reaching results of these successful operations, which have marked the active intervention of the American "Army on" a great scale and under its own adminis tration, are the happiest augury for the complete and, I hope, not far distant triumph of the Allied enase.”
A communiqué states:-South of St. Quentip we advanced to the outskirts of Fontain-les-Cleres.
Between the Oise and the 'Aisne we made local attacks with the object of improving our positions..
We captured the village Allement and Lafaux Mill
Despite a severe resistance, we increased our progres cast of Sancy, and north-east of Celles-sur-Aisne.
PRISONERS.
German pfantry were driven out and our positions were restored.
Two thousand five hundred prisoners: North of Havrincourt we advanced ¦ have been counted. slightly between the village and the
∙eanul.
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PRIME MINISTER CONGRATÜ- LATES GENERAL PERSHING.
LONDON, September 15th.
to
being made towards St. Quentin.
terr von Fayer. said at Stuttgart that Arrienn co-operation is a heavy burden for Germany. No faith is to be placed on his promises..
Italian Front.
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ITALIAN FRONT
ITALIANS ATTACK ENEMY GARRISON..
LOND, September 15th. 6.90 p.m.
An Italian official report states:
of
Furthermore, the Governmenis Neutral States have so been acquainted with the dareke. The constant close accord which exists between Austro- Hungary's four Allies, to whom the pro- posal likewise goes and who share the views developed in the Note
GERMAN VIOLATIONS OF LAWS OF WAR
PARIS, September 14th. A Havas message says:-The French Government intends appointing an Allied Commission" to investigate the German offences against the laws of war on the Western Front. There, is enthusiastic
support of the proposal of retaliation [Tha sentence here ends, the telegram.against German towns, which should be apparently being mutilated.]
razed to the ground for each French or Belgian town destroyed.
The Vienna message says its objective is a conscientious examination of the witan-
flon by all the belligerents, which no longer leaves doubt that all the belligerents long
GERMAN PROPAGANDA.
PARIS, September 14th."
A Havas message says:-Concerning the for a speedy end to the blondy struggle,efforts in Gemian propaganda of the Nevertheless, it has not been hitherto Kaiser, General Hindenburg, Count Hertling and Herr von Payer, the French
Yesterday morning, in the Brenta possible to create preliminary conditions Valley, after a short hut effective artillery which would be calculated to bring, prace preparation, and with the co-operation of efforts nearer to realisation, and to acropintex bombing and shooting from low bridge the gap which still separates the heights, we attacked an enemy barrage at belligerents more effective ways and Grovella, south of Corte.
means must, therefore, be considered whereby the responsible factors of all the countries can be afforded an oppor- tunity to investigate the present possibi
We, after crushing a fierce resistance by the garrison, conquered the whole defen-
system, consisting of entrenchments
at the bottom of the Valley and strong defensive works astride the river,
We captured 34 prisoners, including 12 officers,
Aerial
Activities.
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GERMAN TOWNS. BOMBED IN AUGUST
LONDON, September 13th. it is learned authoritatively that 21 important German towns were bombed by the Independent Air Force in August, including the following: Frankfort, factories and railways; Mannheim, chemi-
litics for an understanding
The first step which Austro-Hungary,
Press admits that the moral consequences
and the reverses cannot be kept from the of the military situation are incalculable
knowledge of the German nation.
GERMANY OPPOSED TO CONQUESTS!
REPORT OF REMARKABLE PROCEEDINGS.
AMSTERDAM, September 14th. The Berliner Tageblatt contains a re-
in accordance with her Allies, undertook
December 12th, 1918, for bringing | part of remarkable proceedings of a Trace about peace did not lead to the end hoped Union deputation to Count Hertling on
for.
The Not alleges that this was
owing to the fact that the Allies, in the 12th inst.
order to maintain their people's war The spokesman said the people bail spirit, which was steadily declining, become seriously discouraged over recent severely suppressed even any discussion
were
of the peace idea, but the peace step events and they felt that they then taken was dot entirely without re economically sinking. Food continued to sult The peace question has not since be bad and was dangerously insufficient, vanished from the order of the day, and
The
though public discussions. prove that the while prices were extortionate; conse differences still separating the belliger-quently the bodily strength of the workers ents in their conception of peace condi- was declining and they must have more tions are not slight, nevertheless an meat and potatoes. Workmen's trousers, atmosphere was formed which no longer excludes a discussion of peace. The utter which used to cost four marks, now cost ances of responsible statesinen indicate sixty: they lasted only a quarter of the 1 that a desire to reach an understanding time, and were unmendable. The people's Mir. Lloyd George telegraphed
and not to decide the war exclusively by General Pershing his heartiest congratula
force of arms is beginning to gradually anger over the Prussian suffrage question
had reached the boiling point and the After hard fighting the attacking TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED tions on the great victory. The enemy cnl factories; 'Metzsablon, railways; Suar-penetrate the Allied trainen, except
some blinded war agitators who certainly Military Censorship and martial-law lay has made mistakes in this war, but none bourg, Thionville and Teeves. railways must not be estimated lightly. greater than when he underrated the and workshops-cach three times. Other scious that after the devastation of war that now, when the exhaustion of our He urged Austro-Hungarian Government is con-heavy on the Trade Unions. valour, determination and intrepid spirit towns once-Bettembourg, Burbach, Cob, it will be impossible to re-establish the enemies bas begun and a break through of the brave soldiers of the United States. lentz, Cologne, Darmstadt, Dillingen, stroke. The path towards peace is toil- tattering world to order at a single
has failed," was the time for a peace by South of the Aisne we made progress Now be has tested the mettle of the Duren, Ehrange, Karlsruhe Lurem some and wearisome, yet it is our duty understanding. and captured the village Glenris and 200 American Armies, the enemy knows what bourg, Offenburg, Remilly, Rombach,
Count Hertling assured them that the prisoners.
