St. John's Daily Star, 1916-07-22

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 11 3.00 per annum saturday july 22,1916 j i — ji price one cent no 170 troops of france score a big gain ween the hours of 5.25 and 9 0 clock yesterday morning they accomplished a task their leader had calculated would occpuy eighteen hours capturing impovi tnt heights north of peronne which put them in a position to develop a flank attack on the german forces i effective ifqrk of french guns p ris july 22.—after ten days of p.nation the f rench army of the has made another panther 1 lie action was in two parts ol the river france's most fa liviston surpassed its records by plishing in the brief period be ). 25 and 9 o'c'ock yesterday morning the task its own chief had cal i would take fully 18 hours of ii ogress automatically cleared dcl wood and lon_,ueval where rmans were stubbornly dispul th the british the ground they k in 1 uesday's great counter moreover the french have now footing on the high ground north ! peronne where they can ini tiate an enveloping mt i.ient instead ol a costly frontal attack across al passable marshes e and action south of pennine • greater scale but attained , 1 success its extensive objee-1 i ly-cight-hour artillery pre was so effective that on the whole live mile front the german first nces fell en masse from of yesterday . prison whole battalions of wurlem saxons prusians bavarians ! and badenburgers were jumbled in i ; pell-mell that reveals an extraordinary i confusion one fact stands out there was an entire company of troops that had helped to captude vaux fort one of them declared his # regiment had beer i heavily withdrawn from on verdur july ist and rushed headlong to the somme fir?t line io relieve the bavar ! ian landstrum these words in a despatch from th somme frontier which arrived to-day marked the fiilurc of germany's gi gantic enterprise against her princi pal enemy russians defeat austro-himgarianr pctrcgrad july 21.—russian troop advancing towards the northern gal ician border defeated the aiislro-hun ganans in the region of the confluence o the styr a.nd lip.i rivers with the capture of more than 1600 prisoners says a ,, , official statement issued to day the austrian rel red h the heights near the town ci berestechk m si m m m gained footing ; in foureauxiwooc london july 21.—the british line north of bazentin and longueval has been pushed forward to foureau wood the war office announced to day the british drove the german from the wood but los par of thu position subsequently '©&. "?! ißk break war rule to please dog r&na the great dane mascot of the auckland new zealand mounted rifles refused food for three days because she missed her best riend a man of the regiment who had been taken to a london hos pital the man learned of rona's unhapipiness and was greatly concerned in the interests of dog and man the authorities relaxed on one of the most inflexible rules of the hospital they consented that the dog be brought to the man's bedjside where there was a pathetic meeting • z smashing russ blows kuropatkin's artillery blasts to pieces the german defensive positions in the north * fiew york july 21.—a rome de spatch to the journal says that the forces of general kuropatkin on the dwina north section of the german line in russia have smashed the ger man line with artillery fire lasting ] three days according to despatches received here from petrograd to-day the ger •< mans have suffered what are describ ed s colossal losses general kuropat kin attacking the german defensive works with furious artillery fire for several days succeeded in destroy ing the enemy's position to such an ex tent that the russians are now ready for infantry attacks general hindenburg is directing in person the german defence repulsed the huns with the bayonet paris july 21.—a strong german detachment which advanced to the at tack in the chaulnes sregion was re pulsed with the bayonet between sois sons and rhpims the french pene trated a german trench clearing it of its defenders on the verdurf front the artillery was j active on both sides in the vicinity of chattancourt and fleury french aeroplanes successfully bom barded enesny positions at longuyon and brielles t t lightning kills forty mexicans mexico city july 22.—forty per sons were killed during a lightning rainstorm in the suburbs of mexico city yesterday berlin lays claim to certain gains berlin july 21 an attack by british forces against the germans at fromelles north of la bassee on wednesday resulted in the loss by the attackers of more than 2,000 meh killed and nearly 500 made prisoners according to a statement given out by the war office to-day the statement added that the ger man line along a front of about three kilometres 2 miles south of harde court was driven from its first trenches into its second trenches 800 metres in the rear enemy forces the statement says penetrated into the german sali ent in the wood of vermandovillers the schoner maple leaf is loading fish at goodridges for brazil the schooner mildred and mary arrived at lisbon on wednesday last i latest war credit asked of commons totals 450,000,000 brings total of war votes j to sum of 2,832,000,000 . london july 22—the treasury department has issued supplementary estimate for a vote of credit of 450,000,000 which the premier will ask the house of commons to vote on monday this vote is the largest asked for by the gov ernment since the beginning of the war and will bring the total since the beginning of the war to 2,832,000,000 air transport a possibility aeroplanes may even be employed in a transatlantic service united press correspondence special to tlie st john's daily star jjew york july 22.—an overseas aeroplane service between europe and america and veritable aeroplpne armies in the clouds on european ba - tlehelds are expected by a french aeri al expert who talked about the proba bility today to materialise within the present year he pointed to the trip of the giant submarine from germany to baltimore as justification for what might otherwise be termed a wild guess there are going to be flocks and flocks of aeroplanes used on both sides and aerial battles with aeroplane arm ies will become important and features of the great war said he how to transport guns and am muntion by air is a matter that is re ceiving expert attention now aero planes are being used that can carry a five hundred pound bomb and they are so steady and safe that when the bomb is dropped the pilot does not note any lightening of the load to be able to transport light cannon in this way from one part of the line to an other would be a tremendous advant age and it is safe to prophesy that this will be done before long clouds of aeroplane are going to darken the sky before the war is over and some of them will be huge air transports in overseas commerce the aeroplane has only begun to be used mmmmmmm to strafe english amsterdam july 22.—the sugges tion that german educational institu tions abolish forever the teaching o c french and english in their school work has been endorsed by the leading berlin newspapers according to infor mation here today the suggestion came from a pamphlet written by adolph reinecke a german author many fights by aviators allies win several battles in the air losing one aeroplane , july 22.