St. John's Daily Star, 1916-06-16

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 11 3.00 per annum friday june 16,1916 price one cent no 140 czernowitz is evacuated austrians forced to abandon the capi tal of bukowina and city is now ir hands of the rass»_...i vie of whose movements is surprising both friends and enemies—got much booty , j enemy barely had time to get his troops away ictoon june 16.—news of the capture of czernowitz reached london early to-day despatches of the past few days had in a measure prepared the public for the fall of this important centre nevertheless the speed with which the city was compel ed to capitulate came as a surprise and it is declared here in military cir cles that the briefness of the time al lowed the austrians for evacuation must undoubtedly have added iargely to the toll of prisoners and booty which the russians are now gathering in details of capture petrograd june 16.—details of the reported evacuation of czernowitz by j the austrians are given in a despatch j from bukowina received by the semi official news agency took citizens with them petrograd june 16 news agency ! the despatch says that before aban j doni'ng the city the austr>n authori ties arrested a number of persons who were forced to accompany the retreat j ing troops the railway rof'-ing lock was tent to ilkani and the tracks about the city were destroyed train loads of wound ed were despatched to dornavatra seventy-seven miles from czernowitz i hun convoy wiped out jonly two merchantmen out of four teen escaped the russians two hun war vessels sunk j stockholm june 16—in the naval i engagement off harvinge last tues i day the russian torpedo boat destroy ers are believed to have sunk the ger man auxiliary cruisers herzmann and konig yon sachen two armoured trawlers and a number cf merchanmen vessels laden with timber and ore which german warship were convoying only two of the fourteen vessels un der convoy namely the lavincia and | the inetrid hovd have been accounted j for they tcok refuge in swedish | ports 1 the crews of the sunken vessels arc believed to have been saved except : sixty men from the auxiliary cruisers the german officers said that a\i german warships with their convoy were off harvinge on baltic south of stockholm when they were surprised by the russians who approached a high speed and gave the german craft a broadside and then disappeared with equal rapidity the germans had time to fire only one shot !__. vk i it m m found much dynamite hidden in factory fcrd ont june 16/—one hfßidrec and twenty sticks of dynamite enough to blow the town off ihe map were discovered late last night by workmcr engaged in a factory here the ex plosive was found hidden in the back part of the building on the second floor vk s_k wk the schooner lawson which was on dock undergoing repairs came off this morning wilson gets nomination goßvcatkso in s~_3xn at st louie mo unanimously d - i ciies on woodrow wibon as iis pre !? cideniiai nominee and thos r mar f shall as nominee for tho vice-pre [ sidency no other nominations c taken under consideration t louis mo june 16.—the dem ocratic national convention shortly after nine o'clock announced its pur pose of remaining in continuous ses sion until it had nominated president wilson and vice-president marshall adopted a platform and transacted ali other business brought before the re presentatives of the party all the vice-presidential booms vere effectively killed off by president wilson's announcement that he de sired the nomination of mr marshall the platform committee remained it work drawing up a declaration of principles so that it might be brought n before adjournment it is now assured that the work of he convention will be finished at a session lasting well into friday morn ng ' president wilson was nominated by acclamation witn t r marshall also lominated unanimously • • * • democrat convention regular love feast by perry arnold united press staff correspondent special to st john's daily star 3t louis mo june 1-6.—for the first time in decades democracy's hosts met in quadrienniel session to day with complete agreement on the choice of national standard bearer "" there wasn't a delegate who didn't agree to the renomination of president woodrow wilson the bitterness of the factional strife at baltimore four years ago was gone advance indications were for a regu . la'fc love feast with the only possi bilities for any difference of opinion pr sent in the building of a platform cheerful gathering it was a cheerful optimistic cheer ing and confident throng that respond ed to the bang of national crairman william f mccombs gavel no spec ter of an internecine fight intruded first of all the delegates were meet ing in missouri one of whose favorite 3o|fs four years ago was a defeated candidate in the battle of the ballots that same favorite son speaker cijamp clark—as if to emphasize the healing of the wounds dealt him by the baltimore gathering was one or the loudest in his praises for the men who took from him the ionor of lead fjw the democratic hosts 1"i believe the convention can ad jc jrn by friday if it so desires chair man mccombs said just before con vening the assembly the delegates themselves however indicated early in the meeting their de sire to hear • glorification speeches and this excess of enthusiasm was ex pected to prolong the convention until saturday morning well received st louis began playing the host to the visiting thousands in royal fashion non-partisan committees galore whose interest and energy was bent solely to v*tird making visitors comfortable and f appy were constantly in attendance the convention is st louis first chance since the louisiana purchase ex position of 1904 to entertain distin guished guests and st louisans v/ere cjetermined to make the occasion a memorable one . the convention hall itself had been jlepainted throughout mostly with ivhite paint so that every possible bit i>f light was reflected into