SOMME FIGHTING

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1916, Page 5

SOMME FIGHTING

RESULTS OF THREE MONTHS' WORK FORMIDABLE REDOUBT CAPTURED ROUMANIANS AT BAY CENERAL ADVANCE BY SARRAIL URGED

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HUJBTBOHGEBMANT. THREE MONTHS' LOSSES. i SWISS ESTIMATE. ' Received Oct. 17, 5.5 p.nv , fc ' Berne, Oct. 18. ' Careful Swiss estimates of , Austrowrman losses in July, August and Sepjtember «ive a total of 1% million, Whereof half a million were sustained on ! .Jhe West front, 600,000 on the Eastern ; front, 160,000 on tiie Roumanian, 300,000 on the Italian, and 80,000 in Macedonia.

MOTHER COUNTRY. TRAMWAYS ESSENTIAL TO WAR. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS UNDE3IR- - ABL& Received Oct. 17, 5.45 n.ffi. London, Oct. 10. The Ministry of Munitions has addressed the London County Council, declaring that tramways are essential to the carrying on of the war, ind urged the necessity for prohibiting strikes and lockouts on the London tramway system,

GERMANY'S NEED OF GOLD, 4# APPEAL FOR, GOLD ORXAMENTS. aieceited Oct. 17, 5.5 p.m. •--_ *- Amsterdam, Oct. IG. The appeal of Here von Bethmannjnollweg, as president of the Imperial BanE, to other lenders for gold articles eay«: "This sacrifice is small compared with the bloodshedding. Therefore, out with your superfluous gold ornaments from trunks and cupboards and help the Imperial Bank to fill with golden weapon* Germany's economic armory."

POLITICAL RECANTATIONS. f AS THE RESULT OF THE ">VAR. Received Oct. 17, 3.5 p.m. London, Oct IC. The Star is publishing a scries of political recantations. Mr. Swift MacNeil says that prior to the war be condemned the profligate expenditure on the navy, but he now recognises that it was our salvation. He was opposed to the restraint of trade, but he now contemplates a renewal of trade relations with Germany with disgust and indignation.

lEVERISH CONSTRUCTION 01? ARTILLERY. New York, Oct. 16. The tact that the Allies are surpassing the Germans in the construction of artillery is indicated bv a Union 'Press dispatch from Essen. ' Skilled workmen ere being recalled from the trenches to reinforce the factory hands. Two thousand additional workers are being added this week to the normal force of 7000 (!) employed at Krupp's works at Essen. Field-Marshal' Hindenburg is directing the employment of these extra artillery makers, the suggestion being that he feels the pressing need of more big guns than .Germany has hitherto been able to supply.

COST OF LIVING. PRESSES HEAVILY ON WORKERS. deceived Oct. IS, 1.15 a.m. London, Oct. 17. Board of Trade figures show Uiat the cost of living for the working classes has increased between 43 and -50 per cent, during the war period.

The correspondent says that the antiaircraft guns have •be'en dismounted at Essen 'because the dense smoke ascending from the factory forms a cloud over the Rhine and Ruhr rivers, making it impossible for' airmen to distinguish Essen from the surrounding towns. Much resentment is shown at the supply of American munitions to the Allies. The director, von Bodenhausen, who is in control at the Essen works, declared that if the United States would not shijj ammunition to Europe the war Would end. *

THE RED CROSS FUNDI London, October 1(1. King George has given £5090 to the Red Cross Fund, and Queen Mary £IOOO. The Greek Prince Nicholas has arrived in England. FAVORABLE CROP RETURNS. London, Oct. lfi. Crop reports tabulated in the Times are as follow:—Wheat, S9.S; barley, 92.5; oats, 90.8; beans, 95.1; potatoes, 85.13—the figure 100 representing a good crop.

•BLOOD POISONING EPIDEMIC. Amsterdam, Oct. 16. ■Serious blood poisoning, due to tinned food, is spreading in Germany. There are thousands of cases in tie large AFTER WAR TRADE, Eeuter Service. Amsterdam, O-.-t- 16. In the Reichstag, Herr Helfferich said that among Germany's chief te.sks after the war would be the Rearrangement of capital for industrialism, the elimination Of female labor, the finding of work for ex-soldiers, the building up of new shipping credits, and finding raw material. Herr Helfferich mentioned chat an Imperial Commissioner had been appointed fiii early as August, 1914, to superintend <!the transition period after the war. KAISER'S- CHRISTMAS OFFERINGS. Berne, Oct. 16. The Kaiser is sending Christmas autograph letters to his allies and neutral rulers, including a book and an English letter to Mr. Wilson, and a theological took with an inscription to the Pojie.

GREECE. RECOGNITION OF PROVISIONAL 'GOVERNMENT. London, Oct. IG. Router is officially informed that the Entente has formally recognised the Provisional Government of Greece in Crete, where alone the emotion of recognition has yet arisen.

BEFITTING TEARS. Athens, Oct. 10. King Constantine reviewed the loyalist crews of the Greek fleet and' wept with emotion, so that he had to withdraw. A youthful supporter of Vcnizelos, who made a depreciatory remark, was immediately lynched by reservists. Another who attempted to help him received a sward thrust. THE CREEK NAVY. The latest available inforrr\.it ; on iv garding the Greek Navy shows that it includes five battleships—the Kilkis (formerly tho United States' Mississippi) and the Lemnos (formerly tne United States- Idaho), each of 13.000 tons, and mounting four 12in. and other guns; the Hydra, Psara, and Spetsai, ships of 4SOB tons, carrying three lO.Oin. suns, of which the first two have joined the Entente fleet blockading the Piraoiis. The armored cruiser Averoff, a vessel of 9950 tons, carrying four 9.2 in. and eight T.ain. guns, is the sixth capital ship of the navy. There are also the Helli, a light cruiser of 2000 tons, carrying two din. and four 4in. guns, fourteen torpedoboat destroyers, five torpedo-boats, and two submarines. At the outbreak of .war Greece had several ships under construction in foreign yards, but how many of them have been taken over by the respective Governments is uncertain.

INDIA A NATIVE MEMORIAL AUTOSOME ASKED FOR. ~ Simla, Oct 10. Nineteen elected Indian members of the Supreme Legislative Council have sent a memorial to the Government suggesting that after the war half the :eats in all the councils should be filled by Indians. They also suggest fiscal Autonomy for India, the abolition of the Secretary of State's council, permission for Indians to carry arms and to join the .volunteers And hold commissions in the