—taking advant age of fine weather the royal fly ing corps yesterday continued their bombing operations against points or military importance with successful re sults hostile aircraft were inactive until evening when a good deal of fighting took place behind the german lines one of our offensive patrols encounter ed eleven german machines which were shot down one bursting in flames another encounter between four of our machines and the enemy and last ed forty-five minutes one fokker was then shot down and another badly damaged the remainder fled dur ing the other air combants a hith oer man machine was forced to the ground our total loss during the day was one machine it has now been established that he enemy's assaults on july 18th on the delville wood area over a front of 2,000 yards was made by thirteen bat lallions drawn from four different di visions the enemy's losses were cor respondingly great no joking matter amsterdam july 22.—a german here said he walked into a berlin res ' laurant and asked for a sandwich i whereupon they brought him a meati ! ticket between two bread tickets a j colmar courtmarital fined a merchant 25 for repeating this story \ evade the censors london july 22 persons in eng land who want to write to friends in germany and evade the censor put the correct german address on the en velope then add the word switzer land and the the swiss postal send the letter to germany * the meigle arrived from the lauras dor at 3 yesterday afternoon dneister r is in flood high water in river hinders russians operations and gives advant tage to the hans july 22.—floods along the dncister are a benefit to the aus tro-germaiis as they liberate troops with which to reinforce at least tem porarily kovcl vladmir volynski and bukowiua and the transylvania front on which military experts expect there will be more heavy righting says a reutcr despatch from fetrograd the summer floods of the dniester rose the river quickly to a height of six or seven feet ■ former town councillor vladimir vohmiski who escaped says the town is depopulated except for women and children and aged persons all able bodied persons he reports arc com pelled to work on the defence or aic reported to austria the population is starving the cheap est black bread is sold for one ruble a pound there is no meat there is much typoid and other disease epi demic thursdays west bound express ar-j rived at port aux basques at 10.401 it * a last night i launch big attack with 200,000 men berlin reports that huge anglo french forces were hurled at their lines north and south of the sonunc on thursday — cacpture of foureaux wood by the allies would drive the germans into the open country—huns trying desperately to retain this position russian victory is reported flood hinders russian forces ondon july 22.—some idea ot the huge forces now engaged in the battle of the somme in northern france is given in an official state ment from berlin tonight which says more than 200,000 french and british troops attacked the german lines north and south of the somme on thursday on a front of 27 miles today's news from this battle ground which has been contested bit lerly since july ist shows no great change in the positions of the french british and german forces the brit ish have pressed forward along the german third line in foureaux wood northwest of longueval this an important strategic point and its capture which would bring the forces of genl haig to the highest point of of the bridge commanding the ger man positions and would cause the loss of the hilly country beyond which it is not so much broken up and not wood ed lending itself none too well to a de fence this probably explains the des perate attempts of the germans to hold he wood where heavy fighting con tinues the associated press correspondent says the germans are bringing masses of troops from verdun and guns from other points in an endeavor to stop the allied advance meantime the indications are the allies are testing the strength of the german line at other points a trench raid by austrian troops in the neighborhood of amoutines m tracts much interest in this connection the flooding of the dniester river is delaying operations on a large sec lion of the russian front to the ad vantage of the austro-germans but russia was able to announce two suc cesses today genl yon linsingen commanding the austro-german forces south of kovel has been obliged to retire furth er in the face of strong attacks by the iorces under gen sakharoff the russians seized the crosrnigs of the river styr and compelled their op ponents to retire from the salient of the styr and lipa rivers towards bcrestech where a battle is now going on by this advance genl sakharoff gives the greatest protection to the op erations of the russian generals on the volhynia lines in the region of brody in the caucasus the russians have taken the town of gumuskhanen be ween trebizond and erzingan the ob jective of the russian army on this sector of the front german advantage was short-lived one j london july 22.—the germans in in attack on the british on the north ern edge of the lcipsio salient suc jpeeded friday in occupying the brit ish front trenches but the iatter were i en out according to a british offi communication issued at midnight sewhere along the british front parative calm prevailed itish admiralty tceieases j_iiners ontreal july the british admiralty released the white star dominion steamers formerly in the can adian trade the northland southland and canada which had been engaged in government service between britain and the mediterranean u s firms to fight ; new york july 22—representatives f fifty of the eighty-two firms black isted by britain under the trading ivith the encmy'act met here to-day 0 form an organization o gnt the ac ion of the british government the only statement made was that 1 committee of five would be designat ed to formulate a plan of action u-boat merchantman delays her sailing baltimore july 22.—1t was plain jo-day that some mysterious set-back or some difficulty known only to cap tain koenig and to the officials and agents of the deutschland has been encountered to prevent the sailing of he merchant submarine there is nothing wrong with the boat or its mechanism and the cargo h aboard but shore leave to sailors evoked several days ago has been jranted again jpood riots occur * in many quarters rotterdam july 21.—food riots which broke out in belgium and north ern france have been suppressed by the german military • the rioting was severe at liege verviveres roubaix renaix st nicholas lokeran and terrhonde quelling of riots in populated cen tres has been followed by compulsory evacuation from the cities by the ger man authorities of large sections of he industrial population these hay een scattered homeless through the agricultural regions 1h ohibition causes enver july 22.—colorado can't her jails efficiently without saloons there are only sixty occupants in tlrt hoos-gow rjere today they're all so bad the warden can't make them trus ties and keep the country propery in good shape on their labor there used lo be an average of 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