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IEIIIS THE HIIUSE
PrimeMlnisierSufferingfrom
Attack of Intestinal Catarrh
and Must Rest.
Llo d George’s Suggestion
asyto How Italy Can Best
Assist the Allies- IiaIy’s
Participation in Balkan
, Struggle Discussed-
Sir Edward Carsoni Was
Noi In Attendance and
no Explanation Was
Given as to His
Beslgnaiion.
LONDON, Oct. 19.-Asquith has
suddenly become ~ill. His stato of
health will require withdrawal from
public activities, at least for a few
days. Shortly before one o’clock the
following bulletin was issued at Down-
ing street:
"The Premier is suffering fromlan
attack of gastro-intestinal catarrh,
which will necessitate a few days of
complete rest."
Earlier in the day Mr. Asqnith at-
tended meetings of the war commit-
tee and the cabinet, both of them
held in his ofllcial residence.
In Premier Asqnith's absence, David
Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions,
led in the House of Commons this af-
ternoon, and steered off all propound-
ers of what the Government consider-
ed awkward questions.
"lt is impossible at present," was
hlsreply. _to urgent requests for a
statement regarding the situation in
the Dardanelles.
As to Italian cooperation in Serbia,
Mr. Lloydfleorge was only able to
say: “Methods whereby Italy can
most effectively co-operate in helping
Serbia in the common cause is under
discussion among the Allies."
The statement was made that the
Earl of Derby was serving as director
of recruiting without salary or mili-
tary rank.
Sir Edward Carson, whose resigna-
tion as attorney-general was announc-
ed yesterday, did not put in an ap-
pearance, and no explanation was
made of his retirement.
The I-louse was crowded, owing to
the expectation of developments in
the political arena and the excitement
over the expected refusal of the Gov;
ernment to reply to a flow of more or
less hostile questions. No incidents
of this nature occurred, however, and
the. l-,louse proceeded to a peaceful
discussion o finances.
ANOTHKR `GOI.D
, , TRAIN SLIPB BV.
NEW YORK..-.0ct. 19.-The latest
shipment bf gold from England to the
United States said to be larger than
any of the previous consignments, nr-
rived bsre to-day and was placed in
the assay oftlce. The gold is said to
consist chiefly of British soverelgns
and to be worth approximately $25,-
000,000. The gold was consigned to
J. P. Morgan dl Company, but no of-
ficial announcement concerning the
value of t e shipment was made by
that firm. it was teamed that the
coins will bs melted into bullion bars
and creditedto the British Govern-
ment by the Morgan firm.
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SEHIUIIS HEIEIISE
Ellli THE SEHMINS
The Enemy Failed to
Break the Serbian Line
apd ltefreated. The Ser-
lnans Captured Two
Thousand Prisoners and
Four Guns.
ROME, Oct. 19,-Bucharest reports
a serious reverse to the Germans on
the Danube. The enemy’s force at-
tempting to penetrate Timok Valley
in Northeast Serbia was vigorously
attacked by the Serbians and repuls-
ed with heavy losses. in the Gorn-
acco section the battle raged for
eight hours. The enemy was unsuc-
cessfui in trying to break through the
Serbian line and retreated. The de-
fenders captured 2,000 prisoners,
chiefly Germans. Four guns were
abandoned by the beaten foe. The
Bulgarian brigade co-operating with
the Germans shared the reverse. The
Serbisns advancing occupied several
Bulgarian positions. Neither Germans
nor Bulgarians were able to make
headway in the face of the deadly
Serbian fire. An enormous number
of enemy dead are scattered along
the front of the Serbian position. It
is claimed that the Serbians' success
for the moment, at all events, has
shattered the enemy’s offensive. Ans-
trians operating on the Drina front
have'been driven back with heavy
loss.
THE SITIIITIUN IT
THE ITIHIIIIITLLES
Uneasiness Increased by
Announcement of Cas-
ualties. Sir Ian’s' Suc-
cessor.
