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THE WAR.
NEW RUSSIAN
OFFENSIVE,
ACTIVITY IN THE WEST.
FALL
OF LENS IMMINENT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
GREECE BREAKS WITH GERMANY.
BRITAIN AND HOLLAND.
ranco-Belgian Bront -
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HARD FIGHTING. BRITISH HEAVILY ENGAGED;
At a 'moment when the inspired Press of the Fatherland is endeavouring to explain away the latest British quotesses in Flanders, and knowing that more mast. come requiring farther explanation, also knowing the fact that the vanguard of LONDON, July 3rd. the American Army already on French Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, re-soil is spreading among the Germany ris-As the result of hard fighting Army and pemile the High Command stward of Lens, our advanced posts feels that something must be done to to driven back slightly. There has been counter-balance, the feet of all this. Anyhow there are not yet any indications that a more serions intention lies behind the sudden resumption of activity. Both in the Morthomme and Cerny sectors, the enemy, in the ovens of success, stands to win important local advantages, note
siderable reciprocal - artillerying at merous points.
LIVELY ARTILLERYING.
PARIS, July 3rd:
GREAT SUCCESSES BY RUSSIANS
HEAVY CAPTURES OF PRISONERS.
PETROGRAD July 2nd.
A wireless official report states: After two days' artillery firing we attacked Koniuchy. We advanced as far as Konjucity strenin, southward of the village.
Our prisoners so far number 8.563, and we also captured seven guns.
We attacked south-westward of. Brze zany, and captured strong fortified posi tions, which are constantly changing hands, owing to the Germano Turkish counter-attacks.
We captured on this front yesterday nine officers and 1,700 men. The Turks are retreating towards Pondjie.
Our pursuing cavalry occupied Engidja, northward of Lake Deribar,
We also occupied Kalamirivan, south- astward of Lake Deribar, and the villages in the neighbourhood.
Our airships dropped 650 pounds of bombs on the enemy positions.
There were five aerin engagements, in ono of which one acroplane fought eight. The airship commander Was wounded; The airship returned.
ENEMY CLAIMS
LONDON, July 3rd. A wireless German official message nt Koniuchy
WEDNESDAY. JULY
Italian Front.
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ITALIAN FRONT. ENEMY ACTIVITY,
LONDON," July 2nd.
An official report states:--The cuchy is very active between Lake Ciarda and Ledro Valley.
Atticks between San Giovanni and Biacena, and northward at Malgagiumella and to the north-east of Messolato, failed General.
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[THROW NEUTEN'S AGENCY.] CANADA'S CONFEDERATION. MESSAGE FROM THE KING.
LONDON, July ard. The King hus telegraphed the Governor- General of Canada expressing the satis faction of the Queen and himself at being able to be present at today's service in Westminster Abbey, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Confederation,
RESTLESS RUSSIAN
DEMONSTRATORS DEMAND AN
ARMIE ICE.
THE TEA DUTY, REDUCTION MOTION NEGATIVED.
LONDON, July 2nd. PETROGRAD, July 3rd.
In the House of Commons, during the Enormous crowds participated in the Committe stage on the Finance Bill, demonstration mentioned this "morning, an nmondment in favour of the reduction organised by the
of the Work of the tra duty from a shilling to eight- men'a and Soldiers Delegates nad the peace was negatived without a division, nore extreme elements. The Constitit after a statement of Mr. Ronar Law tional
Democrats did not participate,
indicating the extent to which the addi- The processions were headed by a tinnal revenue had come from direct na sailors' band playing "The Marseillaise," compared with indirect taxation. the favourite imeriptions on the banners staled that the indirect taxation in the He
being **Down with the Duma and the year before the war was sixty-nine mil Council of Empire and Down with lions, but was now hundred and ten the Capitalist Ministers! A body of millions. The corresponding ligures of - infantry carried a banner inscribed We
direct taxation were ninety-three and want armistices on all fronts!!!
four hundred and sixty-six millions. In The sailors of one cruiser demanded a view of Mr. Lloyd George's statement of Commune, one regiment declared against the Government's intention to keep the 6 Russian advance, other proclaimed prices of some necessitities at a reasonable "Not a drop of blood," whilst a third level, if the Treasury were to make good attacked
the Imperialiat Anarchist banners inveighing against all would be only right that they should get
Allies"
in one direction higher prices of food, ft.
authority were most conspicuous,
what they could from other sources in compensation...
