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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. What it, has benn enaHr, 1, fC U and English to carry on the Somme offensive is revealed by the official statement of English losses during September. Sep-tember. The casualties amounted to more than 3S00 a day, or nearly 120,000 for the month. All of these casualties were not suffered on the Sommt, for the English are fighting at other points in France, also at Saloniki and in Mesopotamia and East Africa, but the September losses on the Somme must have boen in excess of 100,000. The August losses were about the same, whereas the casualties in Jul-, the first month of the offensive, were only 59,670. The total English casualties for the throe months of the offensive must be about 275,000. There has .been no official statement of French losses, but there are a number of reasons for believing that they have not been as great as those of the British. The Germans Ger-mans estimate that the Anglo-French loss in this offensive is already more than 500,000, but 450,000 probably would be nearer the mark. It is difficult to estimate the German loss on any particular battle front, but we are not in the dark as to the total losses on all fronts, for the German war office, we .believe, published the loss for August as 250,000. During September the total of German casualties must have been not less than the total for August. It will be seen that tho English Eng-lish loss, despite its magnitude, is only about half the German loss, and Great Britain now has almost as many trained men for service as has Germany. The -English have suffered heavier casualties than the French, not so much because they have done more fighting, but because they -still lack coordination coordina-tion of the various branches of the army. Another reason is that the French escaped very lightly in the first days of the July drive because the enemy had not foreseen a drive by the French on the Somme front. In the last ten days most of the offensive of-fensive fighting has been done by the English, although the French have cooperated co-operated .brilliantly wherever it was necessary. In a general way all the operations in that poriod had been directed di-rected towardthe pocketing and capture cap-ture of Combles and Thiepval at the two extremes of the British line, Thiepval at the left an Combles at the right. Immediately on the other side of Combles the French left began. It had been pushed forward to a point near Eancourt, beyond Combles to the southeast. There the French stopped to wait for the English, and in the meantime were compelled to repel a tremendous counter attack by the Teutons. Teu-tons. In order to get Combles into a pocket it was essential that the English Eng-lish should blast their way forward to the little town of Morval, northeast of Combles. When the "big push" came the French entered Eancourt and the English, driving far forward, took Morval, Mor-val, Les Boeufs and Guedeeourt to the north and other points in front of practically prac-tically their entire line. Both Combles and Thiepval were now in pockets. Thiepval had been in a pocket ever since the capture of Cource-lette Cource-lette by the English several weeks ago. Tho Germans, seeing the futility of further fur-ther fighting at both of these places, evacuated them as soon as the English and French had won a few more strategic positions in fierce battles. When the English cautiously moved on into Thiepval and into Combles with the French the two towns were abandoned aban-doned except for a number of wounded. wound-ed. All of the Teuton big guns had been rflniAVoI Hilt n-n., 1: ... ui.icuiue guns. vast amounts of shells and other military mili-tary material were captured. Thiepval and Combles, with their numerous subterranean passages, were the strongest points yet taken by the allies in the Somme battle. At Thiepval Thiep-val the English were even attacked back of their own lines by Germans who worked their way through underground under-ground passages. They escaped bv these same passages to their own lines after doirg deadly execution with machine ma-chine guns. Since the capture of Combles and Thiepval the allies have taken other strong points, notable amoDg which was the Hohenzollern redoubt near Tbier--val. The Germans are now backing downhill and are experiencing to the full the disadvantages "under Which the allies have labored for nearly two years. The movements of German troops arc now under easy observation by the allies if the movement arc m-ide in the d:tv time. A few days a'o a German battalion bat-talion tried to maneuver in the daylight and was caught under the shell fire of the allies and dispersed with considerable consider-able loss. At Saloniki the battle has been in a deadlock for a week. The Bulgarians have been counter attacking the l'ns-sians, l'ns-sians, French and Serbians south of Monastir aud repelling some attacks by the allies, who seem to have held their ground on the Kainiakcalan range and in the neighboring valley and foothills. In Greece the revolution has grown to such proportions that King Constan-tine Constan-tine is said to bave decided to declare war on Bulgaria. Yonizelus ami the admiral ad-miral of the Greek navy are now in Crete, where the revolution was most sweeping. They have established a provisional pro-visional government and are urging the Greek people to join the allies and fight against the invaders of Macedonia. The king, however, is still negotiating for terms and is holding back his declaration declara-tion of war. The only other fighting of importance impor-tance recorded during the week was in Transylvania, in the Carpathian mountains moun-tains and Galicia, and on the Italian front. Tho Italians"lost Monte Cimone when the crest of the peak was blown up by an Austrian mine. Most of the garrison were killed, but the Austrians took several hundred prisoners. In Transylvania the Teutons seem to be striking their heaviest blows in the direction of Vulcan pass and He'rmann-stadt. He'rmann-stadt. They captured Vulcan pass after aft-er a fierce struggle, but lost it again. To the south and east of Hermannstadt no less a military personage than General Gen-eral Von Falkenhayn, former chief of the German general staff, has boon conducting con-ducting the operations. Ho is now said to have turned the tide heavily against the Rumanians, who had held the upper hand in this zona ever since the declaration decla-ration of war by Rumania. ' In the Carpathian passes leading from Bukowina and Galicia into Hungary Hun-gary the Russians have made some gains, but none that are decisive. In Galicia, further to the north, there has been lively fighting without much advantage ad-vantage for either side. In Dobrudja there has been a comparative com-parative lull. Neither side appears to have attempted any major action since the big battle which General Maeken-sen Maeken-sen lost when he was within sight of his objective, the railway line running from tho Black sea to the Danube. . Two Zeppelin, raids on England cost, the Germans two Zeppelins. Both of the airships were brought down in the first raid, which was directed against London. Evidently tho Teutonic Teu-tonic airmen tried to bombard . the i. uoiwicn arsenal ana they approached by way of the county of Essex, which is just across the Thames. The English Eng-lish defense proved too powerful and two Zeppelins were hit. One was destroyed de-stroyed with all its crew. The other was so badly damaged that its crew brought it down and then destroyed it. The officers and men of the crew then surrendered to an English constable, who seems to have made the arrest in just as matter-of-fact a way as if he were taking into custody an ordinary disturber of the peace and quiet of 'his majesty, the king. |