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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 46, 21 September 1916, Page 6

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I Press Association—Copyright, Australian anil N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.10 a.m.) London, September 20. Mr Bernard Wise died of heart failure while talking to his wife last ( night. He had just' returned from a two days' visit to the Australian camps and apparently was in J" s usual health. The Lord Mayor opened the Victoria League's new club for overseas soldiers in Hatton Gardens. A German communique states: We drove the French from a small portion of a trench, They retained the west slope of Mort Homme. We drove out the Russians who were temporarily holding our trenches near Szelwow. In the snow-covered Carpathians the Russians gained local successes. We drove back the Roumanians over Szardu Pass. Press Association—Copyright. Renter's Telegrams Lieutenant 1). Henderson, son of. the British Minister, has been killed. Mr Henderson is the sixth Minister to lose a son. The others are Mr Asquith, Lord Crewe, Lord Selborne. Lord Lansdewne ami one other Minister. Mr Henderson and Lord Selborne each have two other sons serving. Other Ministers, Mr Lloyd George, Sir 'Walter Long, Mr Bonac Law, and Mr MacKinnon Wood, have on each. Hitherto eight members of the House of Commons have been killed in the war. The Bishop of London, in an outspoken address, in the open air ,at Piccadilly, denounced those male hawks, for which, he said, shooting was too good, who nightly lay in wait to stain the chivalry o| our soldier boys. : His Lordship also denounced the music hall promenades, and the writers and producers of slimy plays which the soldiers did not want. Headquarters correspondents emphasise the importance of the possession of the forward slope and the high ground from the.Ancre to Combles Valley, giving the artillery a dominating position and enabling them to ceaselessly pound the Germans, inflicting heavy losses, thus preventing the captured trenches being made habitable. A very strong quadrilateral trench greatly strengthens the between Ginchy and Guillemont. * The fighting here occurred in a deluge of rain. The ground was a perfect morass, and many of the enemy machine-gunners and snipers had to desert their lairs to escape being drowned. , :