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THE
WAR.
RUSSIANS' GREAT STROKE.
OVER 50.000 PRISONERS TAKEN.
GREECE AGAIN BLOCKADED.
ITALIANS CRUSH AUSTRIAN ATTACKS.
GERMANS TAKE VAUX FORT RUINS.
RUSSIAN FRONT
(THROUGH BEDTER'E AGENCY,] AUSTRIAN LINE PIERCED. RECEPTION OF BRUSSILOFF'S SUCCESS.
PETROGRAD, June 8th
The nows of General Brussiloff's success has been received with quiet satisfaction. Though details and localities have been withheld it is clear that the Austrian line
has been pierced in several places, and
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
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NO INFANTRY ACTION ON BRITISH FRONT.
SUCCESSFUL MINING WORK.
LONDON, June 9th
General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com- muniqur, paysThe principal activity within the last 24 hours has been bei: tween Vimy Ridge and the La Bassee Canal Six mines were exploded, with the results generally in our favour.
The explosion of a British mine near Hohenzollern Redoubt damaged⠀⠀⠀ the enemy trenches. Our snipers shot mine of the garrison.
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LORD KITCHENER'S FATE.
WHAT CAUSED THE DISASTER!
LONDON, June 8th,
Naval officers « disbelieve that the Zampshire was torpedoed. The weather was too stormy, and the scene of the disaster is always well patrolled.
HAMPSHIRE" SINKS IN 20
MINUTES.
It is stated at Kirkwall that the lamp chire sank is-20 minutes. A number of bodies have been discovered. The body of Lieut. Col. FitzGerald is expected at Thurso to day for conveyance southward
There was considerable trench-mortar HAMPSHIRE SURVIVORS. and artillery activity near Souches,
It now appears that there are some There was a auccessful British raid
survivors of H.MS. Hampshire, Re- south of the Ln Bassen Canal fast night|atives of two sailors who were award ENEMY HOLDS VAUX RUINS. The Germans Hed, leaving their dead. been notified by the Admiralty of
The situation at Hooge is unchanged. their safety. There was no infantry action to-day.
AWASHED ASHORE ON A RAFT: It is officially announced that warrant officer, and 11 men from the Innre were washed ashore on a raft. SAN OUD AND VALUED
FRIEND.
AT COST OF FEARFUL LOSSES.
PARIS, June 8th, It is semi-officially announced that Fort de Vaux is in ruins, and is now merely an observation post. Its capture cost the enemy fearful losses, and does not noarer the taking of bring him any Verdun.
as the battle along the 300 miles front is A SIGNIFICANT DISTINCTION. still in its initial stages a catastrophs for
a considerable part of the Austrians is anticipated
From the number of prisoners it is estinated that the Austrian losses during the three days' fighting amount to 100,000. The superiority of the Russian gunfee is shown by the fact that the Aus trians in the trenches at many points were too dazed to resist when the Russian infantry attacked.
The Austrians spent the winter in strengthening the defences and often the Russian guns had to destroy 14 rows of
very thick wire, compared with nine, the Jargest number last year.
WHOLE SERIES OF POSITIONS TAKEN.
PRISONERS NOW NUMBER OVER)
**50,000.
PETROGRAD, June 8th The Russians carried Lutzk and a whole series of the Austriana: new post; Lions, though powerfully organised. In addition to the 40,000 prisoners already. reported captured we took to-day Farbler 11,000, with 38 officers, and great booty.
ENEMY'S FORTIFIED FRONT SMASHED IN.
CONSTITUTE
RESULTS
IMPORTANT VICTORY.
PETROGRAD, June 8th.. communiqué? confirms the capture of Larizk and 11,000 prisoners. It adds
-We crossed the rivers Ikva and Styr at several points. Continuing the offen
we also carried strong enemy post- tions on the Lower Strypa.
The results of the fighting in Volhynia already constitute an important victory, crowned by the deep smashing in of the enemy's fortified front..
