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TUESDAY,

SEPTEMBER

28, 1916.

WAR TELEGRAMS.

TO-DAY'S

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,

TO-DAY'S

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September 28 1914,

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TELEGRAMS,

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN

CONDENSED.

THE BOMBARDMENT OF ZEEBRUGGE SURPASSES

ALL

PREVIOUS BOMBARDMENTS.

ANGLO-FRENCH VICTORIES HAVE ALREADY BECOME HISTORIO.

The New British Army the Talk of Paris.

GERMANY'S APPALLING LOSSES.

[Renter's Service to the "Telegraph."]

THE ALLIES IN THE WEST.

ANGLO-FRENCH VICTORIES ALREADY HISTORIC.

September 27, 12.30 p.m. The scenes of the Anglo-French victories have already become historic. There has been fighting round the industrial and mining region of Ypres, but the Arras sector has been the main battlefield of the Allied left even as the barren calk ridges of Champaigne have been that of their centre since the battle of the Marne.

The British are attacking Prince Rapprecht of Bavaris, while

the French are opposed to General von Fabeck.

The plaose mentioned in the British z ne are the first official indication of the extension of the Briti h lines southward.

CALLANT BEldians forCE: GERMANS BACK,

September 27, 12.30p.m. The Belgians have also advanced forcing the Germans to evacuate two hundred yards of trenches along the Yser.

BATTLE IN ChampaignE CONTINUES.

September 27, 5.05 p.m.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

FRENCH COMMUNIQUE.

TWENTY THOUSAND PRISONERS CAPTURED.

September 27; 200a.m.

The work of the British new army is the talk of Paris.

The scenes of the Anglo-French victories have already becoina | historio.

The French have completely maintained all their osptured positions.

The battle in Champaigne con” tinues tensoiously along the en" tire front.

French batteries are vigorously replying to the German gana at

A Paris communique is 83 follows:-Oar attack north Quennevieres.

of Arraa resulted in fresh progresa, We forcibly occupied the Actions with bombe and seriai “A Paría conmuoique says that the French have completely whole of the village of Sonchez and advanond eastwards in the torpedoes are proceeding to the

direction of Givenchy. Farther south we reached Lsfolie and south of the Bomme. maintained all captured positions,

A violent storm raging in the The battle in Champaigne continues tenaciously slong the pushed north of Thelus as far as the destroyed telegraph station.

We took a thousand prisoners in this sotion. We continued to Vorges has momentarily auspen entire front.

We occupied a number of positions, notably at Troubricat, gain ground in Champagne crossing a powerful network ded operations in that region.

There are intense reciprocal which we had siready passed and in which the enemy still maintain-of trenches and forts perfected by the enemy many months

pats. We then advanced northwards compelling the Germans bombardments in the regions. ed himself,

The number of German officera captarad has increased to three to retire to their second line three to four kilometres in the rear between the Meuse and the Mosel-

Fighting continues along the whole front, The enemy suffered hundred.

heavily from our fire and in the hand-to-hand fighting, they left le, alas in Lorraine.

The British are attacking mach war material in their abandoned works which have not yet Prince Rapprecht of Bavaris and besa coanted, bat twenty-four field guns and sixteen thousand unwounded prisoners have been captured. The number of the lalter is increasing, Altogether, the Allies have captured twenty thousand able-bodied prisoners during the last two days.

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INTENSE RECIPROCAL BOMBARDMENT.

September 27, 5.25 p.m.

A Paris communique says East of Sachez our advance which at the cutest was reported as having reached a telegraph station to the north of Thelus did not go beyond the orchards of La Polis and the Arras-Lille road. Our advance has been wholly maintained. Actions with bombs and serial torpedose are proceeding to the south of the Somme.

French batteries aro vigoronely replying to the German guna at Quennevieres. There are intense reciprocal bombardments in the region between the M use and the Moselle, also in Lorraine,

A violent storm is raging in the Vorges and has momentarily suspended operations.

HOPE RATHER THAN JUBILATION.

September 27, 2.10 p.m.

The work of the new British army is the talk of Paris. One

Hope rather than jabilation is the feeling voiced in the com- writer emphasising the British part saya that it must be remember ed that the British held the approaches to Labassee and Givenchy monts, in London and Paris, on the heaviest blow the Allies have and as their numbers had increased so had they spread southwards yet dealt the enemy since the establishment of the trench` deadlock replacing the French troops; hence the significance.

ten months ago.

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RUSSIAN COMMUNIQUE,

PIERCE FIGHTING PAVOURS RUSSIANS,

September 27, 6.20 a.m.

A Petrograd communique reports that the position is somewhat quieter on the Dwinsk front, but east of Vilna and further south near Smorgan and Novo Grodek fierce fighting coatinase, the Russians repeatedly attacking and capturing some handreds of prisoners.

DARDANELLES WAR COMMITTEE.

September 27, 6.15.p.m.

The Daily Chron cle announces that Mr. Asquith has appointed special committed of the Cabinet which will be in a peculiar de ree responsible for the supervising of the war at the Dardanelles. A that its fanctions will be absorbed by the new committee, which Balfour, Sir Edward Grey, Lozd Lansdowne, Mr. Bonar Law and committee has been in existence for some time, but it is understood includes Mr. Asquith, Esrl Kitchener, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. A. J.

a The newspapera dwell with satisfaction on the inspiring Buo They attacked near Bailach and Loss, the latter of which is a mile and a half from Lens and was the place where the Froush ware ceases but refrain from saticipating fature developmente, though

note of relief is scunded in the English Press at the news which will hold

up after the heavy fighting round Carecoz and Sɔuchez. The British attack was directed to the north of Lene and to the wipe out the domestic bitterness which bas been fostered by raonths left of Lens and the Labansee main road. Their advance shrestene of weary waiting; it is pointed out that the French capture of pri- to outflank the German strongholds at Labasses and Lene. They soners is the largest single-handed catoh since the war began. have already secured in the Loos region, some important collieries whose trellised towers are known to the Tommies as the Crystal Palace.

