FALKENHAYN WOUNDED

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 218, 21 October 1916, Page 5

FALKENHAYN WOUNDED

RELINQUISHED THE TRANSYLVANIAN COMMAND * ■ UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS AGAINST HOUMANIA ON THE VLADIMIR-VOLYSKI FRONT A BLOODY STRUGGLE PROCEEDING both sides concentrating in roumania SPLENDID GAINS ON THE SOMME

PIRATES IN NORTH SEA. f —— OF LARGE - SIZE. SEVERAL BOATS SANK. LONDON, Oct 19. The “Times” Copenhagen correspondent states that German submarines are active in the North Sea. Five of the largest size are at the entrance to the Skagerack. They torpedoed the Norwegian steamer Sten and the Swedish barque Gretha. LOST CUNAED LINER. STRUCK A MINE IN ENGLISH CHANNEL. ALL THE PASSENGERS SAVED. SOME OF THE CREW DROWNED. NEW YORK, Oct 19. The ' Cunard Line announces that their steamer, the Alaunia, 13,400 tons built in 1913, which*was bound from STew York to Falmouth, England, with two hundred passengers on board, struck a mine in the English Channel, md after landing the passengers; at Falmouth, she sank. ’ t The* captain and ' tSie majority of the new were saved.' ■ A'r.vte : v -;e ‘ ■ ■ MANY" '' AMERICANS! ‘ ABOARD. ’ 9’ilU ■' Received"B.ss ’■'D "Bfe? U.-; rJ kw** NEW YORK- Oct ‘2O. The i Cunard Office states that the Alaunia carried no. munitions. Many Americans: were among 1 the passengers. Pour sdf the- crew were drowned. 3 ' i . ——-—--—«-■; '■ ■■ -• ; GERMANS DIFFER. ; 1 DN SUBMARINE BUTHLESSNESS. DEFERENCE TO HINDENBURG. SOLLWEG VIOLENTLY ATTACKED . Received 8.55 AMSTERDAM, Oct. 2b “Germana” publishes a full report >f Reventlow’s anti-Hollweg conference. It states that one speaker conveyed Hollweg’s reply to the confenmce’s demand for submarine ruthlessicss, saying it could not 3 r et begin, leheimrath Duisberg caused a sensa;ion at the conference by announcing ;hat he and Hindenburg’s special envoy were instructed to request the conlenence to abandon the campaign of mthlessness. Subsequent speakers dodared that Hindenburg’ wishes decided them in not proceeding further. Reventlow then violently attacked Hollpyeg falsely inspiring Hindenburg, vho only heard one side. MORE AUSTRALIANS WANTED. WEAKENED DIVISIONS IN FRANCE. JIR DOUGLAS HAIG APPEALS FOR MEN, MELBOURNE, Oct 20. Sir Douglas Haig cabled to the Hon. Vm. Hughes as follows: The Ausralian Divisions in France are far beow strength. Drafts are not arriving n sufficient numbers. The divisions lave fought splendidly, but they canlot continue to achieve results unless i heir strength in kept up. The suc;esses of the past few months justify ibsolute confidence in our power to rin final victory, but it is not yet won. Po complete our work to secure an nduring peace the utmost efforts or he Empire and Allies will be required or a long time yet. I hope that strong drafts will be despatched so hat the strength may be maintained. CHINESE COOLIES IN FRANCE. %_ r : SHANGHAI, Oct 20. Despite German efforts to prevent •fecruitment, 5000 Chinese coolies iave been despatched to Franco.

