_ THE OMINECA’ MINER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMERR 8, 1917

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northerly direction, ‘In the region
of Mitau the battle is still pro-

“MONDAY, SHPT, 3

London:

Jutland coast on Sunday, accord:
ing to an official ‘announcement.
A hundred badly-wounded Ger-
man seamen landed, while scores
of bodies have been washed
ashore. It is also believed that
several submarines were captur-
ed during the raid, which. was
’ made by the British light forces,

London: A successful air raid
was carried out by the British on
the Ghistelles airdrome, ‘Several
direct hits were made and fires
started. Explosions were also
observed on the Ostend-Throuont:
railroad, -

Over 10,000 German prisoners
were taken in August, with 38
guns and 200 machine guns,

With the closing of a week of
cemparative inactivity along the
western front, numerous signs
of a revival.are apparent. In

Flanders the British guns apain
are thundering the threat of the
renewal of infantry thrusts upon
the German lines, while French
troops are giving another display
of their successful dashing tactics
in the Aisne region,

On the Austro-Italian front the
Italians have aligned their forces
for another drive in force on the
Bainsizza plateau. and are again
edging toward Trieste. In the

' fighting of Friday, the total of
prisoners taken in the offensive
was'brought up to 27,000.
Mackensen's drive against the
Russo-Romanian lines does not |
geem to be gaining-the force it
promised to attain, and the Rou-
manians are hopeful of retaining
Moldavia,
There is no pronounced move-

‘ ment against Riga as suggested
by Russian reports, although
arnlery fire is more Pronounced.

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TUESDAY, SEPT. 4

Gana Abbas

' London : Attempted enemy

raids last night at two points
' northwest of Lens and La Bassee
were repulsed with losses. Both
artilleries are active east of Ypres.
Rain and wind prevented flying
yesterday,
‘Bombs were dropped as Ger:
man airmen crossed Fast Kent
in an air raid on n England last
- night, a

Paris: Great artillery activity

reerrerererryer if

aaaliz}
Four. German mine
sweepers were destroyed off the

the Austrian naval base at Pola,
causing great destruction and|-
large conflagrations.
trian fleet wag bombed, and also].
military works,

in the fighting. on the road to
Trieste number 1235, 000 men and
8,500 officers, .

Germans Jast night on the Aisne
front and east of the Meuse. in
the Verdun sector were repulsed
by French fire, + .

ceeding.
Rome:

WEDNESDAY, SEPT 5,

[Elladase.

London: German airplanes last |
night raided Chatham and Sheer-
ness, inflicting what were official-
ly described as ‘naval casualties’’
totalling 107 dead and 86 wound-
ed. Chatham is a British naval
base and Sheerness is a naval
and military depot. On the Isle
of Thanet the raiders killed one
and injured six, The raiders
came in the moonlighton Sunday
and Monday nights, British
planes gave battle, but with no
successful result, °

‘The.enemy’s artillery showed
great activity during the night
northwest of Ypres.. We ad-
vanced our lineg slightly north-
west of St. Julien. We carried
out a successful raid last night
directly north of Lens.

British naval aircraft made
bombing raids at midnight on
Sunday on the: ‘docks, submarine
shelters and Yailway sidings at
Bruges, causing explosions and
fires. One British plane fought
six Germans and brought down
one of them,

Petrograd: Riga has been
abandoned by the Russians, the
position becoming untenable ow-
ing to the heavy bombardment.
In the Kult district the Russians
are retiring northward, having
been dislodged by the Germans
in the Jaegal region.. There ig
considerable artillery firing in
the neighborhood of Dvinsk,

Rome: Thir ty Itulian airplanes
dropped nine tong‘ of bombs on

The Aus-

Washington: Austrian losses’

Paris: Attacks ‘made hy the:

is reported near Hurtebise, ‘ih
‘the Champagne, and- along, the
Verdun front in sectors Hill 304,
Hamogneux and Beaumont. ;
Eastern theater:' Between the
Vardar and: ‘Lake Doiran British
troops carried out several sur-
Prise attacks and captured Pris-
oners. i
Around the position: conquered
on August 30 by the Serbians,
northeast’ of - Monastir: ‘and at| ’
Cerna’ Bend there has been vio-.
lent artillery. action,”

-” Copenhagen: The demoralized
“remains of the German trawler
- fleet which was attacked by des:
. troyers in the North Sea made}:

tors and naturalized ‘Teutons will
have no vote in Canada. |
wives and relatives. of soldiers
are to receive ‘the franchise by
the wartime elections bill on the
order: ‘paper at Ottawa,

held to expedite the work ‘of
securing men. che

to assassinate: ‘Borden, Meiphen
yand blow up the parliament buil:,
dings i is reported, by the Police,

UrTeNyy

Tasens

Ottawa; ‘Conaciencious objec-

The

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be

mportant conference | will

“Montreal: Frustration of, plots

erereivieereein “|
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off southward, ‘Seattering and: /

- sending | wireless. messages. ag

° they ran,” Two German airplanes!

