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MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1916....
THE WAR.
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.
"(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
THE GREAT NAVAL BATTLE.
DETAILED ACCOUNT BY ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL.
NEW YORK, Janà. 4.
The first ngcuts and detailed -account of the battle off Jutland is given to the American public by the Associated Press, which received the description from a ligh official of the British Admiralty who has studied all the official reports it is, as
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE FIGHTING AT VERDUN
PARP June
A Paris commeurigire states¿"" There was a heavy attack has evening in the revine between Damloup and Vausfort, and the eventy gained a foot, ing in our trenches but a counter attack imme lintely drove hira out." A second nback in the moming failed before our artillery fire.
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE.
EVERYWHERE STOPPED LEAD"
THE SEIZURE OF MAILS,
ANGLOFRENCH MEMORANDUM.
HARPER'S
PRICKLY HEAT POWDER
offset contained in the" document -- PREVENTION[
OF
Apply a small quantity of the Priskly Mess Poviler to the Soles of the Fect and between me The thit, will ensure perfect case and Soves and Bijacers
The Memorandum presented by his Majesty's Governmenti anet, the French Government tu "neutral Governments Rome, Junk degarding the examination of purcels.
A NATURAL EMOLLIENT AND ABSORBENT DUSTING FOWDER. A communiqué states The ending and letter mails he been published as SCIENTIFICALLY COMPOUNDED FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF offensive has continued uninterruptedly, a White Biper, the text being in both but it was everywhere stopped dead languages.
FALL ITCHING, INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS OF THE SKIN. There has been an intense bombaarinent
The following nce the principat pointa at Positin and Toney. The stemy!
T HUBHÉR AND REVOLTKEM violently attackel the Fowing heights. bat was everywhere repulsert with hewry Along numerous axanıples, it will be losses. North-east of Ceugio the position enough to quota: 130 postal purvely at Belmonte changed kanda repeatedly, containing altogether 137,510 kilog of SORE FEET THE EXPORT OF ANILINE FROM and eventually it was brilliantly recuBahia Jaguaribe Maranhas Aere (steaniships, Tijnen, tured and held by the Italians Enemy Olin Fura, Brazil, or, further. sixty- aircraft bombed Alk, Verona, Vicenza, nine pental parcels, containing 400 re- and Schin doing only the slightest volvers for Germany in Amsterilam
mage.Six persons were windled. (steamship Geiria). The Italiana.dropped a hundret bomilis Ou encampments in the Astien valley. (men returned-anharnied.
OERMANY.
BRITISH CONCESSION, ABUSED,
LONDON," Fane A.
From December 21, 1914, to December 31, 1913, the German er Austro-Hun-
The Amsterdam Handelsblait * Good results were observed and the air. † Kurian urval authorities destroyed with-
NO ENEMY SURPRISES,
that owing to infractions of the Angle The enemy prang no surprises. Puteh agreement whereby grant Britain There were no 17-5. guna wad no fallowed the expert of anilinie from, new tricks.
Germany, several Dutch qarge steamers This bad weather was the hardest are helil up by the British and have luck our Fleet Bas yet encountered.een obliged to discharge their cargoes Nevertheless with 1 fight like of aniline. The steamer Ronde," with Wednesday's action every day, we could stand the loss much better that the Germans.
"We were looking for a fight, The stories that our Fleet, was The Associated Pris adds that dengid by the Gemian is the future details will be even more sheerest, nonseZINA, Indeed, in a heartening for Britons. worel, with an inferior feet wo -anguged the entire German Fl-it whe were interrupted in their plans and driver back to barbour.
Thus, we "sustained heavy losser, which 'we expettal, but we also @maiñel expected results.
I must but we had extremely bural birk with ur batticemisers, but the loss of three great slipes in nitwise cripples our contred of the.
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PHASES OF THE BATTLE. The ratil. had four phases Firstly the opening at 3.15 in the afternoon when our battle-enisers at a ring of six miles joined action
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ANOTHER.
ADMIRALTY STATEMENT.
Losos, June A The Admiralty has issued a statement generally similar to that made to the Xssoriated Press of America. ·
It states that when the main holy ni the British Fleet came in contnet, with the tertiair High Seas Fleet the briefest perioni maitinasi to pompel the GermanS alrely severely punished, to seek reinge....
