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Show I Zeppelins Again Raid England; I Kill Ten and Injure Forty-Six 1 RUSSIANS MAKE STUBBORN STAND ! AGAINST TIE AUSTR0-GE1ANS to !f . su I Tremendous Effort to Drive Last Muscovite From Austrian J ; Soil Meets Vigorous Opposition of General Ivanoff's J ) ; Army Attempt to Drive Wedge Through Swamps I in Central Sector Proves Slow Job Weather t Conditions Favor the Russians. I CONCERTED MOVEMENT OF ALLIES BEGINS Hi W Warships and Guns Along Belgian Coast Join in Violent Iff Bombardment Along Western Line German Submarine ml Activit' Increases Off French Coast Serbian Ar- tillery Continues Efforts to Break Up Austrian II Fortifying Operations on Left Bank of $ River "Danube. w .ijftf Berlin, Sept. 8, via London, 6:35 p. m. The commander of a German submarine which has returned to its base, has re- mm Porte to tne Admiralty that he torpedoed the liner Arabic in ill the belief that the Arabic's action indicated that she was about lf to attack the submarine and that he fired in self defense. Kt Paris Sept. S, 2.30 p. m The ar- jfE tillery fighting along the battle line B through France continues, according 11 to the statement giveu out this after- Ij noon by the French war office. M& There has been cannonading from tjSI Belgium on the north as far south as jm the Woevrc district. jSf German aviators have bombarded Sf' tow ns in France and aviators of the Wgt allies have thrown down bombs at Kf Ostend IBs "T"he text of the communication fol- iffl 'ows- I Hi "Last night was marked by artll- R erv fjShting in Belgium. i B 'At' several points along the front ,i K in the Champagne district between Rheims and the Argonne, there has I' been fighting with bombs and rifle 8 firing, together with Intervention on ft the part of the artillery but without Wi the infantry taking part. If "In the Argonne yesterday there If was a violent bombardment in the f Ilarazee sector, together with fairly l active cannonading in the north part f of the Woevre. ,' "Five German aviators this morn- ' ing threw down bombs on the plateau of Malzeville, where no damage was "r done, and also on Nancy, where there were some victims. q "Acting in co-operation with Brit- Iish naval aviators, Freucn aeroplanes have inobbarded the German aviation camp at Ostend. One of our air squad- '. rons threw down about 60 shells on the aviation field at St. Medard and on the railroad station at Dyeseur." More Airships on Way. In the German air raid on the east i1 coast of England, last night ten per- 1 ' sous woro killed and forty-six injured. : i Other German airships, traveling In ' the direction of the English coast i ) passed over points In Holland this ) morning, it is said, from Amstcr- ! f dam. ; Berlin announces the capture of the J city of Wolkowysk by the Teutonic armies which have been engaging the : j -Russians northeast of Blalystok and i ! north of the Bielovezieh forest re- Slon. French and British aeroplanes have I bombarded the German aviation camp I at Ostend and a French air squadron has dropped bombs on the aviation Mb field at St. Medard. K German aviators bombarded the H Malzeville plateau and the city of B Nancy, in France, there being some victims of bombs in tho latter place, jjflp Paris reports. K Berlin declares no military damage Hr was done by yesterday's borabard- Wk ment of Ostend and other points on m& the Belgian coast by hostile "war- Bt ships. Kg The Russian steamer Rhea, of l,14o m tons, has been sunk, supposedly by a K torpedo from a submarine. Her crew My was unharmed. Jif Ixmdon, Sept. 8, 2:25 p. m Grand lllf Duke Nicholas of Russia who has if been acclaimed as one of the greatest 1 strategists of the Avar for his master-It master-It ly retreat in tho faco of the Austro-P Austro-P German onslaught, has been relegated L to the comparatively unimportant , m Post of leader of the Russian forces flft opposing the Turks in the Caucasus. IK Nominally the grand duke is succeed-K succeed-K ed by the emperor. What military ! man or what general staff will In lV fact assume the active leadership of IR Russia's hard pressed forccB is not R announced in the emperor s order .,' relieving tho grand duke of his lm-IV lm-IV portant poBt. ,., IK' On Thursday last General Alexiev U was appointed chief of tho grand ' duke's staff. Some military com-" com-" mentor has hazarded the guess that upon his shoulders will fall the chief n responsibility. La Rochelle, France, Sept. 8, 2:15 I II p m. The British steamship Garony yii of Liverpool, vas fired upon and H sunk by a German submarine last H night. H;er crew was saved. H Russian Steamship Sunk. u London, Sept. S, 3 27 p. m. The Russian steamship Rhea has been sunk. Tier crew was landed. The Rhea, 1,445 tons gross, was owned in Ilelsingfors. There are no records of her recent movements. British Steamer Sunk. London, Sept, S, 12-35 p. m. Tho British steamship Douro has been "sunk by gun fire presumably froma' submarine. Her crew was saved. The Douro. 