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ON TO COHBLES.
ON TO COHBLES. -0 New British Progress on the Somme. ANOTHER RUSSIAN rAUl TO-DAY'S BRITISH OFFICIAL. During the night our troops have gained possession of the whole of the Leuze Wood, and lighting continues between the wood and Combles village and abound Ginchy. The artillery of both sides has been active north of Pozieres and in the neighbourhood of Mouquet Farm. Last night we discharged gas in Gommecourt. Yesterday afternoon our heavy ar- tillery e,ffectively shelled enemy hutments in Polygon Wood, east of Ypres. TO-DAY'S FRENCH OFFICIAL. To the north of the Somme the enemy did not attempt any fresh action during the night. The artillery duel continues lively in different regiops of the front. To the south of the Somme the Ger- mans repeatedly attacked our new positions to the south of Denil- court and in the neighbourhood of Berry-en-Santerre. All these attacks were smashed by our barrage fire, and caused the enemy much loss. On the right bank of the. Meuse yes- terday towards 8 p.m., the enemy after a lively bombardment, made an attack in the region of Fleury. Caught in the violent fire of our machine guns, the Germans were unable to debouch. The number of prisoners taken yes- terday in the sector of the east of Fleury has increased by about 40. In Lorraine a strong enemy en- trenchment, surprised by our fire, was dispersed at the moment^ of trying to capture one of our ad- vanced posts. Everywhere else the night was calpi. 0. TO-DAY'S RUSSIAN OFFICIAL. Western Front.—In the direction cf Hilitz, in the region of the Lower Goriognka, our troops captured a fortified position of the enemy, and drove him to the north-west. The number of prisoners taken by us so far amount to 4,500 men, among whom were about 2.000 Germans. In the wooded Carpathians, our ad- vance continues. Our troops captured a series of heights and repelled all the repeated enemy countett,acks. Caucasian Front.—In the region of Ognot our troops are advancing, and inflicted great loss on the enemy. In the region west of Ognotz we found corpses of our" soldiers which were terribly mutilated by the Turks. West of Lake Van British armoured motor cars drove out the Turks from the valleys situated in the region of Chukhur-Norshuo. «3a!kan Front.—German-Bulgarian troops are attacking us and Ruma- nians in the region of Purtakai.— Wireless Press.
THE BROOK KERITH.
THE BROOK KERITH. Remarkable Sequel to an Aniazing Book. At Bow-street on Wednesday, Mr. Ed- ward A. Bell (Messrs. Carter and Bell, solicitors), applied to Mr. Garrett, on be- half of Lord Alfred Douglas, for sum- monses. against Mr. George Moore, of Ebury-street, and Messrs. T. Wrner Lawrie, Ltd., publishers, Essex-street, Strand, for composing, printing and pub- lishing, and causing to be composed, printed and published, a blasphemous libel concerning the Holy Scriptures and the Christian religion, contained in a book entitled The Brook Kerith." His client recognised that in dealing with religious subjects a person was entitled to attack the fundamentals of religion, but Lord Alfred ventured to think that the author in question had spoken with the language of affront, and otherwise than with the feeling of reverence for subjects which the majority of mankind regarded tf sacred. His client ventured the opinion that if authors and publishers chose to employ this class of weapon in attacking the Christian religion they should scrupu- lously have regard to the intentions by which they were influenced, and should look upon themselves as the debtors of the truth, and be satisfied that they aimed at nothing but the increase of knowledge and the virtue and. happiness of society. "AN IRREVERENT REFERENCE." In this particular book what the author had portrayed was a perversion of the Gospel narrative, which was intended to hold up the Christian religion to ridicule and contempt by suggesting that Jesus Christ was an ignorant. decoitful, violent- tempered and vainglorious impostor. There was a most irreverent and uncleanly reference to our Saviour's method of life. The magistrate said he had had the op- portunity of reading the passages referred to in the information, and in "his opinion it did not come within the decided eaif*es with reference to blasphemy. He said nothing of the merits of the book, nothing of the tastes of the book. but it wa.8 based on the assumption, which the author had pvfcct right to make, that Christ was merely a man, and it had been held over and over again that to assert in a book that Chrwt was a man and not divine was not necessarily blasphemy. Therefore he Must dwaine procem.
