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Show ALLIES ATTACK GERMANS ON WEST FRONT Thirteenth Successive Day of Bombardment, Air - Raids, Sapping and Mining. KAISER'S FORCES ARE ALSO ACTIVE Success Rests First With One Side and Then the Other; Italian Expedition Expedi-tion to Dardanelles. LONDON, Sept. 8, 1:04 a, ra. An Athens dispatch to the Exchange Ex-change Telegraph company says that a British submarine operating in the sea of Marmora has sunk B Turkish transport which was carrying car-rying twenty-cightrentimoter guns from Constantinople to (JaUiyoli. DUNKIRK, Sept. 7, 11:30 p. m. A British squadron bombarded all the positions along the Belgian coast as far as Ostend this morning. morn-ing. LONDON, Sept. 7. 10 p. ra. For the thirteenth successive da.v. the allies have bombarded Lrermau positions iu the west, ouly varying their artillery activity ac-tivity by occasional air raids, sapping and mining operations and bomb-throwing. In this fighting the Germans are also taking part and success rests first with one side and then the other. Similar activity is noticed on the part of the Austro-Hungarian army along the northern frontier of Servia, where the Teutons are strengthening their positions on the Rivers Save and Danube, presumably preparatory to new offensive movements. PARIS REPORT IS FAVORABLE TO ALLIED FORCES PAR LS, Sept. 7, 10:30 p. m. The -following official communication was issued is-sued by the war office tonight: Our artillery in the region of Nieuport has co-operated in the bombardment of German coast batteries bat-teries at Westende by their fleet. A violent cannonade has occurred to the north and south of Arras. At 1 several poiuts our batteries have inflicted in-flicted grave damage on the euemy organizations. In the region of Aoye and in Champagne, around Aubcrive and Perthes, the artillery action has continued with the same intensity as on the preceding days. Claim Advantage. j In the Argonuc between La Ilon-yette Ilon-yette and La Fontaine-Aux-Charmes, in the Woevre. to the north of Flirey, and in Lorraine, iu the region of Besanges and Leiii-trey, Leiii-trey, several artillery actions, in which we have held the advantage, are reported. The bombardment of a section of Raon L'Ktape has been followed, ou our part, by an answering fire on the Uerman eaotounieuts behind the front in the valley of the Ra-bodeau Ra-bodeau (iu the Vosges). During the course of the night September 6-7 one of our dirigibles dropped shells on the railroads around Peronne. French Drop Bombs. In reply to the bombardment of the open towns pf St. Die and llorardmer by German aeroplanes, a French air squadron has dropped bombs on the station and military establishment?! at Frieburg (Baden). Fire broke out in the town. All the machines returned safely. Our aeroplanes likewise bombarded bombard-ed Pont- Fnverger. "WarnerviMe, Tergnier aud Lens. EGYPTIAN MINISTER STABBED IN BACK I CAIRO. Egypt. .ept. vta London. 7:0r. p. m. Fa thy Panha. minister of j pious foundations In the ESgyptlan rov-! rov-! eminent, was stabbed thre time with a j knife by an employee of thy ministry of I flna nee, who attacked htm from behind I while he wm conversing with friends in i the Cairo railroad station today. Fathy I Fash a fired with a revolver at his asKiiil- ( Continued on Page Two.) ALLIES ATTACK THE ENEMY IN THE WEST (Continued from Page One.) ant. but missed him. Spectators then seined the man. The wounds of the minister min-ister are not serious SELL INFORMATION TO ALL BELLIGERENTS ATHENS. Sept. . via Paris. Sept 7, 7 :riO a. m. The ttsi' of two men and a woman i-harged with trafficking In messages addrffM to Kin ConstanMne and th general staff of the Greek army by repr'Mifa ttvs of the belligerents on hoth sides in the war ha caused a sen-U sen-U 'Ion. The censor will not permit full detail trt bome known, hut It has been established estab-lished that German and A u stria it mes-tutgs mes-tutgs were sent to Ruasla. although many dispatches from tbe British admiralty arp aid to b missing. Th" pirsnns arrested are hnrKed with plying a regular trade, selling information informa-tion Impartially to either aid. |