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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1916,
THE
WAR.
LATEST. TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
THE BRITISH ADVANCE.
FURTHER GROUND GAINED.
LONDON July 93. General Sir Donglas Baig in ammaniqud says:
yesterday It noen was frustrated.
Two infantry attacks against our centre were also fruitles.
FURIOUS BATTLE ON RUSSIAN FRONT.
LONDON, July 35.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
COMPULSORY SERVICE" FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
IN WEST PRUSSIAN FARVEST FIELDS.
AMSTERDAM, July 25. Compulsory service in hartcat fields for gromen and children (s) being introduced in West Prussia. Refusal is punishable, with a year's imprisonment and/or fine of £75] sterling.
5,000-TON SUBMARINES.
- LONDON, July 25.
. The German technical monthly
A Russian communiqué states that Promotheus declares that two of
& furious battle is proceeding in con- the leading Naval Powers are
EXPLOSION UNDER LAKE EERIE.
DUTCH FISHING VESSELS IN
·FROHIBITED WATERS.
CLEVELAND, July 250
LONDON, July 34 Twenty-four dead bodies have been
As the Dutch fishing vessel were recovered from the waterworks tan, selling 90 per cent of their herrings not under Take Eerie, where there and quantities of other fish direct to German buyers, Great Britain has pinced has been a gas explosion. Rescuers number of Dutch fishing vessels in the are seeking survivors.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE IRISH PROBLEM.
„PROSPECT OF AGREEMENT UNHOPEFUL
LONDON, July 34: Mr. Asquith announced in the House of Commons that the Gov an Irish Rill because there did not appear to be any prospect of sub stantial agreement among all parties,
An attempt to attack our right dant nection with General Sakharoff's building, 5,000-ton submarines with ernment did not propose to introduce offensive between. Brody and Vladi-a speed of 98 knots on the surface mir.Volynak.
and 18 knots submerged and armed TURKS RETREATING IN DISORDER. with thirty torpedo tubes and 150
On the Caucasian front, the Rus-raines. north of Frujeres despite strong wines, after repelling two Turkish sppcaition.
Further ground has he gained
"
counter-attacks, occupied the heights
The
The enemy has been recently of Aglik. in the neighbourhood of hurther reinforced on the Somme Erzindarac. to the east of which tho front by infantry and guns,
Bussions have occupied the line of Bombardment ik continuous and the river Douroum to Darnai. occasionally very heavy,
cavalry have reached the line Testerday's infuntry attacks, which Boztupa-Mortokli. were proceded by a specially violent i bombardment. was stopped by con- centrated fire, the enemy nowhere reaching our trenches. His casual fies must have been severe.
There was much hand-to-hand fighting on other parts of the line where our infantry in places worked its way forward.
The greater part of Pozieres is now The prisoners here included
te hattalion commanders.
ILTER
Genem Haig reports that the Germans attempted an infantry attack on Pozieres from the north- east. It wena repulsed by our artillers.
LATER,
The Turkish Armies in Armenia are retreating in disorder. We are now ten miles from Ezzingan: "
ITALIAN SUCCESSES.
LONDON, July 25.
An Italian commenique states: We have captured. Mount Cimone, repulsed with heavy loss two enemy attacks on Asige and captured enemy trenches and prisoners.
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THE DOVER PATROL.
REPORT ON ITS OPERATIONS.
LONDON, July 25. A. despatch-from--Vice-Admiral
SUBMARINE WARFARE.
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Prize Court and has detained others. for persistently fishing in prohibitexi waters, despite the warnings of their own (lovernment. Recognising the possibility of hardship, the Government has offered to confer with the Dutch fishing, interests to devise means to alleviate the situation.
THE BATTLE OF POZIERES.
LONDON, July 25.5 General Sir Douglas Haig, in communique, states-The Australians participated in the fighting at Pozieres. activity in other parts of the battle front There has been considerable artillery
bad.
MORE FRENCH CAPTURES.
PAREM July 24 A communiqué states:-The night was quiet on the Somma. The weather is
prisoners at Chapelle Sainte Seine in ten We took over 300 of the enemy
days.
felled.
Mr. John Redmond obtained leave.bo. move the adjournment "in "order, to call attention to the rapidly growing unrest in Ireland änd "tó. the fact that the Government did not propose to Losoos, July 25.
carry out in their entirety the terma submitted for a temporary settlement." The stoumer Olize has been sub- Mr. Redmond reviewed the negotiations marined in the Mediterranean. ading to the agreement between Sir The British steamers Wolf. Llong-Edward Carson and himself. On return wen and Knutsford, have been sunking to London, he said, he was faced by entirely now proposals, propounded by The crows were saved.
| Lord Lansdowne. He had received, on the 20th inst., an extraordinary notifica tion from the Cabinet stating that it had postponed its consideration of the draft Bill, and was considering z auta ber of new propoasia. "I asked for particulars, and was informed that the Cabinet did not desire to cuusult me and would not communicate with moare numbered. The Russiana
BRITISH CABINET CRISIS.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE SAID TO HAVE OFFERED TO RESIGN.
