THE WAR.
HOW ENGLAND IS TO BE
ATTACKED.
ALLEGED ELABORATE GERMAN PLAN.
ANOTHER AIR RAID: LITTLE
DAMAGE.
RENEWED FIGHTING NEAR YPRES.
GENERAL.
INCREASED OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS.
(THROUGH BECTER'S AGENCY.]
HOW ENGLAND IS TO BE
ATTACKED.
ALLEGED GÉKMAN PLANS.
NEW YORK, June 6th.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMAN SOCIALISTS
RESTIVE.
A MEETING OF REICHSTAG
MEMBERS.
LONDON, June 6th. It has leaked out that at a meeting of The opinion is expressed here that the German Socialist members of the Germany's attempt to delay a definite Reichsting, speakers-doncuneed-the-dear--| reply to the American Note is connectedness of food and the badness of bread and with the reported. German plans to complained that millers were earning simultaneously attack England by air and huge dividends. They protested against the prohibition of meetings and the muzzling of the Press. The miners especially are hardly treated, being sent to the trenches if they complain of low
BOL
It is proposed to send three Fleets, each consisting of a Zeppelin and four aerop lanes, to raid the south coast, the Thames estuary and Norfolk, finally concentra ting on London.
The reply to America will depend on -the result of the raid.
DELIVERING THE GOODS."
INCREASED OUTPUT OF
MUNITIONS.
It is!
LONDON, June ŠLE Within four hours of Mr. Lloyd George's speech at Manchester provisional arrangements were made in the city for the production of war. material. expected that within a month all the larger firms, and, in time, all engineering rms in Manchester will be making shells day and night.
The leaders of the workers state that the men are most willing to devote their entire energies to the work of the Sims. They are anxions to have the War Servies Badge.
Mr. Appleton, Secretary of the Fede- ration of Trade Unions, said all welcomed the definitence of Mr. Lloyd George's speech, and regretted it was not made eight months tige
CANADIANS DESIRE TO HELP. TORONTO, June 5th.
Eight hundred mechanics have applied to go to Great Britain to make munitions. GERMAN GASSING METHODS IN POLAND.
Lounos, June 6th, Sir John Brunner, in a speech, men tioned that the firm of Brunner, Mond & Co. had undertaken to manufacture two chemicals for shells.
The German gassing methods in Puland, he said, differed from those of the The straw linings of Western front.
hs, timbers, and all kinds of debris were piled to make a séries of bonfires.
wages. One speaker said if the workers submitted to such gross injustice they cannot be human beings.
COMMONWEALTH'S OFFER
OF REINFORCEMENTS,
MELBORNE, June 5th. Mr. Pearce, Commonwealth Minister of Defence, states that in addition to send.
reinforcements to the front, élte Come-
:
"monwealth' would send as many infantry
brigades as they can get the men for.
Mr. Cook in the House of Represent- atives, asserted that Australia had not sent sufficient men to the firing-line, Every man able to shoulder a gun should He suggested registering every able- bodied man in the Commonwealth.
go,
AMERICANS LEAVING
GERMANY.
LONDON, June 6th. Many Americans have arrived in
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 7m 1015.
AIRSHIP ACTIVINY..
W[ZARDUCH REUTER'S AGENOV.).
ANOTHER ZEPPELIN BAID.
LITTLE MATERIAL DAMAGE DONE.
LONDON, June 8th,
The Admiralty announces that hastilo airships visited, the cast and south-east coast of England on Friday evening. Bombs were dropped at various places, but little material damage was done, and the casualties were very few.
THE RECENT FRENCH AIR
RAID.
SEVERAL KILLED AT CROWN PRINCE'S HEADQUARTERS.
AMSTERDAM, June 6th.
THE NEAR EAST
(THROUGH: REUTHI'S AGENOT}'
THE DARDANELLES. OPERATIONS. COMBINED ASSAULT ON TURKISH POSITIONS.
LONDON, June 8th.” The Times correspondent at Mityleno says the combined general attacks on the Turkish positions in Gallipoli began the 4th inst.
TURKISH TROOPS FOR CONSTANTINOPLE.
PETROGRAD, June, sih. The Russians have discovered large withdrawals of Turkish troops and artillery from the Caucasian front. The best regiments are being transferred
A Berlin telegram admits that several | Constantinopic. were killed when the French aeroplanes raided the Headquarters of the Crown Prince of Germany.
FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT.
{THROUGH REGTER'S AGENCY.]
FIGHTING RENEWED NEAR YPRES.
HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES.
AMSTERDAM, June 5th, The Telegraafs Bruges correspondent reports that severe fighting has recom- menced in the Ypres-Menin district and that the Germans fiato lost heavily especially from bayonet attacks. The hospitals in Belgiumi are full of fresh
wounded.
FRENCH PROGRESS.
PAHIB, June 5th:
4.15 p.m.
The Germans made three violent attacks on the Soucher sugar refinery, and on the trenches to the north and south of it. All were repulsed with heavy losses, and the French remain masters of the positions
taken;"
We carried a German position to the north-west of Cabaret Rouge, south of Souchez,
AMSTERDAM, June 3th.
A Berlin communiqué admits that the French hold the Souchez refinery.
THE FIGHT FOR "TRE
LABYRINTH,”.
CONTINUES UNCEASINGLY,
PARIS, June 5th. 19.50 2.m. A communiqué spys:- North of Arras our progress resulted in our securing two-thirds of the village of Neuville.
"[BEITINH FOREIGN OFFICE CALLE.]
OPERATIONS IN MESSOPOTAMIA.
BIG SUCCESS AT SMALL COST."
to
PRISONERS IN GERMANY,
INSPECTION OF CAMPS.
PHISONERS OF WAR,
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE KAISER.
A recont contribution by the Author of The Letters of an Englishman *** Con- tributed to the Daily Mail says:--
AMSTERDAM, April 26th." According to the semi-official North German Garotte the American and
Of all the tragedies forced upon us by Spanish Ambassadors recently visited the the war there is none that fills us with a desper feeling of helpless hopeless despair war prisoners camps in Germany,
than the tragedy of our soldersin. A Renter's message says:-The Ameriprisoned in Germany. To they alone con Ambaamdor, Mr. Gerard, paid a two days' visit to the camp at Gottingen, in a grimly practical fashion. Upon them the bitter gospel of late may be preached.
lodged, and attended a British festival. illomened spleen without any fear of in- where numerous British prisoners are alone the Germans may void their Mr. Gerard, Mr. Jackson; and other mediate punishment or reprisad. Americans are stated to have declared it is an act of cowardice to treat or that the accommodation in the camp is insult a defeat less captive is not likely exemplary. The sanitary arrangements to still the tongue or stay the hand of a proved to be excellent, and the prisoners German'ullient," The newa which chines are well cared for as regards bodily and to us from witnesses of truth disquiets intellectual.comfort. Several professora
us more bitterly than rumours of defeat of Gottengen University are giving enth in the held is a thousand times. lectures to the prisoners on the war, its casier to bear than a deliberate policy of causes, and the attitude of the Fowers, cruelty and abuse, especially Great Britain.
The spirit among the Gottengen pri soners is, according to the American witness's, better than at other camps The Americans who visited the other camps declare that the conditions are every where satisfactory. There is nowhere exaggerated Inxury, but the treatment is
humanes
The wife of an officer interned at Burg. neur Magdeburg, sends to the Times the following extracts from her hubund's
LONDON; June 4th.- Following is a summary of the Secretter tary for India's communication resport. ing the operations in Messopotamia:
After successfully dispersing hostile columns which, as previously announced, recently threatened us on the lines of the Euphrates and Karus Rivers, a combined Naval and Military attack was organised on May-9186 against the remaining hastile force north of Kurna,
movenient
Our troops, partly wading, and partly in boate, executed a skilful turning Our artillery SOON silenced the enemy's guns, the excol· lent practice of the Naval guns and Territorial
being specially battery conspicuous. The heights occupied by the Turks were soon seized, and the enemy fled leaving thres 16-pounders complete with ammunition. and nearly 250 pri soners in our bands,
After harmlessly exploding several mine in a river bed and on land, we continued our advance on June 1st, but found that
the enemy had hastily evacuated his camps at Barban and Ratta, leaving many tents standing. He was chervod retreating in steamers and native konts which were speedily pursued by our naval flotilla. By the evening of the 1st we reached a point five miles north of Ezra's Tomb and some 33 miles north of Kuarna The Turkish steamer Bulbul was overtaken and sunk
We captured two large lighters one containing three field guns, ammunition and mines; we also captured several native craft and about 300 prisoners. The pursuit was continued by moonlight. Our casualties were trifling, about 20
We gained 450 yards inside the in all
Switzerland from Germany, where Ameri Labyrinth fortification, where fighting
cans are now openly insulted.
