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July 7 1915,
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"TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS.
July 7 1914,
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WEDNESDAY, JULY
7,
1915.
TO-DAY'S
WAR TELEGRAMS,
MORE ENTERTAINING GERMAN LIES,
GERMAN COLONEL COMMITS SUICIDE
Italian Dirigible Bombs Trieste.
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ALLIES' FURTHER SUCCESSES ON WESTERN FRONT.
[Reuter's Servios to The "Telegraph."}
GERMAN FAILURES AND INVENTIONS.
July 6, 4.00 p.m. According to Reater's correspondent in Paris an official Note emphasises the failure of the German attempt to cut cf communica. tions between Verdun an Chalons. It was completely stopped in two hundred yarde.
German attacks have since been defeated with very, heavy loss. The number of prisoners alleged in the German communique is the total of killed, wiunded and prisoners. The alleged German success at Fey-on-liaye and Bois le Pretre is an invention,
ANOTHER MAGNIFICENT LIE.
July 6, 3.50 p.m. It uter'a errespondent in Paris states that last night the city was much disturbed, for the Germans announced that they had blodily reputeed the British.
The truth is that the British, supported by French artillery defeated the enemy in Belgium on the east bank of the Yeer. On the Ypres ennal they also captured several enemy tranchos.
The batile near Arras is still most fierce around Souches etation, which remains in our hands despite the repeated efforts of the Germans. The latter bombarded Arris in a night long bittle, In Argonne incesant French artillery assaults frequently enveloped the attacking columns in curtains of empk;! A communiqué adds that the Germans were twice completely repulsed on the heights of the Meuse. The Germans resumed the fonsive at Bois le Pretro and attempted two aassults in different portions of the wood. These were entirely checked by rifle are, which inflicted heavy losses.
BRILLIANT RUSSIAN AIR RAIDS,
July 6, 11.45 p... Router's correspondeat at Petrograd reports that Hassian aeroplanes are making brilliant raide, a great coup was made at Pazevork They dropped bombs on a station where there were five long traica, igniting one and blowing op, as has since been learned, thirty thousand rounds of artillery ammunition.
MORE GERMAN SUCCESSES."
July 6, 11.45 p.m. Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam, reports thas a German communique, claims the espture of a thousand Frenchmen at Bois le Pratre ind ibat Goueral von Linsingen has reached the Zotalips river.
[in the event of telegrams arriving too late for insertion on this page they will be found on the Extra.]
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
ENTHRALLING NARRATIVE OF FIGHTING AT THE DARDANELLES.
July 5, 9.40 p.m.
A despatch from Reuter's special correspondent at the Dardanelles, recounting the battle of the 28th June, describes the extraordinary terrain over which the fight took place.
THE KAISER'S PROPHECY PROBABLY CORRECT.
July 5. 2.25 p.m. Reater's correspondent at Paris quotes a distinguished neutral from Berlin who aaya
The great event of the week was a spacch by the Kaiser at a military ceremony.
The Kaiser, amid cheera from his officers and men, swore that there would be no winter campaign and that the war would be over by October.
The speech created extraordinary excitement in the capital as another winter campaign is regarded with veritable angaish.
The neutral adde: Germany, of couree, always methodical, is preparing for a winter campaign, but the terror of all classes is that soch a contingency might greatly favour the Entente. Germany will therefore be forced to make a supreme and maximum effort before October for, strong thongh Germany be, ale cannot rent Russia's return to the scene by the end of summer and Brita effort which will then have added intensity.. The German offensivé will therefore soon be furious and general, or the Western front y the successful resistance of the Allies will have incalculable on- sequences since, perhaps, Jermany's last efforts will thus be
broken.
THE SS. ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN
July 5, 5.55 p.m.
The 8.8. Anglo-Californian was homeward bound when attack- ed by a aubmarine. The captain who made a daring and moit successful escape, was unfurtunately killed on the bridge by one of the large shells fired from the submarine, but his wireless calla had gone out and brought aid, whereupon the submarine disappeared,
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY REGARDING THE INDIAN VOLUNTEERS.
