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The Hongkong Telegraph

November 21, 1916,

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TUESDAY,

· NOVEMBER 21,

1916.

TELEGRAMS.

THE FALL OF MONASTIR.

The Advance Continues.

[Reuter's Bervice to The "Telegraph."]

November 20, 4 85 p.m. The battle which has been proceeding sinos November 10 from the Ceras River to Lake Prespa have ended in a complete Allied victory. Yesterday witnessed the conclusion of a vast enveloping movement of Germans and Bulgarians who were defending the region of Monsatir. It was the bold ferbian advanos that forced the enemy to evacuate the last positions before Monastir.

French cavalry entered the town at the heels of the enemy's rear-guard, and Franco Russian infantry followed.

We pushed on north of Monastir, ond, pamaing the enemy without respite, we took over six hundred prisoners and consider- able material.

Germans in the Battle Arta.

November 20, 6.50 p.m.

▲ German official message says:-Now German forces have reached the battle area north of Monsetir.

Its Meaning Analysed.

November 20, 6.55 p.m. The fall of Monastir in the topic in the clubs sad newspapers, the heavy blow to the Bulgarians representing the defeat of their main ambition to possess Macsdonis. The failure of the Central Empires to support them marks, perhaps, the beginning of the end of the German-Balgarian coalition. It will undoubtedly relieve General von Falkenhayn'e pressure on Romanis. The extraordinary bravery and skill of the Serbians are warmly appreciated.

Monastir is a very important railway road osatre and is the key to the Monastir plain, where the Allied osvalry will probably now be able to operate.

The fall serionaly mensces Ochrida, a soors of miles to the north, to which the Bulgarians attach extraordinary importance. They will probably rainforce the garrison, thus weakening their forese against the Rumaniase. It will now be more difficult for say Greeks to molest the Allies' seaward communications.

The Allies will now be able to ínstituta a more resoluta offensiva on the main railway ascending the Vardar, though the losses in the recent desperate fighting may neocenitate á rast,

Italy's Help.

November 20, 9.45 p.m.

An Italian official announcement sistes:-The Italians co- operated at Monastir, taking two hundred prisoners on the eastern slopes of the Baba mountains.

GERMAN DEmands on female laBOUR.

November 20, 1.00 p.m. An Amsterdam mesange statos that Herr Ludendorff has written to the Steel Manufacturers" Association saying:-" Every working power now counts. I therefore andoras your view that young famales must be made to work.”

THE ITALIAN FRONT.

Germans Gradually Occupying Trieste,

November 20, 1.00 pm.

TELEGRAMS.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

IN THE BALKANS.

Fresh Victories Won.

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[Beater's Service to The "Telegraph

November-20, 12.55 i.mi.

A Serbian communique states that this Berbiana won fresh, victories yesterday in the Carna region, the enemy retreating in disorder to Prilep,

The Serbians captured the villages of. Graniała, Brnik and Garatok, and Hill 1378, with numerous prisoners and booty. The pursuis continues,

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Great conflagrations were observed at Monastir, and violent explosions were heard.

The Allies to-day entered Honastir.

Anniversary of Former Victory.

November 20, 1.15 i.m.

Beuter's correspondent at French Headquarters in Mace- donia, writing on 17th inst, and predicting the imminence of further success, points out that the 19th inst, was the anni- versary of the Serbian capture of Monastir from the Turks In 1919.

The fighting was conducted in rain, aleêt and mud on the plains and snow and slush in the mountains. Every- where was bitter, damp, numbing cold. Nevertheless the Allies in the most dashing fashion have driven the enemy back six milea.

The Serbians, supported by French guns and infantry, were most successful. They were on the offensive uncadeing- ly for ten days, dislodging the Bulgarians from a series of positions.

The enemy, considerably reinforced, counter-attacked, but only obtained momentary relief. The Serbians were most resolute, allowing of no rest onee the enemy was running.

It was the Franco-Serbian successes on the left of the Cerns that made Kenali untenable. It was invulnerable to frontal attack, being protected by entanglements concealed in gullies, and by deep narrow trenches and elaborate dug. outs fronted by extensive boggy ground.

Italian View of Fall of Monastir.

November 20, 250 p.m.

The Italian newspapers regard the fall of Monastir as most important from political and military viewpoints. They state that it is bound to affect the Balkans, especially Bomania They praise the British success on the Struma and state that, with the Franco-Berbian victories, it proves that the Bulgarians are weakening.

OUR GREAT METAL RESOURCES.

Enormous Impetus to Britlah Trade.

Many unfamiliar metalà. have

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TELEGRAMS.

THE ITALIANS.

Enemy Driven. Oft.

[Beatar's Servios to The * Telegraph.”]

* November 19, 11.20 p.m.

