1915-06-08 — Page 6

TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1915.

BY TELEGRAPH.

THE PROGRESS OF

THE WAR.

BRITISH AVIATOR SMASHES A ZEPPELIN IN MID-AIR.

NAVAL BATTLE IN THE

BALTIC.

SIX HOURS' GANNONADING.

SEVERE FIGHTING IN FRANCE.

SUCCESSFUL RAID ON A GERMAN AIRSHED.

(Router's Service to the China Mail.)

NAVAL BATTLE IN BALTIC.

SIX HOURS' CANNONADINO.

Russian Mines" Damage Garman Warships.

- Jostor, June 7, 1:40 ̊ p.m. Renter's Petrograd correspondent amgunces that Russian subrunzines, are reporter to have approached a squadron of German destroyers pre- eding battleships in she Gulf of liga., The Germans retired on the advance of the Russian Fleck, and afterwards Gurman hydroplanes made i

oritizely abortive attack, being driven off by Russian artillery,

The German fleet re-approached the Russian shares yesterday, and was attacked by submarine

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The Russians alen laid wines in the route taken by the ending, with | the result that there deman warships are known to liave been sink or damaged, a

A SIX HOURS' BATTLE.

A Stockholm message states that there has been a battle in the Bakic. The enfording insted six longs, quid twenty shots were heard every ninate for a long time,

TRANSPORT SUNK.

A subearing sank a transport as Yenisei. Thirty-two people were

saved.

APPALLING EFFECT OF POISONOUS GAS.

THE GERMANS SMARTLY REPULSED.

THE CHINA MAIL.

BY TELEGRAPH.

BRITISH AVIATOR'S SMART WORK

ZEPPELIN EXPLODED ÄT 'A HEIGHT OF 1,000 FEDE

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BY TELEGRAPH.

· Reuter's Service to the China Mall,“

COTTON TRADE DISPUTES.

Settlement Probable.

Lossos, Fane 7.5 p.m..

The interview between the cardroom Aut At three o'clock in the morning. Flight Sub-Lieutenant R. Wane-workers and Sir George Askwith, re ford attacked a Zeppelin hetween Chient and Brussels at a height of presenting the Board of Trade, openest [8,000 feet uml dropped sis' bombs.

with a promising prospect that the cat ton lockout will be averted. Several sections of the cotton industry held meetings on Saturday to discuss the situation and at each a hopeful feeling prevailed.

The Zeppelin, which esploded, tell to the ground and burned for | considérable time.

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The force of the explosion caused the monoplane to turn. turtle but the pilat sternlod in righting the machine and he had to make a fareed landing in the stemy's untry.

He was able to realärt the engine and returned safely,

A ZEPPELIN ON THE EAST COAST.

Loynoy, June 7. The Admiralty annourers that a Zeppelin, visited the east coast of Enghaud yesterday night and dropped - incendiary bombw, causing two fires which resulted in five deaths.

Forty others were injured.

SUCCESSFUL ATTACK ON A GERMAN

AIRSHIP SHED.

LONDON, June 7, 4.10 p.m.

The Admiralty staten that early this morning Flight Lieutenants. J.- P. Wilson and J. S. Mills dropped bombs on an airship shed at Evere, rotth of Brussels. The shed was observed to be in flames bub it is not known whether thers was n Zeppelin inside. The flames rise to a great height...

Both pilots returned safely.

HEAVY FIGHTING IN FRANCE.

LONDON, June 7, 4.35 p.in.

The battle around Arrus' continues favourable to the Frenchmen. A communique speaks of the artillery duel yesterday night as one of extreme intensity.

The Gormans counter-attacked at the Sanchez' rofinery and were defeated by the French artillery.

Another counter-attack, north of the Labyrinth, was repulsed by infantry.

The French made new progress particularly in the Tabyrinth.

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'THE KING OF GREECE.

LONDON, Tana 7,

The removal of a portion of one of the King's ribs was to allow the exit of pus." following pleatis.

NEWS FROM HOME.

(From Our Own: Correspondent,

Louton. April 30.

AMOSO THE SPIRITS, After all the talk of probibition. the Government's decision, to rely chiefly ou hoary duties and surtaxes on spirits, heavy bears and wine, to cope with the drink difficulty, has provoked something like a revulsion of feeling. But as Mr Lloyd George remarked, everybody sccepted the facts and agreed that the problem should be tackled till they heard what the romedica were and docotless there are others

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the Chancellor who have vowad Fulitically never to touch drink again.". It is indeed a thorny sabject, and even now, after all their care and anxiety to

void barting anybody's feelings, they have renaad the Trishmen as hotly na though they had thrust their hand inse à horse's test It is an attack on an Irish Industry, Brian dadares that Cork might as well says Mir Redmond, while Mr Willar bo bombarded and sacked by the Germans.

