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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE BATTLE SITUATION.

MORE REPORTS OF PAST AND PRESENT.

Enemy Admits Allled Gain of Territory,

London, June 9.

A French communique states:-There is sharp artillery firing in the region of Bengard en Banterre between the Oise and the Aises and south of the Aina. We continued to progress in the region of Veuilly Bursiares and entered the village of Eloup. The enemy attempted to wipe out out yesterday's gain on the Obery and Dammard front. Their violent counter-attacks were shattered. We - entirely maintained our gaina.

Americans Repulse the Eaemy.

London, June 9, An American communique states-North-west of Chateau Thierry hostile attacks on a front of two miles during the night, after artillery preparation, were repulsed with heavy losses. The enemy could not reach par lines anywhere,

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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE MACEDONIAN SÛCCESS«

Biggest Since the Capture of Monastir.

London, Jone 4 (dalsyed).

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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH HEROES.

Deeds That Won the Victoria Cross.

Renter's special correspondenter the Macedonian front telegraph.

WOMEN AVIATORS.

London, June 4 (delayed);

(Reuter's Service to The

THE TURF:

Result of New Derby,

Landan, June % (dalaredja) The regals of the New Darby was an bilowe :-

Gainsborough Blink Treclare Thirteen ran. Won' by one and

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- The Gusetts announces the award of five now. Victoria CrosseS ing on June 1, says that the Franco-Greeks are motively adomalidating Two of the recipients are dead, The stories, sa goal, reveal almost the new positions at Skradilegan, brilliantly carried in. Chanday's superhuman heroismo. The following are examples ----- advance. The prisoners, who now number 1,712, dot conceal Lical. E. 8. Dougall, of the Field Artillery, who was sub their admiration for the masterly attack upon positicas which had sequently killed, undoubtedly averted a serious breach in the hitherto been regarded as impregnable. The captured positions British line by his personality and skilful leadership through- consist of first and second lines, the latter of which dominates the out a trying day. He rallied and organised infantry whom third enemy organisation. The new lives extend for twelve the enemy had pressed back level with his battery, supplied them f kilometres and are two kilometres in depth. The success is un- with Lewis guns, armed all the gunners he could spare with a half lengths, two lengths doubtedly the biggest since the Allied capture of Monastir in 1916. rifle and therewith formed a line in front of the battery which was between second and third. Tha Several Balgar counter-attacks on May 31, were frustrated by our meanwhile harassing the advancing enemy with rapid fire. Al-batting was :—Gainsborough, barrage fire.

though under rifle.fire and machine-gun-fire, Lieut. Dougall fear/13; Blink, 100/8; and Trealses lessly walked about, se though on parade, calmly giving ordere, and 20/1 encouraging everybody. He inspired the infantry with the assurance So long as you stick to the trenches I will keep my g78 ORDERED TO here." The line was maintained all day long, delaying the enemy's advance for over twelve hours. The battery was withdrawn with The Minister of Labour, Mr. Gorge Roberts, addressing the great difficulty in accordance with orders in the evening, when the Queen Mary's Women Auxiliaries at Sheffield, announced that ister ammunition was spent.

Comic Opera Incident at on there would be women aviatore, end he thought they would make Second Lieut. E. F. Beal led a party of under a dosen men

the Magistracy. very grad aviators. Speaking generally in connection with the against the enemy who was strongly holding a gap of four bandred employment of females in France, Mr. Roberte said that while the yards between the left of his Company and a neighbouring unit,

Basices in Mr. Wolfe's Court Government gave a guarantee that they would do everything which it was vitally important to clear. Reaching an enemy A German wireless message states:-Renewed enemy attacks possible to keep out of the danger gone all girls and women sent en machine-gun, Lient. Besl immediately sprang forward, killed the bad been very dall this morning. north-west of Chatean Thierry and on the Marne, only brought him military work, there was bound to be some risk in the care of those team with his revolver, captured the gun; altogether similarly There were a large number of unimportant gains of territory.

girls working at the front, who were rendering such splendid service osptured four msebine-guns and inflicted severe casusities on the spectatore, but there was very Aviation Activity,

to England and the Allies.

enemy. Subsequently, regardless of danger, Liens, Beal walked up little to interest them, and most Only for Peace.

close to an enemy machine gun and brought in a wounded man of them were comfortably dozing who had been left in the open under heavy enemy fire. Lieut. Besl as only Chinese can dean with was killed by a shell on the following morning.

