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The Hongkong Telegraph

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Temperature 6 s.m. 77 Humidity"

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June 12 1915,

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TO-DAY'S

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS.

BRILLIANT ITALIAN VICTORY,

NOW ABLE TO ADVANCE ON TRIESTE UNDER COVER OF 'NAVAL GUNS.

Austrian Gas Factory and Mains Destroyed at Monfalcone,

RUSSIANS MAKE ENORMOUS CAPTURES IN GALICIA.

OF MEN AND Guns.

Supposed Strong Austrian Fort Found Bereft of Heavy Guns,

[Renter's Service to The "Telegraph.”] .

REMARKABLE VICTORY FOR THE ITALIANS.

June 12 1914, :

Temperature 6 am, 82 Humidity

81

2 p.m.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1915.

TO-DAY'S

WAR TELEGRAMS,

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS

DETAILS OF THE RUSSIAN SUCCESS.

June 11, 12.30 p.m. According to Reuter's correspondent at Petrograd, the Russians have inflicted a serious check on the Germans on the Daisater.

The official communique says:-Important enemy forces crossed the river near Jarsenow, bat. an beroic Russian offensive yesterday, drove the enemy back across the Daleater inflicting mort heavy loases.

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The Russians captured sevaatean guna, forty-nine quickfirere, 188 officers, en 1 8,500 Germans and Austrians, including an entire company of the Prussian Gaard.

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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

FRENCH COMMUNIQUES.

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DAMAGING AIR RAID ON BRUSSELS.

June 10, 5.30 p.m.

A telegram from Amsterdam reports as follows:- Allied airmen on Sunday night flew over Brassele awakening

the citizens. Guns of all calibres were fired at them.

:

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CONDENSED,

Vandluse has been scratched from the New Derby,

On the right bank of Dasister, the Rasaians have osptured 2,000 prisocers.

• Two German submarines have been towed into Libau badly damaged. amongst the fishing smacks, sink-

Zeppelins have

been busy

An Austrian torpedo-boat en- deavouring to get to Trieste, was

the hangar, but, despite the heaviest gunfire, they returned and

They dropped bombs at Etterbeek which, however, did not h'ting two, dropped bombs on the Zeppelin shed at Helmet.

Great flames arose from a Paraeval airship and part of the sunk with all hsude by an Italian shed which were destroyed.

PETROGRAD COMMUNIQUES."

'GERMANS ADMIT RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.

June 10, 730 p.m. Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam reports that Russian successes in the north and the south are admitted in to night's German communique, The Russians, by bringing up reinforos- ments from the north-east, checked the German encircling move ment at Dubism and the Germans retreated to a new line.

The German communique also saya that fresh Russian forces | have advanced from south and south-east of Lemberg.

BEATEN AFTER USING ASPHYXIATING BOMBS.

June 11, 0.55 p.m.

A Petrograd official communique states that after a bombard. ment, partly with asphyxiating bombs, masses of infantry rushed to the assault on the Russian position at Moscisks, Galicia, on the evening of the 8th inst. They reached the wira entanglements bat were repaleed. The attacks were renewed next morning when the enemy were driven back for over a mile with the heaviest losa.

The Russians on the right, hank of the Daeister pressed the enimy, capturing two thousand prisoners, while the enemy on the left bank of the Daeister, near Jurawko, were unable to advance further. After a stubborn battle they were driven back from the railway and the Russians captured a number of villages and took another eight hundred prisonera.

3.000 GERMANS KILLED IN TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES.

Jun 10, 8.30 p.m. Reuter's correspondent at Paris reports that according to an official "Eye-witness" description, in twenty-five minutes the Germans, on the 6th inst., lost over three thousand killed, two hundred and fifty prisoners ind nombers of guns, when the French etormed the salient of Jaenneviere. The latter, "a farm country between the Oisa and the Aisne, had been strongly fortified, bat sa The Italians have achieved an important fear in capturing all day long bombardment followed by the launching of aorial Monfalcone, which is on the railway and only twenty miles diutant torpedoes during the night time, demolished the enemy's works. from Trieste. Then there was a huge mine, explosion, after which the Zonaves,

the German in less than half an hour.

