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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
DECISIVE BATTLE OF THE YEAR.
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
DECISIVE BATTLE OF THE YEAR,
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
“DECISIVE BATTLE OF THE YEAK,
TELEGRAMS.
(Becker's Berride to The “Telegraph."
THE SILVER MARKET.
London, Jans &
Terrible Hand-to-Hand Fighting..
Nearly 300 German Prisoners. Condon, Juve 10 FIERCE, HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING IN FRANCE.
**London, Juus 1Ļ. Beatar's correspondent at the French Headquarters, wri
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Esig reports that the total number the afternoon of the 10th instant, says :-*, Throughout the
ight and dermans to Contings Until Complete Victorý or Exhaustion:
London, June 11L. « morning the battle raged along the new front of attack with pasted of prisoners taken in a successful operation south af, Morlancourt
of which fire were officers
The silver market is s eady.. ▲ French communique mys:-The enemy last evening and fury. On the wings the enemy is still held on practically the mme
Signon Arrigo Bolte. “Good Work by Our AlemynLA
Londen, Jana ZL. `last night continusd his pressure in the direction of stress St. line, despite his persistent and reckless attempts to push on. On the
London, June 11.
Bomber's correspondente. Denis and Ribecourt. On the left our resistance was effective. The extreme right, Piemont, although almost in the first line, la pill
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, reporting on aviation, saya **** Milan announces the death of -enemy wse unable to capture Le Playson or Courcelles. We bolding out, the French garrison having beaten of sugaËTO WAYS
Dar airmen on the French battlefront, despite cloudy weather, Signce Arrigo Boito, the well recaptured the village of Mary at ten o'clock last night. The of German infantry. Mont Renaud is still ours.
In the centre of the battlefield, the enemy, by posting in fresh worked early and las dropping eight tons of bombs on troops, known post, composer and libret chief German fort is directed on the Belloy Macqueglise front: A power ful attack with large effectives succeded in driving us at battalione, penetrated deeper into our line, the fighting bring of the transports, ammunition dampe, guns and trenches. Direct hits ist. fret så før se Áronde, but a magnificent counter-attack threw back most bloody character, the French and German fighting hand to were obtained on the railway at Royes sur Mais and on concentrat the enemy on the whole of this front and restored our positions on the band over the raine of every hamlet and farm. The enemy's losses ions of infantry in the triangle from Montdidier, Ricquebourg Low fiera sohins ~ - gunned every target line south of Belloy Bt. Maur, south of Moqueglise and Vaadeli have been extraordinarily heavy. This time the element of surprise and Boye..
along :, the roads bebind the fighting line sourt. On our right fierce fights occurred in the wooded hille north has been absent, and the enemy's dense misses have been exposed offered of Dreslincourt. The enemy, who had socumlated great forces in to the fire of our machine-guns and artillery for the past thirty-six with an immense number of rounds, with good effect. We shot down in this ares six aeroplanes and brought down seven án- the region, has been able to reach Antoval, compelling us to carry hours,
The Germace had to semble behind the lines under our controllable. We lost two machines. There is little activity on our line of resistance west and south of Ribecourt.
counter preparation fire, which bad been sweeping the German rear the British front. Ons German seroplane was destroyed and one for three days before the battle. The enemy has eighteen or twenty driven down uncontrollable. We lost two machines. Night-ets Earl of Rese, H.-H. Lient for Divisions in the stacking line, the divisional front being two thous dropped seven tons of bombs on Cambrai and Bapaume. All the and yards behind the line. His reserves are ready to replace the machines returned. shattered Divisione. A prolonged and desperate struggle must be anticipated, also the poesibility of meeting the book of Hindenburg's disposable reserves before the enemy breaks off the battle,
The German Plan
London, Jaar 11.
We stormed
OBITUARY.
The Earl of Rosin..
*London, June 10, The death is sunenuded of the
London Juns
Beater's correspondent at the French Headquarters eays that
King's County and a Represent stive Peer for Ireland since 1911 daring the evening end night of Jane 10 the Germans attempted
A German Report.
