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-MAY 22,
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
¿THE AIR RAID ON ENGLAND.
Warm Receptisa for Invading Gothas. -
London, May 20, All reports confirm that the raiders on London and the Sith But Chest were everywhere harassed by our airmen and gan fire, Searchlights greatly aided the gunders,
At one point the searchlights showed that one of our machines was parraing * Goths and machine gunning was heard during the intervals of the big guns. Then there was a burst of flame and the Goths crashed to the ground.
In another place, a formation of Gothae was seen onder our aeroplanes. Mahine-guncing was heard and then there wa great seb and a Goths asme down spirally, the ocon pant-jamping out before the machine smushed. 1 is reported that all were killed.
ارفی
There in great fatisfaction at the result of the raid, sepecially after the British raïding Cologne and relarning scatholes.
The Casualties.
London, May 20, The Press Baresu nubaunoms that the omusities in Sunday's sir raid in the London District were seventeen men, fɔurteen women and six children killed; and eighty-three men, forty-nine women and twenty-three children injured. In the Provinces, none were tilled, bat two men, three women and one child were injured. There was considerable damage to house-
property...
THE IRISH ARRESTS.
What Led Up to Them.
London, May 20. Correspondents at Dublin estimate that the arreats do not axceed one hundred, though the Times places the number at one hundred and fifty. Some seventy were deported to Euglsed on Baturday night and immediately taken to a rest camp on arrival at Holyhead, though the Countess Markievi was cent to London,
The Daily Telegraph Lobbyist states that the arrests are due to documents found on a man caught the coast of Ireland in a wollapsible boat, presumably from a German submarine. He is now in the Tower.
Evidence Being Prepared,
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London, Kas 20.
It is understood that evidence of complicity between the Sips Fein leaders and the enemy is being prepared and will be published
short
THE WESTERN FRONT,
A German Offcasive Foreshadowed,
London, May 20. "Beater's correspondent at the British Headquarters, telegraph ing on May 20, 1876 :-There wse mpob violent gun firing caring the night and it ontinues spasmodically. Today is one of the date mentioned in trench goerip as likely to witness a renewal of the German offensive, but we shall neo. A desling sky is moaning and droning with our machines. Saturday's Australian surges resulted in carrying forward our line at Ville-sous-Oorbieon, on a
front of two miles.
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WEDNESDAY,
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE EX-TSAR.
To be Brought to Moscow for Trial
London, May 20 According to Reuter's correspondent at Petrograd, it is sounced from Minoow that a Bolabavit Commissing, provided over by General Krylenko, has ordered the trisi of theez Tacim charges which include the exusing of the op d'etat the chewing of the electoral law of the Doms and illegally di-buring we an escort of Leitiab B in being sent to Tobolak fing the ex Tear to Moscow.
RUSSIAN DEVELOPMENTS,
fandy
London, May 20.
M. Leria Outlines his Foreign Policy. Soviets have prcolaimed Russian To kot na Republic is confirmed. Beater's correspondent at Petrograd says that the news that the
M. Lenin, resking at Petrograd, epitomised his foreigů policy. as follows Until a relation has hicken out in Western Europe we must manoeuvre, retreat and wait."
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Bolshev. Successes.
London. Hey 20,
A Constantinople telegrams etstes that Bolakevik troops hare captured Oarentkapoi and Petrovek,
Colonel Semenoff's Forces.
London, May 20.
It is reported from Manchoris the Colonel Semerf's Commacke have joined forese with Ühinees detachments.
Anarchist Movement Suppressed,
Loudon, May 20,
Moscow has been completely suppressed and that eighty anarchist It is officially announced that the anarchist movement in organisatione have been dissolved and over five hundred anarchista sirested. Order ass, re-established after severe gan fire, causing important damage.
GERMANY DEMANDS FOOD OF POLAND.
London, May 20.
Beuter's oprrespondent st. Zurich says that the Germans in and 30,000 pies, constituting one-fifth of the entire stock of the Occupied Poland have demanded delivery of 100,000 Lead of cattle counterfter the previous German requisitions.
CARE OF 'WOUNDED, HEROES.
Lrodon, May 20.
