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THE SOMME VICTORY
THE SOMME VICTORY Enemy Forced Back to his I Third Line. 2,000 PRISONERS IN ONE DAY, —-—.—-—————— Total Advance Four ¡1iles ————— Press Bureau, Saturday Afternoon. The following telegraphic dispatch from British General Headquar- ters, France, was issued this afternoon:— Ail continues to go well on the British front, and at one point we have forced the enemy back to his third system of defence, more than 4 miles in the rear of /lis original front trenches at Fricourt and Mametz. In the past twenty-four hours we have captured over 2,QQ0 prisoners, including a regimental commander of the Third Guards Division, and the total number of prisoners taken by the British since the; battle began now exceeds 10,000. Large quantities of war material have also fallen into our hands. TO-DAY'S FRENCH OFFICIAL. The following French official com- munique was issued through the Press Bureau this afternoon:— On the left bank of the Meuse a Ger- man grenade attack on one of our trenches to the north-east of Avo- court Redoubt was repulsed. On the right bank artillery duels con- tinue intense in the sector of Fleury. We dispersed by rifle fire several enemy reconnaissances in the 13 ois de Vaux-Chapitre. In the Forest of Apremont several German attempts failed under our curtain fire. BRITISH OFFICIAL. British Headquarters, Friday, 9.17 p.m. —It is now possible to give further details of the action begun at daybreak this morning. Having driven the enemy back step by step to his second system of de- fence, the period of the llth and 12th of July was mainly spent by our troops in bombarding these formidable positions and in other necesssary preparation for a further advance. This morning, after an intense bombard- ment the assault was launched at 3.25 a.m The enemy was driven from his trenches )n the whole of the front of attack, and nany prisoners fell into our hands. Fierce fighting has continued all day. as ;he result of which ve have steadily increased our gains, and are now in possession of the enemy's second position from Bazentin-le-Petit village to Lon- gueval village, both inclusive, and the whole of Trones Wood. In Trones Wood we relieved a party of the Royal West Kent Regiment who. separated from our troops in the recent I fighting and surrounded by the Germans, had gallantly held out at the northern end of the wood for -18 hours. Two determined counter-attacks on our positions were completely .crushed by our gun-fire. Later in the day. after a fierce counter- attack. the Germans succeeded in re- j capturing the village of Bazentin-!e-Petit. but were afterwards driven out again by our infantry, and the whole village is once more in our hands [Longoeva l. a village with a peace j time popnlation-of about (00, is over six miles east by north of Albert:, and nearly five miles east of our original line on the right of June "0. It lies just north of the Trones Wood, now entirely cleared of the enemy.] [Bazentin-le-Grand is a mile west of Longtievul, and Bazentin-le-Petit nearly a mile further to the north-west.] Ovillers, where fighting is also re- ported, is half a mile north of La Boi^elle on the western side of the Albert—Banaurne road.l FRENCH OFFICIAL. 11 p.m.—The day was comparatively calm on the whole front. By way of reprisals for the hombard- ment carried cut by the enemy on the • open town of Luneviile on the night of Jiine 21-25, one of our aircraft. flying at a height of 500 yards, last night dropped j several bombs of large calibre on the town of Mulheim. on the banks of thp Rhine. ENEMY'S ELUSIVE REPORT. Amsterdam, Friday. — The following official communique was issued in Berlin to-day:—()n both sides of the Somme severe fighting has again broken out. This morning the English attacked the sector of the Mam-e-tz Wood and Longueval and repeated their efforts at the Trones Wood, whepe yesterday evening they had been already severely hit by a prompt attack by our reserves. By yesterday's vain attack in the dis- j trict of Barleux and west of Estrees the French added a fresh disappointment to their numerous failures of the last few days. Neither they nor their black friends were able to gain an inch of ground. East of the Meuse attempts by the French to recapture their lost ground failed. Their attacks were arrested by our fire in the district of Fort Soaville, and were completely repulsed near Fort La u fee On the remainder of t no front numerous enemy patrols or stronger reconnoitring parties were repulsed. German patrols re- turned with prisoners near Aulches and Beaulne and west of M^rkirch. PRISONERS SURRENDERING I FREELY. The Press Association correspondent with the Army in the Self!. telegraphing at 2.30 p.m. yesterday, «aid Later reports tend to confirm the first j accounts of the success of the British at- tack this morning. The German second line was carried with email losses, prisoners surrendering! freely. One regimental commander an? ? staff, three arh Her}' ofhccrs, ai)d -??