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Subacribed Capital £4,500,000

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128,230

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Branches..... Ravenue Marine Department. $37,299 Other Romeipt

$78.940

25,339.228.

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TELEGRAMS

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BIG ENEMY COUNTER- ATTACK.

BRITISH LINE INTACT.

LONDON, May 21. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Hai reports-

After a heavy bombardment the enemy counter-attacked in consider able strength on front of 1,200 Jurde ugniest our new positionis north-westward of Merville. Despite the intensity of his artillery prepars tion, his infuntry only succeeded in reaching our positions at two points,

GREAT BRITAIN'S SILVER BULLETS.

SUBSCRIPTIONS TO WAR BONDS:

A PRODIGIOUS TOTAL

LONDON, May 21. National War Bonds received by the The total subscriptions to the Bank of England 'up to May 17th

£698,000,000

28,300,000 and the number of

The Post Office e

War Savings Certificates issued is 163,000,000, both up to May 11th.

where they were dealt with effee FIGHTING IN THE BALKANS tively by our troops.

Our whole line is intact.

The French repulsed two night | mids northward of Bailléal.

We took a few prisoners and one machine-gur it a patrol encounter in the neighbourhood of Boyelles.

THE ENEMY'S COMING BLOW.

ENEMY'S LOST, FAITH IN OVERWHELMING VICTORY.

LosDor, May 21. Rauser's Correspondent at French Headquarters, telegraphing, to-day,

ENEMY ATTACKS BRITISH AND

FRENCE:NEG

LONDON, May 21.

A French Eastern communiqué. states:--

Enery artillery violently bombard ed, the British trenches east of the Doinyn and our positions north-west of Pogradec.

GERMAN SOCIALISTS CONNIVE IT CRIMES.

TE VIEWS OF AN AMERICAN**

SOCIALIST.

The activity of the German zero-

New You, May 21 planes and the exceptional violence of the artillery bombardments on the evetul times the Socialist candidate

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persecu

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Zonebeke and Nayon nearly one-third neighbours, and the imprisonment of of the whole of their strength in Liebknecht, Rosa and Luxembourg, France, namely, & Divisions out of German Socialats are not only dis u totul of 210 Divisions. They have inclined to protest, but are incapable carried out the re-distribution of their et revolting against barbarous mil forces along the whole front, and turism, even allowing themselves to have notably withdrawn considerably be used for the base purpose of he It must be borne in mind that, tionary neighbours. It is no use any

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INCREASED ACTIVITY

CLEVELAND, May 21

him to move great masses of troops to a considerable distance during the 48 hours preceding the blow. His method of attack can hardly differ in ossentials from that of March. · On the other hand, the events of the pust two iconths have greatly

The Shipping Controller, hasar- strengthened our defence. Efective ranged an agreement with the Great surprise scarcely possible a second fakes shipbuilders, to construct 180- time. The intermingling of the vessels cuch of over 1,000 gross tons, Allied Armies on the Front enables deliveries to be completed in the us to unke the best use of all the autumn of 1919- resources, while the single Comunand ensures unity of aetion and will of the Allies. The German numbera will be as imposing as before, but the reformed Divisions cannot "be" equally good The German soldier must have lost faith in overwhelming victory,

'THE' BELGIAN FRONT.

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.

LONDON, May 21

A Belgian comuniqué states:-} Reprocal artillery activity waa very great during the past 2 hours.

ITALIANS, DEFEAT. THE ENEMY.

GARRISON DESTROYED, “

who

LONDON, May 21.3 An Italian efficiul report states: We defented the exclyny twice attacked the southern slopes of Sasso Hondo. Our thrret is the direction of Fever inflicted consider uble loneur

U.S.A. NAYAL PATROLS AND

AIRCRAFT.

TO BE INCREASED,

WASHINGTON, May 21. The United States is impresstag det naval patrols in European wateri and also itavat aircraft:-

TORPEDOED ALLIED TRANSPORT.

JAPANESE DESTROYERS SAVE ALL ON BOARD.

New York, May 21. Tokio telegram states that cscorting - Japanese destroyera un May 8rd saved all du board the torpedoed Allie transport in the Mediterranean!

SPANISH SAILING SHIP NEIR

SAFRICAN COAST

DERERIDT

LAS PALMAY May 21.

The Spanish ting! We carried out a succesful coup has been brought m de main yan outerinoncia,

Sha

as found drifung a derelicti

cet destroying the garrison and close to the African diast with inforcements Mar king

of guminosand, domag

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