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AUGUST 16, 1916.
TELEGRAMS.
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THE VINCENT REPORT ON MESOPOTAMIA IS STILL SUB JUDICĖ. THERE IS NO FURTHER NEWS REGARDING TREATMENT OF KUT PRISONERS.. PRIVATE MESSAGES CONCERNING THE KUT PRISONERS ARE REASSURING, ENGLISH MAIL ARRANGEMENTS TO MESOPOTANIA ARE BEING IMPROVED. THE ITALIAN STEAMER TETI HAS BEEN SUNK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
TELEGRAMS.
THE KUT PRISONERS.
[Beater's Service to The " Telegraph."]'
Angust 14, 5.10 p.m. In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil stated he had no further information regarding the treatment of the Kut prisoners, but the United States was sending money and’comforts as soon as their arrival at the internment campe was kuzwa. The main cause of unaasinam was the refusal of Turkey to allow United States of vialu
NORWEGIAN STEAMER AKANDA WAS BROKEN IN TWO BY AN EXPLOSION. THE ANGLO-ITALIAN COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT HAS BEEN SIGNED." ENORMOUS INCREASES HAVE BEEN MADE IN BRITISH MUNITIONS OUTPUT. [to visit the prisoners, but private messages recently received, were BRITAIN PRODUCES MONTHLY DOUBLE HEAVY GUNS WE HAD BEFORE WAR. [reassuring. THE KING AND PRINCE OF WALES HAVE VISITED DANGER ZONE IN FRANCE,
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MESOPOTAMIA MATTERS.
The Forwarding of Mails.
[Reuter's Service to The "Telegraph.”)
August 14, 10.10 p.m.
It the House of Commons, Mr. Chamberlain sanounced that be had received a report from the Raj stating that it was hoped by August 1 to forward the whole English mail to Mesopotamia from Bears on the day of its arrival there. They had not traced any cases of pilfering; inadequate or lost addressee, and insecure packing, must secount for a good many of the miscarriages. He said he proposed to communicate farther with the Rj on the subject, and also stated that he was communicating with the Baj with a view to the amplification and acoeleration of tha arrangements. regarding the effects of soldiers dying in Mesopotamia.
The Vincent Commission.
August 14, 10.10 p.m. In the House of Commons, in reply to Sir Heary Oraik, Mr. Chamberlain stated that copies of the Report of the Vincent Co.. mission and of General Sir Beauchamp Duff'a Mamorandum thereon were despatched from India in July, while Appendices, including evidence, were sent early in August. The Viceroy had stated that general review of the Report and the Appendices would follow as soon as they were fully examined. All the documents would be submitted to the Mesopotamis Commission sa soon so they were received. He thought this would greatly facilitate their task, but meanwhile the matters treated by the Vincent Commission must be considered still suò jud sa, and the report could not be published.
SUBMARINE warfare.
August 15, 4.10 p.m. The Italian steamer Seti has been sank in the Mediterranean. The grew of the Norwegian steamer Arands, bound for Glasgow from Quebec, has been landed on the island of Mall. The vessel was broken in two by explosions «board.
MILITARY TRIBUNAL
August 15, 5.30 p.m.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George annonnoed that the Tribunal constituted under the Army Act Amendment Bill would be composed of Field Marabal Sie William Nicholson, Lord Chaylesmore, Mr. Justics Atkins and Mr. D. Maclean, Liberal M. P. for Poobles.
BRITAIN'S WONDERFUL OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS.
August 15, 5.55 p.m. In the House of Commons, the Hon Mr. E. S. Montagu, speaking on the increase in the output of munitions, stated that we are now manufacturing monthly twice sa many heavy gone as we possessed at the outbreak of the war. The weekly output of machine-guns has been increased sixteen, times since the foundation of the Manitions Department, while the weekly output of explosives has been increased sixty times. The output of field howitzern is eight times greater than at the beginning of 1915,
Mr. Montaga added that our outpat of shells has increased so much that compaii-ons with 1014 are aceless, Besides a large amount of munitions and guns, we are supplying the Allies with metala for munitions, to the value of six millions sterling mouthly, and are sending to Frares one-third of our production of steel for shells: Franoh experts have praised our new heavy artillery,
Continuing, Mr. Montagn said cur equipment of 18-pounders in practically complete, and we should shortly have stiefed our own requirements in machine-guns and should be able to devote attention entirely to the requirements of the Allies. The weekly output of munitions is covered by expenditure, so if the workers and em- ployers continued to play their parts sa nobly as heretofore, there was no fear of the cffensive breaking down owing to shortage of ammunition.
ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT,
August 15, 4.10 p.m. Beater's correspondent at Rsme states that the Anglo-Italian
KING GEORGE VISITS DANGER ZONE. -
August 15, 10.05 p.m.
