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The Wingham Advance, 1916-08-31, Page 7BRITISH STEADILY TAKING STRONG POINTS FROM HUNS leipsic Redoubt and Thiepval, Two Most Powerful Posts, Being Won. All German Counter Assaults On Western Front Are Repulsed. Louaon, Aug. 27.—The two most powerfully fortifiee German positione nortli of the Sorame-Thiepval and the Leipsic redoubt— are slowly beitaa won by the British. Despite the ut- most efforts a the Teutone to win back their lost ground in these two vital sectors, Gbneral Haig's territori- al troops not OrItY are repulsing all Glernaan attacks, but are eteadily in- creasing their gains. They eave won a further 600 yards of trenches along the Thiepval-Courcelotte road and, despite the great concentration of German temps in the neighborhood have further pressed in both east and southwest of Mouquet farm. The Prussian Guard, proudest corps of the Fatherland, has been sent to the threatened front, but despite their most denperate efeorts have been unable to win back any of the import- ant terrain which has been taken in tee British advance, according to a report from General Haig. Attacks were delivered not only in the Thiepval region, but against the British linee west of Guillemont and the French front south of Maurepas, All these attacks were repulsed. Hand-to-hand fighting of the great- est violence continued throughout Saturday around the ruins of the Mouquet farm, General Haig reports. On this sector, as well as in the new trenches south of Thiepval, Worces- tershire and Watehire men hold the Britieh lines. It was these troops who repuleed the Prussian Guard. Following heavy fighting during tee greater part however, all attacks on both sides resulted hi ne change of front. • German surprrse attacks in the Ar- racourt sector, in Lorraine and in the Apremont forest were repulsed, Paris announces, while at Verdun there was only artillery fighting. In several sectors, eepecially on the Thia.umont-Fleury Hee, the big gun duels reached a high pitch of intenta Repulse of a German attempt to penetrate the Belgian lines is record- ed in an official statement from Bel- gian headquarters at Havre. It says: "After violent preparation by their bomb throwers the Germane lent evening attempted to cross the canal near Het Sas barrier and penetrated our lines. Our barrier and machine gun fire repulsed them witb, heavy lessee." • Nine German aeroplanes have been Abet down by the Freneh and British at various pointe on the western front in the last two days, according* to cffi- cial reports. German attempts at an cffensive northeast of Verdun came to uothing, says the War Office at Paris. A semi-official announcement issued In Berlin to -day says that between Feb. 21 and July 20 there were en- gaged in the Verdun sector 66 divi- Wens (nearly 800,000 men) of French troops. In the battle of the Somme, the announcement says, tee French thus far have engaged 23 divlsions and the British 37. I3RITISH REPORT. London, Aug. 27.—The following official communication was issued this evening: "During the past 24 bolus bad weather, to some extent, has inter - Jared with our aperations. We have, *however, gained ground northwest of Ginchy. "In the afternoon there was consid- erable artillery activity on both sides, the enemy fire being directed mainly ageinst our support trenches, and more especially toward the north of Longue. val. Our guns blew up some of the °nettle's bomb stores. "Between Neuve Chapelle and Ar- mentieres we exploded. mines. The enemy exploded two small mines southwest of Aunchy and eolith a the Ypres salient. There were no casual- ties in either case. "Pour German officers and 55 men of other ranks were captured south of the Anere last night and this morn- ing," The Sunday afternoon report aid: "In the successful attacks repartee In the communiques of Friday, seven raore machine guns were captured than originally reported. "Yesterday evening we took a fur- ther 200 yards of n German trench north of Bazentin-leasetit, capturing °tie machine gun. "During the night the enemy's artillery has been active between the Somme and tho Ancre. The enemy also shelled the neighborhood of Be- thune during the night and our heavy az tillery retaliated on railway atelier's and barracks used by the enemy. "Near Hill 60 the enemy exploded a Jenne which caused no damage. There is nothing to mina from the rest of the front." Saturday night'a report read: "The Mimeses artillery bombarded Mametz wood about midday to -day and our trenches :aorta of the Pei - Title wood during the afternoon. Around the Mouquet Farm the fight- ing continued toelay. In this area, and in the trenches south of Thiepvel, eve have &natured one German center and sixty-six men of other ranks dur- ing the last 24 hours. "Two hostile attempts On one el our saps south of the Bethune -la - Besse° road this Inoreing were driven back by our ritle fire. The enemy Shelled Rotlinceurt (north of Arras), La Couture and our trenches east of Zillebeke east of arpree), during the day Mid there Was also inuch trench mortar activity on both sides near the Hohenzollern redoubt. Yesterday °ter batteries sUecessfully engaged many enemy gun positiens, sortie of which Were dentroyed or Otherwise damaged, "Otis' aireraft Carried out tnany at - tanks on points of military 'Jetport - c4 behind on etietnY linc, dropn ging in ill about fiVe tone of bombs, si • rieltatile machirle wag ie brought, tieWettedi et lease • taite -*other WW1 .ibtotighte doWn in ea (imaged condi- .tton.