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BRITISH REGIMENT RAIDS
POSITIONS
LONDON, July 16th.
10.45 p.m.
A British Italian official report states The Northumberlands successfully raid. ed positions southward of the Asingo, capturing 24 prisoners.
Ve destroyed 35 neroplanes between July 4th and 5th. One British machine has not returned.
ITALIANS GAIN GROUND.
LONDON, July 10th.
7.30 p.. An Italian official messago states:Wo gained ground in the northern region of Grappa taking 04 prisoners,
-Italian and Allied aircraft were very active and brought down 12 enemy nero- planes.
FRENCH
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LONDON, July 16th:
3.30 a.m.
EX-PRESIDENT –– ROOSVELT'S MACHINE-GUN THAT BEATS
YOUNGEST SON KILLED.
Pants, July 17th. Flight Lieut. Quentin Roosvelt, young- est son of ey-President Roosvelt was killed in a air-fight near Chateau-Thierry and fell in the enemy lines
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BANK OF FRANCE'S CHARTER
LONDON, July 15th. A Paris pessage says the Chamber of Deputies has voted for the renewal of the charter of the Bank of France for 23 years from July 1st, 1921.
CONSTRUCTION OF PARIS
HARBOUR.
LONDON, July 15th.
A Paris message says. a draft Decree for the appropriation of 50 million franes to secure capital expenditure for the con. struction of Paris Harbour is to be sub- witted to the Municipal Council.
INDIAN REFORM.
OURS.
OBJECTIONS TO ITS ADOPTION.
The Madsen machine gun, despite its. the British Army because difficulty would advantages, has not been introduced into arise in supplying a new gun in suffi ciently large quantities and in familiaris ing the Army with its use. This was the.. explanation supplied by Mr. Churchill, Minister of Munitions, in the House of Commons recently.
The matter was raised by General Sir Ivor Philipps, who said that for the last three years this Danish invention has been other, and asked whether the only mili admitted to be infmtely superior to any tary expert opposed to its introduction is the Master-General of the Ordnance.
Mr. Churchill replied that the Army Council and General Headquarters in France had both decided against the gun. ***Their main reason," he said, is con- fidence in the existing Lewis gun, which alone can be supplied in the largo num- bers desired.
Is there any danger of this gun being acquired by the Germans? asked Sir.. Edward Carson ?
I do not think that they would have had any difficulty in acquiring it, if they bad desired to have it, at any time since Church
the
days of the war, said Bir.
ORDER FOR 6,000,
Did the Army Council and the mili: tary authorities at General Headquarters
PRINCES LINKED CLOSER TO THEin Franco have before them the recent
of
THRONE
Losinos, July 17th. The Maharaja of Patiala, in the course ✡ statement in the Times on the Jadian Reform report, testifies to the thoroughness and care with which: Mr. Montagu and the Viceroy had conducted the enquiry in India. He says: The report is a fitting sequel to the most in portant inquey conducted in India in recent years.””
A French Eastern communique states: Continuing our pursuit in Albania we passed Gramsi and reached the outskirts
He is glad to see in the chapter dealing of Cekent and Cruja, where we contacted with Indian States rcference to their war with the Austrian fortified position on efforts, and says:-"We feel that the our left and established touch with the King-Emperor's quarrel is our quarrel, Italians, who captured the Cafabarza and as far as the Princes are concerned heights.
the war has linked us closer if possible than ever to the throne and person of the KingEmperor."
LATER TRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY THREE VILLAGES.
He does not doubt that he is express LONDON, July 17th, ing the opinion of his brother Princes to
1:45 a.m.
welcoming. whole-heartedly the proposals A French enstern communiqué from ensuring, in questions where British Albania states: On the right bank of the India and the Indian States are jointly Devoli, we occupied three villages, and concerned, that the views of the Princes pushed a reconnaissance to the course of should be presented to the Government the Holta. We took 620 prisoners,
Aerial Activities.
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BOMBED.
LONDON, July 17th.
1.45 a.m.
The Air Ministry states:--Wo success-
improvcinents of the gun, pressed Sir tvor Philipps, and were they aware of the favourable report on it which induced the Prime Minister, when he was Minis ter for War, to order 5,000, and the pre sent Minister of Munitions, when he was First Lord of the Admiralty, to order a large number, not one of which has yet been produced?
those facts were before them, and 1 am Yes," replied. Mr. Churchill. "AR convinced that all those arguments wern thoroughly considered. The scale on produced, the disadvantages of duality are required to bo
of type and duality of training, and the excellent quality of our existing gun werd the Union Bathority went the o
deciding factors cent experiments with the gun undertaken by all the military machine-gun experts of London? was Sir Ivar Philipps' next. inquiry.
cannot say,' returned Churchill, but I know that there was Full re-examination of the gun.
י.
I am not at all sure, be added, in reply to Mr. Faber, that if we could start with a clean table, by a stroke of a wand, there are not certain points of advantage in the Maden gun, hut we have- a very good gue now and the only gun we can have in enormous numbers."
RIVAL GUNS OF THE FIGHTING POWERS..
The machine guns, or automatic squall. arms used in the war cati bo divided into. of the Vickers type; second, portable. three
classes. First, heavy machine guns lighter machine guns of the Lewis type; and, third, automatic rifles proper.
