St. John's Daily Star, 1916-09-27

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 11 3.00 per annum wednesday september 27 1916 price one cent no 225 decides today athens sept 26«=in circles close to the king the belief is expressed that he will declare war immediately possibly even this evening . * athens reports that king constan tine has decided to ally his nation with the entent powers in the pres ent war and tha he may make a for mal declaration today thiepval and combles are captured was big day for entente great attacks delivered and important gains made by britisn and french forces in the somme sector—allied artillery continus to pound hun works to pieces both sides are at last fighting battles on the open dritish front in france sept 26.—this has been another great clay for the anglo-french forces on the somme and as a spectacle for the ob servers it was the most splendid of all the attacks made by any attacking forces since the commencement of the great offensive what either army was trying to do and how they were doing it the posi tions they held and sought to conquer in the team play of blue french le gions and khaki-clad brigades of bri tain were comprehensible to the eye in the glorious autumn sunlight for a sweep of ten miles the scene had the intoxication of war and the grandeur if war can be said to have rjny gran deur j important gains the british have taken.half of mor j val all of les benf and have advanc j ed their line on a front of 8,000 yards j for a depth of a thousand yafds the i french have stormed rarrcourt and have pushed their line to the outskirts strong friend of the allies of the a • mile east and part of combles the german stronghold of combles is vir ( tually isolated . i the correspondent went forward yesterday over the ridge in delville ' wood and ginchy region which they i had fought for over two months to gain he walked for two miles through an area which reverberated with the blasts of big guns picking his way between the bursts of flame from crash ing batteries amid the roar of cannon 1 as one would seek a ford in a stream on the other side of the ridge he saw guns where he had never seen them before on the promised land of , the lower levels which the british had won by persistent siege work the guns were close up to the british in i fantry who listened to their thunder ous chorus as they prepared for the charge in the day's attacks after the usual artillery preparations said an officer a noisy spot n on his return the correspondent de cided he would not pass through that wilderness of british guns of all sizes and calibres while he had any hear ing left every one of them was fir ing at top speed he chose a gallery which took him past many batteries which for two miles were pouring out their shares of raging tempest of gun fire from the ruins of some old german trenches whence tra battle panorama stretched before him th 1 correspon dent had a near view of the frenh gunners feeding shells into the breeches as grain is fed into their machines and with mechanical precision of the automatic the british wounded said that their i great gratification was that it was be coming an even fight since the ger mans had no more prepared lines but both armies were fighting in the open according to british officers the ger mans on the fighting front have no lon ger any trenches except these which are built under fire teuton legislators holding conference berlin sept 26.—members of the german and austro-hungarian parlia ments began at salzberg in austria their recently anounced meeting for the-purpose of discussing military economic and political questions of common interest to the two countries the discussion was participated in by german and austro-hungarian dep uties in alternating addresses the con ference will be continued during the winter norwegian steamer sunk london sept 26.—the norwegian steamer bufjord is sunk according to a lloyd's despatch from barcelona heavy toil of lives taken by raiding hun airmen hun airmen kill sixty at bucharest ___ bucharest sept 26.—sixty persons were killed and a large number wound ed at bucharest on monday afternoon by bombs dropped from a squadron of aeroplanes of the teutonic allies five others according to an official statement were killed to-day two thirds of the victims are de clared to be women and children vk isv i»k 29 zeppelin victims on british e coast london sept 26.—the zeppelin raid of last night the second within the last week was made by several sh'.ps between 10.30 o'clock and mid night they crossed over the east and northeast coasts and dropped bombs in he northern counties an official account of the raid is sued last night said that probably six zeppelins took part in the attack it has been officially announced that 29 persons were killed in last night's zep pelin raid the neptune is north of grady seventy-four victims of two zep raids lcnjon sept 26.—owing to deaths from injuries having occurred and all c oualtics not having been reported by the police immediately some amendment must be made to the list of casualties during saturday's raid the correct figures are killed 23 men 12 women and 3 children injured 56 men 43 women and 26 children in last night's raid the total casualties so far are killed 36 injured 27 very slight damage of military importance was done l£k sk iky two zeps destroyed were of latest type london sept 26 official it is established that the two airships brought down on sunday were naval zeppelins l-32 and l-33 both of very recent construction the first airship was finally destroy ed by an aeroplane after passing through effective gun fire the second was hit by gun fire from london de fences and forced to descend in essex loss of gas combles taken by the british vast stores of munitions captured from the germans —-â���” daris sept 26 ? — the town of com bles is entirely in the hands of the anglo-french forces this was an nounced in an official statement from the war office to-night which adds the battle north of the somme is going on in favor of the allies the french have advanced further north of fregicourt along the bethune road and have gained addititfflrart giwirftd vast stocks of munitions were captur ed at combles the statement says the town was filled with german dead elsewhere along the front in france there has been intermittent cannon ading to to to to to to fi steadily push lines forward frenc continue successful offensive in somme regon paris sept 26.—continuing their offensive north of the somme the french last night captured all the vil lage of freigcourt and penetrated the combles cemetery a french reconnoitering party has reached the southern border of com bles says to-day's official statement eight hundred unwounded prisoners were taken in the fighting of yester day on the somme front counter attacks were made by the germans last night on the site between thiau mont work and fleury these assaults were checked by french artillery and rifle fire tototototototo ready to go out but when will it berlin sept 26.—the emperor has issued a circular letter of thanks to the german shipyards which have al ready completed the repairs to the ships damaged in the jutland battle in his letter the kaiser says in a surprisingly short time the armour has been repaired new guns mounted and apparatus and instru ments supplemented so that the fleet was able and ready weeks ago to again undertake battle tototototototo bulgarian attacks are all beaten back paris sept 26.