ITALIANS NOW WITHIN TWENTY MILES OF TRIESTE.

June 10, 6.30 p.m:.

June 11, 2,55 a.m..

submarine.

The Italians in capturing Mout falcone socomplished an import ant Eoat as it is on the railway, twenty miles from Trieste.

The Italians are now able to advance on Trieste under the cover of the gans of their war- ships.

A lucky hit by the Italian Fleet exploded what is believed to be the only Austrian army gas factory, at Monfalcone,

The Allies have been engaged in an air raid on Brussele; a Par- Beval and part of the shed werd destroyed, the stables also being attacked.

According to an official "Eye- witness" story from France, the Frenchmen were successful in killing 3,000 Germans in twenty- five minutes.

The Captain of the Princs Eitel Friedrich has been captured, dis- guised as a cook on an Italian steamer, after he had escaped from the United States,

When the French Dragoons eN tered the chateau at Hooge, after a desperate fight, they found the body of a British soldier with seventeen bayonet wounde.

The Italians, on capturing Man-

The French contiune to pro gress and have, captured the village of Neuville.” Over a thou- Senegalese and Brittany infantry charged and completely defeated A Rome communique reports that the Austriane lost two han. and German corpses were found

dred killed and four hundred and twenty prisonera during the fight-in houses, trenches, and cellars The French General then distributed war crosses to the brave ing on the 7th, 8.1 and 9h for possession of Preikoffel, on the Assaulters.

Caraia frontier.

falcone, found that the Astrians The enemy brought up reserves in motor-buses and eight The Austrians again attacked the position, to which they attach attacks were each defeated by ourtains of shrapnel. The Germans great importance, on the night of the 9.b, and were repulsed with then tried outflanking but were received with ex overwhelming heavy low. rain of band grenades.

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FRENCH CAPTURE NEUVILLE.

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Severe fighting continues along the Evouzo river, where the enemy is making a most stubborn resistance.

We have occupied the citadel on the height, dominating Monfalcons.

had been working for a month in

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gas factory, and meine had been

laid to the fighting front, ⠀

The Datch Second Chamber has supported the Bill for repre sentation of Holland at the Vali- can with a view to influencing a Peace settlement.

June 12, 7.35 a.m. Reuter's correspondent at Udine reports that with the capture of the heights adjacent to Monfalcone, the Italians are able to see Trieste. Monfalcone has an arsenal," dooks and large stores of munitions and grain, and it is the centre of the electrical plants

June 11, 1.45 a.m. supplying Trieste with power. It is also an important railway corth of Arras though hindered by a dense fog. The battle ending

A Paris communique reports that the artillery duel continued INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE OF GERMAN BRUTALITY, According to a statement in the junction and its possession by the Italians, prevents the Austrians in the capture of the village of Neuville was most desperate, being

House of Commons, the food out. sending troops to Isonzo from Trieste. The Italians planted the hand-to-hand fighting from house to house. The Germans were

Jane 10, 2.00 p.m. look in England is partioalarly After the fight at Chateau Hooge, near Ypres, on the 3rd inst., bright, wheat, maize and other Tricolour on the remains of the ancient tower which was built by driven to their last extremity, and when they retired, abandoning the Brigadier General in an Order particularly congratulated the foodstuffs stowing a decline in the Venetians when fighting against the Turks.. When the Italians a field gun, several machine guns and much material, over a Third Dragoon Guards on their magnificent courage and deter-price. take Tolmino they will intercept the Austrian access to Isonzo from thousand German corpses were found in the houses and trenches, mination in defending the Chateau. the northern railways. It is now possible for the Italians to advance and in cellara. An enemy attack on Bean-se-joar, Champagne, was on Trieste covered by the fire on their warships and capture repaleed, many German dead being abandoned, Preikoffel Pass lying between the precipitous mountains thousands

of feet high. This shows that Italy is invading Austria proper and

not merely Irredentist provinces.

