St. John's Daily Star, 1916-09-04

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 11 • 3.00 per annum monday september 4,1916 ice one cent 20i allies advance is menacing combles french and irtish combined attack results in important gains—ln vari ous attacks upward of 2,000 pri soners and a large number of guns were captured—village of fleury overrun by french and several trenches captured—german-bul garian troops crossed rumanian frontier to oppose russians march to constantinople british in possession of village of guillemont jondon/sept 4.—a combined at tack by the french and british fore j es in the somme front on sunday re suited in an important gain of ground i between the villages of the forest and ! clrry which lie south cf combles ancl j ' maurcpas over an extent of nearly four miles '< 1 hcjc two places were occupied by i the french while the british captured j part of the village of ginchy and gain j cd total possession of guillemont thus the advance of the allies is closing in on combles which at present is a pov - j criully fortified german stronghold in the various attacks launched by itish and french upwards of 2-,-f 000 prisoners were tanen together with '' a large number of guns artillery action prior to the infantry ' attacks was in intensity.along the for ! est-clery sector inauguarated further attacks while both the british and french i inaugurated further attacks at various i elder points the german positions castle of the village of fleury were also tver-1 r run by the french who carried several j c trenches and organised works ; t the germans returned to vheir at-js tacks on the verdun sector sending j i rcncn positions i vciux eincl v_ricipitrc in the balkans the gcrman-bulgari | mania doubtless with the object of pre j venting the advance of the russians furious battles in progress ons have been driven from fortified | kwitions and several heights have been i apturcd the shooting down cf a zeppclir one of a large number of raiders on he east coast of england causcc much enthusiasm among the british because indication is thus given o te efficacy of the air defences prc cciing london the airships although they droppct many bombs did very little aamage unofficial reports from the greek apital intimate the early announce nent of an important change in the atti ude of greece shackleton rescues men punta arenas sept 4—lieut shackleton has rescued the members of lis antarctic expedition who were mar oncd on elephant island shackle on returned here to-day with his men iafe and well on board the rescue shid felcho entente note to greece anglo-french garments demand conlro greek post and telegraph ■ officx—greece accept \ sept 4.—representative if athens of britain r.nd france . this evening presented he greek gov ■ crnrncnt with a note demanding con trol over greek poet and telegraphs and insisting on the deportation from greece of agents of the central powers the note rcrxls as follows by order of their governments the undersigned ministers of france and britain have the honor to bring the following communication to the atten tion of the greek government first the two allied governments having from a sure source learned the their enemies received information ii divers ways and notably through thi agency of the greek telcpraphs de mand control of posts and telegraphs including the wireless system mast leave greece second that enemy agents employee m corrupt:on and cspoinagc must im mediately leave greece and not re turn until the cessation of hostilities third necessary measures have been taken against such greek sub jects as rendered themselves guilty of complicity in the above mentioned cor ruption and espionage the nc'.c fermed ihc subject of ; conference between king constantinc and premier zaimis and dr streit former foreign minister it is under stood there will be no objection on the part of the greek government of ac ceptance of the anglo-french de mands civilian government for greek macedonia j paris sept 2.—a despatch to the petit parisien from salonika dated friday says that the committee of na i tional defence composed of lieut col zimbrakakis and other prominen military men and civilians has beer proclaimed as the provisional govern ment of macedonia all gendarmes and cavalry says the despatch have joined this movement ' a parade of revolutionary troops - under zimbrakakis took place after ' which there was a parade of armed ci ' vilians and volunteers wearing blue and white uniforms of the macedonian ' hussars 5 a ~& ?& vk ir french artillery active ! on the somme front i ____ \ paris sept 3.—fighting on the l french section on the battle front in ' france last night was confined chief * ly to artillery bombardments accord ing to an official statemnet issued this « afternoon by the french war depart ! ment on the somme front the french ar ' tillery was very active while in the region northeast of verdun the ger ' mans violently bombarded the french positions between thiaumont fleury and chapitre woods i in the balkans the statement says bulgarian attacks northwest of kukur uz were repulsed with heavy losses russians drive turks out washington sept 2.—the russi t ans have driven the turks out of sul i tanabada a city nearly 200 miles in £ side the persian border according to ( a despatch received in official quarters here • j !