The only exceptions to the above in-
and in honour of Canada's sous fallen inscriptions were the guards and rides the war. He rejoices with the Dominion supporting the Government, and another in celebrating this, the jubiler of its regiment saving Enough of demonstra strong and ever-growing and prosperous tions, let's get to work." At Kronstadt life, and joins in honouring the living the soldiers are urging a fight to a com- and the dead who, by their deeds, had plete victory over the middle classes added a glorious chapter to the Empire's history.
Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Walter Long,
à communiqué says :-During the day ro has been lively reciprocal artillery-ably in the latter, where he would regain says:--Russian attacks in the sectors west and cast of Cemy at least a portion of the observatory line broke down, Fesh attacks were developed the Duke of Connaught, Lord Lansdowne,
hemin des Names crest, to retain northward,
fere were no infantry actions.
ERMAN
SHOCK" TROOPS.
Losos, July tri. wireless German official message s-Our shock troops made a surprise ack northward of Dixmade and cap-|
d many Belgiana.
The English attacked westward of ins and penetrated at a few points, but Are thrown out, leaving 175 prisoners
1
Seventeen
On
which he fought so hard. By operations yesterday and to-day the enemy regained very insecure footing on the crest about a mile west of Dragon's Den, 'from where, he was expelled last Monday.
The small gains which the enemy has
which either side can employ at will, and hitherto secured were obtained by meitas which, of course, result in a temporary advantage to the side which secures them.
General.
the Commonwealth. Government and Earl A wireless Austrian official message Grey also sent messages to the Governor-. says:--Between Narajowna and the Strypa
the enemy is continuously employ-
·ing frashi Reserves, and pushed forward assaulting waves totalling at least twenty Divisions. There were hand-to
before the first lines. hand combats which were mostly repulsed
GERMAN WIRELESS.
RUSSIAN PRESSURE,
To sum up the day, it cannot be said to be a good augury,
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH
WHAT THE GERMAN PRESS THINKS.
AMSTERDAM, July 2nd, Most of the German newspapers affect to deduce from Mr. Lloyd George's speech at Glasgow that Britain means to SERIOUS DISTURBANCES IN destroy Germany. With regard to the
GERMANY,
SHOPS AND BARS LOOTED.
AMSTERDAM, July 2nd. Serious disturbances have taken place at Dusseldorf.
Premier's remarks on the Colonies, dicating that Germany will not get them back, Farvaert also takes the latter
to
view. The Cologne Gazette uses theso arguments to urge the people continue Crowds of workers wrecked and looted to endure privations and distress., the shops, especially the bars,
The local Commander promptly shut the bars and theatres and has court- martialled, the ring-leaders of the rinters, four Belgians being sentenced to penal servitade.
Mr. Lloyd George says that the Con federation has enabled Canadians to attain internal unity and self-govern- ment, and to achieve the beneficient development of their country's resources. He continues:-The Confederation has dono, not less for the Empire. It has made Canada the pioneer of that antono LONDON, July 3rd.mour nation-hood" which
There are also numerous minor the unique wireless German official message charnotereatic of our of such acquisitions lies solely in the says: There has boon heavy fighting be-
eur commonwealth of traces on male and female rioters power to retain them, but the enemy has tween the Upper Strypa and the east bank
nations. The history of the past fifty
BRITAIN AND
AND HOLLAND, not yet shown that he possesses this of Darajowka, The Russian pressure was years is a certain proof of the part power, Hitherto ho has merely been able, directed against Koniuchy, in the sector Canada is destined la play, in concert to annex narrow belts of front without east and south of Breezany. After two will her sister nations, in promoting the any depth..
machine-guns. French is ense of heavy concentration of acks an trenches, lost, southward of La artillery against a narrow frent, fol lowed by an infantry: attack. The value vetlo faria failed.
"EARLIER CAMES. Of such
BRITISH FRONT.
WIPING OUT LENS SALIENT.
LONDON, July" ut:-
the First Army, under General Henry Sinclair Horne, that is gra ly wiping out the Lens salient.
neral Horne, as Brevet-Colonel, was
nt at the relief of Kimberley, and at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove and.
River in the Boor War
TISH PROGRESS MENACING
GERMAN LINE,
PARIS, July 2nd. semi-official message states that the Lens is inevitable and is near at The British progress every
here
of which constitutes a really great
ia
FOOD FOR GERMANY. BIG SUPPLIES THROUGH
NEUTRALS.
