, 1916-09-06

city nearly 200 miles inside the Persian bor-
der, according 10 q despatch received Ill ohi~
cial quarters here. 1t was said large Rus
sian endorsements recently sent into north
Persia, probably could check the Turkish
advance OH Teheran, the Persian caplta'.
unless the unexpectedly large Turkish de-
tachments were sent up from the Bagdad
army.
London, Sept. 2nd-A despatch to the
London Times from Paris says: lnforma-
tion received in Paris seems TO show that
the Germans are preparing to bring the
full weight of their efforts upon the south
ern Rumanian frontier toward which a
heavy movement OF troops is reported 10
be in progress. 1t is the general opinion
that Field Marshall Won Hindenburg's first
effort will be made there upon the Danube
and that he will content himself with hold-
ing the western front, if necessary, after
Withdrawing upon a shorter line.
London, Sept. 2nd-Tbe belief held here
that Won Hlndenburg's appointment is the
prelude to the resumption of ruthless sub
marine warefare has caused a revival of
the demand that for every allied merchant
ship sunk by a submarine Germany will
be required at the conclusion OF the war
to hand over equivalent tonnage. The
Dean of Worcester, the Very Rev. VIM.
Moore Eide, leads i'll the demand With a let
ter to the London Chimes" asking: "Why
should not the Allies inform the Central
Powers that as they have agreed they VIII
not make Il separate peace so they have
entered into mutual compact that they
will consider no terms Of peace which do
not contain q stipulation that for every
merchant ship of the Allies sunk by a sub
murine after negotiation of this decision q
similar ship of equivalent tonnage shall be
handed over by the Central Powers to the
Allies"
London, Sept. buddhist night as the
result OF Il minor operation, says the British
official statement reporting the military oper-
ations on the Somme trout IN France, We
drove the enemy from Il portion OF u small
area intersected with trenches north vest
of Delvillewood which he had recaptured
Oh Thursday.
London, Sept. 2nd--Further splendid results
have been received by the National Com
mittee for Belgian Relief as a result of their
appeal from the school children of Barba-
dos, Montserrat aud Bermuda.
Paris, Sept. 3rd-The villages of Forest
and Clergysur Somme ana all the German
positions between these two pionts have
been captured by the French and British,
in a Joint attack after intense artillery pre-
paratiou. More than 1000 prisoners us
well as - cannon aud so machine guns
were taken. The text of the official
statement reads: "North of the Somme,
after art illery preparation, French in
fantry, in conjunction wi tue British
army, attacked shortly before midday the
German positions on u front of about six
kilometres 90 miles) reaching from the re-
gion north of Mnurepas to The river with
remarkable dash against which the resist
lance of The enemy was useless for the mo-
ment. Our troops swept away large enc
nv forces and carried all their detectives.
The villages Of Forest, east of M~aurepas,
and Clerysursomme are entirely in our pos
session. North of Forest we have taken all
the German trenches along the road from
Forest to Combles, as far as the outskirts OF
Combles. Between Forest and Cletysufsom-
me. we also carried all the enemy positions
and crossed at numerous points the road
connecting these two places. German coun-
ter attacks with heavy forces launched
against our con positions south Fores-
es.. broke Town under the fire of orr
batteries, and the enemy retired IN DIS
order, leaving numerous dead. Up to
the presen. the number of unwounded
prisoners in our hands exceeds 1900, while
captured war material included IL cannon
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