Second Edition Latest Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 24 August 1916, Page 6

Second Edition Latest Cables

Press • <As*oei&Mon--UJ6pysight, -Australian and N.Z. €)»We iAaßociation. (Received 1.20 p.m.) , • * August 23. The inquiry into the deaths of Skeffington, , Macintyre, and Dickson, has opened <in r T)ublin. Lieutenant Morris testified that an excited crowd followed Skeffington,; and he arrested him as a precautionary ineasure". V Lieutenant Wilson stated that when Skeffington was brought to the barracks he had his hands tied behind m> back,. - - Captain Coltthurst fired several shots in the air Over the crowd, and then ..shot the boy Cordie, who was running away after giving an insulting answeiv Coltthurst, in reply to questions, said he meant to shoot him in the legs, but shot him in the, abdomen. Lieutenant Wilson said he had not mentioned the Corde incident at the court-martial' because "he was not asked. • '•■ v "London, August 23. ... The. War Office, at Salonika, reports : Yesterday we drove in the enemy advanced troops on the DakhDoiran front. The French who are holding the Komarjan bridge repulsed the enemy. The Serbians hold the line from-Lake Ostrovo to Pozar. A German cdnimunique states: English attacks were vainly repeated at Thiepval, Pozieres, north bf High Wood and Maurepas. We ejected the French from portion of a ttench they 'occupied on the 21st at; Estrees. We repulsed an attack al : , fsifeury,. attorned >• new positions Stara and Wipozyna, and made good progress in clearing the highlands wjst vo£ pstravo, We repulsed Ser-; blan attacks at Moglena. Salonika, August 23. The ■ Serbians ase -standing , fast against: violent Bulgarian attacks between Ostrovo ..and Petrsko. The •fighting on the west wing is important -compared,with the fact that,the Serbians a re .progressing in the MogJena n*r*h of Qatroyo, where they are threatening tliemvasion of, the Cerena Valley. TH French'hold, the vl&gjfs seized on the Belasfeitza slopes/ancf are advancing. Bulgarians surrounded the Greek \guard *<■ ''& >' ' fO&ft&Si&ir. Orv^ Greek escaped and warned the Beres garrison, where - the de mobilised Sixth Division's com-roaadantf-called on local reservists and defended the t6wn. A committee v. as' formed at Salonika to enrol and arVn reeruits. two hundred have offered to serve in the defence of Seres. The Allies never intended operations further east than the Struma. The BMgsriah& (fbfrrott flos-. sess a force to achieve a 'real military purpose anywhere. A detachment ni Albanians have arrived, wearing their national dress.

, ' London, August 23. • / *^ of pig irony? the Government think that too many t%pJifte& :#* of .munitions have! notified the.nianufactureis tliat export is en{irels. prohibited, except under license;' also, that, they jsvill only per J mit the majaufaotu|e t of |he numoer o plates rehired fo|fGn#nm©nti con|* - tract^^ere' must TO* furnishedlafct.the I'SfeHier's request. Mr McCaWis is&ing representation to the authorities,, that. th:J. Dominions'he on a diftfijen footing;: Keutrals are pointing the hardship" of imposing restrictions -now ;tha>the Dominion suppliers have completed, the Government .contracts' for 1916. , " (Received 1.40 p.m.) London, August 23. In the House of Commons, Mr replying to the debate or food prices, said\ the matter could no* be isolated from -the general conduct, of the war. It was only part of the War problem, of the first im'■|jpiitance. ■*J,t was-largely one of ship ftrng)and[the claims oh the shipping ■were' many and conflicting. Tho Covefement were'daily conducting negomWqb pn- the different interests foi -Ihe ; pu r P se of keeping down prices. li'wa v s vcalphated that the soldiers' consumption was fifty per cent, higher than in 'civilian life. That was sufficient to account .for a considerable Increase in prices. The evil was incased by thte simultaneous lowering of supplies by the withdrawal of labor 'from'!the'.knd. These factors were beyond (government, control. The Government .praetfcally controlled shipping, and stops would be taken to prevent the cornering of commodities. y .. .L .- Washington, August 23. • ''Mr Lansing announced that invests gatiop,: was proceeding in connection with the charge against Valdez, presi , dent of the Panama Canal. It is a', iegfed he> was instrumental in securing fifty 'thousand acres as a concession .for:*agents of'Japaftieise silk firms for ;Jstntd lp v eated)On the Atlantic seaboard #pppsite'san' Miguel Bay, on the Pacific seaboard, arid to the right of a valuable naval base.

r Paris, August 23. ~ In addition to Chinese, then thousand Portuguese workmen above thirty A two years will take up work in the French factories. Below this age sey are being mobilised to go to the front, 4 ■.,,; .; • Berne, August 23. ifhe:, Zjeitung denies that General Mackensen is on the West front, blli states he is commanding against Salonika. .* The Journal Geneve affirms that. owing to their disastrous defeats, Austria has renounced her pretensions, towards Poland, which falls to Germany. The "latter annexes the province of Suwalki, and the remainder

will be incorporated in. the-, new Polish kingdom, of which probably Lbepold of Bavaria will be king. The military convention gives Germany absolute power over the government of Poland, While the commercial treaty subordinates Polish interests to Germany.