Catalan Chronicle, 20 September, 1904








*Editor announces shift to weekly deadlines!*




*It's 1870 again as Germans parade down the Champs Elysees!*


*Massive battle for Baltic coast ends inconclusively!*


*Strike at Barcelona telegraph office stops incoming telegrams being received!*




Welcome to the twentieth edition of your insufferable Catalan Chronicle!


After polling our loyal readership about the frequency of moves, it seems that our former publication deadline of one-game-year-per-week was a bit difficult for all of our correspondents to adhere to, particularly when trying to file weekend copy. Therefore we'll be shifting to a more leisurely one-major-season-per-week schedule from here on in. Major season deadlines will be Mondays 2000GMT from now on (except tomorrow), and minor season deadlines Tuesday or Wednesday (depending upon retreats before winter adjustments).


Here's the moves for Autumn 1904:

Austria:
A Bohemia - Vienna (*Fails*)
A Budapest - Trieste (*Bounce*)

A Serbia Supports A Budapest - Trieste

England:
F Barents Sea - Norway (*Fails*)
F English Channel Supports A Picardy - Brest
F Irish Sea - Liverpool
F Mid-Atlantic Ocean - Portugal
F Norway - Sweden (*Bounce*)

A Picardy - Brest

France:
F Brest Hold (*Dislodged*)
A Marseilles Hold
F North Atlantic Ocean - Clyde
A Paris Supports F Brest (*Dislodged*)
F Tunis Hold

Germany:
A Berlin - Silesia
A Burgundy Supports A Gascony - Paris

F Denmark - Sweden (*Bounce*)
A Gascony - Paris
A Munich Supports A Berlin - Silesia
A Prussia - Livonia (*Bounce*)

Italy:
F Albania Supports A Tyrolia - Trieste
F Greece Hold
A Piedmont - Marseilles (*Fails*)

F Trieste - Adriatic Sea
A Tyrolia - Trieste (*Bounce*)
A Vienna, no move received

Russia:
A Armenia - Ankara (*Bounce*)
F Baltic Sea - Livonia (*Bounce*)
A Bulgaria - Rumania
F Constantinople Supports A Armenia - Ankara (*Cut*)

A Warsaw - Livonia (*Bounce*)

Turkey:
F Aegean Sea - Constantinople (*Fails*)
A Smyrna - Ankara (*Bounce*)

Two retreats are due, both from France:


French F Brest can retreat to Mid-Atlantic Ocean or Gascony.
French A Paris can retreat to Picardy.

The deadline for the retreats, and for any press you would like to send
before the winter adjustments, is tomorrow 2000GMT - that's Monday 22 July. Winter adjustments and press will be 2000GMT Tuesday 23 July.


I'd love to bring you our usual round-up of reports from around the Continent, but we haven't received any telegrams or letters due to a strike at the Barcelona post office. Therefore we have to complete this edition of the Chronicle at this point.


This concludes our latest edition of the Catalan Chronicle,
we
hope you've enjoyed reading it. Please do send in your news stories,
thoughts, dreams, ambitions, and reviews, however mendacious, for us all
to enjoy.


Your next deadline is  Autumn 04, retreat and press on Monday 22 July 2000GMT. Winter 04
adjustments and press will be 2000GMT Tuesday 23 July.




Jerome (Editor)