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MONDAY, MAY 15, 1916

THE WAR.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS,

(Reuter's Service to the China Moil)

RUSSIANS V. TURKS.

IMPORTANT RUSSIAN SUCCESSES IN ARMENIA AND MESOPOTAMIA.

RUSSIAN ANXIETIES, PISSIPATRIM

Perry May 13

A commomiyil states In the Cancasts in the direction of Baibert, the Turkish attacks have been

THE PEACE QUESTION.

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SIR EDWARD GREY'S "VIEWS.

Lennox, May 15, In an interview, with a represents tive of the Chicago Daily News. Sit Edward Grey emphasised that Great Britain and her, Allies would, not tolerate a pence that did not dives.

THE CHINA MAIL.”

FARLIER TELEGRAMS,

MORATORIUM IN CHINA”

FINANCIAL STRINGENCY.

"

PERISO, May 14 A moratorium has been proclaimed in Chim, owing to financial stringency.

SINKING OF SWEDISH SCHOONER

SWEDISH CAPTAIN'S STORY OF GERMAN PIRACY,

STOCKHOLM, May 14 The Captain of the Swedish schooner Ham, in an account of the shiking of the ship by a German subruaring in the North Sen on the nth inst., says that the crew were anchored to leave in fifteen minutes. The Captain refused and hoisted the Swedish Hug. The Germans herded the vel pouring and lighting petroleum at different places. They also attacked the Captai with entlasses, forcing him into a boat. The Harold was then sunk by gun-fire

the wrongs of the war and which did | TORPEDOING OF THE “SUSSEX.” everywhery repulsed with heavy losses.not re-establish respect for interna-

In the direction of Erzincijam the tional law.

Turk neciankated enashlemble forres fting Herr Bethann-Hull- in the region of A-hkala and tok the weg's declamation that. Great Britain Defensive. After a dayof there fighting waited to destroy Gemuany's free they drwe "hack" some, Russian eltposten, Sir Edward they said: We elements but were Tompelled toa hose never been amitten by siz their offensive swing torbe kary severe

mulness. We Would be glad to see ses they suffered. In the diregrim of Mossal Mesothe Cerean people, free: 1 the rest potamia, the lissians, recupied the of the world. We believe that the region of Reimsinn, the enemy Bering German' people, precipitately.".

once the Pur- German dreams of world-dominion

AMERICA INVESTIGATING,

WASHINGTON, May 13. Mr. Lansing has, instructed Mr. Gerard to ascertain iniurinally the nature of the punishment imposed upon the Commander of the submarine which torpedoed the Sursery

SHACKLETON RELIEF EXPEDITION.

ALCANTARA'S GALLANT

• FIGHT.

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"An engagement took place on February 20 in the North Sea be- twer the armed German raider Greif, isguised Norwegian merchant tessel and Ms armed merebant cruiser Akantara (Capt. I. E. Wardle

IT IS NOT A CAUSTIC, BUT A SOLVENT OF THE DECATED RND

One man quater by Professor Witkog | CUTICLE: AND WIEL EFFECT A CORE WHERE ALL "The engagement resulted in the

these kas of both vessels (the German raider weltes: When I NOW being sunk by gunfire, and the Aleans comrades lying on the roadsides staring APPLICATIONS HAVE FAILED. tara apparently by torpedo). Five up to Heaven, partly only pieces of vien,.

what endless chains of thought ra derman officer and 13 men were and round in my brain and fettered picked up and taken prisoners out of total complement that is believed to have been over 300 The British losses amounted to five officers and 80 men.

Daring the whole of the engages cut thus nens, find over the Nor wegian colours painted or the side of the ship

Publisher, as it is is now made clear by receipt of the German wireless message that the enemy have learned that the Creil, similar ship to the Moewe, hal been destroyed be fore she had succeeded in passing our ling of patrols".

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A DETAILED DESCRIPTION. The following account from Edinburgh was published in the London papers on the same date as the Admiralty an

Bouncinat

The fighe tank plice off the north-east passage between Soufland and the Farves, and on a beat that is particularly well patrolled for the purposes of our great blockade.