If there are still responsible factors is in store for hia. The news has reached Saarable and Volkingen. Over a hundred who desire to overcome their opponent political leaders and the High Command
militarily, there can no longer be apy
were striving for such a peace and were a sick bed, and it is better, and tons of bombs were dropped. During the doubt that this aim, even if it were attain. unanimously opposed to conquesta.
more palatable than azy past three months 249 raids were carried able, would first necessitate a further regards equal suffrage, he repeated the
bloody and protracted struggle. But even But in Germany, and 247 tons of bomba.
a victorious peace will no longer be able promise that if the Upper House did not were dropped. The German territory to make gond the consequences of such a
agree thereto, the Landtag would bo dis policy, which would be fatal to the whole brought into the war zone" represents a of Europe. Only a peace which could solved.
righteously adjust the still divergent con- belt of the Rhine Valley approximately ceptions of the opponents would be the 250 miles long.
peace desired by all peoples. REICHSTAG MAJORITY
In the evening the enemy attacked east of Tresenule and gained a footing in our
trenches, but were driven out immediate ir, leaving a number of dead in front
of our line.
At night-time a strong bombing attack, in which liquid fre was employed, wan made against our positions north-west of Couzeaucourt.
After forcing our advanced posts, to withdraw, this attack was also success-
fully beaten off.
There was local Gghting yesterday in the Moeuvres Bector, but without effecting any material change in the situation.
At night-time an enemy attack south
Moeuvres was repulséd.
We established new posts at night-time ulong the west bank of the Canal-du- Nord in the neighbourhood of Bauchy and Couchy and opposite Disy-le-Verger.
Our aviators on Thursday and Friday
me on
actively participated in the American infinitely offensive, and, notwithstanding the gale. clouds and rain, we felled seven enemy máchines.
the
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FRENCH LAUNCH NEW ATTACK.
LONDON, September 14th. 4 p.m.
physic."
ESTIMATE OF TWO DAYS'
SUCCESSES.
LONDON, September 15th. .. 3.40 a.m..
An American official report states- In the St. Mikiel settor our advance
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to tread it.
As
Herr Wallruf, Secretary of the Interior, promised that the military would recon sider the right of meeting and the censor- ship.
The French launched`n"new attack at units maintained touch with the enemy's ENEMY RAILWAYS BOMBED PARTIES' FUTURE CONDUCT! food."
five o'clock, this morning on both sides of the Ailette, and between the Aisne and the Vesle
The attack towards Coucy Forest at the south end of the St. Gobain massif is progressing satisfactorily.
South of the Ailette, the French cap- tured Mont de Saiges, the villages Alle: montet and Suncy, and are on the edge of Villy.
forces and repulsed a counter-attack in the region of Jaulay.
We are now able to estimate the success we obtained duritis the two previous
days.
The dash and vigour of our troops and the valiant French divisións with which they fought shoulder to shoulder are shown by fact that the forces attack
the ing both faces of the salient effected a
The Aime advance has been between In the La Bassce sector we occupied a mile and two miles on an eleven-mil junction and secured the results desired Auchy-lez-La Basser
front.
within 27 hours,
LONDON, September 14th/ The Air Ministry reporta-In con- junction with the American attack," and in addition to the bombing reported yesterday, we dropped a ton of bombs on the railways at Arnaville and Metzsablons, and shot down two hostile
machines
we
We attacked the railway at Courcelles at night-time, and, on Saturday bombed the railway at Metz and Ehrang also the Bubl aerodrome Good results were obtained. Six-and-a-half tons of boinba were dropped. One British machine is missing.
AMSTERDAM, September 15th. A message from Berlin states that the representatives of the Reichstag Majority Parties resumed and concluded their deliberations on Friday and agreed on the lines of their future political can Deputy Fischbenen subsequently report- ed the result of their deliberations to the Chancellor.
duct.
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The Venische Zeitung says that the point that the future and form of Majority Parties adhere to the stand-
States must be decided purely on the in the Eastern Border ground of the people's right of self-
government
determination, and the Reichstag's Peace Resolution of July, 1917, remains the basis of their policy."
Herr Waldow, Becretary of Food Sup plies, said it was impossible to get more Meatless days must continue in.. order to insure the milk and fat supply. The potato crop, was worse than last year and the corn supply was only 15 per cent. better.
Baron von Stein, Becretary of Stat stated that Bubstitutes for clothing must
be utilised
Colonel Braun, of the War Office, pro- mised to examine the question of shorten- ing the working hours, but this was im possible in the mines.
replying, said the Ministers' statement as The Socialist Deputy, Herr Legion.
situation was hopeles regards food and hours showed that the The workers could not work under the present hours.
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