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WAR NEWS

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TERRIFYING TALE FOR THE HUNGARIANS. The papers published last month most

An officer wounded north of Arras astounding German information with states: The troops at sunrise on Sunday gard to the British preparations for received warning to attack the hill, and The Petit Journal publishes an inter-throwing thousands of bloodhounds shouts of joy were raised. The artillery The annual meeting of this Company view with Dr. Jules Glover, who has rande against the German lines, says the forn-hattered the German trenches with terrific was held on the 11th May at Electra a wonderful discovery in connection with ing Post's Petrograd correspondent

effect, hunting men and earth high in the

House, Finsbury pavement, London the telephone, which is about to be com municated to the Academy of Medicino by Professor Arsonval...

Dr. Glover says I have found a way of telophoning which leaves the face free for reading and the hands free for writ ing, without any apparatus for the mouth or nose, or even at the side. A voice is particularly pure and clear. I am look. Ing after wounded soldiers at Beaujon, and while ausculating them by means of microphones I succeeded little by little in discovering a new telephone transmitted by means of the microphonic auscultation of the voice."-Reuter.

USE OF POISON-GAS.

ARCHBISHOP'S VIEW.

The Archbishop of Canterbary, in a letter to Mr. Asquith deprecated sense- tess riots or the desire for retaliation in He said he regard to the use of gas. hoped Britain would never lower herself to the level of the enemy. He believed in the nation's righteous indignation taking a worthier form in a resolve that all should throw every ounce of strength against the entry.

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Mr. Asquith, in reply, emphasised the German General Staff's deliberate adop- tion of such a weapon as a cruel, wanton outrage, which had aroused, a righteous. and consuming indignation unparalleled in our history. He welcomed the sugges tion that the Church should enforce upon, members their primary duty to contribute national service in every form to the worthiest cause wherein the Empire's fortunes and conscience ever had been. engaged.

A SPIRIT OF HATRED.

DREADFUL HAND-TO-HAND STRUGGLES.

ed in the engagement at Aubers, states that for bitter hand-to-hand fighting the action was unequalled. The use of gas by the Germans and the Lusitania outrage lave driven all false sentiment out of the

It seems that in order to explain away air.

the recent use of asphyxiating gases andAn advance was ordered at 7 o'clock under the presidency of Sir John Wolfo to win back Hungarian respect, which seemed to be slipping away, they officially circulated information in Hungary and Austria to the following effcet:---

Barry, KCB., the Chairman.

The General Manager and Secretary. (Mr. F. E. Hesse) having read the notion convening the meeting and the auditors One report,

The French crept to the wood at the cut- skirts of which were the first German trenches. A hail of ballets from mitrail We received absolutely trustworthy leuses burst on the attackers, and orders information some weeks ago that the were given for a bayonet charge.

The CHAIRMAN referred to the financial English are training: two thousand rush carried the trenches, and then we

made a second. The suddenness of the results of the past year's working, and most ferocious bloodhounds, which they onslaught bewildered the Germans, most mentioned certain operations which had intend to send against our lines before of whom fled in terror of the bayonet, the depleted the general reserve fund by storming our positions. The dogs aro

£73,000, leaving it at the end of the year to be starved for days before the attack remainder being swiftly despatched.

The French swept onward and biensted at £656,000. At the last meeting he indi and are trained on dummy soldiers

the hill. When half way up a dreadfulcated that the logs created by the sade dressed in German uniforms, Only two of the papers give any credit rifle fire from the crest checked the charge, of investments during the past year would At last the French sought cover, obtaining the balance sheet of £200,000 for invest- be deducted from the provision shown in to the story, the Pester Lloyd, of course,

little. They suffered torribly, but the and the Pest Naplo, which naively com-

French "seventy-fives re-opened, silenc menta upen the story from the dog-fan- cier's point of view, pointing out that theng the German fire, and tearing up the dogs, when they see their comrades fall, entanglements. ing out under the German fire, will turn and fly, and give immense trouble to their masters.

"England will be as unsuccessful with this inhuman scheme, it says, as she was with the many others she inventel. and which will not be imitated by the cultured Germans."

HOW TO TAKE A TRENCH.

'CENSOR'S COMMENTS ON AMUSING LETTER.

A Corporal in France, writing to his brother, who is training in England,

saya..

