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THURSDAY,
February 25 1915,
2841. 每日二月正
TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
GREAT CAPTURES BY THE RUSSIANS.
OVER 48,000 AUSTRIANS TAKEN PRISONERS.
German Attacks Repulsed.
PRESS BUREAU STATEMENT ON SINGAPORE RIOT.
Sir John French's Report.
(Official Telegram from the British Foreign Office.)
Feb. 23, 3.45 p.m. Field Marshal Sir John French reports as follows:-Tao enemy continues to show considerable activity in the neighbourhood of Ypres and several attacks and counter-attacks have taken place. On the 21st the enemy exploded mines which destroyed one of our trenches. A new lins was prepared a short distance in the rear and was immediately occupied. Any attempts at further progress have been completely frustrated. Near Givenchy our infantry after a successful bombardment, captared an enemy trench and blow it up. An attempted attack by the enemy along La BasseE Canal was easily repulsed by our artillery and rifle fire, in which our troops have shown marked superiority.
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French Reports.
(Havas Telegram.).
FEBRUARY
25,
1915.
BROTHERS BUXTON.
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
banks of the Bobr and Narew.
Stubborn fighting continued on the 21st inst, on the right The Germans attacked the fortress of Osowleds, whose guns repulsed them.«
We retained Edwabno, north of Lomja, agaïost strong attacks. Three German attacks on the town of Prasysh were repulsed, our armoured motor-cars contributing largely to the success, their fire decimating the Germans at a distance of 75 pacse.
hands.
A number of villages on the road to Plansk frequently changed We repulsed persistent Austrian attacks in the Carpathians. Fieres fighting is proceeding with great enemy forces south of Dolina and Stanislav, in Galicia...
The Singapore Riot,
Feb. 28, 9 20 p.m. The Offcial Press Bureau announces that, owing to jealousy arising out of recent promotions, a portion of the 5th Light Tofantry (late 6th Bangils) at Singapore, refused to obey orders, and caused aarious riot, which had to be quelled by the local Forces, assisted by men from the British and Allied ships.
The casualties were 6 officers, 14 British soldiers and 14 civilians killed, and 9 British soldiers wounded.
Some of the rioters were killed. A large number surrendered and others were captured.
There was no destruction of prope:ty.
All is now quiet.
A Tokyo telegram states that Japanese and French warships assisted to quell the riot and that some Japanese were wounded,
Rheims Cathedral Again Bombarded.
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Feb. 23, 4.45 p.m.
Tc-day's Paris communique s178 :-.. The Germans made two abortive attacks on Lombaertzyde. The bombardment of Rheims by the enemy was extremely violent. The first period lasted for six hours, and the second for five hours. About 1,500 shells were fired into all quarters of the town. The remains of the Cathedral formed a special target, and the edifice soffared seriously. The interior of the vaulted roof, which had hitherto resisted, now burst. Twenty houses caught fire, and twenty civilians were killed.
Our artillery between Malancourt and the Meuss silenced a German battery and exploded ammunition waggone.
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Feb, 23.
ON THE GALICIAN
FRONTIER.
French Government Sock now stands at Fr. 67,75 We realised new progress on the Sousin front, We occupy in Alsace the greatest part of Stosewehr village. We stopped two German attacks west of Lombaerizyde.
The bombardment of Rheims was resumed yesterday, being very violent. It lasted eleven hours and 1,500 shells were thrown
Russia.
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February 25, 1916
四拜跚伍十月二英
Temperature 6 a.m. 60
Hamidity
situation in the Balkans, Mr. Noel Buxton said they felt clear thatthe various aims of the Balkan States were in no way irreconcilable: Greeos was at present giving mat-
Interview on Retura to London, orial evidences of friendship with
Servis, and be pointed out further [that should n renewed Austrisa
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Mr. Noel Baxton, M. P, and invasion of Servia he allowed to his brother, Mr. O, Roden Buxton, reach a ausoonful issue, Bulgaris rorohed London on January 8, might well be driven, in the on their return from the Balkans, interests of self-preservation, into The attempt that was made on the arms of Turkey and Austria: in the Carpathians. the life of the two brothera by a: Of the gallantry of the Serba* Young Turk fanatic, Hassan both the brothers apoke with Taksim, in Bakharest, on the day emphasis and enthusiasm. of the funeral of King Carol, is We reached Nish," Mr. Noel till fresh in the public memory. Buxton said," when the Servians Since they left England, on ware at their lowest point of Sept. 1, Mr. Noel and Mr. Roden depression. They frankly admit- Edwabno, north of Lomjes Baxton have visited the capital ted that their army was in great against strong attacks. of all the Balkan States, inter« mesaure demoralised. Some of
Three German attacke against
The Russians have retained.