Repeated German attacks south of Smorgon were repulsed ITALIAN FRONT
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BRILLIANT ITALIAN DEFENCE AUSTRIAN MASSES REPEATEDLY HURLED BACK.
KOME, June 8th Further fierce fighting on the Italian
ront is reported in a communique,
which says:-There have been no Italian retirements; on the contrary we have gained ground in several directions in
- the" Ortler: group.
GREAT DEFENCE OF FORT DE
VAUX
PARIS, June 8th The honour conferred on the defender of Fort de Vaux is a distinction usually reserved for Divisional Generals, and it in the first time in the war that the nume of an officer responsible for the defence
NAVAL AOTIVITIVES
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THE NAVAL BATTLE.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT BREAK ING NEWS GRADUALLY.
AMSTERDAM, June 8th. Germany ocially re-states that the losses in the Naval battle are as follow:-
One battleship.
One battle-oruiser.
Four small cruisers.
Five torpedo-boats
This indicates that the authorities are gradually breaking the news of the very of a particular position has been pub-heavy losses to the public, though they
ENEMY ADMITS LOSS OF
lished in France. This shows that the are still suppressing much. stand made at Vaux is one of the most remarkable episodes of the war.
KAISER DECORATES CAPTOR
FRENCH FIERCELY COUNTER- ATTACKING.
Amsterdam, Jun sth-
the
A Gorman communique claims that Fort de Vaux was really captured after the hard fighting on 2nd inst., but the announcement was deferred as the remnants of the garrison held out in the insccessible underground rooms till Tues- day evening, when they surrendered;
It says that the Kaiser Las decorated the commander of the captors with the Order Pour Merite, and admits that the French are fiercely counter-attacking
SITUATION UNCHANGED. ENEMY FAIL TO ADVANCE BEYOND FORT,
Panis, June 8th. 5.20 p.m. To-day's communique says: - The Ger mans have occupied the ruins of Vaux Fort after a week's desperate fighting, but we hold the immediate approaches and the trenches to the right and left of the fort. All the enemy attacks
the for theroon were broken by ourire.
There ware intense artillery sucls in the regions of Thiaument, Donaumont, and Hartmanns Weiler.
ATTACKS AT THIAUMONT DEFEATED.
PARIS, June 9th. 2,00 a.m. The evening communiqué says:-On the left of the Meuse the artillery activi- ty was intense in the sector of Hill 304 and in the region of Chattancourt.
“LUTZOW.”
A German official announcement says that the battle-cruiser Lutzow and the Cruiser Rostock sank while proceeding to Harbour.
His Majcely the King has telegraphed | condolences to Mrs, Parker, sister of Lord Kitchenet His Majesty says:-
I have lost an old and valued friend upon whose devotion 1 ever relied with
the utmost confidence!
SYMPATHY FROM THE SUDAN. The Sirdar telegraphed his heartfelt sympathy to Lord Kitchener's family on behalf of the Administration of the Sudan, the Egyptian Army, and the gudanear, whom Lord Kitchener released from tyranny,
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HEWING A WAY THROUGH. VIGOROUS SPEECH BY AUSTRALIAN PREMIER
HORRORS OF VERDUN. AN OFFICER'S IMPRESSIONS, All who come from the battlefields of Verdun agree that words are inadequate to depicta, the fearfulness of the scene, wrote a Daily Chronicle correspondent recently. It is certain (he goes on) that never before was there so much horror
concentrated in such a small space
Personal danger, the pain of shell splinters and bullets, the ache of tatigue, the gnawing of hunger, and thirst dur ing the battle, the tortures of temporary burial in the mud and snow, 's all face away in the minds of the wounded and give place to a more general, but even more violent recollection of the n- speakable horror of the spectacle-- Dantesque visions of piled-up by the red flames of burning housea, ur the green glare of rockets, or the cold, white shafts of searchlights, deafening explosions, the sounds of shrieks and curses and groans
LONDON, June 8th. The Australian Premier, the Hon. Mr. W. M Hughes, in a speech at the Imperial Council of Commerce, paid a tribute to Lord Kitchener, one of the Empire's greatest sens, The Naval Battle, he said, had decided for all time the issue between the British and German Fleets. He found the British forces in France fit, cheery, ready, and determined to see the thing through. We must see that the Allies were placed in the position of equality as regards muni-
An analysis of the Verdun fighters tlona, which we were not in to-day. When sensations may be made from the jumpfes wo had obtained that equality our mensions of an infantry captain who was there, and has given his impressions to were confident they would be able to hew a correspondent of the Petit Journal -- a way through the enemy's ranks, WeWell I am afraid I do not know! All
Fear! exclaimed this captain:
must work as we had never worked before to secure victory, He believed in the full exercise of the economic weapon, The end of the war would come sooner than we anticipated.