It is reported that the American colony at Berlin has been unofficially warned to be ready to leave fiermany,
[BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE CABLE]
FIGHTING
IN THE
CAMEROONS.
LONDON, June 5th.
continues ceaselessly.
The artillery duel over the whole sector of North Arras was most vivient. NAVAL ACTIVITIES....
{TUROCON REUTER'S AGENCY) RUSSIAN AND GERMAN
ITALIAN FRONT
[TBROUGHT REETER'S' AGENCY.) AUSTRIAN TROOPS HURRYING TOWARDS ITALY.
LONDON, June 6th.
It is stated at Geneva that the Austrians are hurrying troops and heavy artillery
"Will you send me some carboard plates, as we have now given us for either breakfast or supper. I do try to keep fit, but an as weak as a kitten; we all are. It is only to be expected with this life. I find after half-hour's walk up and down the yard I am quite tired out, but one will soon pick up again when free. I sometimes wonder if I shall ever The corresponilent remarks that her quite get over this experience. " husband was unwounded, and one of the strongest men and unusally fit and hard when he was captured.”,
A correspondent cho was fately in Heidelberg writes:
The town is overcrowded with wounded; 30 hospitals, and the streets are filled with one-armed and one-legged as well as with others with horribly mutilated faces One afternoon I saw 300 each with a miss very kind, often coat and trousers not ing ata or leg. The uniforms are of matching Coats unlined and not hemmed. There seems to be enough food, but very, bad.
|
That
The Germans, we are told, employ all the refinements of brutality in their treatment of British prisoners. The Enginud as a greeting to their friends miscreants: who mutter God-punish gladly anticipate what they pretend to believe is the purpose of the Deity. A dis- tinction is made everywhere between "the English and the other Allies The French and the Russians are treated with some poor show of courtesy.“ Bcliwein- hand* and Verdammte Kerlure the pleasant terms thrown at our miserable soldiers. To the English again are assigned the filthiest and west degrading task which a larga camp of prisoners makes necessary, and at the smallest sign. of protest or reluctance our countrymen are kicked or thrashed in accord with the familiar tenets of German culture.
--CONTINUAL ANYIETY.-- We would that we could believe the
Alas! the reporte false or exaggerated. evidenco is only ton clear. Sir Edward. Grey, always a witness of moderation, We have from time to time," says bo repoves the very possibility-of-doubt. in his Note to America, received most terrible accounts of the barbarous trent- ment to which British officres and soldiers have beer, exposed after they have been taken prisoners, while being conveyed to "German prison camps. Some evidence has been received of the hardships to which British prisoners of war are sub- ected in the prison camps, contrast- the treatment of German prisoners ing, we believe, most unfavourably with
Nor does it seen that in this count any redress is possible. The Germans refuse that inspection of prison camps by a neutral observer which we readily granted to thers. What is left to ue, then, but to think the worst and to confces our powerlosences? admits the harrowing uncertainty. "Wo Sir Edward Grey remain in continuing anxiety and appre
as to the treatment of British prisoners of war in Germany.
This inhumanity of the Germans, this determination to take a speedy revenge on unarmed men should-strengthen our Only by arms and influme our courage. B. decisive victory can we save our in- prisoned compatriots from the wanton savagery of their oppressors At home in the workshops."
abroad in the trenches we must and we shall, basten the hour of de- livérane. Meanwhile we are confident that our unhappy soldiers imprisoned in Germany will face both hardship and insade with unflinching bravery and tran- quil dignity. They are not likely to shame their gaolers into deeney They must bear whatever is put upon them without complaint, and take comfort in the thought that the hour of settlement shall surely come.
