St. John's Daily Star, 1916-06-17

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 11 3.00 per annum saturday june 17,1916 price one cent no 141 170,000 prisoners in thirteen days forward drive of the russian armies in volhynia galicia and bukowina continues with undiminished suc cess the russians brushing aside all counter-attacks in their victorious advance—russians ford piuichev ka river attack the enemy and take 5,000 of his troops prisoners capture 6,000 austro-german troops in another sector—situa tion quiet round verdun where only artillery is active british gain in mesopotamia iondon j june 17.—the forward drive of she russian armies in vol hynia galidia and bukowina continues with apparently undiminished success from the pfapet marshes southward to czerncwitz the forces of general bru siloff accoijding to reports from pet rograd are throwing back counter-at tacks and advancing steadily against the austrian armies in thirteen days the russians have made prisoners of almost 1 70,000 and have captured immense stores of war booty says the russian war office battles southeast of lutsk between kozin and tarnovka and north of buczaca have brought further success es to the russian arms 5,000 prisoners in an action at pluichevka river south of lutsk more than 5000 men were captured after the attacking russians had forded the river fighting continues northwest of bu zaca where the germans are co-oper ating with the austro-hungarians but the russians report the capture here thus far of six thousand men from the teutonic al.lies attempts of the austrians and ger mans to take the offensive on man sectors of the long front were repulsed according to petrograd and the rus sian war office chronicled the repulse of attacks in the region of sokul south east of rovel one of the objectives of the present russian drive berlin reports the capture of foui hundred russians during an attack on a german position north of przev/loka calm round verdun around verdun the french and german armies were inactive durinc the day there having been only inter mittent artillery bombardments paris says the french attack thurs day on the slope south of le mori homme resulted in the capture of ger man trenches on a front of about two thirds of a mile while london claims further ad vances for the british forces in the mesopotamia region of kut el amara constantinople asserts the british have retired within range of the turkish guns the occupancy of imam man suron on the south bank of the tigris river and the pushing forward of the british trenches to within two hund red yards of the turks at sannayat or the north bank of the tigris is claim ed by london on the other hand the turks say the british camp was re moved from felahie on the tigris tc below kut-el-amara owing to the ac tivity of turkish guns against it italian steamer sunk london june 16 the italian steamer matia 500 tons gross has been sunk a lloyd's announcement today states ii yuan huxg is president of china following the death of yuan shi kai li yuan huag was vice president he is said to be popular with both the conservative and pro gressive parties and under his leader ship china is expected to work in harmony for her own salvation j li yuan hung was commander of i ithe republican forces in the re.volu tiou of 1911 and overthrew the man jchiis he is being called the savior 3of china \ ili^v^uan-hunc made progress in mesopotamia british push their trenches closer io , turk positions ronton june 16—the official press j bureau today gave out a statement ■ dealing with operations in mesopota mia as follows on the north bank of the tigris i east of kut el amara our trenches have been pushed within 200 yards of the turks at sannayat on the south bank mansura has been occupied this place is three miles of mayasis a successful punitive expedition has been made against the arabs who per ' sistently cut the telegraphs north of hamar lake two hundred cart loads of grain and some sheep were taken from the j raids on hostile arab tribes three of our tigris barges were i sunk by turkish artillery on june the 10th the imaginative turkish com munique of thursday was founded on the above surprise attack made by germans on the portuguese lourenzo marques portuguese east africa june 17.—an official statement on the fighting in northern portuguese east africa says the germans on tues day made a surprise attack against the portuguese post of namake the fighting lasted an hour the germans us ing explosive bullets the germans crossed the river rovuma in dugouts but were forced to retire into the bush on the left bank the portuguese troops lost five kill ed and two wounded the german losses are unknown ithe s.s skjold is due here coming for orders in the trenches before verdun will keep huns under blockade cecil declares no slackening of the efforts of ihe british fleet to prevent sup plies reaching enemy london june 16.