St. John's Daily Star, 1916-07-28

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 11 / 3.00 per annum friday july 28,1916 price one cent no 175 ginnell m p causes row irish member * grows recalcitrant in the house of commons and is re moved by the sergeant-at-arms had made some grave charges concerning the conduct of military in ireland vote for his suspension was carried unanimously ondon july 27.—lawrence gin the nationalist whose opposi tion to the government has grown more and more aggressive since the irish insurrection last easter and whose question to cabinet ministers make the most serious charges against the government caused a short suspension of the sitting of the house of com mons to-day owing to his refusal to withdraw when ordered to do so by the speaker of the house mr ginnell refused to budge when approached by the sergeant-at-arms who was ordered to remove him not until the sergeant-at-arms summoned assistance and his brother nationalists advised him to do so did he obey the command of the speaker the nationalist member asked her bert samuel secretary for home af-i fairs whether the mrv.ary authorities | at the time of the insurrection in dub-j lin had the sanction of the govern | ment for bombing the headquarters of the cumannimban nurses cutting the red crosses off their dresses and im prisoning them as criminals the home secretary denied all the j allegiajjons whereupon mr ginnell i said that owing to the insolent reply of the minister he got no further as these were loud shouts of order he withdrew the word insolent but insist j ed upon the question whereupon the speaker named him to the house in accordance with practice premier asquith moved that mr ginnell be sus pended mr ginnell alone voted against the motion irish m p goes on trial today laurence ginnell faces charge of breach of defence of realm act united press correspondence special to the st * vim's daily star ondon july 28—laurence ginnell author humanitarian and prominent irish member of the british parliament was placed on trial here today by his government charged with violating the defence of the realm act penalties for conviction of the vio lation of this act range from a ten shil ling fine to imprisonment ginnell was arrested by order of general lloyd information came to the officer that ginnel had visited a de tention camp at knutsford near man chester under an assumed name and there spent some time talking in a suspicious manner wit'i irish rebel prisoners ginnel has long been known for his sympathy with the irish cause he has frequently and openly criticized the government for not giving ireland home rule he was particularly bit ter in denouncing the government for what he termed its failure to deal more leniently with the irish rebels follow ing the easter rebellion ginnell is a member from county westmcath a hotbed of iriati rebellion from which he was elected in 1906 he is a self educated man and a fine na tural orator he was one of the foun ders of the irish literary society of london and is the author of several books dealing with irish questions british ships captured amsterdam july 28.—a daily ger man official statement says that four destroyers have captured two british cargo steamers in international waters off landakorina sweden british test enemy's lie 1 after capluring consolidating at oziers the british immediately bcjaj to search out weak spots in thr .' german lines preparatory to hc > initiation of another big drive . big impression created by capture of erzingan [ jondon july 28—since the ccmplc i tion of the capture of pozieres new . from the british front in france i . mainly of artillery actions and tcntin [ by encounlers cf various poin;r of the german line a comparative lull with hazy weather it is assumed has give the germans an opportunity to brin up further troops and guns with the view of renewed attempts to recapture pozieres where according to an un official report the british troops have further consolidated the captured pc sitions tonight's official report shows there has been hard fighting all day will some fluctuating fortune but that i the end the british improved their pc sitions northeast of pozieres and in the vicinity of longucval and del villi wood similarly from the eastern froni there is much comment in europca capitals as to the effect the loss of th last great turkish fortress in armenia from which province the turks art said to be ficcing owing to the ex haustion of their ammunition supplies is likely to have in constantinople and also as to the influence this defeat conjoined with the success of the rus sians towards brody opening the road to lemberg will have in greece and rumania the associated press correspondent at athens learns there is no longer any likelihood of an aatck lon the allied forces at salonika the russian war minister accord ing to an interviewer desires to dispel the illusion that the war can end in the autumn he admits that german technique is so high that germany can still offer a long resistance huge armies of russians on east front total russian forces of 2,740,000 men fighting austro-germans of 1,700,000 men mew york july 27.—a despatch from switzerland to the journal says that carefully sifted information to-day shows that the germans have on the east front about 900,000 men and the austrians about 800,000 men of whom they said the latter has already lost some 300,000 tne total russian forces under the orders of general kuropatkin and gen eral brussiloff equals 137 divisions of infantry and 36 divisions of cavalry or 2,740,000 bayonets and 162,000 sabres or a total of 2,902,000 men , general brussiloff's army alone equals 1,750,000 men russians capture stores of munitions detrograd july 28.