July 5, 7.55 p.m. In the House of Commons, in reply to Mr. W. Joynaon Hicks (Conservative, Brentford) Mr. Auston Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, said the Rj al received the appreciation of the Bengal Chambers of Commerce for the appointment of a Com mission of Inquiry as to the pressat state of the Volunteer Force of India. The matter, he said, is still under consideration.
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July 5, 8 15 p.m.
Following almost the line of the sea ecnit is a long and deep arine which the army calls the "Nulish." The river Sighirdere which he sends in a sheer cliff 400 ft. high, is a narrow plateau FRENCH LINER SUNK AT THE DARDANELLES fle through to the bottom: between the "Nallah” and the coast, The British trenches began at the ata ward edge of this cliff faced closely by the Turkish trenches, then traversed the plateau sad dipped icts the "Nullab," thence right across the Peninsular.
A Paris communique reports that the liner Carthage (a vesssi British artillery hammered the "Nullah" with the biggest of 2,487 ions net built in 1910 at Newcastle, for the Cie Generale bombardment the Turks have yet known. The quantity and Trans-atlantique) has been torpedoed and sunk by submarine off weight of the heavy gans must have surprised the enemy while the Cape Helles, at the entrance to the Dardanelles. Sixty-six were warships also plastered the Turkish positions. It was magnificent rescued and six are missing. to see the huge burata of amake and dust leaping up in even line following the course of the enemy tronches and our gunnere showing deadly precision.
Channel yesterday. One submarine was struck by several shells French destroyers bombarded two submarines in the English
before she disappeared.
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TELEGRAMS.
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED.
The Germans have been issaing further falso communiques.
The Allies have again defeated the enemy on the banks of the Yeer,
An Italian dirigible has tomb- ed Trieste and severely damaged the arsenal.
Colonel Leipziger German At- taghaat Constantinople, has com- mitted eniside.
Messre. Guinness have aub- Boribed five million pounds to- wards the Loan.
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Paris, was much disturbed last night by a German story (ltimately prayed to be a lie) of a serious British repulse.
There has been
on extra- ordinary response in Paris. to M. Ribot's appeal to the people to exchange their gold for paper
money.
NEWS.
"Our Contemporaries" appeara. on page 2, Commercial News on page J, and Log Book on page 6
LORD KITCHENER.
City Men's Resolution, of Confidence.
London May, 20.. At a meeting held yesterday: the following resolutions were. adopted:-
That the Naval and Military Defence Standing Committoo. of the London Chamber of Com- merce strongly deprecate the un- patriotic and unjustifiable attaoka which have been made on the Secretary of Stato for War, and desire to convey to Lord Kitchen- er, on behalf of the large anotion of the business community.ropre- sented by the Chamber, an as- surance of their gratitude for his services to the State ond of their confidence and support in the great task which he has under- takon for the defence of the Empire in the present crisis.
That, in the opinion" of this committee, it is urgently necessary Government to mobilise and that steps should be taken by the
organise the manhood of the nation for service in the field or in any other way that may ba recessary to secure an early and decisive victory, and further truate that Parliament will give
Overhead letsd an observation balon fettered to a ship. An oremy aeroplane tried to bomb the bailcoa bat caissed and was driven off: then the British field guas making the enemy's barbed
MR. J. P. MORGAN NOW OUT OF DANGER wire a special target were completely successful. Now came the work of the infantry: at the bottom of the Nullah the British (and
July 5, 9.40 p.m. Turkish advance trenches were only separated by sandbags, beyond Reuter's correspondent at Now York states that Mr. J. P. Mor-full powers to the Government Bomerang hand enfiladed all previous attempts to advance but now now out of danger, was "Bomerang! fort with its innumerable independent sape. gan, the financier (who was twice shot by a German last week) is for this purpose. the British awaiting on platforms and ladders leapt over the. parapeta and jumped in a few seconds into the fort. Their loss was Renter's correspondent in Paris says that there has been an surprisingly small and once the British were inside they made extraordinary response to M. Ribot's appeal for gold in exchange short work of the Turks. This was the preliminary to the main for paper money. People are hastening to bring their gold. At attack in which three battalions did brilliant work, taking, three the Dank of France there are incessant streams at six different lines of trenches on the plateau next to the sea. entrances. All classes of people are repressoted; poor women with
FRENCH EXCHANGING GOLD FOR PAPER MONEY.
