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TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS.
DEMAND FOR NATIONAL SERVICE,
BRITISH PRESS IN FAVOUR OF COMPULSION.
America and Germany's Reply.
INTENSE DISAPPOINTMENT : SITUATION GRAVE.
[Router's Servies to The "Telegraph."]
ZEPPELINS AGAIN VISIT ENGLAND.
June 1, 2.25 a.m. The Press Bureau announces that Zeppeline are reported to bave teen seen near Ramsgate and Brentwood and certain out- lying districts of London.
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Many firea are reported but these cannot be absolutely connect- ed with the visits of the sirehip.
THE NATIONAL SERVICE MOVEMENT.
CONSERVATIVE PRESS IN FAVOUR of it.
June 1.8.35 8.m.
The papera ára devoting much space to the question of National Service. While the Conservativa Press is practically unanimous, a section of the Liberal presa in likewise advocating such a measure. Tas Daily News, Chronicle, Star and the Economist, however cor- tinue to oppose.
The Times publishes in its colamne correspondence on the topic of the hour, including a letter from Lord Denman pointing out the successful precedent of Australia where the measure was essen- tially democratic.
The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Weet Ridgeway suggests that com- pulsion should be applicable to home defones only, otherwise it might divide the nation.
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TUESDAY, JUNE
10-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS
June 1, 9:00 5.00. In Washington there is intense disappointment at Germany's apower and especially at the failure to mention the S ates demand,
There is little concealment anywhere. The situation is grave and it is stated that President Wilson will reply within forty-eight Lo tra.
1915.
THE CALL BOY'S YARN. Graphic Story of How H.M.S. Ocean Went Down.
June 1 1914,
Humidity
Temperature 6 a.m. 75 84
2 p.m. 83
二張大死
TYPHUS GERM FOUND BY
NEW YORK DOCTOR.
Dr. Henry Plotz's Discovery,
SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS
$56 PER ANNUM
TELEGRAMR.
Dr. Harry Plots, a bacteriologist NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED.
The battle of Galicia continues.
A Paris communique says that the French easily repulsed an attack in the Loretta diatrist,
A latter describing the sinking of B.M.S. Ocean by a mine in only twenty-four years old, has the Dardanellee on March 18, has discovered the germ of typhus been forwarded to his rarenta fever, and several of the American by Harold White, aged 18, who physicians who have sat out for was Boting as "call boy "an board. Servia to fight that terrible dis at the time of the disaster, and ease in the typhur-stricken coun- piped the call "Abanden ship." try were vaccinated with a serum In the course of his letter, made because of Dr. Plotz's dis dated April 4, he says:-"Wecovery says the New York Evening had a very lively tim last month. Post. GERMAN AMERICAN TENSION; SITUATION GRAVE, the Dardenelles. Our ship opex-isolated the germ was known last down a German aeroplane in the On the 18 the flot steamed up The fact that Dr. Pictz had A British aeroplane brought ed fire at 9,000 yards range at year, but a matter of professional neighbourhood of Moorslede. one of the forts, which replied. etiquette prevented physicians the day, bat only wounded four was so until last night, when Dr. the Dardanelles and the Straits A British Blockade has been They hit as several times during generally from admitting that it announced on the ccast between men. I don't think you could find Plotz read a paper before the New of Samos, a man cooler under fire than our York Pathological Sciety at the captain. All the time the shells Academy of Medicin. Some 250 Field Marshal Sir John French were flying around he was welk distinguished scientists and in a communique says that since ing up and down the deck smoking physicians were present. They
the 26th ultimo we made farther his pipe and giving orders as applauded for two misates alter small gains set of Festubert. though it was only prection. Dr. Plotz get through has reading,
The Rassiana are continuing to There were three ships funk on and the opinion was expressed press the Germans in the region that day, and I shall not forget it that there seemed to be no doubt of Shavli and captured nine guns for a long time. The ships were that the Joang investigator had and seven machine gunr. H.MS. Irresistible, the French caught the right bacillus, The Rassians took the offensive ship Bouvet, and our own.
Two of Dr. Plotz's co-workers, in the valley of the Dolina and Something hit as on the star-Dr. Peter K Olitzky and Dr. forced the enemy to evacuate the board side under the water line. Gorge Tashr, also read papers right bank of the Switza, I was in the fin, magszine for- Dr. Olitzky had most, to do with ward at the time, and after the the making of the serum, and his bang wa, were locking at each other wondering what had hap-matter.
described that sepect of the paper pened. Somebody raid at first
Examined Many Patients. That it was shot in the starboard Dr. Plotz, when a medical stud- coal banker, but the older came ent, became corions about Brill's
All hands on deck. She hid a disease, which ho suspected and issued a bulletin which says list to starboard by this time and the same, or nearly the same, as that the Kisge health is satia- we then knew it was a mine or typhus. He went to work in the factory. torpedo that was the cause.