We have been working for about a week, so we are going back to the trenches for

rest. We are quite ready to meet the Germans again; we have scrubbed our entrenching tool handles and polished our bayonet scabbards, cleaned our equipment dubbined our boots, and all of us have-ottr cap badges in our caps. We have been inspected by all the generals in the Army, and Bir John French is bringing

The charge was resumed under a suur tanglements, where there was n fresh ter derous flanking fire to the ruineden rar. Holes had been dug every yard, and in cach was a bayonet. The French paused, Weary of the four hours up-hill struggle, and the enemy rushed up masses of re

serves.

ment fluctuations, but the directors had considered it to be a wiser policy to charge the whole loss against the general reserve

fund and leave the £200,000 intact. The reserve fund investments had been cure-

prices quoted at the end of last year and fully re-valued on the basis of the officiat on March 31st, from which it was found that the provision already made was suffi- cient to cover the existing depreciation. (Cheers.) With regard generally to the changed conditions brought about by the The French artillery tore gaps in their war, with the company's extensive cable rauks, but the Germans gwarmed to the system, and their repairing steamers bav hill-top. The French carried another | ing to move about in waters more or less trench and pressed on a hundred metres, A fresh storm broke from the enemy's nitrailleuses and the French fell back and rested for the night.

They fought again for the hilltop on Monday all day long, and victory came on Tuesday, a double turning movement en abling the French to reach the goal:

BRITISH CHECK AT AUBERS. ·

IN THE TEETH OF DEATH.

The Daily Mail publishes a spectator's

frequented by hostile vessels, the directors and the staff had necessarily had an anxi- ous and somewhat difficult time since the conflict began. Their chief duty and endeavour bad naturally been efficiently and although they find had a good dent to maintain telegraphic communication, of repairing work to carry out from time to time, they had so far been, fortunate enough to be able to carry on the trafic without a single interruption of any in- portauce. Considerable dislocation in the traffic arrangeminig had, however, been caused by the war, but the directors had. done everything in their power to meet the requirements of and to minimize the A corporal of the Black Watch, wound-some more to inspect us on Monday. We account of the fight at Aubers on May inconvenience caused to the telegraphing are giving our entrenching tool handica, stating that it was Neuve Chapelle on public by the new situation, while at the & greater scale, There was a long, sarae time fulfilling their duties to the an extra scrub for this.

"You'll be surprised when you get outlines being hidden in drifting clouds of

unbroken uproar of artillery, the German | Stato. here, but I don't think you will be wanted. We shall most likely finish the job this bers well enough now to take a really serious part in the fighting.

There is going to be some keen work only yesterday one of our

in an excess of zeal. That's only practis ing.

Heaven knows what will happen when he really gets to work,

You don't know how to take a trenc The British infantry's advance was the do you? Quite simple. Somebody goes signal for a murderous rife and machine in front and cuts the barbed wire, then the gun fire, which rent and battered the bomb-throwers throw a lot of bombs into British lines. These soon became a series the trench, and then the rest advance and of disjointed links in a chain whose ren- take the trench. It's best to select annants pushed onward in the treth of inoccupied trench for this pastime.

It is Sunday to-morrow, and we de not have pack drill, so I shall do a bit of wash- The men fell in clusters, the dead lying it was possible, with due regard to the

men,

They went into battle crying.next week. We can present arms by num smoke. The Germans were forced to the relations between the cable companies

"Remember the Lusitania."

During eight hours fighting the Black Watch rushed the German trench seven

white, black, and greenish-yellow puffs of advance in haste and take the open in many places in order to reinforce the front lines.

A whirlwind of shells met them, and a

hear crumpled the front parapet as various points, but the harricades were stoutly built,

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the enemy like madmen. Britons and Ger- mans lay in hoaps around the blood-soaked parapet.

Some of the wounded fought each other upon the ground, and hurled gibes and curges at each other with their dying breath, The scene was indescribably terrible. It was hard to believe that Christians could show such hatred.

The Black Watch, after the seventh charge, held the ground, and the Germans

FAIL.

We were no exhausted," concluded

us slept beside the dead."

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crampled and the wounded staggering reached the foot of the parapet and were

The attack · had driven back. checked.

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THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CABLE COMPANIES, Under the landing licences controlling

and the Governments concerned, Govern- ments in time of war had the right to take possession of the companies' offices and control the traffic. That right, was exer eised by the British Government on Sun- day, August 2nd, and on the following day the transmission of all public code and cipher telegrams was suspended, and the public were only allowed to send their telegrams in plain French, or English language at full rates.