The Russian prisoners are being made to slaughter the pigs. There were 60 Alsatian civil prisoners working on the new station. I believe they were suspect-hension, he says,
The French ed of French sympathy. wounded were well treated, and on arriving were not molested by anyone (I saw many coming from the station in street cara-no horses, no motors). The depression is too awful, although the Germans seem convinced that the final victory will be theirs, and it is good to bo in a cheerful place again. Just before. I came away I was in a street car in which were nine on-legged soldiers! ] know two wounded officers who are still lame, but are returning to the front as mator drivers. People are giving exquisite old copper and old bronzes to be melted down, as retals are becoming
by difficult to obtain,
THE CODE CABLING QUESTION
AND "PLAIN LANGUAGE.”
The Tinics of April 30th says: Anything more utterly absurd than the "explanations" vouchsafed on Wednes day by the Postmaster-General and the Assistant Pontiuster-General in House of Commons, when tackled on the subject of the restrictions still imposed on code-cabling, cannot well be imagined. Mr. Hobhouse can only produce one reason for not extending the official sanction beyond the seven cades at present urgently asked for by the commercial community. We quote from the official
IMITATION OF NAPOLEON.
FLEETS EXCHANGE SHOTS. towards Italy from the Carpathians and permitted to the further half-dozen be had taken upon the battlefield, thirty
PETROGRAD, June 6th.
An official announceincat says that a strong German Fleet appeared in the middle of the Baltic Sea and exchanged. shots with the Russian warships near the Gulf of Riga...
A telegram received from General Dob:11,
Expeditionary commanding Forces in the Cameroons, states that on May 29th, the Allied forces under Colonel Mayer drove the enemy from a strong THE TORPEDOING OF THE position at Njok. Our losses
"GULF LIGHT.” heavy
GERMANY APOLOGISES.
were not
THROUGH RAUTRE'S AQENCY:] "THE TIMES" ACQUITTED.
LONDON, June Blh.
WASHINGTON, June ŝti Gerinany has apologised to the United States for the accidental torpedoing of
THE KING OF GREECE:
ATHENS, June 5th. -
The King undergoes an operation to- day for the removal of a rib or riba"
LATER.
Styria.
[Cablegrams received on Saturday, and published in as "extra" on Sunday, will be found on page 6.]
HISTORIC BATTLE ŠPOT. MINED, TRENCHED, AND SAND- BAGGED EVERYWHERE."
report:-
The clerk who sends the cable gets accustomed to the use of one particular code, and sends the telegratus with comparative ease, and eventually quite as casily as plain-language telegram. But if that dark has constantly to use different codes, his powers of transmission are enfeebled, and he is not able to deal a rapidly with telegrams for a large number of firms.
The German Emperor, in his amiable policy of torturing captives is an imitator, conscious, no doubt, of the great Na poleon. Ag-le cannot match that man of gonius in the field he falls back upon a He re- sedulous mimicry of his vices. sembles the poor poetasters who years ago thought that if they drank teo much absinthe they might catch a whiff of Verlaine's inspiration, And in emula ting Napoleon's cruelty he set before him a monstrous example. There is no darker lot upon the Corsican's reputation than his ill-treatment of prisoners of war. Ho.. too marched the English soldiers, whom miles a day, bootless and hungry; he tou locked them up at night in barns, unroofed or sodden with mud; be too in sold weather gave his victimes no better bedding than wisps of straw, in which "they enjoyed what warmth thy could, making it into ropes, and twisting it round their exhausted limba and bodies." So long as Napoleon was mister of Earope his dungeons were places of the
If Verdun was in one vilest oppression. How, then, does Mr. Hobhouse suppose aspect kind of Alsatia in which British officers were fleeced by sharpers from On no battle spot in history, telegraphs that business with all these codes and the spreial eorrondent of the Daily more was done before the wart Anybody Paris, it was also, so long as the infamous. Mail from Northern France, has fighting at all acquainted with the actual pre Wirion had command of it, a den of To make the been more terribly concentrated thaa Hill dure knews, of course, that "this will not infamy and corruption,
acquaintance of the subterranean cavernis 00. Hill do itself is not more than 200 do, and that the alleged clerk is a myth. yards in 1ngth. It is mined, trenched. Rat Captain Norton could do no better. of Bitche was to plumb the depths of anil sandbagged everywhere. Some of it is sole contribution, was that the number human misery, and he was lucky indrou is also concreted. The French lost may of codes could not be increased, "seeing who was not betrayed by spi's or made the
that we are at war and the question of dupe of some agent proveuteur.