RMMS VICTORY
RMMS VICTORY I 620 PRISONERS TAKEN I I BOOTY INCLUDES MUCH fOOD AND A I COMPLETt HOSPITAL. TEN ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED II Bucharest, Monday (received Wednes- day).—A communique issued this morning say S. On the northern and nor-western fronts there were siuall encounters along the whole front. We repulsed two hostile attacks in the Merisor Valley. We captured at Sepri Scepcyorgi more than five hundred wagons of various food- stuffs and forage, and a completely equipped hospital. Enemy troops in the Upper Maros Valley made use of dum-dum bullets. We took prisoners seven officers and 620 men. On the southern front superior forces of the enemy attacked the bridehoa.d at To-r- tucaia ten times, but was erach time re- pulsed.—Press Association War Special. I CENTRAL POWERS' EFFORTS. The Press Association has received from an authoritative Rumanian source an im- portant statement regarding Rumania's position with reference to the war. Speak- ing of the determined attempts made for a long time by the Central Powers to secure the assistance of Rumania, the statement says Germany made every effort to accom- plish her aim, and at one period 400,000 Gorman troops were concentrated in T-ran- sylvania. Never from the beginning had Rumania, any intention of going over to the Central Powers, and even if the Rumanian Government had so decided the army and people would never have joined with the tyrannous Magyars. The moment chosen by Rumania for her entry into the war was the most propitious for herself and the Allies. Prepared to suffer heavy losses in forcing the Carpathians, she had as a result of military strategy and en- circling movements succeeded in winning all the passes with only trifling, casualties. The pressure of the Allies on other points had compelled a partial enemy evacuation of Transylvania, and of this Rumania had taken the fullest advantage. Now the Central Powers were endeavouring to col- lect what troops they could from all points to filnp, Wiingt, the new foe in Transyl- vania. This was what Rumania had pre- pared for, aDd the continued Russian ad- vance would, it was hoped, show the enemy that his attempts would be unsuccessful. Railway communications remain intact, and Rumania's supply communications were secured as she held all the railway system's through the pawfs. ECONOMIC PRESSURE ON THE ENEMY. Apart from mihtary considerations, the economic pressure on the enemy would he enormously increased hy Rumania's emtry into the war. This might not be apparent. at first in view of the German harvest, but before the end of the war her position would be very difficult. Not one-half of the corn purchased by Germany had yet left Rumania, and of course would not i do so, As illustrating the difficulties besetting the delivery of military assistance from the Allies to Rumania, much of the neees- sary war material had to travel half round the world before it could be delivered in j Rumania,, and it would have been foilyl for Rumania to enter on a campaign of the character expected until she was fully prepared, or to intervene in the struggle until her intervention could prove of the maximum value to the Allies. That, moment was decided upon, and that action taken on the very day appointed. The attitude of the King had not per- | haps been understood fuHy by the worid, although known to the Allied Govern- men tR. Although a Hohenaollern, he was proud to 00 only a Rumania, and, first, the .servant of the State. He was a?s firmly determined as other Allied Sovereigns to Bbt the w.?r to a successful end. THE PEOPLE AND FINAL SUCCESS. Bucharest, Tuesday (received Wednes- I day).Since the raid made by a Zeppelin and an aeroplane on Bucharest, as re- ported on Monday evening, no more enemy aircpift have appeared. The authorities are strictly enforcing regulations for secur- ing complete darkness. The people, who remain calm, are following attentively, without any nervousness, the military operations, quite confident of Rumania's final success. Comments which have ap- peared in the Quadruple Alliance Press on the intervention of Eumania have pno- duced hjewe an excellent impression. i ■