Two enemy aeroplanes have been
We bombed the railway station at Conflans, hutments at Vigneulles, and barracks and an aerodrome at Dieuzi
RUSSIAN ADVANCE OF ERZINJAN.
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PETROGRAD, July 24.
It is stated that the days of Eranjan
ат
till a settlement had been reached. On steadily advancing on the place from Losos, July 25. Saturday, Mr. Lloyd George informed the south and the north, while eastward the vanguards are only fifteen miles. off The Daily News says it is freely me that the Cabinet had decided stated that Mr., Idoyà George has insert in the Bill a provision for the
SWEDEN AND SUBMARINES. permanent exclusion of the six Ulster. offered to resign, in view of the Irish counties, omit the agreement for the
STOCKHOLM, July 24. controversy, and it is understood that retention of the Irish members at West- MaAsquith's attitude is that if Mr.minster daring the transitory period, A General Order has been issued to that their decision was final, and that the Swedish forces to the effect that' Lloyd Gorge resigned he would con- they would not open the discussion. I foreign mbmarines in Swedish waters sider himself bound to resign also.and my colleagues adhere to every word should be attacked immediately unles The matter is not being discussed.cf the agreement, but we cannot agree they are recognised neutrals or mer but the situation of the Coalition to the new proposals, which would mean chantmen.
a disgraceful breach of faith on my Government-Bas not improved.
part towards my sapporters in Ireland. We war the Government that we
Redmond concluded by saying: While the attitude of myself and friends towards the war is maltered, and un- alterable, the Nationalists would con
LATER.
Throughout the day there has been Bacon on the operations of the Dover There are no signs of a renïoval of the will oppose the Bill at every stage." Mr.
Berce hand-to-band and bomb fight ing in various places all along the
battle-front between Anero and tha ses, but nothing of importance." FRENCH CAPTURE ENEMY GUNS.
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PARIS, July 25.
A communiqué sagen
f
Patrol since December Sni, 1913, pays Irish deadlock. tribute to the unremitting energy of
vacillation of the Government both in demestic affairs and in their conduct of the war.
Mr. Asquith conferred with Mr. the officers and men of his command. Balfour, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Panar 21,000 merchantmen, besides war-Law and Mr. Chamberlain for a boursider themselves., free to criticise the ships und auxiliaries, passed the to-day, after which he bar an curlience patrol during the half year, of which of the King. It is believed that this only. 21 were lost or seriously dam was in connection with the administra aged by the enemy, while 4 per cent. tion of Ireland' during the war, in the
loss of 77 lives.
Mr. Lloyd George argued that the difference with reference to Ulster was a matter of phmacology. He admited.
· SOLDIERS IN ARMOUR.
MR LLOYD GEORGE ON OUR ARME.
LONDON, July 23 Mr. Lloyd George, Secretary of State for War, in the course of the meech in the House of Commons in which he expressal entire confidence in the victory of the Allies in a few months
said:
Our stesi helmets are better thin
North of the Somme, south of the of the patrollers were sunk with a event of negotiations for a settlement that there had been a departure from those of the Germans, and the French
village of D'Estrees, we captured an -onemy battery.
Since the 20th inst., we have cap tured beyond the Somme over sixty machine-guns.
Our infantry took a redoubt in- mediately west of Thinumont, taking five machine-guns and forty pri-
SOLLTS.
FURTHER FRENCH SUCCESS.
PARIS, July 25.
A communiqué says:
Last svening we carried a group
of strongly-fortified houses south of Estrees and cleared out cucir trenches north of Verman d'Ovillers. There was a violent chemy bem- bardment from Fleury to La Laufes,
A French air squadron bombed the", railway of Fiorrepont and Longuyon. And bivounes Dear Mangiennes.
* LATER.
Last night's communiqué Bays that apart from a violent borbord
ment in the Laufee district on the right of the Meuse, there is nothing of importance to report.
(Haven Service.).
THE YERDUN SECTOR.
PARIS, July 24. During the past ten days 800 prisoners have been taken by the French in the Verdun sector,
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4
The patrol assists in guarding the flank of the cross-channel transport, in which not a life has been lost, besides reconnaissances.
not being resumed. C
Other Parliament
are closely following events.
