THE WAR.
ENEMY ATTACKS IN WEST.
BRITISH ACTIVITY.
SITUATION IN GREECE.
RUSSIA'S DIFFICULTIES.
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TURKISH CRUELTY TO BRITISH PRISONERS.
ranco-Helgian Brant,
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FRENCH ACTIVITY.
We destroyed fourteen enemy Kero- planes, while seven others, seriously dam aged, fell into their own lines:
Naval Activities,
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PIRACY.
PARIS, June 21st.
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA, WHOLESALE MURDERS "AND ROBBERIES AT TOMSK
PETROGRAD, June 21st.. Martial law has been proclaimed at Tomak, owing to wholesale murders and French patrol boats have picked up robberies by amnestled cristinals called to the colours, and anarchists. Two thousand three hundred have been The submarine Gred at the boats of one arrested, twenty of the resisters were steamer, killing eight of the drew.
killed and a number, wounded. General.
ninety mon from two submarined British
stermara.
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TO REFORM THE LORDS:
LONDON, June 2nd.
In the House of Lords, Lord Curzon announced that the Government had de cided to appoint a committee to deal with
LOYAL COSSACKS.
PETROGRAD, June 21st. At the opening of the pan-Russinn Congress of Cossacks, the President ap pealed to them to fight the enemy with out and the enemy within.
ensures against the Leninists, whom Military delegates demanded stronger
they denounced as traiters. They siso
TURKISH CRUELTY TO BRITISH PRISONERS. STARVED AND ILL-TREATED.
Carno, June 20th. Evidence is steadily accumulating of bad treatment of British war prisoners in Turkey. It is learned from the most reliable sources that a large number of British and Indian prisoners in Mesopo tamia have succumbed to all-treatment or neglect.
A man, who was for some time near the war
prisoners' camp Taurus, skates that more than half of the unfor- tunato men captured at Kut are now dead.
It is noteworthy that the Swiss Red Cross Commission, whose report on the camps which it was allowed to inspect
Our air squadrons dropped twelve tons the question of the reform of the House demanded the formation of a special Was sufficiently damning, was not allowed
of bombs on enemy railway stations, fac
IMPORTANT RESULTS ACHIEVED.tories, binst furnaces, bivouacs and am-
PARIS, June 22nd.
▲ communiqué sayThe fighting has continued to our advantage enst of Va maillon. Our counter-attack on a trench in the bector of Monty Farm gave import- ant results. Up to the present we have recaptured all the positions with the ex- ception of a salient of 400 metres to the north-eastward, where enemy parties are still holding out, Artillery ducis' are live-
munition dumps, causing important dam nge.
The Balkans.
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LONDON June 21st,
M. Venezelos announces that he favours
ly in this region. Our lines were on the continuance of the Monarchy, the barded fairly lively between Hurlebise and Craonne.
In Champagne, our advance to the
prerogatives of winch should be defined
AFFAIRS IN GREECE,
POLITICAL EXILES.
by a Constituent Assembly to be sum moned later Meanwhile.. Coalition north-east of Montcornillo was partien Government will be formed. larly brilliantly accomplished. The onemy attempted to recapture positions wrosted on the 18th, but was repulsed by bombers, who then took the offensive and pureed them into 'n trench from which they emerged and we captured it. We thus advanced 300 metres deep on a 600 metre front. One hundred enemy bodies were left on the ground.
ENEMY RAIDS. REPULSED BY BRITISH
LONDON, June 22nd.
Field Marshot Sir Douglas Haig re- ports-Our fire repulsed raiders south- ward of the Bapaume Gambrat Road and eastward of Laventic; also in the neigh bourhood of Lominiartzyde, where another enemy party entered the front line but
was inmediately, driven out,
A few of our men are missing. The enemy's artil lory has been active matride the Scarpe.
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ENEMY ACTIVITY.
VIOLENT GERMAN ATTACK.
PARIS, June 1st
of Lords as promptly as possible.
WEST FLANDERS:
CIVIL POPULATION LEAVING.
AMSTERDAM, June 22nd.
It is reported that the evacuation by the civil population of the west of Flan- ders continues. Two thousand have re moved from places behind the front
WAR SERVICES,
TWO NEW ORDERS.
LONDON, June 22nd. The King has instituted two new orders. in recognition of war services by Britons and Allies. One is styled "The Order of the British Empire," which is an order of Knighthood open to both sexes, women having the prefex Dame in the higher
classes.
