St. John's Daily Star, 1916-09-01

              the st john's daily star newfoundland ———_—____. i « in 1.1 .——_—__ volume 11 3.00 per annum friday september 1 1916 price one cent no.issmos work hard avertstrike committee of trainmen's brotherhood meet senate interstate commerce committee and discuss proposed legislation for settlement of strike nine hours debate brings out nothing new—lf strike is to be averted railroads will have to ac quiese in demands of brotherhood ah sides satisfied with opportunity of public expression only congress can prevent a strike washngton sept i—represen tatives of the railroads trainmens brotherhood and shipping representa tions argued foe nine hours to-day be fore the senate interstate commerce commission on the legislation to avert the threatened strike and recompense the roads for any added financial bur den and to perfect machinery to make impossible in the future another crisis like the present to-night the committee worked until late on the bill to be presented to senate to-morrow but out of nine hours two facts stood out clearly n the estimation of all affected parties thai congress alone can prevent the strike and the public eventually wflf loot the bill for an eight hours day with ten hours pay which the trainmen de mand . , / the railroad executive and shippers insisted the strike order shouid be post poned four of the brotherhood chiefs declared with equatvehemence it coiild not be . y . all sides apparently were more or iess satisfied with the hearing had given them an to lay iheir cases before the public retreating from greece ! a despatch from athens says the bulgarians have begun their re treat from greece serbians ob tained mastery and forced them to evacuate their positions—they tried to retake corniceyo but were driven back with heavy losses allies artillery dominates bulgarian gains.—decisive development ex pected on salonika front _*-__ last bulgar position was evacuated yesterday * i jondon sept i.—an athens de spatch lo the daily mail says the bulgarian retreat from greece appears to have begun serbian cavalry has arrived at the entrance of soroyicevo bulgarian attempts further south at elavis and tsartailar failed and they have been forced to evacuate their po sitions v pateli the last bulgarian posiiion on the serbian left flank was evacuated yesterday the bulgarians in the hilly country fouad b.oniiza blocked the ixled aided by ulittery to retake cor r\vv ios c cs '.____£ the allies artillery dominates the bulgarian guns northeast of banis.a rand the bulgarian forces are already reported marching to krus lgrad five miles north of banitza on the way to brod negocani and mona stic the french press is ' - pointing out : that decisive developments are expect ed on the salonika front which will i have a marked effect on the entire sit uation the matin says there is but one battlefront whose most rapid and decisive results m_-t*t obtained and ; that is the salonika front germany's circle of steel the greatest battlefront the world has ev»r known—the ring of steel which encircles the central powers and which has been drawn tighter and made more effective ty rumania's entrance into the war greek revolution london sept i.—the sur render of several of the greek to committee which has taken over the ad ministrations of part of greek macedonia is reported in a de spatch from salonika according to this despatch the garrisons at salonika vo dena and ft>rt little and kar acurun have surrendered fo a committee on its face this despatch indicates that a revo lution is under way in greece hun plaits overturned rumania's entrance entirely upset plans of general staff critical relations germanic states london sept i.—advices to the ! central news from petrograd says rumania's action has entirely upset the plins of the german staff the projected blow at brusiloff's flank is rendered impossible rumania's military scheme ha been submitted for approval by the russian staff transylvania is believed-^till,to be the-chief theatre of operations the relations between austria and hungary are critical and the latter is clamoring for concentration of the en-y tire hungarian forces on their own frontiers there is the possibility of hungary nghtinaausft:ia\for her own preserva huns admit rumanians entered transylvania berlin augustj^^v—roumanian forces'which attacked the austrians yesterday were : repulsed according to the austrian war office statement received to-day the austrians captured positions in the mountains the official reports shows that the roumanians have penetrated well into the interior of transylvania the austrians have fallen back west of osik szereda fifty miles north of kronstadt which is six miles over the border consumer has to pay new york sept i—the ultimate consumer got the bitter foretaste of the strike conditions to-day f rofn the sharp advance in the price of food dealers attributed the raise to the . embargo on perishable products put into effect last