(Special to the Guardian.)
LONDON, Oct. 20.-The uneasiness
regarding the Dardanelies operations
has been increased by the explanation
by Harold J. Tennant, Parliamentary
Undersecretary of War, in parliament
lyesterday, that the recently announc-
led figures showing nearly'97,000 cas-
ualties at the Dardanelles did not in-
clude the sick. This, he explained,
was because the number of sick varied
from day to day and could not be
counted. With the example of the
Dardanelles expedition many members
of parliament express anxiety about
the size of the Serbian expedition.
fearing that a similar mistake will be
made.
ln this connection the Daily News
prints a rumour that General Sir Ian
Hamilton, recently relieved as com-
mander-in’-chief of the British land
forces at the Dardaneiles, already has
arrived in England.
The newspapers continue to land the
appointment of Major General Sir
Charles Carmichael Monro as succes-
sor to General Sir lan Hamilton in
the Dardanelles post. Major General
Monro’s rise has been perahps more
rapid than that of any high oflicer in
the British army during the present
war. At the outbreak of hostilities he
was merely an officer of the -Militia
force. To-day as a commander-in-r)ief
‘ he is entrusted with the most difiicult
and dangerous task ever undertaken
by British arms. He»is comparatively
young for such a high command, being
only fifty-five of age.
General Monro
type-a sturdy
frame and As a soldier
his chief according to
"instant
belongs to
IPIDY-
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‘front the position is just the reverse.
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IN  SITUATION
Germans Are Being lie-ld Up Along the Slyr River.
I Austrians Driven Back and liave Iivacuated
Czarnowliz. .ln the West the Germans liave
Suiiered Severe lleverses. Military Mission En-
aroule to Paris indicates that lioumania Contem-
lemplaies Action on ~ Side of Allies. Britain has
Promised Cyprus to Greece as Soon as She Enters,
War on Side oi Allies. “
(Special to The Guardian)
LONDON, Oct. 20.-Battles South
of Riga, where the Germans have
made" some progress in the new
thrust at the Baltic Province Port
and in Boihynia and Galicia where the
Russians have gained rather impor-
tant victories, are now competing in
interest with the operations in the
Balkans. The Germans have concen-
trated very large forces with s. great
amount of artillery South of Riga
and as a. result a stubborn battle has
been in progress for several days.
Field Marchal Von Hlndenburg who
is in command in this region reported'
two days ago that his forces had
,driven his opponents back and there’ Anglo-French forces have been in
is 9- l'€P0l‘|1 l0-ll|8\1i- that the Al!!-` action near the Greece-Bulgarian fron-
trians have evacuated Czarnowitz, a l tier, pu; seemingly the battle was not
report which finds some confirmation an Important one as no omcial reports
in an Odessa despatch declaring that have been issued with regard to it.
the Russians have abandoned their The Germans, awp,-ding go 13|-meh
contemplated evacuation of the North- ,md French Statements, aggemptod
€l'l1 districts. Of B€SB8I‘bia~ The Dl'0- offensive movements near Hulluch and
gress of events in Serbia is surround- Rhenos yesterday, but again gpffo;-ed
ed by considerable mystery. The AUS- severe reverses. On the other hand,
tr0-G€l‘lI\\1ll8 allil B\l|El1l`iHllB M9 Hd* the Germans claim success near Prun-
vancing along the varous fronts, but oy, ln the Champagne dlstl-|ct_ Mlm-ng
“Ot With We 917960 al\fiCIDHt9d- The operations have occupied the atten-
A“5U`°'Ge"m““5 apparently have tion of Anglo-French troops and Turks
spread their armies over a wider front lll Golllpoll, while ll-om Mosollolollllo
113 B§l‘TI\'l»,t0'“TSh§-h 'l;¢I’°l`t°-h, hT,heY~ it is nnofficially reported that the
are 3 VHHC “S 011 H M5 W C 5 5 British are within a few miles of Bag-
reached the River Dvina but as onliong distance West of Belgrade while ooo, Considerable lmllollonoo ls
previous occasions this broad and fast for the Bulgarians it is claimed they attached lo tho alllval ol Odessa of o
running waterway appears to have have captured ` Sultan Tepe, South- llllllloly mission oo l-onto from Roll.
