SERVIANS' GREAT VICTORY

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1916, Page 5

SERVIANS' GREAT VICTORY

MOHASTIR ABOUT TO FALL GREAT BATTLE ON THE EAST

Jiustralisn-New Zealand Cable Association.—Copyright.

WJSTROGERMANY.

'|l damper on rejoicing. KAISER RAISES 'FALSE HOPES. . BotteriLm. Sept. 18. ■* Bsilin has been bitterly disillusioned, following the Kaiser's melodramatic Dobrudja telegram to the press, the newspapers flaunted great headlines, the /.tty- was beflagged, and there was hysterical rejoicing. " Thu people eagerly bought later editions, expectiiig news of great liauls of prisoners and guns, but only found the SjjmDie disasters, and the loss of Flers, Martinpuich and Coureelette, which military experts had just declared impregnable. ' The rejoicings ceased, there was much Ditter comment on the Kaiser raising false hopes, and Berlin went to bed Bloomy and dispirited.

AN OFFICIAL REPORT.

BITCH! FIGHTING Eeceivod Sept. 19, 5.30 p.m. London, Sept. IS. A German .•ommunique states: Slighty battle; on ,the Somme. on a forty-five kilometre front from Thiepval to Vermandovillors, led to bitter fighting. North of the Somme the actions >ere favofable to us. South of the I Somm® Te abandoned positions between Barlcux and Vermandovillers and the villages of Berny alid Deniecourt. There has b.:rn heavy lighting west of (the Zlota Lipa. A German counter attack astride Xarojawka regained a «feat portion* of the territory lost on Saturday. V'c took 3500 prisoners.

BOOSTING THE WAR LQAN.

©ON PRIZES OFFERED London, Sept. 18. rtwe I® anxiety in Germany regardkig the war loan. Newspapers are appealing for subscriptions and deny that the savmgß banks or reducing the inthe savings birks or reduring the interest. Offices have been opened throughout the country for the reception rtf jewellery. Depositors are reWarded with a medal or iron watch (baiust , I HINDENBURG'S optimism. . Amsterdam, Sept. IS. - Field-Marsha! von Hindenburg, in an Interview published in the Tageblatt, r»ferred to the German tasks on the Sonucc and elsewhere. He said the diffi- 1 cnltie3 were great, but there was good Justification fcr the belief that Germanv "vouM eonquer. Where there was a will there was a wa f and they must find the 1 PIOLUTIONARY PROPAGANDA. - ' 'Amsterdam, Sept. IS. Therri 5g uneasiness among the GerSnan ruling clr.s«es at the secret revolutionary propaganda going on among German workmen. The central committee of the union of German guilds (condemns the agitation and warns the Workers that if the agitators' plans are realised Germans will be delivered unto their adversaries. ANOTHER GENERAL SHELVED. Amsterdam, September 18. lTis Frankfurter Zeitung announces the dismissal of General Haemiseh, the commander of the Amy Corps. -■

ITALY'S PART?

THIRD LINE BROKEN. ITALIANS MAKING FOR TRIESTE. Received Sept. 10, 5.30 p.ni. " Rome, Sept. 18. ~A la reported that the Italians have Lroken the Austrian third lines on the llonfnulcone sector, and that they are fiercely flghtir.g their way to Trieste.