RUSSIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 6 October 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA

THE FIGHTING FRONTS ARTILLERY .ACTION AT JACOBSTADT,. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.) |Admiralty per tVifeless Presa. > LONDON, Oct. 4. A Russian official messago says:— There is an • intense artillery action in the Jacobstadt region. ■ The enerny'retired f-rorri advanced trenches . riorth : westward of Sotip, on the. Roumanian "front,-' and to.olc up a more favourable nosition.

INTERESTING STATEMENT

airraids

TREACHERY IN FRANCE

SERIOUS ACCUSATION

RUSSIAN EXTREMISTS

AUSTRALIAN WOOL

THE MACEDONIAN FRONT

THE ITALIAN WAR

H.M.S. DRAKE TORPEDOED

NATIONAL RE3ERVE IN BRITAIN

IS CIVIL; WAR. INEVITABLE? (Rec: Oct; 6; ; 12.30 p.m.) x • - - PETRCKJRAD, Oct. 5. Trodzky, a in a speech at conference,'"" said -'that 1 civil war was unavoidable. The' drily doubt was whether it should "take" organised form or develope' -into "street -'fighting. lie pr6hiisM'bn :: hehalf of the'''party never to forcibly seize power, -'but declared" that the masses might arise if the demands' wei 1 © •" rejected. "The speech created a* sensatibnr ; The Cadets interrupted and the Sovietes enthusiastically applauded.,

.BRITJSHriAIB, JIAID. .

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association aDd^ 1 Renter.) " ' '\ /LONDON, Oct.' 4A British. Salonika report says: Our aeroplanes carried, out" a successful raid on an offensive 'scale;'''b'ombing- camps and, dumps 66'*tbe - ;Belasdtza' ; aiid Planicay ' arid Machine-gunning ■scattered troops. .~ ; -.: ;. We brought down hostile aeroplanes. Oiir cavalry''drove out 'enemy detachments from Jeniinah, southward of Seres, and destroyed an observation post.' - ""•" '"'■'■' i,; ' ' ■'■" n - -\" •-■•'.'

OPERATIONS Qtf MONTE SAN ''GAtBRIELLE. 1 * ENEMY ATtA'QKS BROKEN UP. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Router.) --''■ ' LONDON, Oct. 4;' An Italian official message says: We broke up repeated enemy attacks or» the western slopes of Monte San Gabrielle.

VESSEL SINKS""Iff SHALLOW . WATER..., (Australian Cable Association and' Reuter.) •LONDON, Oct. 4. The Admiralty reports: The warship •Drake, Captain Redcliffe, was torpedoed on Tuesday off; the north, coast of Ireland. She reached harbour, and then sank in shallow water.' The' explosion killed one officer and 18 men. The remainder of the ship's company were saved. H.M.S. T>rake was a battle-cruiser of 14,100 tons displacement, and was completed '\ in 1902. 'She carried a complement of 900. -•■•■-••

CONSCRIPTION NOT PROPOSE©. ...V. f Australian and N.? Onhv \ «»oriatir>n LONDON, Oct. 4. Sir Eric Geddes, ' shaking at Edinburgh, outlining the National Service policy, said there was no intention : of "proposing national conscription,, and the age for military service " would' not be raised for the "present. The"'Ministry of (Munition.-, and the Board of Agri-cultuxew-ouicr have r ah equal claim "with ...e Army for men. All enemy aliens must accept work' of national importance, or' be interned. They would be compelled to make roads and do other similar work. l

BY HIGH MILITARY AUTHORITY. VARIOUS MATTERS TOUCHED ON. (ißec. Oct. 6, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 5. A high military authority states that | from the end of July to the end of September, the troops participating in the recent offensive were 70 per cent English, 16 per cent colonial, six per cent Scottish, eight per cent Josh. ■ The casualties per centage was English 76 per cent, Colonials eight per 'cent", Scottish ten per cent, Irish six per'cent. We captured during the past; nine months on the West front 51,435 Germans, and 342 field and heavy guns'.r, We lost in the same period 15,065 prisoners and no guns, while in all theatres of the war in the nine monthsy.we captured 72,513 prisoners and 470 gjiins and lost 15j850 prisoners and no gun?. < .< During the September air raids on ■London 51 were killed and 247 wounded'. The Germans dropped 4i. tons of. bombs on London. •During the same period, we dropped 215 tons of bombs behind the German lines; The enemy had copied our methods/ We taught them how to bomb from aejoplanes; but they have not yet. succeeded as much as we have done. Now that the hot weather has passed we should begin to hear something from (Mesopotamia. The "oopture of I Ramadie Is most important. If the enemy had got it, it would have v left our flank against Bagdad open. In- East Africa* Germany is now coralled within "an arfea of two hundred miles by fifty.

Ajk,E REPRISAL COMING! (Router* s Telegrams;) LONDON, Oct. 4. It is stated that the Government ha» ordered a greatly increased- production of special aeroplanes for raiding pur poses.

BOLO'S .NEWSPAPER,. TRANS- .-■ . ACTIONS. ■.". J , (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) * ~~PARIS» Oct. 4. 'lt is disclosed that Colo tried to buy M. Clemenceau's paper, and also tried to negotiate for the purchase of the Figaro. He invested £60,000; in the Rappel. . 'Bolo has given up his hunger strike, and threatens to drag highly-placed persons into the affair.

ACCUSER ORDERED TO PRODUCE '•'PROOFS. : ■ (Re'c. Oct. 6, 12.30 p.m.) ■\ ''PARIS, Oct. 5. M. Malvy in the Chamber of Deputies refuted Leon : Daudet's accusation contained in a letter to President/- Pomcare, alleging that Malvy sold plane of the Chemin-des-Dames offensive to a German living in Spain. ~ _ , . M. Pairileve stated that unless Daudet produced proof Si' severe steps would be taken against him. ; N STATEMENT BY MR HEARST. (Rec. Oct. 6, 8.50. a.m.) '■-'••■ NEW YORK,' Oct. 4. Mr Hearst states that he - only met 8010 Pasha socially. 8010, Pasha told American friends • that Germany was willing ; arid ; -anxious for a separate peace with Prance", involving the return of the seized ■ colonies to Germany and paffs - of Alsace and Lorraine and- conquereiJ territory' to 'France. -

30,000 BATuES/ POR; AMERICA.

' (R«c. Oct. 6, 8-50 a.m.> - '; ' ; WASHINGTON, 'Oct. : 6. The Shipping Board,states that it is anxious /wy secure 'ships:'to : transport 30,000 bales of wool' ■ ffoA Australia, which Engiaril has agreed to release to the '.States for use -at --Dps Arigelbs. '', " ''" ", ..'. .•'■''" '/. ; '," i *' .'' •■