THE FRENCH STILL PROGRESSING,

The advance of the Itians in the Tyrol and on the Trentino frontier is remarkable considering the advantages of defence in the

Jane 10, 5.45 p.m. mountain passes whose storming is only possible to skilled moun- Heuler's correspondent at Paria reports that a communique taineers. The Italiane advanoing on Rovereto were surprised to says:The Frenchmen repaleed the German counter-attacks, find the Austrians had abandoned and destroyed the strong fort of maintained their captured ground and every where made farther Pozzaohio. It was armed with heavy guns which were, apparently progress. removed to Galicia,

ITALIANS FIND PREPARATIONS FOR GASSING.

Jane 12, 7.35 8.m. Reuter's correspondent at Verice reports that the Italians at Monfalcone discovered that the Austrians had been working for s month in a factory for poisonour gas883 in the form of shells and atool oylinders. By a lucky hit the Italian Fleet caused an explosion in the factory from which pipes had been laid to the fighting front, but which have thue been rendered useless. It is believed this was Austris's only army gas factory.

HOLLAND AND PEACE,

Ferry, June 12, 7.35 8.0.

CONDITION OF THE KING OF GREECE.

Jane 10, 5.45 p.m. Renter's correspondent at Athens states that the King's wound is satisfactory, but his Majesty has now developed inflammation of the kidneys, and there are traces of albumen,

BRITISH FOOD PROSPECTS BRIGHT.

Juns 10, 10.30 p.m.

When the Dragoons arrived at the trenches on the 29th May, they were beavily shelled with high explosives and retired tem- porarily. But they returned during the night and dag acother treach in front of, not behind, that which had been wrecked.:

Early on the morning of the 31st alt. the Dragoons crapt to wards the ruined Chateau, expelled the German defenders and dag occupy the ruins. another trench in the park foiling all the German attempts to ra

with a cannonade so intense that it was like machine-gun fire, only The Germana on the 2nd inst, tried to snsibilate the Dragoons with high explosive shells instead of bullets. All the succeeding infantry attacks were repulsed.

When the Dragoons first entered the Chateau they found the body of a British soldier with seventeen bayonet wounds in it,

ANOTHER CANADIAN APPEAL.

June 11, 6.45 p.m.

A message from Toronto states that the Hon. Samuel Haghes, Minister of Militia and Defence, is appealing for an additional thirty- five thousand soldiers, including four Highland regiments, bringing the total Canadia'a Contingent up to one hundred and fifty thousand.

HUNDREDS OF MILITARY MOTORS DESTROYED

IN LONDON.

June 11, 9.00 pm::

A fire which broke out in the West End resulted in the de-

In the House of Commons, Mr. Walter Ranciman, President, of the Board of Trade, atated that there were prospects of abundant harvests and consequently no risk of famine prices. He emphasised that there was no chance of supplies being cut off or of the margin struction of three hundred military motors, including one hundred of supplies being destroyed. Referring to wheat he mentioned that for the Red Cross Society, the opening of the Dardanelles, to which they all looked forward, would mean a still further decline in the priosa of food stulle.

June 10, 8,20 p.m.

Reater's correspondent at The Hague reports that the Second Chamber has voted, sixty-two against ten for the Bill for temporary

*The prices of wheat, maize and other foodstuffs osutique to representation from Holland to the Vstioso, which was introduced decline. Wheat has dropped four shillings a quarter at Bristol, and with the view to a possible bringing of influence on His Holiness maize one shilling. the Pope in connection with a Peace settlement.

78,946 WAR-WORKWOMEN,

June 11, 9.00 p.m.

It is announced that 78,946 women have registered under the Government's war work schame.

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Submarines have been at work amongst the frawlers; six have been sunk as well as a steamier captured from the Gemans at the outbreak of the war, and schooner.

Monfalcone, which has captured by the Italians, has an

the centre of electrial power sup munitions and grain. It is also arsenal, dooks and large atores of

ply to Trieste, and is an import- ant railway junolion.

NEWS.

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TO-DAY.

B'joa Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre 9.16 p.m.

TO-MORROW.

Bijon Theatre-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m. Tuesday: June 22,

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