—as the result of the discussion of the blockade at the recent allied convention in paris conclusions were reached which will remove many misconceptions at pre sent existing amongst neutrals accord ing to lord robert cecil minister of war trade who attended the con ference as british representative what these conclusions were lord robert would not state but he assert ed that the blockade would work bet ter as the result of the conference asked if there would be a tighten ing of the blockade lord robert paused and then replied with a laugh there will be no slackening furth er than that he would not commit him self he said the main object of his go ing to paris was to make sure that the allies should agree absolutely on policy there was a little to be done to achieve this he declared and both governments british and french were completely agreed as to what should be done the conclusions reached he added would not cause any change of me thod in the blockade but would make the stand of the allies a stronger one through the removal of misconcep tions lord robert reiterated that the al lies did not wish to interfere with neu tral trade except such as was for the benefit of hostile countries general robertson who is chief of the british imperial staff was mentioned as a probable success , or to lord kitchener but lloyd george is expected to be appointed secretary for war general robert son however will direct the war oper ations the administrative work tfeing left in the hands of lloyd george general robertson won high fame because of the able manner in which he re-organized the british army transport service on the continent jvsaj.gen eobebtson more advances by the british in east africa important german posts are captured large german forces oppos our advance l ondon june 16.—british forces operating in the eastern part of i german east africa made further ad | vances occupying the village of kili manjaro and another village nearby a large german force is confronting the british in this sector further south near the coast the british have occupied the important post of karo gow and in the northeast have seiz ed positions in the victoria nyanza sector these announcements are made in an official statement issued tonight as follows kwedizwa six miles north pf han deni has been occupied also the vil lage of kilimanjaro close to handeni a large german force is entrenched near the handeni water supply the important station of karogow and a waggon bridge over the ban gani river have been secured by the british the island of ukerewe north of the german post of manusa on lake vic toria has been occupied two krupp guns and stores were taken ' the s.s sable i has arrived from sydney bound to harvey & co with general cargo take greek army from salonika greek troops are returned to the is land of volo york june 16.—a despatch from athens today to the new york journal says that the greek army is bsing transferred to volo as the result of the establishment of martial law at salonika british warships have bombarded klema skrofo in asia minor the turks fearing an attempt would be made to force a landing rushed troops from smyrna i taken to volo paris june 16.—1t is reported from salonika that a havas despatch from athens today says that in consequence of the establishment of martial law by the allies in that district and the tak ing over by them of the postal tele graph railway and customs adminis tration the greek military bases as well as the troops occupying the forts around them have been transferred to volo on the coast of thessaly about 100 miles northwest of athens demands on greece by entente allies widened in scope athens june 1 7.—demands of the entents allied nations on greece were learned here to-day and ai being con siderably lengthened and exte.n<sed as a result of anti-entente demonstra tions which broke out in a%ens last monday the demands were ready for presen tation to the greek government wheh disorders occurred but the note prob ably will n6t be delivered until neat week and meanwhile the entente block adc against the greek ports is con tinuing in full swing the lady sybil sails for north sytl ney to-day six airmen decorated by wilbur s forrest some awarded the distinguihsed ser vice order and some the military cross for their gallantry in their performance of duties as members of the royal flying corps—one only 18 years old one of the heroic airmen routed infantry company united press staff correspondent special to the st john's daily star june 16.—six new names were written today on england's newest honor list—the aerial gallantry roll as the result six medals of the dis tinguished service order or the mili tary cross has been awarded to mem bers of the royal flying corps for a type of gallantry unknown before the present war i one of the birdrnen newly honored is lieutenant malcolm henderson seaforth highlanders who lost a leg by shell fire at an altitude of 7,000 feet despite his injury he succeeded in manoeuvering his machine from above the enemy's lines to a place of safety behind the british lines thus saving his aeroplane his life and the life of his observer lieut frank hudson 18 was se verely wounded in the head while on reconaissancc duty flying over the ger man lines he clung to consciousness until he had piloted his aeroplane to a place of safety and then fainted on previous occasions he had brought down two enemy machines for conspicuous gallantry and skill is the officialy worded announce merit of honor for capt j e tennant scotts guards who effected a night bombing of an enemy aviation shed he shut off his engine descended to within thirty feet of the objective and dropped his bombs although the ex plosion damaged his machine he re started the engine and escaped only