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THE WAR.

THE GREAT RUSSIAN PUSH.

HUGE RENTS TORN IN ENEMY LINE..

COLOSSAL GERMAN LOSSES AT VERDUN.

ACTIVITY AT YPRES SALIENT.

·GERMANY'S NAVAL LOSSES.

RUSSIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTEE'S AQESOY, ]

AUSTRIAN DEBACLE.

RUSSIANS CAPTURE FURTHER

35,000 PRISONERS..

PETROGRAD, June 11th.

7.15 p.m.

Yesterday the Russians captured a fur ther 35,100 troops, one General, and 400 officers, with 20 guns and enormous booty.

Genefal Lechitsky, operating in the direction of Czernowitz, alone took

18,000, effecting the complete debacle of

the enemy.

· FURTHER SUCCESSES.

IMPOSSIBLE TO ESTIMATE AMOUNT OF BOOTY.

PETROGRAD, June 12th.

A communiqué says:-The Russian offensivo in Volbynin, Calicia, and Buk- hovina continues and has been attended with fresh successes.

The Russians have captured Dubno, It is impossible to estimate the amount of beoty. The Russians in one sector alone captured 20 searchlights, two sup- ply-trains, 47 machine-guns, and trains, with vast quantities of concrete, coal, and ammunition.

The Germaus attempted to assist the Austriaus below Lutzk, but were repulsed, leaving 2,000 prisoners in our hands.

General Lechitsky's operations on the 11th inst. were effected in the face of a violent flanking curtain-of-fire and the explosion of whole sets of mines.

Reports from other points tell the same story. In some parts there were desperate <<nemy counter-attacks to retrieve the situation. At one point the Russians ware Furced across the Styr, but the movement was promptly stifled.

A bloody battle is proceeding below Lutzk

HUGE RENTS TORN IN AUSTRIAN LINES.

SUPERIORITY OF RUSSIAN ARTILLERY.

(THROUGH RHUTEA'S AGENOY.] ARCHDUKE FREDERICK'S NARROW ESCAPE. ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION OF

VICTORS.

PETROGRAD, June 12th.

It transpires that the Russian capture of Lutzk was, so precipitate that the Archduke Frederick had a narrow escape from capture. He lunched there, and the Russians arrived shortly afterwards. The Austrians had no time to destroy the bridges or stations.

The inhabitants weenived the troops with wild enthusiasm, kissing their hands and rifles.

NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

(THROUGH REVTER'S AGENCY.]

GERMAN NAVAL LOSSES.

REPORT THAT 2 SHIPS ARE

MISSING.

YMTIDEN, June 1,th:

A Dutch trawler which has returned from Cuxhaven heard that six large German warships, including the battle [ship Out Friesland, and 17 destroyers are

missing.

The Out Friestard was completed in 1911. She was of 22,400 tons, and varriel twelve 12-inch and fourteen 6-inch guns.]

SUBMARINE WARFARE,

SEVERAL VESSELS SUNK.

LONDON, June 19th. The Norwegian steamer Orkedal has

been sunk,

The Prosper 1/1 has been mined. Thirty of the crew of the latter were 'drowned. Four escaped in a boat but three died before they were picked up several days later.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PREA. TUESDAY. JUNE 13en. Imo.

THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]

FURIOUS ARTILLERY

GENERAL.

DUEL

IN CHAMPAGNE.

PARIS, June 12th, 1.35 am,

A communique states --There has been no infantry action north of Verdun: In the course of the day the French artillery actively replied to the German, bone

bardment of the district south of Thiau-

mont farm and west of Fort de Vaux

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The day has been relatively calm on the rest of the front, except in Champagne where there has been a furious artillery duel.

THE BRITISH FRONT.

YPRES SALIENT CENTRE OF

ACTIVITY...

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGEKOT.) CLOSING IN ON GERMAN EAST AFRICA.

SEVERAL COLUMNS

PROGRESSING.

LONDON, June 11th. Licut. General Sinuts reports

that. General Hanainglon's column is adyan- cing along the railway and has occupied the important station of Mombo, dis- lodging the enemy force. A machine- gun was captured.