& m to la 4 to bulgarians resume attacks , paris sept 2.—the bulgarians re turned to the attack last night on the > western end of the macedonian front \ the war office announced today that 1 an assault had been delivered by them in the vetrenik sector but was repuls \ ed by the serbians j to to to to n n to big attempt against rumanians london sept 2 a despatch to the london times from paris says i that information received in paris i seems to show that the germans are ] preparing to bring the full weight of their efforts to bear upon the southern rumanian frontier toward which a heavy movement of troops is reported i to be in progress i it is the general opinion that yon \ hindenburg's first effort will be made there upon the danube and that he t will content himself with holding the 1 western front if necessary after with t drawing upon a shorter line \ —.-,,.—. _ - centrau.news photo service new york / - the trooper here shown is t*i_^3 l^^s^js^i an enemy aeroplane with a hotchkiss gun cay alry played an important part in the allied drive and by their daring charges carri ed many trenches by storm bulgars retire before serbs evacuated position at three important poims abandons gunc may become rout jondon sept 2—the daily chron icle publisher the following the bulgarians began a retirement from sorovitch yesterday afternoon and are falling back toward the dcfrlc of kir liderven and banitza late last night detachments'of serbian cavalry arrived before soro vitch . . the bulgarians it is stated evacu ated their position at three important points of the lines namely zualtsilar klevao and pateli their retreat to wards the low lying spurs of the hi!b towards the east and those bordering fiorina and the monastir plain con tinues bulgarian outposts in kastoria re gion are being withdrawn toward the north in a ravine near gornicheva the serbs discovered there krupp gun abandoned by the bulgarians , everything points to a retreat to ward monastir and this may quite pos sibly be soon turned into a rout greek opinion spreads in favor of entente paris sept 4.—lt is confirmed that the ministers of the entente powers at athens assured premier zaimis that the entente naval demonstration was not directed against the greeks tele graphs at athens says a correspondent of the havas news agency the correspondent adds the entente powers aim to protect themselves from the actions of foreigners who are their enemies and acting against them the adjournment of the elections was decided in accord with the en tente powers whose assurances tranqui lized the capital development of opinion in favor of the entente powers is spreading over the entire kingdom three austrian ships added athens sept 4.���the french fla today was hoisted on four german and three austrian merchant snips in the harbor of piraeus austrians compelled to retreat vienna via london sept 3.—rou manian forces are successfully attack ing the austrians in an important sec tion around crosova an austrian official statement issued to-day announces that after five days heavy fighting in this region the aus trian troops were withdrawn to the , west bank of the cerna river big gains for franco british french and british combined attacks nett big results for allies—pris oners and canon captured paris sept 4—the villages of for est-and clery on the somme and ajl german positions between those two points have been captured by a french and british joint attack after intense artillery preparations more than 2,000 prisoners as well as 12 cannon and 50 machine guns were taken . an official statement issued by the war office to-night making this an nouncement reported progress for the french troops in the neighuorhood of fleury with the capture of 500 pris oners vi i wn it ik another zepp raid one is brought down london sept 3.—a squadron of german zeppelins raided england last night with london and the western counties-apparently as the objective an official statement announces that one of the raiders was brought down in flames many bombs were dropped but no reports of casualties have been received big gains for russians in the carpathians petrograd sept 4.—a furious battle is being fought by the rus sian and austro-german forces near zlochoff and halim to the east and southeast of lemberg in galicia ac cording to today's russian official statement south of rafailow in the carpathi ans in the region of dorna vetra on the bukowina on the rumanian hord ed russian troops the anouncement says have driven the teutons from fortified positions ajid captured several heights taking three hundred prison ers / • & ~& 4 ~& fc ■?! ~* advance continues bucharest sept 4.—an official statement says the advance of our troops continues successfully in all di rections the railway stations at orsova are under fire of our artillery our losses are slight air raid on port said egypt sept 3 at the front — enemy aeroplanes have dropped 25 bombs on port said the british have taken three more machine guns and 15,000 rounds of ammunition at katia 13 zepps in big air raid th.':iecft zeppelins took part in a raidfof ih ea~icrn counifcs last nigh|i-tv7c killed and thirteen in juredw slight damage to property mostpbf the bombs falling into the sea jyr outlying country region thre ships only were abh to ap proach outskirts of london—no i damage done—there hors-1 es w?