St. John's Daily Star, 1916-07-10

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 11 3.00 per annum monday july 10,1916 price one cent no 159 general haig praises heroism and devotion of newfoundlanders no 330 telegram received 9th july 7.30 p.m to governor newfoundland newfoumiland may well feel proud of her sons the heroism and devotion to duty they displayed on ist july has never been surpassed please convey my deep sympathy and that of the whole of our armies in france in the loss of the brave officers and men who have fallen for the empire and our admiration of their heroic con duct their efforts contributed to our success and their example will live douglas haig field marshal the soldiers of newfoundland have won the highest praise which a son of britain can ever earn the glory of it can never fade the first of july when our heroes fought and fell will stand for ever as the proudest day in the history of the loyal colony july 9th 1916 the governor wonderful russ gains russian forces are scoring success after success and the persistence of their offensive is causing berlin even greater anxiety than the all ies drive in the west yon hindenburg powerless to make any counrer-move london july 10.—the eastern front continues to overshadow the wes tern from a spectacular view point the russian forces going from success to success not only for general letch itsky in the south where his army has now occupied the railroad junction of delatyn west of kolomea thus cut ting off general yon bothmer from h's supply base but for general brussi lo'ff in the north who is making sur prising advances on both sides of kovel railway towards the stokhod to-night's russian communication repots the enemy forces in this region retiring in great disorder and adds the russians have occupied huleviche which is about 24 miles east of kovel while apparently the russians are al ready across the stokhod river the german possession of barano hun super-submarine ——-- type of u-boat that crossed atlantic transatlantic voyage made by german u-boat hun submarine crosses to the united states in fifteen days and is now in port at baltimore md.—carries 50 tons including costly dyestufts will take back a cargo galtimore md july 10.—the world's first submarine merchant nan anchored below baltimore tonight luding the enemy cruisers watching tor her she carries mail and a cargo of 750 tons of costly chemicals and dyestuffs and a message from the em peror to president wilson she will arry home a cargo of nickel and crude rubber which is sorely needed by the german army the deutschland carries mounted n her conning tower two small guns of about 3 inch calibre no torpedo tubes are visible she is capable of submerging in less than two minutes on the surface she has a speed of from 2to 3 knots an hour more than the average merchant steamer she was fifteen days our frdm bremenhav en to baltimore and could have dock ed tonight had arrangements been made for receiving her with her formal ceremonies which will not be until to morrow her captain has been ordered to wait ifl lower harbor regarding his vessel as a merchantman subject to tne usual restrictions the skipper whose name is said to be captain kairig went up chesapeake without waiting to noti fy the local customs or quarantine authorities of his presence u boat brings cargo across also brought mail including special message to wilson ** norfolk july 9.—the german sub marine deutschiand arrived at nor folk at 1.45 a.m this morning the deutschland was met at the capt by the tug timmins which stood by un til 4.45 a.m when the submarine pro ceeded to baltimore piloted by cap tain cooke ./ the pilot said the submarine is un armed she left the german port on june 23rd and is commanded by cap tain kairig with a crew of 29 men the submarine has a cargo of 1,000 tons a quantity of mail and a messare from emperor william to president wilson shortly after 10 o'clock ifce coast guard cutter onondaga with norman hamilton collector of the port steam ed up the bay in pursuit of the sub marine neither the collector nor capt chadwick of the cutter would not say what was the object but under stood that the visitor would be kept under surveillance as a neurality pre caution transatlantic u-boat service captain of the says this will be started 1 soon met july 10.—definite announcement that the german sub marine merchantman deutschland ie the first of a fleet of such craft built to ply regularly in the trans-atlantic trade wr.s made here today by capt koenig master of the super-submarine this is not the only one that is com ing said the captain just wait there will be more here soon and we are going back for another cargo we arc going to have a regular line tototototototo officers killed in the big drive total of 54 announced so far with 504 wounded i ondon july 9.—the lists of casu alties among british officers issucc the past four days are apparently com posed of losses suffered in the past week's advance and gives a total ol 94 killed 504 wounded and 30 misc ing a small proportion of these proba bly refer to other operations while some casualties are probably included in the lists earlier than thursday's it is impossible from the lists thus far issued to judge of the casualties in the ranks german u-boat at norfolk u.s.a norfolk va july german submarine arrived at norfolk to day she is named the deutschland is unarmed and reported at baltimore with cargo and letters from the kaiser to president wilson baltimore july 9.—the german submarine carries dyestuffs and medi cines and is consigned to a german firm in baltimore rumania repels advances of huns » london july 10 the roumanian government according to berne has declined an invitation from the germ an and austrian governments to par ticipate in a conference on the dan ube question /"\ a german gain paris july 10.—on the verdnn ; front the germans carried by bombard â–  ment the chattancourt fleury and damloup sectors british make their blockade more stringent repudiate all orders-in-council based j on the declaration of london i ondon july 9.—king george to day issued a royal order in coun â–  cil withdrawing all previous orders in i council under the declaration of lon r don in announcing the new principles * under which the blockade of germany . will be conducted the new order in c council stipulates that hostile destina " tion of any ship carrying contraband £ of war is presumed until the contra c band is shown the stipulation permits british war ' ships to hold up suspected neutral ships which must then offer proof of ( their cargoes and that they are not 1 ultimately designed for enemy coun « tries to avoid seizure i 12,000 prisoners taken in two days â–  1 petrograd july 9.