its gigantic nterior special ventilating apparatus cooled the sultry air delegates and alter nates alone were permitted on the ground floor permitting more com fortable seating space for the men who do the convention work wk yk powerful attacks ii paris june 16 powerful german attacks made last night on french posi tion southeast of thiaumont farm on i she verdjr.n ho it broke rtwn/unddr french machine gun fire according to to-day's l*atement by the war office wilson renominated the democratic party in convention at st louis mo unanimously decided on woodrow wilson as their nominee for the presidency of the united states anticipate allied move sentence embodied in a recent sczd official french communication in terpreted as presaging an allied of fensive on tho wosi front in the near future—london comment on the military outlook grave strategic mistake committed by the germans i ondon june 16.—significance is attached to a sentence embodied in a semi-official french communication received in london today in as much as/it seems to draw the attention of tne public to what is considered the serious failure of germany's recent strategy it seems that since the vaux af fair the sentence reads that the germans fronting verdun are main taining an attitude of expectation in view of the menace of events which they fee are becoming increasingly im minent how it is interpreted this statement is generally inter preted as meaning that the time is rapidly approaching for an important entente allied offensive professor pollard of the chair of english history of the university of london lecturing today on the pro gress of the war said he anticipated a great offensive by the allies on the western front before long and that pco pie must not expect the war to end before next week the utmost to be hoped for this year he said was the defeat of austria and a virtual set tlement of the balkan difficulty and the driving back of the germans a consid erable distance on the western front the final defeat of the germans couid only come some time next year the speaker added after a winter of dis content such as germany has never known and after another naval battle is opinion of london prof pollard's anticipations reflect the prevalent idea in london the view is held here that germany made a serious mistake in slrategy wh.i she permitted austria to withdraw half her effectives from the russian front for operations against italy after having brought her own reserves from russia to the front at verdun which apparent ly had the result of enabling russia to make a successful drive in galicia and volhynia further it is considered the recent naval battle deprived germany tern _ porarily of the means of prosecuting a combined military and naval offensive in the region of riga thus countering the russian drive which it is now ex pected is likely to go on to fresh suc cesses as it is believed it will be ex tremely difficult to reinforce the teu tonic allies on the russian front russ losses very small czar's troops well led in their suc cessful offensive against lines of the austrians detrograd june 15—the russian advance along the whole south western front continues to develop with x degree of swiftness which has aston ished the country the success of the movement thus far is looked upon as the more remarkable in view of the strong defences which have been erect ed by the austrians during the long period of preparation . their sup posed readiness for resistance to any manner of assault is one of the out standing features the number of prisoners is steadily mounting up and has been augmented by the surrender of large austrian units in their entirety there is wholesale abandonment of trains with all sorts of field equip ment and in such quantities that they cannot yet be estimated finally n so far as is known here there is a comparatively small extent of russian losses except on the centre front which runs from valhynia to the roumanian border the austrians have been wholly unable to resist the russian drive tsk engagements mostly of a minor nature london june 15.—the british offi cial statement issued to-night reads reads in the past twenty-four hours quiet prevailed on most parts of the front last night there was intermittent shell ing by both sides on the front lately retaken by us near zillebeke there has been no infantry action and the situation is unchanged to-day trench mortars and artillery have been active by both sides in the sector about angres mine warfare continued actively at loos salient but otherwise there were no special inci dents | mm^^m^iv'pv the s.s lyngfjord docked this morning to receive tcmaprary repairs survivors experience 3ozen men who escaped from he warship disaster involving lord kitchener tell of the sudden loss of the hampshire and of their last sight of the minister for war on board the ship saw kitchener standing by one of the ship's boats / j ondon june 14.—details cf some v incidents aboard the british cruise lampshire just before she sank off the orkneys last week causing the death jf lord kitchener were given cut in vi official statement issued to-night based on statements by the dozen survivors of the cruiser who were washed ashore on a raft from the report of the twelve sur ivors of the hampshire says the state nent the following conclusion is reach ed as the men were going to their stations before abandoning their ship lord kitchener accompanied by r naval officer appeared the latter said to make way for lord kitchener both ascended to the quarter deck and subsenuently four military officers were seen there walking aft on the port side kitchener on dbck the captain ca'led lord kitchener o the fore bridge near where the cap tain's boat was hoisted r.o enter the boat but it is unknown if kitchener entered it or what happened to any of the boats the hampshire was proceeding along the west coast of the orkneys a neavy gale was blowing and seas were breaking over the ship which necessi tated the hatches being