held him up for the time being. The west of Egri Palanka and that in ad- lllolllo lo pol.ll,_ lls object ls ,lol
situation, however, is considered by vancing toward Kumanovo they took lmowm but ll ls thought here that
the Russians to be more serious than two thousand prisoners. Both these Buell mlsslon would hardly be l,mle,._
it had been for a long time and there places are East of Uskup. There is lake" unless Roomlmlo conlemplalell
is .again talk of the evacuating of still some doubt as to whether they llollon on me olde ol llm Alllés_ The
Riga by the military who have been have cut the railways near Vranya. ‘Gel-mono are now omllloylllg lllell,
in sole occupation of the city since the Serbian Government denying
the civilian population left a month
ego.
-At the other end of the Eastern
9 T990' 1 W 6 B' submarines in the Baltic, where er-
“Y that the Bulgarians reached man ships have been suffering l1e(;vi-
the city but were driven back. ly ,lurlng the ,mal lormlghl
The general opinion is that the '
General Ivanhoff who has proved him- Germans in the first place aim "°°°“
self to be the most aggressive of Rus- at the Serbian grain country of (Special to the Guirdlln-)
sian commanders, has been striking which Pozarvac, already reached by LONDON. OCL 20--It i9 l`€ll0l'l€l1
hard at the Austro-German forces on
the Middle Styr and all along the
fringe of Galicia which is still in Rus-
sian hands. At several (places he has
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[IE HELPING SEHBII HIIBIEII THHEE HITS ___
nut nnnsnvis our     
pr s the following statement by
General Polivanoff, Russian Minister
--° of War:
The German offensive is checked,
(Special to_the Guardian-) The intense collective efforts of the
LONDON, Oct. 20.-A British ofllcial whole Russian people during the past
communication -dealing with opera- month is having its effect at the front,
tions in Gallipoli Peninsula made and every forward step the enemy
public to-night says: takes to-day costs him dearer than
“The general officer commanding did a kilometre in the month of An-
the Mediterranean expedition reports gust. Also at several important points
that during last week there has been the Russian army is advancing and
little to report as regards operations even should the 'enemy march farther
above ground, but that on beth sides tothe East-which we do not imagine
mining activity has been considerable. is probable-the price of such a suc-
At Hill 60 the Turks exploded a. mine cess would render it worthless.
at evidently a predetermined hour. i The rlendulumdsxlngli now Ioliglltly
_ Unfortunate] for the enem the mine ll DUI' HVOY 811 all B 0 USB 8-'S
ml-Y be 0bll¢0d t0. ll'iDl9 lTlB|l'_f0\'C°l egplpded pegyepgh his owngylmeg and resources the men at work behind the
E° m°°* 'E' _ entsnglements, causing much damage army. and the help our Allies are siv-
to his own trench but none to ours. Ill! ill eilllllllllelll OUP D0Bi¢|0ll 19 illl'
lnianother part of our line the enemy Dl'0VIll8-
succeeded in exploding g, mme under Russia is of but one mind about the
our trenches. The garrison, however, WBT, Bild Gerllllllly WUI leflfll *Tilt
had already been withdrawn, but five when RUBBER is Ullited- |15 “E19 I5 t°',
'H   ‘of»o_ur miners working under lho,,day, no nation can strike her down. l
,, '_ , -_ 'E fr-ound were pm-led and given ul, ol., An official Petrograd despatch says:
` » ost. Three days later, having dug The Germlms h°V° MSU" P"°P*“`°"
themselves out, they reappeared little mln” f°" ° Winter defensive- bm h°9°
the worse for their experience. '° take Dvmsk fir"-
‘ The report of the bringing of 16-
inch guns is empty bluff. The Ger-
mans may postpone the effort, it is
.QHE WE ` , thought, till spring.
