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THE BONGKONG DAILY PEK85, MONDAY, JUNE 12TH, 19!5
THE
WAR.
The following Cables were received on
Saturday night, and served Early Morning Extra yesterday.
FRANCO BELGIAN FRONT
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]'
FORT DE VAUX, FRENCH STILL HOLD KEY OF POSITION.
PARIS, June 9th.
It has taken the Germans one hundred and four days to force the two and a half. miles separating the Douaument and Vaux Forts, though they employed their whole strength in the effort, firing not batteries but parks of artillery. Never theless. Fort Vaux withstood the concen- trated fire of the heaviest guns and count- less attacks for ninety days.
Even now the Germans have not cap tured the key to the position. Vaux is 1,150 feet high, but the summit of the ridge is 1,275 feet and is crowned by Souville Fort, which, with the forts of Tavannes and Froi de Terre now form the main line of resistance. The Ger- REDE will have to pay a still heavier price for the capture of this strong position..
VIOLENT GERMAN ATTACKS,
PARIS, June 9th. 5.35 p..
A communiqué states:-The Germans have continued most violent attacks OR the right of the Meuse on a two kilo- metre front, and they succeeded in. penetrating one trench. Everywhere else they were repulsed with heavy loss.
GERMAN ACTIVITY. ATTACKS WITH LIQUID FIRE REPULSED.
PARIS, June 10th.
1.53 n.m.
(THROUGH XEUTEX'S SOKNCY.] RUSSIAN SUCCESSES
CONTINUE.
65,000 PRISONERS.
PETROGRAD, June 9th. The Russian successes in Volynia con- time. The total of prisoners taken since the offensive began in over 63,000.
A communique states:-We have crossed the Strype and have reached the river Zlotapotok. A strong German offensive in the Krevo and Smorgon regions failed to reach your positions.
MORE CAPTURES. OBSTINATE RESISTANCE OF NO AVAIL
PETROGRAD, June 10th. A communiqué states: --The Germans are vainly endeavouring to arrest the de- our offensive on a picteed velopment of front. German troops have arrived from the north of the Pripet Marshes. The prisoners include many Germans, Despite an obstinate. resistance here and there the offensive continues on the whole of the Pripet and Rumanian front. Our cavalry, hul many opportunities to charge. We captured a bridge-head at Rojestche on the Styr, taking prisoners 2,500 Austrians and Germans, and rich
booty..
NAVAL ACTIVITIVES
[THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.] THE GREAT NAVAL BATTLE. GERMANS SAID TO HAVE LOST THIRTY SHIPS.
LONDON, June 9th. Reuter is informed that officers who took part in the battle off Jutland are. amazed at the German assertion of vic- tory.
They describe the attacks by the enemy destroyers as most feeble, saying that they retired at the first sign of defeat.
The German fire was generally accurate at the outset, but became most wild im mediately the ships were hit. As regards the Luizon, they state that the second salvo from a British warship smashed all the turrets except one, and the Lutzow
burst into flames.
The officers estimate the German losses
A communique states:-Left of the Meuse there have been several German attacks east and south-west of Hill 304, these being accompanied by liquid fire. The attacks completely failed owing to toe least thirty ships, namely: Twe The artery and wichine-gun fre. The battleships, two battle-cruisera, four bombardment has been most violent on cruisers, twenty destroyers and two the right of the Meuse, but there hassels of the Pommern class. Moreover, five battleships were so badly damaged been no infantry attack.
that they will be useless for months.
NEWS FROM KIEL.
THE BRITISH FRONT. ARTILLERY AND MINE WARFARE.
LONDON, June 10th General Eir Douglas Haig, in a com municrud, states:-Last night a party of the Gloucesters entered enemy trenches south of Nouve Chapelle and captured a machine-gun after a fight. Otherwise there has been no infantry action.
LONDON, June 10th. It is reported from Kiel that five Ger- man aubmarines were lost in the Jutland :battle..
GERMANY'S NAVAL WAY.
ANOTHER RUN TO PORT.
LONDON, June 9th.