Allied Enterprises,

London, Jane 8.

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Heig, in a communiqus, says :-We raided trenches south of Arras, inflicting osenalties. The French carried out a successful minor enterprise eset of Picksbusch L.ke, taking forty-seven prizoners,

Germans Admit Allled Galos.

London, June 8.

A Possiblity of the Future.

London. June 4 (delsyed).

London, June 5 (delayed.)

London, Jane 8. Field Märzhal Sir Douglas Raig, reporting on aviation stat Bombing was sotive on both sides on June 7. We dropped twenty. three tone of bambs on railway janctions, serodromge and dampe Mr. Roberts, referring to his Sheffield statement yesterday, said beyond the German lines. We brought down twelve and drove be was afraid that he had been misunderstood. He never intend- down seven uncontrollable. Three British machinee are missing.ed to suggest that women should be employed se aviators in the Flying was imposible on the night of June 7.,

Army but as avistors in time of pesce,

The Turn of the Tide.

London, June 4 (delayed).

Beater's correspondent st French Beadquarters, writing on Jane 3, says: The battle seems to have taken a general turn in our favour. Our line is bolding and our troops are not only resint- ing but are counter-attacking vigorously and sucoasefully. Farther actuations are still probable. The front is not yet, onatimnons. There are places where the Boobe method of infiltration may still secure local adventsges, but ea the line esiffene hour by hour the points where the enemy can hope to pass without evere fighting are becoming rare,

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A Paris semi official' message states: The Gertosu lowes are becoming more and more serious every day, but he is still nou erically superior on the whole front and may be able to embark on new cffensive in some other sector, perhape Montdidier and Nayon. The French Command is therefore hiding its time before putting

A SENSATIONAL LIBEL TRIAL

Miss Maud Allan's Action Falls.

-London, Jane 4 (delayed).

One of the most sensational cases ever beard in the Old Bailey concluded to-day. Mr. Pemberton Billing, M.P., was charged with criminally libelling Misa Mand Allan in his newspaper, the Pigilante,. by suggesting that she was a moral pervert because the plaved Oscar Wilde's Salome, which play appelled to esxual perverts. The case has been characterised by scenes of disorder, unknown in a British Court, Mr. Billing and his witness several times shouting at the top of their voices, contradicting Judge Darling and counsel.

Mr. Billing, who defended himself, declared that he published the statement in the Vigilante because many leading people in England were subject to German terrorisation and teared black- mail, which therefore prevented prosecuting the war vigorously. London, June 4 (delayed). He called a witness who testified to having seen a bisok book, com, Beater's correspondent at Paris etatea that the defence of Rheims piled in Germany, containing 47,000 names of best-known English

most of the one

heroic features of the battle, people, who are sexual perverts, including Mr. Asquith, Lord Justice French troops guarding the approaches to the city, on May Darling and Mr. Haldane. 27 gradually fell back to the subarb in aonséquence of The Jadge, summing up, held that the alleged book was the westerly withdrawal of the line. The troops left held out for irrelevant to the case. In the course of the summing up, Lord eight daya anrelieved. Thoes encircling the city on the right only Aifred Dongles called the Jadge a liar, whereapon Lord Douglas

·7 retired a hundred yarda artil the increase of the gap on their left was ejected."

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The Defence of Rheims.

GERMAN CRUISER SUBMARINES..

necessitated a modification of the line. All German attempts to The jury returned a verdict of "not guilty", this being attook the city frontally were fruitless. They were un ble to ceived with cheers. employ the tanks and rush the suburbs, sa they intended. Three unks were perceived on the afternoon of the 31st approaching. They were immediately shelled. One was set on fire, and the others disappeared. The French resistanca between the Cares aubarb and Fort Pompelle was equally firm, sad caused an, sttsok by four regimente on May 31-and June 1 on Pompelle, as described in the communique..

How a Division was Relieved,

London, Jane 4 (delayed),

Some Exaggerated Claims Exposed.

London, June 4 (delayed).

EXCESS PROFITS TAX.

To be Continued After War.