SERBIAN SUCCESSES. Received 9.23. LONDON, Oct. 20. A Serbian official message states: We continued attacks in the Sokol region yesterday Our army at AVoivoca and Mishich defeated two Bulgarian regiments and occupied Brod and Veleselo. We captured machine guns and prisoners. GERMANY’S PRECAUTIONS. , AMSTERDAM, Oct 20. Germany has applied the ticket system to men’s and women’s clothing. RHODES’ SCHOLARSHIPS. TO BAR GERMANS. LONDON, Oct 19. In the House of Commons, on the ’second reading of the Rhodes Estate Bill, providing for the disestablishment of German scholarships, Mr, J. King moved rejection, criticising the trustees’ methods of carrying 'out the object in view. He admitted that reversion to pre-war conditions was possible:' ’■ ” ’ Mr.DYate suggested that 1 the trustees be invited to consider the allocar tion to India of one of the proposed forfeited ■ scholarships. . , Mr. Mackinder, bn behalf of the promoter’s of the measure, said the House would agree that a long time would elapse before Germans would again be acceptable at Oxford. Mr. King withdrew his opposition, and the Bill, was read a second time. . BRITISH AERIAL SUPREMACY. PARIS, Oct 20. The. “Matin’s” correspondent states that British airmen during the recent eperatidns made 3000 trips across i ; enemy’s lines to the enemy’s dozen over theirs. Before every attack the troopg resting behind the lines reproduce a plan of the enemy’s complicated works from the airmen’s photographs and rehearse the capture. WEST FRONT REPORT.' “ BRITISH RAJD TRENCHES. Received 10 a.m. ® LONDON, Oct 20. General Haig reports: We raided trenches at Loos. The enemy shelled Stuff and, Schwaben redoubts. A French communique states: We repulsed a coup de main in Lorraine. ( AN APPOINTMENT MADE. Received 10 a.m. LONDON, Oct 20. Official: Mr. Runciman has appointed Sir Gerald Muntze chairman of a committee to consider the post war position, especially with relation to international competition of lead, copper, tin and other non-ferrous metal traders, and to report on what measures, if any, are necessary or desirable to safeguard the position. MORE GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS.

LONDON, 1 Oct 19. The Colonial Office reports that in German East Africa, a trooper in the South African Rifles, was captured, tied to a gun wheel, and beaten by a native under Europeans’ orders, and then shot down seven times. He died two days later. Captain Count Falenstein commanded the Germans. The prisoners captured by the British are believed to include the trooper’s murderers, also thirteen missionaries who have been lighting or doing supply transport work. MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENCE. SALONIKA, Oct 20. ‘ Repulis has completed a ministry of National Defence.

GREATEST BATTLE IN HISTORY. MILLIONS OF MEN READY MARSHALLED FROM DANUBE TO RIGA. LONDON, Oct. 20. The Morning Post ’s Pctrograd correspondent says: This month, or early in November, will reach the climax of the titanic war on the Russian front. Many millions of men, afer manoeuvring for months, are now at close grips ready for the greatest battle in history. The contending armies stand manhalled for the supreme effort from the Danube to Riga. THE SOMME BATTLE. SIR DOUGLAS HAIG’S REVIEW. STRONG POSITIONS CAPTURED. 28,918 PRISONERS SINCE JULY Ist. LONDON, Oct 20. Sir Douglas Haig, summing up the operations since the last Summary, says: In the area between Thicpval and Le Sars we gradually a series of strong positions. Fighting was heavy and prolonged. The enemy resisted stubbornly until we surrounded one place after another and large numbers were prisonered. We had to repel repeated counter-attacks. Generally these were stopped by artillery and machine-guns, but where the enemy traversed the barrage and reached our lines they were thrown back by infantry fire wtih heavy losses. Once or twice they gained a foothold in a trench. Then they were promptly driven out with the bayonet. The prisoners taken since the beginning of July number 28,918 One of our divisions which had previously had many days ’ hard fighting, prisonened in action on October 7, eight officers and 474 men.

THE SOMME FIGHTING.

