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-June 20, 1917,
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BRITISH OPERATIONS IN FRANCE.
Interesting Sidelights on Our Strategic Plans.
London, June 19.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig has issued a deepsteà aɔvering the operations from Nembar 18 to the commemosment of the present offensiva.- Tais akorda g-osanected, story sad is a valuable. historical record elucidating much tust wanhitherto obscure, revealing the strategic plane behind the apparently isolated attacks and raidů which continued throughout the winter, and showing all as fitting in with a comprehenairs and systemitic schems in order to prepare "a favourable situation for the Spring advanos.
(Beater's Sarries to The “Telegraph.”).
THE WAR AND HORSE-RACING.
Arranging a Mininkum Programm 8.
London, June 19. "A deparation of the Jockey Club-will-te-miotrow anhmit to the Premier proposals for the minimum rading asceseazy to prosstys. horse-breeding.
sight further days racing at Newmarket during the current year.
The Times states that a compromise is probable, permitting
BRITISH TREASURY BILLS.
London, Jane-19.
DUTCH EDITOR'S SENTENCE QUASHED.
London, June 19.
Owing to the Scams battle, the enemy in the region of the Andre Valley had been foread into a pronounced malinat between the Ancre and Soarpe Valleys. Therefore a further short advance would give command of the Basamɔni Hemel'apur, and, socording- ly, an attack was delivered against the defences overlooking the The daily sales of British Trossary Bills have been retamed. villages of Pys and Grandcourt on November 18. The obl001 was Today's raise for three months and six months are at four-sad-a. to ad fs000 within assaulting dissoos of the La Transloy-Lonpart half per cent, discount. Weekly tendere of the Bills have been line. Fim thecsand-yards of valu (ble positions were soquired, but | discontinued. the wasthar then held dy the operations until January, "when" the whole sper was captured, and we advanced a thousand yards up Bsausouch-Valley, with exceedingly light osanaltine. Owing to the close and skilful co-operation: between the infantry and the artillery, and fins sircënit work, the possesion of the high ground opened Beater's correspondent at Amsterdam stated that the High Court up an extensiva artillery field, and further sucessos on February 3 at the Hague has quashed the sentence of three months' imprison- and I gave us an important asotion of the German second linement passed on Herr Schroeder, the editor of the Telegraaf, on a north of the Anore, making the ersonation of Grandogurt inevitable. charge of endangering Holland's neutrality. The ouse will be re-tried
The next task was to drive the enemy from the Beanaourt by another Court. Valley, which was bagar um February 2, when we captured 1,500 yards of trenshoe lying at the southern foot of Serre Hill. This made the village of Serre a pronounced enemy salient, and further progress in the Anors Valley would have made it anteasble. Therefore the largez operation was begun with a view to sequizing the northern extreuity of Miraumont and observation of the Upper Anore Valley. Simultaneously a smaller attack, designed to expture the sunken road north of the Anore, which santrolled the western approach to Miraumont, was mide. Daring the night of February Flight Sab.-Lieut. Oliver B. Ellis, B.N. 17, assmulta wega delivered, and, despite the heavy ground, thick mist and an slect sasmy who kept up a barrage, fre, the troops amanlted with ginst gallantry.. We rucceeded sad sampletely grined the desired observations, also command of the enemy artillery positions in the Upper Angg Valley and his defences of Pysand Micautiont. Our sabenqueat bombardments, ne anticipated, forced the evacuation of Pru and Mirsamant on Fabr¤iry 24. Or the following day, poskims from north of Gadscourt to the west ~ of Berrs were exptarad. ---
* The weather favoured the enemy retirement. A thaw broke ng the roads, siden of the trenches collapsed and the soquired ground became worse than a quagmire. On the contrary, the roads bəbind "the enemy improved the farther by withdrew, and a succession of misty days prevented a rapid paraait. Consequently, it is greatly to the oradit of all ränk that dɔnatual touch with the enemy was maintained.
NAVAL CASUALTIES.
London, June 19,
The following naval casualties are announced ;- MissingFlight Sab.-Lesat. Langley F. W. Smith, RN. Wounded, Engineer Bab. L'eat. Hagh Kerkland, B.N.B- Previously reported mining, now unofficially reported killed.---
THE WESTERN OFFENSIVE,
German Army is a Difficult Position.
