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Show DISTURBANCES CONSTANTINOPLE AND SMYRNA CAVALRY OCCUPY ALEPPO Important Railway Center Cen-ter and Big Turko-German Turko-German Base Is Wrested Wrest-ed From the Enemy. Italians Repulse Austrian Aus-trian Attacks in Heavy Fighting in the Region of Monte Grappa. THE HAGUE, Oct. 27. The latest news from the Belgian front confirms the reports that the Germans Ger-mans are evacuating Ghent. ATHENS, via London, Oct. 27. Disturbances have occurred in Constantinople Con-stantinople arid Smyrna. At both places German officers were roughly rough-ly handled. By the Associated Press. On the western front the British, French and Americans have continued to make further slight gains against the Germans; in the Italian' theater, both the British and Italians have scored successes, while In Asiatic Turkey the British have captured Aleppo In Syria and aro driving ahead on both banks of tho Tigris In Mesopotamia, with the Turks unable to check them. Tho fall of Aleppo and the continued advance up tho Tlgrla are moves of such strategic valuo that It ii not unlikely Turkish opposition shortly will be entirely overcome both In the Holy Land and Mesopotamia. The French armies fighting on the forty-mile front between the Olse and Alsne rivers are keeping Up their offensive against the Germans and have made additional ad-ditional gains, taking several villages and compelling the enemy to fall back at various va-rious points. GERMANS SUFFER HEAVY CASUALTIES. In tho region southeast of Valenciennos around l.o Qucsnoy the Germans have delivered violent counter-attacks against the British. Their efforts to throw back Field Marshal llaig's men from the positions po-sitions they hold were unsuccessful, and heavy casualties were Inflicted on the enemy by machine guns and rifle fire. The Americans have begun tho second month of thfitr operations in (ho region of Verdun by keeping up their attacks against the Germans from the Mouse to the wooded country north of Grand Pre. Some further progress has been made notwithstanding strong opposition by Ger-man Ger-man machine gunners from behind th natural fortifications which abound throughout this district. American airmen air-men are continuing their bombing operations opera-tions behind the German llncB. their latest effort in this respect having been, made against the territory around Brlqucnay. north or Grand Pre, In which 140 airplanes took part, sixty of them being bombing machines. ITALIANS CHECK AUSTRIANS AFTER SEVERE FIGHTING ROME, Oct. 27. Heavy fighting took place Saturday in the Monte Grappa area, the HalianH rrpnlKinij Austrian attacks, at-tacks, the war Office reports tortay. Th I In liana captured 614 prisoners In tit la region. BRITISH CAPTURE RAILWAY JUNCTION TOWN OF ALEPPO LONDON, Oct. 27. The Important, railway rail-way junction of Aleppo was occupied by British cavalry and armored cars Saturday Sat-urday morning, says a British official Bt&tO016nt today. Thf German h I: urn1 red heavy rountcr-atta'-ks aKuInst I he llntitth .south of Val-enclennes Val-enclennes today, but were repulsed with losses, Field Marshal Halg reports from headquarters tQnlght, Tho British last night repulsed a dp- (Continued on Page Two.) ( BRITISH CAVALRY OCCUPY ALEPPO (Continued from Pago One.) trrmln'd Qarni&n ronnter-nttnrk nitnlnnt p.,' IIIoiih mi Ihn rnllwny ImmadUttly northwi- i "f L Quesnoy, OUlhlMt or Vftlmielennnn. ny (orlny'n ofrUlal w;n (.(fire Hlutomnit. Th attack, pre(td ly a lienvy liuinharilrnont, onCKed l,y Hrltl)i rlli' iiml mai'lilnn xmi Hrc. |