„ TeVes of our Machines aro misc- ettural Nifternecees rendrt hr ittIPM siltip,s.ol anther 400,y4ds of the enemy's trenches along the Coarcellette-Thiepval reed, and told of desperate but futile attempts by the Germans to recover new British trenchee south of the Thiepval The assaulta were made by the Prus- sian Guard, and were pressed with de- termination, but by the steadiness of the Wiltshire and Worcestershire men were repulsed. FRENCH REPORT, Paris, Aug. 27.—The official com- munication !salm4 by the War Office this evening says: "There is no important event to re- port along the whole front, where the bad weather continues." Sunday afternoon's statemeut said: "On the Somme front the night was comparatiVelY calm. Persistent bad weather interfered with operations. "On the right bank of the Meuse (Verdun front) the Germans in the night mode three successive attacks on our Positions in Vaux-Chapitre Wood. Stopped each time by our fire, the enemy was obliged to return to his trenches, after suffering appreciable losses. "In Lorraine several surprise at- tacks of the enemy on our small posts between Arracourt and Embermenil were repulsed easily. In Apremont forest there was lively fighting dur- ing the night. Our grenadiers en- gaged in combats of considerable vio- lence with enemy patrols, which they dispersed. At about 10 o'clock the Germans made an attack on a front of about 800 yards agatnet our trenches near Croix St, Jean. The enemy was caught by our curtain, of fire and sus- tained complete defeat. "On the remainder of the front noth- ing of importance occurred." The Saturday reports said that fighting on the Somme and Verdun fronts was confined to artillery, and chronicled the destruction of three German aeroplanes in the Somme re- gion, four around Verdun. German captive balloons were also set afire north of the Aisne. WOULD WARN GREECE'S KING Venizelos Advises Admir- ing Throng to Do So. Masses of the People Favor Entente. Athens, Aug. 27, via London, Aim. 28.—Fifty thousand Greeks joined in a demonstration before the resklence of Venizelos, the former Premier, to- day, and cheered him with bound- less enthusiasm when he urged them to ted a committee to King Constan- tine to urge him to support the pre- sent Government and prepare the army for "a possible rupture of ex- isting conditions," Addressing the multitude, Venize- los said: "Last week I summoned you to a demonstration to show you what to do. Now I exhort you to send a com- mittee before the King and to say to him: " 'Your Majesty, you were the vic- tim of persons who persuadded you there would be a German victory, end you thought you amid violate the constitution. The people do not approve of these facts. The reserv- ists telegraph you that they are ready to follow you, because they think you always will remain neu- tral. " 'nlectionS are necessary, but you must not use your influence political- ly, because the results would be de- etructive. .Tho present Government Is absolutely neeessary. The Premier (Alexander Zairnas) is an excellent man. You should give the Govern- ment full political authority. You must now show the Entente isowers naoat benevolent neutrality, and exer- cise the army ha preparation for the possible rupture of existing condi tions. The Liberal party Is confi- dent as regards your position.'" In concluding, VenizeloS declared: "I think our desire will be favorably accepted; otherwise I will do my best." MASSES OP GREECE FOR ALLIES. London, ,Aug. 28.—(New Yerk Times eablen—The Daily Chronicle prints the following despatch from Athens, dated there Aug. 24: "Popular Interest regarding the oft - nation arising out of the Bulger in- Vasien of Greece increases with the approval of Sunday, the day on syhteh -a great demonstration of pro- test will be held here. The papers devote tong articles to the situation. The Petrie, a 5ournal always well - formed, makes the following inters tan:tang whether the conditions im- eating statement, whieh may be .re garded no diplOnlatiCallY inspired "'Recent events in Greece have given rise to a haw exchange Of views between the Entente Powers. As to the decisions that may be reached as a result we are net yet irt 0, position te know, but yhat we earl affirm is that the diplomacy of the Entente Is recasting its views on Greece and ex- poeed by the nine of nune 21 are suf- ficient to meet the altered conditions created by the Bulger invasion. A decision will shortly be reached.' "t would emphasize the lerportariec of this statement. Hem signs are everywhere that the dement of the Bulgers on Helleeic mail had a great effeet on the popular mind, and es- peelally bas affeeted the bellefteof these who, Int PerellaSlon er by other inectne. had Weir itidueed to n'Pro-Clerrean pet. Icy as beet suited for the tountry. ' ,"After n..cortetderable, peeled et ab • 011ee frern .tha Creak eapital, the Imain irnPression gathered on My re turn here is that the maw of Greek people, despite everything, are En- tentists. I believe Sunday's demon- stration, will set this forth in a man- ner that will show as the greater sec. tion of the press here says, that the eulreineting point has been reached, from which, with careful 'handling and dIplomacY, the Greek people will attain their proper place in the world etruggle. "The Bulgar invasion has unaoubt- edIy °Renee tile. people's