New Britain herald., 1915-09-16
Berlin Announces Advances To- - ward Riga Also
FRANCE. PLANS FOR FUNDS
Finance Minister Calls for Additional
 Expenditure of a Billion and 8 Quarter-British Submarine E-7, Lost at Dardanelles. -I

ss5gs The Russian city of Pinsk, at which X Field Marshal Won Mackensen has 7 been, driving, has been taken. The
 capture of the city was announced by
 German army headquarters today.
 The occupation of Pinsk marks an
 eastward advance by the Germans of
 nearly 100 miles since the taking of
 Brest-Litovsk on August 25. A Further successes have been scored
 by the Germans in their fight for N Riga, Berlin announcing an advance a along the Dumba in the direction of ' Jacobstadt
 The probable loss of the British
 submarine E-T, off the Dardanelles is announced by the British admiralty
 The reserves of the Russian terri
 toriaI army have been called to the x colors.
 Deep feeling has been stirred in Russia by the announcements that Rreuafer Goremykin has been author 1zed to prorogus the Duma, Petro- grad advices state.
 A bill approprjating $1,240,O00,000
 for the expenses ot France during the
 last quarter of the year was intro asduced in the French chamber of dep- snties today by finans Minister Ri- ' sJ1D0t ssss sa
 2 Franc. already has advanced4s1 so,- x 000. 00v to her allies, the French if Y nance minister announced. He estl- mated the average monthly war. ex- Spenses Of Russia based on the latest financi:ll reports, at $360,OOO,O00;
 ,.1x
 OO0 arfd Great Britain's in excess of s the latter amount.
 < ss9ss SeVeral z millions of dollars worth Of American goods, mostly meat pro- ] ducts, carried by four steamships, have been declared forfeited to the crown by a British prize court. The I court held that the productsaTrwere iA destined for the German government
 and not for consumption in Denmark,
 Wf1ither the vessels detained were --Bound
 German newspapers have published
 by official permission despatches in timating that Rumnnia's participa- gtion in the war may be momm entarlly
 expected according to advices through < Copenhagen. ...s... x Following Rumania's persistent re- fusal to allow war supplies for Fur < key to pass through her territory, Austro-German troops recently have been massed on the Rumanian from
 tier, while Rumania has effected :he mobilization of large bodies of her 7 troops
 According to unofficial despatches from Petrograd the Russian Dnma is to be prorogued immediately until
 the middle of November, an imperial -.decree to this effect having been is-
 sued. Measures to forestall popular
 demonstrations are said to have
 been taken in Pctrograd and Moscow.
 f It is reported through Athens that
 the Turko-Bulgarian agreement will be formally ratified by imperial de-
 cree in Constantinople on Sept. 2e, and that the new frontier will be traced by German officers. <. Press advices from Petrograd re- 4 ceived in Italy state that Emperor Nicholas has granted amnesty to all X political prisoners, who number more than 100000.
 Two Austrian torpedo boat de- stroyers are reported in despatches from Italy to have been sunk by an
 Italian submarine in the Adriatic
 There have been additional spirit
 ed artillery exchanges along the pfront in France, the activity having
 been particularly notable in the
 region of Arras, around Arroy and
 the vicinity of Lassigny. Further
 down the line, also, the big guns have
 been active, the firing extending into the Vosges Mountain region.