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BELIEVED BALKAN OFFENSIVE ABOUT TO BEGIN
British General Survey
Claims General Success
LONDON, Aug. 9.—A general (
survey of the fighting in Europe is
sued by the War Council of the em
pire says that a mighty triple of
fensive with several million men
and thousands of guns' is slowly
squeezing in the arms of the Cen
tral Empires on every front today.
Fighting stubbornly and in every
instance retiring bravely, the Aus
trian, Turkish and German forces
tire giving ground in every theater
o' war save in the Balkans where
recent skirmishes the statement
significantly intimates may herald
the beginning of another great Al
lied smash.
In the east the Tzar’s troops ex
tending the advantage reported
yesterday have thrown hack the
Austro-German front practically
along its whole distance except in
the Dvinsk sector, fully thirty miles,
with the Austrians heating an
especially hurried retreat upon
Lemberg and the Russians picking t
up broken battalions literally by i
the hundreds in the desperate pur- <
suit of the fleeing enemy. i 1
In the west Sir Douglas Haig is |
now within striking distance of1, 1
Bapauine after moving along a front 1
some twenty miles wide ahead from j
one to four miles. In the Verdun | i
sector the Germans abandoned all i
attempts to recapture Fleury. ;
FRENCH RAID METZ
MANY MEN KILLED
THE HAGUE, Aug. 9.—Two hund
red German soldiers were killed or
injured in an allied air raid upon
Jletz, the capital of Lorraine.
The railroad station and barracks
were seriously damaged by the
bombs dropped by the air raiders.
PARIS, Aug. 9.—Fighting in the
Verdun section today left no doubt
of the impossibility of further suc
cess upon the part of Germans, for
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they were able to repulse every at
tack made upon the positions now
strongly held in Felury village.
LONDON', Aug. !>. -Heavy light
ing is still proceeding in the Somme
The British . advance continues.
Guillemont was taken this morning
and all German counters were easily
repulsed. The British wedge is pe
netrating to such an extent that
Bapaume is threatened and with it
the communications ol' one complete
set of German defense lines.
BERLIN, Aug. 9.—The reports
emanating today from the General
Staff are not favorable although not
seriously unfavorable. The general
character of the fighting is its in
determinate nature, the Allied gains
being mostly unimportant. I
The report is re-assuring but not I
optimistic. s
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JOFFRE THANKS AMERICAN
WOMEN SERVICES WAR
PARIS, Aug. 9.—General Joffre,
supreme commander of the Allied
forces in France today thanked the
American women through Miss
Grace Gansette, the American ar
tist, for their servies in the Euro
pean war. The occasion of these re
ciprocations was the introduction
by the American Red Cross women
of a new supply of bandages for
service in the Somme front.
PARIS, Aug. 9.—The French ad
MAItlNE BULLETIN.
Nome Radio, Aug. 9, 1916.
Susie down Kotlik 8t.h.
Sibilla down Nulato 5th.
Jacobs, Kelly and Benchley at
Gibbon.
Delta at Gibbon.
Davis at St. Miehales.
Reliance up Koyukuk River 3rd.
Yukon up Rampart 6th.
* Julia B. at Hot Springs 2 a. m.
1 Hazelhurst down Chena 7:15.
Sarah down Nulato 7th.
Tanana leaves for Fairbanks 10
a. m.
Sarah down Nulato 7th.
Schwatka at St. Michaels.
* Alaska up Nenana 9:45 8th.
White Horse down Selkirk 5
a. m.
Selkirk up Isaacs 6 a. m.
Dawson up Carmacks 8th.
Casca down Hottalinqua 6 a. m.
iMit that' the Thiaumont works
^changed hands six times in one
hundred and twenty hours and that
each change was accompanied by
horrible losses on both sides.
The lighting in Verdun still pro
ceeds and is bitter and violent in
fhe extreme.
BERLIN. Aug. 9.—The Field
Headquarters in France reports
that a fierce artillery bombardment
started a conflagration within the
city of Peronne on Sunday and that
it is still burning, threatening the
complete demolition of the town.
Already says the official report
priceless art treasures have been
destroyed. *
1
PARIS, Aug. 9.-—Ilecause the <
French artillery carefully refrained r
from firing upon the city, it is held !
that the Peronne conflagration is (
an incendiary act by the Germans t
preparatory to their evacuation. c
HUGHES HOARSE AFTER
BIG CHICAGO GABFEST
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—There is no
complaint to be made upon the part
of the republican leaders that they
lacked an audience in the Coliseum
last night when Hughes addressed
them on the issues of the day.
He again criticized the policies
of the Wilson admini tration but
the Daily News says that beyond
the fact that he is like the Irish
man “agin the government” (of
Wilson), no one is very much the
' wiser as to what will be the policy
of the possible president, should
he be elected. In any other matter
than the resumption of high tariff
schedules.
Hughes was slightly hoarse, when
he began to speak and was very
hoarse before he finished. He was
very well received and in fact at
times with enthusiasm.