VALUABLE
WAH SERVICES,
Losnok, June 8th.
The Gazette announces that in recogni- tion of very valuable services in connec tion with the war Bir Pratab Singh and the Maharajah of Jodhpur have been promoted Hon. Lieut. Generals and the
Rajah of Rutlam Hon, Licut. Colonel
ARMY APPOINTMENTS.
I felt during the charges was an ex "Liaordinary giddiness. The cannonade, the incessant vibration of everything. absolutely dazed me. I seemed to be turong at lightning speed in an auto- matic loop the loop machine. The awful and continuous noise bit into the nerves and unhinged one. BAY MUSIC: HÁLL SONG,
is
Patriotisin and mutual emulation en able you to bear it but for these senti mente we should collapse on the ground. | mad or helpless.. Under the hurricane of steel the mind seems to become paralysed. I rentember at the Douaumont fight sing- ing for an hour without stopping the
Petite Tonkinoise
fan old music ball
and am a professor of philosophy. am wont to wander into metaphysical speculations. Yet during that engage ment, I was obsessed by that melody; and in spite of myself I kept shouting it while commanding Fire P
LONDON, June 8th. Major-General Sir F. 8, Robb "When the noise stops, when the can non is silent: then you feel that some- (Military Secretary to the War Minister) thing is going to happen. But what! has been appointed to succeed Major You are ready for anything. But you General Rack in charge of the Adminis know nothing. The moment is horrible. At such moments I have seen, in any deter Bit F1 Davies has been who had proved their bravery and how tration, Eastern Command, and Major-trench, soldiers shudder-soldiers, too, LORD KITCHENER'S SUCCESSOR appointed to the position hitherto held they would grasp each other's hands and
The papers generally urge that a civi- lian appointed as successor to Lord Kitchener The pame of Mr. Lloyd George is most frequently mentioned. while the names of Mr. Winston Chur- chill and Lord Derby have also been dis cussed,
by Major General Robb.
ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION
LONDON, June 8th Sir Ernest Shackleton will accompany the ship from Monte Video for the relief of his companions.
The Lutzow was in d down in 1912, and was ompleted in March last year. She was of about 28,000 tons displacement. They Areport that Field-Marshal Lord |___THE MILK THAT - DIS- Restock was one of the latest light cruisers
"of about 5,000 tons,] =
GERMAN FLEET CRIPPLED.
UNABLE FOR MANY MONTHS TO MAKE BIG EFFORT.
French has already been offered the post
is not confirmed.
The Daily Chronicle says that Mr. Asquith will probably appoint a member
of the House of Commons.
RECIPROCITY AND PREFERENCE..
LONDOR, ·June 8th.
the statement of Mr. Balfour yesterday. The papers are giving prominence to
LONDON, June 8th, that the Germans are relatively now far The Imperial Council of Commerce inferior than before the battle. It is passed, with three disentients, resolu lieved that neither in the North Sea nor | tion urging that arrangements be made in the Baltic can they for many months at the earliest possible opportunity for make any kind of organised Fleet effort reciprocal and preferential trading he which might have been in their power tween the Empire, and between a previously.
Empire and our Allies, favourable treat. GENERAL.
mënt or peutrale,, and restrictions by tariffs and otherwise of trade relations
with the enemies, so as to make dumping:
on the return to pre-war bonditions im-
possible.