the fortress at Ossowiens, the guas of which repulsed them,
| viewing in each case the reigning the legations, indeed, were on the
sovereign and the principal states point of taking their depertors the town of Prasnych have been men of the country.... from the city. The extraordin repulsed by the Russians,
"We must have been practic-ary rally of the Serbs is not ally the last people who saw the even now wholly easy to ex
The Germans have sifaokodi old King of Ramanis, live, plain. It was partly due to the Mr. Roden Buxton mentioned, in arrival of much-needed munitions an interview which he and his just in the nick of time, which brother gave to a. Daily News enabled them to support their in- representative. "We left him at fantry adequately with artillery,
The Allies have captured more seven o'clock one evening, and as they had not been able to do trenches in the region of Beauses when the waiter brought us our before, and partly to the wonder jour and maintained previous coffee the next morning he told fal elan, which the Servians al gains. ue the King had died in the ways exhibit. Their old King. night,"
who is over seventy and in feeble The Russians in the Carpathians A graphic account of the attack health, came out of bis semi-captured 48,331 Austrians and on the Mesare. Buxton, of which retirement and actually shoulder- many guns between the 21st only brief particulara bave hitherto ed a rifle and went with his men January and 20th inst. been published, was derived from in'o the tranches," the details which each of them, in spite of a manifest reluctance on the adventure, consented to fur: nish in reply to questions.
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How the Attack was Made.
"We were just ‹ leaving our
NEWS.
Farther Notes on the CriEJA. appear on page
The Italian Opera Company
Jaagua matah hotmaan th and Navy and the R.G.A. is reported
over the town. The interior vaulted roof of the Cathedrai was quarters, in his latest despatch, diere, coming and going. One material details to the story has been far too little. Anything |
wrecked, 20 houses were set ablaze and 20 civilians killed,
We silenced a German battery and blew up ita ammonition wagons between Malancourt and the Meuse.
Colonel Marchand has been promoted Brigadier. Dover. The Norwegian coal steamer Regina, bound to Bordeaux, was sunk yesterday off Dover cliffs, the crew being saved. (Official Telegram from the French Government, through Feking.)
Feb, 24.
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more that it is possible to do for hesitation or delay.
General news and an article on The Year's Foreign Trade appear on page 3.
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"Once one was in the train for elsewhere a Russian private er.aimed straight at my brother's them ought to be done without gaa" was given by the Rev. J.
He
"Then," Mr. Roden Baxton
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"Our Contemporaries" appears
DON'T FORGET.
Bath Mr. Noel Baxton and his brother were anxious that the Daily News should give publicity to their very earnest appeal for material expressions of sympathy with the Serviane.
An Appeal. "Their need, they said, staged"Ernani" last night. hotel-by-motor" Mr Roden is terrible. They are wholly Boxton said, "with M. Gueshell, inadequately supplied with when the attack was made. The surgical appliances Young Turk who fired at usa equipment, and have bean reduc-to-da man of only twenty-four-was aed to boiling their bandages and politician of high position educat- using them over again. Tho od in Paris at the Ecole des soldiers are in many cases with Bciences Politiques, who was at out boots or greatconts, and say Sofia sa an emissary of the Young they suffer more from frost-bite sanitary trains. In the lofty pas-Tark Party, charged with captur- than from gunfire. Lady Paget's sages and waiting rooms are ing the adhesion of Bulgaria to hospital has done most admirable the Salvation Army, has arrived Ensign Annie Smyth, B. A., of sleeping troops with piled mus the Turkish plans, Ha had work, and its presence has been Lemberg Polos la Sympathy with kete; some wounded on stretchers zotually occupied the room next of the very highest valne as a link in Hongkong.
tended by the Sisters of Mercy, to us at the hotel."
between England and the Ser-
A Chinese who relieved another Professor Pares, the authorised who are constantly on duty here;
"Altogether," said Mr. Reden riane, who have been most gener-
his brother adding as in their appreciation of the of a watch at the Races has been correspondent at Russian Head- and a crowd of people, all eol- Buxton;
help they have received. But it sent to gaol for six months, describes the calm and confidence passed many Austrian prisoners, six shots were fired, all at of the population of the Southern of whom another enormous batch
An interesting lecture on "The frontier towns.
was just announced to arrive; and point blank range. The firat was
Kirk Maconachie last evening. Galicia," he writes, "it was the plained to me the excellent heart, but was stopped by a thick pocket book in his breast pocket. war atmosphere and simplicity quality of the Hungarian knap: The second went right through added, "there is the refugee pro itself. The talk was all that of eack, which he and his comrades people engaged directly or in- had turned into buabies. On my body, penetrating the top of blem. Tens of thousands of fami directly. At the old frontier man was asloop inside the rail my right lang on its way; the lies have been displaced by the on page 2, Commercial News on third atrack my brother in the invasion of the North of Servia, page 9 and Log Book on page 6. Home of the buildings near the opposite the ticket office.
jaw, passing right through both and the work of relief is quite A Zeppelin bombarded Calsis on the 22nd, causing damage station were wrecked by artillery did not seem to mind how often checks; the fourth grazed M. beyond the capacity of the country no importance. The Allies' batteries destroyed a heavy gan near fire, and the railway was lined he was woken up.
with a succession of solid hospital
In the town everything is quiet Gueshoff's forehead, drawing itself. While we were in Nish, whole frmilies w were coming Lombaertzyds.