-ut? 150 infantry officers and men had reacli,?dl one point alone up to nine o?clock this morning. In addition to the viUa?e? already r<? ported captured, Bazentin-le-Petit hasi bp^n tnV-c-n by storm. Fighting 'is also proceeding around Ovillers, practically the whole of the village being in our hands. Sfeveral German counter-attacks against the positions just won have been success- fully repulsed,, and our troops are now consolidating their gaiiis The troops are in hiirh spirits over; their successes.—Press Association. TRIBUTE TO THE WELSH. I The 'JjmesJ' special correspondent with the British Army in the field, deal-! ing with the great advance, writes:— The officers of another division have told me of the great callantry of the Welsh troops, whose advance they were able to watch. In spite of the rifle and the machine-gun fire, they 6aid, the steadi- ness of the advance was superb, wave dter wave going forward without a check,! without hesitation, and without a; FINE SUCCESSES. The Magnificent Advance of. British Troops. Paris, Saturday.—The Press comments delightedly on the magnificent success of our intrepid Brifisti ye^-rday. In the Petit IJariaien" Colonel lious.set says: The British success, which is but beginning—tor the battle still rages furiously—will be singularly disagreeable to the Germans, whose particular dread is an advance of the British, north of Peronne. To prevent it they have made incredible efforts. See them now, con- tinues the colonel, they are forced to give way before the perseverance of the British, which seems to acquire determination with each new difficulty, in the solid assurance of these measured but con- tinuous a dvances there is something1- majestic, inflexible, which gives the im- lJressioll of latent power, united to all lluplHeabJc wilL The" Matin" nays that a glance at the Ti-lal) iS sufficient to reveal the im- portant tactical consequence' which may result from the advance of yesterday. From to-day the British front, north of the Somme, is aligned with the French, front. In the "Echo de Paris" Marcel• Hutin says the British offensive is only Le°imiing. Mr. Asquith said so yester- day in the House of Commons. We knew it, and our enemies now recognise j U. Despite rather bad weather and poor visibility for the work of the batteries, a bi? advance was scored yeE;tery, and the batth- continues without r??c. in the Radical" Colonel Bris writes: T1 pse are tine, succ?'ses to put to the? credit of our Allies. Really astoumhng,! if one pauses to think that only a few! months ago these soldiers were civilians, without a notion of the soldier's busi- ness. The Excelsior" says the Franco- British attack on two fronts, carried out by the same methods and with an equal courage, is yielding similar results. Moreover the regular alteration of periods, of preparation, and of action gives the operation a continuity which allows the enemy not a moment's respite. A war of exhaustion, of which the Germans continually talk, is well under way, and it is they who are paying the bill. The expert French commentator in his report of Friday night adds no ne-W I facts to the official reports. He points out; that with the capture of the villages: named the total number of these taken in the big advance is brought up to 21. j He says the depth of the advance is about: 1,250 metres. He concludes: It was a big day, full of great dforts and fine sue-i cesses by the British troops, who, by methodical advance, are gradually bring- j ing their front up to the level of the new French line, thus facilitating the renewal of the combined advance. BELGIAN REPORT. Havre, Saturday.—The following official: Belgian communique was issued here last: night: Artillery duels took place at j various points on the Belgian front to- j day, especially in the region of Steens-! traate, where the struggle reached great intensity in the afternoon. j
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■ i i NON-COMMTTAL TURKEY, Amsterdam, Saturday.—The Turkish: communique, received to-day, via Berlin, is as follows:— Caucasian Front.—The right wing of our advanced detachments drove thej enemy reconnaissances back to their! main positions. In the centre violence of' fighting in some sectors has decreased, without any decisive success for either side. Fighting continues, partly in our favour, partly in the enemy's favour. Advanced positions, which are very often1 without any tactical value, are repeatedly changing hands. On the left wing the situation north of Chorokh is also un- changed. Surprise attacks by the enemy war vessels to approach certain coast Pos^Sfons of the Dardanelles and waters of foimy a were prevented by our artillery. Pim^.s A<rwitlti..n.