—an official report tkis evening reads on the western frimt during battles between july 16th*and 25th genl sakharoffc troops qfkptured thirty-four german and austrians thirty-five cannon and seventy-one machine guns on the\caucasus front at supker we took wocf hand grenades one thou sand shels five hundred caissens of cartridges at erzingen we captured a depot of rifles revolvers bayonets artillery mv , nitions together with one thousand pounds of petrol and benzine the tows of erzingen was not dam aged italian aircraft bombard durazzo new york july 27.—a cable from the rome journal says that an offi cial announcement was made to-day that italian aircraft yesterday bom barded durazzo in albania across the adriatic > the planes dropped bombs on the austrian aero-hangars and landing stagos then returning safely to their base a newfoundland cot bed donated by st john's friends in the st john ambulance association hospital at etaples france couldn't help the austrians germans were in no position to re spond to appcab of their allies ondon july 28—the geneva switzerland correspondent of the daily express wirfs i learn from innisbruck that the austro-hungarian staff appealed several times during july to the german headquarters for assistance against the russians in galicia small numbers of reinforce ments were sent with the statement that it was impossible to send roops during the strong anglo-french offensive on the somme then the austrian heir appealed di rectly to the kaiser who replied when we have beaten the english we shall reconsider the matter i cannot spare troops at present as the situation is serious w ix ~& pi ix ix ix ' much infantry fightjng done struggle continues in pozieres long ueval and dolville wood regions ondon july.2b.—an official state ment tonight reads today there has been hard infantry fighting north east of pozieres and in the vicinity of longueval and delville wood north of the line pozieres-bazentin lepiti we succeeded last night in cap turing about 200 yards of important enemy trenches which had hitherto successfully resisted all oiir attacks this morning after an intense artil lery fire the enemy succeeded in re gaining possession of a whole trench but our troops immediately re-attacked and have regained a footing in the southern end armenia in hands of russian forces petrograd july 27.—russian troops covered a hundred miles in their ad vance on erzingen within a week the capture of the city means virtual com pletion of the russian occupation of turkish armenia gives russia the benefit of an extremely fertile valley and opens an easy road of communi cation from trebizond for the western and southern caucasian armies the russians have now captured trebizond baiburt gumish kaneh and re-occupied mamakhatun ~* hk fc fc ~* ~* hopeless wreck london july 27.���the american steamer carolyn which went ashore on kola peninsula on june 13th while taking a cargo of automobile tracks and general merchandise from . new york to archangel in russia is a hope less wrecje the cargo is being saved british gains in east africa force the germans to retreat from very strong position _______ 1 jondon july 27.—an official ment of the progress in the british campaign in east africa was given out to-night brigadier general noh th£y reports on july 24th that he drove the main german southern detach-j ment of the enemy from strongly or 4 ganized positions astride the new lan genburg-irangi road to mablangali after counter-attacks the enemy re*j tired hurriedly in the direction of irf angi abandoning a 4.1 inch howitzer and two machine guns among the number of german euro peans captured previously was dri stir late governor of the new genburg district dr stir has since died of wounds the majority of the surviving mem-i bers of the crew of the german cruiser keonigsburg form part of the german forces i ~& 1 1 germans capture wilson line shipf —————— s london july 27.—the wilson lin steamer eskimo 3,326 tons has beef captured by a german auxiliary cruisgf er according to reuters christiansanei correspondent the seizure says the occurred in the norwegian territorial waters according to the crew of r norwegian guardship while the mans claim the vessel was five miles from the land turkish regiment at smyrna mutinied ■ new york july 27.—the journal has the following despatch fror athens reports received here to-day frou smyrna state that a turkish regimertj mutinied at seveikeny and took re/us in the forest of mount simolon turk ish forces pursued the mutineers and set fire to the forest many were burned to death naval yarns not confirmed london july 27.—an official ment by the british admiralty statm to-day that they had no report of k new naval action in scandinaviffa waters and had received nothing in ara way confirming unofficial reports jn naval activity in that region bremen across i sandy hook july 27.—a crafh which appeared to be a submarine f , which observers believed might be th german underwater bremen passed sandy hook at 9.(1 o'clock to-night * i w want more conferences liations over the irish settlement cir culated in the house of commons and is being largely signed by the members—terms of proposed set | bear out the contention l made by the nationalists rl ondon july 27.