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Evening Star, Issue 16516, 30 August 1917, Page 6

WEST FRONT.

i||‘?‘ATHE POELCAPPELLE i M:/p- ‘v High Commissioner’s Cable. L-’l'-'i f :r , LONDON, August 29, :vjf ? , ; <>B?itish‘ *, official;; South-east of Langejfeb.maiCk,>,we cleared-up a strong point which IteW immediately ia front of - : our own now lino. • - TANKS IN THE MUD. 1 - LONDON, August 29. ® ■ (Received August 30, at 10.35 a.m.) >• k ;v.A., British correspondent gives a vivid ■■ of ■ the attack on the St. yb|nh‘en-J?oclcappcllo road. It was in a driving rainstorm, and ’yd,James swallowed heavily in the- bogland, ; , . vhile tho heavily-laden infantry ploughed ; . i.'.lhrongh, the mud. NV'A-P l ® stackers', task was to capture a . .Bones of concrete strongholds, each held by a score _ of , German machine-gunners; ' ,+“ e tenl£S ]n some cases got within 30 . yards of these and fired point-blank until the strongholds surrendered. ■ The weather that night was wild and L, savage, making a continuance bf the fighting a practical impossibility. IYPRES BATTLE. 'Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and .■- • ■ . Reuter. , L_ , Admiralty per Wireless Press. LONDON, August 29. (Received August 30, at 12.30 p.m.) , German official: Wo regained onr positions .north-eastwards of Frezeuberg (i e along the Ypres-Roulers Railway). THE MEUSE THRUST. and N.Z. Cable Association and - Reuter. i"._ LONDON, August 29, (Received August 30, at 12.50 p.m.) 'I. French communique: We took prisoner ■ unwounded men, including 57 officers ■ V t Ol the region of Beaumont since August 2fi! CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER ■ CASES. OTTAWA, August 29. ' . . (Received August 30, at 12.20 p.m.) Tho outstanding Canadian Press com- . - S enb ? n President Wilson’s reply to the ■' . L°P. e 18 that ; President Wilson has effec- . fayely answered his own “Peace without Note. GERMANY AND AUSTRIA LAND CADORNA’S MENACE. ■ t v, BERNE, August 29, - (Received August 30, at 10.50 a.m.) ■' ’ Germany, replying to an Austrian ~ ■ appeal for reinforcements, declared that . j-.-Bhe .is , unable'to render assistance. Ger- , .many also refused .to send the Austrians despite Italy’s marked •>.x,bap6flonty...xQ-. - - iWHAJ GERMANY DREADS. TRADE BOYCOTT URGED IN REMARKABLE QUARTER. • ; BERNE, August 29. ■ (Received August 30, at 10.50 a.m.) German Republican Girdles in Switzer■yVtfciid ;UT§e the Entente to threaten Gergnany. with’la commercial boycott of five, , ‘ten, or twenty years, believing that this ■ .ultimatum would suffice to bring the War Tiqrds to reason, as they would then be ■i- convinced that the Entente mean busi--hess. '• . DRIFTER CAPTAIN’S V.C. HEROISM IN THE ADRIATIC. • Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and ■. Reuter. LONDON, August 29. (Received August 30, at 9 a.m.) The Victoria Cross has been awarded to ■ Skipper Joseph Watt, Royal Naval Reserve.' Ho commanded the drifter Gowantea when three Austrian light cruisers, on ’ ■ May IS, attacked 48' British drifters watch- .. ing anti-submarine nets in the Strait of ■ . Otranto, the entrance to the Adriatic. When one of tho enemy cruisers had approached within 100 yds range Captain ■ Watt ordered full speed, and fought the cruiser with hia one gun until the gun was ~ ' disabled. Tho , Gowantea escaped, and • afterwards removed tho dead and wounded -.from another badly-damaged drifter. ‘-•knMany other officers have received honors ■ for gallantry in the same action. • • > Flight Squadron; Commander Savory has • ■been awarded a,bar» to the Distinguished ‘Service Order for bombing the Goeben at • Constantinople on June 9. GERMAN COLONIES. BALLIN TALKS BIG. } iWHAT PEACE MUST PROCURE. itHE PICK OF THE EARTH. y;:rx vAustralian and N.Z. Cable 'Association. ■ ;vr.v.-.AMSTERDAM, August 29. / (Received August 30, at 8.40 a.m.) , Albert Ballin,- managing director of the ;■; jiHamburg-Amerika .■ '-Company, publishes . iome important articles in the* ‘ Hamburger S'l-Fremdenblatt,’ insisting on the absolute ne- ' . cessily for recovering tho German colonies •iv;'iniact; . also for rounding off those in and considerably increasing those in ;‘.the Pacific. Herr Baffin points out that the ; Mittel Europa schemes are inadequate ;vi::to .provide the.raw materials vital to Gor--v.ymany’s'industries ; therefore countries procotton, coffee, jute, rubber, and 'pother products must bo under German con:fs|:troljiotherwise the German Empire will be heel of England and tho United , States. >' Crapon also insists on the necessity: for tropical possessions and se,of , the Belgian Congo. *.the..peace: negotiations the German l|lg‘delegates,;;must- continually, ask whether ®|the]r:,cplpnies.can supply the necessary raw aiaterial, and are, populated thickly enough t ?.;f u P?ly' Ge P nan planters and exploiters ®JfiS,h;, the necessary labor. In these redoasts, and ‘islands -of Eastern valuable.

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