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WEDNESDAY. JUNE 23, 1915

BY TELEGRAPH.

THE PROGRESS OF

THE WAR.

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(Router's Service to the China Mait.)

THE HONGKONG, CURINTHIAN YACHT CLUB.

Fon VICTORIA, VANCOUVER, SEATTLE, TACOMA AND PORTLAND.

BIG FIRE AT HAVRE. A be bell at the CLUB HOUSE THE Steamship

18,700 BALES OF COTTON DESTROYED.

LONDON, June 24.

Almost before Mr. MeRetina had compltided his speech its the House of Commons thyre was a rush of would be investors for the new loan from the City, and when the Bank of England closed the"normal" Business of i the day long quenes of city man were formed app awaiting the issue of the prospectus. Opinion ́is unutinous that the new loan is the most attrae- sive investimit i modern times. When the pipspretios was issuedă al A telegram from Harre states that a 7 pm, los quens had assumed purnous proportions and the districe has destroyed two warehouses and butkan was mund in the open courtyral. Some of the applicants took 12,700 bales of eatton, The damage

flowed to marry sonsignments to the milway stations for the provinces.

THE BRITISH ACTIONS WEST huge piles of prospectusos for banks and dozens at vans were requisis estimated to be over £40,000.

OF LA BASSEE,

GREAT RECEPTION OF THE

NEW WAR LOAN.

AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE SUPPLIES

STEAMER CAPTURED.

THE SENTENCE ON DE WET.

(Reuter's Service to the China Hall.)

TRAITOR DE WET SENTENCED.

LONDON, June 21, Reuter' Bloemfontein correspondent telegraphs that General De Wet has been found guilty on eight counts charging him with treason, and not guilty on the remaining two coucta,

Sentence has been deferrel üütil"touorrow. „,

THE SENTENCE.

LONDON, June 20, 12.55 p.m.

A later polegrain from Bloem Bontein suys that Do Wet has been sentenced to six year's imprisonment and fined £2,000N

BRITISH INFLICT SEVERE LOSS ON THE ENEMY.

ATTEMPT TO SINK AN ATLANTIC ́LINER.

LONDON, June 23.

The Anchor for Cameronia, which arrived at Liverpool on Sunday from

Hag at fall speed it was impossible to alude the submarino. Accordingly, the Cameronit attempted to ran the submarine, which submeeged and was not seen again,

New York was attacked during the voyage by a submarine. Though travel,

Many prominent Americans were aboard the Cinerumin, and the incident has been reported to the American Embassy.

A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

LONDON, June 21. A Barlin communique ataṭau that General Mackenson is fighting for Lemborg, while Zolkien and Rawaruska are "fa" our hands,y Yostarday the Russians attacked westward of Rawaruska, but were repulsed by the Germans,

AN ENEMY OFFENSIYE.

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Losvos, June 22. A Petrograd communique statos the enemy's offensive in the region of | Rawarusaka continues. The Russians, on the night. of 19th inst. withdrew from the Grodek lakes on the Lemberg positions,

MUNITIONS OF WAR.

Businessman's Advice To Be Saught,

Lossos, Juno 22.

Mr. Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons that he hoped shortly to appoint a commission, including in its membership businessmen, to alvise with regard to the manufacture of munitions of war.

"THE ASSISTANCE OF INDIA.

LONDON, June 22.

In the Clouse of Commons Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, in reply to Mr. Reginald Neville, said the question of employing the in exhaustible labour supply of ladia in the manufacture of munitions was receiv- ing the fullest consideration.

THE OPERATIONS IN AFRICA.

LONDON, June 22, **

Losses, June. 4. mat. "Bye:Witness at Hondhpurters, describing the resumption of the British offensive west of La Hussey, chroniched in Field-Marshal French's bulletins, says that by the morning of June 17 in the Festubert region. after the enemy lad made cotateralineks at night the net British gain in crutal was a strip of Chundred yards along i frontage of the hun-Colonies, stated that he hoped soon to be able to give more information about In the House of Commons Air. Benar Law, Secretary of State for the dead but during the two days and nights of the fighting every boss was the operations in East Africa and Central Africa. to inflicted at the,eneng.

AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE SUPPLIES STEAMER CAPTURED: ..

Losboy, June 29.

A telegramo from Home,states that an ungillary cruiser kotly chuseil and captoñal an Austrian replafus, stemmer in the Molterman while carrying supplies for submarine s

ARRIVAL OF FLIGHT LIEUT, WARNEFORD'S BODY IN LONDON.

LONDON. June 22.

GERMANY PURCHASING MUNITIONS IN AMERICA. "

LONDON, June 22.

The New York Herald has made investigations which go to show that Gor- man agents are buying considerable quantities of munitions America, and that these are shipped first to South America and thence to Holland and Denmark.

HEALTH OF THE TROOPS.

LONDON, June 22

Mr. Tennant informed the House of Commons that the health of the troop A great crawl at Victoria Station awaite hiss evening the arrival at the front was so good that nothing approaching it had been known in the poat

of Flight Lieut. Wameford's body. Degrased's "sisters, step-inther, and presentatives of the Admiralty ware present. The coffir, covered by the Union Turk and masses of wreathes, was accompanied from Fence by a detachment of the Naval Air Service. It was conveyed to Bromp

n in ag earrings by detachtens of the Royal Naval Division.