RUSSIAN BALKAN ARMY I
RUSSIAN BALKAN ARMY I j Grand Disks Nicholas in I Command.  Copenhagen, Wednesday.—The Lokal- anzeiger states that it learns that the Gran* Duke Nicholas has been appointed commander of the Russian Balkan army which is to fight against the Bulgars and the Germans.—Exchange. 1, CZAR AND HIS ARMIES. I Men Inspired by Emperor's Example. Petrograd, Tuesday (received Wednes- day) .-On the occasion of the anniversaty of the day when the Czar took supreme command of his Forces, newspapers of all shades of opinion publish articles dwelling upon the new energy which this haiipy Imperial resolve infused into offi- cers and men who, from that moment, they say, increased tenfold their efforts to safeguard the country against any in- vasion by the enemy, and, in fact, suc- ceeded in putting an end to the free manoeuvring of Austro-German arms From this moment, Russian armies, they declared, inspired with confidence. in their august leader, did what the most formid- able fortresses were powerless to execute. Certain newspapers emphasise the enor- mity of the work accomplished during the year under the aegis of the Cgar. They draw a parallel between the years 1914-15 and '16, and the year 1813.
! ANOTHER NEUTRAL SUNK.
ANOTHER NEUTRAL SUNK. 1 Lloyd's Weymotrth telegram, dated September 5th, says: The master and crew of steamer oon De (Copenhagen) have Jandm £ ThÐ -bœJtBQÙ(
TRADES UNIN CONGRESS I
TRADES UNIN CONGRESS I DISCHARGES SOlDiESS AND SAILORS" I INVALIDITY CLAIMS. PROTEST TO THE COVERNMENT I Birmingham, Wednesday. The Congress resumed to-day under the presidency of Mr. Harry Gosling. Standing orders were suspended for the introduction of the following resolution by Mr. Herbert Smith, on behalf of the Parliamentary Committee:—"That this Congress strongly condemns the policy, of I discharging from the Army soldiers en- listed for this war on the ground that they are no longer physically or mentally fit for military service, and denying that any pension be paid, owing, it is said, that their illness was not contracted in the service, the delegates are of opinion that these men, having in many cases sacrificed positions with good salaries and wages, and having been enlisted only after a medical examination, ought not to be left to charity or the poor law on their return to civil life; we therefore request! that their claim should receive the im- mediate attention of the Government and Parliament. The CongTess also protects against the delays arising before claiiyts for invalidity pensions are adjudicated upon. and the pensions paid, such failure, in our opinion, is lack of proper organi-1 sation and co-ordination between thosei State departments responsible for pen- sions, and we strongly urge upon the Government this necessity for creating one central department, having at it head someone direetlv responsible to Parliament; that copies of this resolution] be forwarded to the Prime Minister, the! Seoretary of State for War, and the Chairman of the Chelsea Commissioners, with a request for immediate action." Mr Smith, in moving the resolution, referred to the part played by the miners in the present conflict He contended that when a man left ,the service after being made unfit, his allowance should be continued to him and his dependents until "his pension was settled. They ought to be determines on securing fair play, and he was sorry to say that some employers were doing more than trades unionist leaders in that respect. (Hear, hear). NECESSITY FOR SPEEDING UP. Mr. W. Thome, M.P., who seconded thp resolution; said there was a necessity for speeding up, and he hoped that old fogies and reactionaries would be no longer al- lowed to act as obstructives. It would be after