General Hoskin's column captured Mkalamo, 14 miles south-west of Mombo, driving a considerable force southward. Our casualties were slight,

General Van der Venter engaged the Germans eastward of Kondon Irangi.

General Northey reports that Colonel Rodgers attacked the enemy in the

[12 ROUGH REDLER'S AGENOT.);

SHOOTING OF DUBLIN JOURNALISTS.

LONDON, June 11th.

Captain Bowen-Colthurst was found guilty by court-martial of shooting the journalist Sheehy-Skeffington, and two; others, but he was declared to be insane. AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL

ELECTIONS.

ROOSEVELT'S DEFINITE

REFUSAL.

CHICAGO, June 11th. The Republicans have nominated Mr. Fairbanks, and the Progressives, have nominated Mr. John Parker (Louisiana) for the Vice-Presidency.

Colonel Roosevelt has telegraphed suggesting that his refusal can be re- garded as definite if the

WAGON OF ROSES FOR THE

QUEEN

A ST. GEORGE'S DAY GIFT.

The Royal Society of St. George pre- Bented to the Queen a model of an old | Sussex hay wagon decorated with red and white roses, the emblem of England, The wheels of the wagon were coloured in red enamel, the body blue, the shafts and the interior white. The roses were English grown. Red and white stream- ers bore the following inscriptions:-

These English roses, with the dutifg). homage of the members of the Royal Society of St. Gourge, are offered to her Majesty the Queen in honour of St. George's Day-the same day of our beloved King and the ter- centenary of the death of Shakespearo,”

Saint George and Victory! Fight, soldiers, fight,"

Henry VI

WIRELESS CONTROL OF TRAINS.

H

At the 1916 exhibition of the National Railway Appliance Association, in Chi- eago, there is a specially interesting exhibit in the shape of an invention for controlling trains by wireless. Danger

touch on a key. The wireless, worked in connection, with an automatic speed con- trol, applies the air brakes automatically, whether the engineer sees the signal or not, and reduces the speed to the desired maximum

Poroto Mountains, capturing a field-gun,. Į Convention are satisfommittee of ghals are lashed to the train by

rifles, and munition.

the election

of Judge Hughes will be in the interest Colonel Marray has ourmpied Bismarck of the country. Otherwise Colonel Roose- Burn.

velt will be prepared to confer with the

ak to further Course of

NECESSITY OF GREATER ENERGY URGED.

nction.

--

forensic use of eloquence, for which be is unparalleled in this country. I have Colonel Roosevelt refused to be photo-nover yet heard the Prime Minister come. graphed by journalists. at Oyster anying he was now out of politics,

Bay,

LONDON, June 12th. General Sir Douglas Haig reports that the Ypres salient continues to be the con- tre of activity. The enemy heavily bom barded the southern portion near Hill eo and also the town of Ypres and the trenches north of the Mesin road. There FALL OF ITALY'S CABINET. Committee have been no infantry actions beyond an unsuccessful Gorman attempt to rush one of our blocking posts. Elsewhere there has been mining activity. Aerial opera

ROME, June 17th, tions have beun hampered by thunder-

Speakers in the Chamber of Deputies storms, but a Fokker was brought down.criticised the Government's policy and urged the necessity for greater energy VERDUN TACTICS AT YPRES,

and co-operation between the Govern CANADIANS'. MAGNIFICENT

ment and the country. They also de- manded a statement ou the military situation. They paid a tribute to the work of the Cabinet in declaring war, but advocated the formation of a Minisers of the Unionist War Committee last try representing all parties.

RESISTANCE.

LONDON, June 11th. Reuter's correspondent at British Headquarters says that in the great attack on the Ypres salient the enemy has been repeating in a smaller degree the Verdun tactics,

He describes the there is conclusive evidence that the heroism of the Canadiana, and says

Germans concentrated a huge number of new guns, including Naval guns, for the attack on the 2nd inst. It was preceded by such caim that General Mercer and Williams had started to inspect the front-line trenches when the bombard ment broke out with startling, abrupt

0859.

General Mercer was last se

dazed by shell shock, and General- Willians was wounded in the face. The bombardment lasted for five hours. The range was then raised, and the enemy infantry charged what could no longer

be called trenches.