MORE MONEY FOR THE WAR.

ANOTHER BIG GOVERNMENT LOAN.

LONDOS, Jim"22.

THE UBIQUITOUS KAISER.

LONDON, June 22.

It is officially announced that the Kaiser was present at the operations at i Grodek.

GERMAN RECRUITS LEARNING MOUNTAINEERING.

LONDON, June 22,

The German military authorities are collecting recruits of nineteen years of in the House of Cominus Mr. R. Mekening, Chancellor of the age from all parts of the Empire, and sending them to the Tyrol to learn moun- Exchequer, in moving the locg resolution, said that a prompt decision taineering so as to be able to confront the Italians and to replace the former was required an it was not desirable that a big loan should be kept hang. Alpine troops of Germany and Austria which have bean almost destroyed while ing over the market. The Bank of England wonki isste a prospectus employed on the other frost.

WOMEN DOING THE WORK OF MEN.

LONDON, June 22.

throughout the country in every class of work, including employment in bank, There has been a remarkable spread recently of the employment of women on the railways, on farma and tramways. The Government has been the pioneer of the movement, and has found work for a rast number of women to act us postmed and messengers.

A WARNING."

that night. The Chancellor emphasised that behind these business arrangements was an appeal to the patriotisan of the country to carry on the war stevessfully with its gigantic resources. The total deficit on the 19th inst. was £18,000,000, and we had borrowed £305,000,000: The present kan would hear interest at the rate of 43 per cent, par, was repayable in ten years, and must be paid in thirty. He athrined that a loan was better than a continued issia of Treasury Bills, as it obtained public money, promoted economy and assisted foreign exchange. Privi leges youht be allowed to the holders of the old war loan and console. (Cheers.) The holders in the old war loun contributing to the new come equilid convert the old loan at pur, getting 1 per cent, while consol, miders applying 100 to the new loan would be allowed 75 per cent, on evinsols for each fifty pounds in the new loun. This meant that consols would be ru-exchangeable at 162/3: If the consols were all converted it! would mean a subscription of £00,000,000 to the new loan, while the said he was convinced that femile labour had come to stay, but it must not be Mr. Thomas, MP, addressing a meeting of railwaynin at Nottingham, conversion of the old loan would man some hundreds of millions. It used to reduce the status of men. was not expected that all the holders would convert, and the lument of uncertainty nudo it unwise to fix the limit of the loun. Mr. McKenna added that the minimum subscription to the Bank of England was £100 urling, but the Post Office would soll, from £5 to 925 bonds. Also, tive shilling vouchers would be sold through the Post Offices, the Trades Unions, ele. Those vouchers would carry interest at 5 per cent. per semun, for every complete month, and when they lnd accumulated to E could be exchanged for abou

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CONTINUED FRENCH PROGRESS.

BRITAIN'S GRATITUDE TO AMERICA.

Laspos, Time 20. Amid cheers, Lord Robart Cecil paid tribute, in the House of Commons, to the untiring efforts of the American Ambassador to socura batter frontment for the British prisoners in Germany.

BRITISH - AIRMAN KILLED.

LONDON, June 09. Major Lamsden, of the Flying Corps, has been killed while lying at Brook- landı.

SYNTHETIC INDIGO.

LONDON, Juno 22.

In the House of Commons, in reply to Sir John Rees, Mr. Austen Cham

berlain said that the Board of Trade was occupied with the question of the manufacture in Great Britain of aynthetic indigo, while the Government of India was doing all that was possible to saint the indigo industry.

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

FOSTPONED..

Losnós, June 22.

In the House of Commons Mr. Asquith, the Premier, announced that a Bill would be introduced forthwith

Postponing the General Election for a year in view of the war,

CIVIL PENSION LIST.

Losnos, June 22, 1 The Civil List of pensions includes the wife of the late Dr. Eugh Baker, who died while investigating sleeping

tion at the Bishop's services to the sickness in Africa: the wife of the late Bishop Tucker of Uganda, in considera.

Empire; and Miss Violet Wallace, in sonsideration for the scientific work of a

her fathar the late Dr. Russel. Wallace.

THE BURMA, SOCIETY."

Loynoy, June 22.

A special goneral mesting of the Earms Society has been convened for Jaly 31st to consider the discontinu of the the Socioty owing to lack of Burman support.

Wak Tes Yat Pe's. Service.)

KWANTUNG OFFICALS IN

TROUBLE.

PEKING, June 22. Mandates appoint Ng Li, of the First. Army, Kwantung, Chief Councillor and order that the anting magistrate at Yiu Ping, Kwantong, Li Hung Nia and two others be handed over to the Punish- ment Commission for corruption.

OFFICAL APPOINTMENT,

Kang Saa Chan has been appointed Vice Financial Minister and a Director of the Salt Gabelle.