"I‘EliII’EBAT'U`Rlli,
(Special to the Guardian.)
VERONA, Oct. 20.-The Italian
offensive along the Tyrolean front
her is believed to be the beginning
of the execution of the plan of Geneilll
Cadonma, chief of the italian general
staff, for the invasion of Austrian
territory, which he is declared always
to have held to be the best way of
assisting Serbia. The capture by
Italian forces of Pregasina threatens
Riva, while the taking of Brentonico
Castle at Dosso, 2,500 feet above it,
threatens Rovereto, meaning Italian
command of the route to Mori and the
railway to Trente. Results of this
offensive movement thus far are held
here to indicate that the Austrians
or more were
were women
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Obligations People o
the' United Kingdom
Must Surrender Half
Their incomes Either
in 'Loans or Taxes.
LONDON, Oct. 19.--The deficit for
the current financial year is more than
£1,200,000,000 ($6,000,000,000) and it
is estimated that the deficit for the
next financial year, starting next April,
will be more than £1,-100,000,000
($7,000,000,000), supposing the war
to continue on its present increasing
scale.
To say that these sums will have to
be borrowed mainly at home does not
make the problem any easier to solve,
but rather makes its more diflicuit. in
his sensational speech last week the
Hon. E. S. Montague, representing the
official treasury view, declared _all
people of the United Kingdom must
surrender half their income to the
State, either in loans or in taxes.
Very rich men are already surrender-
ing one-third of their income in taxes,
but it is clear that the small wage
earners cannot spare much without a
loss of efficiency in production.
Lord Kitchener realises the import-
ance of maintaining the industrial out-
put, hence the new recruiting activi-
ties of the Government are more
scientific than the last, and proceeds
on the theory that the single man can
be spared from shopkeeping and the
luxury trades. The best ccouomists
hold that we must rely mainly upon
economy, and that if the army is en-
larged the support of our Allies finan-
cially and industrially must be corres-
pondingly diminished.
Tho treasury has estimated, as I
mentioned last week, that Grent Brit-
airliuis sugporllng 3,000,000 foreign
ese financial considerations con
stitute undoubtedly from the Cabinet’s
th t hu other ccounts ZGDDBUIIS 8g_l1iIlSt British and Ru_sslan point of view, the chief obstacle to
conscription.
HIJLSAHIIII K|IIl§'S
them, is the centre, while the Bulger- Britain has made definite promise of
ians are making straight across for Cyprus to Greece as soon as Greece
Macedonia where they will find part enters the war on the side of the _
of the popnlation_friendly to them. , Allies.
Russian Official State-
EIVE BHITISH SUEIIIEHS ,G¢"“‘°“S |i‘¢“'\l“il ` "
ment M' W d
we If-I-==--If-»»» .. ,..;‘:f.r.;‘°,.i;.:
Treachery.
(Special to the Guardian.)
LONDON, Oct. 20.-A despatch from
the Petrograd correspondent of
-Reuter‘s Telegram Company says:
" The Official Messenger will to-
morrow publish a long communication
from the Russian government concern-
ing the role played by King Ferdinand,
who remained a German Prince, al-
though reigning in Bulgaria. The com-
munication terminutes thus:-
‘During almost thirty years, the
Prince of Coburg has stood between
Russia and Bulgaria. Throughout this
period Russia never ceased to hope
that its brother people would ut last
open their eyes. Even now, when Bul-
garia sacriflces itself to German per-
fidy. Russia still has not abandoned
the hope that the Bulgarians, faithful
to their historic traditions, will not ii|'t
their hands.agaiust the sons oi' the
Russian warriors who died for Bul-
garia."
