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TRIDAY, JULY 7, 1916.

THE

LATEST

WAR.

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail,}

HE NAVAL FIGHT.

ADMIRAL JELLICÕE'S DESPATCH.

THE ESENT'S LOŠŠĒS.

LONDON, July G.

→ 'Ahmiral Jellicoe's despatch on the naval ight on May 1st-Jüne fat, places the enemy a losses as follows:

THE BRITISH FRONT.

BRITISH RAIDS IN LA BASSEE CANAL REGION.

LONDON, July & General Sir Douglas Haig reports a further alight advance near Thiepval

Sonth of the La Ramsee Canal after a discharge of smoke and gus, we made successful raids on the enemy line. The

Two battleships of the Dread-Royal Welsh Fusiliers specially dis

nought type. One battleship of the Deutchland

type.

Five light cruisers.

Six destigers,

One submarine.

"All the above were seen to sink.

Two buttle-cruisers, une battleship 51 the Dreadnought type and three destroyers were seen to be so severely amaged that their retum to port was extremely doubtful- admittedly sank.

THE CHINA MAIL.

GERMAN "ADMISSIONS.

ALLIES' SUCCESSES HÄST AND TEST.

LONDON, July 6/1

A German official announcement gradingly admits the British progress near Thiepvat, the evacuation of Hem, and the French capture oll Bolloy Fighting for Estroca, it says, is proceeding.

The communique speaks of heavy fighting on the Russian front and reveals that General von Bothmer's forces in the Barysz hector have retired upon Tooropise, which is the next line of defence.

ITALIAN FRONT.

1.

ITALIAN OFFENSIVE SUCCESS. FULLY CONTINUES.

LONDON, July.6. An Italian official announcement tinguished themselves, and took forty say: Our offensive between Lagarina prisoners..

and Sugant Valleys continues, and our The Highland Light Infantry success-pressure on Adigo and Astice obliged fully raided enemy trenches west of the enemy to withdraw. Halluch. Many Germans were killed und some taken prisoner.

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LATER Low: louds interfered with nero- plane work, but u British machine in the Tapavme arou, dropping, to 800ft., successfully bombed a train

From which Geruir reinforcernents

Were plighting.

BRITISH CASUALTIES,

LONDON, July 6..

been killed and Captain Craig is re- Brigadier-General C. B. Prowse has

ported as rounded and missing."

THE BRITISH PRISONERS AT

RUHLEBEN.

LONDON, July 6.

In the House of Lords, iu answer to neation, Lord Newton said that the

A British battery in another aress seened direct hits on a Gorman heavy battery and a battalion on a

ute march, indieting 'rung' casual-German reply to the British request this British prisoners at Rublaber should either be fed or released had

(Assuming that all the ships in Admiral Jellicoe's wond, ist did not resum, terung hast. in capital ships 135,500 tots against British less of 108,800 tons.

This gives a total of over 244,000 tens destroyed, not counting sies. destroyers. It will be of interest to recall that, the tonnag of the capita ships wink in the last great carl fight that of the Japanese agaifist the Russians -which, curiously enough, vecured on the same date in 1903-May 1st-was only 93.000 tons.-Ed.)

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THE DESPATCH AND AN EXPERT'S

COMMENTARY. -

LATER.

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Admiral Sir Johnu Jellicoe's «Hapatch will be an historie dogument in the anpals of the Nary. It appeals rather to students of sea warfare, than to "the layman who does not find it easy follow the technicalities.

At the same time the public is delight led to Hnd in the despatch the fullest j confirmation of the British claims hased,

Admiral. Jellicoe says, on a most

Details of the mud by the Welsh Fusiliers show that three enemy mine been received. Germany bad not shafts were destroyed and the enemy categorically refused the request, and suffered 150 casualties, excluding their reply was being studier. the 43 prisoners brought back..

THE FRENCH FRONT.