eyes." ItILOSSA rAuss, .1111.11.1.01.1•1111,•••if And Campaign in German E. Africa, Nears Finish. LontIon, Aug. 25,—The town of KilOssa, M nentral nermen Fast Afrlea, 20Q miles west of the port of Dar-es-Halaatn, on the Indian Ocean, was occupied by the flritish on August 22. according to an official statement given out by the Brit- ish War Office this evening, The state - meat follows: 00e the morning of the 212t of August a column under Lieut. -Col. Vandeventer attacked Kilossa, The fighting con- tirued throughout the day, and during the night a column was detached to at- tt ek Takata, on the railway 20 miles east of IClossa, with the object of assisting Vandeventer, This move was successful, and Xilossa was occupied at 0 o'clock in the morning of the 22nd. The enemy retired to the south-east." ROUMANIA IS TAKING STOCK King Calls Conference of All Party Representatives. Entry Into War Depends On Its Decisions. London, Aug. 27.—The entry of Roumania into the world conflict, long forecasted is now believed to be actually on hand. In Rome diplomatic circles it is stated that Roumania's entry is a question of liours. According to a Bucharest despatch the King of Roumania has convened, a conference of representatives ea all the, political parties, former Premiers, former presidents of the Legislative Members, Ministers and Government representatives, with the idea of as- certaining the views of all sections of public opinion on the present situa- tion The Roumanian Crown Councla which had been convened for 10 o'clock Monday morning, ha e been postponed until 5 o'clock in the after.. noon, according to a Bucharest de- sp.atch received in Amsterdam. A new army credit 01 $40,000,000 has been decreed by the Council ot Ministers, increasing the credit since moatalzation to $120,000,000. The post of director of munitions needed only in time of war, nas been created and teen. Paranalvescue has been appointed to fill it. Gen. Popo. vita, Inspector -General of the Rou- manian cavalry, has been appointed to command the First Army Corps, to succeed Gen. Averescu, former Minister of War. The developments in the Balkans appear to be causing perturbatiou in Austria-Hungary, according to advic- es received here from Berne, Switzer- land. These advIces say there is n serious political crisis In Hungary, the opposition leaders having demand- ed a coalition Cabinet, which demand the Emperor bas refused to comply with. In addition to all-night sittings of the Hungarian Chamber, the de- spatches add, an Austrian Cabinet Council sat for eight hours. Thursday and six hours Friday, and the I-Iurs. garian Cabinet for nine hours Thurs. day and ten hours Friday. ITALY GAINS IN THE ALPS Takes Austrian Positions On Cita Villone. Lull in Struggle On Isonzo Front. Rome, Aug. 27.—In the Carnie Alps the Italians pushed forward yesterday, taking Austrian positions on Cita Val - lone, the War Office announced to- day. No revival of activity is reported on the Isonzo front. where a lull bas followed the Italktil offensive which resulted In the capture of Gorizia and territory further south. Sunday's War Office statement reads: "On the Trentino front the enemy showed considerable activity With his artillery a,nd trench mortars. There was much musketry fire also, Ian no infantry attacks developed. Our ar- tillery replied effectively and damag- ed the enemy's defences on the north- ern slopes of Monte Cimone. "At the head of the Digon River in the *Upper Piave 'Valley (Gamic Alps), wo eXtended our occupation of positione oa Oita Valone. "In the Gorizia area and on the Carso hostile artillery was directed actively against the IetilIZO bridges and the Vallone positions, A few shells fell on Garizia and Romanz." Saterday's report said: "In the Ismailia valley we repulsed an attack against our positions on Marta Seluggio. The etremy Suffer- ed heavy losses and left eorhe prison ers in our halide. In the Fassa Aire our Alpine troops made progress to- wards the ridge of Monte Cituriol. "Our vigorous preastre in the Tra.- • vignolo valley continues, and a Mtn - ter -attack against the northern slopes of Col Britain was repulsed. In the Travenzot valley and the Ileper Sone we advanced along the slopes of Tofarto III. On Monte Plano, at the head of the BlebsVailay, our ,troops carried a etrong enemy trelleh be - Yazd Poreella, den Matrati, taking about 10 prieoners,in'eludieg one of - floor. A cdunteriattack. was echeeked. nromptly. On theeremainder of . the ereet therentyes porneertilleryaetiv- its.4" ,. *r I HotPitelity •leteree -the- Weir, Aring -outs, hue- theh„ige apt* tp glials1 e thoikneeker* AR RISON OF TH 1EPVAL IN RING OF DEATH Only Way Out is Through Hail From Guns of the British. GLORIOUS WORK Eye -Witness of the Late Advance Tells of Brave Assault. (BY Uibbs.) With the British Army In the Field, Aug. 27. --The (loons of Thiepval is near at hand. By a serios of email, sharp attacks in short ritehee after eaormous ehelifire, tee British troops have forged their way across the tangled web of trenches and redoubts until now they are just below a row of apple trees which still show a broken stump or two. Below the southern end of the vil- lage they bave bitten off the nose of the Leipslc salient, and Thursday I saw them take the leindenbura trench and its strong point, which is almost the last of the .defensive works bar- ring the way to the south entrance of the village fortress. On the west