The CHAIRMAN then referred to the con- sequent alterations made in the transmis aion of telegrams for the public, who, he said-might-rest-assured that, BOOB prompt transmission of Government and commercial telegrams, week-end transmission over the Eastern cables. Having regard to the heavy traffic which they had at times to transmit, it was very fortunate that the new cables laid by the Eastern and the Eastern Extension Coin- panics between Suez and Hongkong, d Colorubu, were completed and opencil for

The traffe before the outbreak of war,

ing. I read the other day, Tommy the corporal, "to follow, and many of lean march better with his pack on than back to shelter.. Sone of the British egrams would again be accepted for

without Our C.O. must have read this also. It will be a bad day for the writer of same when 1 drop scross him. It will be five rounds rapid: By the way, for your own good, practise rapid leading and firing.

THE OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS.

BRITAIN 'NOT TO IMPORT MEN.

F

The guns on both sides fired furiously till late in the afternoon, when the British launched another attack. The infantry AL Australian paper states that some; I am going on writing and I don't know again fell in struggling heaps, but swarms time ago it was announced that the whether it will go through. Our own offie over the parent and captured a British Goverment desired the services cers censor the letters. (Wed like some section of the trench. However, the shareholders would be interested to barn of workmen to assist in the manufacture more like this--Censor) One way of | German line on either side was strong and that the directors arranged some time ago of munitions of war. Since then the getting cur own back. They give us unbroken. Apparently the prize was not Prime Minister and the Defence Depart plenty of parade; we write a lot of letters considered worth the cost of scuiling ment have been fcoded with applications. to find them something to do. (Thanks reinforcements, which would be swept by Between 300 and 600 were received. Cable Fire alan du' parader-Censur) They messages were despatched to the High runst get plenty of fun out of it, judging the tempest of fire, and the line was order

I'm the Commissioner, and advies has now been by a few I've helped to write..

The British, dismayed at the order. received from the Imperial Government dictionary for my section.

leapt over the parapet, and doubled that the matter has been carefully con

towards the British trench, some fast, sidered by the Munitions of War Com-GREAT MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS.

some slow, reluctant to retire, and carry ing the wounded under a shower of ballets and bombs.

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for the free transmission over their lines of messages sent by Government Depart ments relating to the killed and wounded amongst the British Empire Forces, and also for the acceptance at quarter rates of telegrams exchanged between soldiers, sailes, or nurses of the Expeditionary Forces and their relatives in different parts of the world. (Cheers.)

THE " EMDEN HAID AT THE COCOS STATION.

He then alluded to the damage which The narrater points out that the sacri-

was done to the company's Cocos station fice was not wasted, for the guns turned by the attack made upon it on November on the British weakened the German last by the German cruiser Emden, which led to

In conveying this decision his Majesty's intelligenes received in London from defence against the French, who wers and to the circumstaren ashore in a

Government intimate that they are most North-Western Persia gives terrible grateful for the spirit which has dictated counts of the wholesale massacre of Chris the offer. In these circumstances noting by Turks and Kurds, arrangements will be made by the Com monwealth Government to send men to England for the purpose mentioned.

THE CAPTURE OF CADENCY.

FRENCH DETERMINATION.

A letter just to hand dated Tabriz, Apri 6th says that the fallowing

enabled to break the line a few miles away.

BOGUS

"BRITISH" GOODS.

THE ENEMY'S METHODS,

that vessel's being hopeless condition by the Australiau cruiser Sydney. The staff's action on that occasion, he continued, was much appre- patch sent

ciated by His Majesty's Government, and letters (which he read) warmly approving by special messenger had received

the services of the staff had also heen there from Dr. Shedd, chief of the Ameri

received from the Colonial Offee and can Mission at Urumish-: CURE THAT SORE THROAT

Thanks to the Lloyd's Committer. All Christian villages plundered, and. Two thou. Easily quickly by just rubbing in

burnt. One thousand killed.

arrangements previously organized and ORIENTAL LITTLE'S

BALM

One hundred

the efficiency and energy of the staff, they It is reported officially that, 2,000 Gersand dead from disease,

It is not always possible to know when mans were made prisoners at Carency, persons killed in last ten days. Our lives one ia buying German goods, wrapping the threat with a flannel.

Even were able to resume working at the Cocos Emden's Sore throat simply can't exist when which was defended by four lines of

are in danger. Help is needed at once.

raid. (Cheers.) The raid might easily LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALAL

gets trenches. Every house was fertified, and Total Tarks in rumiah to bunare patriotic purchasers who take the trouble station within 24 hours of the after it, and this remarkable remedy is there were subterraneau passages connect They have no guts, and stay only to kill to look at the labels are sometimes have been attended with serious loss ed equally effective in cases of whooping | ing the collars. Carency has been a dan Christians

deceived. German factories are establish life, but no personal injury was inflicted Help at once." cough, bronchitis, chest cold and croup. gerous salient throughout the winter. Extracts of a report sent by the Russian od in various parts of the world. Some of on the Cocos staff. Unhappily, a very Be on the safe side! Keep a bottle in Prior to the infantry assault on May Vice-Consul at Salmas give a shocking ac- them bear English names, and to all out different state of things resulted from the the house-right close at hand--and 809th over have ready relief by night or day. You Carency. The Freach then rushed up