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ring of FIRE I GERMAN OFFiCEti'S DESCRIPTION OF ARTIllERY WORK OBSTACLES FLATTENED OUT j Amsterdam, Saturday.—Lieut. Alfred iJambitschi, who was wounded in the re- cent fighting on the Somme, gives an in- J teresting description in the Vossische Zeitung," of the Allies' tactics in their present offensive. He writes: When in September, 1915, at Souchez, we had to stand five days incessant lire which was the preparation for the great French autumn offensive, we thought this the climax of diabolical brutal offensive tactics. A g-reater intensity seemed im- possible. However, the German attack bofoie Verdun proved the contrary. But what we have just met with on the Somme makes our experiences of last, September appear mere child's play. No previous war affords any comparison to it." Afler remaining that none of the bel- ligerents had entered the present war fully armed and trained, the writer de- scribes the various weapons which have been improved during the war, such as liquid fire throwers, gas attacks and sub- marines. He continues: In this respect the position of the French and British offensive is the last word. The aim of any offensive in modern warfare is the destruction of the enemy. This is the ob- ject of the present offensive, the idea being to enclose us in a tactical ring by a simultaneous bombardment with long i range guns from the front and the rear. "THE GREEDY BEAST." Accordingly the greedy beast began eating at the back lin of the German front. First of all our third and second trenches were incessantly bombarded mostly by heavy artillery of which the enemy had concentrated unprecedented masses in the sector of attack. It was the dug-outs which had to be battered down, 80 that at the moment of assault all the defenders except a few survivors and all the machine-guns should be buried. Our second and third trenches were first bombarded in order to prevent our br,inging up reserves. For the same reason all tho trenches leading from the rear to the front position were kept under Incessant fire. On the Somme every one of our columns had a good communica- tion trench which led from the head- quarters of the battalion to the front trench. In the position itself there were a number of other communication trendies. Building .these trenches and ke-eping tbem in repair has cost the troops incessant labour, but the labour has not been in vain. In spite of the unprece- dented waste of ammunition, these works frittered away the artillery strength of | the enemy. CROSS ROADS UNDER FIRE. But the attack against our front from the rear extended still further. All the main and side roads and all the cross roads were kept under fire, so that ap- proaching trooj>s, munitions supplIes, and provisions had to pass through several lines of fire. Bombarding villages and places hehind the front where, the various reserves are to be quartered i6 an old trick of the British and French, but this time the principle was carried out more consistently and recklessly than over. All places up to a distance of 15 kilometres behind the front were hrought under an incessant heavy artillery bom- bardment, which often started actual fires, thanks to the incendiary shells used bv the enemy. ACTIVITY OF ALLIED AIRMEN. The writer declares that" the Germans had sufficient time to build good dug- outs even in these places, far behind fnmf. He describes the destruction done in inhabited places and in the fields, and also ¡'hE' activity of the Allied airmen The plan of destruction of the Ger- man front," he says, uece,%itated gain- ing the ascendancy in the air, and large numbers of British and French airmen were massed in the fighting sector every day. Swarms of them directed the ransre finding of the artillery. When tlio in- cessant fire began not a second passed but dozens of enemy aeroplanes flew ovpr our trenches. Great cctiiadriiif, were sent beyond the German lines to reconnoitre tho approach and quartering of our troops, and from time to time drop bombs A NEW IDEA. The writer describes the following function of airmen as a new idea. Gener- ally infantry fighting is preceded by the silencing of the enemy's artillery. This principle was, on this occasion, trans- ferred