THE WAR

Levin Daily Chronicle, 15 September 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

RUSSIAN 'J'ROUfiI.FS. flltcaeived This Day, U.lO a.m.) New York, iSepfc. 11. Advice from Russia stated that Kririnoff, commander ol (leuerai Korniloff's -troops lias ishob himself, bui, not fatally. General Grimoff, commander ol Korniiloff's rebellious troops, .oomm'iLted su'icidje, 'follow,inig a conference with Mr Kcrensky. Jt is announced 'that the iirvt secretary to the Swedish For.; g'i Office will be dismissed. PERMANENT STJIWLAR IN ICS. Rome, September 1-1. TJiie Agenzie Liberas has received Swifi'- advices that twenty German submarines wore sumk or captured during Awgust. KIEvG GEOMVE TO HIS SOLDIERS. London, September 1-1. The Pi •ess Bureau reports that the King sent a men ago to Repatriated sofklii'ors walconiing them back to the Old' Country for whose honor and Bafety their du'ty had been nobly done, and hoping that the happiness of home life among friends would Ileal the wounds and obscure memories of sufferings. BUTTEIR. Sydney, This 'Hay. The Federal Government has increaped the price of bmttier in New South Wales to £7 18s Id per cwt.

"SOME SAY WIC WON." A French communique pays:— After a vilonet bombardment, t/lio Garmans at dawn attaekod Casemates Pla.teeiv. The enemy wel'o driven book wi bli heavy losses, alter a hand-to-hand fight. "SOME SAY THEY AVON." A wirdiefs German official message says: Wo drove the enemy out of a wood section northward of TjangeaTck, and Vook prisoner numerou,English. Av<> potrafted tlio French lines westward of Bulon icourt. taking prisoners. (Received This Day 9. 25 a.m.) AN EXCITING JiNGO'l'-VTEIR. 'London, Sopfc 3-4 The Admirolty departs th«\ maval aircraft on Wednesday night bombed Ghoainelles and Thourout aerodrome(s.'i All returned. A naval auxiliary was struck by a totrpedo, ttlne engiuerooin and auroral compartments being flooded; we fired hitting the periscope. Forty hits wore observ'ed. Several linen came out of a hatch abaft. Ihe conning- 1 tower appeared; we fired liitlting the :pet'iscopo. (Many other flits were oh erveci. Several! men qamo out of a liatcli abaft of the conning tower, and the submarine wallowed along with her stern almost submerged, and oil sqmirttjiirg from her . u ide. The crew waved surrender and we ceased fire, whereupon the submarine started off at ivr speed. Wo fired aigain and the. enemy tell on his side ami slowiy disappeared end up. Two survivcrs wore picked up. We reached harbor.

GERMAN UILT. Mexico Cs«>\ Wept. 1-1. Von Ec.kliiardt, ireplying to enqu ios as to the allegation lio had recommended the German 'G-oviv.'nineir. to deoorato Cronholm, bin* Swedish Clrnrgc d'a(Fails, heitted'ly cV'.iiw "tliat lie had recommended the decoration for services t*> C'cr-nany.' Cronholm is no longer Swedish Charge but is still in (Mexico Oi)V. He refused to 1)0 interviewed. Gyl fe-Adenbe-rg, Cronh olm's succei--so>r, professed ignorance of the entire mutter, sis also did the Mexican UnderSecretary for Foreign Affairs.

(Received This Day 10.0 a.m.) j i GERMAN SOCIALISTS j Amsterdam, SI pt. ?!. j Mjenibeirts of Socialist 1 arfby in ; Germany (Decreased from o. e millioiu in '19U to 240,000 in 19-. Subscrjibori-' to Sociali. t nap. l !"* have lallen from 1,500,01 ! > to < <>2,000. NOTICE TO QUIT. Buenos Ayres, Sept. 11. Count I/uxburg has Uten given '2-1 hours in which to leave the country. Tho news resulted in great demonstrations in the street, the nuib crying. "Death to Luxburg; deaili to IGrerniany." 'Hie mob attempted to storm the Legation. Luxburg was arrested' when he rSjomanded polico protection. Tlie house now is strongly guarded. Luxburg goes to Chile forthwith.