Ao inter-Allied Conference on after-the-aar e re of disabled
soldiers and silora has been opened in London. Delegates were present from England, Belgium, Fesnos, Italy, Pigal, Serbia, the United States, Sism, Csaada, Australis. New Z aland, South Afrios and India, Mr. Hodge, the Minister of P-nsions, presided.
The Duke of Connaught, in opening the Conference on behalf of His H-jaty, said they were all quited to bring light on the abiot and to disques all that is new and scientifically possible so alleviate the stringe sad heel the wounds of the brave and gallant men who bad shed their bleed for home and country.
LORD RHONDDA'S FUTURE.
London, May 20.
It is an erstood that Lord Rhondda hae consented to remain
Our Aerial Superiority.
London, May 19. Beuter's correspondent at the British Headquarters, writing under date of to-day, 8578 :~One of the most striking features of the present phase of the war is the superior skill of our sirmen, ån offiser pilot lately taken prisoner says this superiority is fully realised throughout the German Army and is regarded with grava coderrn, Food Controller. He added that the moral of the enemy Air Service is lower than it has ever been and the quality of the material supplied often shows griet deterioration. Many new machines are built with tubing and wira of poor quality, resulting in încreasingly freqzont misbapa. These damaged machines are went back to Germany, patched up used in instructional schools, renting in accidents. The pilot arrived at Constantinople, doubted whether thirty per cent. of the school aspirants ever get to the front, and eo great is the shortage of cfficers that private soldiers are being trained as observera.
Fide Australian Venture.
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Beferring to the Australians' capture of a mechine-gun-post to the west of Marlancourt, the correspondent says that the Australian patrol, with tunics off and sleeves rolled up, were not noticed until they were within a few yards of their quarry. Then with s regular Wallaby' whoop they dashed in, levelled their rfl a and told the garrison to pat ap their handa. Twenty-one pairs of Teutonio pave then easted with acanimons promptitate, and the
· party was marched to the A-s10 line, whilst a few Australiana took sharge of the machine-gun and trained the weapon in quite the opposite direction.
THE RECENT RAID ON COLOGNE.
London, May 20.
& correspondent at Amsterdam says it is reported that 25 were killed and 47 ir jured in the Allied air raid on Cologne, cabled an May 19 The bombe fell mostly in the centre of the city, causing rrible panic and considerable demege. Several buildings were wrecked.
BRITISH CORRESPONDENT EXPELLED FROM FRANCE.
-London, May 20, A Paris merangs says that Mr. Robert Dell, the Manchester Guardian's Paris correspondent has been expelled. A-Socialist Deputy, protection, attributes the expulsion to Mr. Dall's revelatiopa of the Foreign Affairs Committee discussions on Emperor Karl's Inster, mentioned on the 14th instant:
MORE TURKISH MASSACRES,
London, May 29.
Tiflis telegram of the 12th instant received in Petrograd tinted that poase pou parlors between the Caucas Diet and the Ottoman Government have broken off owing to the monstrous damkods of the Turks, who immediately began en -energetic cffensive along the whole "front and occupied the town of Van, muassaring the whole population.
AUSTRIAN ROYALTY IN TURKEY.
London; May 20.
Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Austria have
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
GERMAN TROOPS MUTINY.
Moscow, May 18.
A mutiny has occurred in the German regiments at Wesenberg, Eathonia. Several officers have been killed. The German High Command has sent trustworthy troops who arrested two hundred of the mutineers, ten of whom were immediately shot,
Another mutiny occurred in Gorman regiment Noi 375 ml Dyinsk which war prisoners returning from the interior of Russia supported
AMERICA'S EFFORT IN FRANCE.
London, May 21. Benter's correspondent at British Headquarters states: Parts of northern France have become almost suddenly taickly populated with American fighting, troops. Great American training camps and depots have sprung up at spots where two months ago only British-khaki was normally seen. The outstanding impression of the American organisation may be summed up in the word "Thoroughness." One is conscious at every turn of the resolve of the Bam- mies to fight till victory comes. Intensified training is tire- losely carried out in combination with British and French. Large formations are steadily being drafted to augment the Americans already in the fighting line and these are im mediately replaced by still larger, numbers."
