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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS."

ON THE ITALIAN FRONT.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS,

ON THE WESTERN FRONT.

Artillery Activity.

London, July B.. A French commanique saysThers is artillery activity between Villars Cottarete Fornet and the Marne,

Aerial Attacks,

London; July 8. Field Marchal Sir Douglas Haig says:-There is nothing to report beyond local encounters. We have taken s few prisoners. Haxy westher on July 7 interfered with sir work. Seven German seroplanes were destroyed and four were driven down uncontroll. able. Three British machines are missing. We dropped sixteen tons of bombe daring the day and the following night, the principal targets attacked being Ostend Dooks and the railways at Tournsi and Contrai.

A Useful French Advance.

London, July 9.

A French communique states:-South of the Aime we attacked "the German positions on the approaches to Rsuz Forest, north-west of Langpont, on a front of three kilometree. We advanced twelve hundred yards and captured Chavigny Farm and ridges to the north and south thersof. We took 347 prisoners.

Farther enemy machines were falled or disabled on the 6th and 7th instant, while two balloons were set on frs.

ITALIAN ATTACKS IN ALBANIA.

Austrians Forced to Give Ground,

London, July 8.

An Austrian official message states :—The Italians are attacking with a strong west wing on the Middle and Lower Vojuss, in Albania. We withdrew from advanced posts in the valley to the main peritions.

İRUSSIAN DEVELOPMENTS.

Big Czecho-Slovak Army.

London, July 8.

Reuter Learns, socording to trustworthy Japanese sources ín Bemia, that the Czecho-Slovak Army is much stronger than wIE at first supposed and is now providing a rallying point for the majority of the non-Belshevist elements. The Osobo-Slovak fores in Vladivostok numbers 15,000, besidea reinforcements despatched so Irkutsk.

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OUR KING AND QUEEN,

Mr. Lloyd George's Glowing Tribute.

London, July 8...

In the House of Commons; Mr. Lloyd George moved that an address be presented to Their Majesties, congratulating them on their Bilver Wedding, and warmly paying tribute to their Majestion' anfailing devotion to duty, and expressing the royal affection with which the British people, all over the world, welcome the saniversary of so felicitous a union and their earnest prayer for the continuance of their Majesties' health and happiness for many yeara.(Cheers). Mr. Lloyd George paid a tributa to the beauty, simplicity and parity of Their Majesties' home lile, their invariable kindliness, sympathy and unwearying devotion to duty, by which they exercised an unaseemable influence on hundreds of millione in the Empire whe instinctively looked to the Throne for a pattern...... (Cheers). He also paid a tributa to the King's undaunted courage and constant thought for the soldiers and sailors and their Majesties" solicitade for the wounded and the bereaved. The British people would never forget these things,-(Oheers). Their Majestion had encouraged and inspired the war workers. When thrones were tottering and falling in other lands, the British Throne was more firmly established than ever on the only foundation; namaly, the listing affection and goodwill of the people. No Sovereigns had ever won a more sasured position in the hearts of their subjects. This was a matter of Imperial moment. The stability of the Throns was essential to the strength of the Empire, it was not only a symbol, but a bond of unity.

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Mr. Asquith paid a tribute to the unwearying taat with which the King strove for petes in July, 1914.

The resolution was carried unanimously with cheers.

ANOTHER AIR RAID ON GERMANY,

-London, July 8.

The Air Ministry reporte:-Oar air forces attacked a station and factories at Kaiserslautern on July 7. Hostile machines were engaged over our objectives, one being shot down. Two-British machines are missing. Our squadrons on July 8 bombed the railway station, workshops and sidings at Luxemburg. Barata were observed in the elation and workshops.

[Kaiserslautern in a town of the Bavarian Palatinate, 52 miles by rail south-west of Worme],

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AN IRISH CORPORAL COURT-MARTIALLED.

London, July 8. Lance Corporal Dowling, of the Connaught Rangers, who was brought ashore from a German submarine of the west of Ireland, has been court-martislled in London. The charges were that, while war prisoner in a German 'damp at Limburg, he joined the Irish Brigade raised by the Germans and endeavoured to induce others to aid the enemy by landing in Ireland.