“werd brought. down | in the: corse,
of the battle, an mn

Petrograd: 7 estorday, attet|ai
strong: artille preparatiot

‘a

mbs on !
‘The: ‘Germania: crossed’

1nd. again: ‘Attacked.

‘Germans | Crossed th
_ region of. Kull 5
develoned ‘the

The Italians extended
yesterday the positions they had
oceupied on Thursday and Friday
in the Brestovitza valley and-on

the Carso, Additional prisoners
| were taken, ;
tilery veered i]

4th and bth German airtraft

day, ° _ 1
Local fighting and patrol en-

east of Fleurbaix,

Was. ‘repulsed.

: former’ commander-in chief; said

" ‘ that! ‘Petrogtad i is not: tl
‘London! "From: & hight altiti da| ‘by.
enemy | Planes rained ”
London. *

~ the southeast: const: in, numbers ital

tack on June 13,

three and wounding five.
material damage was slight,

fires at German bases in Belgium.
Direct hits. were made on Bruges
docks,
The successful Ttalian air raid
against Pola on Monday js be-
lieved to foreshadow a great! :
naval offensive against the Aus-
trian fleet. and an army of 100,000
men which has ‘been locked up
by the Allied naval forces a opera-
ting in the Gulf of Trieste.

- London: Portuguese troops on
the west front-successfully beat
back ‘ German raiders last night.
British troops. in. the neighbor-
hood of Armentieres repulsed a
similar night excursion.’ In the
Lens region enemy artillery i is
active,

Petrograd: The Russians, con-
tinuing their retreat along the
coast of the Gulf of Riga toward
the northeast, have crossed the
Livonian river Aa, The Russians
operating in-an easterly direction
from Riga have retired to Sege-
vold and Detzschubrayd. | Hos-
tile submarines bombarded the
Riga coast, A zeppelin aided in
the bombing of Riga.
“The first refugees to reach. the
capital tell dramatic stories; of
how suffocating, gas shells were
fired upon the civil population, | *
and of how fighting women
strove desperately to stem the
tide of Huns., The retirement is
under perfect discipling, :
Paris:
Aisne and Champagne _ fronts
were repulsed. On both banks
of the Meuse violent artillery
ghting continues.

- FRDAY, Ser. 7
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Londan:;,:

; conan)
On the night of the

dropped bombs on three hospitals,
Two Canadians were killed in
the air: raid on London on ‘Tues-

counters ‘occurred .during: the
night southeast of St, Julien and

Grave fears are expfessed re.

garding the ‘possible. fate of the] -
Ru:sian fleet, for ils ‘sufety «des
pends. on. the stand being made |.
Navali°j
experts here expresa_ the hope
that, the .Ruasians. will destroy}. BIE
their. ships rather than’ permit] ° gig.
capture, as there'is no hope that. ue
they. could ' win victory, .

by the Russian. armies,

-Patis:.

Petrograd: General’ ‘Aloxleff,

8B sovifient ‘and. ‘in: Rood

The air raid of Monday over
Sheerness and Chatham was the
most destructive in its toll of
human life that England had
experienced since the great at-|.

A German ‘submarine shelled
Scarborough last night, killing
The

British airmen dropped many
tons of| bombs and caused large

German attacks on- the co

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Violent. ‘artillery fire
occurs along the whole front: . :
‘Geiman attuck on the Aisne front! -§
_ North of Rheims ao
the ‘French. penetrated: enemy

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‘OTTAWA, Sept. 6:—The- first | ‘clas of recruits ‘under the.
‘conseription act will be. called. shortly,

‘when - all sinmarried men
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speed. They are ow thirty
miles . east of the evacuated
port.

Rome; A desperate battle for |
possession: of . ‘positions in the |:
district ‘northeast of. Gorizia, on
the Austro-Italian - ‘front, eon-
tidues. ‘The Italians yesterday |
eaptured 500 additional prisoners |

broken up.

San Francisco: Chinese troops
to. the number of 15,000 have
been mobilized for transfer to
the. Russian battlefront through
Serbia, ‘to help Russia to stem
the German tide, . according to
heavily- censored despatches from
Shanghai,

be issued in November.

in” this area and 200 in the Bres-, _—
tovizza valley fighting, where re-|

peated Austrian attacks were|
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