Our heavy artillery yesterday de stroyed the railway station at Salome,
An official announcement states that a east of La Riseee, setting a train on firo. Good results were also obtained by terday morning engaged enemy
patrol of monitors and destroyers yes- .de- our guns against strong points behindstroyers of Zeebrugge. On being fired at the enemy's lines north of Hulluch..
ANGLO-FRENCH MILITARY
CONFERENCE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
the latter returned to port. We had no casualties and sustained no damage.
BRITISH VESSEL'S ESCAPE,
HELD UP SINCE BEGINNING OF
WAR.
There has been considerable artillery fighting to-day east of Ypres. Mine
LONDON, June 10th. warfare continues in the Hohenzollern,
The Daily Mail correspondent at Hulluch, Neuville and Albert areas. We
Copenhagen states that the steamer exploded six successful mines during the unrain of Newcastle has passed the past twenty-four hours, and the enemy Sound en route for England. The vessel one, which did no damage, There was has been in a Swedish port since the be- much successful aerial work yesterday ginning of the war. Twenty German but no fights, our machines working unarmed trawlers chased the vessel, but hampered though many enemy machinesa Hwedish torpedo-boat, with Prince Wilhelm commanding convoyed the Dunrobin to safety. As the Dunrobin has been at Lnien, at the northern end of the Gulf of Bothnia, she must have started directly after the Jutland battle. as it is thousand miles from there to the Sound.
were seen
LONDON,-June 9th
M. Briand and Ministers Royang, Clementel and Denys-Corbin, along with General Jeffre, have arrived in London to confer on military matters.
RUSSIAN FRONT.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] RUSSIANS ONSLAUGHT, AUSTRIANS ABOUT TO RETREAT.
PETROGRAD, June 91b. 12.20 p.m. The scene of the Austro-Russian fight- ing is swampy and cut up by mouny rivers. The roads are carried over nar row causeways and are easily destroyed
The Austrians, unable to entrench, have, at many points, erected breast works, which are not so difficult to storm as trenches, Hence this region was chosen for the Russians' attack. The
ITALIAN FRONT
́(THROUGH "REUTER'S AGENCY.] DESPERATE FIGHTING. ITALIANS FORCED TO GIVE WAY SLIGHTLY.
Rous, June 9th. A communiqué states that the battle on the Sette Comuni plateau has not hated in violence since Wednesday. The desperate struggle around our posi- tions was continued at midnight, our men making hecatombs of the assailants, 203 of whom were counted dead in front of a single Company. Yesterday the enormously reinforced, re-
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NOMINATION FOR AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.
CHICAGO, June 9th.. The Republican and Progressive Com mittees are jointly conferring with a view to securing united nomination, but so far the Progressives have mentioned only Mr. Roosevelt, while the Republicans have mentioned Mr. Fairbanks, the former Vice-President, Mr. Eliha Koot, and Judge Hughes.
JUDGE HUGHES POPULAR.
CHICAGO, June 10th. At the Republican Convention, Sen- ator Fall noininated Mr. Roosevelt as a He de- candidate for the Presidency. seribed him as a colossal figure of Ameri can manhood. The speech was received with cheers, mingled with hisses.
The nominations of Mr. Elihu Boot and Judge Hughes were also proposed The at the Republican Convention.. name of Judge Hughes was cheered for twenty minutes.
The first ballot at the Republican Conference resulted as follows:-Hughes, 283; Weeks, 108: Boot, 103; Cummins, 62; Burton, 77; Fairbanka, 74; Roosevelt, 65. It is necessary for the candidate selected to have 493 votes, or two-thirds
LATER.
of the ballot.
The second ballot resulted as follows:- Hughes, 328 Root, 08; Fairbanks, 88; Cummins, 85; Roosevelt, 81; Weeks, 79; Burton, 76; Sherman, 85.
IMPERIAL COUNCIL ON
COMMERCE. ·
A SINGLE INCOME-TAX.
LONDON, June 9th.
The Imperial Council of Commerce, at its concluding sitting, passed a resolu- tion in favour of an early agreement between the Imperial Government and the Dominions to adopt a "Single Income Tax within the Empire, wherever it may have been earned or produced.
