St. John's Daily Star, 1918-06-18

              the st john's daily star newfoundland voi^jme iv 3.00 per annum probs s w to w winds mostly fair no 130 i tuesday june 18 1918 allies gain in counter-attacks against the austrians why you should subscribe to nfld victory loan <. , . ■ - • r — ■ — : , '+ - \ if because it isthe best investment that*has come your way for a long time ff because of the high interest rate of 6.50 per per 100 invested for every one of the ten years fc ft because of the cilt-ed°-e solid security behind the loan if because all the world is buying liberty and victory bonds it's the great national pastime i if becausedt is«a convenient investment your money being returned at the end of the ten-year period fl because it is your duty as a patriotic and public-spirited citizen t if because you want to see this war brought to as speedy a conclusion as possible and dollars now count as mukh as men in the fight f if because your pride as a citizen will not permit you to see newfoundland lag behind the other dominions and tfifc mother country m the record they have set in this regard £ g ecause y ou wan t the world made safe for you and your children k 1f rand finally because you have longed to have a go at the kaiser and every bond you purchase is another bayonet thrust at his hunnish hordes h | ' ■ . • • , ~, , , * posh back the enemy enemy made considerable gain in opening drive against italians.but.are being^drivenvßack austrians>keep fctjp strong pressure tondon june 17 viartßeuter*s<)t tawa agency)—a semi-official despatch from rome-sta*es^thatthe enemy gained 15 kilometres^irf^his advance on the first day south of montello the=enemy crossed"the piave in considerable force but is gradually being pushed towarcbthe river nortrt-of the-cestma ar**ad vancecl group-of british who were surrounded ty-the austrians resisted until the counter-attacks released them at the same time«*akmg 200 prisoners the austrian pressure continues very'-strongly along the whole front they are concentrating the most powerful attacks astride brenta-and across-the piave turks occupy persian town troops gaiiv control of shores of lake unieuah and tabriz city limdonwjune 17.—turkish troops have occupied tabriz next to teher an the largest city in persia accord ing 4 to a turkish olficial statement dated june 14th the text reads we have occupied both shores of lake urumiah and the town of tab riz in northwestern persia in order to protect the wing of our army on the-caucasian front » » » enemy raided british posts enemy attack north of the somme was repulsed condon june 17.—field marshal haig's-report'from british headquar tets-in france tonight says:—the enemy-raided a british trench post last night east of hebuterne one man is.missing another-jiostilejaiding party attack ed-onflme north of the somme>early today jiut was repulsed beyond the v-usualrartillery activity on both sides there iscnotliing,to.jeport is austria's last throw m ■ - j austrian failure r in drive against the italians will be fatal blow to dual monarchy austria's future hangs on result london june 17 via reuters ot tawa agency)—reuter's corres pondent at the british headquarters in italy had an interview with a high british officer last night who ex pressed himself in every way satisfied with the result of the austrian attack against the british the enemy had practically lost five to our one and we captured four guns our aviators on the piave broke up at least seven bridges and fired 25,000 rounds at a low altitude all accounts agree that the scan tiest success attended the attempt of the austrians to carry out the offen sive on the new german model of storm troops and infiltration the offensive was really a series of at tacks at widely separated points and delivered at different hours appar ently with the idea of effecting a sur prise the best comment of its initial failure is the brevity of the austrian communique which is practically an apology for the loss of what was gained in the first few hours the newspapers consider the offensive as the most desperate of gambler's throws in which the enemy has yet indulged its failure will be fatal to austria and a heavy blow to german pres tige for undoubtedly the austrians only,qnoved in obedience to german and the threat of internal revolution hence the battle is even mote critical for austria than for italy as-defeat will probably goad the various nationalities of the dual monarchy to desperation stories reaching holland from austria dwell upon the seriousness of the political crisis owing to the refusal-of the polish party to sup port the government and speak of riots-at many places as a result of the increase of „ anti-german feeling r and!-the food shortage berlin reports lively fights german report claims capture of 220 prisoners in local raids berwjune 17 official lively reconnoitermg activity led to violent infantry engagements at many points en the front southwest of ypres and on»both sides of the somme the fighting^&ctivity revived in the ev ening ' on the*fca*tleneld southwest of noy on*the artillery activity increased in intensity in the evening between the owcq and the marne we cap tured 120 prisoners in local raids survirors reach port lowes june 17.—twenty of the crew of the norwegian barque kringsjaa were picked-up at sea and landed here this afternoon the men left on a late afternoon train pre sumably for new york no details could be obtained from the surviv ors who were hurriedly placed on a train the kringsjaa was sunk by a german u-boat about 90 miles off the virginia coast » » an emergency meeting of lodge tasker for the purpose of conferring degrees takes place this evening at 8 in the temple irish party vs sinn fein joseph devlin says sinn fein policy is too gro tesque to be accepted by the irish people now two policies before irishmen jjublin june 17.