St. John's Daily Star, 1916-10-16

              the st john's daily star newfound land volume 11 3.00 per annum monday october 16 1916 price one cent no 241 anglo-french forces win more successes in the region of the somme roumanians make successful counter - attacks u-53 violated neutrality of the united states successes for rumanians reported by bucharest rumanian farces make stubborn resistance to austro-german forces and gain some ad vantages in counter-attacks—violent fight ing in volhynia—berlin admits to anglo french gains successes—ndon oct 16.—tho al ondon oct 16.—altho the ru manians inortheast cntinues to fall back before the aus ro-geronan forces in this region all long the battle line in the vicinity of orsova on the danube they not only ire giving battle to their adversaries sut at several points by violent count ir-attacks have gained advantages over them bucharest admits the retirement of rumanian forces in the kalmain fountains on the northwest front but ays that further south the infantry of he teutonic allies were put to flight y their artillery'fire successes were also obtained by he rumanians in the oituz and jul alleys where violent attacks t were re mised with many casualties on bolh ides in szueduk pass the rumanians ontinue their offensive but berlin ays the attacks have been repelled to the north of this region in the carpathian mountains the austro germans recaptured the height of sincterrec in volhynia violent fighting has igain broken out and both the ns and teutonic allies claim success es for their forces pe;rograd says that north of kery hic the russians captured a german rench inflicting heavy casualties on its lefenders berlin says the russians attacks vere repulsed on the stokhod berlin admits the british north of thiepval gained a firm hold on ger nan trenches and that the french outh of the somme have won a ooting in the sugar refinery of concr nent the french in saturday's fighting n the ablaincourt-rollcy sector made 1100 germans prisoners in macedonia serbian troops have nade a further advance along the lefci bank of the cerna river while the french have cut the railway line south of seres the fighting throughout this region consists mainly of artillery duels only isolated infantry attacks having been reported still further gains for the italians against the austrians in the carso re gion of the austro-italian theatre is recorded by rome . the convoking of the greek cham ber of deputies which was to have taken place on saturday has been postponed for a month by decree of king constantine shelled stephano without warning washington oct 15.—the british steamer stephano sank by the ger man submarine u-53 off the new eng land coast last sunday was fired on without warning her captain reported in an affidavit received to-day by the j state department captain smith declared that three j shots were used the first of which hit 1 the ship's bow no evidence corrob j ating the statement has been received jby the state department and action i will probably not be taken until the u-53 had time to reach home postpones session athens oct 15.—king constantine to-day signed a decree postponing for one month the meeting of the greek chambers which according to con stantinople was to be held today m jvi mm t to m summarily shot mexico city oct 14.—genl emilio orozco of the zapata forces who has caused much trouble in the state of mexica was captured in the hills with twelve of his men they were sum marily shot king ferdinand leads troops bucharest oct 15.—king ferdin and of roumania announced to-day that he would personally take supreme command of the russo-roumanian armies considerable russian rein forcements are expected in roumania take a grave view of raid american newspapers anticipate seri ous international complications over the activities of the german submarine u-53 off the american coast during the past week ' was a gross violation of neutrality of the u.s mfav york oct 9—following are some of the editorial opinions pub lished in new york and elsewhere on the new german submarine warfare on ihe american side of the atlantic the new york herald a virtual blockade of new york and other am erican ports has been created by the appearance of the prussian submarine u-53 and its destruction of shipping in american waters there can be no avoiding the issue raised by these acts it is not whether in individual cases there has been technical adherence to a policy c'f warning it is that submar ine operations in the lanes of sea travel leading immediately to american ports cannot be must not be tolerated practically the neutrality of the united states has been grossly violated by the coming of the u-53 to ameri can ports to acquire information con cerning the whereabouts of vessels at sea and her prompt departure from russians storm enemy trenches capture german position and repulse counter-attacks petrograd oct 15 official russian troops after a stubborn battle north of korytniza in volhynia stormed the teutonic trenches coun ter-attacks were repulsed with heavy losses was stubborn battle petrograd oct 15.—russian troops after a stubborn battle with german forces north of korytniza in volhynia have stormed the teuton trenches there says a russian official statement issued to-day two machine guns were captured and a number of prison ers taken - the . germans counter-attacked fiercely with the bayonet several times but were repulsed with huge losses to 1s11 t hun rifle works / bombed by allies / loridonf oct 14.—a successful raid has been made on the mauser works at oberdbrfs and a large num ber of british and french naval aero planes dropped explosives on rifle works in wurtemburg the french aeroplanes dropped three tons of explosives six german aeroplanes were brought down three british aeroplanes failed to re turn according to british and french official reports 1b , ftk tsii allied forces give bulgars hot time salonika oct 15.