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TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1916.

THE

LATEST

WAR.

TELEGRAM S.

(Router's Service to the China Mail.)

THE ANGLO-FRENCH

OFFENSIVE...

THE FRENCH CAPTURES.

Lostos, July 17.

The French captures in the Somme region to the 13th inst. include:

Officers

9295

Men

...... 11.976 Guns

Machine-guns

Minenwerfer

85

90

21

These captures do not include material buried in the wrecked trenches and the guns which were immediately turned against the

enemy.

ATTACK ON HUSSIAN TRENCH REPULSED.

PARIS, July 17. An enemy coup de main' against trench in the Russian" sector in

Champaign was repulsed with loss by a counter-attack.

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THE VERDUN REGION.

PARIS. July 17.

The night has been comparitively quiet around Verdun except for a hvely fussilade on Hill 301.

Detachments of ours progressed wast of Fleury and captured three machine guns.

Two enemy attacks south-east of Nomeny, in Lonuine, were repulsed and prisoners taken.

THE ITALIAN FRONT.

SEYERE HAND-TO-HAND

FIGHTING.

JJ

LONDON, July 17. An Italian communique states that a heavy onemy attack in Uppor Posina supported by concentrated artillery was entirely repulsed by a counter-attack after severe band-to- hand fighting.

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BRITAIN'S WAR EXPENDITURE,“

SIX MILLIONS A DAY.

LONDON, July 17:

In the House of Commons Mr. McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated that Great Britain's total expenditure now was £6,000,0000 daily.

THE MEMORIAL TO LORD

KITCHENER.,

LONDON, July 17 Over £18,000 has already been received towards the Memorial to Lord

Kitchener.

ANOTHER RUSSIAN COUP.

A DAY'S BAG IN YOLHYNIA. -..

PETROGRAD, July 17. It is officially announced that yesterday the Russians captured in Volbynis 817 officers, 12.637 non and 30 guns, including 17 heavy guns.

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ENEMY'S WITHDRAWAL S.W. OF LUTSK.

THE CHINA MAIL.

KAISER IN THE SOMME BATTLES

AREA.

AMSTERDAM, July 17, An oficial message from Berlin saye the Kaiser is at present in the battle sector in the Somme valley visiting hospitals, distributing Iron Crosses not | delivering speeches.

THE RUSSIAN FRONT

A RUSSIAN..ENYELOPMENT MOVEMENT.

PETROGRAD, July 16. A communiqué states: South-east of Strugiaki, west of Lutak, the enemy Fattached in masses at many points and

were driven back.

"

The Russians crashed a desperato resistance, in the sectors of. Oshoff and Goubine, and began to envelope the enemy, who fled, adandoning several heavy guns and field-guns. Up to the present 3,000 prisoners have been

counted.

2.

GERMANT'S PRISONERS.

HARBARDUS TREATMENT OF RUSSIANS.

REPRESENTATIVE: HEGIME).

PEKING PACKED WITH HERO. BOOMERS.

HARPER'S

PRICKLY HEAT POWDER

With the revival of the representative The indignation of the Russian poopia has been aroused to a high pitch by the system of Government evorg Tom, & NATURAL EMILLIENT AND ABSORBENT DUSTING POWDER constantly growing and convincing evi Dick and Harry seems to be send SCIENTIFICALLY COMPOUNDED FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF dence of the savage and inhuman tresting representatives to Felting to lay the ment which is being meted ous to views of their respective bosans before AL ITCHING INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS OF THE SKIN. Russian prisoners of war in Germany, the Government. Peking is now pack-

PREVENTION writes the Petrograd porrespondent ofed with this class of representatives. the "Central Nows."

