HUSTLING THE ENEMY

Evening Star, Issue 16822, 26 August 1918, Page 6

HUSTLING THE ENEMY

MORE PRISONERS CAPTURED. BRITISH TALLY OVER 18,000. FRENCH PAUSE TEMPORARILY. MOKE AUSTRIANS ON WEST FRONT, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

"The British troops are also splendid, and despite the heat thoy continue to "The Ameri-.-ans are admirable soldiers. Their oulv fault is that they push forward «o far that 1 am obliged to hold them bnek." General Fnch concluded by comparing th,-> Oowmn invasion in France- to a tide which has pju??cd hiyh water mark and is now recedini;. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. ovee 50,000 dead. MELBOI-RNF.. August 26. iTI'M-eived August 26. at 11.30 a.m.) Casualties to date total 273.233, including 51.155 dead, 144.185 wounded, and 74?223 sick.

SIBERIAN THEATRE.

CZEGHO-SLOVAKS' POSITIONS. "Router's Telegrams. LONDON. August 24. (Received August 26. at 8.45 a.m.) Router learns "that tho Cr.echo-Slovnk withdrawal on the Usuri front (north of Vladivostoek) does not affect their communications, and is not regarded as a serious check. Moreover, it is reported to-day that the Crechs have captured Verkhni-Udinsk, an important centre commanding the railway tunnels south-east of Lake Baikal. [The two fronts mentioned are- 1.200 miles apart.] RUSSIA'S INTERNAL PLIGHT FAMINE AND PESTILENCE NORTH. MOSCOW ISOLATEO. R'-utcr's Telegrams AMSTERDAM. August 24. (Revived August 6. at 8.45 a.m.) Besides rhr.'k-ra. famine and typhus are now racing in IVini.-rau and in the nor-] theni Eu~m;c p:nviie-<-?. The population (i> wh'de vi'l.-iovs are dving out for want of bread. Pr.ietieai'y all M--ii>w's railway communication 'is i-ut off. This is partly due to the pfi.-.-iv- 1 resistance of the railwaymen and partly to the fact that the j counter-revolutionaries have blown up numerous bridges. RED CROSS TARGET. HOLLAND PRESSES GERMANY. Renter's Telegrams. THE HAGUE. An gnat 24. (Received August 26, at 8.45 a.m.) The Dutch Shipping Council's finding on the inquiry into tho sinking of the Koningen Regentes is that it was caused by a torpedo. The Dutch Government are a '-- ing Germany to reopen a thorough inquiry, seeing that Germany does not recognise the immunity of hospital ships. Britain has assured Holland that no British torpedo was fired in the vicinity. [The Koningeu Regentes was the vessel | bv which the British delegates to Hie Hague Conference on the exchange of prisoners had arranged to sail for Holland, j but thoy fortunately went bv another ] vessel. 1 ' WAR FEVER IN PERU, j Renter's Telegrams. i LIMA. August. 24. I Received August- 26. at 8.45 a.m.) The Peruvian garrison at Ancon mutinied and demanded the immediate declaration of war with Germany, the transfer vi interned German ships to the United Sta'os. and the despatch of Peruvian troops to France. j - | 810 OUNS CAPTURED. INTENDED TO SHELL AMIENS. PARIS, August 24. (Received August 26, at 12.40 p.m.) The Australians have captured some 11-iucli guns with a range of 19 milos. They are of n recent model, and were iutemb'-d for the bombardment- of Amiens. They will !>e publicly exhibited in Paris.' THE DUNKIRK AFFAIR. BERLIN'S CLARIS. AMSTERDAM, August 24. (Received August 26, at 12.40 p.m.) Berlin official : Our light naval forces torpedoed three enemy torpedo boats off Dunkirk, two of them being sunk. AH ours returned without casualty. ENEMY'S HARVESTS, GERMANY'S ALONE GOOD. AMSTERDAM, August 24. (Received August 26, at 12.40 p.m.) The German harvest is good, the Austrian is poor, and the Rumanian is a failure. FAMINE IN BOHEMIA. ZURICH, August 24. (Received Augiwt 26, at 12.40 p.m.) The official statistics of Bohemia show that 400.000 deaths occurred in 1918 from liuuuer sickness. ****

KILLED IN ACTION. CAPTAIN R. J. SEDDON. ONLY A FEW DAYS IN FRANCE, [Pe& United Pbkss Association.] WELLINGTON, August 26. News has been received that Captain Richard John Seddon, eldest son of tho late Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, has been killed in action on tho western front. WELLINGTON, August 26. (Special from the Official War Correspondent.) FfUNCE, August (? 24,). General regret was expressed throughout the New Zealand force to-day when it became known that Captain Richard Seddon, eon of a former Prime Minister, was killed in action. Captain Seddon had only a fow days r» arrived in France. He was second command of a company of Rifles that w*B being held in reserve in connection with_ this ittaniing's battle. During the previous «v«niii{r soma shells burst near him in a trencri .where he was sitting with some others, and they wero plente- ! ously sprinkled with the debris. It was his first experience of heavy shelling, but he treated it with equanimity and was quite cheerful. Next morning n shell burst right in the midst of a small party he was with, and he was killed instantoonsly. _[The late Captain Seddon was born at Knmara 56 years asro. Ho was educated at NoUon and Wellington Colleges. He served in the South African war, and was A.D.C. to Lord Roberts. 'Ho received the Queen's Medal (four clasps) and the King's Medal (two clasps). He formed one of tho New Zealand Contingent that went to England when King Edward was crowned. He was afterwards private secretnrv to his father when the latter was Minister of Defence In 1907 he was appointed staff officer to the Adjutant-general. He later resigned from the forces and went into business.]