OUR MORAL UNOBRIGHNESS. the protection of the realm should be Perhaps at no moment in the war bare paramount Wo all know that, butThat such enormities as these are not the connexion? Ministery are committed in Germany we have ze moans men fallen in greater numbers of any what is small space than when our machine guns treating the public and the traders like of knowing. The Germans hide their We caught the Germans in their first counter children over this matter, and merely prison camps from neutral eyes.
It is our reproach attack. The smallness of the area makes making themselves ridiculous. We regret have nothing to hide.
plain language."
that we rr on the other side of leniency. it, of course, a perfect target for art to have to use such
To defend the luxury of Donington Hall. lery; hence a great part of our losste. but it is mildner itself to the rasy verraG
where a servant is allotted to every threo
•Th-ocess-of-fury on the part of theular which reaches us from business men
German officers is impossible. It is the German artillery ceased as suddly and when ly understand the subject.
nero vulgaríy of ben volence, t manifests as completes as it began. What the
a shameful desire to “ suck up,” as school-- reason may be is uncertain-possibly it
hoys day, to our adversaries in which nu why thehaustion of the supply of
Englishman can take pride. ammunition; but after the terrific bom bardment of Ypres, which may be said
On the East Russian front good work to exist no longer, and the ring of 175 Kells into the town within the day-thy has been done by large aircraft of the Goscans cersed gun-fire altogether, and y-Murometz to, one of which threw for long intervals the calm nt the front fifteen large bombs into the enemy's quar- ters at Plotek. Some of these missile was as thorough as had been the tumuli.
A duzen vi so regiments will have fell into German barges on the river, and plarious memories of the fighting. The others among the transport draws up in the market square of the town. Two more Canadians were specially commended inercalanes of this type attacked the a message from Sir John French for the station at Mlava and the German ser speed and precision with which they dug drome at Bannakath, each of them throw thms Ives in after charging. In a con- siderable force which cocupied a very hoting explosives of a total weight of fifton
poods. These serial Dreadnoughts, as the Rumisne call them, flow at a great corner their treach and "sandbag" work was so end that they suffered only six height and suffered no damage from the casualtics.
eager fire of the enemy.
The Times has boer acquitted on the the Gulf light and agroca to-pay commen there earlier in the was on a twenty-mile front, and then sprinkled charge brought against it under the pensation. with chemicals-from a hose-Enormous Defence of the Realnr Ast for publishing volumes of smoke arose while the German a letter written by Major Richardson on artillery opened. Where the trenches The need for Compulsion" without were too new for bonûres bomb-throwers-having-previously submitted it to the throw tin boxes into the Russian trenchca. Press Censor. Some, which did not explode, ware found to contain layers of moss with a chemical composition between, the whole emitting volumes of poisonous fumes.
GERMAN SPY ANOTHER
ARRESTED IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, June 6th.
It is officially announced that another German spy, named Robert Rosenthal, was arrested as he was about to leave Eng- He confessed land after a short stay. that he had been sent by the German Admiralty to obtain Naval information.
The latter said that raw recruits were being called out in Franco while scores of able-bodied men in England were compla Mr Bodkin, "the cently doing nothing. Treasury Counsel, said the letter W28 calculated to suggest to Prenchmen the absolutely false impression that complete indifference regarding the war existed in Great Britain]
A portion of the King of Greece's tonth. rib has been removed, giving some relief.
CANADIAN CROPS.
WINNEPEG, June 5th.. The Crop reports are excellent, espec- FINANCE MINISTERS MEET ially these relating to wheat, barley and
AT NICE.
NICE, June 5th. The British and Italian Finance Ministers and their respective experts have already had an important interview, The final conference takes place to day,
oats.
DEATH OF A FRENCH STATESMAN,
PARIS, June 5th. The death is announced of M. Camille Pelletau, a former Minister of Marine
AERIAL DREADNOUGHTS.'
In an outburst of moral snobbishness we proclaim our careless gecrosity to the world and are accounted fools for our pains On the other had we would not It were by a word advocate reprisals. inexcusable to emulate the brutality of The treatment cf our the Gerinans, prisoners should be adequate and humane. We become ridiculous when we offer them comforts denied to our ova soldiers. And as for the German Emperor, who has allowed British prisoners to be most bar- barously entreated, we shall make dae reckoning with him when the terms of peace are signed Unga him alone lies From him shall iz the responsibility. exacted the penalty,