to the aerial weapon which materi- > ally increased the effectiveness of flip: bombardment of our artillery, hecause.ar- tillery without observation from an ele- vation can accomplish nothing owing to its indirect fire. The enemy had tested .new methods by which airmen can set lire to balloons by pistol shot. This phm is I now also adopted by us with very good results The battering down-of our advanced trenche.s was almost exclusively left to the heavy artillery and French mortars, especially the latter." The French have made great improvements in this weapon lately. For the destruction of our trenches they exclusively employed those of the heaviest calibre, and they now throw their mines with greater accuracy and over longer ranges than formerly. WIRE OBSTACLES SMASHED. Opposite, my company not less than six mortars were placed. They were worked uninterruptedly, throwing hun- dreds of aerial torpedoes on our position, j From the first to the third trenches thev tore up our wire obstacles from the ground, poles and all, and threw them all over the place, crushing the dug-outs if they fell on them, and damaging the I trendies. In a very short time great portions of our trenches had been flattened out, partly burying their occupants. This fire lasted for seven days, and finally there came a gas attack, also of an Ini- i proved kind. Although the offensive war. mado by rpat masses of infantry, we are prepared to nwet them. Even to-day, when war is so largely a matter of mechanical contrivances, the old truth still holdg good. MEN THE DECIDING FACTOR. I H In the fong run it is always the men who are the deciding factor. The deepest impression left on me was not a feeling of horror and terror in face of these gigantic forces of destruction, but an in- creasing admiration for my own men, young recruits who had just come into the field from homes, fresh. Twenty-year old boys behaved in this catastrophic ploughing and thundering as if they had spent their lives in sncli surroundings, and it is partly, thanks to them, that the older merl also stood the test so well." The writer concludes by saying the enemy will never ronoh flik, TM.tittn frn"1".
MR. GINNELL CHARGED I
MR. GINNELL CHARGED I Story of a Vssit to Irish I Prisoners. The Press Association states that Mr. Laurence Ginnell, Independent National- ist member for North-Wast Mcath, has been arrested at Knutsford, and was to- diy charged at Bow-street under the De- fence of the Realm Act. Defendant was described on the charge sheet as "Lebras McFingle, alias Lau- rence Ginnell (62). barrister, and M.P., of Queen's-road, Richmond, Surrey," and he was charged by order of Major-General Sir Francis Lloyd, a competent military au- thority. Mr. Bodkin, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, caid the offence .charged against Mr. Ginnell was that he. in appli- ,I,i i ns t (:in-,ipll w. cations, kno*. i, faLc sf->tnnont, or an omission, with intent to mislead an officer, or other person acting under an officer, in the execution of his duty. The offence was alleged to have been commit- ted on June 25th, at Knutsford Military Detention Barracks, which had been used for the detention of Irish prisoners. An applicant for a pas.s had to sign his name in a book kept for the purpose at the gate, and on "leaving he had again to shrn his name and deliver, up the pass. The signature was compared on leaving with tba,t upon the entry, for Irish pris- oners were in ordinary civilian dress, and it was found necessary to take precautions against any connivance of escape. On Juno 25th accused presented himself, ob- tained a pass, signed the book, and went in. On June 22nd, three days earlier, an order had been made by the responsible military authority that defendant should not, under any circumstances, be per- mitted to enter the barracks at Knutsford or any other part of the country. That order was made for very good reasons. It was stated that when arrested Mr. Ginnell gave the name of McFingle, and had asked to see some of the Irish prison- ers who were specially confined in a camp there. In defence, Mr. Ginnell urged that he had a. right to use the name of McFingle, which was Irish for Ginnell. Accused was remanded until the 28th inst.