ST. PAUL,, Aug. 9.-*-CharIes E.
Hughes arrived today from Chicago
both hoarse and fatigued and show
ing that campaigning has already
begun to tell upon him. His step
was neither so elastic- nor so quick
as when he started out upon his
trip and he Is urged to rest.
Upon arrival here he went into
immediate conference with the
state republican committee and
thereafter it was announced that
he would speak at the Auditorium
tonight.
Hughes was delighted by the re
ception which he got in Chicago
and here also.
Newspaper comment is not un
favorable.
Desperate Struggle For
Goritz Is Proceeding
HOME, Aug. 9.—Two million men
,re battling along the Isonzo front
n a great struggle centering about
loritz that may ultimately prove
he turning point of the war.
With Goritz bridge head and stir
oumling heights all round it in
talian hands, the Italian iroom
.re pouring across the river for an
sstnill niton Goritz itself. The ltat
an troops are singing gaily as they
.dvance under a hot lire.
VIENNA, Aug. 9.—The situation
in the Isonzo region is grave, hat
far from hopeless. Notwithstanding
tlie concentration of Italian troops
on the heights surrounding Goritz
that city is stil held by the Aus
strians and long distance artillerj
is conducting a heavy fire upon the
Italian positions from behind the
hills, being directed by many fear
loss airmen.
The fighting today is of a despe
rate description but Goritz still
holds out.
HOME, Aug. 9.—The War Office
expects to hear the announcement,
from the Isonzo front at anytime
that Goritz has been taken. Gen
eral t’adorna advices that (lie Aus
trians have made the place very
strong and have moved all recent
removals from Albania to this posi
tion, so that the enemy lias been
strongly reinforced.
The situation is such however
that the Austrians cannot bold out
nun li longer.
SKIRMISHES BREAK LULL
ALONG THE BALKAN FRONT
\THENS, Aug. !). Tin: long lull
.long the Bulgur .front, was disturb
'd this morning by a sudden awalt
i iug of a host, of guns along the
in ire front when the Allies opened
i; a desperate bombardment of the
nienay’s lines in that section. The
lotnbardment however was short
ived and was followed by lively
Uirmishes between regiments of
nipers which showed that the Bul
;ars were ready to hold their posi
ion.
’lie fighting continued of tViS desn-ip
tion nil day and toii)it in' Allies
again broke loose in an inferno of
artillery fire that reddened the en
tire front. The artillery lire war
maintained well into the night. The
belief prevails that the Allies are
getting ready for a vigorous offen
sive and the movement, is also he
ralded by naval activity around the
Greeks ports upon the part of their
warships.
LONDON, Aug. 9.—Th(' War Of
fice denies that the Allies in the
Balkans assumed any offensive.
They merely demonstrated in forte
along the entire front. It may
however he the prelude of more ser
ious lighting.
LONDON, Aug. !). The Mail pub
lishes an uncensored statement that,
marked uetivitiy is witnessable at
Saloniea among tin' Allied forces
and much ammunition is being
transported to tlit* front.
Anything in the line of .toll work
ANOTHER ZEPP RAID
STIRS GREAT BRITAIN
LONDON, Aug. 9.—Zeppelins raid
d the southeast coast of Scotland
ast night killing three women and
me child, and injuring fourteen,
'he dirigible dropped a considerable
lumber of bombs but the damage
[one was not any way considerable,
wo or three fires were started but
ontrolled.
ir
The Zepps retired before the at
tack of the coast aeroplane fleet.
LONDON, Aug. 9.—The Gaelic
League elected to its presidency to
day. John M’Neill, a noted Irish re
bel and head of the Soin Feiners be
for the outbreak. MacNeill is do
ing a life sentence in Mountjoy jail
at the present time. The election
ol' M’Neill was unanimous and is
an indication of the irreconcilable
sentiment that is now passing
throughout Ireland.
Comment upon the election
in the evening papers is very sigm
ficant and the announcement is ac
companied also hv the assertion
that rebellious feeling is so rife in
Ireland that the country is becom
ing in a very serious state.
Maxwell’s repressive policy has
had just the contrary effect and tho
real disarmament problems he can
not face lest civil war result.
LONDON, Aug. It.- I'ltra reaction
ary papers are demanding the sup
pression of the Gaelic I-egue as a
hot bed of revolt.
The Irish situation is attracting
general attention.
GAS EXPLOSION KILLS
MINERS PENNA MINE
SCRANTON, Aug. 9.—A gas ex
plosion in the Pennsylvania Ca’s
Collieries at Woodward near Wilkes
barre resulted in the death of two
and the injury of six, all of the
latter being fatal.
These mines have become notor
ious for the extent and frequency
of the disasters therein and there is
now experienced some trouble in
getting sufficient miners to risk
their lives in the dangerous pro
perties, due to lack of all safety
equipment worth consldreiug.
CITY HATH HOUSE*.
Moonlight Spring Water. (Boll
ing Hot).
M. O. SOLD ERG,