the British trenches hare been dug for some time through the Thiepval Wood within 400 yards of this place, and on the east they bay° been pushed for ward to the left en the Mouquet Farm, se that the British have thrown a laeeo, as it were, around the strongbold on the n111, from which its garrison bas only one way of escape—by way of the Crucifix northward, where the British guns will get them. GARRISON IN A DEATHTRAP. That Tniepval garrison is in a deathtrap. As 1 stood aatching the place from a trench widen was only a few hundred yard o away, it e ern ed to me astounding that men should still be living there. I could see nothing of the village, for them is next to nothing left of it, notning at all but eeaps of rubbish whieh were once reefs and 'walls of 'houses. But on the skyline at the top of the ridge, which slopes up from the neipsie ealient, there still stand a hundred trees or so, abich are all that is left of Telepval. They stood black and gaunt against the blue sky, without a leaf on their branches. And all the charred, brown hummolks of German trench lines encircled them with narrow strips of hummocks of German trench lines earthworks, and below, falling away to the British lines was a turmoil of unLeaved soil where a maze of trenches had been made shimeless by incessant shellfire. All through the afternoon, as all through the morning end the morn - lege and afternoons -of many yester- days, the British guns were firing in a steady, leisurely way, one %hell every minute or two into the ground marked out by black tree stumps. They were mostly shells of the heavies, firing nom long range, so that for several seconds one could'hear the long 'voy- age of each shell, listen to the last fierce rush of it overbead, and then see before the roar of the explosion a vast volume of smoke and earth vomit up from the place between the trees or just below the line of trees where the German trenches lay. NO HUMAN BEING SEEN. There was not a human soul to be seen and the earth was being flung up in masses, but the underground garri- son of German soldiers was sitting in deep cellars trying to turn deaf ears to the crashes above them, looking into the little minors of long peri- scopes whice showed them a vision of things above ground and the stillness of the British trenches, from which at any minute there Might come waves 01 inen in a new attack. With a few others in the trenches where I stood I knew the British were to make an- other bound during the afternoon, although not the exact time of it. For nearly two hours the bombardment was steady and continuous, but not an Intense fire from all available bat- teries. Every few minutes looked at zny watch and wondered: Will It begin now? Down below me was the hummecky track of the front line trenches, in Which attacking parties had assem- bled. Only now and again could I see any movement there. Some signallers e ere carrying down new wire, whist- ling as they worked, a forward ob- serving officer was watching the shell -bursts through a telescope rest - Ing on the parapet, and giving Mes- sages to a telephone operator, who sat hunched at the bottom of the trench with his instrument. An ar- tillery officer eame along for a Chat and remarked that it was a fine nay for a football match. It was a day wheh the beauty of Franee is like a song in one's heart, a day of fleecy clouds in the blue sky, of golden sun- light flooding the broad fields behind the battle lines, where the wheat sheaves are stacked neat !Wes by old Men and women who do their eons' work, and of deep ceel Shadows under the Wavy foliage of the woods lands. Behind us Was a ruined village and German simile were falling Into a entner of a wood far away to our Ion but the panorama Of the Preen coun. tryside beyond the edge of the battle' lied was full of peace. 01101IESTRA OF DEATH 13EGINS. Another officer dame along the trench and said: "Good afternoon; that. show begins in ten minutes." • The show the name the soldiers give to battle. By MY watels..it was 'onger that ten minutes before the allow began. Leisurely the bombard - nett continued. In the same way, aow and again, the Germain: crump replied like an elaborate Gerrnan gut- tural. Then suddenly, AS if ae. the taji of r, baton, the great orchestra •of death Trashed out, It is Absurd to ,deserihn, t; no words have, been made forl, modern bonthardmeht UM Inters Mae Otte an only ,gtvee,a feebly in - }mutate notion of what on,e big Shell, roundi " When, ltandreds.,.of.liePy guna ara tiring unoe, one small Hee of ground end sifells of lice' greatest' Site ere .rughl,ng, through the aktin ,flocka and rureting.in presses, All dAsertptiort is "ant. 