"KOW-TOW."

limited number of inches to it

ok As time wore op, the Inspectors all left and a few perple at the back stirred Faneasily in their seats. The dull- Es was becoming shockingly appressive, when saddenly the patrid atmosphere was disturbed. A witness in the bor had used the worde Volo Kwas and he was receiving a lecture from His Wor

London, June 4 (delayed). Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law said that although the Excess Profits Tax could not be regarded as permanent it would not be stopped immediately the war was finished.. It was estimated to obtain #300,000,000 therefrom during the current year

and to obtain such a sum from Income Tax would mean a tax of ship. The Court was electrified. eight shillings in the pound...

Spectators stirred and woke up their neighbours, the Court con atable looked sharply round to see" if their were any smiles he could

strolled lasily in to see what was Frank's famous dog who had wipe eff, and Archibald Mr.

doing, cessed rabbing his hide on the table leg, and, regsining his balance, cooked both esra.

His Worship told witness that the English and Indian did not refer to Chinese sa "Chinese ́ ́ Beater learns that the Armenians, since November, have Devils," though perhaps they desperately resisted the advance of the Turks. The recaptare of were the worst. He was going Exam was a remarkable event. Poorly fed and ill-equipped to stop this kind of thing in his Armenians faced the Tarks single-handed from November to Court. He would have the man February, when the Turkish attempt to occupy Batam aroused the know that he was liable to s Georgians, who have since co-operated against the Turks, compell- severe penalty for using the e-ing the latter to bring up fresh divisions and delaying the Turkish expresion in that Court. It

march towards Persia,

DISTINGUISHING BADOB FOR DISABLED.

*London, Jane 5. white armlet bearing & red crown would be issued to all disabled In the House of Commons, Mr. Griffiths Baacaren stated that a soldiers and asilors in order to indicate dissbility, and an appeal would be made that every consideration ebould be shown to them

ARMENIANS OPPOSE THE TURKS,

London, June 4 (delayed).

FRENCH MUNITION WORKS EXPLOSION.

London, Jane 4 (delayed).

was most insulting. One could better understand it if he had just come from the country and did not know any better. Chinees. Beuter's correspondent at Paris says that a serious explosion of the Police and then they were always ready to seek the aid has occurred at Hesussens Manition Works. There was severe showed their gratitude by calling damage but the number of victims has not yet been discovered.th m "Devil" His Worship Considerable quantities of monitions were lost.

demanded that the man should Later.

SHIPBUILDING MATTERS,

Mr. Archibibald Burd, writing in the Daily Telegraph, exposes the exaggerated German reports of the so called craiser submarines, which are merely a large type of ordinary submarine. Their dia Beater's correspondent at British Headquartere, writing on long, bat ander 300. Their surface speed is not 28 koots but 12 killed and fifty injured in the explosion at the Beaussers Munition

placement is not 5,000 tons but 2,000, and they are not 450 feet

A message frem Marseilles asys that one hundred persons were Jane 3, states: Hostile aircraft, which for days previously had been and the submerged speed is not 15 bat ten koota per hour or so. Works on Jane 3. invisible, are now bombing and machine-gunning. The enemy He points out that the British know lose about their own submarine astacked in dense masses east and west of Craonze. Some worked activites than Germany'e, because enemy targets are few sa com zound and reached the bridge over the Aiene at Mainy, Consequently, pared to the thousands we present weekly, but the percentage of when the British carried the rearguard line fighting to the bank of hits we make is treble that made by the Germans. The enemy the river, some found the bridge down and their retreat out off.

campaign is maintained by defying every international law and French reserves began to arrive in strength on the afternoon of the ignoring the ordinary dictates of humanity." 27th while the Twenty-fifth English Division came into sotion in easier than murder."

There is nothing support. The battle increased with fary on the 28th, when fresh German divisions stlacked. The British continued their heroic resistance, earning bigh praise from the French High Command, The relief of the Fiftieth Division by French troops began on the evening of the 28th. Gradually the English troops were withdrawn from the struggle.

A Bitter Struggle.

