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THE WAR.

BATTLE OF SKAGER RAK.

"MOST NOTABLE VICTORY SINCE

TRAFALGAR.”

ONE CRUISER v. 25 ENEMY SHIPS.

ACTIVITY ON WESTERN FRONT.

AUSTRIAN MASSED ATTACKS FAIL.

NAVAL ACTIVITIVES

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE GREAT NAVAL

BATTLE.

"ACCURATE DETAILED

ACCOUNT./

NEW YORK, June 4th.

1.40 p.m.

The first accurate detailed account of the battle off the coast of Jutland has been given to the American public by the Associated Press, which received the description from a high official of the British Admiralty, who has studied all the official reports. He says:-

"We were looking for a fight. The stories of our fleet being decoyed by the Germans is the sheerest nonsense. Indeed, in a word, with an inferior feet we engaged the entire German fleet, interrupted their plans and drove them back to harbour. Thus we sustained heavy lomes, which were ex- pected, but we also attained the expect We must admit we had extremely hard luck with our battla oruisers, but the loss of three great, ships in no wise cripples our control of the

ed results.

The battle had four

phases.

Firstly, opening at 3.15 in the after

Boon, when our battle-cruisers at a

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range of six miles joined action with the German battle cruisers.

"Secondly, the speedy arrival of the battleships of both sides. The Germans arrived sooner than ours, but before that our three battle-cruisers were blown up, supposedly by gunfire, but they were possibly torpedoed. Such close range fighting on the part of our battle-craisers might be criticised as bad tactics, but our fleet, following the traditions of the Navy, went out and engaged the energy and the weather made them do so at close range.

Thirdly, the engagement of the battleships was never more than partial, and included a running fight

the German Dreadnoughts d towards their bases. All the big ship fighting was over at 0.15 p.m., and then came one of the weirdest features of the battle, as the Gorman destroyars. made attack after attack like infantry following artillery preparation on our big ships. These onslaughts were most futile, not a single torpedo get- ting, home

44These attacks ended on the morning and the scene of the battle was swept by Admiral Jellicoe's Fleet, who re ported that not a single enemy veasel of any description was in night.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.): "The Admiralty has reported the Binking of four German light-cruisers. The Germans acknowledged loss of

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRIB?" TUESDAY, JUNE Gru. 1910.

{THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY);

HOW THE BRITISH WERE OUTNUMBERED,

WARRIOR BOMBARDED BY »

WARSHIPS.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

HEAVY GERMAN EFFORT.

PARIS, June 4th.

& communiqué states:-There was n

FULL SPEED ON NATION'S PONTOONING IN A STORM

WORK:

THE NEW ENGINEERS AT THEIR TASKS HOW WOMEN'S LABOUR IS BEING ORGANISED...

It is a frequent experience that employers doubt the possibility of the introduction of women into an employ.

The following vivid word picture is From the pen of Mr. Eden Philipotts and is taken from The Lades

ne tide was at ebb and a storm roi

estuaries or mud-coloured water were

heavy-attack in the evening in a ravingent when in fact they have been quite suddenly out of the West where broad

LONDON, June 5th The story of the Warrior' fight, told between Damloup and Vaux Fort. The by survivors now at Devonport, shows that enemy gained a footing in our trenches she was -engaged at six o'clock in the hut a counter-attack-immediately drove evening. She and the Defence were behim out. A second attack in the mora- tween two lines of German battleships, ing failed before our artillery fire. and were severely handled. The Drience in a few minutes was blown into the air, and the Warrior was badly riddled. The enemy used gas shells, almost suffocating the British. Fortunately the uneven cou test was short, the Germans retreating after 17 minutes.

The Warrior began to fill with water, and the crew started pumping. Ultininte ly an Guxiliary ship came up and look off the wounded.

INCREASED ACTIVITY ON BRITISH FRONT;

SEVERAL INFANTRY RAIDS.

