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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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' 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

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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,

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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,

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“Montreal: Frustration of, plots

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off southward, ‘Seattering and: /

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° they ran,” Two German airplanes!

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

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

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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 egreres vt rf 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,

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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,

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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| eee o

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