An Italian official announcement says a counter-attack drove off the enemy at Bano, A

The Italians decisively repulsed the enemy on the Pal- piccolo front, and after stubborn hand-to-band fighting wiped put small detachments who penetrated the summit of Chapot.

French War Minister's Visit,

November 20, 2.50 sm. Reuter', correspondent at Rome states that the French War Minister, M. Roques, has gone to the Italian front.

Previously he was entertained at luncheon by the Italian Premier and Ministers, Glowing spoecbes were made, refer- ring to the Franco-Italian fraternity of arina, and expressing confidence in victory for the Allies.

RUSSIAN REPLY TO BULGARIAN LIE.

November 20, 3.30 a.m.

A semi-official statement from Petrograd denies the Bul- garian falsabood that the Russo-Rumanians massacred the Bulgarian inhabitants of Dobrudja,' and says that Russia would not demean hersell to avenge on the defenceless popu- lation the black treachery of the Bulgarian Government to warda Bulgaria's invariable protector, Russia is firmly resolv- ed to punish the treacherous Bulgarian statesman and hold Bulgaria as a sovereign unit responsible for her unprecedented erime,

CRITICISING The admiRALTY,

November 20, 4.05 s.m.

There has been growing criticism of the Admiralty lately, due to the roosnt Channel raid and the increase of inkings by Garman submarines.

The."Daily Telegraph," in a long editorial, says that the Admiralty is strangely unaffected by the many changer in the national Efe and methods of government due to the war. The nation's faith in Admiral Jellicoe and the fleet is undiminished, but the axine and submarine developments and the importance of seronautics, all of which departments ara worked by Germans in the prime of life, and the increasing embarrassment of undersea operations suggest that the Ad miralty would profit from the introduction of new blood. It might well give seamen fresh from sea with a fresh outlook on the new problema a more commanding voice in naval affairs.

SUBMARINH WARFARE.

November 20, 7,50a.m.

The British steamers Lady Carrington and Vasco, the Portuguesa Sannicola and the Italian Lela have been runk.

$36 PER ANNUM,

TELEGRAMS:

TELEGRAPHIC CONGESTION.

(Reuter's Berrios so The “Talagra)

London, Rečnived, The extreme, nong telegraphic t |consequent tipan,

which oused a whole down on thewirts. the heavy delays and

a stringens temporary

of the vics,

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height of upwards of 10.000 feet.

Be max œuvred around ag wearsing in a protracted vigil, At the end of two hours a searchlight picked out the Z-pp and persistently stuck to it, despite the efforts of the stranger. a get beyond the foons of the beam. Son other searchlights ed fed to the volume of illumint- tion, and anti-sitoraft gana began ** to pepper at the airship........

In a moment a great abset of fire-swept along the Zapp and it began to fall at a speed increasing as the law of gravitation esme into play.

Immediately after the Zoppelia caught fra Liont, Tempest travelled the complete langîh of the airship from slem to stern, being paralled with it all the time. Then he began to descend, Bat the falling Zipp hampered his movements very considerably. Once or twice he narrowly seoaped collision with the- daming 'mars, sed in order to avoid this he wa compelled to resort to pour-diving.

The work had been done under tremendous strain, but... Lieut. Tempest fortunately escaped injury of any kind. The spot where he landed was miles away from the place where he had frat. taken the air. Without troubling to examine the burning airship, which had fallen "not fir away; Lieut, Tempest was driven brok

Karachi. The price of ferro WRECKER OF ZEPPELIN. to his home station in a sidecar,

also produced in Australis, whilat

here is a not inconsiderable out chrome alloy is from £35 to 838 put in Cornwall. On the cat per ton." break of war it was speedily realised that the establishment of source of supply of vanadium at "The principal `commercial a tanguten refinery in this coun-present, is Peru, where the chief

D.SO. for Lieutenant W. J. Tempest

Fae decuration of Second try was of the utmost importance, deposits known and worked are Lieut. Tempest, who brought and by co-operation and energetic at Minas Ragra, Hare a black down the super-Zeppelin

about 2.30 am.

Here he received a tremendous welcome from his brother-cffiasts as the third man "of "the¬sama fight who had bagged his Zeppelin. And within fow Reuter's correspondent at Udine states that incessant rainstorma come into prominence during the sotion on the part of the steel mineral called patronite is found Potters Bar, was officially older b other had been killed at hoare, during the same maroing, have transformed the fighting region into a morass. The prisoners last two years, chiefly in connee makers this was very quickly so having the appearance of alaty sounced as follows

be received the news that an are so muddy that they look like moving masses of earth. They tion with the production of arms. state that the Germans are gradually occupying Trieste.

ments, and the British Empire made for controlling the exportal sent. of free sulphur, which is Joseph Tempest, Govers! List and left for his Yorkshire home.

complished. Regulations have besa coal. It contaids about 30 per

Second Lieutenant Walitan the front, and he soon afterwards has received a striking lesson on wolfram ore from the British burnt out, leaving a mineral con Royal Flying Corpe, has been |the importance of relying on its

territories where it is mined, and taining about 52 per cent of appointed a Companion of the it is boped to induce the Govern- vanadium oxide. ment to continns these regule-

D.8.0., in recognition of -cOE-

NAVAL RAID ON BULGARIAN COAST.