1,100 case, wn allowed to leave Durban un the condition that the aniline which was alresent to the Govenor General of the Dutch Indies and is urgently needed, he placed at the disposal of the British Consul of the Dutch (pdies
STEAMERS SUKK.
Luxpos, June »4. The British steamers Dewalaud and Salmon Peel have been unik.
EÄRLIER TELEGRAMS,
[FOREIGN OFFICE TELEGRAMA.]
THE ASIATIC THEATRE.
boutowaming or preliminary visit thir
teen nail steamers with the mail-bags on boar, coming from ar destined to neutral or Affied countries, without troubling any more about the inviola bility of the despatches and correspond. ence they contained than about the lives of the inoffensive persons on, board these
story" recently the exaunication so LONDON, June 1
Lallied territory of various mail-bags con- In the Asiatic theatre. North" of veyod in vensels, touching at certain the Armenian Tugs each side is ports in that territory revealed the pre apparently hofting the other. South Rence, in the wrappers envelopes and of the "ountains the Turks lave particularly sought after by the enemy
postal packets of articles of contraband been hurrying reinforcements along for instance, on arrival of the steamship the Bagdad railway to Bigdad and Tubantia in Earupe there were found on which have pushed out fairly strong board 1741th of rubber, 1011h of colugan to Buwanduz where one Ros-were superior quality Pam, as well as seven packets of wool; on board the siun force is advancing Neither steamship Medan, seven packets of raw side has yet announced any conflict rubber. A similar examinations, inade under the same coalitions, of mail-bags in this, direction,
leaving Europe revealed among the mall- bags on one steamship alone, the Zaandijk (Dutch) no less than 36 packets of merchandise of various kinds.
THE BULGARIAN INVASION
is
OF GREECE.
The following letter from the Gernina. firm of G. Vogtinan and Co. (duted De- cember 15, 1915 from 16 lockenges Lesbos, June 1serwal, Haniburg) is particularly in
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"For a certain time we have been receiving regularly from Para consign- iments of raw rubber, and you might give your attention to this matter. The consignments are sent as register. al samples without value, about 200 packets come by each mail, arat ench packet contains about...
ret of rubber. The trouble of making the packets and the high cost cl
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A Bulgarian face with some Gerstructive :--- man engineers has occupied Gerek THE BRITISH FRONT. forts commanding the approaches to Cavalla, the port which Bugaria GALLANTRY OF CANADIANS. desired after the Balkün, War" but which Greece took. So fur there lins LONDON, Ting F [been no further" Bulgarian advance. Hmmend Sir Douglas Halg, in a The
Anglo-French fores as This was, psihic owing to the wind, states -Very severe light- Salonika is now believed to be very visilitry and the mist. The Granding has continued neeasingly south-east large and well supplied. It is just of Ypres, between Honge and the Ypres been reinforced by the reorganised Fleet was dity able to get in momentaryenin railway. The enemy, following Serbian Army from Corfu, all long- a with the ferruf battle-cruisers. Leontact with the enemy's skips now and up last night's initial advantage, pusheding to be up and at the Bulgars,
Sveinlly, the sperly arrival of th. No contimons Ration was attacks at night and miceeded in Battleships of both sides, the Gerpostle.
pushing through the deferices to a depth |
(Continued ́on Page.3.) - of 500 yanks in the direction of bolding this sector, counter-attacked at seven in the morning and succeeded pi gitally driving the enemy from much of the ground he had gained. The | Canadians behaved with "the utmost gallantry in unterattacking siletėse.
during the night.
mans arriving sooner than ours, hut, The pursuit culitioued till the lightZellebcke. The Canadians, who are before fuit, our three battle-cruisers wholly failed, but British destroyers had been blown up, supposedly by were able to make a somsful attack gunfire, wit possibly they were tor- pedoed. At such close-range fight- ing our buttheptisers might be criticise for sad tactics, but our Fleet, following the traditions of the Navy went out and engaged the enemy, and the weather waile them do so at close range.
After driving the enemy intą port, Admiral Jellise returned and scouted' the main scene of action in search of disabled vessels. By noon on Thursday it was evident that nothing more could be done and the ships returned to their
THE PROSPERITY OF SHIPPING.
SOME MARINE INSURANCE FIGURES.
here."
