St. John's Daily Star, 1916-10-07

              the st john's daily star keuifoundland volume 11 3.00 per annum saturday october 7 1916 price one gent no 234 berlin admits british gains in the balkans roumanians invading transylvania are mfeated bylhe teutons berlin===the war office report to-«&y conceded that successes had been achieved by the british forces which crossed the struma river the statement says the bulgarians evacuated remote villages on the east bank of the river gerard comes from berlin to try to arrange peace for the germans rumanian forces beaten brusiloff makes gains allies win in macedonia bucharest admits that rumanian forces in transylvaina have been forced to retreat russians make progress in march on lem berg—the allied advance ti macedonia continues ondon oct 7.—turning against the roumanians who had been ad vancing steadily in eastern transyl vania the austro-hungarian-germans have defeated the invaders decisively along the fifty-mile front north of forgaris at the juncture of the hem merod and alt rivers near reps the roumanians are in retreat pur sued by teuton troops the successful repulse of the invad ers on the southern end of the hue aas in the hands of general yon falkenhayn former chief of the ger nan general sta'i who only last veek routed the roumanians around hermanndstadt and dorve them back o their own frontier -> took some prisoners j north of reps the austro-hungar aris recaptured a position and took nore than two hundred prisoners bucharest admits the roumanian roops jn eastern transylvania have een withdrawn before attacks by su perior forces in the region of fogarif in the do brudja heavy fighting continues along a line south of the constanza-buchar ist railway with bucharest recording orogress for the russians and rouman ians in the centre and on their left wing while general brussiloff apparently has ceased at least for the moment his attacks on the austro-german ines in volhynia west of lutsk he continues to the southward his assaults with great intensity against the posi tions of the teutonic allies guarding he approaches to lemberg the capi tal of galicia russian successes although the russian attacks are held up northeast of lemberg these southeast of the capital according to petrograd resulted in the taking of positions south of brzezeny and the capture of 500 prisoners berlin how ever declares all russian attacks in galicia have been repulsed and that the austro-germans have taken 1,200 prisoners from the russians in macedonia the armies of the en tente allies continue to advance the british troops which crossed the struma northeast of salonika have taken the town of nevolyen which was evacuated by the defenders south of monastir serbia violent fighting in the region of the cerna river is reported by paris artillery continues active on the somme front in france according to reports from the war offices of all the belligerents had withdraw bucharest says superior teuton forces made rou manian retreat necessary gucharest oct 7,—the rou manian troops-j were with drawn from the'r positions in the region of fogaris transylvania before the at tacks cf superior forces says an official statement issued by the war office to-day violent engagements continue in other sections of transylvania on the northern front there have been violent engagements in the upper lirneva an_l tirna valleys the enemy having attacked with superior forces in the region of fog aris and viradini our troops have been withdrawn somewhat in the gaszeni defile and in jiul val ley engagements continue ifc ifc ifc ifc was victory berlin states germans claim great success for von falkenhayn derlin oct 7 the roumanian for ces in transylvania have been de feated by the troops of general von falkenhayn and driven back over the lit river the war office announcd to day at other points along the transyl vania front the roumanians have been forced to retire the statement says the austro-ger man troops pressed jback the rouman ians from the hemorxbriver and drove them from positions southwest of liban falva the roumanians retreating through the geister forest and being pursued the statement says general von falkenhayn captured 29 field guns and 137 machine guns of the roumanian forces which crossed the danube south of buiharest to invade bulgaria only a portion suc ceeded the statement says the re maining troops fled to the eastward and were defeated will resist compulsion john redirond tells his waterford constituents that conscription can never be forced on ireland—be lieves any such attempt would simply spell disaster says brutalities followed the sinn fein rebellion dtaterord ireland oct 7.—ln a notable address to his constituents here this afternoon john redmond irish nationalist leader in parliament declared that despite the recent re bellion with all its inevitable after math of brutalities and stupidities that inflamed passions lor home rule for ireland the situation is safe if ire land remains sane mr redmond also declared conscrip tion could never be forced upon ire land adding i cannot bring myself to believe the irish nationalist leader de clares that any attempt to apply con scription in ireland would be disas trous in the extreme • that though malign influences are at work the government will be insane enough to challenge a conflict with ireland on this subject tt-tvjohtth^d-mohd no conscription for dominion canada will simply resort to national registration ottawa oct 7.—there will be no conscriction in canada but a system of registration to distinguish the slack ers frcin the workers will be adopted by the government according to hon robert rodgers acting prime min ister in reply to the executive coun cil of the dominion trades and labor congress which waited upon him to day and presented resolutions passed by the recent congress at toronto u-boat shelled the strathay fired on steamer carrying several u s citizens i daris oct t according to the commanding officer of a french torpedo , boat the british steamer strathay which was sunk on sept 2nd while on the way from newport news for glawgow was destroyed by a sub marine american citizens are said to have been aboard the strathay the evidence given by all the men aboard the strathay and the evidence given by all the men of the torpedo boat is to the effect that the submar ine fired eight shells at the strathay in ten minutes and then sunk her with a torpedo after giving the crew fifteen minutes to abandon the vessel it is said the'torpedo boat'put the submarine to flight and rescued the crew gt britain not hostile to sweden would restore the old footing of friendship and is anxious to place i ondon oct 7—we are anxious to restore the old footing of ancient friendship and commercial intercourse between the two countries declared lord robert cecil minister of war trade today in an interview with the associated press in which he replied to a recent statement of premier ham marskjord of sweden that britain is arbitrarily limiting imports into swed lord robert said britain always has been and is now ready to enter into fresh engagements for a trade agree ment with sweden in which case air lowances will be made for all swed en's requirements which he admitted are greater now than before owing to the development of her industries ' the minister of war declared incid entally the british blacklist violates no rule or law of equity ■ ist f»ft i ■$_. dutch warned not to butt in _____. # told any peace-meddling will be con sidered pro-german flew york oct 6.