The patrols had been warned that a doubtful craft was about, and they were o a close look-out for the susperter vessel. When the Cireif was sighted she

every movement it, better not think "At the at all!" Another extras:

end of the day when the sun gw down THE QUEEN'S DISPENSARY.

behind the his and when the snowy landscape is bathed in a dove-grey or blue light, nne rejoices at the beauty of eternal pacare, the row clouds, the great white beautiful caftig even though machine guns and hewiters are rattling and roaring behind the mountains. Ope realises one a monentity, the uneness of man with the eternal star-deckel Heaven, with the AL

After these specimens of Pessimisin and Fantheism, the following: "The battalion received orders to attack. We advanced 100 metres, and the order came to be down. It was as though the Angels of Death were right ever us me. The officers stood in front. It enme opened my jacket and the wind exoled! again, a sharp rejoicing howland' a crash ing that shook the earth. I put my head humbly on one side, ani said in my heart, Brother Death, my Brother Death-only these words out of Francis of Assisi Hymn of Praise came to me as a prayer. And then the thick hail of inm and steel, and the pulsing of my heart in the hand of Brother Death. As the smoke

LONDON, May 14. The Government have appointed a The Turkish reindorreinetitsmeshe Eige jare suntderd, will insist on the conCommittee under Admiral Beaument. per Tigris were imb; to arrive in tines and of its devenituen: herein inhaling Major Leonard Darwin and and the Turks defending the Pass were lies tits hope of securing the freed Sir Dong Mawson, to advise as tenge up the only occurrence for our he geared above the thick reek like a dull what steps shall be taken for the Shackleton relief expellition.

wanted, thus making a Russian adane land patiod independetan at że Kashishin pësible. The capture, Euniper because a German demo

matieg will not plet and plan wärs like Is the Russians of mountain issipates Bussian mixieties Prusdin Militarism. Unless trian regarding teneral Barton's Column kind, learned from this war 'to avoid sund Gruerad i koeringe's army, which hage war, the struggl won hare heel been sperating south of Etlis sier the fin vain. Humanity would be fall of Kut, as the Bank and war of the dented "with extermination by

Bagdad "Ek sth ot

wvery form of marderas, scientific) c* k、Trifiwti{,

ww pans, regardless of law and fuercy, Free peoples would rather

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The Turkish is in Anatolla have

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did not in any way answer the descripcleared away a brown hole in the earth with powder. Three fingers hark been yawned in front of us, its sides scorched? blown off the and next to mine. A man was blown into the air. Fur & moment withoutstretched limb then fell toearth. Chumps of earch flew about and an in- tolemble stench was in our nostrils..

It is n

and must have completely changed tions which the patrol had of the enemy her disguise somewhere during the pass

North Sen. patrols to and erg bata, and when the big ship, lying the Norwegian thug and with her Norwegian name and home

The last extract is from a letter aË K Part painted in two-yard letters on: her side, was approached, and the gomman soldier dying in hospital: The chances der of the Alcantara hoisted the familiar are that I shall not outlive the war, and signals that he was putting of botherefore I would give a last vice- THE ARMY EXPERIENCES OF ing partly to examine the ship's rapers enjoy life: You cannot think how sweet the Certians must at once have realiser life is. In sleepless nights the thought A KOBE VOLUNTEER.

that their caring game was up.

torments me that in a little while my life will be no more. It is not donth I fear, Oh, zo. When the machine-guns; rattled over my head an irou stillness But now The long possessed me.

WORK AS HOSPITAL ORDERLY.

THE OPENING SHOT.

As the saucy little cutter sped over the waters rating the two ships, the Mr.A. (Young, a son of Mr Robert false sides of the alleged Norseman waiting!. The end of this war will be Young, the Editor of the Japan Chron-dropped away, the gung uncovered, and Germany's world-power. What a goi- a shell whizzed at the boarding party, ficent perspective, hat what a tragedy

had to accomplish the task assigned is then submit to Germany's idene, has compileti for rubutions in Japal Our gun buyers were standing by their for him who will not live to see it!"

to them by the Germans,

of an fron Peace."

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This will prove a decisive ficter, even

THE FRENCH FRONT.

as erganls the great Gerùmú ofensive an the Riga minn

VALUE OF THE KRITISH EXPEDITION.

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Lostos May 14, The value of the British Expedition in Mesopotamia is emphasised by a high Russian Military official at present in London

He says the operating of the Anglo Inligu Forces did alan the Fleets at

MORE ENEMY FAILURES.

PARIS, May 14.

A commanigag, reports, artillery Artivity in Chumpagne,

The bombardinent on the left of the Mouse Imus dininished.