sentiment had been dropped and the war was over, that trouble might, arise unless drastic reform could be effected, Mr. J. Henson (Sailors and Firemen. Cardiff), said that in their enthusiasm for the soldiers they were apt to forget the sailors. He therefore suggested that the resolution should be so altered as to include naval men. Mr G. Hornoe (London), asked the Congress to keep their eye on demobilisa- tion,. If thev did not do so the resolu- tion would prove to be merely a pious opinion. Mr. Stephen Walsh, M.P. (Miners' Federation, Bolton), regarded the motion as the mfjst important to be submitted the Congress. There were half a score of over-lapping authorities. Members of Parliament were badgered about from pillar to post, and even Ministers often failed to understand the conditions, in fact, the whole machinery was in a state of chaos. In the a!>sence of party pofitics, in the setting aside of a genera l spirit of contention, they had allowed conditions to be set up by which prompt and effective aid was beiBg strangled. I THE AMENDED CLAUSE. After further discussion the resolution was adopted with the suggested ameind-I went, so that the first clause, as finallv approved, read as follows:—" This Con- gress strongly condemns the policy of dis- charging from the Army and Navy sol- diers and 6ailors enMsted for this war on the ground that they are no longer physically or mentally fit for military or naval service, and denying them any pension owing, it is said, to their illness not having been contracted in the ser- vice." Mr W. J. Davie (Brass Workers') moved: That by conversations between the Minister of Munitions (the Right Hon. D. Lloyd George) and representatives of or- ganised labour, it was agreed that in all cases where trade union rules and cus- toms were related they should be restored after the war. This congress empowers the Parliamentary Committee to call for the status quo ante when peace is de- clared; that as the Munitions Act was passed subject to this solemn declaration, this congress therefore demands that the Government shal linsist upon empioy-ers individually and collectively keeping faith with organised labour, and further, should there be a betrayal of this trust, the Parliamentary Committee shall call a special Congress to invite these Mini- sters of State to be present who urged the workers in a time of natural peril to forego rights and privilege which had taken ummk y('4m of unity and sacrifke ?o e..e..i. Mr. E. L. Bo?Jtoc ?Boot and Sho& -Owr- ati'V) seconded. I THE WORKERS' DUTY. I Mr. W. Mosses (United Patern MakerS" Association) sad dhe had lYO objection to wholesale condemnation either of Mini- sters or of unscrupulous employers of labour, but he would like to point out that the delegates owed a duty to themselves which was mueh oftener honoured in the breach than in the observance. There was a Treasury agreement embodied as a schedule to the Munitions Act providing that in all controlled establishments a pre-war condition should be subjected to restitution within 12 months of the ter- mination of the war. He was sorry ro ■say that changes carried out in the work- shops were not being placed on the record eeither by the employers or the workmen. He asked that delegates 8houldaesist the National Advisory Committeo by filling up the forms. Miss Mary Macarthux (Woman Workers' Federation) urged the need for com bina- tion by the men and the women workers in the face of n", common enemy. Mr. J. C. Westcott (Carpenters', Lon- don) moved to, leave out all words after a special congress," but on a division this was negatived, and the resolution, as originally twbniifted, was carried.
II ANOTHER LAME ZEPPELIN.I
I  ANOTHER LAME ZEPPELIN. I I A-msterdara, Wednesday.—According to I a telegram to the Echo Beige from the fi ontier, a Zeppelin, seriously damaged, parsed over Ostend, traV{ning towards the centre of Belgi um.- Press ARsocLa.tK? Waj I'Si??4
PREACHED PEACE  AT HOME.