OF

The following letter, published by Petrograd paper, written by a Russian prisoner of war in Germany, has created

quoted

Enter any of the well-known hotela in Poking and you can lay your hazid on one of those so-called representatives, the and is being moment you enter

neat them in fashionable restaurants, tan-shope theatres and other resorts such as the modern cafesin the Central

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The life of war prisoners is a very hard one particularly for the Russians The French English, and Belgians are

If you see a number of carriages and better off, because they receive parcels from home nearly every day,

whereas the Russians are suffering from hunger automobiles outside a restaurant or cafe. and cold. The food in our camp, as in you know a dinner is being given inside others, is such that the Russian people in honour of some of these represents would scarcely care, to feed their pigs tives. In some cases a single individunt with it. The bread is half mass, sawdust, represents several prominent man ;in and potatoes-half pound of it for other cases a single individual is repre- each man. For supper we have some and of four with hot water, and this sented by several representativer. The we have eaten now every day for many streets are also full of them. You se months. Sometimes we receive sausage carriages and automobiles dashing hither or half & berring. Most of our prisoners and thither; in them you will find re- have become anmamie; and exhausted, presentatives of the category under sapecially those who are wounded or sick notice. A humourist remarks that the Many have thed: Welive amid diet; the

and we sleep door step of the President's Office and on the floor.. cannot, be

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE KING OF GREECE.

Aruss, July 16. GERMAN OFFICIAL ADMISSION.

The fire in Tato fóreat is still raging the Russians treat their prisoners in have been worn down at least one inch during the last week by the frequent The Crown Prince's residence has been such a manner. AMSTERDAM, July 17.

The treatment of the Russian pri- calls of these representatives.

But what are all these representatives destroyed. Her Majesty the Qugen soners is brutal. They are struck with Princess Catherine. His Majesty the tied and hanged to posts (even the King remained to the last and escaped wounded); and there is no one to whom to assist in reuniting the North and Many we can complain. Discipline is vary South; but the rest are hara booming with the greatest difficulty.

severe, probably worse than that which their respective "heroes "the persons exists in any criminal establishment they represent. Now that all the soldiers are missing.

Most of us have been in ma y camps, monarchists must leave Peking, there but it is the same every where

barracks are never wasbechble that the floor of the office of the Premier |

A Gerwin official statement makes the importans admission that General escaped from the Royal chateau carrying the fist, or with 'ox ainows; they are doing here1 Somo, it is true, are here.

Linsinger's forces south-west of Lutsk have withdrawn behind the Lipa, which is a tributary of the Styr, north-west of Brody on the Galician, frontier. This indicates more sente Russian, pressure towards Lemberg.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS. -

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BRITISH CASUALTIES IN THE OFFENSIVE.

NEWFOUNDLANDERS LOSE HEAVILY.

LONDON, July 15. There is a consensus of opinion that the casualties in the great attack' |

·were

mall compared with such a

CASEMENT'S APPEAL.

LONDON, July 17. The Court of Criminal Appeal, over which Mr. Justice Darling is presiding, began the bearing of Roger Casements appeal against sentence of death for high

treason.

Serjeant Sullivan for appellant, indicated that the appeal was based on the grounds, firstly, that the charge was not an offence within the statute cited: secondly, that the Lord Chief Justice's definition of adhering to the King's

'enomies" was insecurate:

AMERICAN LEGAL NOMINATION,

WASHINGTON, July 16. Mr. Justice Clark, of Ohio, has been

Everybody is compelled to work. seams to be plenty of offices for the self- Our prisoners are forced to carry out all assumed heroes of revolution." It is, of the refuse and this combined with the course, undignified for these harpes to daily round of starvation, produces sacek office, although they heartily desire depressing effect on the spirit of the to do so. So it is necessary for their them bit. Consequently the various we are guarded by sentinels (terri-agents the representatives to boost torials) who are old men, lame, and had blind even the services of the men who vernacular papers are full of interviews. Russian with these representatives. In fact, one have been prisons as invalids are utilised. The often sees mimeographed copies of the sentinels are armed with Russian and so-called interviews scattered broadcast French rifles. The failures of the Ger by mai. By whom? The represent mans at the front are reflected on the atives, of course prisoners, these days being marked by severe repressione We are worse than

free from set

if we were dead.

* **

As misfortune will have it, the repre- sentatives represent "heroes" of all views, varieties of On the whole cur lives are so miser shades and able that we have sufficient cause for ideas, principles and what-not. So there. suicide. Now we have become somewhat is a conflict of representation and accustomed to car sufferings, but what different methods of boosting. A certain

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wonderful feat. No unit suffered com-nominated Supreme Judge in succession per from our memorie van Shou and abayerl hy the South; but another

parably with the Newfoundlanders, to Judge Hughes, the Republicna Pre- whose losses on the lat inst. were the sidential candidate.

heaviest up to that date, or to a London battalion, who were second to them, also on the 1st inst. Naturally there vere sometimes heavy losses, especially where the wire was not cut and the self-sacrificing. first waves cleared the way for their successors.

