St. John's Daily Star, 1916-05-08

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 11 3.00 per annum monday may 8,1916 price one cent fo7 160 civilians were killed h estimate of the casualties in the recent sinn fein revolt : list still incomplete and reports of many folk missing are coming in '■ from every district—qestion of ' compensation damages to be made good from imperial treasury nui n - may b—no official figures " been issued on the deaths the recent revolt but 1 v has been accounted for 112 males 20 females and 28 unidenti still incomplete because it bal many dsad have not yet eted at any place open ie i the reports of miss ning in from every district ion of compensation for ined by traders during lusing much heartburn british law the govern or such losses in ire '. but a strong feeling government ought nn in this case and firm i nne of compensat mber of commerce in to place on record then lion that the outbreaks n impossible but for the ucionable laxity long dministration cf the knh iment and the councii tier-j aer that the iunds sec toring the buildings andj unoffending citizens de mg the rebellion should be } the imperial treasury i british deny hun stories not true that e-33 was sunk by a hun warship—submarine safe at her base i ondon may 7.—a british official statement issued'this evening admits the loss of two naval aeroplanes but denies the german claim of sinking the submarine e-31 which ie declares to have returned safely to its base the communication says with'reference to the official ger man report published to-day it is a fact that two naval aeroplanes are mise ing the body of flight sub-lieut simms has been picked up at sea and observer sub-lieut mullins is miss ing a life-belt has been picked up in that vicinity regarding the aeroplanes reported captured by the germans the names of the officers concerned are flight sub-lieut cowly and sub-ljeut mingc , "" the german claim that the british submarine e-31 was sunk by gunfire is untrue the vessel having returned safely her base fsk pi t prince of wales visits austro-itallian front is stationed with headquarters staff in egypt pane may 7—the prince of wales in now o the icahan war zone as the guest of king victor emmanual with whom he is visiting various points on the front according to a havas de spatch from rome the prince is re ported to have arrived in egypt in march as captain of the staff of the british commander-in-chief in the mediterranean don't dare do it again if another ship carrying americans is sunk uncle sam will break with germany washington may b.—president and secretary of state lan sing conferred together late last night at the white house with regard to the situation confronting the united stater as a rr&ult of the latest german note the conduct of submarine warfare while lansing said later that no final division had been reached it is understood the course to be pursued probahry will be known today or tues day it js said that if another ship carry ing an erican citizens be sunk diplo matic relations would be severed just as soon as the facts were established without any further exchange of com munications huns indifferent about u s note caused little flurry at first but k little commented on now gerur may 7.—the utter lack cf excitement en the part of the peo ple of berlin with which publication of the german note to the unitec 1 states jwas received was in strong contrast with the great interest shown everywhere when the amancan note to germany was published april 22 the first flurry at noon to day wjfcn extra editions of the paper appeared with the text of the note the city resumed its usual calm ■ rvswp dealers who had ordered large suppliers of papers could not get rid of them,'lor the public simply refused to buy them or to be burdened by read ing f wants j america to become proverbial catspaw says paper london may 7.—"the proud american eagle has been impudently invited to take the place of the prover bial edtspaw for the german mpnkey pulling the chestnut out of the fire says the globe it is to emboli itself with this country in order to relieve germany from the stranglehold of the naval blockade was captured by a submarine crew if zep l 7 hit by british war ship taken off by submarine i oni|on may 7—lt was zeppelin l which was destroyed by the british off the german coast the de struction of the zeppelin was complet ed t the british warships a sub marine rescued the seven men of the zeppelin crew all members of which were reported in an earlier statement to have been lost a more detailed report has been re ceived of the destruction of zeppelin l-7 says an official statement given out hfcre to-day it now appears that thous*h severely damaged by h.m.s galatea and phaeton her destruction was completed by a british submarine comr landed by lieut commander feilman which rescued seven of the crew and returned with them she was attacked and slightly injured by a german cruiser on the return voyage made successful raid on some hun trenches british also repulsed enemy assault on their lines london may 7—last night we made a successful raid under cover of £ bombardment of the enemy's trenches near authuile our casual ties . were slight five prisoners wer&i brought back it is certain that ten jermans were killed and as many entered our trenches southeast of ar men|ieres after a bombardment they also attempted to attack our trench west of carabet rouge but were re pulsed lately there has been some ar tillery activity north of roclincourt carevicy and hohenzollern sections