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THE EASTERN FRONT.
CLIMAX EXPECTED AT EARLY DATE.
An Account of the Gallipoll Fighting.
TOTAL BRITISH CASUALTIES TO JULY 18.
[[Reuter's Service to The "Telegraph."]
NAVAL AND MILITARY CASUALTIES.
HILL 60,
CORPSES LIB UNBURIED FOR MONTHS.
July 27, 12.50 a.m. Reator's correspondent at Headquarters says that he visited the famous Hill 60, which Field Marshal Sir John French recently reported as having been re-captured by the Germans, by means of gassing, on May 5. He describes the 3erman trenches as running in a double tier along the crest of the upper slope of the hill which is only 30 to 40 feet high. The British trenches were on the edge of the lower alope. The correspondent says that at one point a trench only six yards from the enemy is a communication trench between the British and the enemy, in which, b:th sides erected barricades. In an adjoining railway cutting is a pool of stagnant water where corpses have been lying for months bat uone dares to approach to recover them for burial,
THE NAREW-LUBLIN FRONT.
CLIMAX EXPECTED WITHIN A FORTNIG
July 27, 1.35 p.m. Reuter's correspondent at Petrograd says that the military authorities expect a climar both on the Naraw and Lublin host within a fortnight, and the next fews daye would reveal the part which the Germans will play on the Neimen front. The expert, Captain Bbamaks, estimates the effective German cavalry, in the Baltic provinces, at 30,000, it is presumed that their immediate object is to get to the east of Korno and cat the Korn Vilaa
railway.
SERVIA RE-AWAKENING.
HOPES SOON TO TAKE THE OFFENSIVĖ.
ANOTHER REPLY TO THE AMERICAN NOTE.
July 26, 6.40 p.m.
The American steamer Leelanaw and the British stoamer Grangewood have been sunk in the North Ses by German submarines, The crews were zaved in their own boats.
July 27, 5.25 p.m.
Reuter's correspondent in Washing on states that the torpedo ing of the steamer Lelanaw has shocked American officiala, who, in the absence of detaile, decline to express an opinion as to whether this comes under the last Net. The fact that the crew were saved was received with relief.
The American officials Washington she shnoked at the torpedoing of the Loelanaw.
The Italians on Sunday on tha lower Isonzo captured 1,600 progers.
Nineteen trawlermen have been killed by enbmarines during the last three days.
Mr. Aabmead Bartlett gives a vivid word picture of the fighting in the Dardanelles on the 15th fiust.
BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN NOTE,
Jaly 28, 9.25 p.m. Renter's correspondent in Washington eye that Great Britain's reply to the American Note of March" 30, regarding the British blockade, has been received. It holds that the British O.ders-in- Mr. Asquith announced that Council are within the bounds of international law, though they the Naval and Military casualties, may involve a new application of principles, and it argues that it is to the 18th inek, were: Naval proper to await judicial interpretation, Oficials say that the Note 9,108 Military 321,889, is most courteous. It cites the United States Supreme Court decisions during the Civil War.as justifying Great Britain's coarse/
THE CONTRABAND COTTON.
July 26, 9.45 pm.
The Italian General Cantare, the famous Italian leader in Trip- oli, fell at the head of the Alpini at Als.
The military authorities in In the House of Commone, Lard Robert Cecil, Parliamentary Petrograd expect a climax on Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replying to a suggestion that both the Narew and Lublin fronts cotton should be declared contraband, denied emphatically that we within a fortnight.. were fighting with gloves on. Every ounce of cotton destined for the enemy was or ought have been stopped, under existing arrangemente. The Government was fully alive to the situation, but did not believe that the making of cotton contraband would mekea material difference in the amount reaching Germany al presont,
ITALIAN COMMUNIQUE.
FURTHER ENEMY LOSSES.
July 27, 2.20 a.m.
The expert, Captain Shanmaky estimates the effective German cavalry in the Baltic provinces at 30,000.
Belgrade is defended by six katteries of Servian artillery, two British, two French and two Russian batteries,
Lord Robert Cecil replying to
The French Government and"
Parliament have decided to calch- rate the anniversary of the de claration of war, on August 4:
July 27, 1.35 r..
A Rome communique states that, after artillery preparation, a suggestion that cotton should Reuters correspondent at Rome says that Servia is rapidly the Italian infantry on the lower Isonzo resolutely advanced on be declared contraband, denied. re-awakening, typhus has been vanquished and the supplies received Sanday, and made appreciable progress. The left wing captured a that we were fighting with gloves are placing the army again on the highest level. The frontier is brod stretob of the wooded ground of Bosco Cappuccio, the centre on, July 27, 1.40 p.m..
guarded by French aeroplanes, whilst Belgrade is defended by six stormed the trenches of Sin Martino on the ridge of Careo, while Mr. Asquith sanounced that the total casualties to the 18th batteries of Servian artillery, two British, two French and two the right wing won and lost several times Mount Selbusi and finally ipat, are as follow: Naval 9,108, Militery 321, 889, of whom 4,000 Russian batteries. Servia has a quarter of a million infantry and retained the greater part. The battle was especially desperate in the wood, whire the enemy was strongly entrenched and had to be army officers and 57 384 men were killed. The total casualties in it is hoped soon to take the offensive for "our common cause,"
dislodged with the bayonet, the enemy using asphyxiating bombs. "Flanders were 11:251 officers and 255,649 men, in the
We captured sixteen hundred prisoners. Dardanelles 2,144 officers and 47,094 men. "The number killed in Flanders were 3,288 officers and 48,372 men, in the Dardanellen 567 officers and 7367 med. The Naval killed were 499 officers and 7,430 men.
THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF WAR.
PROPOSED FRENCH CELEBRATIONS.
July 27, 1.35 p.m. Rauter's correspondent at Paris says that both the Government and Parliament have decided to celebrate the anniversary of the declaration of war, on August 4. They will address a solemn homage to the valiant army and proclaim their determination to secure the definite triumph.of law, liberty and civilisation,
THE LEELANAW.
TWELVE SHELLS FAIL TO SINK HER.
July 27, 1.95 p.m. Banter's correspondert at Kirkwall says that the .. Leelanaw was carrying a cargo of fix. Her crow were taken aboard the submarine sad transferred to their own bosts almost within! eight of the Orkneys. The anbmarine fired twelve shells at the Leelanaw, but dé they failed to sink hor, they fired a torpedo.
MORE PIRACIES.
NINETEEN TRAWLERMEN KILLED IN THREE DAYS,
July 27, 1.35 p.m. Renter's corr pondent at Kirkwall mnya that another Aberdeen trawler has been sank; an altsgether during the last three days 19
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
GERMAN CLAIMS AND ADMISSIONS.
July 26, 5.25 p.In.
PENSIONS BILL IN THE LORDS.
Jaly 27, 5.15.a.m
The ss. Lesiansw was carrying a cargo of flix. Her crew put aboard the submarine and traps ferred to their own hosts almost within sight of the Ockneys.
Servis, is Faid to be re-awaken
The Government was defeated in the House of Lords, ing, yphus has been vauquished which, despite the appeal of Lord Lansdowne, adopted, by and the supplies received are 44 votes to 31, a motion by Lord Balfour of Burleigh to placing the amy again on the adjourn the debate on the Naval and Military Pensions Bill till after highest level. the recens. Lord Lansdowne pointed out that adjournment meant that, during the next seven weeks, no provision would be available or to widowe and for anpplementing pensions to disabled men orphene, and that nothing could be done towards the training of disabled men for earning a livelihood..
FURTHER ITALIAN SUCCESS.
July 27, 5.15 a.m,
lo's sailway cutting close to the famous Hill 60 is a pool of stagnant water where corpses have been lying for months, but none dares to approach to recover them for burial.
NEWS.
"Our Contemporaries" appears Renter's correspondent at Amsterdam reports that the magni foent resistance of the Russians on all vital sectors is still maintained.
According to Router's correspondent in Rome, it is officially on page 2, Commercial News a A Berlin communique claime that General ron Buelow has made announced that simultaneously with the French destroyer's success page 9, and Log Book on page “. some progress, in the Niemen district, taking one thousand on the island of Lagosta, Italian destroyers occupied the island of prisoners. The Germans have also made a crossing shove Pelagars (on which the enemy had a signalling station) and cap Ostrolenka, but, to the south of this, the Russians are making an tured the garrison, who were hidden in caves.
obstinate resistance. It is quite evident that the Germans are tightly held before Warmw itself. The Berlin communique claime that the Germans have taken prisonere and forty machine-guns în the Narew region, but a most significant portion of the communique is that the situation of General von Mackenson and the allied armies is unchanged. It says that in the recent fighting to the south of Cholm the Germans captared 1467 men and eleven maobine gans.
FRENCH COMMUNIQUES.
ANOTHER AIR RAID BY FRENCHMEN,
July 28, 5.25 p.m Reuter's correspondent in Paris states that cannonades and isolated struggle with hand grenades continue. A communique adds that French seroplanes dropped heavy bombs and a shower of arrows on the German military atation of Nantilloïn,
ONLY CANNONADING AND MINE FIGHTING,
July 27, 220 s.m.
Paris communique records only cannonading and mine “at various points of the fronteran
RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.
July 27, 11 50 s.m
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TO-DAY.
Bijon Theatre-9.16 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m. Mesars. Charlee Howilt": Phillips Co-Theatre Royal.
TO-MORROW.
Router's correspondent in Petrograd announces that brilliant Russian counter-attacks form the feature of the communique. The Russians are not only stently defending vital positions, but are push- ing the Germans back at important points. The German offensivo in the northern regions of the Baltic provinces:has been repulsed with the assistance of warship guns and the Russians are now getting in touch with General von Baslow's army on the Niemen
Bija Theatre-9.15 p.m. front. The German ofsusive on the Pia continues to be quite abortive. The Germans who crossed the Narew near the fortress of Victoria Tliestre 9.16 p Rosban Lave been thrown back, while the enemy south-eastward of Sale of Fazniture. Paltask haa.been repulsed on the River Pruth.. Small'engagements, Lammert's Sales - Room,-8.30
began with an advance on the defences of Notogeorgievsk by the p.m.
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The battle wonth of Oholm was pursued with great intensity; the
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