Cossack Army, which would be ready to die on the field of honour.
The Congress displayed a tenacious war spirit
FRENCH SHIPPING.
PARIS, June 22nd. An official announcement says that dur. ing the week ending the 17th inst., the arrivals have been 1,028 and the sailinge 1,122. There were no sinkings above 1,600 tons, five vessels below this tonnago were Bunk. Fivo vessels were unsuccessfully
attucked
ITALIAN SHIPPING.
ROME June 21st.
A semi-official statement says the arrivals during the week ended the 17th inst. totalled 606 and the departures Bål, not including fishing bents and coasters. Two steamers and two sailing vessels were sunk, while two steamers escaped attack.
RUSSIA'S HONOUR.
ARMIES WILL NOT FAIL,
LONDON, June 21st. General Brusiloff, replying to General Sir William Robertson's congratulations, says that, in honour bound, Ires Ruskin'e armies will not fail in their duty.
CROSS-CHANNEL RAILWAY
FERRY?
LONDON, June 21st
In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law stated that he was considering the question of a Cross-Channel railway
RAILWAYMEN'S STRIKE IN
to approach this camp and others of the same type.. Thirty-seven British pri soners were sent to a hospital under European management. The doctor in ferry, charge was of the opinion that, with proper care, thirty-five could be saved, but he and his assistants were driven away from their own hospital and in the first fifteen days twenty-two died from sheer neglect,
Fifty prisoners, captured at Katia on April 16th, and put into a hospital at Aleppo, could hardly stand for weakness. All were suffering from dysentery, due to starvation.
RUSSIA.
PETROGRAD, June 21st. The railwaymen of the Petrograd- Moscow Railway have struck without awaiting the award of the Commission which was considering their economie grievances.
The Governinont has appealed to the people to remain calm in view of the possible extension of the strike.
ITALY'S WAR AIMS. REPARATION FOR BELGIUM
A German subaltera, who spent the winter at Marmara, saw four hundred | THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. Rome June 21st.
Indian prisoners dead from starvation. OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT FILM. In the Chamber, the Foreign Minister, Another witness saw one hundred and Baron Sonnino, speaking on the war fifty British prisoners at Katma, in aims, said that Italy's special interests North Syria, in a deplorable condition, ATRENS, June 22nd.
The second Order is entitled "The were equally the destinies of Roumania the only ration consisting of soup. Six political exilos, including M. Order of Companions of Honour." This and the direct possession of Valona and Connaris, M. Dousmanis and M. Metus for one class only and does not carry the interland;
They also desired to xas, ex-Minister to Petrograd, have
title or precedence. Women will be equat defend. Albania from outside interference, embarked. Their residence is confined
fly eligible with men. The first lists are but were willing that she should be in to anywhere in France except Paris,
to be issued shortly
dependent internally. He declared thas EARLIER CABLES.
SITUATION IN GREECE.
CONSTANTINE PUBLICLY HOOTED.
ZURICH, June 21st.
Ex-King Constantine was hooted on the evening of his arrival at Lugano. He was walking on the lake front when the mob was so threatening that the ex-King
RUSSIA AND THE WAR
AGAINST GERMANY TO THE END.
WASHINGTON, June 22nd.
y peace which strengthened the chains binding the Italia irredents, and omitted reparation for Belgium and the recon- struction of an united Poland would be
an outrage.
COTTON.
MR. BARNES AND THE COMING VICTORY.
The Battle of the Somme film, the official Government film, of which we have heard so much, and as to which there was so much contention in Shanghai, bas at last arrived in Hongkong, and, by arrangement with Mr. M. E. Bandman, will be screened at the Victoria Theatre on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday next. The frat part of the film deals with the visit of the King to France, his reception by the representatives of the French army, and his visit to the military hospitals with His Royal High- Haig. The great conference held at the ness the Prince of Wales, and Sir Douglas
house of the Commander-in-Chief, at- Speaking of the status quo ante he said tended by the French President, the that that was the point he desired to General Foch, and others is also shown. French Minister of War, General Joffre, phasise and Implant in the minds of His Majesty then visits the wounded at hy fellow countrymen, especially his the various camps and makes a
LONDON, June-21st, continuation of Mr. G. N. Barnes speech, in replying to the toast of Victory of the Allies," at a dinner in the Connaught Rooms, London, is As
follow-
M. Bakhrietieff, bead of the Russian Mission, in u statement to the American people, avowed Russia's consecration, tu the war with German autocracy to the end. Only through victory could a stable points on the announcement of the closing fellow-workmen. For many years prior inspection of the battle field which is still
NEW YORK, June 22nd. The cotton market broke at seventy
Hed to his hotel, being forced to take re world peace and the fruits of the Rusof the Liverpool Exchange. There was a fuge in a cafe en route,
sian's revolution be secured. "The Bufttrther slump to 173 on outside liquida- sian people thoroughly understand, nad tion and Liverpool selling, but a good are fully convinced, that it is absolutely part of the loss has been recovered. necessary to root out the autocratic prin-
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Later, an automobile, escorted by the Police, conveyed him to his hotel. REORGANISING GREECE.