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ANOTHER REMINDER TO GREECE.
Bir A MeRobert said that it would not EXPORT OF COAL PROHIBITED.
be wise to legislate on the usumption that our friends and ongmics of to-day LONDON, June 8th. Orders have been issued at Cardiff pro- would be our friends and enemies to hibiting the export o
of coal to Grecce, morrow.” He suggested that the motion PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES.hould be modified in that respect. The Foreign Office announces that the ALLIED ECONOMIC CON- altitude of the Greek Government is connection with the surrader of Greek
territory to the Bulgarian troops has made it necessary for the Allies to take certain precautionary measures respect- ing the export of coal and Greek ship
The enemy on the right of the Meuse, after a violent bombardment, successively ping in British ports, with the object attacked west and east of Thiaumont of preventing supplies from reaching The Allies are considering Farm and were repulsed by artillery the enemy
measures affecting Grock and machine-gun bre.
FIERCE BATTLE AROUND YPRES.
INCESSANT ARTILLERY FIRE.
restrictive
ports.
MARITIME CIRCLES THUNDER- STRUCK
SFERENCE, »
LONDON, June 8th. It is believed that the Hon. Mr. Foster, Canadian Minister of Commerce, will attend the Economic Conference in Paris
It is now announced officially that the Hon. Mr. Foster will represent Canada at the Conference. He has been appoint ed a Privy Councillor
PARTIAL DEMOBILISATION IN GREECE.
WAFATHENS, Jane 9th, The Cabinet Council has decided on
A demobilisation, A Decree will ped immediately, disbanding the 12 senior classes.
par
ATHENS, June 0th, Despite the absence of an official com- munication it is believed that these blockade of the Greek mercantile marine
A battle is raging along the whole of the Sulle Communi front. On Tuesday
AMSTERDAM, June 8th. evening, after intense artillery prepara
Reports from the Belgian Frontier tions, repeated attacks were made on the show that the fighting in the Ypres re- Italian positions south-west and south of
gion is very fierce. The sky above Berce Laingo - Desperate fighting throughout laere and Zillcboke is visible from Cour the night ended in the defeat of the trai nightly glowing from the heavy assaulting columns, but on Wednesday firing, which is incessant day and night afternoon dense masses of infantry were The German wounded are numerous, again repeatedly hurled at the same posi- including many severely wounded They tions, and were repulsed with enormous report that the losses on both sides are ferences. The Premie received by the King.
Jossea
large.
Las been enforced since the 7th inst., COTTON DISPUTE SETTLED
Maritime circles at the Piraeus areNNECTET
LONDON, June 8th. thunderstruck at the sudden blow The Cotion strike was settled in the Official circles are most active, and there afterno both sides consenting to have been frequent Ministerial con
application for a final
George
At the
APPEARED.
Magistracy yesterday Chinese delivery couție employed by the Dairy Farm was charged with the lar ceny of three bottles of milk. Apparently & Chinese detective, received cortain in Etructions and searched defendant, find ing the three bottles of milk in his pocketa
Mr. Smith, of the Dairy Farm, said ey had lost considerable number of upty milk bottles at the Quarry Bay ranch. It had been impossible to a lost, but he had been able to find out curtain how the empty bottles had beat
how the full bottles had been going out and three of them were found on defend ant's porsin
huddle together like frightened children. **** This is the terror of phantoma, stronger than any fear of the real. In spite of my own keen crition? senile 1. too, felt it.
At night, the battlefield is still more fearsome Sudden sounds following an- of men and things by searchlights-the expected" illuminations the lighting up
rainbow coloured flames which from the sky reveal in a flash an unnatural red, green, or yellow landscape all thest strange optical effects unnerve even the coolest among us.
