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TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1918.

THE

WAR.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS:

11

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail, J.

ITALIAN

FIGHTING ON BRITISH

IMPORTANT

SUCCESSES.

FRONT.

SIGNIFICANT ENEMY COMMUNIQUE.

AMSTERDAM, June 26. A German communiqud says:'. South of La Bassce Caual to beyond the Somme the enemy has developed a a continual and vigorous activity. At night he heavily bombarded the Lens burbs and gassed our lines north of Albert,

VERDUN.

THE CALM WHICH PRECEDES A STORM.

LONDON. June-2. Yesterday's lull in infantry attacks at Verdun is regarded as the cali before a still more furicus onslaught.

Artillery yesterday inernased hour. ly in violence and reuched a climax at five o'clock in the afternoon at Freide Terre and Fleury where the French experts exgeet an homecliate | attack. Mort Homme was likewise pounded for forty hours."

There were appalling scenes in Saturday's street fighting at Fleury, both sides pelting bombs at a few feat" mnge-

The Germans hordes literally covered the ground.

The

total employed in successive wares works out at twenty men to the -yard.

THE AERIAL BOMBARDMENT OF

KARLSRUHE.

A CIRCUS ACCIDENTALLY

" WRECKED.

Losbox, June 25.

Telegraras state that the air, maid on Karlsruhe.created a panic in the city. A number of bombs destined fer a station which was a roost important military point, nccidentally wrecked a cireus, causing between 100 and 200 casamities.

"

ENEMY SUBMARINE'S OPERATIONS.

Panis, June 26. - The Itulan muxiliary cruiser ilta di Memina and the French reporting destroyer Fauche have been tor."

IN PURSUIT OF THE ENEMY.

ROME, June 26.

It is officially announced that the Austrians have begun to retreat in the Trentino. The Italiana have recaptured several positions and continue to ad vance vigorously on the heels of the

enemy.

LATTE

A communiqué states that the Italians have achievel important

They have forced the Austrians to evicuute Castle Comberto, Asiago and Monte Congio," and are following up the enemy hot foot.

AMERICA AND MEXICO.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF AMERICAN TROOPERS

DEMANDED. '«

WASHINGTON,, June 26, President Wilson has sent a very strong Note to Muxies, demanding the immediate release of troopers raptured at Carrizal

TRIAL OF SIR ROGER CASEMENT.

A PLEA OF NOT GUILTY."

LONDON, June 26. The trial of Sir Roger Casement

LATEST EDITION,

THE CHINA MAIL.

STOP PRESS. NEWS.

BREAD FOR 'BRITISH WAR PRISONERS..

WORK OF BERNE BUREAU.

The British section of the "Bureau de Secours aux Frisonniers de Guvere," at the British Legation, Berne has beat at work for about a year. This Bureau (Reuter's Service to the China Mail) which is at its land Mrs. Grant Tuff, wife of the British Minister at Berne, is the quarter to which over 10,000 British prisoners of war look for their daily bread. Sir Arthur Lawley, who has been out to Switzerland to examine the work of the committers, makes the following interesting report

'ENEMY'S, OBJECT IN VERDUN REGIOŃ.

PARIS, June 20.

CHINESE COPPER CASH..

THE EXPORT TO: JAPAN,

HARPER'S

PRICKLY HEAT POWDER

in the laschnern Daily News (Japanese) The following information is published From May, 2013, up to let larch, A NATURAL EMOLLIENT AND ABSORBENT DUSTING POWDER altogether 18,650 tons of copper cab SCIENTIFICALLY COMPOUNDED FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF arrived at Seitou from the interior, of Shantung. During fast April the arrivals ALL ITCHING INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS OF THE SKIN. amounted to about 5,000 tons, and for she first half of May last something like 2000 tons is recorded, making the grand total about 25,000 tons. Fin

Figuring the price as the rate of S.1400 per ton, the whole of the business was worth more than S.

in the interior is estimated at between

PREVENTION OF

The four for the Berne bukurica comes 1,000,000. The profit derived by inyers SORE FEET A semi-official statement, says that from Marseilles-30 tone a week and ST1 and SY2.50 per 100 km, that for

The loaves": ari subjected to away 30 sen

the enemy's object at Thinumont istributed to a number of selected the middlemen along the Shantung Rail to penetrate the mvine, from Fleury who are in control of six shops where these her SX1 por 109 kin, that for j

towards the Mause, in order to take

THE RUSSIAN GOCCESSES.