SINN FEINERS LIVELY. I I
SINN FEINERS LIVELY. I I A thousand Sinn Feiners, disappointed by the non-arrival of released prisoners, paraded the streets of Cork on Friday sing- ing rebel songs and hissing the military and police. The demonstration ended in the wrecking of the recruiting office, the residence of Captain Phillips, the prin- cipal recruiting officer. Fifty of the released Irish prisoners who were interned in England arrived in Dublin on Friday morning. Most of them immediately .proceeded to the southern counties.
NEW WELSH GENERAL.I
NEW WELSH GENERAL. I Tenijioic*! ?. ?- W..D¡lU!.¡ ?ip??-umt-(?)to."pl s ?. R Xinvan, Royal ArHnery: A. H. MacDoupIL Royal Cana- dian R?impDt: and F. G. M. Row?y, Middlesex Regiment; Temporary Lieu- tenant-Colonels R. L. Adlercron, Cameron Highlanders; F. M. Carleton, Lancasters; Tl. R. Headlam, York and Lancaster, and C. G. Rawling, Somerset Light Infantry, and Brevef-Lieutennnt-Colonel 0. De L. Williams, Welsh Fusilipr, are gazetted temporary brigadier-generals.
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r lll = COALOWNERS' CHAIR'CIAN. I It was mentioned a couple of days ago that Mr. F. L. Davis, the permanent chair- man of the owners' ffide of the South Wales Conciliation Board, had been asked by the colliery owners to "Withdraw his resignation. The new directors of D. Davis and Sons (Limited) ha.ving requested Mr. Davis to continue to re-present the com- pany on the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coalowners' Association, to which he has consented, it is believed that Mr. Davis will agree to withdraw his resigna- tion.
CHILD THROWN INTO RIVER.
CHILD THROWN INTO RIVER. The Rad fate of a male child of twelve months was told at an inquest at Wands- worth on Friday, when, after hearing evi- dence of the finding of the body off Putney Pier, ihp magistrate said the. presumption was that tlie little one had been thrown into the river. The child was of fair com- plexion with fair linir and blue eyes, and was dressed in a white cotton frock and pinafore, two white flannelette petticoats, and white flannelette shirt trimmed with lace. The linen was marked with the letters C.B.V. or C.B.G. and the name C. J. Carpenter.
MR. FORSTER EXPLAINS.I
MR. FORSTER EXPLAINS. I Mr. Forster, in Parliamentary papers, states that when he said, in answering a question on Tuesday why the name of Im- nehnaon's victor had been suppressed, that officers of the R.F.C. did not wish their names to be published, he meant that they did not wish their names to appear in th" descriptive articles fur- nished bv newspaper correspondents. He was not referring to mention by the Com- mander-in-Chief, for that* was an honour which oiffcers of the R.F.C. prized as highly as any other officer.
QUEEN MOTHER'S SPEECH.I
QUEEN MOTHER'S SPEECH. I Queen Alexandra presided at the first meeting of the council of the Lord Kitchener National Memorial at Marl- horoug-l1 House on Friday morning. Her Majesty said: Genutlemen,—I cannot mtke, a speech, but I should just like to tell you how deeply I appreciate having asked to be tlie oa tron the memorial to Lord Kitchener, one of the greatest and most valued of men, whose terribly tragic end has overwhelmed us all. hut whose memory will ever live in our hearts." Over kl3,000 has already been sub- scribed to the fund.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE SUED. I
MR. LLOYD GEORGE SUED. I Mr. Lloyd George was sued at Rhvl County Court on Friday for £5 damages by Sergeant-Major Phillips, 20th Welsh Regiment, for damngee t'o his bicycle by defendant's car. Mr. John Lloyd said matters had altered since the issue of the summons, defendant being now Minrnter of War and plaintiff being a soldier. If the case was adjourned the paltry claim might be com- promised. Mr. Artermw Jones, for defendant, said a principle was involved. He knew nothing of a compromise. ) .1- 'r,, ^turned 11'0 "(\.