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MEETINGS PROHIBITED-IN- IRELAND,

London, July 5, General Bhaw has prohibited meetings or promotions throughout fronths, bols of Ireland,

Useful Advance by Australians.

London, July 7. Reuter's correspondent at British Headquarters, wiring: on the 7th inst., says: The Australians' new advance resched depth of four hundred yards and secures a commanding view for five thousand yards of the whole of Villers Breton- esx. The success was a great triumph for the tanka. One of these flattened successively six machinegun nesta with their crows. Another obliterated thirty machine-guns and took prisoner two hundred. · The thoroughness of the Ames- icans roused unstinted praise from the Australians. The former charged shouting "Lusitania”. The fight was the most economical of its kind we have ever fought, not single tank being lost.

Other Succe95+5.

London, July &

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig aaye: The Australians have advanced the line slightly on a front of three thousand yards astride the Somme capturing several prisoners. Scottish troops prisonered a few in a successful raid south- ward of La Basses Canal. Australians entered the trenches eastward of Hazebrouck and brought back prisoners. Hostile artillery is active astride the Somme following our opera tions, also westward, of Beaumonthamei and in the neigh bourhood of Bethune.

The Delayed Offensive.

London, July 5.

The delay in the German offensive, which the corres pondenta concur in declaring to be fully prepared, is exciting.' much speculation. It is attributed in some quarters to a shortage of man-power and the prevalence of influenza, but it is believed in Paris that a political reason is responsible. It is possibly connected with the prolonged Council of War which the Kaiser, Count Hertling, Marshal von Hindenburg and General Ludendorff have been holding for some days past, to which Dr. von Kuehlmann has now hastily been summoned It is stated that the latter's party, which denies the possibility of a military victory, has been rain. forced recently by accounts of the situation in Russia and the revelation that over a million American soldiers are in France. Experts in Paris- opine that the German, reserves amount to only fifty-five divisions compared to eighty in the Spring, hence they expect the coming blow will be on a much restricted front.

BITTER FIGHTING ON ITALIAN FRONT.

London, July 8.

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An Italian official message saya: By small actions wo gained ground northward of Grapps and extended our advanced occupation in the region of Colcaprile. Italo-French between the coast. and Tomorics-Valley in Albania begun an operation on the 6th inst. which is devo loping satisfactorily. The prisoners already exceed a thousand.

Correspondents at Italian Headquarters in describing the fighting which preceded the explusion of the Austrians from the Piave Delta states that the Austrians were unabla to entrench in the water-logged soil which filled thirty square miles of marshland, Macaine gun posts" were approachable only frontally along the tops of dykes and the Austrians converted scattered houses into fortresses. The troops left to defend, the delta were mostly Musulman Bosnians who resisted most desperately. Four columns of Bersaglieri and sailors were assigned to the task of break- ing up the enemy defences and they fought continually up to their waists in water, Both sides often lost their weapons in' bogs and fought with hands and teeth. Astounding fests were performed by Arditi in the closing phases of the battle. Armed with long poles they cleared obstacles, land ed in rear of the machino-gunners and drove their daggers into the enemy's backs. A company of Bersaglieri rushed and captared a battery of four-inch gang. Another com. pany, preceded by flamethrowera, atormed a factory in the face of forty machine-guns and prisonered all the officers. Altogether thirteen hundred machine guns were captured in the delta and hundreds more were buried in the swamps of ruins of demolished buildings.

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

The Murder of Count Mlbach.

London, July 8,

A German expedition against Moscow is anticipated as 's result of the murder of Count Mirbach, the German

Ambassador.

A Bussian wireless message says: M Lenin, informing. Ambassador Joffs at Berlin of the murder of Count Mirbach, order him to immediately visit Dr. voz" Kuehlmann and. express his indignation. It states that M. Lenin, M ̧- Sverloff, M. Tchiteherin and M. Karahan on receipt of the news immediately assured the Chief of the German Mission that extraordinary measures had been taken for the discovery of the murderers. The whole quarter in which the Embassy is situated was immediately surrounded by troops and sovero control was established" on arrivals in' and departures from the town. An extraordinary Pleni- potentiary will be dispatched to Berlin to express indignation.