The South Africans were in the fore- front near Foureaux, or High Wood, at an altitude of 500 feet, the Eigbest point in the neighbourhood, where the German third line, was penetrated, and

EDITH CAYELL'S "CRIME."

GERMAN SUBJECTS IMPRISONED

FOR A LIKE OFFENCE.

we endured at the beginning of our group of representatives believe that of imprisonment can ever be Mr. T is the mun unanimously admired A Russian war prisoner, pikin, who, with five comrades, succeed-group repudiates the same and says that ed in escaping from a German prisoners Mr. H. in the man of the hour. The camp, and is now in a l'etrograd hospital third group then steps forward and says: "It is painful to recall what we says that they are all wrong for Mr. S. bad to undergo. We were treated in is really the person who has done the barbarous manner, we were. beaten for Herculean work of the republican cause. every trifle; or worse still we were hung

The most interesting feature of this up. They tied ropes under our arms

"representative" invasion of the Capital from the and pulled us about a

& Fard

sposition for is the love which every group of repre- ground, keeping us in, this

tied to sentatives has for the other. Mention an hour bometimes we were A farmer and a curpenter in North trees. We were fed with turnips such the name of a certain representative of a

catle and received us people give to Schleswig have recently bean tried at pounds of broad each weekly. The certain highly prominent man and watch your informer is surprised to hear that bread is a kind of fixture, and you feel for developments. You will be told that no desire to eat it. One of our men was Mr. So and So has sent a representative. to Poking. What does he representi be dhot dead on the spot because be stole

raw potatoes." whose fields rac right up to the frontieren of our officers and soldiers, with will ask. He has no troops, no party, has, was proved to have been instra faces of an earthert hue, have just not even a follower, except his repre mental in enabling three youths to fly arrived from prisons in Germany," writes sentative in Peking, and so on. But in

Russkeye Slove."

ovo spite of it all the. Government seems to the country. He was sentenced-to-five-M. Petroff in the "

Several of them show signs of suffering think a greas deal of these representa ycars" penul servitude, and the carpenter and the muscles of their faces are tives. It humcurs them. It respects

twitching

hing nervously, whilst two of them

in which a detachment remained all Flensburg for baving aided and abetted Saturday night covering those who were young men of military age in escaping consolidating the position behind The over the Danish frentier. The farmer, country beyond the ridge which com- manded Foureaux is less wooded and broken and more favourable for further operations.

THE PIERCING OF THE SECOND LINEA

so two years, A

th

Ru

This is practically the saw offence for suffer from hallucinations These men them. It listens to them, and it treats which Edith Cavell was done to death, have escaped from various German them to dinners and banquets. After She was accused of having aided: the camps Three of them are from a camp all we are in a representative regime. near Strassburg, where they were com- Blaskee, whether they represent indivi- TROOPS MUCH HEARTENED. escape of man who might conceivably fight pelled to work on the German fortifica duals or the people. They are repre-

against Germany; the two German sub tions. In all seven attempted to escape LONDON, July 16.

after being The troops at the Front are greatly let in North Schleswig deprived the from here, but only three aucceeded; sentatives!"-Peking Gazette.

wounded,

According to the stories of fugitives heartened by the piercing of the German German army of a certain number of two were recaptured second line. For the first time on the recruits.

Whatever the technical difference the Russian prisoners, are continually Western front, they say, the aril spell is

The treatment accord broken. With the German line on the between the two offences, their practical trying to escape.

The first offendered them is so cruel and inhuman that British left from Hebuterne to Thieval result is the same.

If it were necessary to ran practically intact, the troops further was an Englishwoman; she was shot. they willingly face all manner of risks YUAN'S FAVOURITE CONCUBINE. south were individually aware that it The second aftenders are German subthrough a burning forest in order to was up to them" to reach the second-jects (probably Danish by race or sym escape thousands of Russian prisoners line, so as there could be a break pathies); they are imprisoned for five would pass through, the fire without through All worked in the most feverish manner to be ready for the years or two years.

second blow, the rapidity of whose de- livery testified to the wonderful general-

ahip and organisation. It was the British

J{

line regiments, the English, Scots, Irish,

A FAMOUS VICTORY.

and the Walsh, nazisted by the South It was a summer evening, H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES.Africans who achieved the feat of Old Bethmann's beer was done

LONDON, July 17,

"His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been gazetted Deputy. Arastant Quartermaster-General.