The Canadians, in spite of the over whelming odds, resisted magnificently. Some sprang over the parapets and

The Swedish schooner Heidi has been attacked the onrushing Germans with the bayonet. A handful eventually fell back mined, the crew being saved.

on a small wood, which, after a terrific bombardment, the Germans sought to penetrate, but the Canadians, withholding their fire till they wero at point-blank range, shattered all attacks.

A German submarine, without warn- ing, sank the Norwegian steamer Rimina in the Mediterranean. Five of the crew were killed. Taking to the boats the rest of the crew were picked up.

FRANCO-BELGIAN CRÔNT. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

:

The deeds of supreme valour performed during the day would fill a volume: The engagement looks as if it may develop, into the third battle of Ypres.

ITALIAN FRONT,

LONDON, June 12th. The full extent of the Russian-victory is becoming even more evident. Russiaus have torn two huge rents in the HUGE GERMAN LOSSES. AT};

The

Austrian front. The Austrians are-nak-

ing desperate efforts to repair these, scraping troops and guns from the Trentino and Isonzo fronts, and even withdrawing men from Albania.

The largest rent is in the northern sector, und her a front of 30 mitsa, with its centro on Lutzk, The southern rup ture extends roughly from Buczacz to the junction of the Strypa and the Dniester, a distance of 13 miles.

All accounts agree upon the superi- ority of the Russian artillery, which re- duced the enemy trenches to a mass of powdered concrete, buret sandbags, and other debris, mingled with mutilated corpses and fragments of flesh.

VERDUN.

PARIS, June 19th.

The daily semi-official review says that the German Josses at Verdun have now reached nearly a million..

MORE GERMAN ATTACKS FAIL.

FRENCH PROGRESS IN FOREST OF APREMONT.

PARIS, June 11th. 5.19. p.m. To-day's comminuiqué says:--There has been unusual mining activity in Argome, where the Germans exploded two remouflets, creating a single crater The artillery preparation was follow-80 yards in diameter. The French are ed up by waves of fresh young infantry, occupying three sides of the crater. -trained to -concert pitch. They swept An intense artillery struggle is pro- like an avalanche through the remnants ceeding north of Verdun, on both sides

of the entanglements and across bidden pits, filled with deadly spikes, over whelming the Austrians, who were dazed, aud surrendered in battalions.

The Bussian losses were heavy, but they rushed in to the second and third lines. Then the Cossacks swooped down and demoralised the Austrians, complet ing the work of the infantry.

of the Meuse. All German attacks failed.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.);

GREAT AUSTRIAN EFFORT CRUSHED.

DENSE MASSES REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSSES.

Rowe, June 11th.

A communiqué says:-Yesterday the. enemy's efforts were concentrated on a brief stretch of the front south-west of Asiago. After an intense bombardment dense masses, totalling about a Division, were repeatedly hurled to attack and were repulsed with heavy losses, We took 100 prisoners.

From the Adige to the Brenta - our offensive is developing. We progressed few days and have taken 566 prisoners. at Vallarse and elsewhere in the last

THE BALK ##8.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGEROY.]

GREECE AGAIN SUSPECT.

PARIS, June 11th Hand-to-hand fighting in the Forest of

Greece has denied the suggestion of Apremont resulted in the driving out of complicity with the Bulgarians the Germans from an advanced position, which we entered.

The Germans are active in the Vosges, where they penetrated our front trenches, whence they have now been driven out,

ANOTHER GREEK ISLAND OCCUPIED.

ATAKNA, Jane 11th The French have occupied the island of Thasos, opposite Kavalla.

The general impression made by the vote"does indicate that there is any change of spirit in the conduct of the war. On the contrary, all the speakers were unanimous that it should be con- ducted most energetically.

A Cabinet meeting after the vote dis- cussed the question of resignation, which will be announced on Monday.

A CALL FOR ACTION.

SIR EDWARD CARBON ON LEADERSHIP.