LONDON, June 5th. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a com-

squadron of 28

chiar difficulties which confronted the

lasted into waves by the sudden wind, The sky formed three parts of the scene magnificent sky such as Turner loved, shot with wild confusion of air currents,

successfully introduced in the same industry in another centre. Tuis, Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, M.P, told a Daily Chronicle representative was one of the advisory committee on women's employerous with immense passages of light

and darkness interwoven ment (Industrial) in facilitating the Fiat modbancs some surmounted by substitution of women for men

Mr. Harmsworth is the chairman of the martello towers and streaked with green committee, the appointment of which of meadows-ran out arther and taither followed close on the appeal by the Home into the welter of the water. They lay Secretary and the president of the Board sharp against the heavy storm purple of Trade to employers to take concerted overpead and made an elbow for a Hard aution to make good the loss of malo and backwater, wherein a hundred littls labour, so as to maintain in the fullest vessels rolled and tugged at anchor, vigour the manufacturing industries Dredgors, smacks, kuiches, rowing bonts, which are necessary to the provision of brown-sailed barges, and a tug or two Government supplies, the support of the were crowded here, while steam pinnaços floundered back and furth from a fleet of population, and our export trade. black mine-sweepers that lay a mile from

**At the present time," Mr. Harms- worth explained, in many districts itland Ashore, to right and left of the is not so much a question of the shortage stone pier, rose a wilderness of wooden of women labour as of an unascertained for vessels extended among then Ships shantics under tar-pitched roofs.⠀⠀ Slips demand on the part of employers. They have not even informed the Labour chandlers and marine stores clustered changes of their requirements, and full together, and the reek of fish and tarred efforts counot be made to meet the pro

hemp swept inland on the wind. Above. I would like to emphasise that the sailing craft, high and dry-yachts, with Central Committee is not proceeding on naked sticks and their hulls wrapped in There was increased activity along the the lines of stimulating what you might tarpauling. For the war had shut down on call a national offer of service by women, sport and the private vessels of pleasure country's work....... The masta rose in n appeals in respect of definito industries picturesque forest between the barbour where the need of increased women labour and the red-roofed houses beyond it. is felt. The disadvantage of anything like an indiscriminate national appeal is that it encourages large numbers of public spirited women to offer themselves for employment before the demand for their services is ascertained.

British aeroplanes yesterday bombed some points of military importance, doing considerable damage. One machine The Warrior was towed for 48 hours, was brought down by gunfire in the

aix destroyers is the best hope that the and foundered shortly after the tow ropeenemy lines, but the rest returned safely. blem until these are known, who rose the masts and cordage of diamantled

German loss is even greater, but we do not intend to make our estimates until

was disconnected.

Survivors said that the Warrior was

Hostile aircraft were inactive.

we have the complete official reports bombarded by five German Dreadnoughts whole of our front last night North of but is seeking rather to make definite in commission to-day were doing the

based on absolutely certain evidence.

"The Zeppelins did not play the part attributed to them. Only one appeared and it remained in action for the briefest time and retired under heavy fire, badly damaged. The weather was such that it is doubtful if any aircraft would have been of much service.

"The enemy sprang no surprises; ao 17 inchers, no new tricks.

"This bad weather was the hardest luck our flest has yet encountered. Never theless, with a äght like Wednesday's action every day we could efaud the loss much better than the Germans. The Ans: ciated Press adds that further details will be even more heartening for Britons.

500 OFFICERS AND MEN RESCUED.

and 20 destroyers.

MOST NOTABLE VICTORY SINCE TRAFALGAR. INSPIRING EFFECT OF LATEST REPORTS.

Fricourt 200 Germans, after & heavy bombardment, attacked our trenches and were driven back with loss.

Two small British parties near Serre entered the German trenches, killed some of the occupants, and returned with slight loss.

LONDON, June 5th.

7.50 8.m. Fuller reports of the Naval Battle have had a most inspiring effect, as proving that the British scored a success which the Morning Post describes as the most notable. victory since Trafalgar, which, though less decisive, may have results almost equally momentous,”

High Sens Fleet was completely outfought that the salient fact is that the German ITALIAN FRONT

and chased in disorderly retreat into its

Two more parties, at Monchy-ax-Bois and Neuville, entered the enemy linee unsing loss and bringing back prisoners There was reciprocal artillery activity to day. The situation at Ypres in mater inlly unchanged. We retain the ground It adds gained in yesterday's counter-attacks

own ports.