July 6, 2.00 p.m.
:
gold pieces saved for a rainy day, besides offerers of gold valued by
the ten-thousand francs.
BREWERS' PATRIOTISM:
THE HARWICH FIASCO.
July 6, 1.15 am: But the most spectacular moment was when the British The Admiralty, with reference to the German communiquer advanced on open ground over lines of trenches aires ly captured of the incident; which is otherwise hardly worth notice, are that two that their aircraft had bombed the fort at Harwich, states: The facts and took two lines beyond. The sun was shining on the Batish German seroplanes appeared at Harwich on the forenoon of the 3rd. bayoneta and they were advancing maguificently sa if no enemy was in. Our airgraft drove them off and the Germans dropped their near. The enemy, farly on the run, could be seen from the ships bomba into the sea and escaped. hurriedly retiring. The work of the afternoon was mostly repulsing enemy counter-attacks. The Turkish artillery was active but was outmatched by the British. The latter, moving ite rango as the infantry advanced, kept a line of shells bursting on the enemy's
July 8, 2.00 p.m. The celebrated firm of browers, Mesers. Gaianese, have anb-receding front all day. scribed fire million sterling to the War Losa.
GERMAN MILITARY ATTACHE'S SUICIDE.
QUIET ON THE FRENCH FRONT.
July 6, 1.15 a.m, 24
The Allies spent the next day in consolidating their positions and clearing up. The appalling, mose left by the Turke fairly beggared description. I examined the Nallah and the Boomarang. A Paris communique states: It is relatively quiet' along the At the to:tom of the Nallah dead Torks were lying in shallow whole front. There has been no infantry Botion and the only poole of green water and the stench was frightful. Parapeta hal thing noteworthy is the particular activity of the enemy's artillery been built over bodies which had been placed as bullet-stoppers between the Menes and Moselle. Le Pretro wood especially has been July 6, 2.00 p.m.
with earth lightly thrown over to form the parapet the Torkiah!
bombarded with the heavy guns. The limbs of According to Reuter's correspondent at Athens, Colonel Leip- half-buried Turks emerged from the ground in ziger, the German military attache at Constantinople, Las committed trenches. The Boomerang was filled with freshly killed Tarks. Baicide. He was recently appointed interim Minister to S.fia. They lay curled up with cricket-ball bombs at their foot ready for use. Boomerang was still fall of Turkish equipment" and material. Everything showed the remarkable, physical eadaranos of the Turks who had lived for weeks shielded by the bodies of their comrades, breathing the intolerable stench and walking over their the enemy, after stubborn fighting on the 4b, advanced on the A Petrograd.communique states that in the direction of Lublin, own half-buried dead whenever they moved. July 6, 2.00 p.m.
Yet they fought well, though knowing that sooner or later their the 3rd and mozaing of the 4th between the rivera Vieprz and Bug front between Krasnik river and the Vieprz. All German attacks on Reuter's correspondent in Rome says that a dirigible has own bodies would be used as substitutes for sandbage unless they bombed Trieste an1 feverely damaged the arsenal. The machine got decent burial from the invader. These were the men who est as far as Sokal were repalsed, we taking hundreds of prisoners: returned safely.
great store on Moslem barial rights.
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ITALIAN. AVIATORS BOMB. TRIESTE.
THE RUSSIANS TAKE MORE PRISONERS.
Julz 0,5.40 a.m.
Resolutions of confidence in Lord Kitchener were also passed yesterday by the Bristol Liberal' Club and Constitutional Club, the Corn Exchange, and the Council of the. Dublin Chamber of Commerce.-Fall Mail.
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