ALLIED SUCCESS IN MACEDONIA,
London, May 20.
A Franch eastern communique states: French and Italians carried out on May 18th/17th a series of operations west of Korites, with the objects of reducing the very prominent salient forming the line of the enemy positions, alan "of extending the Allied front to better advantage. All the objectives were attained despite vary considerable difficulties owing to the nature of the ground in a mountainous trackless region and the vigorous resistance of the enemy who fre quently counterattacked. Our advance reached a depth of twenty kilometres in the centre.
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
STRANGE HAPPENINGS IN RUSSIA.
Heavy Fighing at Baku.”
Petrogra
The Germans have occupied Bjorko on the Gulf Finland, south of Viborg
The Soviet forces at Baku are in deadly conflict with the Mussulmans.” “A Moscow paper states that two gommand. ware killed and three thousand wounded - Farióthangärte of the town, including entire streets, and the Persian Bazaar, tre burning
emans Violate Peace Terris," ·
London, May 20,
A Bussian wireless message states: The Germans in the Beval region violated the boundary fixed on March 6 and advanced eastwards despite protests from the Russian commander. The Foreign Commissary requested the "with- drawal of the troops.
The White Guards at Helsingfors executed the Russia Fleet Commissary Jemtchajin on the pretext of his cun- ducting a revolutionary campaign among German marines. The German commander replied to the protests of the Rus sian Admiral that Jemtchujin had outlawed himself by Inciting mutiny. Consoquently his execution is exclusively
Hunnish affair.
Chaos in Ukraine.
London, May 20, A Russian wireless message states that General Skoro- padaki is declared an impostor in various places in Ukraine. His decrees are disregarded. The Peasants' Assembly at Kieff, numbering twenty thousand, was closed by the Ger mana. The population is exasperated. The district assemblies have decided to burn all bread and other provisions. Land- owners are declared outcasts Skoropadshi tas no troops except a bodyguard of a hundred. The country is groaning with hunger, misery and slavery. Everybody is endeavour- ing to free Great Bassia. Guerilla bands are being formed. Members of the Eads are regarded as traitors. Almost the whole population is armed Attempts to disarm them are resisted to the death Towns and villages are afame. The Germans are everywhere appointing their own oficials and exporting to Germany all the provisions they can seize.
Renewal of Hostilities Suggested.
London, Maz 20. Indications that the Germans are still advancing in South Buaria can be gathered from a Moscow message to Reuter of May 16 stating that the Russian evacuation of Kursk has begun. The railway traffic to the place is mill tarily supervised.tra 13.
The communist newspaper "Pravda" urges the speeding „up of enlarged preparations for the sanewal
and says the Bresthtorsk entr'acte is drawing to scio
The Royal Family,
Stockholm, May 18.
A message from Berlin atates: The Dowager Empress of Russia, the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Peter Nicolaivitch have been interned in Crimes. The Grand Dukes do garden- ing and the Grand Duchesser Olga and Xenis housework. Nicolas also teaches an infant school and all get soldiers' rations
GERMAN HUNT FOR THRONES.
Amsterdam, Mey 18.
The "Vorwaerts" says various German courts are most excited regarding the opportunities of obtaining a throne in the East Agente are journeying in all directions on behalf of competing claims as there are at most six thrones to distribute and the German dynasties number twenty-two. The "Vorwaerts" "suggests filling the thrones by Turkish Princes otherwise German unity will be imperilled.
THE NEW ENEMY ALLIANCE.
Amsterdam, May 18
A message from Vienas states that Count Burian has informed the newspaper "Azest" that the discussion at German Headquarters led to a complete understanding re- garding the basis of substantial deepening and extension of the alliance, which has now become an' imperative necessity in order to resist the, terrible embrace of the common chemies. The new alliance would be defensive and would show a united Austro-Germany, unbeatable.
SUCCESSES IN THE WEST,
London, May 9
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: All operar tion at Villes-sur-Ancre was completely successful, the Aus tralians carrying the German positions in and around the jillage, of which they took possession, with 380 prisoners and twenty machine-guna. Our casualties were light. We successfully raided a post south-westward of Meterem, in- flicting casualties.