IMPRESSION IN BIMÁNIA.

daily scrutiny by a number of ladies, the

packed. Each

the bread is elected, examined, and carefully inspected in the rear Froi-ile-terre and Souville.always some are cat open and tasted

outer surface has to be of an even hariness and smooth the consistency of the bread itself must be firm and ever. A daily gunsignment. of 6,400 loaves, cach weighing alb is dispatched by apecial van to Frankfurt where the parcels are promptly distributed to the varios camps. Thus, in the course of six days (at the cute of 3,200 men a day the full weekly tally of 10,200 pareek

+

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BEKARZAT, June 28. The Russian successes have made a great impression. Members of the Opposition urge intervention.

is reached.

Up to tinte over 1,000,000 loaves have been dispatchexi, which mears that over 2000,000 18. of bread have been sent frog

A BULGARIAN ATTACK REPULSED. Ferne alone to our prisoners

N

SALOSIKA, June 2.

sen per

melt down the copper e

mah 30 100 kin, and that for the exper ters from SV to 8.1 per 100 din. The

profit for all the people engaged. in this business may be put at $15 per 100 kn. The aggregate profit on the 95,600 tons exported as a

alive-mentioned

average:

is figured at abo it 12,167,000

We hear that the proft cleared by the refiners of the importest copper cast at Osaka, Rebe, Okayama, etc., is abent 16 per fin According to the Osaka market quotation, they give about 133 per 100 in for the import metal and ehtain therefrom 50 Azn of crade copper,

23 of zine, and a quantity of lead. etc. Thus the Juruncu refiners realized about ¥2,000,000 on the above-mentioned imports from May, 1915, till the middle of last May

The German authorities insist on the

The crude copper then,esses into the bread being sent to each individual and retase to allow it to go forwart in bulk hunds of the large copper plants like the Furaka was, Mitsubishis The Bareau is in constant, correspond-

with the commandants of the equipments for refining copper.

Stems and Kaharas, which

A Bulgarian attack at Pompy has ender camps in Germany. I am | trical appliances Out of the crude cop. |

been replaci

SHIPS SUNK...

Losbox. June 26. The British steamer Astrologer and Arc Italian-sailing ships have been sunk, and a Danish schooner attacked ani set on fire.

THE TRENTINO BATTLE.

GRAPHIC STORY OF THE ATTACK.

Apres of to-day

legatis Erous

ussured that the latter invariably answer peris the letters addressed to them and will thus be seen that, on the copper obtained pure copper worth 190, possible, the information asked for and It

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The above gives only the export statistic for the part of Sestou (Tsingtau). Adding thereto what was exported from the Yangtzekiang Valley, Tientsin, etc. to Japan since last summer, the grand total to thought, to reach 43,00 tons, worth about Y18,000,000

are seemingly helpful in the prompt cash exported to Japan to the amount of listribution of the parcels to the men about Y10,000,000 in the year above re It is estimated that at least 38 per cent.ferred to, about the same amount of of the loaves from Herne reach the hands profit was netted by the dealers, expor for which they are intended.

ters, refiners, etc, all combined. The Burwan with a sinf of 136 workers, has at its head Mrs. Grant organization Duff a lady whose power of k

only excelki by her tactful ability to her well-laid plans to a wholly satisfactory issue. It has as its hon secretary Mr. Grad d'Honteville, why with the proverbial generosity •for which American nee, fate, has extributed to the remarkable success of the Bureau by devoting a full measure of his time and his talents to the happy development of its operation

The Burun as andertakes the supposed

supply of parcels of food of carious warts ATIC othing to British prisoners of war.

Another direction in which the cing the retreat of the Austrians in Treating. the. following independeal detivities of the Bureau are employed

of clothing and hospital! avent of the fighting in this radio afix in the wastals and kindred

nationality Britain Rim, France, fuly, Serbin, Russia- bare benefited by rish consignments, Nearly 100,000, articles have been sent away, and now a big riserve is in process of accumulation which is to be applied

month ago." pablished on May 23rd in requisites. the Corriere della Sein is of specialitutions of every

interest -

The Austrians have opened a breach in on a charge of high treason opened the wall of defence which we had won

ABOUT 300,000 TONS; STILL "LEFT,

A rough calculation of the stocks of copper casa in Shantung alone may be made on the basis of per capita holding of 5 in (about 120). Thers.being

ined to be a population of 00,000.000 holdings are estimated at 300,000,000, ioga weighing 840,000,000 in or nearly 500,000 tons.

CROWN PRINCE'S BIRTHDAY.

at the High Court to-day before they hay sarities beyond our frontier Lord Chief Justice. Me, Justis They have beaten with a hurricane of fire soners who are to be interned in Switzer Owen he did not celebrate the

Harridge, Mr. Justice Avery and Jury.