'I edn'tilifY'sarthiit' tile' Whole sky was reeonant with evANcieof Miele Pat, were ilmk.drawn Ithe the ..cl:eop notes of violins, gigantic and terit'lele in their power olesouhaperld that's Oh a eail. It 43041$4,17 if Mee aes vibration ended at last in a thu ers mm had fallen out kW* ilea,- Ikr, and' were rueltlag down tb Th100 al, ' Out of the Bd. 4hittont line Much- TITTrApit. es scrambled lot glinea or men. They stood for a mornpal en op ot the par- apet, waited for a BeGond or two un- til all the menluli got up luto their m alignent and 111 started forward, steadily and in wonderful order, Some a the officers turned around ite though to e4een41 their men were there. I saw e uf. them raise late stick and poi to*'d the ridge; then he r aadJ his men. They were one ow 'grin i the lowest on the righf in front of where I eteme, but sloping up a little. . Beyond them the ground rose stead- ily on the `ridge en welch Thiepval steeds. The British had a big clImb to make, and a long Way to go over epee country, for 400 or 500 Yards is the very devil of A Way te go when it is swept with shell fire, The Germans were not long in •flinging a barrage in the way of the British. A rocket went up from their lines as 11' signal to their guns, and pereaps hall a minute tenor the Brit- ish had sprung over the parapet their shells began to fall, but they were too late to do any damage there. The British were out And away- Sense message seemed to reach the Germans and tell them this. They raised the barrage into the open ground nearer their own lines, and their heavy crunms fell rapidly, latiestarg all over No Man's Land. Now axle again they seemed to fall right into the middle ot a group of British in a Way friget- ful to See, but when the smoke clear- ed, the group was still going forward, Nothing checked the advance of the long lines of figuree going through the smoke—not all Gernme—which was now very fierce. The mon had to cross one of those narrow strips of grass land between the earthworks before they came to the. first line of Gennaan trenches, MEN SWALLOWED DP IN SMOK4. "For a little while the men were swallowed up in smoke. I could see nothing of them and I had the hor- rible feeling this time that none of us would ever see them again, for they had walked straight into the in- fernal fires and all behind them and all in front shells were eursting and flinging up the earth and raising en- ormous fantastic elouds. "It seemed an hour before I saw them again. I suppose it was only five or six minutes. The wind drift- ed the smoke away from Thiepval Ridge and there, clear and distinct, to the naked eye, were lines of the British swarming up. Some of them were already on the highest ground. Standing as single figures, black against the syk, they stood there a sec- ond or two, then jumped down and disappeared. They were in the Ger- man trenches close to Thiepval. "One single figure was a heroic sil- houette against the blue of the skY- He was bombing the redoubt and as ho flung his bombs the attitude of the man Was full of grace like a Grey diseus thrower. A German shell burst close to him and he was ingulfed in its upheaval, but whether he was killed or not, I could not tell. I did not see him again. a TWO MORE WAVES DISAPPEAR. From the British trenches another wave of men appeared. I think It wanted more courage even than of the first line of assaulting troops to go out over that open ground. They had to. face the German barrage and to paws over the day where some of their comrades were lying. But they went on steadily and rapidly, just as the others had gone, splitting up into groups, running in short rushes, dis- appearing in the smoke of shell - bursts, falling Into shell -craters, scrambling up and on again. An- other wave came still later, making their way to that ridge where their comrades were fighting In the Ger- man trenches. They, too, disappear- ed into those ditches. Only in the ground near to me could I see any sign of life now. Here some of the British. wounded 'were walking back, and the stretcber-bear- era were at work. I watched the lit- tle procession coming very slowly to the British trenches with their stret- chers Intact high. It was a perilous way of escape for the wounded when the Germans were flinging shells all over the groend and there was no safety zone. Somewhere to the right a shell had struck a bomb store or ammunition dutnp, and a volume of smoke, red- dish brown, rose and spread into the shape of a gigantic query mark, Other fires were burning in what had been No Man's Land, and out of the explo- sion in the German trenches there was flung up black vomit in wbieh were human beings, or fragments of them. . TWO DROWNED. Would-be Rescuer and Girl Lost at Paris. 0•••••,•••••••.••••••...1•••••., Paris, Ont., Aug, 27.—The cotinnura ity was (shocked yesterday afternoon to learn of the death by drowning of Miss Doris Eleareor Adamson, eldest daughter of Rev. and Mrs. R. J. Seton Adamson, and Mr. Jetties Allan Fraser. Early in the afterhoon. Miss Adamson, acconipanied by Mae Mar- ion Thomson and Miss Consuela Ink - eater, went to the Grand River, a short distante from the reetory, for a swim. Shortly after tnterieg the river, Miss Adamson slipped into a deep hole near the east abutment of the Grand Trunk Railway bridge above theademe eamparilente who Were 110 in ideely'evaten had e very narrow encapee Cries for help hurriedly brought MeXkltirneF;reser, „who was bathing enrne .41itartee ta their assistente".„.1n. the meantime Miss TIthirilyferwnterhect.dti'VfOlaritittaggdiad's°Stareilleelly Rilliae.add.It'sgstv,itarken. succeeded e`t;getting InVeater into a boat. PraPV, 'who ceuirl'yirsii but very; lit- tle,gtall bravely plunged In to the hoe- ettneof Miss Adarnsita When both everit rbi the bottom cif • elle'. bole, ':ttnd rinititer ;rote to tho•.esiurfece agents. .17piel'etleser".4M‘bili°41Yeew,,bslittli611.61011140.1.14 tteYbo°I'llYt &Nil "regtikitatibii.-111e. sparle, ull med. ./Atiss Ad ante ori!,0 rernaint Were not 'feaoveretl"lintilAtti,ifour • lat- er.. • Mr. leraser WetliefOrtn Yeafs• 6f" age,' had leaVoS Wife -lend ;threci ehil- • the Oldest.oDAT:tOttle, 1:1,S,0a.botStIt 14 ware of age. seeeeete-s--seee t. , , plate complained 4 traveller who was dining le a.Ltrqien 4Setel. se 11.1" whieperedehis Wife. .04111At'e 4b$t Aettp.o...Thesrrierve ernall PertiOnS ittirWartiMe."