November 20, 1.00 p.m. The Admiralty announces that British seaplanes and seroplanes on the 18th inst. aucsessfully bombarded Karjani, Pravista and Senaltos, on the Bulgarian comėt,

THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE,

A Calm Day Reported.

November 20, 4.55 p.m.

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A Paris communique statos that a relative calm prevails on the

western front.

A German Report.

November 20, 8.50 p.m.

A German official announcement says:-We threw out English from the western part of Grandooors,

IN THE BALKANS.

Rumanians Still Falling Back.

November 20, 6.50 p.m.

own rescues.

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Gazelle tells a startling story of

"A great demand,” says Mr.

Naver Mind th'. Water.' II. Blackno. in Chamber tions after the conclusion of "The addition of ferro-vanadi-epicuous gallantry and devotion Journal," baasisen for "special" pesce, in order that the refining am, the alloy of iron sad to duty in connection with the

La proof of the need for the steels, the hardness and tough of tungsten and the manutrciare vanadium, to steel produces destruction of an enemy sirship. ignorance, or probably Indiff - enlightenment of the popular Dose of which depend one of high-speed steel may be re- which is specially resistant to the Tempest had finished his regular once, with regard to charaa very tough and durable metal, presence of such ingredientetained in British bands. Theflects of vibration. An important duties, and was peading the ministrations, the Church Unios

On the fateful day "Lieutenant the metals tungsten, ohromium fand vanadium. One of the most price of ferro-tungaten, contain- important uees of these specially and a maximum of 1 per cent, of aleel is that weight can be reduc party. Before the meal was over her child fox baptism, and aid so ing 75 to 85 per usat, of tungsten advantage ia the use of vanadium evening with friends at a dinner Yorkshire woman who brought hard steels is for making high carbon, is from 6a. 61. t Tr

ed in the construction of heavy a osil reached him, and a few michinery by the use of a smaller minutes later be was back at his the clergyman, If you'll just "peed machine tools-that is to

quantity ay, tools which retain their hard-pound. .* - *; ****

of the tougher and erodroms, inspecting his maschite put th' name in th' book never abes, and bence their outting "To the mity of people stronger steel. Vanadium was preparatory to setting out on the mind the water. power, even when heated to redobromiom ir most familiar in the first used in steel in France about daring expedition that was to ness by the friction of the work 'ohroma compounds which are twenty years ago in making bring him fams. which is being done. A machin used se pigments, dyes, mordanta armour-plates, teste of which He made a spoody, start, 'with the it can cut steel or iron six times and tanning powders. The value showed them to possess excep- the idea of intercepting the as fast with a lathe tool of high of chromium compounds in tan- tional toughness and resistance, Zepp, which was reported to be speed steel as with one of carbon ning lies in their property of The quantity of vanadium added approaching; and he was not steel, because with the latter the rendering the leather specially in the form of ferro-vanadium to eatiefied until he had reached a cutting speed must be slow, so resistant to moisture. Large ordinary engineering structural (Continued on next Column that the tool in not heated by the quantities of obromic : iron ore steel is only about 25 per conf. friction abova a certain tempera are used in the manufacture of that is to say, a hundred pounds ture leat it be softened.

ferro chromium, which employ. of vanadium steel would contain Wales and Qʻieensland are the Orders for special stools haveed, either alone or in ocm tion a'quarter of a pound of vanadium, world's largest producers of mo been received by Sheffield steel with nickel, manganer ng. In high quality tool steels aybdenum ores. Canada pos makers during the past eighteen sten, for making steel

ack ng 2 per cent, may be pre- sea deposits of mɔlybdenite which | months from Rusis, France, Italy tools, projectiles

*Ferro-vanadium is worth will no doubt becoms of-com- and the United States, as well as plater The

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A Bustion <fficial massage states:-Ramanian attacks in the region of Kimpolang were unsuccessful. The Rumanians advanced Borthward in the region of Albesht, taking priecner one hundred of

the enemy. ·

#Enemy attacks south of Roterturm Post were repelled.

The Rumaniane continue to retire in the Jial Valley, owing to from users at home, of amagat chromis iron.gre the pressure of superior forces.

ITALIANS LOSE A TRENCH.

November 20, 9.45.p..

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pendent on Germanyi of refined fungalen, ne ling the fact thatribe

An Italian (fficial announcement states:—The enemy attacked positions to the north of Mount Volkovnjak, in the Carso

#occupied a trench; otherwise, he was repulsed with heary of sup

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