We repulsed an attack west of

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An encing attempt at a surprise

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of them.

progress.

sanctuary.

a record of his expériences as a ranker breeches, everything was in ahsolute in the Inns of Court Others" Training readiness, and quick as thought the musks were e oil and a splendid serap was Corps at Berkhanpeted, near London. in full The aiminbly written letters it was full daylight, and there was which have so far been published in the

Chronicle

are in themselves suffist to hide the outlines or provide the cient

portly volume, curtain which on one memorable occasion and a very readable, une. The fut provided the Germans with cover for The range was retreat and lowing is taken from one

so close that it amounted almost to poiste VOLUNTEERING FOR HOSPITAL ORDERLY. blank firing. The German did try to There was one other duty which stand off but the British auxiliary out fatigue-men had to perform, and that anusred him, and, as one officer of was hopital orderly. It was the only the Alcantara told me, the ships came jub in which there was any sort of so close that there was a prospect of mance, for there were great possibilities actually boarding the enemy and having in the way of chivalric self-sacrifice, to hand-to-hand ighting. He says rate it at its highest. Chivalry or no chivalry, of course you had to do your work. I got

got the job

US A

"Every shat we fired struck our mark, from stern to stern we raked her, and the German decks were soon a perfect

PRISONERS IN GERMANY.

FATELY WELL TREATED.

The Foreign Office last month issued reports received from Mr. Ellis Loring Dreal, of the American Embassy in Berlin, on his gisits of inspection to the detention camps and lazarets ige British prisoners at Ingolstadt, Bayreifth, Nürnberg, Kronach Würzburg, Ham-

Generally melburg and Landan.

speaking. Mr. Dreal found that conditions were fairly satisfactory in most of the camps inspected,

Cyns and the Black Sen, was remarkattuck on the slopes north-east off you may smile, but I bansambles. The Geomar gunnery was which a number of British officers are

afle. It was chiefly due to the formue Mort Homine completely tiled.

that General Bartoft, advancing from Kormanshah, SEVEN able to seale

the Imanbassa Fais, 5,000 feet high..

on the right of the Meuse.

It

in this way. One Saturday

was discovered that my company

There has been comparative quiet

i

end.

Eleven French-aemplanes dropped.

to

One of the forts at Ingoldstedt, in kept, proved an exception. Some evi- lence of dampness was found the walls of one of the rooms, where some of the officers live, showing occasional patches

It hopeless wost of the shots went wide,

there

tha: did hit us inflicted little or the and fatigues for Sun no serious damage. We simply pounded if there was one her. She was on fire aft and was com we all thoroughly detested, it was pletely done for, and we were looking to of moisture, and the sound of dripping these daties over the week. see her founder and ourselves escape water was in places audible. The Volunteers were called for, failing almost unharmed and with trifling losses vaulted halls from which the rooms

north-west of Kerint. The success of 43 bombs on the stations of Murtishich there would be the usual resort when a shell, fired wild enough, hit our open are dark and vold, and the whole

this risky operation targely depended lois, and Briculles and the camps

of to conscription. To the great joy rudder. This shot did as in just as we atmosphere was somewhat depressing.

excitable platoon sergeant (3 were on the verge of complete victory.

on whether the Turks were able to get Moufaucon and Romagne, and tifof my

the

out

TORPEDOED.

The officers cook a wash and sleep in the same roDITIS.

DID NOT WANT EXCHANGZ

ufficient reinforcements from Khani-bombs un airship sheds at Metz and choice of any that he thoughtless and became an easy target for a Commander Briggs, Royal Naval Flying

kin. Acetilingly, the Commander of Frescaty on Friday night.

the Anglo-Indian Army wns.com municated with, and a diversion was decided upon and carried out with -aplendid dash; vigour and exactitule

THE TORPEDOING OF THE

**GALGATE." "

•

REGARDLESS OF THE SAFETY OF THE CREW.

Lignon, May 14. The Admimlig announces that the ship daigate was 'torpedoed 150 miles west of Ushant. A bont with 13 of the crew on board is still raissing.

The nate states that the slip stopped when the submarine ordered berto do so, and the Germans, regardless of the safety of the crew,

while high sena were running.

been sunt.

THE CASEMENT TRIAL..

LONDON, May 14, Sir Roger Casement discussed his case with three friends in the Tower yesterday.

VERDUN SITUATION.

LATER.

A communique says there is nothing important to report except a violent bombardment in the district of Deadman

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PARIS, May 15.

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I was the first to step t Welshman)

the ranks. He therefore ve me hospital orderly I was too eager for the job or not I can't torpedo. The Greif, like the Moeve

but anyway he took me aside after.

ter was fitted with torpedo tubes. One of wards to give me some superfluous these she let go and at that close advice, such as must get up to 210 mnge and considering the size of the an attack of influens. The latter had nonsense whateffer," and minst

nut Alcantara, or gunners though they no complaints to make and appeared in resume wo iurite the nurses out to were, they could not fail to find their excellent health Lieutenant Crabbie, picture-houses or for afternoon pro-

who occupied an adegate room with five menades The hospital was a barge

By how the German was going down French officers, stated that neither he private, house standing in its own but any anxiety on our part as to the nor Commander Briggs wished to be grounds. I reported there the following day b

yat 5 velrek and was set to washing consequence toourselves were removed unless on an assurance of rea dispelled by a shot which pasasi over us terially bester conditious. Their rein tea-cup and polishing knives, and at 6 and exploded with terrific effect plumb tiors with the French officers were ex- The latest communique says there has was dismissed. Next morning (Monday) amidships of the Greif. It was from cellent and had resulted in mutual ad