THE IRISH QUESTION.

LONDON, July 17. In the House of Commons Mr Asquith announced that the Home Rule Amending Bill will be introduced be fore the Recess. The permanent settle ment of the Irish Question would be considered by the Imperial Conference -after the war

smashing the fortifications on which the Germans had spent two years, and had massed men and guns during the last ten days to resist us.

NO STRAGGLERS.

And ho, before the sandy shore Was sitting in the sur Instructing for the hundredth time- Bis grandson Fritz von Hoggenheim..

*Twas where the German Ocean reare Ita cresta of snowy foam, We met and beat the British Fleet, And then retreated horse, We bolted like the deuce," said he, "After that famous victory.

When things were looking very blue A shoreward course we shaped;

Our noble Admiral's mind,

An unprecedented feature of such great and fierte fighting was that there were absolutely no strugglers. Men of all classes bave done their job with w faltering gallantry and determination. Their work was all the more difficult, as the fighting was all uphill, with a grad- We lost about a score of ships, ual rise of two hundred feet, with Bat all the rest escaped,

And, in unconquerable pride, many intervening hollows, yet the Made for a port in which to hide" Infantry were so keen that they swept over the first trenches at a single rush" A world of human pity filled In the darkness at some places they and so he broke the action off were so far ahead of schedule time that and left the foe behind. they had to wait impatiently till the We always act like that," said be, guns were lifted. The enemy was "After a famous victory apparently overwhelmed before he "In our communiqués we made could pull himself together, but beyond No indiscreet remark Mr. Mckman has not yet tapped the first lines the woods were strongly For we had cautiously resolved. several of the curious sources to which held with maxim-gans and rifles. It To keep our losses darkg Holland Has turned for the extra six was here that the losses were more A course invariably applied million pounds needed to maintain the serious. The whale operation was By people on the winning side.-- increased output of munitions referred cessful beyond our hopes. Bat the to in the communiqué just issued by the top of the ridge repins, to be creased, Dutch General Headquarters. Railway and then the German commanding sent tickets, for example, are made to 2007bale £200,000; and £140,000 is the position will be reversed

expected from church property

and pour eundations Oddest of all, She Dutch Minister of Finance has been impelled to makes levy upon all Christian names of newly-born baby with the exception of one

GRAMP COLIO.

ATO nood of enflering from cramps.in inal pains.

GERMANS IN WEST BELGIUM

MADDEN, UNEASY

And, after that, the beaten for Blockaded all our ports...

And ran-us short of meat and bread,

And goods of various sorte! Buch things as this must always be After a famous victory,"

But why did we allow them to The artless Fritz inquired.

Because they had so strong a fleet They did an they setired. Sach cruel things must always be While brutal Britain ruled the sea,

But Grandpapa, said little Fritz,

we had.

Flite the sea": the Why th

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LORD: KITCHENER,

are by bir,

The following limes Robert Bridges, the Poet Laurente: Unflinching hero, watchful to foresee And face thy country's paril wheresoe'er, Directing war and peace with equal care, Tilly long toil annobled thou wert he Whom England call'd and bade "Set

my arm free

To obey my will and save my honour

fair

What day the foe presumed on her

despair

And she herself had trust in none but

thee:

Among Hercules deeds the miracle That mass'd the labour of ten years in

one.

Shall be thy monument. Thy work is

dorie

Ere, we could think thes, and the high

aes swell

Surgeth. unheeding where thy prond

ahip fell

By the lone Orkneys, ere the set of sun,

that

A London weekly-points out the Jutland battle occurred on the 686t day of the War that Kitchener was in his 60th year, whilst the news of his death was received on the 6th day of the 6th month of 19107 And we have heard that the crew of the Hampshire number ed 6068 1 Strange, isn't it

CAUSES AND CURE FOR DIARRHOEA VEREATING, o change in the

rature; unripe, some of the

A TRUE STORY.

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