His Majesty the King has motored in the danger sone, socom- panied by HR H. the Prince of Wales and Staff, and watched the sbells barsting on both sides.
Hin Majenty left a point near the old British front line and walked over the centre of the ares of the off ct in the beginning of July. Then be crossed old. “No-man' Land” „which is pitted with shell bolos and strewn with the debria of waż. His Majesty remarked :—“It's wonderful bow humaɑ beings could have lived through it'
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ALLIED ACTIVITY IN THE BALKANS.
August 14, 12.40 p.m. Reuters correspondent at Salonien reports that the Allies have slowly and inexorably elused upon the Bulgarian lines along the whole front from Lake Prispato to Demir Hissar. The enemy is unintermittently worried, by a heavy bombardment. The principal lines between the belligerents south-westward of Doiran um two minor' bill«, ap which the Allies are gradually creeping.
THE ALLIED offensive.
Spendid French_Feat.
August 12, 13.10 p.m. Reuter's correspondent at Paris states that the French captured their objectives in the German third positions in 80 minutes. The losses were wonderfully small considering that four lines of trenches were crossed. There was desper ate close fighting-
British Situation Unchanged.
August 15, 12.55 a.m. General Sir Douglas Haig in a communique says the situation is unchanged on the whole, British line.
Germans Destroy a Hospital.
August 10, 120 pum.
A Paris communique says bad weather one, nampered the operations on most of the front. There is a sharp artill- ery duel south of the Somme and cast of the Meuse. Eise- where there is intermittent cannonading. Gernian aeroplanes last evening dropped incendiary and other boule on Rheims and the tierman batteries uicanwhile-shelled different quarters of the town. The civilian boxgital which adjoine the Church of St. Remy, was destroyed and also the dis pensary. Six civilians were killed.
THE ITALIAN OFFENSIVER
august 10, 12.40 p.m.
Land Northcliffe, in a despatch from the lavazo dated 13th August, says: The Austrian Levnenies an, Tie Carmi psimaria were blasted and drilled in the rock with machinery, samlar to that used in constructing the Simplon tunnel. Hordes of Croats and other races worked night and day with pneumatic drills and dynamite, making dugouts. The ferocity of the fighting can be imagined when it is known that the capturé of the Calvaria position outside, Gorizia alone cost Italy fifteen months bloodshed. The discovery of kneeling bodies mummified by the scorching heat testifies to the character of the climate. As an example of the enemy's hatred of the Italians, Italian wounded were found mutilated, with skulls smashed by spiked macos. It is curious fact that English is often the only language common to the Italians and their prisoners, as both had been in the United States or Canada,
Lord Northcliffe throughout his visit did not see an Aus- tring aeroplane or balloon. The Italian balloons float an disturbed directing the fre ́of the batteries, while the Ads- -trians are fring blindly.”
三拜禮
August 15, 1915
TELEGRAMS.
THE RUSSIAN DRIVE,`
Parsult of the Enemy.
(Router's Survios to the "Telegraph."]
. August 14, 6,00 p.m.
A Bassian official announcement says :--In the Upper Sereth region the enemy retired westward to a fortified position bebind which he is checking our advance at wome points. We contique to pursue the enemy in the region of the middle Strypa and the river Koropiec, and have reached the northern bank of the Dniester before Mariampol. The enemy attacks in the wooded Carpathians were everywhere repulsed.
Enemy: Admissions.
August 15, 345 a.m. Reuter's correspondent at Petrograd says: An enemy com- munique states that the Russians continue to advance in the Boreth and Zlota Lipa regions, fording their tributaries, sometimes breast high, aut storming the posi tions on the opposite banks. The village of Tustobaba, north-west of the Daierter was stormed after a fierce fight,' the Russians having to carry endless lines of trenches ex- posed to the fiercest machine-gun fire. The Belgian cyclists and motor guns distinguished themselves by capturing the town of Zboroff on the Strypa,
BRITISH DESTROYÉR LOST.
August 14, 7.00 p.m.
It is officially announced that the British destroyer Lassoo was torpedoed or mined and sunk on August 13 of the Dutch coast. Two officers and four men are missing and one officer and one man were slightly wounded.
COMPULSION IN DUTCH EAST INDIES.
August 15, 11.55 .m.
Beuter's correspondent at the Hague reports that a bill has been futroduced in parliament to enable the intro- duction of general compulsory service for Europeans and natives in the Dutch East Indies.
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EX-PREMIER'S 'DEATH.
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London, Received August 15. -Benter's correspondent -> st Melbourne reports the death of Sir George Turner, a former Premine....
THE CLERK.
By B. H. M. Hetheringti
*The BookmaS.
