, 1916-10-04

Former Minister Neergaard as chairman, and
member of the Landsting Godskesen, a Con-
sentative, as vice chairman. 1t is expected
that The debates will be accelerated as much
as possible.
London Sept. 2nd.-Ten Zeppelins took
part in last nights raid over England, Two
Of them attempted to attack London. One
OF them was driven away, and the other, as
reported last night was DESTROYED. Follow
ing is an official announcement of the raid.
Ten a~ilsiips crossed the east coast last night
between nine O'clock and midnight. One
airship approached the north of London at
about 10 pm, but was driven off by gunfre
and pursued by ueroplunes. She attempted
to return from the northwest, but was attack
ed by guns and ueloplanes, and brought to
earth i'll flames in The neighbourhood of Pot
ters Barn shortly before midnight. A sec
ond Nirship attempted to attack London from
the northeast and was driven off. Bombs
were dropped. No reports Of casualties
or damage have been received. The re.
naming airships wandered 0imlessly over
the eastern counties. In Lincolnshire
bombs were dropped promiscuously. Most
Of them appear to have dropped in open
country without doing damage. The air
ship destroyed was one of the largest type.
Headquarters of The French Armies, Sept.
30th-In the first thirteen weeks of the
Somme offensive, the French and British
have captured more ground than has been
taken by the Germans III more than SIX months
at VerdCB. A survey of the results Of the
Allied drive shows that we have recorcuaroI
2S6 square kilometres OF French territory
(about 81 square miles) exceeding by Is
kilometres she territory gained by the Ger
mans at Verdun. Forty-live villages each
one organized into a veritable fortress, BY
the Teutons have fallen before the batter
ing Of French and English artillery. In
every instance the German position was so
strong that 1t had TO be broken down by
shellfre before infantry could storm il. A
total OF so, 600 prisoners, 285 cannon, half Of
which are heavy artillery pieces, and more
than 1000 machine-guns have been taken.
Everywhere from the Ancre to q point near
Cheulne3 the German first, second and third
lines are completely i'll the hands Of the Al
lies.
Paris, Oct. 2nd.-Following up The adyan-
tage gained over the Bulgarians at Kaimak
calan height on the western end Of
the Macedonian front, the Serbians advanced
1t miles north OF the height and
occupied the village of Kolchova, the
War Office announced to-day. The Du,ga
rians made a counter attack on the positions
newly won by the British on the left bnnk
of the Struma. The statement says: The
Bulgarians were repulsed leaving many dead
on the field.
Christiania, Oct. 2nd-A German subm-
rine has made its way into the Arctic Ocean
and has torpedoed three Norwegian steamers
there. The vessels torpedoed were the
Sinsens, Ravn and Rolf Jarl. The crews
were saved. Steamship traffic over the re-
gular route covering the northern Norwegian
towns has been stopped, Since August the
Germans have sunk Norwegian boats valued
at 9l,8OO,O0O Sinsens gross tonnage was
1926 and that of the Rolf Jarl 1866.
There are listed three Norwegian steam
ships Ravn all OF them under 1900 tons.
Tn purpose of the German submarine oper-
atoms probably is to interfere with the
transportation of war materials TO Russia
bV wav of White SaeApopfr