>e kijled one 0 raiding zepps v as brought to ground ondon sept 4—thirteen zeppelin airshjfc)s took part in the raid over he eastern counties last night the following communication was ssued h the field marshal command ing in tpe chief home forces this aft ernoon | inquiries show that casualties md damage caused by the air raid ast nigyt were quite disproportionate o the lumber of ships employed the lumberjbf casualties which have been reporteqj follows kiilci-one man one woman in j ured eifeven men and women and two hildren no casualties occurred in the metropolitan police district latesi reports show that in the metropolitan police district twenty r ive hou/jes and some out-buildings were sightly damaged two water > nains cut and three horses were 1 killed elsewhere the damage is very ' flight v certain number of cottages | ' vere damaged os well as a church | > hile fire occurred at some gas works there ws no military damage of any ort i measure proved efficacious ' measi|res taken for the rcduc'.lon ; md obscuration of lights proved most mcacious for the raiding squadron ! nstead f steering a steady course a . n the rqjds during the spring and ast autumn about in the darkness |' ooking for a safe avenue to approach \ neir oh eclives threeijairships only were able to ap proach fhe outfkirts of london one • of their appeared over the northern l district kbout 2.15 this morning wlxrc "■ he wasipicked up by searchlights and ; - heavily engaged by anti-aircraft gun mid aeroplanes afterya few minutes the airship was | seen to*>urst into flames and fall rap idly to me earth the ship was destroy ' cd wreckage and engines half burned $ and bodies of the crew * being f<sund at curfley near enfield * nope to reconstruct-her ( expels hope to reconstruct certain [ portions of the framework the large j amountioi wood employed in the frame t work oj the zeppelin io startling and j would 3§em to point to \ shortage of j c aluminujh in germany the her two ships which approach j ed london were driven off by the de fences without being able to approach the centre of the city a grsat number of bombs were drop ped ov(jr the cast anglian and south \ east counties but complete reports as [ to casuwjties and damage have not yet \ been received thos in hand indicate jam age c and lo of life is not heavy consider-1 c ing theinumber of ships engaged and he grelaf number of bombs dropped s they having fallen either into the seaif or in rtiftote country districts a fu|l statement of casualties will be issued tomorrow t wont object to seizure i allies fleet sank german submarine [ in greek waters and seized austri an and german warships interned in piraeus from which u-boats were getting supplies—occupation by entente of telegraph and wire less threw german residents of pira«us into panic—baron yon schenk escaped to frontier but others were arrested allies to establish naval base at piraeus sept 4.—ships of the en tente fleet sank a german subma rine this morning off phaleron it is claimed by the entente mili tary officers that the undersea boat re ceived its supplies from austrian and german ships which were seized in the harbor of pireaus today by french sailors a number of destroyers of the en | tcnte fleet made a careful reconnai [ sance in the neighborhood of the arse j nal this afternoon they put down submarine nets and nosed close to limnos and kilkis where formerly the united states battleships mississippi and idaho were lying it is believed here that the entente fleet desires to establish a naval base at piraeus as a base of supplies for the entente allied armies west wing on the macedonian front which would be more easily supplied by rail from pi raeus than from salonika greeks win not object should'this cctioa prove to be of military value to the entente powers the greek government it is under stood will not object to the seizure of the austrian and german merchant ships at piraeus and the occupation by the entente of the greek wire less station which on friday threw the austro-german residents of athens especially the agents of the german government into a panic towards midnight the newsboys shouting extras in the street at tracted the employees of baron yon schenk director of the german propa ganda in greece from the hotels in their night clothes to learn their fate it was impossible tc communicate with their home government by wire less the telegraph added to their con sternation diplomate of the entente allies de manded that baron yon schenk and sixty co-workers in the employ%of the central empires be expelled from greece several arrests have already been made these taken into custody including officers of the interned aus trian and german ships yon schenk is believed to have es caped to the frontier president signs bill strike is called off washington sept 3.—president wilson to-day signed the eight-hour bill for railway employees and left for hodgenvifle ky at 10.30 a.m an order revoking the call for a country-wide railway strike was sent out by labor union officials last night after congress had passed the ■ adam son 8-hour-day bill and sent it to the president ( ;, . mr gillingham went to grand falls by last evening's xpress 1 nicely drmd windows | give the home | a good appearance ♦ . i ♦ l t our 3 piece j 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