It is known that on December 15, 1915, www.rabber, which had been taken over the German State author. completely by Ities worth about 25 marks the kilogramine, and that as the Hamburg guter Verdienst merchant added ein nicht
WHAT
ren " Ausgeschlossen shance of a good profit." (there is a
On the LABILITY MEANS
ground that, on the one hand, inviolability does
not apply to anything sent
post is not getu , and that, on the
Black as the war clouds may spent, ine
the
base, refueled al were agaia ready for the 3rd Canadian Division, who were pro London turreskatraband of war, the Allied Governments |
sea on Friday (ly* evening
*
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fully after a heavy and continuous there is a silver lining to them. Many other it would be giving to this wider application than it severe, and many, Germin dead were bombardment. The enemy dead were the war are now in the besty, finally has it
heyday of ally has if it were held to confer abandoned.
success. Shipping, in all its varied exemption from all examination on artă- General Mercer and General Williams.
is, however, enjoying phenomeles sent by post, even if they werv-con-
are such as to make the
declare y inspecting the front trenches yesterday of the most covetens water. Undream- Thirdly, the engagement of the
1. That as regards their right of Visit during the bombardment, are missing dividends are being
suas carried to reserve to be utilized in and seizures, goods sent in the form of paid and fast and search, and eventually of detention battleships was never more than j* The word is mutilated in the cable. Opposite Renyrey a small party railed sums partial. It included a running fight which gives-it-ax Humpday,÷EL] a German lime last night, bringing back the near future to build new and
dinte prisoners after a sharp engagement, in
ship to as the German Dreadnoughts fled
rhich the German trench party suffered the world's t the requirements of parcels are not entitled to and
increase in
inter will national
as to replace towards their bases. The big ship
casualties. We bombed several German,
respectable amount of currying -fighting was over by 0.15.
The Admiralty states that the British dugouts and raideal an enemy trench capacity that the German sabmarine Then came one of the weirdest losses, have been fully stated. There is south-west of Augres last night, dispospira e have sent to the bottom."
ing of the garrison above ground. We features of the battle, as the German nothing to sit of suberner. The Al also hotbed five lugouts, retiring destroyers made attack after 'attack; miralty do not doubt that the German without lose. There has been much artif like infantry following artillery pro-losses were heavier, not merely relative-lery activity today at Loos. in paration, per big ships. These ly but absolutely onslaughts were futile, not a single torpedo getting home.
These attacks ended in the morn ing. The scene of the battle was swept by Admiral Jellicoe's Fleet who reported that not a single enemy -vessel was in sight.
Any description "can only be frag- mentary pending Admiral Jellicoe's report.
AN AMAZING INCIDENT
It is an amazing incident that the super-dreadnought Marlborough atcomed into a veritable hornets" next of submarines and skilfully avoided three before she was hit, but ...she is now safely in harbone.
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GERMAN LOSSES.
There is the strongest ground for supposing that the German losses include
Two Battleships Two Dreadnought Battle-Cruisers, of
the most powerful type.
Two of the latest, Light Cruisers, viz
the Wiesbaden and Elbing.
.
A Light Cruiser of the Rostock type. The Light Cruiser, Franenlob Nine Destroyers, at least
A Submarine
THE CASUALTIES.".
LONDON, June - 4
250 men have been saved",
Up to the present 250 officer and Among the victims are Rear-Admiral Arbuthnot and Midshipman Scott, son Early in the engagement, accord.of Admiral Sir Percy Scott, who were ing to Rear-Admiral Beatty's report. both on the Defence.
THE GERMAN LOSSES,
(Haves Service.).
THE FRENCH FRONT,
MÓRE "FIERCE GERMAN ATTACKS
AT YERDUK.
PARIS, June 3.
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That the inviolability of postal cor- respondence, laid down by the eleventh Hague Convention of 1905, detracts in no way from the right of the Allied Governments to search and, if necessary's to detain and seize goods conscaled in wrappers, envelopes or letters contained in mail bags
3. That, faithful to their engagements and duly respecting - real- "correspond- ence," the Allied Governments will con- tinue, for the present to refrain from capturing at sea and confiscating such correspondence, letters or despatches and that they will ensure their being for- warded as fapilly as possible so soon as their genuine character has been established.
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