THE CIILIIIIIES WILL
HIVE NIIIIE UT THEM
(Special to the Guardlan.)`_
LONDON, Oct. 20.-Immediate steps
will be taken by the British authori-
ties. the Evening News understands,
to restrict the sudden rush of able-
bodied Britons of military age to the
colonies, to the Island of Jersey.
Guernsey and Ireland to escape mili-
tary service. " It is perfectly obvious.”
says the newspaper. " that grave dam-
age will be cqused to the relations
,between the Mother Country and her
dependencies, if hordes of these slack-
era are allowed to pour into Canada,
Australia and India, which have given
their best blood for the Empire."
German Torpedo
loaf (Silt 'Ill Two
.isa-
(sgsclsi to the Guardian.)
Loup N. oct. so.-A nn-gs ost-msn
torpedo boat was run' down and cut
in two by s German steam- ferry,
which left Trelleborg Sweden, at 8
To Meet the Increasing  
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$41,500 in One Cheque for
137 Silver Fox Skins- One
Sold for $2,250.
Representatives Present o
27 Leading United States
Fur Houses. Canadians
Bought 75 Per Cent -
of Offering-
The Great Consuming Market
for Furs is this Side ofthe
Atlantic. Huge Orders
Already Placedior this
Season’s Furs.
_ig
MONTREAL, Oct. 18.-The large!!
siuglc sale of raw furs ever recorded
in Canada was effected last week when
the firm of A. & E. Pierce & Co.; St.
Paul Street. paid over $41,500 in one
cheque for u lot of 137 silver fox
skins. Representatives of twenty-sev-
cn of the leading fur houses of the
United States were present, yet in a.
period of so culled local depression,
Canada bought up three-quarters of
the offerings.
A. Pierce showed a representative
of The Star the little pile of furs
which represent probably one-third of
the silver fox furs collected by s.
great corporation during the past
season. The early war impression
that thc fur trade had been affected
was a mistaken one. he said. The
great consuming market for furs is
on this side of the Atlantic. Ger-
many, while not a fur producing
country, had practically cornered the
fur market both in Russia and in
Canada, reselling to these countries,
75 per cent of the furs bought in them
after being dressed. The fur indus-
try lius now adapted itself to the new
conditions and Canada is taking a
bigger place in the trade than here-
tofore. The German fur agencies are
eliminated for good.
lt is-the first time in the local fur
market that homo dealers have pre-
ponderatetl over the big American buy-
ers io such an extent. In side the last
month, A. and E. Pierce and Co., has
paid over $90,000 for raw furs.
Their new stock of silver fox furs
alone represents over $48,000. One
skin picked up and examined by a
prospective buyer yesterday, was
valued at approximately $2.250, the
best skin in the pile. Nearby lay piles
of skins of white fox, red fort, and
skins from a cross between silver and
red, which are quite common in the St.
James Bay district.
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Tl] HIIEWIT TITIIIK
CHESTER, N.Y.. Oct. 19.-Highway
men sandbagged Newton Hoffman, 22
years old, as he stepped from a south-
bound Erie train at South Avon last
night and wired him bead and foot to
the tracks. lie was run over by a
train which came along an hour later
and his foot was taken off. His head
was placed between the tracks and
was unhnrt. After the accident he
regained consciousness and told the
story of his hold up. He remembered
nothing, he said. from the time he was
Hlllldbdgscd until he felt a sharp pajn
in his foot. He was rushed to n
Rochester hospital on a special train
nud it is thought he will recover.
I
AUSTRIAN GENERAL'8 WIRELESS
CRY FOR GERMAN HELP!
PARIS. Oct. 19.- The Serbians are
offs/ring stout resistence to the Teu-
tonic advance in the Scmendria .sec-
tion. according to information froin
Nish, received by the Journal. A
wireless message sent by the Au.
trian general in charge there to Field
Marshall Von Bscensen,-and inter-
cepted by the Serbisna, is laid to be
as follows: - ' `
“Impossible to accomplish my task
successfully, unless you send -heavy
reinforcements immediately."
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