yesterday a considerable amount of successful air work was carried out ajid a few hostile machines driven off figured in irish uprising f here are three figures in the news from ireland gen friend who command ed the british troops at the start of the revolt lord wimborne the lord lieuten ant whose resignation has been demanded in parli ament on charges that ho disregarded warnings of the approaching - outbreak and sir edward ■ carson irish i unionist leader who had of fered to the government his ulster volunteers % which were organized to combat the government in the home rule crisis edwaiw 7 s car 5 on wtmborne c general ] big new hun offensive germans renew assaults northeast and northwest of verdun and make some gains entering french fusi line trenches between haudromont wood and douaumont paris says heaviest german attacks are repulsed by french i ondon may b—what seemingly is a new great with its objective the capture of verdun has been launched by the germans north oast and northwest of that fortress in both sectors gains for the germans are chronicled in the latest french official communication in the former sectors between hau dromont wood and dotfaumont the french first line trenches for over near ly a third of a mile were entered by the germans while northwest of verdun east of hill 304 they penetrated the underground passage ways of the french execpt near hill 304 and le mor homme these attacks were repulsec 1 with serious losses to the germans and a similar fate befell the attacking forc es northeast except in the region o haudromont wood on both sides the attacks were delivered after heavj preparatory bombardments aside from these attacks only bom bardments have been in progress along the line in france and belgium artillery action has been extremely heavy around woevre and at the foot of the mouse hills in the region east of verdun russian forces threaten bagdad dislodge turk defenders at point of the bayonet petrograd may 7.—an official re port says that the russians have cap tured enemy trenches at lake med and in fighting around dvinsk caused an explosion of the enemy's munitions a violent enemy attack on the vil lage of donbrovka was repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy in men and arms the turks have been dislodged from trenches near bagdad and the de fenders bayonetted russians occupy the positions a freight train with the sagona's mail reached-town at 2 this afternoon war work of women 300,099 of them filling positions and releasing that number of men for the army f ondon may 7—addressing his con stitutency in conway north walqs this afternoon lloyd george minister of munitions defended the demands foi compulsion the necessity for which he said arose last september compulsion the munitions minister said simply meant the country organiz ing itself in an orderly consistent and resolute manner for a war which could not be run on the sunday schoo treat ft never had been said that britain coulcl raise as many men in proportion to the population as could france this he said was impossible britain supplied france and her other allies with steel coal material and munitions and maintained the greatest navy in the world there was still a considerable mar gin of men a vailab'e for the war if the needk arose for increasing the army more and mere women were oming to the rescue there were nearly 300,000 women he said engaged upon tasks which be fore the war one never would have dreamed them capable of discharging as a result of this the country has in creased enormously not merely the out put but its capaciay to fuaiish mu nitions of war allied transport mined is report from berlin berlin may 7—sinking of an allied transport in the mediterranean late in april with the loss of nearly 600 russian troops who were on ' board is reportecj in-advices from corfu says the overseas news agency to-day the transport was sunk by striking a mine about the same time the british battleship russell met a similar fate ■?&. m i»fc hun admiralty claims german warship sank e-33 berlin may 7.—the british sub marine e-33 was sunk by the german warship vesthorn on the reefs off the west coast of denmark on may sth this is announced by the german ad miralty to-day 1 italians arrested rome may 7.��an italian official reports the italians active on all fronts artillery and aircraft are causing dam age to enemy positions harcourt takes birrell's place mentioned as likely to be new irish chief secretary qublin may b.—lt is reported here that lewis harcourt first commis sioner of public works has been ap pointed to succeed augustine birrell as chief secretary for ireland a party of about a thousand prison ers left dublin last night for england hey were mostly from the country dis ricts this is the last day under gen ial maxwell's order for the sinn fein jrs and irish volunteers to hand in heir arms and ammunition saturday was noteworthy ek the an liversary of the assassination of lord 7 rederick cavendish chief secretary of ireland and thos h burke under secretary of phoenix park which oc urrcd on may 6th 1882 ihv chalmers takes place of nathan appointed to office as undersecretary for ireland may b.—sir robert chal mers who has been governor of caylon s-ince 1913 been appointed to succeed sir matthew nathan under secretary for ireland sir matthew resigned simultaneous ly with agustine birrell chief secret ary for ireland and relinquished his post last week shortly after it appeared that the irish uprising was well under control "§&. l united states is raided again four killed and two kidnapped by mexican bandits ulpaso may b.