London, June 11
He fought, in the Boer War and to enlarge the salient carred in our front by pushing forward both winge as well as the centre. On the left the enemy has not made
A German wireless official message states:A counter-attack had been wounded in the present progress and has been driven back in places between Mery and
The enemy, instead of weeping on victoriously, as in the first stopped the enemy's break-through on the Carbie-Brad Boad. We war. Vignemont, A megnificent counter-attack by native Africans, sap- ported by Tanks, enabled us to retake Porte Farm, west of the days of the Aiece battle, is advancing painfully yard by yard, pay. are fighting in the neighbourhood of Courcelles and Mery and have The Chinese Unrest (Delayed), Compirgan Rad with the high, ground north thereof and the ing the fall price for every step in the advance. The main effort is captured the ridge east of Mery, penetrating the fourth enemy According to Beaver's corre- neighbouring farm. We were checked and even thrown back on still in the centre towards the Oise, with object of turning the position and throwing back the enemy on Aronde. the right and in the centre. The Germans have thrown in fresh slient we hold in his line with the apex z Pont le Veque, on the the heights of quegline and Vignemaat Hill. We hare spondent at Shanghai, Northern masses on the left wing with a view to reaching the Oise.. The Oies, comprising Carlepont and Oarscemp forest in the angle in the advanced as far as Antheuit. We pressed forward south of the troops have devastated Hanan. Oise se far se Ribeosurt. The prisoners have increased by ten They burned down the town of country bere is wooded hills with deep ravines and lends itself bend of the river. readily to infiltration. Our troops were operating in a narrow belt between the enemy's advancing line and the Oise and ran the risk of being cut off by the enemy reaching the bank south of them. Accordingly they are being gradually withdrawn to the river where the enemy parening will find himself without over in an open valley under the fire of our artillery sad mschine gun".
The Decisiva Battle.
London, June 11
thonsand...
THE IMPERIAL WAR MEETINGS.
How the Work will be Apportioned,
Li Ling and sacked Packing. The German Bomber Destroyed...
contrast is moet marked between London, Jane IL.
the difficulty of the British Beater's correspondent at British Headquartera” – 8578 2-—---
Mission obtaining a guard, and big German botsbing machine
the Bu# Officer spontaneously patrol Lieutenant caught by our searchlight. He parsaed it, getting within twenty-
Loudon, June 10, pro ecting the Germans. Where five yards. He emptied the drum of his Lewis gun and sent the The first meeting of the Imperial War Osbinet will be held on ever the troops pass they spread machine down in fimes. This is the first occasion on which an enemy Jane 11, and the first meeting of the Imperial War Conference on rain, murder and repo. mschine has been brought down at night on this front by serial attack June 12, after which the meetings will be held on alternate days.
A British patrol of eight mechinse met and engaged a formation Mr. Lloyd George presides at the former and Mr. Walter Long of forty Germant, four which were want crashing to earth, while a
HOLMES,
Banter's correspondent at the French Hesdqgarters, writing on Monday evening, ways that in the course of the day the surmy, at fifth staggered off out of control. The remainder were driven, off presides at the latter. The War Cabines will have full powers to DEATH OF MR. THOMAS
discuss sad decide on matters concerning the war, while the Con- immense cost, succeeded in pushing his advance from a mile to Our airmen, co-operating with the French on the Aisce Front, are ference will be largely concerned with the later problems arising thres cailes deeper in our front. At Macqueglice, the southern- doing an admirable work. On June 9 they fired thirty thousand font of the war. Several Oversees Ministers visited Mr. Lloyd George, most point of his salient, he is about seven miles from the starting rounds and dropped three hundred tone of bombe on exy troops Mr. Bonar Law and Mr. Walter Long yesterday. point yesterday morning. The fighting is of almost unprecedented and transport. fary. The Garmsas continue to attack in ecmpset masses which “are mown down by gun fire. Others and still others follow when
Heavy German Lasses Explained.
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London, Jane 11.
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War Situation Explained.
Wer Cabinet Mosts.
London, June 11 The first meeting of the Imperial War Cabinet for 1918 com menced at noon to-day: The Premier welcomed the delegates and stuerwarda entertained them at lunch,
London, June 11. the position is finally taken by the enemy, and, so often sa not, The Daily Chronicle's correspondent on the French front aaye: It is understood that at to-day's meeting of the Imperial War promptly retaken by the French. In these counter-attacks the Owing to the heavily fortified Allied front now being attacked, and Cabinet Mr. Lloyd George explained at great length the whole wor French invariably and the ground littered with German dead often knowing that no surprise is obtainable, General von Elatier han situation. The chief enbject at to-morrow's meeting of the Imperial lying in heaps. A little height called Piemont, south of Laesigny, been compelled to throw in new forces at a greater rate then in the War Conference will be the arrangement of the agenda. must be paved with enemy dead. It was held by dismounted previous stages of the offensive. This is the reason of the immensity cavalry, and the last despatch runners who got through from of the German lose. Plamont before ita fall, says that they themselves zaw fourtes unsuccessful German attacks on the Hill. There were others after they had left and it is estimated that the Germans engaged from twenty to thirty divisions up to the evening. The enemy's advance is so slow that he is able to bring up light artillery while the heavy guns are still firing from the old positions. The artillery strength is socordingly practically equal, although the French is more effo tive, being on familier ground. The fierceness of the fighting and the inflexible determination with which the enemy accepts the shocking losses show that he is determined to continue until com plate victory or complete exhaustion. The decisive battle of the year is engaged.