1,603 tons gross, owned own-ed by the Ellerman lines of London. There are no records of her recent movements. French Steamship Torpedoed. Paris, Sept. 8, 11:40 a. m. The French steamship Guatemala has been torpedoed and sunk about fifty miles off Belle Isle. Iler crew escaped es-caped in two boats. Tho men were picked up by a British steamer and taken into St. Nazaire The Guatemala, 5913 tons gross, and 3S7 feet Long, was owned by the Compagnle Gonerale Trans-Atlantique which also owned the Bordeaux, the sinking of which by a submarine was announced yesterday. The latest report oi tne uuatemaias movements was her arrival at S. Nazaire, July 23, from Buenos Aires. Serbians Oppose Austrlans. Nish, Serbia, Sept. 6 (Monday) via Paris, Sept 8, 11 a. m. (Delayed in transmission.) The Serbian war office of-fice gave out the following announcement announce-ment today: "Serbian artillery on September 3 and 4 actively opposed efforts on the part of the Austrians to fortify the left bank of the Danube." Review of War Situation. London, Sept, 8, noon. Emperor Nicholas is now in supremo command of the Russian military and naval forces in tho fighting zones and Grand Duke Nicholas, who, as commander-in-chief of the Russian army, was one of tho most conspicuous figures of the European war, has been transferred to tho Caucasus. Loudon is speculating as to what section of the long eastern front will be selected by the emperor for his headquarters. At the present moment, Courland appears to be the critical sector of the line. General Ruzsky is in command com-mand there and Field Marshal von Ilindenburg apparently la not making any great progress agalnBt him. Germans Proceed Slowly. The center sector has been held by Grand Duke Nicholas, and efforts of the Germans to drive a wedge through the swamjis are proceeding very slowly. The Galician wing, in command com-mand of General Ivanoff, is making a stubborn stand against the Austrians' Aus-trians' and Germans, who are engaged in a tremendous effort to drive the last Russian from Austrian soil. "Weather conditions, which in past wars have proved an efficient ally of the Russians, arc again intervening on their side. A dispatch published in a Constantinople newspaper says the rivers havo been swollen by autumn au-tumn 'floods to such an extent that they promise to form an impassable barrier to a further advance of the Invaders. In-vaders. This dispatch represents the immediate objective of tho Austro-German Austro-German campaign to be the seizure of the entire railroad, system from Riga to Lemberg, thus insuring control con-trol of lines of communication for a further penetration of White Russia. Allies' Concerted Movement. On the other fronts events point io a concerted movement by the allies. The French commander-in-chief, Gen-oral Gen-oral Joffre, has returned, from a visit to his Wlian colleague, General Ca-dorna. Ca-dorna. 'British warships and the gunfi along libe Belgian coast have jointed tho chorus of artillery fire along the V I western front. All this gives support to the growing belief in London that an offensive movement of some nature na-ture will soon mark operations of the allies in the west. Zeppelins Raid England. The eastern counties of England were again visited by raiding Zeppelins Zeppe-lins last night. The dirigibles caused some fires and a number of casualties, concerning the extent of which there has, as yet, been no official announce ment. German submarine activity, now increasingly in-creasingly in evidence off the French coast, has resulted in the torpedoing of another steamer, the Guatemala, of 5,913 tons, which went down off Belle Isle. Tho crew escaped In boats and were picked up. Gun fire, presumably from a German Ger-man submarine, sank the 1,600 ton British steamer Douro. Her crew was saved. Serbian artillery along the Danube continues Its activity in efofrts to break up Austrian fortifying operations opera-tions on the left bank of tho river Danube. -oo |