General

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 30, 22 September 1914, Page 3

General

T By ELEOTHIO TIIiKGBAPH—COPYRIGHT] [United Pejus Abbociation.l London, September 20.

Lord Kitchener was approached by the Prince of Wales, who urgently desired to accompany the Grenadier Guards to the front. As he had not completed his military training, Kitchener submitted to the King that for the present it was undesirable for the Prince to proceed on active service. OFFICIAL. The High Commissioner reports from London, September 21st (12.35 a.m.): — Reliable.—Servians defeated 200,000 Ausfcrians near Novibazar.

Montenegrins are advancing towards Sarejevo and have occupied Prohotka, whence the Austrians retired.

A German army surgeon states that arrows have been used effectively by the Allied airmen. Two airmen flew over a German regiment at the frontier at a height of 5000 feet and dropped arrows on the soldiers in camp. It is estimated that two airmen shot fifty arrows, killing and injuring thirteen soldiers. The arrows are made of steel.

Stockholm reported that a number of Russian warships have arrived at Helsingfors in a damaged condition. Terrific cannonading was heard in the neighbourhood of Aland island a day or two previously. It is believed Russian cruisers were engaged with the German fleet near Bornholm.

(Helsingfors is a fortified Russian seaport and the capital of Finland. It is on a peninsular in the Gulf of Finland, about one hundred and ninety miles west of St. Petersburg. It is defended by the almost impregnable citadel of Sveaborg.)

(Bornholm, whore the engagement is supposed to have taken place, is a mountainous island in the Baltic be longing to Denmark. It is situate about one hundred miles from the outermost point of Zealand).