ITS REAL PURPOSE, ACHIEVED. NO DOUBT AB'OUT ROUMANIAN ABILITY TO HOLD THE HUNS. Received 8.55. NEW YORK, Oct 20. The New York “World’s” London correspondent interviewed Maurice, Director of Military 1 * operations, who said: The main strategic purpose of the Allies’ operations on the Somme was to retain the bulk of Germar forces on this front. As five-eighths of the German army was there, the purpose had been achieved. The British were now fighting for a jumpingof place wherefrom to attack Bapaume. While Bapaume ana Peronne were not of first-class strategic value, their capture would be morally important. Replying to a question, he said: There was no reason to lack confidence in the Roumanian ability to make an effective' stand. They had enough men with good leadership. There was v no ground for doubting their ability.

FRENCH REPULSE ATTACKS. PARIS, Oct 20. A communique says: Artillery repulsed waves of enemy leaving the trenches in a vain attempt to counterattack the line northward and eastward of Sailly-Saillisel. The enemy’s losses were serious. We progressed afresh between Blanches and Maisonette. VIGOROUS WINTER CAMPAIGN. ANGLO-FRENCH MAKING ALL ARRANGEMENTS. PARIS, Oct 19. The “Intranisgeant” states that the Anglo-French high commands hav*_decided to prosecute a most vigorous winter war,, not permitting the Germans to transfer troops or keep reserves in Home garrisons for a spring campaign. They are making all arrangements for winter comforts in the trenches. AUCTION OF ENEMY PROPERTY. IN NIGERIA. Received 11.55.'. J LONDON," Oct 20. ‘ i On TJie Government authorised the auction on the 31st, iugt. /( : of all properties in Nigeria, representing IX million pounds, captured. -.This includes steamers, wharves, warehous* es, factories; many situated'inland. Before the war the German Nigerian trade was worth four millions annually.

A captured document from German headquarters, acknowledging the superiority of the British airmen, suggests methods of.• reorganisation, whereby it hi hoped,, to, be possible, at least for. some, hours, to contest the enemy’s su-, premacy of, the air. Assisted by aeroplanes, our. artillery has established and maintain a clear superiority oven the enemy. It supported the infantry, disorganised arrangements behind the enemy’s front lines, and also hindered, the arrival of reserves and supplies. It ; allows no rest, and materially assists in wearing down the morale, which is vital to success in battle. The enemy infantry has shown that it wanted endurance and devotion. Captured documents bear clear testimony of the effect of our continuous artillery fire, dash, discipline, infantry attacks and the- quality of the men.

BRITISH LINE ADVANCED. LONDON, Oct. 20. Sir Douglas Haig in a communique, s'ays: There was heavy rain all the morning. We slightly advanced our line at Butte de Warlencourt. Oun barrage stopped a counter-atacck. GERMAN FIRST LINE IN DANGER. NE^ T DEFENCES BEING PREPARED. LONDON. Oct 20. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Paris correspondent says that owing to the loss of Sailly-Saillisel the Germans are a fresh line of defences between Warlencourt and Le Translov-Sailly, but Le Translov is in imminent danger of capture by the British. This would probably compel the Germans to withdraw their first line three or four miles eastward. A vast wood is virtually lost. The Germans have already removed their artillery to Vaux Wood, three miles to the eastward, under harassing French fire. BREACH IN GERMAN LINE. NOW ELEVEN MILES DEEP. HUNS MAKE ELABORATE DEFENCES. EXTENSIVE SIBT ERR ANE AN TT.WKr.LS. Reor>ed If IC. NEW YORK, Oct 21. Despatches from French Field Headuarters declare that the French victory at victory at Sailly Saillisel villages increased the Allied breach in the German line to a maximum depth of over eleven miles. Soon the Allies will be in a position for most effective assaults simultaneously on three sides. The Germans, fearing this development, are constructing deep subterranean tunnels on a scale hitherto unequalled, capable of shelter iug 1000 men, and- providing rapid transfer underground from, place to place. Tunnels are equipped with miniature railways for transportation of machine-guns and ammunition to exits where a lift will transport the guns and crew's to the surface, or permit descent into the tunnel, to other points with maximum rapidity.

