St. John's Daily Star, 1915-07-17

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volum<j 1 saturday july 17 1915 no 76 two austro-german armies are now moving on warsaw huge force in the north command ed by field marshal yon hinden burg is acting in concert with the southern army under yon mac kensen and they are giving the russian right and left wings no rest passage of dneister river forced by austrian army combined operations in the east are the most gigantic yet undertaken and the effort to squeeze tl.'2 rus sians out of warsaw will require every available man the teutons can secure allied gains on gallipoli athens sends news of further repul ses of the turks—roumania de clines to allow supplies for turks to pass through its territory crown prince's costly effort in ar gonne fails to achieve its object i ondon july 1 7.—the austro-gcr man armies which now appear to be working in perfect concert as a re sult of german organization arc giv ing the russians little rest or time to reorganize themselves after the retreat from cjalicia > simultaneously with the german ef fort to reach warsaw or the russian lines serving that fortress from the north the austrians have attacked along dncistcr and have succeeded in crossing that river at several points act in concert general yon macker.icn's army which doubtless had been waiting for field marshal yon hindenberg to move north has also come to life again and fighting has been resumed in southern poland in fact there is fighting of more or less severity all along the rus sian front except in central poland where the russians hold such strong positions that it is the opinion of mili tary men that it would be impossible to break through the germans claim to have made further progress with their northern operations but with the russians re tiring it is not likely that the main forces have clashed as yet gigantic operations ihe combined operations are the most gigantic yet undertaken the aim being according to military experts to squeeze the russians out of war saw and the great slice of country which they hold north south and cast of that city and at the same time to attempt the invasion of bessarabia so long as these efforts to crush russia or to break her power and offensive continue there is little pos sibility military writers say of the germans attempting any important movement in the west for it is be lieved the austro-germans will for a long time require all their available troops in the east four german army corps composed of pomeranians and men from sshlc swig are said to have left iliorn tc reinforce general yon hindcnburg tried to break through the german crown prince did try to break through the french lineo at argonne but it is the opinion of mili tary experts that his intention was sim ply to weaken the french hold on verdun a german official statement claims that one result of this offensive war the capture of seven thousand french soldiers in three weeks on the othei hand however the french claim tc have regained moot of the grounc which they had been forced to give up which they state did not exceed four hundred yards in depth the british critics describe the effort of the crown prince as a costly and partially successful advance followec by a counter-offensive which dcfinitelj checked the german progress fighting in lorraine fighting is now in progress on the lorraine frontier at artois where the french continue their attempt to cap ture souchcz further progress is unofficially re ported from athens to have been made by the allies on the gallipoli penin sula in the dardanelles campaign and as the athens despatches are generally ahead oi official reports this statement is credited here more important is the news that roumania has declined to accede to the germans demand that roumania allow munitions to pass through that country for turkey the entente allies announce anoth er victory in africa where they have captured megaundere an important trading centre in karnerun the austrians cross dneister russians pushed back from galicia into own territory berlin july 16.—despatches from austrian headquarters say that after a hcqivy bombardment of the russian position the austrians have crossed the dncistei river at uciehyiskupe on the russian border where the aus trian crown lands of galicia anc bukowina and the russian province of bessarabia meet german forces have crossed the windau river to the north of kolt inyani in courtland this announcement is contained ir an official statement given out by the german army headquarters staff roumania maintains neutrality refuses to permit munitions supplies for the turks to cross its territories london july 16.—a correspondent at copenhagen of the exchange tcic raph co quotes the vorwr.crtz as an nouncing that roumania has rcfuscc to comply with germany's demand tc allow weapons and ammunition to tra erse roumania for turkey historical precedent british newspapers see impcrian consequences of the presence of the canadian premier at a british cabinet meeting—means fuller ad mission of dominions to councils of the empire i fondon july 17 the daily lele graph dealing editorially with the canadian premier's presence at a cab met meeting under the caption his toric invitation says the attendance of sir robert borden at a cab ne meeting has revolutionized the cn!y practical system by which this ccuntr has been governed for n:ore than \ century and a half and has revolution ized not less completely the nature o the constitutional relationship betweer great britain and her dominion over seas the prime minister in issuing his historic invitation to sir robert borden fully understood that consequences of immeasurable moment must naturally follow his action in the fullness of time 1 a mm * town in the kamerun occupied by the allies london july 16—a statement giver out by the british official press burcai jays that a telegram from the govern ment of nigeria reports that en june 1 7th allied forces occupied nagunnerc an important town in central kamc run our losses were two killed and eight wounded ♦ britain pays u.s owners for cotton first payment of 250,000 made on one shipment through the washington embassy washington july 16 the british embassy today began the practice of making payments at washington for detained american cotton cargoes the identity of the ownership of which has been satisfactorily established the first payment was a partial one for a cargo at the rate of 10 cents a pound it was about 250,000 baltic cargo valuable one white star liner carries munitions and aeroplanes new york july 16.—the manifest of the white star steamship baltic which sailed yesterday for liverpool heavily laden was made public today • it shows that the ship carried in ad dition to other cargo 127 cases con taining aeroplanes and parts thereof 154 automobiles 5,900 cases of car tridges and other war munitions mother pins bouquet on her soldier boy i ' i . italian volunteer .£££*<&£ corps leave for the front photograph sh.ows a mother pinnlng flowers on her son's breast—just over his heart » was murder intentional british coroner's jury finds that the lusitania was sunk by a german submarine with intent to destroy not only the ship but the lives on board fondon july 17.