PREACHED PEACE  AT HOME.  SWANSEA NATS CHARGEI FOUGHT on THE SOMME LIKE A CARTLOAD I OF DEVILS. "CIVE THEM TGNYPANDY" (Special to the Leader.") A wounded non-commissioned officer of the Welsh Fusiliers, a native of Swansea, told a graphic story of recent lighting in which his regiment took part on the Somme. 1 went through the worst that was going in Gallipoli," he said, "but it, couldn't hold a caudle to the softest of the fights out on the Somme. The din j of the guns was ear-splitting, and the earth rocked and trembled like a great cradle all the time. Then came a still-1 ness as uncanny as the previous din had been. We knew what that meant. We sprang out of our trenches and quickly deployed in wide formation in the direc- tion of the enemy's trenches. The appear- ance of the first head over our parapet was a signal to the enemy. A blistering hot fire came rolling across towards where we formed tW. Comrades were hit all around. There was no haste, no flurry. The plans worked like perfect mechanism. In a few seconds we were off towards our goal. The bullets came whistling through our ranks by the hundred, shells burst by the score. All the forces of hell seemed to have continued to add to the unspeak- able din and fury. A STRANGE SLOGAN. I The men never llesitated. On they swept. Gaps were made in the ranks. They were filled so quickly that they were hardly noticed. As we got closer to the enemy's position it was a question of dash- ing by a hop, step, aud jump from shell- hole to shell-hole, rather than a regular advance. We gained the parapet of the enemy quickly. We stopped before it for a few minutes to re-form for the final rush. On lads, give theit-" cried my com- pany officer. He never completed the sen- tence. He was shot down by a Hun on the parapet. ""Tonyp&ndy," cried another officer, by way of completing the slogan. This missing word seemed to please the men. They took up the cry of Give them Tonypandy," and to that strange cry they swept over and into the trench The man who had shot my captain went down with half-a-dwien bayonet wounds. The fiht was'a daisy while it lasted, but we got the strangle-hold on the foe, and soon squeezed all tlie fight out of them. Then we drove them down into their dug- outs, and had a lively time dig-ging-them out with bayonets or blasting them out with bombs. They fought stubbornly in their underground lairs, and we had our work cut out for ur in shifting them, but shift them we did. 1<1 was like hewing coal at times, but a little more dangerous perhaps. I A PEACE MAN's FIGHT. "A mate of mine from Swansea fought I like a cast-load of devilt.. out for a night. At home he was a Socialist. Used to bawl a lot at the street coiners about the Brotherhood of Man, and all that. Says I to him in a chaffing way, There's a lot of your German brothers in that dug- out there. Would you like to go and spout to them ? Yes,' he replied, and picked up an armful of I)orahs. I looked at him and smile-d.. You needn't, smile,' he said.. This is the only kind of spout- ing that the Germans understand.' He went forward and sent a bomb crashing into the dug-out. A volley came back in reply. The Socialist eha-I) threw back -for all he was worth. Half-a-dozen Huns came rusing out. One of them made for me. "The other five had a fancy for the peace and brotherly, love man. He stood his ground, just in the attitude I had seen him adopt at the street corners when preaching Socialism at home. I was so taken with the warlike bearing of that peace chap that I could only spare one eye for my own opponent. He let the five German brothers have a bomb to liven them up, and when they were dancing away from that he got ready to talk peace with his bayonet to the survivors. There were three of them. One was wounded a bit, but he could shoot. He tried shoot- ing. The peace man ran at him and bayonetted him. Then he ran another one through, and the survivor caved in. You can't have better company in a tight corner than a peace man turned soldier. That's my experience, and I have heard others say the same thing." (Passed by Censor.)
THEFT OF CIGARETTES.I
THEFT OF CIGARETTES. I Charged with stealing 600 cigarettes from her emplojfig, a t-obacco manufac- turer of Shoreditch, a young woman named Nellie Martin pleaded guilty and was remanded for the attendance of her husband. It was stated that when ar- rested she adm. ;<JA lDg irt viously stolen cigarettes, saying that she sent them to her father uhd brother, who were captured at Mons and interned in Ger- many. She also stated that her husband had been out of work for a long time, but recently secured employment.
A SOLDIER'S DEATH. I
A SOLDIER'S DEATH. The mystery of the death of a young soldier named Wflliam Macdonald, of Mile End, was inquired into by the Poplar coroner on Tuosday. On September 1 Macdonald turned up at his mother's house and said, Oh, mother, I'm so bad." While hts mother went for the doctor the man died. A doctor said there was evidence of an irritant in the body, possibly cyanide. The coroner said the death was a very mysterious afiair, and the inquiry was adjourned for an analysis to be made.