RUSSIA'S GAINS, i
RUSSIA'S GAINS, i 3 n 3,200 PRISONERS TAKEN! ON THE STRVPA IMPORTANT SUCCESSES WON IN THE CAUCASUS Petrograd, Friday.—The communique issued to-day say s:- A orth of Lake Drisviaty we carried out w; y successfully reconnaissances. Li:eni_, aviators dropped nearly 70 bombs on the town of Poi-nerciiki, north-east of Ha.ranovitchi. i On the Slokod the en era y marie attacks against our ;1), in the region north of the Lewer Lipa there was a violent artillery bombardment by the enemy.. In the region west of the Strypa the Austrians and Germans made furious counter-attacks. The total number of prisoners captured by us amounted to 3,200 men, both A us- trians and Germans. Two guns. 19 machine-guns, and one bomb mortar also fell into our hands. On the Caucasus front west of the region of Erxerum our offensive is progressing with success, and a series of organised Turkish positions is already in our hands. In several sectors large forces of the edellay are in retreat towards the west.. Our troops are vigorously attacking the Turks who are still holding on to improvised positions. In the Massap region the fire of one of our batteries blew up an am- munition depot. A body of our trcops in Turkestan, after repulsing twelve furious counter-attacks, took the offensive and made an appreciable advance. WHAT GERMANY SAYS. Friday's German report says:— Army Group of General von Linsingen.— Russians advancing across a sector on the Stokhod line were repulsed by our counter-attacks near Zarecze, north of the Kovel-Sarny railway line, and] tiO men were made prisoners and three machine- guns captured. Our air squadrons successfully repeated ■ their attacks east of Stokhod. On the front of Von Bothmer's army the enemy yesterday penetrated the first line of defence, but was driven out again by counter attacks, in which he suffered con- siderable losses. AUSTR!AN OFFICIAL. Amsterdam, Friday.—To-day's Vienna communique says:- In the Bukovma, after accomplishiTrg their task, our troops occupied their old positions on the heights west of the j Upper Moldava. West and north-west of Buichatch ycstRrday the Russians sue-I' ceeded in penetrating our po?ition&, but were completely ejected in bitter night fighting by the Gorman-Austro-Hungarian forces. Noitli of the mj Kovel the Russians gained a tCdilJg on j the left bank of the Stokhod. Late in the evening they were surprised and ejected by our troops, who captured 160 prisoners and two machine-guns.—Renter.
U.S. NAVAL - 1 u.s. NAVA DISASTER.¡
U. S NAVAL 1 u.s. NAVA DISASTER.¡ Feared Serious Loss of I Life. An Exchange Co/s special New York telegram of Saturday's date says:— The United States naval collier Hector, bound from Newport News to Guan-Gu- Amo, in Cuba, sent out a wireless on Friday that she was aground, ten miles from Charleston, and asking for help. The harbour tug Vigilant went out, and has returned with the news that the Hector had sunk and that only the super- structure remained above water. The Hector carried 12 officers and 70 seamen, together with 6U marines. The fate of these is unknown.
ARMY BOOTS THEFT CASE. I
ARMY BOOTS THEFT CASE. Another arrest has been made in tie army boot theft case, and at Gravesend on Friday Private Henry Jowett, 39, mechanical transport, A.S.C., was charged with being concerned with "three other men in stealing 300 pairs of army boots from Gravesend barracks. Jowett, in reply to the charge, said, I obeyed a military order." Prisoner was remanded in custody.