LONDON, June 21st.
GALLANT CANADIANS
to the outbreak of the war, democratic under German aheil fire. He watches the
lighten the load of armaments, but, on stroyers to the white walls of old England. peoples had strained every nerve
bombardment of Pozieres, and finally takes to leave of France and is escorted by do
the contrary, the Central Powers were taken on the actual battle-feld, showing The film gives most realistic pictures
hent not only on dominating their own
We stood for the principle of each eation living its own life in its own way; the Central Powers stood for letting cash nation live as they ordered.
A telegram states that the Athens that threatens the peace, freedom and COTTON MARKET SENSATION peoples but those beyond their borders. Government has decided to form a Com-happiness of the world." A communiqué says: After the hommittee of fur, including two Venizelists, bardment mentioned this aftrmoon, the to recommend methods of reorganising Germans most violently attacked our and reconstituting a unified Grecce. positions on a kilometre front. Large forces succeeded in gaining a footing in à part of a first line trench east of Vaux
Aillon.
Another
King Alexander has decided to reside at his uncle's country villa. This is re- garded as proof that the present situation is only temporary, pending the vote of
ATHENS, June 21st.
empt, south of Filain, on the National Assembly.. the salient of our line cast of Rozcze farm, was without result. The artillery duelis lively between
Hurtebise, Chevreux and the Verdun front in the sectors of Vachereauville and Chat
brettes.
GERMAN TROOPS MOVED FROM
RUSSIAN FRONT.
PARIS, June 21st.
The Cabinet has decided to appoint a Joint Commission of members of the Athens and Balonika Governments to negotiate with a view to the unification
of Rovalist and Venizelist Greece.
Italian Front
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GOOD PROGRESS.
Bout, June Ast
A communique states: The German
attack yesterday east of Vaux Aillon was most violent. It was preceded by a fierce bombardment and carried out by special assaulting troops belonging to a Divi A wireless Italian official message says sion recently arrived from Russia. Our-We exploded a powerful mine on the troops obstinately resisted, and all the spur of Piccololagazuoi in the Ampozano enemy's efforia to develop the few advant sector, destroying a garrison. Alpine „ages acquired in the first shock were
troops carried the summit of Hill 2,088, smashed by our fire and counter-attacks.
on Piccololagamoi, establishing them solves there,
The Germans finally only penetrated the first line in two places, namely to the south of Mont Deninges, on a front of 400 metres; and to the north of Qoisy Farm, on a front of 200 metres.
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ITALIAN AIR SUCCESSES.
An energetic counter offensive this
LONDON, June 21st.. morning enabled us to recapture the A feature of the Italian success on the former position, where we discovered Asiago Plateau was the employment of numerous bodies, testifying to the 145 seropianes, which threw five and enemy's high loss between June 8th and half tons of air torpedoes on the enemy's
June 20th
communications
INSPIRING MESSAGE,
OTTAWA, June 22nd.
Sir R. L. Borden, on behalf of the Government, has cabled congratulations
BOARD OF TRADE INTERVENE.
LONDON, June 20th The Liverpool futures market, both for American and Egyptian cotton, is being closed temporarily, in accordance with the wishes of Sir Albert H. Stanley, Prenees in the direction of internal social aident of the Board of Trade, with whom reform and Empire development, owing
CAUSE.
LONDON, June 20th.
to General Currie, in command of the the Directora are consulting to morrow, Canadian Corps. The message, conclud-
SPECULATIVE DEALING THE ing, says We wish you God speed. Great work lies before you, and I send the firm assurance, the Canads will, without fail, give you, and the offers and men of your command, all the nceded aid and support to maintain your efforts, and ensure their success.