—0n the western end of the macedonian front to the east of fiorina the bulgars last night made violent attacks to-day's offi cial report says that these assaults were checked by the french west of fiorina the russians and french made a combined attack and took 50 prisoners between the stru ma and varda there was artillery fight ing together with some skirmishing especially on the british front no infantry actions developed in the sec . tor held by the serbs tototok-mmto 47 air battles paris sept 26 on the somme front yesterday there were 47 aerial i engagements five german aeroplanes > were brought jdown and others were badly damaged rumanians seize strong positions berlin sept 26 rumanian troops have again occupied the heights on both sides of suzurduk and vulcan passes in transylvania says a german official statement today german troops repulsed all the ru manian attacks against the passes the announcement adds but were with drawn according to army orders m-toto-to-toto 11 * lull in the dobrudja bucharest sept 26.—a kill.has set in on the dobrudja front along the line between the danube and black sea in which the reinforced russian and roumanian armies have checked the german and bulgarian invasion in transylvania also comparative calm prevails . totototototo\to greece wants loan athens sept 26.—the greek gov ernment to-day submitted to represen tatives of the entente a proposal that greece drop the policy of neutrality on conditions that she be accorded a loan to pay for the mobilization and equipment of her army take jonescue leader of the liberal party in the roumanian parliament and former minister of the interior he is one of roumania's leading statesmen and has always been a tototototototo the s.s portia sails westward at 2 p.m tomorrow french troops make some big gains carried all before them advance of t c allies on combles was simply irresistible engulfing the german defences of the town thiepval and neighboting strong redoubts captured by the british 2,700 german prisoners captured during two days yndon sept 27.—the french and british troops sweeping on from three sides after their capthre of mor val and freigcourt broke through the german defences overman the town of combles and carried all before them this place with subterranean pas and powerful fortifications has been caught in the grip of the allies who coming from the north and the south had v advanced far beyond it and cut off its communications with the rear except a narrow strip which was covered by the allied guns the town was filled with german dead the french official statement says felt the strain prior to the loss of combles the ef fect of the victories of the french and british armies who captured important strategic points on the previous day was reflected in an official communication by the german war office which after describing the great artillery bombard ment of the entente allies lasting four days alike on the ancre and the som me admits that the conquest of the village and line of goudecourt must be recognized adding but before all we must thank our heroic troops who fac ed the united anglo-french principal forces and the massed employment of material of the whole world's war in dustry prepared during many months both thiepval on the northwestern end of the british line and the forti fied of goudecourt northwest of lesbueofs have fallen into the hands of the british around the former place many hard battles have been fought since the in ception of the great entente offensive on july ist general sir douglas haig's men after capturing thiepval drove eastward and took the zollern redoubt a strongly-fortified position which lies between thiepval and the bend of the british line at courcellette the french advanced beyond freigi court and captured the wood between that village and morval and the greater part of the german fortified positions lying between this wood eastward across bethune road to the western portion of the german line of communi cation south of bapaum german casualties in the fighting are declared by paris to have been heavy and in addition in the two day's fight ing more than 1,200 germans were made prisoners by the french while the british took 1,500 large quanti ties of booty including machine guns were taken by the entente allies teutons claim gains while petrogrnd continues silent with regard to operations on the east ern front both berlin and vienna tell of the repulse of strong russian at tacks in the volhynia galicia and ihe carpathian mountains on the roumanian front the aus trians and germans have been com pelled to evacuate the vulcan and zur duk passes of the transylvanian alps in order to avoid an extensive encircling movement started by the roumanians sofia reports the capture of the amaserch-pervels line in the dobrud ja from the russians and roumanians who have retired northward raids by the aircraft of the teuton ic allies since saturday night resulted in the deaths of 139 persons 74 in england and 65 in bucharest rou mania iijiiai tototototototo this evening's bazaar te sale of work at canon wood hall opens at 3.30 at night there will be an entertainment for which an interesting programme has been prepared _____ ! more of greek leaders abandon constantine chief of the staff of greece resigns london sept 26.—general con stantine moschopoulos chief of the staff of the greek army has resigned according to a reuters despatch from athens general moschopoulos commanded the greek forces at salonika at the time of the landing of the anglo french expeditionary forces he ord ered troops under his command to salute the french and british officers and was generally reported to be friendly to the cause of the allies greek leader wants his nation to act london sept 26.—general mas chopoulos chief of staff of the greek army and five hundred officers have sjgned a memorial addressed to the king demanding that greece abandon neutrality earlier reports that general moscho poulos had resigned according to a reuters despatch from athens convey ing the above information were prema ture the home is at lewisport allies maintain all the gains made paris sept 27.—fighting continued all night north of the somme the germans made desperate efforts to stem the tide which is engulfing combles according to latest advices reaching paris the allies have so far succeeded in clinging to their gains and have even improved their positions slightly thiepval also falls before the british london sept 27.—1n addition to the capture of combles official com munications issued by the war office last night reports the occupation by the british of the important town of thiep val on the northwestern end of the somme front on a high ridge to the east and a strongly-fortified redoubt shipping reid ships the argyle arrived at placentia at 6.15 a.m yesterday tototo the clyde left change islands at 2.45 p.m yesterday tototo the dundee left salvage at a.m yesterday tototo the ethic is due at flower's cove from north tototo the wren left trinity at 9.45 p.m yesterday the kyle arrived at port aux basques this morning k to the meigle leaves port aux basques to-day there is no report from the glen coe since leaving pushthrough mon day morning i tototo the following schooners have re turned to trinity from the labrador promise 300 petronia 200 tototototototo a lady of circular road was re ported suffering from diphtheria to day she will be removed to hospital two cases were reported from lemar chant 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