to request another machine on his return with which to repeat the operation lieuts thomas howe and edward legget in the same machine merited decorations for downing two enemy machines during a single flight after dispatching the first they winged to a higher altitude and engaged the sec ond both enemies were downed by ma chine gun fire a number of conspicuous feats are attached to the record of lieutenant henry yates the last named of the of ficial honor roll his outstanding ac complishment was the destruction of an enemy waterworks under terrific fire with anti-aircraft guns roaring and a company of infantry firing on him he brought his machine down to within six hundred feet and launched his bomb it dropped in the centre of the waterworks destroying it he then in trepidly attacked the infantry with his machine gun and routed it capture twenty-three germans in ireland berlin june 17.—the prosecutor in the court martial trials in dublin yes terday revealed that three german offi cers and , twenty blue jackets were cap tured at cork when they tried to land from the german gun-runner which ac companied the submarine on which they came to ireland the men the prosecutor said had been interned russian victories depress austrians london june 17.—swiss italian and roumanian reports dwell upon the great effect of the russian offensive on public opinion in austria-hungary where general pessimism prevails the principal newspapers of vienna make no comment upon the situation official war history london june 17.—hon john wil liam fortesque librarian of windsor castle has been appointed by the gov ernment to write an official history of the war memorial to kitchener london june 17 premier asquith next wednesday will offer in the house of commons a motion for the erection of a monument to the late earl kitch ener spies busy in brussels belgian capital simply swarms with german secret service agents who spy on the citizens and report their doings or sayings often falsely to the autocratic invaders pursue their activities in every walk of ijfe united press correspondence special to the st john's daily star ujaastricht june 16.—russia is at its worst or constantinople un der abdul hamid never has been so overrun with spies as brussels and no where in the country are conditions so terrible as in the capital according to reliable information smuggled across the frontier despite all the vigilance of the kaiser's secret agents the spies are declared to be well paid—but only according to results they do not draw regular salaries but get their rewards on the strength of their reports volume and supposed value i consequently if they have no genu me information to turn in to their su periors it is charged that they manu facture it to be accused by them means arrest and much difficulty at the best it is more likely to mean pro longed imprisonment it may mean a firing squad a reign of terror has resulted no body feels safe even in the privacy of his own home the people live in a constant state of nervous dread a tap on the shoulder prison and perhaps death may come at any instant hi brussels alone it is declared there are 1,500 spies how busy they are is proved by the extravagant style in which they live whenever funds run short fresh vic tims must be found women are numerous among the secret agents they may be found all up and down the social scale from the relative of gen yon bissing who took advantage of her position to keep an eye on the most fashionable functions in the most exclusive residences down to the humblqst earnestness or domes tic servant there are officers and professors wives who keep watch in middle class circles there are the demimondaines who send in reports from the theatres res taurants r.nd b6ulevards there are men formerly prominent in business of which now practically there is none who use their former connections and acquaintance to keep the german authorities posted concern ing doings in financial and industrial circles even the most ordinary working man is carefully watched a case is reported from the rue de flandre in brussels where the driver of a brewery waggon and his assist ant were arrested because they had unloaded a heavy barrel of beer one of them remarked the kaiser himself could not have done it so neatly says lloyd george's appointment sure to the war office london june 1 7.—according to political writers in the morning papers the appointment of lloyd george to succeed lord kitchener has now been definitely decided upon the mor-ning post's political corres pondent says it has been decided that lloyd george is to succeed lord kitch ener as secretary of state for war there remains to be settled the re lations of the new minister to the muni tions department and it is probable that the two offices will not be com bined in which case it will be neces sary to appoint another minister of munitions « held secret session paris june 16.—for the first time during the course of the war the chamber of deputies this afternoon went into secret session after a vote for holding such sittings had been pass ed by 412 to 138 the purpose of the secret session was for the discussion of interpella tions concerning the conduct of the war particularly of the defensive measures taken at the beginning of the verdun 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