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und at Lorette. We also made a night attack on Heruterne, capturing Chanced to the taxes proposed by the i

two successive lines of trenches over a front of 1.200 metres, taking prisoners and some quick-firem,

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the French, despite riolent conflicts, kept all their guins.

The Germans counter-attacked last pight north of the Aisne, but

THE DARDANELLES STRUGGLE.

BRILLIANT WORK OF THE TERRITORIALS.

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The following concludes the Press Eurena's appouncemen: regarding the most recent operations in Gallipoli :-

The Territorial Division in the Centes did brilliantly, "advancing 600 yards and capturing three lines of trenches, bas though the advanced captured trench was held all day and half the ensuing night, they had to be ordered back in the morning to the second captured line, as both fanks were exposed.

The Naval Division on the right of the Centre captured a redoubt and formidable line of trenches is three tiers, 300 yards to their front, but they too, had to be withdrawn owing to a heavy enfilade fire,

TROOPS GALLANTRY.

The French Second Division advanced with greas gallantry and elas and ratook for a fourth time a deadly redoubt called Le Haricot," but the Turks developed heavy counter-attacks through prepared communication trenches and, covered by accurate shell fire, recaptured it.

On the French extreme right the Franch captured a strong line of trenches which, though heavily counter-attacked twice during the night, they still occupy

The prisoners include five Germans, the remains of a volunteer machine data dhateng from the Gosen. Their oficer was killed and the machine

Losbox. June 7, 25 pan.". Beuter's Petrograd correspondent states that every living thing in an enormous area suffered by the first application of the German poi- son gas in the Rawitar region. Hardly an animator food was left alive, gun and numbers of women and killed. The horses of the gun was destroyed. Russian haggage trains stampeded or were killed.

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A reserve regiment which mushed up with muffled fares saved the 'situation. The Geimanns, who were advancing gally to the capture of the Russinus, „Were surprised by an appalling fire, and were repulsed:

THE SUBMARINE'S VISIT TO CONSTANTINOPLE,

AN EYE-WITNESS' DESCRIPTION.

TURKISH CASUALTIES HEAVY.

Maybe shall all get used to it, a wa have to other things if the taxes are agreed to which is by no means certain. To those who can afford it, the hardship will be small, for I happen to know the big stores have done £30,000 worth of business every week over the normal in the wine sa spirit department during the past month or so. From a member of the wholesale, rade I have, received many diverting stories of his correspondanes since tion was first mooted. One of the mildly the country funny ones of a dear old lady

if they looked back their books who wrote to a certain store and they would find she had bought a bottle every now and again, and this worked out strictly at a teaspoonful four thuses a

day. She desired to know whether she could have a cask went down of Lor favourite the statistician of the Brm. in question to blend, and she 'directed tba attention of

the fact that she expected Jive tea more, and the Tantity of spirit thus order. wont to a point just covering that period The doar old lady now has her cask, and ber nightean is secure, in spite of interfer ίας

Chancellors.

BINGĀ.

NUBARA IN PYJAMAS, helping our gallant little allies to get the The curse who have been in Zerbia,

epidemies that have been maging in that upper hand with the typhus and other country, have done splendid work, fa ridentally they have had some interesting

pericness. One of them writes to the England skilled in the art of makeshift and

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with an absolute contempt for anything Appertaining to luxury or even mild

Would Jatt. Our adopted costumes fest, shook the famous Mrs Grundy, far We work in pyjamas covered with over. handlages. This is the costume adrigad alls, also Wellington boots and triangolar by the Director of the Military Hospitals, who insists that typhus is carried by feas and lice, so that triangular bandages protect our heads, the Welling on our ankles and legs, and the pyjamas people do not take this to be our national

During the sight, information was received that enemy reinforcements were advancing from the direction of Maidos towards Krithia, Lieut-Geueral Birdwood arranged an attack on the trenches in front of Quinn's post, which at ten o'clock at night was successfully carried out. We captured the trenches and held them throughout the night. The Turkish casualties were very heavy At.6.30 o'clock in the morning the enemy heavily counter-attacked, and, by the rest. I only hope the Serbian means of beary bombs, forced our men out of the most forward trench, though An Eye-Witness in the Dardanelles describing the visit of the sub-we still hold the communication trenobes made during the night... marine E 11 to Constantinople, says he reached Constanz und took a boat at 5.30 in the morning from Paru to Stamboul. Suddonly w noticed, sixty yards from the landing place, a stick upright in the water,

LONDON, June 7, 25. p.m...

MR CHURCHILL'S MESSAGE TO THE GOVERNMENT.

COSTUME

THE CANDID PALING

The Boolist Vorwserta (Berlin) has

and now it is telling Germany.

