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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-06-28, Page 7HEAVY fiERMAN ATTACKS RESULT ONLY IN MESE De ad 1 y Fren c h Gunfire Takes Toll of the Bosche. Petain Has Held All Com- inanaing Positions. Heavy attacks by the Germans are continuing along the Aisne front, with the fighting at times assuming almost the proportions of a general engagement. No substantial successes have attended. the Crown Prince's ef- forts. The latest bulletins from the front, inde,ed, indicate the fighting to be turning even more favorably for the French., whose artillery is proving that it has lost none of its effectiveness in break- ing up attack§. The Crown Prince's primary purpose, apparently, is to fore- stall the renewal of the French offensive movement which was ex- pected in this important sector, southwest and south of the fortress of Laon, the German key position, which would be seriously men- aced by any further French advance. So far as appears, General Petain has lost none of his commanding positions, while the Ger- man have sacrificed heavily_ for such small gains as they have been able to effect. . The plan of the Germans,seems to be to launch heavy forces on comparatively narrow fronts in the area under attack. They pene- trated a salient in the French line yesterday on the Chemin-Des- Dames, in the neighborhood .Of Epine de Chevregny, in one such attack. .Last night they tried to debouch from the - ground thus gained, but found all their efforts broken up by the French fire. Other attacks in the region ,of Vauxaillon, to the west, and near Chevreux and other'points, to the east, were likewise futile. Paris special cable, --Continuing+ their offensive oa the Aisne front, m the Gerans last night made repealed Russ ARmi Es attacks in the region of Vauxaillon U and southeast of Filain. They. also multiplied theirFrench position north of Froidmont, , RE READY TO efforts againt the s where they failed yesterday To -day's official statement says the Germans made considerable sacrifices, without gaining the slightest advantage. The statenaent follows: "The ilight was marked by violent bombardment, followed by a new ser- ies •of Germaa efforts against the points attiteked on the preceding day in the region of Vauxaillon, on the one one hand, and southeast of Filain. ofl. the other.- All these attacks were re- pulsed, and the enemy, .whose losses were serious, gained no advantage. "The fighting was particularly spir- ited between Revere Farm and Frold-- meat Farm. The Germans'who en- larged thee attacking front east of Lepine tle Chevregny, as far as to the north of Froidmont Farm, multiplied theirefforts to eapture these positions. Their attacking forces, broken up by our fire, were not able to approach our lines, or debouch*from the salient penetrated yesterday. ' 'Other efforts of the enemy, east of Chevreux,, east of Cavaliers de Courcy, Ana in the sector •Chambrettes, also were repulsed. "We penetrated the German lines at several points and took prisoners." THE GERSIA.N CLAIM. Berlin Cable, via London eable.-A French position southeast of Main, on a froat of lei kilometres. and 500 neet- res .deep, was captured yesterday by German troo_ps, army headquarters an- nouneed to -day. Prisoners to the num- ber of 300 were taken. CAN SMILE AT SUB. BLOCKADE Baron.Rhon.dda, On Unity of Britain and U. S. Is Going After the Food Speculators. FIGHT AGAIN 'Brusiloff Paints' Cheering Picture of Conditions at the, Front. ROUTED TURKS Were Driven From Jamur • Ridge_ at Bayonet's _ Point. London ,Spectal cable. -"The United States and Great Britain, working to- gether on the food supply problem, can smile at German threats to starve Eitgland," Baron. Rhondda, the new Feed Controller, declared to -day dur- ing an informal talk withnewspaper correspondents in regard to the food situation. Baron Rhondda said that he wished to work in the closest co- operation With Herbert C. Hoover, tne American food administrator, and they should keep in constant touch with each other in dealing with the food problems. Baren Rhondda, declared his firet move would be to reduce the price ot necessary food artielee, bread. sugar, milk and meat being the first things with which he would deal. "I atfl going to take strong action i.n this matter," he said and added that he proposed to do away with all feed speculation in the couatty, asserted that speculation in heme foodstuffs, notably garden and produce already had been eliminated. and that all speculators must go, Further than that he continued. he would reduce the member of middlemen to the low- est limit. Qneetioned as to whether he needed any additional, powers to enable him to CareY out his plans, Baron 'Rhondda geld he already had all necessary Mi.. thrieation as food controller. He was empowered to fix prices, requisi- tion food and control the whole food - Stuffs supply coming into the country. Ire expressed himeelf as delighted with the food campaign now being carried OA ht the tinged States and spoke eopecielly of the Housewives' League, asserting that VOintot hese treniendous influence' in s, Moveinent ef Wits nateere. ••••-•••• •444.40-••••••-••• Mrs. Smith --They tell me one of tbe girls niade a faitic as at the cook- ing Class lunch that everybody node. ed. Mrs. Cometip fproudly)-4 guess ft eva.e my daughter. She ran Mahe eis. of them rectieli frames - natal tlf).t: AMU lc ars EXEMPTED TRADES, A Revised List as Used in English Tribunals, 11.1.4444414-44.,•-•4"4, • Loudon Cable.