Sir Edward Carson was entertained at luncheon at the Hotel Cecil by the mem-.

month.

down and recommend any measure that was necessary the carrying on BUC- cessfully of this war without I putting aside his eloquence and making an abject apology for the proposals be was putting forward. (Cheers.) I never knew him enthusiastic about anything except his own defence-flaughter)--and I never knew him really apply the eloquence of which he is such a master except when the time arose for turning defents into vic- tury, and screening the negligence or incompetence of others.

ACTION, AND IMMEDIATE ACTION.'' But the eloquence of the Prime Minis ter was used, not for the purpose of Lord Milner, who presided, in propios showing that more care and more consi ing the health of the guest, said Sir deration must be taken in the future, but he used the bravery of our soldiers Edward Carson has shown himself one of the leaders of the nation. Leaders of and sailors for covering up the negli parties have been slow and seemingly gence and incompetence of his own reluctant to follow, and therefore I colleagues. I am sick of oratory. I bo- lieve we can say without exaggeration lieve it has been a disaster to this coun- that he has contributed more than any

try that our Prime Minister is a great single man to that great step forward

orator, Our committee must try to end all this. Action, and immediate action, (compulsory service) on which we are able to congratulate ourselves to-day. Is and not words, must be our motto. Do not think, because you have got the Mili- it too much to hope that we have now ren bed a turning point in this tremen all that is necessary (Hear, hear.) tary Bill, that you have succeeded in dous struggle, and that having taken a Watch the Bill in Committee, and above step, which is a clear signal to friends all things watch its administration-be- and foes alike, wo are prepared to do and sacrifice everything for the sake of

cause I have grave doubts of the way a Bill will be administered which has been NEW SCHEME OF ROME RULE. the long fight! All the minor consi- victory, and that we shall continue to fight in that new spirit to the very end brought in by men who do not believe

in the Bill themselves. (Hear, hear.) derations which are appropriate, or at least bearable, in normal times the party ties and balances, the anxious re- gard for the man's status and that man's political colour, the hesitation to take may provoke unpopularity or provoke this or that necessary measure because it registance--idle fears as they have proved over and over again when the nation is “cally aroused--all these are nothing

The King is returning to Rome im maliately.

A MOMENTOUS CONFERENCE

LONDON, Jane Ilth.

A private Conference of Nationalists in Dublin yesterday, presided over by Mr John Redmond, it is understood, agreed to scheme of Home Rule exclud-

ing the six Ulster counties, but it is believed that the action of the Party will depend upon the result of the Con ference of the Ulster Nationalists this

week.

DEALING WITH IRELAND. MR. CLOYD GEORGE'S PROPOSALS

FOR SETTLEMENT.

LONDON, June 12th." The official report of the Conference of Nationalists at Dublin yesterday, says that Mr. Lloyd George's proposals for a settlement were:-

1.--To bring the Home Rule Act into

immediate operation. 2.-To immediately introduce ao amending Bill as a strictly War Emergency Act. -During that period the Irish mem- bors remain at Westminster in full numbers. 4-During the war emergency period, six Ulster cantins to remain as at present under the Imperial Govern- 5.Immediately after the war there shall be an Imperial Conference, at which all the Dominions shall be represented to consider the future government of Empire, including the question of Ireland. 6.-Immediately thereafter and during the interval provided by the War Emergency Act, a permanent settle ment of all the great outstanding problems to be procceded with. Mr. Redmond said that if, pending the Conference, the Ulster Nationalists ap proved of Mr. Lloyd George's pro- posals, then the Nationalists of the

-con-

We have not been idle on the committees, and I know they are going mittee. Yesterday wo appointed two

to work immediately, the first to watch thie Military Bill and to take care that holes which may exist in it; and, second- by amendments we shall fill up the loop. iv, that it may as far as possible be so classes of the community. Secon-lly, we framed as to do equal justice to all appointed a committee to investigate a › Sir Edward Carson. They ought to There may come a crisis in the life of a the decrease of our Mercantile Marine I as nothing to any of us, (Cheers.) question of the gravest importance at the present moment to this country-namely, only, as in the life of a man, when the

and the operations of the Germau- hope lies in our being able to become attempted blockade of this country, a something different, something better,matter of sach vital importance to the then our ordinary solves. I think we

very life and existence of this country Care faced by such a problem now. It is

that no words of mine can exaggerate not only for the war that we have to

it: pall ourselves together, to sink every- thing, and put aside all minor consi derations for the great national end; it is for the peace and for the great problems which will immediately follow the peace.