*EverpadY'S. los* % .41 IP NOW responsible for the rupture •of the "sphere ef aitereist" that was chiefly • ; 10triple alliance and Italy's refusal to fight on the side of the TeUtonic vow- A•i• WAR Willi :4011a8'sounsst' ltit111e4,fsahcet gtahvaet alu°411tr°1a9li ers—uarnely, the Balkans. ootion against Serbia tendea to upset .1111i GERMANs telle qt,uesel.,";!:hedfoti? • people," To -day she draws the sword on Germany principally to be able to take an active part in the Macederrian mpa gn by which the Entente pow- ers propose to reconquer Sartre. Once before the allies had appealed to Italy to take a hand In the Balkane. Formal Declaration is Sent Through the Swiss Government. TROOPS FOR FRANCE Will Send Contingent If De- sired—Roman Crowds Cheer News, • Borne, Aug. 28.—Italy to -flay is at war with Germany, Thp declaration of "mantles was made by Italy. Following informa- tion that it had reached the Imperial GermanGovernment through liwitz- erland, announcement et tee Govern- Ment's action was made here late yeti terday. The intolerable situatien created by the tact -Oust tlaly was at war witn Germany's ally and tee fact that Uer- many loaned all possible support to that ally, Austria-Hungary, against Italians and their interests, led the Government to tts decision. That de- cision was made public in the follow- ing anonuncement: "Tee Italian Goveriunent declares in the name of the King that Italy considers herself to be in a state of war with Germany as from August 28, and bigs the Swiss Government to convey this information to the Imper- ial German Government." The complete cessation of all com- munication between Italy and Ger- many brought about by the Austro - Italian war ,made it necessary for It- aly to convey through Switzerland her declaration of war to Germane, tI is believed here that Roumania, with which nation Italy long has bad an entente, will follow the Italian Governmetn in a declaration of war against the Central Empires and their ITALY GIVES HER REASONS. Following a meeting of the Cabinet to -day the °Metal announcement of a state of war between Italy and, Ger- many was made. A statement, giv- ing the reasons for the action of the Italian Government, also was given out by Baron Sonnino, Minister of Foreign Affairs, It is in the form of a communication to Switzerland, it neutral, and was transmitted through the Italian Minister at Berne, It says: "The hostile acts of Germany to- ward Italy ha-ve becomes more fre- quent. Suffice it to mention the per- sistent military aid rendered to Aus- tria, and the constant participation of German officers, soldiers and Flatters in the war against Italy. "Owing th German help Austria- Hungary was enabled to concentrate her maximum efforts against Rant. Germany gave up Italian prisoners who had escaped from Austrian con- centration camps into German terri- tory. The Imperial Government in- structed the banks to consider Italians as enemies, stopping payments and also stopping payments due Italian workmen, violating the law openly and revealing systematic hostility. "This state of things was intoler- able, aggravating and wholly to It- aly's detriment, the situation result- ing from the fact that 'Italy and Ger- many are called to difefrent groups of States at wax. "For these reasons the Italian Gov- ernment declared in the namo of the King tb-at Italy considers herself in a state of war with Germany from Aug. 28, requesting the Swiss Government to inform Germany." The announcement of war with Germany had the most cheering ef- fect possible on the people. Great crowds formed in the streets imme- diately the news became public and processions were started in mituy sec- tions of Rome. Reports from the pro- vincial cities tell of equal reit:acing throughout the nation. A possibility much discussed here to -night is that a large contingent oe Italian troops will be Bent to France to aid the Allies on the westera front. A great offensive invasion of Alsace, directed from Belfort as a oasis, is edclared to be the plan of the allied commanders. STRANGE SITUATION ENDED. Italy's action does not come as a, many brings to an end one of the strangest sitnations recorded in the history of nations: the mysterious and unnatural retention of peace be- tween these two countries for more than two years after the outbreak of the European conflict, which burst the triple alliance and which resulted on May 23, 1915, iu an open break be- tween Italy and Austro-Hungary. Though thrown into the maelstront of a war against it world in army by her Hapsburg ally, Germany has not been officialy at War with Italy Until that country now has made the long - expected move. No aim in the diplo- matic field has been more ardently Pursued by the Kaiser since the be -- ginning of the war than to avert an open break with his former ally. Italy's action does net come as a surprise. It has been predicted, pro- Mised, threatened and even meoffl- daily announced as often as leounean. Ian intervention On the Allies' side: and this, too. is now expected to be - Mile an accomplielted fact before many more days have passed. The edlIrse of the Italo-German relations have taken since August 1,1914, and torday's inevitable outcome was Marked and foreshedowed by the 101- loWing