—a news agency despatch from rome published here to-day says that the entente al lies have informed the dutch govern ment that any move toward.peace pro posals would be construed a pro-ger man act it was leared here to-day ex actly when this information was sent to the hague is not known here the fact that such action has been taken is disclosed in the discussion of lloyd george's interview warning neu trals not to intervene at this time well informed circles here say the al lies considered the probability of the war lasting three years more 1 is 1sv wk british progress ih somme region london oct 6.—the british last night pushed forward their line north east of eaucourt l'abbaye on the som m front it wa soially announced to-day during the night there was considerable artillery activity on the front south of the ancre the state ment says we advanced our positions northeast of eaucourt l'abbaye gas was dis charged by us west of loos and west of armentieres three raiding parties successfully entered the enemy trench es in the loos area and two south of arras american hanged ky mexican forces ind xal . oct 6.—charles lernber of.-the afnb»_jaafc cprps>ffthe guard of cfejtj forriia while on border patrol diit recently,strayed across the interim tional line was caught ranee hanged by mexicans according to a letter receiv ed here last night great excitement prevails along the border huns want pres wilson to endeavor to end war new york evening post says ambassador ger ard now enroute from berlin to u.s has been authorised by the germans to request mr wilson to act as mediator jjew york oct 7.—the new york evening post to-day publishes a story eaying it has been learned from a trustworthy source that ambassador james w gerard now on his way the american ambasador to ger many is on his way to the united states from berlin and a new york paper says he has been authorized to ask president wilson to act as medi ator between germany and the allies back from germany will lay before president wilson a request to the president to use his good offices in suing for peace with the allies saying that germany has definitely decided to j ppjyy to president wilson the article says to use his good offices in suing j for peace with the allies this was learned to-day from sour ces in a position to have absolutely trustworthy information on these mat ters it is understood ambassador gerard who is on his way over here will lay the kaiser's request before i president wilson wifhin a week it is a fact however positively it may have been denied officially that the possibility of president wilson's acting as mediator has been discussed by german officials with ambassador gerard it is therefore by no means surprising that reports now take de finite shape in connection with mr f-"rard's trip to this country ambassador gerard is on borrd the steamer frederick viii due at new york about tuesday next * if ambassador gerard is returning to the united states on any mission other than to spend - a belated vaca , tio.n officials of the state department disclaim any knowledge of it a state ment has been authorized that no preparations for .. the discussion of cace through diplomatic channels have been made and that all the infor mation gathered here seems to indi cate such a move would be inadvisable as well as futile there have been various reports of ' nlans by president wilson to deal with the matter directly instead of through he state department t officials of the german embassy re ceived the story with the emphatic state ment that they know beyond doubt that it was not true james w gerard strong positions taken by italians rome oct 6.—the capture by the italian troops of a strong austrian position on the slopes of cima di cos tabella in dolomite alps was an nounced by the war office to-day an official statement also reports the consolidation of new italian positions in the region of colbricon balkan position taken by allies london oct 6.—on the struma front yesterday and the preceding night the enemy showed no activity our troops have now consolidated all the ground gained the total number of prisoners cap tured in recent operations now amounts to three officers and 339 men this morning our artillery commenc ed the bombardment of nevolien but after a short time the enemy was seen evacuating the town and it was occu pied by us without loss heavy shelling london oct 7,—an official report this evening says there was heavy shelling today on most parts of our front south of the ancre enemy working parties were successfully dealt with by artillery elsewhere there is nothing reported the s.s prospero arrived at wes leyville at 8.30 a.m and left at 9.20 russians advance through armenia petrograd oct 6.—the russian of fensive in the turlosjr'ftrmenia district west and southwesf of trebizond is be ing successfully pushed the war >* of fice announced to-day the turks are being pushed back in the direction of karshute river which runs through ardesa about forty miles s w of trebizond/and empties into the black sea near trevo li 50 miles from trebizond bulgars retreat before the british paris oct 6.—bulgarians on the struma in greek macedonia a*e re treating before the british the war office announced to-day paris war office reports great ac tivity on the part of the artilleryman the verdun front germans are shelling poivre hill east of the meuse and north of ver dun on the somme front the artil lery was active during he nignt sailings suspended london oct 6.—owing to the risks of north sea traffic the batavier line has suspended the regular sailings from london to rotterdam the batavier line operated a fleet of ele ven steamers mmmmmmmz the d p ingraham sailed yester day afternoon for mall bay to tow the schoner herald to this port for repairs continuued on page 2 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦+♦♦♦♦+ if itvvalue you want 11 do to i bowring's i full lines • floor canvas ] and : linoleums i also j 8-4 congoleums j very newest designs congoleum squares j and mats i sizes ixl yard x 2 v 2 x2 3jfl 3&14 finished with wide rich'border • room papers \ and freizes to match see them bowring brothers i limited : r \