Signal for Revolt.

Amsterdam, July. 8. A message from Berlin says the murderers of Mirbach took shelter in a building occupied by Social Revolution- aries sad defended by machine-guns. The impression' is growing that the murder was the signal for a big revolt of Social Revolutionaries, fighting, with whom is occurring in Moscow. Details are lacking,

Revolutionary Ristog. Suppressed.

London, July 2

A wireless Russian official messaga says:-The counter revolutionary rising of Left Social Revolutionaries in Mos- cow has been suppressed Several hundreds are arrested

Bignificant reports are appearing in the German press of Bolshevik cruelties at Baku which, it is alleged, neces sitate. German occupation of this rich district,

Situation et Visdivostok.

London, July 8 CA Vladivostok message to the "Times" saya that British, Japanese and American leading parties enforced neutrality, in the neighbourhood of the Consulates

THE DUTCH CONVOY.

London, July A

Mr. Gibson Bowles in a letter to the “Time” denounces the concession as regards the Dutch convoy as a return to the Declaration" of London and asks whether, the Allier consur; if not, then the convoy is liable to search by Japan- ess and United States warships and also to attack, by German submarinos uoloss Germany has also guaranized immunity which would be a privilege not enjoyed by a -central in say war,

The Times" in an editorial describes the Foreign Offer communique on the subject of the convoy as humiliating and unintelligible. It save the Government has established: * precedent which will be cited against us.

BRITAIN AND HOSPITAL SHIPS.

London, July 8

In the House of Commons, Mr. Macnamara stated that German submarines had on several occasions exercised the right of searching hospital ships in order to see that they wars complying with The Hague Convention. He emphasised that Britain had never broken the letter and spirit of the Convention se regards hospital ships and he believed the same was true regarding Britain's "Alliez.

"JAPAN'S ARMY AND NAVY,

London, July 8, The Times correspondent at Tokio, wiring on the 1st init, says: The Council of Field Marshals and Admirals has decided on a plan of co-operation between the Army and Navy and has approved in prinsiple of increasing the Army to twenty-one corps, forty-two divisions and 198 regiments.

PEACE PROSPECTS."

Amsterdam, July 6.

The “Vorwaarts” says that President Wilson and. Mr. Churchill both make a decisive Allied military victory a pre-requisite of peace, therefore the Germans must continus the struggle until the Allies, are convinced that peace osn only come by understanding.

THE SILVER MARKET.

The silver market is quiet.

BRITISH LABOUR.

"A Broad People's Party."

London, July &

accident of their class or economic

circumstances.

SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS. ISA PER ANNUM.

4,276 RIVETS A DAY,

'London Beats' U.S.A. ¡

The United States riveting record made by Charles Schock, who at Baltimore drove in 2,720 rivsta in nine hours, has been easily, beaten in London.

The workmen af Manors. Fruen & Fraser, anginners and boilez makers of Bromley-by-Bow, sakad their management to give them an opportunity of beating the Ams erinen record, and the effort was made by a selected squad. The riveter was Robert Farrant, .a dark, slim, clean ehsten man of mightly muscle, 31 years of agð, and one of a family of eighteen whose father, aged 67, is still a riveter in the same yard.

Starting at 6:30 a.m., with half an hour for breakfast and an hour for dinner, be worked till 5 with a 281h. pasumatic_tool_in. riveting a number of steel tanks, Four carriers ran constantly to and fro with white-höt rivets from three farmeces a fow yards away. They slipped the xivate into the holou, and as fast as they could bring them Farrant drove them. home, Repeatedly he shouted Iw more. These were might second |ram of lightning hammering as the piston of the pneumatic tool | rattled away at the rate of 1,000

blows to the mÍONÍA,

Inside the tanks, two men,

| Payton and Baxter, took turom with the "holding-up" toole- blant metal instruments which are pressed against the white-hot | rivets, no the zivotąg barnmars

them home..

