UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

HNOTHER INTRIGUE. •OMENTOQ REVOLT IX PHILIPTOES. dBOIAK VKS-OQKBUL AREESTED. Renter Service. »<eetived in, 12:2o a.m. Washington. Sept. 18. 'A Gamut intrigue has been unearned ftt Ike where the German tie*«mful at Cebu has been arrested in MmMetioß with an attempt to start an fauarreotion. It ia alleged that he BroazUed the Filipinos any ,-white woman in Ceba that they mi;At choose on condition that t&ey joined a revolt against |k« United States. |& MONSTER SUBMARINE. New York, Sept. IT. innthiir incoming steamer report picking up a wireless message stating that a submarine had been *een in American water*. It waa 300 feet long ajul fead two pariteope* and guns fore and hft. It,put out a acreen of smoke before diaanpearag. The statements are not gffioaUy confirmed. CMTED STATES TO DIRECT SKIPPING. Washington, Sept. 17. -*o* United Pnss reports that England Aaa aglrtid that the United States .-ha-! fa dictator for Allied shipping, ma kin 2 th» Unit id Btate« a stransly t sntr*'is-i Bowar virtually directing the whole war. ®H» United States will attempt to eonIfol affair! in urseKiib and national injgirtti 4fjjßT. |slß 'fignn dTUSSIA GERMAN ATTACK FAILS. London, Sept. 17. ~M. fttlKk communique savs:—After a ♦Met bombardment the Germans at.tadcod oar positions in the Apremont Forest. Fractions of the attirs:en< fjain•d a footing in the advanced element:, tmt wen driven out and the line reestablished. JCDOB3SFUL BRITISH RAIDS. London. ?e:>t. 17. dr Donglas Ilaic report-:—We carHad out successful raids eastward of Xphey and in the neighborhood of ih« Arras-Doual railway south-eastward of Oairrella. We destroyed dug-outs, emeiccßMßta and dumps. Hostile artillery active eastward of Ypres. A GERMAN REPORT. London, Sep*. 17. 'A wireless German official report says: Vila artillery duel in Flanders has instated and several times there was violent drum-fire. It was also intense in the Aisne,. Champagne, a"I Verdun nglons. Tiie enemy lost eighteen aero- - planes yesterday. BOMBING RAID NEAR OSTEND. * Londou, Sept. 17. Tl» Admiralty reports that naval air- ' (laft on Saturday. .bombed enemy shipping b ,TI V-Vtcn Ostend and W* hit a larjte dentreyer amidships and pDK, and probably two, trawlers were