—A new list of • certified oCellPatioub for the stadium of English tribunale in granting ON-- emptiou from military service was is. sued to-aay, it will intereet Canada, in view of a similar system being pro - Posed Under the Canadian Compulsion scheme. This system of certifying rebtain occu j!otannitls being eonsiderea ONLY RAIDS UPON eesi leinmete • her re since the adoption lit5portanee has been of conmeasion. The latest het is erely a revision of former *nee, the •chNADIAN FRONT mthat iii vleW et tlio Teal selitlya gbeetigg army, 'certain trades have been let. out or the age at which, men Omuta be exempted has been raised. The in. elusion of occupation in the list does not automatically • exempt anybody. Each ,person must obtain pereoual ex- emptiou. 'Credos to which general reservation applies compriee enginemen, boiler firemen, electricians, machine tool- anakers, works chemists, 'coopers and carters, especially thoee carrying heavy goads and food. Reservations In particular trades are very varied, Including workers in mines, quarries, metal engineering, shipbuilding's, lex. ttles, .clothing, agriculture, printing, transport, building, 'cement, potters, glass, firebrick, chemical, oil paint, leather earl food, and workers in. pub- lic services. There are also recommendations to tribunals concerning the exemption or men in low medical category. Every applicant to a tribunal is expected to previously submit himself to a recruit- ing medtcal board, otherwise the tri- bunal must deem him fit for general service, . •••••114.1,141.111.1,4.4 No Big Action .Since That of June 9, But Our Boys Keep -the Foe Worried. London Cable says -The following communique is lemma by the Canadian War Records Office: During the past week no infantry actions on a large acale have taken place, eine° the extensive raid during the night of June Sth and 9th. The enemy has ehown llttie offensive raids during the night ot June 8th and 9th, The enemy has shown little offeneive activity. On the morning of the 12th ot Seem a Canadian raiding party took possession of four enemy gun pits in the neighborhood of La Coulotte. In this enterprise our troops captured two light maclaue gun, together with a large supply of bombs. Later in the same day a small party of Canadian infantry attacked and captured an enemy concrete strong point and ma- chine gun position north of the Sou - chez River, and also a portion of the hostile trench system. Theo trenches have now been consolidated. 'Sere cap tared sixteen prisonore, belonging to the 118th Regiments -- During the early part of the night of June 12th and 13th the enemy at- tempted by a counter-attack to retake the positions captured from him. Dur- ing the day our artillery at once open- ed up and the enemy's infantry, who appeared halt ehakeu by our barrage, was completely driven back by the Lewis gun and rifle fire or our troops. Our patrols have been by no means dle , and several minor encounters have taken place, in which enemy par- ties have been dispersed by our Lewis gun fire. During trio weck the hostile artil- lery fire has been somewhat spasmod- ic, and less active than usual. We have carried out our usual programme of barassing fire by night, both with artillery and machine guns, Much work has been carried out along the whole Canadian front in connection with the improvement of our forward positions and rear and lateral com- munications. The weathe r has been intensively hot 'during the period under review, thus making life in trenches extreme- ly tryiug. 4 • t AIDED ANARCHISTS. Russ Workers- Defended Them From Government. General Headquarters Itueelan Arm- ies, Cable.—During a, brief visit here I had the opportunity of seeing General Bruslioff, Ru.esia's new com- ntander-in-chief, and learning at first hand many interesting facts which eharacterize the present situation of the armies at the front. From the generalleeimo's words and my own observatione on the journey 1 gathered that a marked improvement had taken place in the Suet six weeks. One by one regiments, and even whole divisions, have recovered from the be- wilderment and stupor that were the natural consequence of the revolution and the propaganda of the extremists. It would perhaps be too 'much to say that the whole army has recovered its former morale. The sud•den displace- ment of the authority which the un- tutored Russian soldier had nenadly obeyed, coupled with the opeeloiST lure cif limitless freedom of the land, at - Corded too strong a temptation for him to resist all at once. It, indeed, is a matter for congratulation that a great majority of the troops realsted the inducements to desert and return to their Villages. Desertion is now practically at an end, aud the men ho remained are becoming fully conscious of their duty to their coun- try, Whenever the summons comes Lor them to advance there will be a loyal regions°. The ltiih COMMaild is in full unity, The .Minleter of War is only tob anxi- ous to stand loyally by the allies and do whatever is poeeible to co-operate, with the British and French- armlets. General BrusiloffSi personal magic and power s of eloquence, together with the prestige of his eueccesas in the past, have worked miracles in bringing the Men to •a proper corn- preheneion of their duty. Among the officers there' is also a More hopeful epirit. They have undoubtedly beer, among the worst sutferers from the revolutionary upheave; 'When the history of the revolarron conies to be written full credit will bo given them Lor sticking to their poets under cir- cumstances of whieh their comrades hi the allied antics have no concep- tion. The Coesacti and their comrades, the regular -tavalry, keep a strict watch on all railway stations •within the zone et the