Other experts are almost equally optimistic

[TERVUOR REUTKE'A AGENCY:}

MASSES OF AUSTRIANS

HURLED AT ITALIAN POSITIONS.

ROME, June 4th.

tion

PROBLEMS TO BE OVERCOME. From the point of this committee there are two main aspects to the ques The first is the welfare side. A lot of problems are bound to arise when you ployment, and they are problems which bring a large number of women into em must be solved unless your schemes are to fail. These problems are inside and outside the factories. The former are in charge of the Home Office inspectors, but the latter, the chief of which are housing, transit and recreation, must be dealt with

by our local committees, da

FEELING TO THE WIND

Darked piled the clouds in noble masses, gashed with white lightning, to the zenith, and earth and water poented to shrink to a mere insignificant buddle beneath them Great fans and waving threw signals from the foundering su arms of light struggled feebly aloft and Then they were smothered and the highest light-no brighter than grey ashes-ran along the crests of the foaming waves the sulky and lurid tones of the sky while, sudden veils of heavy rain softened and atark outlines of earth and se beneath it. Thunder shouted and a surf of hail and sleet whitened the shore and shanties. rattled on the corrugated iron of the

Steam and smoke flow from the ing to the wind, came up with crackling steamers and a dozen sailing craft, heel- canvas nose on to the squall. All was

loft con movement and action and din below and

This second branch of the subject is In assisting the Labour Exchanges to bring women into the desired employ menta. The machinery for carrying out this work in the different localities will be through the medium of committees floated off shore and troubled pot at the But 50 dun-coloured, shapeless inonsters comprising prominent employers and reweather or the waves, while upon them presentatives of women workers and worked hundreds of dun coloured men in- women's interesta generally, Already a different to the storm. The sir tight considerable number of these committee masses of iron lay heavily on the seas. have been appointed, and their functions neither rising ner falling to them, and will vary in accordance with the condi A camrounique says: --In the Lagarinations of the district. Supply committees will, for instance, not confine themselves Valley there was a keen artillery duel to the one task of securing wornun for The enonly's infantry on Friday evening their own districts, but if there is a sur·· plus of such labour in their own case will attempted to break through in the direene that it is available for service class and Midshipman Scott, eldest son of Sir

are Rear Admiral Arbuthnot, the offensive in the Baltic for weeks tion of Onaro, south-west of Arsiera Percy Scott, who were both on the Defence.

LONDON, June 4th.

7 p.m.

Mr. Archibald Hurd says that the German hopes of interfering with the blockade and the movements of troops. Up to the present about 250 officers and

must now be abandoned, while it is im 950 men have been saved

TAMIN NATURA Among the victims

possible for the German Fleet to act on

Any description can only be frag mentary pending Admiral Jellicoe's report, ut one amazing incident is known, that of the super-Dreadnong' Marlborough steaming in to a veritable hornets nest of submarines and skill- fully avriding three before being hit. She, however is now safely in harbour. **Early in the engagement, according to Admiral Beatty's report, & German battle cruiser, after being hotly en- gaged, blew up, broke in two and sank. The British pursuing flect left behind them another German battle cruiser

hort de combat. When they returned Ahe way 18sing. She must have. sunk. This accounts for two enemy battle-cruisers

cruisers and the Germans admit

they lost two battleships.

GERMAN

LOSSES HEAVIER THAN BRITISH,

DESTROYERS SUCCESSFUL NIGHT ATTACK.

LONDON, June 5th.

12.13 a.m. The Admiralty has issued a statement generally similar to that given to the Associated Press. It states

"When the main British Fleet secured contact with the German High Seas Fleet a very brief period sufficed to compel the latter, already severely punished, to seek refuge. This was pusrible, as owing to the low visibility and mist the Grand Fleet was only. able to get a momentary contact now and then, and no continuous action was possible.

"The pursuit continued till the light wholly failed, but the British destroyers wore able to make a successful attack during the night.

Thus the Right Wing of the Russiac. Armies is secured.