20,000 projectiles battereil count of cold-blooded murders, outrages ward appearances are British. A glance deplorable mutiny which broke out at cannot foretell the hour when Croup may with furicus elan, and captured three

on girls, destruction of villages and de-at the shareholders' ist would show, how-Singapore last February, when, among sceration of the Holy Scriptures both at ever, that while the wages might be paid the many killed and wounded, three valued members of their staff, together put your children's lives in jeopardy lines of trenches. They re-attacked on the Urumiah and Salmas. This declares that in the country in which the industry is with the wife of one of them, were mur- You canunt know what aches and pains 10th. Companies cleverly advanced in

the native Moslems had carried off a very tablished, the profits go to Germany dered, and two others were seiously are coming to you and yours. But you

injured. oan BE PREPARED with this ready small groups, but, carried away by their great number of married women and girls There are many ways by which this money

enn reach the enemy. Holland, Denmark He afterwards referred in warm cordial. relief, this remedy of world-wide fame, ardour, they advanced beyond the orders. and that young women had been outraged,

Norway, Sweden, and America are in terms to the patriotic devotion and "Then you'll be safe,"

and crossed the Souchez road, where they mostly in churches and on altars-

by communication with England, and there the high senaz of duty shown lost rather seriously, being unable, to maintain themselves on the border of the

the staff At Gulpashan, on the orders of the Turis nothing to prevent agents in those coun-

shore and afloat in road

kish Consul, the town was plundered and tries acting on behalf of the German all parts of the company's system, The problem on May 11 was to destroy burnt.

shareholders in the English factories Eighty five prominent men were

their head office; and and also at a trench which enabled the Germans to bound, taken to the graveyard, and

That is a leakage which even the might of remarked that they all owed a very great pass to any locality in absolute security. butchered like animals before their reis the British navy cannot prevent. debt of gratitude to Sir John Denison- After a fight the French captured the tives. One minister was crucified, one How, then, is a remedy to be applied Pender, who had been working early and

A suggestion has been made to the Federal Iste at the head office directing, control wood cast of the village, preventing the burnt alive, and a bishop longed.

but Germans using the trench,

Government by the Sydney Chamber of ting, and advising not only the staff. fugees in the Catholic Mission were taken The enemy still held the Ablain-road, before the Turkish Consul, sixty-four-be-

Commerce. It is that the trademarks of the Government officials who had wished but we gradually encircled Carency bying beheaded.

concerns in which the majority of share-to consult him. It would also interest the converging attacks from the east, vid Hill At Salmas parties of Christians were

holders are known to be German; should shareholders to know that two of the bo published officially 125, and the west, where we came against led out to a village and massacred. Two

ass directors the Hon, George Peel and the a vast quarry, 250 feet deep, containing fields were covered with corpses of men, guidanes to shoppers. It might the Hon. Arthur Brodrick, had been serving a complete fort, with casemates, and cave their arms being tied together. In other be found that even in Australia there are with His Majesty's forces since the out- In conclusion, the shelters. Here the enemy resisted for

eases the victims were tied to ladders manufactures of this kind. If we are to break of the war two hours with remarkable obstinacy. with their heads sticking through the assist in crushing Prussian militarism by Chairman proposed the adoption of the

The French were afame with deter“

runga. The heads were then hacked off. means of a commercial boycott, the report and accounts and the declaration mination to win, and, at the cost of heavy and the bodies flung into wells The ro Chamber maintains it should be thorough of the dividend and bonus mentioned.

The VICE-CHAIRMAN (Sir John Denison- lastes the slopes were finally crowned. port states that in Selmas alone over 700 ly done. And unless assistance is afforded Pender, K.OM.G.) seconded the motion, A thousand Bavarians, Baxons, and Christians were massacreil three days boy the Government it is feared that many which was carried unanimously; and the Badeners surrendered. All were tired fore the arrival of the Russian army, people will continue to unwittingly help retiring directors and auditors were re | and dejected, but hostile. Officers. how The burial of the victims under the the enemy by supplying him with the elected.

ever, remarked "Your firing was orders of the Russian Cosul took over

means of providing poisoncus gases and A cordial vote of thanks to the Chair- mathematical. The infantry advanced so

other barbarous devices associated with man, the directors, the secretary, and the three days. All the bodies were naked quickly that it was inapossible to resist.'

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