The yard set out to do 2,850 rivate in nine hours so as to best the American figures, but Farrant- psmod · that total in six hours. Going on, he hammered in 4276 rivets in the aine bours, an average of. 475 an hour, or one rivet about every 7} seconds. This is claimed to be easily a world's record. MA normal day's work is 1,000 to 1,2000 rivals in 9 hours,'' ssid an authority,

On the other hand, it must not be suposed that a reorganised Labour party will accept at his lown valuation the adventures or

At the finish the squad received the experior person who comes in Mr. W. C. Anderson, M.P. solely for the purpose of running workers, Farrant looked as fresh en ovation from, their fellow- chairman of the British Labour as a Parliamentary candidate, or at the finish se at the start. Party executive, writes in the of instructing everybody how Members of the Ministry of Muni Pall Mall Gazette the article which everything should be done. That tions and other Government De- follow.com

person will probably find his WAY

DON'T FORGET.

A strong democratic revival is ont even more quickly than he pariments were present. taking pisse in the country. found his way in. But those who Many who are resident in London join, not because of what they may hardly be aware of it, but it expect, but of what they hope to is impossible to visit the provio give, will have no difficulty in cial industrial centres without finding their place, and in render feeling the growing force and ing high service.

TO-DAY.

Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.ini TO-MORROW. Victoria Theatre-19.15 m..

intensity of the new movement, My owo criticism of the pro Old parties, old ideas, old instita posed changes in the Labour party daily getting worse. There will be tions are being definitely chal constitution is not that they are tremendous questions of filasnos, lenged, and the idea of complete 100 bold, but that they are too a huge war debt, high taxation, rebuilding from the bottom op is timid. Far deeper changes will financial instability. There will taking hold of the mind of the bave to be made if we are to be in various, trades industrial people.

provide obanuele for the new dislocation. There will be the The Labour Party has a sup-democratic river, I am sure that all-important question of the new reme opportunity to broaden after the war we are going to status of Labour, the place which feelf out into a great people's have flood-politics-great mass the workers sis to occupy in the party. It must be more than a movements in which thousande gain and struggle of the nation, class movement, though it must of workpeople in factory or There will be the difficult gape. set ita face like flat against the mins will go to vote with the same {tions of demobilisation all the wrongs and oppressions of class solidarity that they display during industrial issues arising out of It must be wide enough to ir a'nde a strike. To addition to this, them. There will be housing all who are genuinely for social real people's party will be ready questions, and urgent questions sad economic justine, and against to accept all who stand for social se to the future relation of States. monopoly and vested intereste, servios, and are resolved to put In point of fact, there will be who are for the public good down the profiteer from his much revolutionary - ferment.". against class ascendency, who are present high place.

Those who are trying to build up

really in favour of a social order! It will be open to the soldier a new relation between Capital in which every child born will(back from the ware and anxious and Labour, based wholly on the bave at least an equal chance to sen justice done to all his com- emotion of war, are building on with every other child." |rades, to the doctor who under- shifting sand. But it will b

In the light of that, the land stands what a large percentage indeed lamentable if there is so system and the industrial, system of disease is rooted in evil social be merely revolutionary feeling will be subjected to critics" ex conditions, to the artist who loves without guidance or direction—a emination, and the changes are beauty and calent, and loathes blind kicking of feat against bound to be far-reaching. the hideous ugliness of factory burdens which are heavy ani

Is is sometimes suggested that was, to the architect who knows intolerable. That is the rosi Labour Party should be the difference between a home of danger of the fature, and it is the enspicions of everybody who is not health and joy, and a foul-smells last ditch remotionary, who stub- a manual worker or a trade union ing jarry-built alam, to the bornly obstructs all change, "who official. That is, of course, beard. schoolmaster in revolt against really precipitates revolutionary Industrial movements like the ignoranos and shady education, maaroh and obsce trade union must necessarily be and eager that every child shall There will be need for vision, based upon class; but political make the most of itself, and for restraint, for statesmanshi movements reet upon ideas, upon render the widest social service, Therefore, I welcome the prope alses of mind. Boom must, there to the musther in the home with of a vast party springing fore, be found for all who are wise practical knowledge of pro- the people themissly on, antin humostly in sympathy, with and bisini vital to the future of las with pourage and wi are prepared heartily to work for to all these sad many more, bringing about the chang the programme and policy of the That will be food problems, are naomsary to the fate Labour Party,” whatever the|sirandy_unfioiently mouto country and of humanity.