Heavy machine guns require a crew of soveral men to work them. They are: usually water-cooled and capable of pro-
by an authoritative body speaking un their behalf. We look forward to taking our place in the organic develop ment of the British Empire, and if we do this antisfactorily provision must exist for taking our views into account as gards the relations of India as a whole and foreign States, also as regarde such
light, portable ruaebue gun is a questions as defence, currency and cus-different arm. Above all, it is an infan
try-man's weapon, to he used and carried by one man and an assistant lightness and mobility are essential. The English model is the Lewis gun, which was adopt
It
He is unable to speak on behalf of Bri fully bombed railway sidings and sheds tish India as regards the recommends
at Offenburg, and the aerodrome on July tions for the development of provincialed first as an arm for autoplanes 15th. Good bursts were observed.
self-government or the suggested changes We also attacked, on July 18th the rail- of the Government of India, but be would way and sidings in Thionville. Several draw the attention of his fellow-country- bursts were observed on the railway and men to the statement by Sir 8. P. Sinha, & large fire was started, causing several cabled on July 8th. heavy explosions,
All our machines returned.
TENEMY AVIATORS BOMB
AMERICAN AMBULANCE
STATION.
PARIS, July 10th): Enemy aviators bombed an American ambulance station last night. Two were killed and nine wounded.
General
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NO NEW FINANCIAL OPERATIONS NECESSARY FOR NINE MONTHS.
Loydon, July 17th.
When the War Loan Bill was taken in committee in the House of Commons last night, Mr. Bonar Law said that no new operations would be necessary for the next nine months, as the War Bonds organization had succeeded to a greater extent even than was anticipated.
NO MORE MEATLESS DAYS FOR FRANCE.
CONSUMPTION OF MEAT NOT TO BE RESTRICTED.
PARIS, July 18th. It is officially announced that as from Saturday, the consumption of meat will not be restricted. Thus there will be-no mory meatless days for France,
THE
BONNET-ROUGE"
TRIAL
M. DUVAL EXECUTED.
FARIS, July 27th.
M. Duval, who was sentenced, to death
in the Bonnet Rouge trint was executed this morning at Vincennes.
He is confident that Sir S. P. Sinha's judgment will receive the most careful consideration in India. The ruling Princes realised how closely the fortunes of their States were interwoven with those of British India and they welcomed such developments designed to associate the more directly People of British India with the responsibilities of administra tion, as they realised that such changes would tend to promote unity in India and prosperity and contentment in the Em pire.
"SHOWER OF GIFTS" TO QUEEN MARY. ABTONISHING DISPLAY...
LONDON, July 18th. The project of offering Her Majesty the Queen a shower of gifts" for the wounded in celebration of the Royal silver wedding has proved a most amaz ing success. Princess Beatrice yesterday, at St. James Palace, presented. Her Majesty the Queen with 575,761 gifts in kind, besides £9,288.
ME
was tested against the Danish Madsen for this purpose in 1933, and proved the better gun, for there was much less dis turbance due to recoil, and the empty cases could be prevented from dropping During into the neroplane machanism. the war it was adopted from the flying. service as a land gun, and has performed extremely good service.
of
In addition to the Lewis a special form Hotchkiss, known Bennet- Meretes, is nie, sed, and this ath, though not so good as the Lewis in some respects, is one which is extremely simple to manufacturo quantity at a high rato of output.
The Germans use the Spandau machine. a water-cooled arm similar to the
ickers, and their light armi is the Para- bellum, which is mounted on all acro planes and used where we use our Lewis. The Madsen, which is the lineal descon dant of the old Danish Rexer antomatio rifle, is used by the Bulgarians, and was used by the Russians, but it is doubtful whether it is either manufactured or even largely used by the Germans, for the old model Madsens were no better than the ordinary German light automatics. It is only recently that the lightest model, for which so much is claimed, came out.
It is claimed for the new Browning... which is now being made at a stupendous pace in America, that it is the very best of all.” It weighs fifteen pounds, has less than twenty mechanical parts, is exay to make, und can be fired from the shoulder.
like a service rifle.
Her Majesty the Queen expressed ber astonishment at the magnificent total AMAZON TO FIGHT FOR THE from so many parts of the world,
There was an astonishing display in Queen Anne's drawing-room, including the most varied offerings from the Dominions
Many cases are still unpacked and others are en route, so that the figures are not complete.
BYE-ELECTION.
ALLIES.
A welcome has been given at a Pacific port to Mme Mario Botchkareva, who led the Russian Women's "Death Balta- She stated that ahe organised tho lion battalion to avenge her husband's death and to combat Prussian aggression.
“I am for to fight. the rat contingent that will accept mes she added. “ I expect to die on the bat- tlefield."
Mme Botchkareva was driven from Busais by the Bolsheviko. She crossed Siberia disguised as a peasant, and re-
LONDON, July 17th. The East Finsbury bye-election re- sulted as follows: Cotton (Coalitionist), 1,150, Captain Spencer (Vigilante), 676; and Beliher (Independent), 100,
peatedly bad narrow cscapes from arrest. Mme. Botchkareva went to the front, in AUSTRO-HUNGARYPREPARED man's clothes, in 1915, after hearing the news of her husband's death in action. TO DISCUSS PLACE
Bho had served two yours in the
trenches AMSTERDAM, July 16th.
when Kerensky gave her permission to form a Women's "Battalion of Death” Count Borian, in the course of his The battalion, fought report on the Austro-Hungarian foreign when the men were deserting wholesale.
gallantly last policy, declares The enemy's ob The fact that she and her Amazons re- stinacy regarding his territorial demands muined faithful to Kerensky to the last concerning Alsace-Lorraine, Trentino, accounts for her unpopularity with thơ Trieste, the German Colonies, etc., ap Bolsheviks,
year
pear insurmountable. We are prepared he has been wounded four times, and to discuss everything except the session I has twice won the Russian equivalent of of our own territory.”
our Victoria Cross