otttstanctng Intents: At the beginning of the war Italy renounced the triple alliance and de - dared for a policy of neutrality, On May a of Mt sa •e year she declared war ois Airstrip, Hungary, yielding to overwhelming pressure of public son - thane attr rejeeting sweeping terri- torial- offers,from her former ally. On 4.1.1glist ;3,,,1915,,She followed this up with a declaration of war againet Turkey, Gerbihn'e protege. On Feb - teary 16' last the ItallaripeloVernment rPitifsttioAed: ;84 •of. the «27 -German qteopshigs interned in Xtatian pone; drid'theclihiter .tAlhe on the Ehirtt daY of the present Moritlr; 'when Hat?, gave notiee-tosGermany of the ternahr- ation of the Ttalotierman tornmernial treaty of 1051t, Which would lutveeA. ilor.ed at ;the sad. a -itm, pqrimisiy.,,,erieugh, the IMinedtate CAliao of Ata.)Ve ,sleele.ration ef open hogtilltle`e against tiermatry Is the.116- VelOpMent 'ot• affairs- 'lly° this sitate : WEEK OF GAIN AND THE KIND BRITISH WANT Staff Delighted With Re- sults of Struggle Around At that time, howeverThiepval, Italy refusbd. It was in October of last year, when England end France sought to reeke good their promise to rave Serbia from being over -run by the combined. Teuton and Bulgariaarmies. Italy's answer was that her forces were tied up In the Trenano and _Albania and that she trusted the Allies would "rec- tify their own mistakes." Since then the Entente Dowers have thrown the Teutonic empires on the defensiVe en all fronts and in this Italy toolt an active part by her vgorous offensive on the Isonzo, The military situation has changed radically and the fact that t is not nearly as favorable for Germany as it was last Fall is believ- ed to be the explanation for Italy's latest move. SLUMP IN WHEAT. 11••••••,,atem1 Roumania's Course Causes Panic in Chicago. •••••••••••••••••••••• Chicago, Aug. 28.-1Zouniania's de- claration of war smashed tbe wheat market. Opening prices to -day showed a fall in some casea amonuting to 5% cents a bushel. September delivery, which closed Saturday at 151:11, started to -day at 146 to 1481,e. Other options also broke wildly. • General rushes to sell took place, which were increased by the increased chance of a general railway strike in the United States. Before the drop in prices could be checked, looses that reached to ine cents a bushel were shown for the principal trading month, December, which sold as low as 1.45ee, as com- pared with 154 at Saturday's finish. MR RAIDERS REACH LONDON One Zeppelin Dropped Bombs in Outskirts. Victims, as Usual, All Harm- less Civilians. Loudon, Aug. 25.—Details of the raid by hostile airships which crossed the east and southeast coast of Eng- land between midnight and three o'- clock this morning, es disclosed by the official statements of the War Office show that eight persons were killed and 36 injured. Other damage effected by the raiders is declared to have been slight. An official story issued late to -night reads: "Further reports show that five or six enemy airships raided the east and southeast coasts of England. Two or three raiders came in over the eastern counties and drooped over 30 bombs without causing any casual- ties or damage. Another raider at- tempted to approach a seaport town, but being heavily fired on by anti- aireraft guns, was driven off to the eastward after dropping 19 bombs in the sea without reaching their objec- tive. "Another airship which visited the southeast coast also came under a heavy fire from anti-aircraft defences and was compelled to unload her car. go of bombs in the sea without doing any damage to life or property. EIGHT KILLED IN LONDON "Another raider succeeded in reach- ing the outskirts of London, where ex - Plosive and incendiary bombs were dropped, and it is regretted that casu- alties occurred among the civilian population as follows: Killed. 8 men, 3 women, 2 children; injured serious- ly, 3 men, 4 women; injured slightly, 4 men, 7 women, 3 children. in addi- tion, one soldier was seriously and 14 were slightly injured by broken gbh. "Ad far as has been ascertained up to the presett, some 40 bombs were dropped, Most of these fell either on email property or in the open, but an electric power station was slightly damaged and engineering works were somewhat damaged by fire. Several small fires occurred, all of which were promptly extinguished by the London fire brigade, several persons being rescued from positions of danger by firemen. "Fire 'was opened on this airship, which immediately altered its course. It is possible that the first airship was followed by a second raider, but this cannot for the present be verified. ISotwe of our airmen went up In pursUit, e,nd one airman eucceeded in firing at the raider at close range. "In all, 100 bombe are known to have been dropped by the raiders." Tien GERMAN STATtelenNT. The German official statenteot reads: "Thursday night Eieveral havel diri- gibles attacked the southern portion of English east coast, bombarding the city and southwesitern district of city; batteries at the went vantage points at Harwich and Folkestone, and nurherous vessels at the wharf at Dover. Everywhere very good effects Were obeerved. "All the airships, both going and returning, were heavily but unsec- tessfully elrelled by numerous guard- ing forces. During thetr attatk they Were fired on by anti-aircraft batter - les. All have returned." imwario*, STILL WAXING. N. Y. Paralysis Cases Take a Big