WASHINGTON, July 2nd. With a view to guiding, the United sen-States in the matter of control of exporta,
Britain Jis supplied Aïerica evidence that Germany is obtaining EL quantities of food from Scandinavia From Holland she is receiving enough Fats to supply over seven million soldiers, or virtually, the entire Gerinan effectives.
GERMAN LIES DENIED.
AMSTEBAM, July 2nd. Lorn Derby, interviewed, by a corre
If he is counting in the days strong artillerying, the enemy cap- peace and unity of the world after victory spondent of the Handelsblad in London, Germany thus received in 1918, in thou.
-
slightest degree on a decline in the fight-bitterest stride Brzezany. We maintain
tured Koninchy. Fighting is of the hus been won, ing spirit of the French Army in exploited our positions after a swaying battle
of the gains, he is counting without his There were heavy enerny losses. There | host.
FRENCH FRONT. FRENCH THROW BACK THE GERMANS.
PARIS, July 2nd.
A communiqué states:-There is a most active reciprocal artillery bombardment in the Cerny-Aillen sector.
We briskly counter-attacked last night. on both sides of the and threw back the Germans beyond the Ailles Paissay road
was strong artillerying along the Stockod and Dniester. An attack northward of Kovelhick railway failed.
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RUSSIAN ATTACKS.
OVER EIGHT THOUSAND PRISONERS CAPTURED,
LONDON, July 2nd.
A wireless Russian official message
184 officers and 8,400 men as the result nnnounces the capture si Koniukhy of
e to the German line, is apparently trench line which they occupied yester of an attack on the Austro-German ang anxiety in Germany, for the day. The recaptured ground is covered positions.
her Command has found it necessary with corpses, testifying to the heaviness AN INTENSE ARTILLERY BATTLE.
to issue a statement in which vague re- of the enemy's losses.
ferences are made to the rectification".
of the line and the very heavy loves Russian Front,
which the German artillery is inflicting
on the British.-
The statement concludes that French national property to the value of milliona is being destroyed by the British. The object of this new concern for French property is, of course, obvious,
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL RAID. LONDON, July 2nd Field Marshal Sir Douglas Heig my We successfully raided to the cast of Hargicourt,
Enemy raiders reached our trenches to the east of Loos, but were quickly driven
but.
GERMANY'S NEED OF VICTORIES.
LONDON, July 2nd. Router's Correspondent at the French Headquarters,, telegraphing to-day, says
The sudden return of the enemy to the fensive on Chemin des Dames and the
LATEST JABLES. (THROUGH FRUTER'S AGENCY.] THE NEW OFFENSIVE.
MANY CAPTURES
PETROGRAD, July 3rd. The following details of the new offen- cive have been supplied authoritatively
A portion of an Army Corps and a Finland division attacked under a violent fire and took, two lines of trenches north
of Konioukhi, afterwards repulsing the
PETROGRAD, July 2nd. An official wireless message says:-In the directions of Zolotchoy and Brzozany there is an intense artillery battle"
The communique does not mention in fantry attacks,
We destroyed on enemy train on the Rumanian front. In the Carpathians, the Turks launched a series of attacks near Bistan, but we pursued them north west of Sewene and reached Zoribar Lake. We engaged the enemy defending the Pendivin Road.
NEWS WELCOMED IN LONDON
SAND PARIS.
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THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE.
PARIS, July 2nd. According to the newspapers, the American Expedition in France will be under the exclusive command of General Pershing, and the American Government will have its own lines of communication
emphasised that as long as Holland is pentral, Britain will respect her neur trality German allegations to the con- trary were merely preparing for a pre- text to attack Holland.
We have no intention of sailing up
sands of metric tons, about 83 of butter 118 of meat 69 of park, 70 of condensed milk, 80 of cheese, 40 of eggs, 180 of potato meal. 58 of coffee, 74 of fmit, 12 of sugar, and 213 of vegetables.
the Scheldt, and such a plan has never GERMAN COLONIAL POLICY. occurred to us. The Dutch must surely know that Germany is a master in intri- gue. You must ask yourselves whether
pground of mak AMSTERDAM, July 2nd. A meeting of the German Colonisi
with the Army from the West Front to Germany will always respect Holland's Society under the presidency of Duke
Washington.
DEATH OF SIR HERBERT TREE.
LONDON, July 3rd The death is announced of Sir Herbert. Beerbelin Troe, the great actor and theatre manager..