The Attorney-General (Si F. E. Smith) and the Solicitor-General (Sir

upon our Alpine line as its most delicate point, striving with desperate fury to penetrates into Italian territory. This is the hardest moment of our war: it is also one of the most bitter and vicent

The German Crown Prince 34th thrlay (May 6), was celebrated in an exceedingly unobtrusive manner, re for the comfort of the sick British primarks a writer in a London paper. to his preocupation somewhere and under the agreement recently near entered fuse between the British and festival with his family in Berlin, and German Evernments.

various causes may have prevented the population of the capital from their RALLA

noisy demonstrations of loyalty before the Crown Prince's palace. The newspapers, compelled to notice the event mentioned it in more or less without a runote corners, in most cases.

would superduous word. One

THE PERMANENCE OF THE ENTENTE.

Assaults of the whole European war.. Stanley Buckmaster) were the pro- The battle rages furiously, "The Aus- secuting counsel, and Sergeant A. ftris attack is being made with soloeral Sullivan, Mr. Artemus. Jones and forces in the zorrow zone between the FRENCE VIEWS ON THE FUTURE thought that the heir to so great s Professor J. H. Morgan were counsel Adige and the Val Sugana. The vene for the defence.

Prisoner pleaded "Not Guilty Numerous jurymen were chal- lenged.

GERMAN SUPPLY OF MEN.

The Times of May 27" reports that the following Gern statements have read ed the newspapers of neutral countries -- Chir enemies are still deceiving theta-.

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-LANGUAGE QUESTION.

had assembled 14 divisions of his best. iroops. An Austrias officer who w

Writing in the Tempa" on After the taken prisoner said :--

Alliance, M. Jacques de Dampierre You are not far from the truth insury the reciprocal study of the two reckoning that there are three hundred languages will not sullice to create that thoroughness of comprehension which Thothand mec against you. These coralone can make France and England prise the writes of Danid, Kouvess, and perly understand one another. It is the Forcevic, and these armies are served curious that a knowledge of English be more than even indispensable to by uoliauted artillers. More thin two

Every. thousand pieces are raining on a game frost płojectiles of all calibres,"

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archy, engaged in so gigantic a struggle of arms, and with the eyes of the whole work on his armies, the son, moreover. of so trusted and beloved & father, would have been favoured with more than half a dozen indifferent lines. Clearly there is something wrong

the "Magde bergische Zeitung the organ -of the National Liberals, to give the right This setting to his Imperial Highness. birthday is dominated by Verdun, The

It way

pedoni, by 1 Sukmanite Strite sizes and trying to deceive neutrals, shauliwe approached the Italian trencia, that the twa hupguaxen befront of the Crown Prince's

of Otranto

Most of the cows were payeil,"

FOOD SCARCITY IN GERMANY.

INTERVIEW WITH THE FOOD

DICTATOR...

AMSTERDAM, June 26.

The attack lins been ordered to-mer.

particularly Rumunia and Greece, to say As they advanced they were recognised nothing of America with fables about as Austrian Slav deserters. They said the exhaustions of our supply of men. Germany is overfull of men awaiting the call to whichever part of the front they row. The bombardment will last fran are aceled. These are not a boys or dawn top.n, her the infantry will decrepit middle-aged men, but strong, attack." 6, healthy men, mnging in ugo from X to 37, belonging to both Landwehr and Landsturm

themselves volunteer for service and

in the world in the same way the French themselves have called the Englishman will henceforth judge is key to Paris, has not yet concluded, and On Sunday nwyning May 14 lucation completeness he has a know it would even seem that there is a sort

of French DI

of cessation in the openttions or the arry But beneforth real allies, and no longer we know that it only appears so wid rivals, it is imperative that the mind of that from the first day on which the Both sees should require a just under attacks on Verdun began the operations standing of the dual mentality that have been carried nut by thứ Crown fashioned both the one and the other Prince and his genern! staff with the and this car cinly be realized by a long precision of a mathematical solution, stay of the youth of Both countries. in and that the greatest possible

success The information was exact. A bom-the homes of each.

would be attained with the cast possible-

of bardment of incredible violence began.

Macrifice blood. IMPERFET KNOWLEDGE

"This pleasant feeling of complete There has never been any need, and Aaroplanes megtilted the fire of a 13.

No one is more of a globe-trotter thri there never will he und, to send into the naval gun, which sent five projectiles on the Englishman, and few can beat the deliberation in everything, even in the Trenches men of over 40 less they the town of Asiago. After the bombard French for book knowledge of the other most unimportant step is share aliko possess the requisite physical fitness, ment had ceased the first infiatry attack nations of the world. Yet neither they the army and by the entire nation. one nor the other has really got to know Nowhere is there a trace of anxiety that Herr Batecki, the Food Dictator in Men of over 40 and up to 4 have been cams The troops attacked en masse, all the thousand and and Hittle things the final unknown object of this gigantic

mobilized pierely for the lines of com* I was at the same lirë attacks were made that go to make up the real nature of action will be reached." Clermany, interviewed, hinted that a munication other "non-combatant

used! but they sut about their jour

I ter temporary prohibition of the eorsump duties, so that the men ander 40 are from the Adige to the Val Sugano. Four race. Frenchmen travel more than they tion of meat might be necessary available for active service. Nor is.