—1n accordance premier asquith's promise the official paper giving the heads of the agreement arrived at recently between cloyd george and the irish leaders in the irish negotiations was issued to night it bears out the contention made in the debate in the house of commons iby john redmond with regard to the retention of irish members in the im perial parliament inasmuch as clause jour merely says ilrish representation in the imperial parliament shall not re main unaltered namely 103 and says nothing concerning any substantial re duction in their number with regard to the duration of the mew bill the official paper confirms jpremier asquith's statement of july iq namely that if parliament had not y twelve months after the war made further permanent provision for the of ireland then the dura tion of the operation of the bill shall t?e extended by order in council for such time as may be necessary to make such provision j the clause referring to the exclusion of the ulster counties merely defines ithe excluded counties be says nothing as to whether exclusion is to be per ■; an interesting clause in the agree t ment not previously mentioned gives the lord lieutenant of ireland power to sumon conference between members | for constitutencies in the excluded farea and members for the rest of ire the only new feature in the irish | situation to-day is that a petition is i being largely signed in the house of commons asking for the renewal of negotiations for an irish compromise on the lines-suggested by john redmond and sir edward carson another turk yarn denied ino truth in turk stories of repulse f v of the british cavalry ondon july 27.—a british official statement was issued today denying j the turkish official report of july 26th that british cavalry forces in the vicin ity of the seuz canal had been dis persed • the statement follows the commander-in-chief of egypt reports it is stated by german wireless that our cavalry has been driven back at romani and katis our cavalry is in occupation of katis and nowhere has it been driven back complete superiority over the enemy has been established by it both in pushing in reconaissances and in driving in his covering parties at will the enemy has not even ventured to press any reconnaissance in our direc tion turkish forces at oghratina dare not advance from that place and no turk has been near romani ! court proceedings tie up munitions dayton ohio july 27 thousands of dollars worth of ammunition in pro cess of manufacture for european na tions in the miami valley factories are tied up to-day by attachment pro ceedings instituted in the local county courts by the brownell company and blatt iron works company both of this city against the canadian car foundry co and its new york the sum of 722,974 is claimed by the plaintiffs on the ground of breach danish steamer seized london july 27.—the danish steamer normandiet has been seized by a german torpedo boat says a copenhagen despatch to lloyds the vessel was bound from skelleftea sweden for la pallice france with a cargo of wood pulp 11-day fight for pozieres struggle for the possession of this im portant position began july 14 and lasted until july 25 when the brit ish captured the position—gallant defence maintained to the last by the bavarians two hundred machine guns used in the defence works paris july 27.—the capture of pozieres from the germans puts the british in complete possession of this line in the somme region the fight for pozieres lasted eleven days from july 14th to the 25th the place was defended by 200 machine guns of which all but 30 were de stroyed or put out of action by brit ish artillery a species of fort in the centre of the village was defended by a company of bavarian infantry these troops resisted for twelve hours at the end of that time only four men were found alive in the dug out dose by a heap of sixty bodies remained unburied the last defenders of the village were decimated as they crossed 300 yards between the village and ceme tary where they made the last unsuc cessful stand press back thegermans british troops force the enemy to re tire east and northeast of delville wood—heavy fighting still con tinues in this vicinity including longueval—successful raid on the enemy trenches royal does some magnificent work jondon jily2b on our right flank after hard fighting we have driven the enemy from the east and northeast of delville wood heavy lighting still continues in this vicinity ncluding longueval where we regain ed a portion of the northern part of he village about one o'clock wednesday norning a small enemy party entered our trenches immediately west of the ypres-pilken road but were immedi ately driven out further south after artillery prepar ation a party of british troops raided ihe enemy's lines the germans were encountered in front of their own wire and sustained a loss of some thirty killed the british infantry then fought heir way into the trenches in which we found many germans killed by our bombardment some good work was accomplished by royal flying corps on wednesday in locating enemy batteries and newly constructed defences owing to the clouds and mists our machines had lo fly low two are missing denies neutrality breach washington jury 27.—sir cecil spring rice british ambassador in formed acting secretary of state polk to-day that he had received a mes sage from the commanding officer of the british squadron on the atlantic coast denying that a british warship had entered chesapeake bay as re ported by the commander of the bat tleship louisanna the public meeting at the council meeting last even ing the public meeting on the second anniversary of britain's declaration of war suggested by the star was again discussed it was deeded to hold the meeting at high noon in the court house square the meeting to be addressed by the mayor his excellency the governor the acting premier church dignatories and others it is likely that the stores will close the shore train reached town at 9.45 last night being delayed by large freight offerings along the line advertise persistently in the daily star i another big shipment i gjmjp qoods 1 fancylrel voiles j \ 20c to 25c " " percales i -" [; " xheviots ; 15c to 16c " " ginghams j '•/ . \ 15c to 16c lawns look cloths cambrics etc | all to be cleared out \ at marvelously l low prices | iowring brow 1 limited