Sir Alexander M Robert, in seconding, said the only fair solution was to revert to the old system of charging Income Tax only on income received in England.
The Council also adopted resolutions
should legislate for British control of that the Governments within the Empire business carried on within the Empire.
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REICHSTAG ADJOURNS.
AMSTERDAM, June 9th. The Reichstag has adjourned until September 90.
GENERAL JOFFRE INV
LONDON.
LONDON, June 9th. General Joffre, M. Cambor, Bir Ed- ward Grey and Mr. Lloyd George at- tended a meeting of the War Council at | Downing Street.
ASIATICS ON BRITISH SHIPS.
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TRANSPORT WORKERS ANNOYED.
LONDON, June 10th.
The Transport Workers Conference at Glasgow passed a resolution demanding legislation for the purpose of putting a check on the alarming increase in the employment of Chinese and other Asiatics on British ships,
-THE GREEK ARMY.
ATHENS, June 9th.
In the Chamber, the Premier announc ed the demobilisation of twelve, classes. of the Army and said that the measure was taken on the Government's own initiative.
THE SHACKLETON EXPEDITION.
MONTE VIDEO, June 10th.
The Shackleton relief ship bas sailed for Elephant Island. It calls at the Falklands to pick up the Shackleton expedition.
THE LOSS OF THE "AEGUSA."
The armed yacht degusa, which as offì- cially reported was mined and sunk in the Mediterranean, was Sir Thomas, Lipton's yacht Erin.
Sir Thomas Lipton stated that the ran was rechristened when taken over.
enemy was completely disorganised by ted after an intense bombardment by the Government owing to the fact that
the unexpectexiness of the onslaught The German officers tried to rally their
Companies, panic-stricken
sometimes shooting their men, who were surrender- ing in droves. How far the Russians must have penetrated is shown by the announcement of the capture of reserve ammunitions, which is usually ten-miles the front were repulsed.
in the rear.——
there was already a warship of the same
The enemy columns were repeatedly repulsed. The enemy counter-attacked name. The degusa had been engaged in at the close of the day in order to avoid hunting down the sources of supply of the effects of an incessant artillery at-
enemy submarines in the Mediterranean. tack, and we fell back a hundred yards Captain Pascoe, in a letter received by
Bir Thomas on new positions. Attacks elsewhere on
yesterday, wrote: os know you will be more than pleased to hear that we have justified the-Erin on this business." The Acgusa was commanded by Captain T. P. Walker, RB (retired vice-admiral), and officered and manned by the old Brin krew, of whom air are stated to be miss ing, the remainder having been landed at Malta. Last year the Erin conveyed. Red Cross stores, doctors, and nurses to Serbia.
In some sectors, the Russian aztil-GENERAL lery has isolated large units which have surrenderad. The destruction of enemy telephones provents the co-ordination the enemy retreat.
General Linsingen commands a group of three armies under Generals Hochmer and Bockermelli and the Archduke Joseph Ferdinand There are altogether twenty divisions whose line is thus broken, and the general retreat of five Austrian armies is expected.
[ERROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] HANDS OFF HOLLAND."
SPECULATION WITH REGARD TO ARMY ANNOUNCEMENT.
AMSTERDAM, June 9th, It is officially announced that the Army Already there are signs that reinforce is thoroughly prepared for war;
LONDON, June 10th. ments are being commoned from the
The Dutch official announcement that Bessarabian and Italian fronts. Pre-
the army is ready to take the field if, nations are being taken to evacuate or when, necessary has aroused consider. Limberg
able interest, and there is some specula A little help will probably come fromtion as to whether this is more than he Germans who, since the end of May. mere warning of bands off Holland."
have been desperately striving to reach The communiqué in which the announce the important`s railway junction of ment was made described in a most de Molodecthan, neat Smorgen; hence their tailed manner the extent of the augmen continual attacks in the neighbourhood tation to Dutch war material of every -of-Krovo
We find during the var
The Erin, a vessel of 1,240 tons, was built by Messrs. Scott & Co., of Greenock
in 1896,
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