London, June 19.
The difficult position of the German Army, which the British have pushed back from the plateau of Moines, is keenly discussed in Paris, where there is speculation sa to what the enagy is to do. It is pointed out that the German are hampared in their movements by the Ypres Canal and the Lys River, and their rear dia only ba supplied and reinforced by bridges, which are under British fire.
Is inħolieved that the Germina will be forced to retire to another line of defence, and are already preparing therefor. In a reoeut engagement, the German rearguards were intended to form a sreen, which was penetrated when the enemy rearg aard was driven Continuous and spatematio advances drove out the enemy from in between Bollebeks and Warnston. Tas Bruich ́ baye sicce “suossesive positione until”March 2, when we reached the Lanccessfully stacked in the neighbourhood of Kleinxillebeke, which Tranaloy-Liapart line,, except at Iries, which formed a salient. is the pivot of the New German zotrest behind the Lys, chowing Seven daya waza khen devoted to improving communications and that the British have detected the move. bringing up guns, and on March 10 Irlas was captured. Our casualtion were laws than the prisoners, who numbered 288. The way was thes opened for attacking the Ls Traseloy-Loupart line,
· which was phelled staff otirely on March 11 sad 12 that the enemy fell back to paesilel lines, whereupon Grivilliers and Loupert wood were occupied and methodical operations begun for attacking the sext line.
U. S. EXPORTS.
To be Controlled be the Government,
London, June 19. Renter's correspondent at Washington says that the Grrerament ha elaborated plans to control exports, first dealing with cost and Boondly with whest.
Prior to this, where there were indications that the German withdrawal would farther extend, is had been ascertained that he had been preparing a new defensive system, known as the Hinden barg Line, ranging from Arras south-eastwarde to Qassat, sud It is believed that no coal will be allowed to be exported to say theace west of Ombrai towards 8. Quentin, various switches atral which refused to farmish Great Britain with ore, while the branching of this line also be.ng constracted. The enemy's control of coal will be aned to regalate shipments of food from immediate concern appeared to be to escape from the salient neutrale to Germany.
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between Arras and Le Transloy, which had become increasingly It is stated that the Government is refusing to permit cargoes difficult to hold. It was also evident, however, that the enemy leave Americ in ports for neutral oanntries which retain ships in contemplated eventually the evacuation of the greater, salient harbour. between Arras and the Aiane Valley.
*The despatch then deals in detailed manner with the operations between April 14and April 19, în which the Allies gained possession of Chaqlnes, Bapsome, Peronse and numerous villages from which the enemy had "etreated.
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By April 19, the advance had reached a stage at which the incressing difficulty of maintaining the communications compelled a slackening in the pace of the parsuit. To the south of Paronne, the lack of bridges, which the enemy had destroyed, presented a formidable obstacle, while to the north of Peronne a wide belt of devastated ground, over which the Sɔmme battle had been fought, oketed even greater difficultise to the passage of guns sad transport. ** We were advancing, therefore," the despatch, says, over country "in which all means of communication were destroyed against an enamy whose Army was still intact and capable of launching & vigorcas offensive," should favourable opportunity occur. Strong detachments of his infantry and oavalry occupied vantage -pɔints slong the line of our advaros, keeping the enemy informed of our progress and reconning his own movements. His gun had already, withdrawn to previously prepared positions and available at any moment to cover and support a counter-stroke, while the conditions of the country across which we were moving made the progrene of our artillery slow. The balk of the enemy's forces were known to be holding a formidable defense system upon which he could fall back should his counter-stroke miss sim. On the contrary, as our troope moved forward they loft 'all- the prepared defences farther behind, and in soch cireumatanosa cantion was obrious. Meanwhile, despite the enormous difficulties which the condition of the ground and the ingenuity of the enemy placed in our way, the wo k of preparing and constructing bridges, roads and wailways was carried on with most commendable rapidity."