HISTORIC SLAVE DHOW. j
HISTORIC SLAVE DHOW. Mr. Hutton Guy, solicitor, of Sherwood,! Notts, who died in April leaving property of the value of < £ 11,574, bequeathed Ihel slave dhow used by William Wilberforce during his advocacy of the abolition of slavery to the Kingston-on-Hull Corpora- tion. The dfrow was originally presented by Mr. Wilberforce to Mr. Guy's great- grandfather.
PROTECTING THE SPECIALS.'
PROTECTING THE SPECIALS.' When Walter Fuller, a bookmaker's c lerk, was charged on Friday with assault- ing a special constable, Mr. Hedderwick told the prisoner that, a special constable was in the same position as a regular con- stable, and to strike such an officer while in the execution of his duty was a serious offence for which a person might be sent to prison for a long time. Fines and costs amounting to t3 6d. were imposed.
PICKPOCKET S PROFITS.I
PICKPOCKET S PROFITS. When two men were charged at Totten- ham with being suspected persons found loitering for the-purpose of picking pockets it was shown that Finsbury Park Station to the High Cross, Tottenham, has proved profitable ground to pickpockets. The police stated that some hundreds of novmds had been reported to the police as having been taken from tie pockets of people boarding tramcars. One man alone was robbed of < £ 14.
SOLICITORS AND SESSION I CASES.…
SOLICITORS AND SESSION CASES. The ii-iv arrangement in regard to thej prosecuting solicitor provides that ease8! at the ??<}?c'u?h Quarter Sesioru; sLa!I bej tak?n by 6o]icitors accordmp to a rota arranged by the local I^Society. Thi.1 was how it worked the 'fir?t time. The! cases were phioed in the bands of Mr. D avid Seline, secretary to the society, but,] being in France, he could not attend to the work. The offer WIs tlieli ,,I, another rolicitor, but lie could not ta?-e? it, and eventually Mr. R. A. Jones stepped) into the breach, and deputised for Mr.
Tù-DAy'a WAR RESUME! -i
Tù-DAy'a WAR RESUME! i "Leader" O ficc. 4.50 p.rn Splendid news comes j rom France agai• n^! to-day. The British have forced tho j Germans at one. point back to their third system of defence, the total ad-1 vance beiii £ more than four miles. The! day brouglJt ,Olln prisoners, bringing1 the D¡'ilisll totd in the oiit'llSi"e up to ld.OOO. In an attempted covnter-attack to the! west, of the Strypa, the Austre-Germans left in Russian hands 3,200 prisoners. two guns, >) machine guns, and a bomb mortar. The Italians have blown up, by a power- ful mine, the summit of Castciietto, f (ommanding the road to the Doi<>mitos, and Austrian positions that w< r< e«f;>- ushju th. J e. A £ i uirmy attempt to ie- j gain the height was defeated with heavy loss. 11 is believed in America that the Allies' chances of capturing the under-sea liner Dcutschiand, are good. —————————————
TO-DAY'S HEWS IM BRIEFI
TO-DAY'S HEWS IM BRIEF I This is St. Swithin's lay. License cards for users of petrol will lie icsued on August 1. London Flour Millers' Association ad- vanced the price of town households 2s. Mr. Asquith has declined to receive a deputation on the internment of all enemy aliens. A motor-car ran into a crowd of chil- dren at Glasgow on Friday, injuring 11 of them. Baiting with cherries, anglers have caught a number of chub in the Thames and Medway. Russians of military age are being de- spatched daily from England for service with the Russian Army. Damage estimated at over £ 5.000 was done by fire at R. M. Wright Company's motor garage at Lincoln. £ An appeal for starving prisoners in Germany at the London Commercial Sale- rooms has realised over £ 11,000. It was stated at Cierkenwell County Court that cuttings and trimmings from Army shirts sold for 122s. a cwt. Through swallowing her artificial teeth Grace Maud Harris, of Barwell, Leices- tershire, died in Leicester Infirmary. Any cutting down of working-class edu- cation as war economy was strongly ob- jected to by the Miners' Conference at Buxton. For men must fight and women