This war has laid hare a carefully thought-out plot to win our country and our trade and our liberties from us (cheers), not merely by forces in the field but by a widespread network of German intrigue and interference which we are BIR E. CARBON'S SPEECH.

up against, and were the moment the Sir Edward Cmson, who was received war broke out up against, in carrying with cheers, and the Unionist War on the trade and commerce and finance Committee was the outcome of the dis of the whole of the British Empire. satisfaction that was felt by many, and When the war broke out wo suddenly dis at what we conceived to be a large extent covered that not only were we unpre the studied contempt by the Government pared with our forces in the field, but of the House of Commons. We grew we suddenly discovered that in our tired of eloquence and of perorations, finance and in our trade and in many (Laughter.) We grew tired of self-com- respects we were under the subjection of placency and self-laudation, and wo the Germans without knowing it. I wanted action, immediate and decisive. could take for you many instances of (Hear, hear.) Our policy, as I laid it that, but let me take one single instance, down, or attempted to lay it down, at and that is the metal production through- our very earliest meeting, was that we out our Empire. And I mention that should support the Coalition Government specially because it brings into my mind in everything they thought necessary for all that has been done by Mr. Hughes R vigorous prosecution of the war, and

(cheers), the Premier of Australia, in that we should not hesitate for one mno

that matter. He had no hesitation, He ment to put forward with all the force found the whole of the products of Aus- at our command any proposal that our tralia were finding their way, one way or judgment and oar patriotism thought other, under the control of Germany, doing this, with imperilling unity and

We have been charged, for to such places as Germany wished. Ha did not wait and hesitate for eight or conspiring against the Government. Far 10 months to make up his mind. (Cheers.) truer would it be to say that we were He passed a short Act that any contract trying to substitute real unity for a sham submitted to him which gave benefit to unity (cheers) and to put an end to the Germans or interfered with the Bri conspiracy of delay and hesitation which tish Empire should, on his fat, be at we believe was fraught with disaster to once cancelled and annulled. (Cheers.) this country in the proper and vigorous That is an instance of what can be done prosecution of the war. I think I may by men of action. say that the constitution and the exist PROBLEMS AFTER THE WAR ence of our Unionist War Committee have been fully justified. I am not going, into the question of the Military Service have got it. We do not want to brag Act. We have got it. We are glad to

necessary.

about it.

Southern Provinces would be consulted.

myself have had a short existence PROTEST AGAINST MARTIAL LAW. in the Cabinet. It was certainly long At the Home Rule Conference a resolu having been once bebind the scapes to enough for me. I am able perhaps, tion was passed onanimously protecting appreciate the kind of tactics that are against the continuance of Martial Law adopted and the kind of methods that artial Law | prevail for extricating this country from and demanding that the prisoners con- the greatest poril in which she has ever victed and sent to penal servitude in con be curious that one of the greatest de

been. May I say what may appear to nection with the rising should be treated lecta in my opinion in the present Prime as prisoners of war, and claiming that Minister, with all his great abilities, is that he endeavours to apply pesce me- personnel of the Commission and the thods of party politics to the waging of general conduct of the enquiry were such

war (cheers) and that he thinks he can get out of all his difficulties by the as to deprive the findings of all authority.

(Continued on next Volumn.j

the

In conclusion Bir Edward Carson, in urging the Committee to keep its eye on the first symptoms of pesce, said:-Take too late for us to interfere. It is, above care that nothing happens before it is all things, with reference to that peace that I wish with all my heart I could see in the present Government that alertness, that courage, that foresight, which will be so essential to the building up of all that has been either injured' or demolished in the course of this war I tell you, and I say it most solemnly to you, that no man can be guided in thing but his own ep thought the preparing himself for that time y situation in which we will then be in volved. God knows, I do not want to lead anybody, but I do not want men from ideas of chivalry or old political attachments to fallow either individuals or parties. Odr, country first and “our. country always, (Cheers!)