THE THEISTIC CHURCH......I
THE THEISTIC CHURCH. A crisis has arisen in the affairs of the Theistic Church, whose services have lately been removed from the old pre- mises in Swallow-street, Piccadilly, to Steinway Hall. The church oommittee have issued a cir- cular to all members intimating that Dr. Walter Walsh, the present minister, the choir and organist, and other persons employed, have received notice to termi- nate the church's contracts with them. The notices expire at the end of October, while the church itself will be finally ter- minated, or at least suspended. Financial j problems appear to be at the root of the trouble. j
EXECUTION IN SWANSEAI
EXECUTION IN SWANSEAI DOWLAIS MURDERER EXPIATES I HIS CEiiE I Daniel Sullivan Big Dan of Dowlais, died at Swansea Prison at a minute past nine on Wednesday morning, in accordance with the sentence of the law. The severest penalty we know was imposed because on 8th July last Sullivan had, in a most brutal manner—the defence sought to establish that it was in a drunken frenzy- done his wife to death. The sentence was appealed against, with- out avail. Two petitions for reprieve, prepared in Dowlais, were rejected, it, being held by the Home Secretary that the law must take its course. Daniel Sullivan, as the evidence against him at his trial showed, was guilty of lwntality of an almost unshakable character; out, brute or no, he was no coward. During the last days of his life, when it was made known to him that there was no hope of clemency, he re- i signed himself to his fate. It is customary to say that the con- demned man walked firmly to the scaffold." The phrase is suggestive of braggadocio, perhaps; and if so, then Daniel Sullivan did not walk firmly. There was no bravado in his demeanour; the glimpse the few witnesses of the last scene had was that of a big burly fellow, surely over six feet in height, bowed by remorse, going unresistingly to the doom which the law had pronounced upon him. As early as 8 o'clock-an hour before the appointed time of execution—stragglers gathered at the prison gates, though there was nothing to see beyond the official inti- mation that sentence would be duly car- i ried out at 9 a.m. The crowd grew in dimensions as time wore on, and at 8.40 it I was noticeable that no sniill portion of it was composed of little childrei, on their way to the schools opposite the prison walla. OFFICIALLY PRESENT. Those of us selected .;As the witnesses on behalf of the public (for that is the real capacity in which journalists are asked to be present at such scenes, and not as ghouls) were led by devious paths to the entrance of the cell in which the con- demned man had spent his last night. Here we found Chief- Warder White, the acting governor of the gaol, with the High Sheriff, Sir John W. Courtis, J.P., of Car- diff; the Dnder-Sheriff, Mr. H. H. Wat- kins, Swansea; Mr. David Glasbrook, one of the Visiting Justices of the Prison; Mr. E. E. F. Sweet, of the Under-STieriff's Office; and the Chief Constable, Captain Alf. Thomas. The Rev. Fa,ther Egerton, Catholic Ch-aplain of the Prison. wis in the courtyard, while John Ellis, the executioner, had entered the cell to attend to the grim preliminaries. He was assisted by George Brown, of Cardiff. THE LAST MOMENTS. I Then Father Egtrton entered the cor- ridor, reciting the solemn service. Sulli- ¡ van, with bent head, supported on one side by Ellis, on the other by Warder ReVllû1. emerged from the cell which abutted on the corridor. It was ft MOMPnf. The con- demned man's lips moved as if in prayer. Then, before the ghastly erection, the pro- cession halted. Two seconds later, all was over. Sullivan's body had I disappeared from view; and simul- taneously his soul had quitted the body. As executions go, nothing could have been less harrowing; nothing more more humane. One. thought for an in- stant of ithat other death, the precursor of II this—then shut out the picture conjured up. After all, the price was paid. At the inquest the details of the death I were gone into. But, for those who saw the end, no inquest was necessary. It required no medical evidence to say that death was instantaneous. THE INQUEST. I The inquest on the body of the deceased .was conducted at the prison on Tuesday morning" by Mr. R. W. Boor. Chief Warder John White. gave evidence of identification. Judgment of death had been carried out that moning, he said. Dr. Trevor Evans, m lical officer of II.M. Prieoni who was present at the execution, stated that death, which was instantaneous, was due to dislocation of the spinal column, caused by hanging. Death from hanging n was the verdict I of the jury, of which Councillor G. Hill was foreman.
