St. John's Daily Star, 1916-09-29

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 11 3.00 per annum friday september 29,1916 price one cent no 227 brusiloff pushes on his troops after a series of battles succeed in defeating the ausho germans wresting strong positions from them and cutting their lines of communication has taken 520,000 tetutons prisoners in offensive dltrograd sept 29 the rus sian commander general brussiloff has pushed forward his left during the recent days to the highway running between kimpolung and maramaros cutting that important austro-german line of communication some miles abo\c kirlibaba after a series of desperate battles the russians succeed ed in capturing the mountrin overlook ing the highway which gave them this important strategic advantage at the same time they took a range of mountains overlooking kirlibaba ccording to the cbrrespondent of the novoe vremya that town for the first time in the campaign came un der the fire of russian cannon s immediately to the north of this dis trict the russians forged ahead in the upper reaches of charuy-chromosh where the stream bends southward to kitty in this extremely difficult moun tain country offering every advantage to the defenders advance • has been made against tremendous odds success has been achieved by gen eral brusiloff's centre in the neigh borhood of manouva and village on the upper sereth where the russians made advance in the face of strong german reinforcements captur ing 1.500 austro-german prisoners a recapitulation of prisoners and booty taken by brussiloff's army as sent out by the staff show a total since offensive begon of 520,000 officers and men made prisoners and the capture of 2.500 machine guns and mine throwers and six hundred cannon ' tightening the grip the co-operative naval and military plans of the allies are enabling them to overcome the resistance of the central empires matrimonial slump berlin sept 28—matrimony slump ed in berlin during the first half of 1916 when only 6,836 marriages took lpcice compared with 8,632 in the cor responding period last year and 9,860 in a like time in j 914 beat back bulgarians serbians entirely defeat an enemy attack on positions on the kaimakealan mts four successive bulgarian attacks on the kaimakealan mountain is describ ed in a despatch from serbian head quarters to reuters dated wednesday the despatch says that the bulgar iass after receiving reinforcements of more than a regiment yesterday at tacked the serbian line at kaimakea lan in the darkness they were able to get into the first line of trenches but at heavy sacrifice an officer who was taken prisoner said that crossing the space between the opposing lines was like walking over a field of corpses . desperate hand-to-hand fighting oc curred in the trenches the bulgarian attacked four times but were driven out and finally retired beaten the serbian losses were heavy and those of the bulgarians fearful 50 pru oners were taken lloyd george latest cabinet scapegoat by the morning post on lloyd george has stirred london the post's intimat ions of friction between the . civilian and army officials are considered un justified and due to misapprehension and overzealousness however they believe it may serve the government's purpose in the grow ing light of publicity upon unpleasant n sept 28.—the amsterdam ndent of the exchange tele ompany says that travellers who have arrived from bremen re port that a third german commercial submarine will be ready to sail with this submarine is to known as the kaiser and it is said to be slightly larger than the deutschland ask for protection and soldiers of the garrison at crete who are said to consist of the third greek force of the island have sent a request to the entente consuls tcj | provide means for their return to the venizelos movement all local au i thorities having placed themselves un der the committee of national de fence established in salonika 1 ~*~_. 1 v kk ~% will declare war london sept 28.—the associatec press is m a position to state positivel that king constantine has decided this morning in favour of an immediate de uncle sam licks army into shape ritate militia troopj in con aining # along the south united states border d press staff correspondent irrespendence of the st john's daily star l paso tex sept 28—with 100 oco state militia troops strung from gulf to gulf the border is now a gigan tic eightccn-hur.dred-rnile-long training camp and preparedness experiment station the guardsmen are being drilled ceaselessly and whipped into condition as for actual warfare out of the tangled mexico situation the united states will emerge with a new citizen army of 150,000 men not only are the men being prepared but millons of dollars in equipment is being added tq the army permanently when the guardsmen detrained on the border they were only partly equipped i for war under any conditions with few exceptions they would have been able to take the field only after long delr.y for necessary equipment but whvil they leave the border j uncle sam will have at least 150,000 citizen soldiers ready to spring to arms before sundown in defense of their country here are some of the material things the mexican situation and mobliza tion of the nationrj guard has done provided a new army of more than 100,000 trained citizen soldiers added 1000 motor trucks with train ed civilian and soldier drivers and machinists before the columbus raid [ we had but a few score machines added about forty new aeroplanes to the aero squadron with an adequate motor truck and convoy automobile machine shops two weeeks after persh ing crossed the border we-had not one machine in flying condition at&led 65,000 horses and mules to the equipment of the army including in this the thousand-and-orie articles that go vvifh such an increase gave impetus to tests of machine guns bomb-dropping devices and photographic devices to bring the aero squadron to modern efficiency brought forcibly to the attention of the war department