BELITTLING SOMME DEFEATS. " SUMMARY ISSUED,' HOW THE HUNS PACIFY. AMSTERDAM, Oct 20. The Somme authorities have issued a summary belittling the German defeats, describing the battle as a vast and costly failure of the Franeo-Bri-tish attempt to break through. The account is intentionally confusing It glowingly describes t[he German defence and briefly mentions the loss of successive fortified villages, using the phnase, "the position was then left to he enemy. ” The loss of Combles is presented as a German success because the garrison escaped heavily laden with arms and material. MODEST .DEMANDS. GERMAN PEACE TERMS. STILL TALKING ANNEXATION. AND RETURN OF COLONIES. LONDON, Oct 19. The Pan-German Association at Hamburg demands as peace terms the annexation of Belgium and Poland, indemnities from France, Italy, and Rou mania, and the restoration of the German colonies. THE RUSSIAN FRONT. EXTREMELY VIOLENT STRUGGLE PETROGRAD, Oct 20. There is a bitter struggle on the Volhynia line, east of Vladimir Volynski and Sokal, where the Germans have concentrated their artillery. Both sides are concentrating to the utmost on the Roumanian front. Before winter sets in the Germans desire to knock out Roumania, while the Russians are making an effort to obliterate the. possibility of German dan ger, hence the extreme violence of the struggle. Brussiloff’s command has reached Dorna Watra, where the Rus-so-Roumanians join up.

THE ROUMANIAN DANGER. LONDON, Oct 20. In the House of Commons, Sir Edward Carson asked whether it would be possible to get a Government state ment regarding Roumania in view of the prevalent anxiety. Mr. Bonar Law said it was undesirable to make a statement at present. ROUMANIA’S CAMPAIGN, FURTHER GAINS REPORTED. ENEMY’S ADVANCE STOPPED. LONDON, Oct 19. In the House of Commons, Mr. Rowland Hunt, Unionist member for Ludlow, asked for assurances that Roumania would be saved the fate of Serbia. Mr. B’onar Law stated that the situation in Roumania had been the subject of careful and anxious consideration of ourselves and our allies. Everything possible was being done in the matter. A Roumanian communique says; One of our detachments in the region of Zampois Mountain drove back the enemy. Violent fighting occurred in the Oituz Valley, south of Javnes Pass. We drove the enemy beyond the frontier. In Predeal Pass we gained ground in the Beant defiles. We stopped the advance towards Csikara Pass. HINDENBURG’S BLOW. THE CORNER TURNED. CONFIDENCE IN BUCHAREST. LONDON, Oct 20. Though in some quarters it is considered that Roumania has passed the corner, some correspondents declare that the crisis is not yet permanently passed, as the Germans will surely continue to send reinforcements while the weather permits. A confident feeling prevails in Bucharest military circles. Zl - fAlkenhayn wounded RELINQUISHED TRANSYLVANIA. Received 11.10. ZURICH, Oct 20. 'Palkenhayn is wounded in the leg, and has relinquished the Transylvanian command. ;

THE ATHENS GARRISON. JOIN THE NATIONALS. Received 11.10. ATHENS, Oct 20. Six hundred of the Athens garrison have joined the Nationals at. Salonika. PASSED MOST DANGEROUS • STAGE. LONDON, Oct 20. The ‘‘Daily Chronicle’s’ ’ Petrograd correspondent says there is reason to believe the German punitive expedition against Roumania has passed-its most dangerous stageJ CONSTANTINE COUNTED OUT. LONDON, Oct 20. The Exchange Telegraph’s Athens’ correspondent says Venizelos informed the Entente Ministers that he could no longer co-operate with Constantine, even if the King acquiesced in the national movement. / THE DEUTSCHLAND. HER TRIP CANCELLED. Eoceved 11.10 AMSTERDAM, Oct. 20. The departure of the submarine Deutschland for America has been cancelled owing the the necessity of calming public anxiety. GERMAN SUBMARINES. IN THE BLACK SEA. Received 11.10. COPENHAGEN, Oct 20. A number of German submarines are operating in the Black Sea.