WAR FACTORY BLAST. I
WAR FACTORY BLAST. I Seventeen Munition Workers 1 Injured. Ministry of Munitions, Tuesday.—An ex- plosion took place at a small explosives factory in South London this morning. Very little damage was done to the works, and the consequent fire was soon extinguished. vlnteen workers were slightly injured.
IGERMAN PARTY LEADERS.__I
GERMAN PARTY LEADERS. I Amsterdam; Tuesday.—It is ported. that the German Chancellor has not only invited the party leaders to a conference, but also several members of each party, and the Presidents and vice-ppesidents of the Reichstag.-Reuter.
BRAVE BELGIAN WOMAN.I
BRAVE BELGIAN WOMAN. I Paris. Wednesday.k Havre message reports that General Joffre has rewarded by special mention in an army order Marie i/ouvet, a Belgian woman, for courage and devotion. Last September alw guided across Belgium and Luxem- bourg a detachment of French soldiers trying to regain their lines, and rendered numerous services to the chief yf the detachment during this period.-FAnter.
TO-DAY'S WAR RESUMEI
TO-DAY'S WAR RESUMEI Leader" Office 4.50 p.m More progress lias heen made by the Allie.s on the Somme. The British have gained the whole of Lcuze Wood, and are fighting their May to Combles. Gas was discharged at Gommecourt. The French have materially strengthened and increased their gains on the river and to the south. They took 4,0.17 pri- sonerts on Tuesday, and altogether they have taken 3J guns north of the river, 'while to the south four heavy guns and 100 machine guns fell into their hands. Their prisoners on the Somme fronts since September 3 total 6,C,50, The British effort is not confined to the Sonune. Yesterday enemy hutments in Polygon Wood, east of Ypres, were heavily shelled Mr. Balfour made a striking appeal for unreieasing efforts in shipbuilding, to the Clyde workmen on Tuesday. Rumanian troops have won a series of engagements, the captures including 500 wagons of food stuffs, 620 men, and a completely equipped hospital. Seventeen persons were slightly injured in an explosion at a small explosives factory in London on Tuesday.
TO-DAY'S NEWS IN BRIEF I
TO-DAY'S NEWS IN BRIEF I Lieut.-Col. W. G. Robinson (Indian Army) is gazetted a temporary brigadier- general. Mrs. Alice Ollev died on Tuesday from injuries receiver in the lire at Romford, being the third victim. Unskilled and semi-skilled men in ship- repairing establishments on the Tyne haw received an advance of 3s. a week. Two platelayers, while engaged on Wed- nesday morning on the permanent way at Clapton, were run into by a train and killed, Cardiff master bakers have resolved to raise the price of bread d. per quarter loaf, to lOd. This is Hd. increase since August 2nd. 1 Before the Munitions Tribunal at Cax- ton Hall on Tuesday, an applicant said that some men at Woolwich Arsenal were making .£12 a week. Lieut.-Col. P. S. Pearson, of the firm of Thomas, Guest, and Pearson, solicitorn, Birmingham, has died as the result of a riding accident. Peace terms should embody the replace- ment by our enemies of all Allied ships lost, declared the Manchester Steamship Owners' Association. Capetown" Tuesday.- There was much gratification in South Africa when special C(litionc, of the newspapers announced the I fall of Dar-es-Salaam. The decision of the Bow-street magis- trate in ordering the extradition of John de Kay, an American citizen, was upheld on Tuesday by a Divisional Court. A them, Tuesday (received Wednesday). —The news that Baron Schenck visited Sir Francis Elliot, t<he British Minister, yesterday, is categorically deni(A.