Indeed, the battlefeld at night is a series of visions of the Apocalypse. It is impossible to get an exact idea of the ensemble. You feel that you are sur- rounded and enveloped by the unknown. You are among a dance of phantons. Death haunts you. An atmosphere of terror7 penetrates the sense and the mind with an imponderable anxiety,
TOWN DWELLEED AS SOLDIERS,
** Town dwellers are generally more sensitive to these horrors than men of the country: A question of nerves, no doubt. My company is composed of 1 command and love have often made my townamen. The brave Chasseurs whom
eyes moisten with tenderness. They have a fine contempt for death.
At Douaumont they encrified them- selves deliberately. Without hesitation and before their turn, these young heroes sprang into the fray. Alas! at the muster my splendid company had dwind led sadly in numbers. Poor fellows. Woll, even they have known the terror www of the battlefield. Let me tell you the
story. N
Mr. G, N. Orme suggested that the man might have failed to deliver the correct number of bottles at certain houses, and the case was adjourned for further ov;
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The German attack begin. In a little weerman a tres had bend taker advantage of a fold in the ground and had dug ourselves in The enemy's searchlights failed to discover us. All day and all the evening the German can- non had bombarded our lines. All around us big shella ploughed the soil and made deep craters Our aprovised trench was untouched stake
the “About 2 o'clock in the
HONGKONG'S WATER SUPPLY The monthly water return shows that the storage in the leservoirs in the City and Hill District Waterworks level at the beginning of June, was almost double that at 1st Jane, 1916, being 605.19 million gallons, as compared with 315.42 The consumption of water during May amounted to 133.90 million gallons by an vatiniated population of 264 810, as compared with consumption of 153.91 by an estimated population of 261.019 in May, 1015. The supply during May of this year was by street fountains to houses connected with the rider CRAWLING PHANTOMS. mains, whilst in May last year it was by
The night seemed filled with mys- house services.
W
ferious life, a life which hone could un- derstand. We lost all motion of the meaning of the lights and sounds. My growing mystery everywhere was already inen began to clench, their teeth. The
getting on their nerves. Some closed their eyes, others gnawed their fists. What torture they
The storage at the Kowloon Gravita- tion Reservoir amounted to 221.94 million June, 1915. The consumption in Kow gallons, as compared with 202.40 at 1st
loon was 37.27 million gallons by a estimated population of 98,150, as com pared with 31.81 by 96.950
THE CAUSE OF GOD."
cannonade on our side, stopped. I should mention that ever since o'clock in the afterasom.my men had neither moved nor spoken in order not to reveal Bat that is what shatters our presence. the nerves.
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I to be able to speak, not
"Before us we could discern crawling phantoms. Certainly they must be Ger- mans. We were waiting for them, Speaking at the Baptist Union Indeed, with our machine guns all ready. Spring Assembly meetings at Bloomsbury Our plan was to let the assailants ap- and then fire on them from our
Central Church, Captain IP Mac pros€ DATAMARAN
Donald Headquarters Staff, Canadian shelters Chaplain Service,, said his only quarrel
But my men could wait no longer
with the average Englishman who had These shadows crawling in this obscurity not been at the front was that he carried arent by mysterious flashes unstrung them too much theological and philosophical altogether. Not to understand, not to dogma about with him. No man could see, to be as though bound in a cave. to a good soldier and a profound doctri-rang moans from them. Of a sudders
sire at the present time
they sprang out of the trench, without
Wan that the President of the Baptista p
the
The last word he beard from Canada my being able to restrain them with an - into the night they went to fall University had given up his presidency on, the Germans with their bayonets, and for the time being and had become an
with the yells of wild beaate. They become une Office He had
might well have parished to the last men greatest recruiters Eastern Canada over ander the fire of the enemy's machine- had. When the war was announced every pulpit in Canada became a recruiting rostrum and every church a recruiting Assembly. After my experience at the front," he added, "I should like to say that who fights for England fights for and bad God; and who dies for England dies for God
guna. As it was, nearly all of them re- turned safe and sound. They came back quieted. They and pierced at last fae mystery of the night the mystery peopled by phantoms and ghostly lights of the chat leflehd terror which can cause the bravest to