—torpedoes fired by a submarine of german nation ality caused the loss of the steamer lusitania according to the finding of the court of inquiry appointed to in vestigate the disaster the court held that no blame for the tragedy attached either to captain turner commander of the vessel or to the cunard lirte the owners after having carefully inquired into die circumstances of the disaster says he report we find the loss of the said vessel and lives due to damage caused i:he ship by a torpedo fired by a sub marine of german nationality in the opinion of the court the act was done not merely with the inten tion of sinking the ship but also with the intention of destroying the lives of the pedple on board the court found that the ship was unarmed and carried a cargo of gen eral amunition consisting only of 5.000 cases of cartridges from which there was no explosion no doubt there were mishaps in handling the ropes of the boats lord mersey said but in my opinion there was no incompetence or neglect baron mersey found that captain turner was fully advised by the british admirality as to the best course to ollow and added that in some respects he did not follow these out the court pointed out however that the admirality instructions were not intended to prevent captain turner irom exercising his own individual judgment posts british foreign office on the new american note london ju|y 16—ambassador page visited tlie foreign office this after noon for the purpose of acquainting the british government with a sum mary of the draft of the new american contraband note ■ mm a — harry thaw declared sane and again set at large new york july 16 the judge has decided that thaw is sane and has released him progress on gallipoli successful operations in the dardan elles are reviewed by the french war office—activities in many sec tions of the west front dark via st pierre july 16.—1n the region north of arras the en s-my attempted during the night to some out of their trenches south of sarleul castle but was immediately stopped by our infantry and artillery fire <. in the argonne our cross-firing kept back the germans who did not try to attack between the meuse and moselle it was a busy night but without infan try attack a bombardment there was-a bombardment at vause ravine at ailly wood grenade fihting north of fleury gun-shootins and cannonade in lorraine the germans attack d on a 3-kilometre front on positiohs p&2 viously lost by them near leintrey &{ the same time they bombarded all ou line from champenoux forest to ei ouse making also a few partial infan try attacks which were repulsed at all points at ceintry after having taken r foothold in a small wood they were driven back by our counter-attack in parroy forest the assaulting troops coming as near as qur wire en tanglements were dispersed by our fire leaving us some prisoners the enemy's losses seem to be heavy in the dardanelles on the 12th and 15th of july our oriental expeditionary corps and the british right attacked the turkish positions capturing several lines of trenches a first line was captured on all front during the morning of the 12tjri and a second line that same eveniag after a magnificejit charge by zoua\fcs and legionaires next day saw new progress on sev eral points and the occupation of the low valley of kereves we captured 200 priso«ers and pur the enemy was surprised ' several times by our artillery while t.hey w|re charging in dense formation and taincd very heavy losses i the fleet efficaciously co-operated in firing on achi baba and on the asiatic coast coal strike situation is still acute south wales miners still defiantly hold to their demands and have now as ked that the application of the mun itions of war act to their trouble be discontinued miners federation executive confers with mr runciman no indication of weakening on the part of the men but british opin ion is optimistic of an early end to the walk out—reserve supplier will prevent embarassment of the navy . london july 17 the day ha rought no change in the south va!e c . oal etrikc situation v7ct weather vhich kept the men indoors prevented he holding of mass meetings which tad been arranged but a few gather ings took place in small halls where he speakers devoted themselves to ttacks on the colliery owners and the rcss which is outspoken in its condem iat:oa of their action in quitting work the executive committee of the 3outh wales miners federation most f the members of which are opposed the strike cane to london today md conferred with walter runciman of the board of trade who t is understood made new proposals or a eetlement of the trouble which vvill be considered at a meetir.3 th:s , morning there is no indication of any weak ning on the part of the men but the impression still prevails that a few days will see the end of the walk out it is not believed that the introduct xn of the munitions of war act will torce the men to go back to work for it is impossible to bring 150,000 men before the courts and impose a fine for contravening the act in fact the resort to this measure is believed to rather have made the situation worse and the demands of the men new in clude its withdrawal so far as coal min ing is concerned the supplies of coal on hand are sufficient to prevent any embarrass ment for a week or more as far as the navy is concerned a-mmm-m warships of the u s a use canal for first time 0 panama july 16.—the panama canal was used today for the first time by large battleships of the united states navy when the missouri ohio and wisconsin carrying naval cadets . from annapolis to san francisco made the trip from the atlantic to tho pa ss adventure leaves to-morrow en route to the northern regions u s packers in plot with the germans sir edward carson british attorney general shows that meat ostensib ly for copenhagen was really con signed to hamburg parties trying to sneak supplies through to the germans americans have perfect right to sell where they please but britain will see that her enemies are not sup plied with necessaries london july 16.—the third day of the hearing of the meat packers case in the british prize court was again occupied by attorney general sir edward carson presenting the crown's arguments for the condemnation of the norweg ian steamers alfred nobel and kirn b jornsen and of the swedish steamer friedland the attorney-general pro duced a letter that had passed between messrs aschcrs of hwftburg and the american packers and asserted that it contained frank statemertß that efforts were being made to deceive he showed that it was tjbc exporta tion of goods from denmafk that was desired one of the letters of aschcrs to one of the claimant firms said the attor ney-general reads we shall have to take our chance and hope the little lot will slip through the attorney-general agreed with the suggestion of the judge that the american packers would naturally sup ply anyone with goods'/who pays for them and added that they had a per fect right to supply germany if they could get their goods through but the sugestion that britain should derive no advantage from her sea power in time of war he said was untenable carson contended that there had been a conspiracy by all the parties concerned to deceive belligerent coun tries the meat packers cases were ad ' journed until next tuesday on account of the pressure of other matters be fore the prize court positions and prisoners captured on gallipoli • london july 16 official gen eral hamilton reports that the attack in gallipoli on the 12th resulted in the advance of our right and right centre including the french corps by about 400 yards over 400 prisoners were captured the russians report enemy 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