He was born in 1833, and made his first appearance on the stage in 1877, ⠀ .
FOOD MINISTRY
APPOINTMENT.
LONDON, July 3rd. Mr. Clynes, P., has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary to the Ministry of Food.
THE COTTON CRISIS.
LONDON, July 3rd. The Cotton Control Board has decided, regarding-epinners who have cotton on
The news of the Russia offensive has call, that prices may be fixed and delivery taken without the authorisation of the
enemy's counter-attacks. Some regiments been received, with joy in London and suffered severely and especially the Paris.
Officers. On the rest of this sector the Koniukhy is twenty miles west of artillery continues to demolish the enemy Tarnopol. The general opinion is that trenches, which are replying vigorously, the objective of the Russians in Lemberg, In the section where the Army Corps was the capture of which would be of great engaged our troops carried all the enemy strategical and political importance. ** trenches on the slopes of Mount Sreduía Yagoura, cast of Kopionkbi, which was strongly defended. We occupied
Board unt further notice.
ALEXANDRIA, July agd. The Cotton Exchange has re-opened Cotten jobbing has been suspended for a fortnight*
Johann Albretch of Mecklenburg, has
neutrality. We shall do nothing to make Holland abandon it. No danger threatens passed a resolution declaring that Ger- Holland from the sea, but danger does threaten it by land. In political circles in Britain there is not the slightest feel. ing of ill-will against Holland.”
GREECE BREAKS WITH GERMANY.
any's sea inBusace must be guaranteed, that Germany must have an outlet to the OCCAN
that Germany's oversea posses- sions must be enlarged with due con- sideration for over-sen bases, repudiating
bases, rept
the idea of abandoning the South Sea Colonies, and demanding the safe OFFICIAL RELATIONS AT AN END.guarding of Germany's interests in East
AMSTERDAM July 2nd. Asia.
A TASMANIAN BYE-ELECTION
HOBART, July 2nd. Mr Spence, the Nationalist, has been, returned at the bye-election at Darwin, replacing a deceased Labour member.
A Berlin official message gives the text of the Note which the Greek Minister handed to the Government on June 30th, which says:-" In consequence of the happily effected union of the two parties in Greece which have hitherto been separated, and also the fact that several
Balkan front, the Government considers Greek regiments are participating on the BRITISH SOCIALIST'S OUTSPOKEN
that it can no longer possibly maintain official relations with Germany"
The Minister simultaneously requested that passports should be given him.
THE EX KING OF GREECE,
RUSSIAN
VISIONARIES.
COMMENT
LONDON, July 2nd. The Socialist, Mr. A. M. Thompson, Editor of the Clarion, who has been acting as correspondent of the Thely Mad a Petrograd, telegraphs a striking Sr. Moxirz, July 'd.
analysis of the revolutionary movement Ex-King Constantine and his family in Russia, in which he expresses the BARLIZE VABLES.
have arrived.
opinion that it is directed not only A DUEL IN THE WAR,
ELECTRIC CAR PLUNGES INTO gairt the Tear but also against the war, oft bank of the Mens is probably to be Konioukhi and the forest went thereof as
AMITARDAM. July 2nd.
NIAGARA
The promoters of the Stockholm Con- xplained by the German Government's far as Korf Torrent, and the whole of
In reporting the death of the famous
ference are merely visionaries TORONTO, July 2nd
and Reisinger the Frankfurter feed of victories, or, rather, Jogil sue the enemy trenches south of Honioukhi. General von Ludendorff to the Austrian ablaze a British opponent, but the latter,
The visit of Marshal Hindenburg and Zeiluky states that in his last fight he set plunged over a twenty-foot embankmenttically cling to the idea of univers) fanatics, who are unable to distinguish Owing to a wash-away, an electric car
between the belligerents, and who pathe eases which can be agnified into vic We also captured many prisoners and Headquarters shows the importance which seeing that be was unable to escape deathings the river on the ridze of the famous ories, to set off against the substantial marine-guns, the total of which is not the High Command attaches to General rammed Reisinger, with the result that whirlpool rapids of Niagara. Twenty- ains of the Anglo-French offensivem.
noven ware drowned and forty injured Ate
>vet asvertaised
While the Russian les apparently have been heavy, the German evening communique's statement that these have been unsurpassed is intended chiefly for consumption in Petrograd.
Brussilatt's move.
Fith tell down and were killed.
brotherhood.
Thef are most likely to offer an easy prey for German agents as