Drop. New York, Aug. Ks -Encouraging results in the fight 'against the Sean - tile paralysis epidemic: in thie eity were indicated by the Department of Health's report for the twenty-four ileum ending at 10 a.m. to -day. Only forty-three_new eases were discovered 'tiering that period, or only it little more than half as many 'eases as during the, previous twentylour Imre. The greatest decrease Was In Brook- Iyu, whore tho disease first became, lvidespread. ' The-deathe numbered twenty-five, against twenty -ono yesterday. NEVER BETTER WORK Old Rule of Trench Warfare Disprovedabiturteh.s' e Hun r (By.) p-------rederle ?tamer )3ritish Headquarters Itt Frauce, Aug. 27. --"It was a ween of gains, and the kine of gains we want," said a aritish staff officer to -day, reviewing the regent ot the week's British offen- sive. "A thoueand yards here and there." the officer contInued, "but every time it has meant an advantage en ground we wanted for future pur- poses, The German attacks to recover ground they have lost, Not an attack that we made this 'week, but has laeen a gain. As a matter of soldierly effi- ciency, the Braise artny has never done better work than this week" At the end of what might be called Thiepval week the Britislt are more Subilant than at any time since - the offensive began, except on the coca - sins when they broke the first line July lst, and tee second line July 14. They put on the old Meng •line trenches in front of Thiepval a record concentration of gun fire. Tee correspondent, while watching this curtain of shell fire, saw phleg- Matto veterans as excited as school boys in their rejoicing. Under these curtains of fire the British bY two at- tacks rushed up to within 300 yards of that patch of ruins which was once the village of Thiepval. The corre- spondent saw the British infantry capture trenches which it had taken 18 months to build, and with no More casualties than he had witnessed in little fights in the Philippines. Every prisoner taken who had been at Ver - dim said there was nothing at Ver- dun like it. • Instead of widening the front of their offensive the British seem to be concentrating more and more guns on their present front. They are using shells as freely as machine gun cart. ridges. New batteries of heavy guns keep on arriving from England. GUNS FOUGHT GUNS ALL NIGHT. In order to hold Thiepval the Ger- mans, too, must bring up more guns and try to blast the British out of their new trenches— Last night the German counter-attack was the heav- iest the Germans had made since the offensive began. Until this offensive It was said that you could take any trench at any time witls gun fire enough, but that you could not hold it if the enemy concentrated . his guns. Of late the rule has been broken.. and the British were more elated over last night's repulse than ever over their gains around Ginchy and Guillemont to -day and yesterday. All night guns . fought guns. . The Germans sent the Prussian Guard in wave after wave against the new Bra tish trenches held by the Wiltshire and Worcester. Nothing fiercer ever occurred on the western front than the struggle of the 13ritish to keep what they gained. Shell flashes light- ed up the forms of the Germans pressing the charges, making targets for numerous British machine guile with which the trench was manned. There was an unceasing fire on the heads of the Worcester and Wilt - shires holding the positions. which the Germans expected to take at any cost. Dawn this morning found the British battalions still in possession of the trench, and all day, thanks to the position which the offensive gained for them, the British guns have been searching out positions and new batteries that the Germans have brought up, and then concentrating their guns on them to force them out of action. HER CHANCE GOING. Italian Landing in Albania Depresses Greece. Athens, Aug. 27, via, London, Aug, 23.—The landing of the first contin- gent of Italian troops at Chlmara (a email seaport or Albania, on the Strait ot Otranto) causes gioone throughout all Greece. The Greeks now see not oily eastern Macedonia in the kande of Bulgars, whom they ogpelled frorn lbere three years ago. hut northerte Epirus in the hands Of the Italians. Following the landing of the Italian traces, the Greek civil offleere were teneporarlly relieved of the fune.tioes, and the telegraph wire.s were cut, but this damage was soon repaired. M. Pachitch, the former Serbian Prettier, has gone to Chalkis to pity bis respects to King Peter. lir silo. SEIZED EV ITALY. Magnificent Austrian Pal- ace in Rome. Rome, Auf. 27.—The famous Pal. azeo di Venezia, property of the Aus- trio-Hungarian Government since 1707, has been seized by Italy as an tut of retribution fer the violations of Inter- national law by Austria, l wssan- nounced here to -day. The Palazzo di Venezia,44 magnifi- cent ttructure dating from the year 1455, when it was begun by Cardinal Plestro Barba, who later beeame:Pope Patti 11,, was presented in 1560 by Pius 1V, to the Republie of Veniee, with which it tame In 1797 lute the Pos- session of Austria. Since then up to* the break between Italy and Ahstrla it served as the residence of the Ans. Man" Ambassador to the Vatlettri, Por excessive perspirationeetathOlie acid, one part; bernt Mum, four parts; Prench Omit, 50 parts; Cornstarch, 200 parts and oil of lavmdork two parts. Make Into a fine powder. 4.k • . moypor. . lea .elleaseaearer t