FRENCH COMMUNIQUE.
May 31, 4:10 p.m. A Paris communique states:— "We easily repulsed an attack in the Leratte district.
(in the event of telegrams arriving too late for insertion on this page they will be found on the Extra.]
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EARLIER - TELEGRAMS.
May 30, 11,05 p.m.
OTHER UNDER SECRETARIES.
May 30, 11.15 p.m. Lord Robert Cecil has been appointed Under Secretary to the Foreign Office, Mr. A. D. Steel Maitland (Conservative, member for Birmingham E.) Under Secretary for the Colonies and Lard Islington, Under Secretary at the India Office.
RUSSIAN COMMUNIQUE
May 31, 5,35 a.m.
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much space to the question of The Home papers are devoting national service, the Conservative Press is practically unanimous.
German and Austrian specialists have arrived at athens
laboratories of Mt. Sinai Hospital In Washington there is intense Coming up from below, there to grove something one way or disappointment at * no rushing or jano, but another.
Germany's snawer, especially the failure to everything was done smartly... First, he examined the blood of mint oa the United States de- There were five torpedo-bats about forty patients who had mand. || alongice in less than two minutes, Brill's disc ae; and he isolated s General Irmanoff is developing and if anybody deserves praise it germ of that disease. The Balkan his success, and has captured is the crewar of those destroyers. War was sending plenty of another thousand prisoners, a Talk about the V.C. and the typhus material over, to be held large number of field kitchens,
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When the vaccine was made,
NEWS.
ANOTHER GERMAN AEROPLANE BROUGHT DOWN, DC. If they didn't deserve up in the isolation hospitals in and other portions of the enemy'
one each then a body dose. We the lower bay, The Health train. ean thank cur lucky stars that the Office of the Port allowed Dr. Torks are awfully bad shots, Plotz to get blood samples from a appointed Under Secretary in the Lord Robeis Ceoil has been Feld-Marebal Sir John French in a communique states that blown it kingdom come. when D.. Plotz subjected these to Maitland en Under Secretary in otherwise we should have been half-dozen of these patients, and, Foreign Office, Mr. D. Sleel- since May 26, further small gaina have been made Est of Festubert. Wherever we looked we could see his laboratory teste, they yielded the Colonial Office and Lord Otherwise all has been quist. A British aeroplane brought down a rothing but huge splashes where the same bacillus that he bad got Islington au Under Secretary in Carman aeroplane in the neighbourhood of Moorslede (Belgium)the shells were pitching in the from the Brill's disease patiente, the India Office.
water. Luckily pens bit our dee- Cultures injected into guinea pigs troyer. There were 317 men in and -monkeys slowed that the our bcat, and we were not Barry right germ had been found. to see her making 25 kcct1.
"The Turks have got every disease is merely a lese virulent The conclusion is that Brill's thing to knock cur heada cff-form of typhus, the other form will be found in another column.
Some interesting Canton newa.. torpedors, minas, shells, bombs, and bullet. However, the Bha being the epidemic one.... abeth has got something bigger!" Dr. Plotz was the first to volunteer on page 2, Commercial News on "Our Contemporaries" appeara to submit to ite use. Accordingly, page 9, and Log Book on page 6. having converted them into an bewas inculated with it. Another Daniel Rees Davies was convict- impregnable barrier, covering his person who has taken the treated at the Police Court, this morn troops at Tarnow, on the riverment is Dr. Hana Zinsser, an ing for being drunk and disorder- Dobelz, he will suddenly throw eminent bioteriologiet, wholy and assaulting a Chinese. an enormous force from the East has gone to Servia as a member The tennis match between Mr. to the West, part of which will of the Rockefeller expedition A. Nesbit and Mr. S. A. inveat Oracow, while the other to fight typhus. Dr. Zineret Green last night was decided, is professor of bacteriology at the when Nesbit defeated Green. attacke Silesia. A Petrograd official an uncement says: The Russiane con-
We must patiently wait for a College of Physicians and Sur. The match went the whole five tinuing to press the Germans in the region of Shavli, captured on Mr. Harold Cox, a former opponent, points out that pro-war Friday nine guba nad seven machine-guns. The battle in Galicia dissipation of the present my-geons of Columbia University and setts and was closely contested. conditions no longer exist and urges Parliament to arm the Govern continues. We compelled the enemy on Saturday to evacuale theatery. This is a moment, when is also president of the New York
As account of the match ment with compulsory powers.
