St. John's Daily Star, 1916-07-21

              the st john's daily star newfound land volume 11 3.00 per annum friday july 21,1916 price one cent no 169 will probe 2 campaigns british government consents to the demand of members of the com mons and lords for an investigation of the campaigns in mesopotamia and at the dardanelles sir edward grey announces expect mesopotamian campaign will succeed july 20.—the government has consented to the demand for an . estimation into the dardanelles and k)tamian campaigns asked for in the houses of commons and lords 1 o-day in expressing satisfaction with the iiment's position sir edward aid he hoped and the govern was satisfied that everything pos stble was being done to remedy what d from the correspondence to have been a very disastrous state of affairs in mesopotamia it was hoped he added that in co ordination with the russian attempt in quarter the country could look d to the accomplishment of what v originally intended and that there be no evacuation causing all the suffering which had been endured in vain mr lloyd george announced in the of commons that it had been de cided that the commander-in-chiel in india should be under clirecl control army council in india in re o supplies for the forces re lations by the war ofnce the secretary said would he seni out to n supply arrangements fu i quiwuent from mesopotamia ior stores would be made to the mar ine office sounds note of warning i irish nationalist leader declares that the delay in proceeding with the settlement measure is causing much irritation in ireland and may spoil the whole arrangement redmond says settlement can only be temporary july 21.—john redmond nationalist leader made public to i day the memorandum which he sent j premier asquith and david lloyd ! george secretary for war on tiicc jday and which declared the delay in making public the text of the irish bill after ihe irritation caused by lord lansdownc's epeech ho.r created a sen ou situation in my opinion any further delay whatever in producing and proceeding with the bill will make difficult a set tlement on the lines laid down on terras submitted in the a::cnl of our friends in ireland since then little or no progress has been made in a matter which five weeks ago was so urgent and new hangs hrc i therefore fee it my duty to urge upon the government iat uriher de lay will be fatal and to place on record my corvict'on that.any proposal tc de part from the terms agreed upon es pecially in respect to the strictly tem porary provisional character of all sec tions of the bill will compel us to declare the agreement in our faith h which we obtained the assent of our supporters in ireland been departed from and is at an end a meeting of the irish party has been summoned for saturday when the situation will be taken under con consideration turks sick of the war american business men who have jjisi reached rome after a trip to berlin say they heard the fear generally expressed that turkey will soon seek peace on her own account drastic hun regulations for detection of spies by john w hearley united press staff correspondent special to the st john's daily star gome july 21.—the germans are worrying now over the possibility that turkey may desert the central powers while they are under attack on all sides and sue for peace according to two new york salesmen who have arrived here from berlin the new yorkerr d d not profess ro have any information from german of ficials but detailed the discussion heard in german restaurants and galh ering places they asked that their names be withheld because they have business interests in germany several americans who desire to go to turkey on business have been de tained in berlin for three weeks while i.hc;r credentials are closely scrutiniz ed the two americans said they re ported that the balkan express was de voted almost exclusively to carrying military and that all civilians who ask ed permission to go to turkey were viewed with suspicion drastic regulations the german authorities have impos ed more drastic regulations to curb spies they said on entering germany they were forced to strip and submit to an examination with lemon juice to prove that messages were not written on their skin in invisible ink the popular belief in berlin is that the spy regulations have something to do with preparations for another big naval bat tie possibly late in july or august the new yorkers said that the man in^the street with whom they talked in berlin has come to realise that germany can achieve no final vie tofy and will be satisfied with a peace that brings a draw there is much dissatisfaction over the food situation they said the chief complaint being that the rich are suffering less from the food shortage than the poorer class in the evening wealthy berliners crowd the first class hotels for a substantial meal dinner in the average berlin hotel costs about 2 and breakfast and luncheon about 1.25 the americans said but some of the articles on the menu card run very high even in moderate priced hotels a peach for in stance costs 35 cents they reported though the fields are full of cattle the authorities are urging that fish be eat en in order to preserve the meat supply against the possibility of a long war potatoes and vegetables they said are being planted in every vacant spot even in the public parks and along the railroad tracks there has been no diminution of the anti-american feeling they reported even employees of the hotel at which they were stopping constantly said that germany would have won the war months ago had it not been for am erican munitions the americans said that one peace demonstration occurred at karlsruhe while they were in berlin naval activity in the baltic and north sea engagements likely between british and germans russians engaged i ondon july 21.—heavy cannonad ing has been heard off the west coast of jutland and in the baltic sea between landsort and the gottsa sands by men on vessels arriving at danish ports says a despatch to the exchange telegraph co from copen hagen those from the north sea says the correspondent saw a large number of german submarines torpedo boats and zeppelins sailing northwesterly from the jutland coast and then/neard fir ing cannonading in the continued throughout wednesday night and re turning vessel men say they saw a small german warship sailing southward and expressed belief the germans had engaged the russians e.m jackman passes away former finance minister of neivfouad ' land dies at montreal after under ' goin an operation—rallied well j at first but extreme heat sapped l his strength and hastened his end ] won way to distinction from humble beginning , montreal july 21.