Paris, Fuly, 61

A Gennan counter-attack gained two little woods a mile worth of Hem while we captured a wood on the edge of the village..

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VISCOUNT FRENCH.

LONDON, July 6 Field Marshal Viscount French has become the Colonel of the Irish Guards.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE.

BRITISH ADYANCE IN GERTAIN

SECTORS.

BUSINESS GOVERNMENT."

"DALL FOR MINISTERS OF AIR,

COMMERCE, AND SCIENCES:

HARPER'S

PRICKLY HEAT POWDER

Presiding at the ordinary general A NATURAL EMOLLIENT AND ABSORBENT DUSTING POWDER meeting of inrebollers in Hadfield SCIENTIFICALLY COMFOUNDED FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF (Limited), at Sheffield, Sir Robert Hack ALL ITCHING INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS OF THE SKIN,

feld said that Shefield had "donn

its duty to the utmost of its pawar PREVENTION in connection with supplies for the war.

OF

Apply a small quantity of the Pric Powder to the Soles of the Fest nach bety

Toon ?" this will ensure perfect case

Sore and Bilatera.pd PRICE 75 CENTS PER TIN,

LONDON, July 6. General Sir. Daugiaa. Haig, in unique state- Fighting has been continuous, but He appealed to labour not to lot consisting mostly of local struggles for was at the anature stand in the SORE FEET

way of the utmost output.” advanced shgasly in certain sectors Ministers for special work, Sir Robert strong points, the result being that weDealing with the question of special Wa lost no ground.

times seems to be framed on not very said: Our system of government at

scientific lines.

The German casualties today were very heavy

The total prisoneri now exceeds 6,000, There was the ordinary tranch warfare elsewhere.

FRENCH RESUME OFFENSIVE- GERMANS DRIVEN FROM ESTREES

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as far ne I am aware we have not a For example, it is a technical age; single representative of the technical

business men in the Government:

Surely, some of our great engineers could have been wall called to give their counsel at a time of atres like the

present. This present terrible war is most certainly k technical "one,, And | PARIS, July 6. demands all the bent efforts of science A communiqué enten p

and technical knowledge, whether as The French have resumed the offencegaztia military engineering, mechanical engineering, electric engineering, sixe north of the Somme,

We captured the second German chemical engineering, civil engineering position east of Curhi on a front of two mining engineering, hydraulic engineer

lomstres

ing, metallurgical engineering, and Werrepulsed counterattacka south of other different branches. the Somme, and finally drove the Germans from. Estroen. We now' hold the second German position south of the Somme on a front of ten kilometres.

Five hundred more prisoners were taken."

There were *only intermittent bombardments at Verdun.

SLOW PROGRESS EXPLAINED.

"DISTINGUISHED NEUTRAL'S PRAISE OF BRITISH FEROISY.

THREE MORK MINISTERS. WANTED,

All these are called into operation every day of the war. Yet, to the best of my knowledge, the Cabinet does not contain a single representative of any of those important branches. This being the case a radical departure is called for in our method of government, and that quickly. Surely, therefore, it is more than ever necessary to appoint three. Meparate and distinct Ministers—– a Minister of Commerce, a Minister of Scienço, and n Minister of Air..........

The enemy is well represented in this respect, and I can personally vonch for the fact that the head of Krupp's bud for many years personally reported Lossos, July 6. every fortnight, by actual attendance of The slower British. progress is ex-correspondence, direct to the bead of plained in a French semi-ofhelal report that Empire us to the progress of the on the ground that the Germans expert-work at Essen.

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ed a British, not a "French,"attack, As a correspondent pointed out in the thinking that the latter had been ex-Daily Telegraph not long ago, and hausted at Verdun the Germans accor upon whose article I recently comment dingly massed their best troops againated in a contribution to that paper, there the British.

certainly should be a Minister of Scienco.