must work" is the inscription on one of the banners to be carried in the Women's War Procession. < Estate duty of i203,027 has been paid on j the Sl.077,303 left by the late Sir Michael 11 Barker Nairn, linoleum manufacturer, of I Kirkcaldy, Fife. Coalvile magistratei La re ruled that I ji members of a t jVlcfi I. :1,1 tm ■ ab jic ter 9 p.m.which paid for before 9 p.m. in w iicii he 4 e n A woman who was awarded EIC, in Dub- lin for the loss of a Pomeranian dog killed by a motor-car, said an ancestor of the dog was sold for £ 1,000. An Arsenal labourer, Charles Balchin, was at Woolwich sent for trial on the change of murdering Frances Elizabeth Cape, the widow of a soldier. A thousand British wounded prisoners of war are expected in Switzerland. An I address of welcome from London will be read by the Mayor of Kreuzlingen. Sergeant John Williams was committed for trial at Douglas (Isle of Man), charged with the murder of Colollr-Serant W. H. Malings at Ivnockaloo internment Camp. The Birmingham Chamber of Com- merce appeal for £ 1,200 for the endow- men of a Chair in Russian at the Univer- sity. It is hoped aloe to endow Travelling S<.hc?ships. The offer of the TjWA Mayor and Sheriffs (4 the Citr of Loraon to replace the mace Jestroye4 in the Canadian Houses of Par- liament are has been accepted by the Canadian Parliament. Casement -will be present at his appeal from sentence of death for high treason before Justices Darling, Bray, Lawrence, Scrutton, and Atkin in the Court of Criminal Appeal on Monday. Captain Cecil Eardley-Wilmot, one of the Commissioners of Prisons since 1909 and before that in turn governor of Lin- coln, Canterbury, Borstal, and Parkhurst Prisons, has died at the age of 61. The wearing of a false moustache led to the arrest of Austin Campbell in the belief that he was a German escaped from internment. He was then charged with stealing a motor-cycle clock, and was com- mitted for trial. At Glasgow Mrs. Mary Boeheny was sent to prison for a month for staling that the Germans were justified in sinking the Lusitania, that Nurse Cavell was a traitor, and that Britain caused the war. The Sheriff said the case filled him with un-utterable disgust. An absentee from the Labour Company of the A.S.C. pleaded at Maidenhead that lie had stopped away to get married. With the assistance as best man of P.S. Hum- phries, who arrested him, the wedding had taken place. He was ordered back to France. Birmingham Chamber of Commerce General Purposes Committee passed a resolution asking all members of enemy origin who have not been naturalised for twenty years to resign, and recommending that no one be elected in future without a declaration to that effect. Mary Morton, charged with damaging altar cloths in a Dublin city church by cutting pieces from them, wa.s sentenced on Friday to three months' .imprisonment. She told a woman whose husband is in the Navy that the piece she sold her foi- ls. 6d. would prevent fire, protect her chil- dren and herself from lire, and keep her husband safe-. Judge Biay, of Bloomsbury County Court, will not wear the new robes of a county court, judge. u.ntil after war. J T fo recently criticised the action of a defendant who refused to accept a suit of clothes because of a slisrht defect in the fit, saying that no one should trouble about clothes during the war. His Honour hasi put his precept into practice. We are asked to state that owing to the large demands now being made by the War Office for V.A.D. members to server in military hospitals, volunteers are ur-j gently required for tli- V.A .D. Dpparr- ment of the British Red Cross Society, and the Order of St. John, at Devonshire House; especially those who are willing to undertake nursing duties, and it is ear-i nestly hoped that a large number of women will offer their services as soon as 'I possible in order that the sick and Pos"il-,Ip -?Ti C),I(,r that the Fiel- and
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