EXULTANT BRITISH

WOUNDED:

The British wounded who have arrived at the various poris are most cheerful and exultant.

where

their crews shouted and toiled aimlessly. as it seemed, tugging at long sweeps and struggling to guide the

things now this way, Bow that their business of making and unmaking. Ceaselessly the soldiers laboured at of linking the pontoons together and linking them again. One watched the armies, who filled this hatet by the so Royal Engineers of England's new to overflowing, and daily come to the. water that they might learn their science

bridging estuary and river

One of the important tanks the central They were vigorously counter-attacked- committee is undertaking is the prepara tion of a rumber of leaflets dealing with and repulsed.

specific industries and showing what has

en done already in those industries inf

On the Sette Communi Plateau the

struggle for the possession of Monte

WHAT THE GERMAN SAILORS Congiu continues with alternating for

KNOW.

A telegram from Ymuiden says that German sailors who wore brought in by a Dutch trawler smiled when shown the

tune.

GENERAL.

SHROPSHIRES. FINE FRAT.

CHARGED THROUGH RIVERS

OF MUD

HUMAN WATER VOLES.

On Saturday afteravon great masses ofin was of substituting women, what the enemy were hurled at our positions labour difficult if any, have been Big powerful fellows they were, in tho between Colxoma and Col Posina, andal with the difficulty I have mentioned water voles they worked, half in the sea arranged, ple. In this way we ho splendour of first marhood, and wet as were repulsed with the heaviest lus s

employers in need of additional labour and half out of it, during their hours of miting their productive capacity from drill. norance of what has been done else tered the stubborn pontoons and put

Keenly and cheerfully they mas their wits and their physical might into the work together. All intelligent, earnest body of men were they, whose strength and size chiefly impressed a spectator, Twy were soldiers through and through brisk, active, and swift to obey the word of command. Yet a month or so ago these men wrote at the desk and ploughed BRITISH HEADQUARTERS...

the land. The greater number showed The performance of the Stropinires, no visible thought beyond the rough and exacting business of the hour and the pro- unique, when, on the pight of April blems of planks and cables as a new 21st-22nd, they recaptured the trencaen bridge stretched landward; but here and taken from us by the Germans two nights there among the men and the young subal before, was, if on a small scale, a con- terns, who directed them, shone Faces spicuously fine piece of work. In time to with fire and soul rescaling minds that come it may be that the regiment will dreamed already of the Rhine. Their remember it with pride among the list of business mastered, the men will vanish honours which already reaches from sway and fresh legions will paing the Salamanca to Nieuport,

little Hard with khaki and apply them selves to the patient pontoons

[TUHOUOR PELTER 3 AGENGT 1

COMPELLED TO DISCHARGE

victory," and said "Unfortunately we Berlin reports of a great German DUTCH STEAMERS }}],11 [*], already oficially mentioned icon

both sides was heavy, but the strategic know better, adding that the loss op

British side. advantage was overwhelmingly with the

BRITISH STEAMERS SUNK.

LONDON, June 4th

CARCOS OF ANILINE

AMSTERDAM, June 4th.

The Handelsblad says that owing to is fractions of the Anglo-Dutch cg.rement, whereby Britain allowed the export of

The British steamers Dewsland and aniline from Germany, several Dutch Esaimanpool have been sunk.

cargo steamers have been held up by the FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT

British and obliged to discharge their cargoes of aniline.

THROUGH ZEUZER'S AGENCY,], ANOTHER ATTACK AT VAUX FORT,

STOPPED BY MACHINE GUNS

PARIS, June 5th. 2.90 a.m.

The steamer Rondo, with 1,400 cases, was allowed to leave Durban on condi- tion that the aniline, which is addressco to the Governor-General of the Dutch Indies, and is argently needed, is placed at the disposal of the British Consul has been intense artillery firing on the

The evening communiqué says:-There General in the Dutch East Indies. left of the Mouse. German preparations to attack Hill 304 were stopped by our

"After driving the enemy into port Sir John Jellicoe returned and scoured the main scene of action to search for disabled vessels. By noon on Thursday It was pvident that nothing more could be done, and the Ficet returned to its hase, re-fueled, and was again ready for ses on Sunday evening.