night by several eastern railroads and to the prospects of a ser ious shortage of supplies as soon as the i strike is called bulgaria has declared war i - - london sept i—bul-jl—bul-j garia has declared war on rumania accordi 11 g to an ofiicial annonnce to to tototo to to believe strike will be averted thinks congress will press legislation demanded by railroad employees washington sept i—the belief in all quarters here tonight is that at the close of to-day's • conferences hearings the great railroad strike called for next monday morning would be av erted congress apparently is prepared tc pass to-morrow or saturday the eight hour legislation which the heads of the employees brotherhoods have declared officially will cause them to telegraph a codes message necessary to revoke the strike orders may be passed today washington sept i—measure which will result in rescinding of or ders for the railway strike next monday may be passed by the house and sen ate under special rule to-day and with in 24 hours may be on the way to re ceive president wilspn's signatures tototototototo stop enemy attack by machine gun fire london august 31.—a british offi cial statement reads:—ln the vicinity of the enemy left his intent on attack but was stopped by.our-machine gun fire and no attack developed there was some-minor activity of little importance on both'sides about neuvihe st vaast and loos salient early this morning also heavy bom bardments at various sections during the day among the prisoners men tioned in this morning's communication are eight officers fc v^fc rumanian's occupy bucharest sept ■ i<—rumanian troops invading transylvania have occupied the very important industrial centre of petroseny anjrthe tar'unge valley near kronstadcisays an an itouncement of thejff(otnnanian war office the losses/were jlpry slight .' big casualty list ioi august london august 31.—ithvas officially announced to-day that the british casualties killed wounded and miss ing in all theatres of the war during the month of august totalled 4,711 of greek king abdicates fondon sept i—king con stantine of greece has ab dicated according j,a an offi cial british press report at sal onika the report says the king has abdicated in favor of the crown prince with vehizelos as the power behind the throne the new policy he reports will be to work with the en tente allies according to this informa tion premier zeamis will re main at the head of the gov ernment the co-respondent ques tions whether the entente al lies desire the active assist ance of greete really was a big defeat bulgarians experience great difficulty conveying wounded to rear offensive broken london sept i.—a correspondent with the serbian army at salonika on august 30th telegraphs that the bulgarian offensive in the ostroco re gion appears to be temporarily if not definitely broken the serbians occupying very strong positions stood their ground magnifi cently inflicting such enormous losses tan the enemy that the bulgarians vic mry of which the b.ulgar-german com boasted should more prop erly be described.as a staggering de feat - • t is known with certainty here that the bulgarians have been experiencing the greatest difficulties in conveying their numerous wounded to the rear in spite of the fact that they enjoy the use of the railroad between banitza and fiorina bulgarians have met a verdun want help london august 31.—bulgarian regi ments says a despatch attacked the serbians jn close formation after the german style near lorooitz and suf fered severely they were compelled to ask for reinforcements from val bankeni and kastria , the serbians appear to be masters of the situation at comicheve says an athens correspondent and bulgarian omcers'of roumanian origin who desert ed said the bulgarians called com icheve another verdun speculation over new aspect of war rumania's entry into the war and yon hindenburg's appointment has upset all former calculations—cen tral jpowers did not have boundry wel guarder were confident of r imania continuing neutral—anx iety felt by central powers over bulgaria—difference of opinion on future plan of germany kin a of bulgaria | is visiting vienna ondon sept i—whole interest in tlje war just now is focussed in the bahjjkns and the german field mar shal yon hindenburg rumania's participation is consider ed here as important not only from an accession of a new and fresh army but from the opportunity it gives the rus sian army to extend its base and co operate with the rumanians upon gal ician and transylvanian territory prac ticaly as one army against the aus trian a other important factor is the clos ing of the danube which has been the principal route for the shipments of ammunitions from germany to turkey and the shipping of supplies lo ger many reports differ reports differ as to whether thej central powers were prepared for r entry while an austrian official message assarts austria-hungary was prepared for the new development other de