���the hon e ' m jackman of st john's new ' foundland nine years t/linistcr for finance in the liberal government of ' sir robert bond nfld died at 11.20 j last night thursday in the homeo i pathic hospital here 1 born at st john's n.f mr jack i man came to montreal eight weeks ago ' on business and v/as removed from ' his hotel to hospital suffering from a * severe attack of jaundice four weeks < agp he seemed to be recovering but jygsitonitjs developed after an operation '• for gall stones was performed y his strong constitution stood him in good stead and he was on the road to recovery bu the excessive heat caused sudden heart weakness on wednesday fnoon and he did not rally from sick several weeks c passing of edward m jackman in who had figured largely in the public life of newfoundland occurred at montreal last night after an illness of several weeks edward m jackman son of the late michael jackman was born in the west end of the city on february 29th 1868 he received his education from the christian brothers and at an arly age left school to learn tailoring having served his time with the inn of dawson and murphy he started in business for himself on a small scale after a few years he went to the unit id states and took a special course in cutting and in 1890 branched in to the readymade trade with mr t j barron as foreman of the department gradually the business grew until he was obliged to move from his first shop which was near waldgravc street to the arcade building where he continu ed in business until his retirement about two years ago entered politics mr jackman entered politics in 1900 under the leadership of sir robert bond he contested the district of placentia and st mary's with messrs bonia and mcgrath as colleagues and upon his return was given a seat in the executive and appointed min ister of finance and customs he held that office for nine years having served in the assembly tor two terms the second with messrs bonia s and sullivan as his colleagues in 1908 the year of * the political deadlock he was again returned for the district but in the spring election he was defeated after which he ic tired from political life the late mjt jaekman was a staunch supporter of the bond policy of gov ernment and his speeches in the house of assembly in support of the same were at all times forcible and eloquent he was a very fluent speaker hac an excellent memory and his argu ments were at ah times backed up by facts and figures civic commissioner mr jackman was also a member of the civic commission appointed two years ago but was compelled to re tire last year owing to business con nections abroad he was president of the star of the sea society for a period of twenty two years he was also a member of the 8.1.5 and total abstinence socie the late e m jackman offensive is renewed with the new british front lined up with theirs the french have re viewed their assaults on hun posi-jj tions along a front of five miles and have made some important gains russian forces active in every eastern sector i ondon july 20.—a strong but un successful german counter-offensive is still being fought out on the british front the teutonic armies find them selves again the object 0f similar at tacks on both the eastern and west ern fronts the recent successful advance hav ing brought the british into line with the french at hardecourt the french offensive which had been for some time in preparation has been renewed on both sides of the somme on the french front for about five miles thus far successfully at the same time according to rome reports a violent russian offensive has resulted in the carpathians kovel vladimir volynski and in the riga section an official report from petrograd says that the secpnd stage of the battle for the possession of kovel is continu ing with extreme violence general brusiloff has brought up crushing forces from the stokhod to lipa to at tack the austro-germans anxiety as to their abality to withstand the pres sure is being reflected in the berlin comments on the situation military critics here discuss the new situation which has arisen out'of ger many being now compelled to act on more u-boat freighters american corporation being formed 0 undertake the construction of giant submarine merchantmen to ply on the trade routes of he atlantic will operate under american flag trip of the deutschland immensely profitable by carl i groat united press staff correspondent special to the st john's daily star βaltimore md july 21 shat tering of the british starvation blockade will soon be attempted by a fleet of giant undersea freighters flying the american flag inspired by the success of the ger man sub-sea freighter deutschland manager paul hilken of the ozean rnederei deutschland owners is form ing an american corporation to make undersea ships that will put the deuts chland in tße pigmy class simon lake submarine inventor who fully a year ago predicted in a scientific paper that we shall probably see some form of cargo-carrying submarine con structed as blockade runners will act in an advisary capacity to the new cor poration and permit use of his patents hilken gave the united press the fol lowing statement of his plans today captain simon lake undoubtedly the pioneer in the design of successful submarines and p g hilken ameri can manager of the ozean rhederei bremen are considering the advisabil ity of forming a company to operate under the american flag a service sim ilar to that begun by the ozean rhe derei with its submersible freighter deutschland the success of the trip deutschland sails soon big german u-boat merchantman has taken on full cargo of rubber and nickel and will likely start on the return voyage to germany within the next day or two goods on the deutschland are valued at 700,000 united press correspondence special to st john's daily star galtimore md july 21 the giant u-boat deutschland which made history by cruising from ger many to this port with a 700,000 car go of merchandise is scheduled to start back to germany today with a cargo of badly supplies for the fatherland ' , t if asbhe promoters of the commer cial company that built the deutsch land claim this is only the beginning of undersea commerce between the two countries the british blocjcade not only has been permanently pierced but great britain faces a crisis in her commercial export trade according to what is being said and done in lon don sometime before the deutschland arrived at this port the merchants and manufacturers of england were con cerned over the seemingly authentic re port that germany had stored up 1 800,000,000 or nearly two billion dol lars worth of goods ready to dump oil the markets of the world after the war the britishers organised at once thfe association of trade protective socie ties with 50,000 members and adopt ed a resolution urging the gqvqrnmeni to help head off'the flood , tff germaii goods through the establishment and continued on page 7 continued on page 7 continued on ppge 7 continued on page 7 j r the i brown hipressj bootf ! ; is the best ever worn | you men wbo live in your boots ► and them the very hardest wear iou want these great brown boots witb y wear any old style black 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