—joseph devlin member of parliament and deputy leader of the irish nationalist patty addressing a meeting at the village of virginia cavan county in sup port of the candidacy of hanlan for parliament for east cavan yester day said the parliamentary policy was one of the principal factors in the upholding of ireland's interests he said the irish party was not going to throw away the weapon the sinn fein is not a new doctrine or a new policy he said it has been before the country for twenty years but the irish people have paid no attention to it because it is too gro tesque and during this period of 20 years it has not reached a laborer's cottage or helped to brighten or beautify a single woman's home the irish party did not enter into this contest light-heartedly and if the contest could have been avoided it would have been when it was declared by the sinn feiners that there is no room for men like john dillon in irish politics then the sup porters of the constitutional move men accepted the challenge there are now two policies before the people in this election one will result in assured success and the other in certain failure the promise of an irish republic in fifty years or fifty centuries is no compensation to the men and women living in this day and generation ■ « austrian troops are forced back autrians suffered heavy losses and many machine guns were captured with the italian army june 16 by the associated press austrian troops which forced the piave river have been driven back the fighting along the river is most intense one of the most brilliant of the italians actions was the defence of monte moschin salient protecting the important brenta positions here the austrians suffered heavy losses and many of their machine guns were captured the prisoners are ragged and ill fed many of them are undersized youths one of them remarked the correspondent that he had no interest in the war the feeling of the ital ians is buoyant arrested for conspiracy wen-known political economist held under 10,000 bail new york june 17.—arrested in bethlehem penna last saturday on a charge of violating the trading with the enemy act by conspiring 7 to smuggle a mysterious message into denmark chas emil strangeland widely known political economist and until recently second secretary of the american embassy in london was held here today on 10,000 bail by the federal authorities 1 »» i attempted raid on england london june 17—a german air plane crossed the kentish coast of england soon after noon today it was chased back to the sea by the british anti-aircraft guns the great offensive this map shows the whole 250 mile front over . which the great est battle in his tory is being waged the figure i is the v pr c s front where the ger man drive was checked in may fig 2 is the pic ardy front be tween arras and amiens where the fifth phase of the great battle may be fonght fig 3 is the ! montdidier-sois sons front which the germans are trying to smash in to flatten the line out toward the west fig 4 shows the gain made in the first two days of the battle now being wa-ged — the fourth phase of the offensive fig 5 is the m a m c front where american marines fighting gloriously stopped the ger mans at chateau thierry | operations in the air many bombing raids into germany carried out by our airmen with good results all our machines returned safely london june 17 via reuters ot -. tawa agency)—an official state ment announces that the following bombing operations into germany were carried out by the royal air force from june 6th to 11 th inclu sive : \ the railway station and sidings at thionville were attacked four times several direct hits were observed on the station and an explosion was seen to occur near the carlshutte works at metz sablons which was twice attacked a train received a direct hit attacks were also delivered against railway sidings at karthaus and rail ways and munition factories at hagendingen and dillingen some three and one half tons of bombs being dropped with good results from all our expeditions all our machines returned safely » « to examine wreck th hague june 17 via reuters ottawa agency the tugboat zee land will leave tomorrow to examine the wreck of the hospital ship koni gen regentes with a british naval commander and a german lieutenant commander aboard the examina tion has been entrusted to lieutenant vmk of the dutch navy australia paid price of liberty australia is determined that what i she has she will hold london june 17 via reuters ot tawa agency premier hughes of australia in a further interview here says australia has paid and is pay ing the price of liberty she will not falter but is in the war to the end we have suffered in australia as elsewhere from an insidious german propaganda the premier stated iti has manifested itself as pacifism and otherwise we have men whose hatred of england blinds them to all else and who care nothing for aus tralia's liberty so long as they can strike r blow at the heart of eng land these are in the minority as regards new guinea and other islands in the vicinity he continued it was essential that australia con trol them or that they be in the hands of a friendly civilized nation as they stood in the same relation to australia as amiens to paris or calais to england although not wanting to extend her sphere of territorial authority australia was determined that what she had s|e would hold and there fore she . stood committed to the policy of the monroe doctrine for the pacific « o ■ bigger battle expected austrian attempt to break italian defence by pucker movement washington june 17.