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The despatch piccõeds to describe how the enemy resistenos increaved as we neared the Hindenburg Line, emphasising the great costlines of many of his counter-attacki, particularly in attempta to recover Beamers les Cambrai. Speaking of the outstanding festurse of fire months of fighting from November 18, Field Marshal Bir Douglas Haig says that, despite the unusal soverity of the weather, the winter campaign was conducted to a macenful inmue MLOGEI SHOW TIMBANG MOR, ATO HOUS Conditions,“
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THE WESTErn offensiVE.
British Gain Further Ground.
London, June 18.
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Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: We took twenty-one prisoners this morning during the enemy's failure to regain his positions on Infantry Hill Our troops gained ground slightly in the direction of Warneton. All day long there was mutual artillery firing in the neighbourhood of Lens and to the north of Armentieres. The air-fighting yesterday. was again in our favour. We brought down ten Germanaszoplanes and five othem were driven down. Two of ours are missing.
French Capture a Trench System.
London, Jene. 19.
A French communique states: There has been marked artillery activity in the region of Laffaux, at Pantheon and Craone in the Chevreux sector. We captured a system of trenches forming a salient in Champagne on a front. of five hundred metres and took forty prisoners. The Germana continue causalessly to bombard Rheims into which two thousand shells were thrown to-day. One civilian was killod and three were injured.
'A WARNING TO SHIP CHARTERERS,
London, June 18.
The Minister of Shipping warns those arranging to charter British vessels after the war that he is. mable to give any assurance that national requirements will permit them to do so..
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RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
An Allied Conf«rence Suggüsted.
Petrograd, June 17, The Provisional Government has pubhabad, a Note sve- gesting an Allied conference with the object of rising the war aim agreemente excluding the London agreement, the signatories of which agreed not to conclude's separate peace.
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A Minister's Speech.
Petrograd, June 18.
At the General Congress of the Soldiers' and Workmen's
the Delegates,
Minister
of Posts and Telegrapha said the Government desired to hasten the conclusion деж treaty in which the principles of Bassian democracy would be recognised as the Allies-in- tamational policy. He enjoined a consolidated programme which would avoid a rupture with the Allies and declared that a separate peace would destroy the ranits of the revolution and bring Russia into a new war alongside the German coalition. The Minister pointed out that the inac tivity on the war front had enfeebled the revolution. The Army should be ready to advance.
sive.
M. Lenin attacked M. Kerensky's appeal for an offen-
M. Kerensky followed and said M. Lenin's 'doctrine was Marriam misinterpreted. M. Lenin's advocacy of fratern- isation at the front suited the German Staff.
The Congress, excluding the Extremista, gave an ovation to M. Kerensky.
A Cruiser's Crew and the Peace
Cranks.
London, June 19
The Secretary of the Socialist Party wrote on 14th Jung to Captain Ketlinsky, commanding the Russian cruiser " Askold, asking him to convey Mr. Ramsay Macdonald sad party to Russia.
Captain Ketlinsky replied that the request had been. discussed at a conference of all the officers and men of board and it was unanimously decided that their duty was only to act in accordance with their Provisional. Govern- ment's orders, but as the whole of the cruiser's erew considered that the war must be prosecuted to victory and to the destruction of Prussisa militariam and, as consequently. they did not desire to carry deputies favouring an žurnediata peace, he, Captain Ketlinsky, declined to take any initia tive in the matter.
THE SITUATION IN GREECE.
London, June IS.
A French eastern communique states that the British air service has successfully bombarded Tumba railway station and several marition dumps. Our troop movemente in Thessaly continue.
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All the communes in the neighbourhood of Larissa and Volo have spontaneously supported the Venizelist Govern- ruent and are installing new civil authorities.
AMERICA AND JAPAN.
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THE CHINESE
rinsed to come to Anchunu are calli Convention Provisional -Gavis Dictator acting Promise
Southern Oppseltion.
According to R÷Ric&.00 pondent at New York, the Chin National League, which politically represented by Southern ProvinACOR, KAN KOS
& colla, forsehadowing
· SİTA opposition Government be Provinces.
THE SILVER KARKET.