-Reiiter. Representatives of gas undertakings have asked Mr. Runcinian not to sanction any increased allowance to coalowners in regard to prices of coal for home consump- tion. The death has occurred at Southampton at the age of 100 of Mrs. Amelia Burrowes, grandmother of Mrs. Austen Chamberlain. She was the thirteenth child of a family of fifteen. Having taken up the post of Organising Officer of Boys' Welfare at the Ministry d 'I Munitions, the Rev. R. R. Hyde is resign- ing the living of St. Mary's Hoxton, and the.headship of the Maurice Hostel. James Dennis, a shepherd, with 24s. per week, also cottage, garden, milk, potatoes, I and extra for harvest, left his work and 300 sheep starving, and was ordered to pay 23 damages at Rotherham on Tuesday. The London Gazette announces the following: Commands and St-aff.-Special; Appointment.—Major General L. 3. Friend, dated June 23, 1916." General j Friend was formerly Commander-in-Chief in Ireland. In his presidential address to the Insti- tute of Marine Engineers, Sir James Mills said it would be years before we could hope to enjoy the same relative advantage in regard to the tonnage of the world that we possessed before the war. At the annual meeting of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families' Association, it was stated that £ 2,249,426 had been expended from the start of the war until last December, and, approximately, more than another quarter of a million from Decem- ber until June 30. After 14 years work in Hoxton, chiefly among the boys and young, men of the district, the Rev. R. R. Hyde is resigning the living of St. Mary's and the headship of the Maurice Hostel to act as organising officer of Boys' Welfare, under the Ministry of Munitions. When a young woman named Florrie Swain was, at Chatham on Tuesday, fined < £ 9 for smuggling 500 cigarettes into a powder factory, she confessed that she was w"client means, and a soldier in court on I other business paid the money, although the woman was unknown to him.
NURSING FALSE HOPES.I
NURSING FALSE HOPES. I Amsterdam, Wednesday.—A Berlin tele- gram states in view of the forthcoming ns.sembling of the Reichstag, a conference of the party leaders took place at the Imperial Chancellor's house yesterday evening. The Chancellor, according to- the newspapers, declared that Field- Marshal Von Hindenburg and General Ludendorff were agreed in declaring that the general military situation was good. The Chancellor added that there was no thought of raising the military age limit, and that he was full of confidence re- garding the prospects of t?be fifth war loan, which he was sure would once more prova a complete BU-Preæ Aaaoea? tion War Special. 8
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AT SALONIKA. To-day's i-rench OfRchl. There was infantry action during the day (yesterday). The artillery, combat has been lively in the region of the Struma and Lake Doiran, as well a? ou the Serbian front generally. f 1 0 I <
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í., .1 lle t Cambria Daily Leader" gives later news than any paper published m this dis- trict.
¡THE GREEK QUESTION.
THE GREEK QUESTION. The Great Task of the £ ?: £ e*ite Powers. Paris, Tuesday.—A leading article in the official "Dcs Debats" on the subject of Greece and the Orient concludes as fol- lows: Urgent reasons demand that the Greek question sjiall be definitely liquid dated without delay. Our Expeditionary Corps has other things to do than to hold in check the accomplices of Germany in Greece. It must smash the Bulgarian army, cut the communications of the Austro-Germans with Turkey, join up with the Russian army that is advancing by the Dobrondja into Serbia, and it must prepare a great retrogression on Hungary which ought finally to drive Germany into a corner. It is a heavy task, but not above our strength.
TRANSPORT FIRED ON.
TRANSPORT FIRED ON. British Gunboats' Telling I Reply. Athens, Tuesday (delayed).—It is re- ported from a Greek source on Sunday last that a British transport, passing through the straits at Chios for 1fitylene was attacked by Turkish batteries on tie Asiatic coast. Happily the transport was not hit. A British warship lying in harbour at Chios proceeded immediately to the aid of the transport and replied to the Turkish batteries and succeeded in destroying a Turkish munition depoot-Exchange.