partly batten ed down between 7.30 and 7.15 p.m the vessel struck a mine and began at once to settle heeling to starboard before she finally went down about fifteen minutes after orders were given by the captain for all hands to go to their established stations before abandoning the ship some hatches were opened and the ships company v/ent quickly to ' their stations and efforts were made without success to lower some boats one of them was broken and half the occu pants were thrown into the water saved by lifebelts large numbers of the crew used lifebelts and waistcoats which proved effective in keeping them afloat three rafts safely launched with about fifty to seventy men on each got clear it was daylight up to about eleven though rafts with these large num bers cf men got away in one case out of over seventy men aboard only six survived the survivores all report the men gradually dropped off and even died aboard the rafts from exhaustion exposure and cold some of the crew must have perish ed trying to land on the rocky coast after such long exposure and some died after landing ■?_> vk "?_> 150,000 troops were captured russians continue to gather in prison ers in their great drive detrograd june 15.—more than 150,000 men have been captured by the russians during the offensive movement on the volhynian and gal ician fronts it was announced officially to-day the russian statement yesterday an nounced the capture of 1,780 officers nearly 120,000 men 130 cannon and 200 machine guns probably the difference in these figures and the ones in to-day's statement does not repre sent the captures made in the interval between the issuance of the two state ments but rather increases the due re ceipt of more detailed information from the front 18v is ft bomb in mail pouch wrecked post office butte montana june 15.—a bomb in a package in one of the mail pouch es which was being transferred from the chicago to the burling quincy train of oregon a short line here to day exploded and wrecked the oregon short line mail car the package was reported to be ad dressed to the governor of utah i russ forces gain ground czar's troop continue their victori ous advance along a long line and the twelfth day of their great offensive shows no sign of any slackening of their progress—aus trians endeavor to save czernowitz total russian prisoners is now in excess of 150,000 ondon june 16.—the twelfth day of the great russian offensive against the austro-hungarians and germans from volhynia to bukowina shows nowhere any signs of slacken ing and along all the front there are fresh gains or the russian troops the capture of thousands of aditional pri soners and guns and machine guns and war supplies is claimed by the rus sians and th eaggregatc of prisoners now exceeds 150,000 while semi-offi cial advices from petrograd give the report that the austrians have evacu ated czernowrfe the capital of buko wina austrians make stand t.he latest official communication from austrian headquarters says the troops of emperor francis joseph making a stand northeast of the city repulsed the russian attacks.in their drive westward from the region of lutsk and the austrians are counter attacking on entrenching themselves in new positions for a stand against the russians , ■ no feports of gains for either side in the galicia region of tarnopol have come through here and apparently there is still a deadlock between rus sian and austrian-german forces on the german end of the northern front in russia the russians near baranovichi attacked and carried ger man trenches but later were forced to give up under strong pressure by the germans german attacks fail infantry attacks by the germans have occurred along the dvina river and in the lake region south of dvin.sk but all these were repulsed according lo petrograd the french on the slopes south of le mort homme northwest of verdun have attacked and captured a german trench the germans are still violently bom barding the sectors of thiamont and fort souville northeast of verdun probably preparatory to another in fantry attack with the hope of further advance toward the fortress only artillery activity is in progress on the remainder of the front in france and belgium the canadians are still holding the positions they recaptured from the germans in the vicinity of zillebeke where there is intermittent shelling by both sides fighting an the austro-italian line in the tyrol has seemingly died down in violent and only artillery bombard ments and small infantry engagements have been reported east of monfal cone which lies a short distance from the head of the gulf of trieste the italians captured austrian positions and-made prisoners of 498 officers and men near felahis on the tigris river the turks repulsed an attempt of the british to advance according to con stantinople and the annihilating of four hundred british troops on the eu phrates sector is also reported by the turkish war office persian volunteers are declared toj have attacked the russians near the persian border inflicting heavy losses is 1 food problem agitates odutch dutch deputies ask government to take control of situation the hague june 15.—socialist de puty scheper in the chamber of d~~aities to-day interpellated the gov as to the high cost of living he demanded extensive food control measures to prevent speculators carry ing on swindling practices and enable workers to buy foodstuffs at reason able prices premier van der linden in reply detailed the various measures already taken to prevent the exportation of home grown foodstuffs on which he said the embargo would continue until the quantity requited for consumption at home was provided for forward march still they come another shipment of new lines for the ladies tobralgo the popular goods for the season in white black t khaki cream t cham pagne slates and greys 10c yard mercerized poplins navy sax royal brown rose champagne black white - 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