spatches and newspapers say the cen tray powers were so confident of ru mania's neutrality that they left the boundary very thinly guarded they are hurrying reinforcement from every quarter while the inhabit ants are fleeing panic-stricken before the romanian advance lie possibilities of bulgaria weaker ingjjand of the greek people forcing the government to mobilise to resist the bulgarian occupation of the terri tory of greece so recently won from turkey are much discussed king ferdinand of bulgaria is vis iting vienna fears to return english speculation is that he fearc to return to his kingdom and is pre pared to abdicate in favor of the crown prince bores who is reported tc be edging on the bulgarian gamble by expressing sentiments friendly tc his father's enemies the munich nachirohten says the central powers do not doubt bulgari a's loyalty but arte alarmed by the ob scue attitude and lack of news rorr thav country rome reports bulgaria requires assurance by a reinforce ment of two hundred thousand turk ish troops before she will declare war on rumania chief speculation regarding field marshal yon hindenburg's policy is whether and in what direction he wiil change germany's plan of campaign which to the moment he assumed au thority had been a plain and straight forward one i military experts believe the vital mil itary need of the central.-powers was the shortening of of defence ev4h before it was extended more than thi"ee hundred mrfes by the additional ru nanian boundary and fighting froht . ' question whether they permit it whether public opinionand political interest in view of the chance remark of yon bethmann holwegg when he declared peace should be made on the basis of the present map of europe will permit any sacrifice of territory the central powers have gained is ques tioned the german government discussed victory and defeat chiefly on terms of the continental territory gained and lost by the belligerents fighting general yon hindanburg has been regarded here as a fighting general rather than a strategist his success in the north east is attributed largely to his intimate knowledge of the country which he had developed in a life-long study . he is credited with the unshakable conviction that the war must be won by pounding russia whereas general yon falkenhayn was apparently committed to forcing verdun on the western front some influential british experts not ably the military correspondents of the times hitherto criticized the establish ment of an army at salonika as all dissipation of energy on sideshows they contended that the anglo-french enormous army should have been con centrated dn the western front prejper briand on the other hand is cjeaited with insisting on the saloni kjpenterprise and with forcing his views ' o_pon the british staff opinion here now has swung entirely to the french strategy of occupying salonika 500,000 hun casualties in verdun fighting paris aug i—competent authori ties estimate that about 500,000 ger mans have been disabled in the verdun region alone since february 21st the beginning of the great offensive there the total number of wounded ger man prisoners taken in the verdun sector and in the neighborhood of the sqmme exceeds 43,000 m m tok ix ta "^ russian warships at r black sea port london august 31.—russian war ships have arrived at constenza rou ' mania says a reuters despatch from petrograd constenza is a principal roumanian port in the black sea it is in dubrudja the eastern section of roumania it has been announced officially that russian troops have already begun marching through dobrudja fhw explorer expected arrive at st john's new york august 31 officers of the american museum of natural history have been advised that donald d macmillan,.»the arctic explorer who left here iar 1913 in search of crocker land is'expected to arrive with the re maining members of his party at st 1 john's nfld or sydney between sept 20th and oct 1 st he will be accompanied by dr hovey who was in charge of the relief expedition sent mr macmillan on board the power schooner george b cluett in 1915 the explorers are returning on the danish steamer danmark chartered for the • purpose by the american ! museum of natural history ♦♦♦»♦»♦♦»♦++♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«« i nicely draped windows i give the home i a good appearance j h . : i our 3 piece | if itl dutch | | i ilil^rtalnsj : i____l 11 jli desl(^^:ftd : : l___i__jh-h_--p select from j : shades in rink blue i i ivory and white j 1 prices 1.30 1.60 1.90,1 j 2.20 and 3.20 set | i ask for the 3-piece set ; | dutch lace curtains j i bowring brothers i j limited ; -++♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦< read the daily star , - we are now booking orders for , new qak cy liver oil barrels scotch w local herring barrels bdrryitarrels and h salmon tfecces < i $■... / y no order too large for prompt delivery honel44 write bo 156 jfhe mercantile cooperage 275 southside road i *