MAN-POWER.
A SIFTING PROCESS.
Losnön, June 21st. In the House of Commons, Mr. Mac-
pherson stated that the War Office
estimated that the re-examination of dis charged and rejected soldiers would yield 60,000 men for service abroad. Siaty thousand of other categories, discharged wounded, and invalided from abroad, could claim final discharge.
THE AUSTRIAN CRISIS
NOT GOOD FOR GERMANY.
Loynoy, June 21st There in increasing interest in the Austrian political crisis owing to the fact that it revents that the large majority of Austria is almost certainly opposed
The convulsion of the Lancashire cotton trade, which resulted in the prohibition of transactions in futures af Liverpool,
is owing to the extraordinary rise of
prices, due to apesalative dealing.
It is attributed by the Times to lack of shipping, accentuated by submarinism The Times adds that the most obvious remedy is the limitation of output, but
CONTROL OF IMPORTS
ADYOCATED
After dwelling on the hampering in
to the burden of armaments, Mr. Barnes said that we had simply desired to main lain freedom, to be free from the swish buckler and the ecst of maintaining him. especially Germany. We were not out to Every country must attain that
fight the German people, but were out for the liberation of all peoples. Mr. Barnes, continuing, paid a tribute to our Allies, both small and large, and said he hoped and believed that the Russians would yet rally, to the support of their own Government. He referred at length
with eloquence to France,
Baying
abe was
a valiant champion of liberty
manufacturers are unable to agree thereon. Therefore, there is a growing demand for Government intervention, at all times, who had suffered, bled and including the possible rationing of supruggled for freedom as no other people had. The fight in which they were now plies,
engaged could not be lost. It would not be lost. If it were, he would cease to believe in any moral force in the world Cotton prices have paralysed business making for righteousness. This war mast on the Manchester Exchange. The news therefore he fought out. There was no of the futures market being closed was half way house, no compromise between beartily welcomed, the members agreeing democracy and autocracy. If we did not that it would check aped ation,
win now, it merely meant an armed trace
LONDON, June 20th.
the effect of heavy gun fire in a most the Daily Telegraph says Not the vivid manner. In speaking of this film,
glory of war ja depicted, bat war in all from utter repulsiveness by the heroie its grim, murderous reality, relieved only
accomplishments and cheerful suffering of human souls, over-shadowed and dwarfed by contact with the powers of destruction the eyes of the people as it has never bean around them. The film brings war under brought before, and will serve posterity in this grent war and how they faced ite in showing what our soldiers had to face
The profite derived from showing tho Scata for the Victoria Theatre may be film will be given to War Funds
booked at Messrs. Montrie
EXPLOIT OF A BRITISH
PATHOL
A correspondent of the Paris Journal. at the British front narrates a stirring adventure of a patrol before Athics. A dozen daring infantrymen passed over
No Man's Land" in the evening of the. first day of the attack Nobody knew where the enemy line began or anished. In the excitement of the advance and tho running over of trenches and the jumping party kept going over torn-up ground over of barbed wire entanglements, the until darkness. overtook them, and with out meeting any of the enemy save a few stray Germans, who were quickly made prisoners, the patrol installed themselves. trench and went to sleep,TE in a hollow, where they organised a At daylight a fearful cannonade awakened them and they found them- selves within fifty metres of a German battery, which opened fire. The twelve their way as far as the Garman rear line. men, without knowing it, had pushed
and the others deluged with renades the Half of them, charged with the bayonet. German artillerymen. Its in this way duty captured a battery p that twelve Tommie Jost on patrol:
The capture of so many guns another the fact that the Germans had to leave correspondent remarks, is explained by
it was necessary for them to carry away owing to the intense bombardment. When
The proposal that the Government in preparation for winning later. He their horses a good distance from the cun should control the whole of the cotton would sooper face it now than leave it imports is being considered, and it is to be faced by our sons. There must be to the war and German policy. More pointed but that the Government te by victory for the Allies now if the world over, it proses the growing ciation of faz the biggest purchaser of the cotton was to be worth living in for those
Germaniam in Europe.
goods.
coming after us
the gune they were prevented from cross- ing up the horses ing the artillery barrage and from load-
very simple grumbled's number of Bavarian prisoners.e are always put in the unhealthy pisse