, 1915-09-18

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Rydumel md lbe adj cent neighbourhood
and he is hurriedly retl eating, having Sus'
TUNED great losses in being driven from the
village of Postoko. Uptothe present the pris-
oners counted number 20 officers and 1000
men.OuI fire check, q the attempts of The enc
my TO arrest our offensive by q counter-attack
in the region Of the villages OF GontoW and
Dyk0wt c, southwest Of Wys2neWcr, AMI we
captured about $40 officers, 1900 men, one
heavy and & light guns, 4 calsson1, rs ma
chjne-guus and much booty. La Gallcia
we are pursuing the retrealluE enemy IA
westerly direction from the Sereth front, and
violent engagements have occurred III the re-
oions of the Villages of Gleadkt, Cedrow
and Juzephowka, west Of Tarnopol and near
the village of Gwiuiacz, il the region of
Zpleszczyki. In the engagements IN the re-
gion of JnzephOwka and Dzwlniaczka on
Sunday we captured over 35 officers aud
200 soldiers, with t macbjue-guns. From
August thirteenth to September twelfth the
number Of Austro-German prisoners taken
exceeded forty thousand In the Black Sea
our torpedoboats, cruising in the coal region,
have destroyed a large Steamship"
A French official commuuique states:
sFrench ayiators naye bombaI ded the rail
way station junction at Bensdorf in Alsace-
Lorraine, near Morhange, and the barracks
of the enemy at Langemarck."
A German official tatement says: "Treves,
Moerchiugeu, Chateau-Salihs and Donaues-
chingeu have been bombarded by enemy
aviators. At the latter place q passenger
train was bombarded with machine-guns and
a few persons were killed and injured. One
acroplune which flew over Treves was shot
down at Loomeriugen, On the remainder
of our front in the Western theatre there has
been heavy cannonadiug."
The correspondent OF the Paris journal
ut Athens says that a German submarine
has been torpedoed and sunk by % French
torpedoboat patrol between Mytileue and
TeneGOs.
The correspondent of the "DaiIy Chronicle"
in northern Italy says he is authorized to
state that y message just received from
Rome Announces that nm Austrian torpedo
boat was struck by a French submarine off
Cape Plnnca, on the DaImutian coast, west
of Spalato, and foupdered while trying to
reach harbour.
An official admission that the Cabinet is
seriously debnting tho subject Of couscrip-
tion has been made public for the first time
in the House of Commons by Mr.. AsQuIth,
who announced us follows: 'FThis matter
has not escaped the attention of the Gov
eminent. When the Government, without
undue delay and after the due deIiboration
which the gravity of the subject demands,
have arrived at conclusions, they will be
presented to the House and will become
the subject OF Parliamentary discussion"
The Premier spoke sharply regarding
the officer embers Of the House Of Com
mons who recently returned from the froGt
and signed Il memorial urging the Govern
ment to hasten conscriptlon, saying that
they ought to feel themselves under a
most strict responsibility and should remem-
Der that they did not SIT il the House Of
Commons rs he representatives of the Army
but of their constituents. 1t was most uu-
just, because they happen to be in the Army
that they should pretend to come to the
House with any mandate from the Army. 1t
was an evil thing for the Army, a bad thing
for the House of Common and Il claim he
would never admit.
The unusual Interest taken in the reopen
ing Of Parliament was shown BY the large
attendance
A despatch from Amsterdam states that
the following semi official Note has been
published in Berlin: at appears from the
news available up to the present, taken in
conjunction with the facts known in official
quarters. that it is impossible that a German
submarine was responsible for the sinking of