The Admiralty states that the British curtain of fire. Josses have been fully stated. There is nothing to add or substract. The Ad miralty bave no doubt that the Gor mans losses were heavier, not merely relatively, but absolutely,

by our machine-gun fire.

The Germans have asserted that they and that they had had no intention of mountain of silver cloud heaving up evacuated the trenches because of the wet,

The storm swept off and a gorgeous. retaining them. This is grossly false. In behind it was reflected in a dance o the two days that they had been there brightness on the water and the soaking they had worked like beavers and in strand. The ball melted; the people almost as much water with a view to crept out again first ragamuffins to play permanent occupation. The men of the at the water's edge, then fishermen and Shropshires all testify to the amount and longshore folk. A sentry with glittering excellence of the work of consolida bayonet tramped up and down before the tion" that had been done, to the posting pontoon landing places with rain of machine guns, cutting new communi- streaming off him; but now guard was cation trenches, and fitting iron loop relieved and the wet man, his khaki the enemy evacuated; and that reason was the sky soon gaped into great patches of holes. There was only one reason why turned to dull brown, departed.

Aloft the King's Shropshire Light Infantry blue; the sun broke over a son ring earth Steam rose

The ground over which the attack bad and the wind fell sudden little, carla

above the Hard and crept

to be delivered was an almost incon- ceivable quagmire. The mud diluted with the rain which fell heavily through over the beach. The pontoons gronuded ont, was never less than knee deep commany of soaking giante lined up presently five yards from shore and soon Generally it was above the thighs. The and marched with solid tramp away to only way in which, in many places, our their billets and dry kit and bot grub. men could advance was by throwing their The brown men and the red, the faxen rifles in front of them and going forward and the black, bare legged, broad cheated, like frogs. Not & fow lives were lost by genial, strade out of sight together and actual drowning. It look the first at chaffed the squad that came to take their tacking colaum some hours to cover 200 places was over, & considerable time was in yards of so-called ground. Aft

After t many instances spent in extricating in some cases ve few of the defenders simple bul illuminating fact that one getting away. Many individual acts of wounded men from the mud, and it is a

conspicuous bravery have been officially mined out, stuck in the mud. helpless lance-corporal spent 64 hours, trom 4 and undiscovered, from the night of of April 25th altack, April 1st 22nd, until the morning

to 10.30, getting a wounded man back. a distance of 600 yards. He carried him through it

There is no one who went first, till himself, wounded in the

was not at one time or

the

THE TURKO GERMAN TREATY The Under-Secretary for Foreign **_ The enemy on the right of the Mense Affairs, Ziromermans, in the Reichstag continued to bombard the Yaux-Damloup Socialist member Herzfeld, in regard to answered a question asked by the region, especially Fort de Vaux An the Turko German trrutis Herr Zim attack launched north west of the fort at of the world war, a defensive alliance mermann stated that, at the beginning

three o'clock in the afternoon was stopped was concluded between Germany and man, unwounded and quite sound. Breported, po

Tarker, based on terms of equality and There is the strongest ground for

extending over a long period. The de- supposing that the German losses in

Our heavy guns severely damaged three Besides, negotiations are pending be

tails are to be kept secret, eluds two battleships, two Dread German batteries in the Caulieres Wood been both countries concerning Consular nonght battle cruisers of the most A German aeroplane squadron at noon presentation, the legal status of citizens

and the right of residence. An agree powerful type, two of the latest light bombed Toul, killing six and woundment has been practically reached on all cruisers, namely, the Wiesbaden and

Z points: ing 10.A French air squadron pursued The fermu' are similar to the Con Elmg, a light cruiser of the Rostock the raiders, felling one in the French

tions, concluded by Genunny, with

type the cruiser Frauenlob, at least lines and two others in the German

Conven nine destroyers, and a submarino. lines

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shoulder then dragged and pushed and beaved him rough the mud, being, after daylight, all the time under heavy himself in a state of complete exhausion. fire, and finally, when he got him in. was

One

pite in the slash,

heavy fire of chine-guna, and conditions the affair ough with great rallantry. tack twaer delivered in three columns, sarl at all roints thus Garman: a counter aft

ches were carried at the first assault,

vent

A private hold a sap muccesfully against