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A Successful Australian Effort.
Loadon, Jana 11- Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a commanique, states :— The operation carried out by the Australians was a complete succees on the night of Jane 10 in the neighbourhood of Morlanwart. The line south of the village was advanced to a depth of nearly half-a- mile over a mile and a half front. Prisoners captured numbered 233, and twenty-one msobine guns and a trench mortar were also captured. We successfully raided during the night north-west of Morlancourt, south of the Scarpe, and east of Nieppe Forest, captar ing prisoners and two machine guns and inflicting a timercas casual ties, The enemy raided a poet in Avelay Wood. One British soldier is missing. There was active artillery and a gas-shall attack during the night west of Lene.
Splendid American Schemes,
CONSCRIPTION.
London, June 11.
Famous Court Missionary and Authority on Criminals.
The death has coourred, at the age of 73, of Mr. Thâmas Holmes, the popular police court mision.
Pathos and romanos are blend❤: ed in the life of Thomas Holmes, |who spent 21 years in the courts, and for whom many a criminal to day has a word of appeciation.
Born at Pelsall, near Walsall, of Suggested Application to Europeans in Egypt.
poor parents, be worked as a irongoulder until he was 41. His In the House of Commons, replying to Esel Winterton, Lord two objenta in life were learning Bobert Cecil promised that the suggestion to codecript Allied and and philanthropy, and after his British civilians in Egypt and the Sadan, would be immediately hard day's work he would devote considered. Regarding the question to conscript more Egyptians, himself to the "edunstion of his Lord Robert said the Government were advised that it would be fellow-workers in evening classes inadvisable at present to withdraw or amend the Proclamation of and at the Sunday tobool, November 11, 1914, by which Britain assumed the whole burden of the war as far andagypt was concerned. Recruitment in Egypt there. fore remained voluntary. A thorough recruiting campaign was operating with creditable results.
THE IRISH PROBLEM.
A Danger Pointed Out.
AMERICAN- TROOPS IN FRANCE,
The Enemy's Objective.
London, Jane 10.. Beater's correspondent at the French Headquarters, telegraph- ing on Jane 13, says that the scene of the latest cffensive in the
London, June 11, wooded hilly ground biseated by the River Msts, which, flawing -The Times, in Bo suthorised description of the work of the south, joins the Oise at Montmcq. The enemy's principal progress! Americans in France during the past eleven months, says: They yesterday was along the course of the Mats. His first object probably have rapidly been completing the longest and greatest scheme of was to reach the Oise and thereby take in flauk the whole of the communications ever used in warfare. After a fortnight of solid French eslient north of the Oise, which might result in car withdrawal travel I am convinced that what the Americans have accomplished to the south bank. Supposing the enemy's objective is Paris, he will rank in history as one of the greatest achievements of the war,
Unlikely to Come Before Imperial Conference.
London, June 11. would naturally begin by thrusting a powerful tentacle south For instance, out of the waste lands adjacent to za old French port westward down the Oise Valley and another westward from the they have constructed a splendid line of modern doeke where The Daily Chronicle saya ----It is now improbable that the Irish Oarge line, thereby encircling the vast maes of Aigle, Compeigne ships are now daily discharging war material, cars and machinery, question, as suggested by General Smuts, will be embmitted to the and Villers Cotterete forests, which, being impregnable to frontal A huge new warehouse system at this point is nearing com Imperial War Conference, The signs are that both Home Bule and attack, the enemy probably intends to paes north and south thereof, pletion, in addition to motor parke, cold-storage plants, and railway Irish Conscription will be side-tracked.. bringing the tentacles together. This plan of the enemy's is over yards with tracks aggregating 200 miles. In the ear assembly shop, ambitions and impossible of accomplishment. As soon se this steel care are being sesembled at the rate of a complete train daily.