—as a result of , two days fightingjn the stokhod regi j on 12,000 prisoners have been taken ; all unwounded men the enemy iis overthrown every | where and falling back on the stok ] hod river ( the fortified positions of ugly and ( navoz have been captured and ? | large number of guns and stores have ( also been taken from the enemy berlin admission of german retreat berlin july 9—withdrawal of the teutonic lines along the head of the styr river in volhynia where the ad vanced positions were exposed to pre sure from notably superior hostile forces announced in the austro-hun garian report of july 7th was receiv ed today artillery active on alpine fro * rome july 9.—notable artillery activity along the trentino front is re ported by the war office in today's of ficial statement the positions recently won by the italians up to astico basin were con soldiated important gains petrograd july 10.—important gains were made by the russians in southern galicia the railway town of delatyn having been captured and on > the lower stokhod the austrians and germans are retiring in great disorder ; berlin compliment i perlin july 9.—the british artil lery has a devastating effect big gains by russians important triangle of positions cap tured from the austro ger mans m east jondon july 10—a renter de ' spatch from petrograd says the russians are master of the whole trian gle comprising bafalowka manevitchi and kolki the capture of enemy pos itions northwards and southwards of sarney-kovel railway permitted cav alry to rush the centre resulting in the , occupation of the station at manevitchi half way between styr and stoked rivers infantry marched hard on the heels of the cavalry and are now in firm possesion of the monevitchi positions astride the pin§k-kolki high road and thus the enemy's attempt to turn he tight flank of the russian army which is thrust into the lutsk salient com pletely failed the continuance of the russian ad vance in the region of the railway west of kolki compel the germans to fall further back from the styr to the stokhod there is a particular satisfaction over the capture of gruziatyn west of kolki which for days has been the area of sanguinary fighting it is stat ed the austro-germans amounting to five corps of 200,000 men have been entrusted with the defence of the ap proaches to kovel and the austrians have been strengthened by german re inforcements between kovel and rafa lowski russians steadily press huns back petrograd july 9.—the russians have pressed back the germans fur ther in the sector west of . czartorysk occupying more towns more than two thousand men were captured yes terday in galicia the russians made further progress against the army of couflt yon bothmer in this war theatre the russians captured more than 1,000 men yesterday to w fall of peronne believed imminent paris july 10—the french advanc ed three lines south of the somme on sunday on a front of a mile and a half capturing the german third posi tion along a length of three and one half miles and arc now within a mile i of peronne french critics believe that he cap ture of peronne now is a quesjtion al most of hours steady gains by british our troops persist in their advance through the german lines making progress in spite of the strength of the enemy works and the stubborn defence of the huns important successes were won on saturday jondon july 9.—the british infan try after fierce bombardment stormed the line of trenches and gained a footing in bois de trones accord ing to the british official statement is sued late.last night an appreciable advance was also made in the neigbour hood of ovillers the text reads fighting to-day was principally around our extreme right flank where further important successes was gain ed by our troops to the east of bernafay wood after fierce prelimin ary bombardment we stormed the line of trenches and gained a lodgement in the strongly defended wopd known as bois de trones there we captured 150 prisoners and several machine guns the french on our right flank great ly assisted our advance by the fire of their artillery losses from the com bined anglo-french bombardment are severe a strong german counter-attack in mass formation was subsequently launched across the open against these captured positions but it was com pletely broken down under the fire of 19-pounders and 75-millimeter guns the en-emy retiring in disorder in the neighbourhood of ovillers hand-to-hand fighting continues among the ruins of the village but there too we made appreciable advance despite the cloudy weather our aero planes and kite balloons did some work in taking photos and directing the fire of our batteries a large ex plosion in one of the enemy's ammuni tion depots was caused from bombs which were dropped from our aero planes our machines although disabled sustained a running fight for twenty minutes with three hostile aeroplanes and afterwards landed safely in our own aerodrome with this exception few of the enemy machines were seen and they were far behind our own trenches steady progress of british troops london july 9.â���”the british troops , have made steady progress in the face . of stubborn opposition in the neigh bourhood of ovillers on the somme t front according to an official state i ment from the general headquarters ~ last night i two german counter-attacks near bois trones were repulsed , anglo-french gain of over half a mile ; _____ london july 9.—the british in " conjunction with the french have ad 1 vanced over half a mile today taking * important points prisoners and muni tions f the russians have also made mark 2 ed progress and captured over 12,000 prisoners london july 10—a german aero plane appeared over the english coast - to-day but was driven off she drop ? ped no bombs « continued on page 7 ♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦+ i i f the j 11 brown hipressj | | bootf j i is thf best ever worn ) mwwmm i m.mßi f mwd | you men who live in vvur boots ♦ and give them the very hardest wear—you want these craeat brown boots with + wear any old-style black rubber boot ever made i t \ goodrich iwl i x mpress rubber footwear i % fek t brown-with the red-line i __\ _\\ x so tough it will actually outwear steel 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