the need of hun dreds of machine guns that would fire tests of different types are now being made added caterpillar tractors traction engines of all manner of road building machines gasoline tank trucks water carts portable radio stations scores of touring cars for officers etc replaced old-fashioned mule-drawn ambulances with more than one hun dred new motor ambulances added nearly one hundred traveling cooking outfits provided hundreds of other needs of an army and thrown the spot-light on the absence of thousands of others ■/ ■ " reichstag session open autumn session pf the.reichstag which begins to-morrow will be only in a minor degree a legislative occurrence it will partake of the charac ter of a political manifestation on the one and an announcement of the chacellor's faith and an explanation of his conduct of imperial affairs and on the other hand a strong offensive from a group of stalwarts which for long months have beem fighting beth mann's policy _ _____ ! transfer interned newport news sept 29 eight american battleships will convoy the interned german cruiser kronprinz wilhelm and prinz eitel friedrich when they leave here tomorrow morn ing for philadelphia navyyard each of the cruisers will be under co'mmarid of an american naval officer and the transportation is being made because probmoiith yard is over london sept 28.—sir chas cay zer die 4 this morning at aberfoyle scotland sir charles who was 73 years of age was head of the inent shipping firm of cayzer irvine & co owners of the clan line of steam i for many years he sat in parliament | for barrow-in-furness being the first conservative elected for barrow his daughter married sir john jel woman sells gun to the british mrs stanton has just returned from england where she sold to the - british government a cen trifugal gun for which she stood sponsor the weapon is operated powder is noiseless and smokeless mrs stanton learned of the death of her husband whea she returned hun losses very heavy altho on the defensive their casual ties arc as high as allies in somme fighting i ondon sept 28.—during the sight our > mera advanced on various points of and guidecourt and posts established west and south west of euisort labayee within 800 yards of that village on our left our position wa4 consolidated on the ricjge n.e of thiepval a bat talion of enemy infantry with trans port was caught on the march by our artillery and successfully shelled fighting the last few days has been singularly economical our losses being small not only relatively in importance o our gains but absolutely our to tal casualties are not more than twice the number of enemy prisoners taken one division which had a difficut task allotted to it took as many prisoners as it suffered casualties tide runs strong against teutons military expert of the times very op the military critic of the times reviewing the whole situation of the war sees things favorable for the allies on all fronts except against rumania the aus tro-germans and their satellites have scored no successes in many months past he writes and have not re trieved any losses west east and south they have lost great numbers of men and continue to lose them he deprecates building too much upon the order from general yon falk enhayn in reference to the great wear and tear on german guns and stores of munitions which the war office has just published he dwells however upon the significance of the german fleet still avoiding battle and the in creasing effect of the blockade as re flected in german newspapers and let ters found on prisoners " the germans at the front are still fighting well he adds but the de jection has been marked where the material and moral condition of the people is slowly but steadily deterior ating anxieties regarding the next loan are general and the fact that german troops have continually to be sent to all fronts to make amends for the fail ures of germany's allies provokes bit ter comment germany's losses severe when the veil is lifted we shall probably find that germany has suf fered far greater losses in men money ships credit and material than we have any idea of while we can be sat isfied that germany's aggressive war has brought her as much misery as her worst enemy could desire col repington writes confidently of the situation on the western italian and russian fronts though he says the ac cumulation of german and turkish troops replacing the austrians also the approaching winter may delay gener al brusiloff referring to the balkans he writes the enemy's plan is to drive the ru manians back out of translyvania while holding the russians in the car pathians to act defensively with part of the bulgarian army at the salonika t to assail rumania with german rian turkish and bulgarian for n her western and southern fronts foe speaks too hastily the first part of this programme been practically performed by driv back the central rumanian army upon vulcan pass the left army of brusiloff has not yet debouched from the carpathians and can give no im mediate help while the two other ru manian armies are too wide on its flanks to affect the local issue for the | the turco-bulgar army under mackensen was trying to break up the russians serbs and rumanians in the dobrudja before they could complete their concentration he was partly suc cessful but mackensen spoke too hast ilyin claiming a decisive success and the main danger on this side is at least temporarily averted the question arises whether the offensive by genl sarrail's army in macedonia will attract to itself suffi cient hostile forces to prevent mac kensen from aiding materially the aus iro-german columns which are aiming at the rumanian main armies in trans bitter hate ofgt britain chancellor bethmann-hoilweg tells the reichstag the british are ger many's worse and most relentless foes and declares for war against them of the hardiest most un scrupulous nature says allies cannot pierce german lines in the west not break through the lines on the somme chancellor