St. John's Daily Star, 1916-02-22

              the st john's daily star netu found land volume 11 3.00 per annum tuesday february 22,1916 price one cent no 44 zep brought down by french guns caught fire fell to earth all the crew of the huge airship an supposed to have perished—ger man attack on french linos neai lehons is rspuiced numr.rou fights in the air—allies make sue cessful aeroplane raids—ausiro hungarians surround duraszo—ru cians make further gains*fro3b h tmks—allied submarine penetrate dardanelles feb 22.—another of ger nvany's big zeppelin airships ha i oroe to grief it is probable that some i all o its crew perished as it was enveloped in flames as it fell tc arth the victim of an incendiary s!;c fired from a french anti-aircraft gui ! a pans official communication re : ports the airship was southward bounc horn the region of st menihould wher i he french guns at revigriy began she j nig it at least one of the missile j lound its mark and the huge aircraft took fire and rell in the vicinity of err i bant leßoi germans repulsed the germans near lihons south of the somme kiver have met with a re pulse at the hands of the french in an intense attack extending over about four and one-third miles the offen-j sive movement was preceded by a hea j v bombardment and clouds of asphyx 1 iating gases " when the german infantry endeavor id to come out of their trenches ior the attack however a barrier of ar tillery fire and the fire of the french riflemen stopped them everywhere ac cording to paris i he germans in the artois were pre vented from occupying the crater of a mine by a strong counter-offensive oi the french artillery very active in the champagne the forest of ar gonne and in the entire region cf vej jun there has been much military ac n.vity in which paris claims consxfc i able execution was accomplished i j hc french gunners . j the germans repot additional re j prices of british grenade attac j j against captured positions along th vscr canal and the repulse cf th entente allied offensive along th i lens-arras road numerous fights in the air betwee german and french aviators have i j q:i place and paris reports several gc m mach:nes were brought down b i re oi the french airmen avopiano riids aeroplane raids have been parirec j oui by the french and british acre j plar.c squadrons notabiy on the gcr j man aviation fie!d al habsheim am j mulhausen and on the muniiions fac i tory at pagny-sur-moselle british aii . i bombed.the town of don south : west of lille there has been little fighting on the eastern a a austro-itaiian fronts the albanians are fighting with the teutons who are reported to havr i reached the adriatic sea west o j kavaya . 7 his w.ould indicate that ihr auslro-hungarians and their allies have completely surrounded durazzo pursue the turks in asia minor the russians the per war credit votestotal a huge sum newest vote asked of the house o commons by premier asquith is 420,000,000 which is expected lo finance the war to the end of ihs present financial year 834,000,000 total cost of munitions for 1g months house goes far to committee of the whole and pasces the new credit vote—premier assures ihe country the money b being spent econo mically and effectively ronton feb 21—munitions for the army t and navy from april ist last to feb 19th cost 834.800,000 the premier stated he caid that loanr to the ailies of britain and the domin ions showed a substantia increase since november and that the growth in the rate of expenditures was entire ly due to loans to the am.es from the vote of credit these b no means . repievented the total advances to the ahi?s they simply represented ad vances from the vote of crcdjt in addition to those advances there were advances made by the ba-il of england at the request of the govern ment expenditure under this head he said would probably reach 423 000,000 the vote of credit for the remr.inde , of the financial year allowed an ample margin for contingencies such r.s the purchase of american securities lv added the vole of credit of 300 000,000 raised the total votes of cicd for the war to 2,022,000,000 the premier emphasized the ctep r taken to secure economy in expend ture the financial committee of trie cabinet had appointed a special com mittee of business men to bring abou economy and efficiency he did no tnink this system could be improver on the war said the premier is be ing conducted under vigorous condi tions which prevented any money voted by parliament from being de voted to any other purpose than the vigorous prosecution of the war the government is still confident of the justice of its cause and that the just cause would prevail asquith said he was certain what sums must be spent before the end of the financial year in purchasing ameri can securities he anticipated that the extra credits now asked with the sum still in hand would last until the end of may the house before ris ing went into committee of the whole and passed the vote of credit credit vote of 420,000,000 london feb 21.