London, Juma 18., Silver is quoted at 3911 per on. There is a scarcity of offeringe and the market is Arm.
|GERMAN PEACE TERMS,
A Cash Jodemulty Unnecemary, Copenhagen, "May-9. -- Tha Bavarian Staate Zeitung, the samf official Bavarian- newspaper, the personal organ of the Premier, Count Hartling, publishes an in- spired, article denying the zoo88- sity of Germany's demanding a csub indemnity sa one of her peson Feonditions. Count Hersline bas |jart | enturned: fram sa an
to Vienna, where he had soufar. ander with Emperor Charles and Foreign Minister, Count Czernin. The German newspapers olaim, that these conferences intended to find a common ground between Count Czwnin's sagge- | tions of pesos without annata tíam
and Chano Ulor: von BahmanE- Hallweg's pesos programme, “
The article in the Staoca Zeitung it regarded, in view of the circumstances, an important, sa reflecting the idene of the Beta- rian Prime Minister." It suggeste that an agreement to supply pended raw materiale at a low price, or perhape-free, might be berees for the same period the uberitate for cash in importa from Japan mounted up]demnity,"
The writer. goos o $107,355,897, a grand total of on to declare that an agree- trade of more than $158,000,000, ment to përmit German trade This was the year immediately on its former terms in the ald preceding the great war. Daring markets, the return of German In recognition of the growing 1915, the fist full year of the ships, and the surrender of Ger- importance of Japan as a market international struggle, in which men colonies would be the for American merchandise and in Japan wae & party, the total equivalent of billions of 104 order to foster and promote more exports from the United States demnity. intimate trade relations between to Japan dropped to $41,517,780," Ia omalasion, the article dhar the United States and the Far while the imperis brought into clares that the war, has com East, Mr. Fisok Butter, formerly the United States from Japan Germany sixty billion". markm, à Baietant cbie of the Bureau of amounted to 93 881,638. Raw sum so small "in -comparison the total estimated Foreign and Domestic Commerce, ilk constituted the largest single with
New Commercial Attache Appointed.
was recently appointed commer item in the Icng list of articles wealth of 875 billions, and a cial Autsche to Tokyo. An official xported by Japan to the United anuasl increase of ten billions, statement sayE:****
Statem, $71,344,000 in 1914, and that the. Empire can well afford The early departure of Hr $58 804,000 in 1915, while raw to drop the demand for in- Butler to the Far East direct outon held a like predominance demnification; King Ladwigʻa attention new to Japan among the articles of merchandise declaration at Strasburg that market for American merchandise exported from United States to Germany in still ́willing to on- and especially the need of close: Japan in retard, $24,145,000 in alude an honourable pasos, if given +and more intimate relations 1914, and $20,238,000 in 19. eoncity against the repetition of between the two countries. Japan As for Japan's status as a so stick by half the world, is is not only one of the first Power world Power in the domain of also interesting in this connection. of the Globe, bat in a commercial commerce, this is well known to It shows the spirit in which Gonat and industrial sense is a wondersil who keep in touch with the in- Bertling, who is also chairman of of the world in respeck to record wroational trade eitustion. In the Bandeirath Committee on achievement and general pro- 1915, 3 span's exports exceeded Foreign Affairs, will enter the gress. This is manifestly truser imports by approximately deliberations of that Committee when it is considered that fity $85,000,000, while in the frat when it meste today." years ago the Empire was anff of 1918 the exports exceeded comparatively obscore princi- the imports, according to prelim
than pality, whereas to lay, it is a mary report, by
the grest Empire with an aggregate $40,000,000. Eigland; of foreign trade reckoned by United States, and China are handrede açon hundreds of Japan's chief customers, America millions Ladeed, in this reapedsking about one fifth of the its record of advancement in moi|sggregato.
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to be spproached by say cthe in recognition of this situation country in the world's commer and the unquestioned probability cial history
khet this trade will continue to This is strikingly attested by inoreese, the Bureau of Foreign the extent of trade between Japan and Domestic Commerce some | graph and the United States. In 1914, ims ago decided to dispátok a for the year ending Jane 30, the special representative to Tokyo în aggregate of merchandise ex-the form of a Commercial Attache, ported from the United States to and Mr Batter was chosen Ibe --Taden amonated to "351,205,520, the tack.”
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