Ancving towards the bridge. The sight was amazing, as the current was the first part of which appeared in last night's "China Mail") said that what Kaiser all along:: 1 rst of all ́denied } The EL Fion, Winston Churchill,, in the course of his speech at Dundee bean something of a candid Triund to the moving in the opposite direction. Then he saw a trail of blue-green,the nation expected from the National Government was action. The messaga betories, semi-officially set going, of Belgian and guessed that if was a torpedo. A moment inter there was a should take back to the Government was Act with faith and courage, and sian atrocities in the invaded territory. Thon cruelty to Garman wounded to cover Prus tering explosion and enormous column of water, and he saw an army trust the people. They have never failed you yet." The State in the hour of it disapproved of the God punish England transport pulled the Stambour settling by the stern. A second explo supreme need had absolute power over all subjects. If compulsion was necessary outery s sion followed amidships, and then nothing was visible for a few minutes to win the war, he would support it; but is was unnecessary. Such was the just how much the Kaiser's Turkish allies except a truss of wrong. A third turpedo hit the Criston House quay character of the people that the only places which would never lack volunteers are likely to help the Tautoais ouse. It did no damage, but caused a terrible commotion ashore. The police were the bloody trenches in France and Flanders. But service at home, to keep They will aid, the paper

concludes, in and soldiers discretely fired their rifles, and then when the unbnuarine the fighting men supplied, stood on a different footing Peace was impossible from the Western front. That is all they keeping a British Force ja Egypt and away glearned incuentarily in the sun, with an officer on the lookout, and in Europe till German militarism was so shattered that it was unable in any way ena da. A Turkish advance in the Then sank, the batterion on the drill owered shells for half an hour, to resist the will of the conquering Power. Therefore, the whole nation must he Caucasus is impossible, and no uprising of "It was a sheer waste of amununition.

organised and mobilised. The Government must assery such control that every lara can be encompassed without a one must do ais or her fair share. As the guard reserve of the Allied cause we successful invasion of Egypt. Poor, staff must advance as one man. Britain's might hurled, unitedly into the conflict would be irresistible

WEEK-END CASUALTIES..

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LONDON, June 7, nek-end "casualtios, amounted to 5,615 names, of wEum 1,673 are fead. Altogether 20,919 casunities have besa reported since May 31,

"THINGS GOING ALL RIGHT.”

LONDON, June. 7, 6° p.m.

The Daily Mail guntes Mr. Lloyd George ne saying. At last I believe things are going all right." U'feel that the machine is beginning to more."

ANOTHER TRIUMPH FOR A BRITISH

AVIATOR,

LONDON, June 7, 2.6 p.m.

AMERICA'S NOTE TO GERMANY

PRESIDENT'S INDISPOSITION CAUSES DELAY.

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ist Tunics stomachs that, after all the fino talk of the Hadji Gillaum. heitg & perfect Moslem, and the distribution by him of heaps and heaps ut

On the other hand, war own experts sto bhinély telling us that wo have a big job by band in forcing the Dardanelle The ekiel docence of the waterway Is the cur tent, which enables the Turks to set floating into the main strena henever they diftaule hilly ground alternating with while on land the muntry is vory eboose swampy sdziona arrounded by Turkish def do and Vantage points. So the men Brypt, on the ground that they were being who complained when they were sent to shipped away from the scene of conflict, are now as holy in the thick of it as any

mines In LENDON, June 7, 10 p.m. Beuter's Washington correspondent acates that President Wilson's disposition has prevented the completion of the Note to Germany, and its publication is not now expected uasi Wadloosday

Extraordinary precautions will be taken to ensura its textual accuracy before its delivery to Berlin,

ENIMY LOSE HEAVILY EAST OF FRZEMYSLA

A Petrograd official messags states profilag by the change of wind, tried chemicals producing poisonous smoke

A telegram from Paris says that a British mercplans in Flanders was fighting an Aviatik close to the German lines when it was anddooly assailed by twelve German machines. The wings of the British aeroplane wuro rid died with ballets, but the Englishmana, circling high above his thirteen

nemies, brought do we two with a machine qua sad the escaped to Daukirkon

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LOSDON, June 7 2.10 p.m.

LONDUS, June 7, 3.10 a.. that the anen in the Bavka River, in on the 5th inst, and also fred

BY TELEGRAPH.

BRITISH TRADE IN THE FAR

EAST,

GERMANS ATTEMPTING TO SUBVERT IT.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, June 7, 9:50 paï

Mr. Bonar Law, Secretary of State for the Colodies, replying le question by Mr. Joyuson flicks in the House of Commons, anid he had received from Hongkong reports of German plans for the subversion of British trade in the Far East He was communicating with the Gerenc

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