—at the opening of the house of commons to-day premier ascjuith introduced t,he ex pected votes of credit aggregating 420.000,000 generals haig and joffrc commanders of both the british end french troops in the western war zone leaving headquarters in cne of the north em torvns of france where they had been conferring huns leave in tight fix withdraw dl their troops from tho balkans end expccl the bulgarian assisted by iho turks io ccnd'jcl ihc campaign as/msi 2 allies forces entrenched at salonika germans refuse bulgars their terrjtopjal demands baljaiiano wanted macedonia inchid ing the ports of salonika and kav aia but the raised oui of con sideratxon for the greek kin re fused his asent milan feb 21.—news receive here throws light on the reason wh the bulgarians abandoned their pic o attack salonika at a council c recently hdd in sofia the tlu gar'ians complained of the wholesale withdrawl of german troops fron macedonia and the balkans raid dc clared it would be impossible fo them to undertake a campaign alor against the allies the germans rephed that they mc given sufficient assurances to the bul garians that the fall of serbia had no left the balkan field entirely to then and the turks and that they th germans would guarantee a suf neient supply cf guns and mater.r.l fc hc campaign the bulgarians then declared tha if they were to make another grca effort with scant assistance from tlv turks thej would do so only if ger many would guarantee large compens iions in greek macedonia in othc word the possession of salonika kavala and all the hinterland the kaiser however in considera tion of his promises made to king con stantine put a halt on the bulgariai mbitions for the possession of salon a with the result that the bulgarian resolved to remain in their trenches ' germany seeing that the balkan campaign has come to a deadlock withdrew still more troops declaring that she had need for them elsewhere k s*l m w hk ts m watch grand falls contribute recruits total of volunteers from paper city is now ninety grand falls feb 22.—there seem to be a patriotic wave passing ove grand falls as yesterday thirteen more men signed their na-nes which gives a total of ninety r^-ruits we sent off thirty o them yesterda afternoon and another batch will b leaving on friday watch grand falls as well as rus sia yest&rday's west bound train left port blandford at 9.05 this morning uncle sam reprimands bernstorff u s states department tells the ger man ambassador that it objects to the manner in which he lias beea conducting a pro-german propa ganda in amf rica has violated pledges ', given u s government and has spread the false imprssslon that iho nev german campaign is consequent on the united slates note re ahni&g merchantmen york feb 21 a despatch to the herald from washing on ays a high official of the state depart ner.i staled to-day that the administra tion felt it necessary to discipline tount yon bernsiorff german am bassador for his improper propagan dist views when the ambassador ca'ls at the state dept he will be officially nformed that ihe intngues he is habit jally promoting against the unifed states government through the medi im of publicity must cease whether ie will be allowed to relain his refi ience in washington depends upon his future conduct if he docs not take ig hear the ad t.onition of the administration his re call will be demanded it is asserfed of count yon b.crn itorff that he has violated his pledge jiven to secretary of state that he vould keep the exchange in the luni an;a negot'ations in entire confidence acts regarding these exchanges have een made public which are known only to count bernstorft and mr lan sing mr lansing knows full well when he says these facts were presented in he press in a light calculated to pro note the german cause who is . re sponsible for the reports furthermore responsibility is placed at the dcor of the gorman ambassador for the re ports asserting that the german pro clamation announcing the submarine campaign to be begun against mer chant ships on march ist was issueo as a logical development of the ameri can proposal for the disarming of the merchant ships of the entente powers . the state department knows that the german submarine campaign was decided upon before the american pro posal was submitted to the entente powers yet the impression was spread broadcast throughout the united states that germany had declared this new warfare because of attion taken by the united states isk m'isk ?