The French papers are therefore most "enlogistic upon Britain's effort, especially THE IRISH SETTLEMENT. of the brilliant capture of La Boisselle, which was the enemy's strongest organisation.

AGREEMENT IN THE CABINET.

Losnos, July 6:

It is stated that the Cabinet has

A German atmek at Builey was agreed to Mr. Lloyd George's Irish easily repulsed.

proposals with additional safeguards The Germane made series of providing for Imperial control of areful examination of many individual counter-attacks north of Ham, north harbours and strategic points and the officers, as to the havoc wrought to the of the Somme, and between Estrees protecion of Unionists, in the South

German Fleet.

The opening words of the despatch tell with professional terseness the origin and purpose of the battle.

and Belloy. All were shuttered by our curtain fire

and West.

A Bill is being prepared to gito

The Germans lost heavily, includ-effect to the settlement and it will be introduced into the House of Commons ing prisoners. Two companies in a shortly. SIR,-De pleased to inform the communication trench "were annihil- Lada" Commissioners of the Adated by enfilading machine-guin fire. miralty that the German High

Seas Fleet was "hrought' to action

on May 31st westwaril of Jutland.

The ships of the Grand Fleet, in pursuance of general policy of periodical sweeps through the North Sen had left its base the previous day, in accordance with my instructions.* The commentary of a Naval expert issued simultaneously with the despatch shows that Admiral Sir David Beatty's || Fleet was the gulvance'squadram, sod-it mana menure of risk in attacking the enemy before Admiral Jellicoe was able to join battle, but Admiral Beatty followed Nugen's goldon rule: "Attack meha taffy in sight and cling to him as long your teeth will hold out." The derillidel some courage, but he did not tank flinch.

GERMANS ATTEMPT TO HTT

CATHEDRAL AT VERDUN.

There was only artillery activity

INDIAN TEA AND INDIGO INDUSTRIES.

Loxpos, July 7. Mr. Chamberlain stated in the House

in the Meuse regkm, the Germans of Commons that negotiations are, pro- attempting to hit the Cathedral atending with the State of Travancore for remedying the grievance of the double export duty on ten

Verdun..

GERMAN TRENCH PENETRATED IN

ALSACE.

A detachment of ours penetrated German trench at Burnhaupt in Alsace.and found it full of corpses.

THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

SUCCESSES IN MANY SECTORS.

T

PETROGRAD, July 6, --

When a flue combination of the two

A communiqué records successes in fleets had been effected the enemy many sectors from Rigs to the Car

would have had little hops of escaping decisive defeat but for the mist, which robbed the British of the harvest, they deserved

A STRIKING EPISODE. "The following striking episode of the battle deserves quotation:

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A thousand of the enemy were. raken prisoner at Baranovitchi,

The enemy on the right bank of the Dneister were routed and hundreds taken prisoner. A

The small town of Mikelitchine, on the railway between Kerosmizo and

AUSTRIAN LOSSES..

The Marlborough opened fire at Dolityn, has been captured, 6.17 in the evening, firing seven salvoes it in ship of the Kaiser class Then sheengaged a cruteer and another battleship. She was hit by a torpedo at 6.5 and listed considerably, but at 7.3 she re-opened fire at the cruiser andat 7.12 fired fourteen rapid salvoes. at a ship of the Koeing class, hitting her frequently until she quitted the fine."

Recording the gallantry of the officers and crews, Admiral Jellicoe'

OYER HALF A MILLION IN A ΜΟΝΤΗ.

PETROGRAD, Jaly B.

The General Staff estimates that the Austrian losses have been over half-a- millica in the past month.

He also stated that he had communi- eated with other Departments of the Imperial Government which used izdigo in the hope that after the war they would favourably consider the claims.of the Indian industry, but he emphasised the necessity of the planters co-operating to insure, more scientific cultivation, and better preparation and mirketting. arrangements in order to secure durable results.