NEW GOVERNMENT SHIPPING

PROJECT. GEPAAR

a shipping company to navigate in the The Government intends to organise Straits and the Indian Occas.

..CHEUNG WO.

Cheung Wo, the cashiered Vice Financial Minister, leaves for Szech san to-day.

DRAKE AND JELLICOE.

A Reincarnation Story.

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Sailors are among the most superstitious A NIGHT LONG. ARTILLERY DUEL.

of folk, and there is a belief among many of them (says "the Day Cities) that Jellicoe is a reue unation of Drake. You LONDON, June 21

knew the story told by Alfred Nages in. The Chancellor, in farther explanation of the loan, said: If you farther towards Souchez, sarried several renches, and approached to 16 Applin refers to the legend how Drake, To-day's Faris comunique states: North of Arras we have progressed his poem The Admiral's Ghost. Mr. upply for hundred pounds of the new lean we will at the wine tine north-west of the village. There has been a night long artillery, duel, Adram and to hang i allow you to convert 75.per gent. of congols at a fixed minimum price German attack at Dompierre, westward of Peronne, which was preceded by if ever England was in danger and called, hen dying, told his man to take back his Anta 50 per cent, él the new loon, thus relieve the consol holder of the explosion of three large mines was defeated by our fafantry. The Goethe sailors were to strike upon his drum sen wall, and stock which probably will be almost aleable, giving in exchiure a mans counterattacked on the Heights of the Meuse with extreme violence, and he would rise from the cat and come

wupd highly purketable security. He added that the Government but we maintained all yesterday's gains, We also followed up our advantages back and fight for her.. Bilertock, it higher interest was offered for any other wir kein to grant at Redlom, in Lorraine, capturing all the enemy's first lige da a front of 1,300, 200 years ago, was threatened,

Wall 1.when an"proval, nate to holders of the new loan: He urged the nation to yards. We dispersed in the evening a strong enemy column; tanke overy ofert, not only to curry on the war but to finable us to main- .The Germans have abandoned their positions near Chazelles, Gooderexon main financial pro-cminace-ufter the war. He who subscribe now was and Les Remabois, and we found the enemy trenches full of dead, doing an act of mercy to himself and to the country, and be who thus We stormed a apar at Calvaire du Bonhomme, and an advance in the econoinised now would be able to hear the strain after the war, and neighbouring bills reached the outskirts of Rebonhomma would have the knowledge that every aid Tie gave was multiplied for his

We continue to progress along the Fecht, und have got beyond the renuntry, which would bless him for his providence and generosity. cemetery at Metzeral,

June 22. The evening communique states: Thees have been içcal infantry actions today which have not modified the fronts.

Flying squadrons bombed enemy aviation parke in north Arras, burning four tangars, hitting two aeroplages and one balloon.

The Germans on Sunday evening, in western Argonue, violently attacked after a severe bombardment with asphyxiating hemba. Our advanced line

Mr. McKenna, in winding up the debate, said that, the only amount be could misert in the loan resolutior, was it maxiguum of a thousand million pounds, but he was, not asking for, and did not want, auch an atrium. As regards future taxation, with the inercive of the incomp tax and the super-tax the preemt generation was already doing a good deitl, towards paying for the war, though if it continued there would Juve to be fresh taxation.

In reply to a question us to whether India would be allowed to compiled at cartes per stack recovered as were buried in wracked trencher tribute; Mr. McKenna said that he would be glad to bring in the whole Ercpire, but it was impossible to expect much from the Dominions they were borrowers mihi blush leider, M

war,

immediate counter-attack recoverze s almost the whole of the positions, tranches. Our patrols in Torrsing found the German works west of Gonder- We have extended our gains on the heights of the Mouse, capturing mora sxon unoccupied, the Germans having retired to south Cintrey Weaptared The prospectus del bewa plainly that only rollem the new and pushed our line 600 matres ekatward-Tos prisoners taken hara ainco the cemetery and station at Motzera, in Alsada, anți then stormed the village have the opion of converting the old loan or consis

yesterday exceed 200. Oren attack at Reichskerkoof was repulsed,

Theiresolution for the new lean cakramminuity passed,

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drum was heard one right by the resete. When Mr. Applin was in Davon fisherfolk. And Nehoe came to England's hire, a little while after the outbreak of War, he talked to an old sailor 80 years. of age in the red cliffs beyond Brixham. the wallor's tacnarew grave and the we He referred the story of Dike, and

silent for a long time. The drura was bent, ha whispered at last. Drake's drum haered to best a white hok; our lada heereder, the night when they.

. He nodded his head to and frons he took was pastlin out from Plymouth Sound.

when I stood alore Jack Jellicae, close as off hin cap. But I kanwal long back.

I be satandin' to you; pught his age

Yes, sir .the old deur hast, and he came and I I-kaswed was Drake some luck. back as he mid he couldnt, and

If England riends me.

me, dead

De living IT rien that day.

I'll cina from thai diguess under the ses Ten Loupand trips away

Toa tuntarislista thay laugh the super. stitious may koecole! but the seafolk on the red slits of Denumire, they know

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By Onler of Committee

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