Soldiers from the front have quoted Paris as eloquently praising the work of the new British army whether in trenob-bayoast-or close fighting or actually in the trenches.

A German commanique mentions that the battle was onpecially stubborn north of Mournelon le Grand and close to Western Experts point ont that the German lins here, prior to

gon fighting, was six to nine miles before the important

railway linking the Crown Prince with the Germans outside of Eheims and that the Fretch gans probably now command the railway...

THE BOMBARDMENT OF ZEEBRUGGE,

September 27 2.40 p.m. Despatches from Halland state that the roar of cannon is heard ceaselessly at places well inside the Zeeland frontier, Housee far A recent semi-official intimation has placed the strength of the inland are shaken on their foundations by the thunder of the war- abipa gana shelling Zeebrugge in bombardment which is surpassing Germans in the West at 1,800,000. Though strengthened all previous bombardments, for duration and intensity. The work by an inordinately large proportion of heavy and machine gune, of the warships, however, is not confined to the bombardment of experts point out that with the new units thia figore probably Zeebrugge. They shelled various points on the Belgian coast in- represents the German strength tc-day. If there are not more than olnding trenches which lay towards the sea, and the enemy's line eleven divisions of the new British armies now in France than our

Datoh frontier down to Westende. power of reinforcing the Allies is greater than that of the Garmane, above Nieuport and the batteries on the Dunes, stretching from the who seemingly have come to a standstill in Rassia, where they are committed to fighting on seven hundred miles front, at the beginning of a bad season, without having achieved a decision against the Rossiane.

The strength of the Germane on the Eastern front is estimated in Petrograd at 2,600,000,000

Dutch correspondents describe the endises processions of Ger- pouring in to towns and villages in Belgium. man wounded, afoot, in tramesre, waggons, automobiles and trains,

Mr. Obarobill.

MOLTKE BADLY CRIPPLED.

September 27, 0.15 p.m.

A telegram from Petrograd states that the Gorman fleet has left the Baltic definitely for Kiel. The battleship Moltke has a hole in her, twenty-four yards equars (?) which cannot be repaired for months.

WAR BRIEFLETS.

It is reported from Vienna that a sam of two million kronen has been stolen from the Bankeverin by an employee who had falsified

the socounts.

The Idea Nasionale states that the Austrians have wantonly de stroyed the historis castle of Liz 280s, near Rovereto, where Dante spent his exile.

Prinos Napoleon Bonaparte, military attache at the Italian headquarters on the leonzo, has It is estimated that about one bad an audience with the King who has been appointed Russian

ed to the British War Loan core of rupees has been subscribe on the battlefield.

The German losses in the recent prolonged cannonade is already beary and those in the recent infantry fighting are terrible.

Every available man in Belgium has been Hung into the What they were up against is evidenced in the latest Russian defence. Troops who have just arrived have been rushed into the through Bombay, and about half. The number of soldiers familien communique. The, communique records that repeated Russian sttacks, the lull in the Dwinek region, (where the Germans have firing line without an hour's rest, while villages, and even frontier sorore through Caloutts, dhe being supported in Berlin in- been making colossal efforts and suffering enormous losses) and the posts, have been Cenaded of guards (who were often elderly Land- increase of fighting to the east of Vilns (where the Russians have turmers), in a desperate effort to meet the great onslaught. The bsen most motive) indicate that the initiative is not altogether in the churchyards are inadeqste in which to bury the dead and how

graves are being dng everywhere on the roads and in the fields.

hands of the Germans,

The commanique emphasises that in the recent fighting bayonet attacks have bsoome ordinary occurences with the Russian ose spitit.is of the highest, while the Germans no longer a. Five fortified! villages at different

Front are mentioned in last nights' communique as asmans with the baronet, and with;

thousand prisonera and much material and

amy arriving too late for mu sortla

will be found on the Extra(45

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creased from 62,980 in August It is reported that Italy is ns-lant your to 150,911 in July lasts loan in New York the improve-end of July totalled 48,872,000 gotiating fifty million dollars The allowances paid up to ment in the life seeming to marks. justify the operation.

The doinmittee of the Railway Nationalisation Society, in its third annual repo unlikely that I pass back whe

It is anderufood that has been made for ther 800,000 tons of Ge Sweden, Bays the contrsor in regarded: the restriction #placed

the French are opposed to General · von Fabeck.

The number of German officers osptured in the late battle on the Western front, has increased to three hundred.

The Belgians have advanced, forcing the Germana to evacuato two hundred yards of trenches along the Yeer. A

The Arran sector has been the main battlefield of the Allied left, and the chalk ridges of Cham- paigne has been that of the centre" since the battle of the Marne.

The Brition in the Lens region secured some important collieries to the Tommies as The Crystal whose trellised towers are known

Palace.

Experts say that our power of re-inforcing the Allien is greater than that of the Germans, who have seemingly come to a stand- still in Russia,

The French occupied & number

of positions, notably, at Troubri cot, which they had already passed und in which the enemy still maintained himself,

The Times ways that the lution regarding Indian repre sentation at the Imperial Con Viceroy's acceptance of the reso

ference ought to herald a reform which should have been adopted long ago.

Eastward of Boaches the French advance, which at the out set was reported as baving reached the telegraph station to the north of Thelus, did not go bayond the orchards of La folis and the Arras Lille roads

A semi-officiat intimation has placed the strength of the Germans on the Western front at 1,800,000, and the strength of the Germans on the Eastern front is

Petrograd, estimated, 2,600,000.

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