in

there ecslaught were made, en Zugna Torta,neys abroad as tourists only. A tourist danger as to the supply. The aum Our machineguns cut down the blue may go all over a country, visit its finest any September. This would be compensated ber of young mm fit for military service manes of men; the wire entanglements monuments and its most remarkable

of the most active kind can be asserted for by an increase in bread"ration with perfect safety at 30,000... Thirty were heaped with dead. The bombard. creations, spend months within its bor ders, and yet know absolutely nothing The coutinuation of the present rations thousand recruits month ere assured ment had destroyed all the first-line of its people as they really art. during the winter depended on the from this scurte ac-long as the war lasts. trenches. The infantry then hurled itself. As for the English, wherever they go. The French General Staff in its com against the advance posts of the Val they take their English ways and habits rest of the harvest.

minigud of May 10 refers somewhat contemptuously to the use au reserves of Terragnolo. The Alpini, deafened by with them, be it merely on the Con wilda: The consognence is that English- wounded men who have been cured and hours of bombardment, defanded every tinent or in the depths of the tropical sent back to the front Fally 85 per foot of the ground fighting always in men who knew Paris ten times better cent of German soldiers wounded in snow. Three terrible bayonet counter than the average Frenchman, who wero arduous military duties within aine

elsewhere in France,

INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE.

SHIRKERS INELIGIBLE FOR ADMISSION.

LONDON, June 26. The Government has accepted

Docks

CLOSING SHARE QUOTATIONS.

Banks

3.30 p.m. 8755 80

123 b

Bugars

119 64

Wharts

B01 sa

Indos Det.. Ce:nents... Trams... Douglases

1286 ca

of b

b

132

this war are fit to resume, the most attacks incerated the Austrian Lines, but perfectly at hrnce, had no idea of what

Rivier and To-day's Advertisements

months of being wounded. We have at the assiants were joumazale, and no the mal Frenchman was like, and had this moment fully 1,500,000 men who help could come as the entire front-ws to wait for this present war and fight have been wounded, but who will be able in action. The Alpini whe remained, se side by side with him to really learn the to go back to the front. At the present.

way mode. time one may say that 1,000,000 of them fow in number, threw thermelves on Las stuff of which he was me are ready at any moment, while 600,000 enemy again, permitting the retirement each month goes by.— Wireless Press,

ANTLESS THAN £1-1 WEEK.'

proposal by Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary will be approaching renewed fitness of the main body to the lics running AFHANCE, AS 311% IR

of State for India, making inelegible for Indian Civil Service any person who had applied for exemption from military. service on the ground of conscientious objection to combatant service. The rule operates immediately.

LORD SELBORNE'S RESIGNATION.

LONDON, June 25, Lord Sellonto's resignation from the Cabinet is discounted. It will not affect the Home Rule situstion.

NOTICE:

both nations realize that they were they

mach

mistaken about, ener from. Malga Milega 'to, Soglio d'Aspio. another. The mistake in being rapidly Even here there was one avalanche of put right. Thousanda, nay, millions, of LICENSING BOARD ELECTION. fire. The enemy artillery had been pour English who, but for the war might

never have

to know France Ding explosives on these positions- for 10

THE ELECTION of s Justice of the ne, now tread ber 3011 and

Peace to the-LICENSING BOARD CANNOT AFFORD TO BE VICAR Hours. The enemy infantry bare attack-have sear and heard so much that the called for To-marrow-

day, Jajc PLACE ANY LONGER.

ing ware conihilated and the enemy dead scales hire fallen from their eyes, even 28th, WILL NOT TA fill the valleys, hut fresh troops swarmed though they could not speak with the

tongue of the land. Those who survive ABY ORDER up from al-paris.

Colonial Secretary's Office the war will surely be filled with a desire Learn still more France The French, on thinsirle, will feel tos rame towards the English

Owing to the fact that he has never received more than £46 & year, the Vicar

遍 of Radley, the Rer. C. B. Longland, can zot afford to hold the post any longer and has resigned. To the Poral Deanery Magazine be staton

The reason is stern necesity, a

Night fell on the first day's slaughter.

The higher grade schools in both CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BALM France and England could arrange an interchange of pupils for three to six TOUCH of rheating, or a tenge months every year. At the age when cannot afford to be vicarkany longer. newralgia, whatever the trouble in the mind is being formed and w Whilst my mother was alive it could be Chamberlain Pain Palin drives away the pressions are most Indelibly impresset, znanaged, but now all my ciretinstantes pain at one so cures the complaintanch asta? would do mo

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