Uur aeroplanes dropped nineteen tons of bombs on railway stations at Courtrai, Valenciennes, Aulnoye, foulers and Chaalnes, also on sarodromes, dumps and billete. The majority of air fighting occurred well eastward of the lines. We brought down twenty-one and drove down two. Eight British machines are missing. Flying was possible for only half the night owing to a thick mist, but ten tons of bombs were dropped on railway stations at Marcoing, Haubourdin, Doaai and Chaulnes and billeta in the neighbourhoods of Bapaume and Bray, also on railway works and the lock gates at Zeebrugge One of our machines has not returned,
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: We prisonered
a law in a successful raid on May 18 in the Albert sector We heavily repulsed an attempted enemy reid northward of Hinges. Hostile artillerying increased considerably during, the night on the Albert-Bucquoy front.
A French communique reports only intermittent artillery- ing north and south of the Avro,
A French communique says: There is fairly lively artill erying in the region of Hangard, south of the Arro.: Detach=” mente penetrated as far as the enemy's third trench-north- west of Rheims in the direction of Bermericourt, carried out much destruction and branght back prisoners and material,
Bouter's correspondent at British Headquarters repork,
•ns fellown: Our line has beau'sdvanced over useful ground in the direction of Dernancourt and considerable losses inflicted on the Germans of whom two hundred were taken prisone
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SPY STORY FROM GIBRALTAR.
Arrested for Carryi
Lette
vera arreeted r New York in connection. with alleged violations CE the United States mail, segulations One of the men war këne Fri- bourg, an importer; with efficosat 120 Broadway another wha [Gorgs Minnie, master of the 8 Izisu relief ateamer Lege; the toird was O bappe 8 Forroca,
Friberg and Mscore were ar. signed before Mr. Samuel Hitchcock United States Commis sioner, charged with violation of Action $7 of the United: Sisted criminal code, in "antewfally, wilfully, and felonious'y compi ing to commit sa a d‐nce agains the United States,” in trademitta ing letters to and from this (country outside the maile,
The complaint states that sinon August last the prisonnes have rontinuously been engaged in passing oʻmmunications betweON: this mouwý and› Holland. The
pro de charge concerns a later addressed to Ma Fribourg, 13 [Frankenstraat Toe Hagas,"
which in Alleged to have been sent on Jondary 13 of this yese,
· Foth princzern “waived exami- melia Fribourg was held in $2500 bail for the Federal grand fury: 3 Czotiá Majuro was held in only $100 bail, Mr. Julisan Hartridge, Assistant. Daited Statee Attorney;-; recommended Lihat the heit be nominal ra th shipmaster's case, so it was anderstood, he koaw nothing of the contents of the letters kn
1. Counsel for Fribourg mid that the letters wara perronki dompe manigations to and from
latter's sister, and that the last letter received by Fribourgwa: one in which she simply thanked bics for soms shoes he had', sent ber.
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Ferrors was arrested this morn ing on a vessel in the harbour, and arraigned before Mr. M2 F. MoGold. rick Uited States Oʻmmissioner, in Bror klyn He was charged wish bringing a letter into this country. in violation of the mail regala tions, and held without bail, st the request of Henry W. Bear. Assistant District Attorney.
After having a walk with" the man, Mr. B er said Ferrors had old him that at Gibraltar a United States destroyer had o me alongside his vormel. He had become friendly with an offo on the destroyer, and promised to bring a letter to this country: |to s’woman to whom, the offhose
was engaged.
According to Mr. Beer, the letter was indeed for the fiaDOSO of the naval cfficer, but it con.. |tained a diary, of the Choava
doingu, telling all the tricks and e devices to catch U bosin." It gave the routes used by American vesacle. The authori1ics do not know whether the communication iz genuine or whether it in: the work of a spy+4{
Hatbox Trick.
The recent etrangtvening af the Swiss Dostom frontier servios in giving excellent results. In the batbozes belonging to a well...": known Berlin fashion shop, whose representatives were returning to: Germany after a prolonged tou through Switserland, were found of sauenges, and a large quantity twelva hama, two hundred pounds
of butter, egge, and india ruk bar.
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