•
the agreement with reference to the re
The Irish members of the House of presentation at Westminster, which was and Italians had saved thousands of due to the opposition of the Unionists, lives through their instrumentality. Commons will meet before the sitting who agreed that if after a dissolution Proceeding, Mr. Lloyd George said he the number of Irishmen at Westminster believed the idea of a protective shield to-morrow.
organisations was indiuinished it might make for the body was capable of further
difference between a Liberal or Unionist development.
Regarding the further utilisation of Government on any general question of Government and the Empire. No agree the man-power of the Empire, the whole
question must be reviewed. doubtedly action must be taken shortly. The French had used theirs to the largest extent, and there was no reason. why we should not follow example..
LATER
Naval airmen have, carried out
The Premier has promised to publish eleven raids on enemy aerodromes in
n précis of the agreement between Sirment was possible without modifications. Belgium, and have made thirteen Edward Camon and Mr. Redmend. Therefore it was idle to introduce the attacks on
enemy vessels. They
Bill. He deeply regretted that it was have destroyed nine, enemy d'èro-
thought a disaster, but the Irish mem- The Times mys the Irish negatin-bers knew their country, and the English planes. The submarine service and
Home Rulers recognised that their naval airmen have rendered valuabletions are critical.
difficulties were due to causes which the service off. Flanders.
former had done their best to averk,
Sir Horace Plunkett in a letter to Patrol-boats destroyed several sub.the Times says the unnatural parti- marizes and some surface-boats, tier of the country damns the scheme much reducing the activity of sub in the eyes of the Irish.
murines from the Belgian coast.
PRISONERS IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY.
LONDON, July 25.
Britain on June 90, ..
LIST.
THE PARIS ECONOMIC. CONFERENCE..
THE BRITISH EMPIRE'S INTEREST IN THE CONCLUSIONS.
LONDON, July 25.. In the House of Commons Mr.
In the House of Lords, replying. to Forster stated that there were 25,850 Lord Templeton, who asked why British prisoners in Germany and representatives of the Dominions had 20.200 German prisoners in Great been included in the Committee ap pointed to consider the conclusions of the Para Economic Conferences, Lord AMERICAN FIRMS ON THE BLACK Crewe said the present Committee was of a purely preliminary mature: An opportunity would be given for the representation of the self-governing Referring to the question raised as Colonies on all questions affecting the to American firm on the British blacklist, Lord Robert Cecil pointed out in the House of Commons that this blacklisting only applied to persóna manifesting hostility to Great
THE BRITISH SEIZURE OF DUTCH Britain.
FISHING VESSELS.
STRONG PROTEST BY FISHER-
MEN'S UNIONS.
THE HAGUE, July 25.
LONDON, July 25.
Empire.
UNITED STATES BOYS DANISH ̈ WEST INDIES.
WASHINGTON, July 25. It is oficially announced that the MILITARY TRAINING FOR AFRICAN United States has practically concluded the purchase of the Danish West Indies for five millions sterling.
NAMVES.
Way
We are turning out monthly more heavy guns than were possessed by the whole Army at the beginning of the war: This is a triumph for British engineering, but more are still wanted,
Sir Edward Carson said that they had entered into the negotiations thinking only of the war, from which they bad been anxious to prevent distraction. It was understood that six counties would bu struck out definitely by the Home Rule Act. No exclusion could be Earl Kitchener was on his way to Eg When the mail left home, the new called permanent. Ulster could be won land from East Africa, where he went on over by good government. Exclude
February last year! & special mission her, then win her. If hopes of a settle His only son and heir, Commander. ment wars shattored would be a Henry after the family seat car Kitchener, will be styled Viscount calamity.
Viscount terbury, Broome Pari The Premier acknowledged the loyal its during the war. The Nationalists years, and has acquired a reputation as and partriotic attitude of the National
has been a
had the opportunity to bring Home
commander in the Navy for eart
Rule into immediate operation Were is unmarried, the second in succession ne Agantery expert. A Viscount Broome they going to throw away that opport the Kitchener peerage is now Lieutenant unity The Government believed that Henry Kitchener, of the Royal Flying recur. As an old Home Ruler he asked an opportunity had come which might not
Corpe,
the Nationalists to reconsider their decision.
Mr. Dillon declared that the settla- ment had tally broken down y
Me Asquith strongly appealed to the Nationalists to reconsider their decision.
The motion, was talked out.
ERMISH WAR EXPENDITURE.
NEW VOTE FOR £450,000,000
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LONDON, July 25. In the House of Cormons Mr. In reference to the seizure of fishing Weasels, the Fishermen's Unions in Bonar. Law said the Government telegraphed to the British Minister exe cardully considering the recruit protesting against this abuse of power, mont and training of native troops gross violation of rights, and unjust in East, West and Central Africa measures which will render idle ten Steps were being taken to make the thousand people dependent on the best military use of the antives in THE KITCHENER MEMORIAL FUND. fisheries."
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