—three american soldiers and a 10 year old boy lave lost their lives two american cit zens have been kidnapped and carried outh of the international boundary 6 almost certain death by another raid of bandits which ranks with fran cisco villa's famous attack on colum bus n m whether the marauders were villa bandits or carranza forces is net known the bandits foray took place an friday night and saturday morn ing in the big bend district of texas la k capture crew of a zeppelin salonika reports finding of four of ficers and eight men london may 7.—an official report says that the british made a night at tack en the enemy trenches and sev eral prisoners were taken the enemy were driven but of the trenches at armenticrs the survivors of the zeppelin crew have been found at salonika vice admiral de robeck reports that four officers and eight men were taken prisoners belgians take hun positions inflict defeat on germans on borders of east africa paris may troops on april 19th captured german positions at shangugu on the border of german east africa there is continued progress south of rivu lake according to an announce ment made by the belgian minister for the colonies they occupied the ger man post at ishango on the 22nd heavy fighting between belgians and germans along the border between the congo free state and german east africa was reported late in october with victories for the belgians but there have been no advices as to pro gress of hostilities since that time i^to w tki to to crew all safe london may b.—the crew of the british steamer city of lucknow which was sunk in the mediterranean on tuesday last was landed at the island of malta on thursday accord ing to a lloyds despatch from malta under date of thursday the steamer was torpedoed without warning answers hun statements british minister for war trade ftlakes effective reply to statements or the germans in the reply to the u s note on the submarine outrages tissue of falsehoods and contra dictions british action supported by huns own statesmen may b.—lord robert cecil minister of war trade and parliamentary under secretary , for foreign affairs in a statement given the associated press deals with the charges against britain and germany's avowed desire for peace as contained in . $ the german reply to the v s note on submarine warfare after recalling the alleged inhuman practice of germany through the em ployment of submarines zeppehns and poisoned high explosives lord robert on the issue of peace says of the german peace overtures if such they are to be called i will say little it was only last december that their chancellor declared we believe it to be in our interests to at tribute falsely to them the peace pro-v posals yet the german government now says twice within the last few months that germany announced be fore the world her readiness to make peace which is the truth why they want it it may be that the germans want peace if so it is because they defeat it may be only that they want to appear peaceful for us it matters not our attitude at any rate is un changed we drew the sword unwilling ly we shall sheathe it gladly but we should be untrue to our trust and we should be betraying civilization if we abandoned our task until we have re established in europe the supremacy of law the sanctity of treaties and the right of all nations great or small to live their lives and fulfil their destinies free from the intolerable menace of ■ prussian militarism hun claim answered ,] in his statement in defence of jthe british blockade on the sea yl'ij reference to the german claim that it is the british intention to starve the millions of women and children who by their suffering will force the vic torious armies of the central powers into an ignominious capitulation lord robert quotes the remarks of the german chancellor last month in the reichstag in which a declaration was made that germany had sufficient food for all with a surplus and which concluded we have not run short of anything in the past nor shall we run short of anything in the future out of own mouths the statements by prince bismark and count caprivi dealing with the rights of belligerents to cut off the food supplies of any enemy also are contained in the communication as a defence of the british stand the communication also gives the history of the submarine campaign citing the sinking of various ships and repeats the german order of feb 15 1915 declaring a submarine blockade about the british isles and says the measures taken by britain against german trade have not cost a single human life lest we forget , the lusitania london procession commemorates great u-boat outrage i ondon may7—the anniversary of the sinkingof the lusitania was commemorated to-day by a procession from westminster to hyde park where a meeting was held a large model of the lusitania figured prominently with a banner inscribed remember the lusitania 7th may 1915 may that crime be forgiven by heaven but not forgotten on earth several survivors of the disaster : marched with delegates of red cross wounded soldiers canadian nurses and representatives of the entente allies wearing national costumes an employ c of the reid co's ma chine shop had a deep wound inflicted in ills head saturday afternoon by being hit by a piece of iron he re ceived medical treatment see our new wall and frieses xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx dainty shades and — artistic designs value & prices 0 k bowring brothers limited