THE ZdMME advance.

OVEK 18 ; 000 PRISONERS. PROGRESS BGUND BAPAUME ' lluiiralian asd N.Z Cable Association, and Renter. LONDON*, August 25. (Received August 26, at 0.10 a.m.) Sir Dooglas Haip reports i Our attack northward" or the Sornmo continues. We i hold the TOiid from Albert to Bapaumo as far as the outskirts of Le Sat's (four miles south-west cf Rapiusmo). We have ca-p----ttrred Cor.tihnaison Hour miles north-east cf Albert and a mile oast of tho mad) and AYariencoarrt-EauroTrrt (between Le Saw &nd Bapawno, tires miles from the latter). Northward of Bapiume we have taken Snpigmes and Behagnies (respectively two and three miles north of B.tpaume. on tho Arras road). The number of prisoners taken by thej Third and Fourth Arroie« on tho battlefront since thy morning of August 21 now exceeds 18X00. OVER FAMILIAR GROUND. THE I?»IPORTANCE OF BAPAUME. THE POSITION AT CHAULNES Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. Au g ai>fr 24. (Received August 26, at 10.43 a.m.) The Australian Press Association learn that tie British Third and Fourth armies are pressing the attack. North of the Sonsmc tho Third Army, trader General Byng, Kva advanced between four and four and a-halt miles, at the furthest point on a 15-mile from, and iH jTor,- fighting or. the slope* of Tkiepval Ridge, ah-cp the eastern bank of the ! Anere, end hirhcr tip that stream. Our! patrols have ei tered Miranrnont, _ which j by aww is umkibly completely in our I Jsands. Tho imp riii,ee of the advance i- that | ■wo have htcn able to get _ along very j crocklr towards Bapa-nne. which is a very ■ important roal j maimi. Wo .are now; tiro miles from Bapumn*. Oc.r advance| north and *-,uUi <i Thiepval has seriously] threatened i-ke (h-rrfian position? on the, old Soamie batileueM. ! '.Received August 26, at 11.15 a.m.) i Undoubtedly be-We fur attacks were! lairjiched tho exemy ci>nteu:plaied a big j retirement, but thev int-ende 1 taking their j time, and we hustled them, tliu.- Treventingl Jjßsn from carrying cut their plans. Tins jo proved by the number of guns we _ captured and the wry larje number of prisonera inker.. Tho British Third and Fourth Armies during the last, three days have taken a total of 14,000 prisoners. The Fourth. Army has captured a large Elko of ground on the eastern bank of the liver Ancre. opposite Albert, and our line ; now runs right round Albert, just west of j Becordol-Becourt. and thence turns south- j ■ward to the Homme through the western j outskirts of Bray. Although Chaalnes (nine miles south of Bra-v) is not yet in our hands, its railway junction is useless to the enemy, and_ the only Hue now at their disposal is that from C3iaiilne-3 to Ham. and this can only bo •used partially, as Chaulnes junction is ■under our fir*. THE FRENCH LINE, % AM INFANTRY LULL, "" AUSTRIANS LOCATED EAST OF THE SV3EUSE, Australian ar.d N.Z. Cable* Association and Eeuter. i LONDON, Angus* 25 (5 p.m.) ; /Received August 26. at 11.30 a.m.) : French communinuc : Tito enemy at- i temobxi a coup north of Rove j Uevea miles south of Chaulnes). but. it i (■nlv resulted in onr taking prisoner 20 : of 'tho ec-eniv. There was fairly violent in the region of Boauv- ; iai"iifs, eonth of Rove. : Betvreon the Ailotte and the_ Aisne we ; increased our advauco east of BagneTix ."sis lailes norrh of Soissons). _ ; On the riEfnt, bank of the Meuso and m j the W«vr-J »i:r p-atrols brought back ) pi-boners, ii;c;uding some Austro-Hun-ECHO OF MABHE DRIVE, j SENSATIONAL AMERICAN | STORY. I WASHINGTON, August 25. ? (deceived Ancjust 26. at 9 a.m.) ; A member of tlie Honse of Representatives asserts thai/ only two allied generals •were conTt-martialled as a result of the allied retreat before tluo Gennan drive to tho Marne in May, and another committed suicide. Only for the fact that , Americans held Belleau Wood (near ; Chateau Thierry) against the Huns, it is certain that Paris would have fallen. THE LYS SALIENT. Jkuttraliaii and N.Z. Cable Association and Renter. LONDON, August 25. (Received August 25, at 9.10 a.m.) Sir D. Haig reports : A German counter-attack against o?.r positions . re-t-eutlv gained nortlr.va::d of Bailie til broke down. FOCH PRAISES AMERICANS. HIS BELIEF IN VICTORY. LONDON, August 24. (Received August 26, at 9.10 a-m.) Interviewed bv American -war correspondents General Foch said: "All goes we]!. You have been able to observe our operations since July 18. Thoy iiavo deTdOßed V«l!, and we shall continue them. "It is impos&ible to speak too highly of yoor troops. 1 cannot over-praise tiieir loravery and lwsioism. Despite the temble heat, fatkrue, »nd all kimls of difficulties they stick to it constantly, and fcavo acoomplis3ied superbly ■whatever '. them hitvu beau aakfcd to d<x