Ill to report at half rest 8 and was been intermittent artillery at Verlamon duty in : My duties for the das British light cruiser on the horizon vantage in regard to acquisition of

More abeto followed from the same

languages. but no infantry attack.

were various. My role was that of a kaukai, had to run errands to the quarter and the German went down, and soon the cruiser and attendant des hatcher's and the grocer's; fets and troyers were on the scene.

letters

ters for the patients; bring up post

One of the Germans, when rescised, medicine from the chemist's; sweep the described the shot that hit them from floor downstairs: clean the grate; wash dishes (this being the only form of the cruiser as a shot that came from crockery I handled, let me hasten to nowhere, so aggered were they at its One man has been employed in black for Connoisseurs.

smith work and one in a mine. Later: Statements that the Greif was a very in the spring the work will be mostly in dig up potatoes in the garden arrival and effect enerally make myself useful

stall boat and that she was assisted by the fields. Some shortage of clothes was

subarine are not confirmed by those noticed at Landau.

Was a very

THE BRITISH FRONT.

ENEMY ATTACK AT PLOEGSTREET

"

WOOD.

Losnos, May 15.

A British communique states!

by guns of every kind last night the

and

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There were three professional nurgesa in the hospital, while the assistants (who called themselves houseranids) were pearly all hospitals, and splendid work

cautile crew were largely amongst men

the qualities

At Hammeburg says Mr Drekel, pri- rates are all ordered out to work at A High Class times, as present mostly on the roads, On the day of the visit sixteen were on

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The casualties in the Alcantara mer-

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about 9,000 or expressed their willingness to meet any ordered them to embark in boutal "After a very heary bombardment † volunteers. You find these volunteers in 10000 tons, heavily armed with 6in, guns. 1. reasonable requests made by the Ameri-1 It was from, the Naval Reserve and can Einbusy on the ground that in- aaa rule, and do very much to chiefy manzo, and they fought treatment of prisoners in England. The British steamer Erethia bus emery attacked about Ploegstreetshi da.. They go on duty in weekly Kaval Volunteers that the Alcantare formation had been received of excellent Eighten the laboura of the professional

with a coolness that would have done Wood in three parties. One party nurses and there enable them to give credit to the Navy itecil.

which succeeded in entering our trenches more time to the work for

they are especially qualified. The but ware instantly ejected, leaving drudgery and monotony of the duties

below ten dead.

which these volunteers carry out -is The other parties met Scottish the work from day to day uncomplain beyond all estimate, but they go on with

A profit of £1,721,186 is shown in the ingly. One cannot rate their patriotism troops and were dispersed.

Correspondent saye-When report of the Conard Steamship Com and selfsacrifice too highly, for they are the official story of the Alcantara's fight pany for 1915, and, after allowing for beyond all praise. Girls of all classes is published something will be said of depreciation and other dividend and help in this good work, which is as much the men of them, who were in the icy directors recommend a dividend and a national service as anything soldiers do water for an hour, and especially of the bonus of 30 per cent on the ordinary In order to strengthen its freight ser The girls who act as volunteers in the men who were two hours on a raft, shares the same as last year. Inns of Court Hospital at Berkhamsted because they bravely urged comrades to

have already ar the daughters of people living in the go in the overcrowded boat, which came vices the company has recently bought

png five steamers, of which four town': some of them drive their own

One of them is a keen Salvationist, been taken to the loss of the cara, but when they come in and put on

The report alludes their caps and aprons they fully enter and had been organiser of the ship's into the spirit of their housemaid's band. When eventually taken off the Lusitanis and the adverse effect which dutics. The lady couka are also volun- raft he was nearly dead from exposure, that disaster had had upon the company's teers, but professional in their skill but he mullied, and is one of the many passenger business. The balance sheet, partly no doubt on secount of the loss believe me. It was for each people I

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of the Lusitanin and two other ships, shows reduction of nearly £9,000,000 in the book value of the feet and an increase in the liquid resources.

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The prisoner is much better in health and allowed to read and take exercise regularly:

The case for the prosecution, it is understood, will last four or five days.

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Early in the morning a British patrol entered an enemy trench south of the Labaazec Capal-

We bombarded positions north of Menchy and East of Vermelles.

Hostile artillery and mortars have been active at Maricourt, Loos, Sonchez, Hohenzollern, Givenchy and St. Eloi.

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