■:* is berlin report arr raid berlin feb 21.—an official state ment issued here to-day says a german naval aeroplane on supday dropped a large number of bombs on the aero drome and camp at rures west flan ders and returned sately commons debate finances of war credits votes assented to vcnni r asqu:th voie for sue of 420,000 ; 00a io carry on wai u::s the ewa of may—says the average dally expen#iure is 15 00|,000 and yll likely hoid down to ihat figore — of tfr cq'jcr says american ex clicfco is as favoraj'e as the brii dcsiz-es to sec it woud3rfiri bridsfa credit . :. feb 22.—tke house c ctjpcions g-n'gi pas:cd new trote 1 cifiii to the amojini of 420,000 0 h:s io expected to zuity the - r c:i to ihe end of may bringing c total stun appropriated by ncans of votes of credit since the outbreak 4 the war to 2,082.000,c00 a sum cecriing to premier asqurth aot ca ; precedent bul actually beyond ic imagination of any financier in tic cr any other country p nament was occupied tfday cr rely avith financial da:!y cos 5.000,000 premier asquith r>po!:e fifty m'nwte prcserymg the government's motioi for anew war credit the chancello of exchequer reginald mckenna followed wiih a statement regarding american exchange which he d~clarec is novy as high as the british r;ovcrn ment wishes it to be the point emphasised by the prcm er wejf not the enormous totals u2ce ary for the war but the act that b casuaf economy and safeguards : h o,c;i|ment had succeeded j.a hold r downlthe expenditure below 5,000 ctiy which figure he thought va uniikey to be exceeded at any b i the enormous and ovcrwhelr ng responsibility of asking the house for this gigantic sum.".said the prcrr er and i could no do so linless ' was satisfied i had most carrefu ly ex olored the ground so that we t re no lskinsf for a penny more than ihc ex igences ol cur cause and the strca historii responsibilities which we have require unless we < re sat isfied sjevery possible precaution n be ing taken to see tax payers meney ir not being wasted has made huge loan torching on loans to england's all ies m \. asquith stated the amouni had now own to nearly 169,000,000 to whichlmust be added loans to the a!l ies made'by the bank of england at the r&cjues of the british government ' the alnount of this latter kern was not made clear by the premier but he de rlared the provisions of the september budget allotting 423,0qft,000 for loans to the allies would not be ex ceeded •* , the chancellor of the exchequer in i an optimistic statement regarding the condition of the british credit said criticism has been made that we are not taking the proper steps to main tain our credit particularly with ref erence to american exchange high exchange i merely ask the house to compare v-.r american exchange v/ith that cf ther belligerents at the presen lie rate is 4.76 and the g ■. locs not wish it higher ' ihw tl stui ten cents below nev o not wish it to go eithtf up to or bout normal for the nson that we are discouragi leeping exchange a ktt!c ' ' hecking he e::pc it s an absolute i eighteen months ol most the only open gold o world our paper c;.n be j for gold at the bank and c : c reign of paper money has gold i the back of it marvellous achievement it would never have bee two years ago that british stand the extracrd'nrr ■ it has been subjected no m the gigantic expenditures we have maintained our credit and greater resources but miisi them with prudence i have not a doubt that a year i i shall be able to show that cur is.still unimpaired touching on the question as . ther after the war acceptance and counting german bills would be ct ouraged in london the chanceflo said this subject must be left for tl ire but i am sure that the corn ere a nte-rest of the country will opp he relinquishment of trade in icce ng and discountng bills drawn abroad vhch has made london the adrp.rat'on nd envy of all the world's great ncrcal cities during the course o r th iebate sir joseph \. riticsed the government fer not . carefully inspecting munition i irom the united states care should be taken that we d get bad supplies from the united states he said i am informed that oi twenty-eight shells fired by one of our howitzers at the front only four burst ■$& 1h 18v bulgars apologise to greeks athens feb 22.—the bulgarian government has made apologies to the greek government for ihe arrest of a diplomatic messenger and the seizure of legation 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