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nestly addiox figures,
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pea behind his ear; Deep in Liabilities, Goods, and
Double Entry,
Se be worked from your lợ year. Diligent and careful, helged
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count and per cent ¡ja Bounded by the columns of Pur- ohass Book and Journal, Saberly his moments went. Now his pen has ceased from ad-
ding rows of figures, Ceased from ruling ledgers and
entering amonNTE: Clad in soddan khaki, with a gun
in Flandern
He is balancing accounts,
drying, basket and other wood manufactures, and so on.
The Minority Report recognises that rural life must be made mɔrg · stereolies and that rural labour must be better paid than before the war. If present agricoltura! pricas, or something approaching them, were maintained, farmOTE. could afford to pay from 1 to "A NEW LAND POLICY.'igns the Majority Report, also age in the country.
241. wookly—which is a living The disocistes himself from it, re- Minority Bsport proposes district proving the Majority for not wagen boardn" to fix minimam emphasising the urgency of the wager; this to help labour, with problem.
the potential small-holding and The Minority tankly accuses even the larger farm na na ideal Considerable sensation is likely the Majority of "throwing up the to work towarda. For the farmer to be caused by the recent "ponge"-sppalling language * State stabilised price system is issue of the minority report this, in a Departmental Committee proposed whest say," being of the Departmental Committee Report and proceeds in detail guaranteed at 40a, per quarter on the Settlement and Employ to suggest how the Government, for ten years or shareabout, with ment on the Land of Discharged if it will, con at once passar bonus of £2 per sore (paid in Stilors and Soldiers. It may be emergency" measures setting up instalments over a period of four recalled that Part I. of the work framework for the machine that years) for the encouragement of of the Committee, that referring hae to handle the discharged thoes who are willing as oo00 to $ settlement or colonisation, was soldier and sailor and the dearth break up grass for the plough and covered by a ananimous report. of agricultursi labour, and the to cultivate it adiqastely, Subsequently the Hon. EG.Stratt lack of home-grown foodstaffa na] and Sir Luke White were added parts of ons big q tention. to the original committes tɗ sosist
Every million acres of grass broken up will employ profitably. forty thousand msu; and probably in drawing op schemes for
This Minority Report says in at least two and a half millions, the after-the-war employment of only one-fifth of its food; in a broken up. This would effect: Our country produces of sores of paar grase ought to be discharged service men. This part}
thirty years three millions of absorb 100,000 ex-service men. of the work of the committee has acres of land has fallen down Eighty thousand more era needed not resulted in s unanimous report; indeed, the minority it inferior grass; the net loss of pre-wartime standard.
from plough to grass-mach of to work our villages even to the report, which is signed by the agricultural labourers from Eng-problem is attacked immediately, If the Hon. E. G. Struts, the famous land during the war will be and sa whole, way the minority agricaltariat, Mr. Leslie Scott, at least 80,000 men, and they it can be settled fairly for all K.O., M.P., the well-known Con cannot be replaced, satisfactorily parties and to the great advantage Morvalive politician and barrister, either by women or children; we of the nation. and Mr. G. H. Roberts, the Labour MP., criticises the report these men by other men bat large- however, and that is what the ought to nim not only to replace The machine must be built now, of the majority in a breezy ly to increase the rural population; minority, as distinct from the fashion, twitting the majority from five to ten per cent, of the majority report, proposea should with being afraid to propose the men of the New Armies probably be done,
prompt remedies necessary to a oure of the evils which it deplores the war-any, 200,000; these minority settlement should take will prefer an outdoor life after A closing word! Although the Nothing more surprising_hse.
men in the majority of cases priority over Colonial settlement ever occurred in English agrical will taral politice than this union of life without a fired job; it two as complementary, and an come back to civil and employment, they regard tha (Conservatiam, Socíalism, and ex ill be good statesmanship Imperial sobeme is in process of pert scienos to Fuch a drastic to offer them immediate work on being drawn up on a mout friendly policy of land reforms policy the land at a living wage, with All-British basin.-Wm. Purvis which, if needa be, apparently the prospect of a small-bolding in the Globe..
will not shrink from a messure of later on, or efficient training for compulsory cultivation for inferior over-se colonization, as they
may prefer, s
graen Areas now uncultivated. ** In their survey of what is essen- tial to placing the country in Of course the Minority Report sound military and economic suggests maob besides, including position so far as the food supply large schemes of reclamation on in concerned, the Majority and the scientific lines laid down by the Minority are virtually at one; that great expert, Mr. A. D. Half, but when it comes to immediate and afforestation after the Max Legislation for doing what all wall manner; wager-best, tobacco, the members of the Cɔm- sad potato growing on & YEABOD- mittee - agros is "desirable, the able eesle, so that we may pro- Majority, seem to me to lank dute at least in grostor part our the issue in a feeble farhion--so own sugar, nipoting, and alcohol foobla thai obsizsana" who and starchy fenit and n
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