—british patrols yesterday come in contact with bul gar forces on the railway south of seres in greek macedonia says an official statement seres sataion and berskli juma have been shelled by our artillery on the railway south of seres our patrols came in contact with hostile forces ' on the doiran front enemy communi cations everywhere were shelled during the night of oct 13th several encounters occurred bombardment continues heavy on both sides artillery active rome oct 14 official there were artillery duels in several areas enemy artillery was very active in upper but valley southeast of gori zia troops have extended british oc cupation on seber ridge some pris oners were taken as well as large quantities of arms and ammunition which were abandoned by tjie enemy u-boat 53 to which the stephano fell a victim s*t our picture shows the german u-boat 53 the first armed german submarine to voyage across the atlantic to the united states the u-boat was photographed in harbor at newport r 1 where it bobbed up on saturday week unexpected and unheralded after staying long enough to land a package of mail for the german embassy at washington the u-boat slipped out of harbor within a few hours thereaft er reports began to reach american stations of u-boat attacks off the united states coast several allied and neutral steamers amongst them the red cross liner stephano being torpedoed allied troops score gains in somme region make gains in attacks in the neigh borhood of the slubb and schwaben ' redoubts london and paris re port 600 prisoners captured in course of operations french score some jbig successes and make many ad mits the gains of the allied troops i ondon oct 15 oracial)-r-further reports show that enterprises under taken yesterday in the neighbourhood of stuff red-übt were highly success ful north f stuff redoubt two miles of enemy communication trenches were cleared for a distance of nearly 200 yards nearly 300 prisoners were taken in the tourse of these opera tions which were carried out by a 1 single company in schwaben redoubt our gain was greater and our line advanced huge losses were inflicted on the enemy the total number of prisoners taken in both operations including these report ed last night is two officers and 303 of other ranks during the night the enemy's tren ches were entered west of seres north of rocklincourt and northeast of fes tubert north of neuve chappelle a number of prisoners were taken con siderable damage was done to the enemy's defences brilliant successes paris oct 15 official soufch of the somme we made two attacks which succeeded brilliantly one on santerres which put us in posession of the german line on a front of more than two kilometres the other placed us in possession of the hamlet of cen ermont and sugar refinery 200 metres n.e of ablaincourt | 7 e took a large number of prisoners up to the pres ent time 8,000 800 unwounded pris oners including seventeen officers have been passed back beat back huns paris oct 15—an official statement issued this afternoon by the french war department says last night south of the river som me the enemy attempted several coun ter-attacks against the positions which we had taken possession of in the ourse of the day '„ the fire of our artillery dispersed some before they could reach our lines all the others wer,e,broken up by,our infantry which maintained and con solidated our gains admits allied gain berlin oct 15.—--british attacks on the somme front north of thiepval led to a hand-to-hand fight in the german lines at one point the in vaders obtained a foothold says an official statement issued to-day south of the river somme the statement adds french troops obtain ed a foothold in the village and sugai factory of cenermont ix vx ix ixixix french warship sunk by a u-boat berlin oct 15.—the small french cruiser rigel built as a submarine de stroyer was sunk in the mediterran ean on oct 2nd by two torpedoer fired by a german submarine it is of ficially announced to-day a german submarine on oct 4th the admiralty statement adds sanl the french auxiliary cruiser gallia with serbian-french troops aboard bound for salonika about i.ooc were drowned should employ interned ships allied nations make a suggestion tc neutral powers london oct 14.—neptral nation are offered the suggestion that the use the german ships interned in thei ports to compensate them for subma rine losses by shipping by a corresponc ent of the times discussing the world shortage in tonnage the corre spondent says in view of the continu ed wanton destruction of neutral ship ping british owners are wondering how much longer neutral countries are going to allow german vessels to be idle in their ports after stating that there are ninety gferman ships in chilean harbors the correspondent continues while like all neutrals she is suffering from lack of tonnage therefore in the view of british shipowners chile if she will not use these ships to export her pro duce to europe will be asked to lease them to a power which can employ them and which will indemnify her for loss in port and harbor charges no military damage berlin oct 14.—details of the oper ations of the entente air squadrons in their raids in southern germany on thursday are given in reports issued today by the war office the attacks are declared to have been carried out by from forty to fifty machines but it is asserted that no military damage j was done at all seven persons were killed and more than a score injured i " ' continuued on page 2 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦<»♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦+♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦*»♦♦♦»»»♦♦♦« 1 blouses blouses 1 > _______ ♦ 1 white lawn ; | 65c 85c 1.10 1.35 1.40 1.50 | j white muslin i | 1.00 1.20 1.30 | i white silk iluslin \ i t1.40 1.60 1.70 i i black sateefn h 111 95c 1.05 1.20 j taney flette / i i 1.05 1.15 1.30 1.40 j lit also a job line of / 1 i ♦ \ / / ♦ j lawn blouses i jl selling at $ i.bo\and 2.00 | || nowsl.3ownds.|so it job lots ladies | j all wool merino and casßmere ;; | to clear at cost bowring brothers | j limited i 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