yon bethmann-hol lweg told the reichstag yesterday ac cording to an account of his speech tc reuters by way of amsterdam the german prime minister mrde a similar statement in regard to the eas the english and french it is true he said have achieved advantages our first lines have been pressed back some killometers and we have also to deplore heavy losses in mer and material that was inevitable ir an offensive on such a mighty scale but what our enemies hoped to ac complish namely break through on i grand scale and roll up our position has not beerf attained look for further sacrifices the battle of the somme will cost further sacrifices still another trench and another village may be lost but they will not get through on the eastern front the chancello said the russians had renewed thei offensive with heavy attacks and pre dieted the same result here too th battle is progressing he said but jus as surely shall we hold our own referring to roumania the chance lor said that the old king of roumani had died as a result of mental excite ment caused by the consciousness thai roumania had betrayed her allies the speaker said that the entente had confidentially hoped that the rou i manians entrance into the war woulc [ bring about the secession of turkey an bulgaria but turkey and bulgari were not roumania and italy he con no peace proffers the speech of the chancellor in the reichstag today contained no peace proffers which he declared would be useless in view of the entente allies there was no intimation in the speed of a resumption of submarine warfare the chancellor scatchingly arraign ed england as germany's relentlesc and unscrupulous foe and declared that statesmen who refrained from using all possible suitable weapons against such an enemy owing to sentiments of con siderations or a desire to keep open c basis for a future understanding de serve to be hanged the chancellor announced his firrr determination to carry through innei reforms in these organizations which the great masses by their conduct o tanks again to the fore played havoc with the germans in their dugouts and trenches—one of them helped very materially to turn the tide against the germans in the last assaults.on thiepval armored sides impervious to attacks from infantry gritish front midnight via london sept 28.—1n the lull hich has occurred after the great two ays battle in which five villages and 000 prisoners were taken by the al es the correspondent had an oppor unity to glean many stories from par „ icipants in the struggle these stories were not only of courage and heroism out of a humor and paradox possible jnly in such complicated and remorse ess warfare the most wonderful of all tales told vas perhaps that of one of the tanks r new armored motor cars which tarted for berlin on its own account his monstrous land ship rambling and umbling along did not wait for the nfantry after the taking of guide ourt but plodded along over the shell oles and across lots looking for its arey like some pre-historic lizard in course of time it found a german rench but as it engaged the occupants vith its machine gun it ran out of gaso ne when germans found this strange reature with its steel hide impene ob'e to bullets stalled curiosity and a esire to revenge was a fillip to their ourage they went after it v/ith the bility of a pre-historic man stalking wounded man out whose bulk was pin one of the alleys of the cave rs stalked funny game no such game was ever seen on the western front marked as it has by all cinds of the business fighting accord ng to accounts given by british offi ers with voracious and solemn men while the tank's machine guns blasted ight and left some of the germans nanged to creep along the trenches mder the forelegs and hindlegs of the touching beast then they swarmed it looking for an opening through ito strike at its vitals they then their rifles into the joints and ombed it all over but to no more vail than burglars trying to reach the nside of a battleship turret with a all the while the tank's machine uns kept busy at the human target in reach while a crew of those dare devils concluded to stick until they starved or the germans found the prop r can opener to get them out finally british infantry in the rear eeing the tank in distress refused to vait on any general orders that they should remain at the objective which hey had gained they were out to save that impounded tank and with rr they rushed the germans and wered them n the crew heard the laughing touting in english they opened or and called out kget her proper drink c are all right if you will only . some more juice so that the old girl can have a guzzle of her proper drink and we can take the road again so the infantry formed a line in the front of the tank and determined to defend her to the last man while a runner was hurried back for a can of gasoline the gasoline arrived safely and having taken a swallow it ambled back into a reserve amidst wild cheers it left behind 250 dead germans ac * cording to its commander • another tank which did well in thio fight assisted in the taking of thiep val there was once a chateau in thiepval the cellar is still there roofed by the remains of dwelliir bricks stone and mortar in a thick shell of pounded debris which protect ed it from penetration by even nine and twelve-inch high explosives here the germans waited smoking their mjld cigars and drinking soda water which was brought up through shell-proof underground tunnels while the ruins over their heads were belabored vainly by the british artillery they had a sense of security of an early kansas settler when he went below and closed his cellar door during a cyclone of course they had a machine-gun ready to welcome the british infantry instantly the british bombardment stopped confinuned on page 2 * ♦♦♦♦♦♦»»♦♦♦»♦»<»»♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦,♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦« ll blankets 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