—an official despatch from rome dated 11.55 o'clock last night says the battle on the italian front will assume gigantic proportions the austrians attempting to break down italian defences by a great pincher movement it adds that the battle will last several days before a decision i reached italians and allies gain from austrians in counter-offensive allied forces says official statement gain successes and rectify lines at many points along the front hard fighting still continues as austrians press assaults italians british and french to date claim 4 500 prisoners while vienna says 12,000 of allies are captives rome june 18 italian troops in conjunction with their french and british allies yesterday began a counter-offensive against the austrian forces which had launched an attack on the italian mountain frontier the allied troor>s according to an official statement issued today were able to gain successes and to rectify their lines at many point along the front austrians stopped everywhere rome june 18—in their attacks between zenson and fossalta along the piave the austrians have been i stopped everywhere says an official statement issued last night by the vvar office in the mountain region and around montello there have been no infantry at i tacks by the enemy the allied troops have taken sev eral hundred additional prisoners and some machine ■; guns the statement reads on the mountainous front and around moiitello the j enemy renewed his infantry attacks during the day j a successful thrust was carried out by our troops we i occupied several positions captured machine guns and '■ some hundreds of prisoners important actions developed south of montello and along the piave in the zone between zenson and fos ■ salta but the enemy everywhere was stopped by our j counter-attacks several hundred prisoners were left i in our hands enemy attempts to cross the river between muserada and candol failed 11 .■-!■■. advantage is with allies i ondon june 17.—not alone are the italians british and french comrades-in-arms holding in check the austrian offensive along the great er part of a 100 mile front from the region southeast of trent to the adri atic but they themselves have turn ed aggressors on some of the more important sectors in the mountain rgions counter attacks in the hilly count ry on the north at several points have resulted in the occupation by the allies of ground won from them in the initial onslaught and the recti fication of their line while a stiffen ing of the front along the piave riv er has rendered impossible for the time being at least further fording it the stream by the enemy much hard fighting haral fighting still is in progress with the austrians who are bringing the strongest kind of pressure to bear against the allied armies on both north and east parts of the front in an endeavor to reach the lines and gain access in force to the plains the strokes of the enemy are viol ent on the montello plateau the high est bit of ground along the middle reaches of the piave the capture of which would give him command of the roads leading through treviso to venice and a fairway west through treviso to venice and a fairway west through to the province of treviso the italians are inflicting heavy casualties on the troops of emperor charles which crossed the river at thts point south from st andrea to mossal afa the northern and southern flanks of the famous zenson loop where last year the austrians effected a crossing of the piave only later to be driven back with sanguinary loss es and from poshalata to san dorm di piave the fighting is of a violent character with the italians holding the line drive back anitrians between candeiu and zenson loop where the austrians crossed the piava on saturday the italians have driven them back to the river bank and are endeavoring to push them across the stream thus far the italians british and french troops have made prisoners of more than 4,500 austrians while the austrian war office asserts that 12,000 prisoners have jbeeh taken by the austrians although fighting has died down considerable in the mountain region it is expected soon again to be re sumed with increased violence em peror charles is reportedl to be at the fiont with his army and thousands of reinforcements for the armies are said to be moving southward the allied commanders are anti cipating vicious fighting believing owing to the turmoil and political un rest in the dual monarchy that the austrians must make a good showing in order to temper the feeling against the war at home french front quiet there still has been no return to the heavy fighting of last week en the fronts in france . several en gagements of greater import than tfi usuaf raiding operations rrave taken place counter-attacks aga rench in newly won positions ! tween the oise and the aisne wer delivered by the enemy on w but were repulsed the frene tured 370 men and 25 machin in the fighting northwejt of < thierry s!!!!!i!i!!i!i!shihihiiniuiinmmhnit!iiiiummhhnmihiuuihuhhhiihhh i see our 1 dress silks | 12 25 aivj 2-5o = = ■ arm m^"l s bb^t : ~ ills iw-b abs'w mb ~ white ci^nw^sax i 36inchjare | | assorfcedt230 1 i 1551 ah at ai value i bowring bros ltd |