MEDICAL ARRANGEMENTS IN

· MESOPOTAMIL.--

LONDON, y 72 Mr. Chamberlain announced in the House of Commone that the Report of the enquiry futa the mechical arrango- ments in Mosopotamia had not yet been received

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STRIPE FOR BRITISH WOUNDED.

LONDON, July 6 An Army Order states that wounded officers and men will henceforth wear a

There is a concensus of praise for the heavery of the new armies.

GENERAL STAFF QUITE SATISFIED.

A ntan may be educated, but not necessarily scientific. More education alone, therefore, does it necessarily, fit! the man for an important post in the Cabinet Asquith is my political

Whilst Mr. chief, I should like him to know, dad I feel sure I represent the views of the business meri in Sheffield, that if ho does not give us a Minietor of Com- merce the business men and men of commerce in this country will rise; in serious protest..

A distinguished neutral observer says the first triumphant assault was at Mametz, which the enemy believed impregnable. He does not believe that there was ever a more galant feat in war. Nothing the Japanese did against the Russians was so perfectly heroic.

CONSULAR SERVICES. Similarly at Commecourt, though the Brith failed to capture the salient, "Our Ambassadorial and Consular the British troops have not died in service need serious revision, continued vain, for they held the German masses, Sir Robert. The diplomatic career enabling success to be attained at other should he open, not to any par points.

ticular clique or set, hat to the ablest among us who will force Lord Cromer and Mr. Bryce, who did their way upwards by ability Outside

so much for as in America, and from whose work we are today in many ways berefiting, we have not had many othor Ambasadora who have kept LONDON, July 6 either themselves or as properly in touch Mr. Bonar Law, speaking at a banquet with the country in which they were in London in honour of the representa sent to represent Great Britain. When Lives of the Dominions now visiting meeting some of our Ambassadors England, said that the General Staff abroad I have found that to talk to were quite satisfied with the result of them of British commercial interests the struggle so far. The deeds of the was a matter quite taboo,” in other Dominion troops had become a house words, it was somewhat beneath, their longer than the enemy's, and the staring attache or the consul was called to, these hold, word. Our resources will last notice. Either the Brat or secund power of burrace will see as to the end.cften being men of anying but the right type or nature, or who properly under stood such question

THE STAYING POWER OF OUR

BACE

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THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

ROUTED NEAR BUCZACZ.

I say most emphatically that these! posts should be thrown open to the highest and best trained amongst un There is no doubt that much of the PETROGRAD July.6.cause of the present crisis has been owing A communigad states:The Russians to our being most inefficiently supplied routed the enemy on the right bank of with information, whether diplomatic, the Dueister, south of Buczacz They consular, or commercial) EST cut the railway which extends from If we had been told how things were Delaytin, in Galicia, to Koroemezo, going on the Continent, it is certain the Hungary

UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.

CARRANZA ACCEPTS PRINCIPLE OP MEDIATION.

WASHINGTON, July 5 General Carranza has accepted the principle of mediation, thus averting any danger of way.

nition would not have withheld its' sup: port. In other words, either we wera not told, which was most reprehensible, of if the authorities knew more than the public they did not act upon the fu- forinatio

Our authorities, therefore, are greatly. to blame in allowing the British nation to be misled. Notwithstanding this terrible condition of things in which wa temporarily find ourselves, we shall, if we exercise our usual tendcity of purpots, and courage, safely emerge, and I trust with sounder and better

gold braid stripe on the left ann, and an BISHOP & GERMAN BLUNDER.views on matters of the nature - additional stripe each time wounded.

THE WAR COMMITTEE OF THE

BRITISH CABINET/

says The conduct of all throughout RUSSIA'S ACHIEVEMTENS. Committed's conduct of the war d

was entirely beyond praise. No words

There was an amusing blunder on the

programme of one of the May Meeting To-day's Advertisements

In the Inst verso of the National Anthem,

as printed, appeared the lines

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That men should kharish ber

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