London, Jace 11. impossibility is realised, the enemy's forta will probably be directed Work is rapidly proceeding for a new 20,000 bed hospital, the Sir George Reid, in a letter to the Morning Post, expresses the 10 Amiens or towards Calais. Meanwhile, his battalions are being largest yet constructed. There is also an immense artillery camp opinion that the submission of the Irish question to the Conference deplesed in constant fighting from Noyan to Chatean Thierry and dad remount camp where I saw several thousand horses. These would go far so destroy the most valuable asfeguard to Imperial from Vermenil to Bheie. Hie res ves of manhood are declining.port schemes have been so worked out that they are capable of anity and harmony." Out of two hundred prisoners taken in the first few days of Jane, almost unlimited expansion which will be most important in pooling over one-fourth belonged to the 1919 Olass, and Class 1920 has the Allied effort, for the American base porte may easily become the made its appearance in the battlefold, among the prisoners captured main reserve centres distributing to rail hende everywhere on the at Bligny being a considerable proportion of lads from this Class, front. Conditions wore the same along hundreds of miles of Ameri
can communications I visited..
--- The German Gains,
London, June 11- Benter's correspondent at the French Headquarters, writing on June 9, states:In the centre the Germans succeed in outting an obluse salient out of our line with its farthest points Repsons sur-Matz. Their gain consists of a belt of ground twelve bandred yards deep, which they will be able to batter with heary At a conference ofTM women workers in London, Men. Ogilvie According to Reater's correspondent Paris, the well-known trench artillery. There is nothing discouraging about the Gordon, presiding, said that large-numbers of women and girls military critic, M, Beori Bidoa, writing to the Journal des Debate, results of the first day's fighting. The enemy's method employed in war work would wish to find fresh fields of work in the bases his hope of Alied success on the stupendous wastage of of attack was the same as on March 27, namely, a heavy gas Dominions after the war. Lord Darnham said the Government German effectives, In the first two offensives in 1918 the enemy bombardment lasting four-and-a-half hours, followed by go attack should interest itself more in emigration, especially the employed the equivalent of 200 Divisions. He threw in the in closely massed formstions in grest strength, with the object of of women, which had been much neglected. There would, be a equivalent of a farther 53 Divisions in the cffensive commencing on sweeping our line before the defence organisations could take effect. surplus of women labour after the war. Women should insist upon May 27 and a further fifteen in the present attack M. Bidon The denseness of the enemy's formation was greater than the representation on the Emigration Board, which, was really an im- maintains that this prodigious effort cannot be kept ap indefinitely, previons attacks. His loepss, must be extraordinarily has for the pacial organisation. Thate should be greater cohemon among Til badgration societies, irrespective of their samaótion with any, par- He calculated that we are approaching the time when the German guss had him at their mercy and did terrible
siantar dominion, Emigration would be an important razrged any Army will have is schel a state of dangerous fatigas which will anxious daya are sheai. It is certain the an
demobilisation scheme after the wazi ~ 2 synchronise with the final prepare incas of Ameriese young and extremely bitter Ight for it, but he is payin vigorous Army which is thirsting for sation:
Enemy's Use of Tanks.
Londor, Jane 11.
According to Reater's correspondent at Paris, there is a slight advance of the enemy in the direction of Compiegne, due to the enemy'e large number of tanks, which car artillery did not succeed in destroying in time.
Wastage of Enemy Effectives.
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London, June 11-
kilometre
London, June 11: According to Reuter's correspondent at Washington, Mr. Biker, addressing a delegation of French Alpini, said that over 700,000 American soldiers had beery sent to France..
EMIGRATION AFTER THE WAR.
WapLondon, June 11.
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emigration
Disabled by su socident, Mr. Holmes was compelled to seek other work. He was advised to apply for the post of court mis- sionary at Lambeth Police Court, then vacant. He repaired the appointment, and devoted the next twenty years of his life 'tɔ work among criminals of every description.
he wa
In 1995 Mr. Holmes retired from the police courts to become secretary to the Howard Associa tion for the reform of prisons and criminal law. As s'oriminalist was world-famous. At the same time he possemed a sym- pathetic insight into the life of those unfortunate: creatures who“ are unable to escape from the chains of the underworld.
Mr. Holmes could tell samas of the most grimly pathatic stories not only of the underworld but of the Bohemian life of London. He was a man who had talked with murderers and knew their psychology, while there' was wary little that hat could mot destzibe of the struggles af poor
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