Rheims has again been bombarded very violently, 1,500 bells barracks, with the local com- and life goes so naturally that no good deal of blood without caus- falling on the town, every part of it being attacked. The Cathedral mandant's flag firing over one one could take it for a conquered ing serious injury, and the other rumbling into the city packed in was particularly aimed at, and enterod very much. About 20 of them.
was literally nowhere for them to There was plenty city. In the country this might passed through our clothes, ox-earts; when we got there there houses were set ablaze and 20 civilians were killed in the street. to ent at the station;
and have been expected, because far one falling to each of us."
"I am bound to admit," Mr. go. Children have actually been The French brilliantly carried a line of trenches and two woods though we moved on very the greater part of the population Noel Baxton put in at this point, dying of cold in the streets. The on the Sousin-Beausejour front, entirely repulsing two counter quickly, everyone from our in Little Russien; but in Lembarg
that our presence in Bukharest use of financial help for Servion attacke, taking numerous prisoners and inflicting very heavy losses crowded train managed to find a the Russians are only about 17 per and a knowledge of our mission refugees is urgent in the extreme, at the Germane, The French infantry and artillery took a marked place in the Austrian carriages, cent and the predominant element constituted great provoostion, and and ita moral value will be im advantage in Argonne,
chiefly because: everyone wraia the Polish (60 per cent.), the it happened nothing could mense, for the Servisnsare warmly Between Argonne and the Mouse we have increased our pro-ready to help his neighbour. rest being Jews (20 per cent.) or possibly have farthered our responsive to English sympathy." And the military prospects of The obicote gress and strengthened ourselves at Cheppy Wood, fortifying the The corridors jammed with Germans (3 per cent,).
mora successfully enemy positions taken previously; also at Eparges, where we are passengers and kits, we moved on University, the Preae and the than the attack on us for Servia?" Mr. Noel Buxton was occupying nearly all the enemy positions. A German attack against through the typical strips of bulk of the professional class are its inevitable result was a great
*All one can say," he replied, Bonchet wood failed. The French carried a German trench near Russian pessant culture, a plaas- Polish. This result is in charac wave of popular feeling in our
is that the Austrians are not Apremont, in Alsace, and they have occupied nearly all Stosswehr ant, wooded country, passing ater with the place, which has a favour." villige.
draft detachment on the halt, peculiarly pleasing atmosphere Mr. Boden Baxton was the likely to sit down permanently which waved greetings to as. My of its own; but it is also a great more seriously injured of the two under their defeat, and it is not companion, a phenomenally strong tribute to two quite different man, and one distinguished by influences, to those Poles who, brothers, but after a few days of humanly reasonable to suppose 11.30 a.m.15/
anxiety he made a good recovery, that Servis, with her recessarily fine spirit, was talking of the though in no way tied to Russia, and neither he nor Hr. Noel limited resources, cas resist such indifference to danger of the have preferred to all other con- Baxion looks the worse for his a power as Austria indefinitely. This, of course, only emphasisen Russian peasant, He regarded eiderations the corporate interests
experience.
the need for an effective. Accord it as an indifference to all sense of their fellow-countrymen, tions; anyhow, they go forward, and to the wise and sympathetic
smong the Balkon Staten." A Prison Interview, whatever the conditions, as a administration of the Russian sheer matter of course. With the Governor-General, Count George After we came out of ordinary educated man the mind Bobrinsky, SANGRE
hospital," Mr. Roden Baxton must be kept occupied with work in an earlier despatch Professor mentioned, we went to see our if unpleasant possibilities of all Parea desoribed how nearly von assailant in prison, and discussed kinds are to be kept out of it, but Hindenborg came to the capture with him Herbert Spencer and the general for whom we are of Warsaw in his second desperate John Stuart Mill and the ethics bound will jump up from a meal attempt... The Russians turned of political amassination. At any time when there is a chance the attack into a rout and the Contrition at all for what he Professor comments; "The main had done ? Mr. Baxton added of getting under fire,
We draw up in the great credit of the generalship rests in answer to a question Not the stationst Lemberg. Totheright of with Bassky, who has shown least, us stretched endless lines crowded intellect and ability of a very Whilereluctant to enter into any with waggons, especially with rare kind."
detailed discusion of the political
In the event of telegrams arriving too late for insertion on this page they will be found on the Extra.]
BARLIER TELEGRAMS,
[Renter's Service to The "Telegraph."]
Germans Repulsed at Ossowlecs.
Feb. 24, 3.35 ».m. Beater's correspondent reports that a Petrograd communique The Russians in the Carpathiane captured 48,331 Austrians, guns, and 118 mitrailleuses between the 21st January and the 20th February.
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