right taak of the San to the mouth of the Lubaczeks and, in a
decisive concentrations are being Pathological Scoioty, O.her mem- series of counter-attacks against the main body, captured 31,000 effected in impressive silence. bera of the expeditin' were inccu-Appears in another part of this
Istad, all at their own request. issue. prisoners and much booty. Stubborn fighting continues beyond It is generally thought that Dr. Plotz and his asscciates do A correspondent "makes an Daiester. During a counter-attack against the enemy's advance a the Germane are operating with a not pretend to say that the appeal to the Englishwomen of Russian battalion got on the enemy's rear and esptured 617 priscn-:otal of seventy-five army corps, vaccine will prevent typhus. Boogkong on the mainly era and eight machine guns. We took the cffensive in the valley of which forty-Bve are fighting Whether typhus is one of the feminine subject of fashion in of Dolina and forced the enemy to evacuate the right bank of the the French and British, and thirty diseases that can be stopped by dress but the principle is the the Russians. Ten of these thirty serum treatment can only be found wider one of good citizenship. corps have been sent to the Car- out by trying the vaccine in an The latter in fall appears GRAND DUKE'S SECRET Pathiane and the Bakowins to epidemio. The opportunity ap- another column.
support what remains of the pears to be st hand now in Survio. twenty-four Austrian
Dr. Plotz's discovery is now corps. Twenty other German corps are conceded, to be one of the most in Poland and Esatorn Prassia | important contributions made to Paris, April, 22—The Journal guarding the direct ronds to Berlin, medical science in America to-day publishes an interesting "No fixed opinion has been Amorg those who congratulated telegram regarding the campaign formed as to the sphere of activity the young physician and ack in the Carpathiane which says of the six or eight German army nowledged that he had confirmed that very important Hongarian corps of now formation, but the claim of his preliminary towns such as Debreczen are ex-it is thought in any caso that no report were: Dr. Hideyo Noguchi posed to the daily risk of being German reinforcements fit Aus- and Dr. Samuel J. Meltzer, the occupied by the Russians, The tria have been taken from the distinguished investigators of the telegram proceeds.
army in Poland, which remains Bookefeller Institute for Medical Nothing can now save the intact. Copenhagen, April 23,- Research; Dr. Nathan E. Brill, The death has occurred of Sir Plain of Hungary from invasion, The Politiken's Berlin porrespon the discoverer of Brill's disease; Charles Hankes Todd Crosthwaite, but nobody definitely kroma the dent states that the stoppage of Dr. William Hallook Park, chief [Sir Charles Croathwaite was real intentions of the Grand Dake, the operations in the Carpathians of the bacteriological department Reuter's correspondent at Athens states
from 1892 to 1895 Lieutenant Many favour the idea of an le regarded to be due to a change of the Board of Health of this German and Austrian specialists have arrived at Athene and vinoes and Oadh and also a several experts think that after movements are reported to be Dr. E. Libman, of the pathological Governor of the North West pre- adyards on Bada Perth, but of strategy Greet Russian troop city; Dr. F. 8. Mandelbaum, and
Festiafactory, with very litilo forer.
Hospital.
· ·RUSSIAN SUCCESS DEVELOPING.
Jane 1,000 s.m. Reuter's correspondent at Petrograd reports that General Irmanoff developing his success bas captured a further thousand prisoners, and a large number of field kitchens and portions of the enemy's train.
BRITISH BLOCKADE TURKISH COAST.
June 1, 9.00a.m. According to Renter's correspondent at Athena the British blockade has been announced of the coast between the Dardanelles and the Straits of Samos.
KING OF GREECE: CONDITION SATISFACTORY,
Jane 1, 9.00 a.x,
Switza.
TELEGRAMS.
OBITUARY.
Former Prominent Indian Servant Dead,
(Router's Service To The Telegraph.")
London. Received June 1.
PLAN.
Germans Guarding Ronds
to Berlin.
German ForcEF.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY.
Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatro--0.16 p.m.
TO-MORROW.
Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m. Thursday, June 3. General Meeting, A.§. Wa'son
Saturday, Jane D
have issued a bulletin to the effect that the King's condition lavery mein ber of the Ocunsil for India having assured himself of the taking place behind the Russian department of Mount Sinai / and Co. Ltd.—noon,y
from the Istior year to 10051
* possession of the Carpathian and front.
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