"PRISONERS IN HOLLAND;

Question of Their Repatriation.",

London, Jane 5 (delayed).

expression. say out loud that he was extreme- ? ly penitent for having used the

The witness, who was roundly reproved by the Interpreter, com- plied with the demand sod London, June 4 (delayed)..

continued to give his evid Beuter's correspondent af Ottawa anys that the Minister of ence. The Court was just Marine announces that three private berths are being laid down in recovering from its surprise at Halifax for the constraction of steel ships of 10,000 tons, the first of this unusual turn of events when which is expected to be commissioned within fifteen months.

His Worship, who had evidently Londen, June 3 (delayed).

been thinking deeply over the decided that the Reuter's correspondent at Washington says that the newest matter, type of destroyer was launched esventeen days after the keel was

delinquent should make still laid, creating a new world's record.

further amende, and ordered that

· Renter's correspondent at Amsterdam says that the repatriation

London, June 3 (delayed).

he should be placed in an empty of the Germans interned in Holland ön condition that they are Dot Beater's correspondent at Melbourne says that the Common-space in the middle of the Gourt Hooter's correspondent at French Headquarters says:Latest used again for war purposes is suggested by the Vossische Zeitung, wealth is speeding up the building of steel and wooden ships in front of all the spectatora, and reports of yesterday's fighting confirm that the ecemy was held in an article on the food scarcity in Hollend. The paper thinks throughout the fire states. Scvaral vessela

Kow Tow to him. The un are now being after a bitter struggle from the Oise to the Marne with minor undoubtedly that such en cifer on Holland's part would be constructed.

fortaunste witness, who by fluctuations. The balance of the advantage is with the Allies. Such enthusiastically welcomed by the German people sad sya that the

this time was a very unhappy. progress as the Germans made oost an exaggerated price in casual forthcoming Anglo-German negotiations at the Bague will perhape

man, and was in fes and tremb ties. Dismounted French cavelry divisione engaged in the bitterest cogatitate a good opportunity for the Datch Government to make

ling as to what might next be ighting for the precession of the road south of Villers Cotterete each an for. Presumably, the idea is that British interned-men

done with him, threw himself Forest, against enemy crack Divisions who were dearly purchasing should also be repatriated, though the Vessische does not specifically

Benter's correspondent at the Hague says that the German readily on his knees and bowed every foot of ground. These dismounted men have been participat mention this point.

representatives at the Anglo German War Prisoners Conference will his shaven pates in eubjection ing since the beginning of the battle with extraordinary valour. One

be General Friendrichs, the Privy Councillor Herr Eckhardt, Major antil commanded to rise by his battalion which we surrounded north of the Marne, with a magni.

Drantel, who participated in a similar monférence, and Prinos Worship. ficent bayonet charge cut a way out, whereupon they were ordered to

Hatzfeldt Wildenburg, Eaver Extraordinary and Minister The businer of the Court retake the position and nebesitatingly obeyed, driving out the Ger-

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proceeded made from the position where they bad previously been surrounded: An important article on strategy by General Foch is published During the last 36 hours the enemy has made no real progress on in today's newspaper, the Field General Foch argues that modera any part of his new front. South of the Aisne there are signs that war, in order to arrive at its end of imposing its will on an enemy, the Gervans are about to inske another big attack on the pistesux recognises paly one means, namely the destruction of the enemy's batween the Aions and Villers Cotterers Forest in order to straighten organised forces of war, and undertakes and prepares for this des the deep depression in their line between the Aisne and Visizy, traction by the battle which brings about the overthrow of the Council, at Paris. Besides Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Their flat in this sector is only a little in advance of the western adversary, disorganises his command, destroys discipline and Pichon, Signor Orlando, Baron Sonning, and the Amer edge of the Orise Valley. The German Command is natually liasons, and nullifies the fighting powers of the units. In order to Japanese Ambassadora, a zumbr of military men were Buxions to obtain's firm fcoting on the plateant. There is every completely achieve the object, the battle must not be purely defen inauding General Foch, Major General Sackville Wes pop for confidence that we shall be able to hold the Germans steal for s purely defensive battle, even well-conducted, is simply a Blime of the United States and General Bobilit here so we did in the battle for Villere Cotterets Forest yesterday.' game which must be replayed.

MODERN WARFARE. -

THE WAR PRISONERS CONFERENCE.

London, June 4 (delayed).

SUPREME WAR COUNCIL MEETS,

London, June 5 (deley

M. Clemencesu presided at the meeting of the Sapz

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