armies, and are co- operating with villagers in putting an end to deeds or violence perpetrated by deserters. The following. official report was issued by the Petrograd War Office to -day: "There have been fueilladeia and aerial operations on the western (Rms. skin) and Roumanian froths "Caneaste front: Weet of Kalkit our detachments attacked a Turkish poen don on One of the northern heights of the Janine Ridge. All the defend- ers were bayoneted, with the excep- tion of .a feW Inca who eucceeded making their eseape. "North a Serzeebt, after a minor engageMeat 'with Rue& Mir tt*oovil oceupied a euiumit and emitinued to advance. eon's Keeton, Mos in the course of numerous air fights lied brought eloseD *ix aeroplanes, nee kiiled bile do. Mending at the aerodrome." And, of min% all Germany teitned pale and yelled for the Meiling salts when It beeamelinown that ally num- ber of otir Very 'beet fox trotters ball Seetiled ley weer red, v bite ntict bine 4 . fraped 1111 heeds r telegeoph. ePtrograd, Cable. -A group of an- archists have recently seized the country house of General Burney° in a duburb of Viborg. Minister of Justice Pereveiz- off to -day ordered Its evacuation. In op- position to this order thousands of work- n.en from 0, half-dozen adjacent factories surrounded the house, many of them armed with rifles, and their spokesmen declared they would defend the anarehists against the Government, and that blood- shed would follow if force were em- ployed to oust the occupants of the buildings. Delegates from Iironstadt attended meetings of the workmen and declar- ed that on the first appeal' to armed in- tervention detachments of sailors from the- Iironstadt fortress would be sum- monedto aid the anarchists. Flags carried by the demonstrants were in- scribed, "Down with the capitalists, the enemies of the people!. Long live the social republic:" After the publication of an appeal by the Sailors' and Werkmen's delegates to the working people of • Viborg the Pro- vinsional Government warnedthe an- archists that force of arms would bo invoked unless those holding General Durnovo's house immediately yield to the evacuation order. APPLE CROP TO BE VERY LIGHT 177.11xgo On Exports Will • Partly Offset This, SWAMP THE HUN IN AIR SERVICE Plan to Put 100.000 U. S. Planes Into War And Keep Germany in Con- stant Terror. Tender Fruits, Pears, Peach -- es, Citterrie.5, (31.9od, Washington, Report. -A billion dol- lars probably- will be required to put t00,000 American aeroplanes and 10,000 to 20,000 aviators into the war, Allan R. Hawley, president of the Aero Club et America, told a sub -committee of the House Military Affairs Committee, He declared 25,000 avtators could do more toward ending the war than 1,- 000,000 additional soklicre, lie en- dorsed the bill to establish a separate departmetn of aeronautics. • What might remain of the 100,000. teroplanes when peace is restored could be utilized. for commercial pur- poses, he saki, le French Govern- ment commission now is making plans for such use. Mr. Hawley predicted that the day of trans-Atlantic air lines was at hand. "Wo are now manufacturing air cruisers capable of crossing the Atlan- tic, and have both the pilots and the instruments needed for piloting them," he said. REPRISALS WAIT AID FROM AM- ERICA. London, June21.-Thie Government is still unprepared to announce its policy of air reprisals -against Ger- many, but reprisals are likely to be started whenever the Allies' air ser- vice possesses such au overwhelming superiority in number of aeroplanes as to make them possible on an enor- mous scale without weakening the military air establishment. In this connection it has been learn- ed that the American plans id' the construction of aeroplanes by tens of thousands represent an intimate con- nection with tbe Allies, who are most desirous of American aid in expanding air Warfare to such an extent as to swamp all ,previous activities of tuis kind. The American contribution in this regard will likely be most important in determining the result of the war. It is understood the plans contem- plate the utilization of aircraft on a scale which will revolutionize land operations even more than the sub- marines have revolutionized even nav- al warfare. • When theparatio it will be possible to carry out plans to keep the German cities, munition works, trench and reserve lines, rail- ways, ports and naval bases under continpal bombardment. The Germans have established a precedent in inek- ins such warfare legitimate; now they mast. take the consequences. , _prens aro complete _4. 'Toronto Report-Partieulars as to the prospects of. Ontario's apple crop, as- given by P. W. Hodgetts, director of the fruit branch of the Department of Agriculture, yesterday, would indicale that under normal distributing con- ditions the crop would be 'consid- ered a. tailure. But, as Mr. Hodgetts points out, the embargo on exports to Great Britain and the consequent limitation or the market will partly offset the reduction in supply. For- tunately the crop is least affected in the Lake Ontario counties, where the largest cemmercial orchards aro located, the reports frota these collet - ties indicating that the bloom ran from 30 to 60 per cent. of norenal, with best prospects east of Bow- manville, Lake, Erie counties showed a bloom of from. 10 to 25 per cent. of normal, and inland counties, hided- ing the shore counties or Lake Ilurou, were down to front 5' to 20 per cent, The Georgian Bay sectiou le ligliter than for many yeare. The poorest showing wee la the winter varieties, and these tatitiot be better than very light, whereas, if the fruit sets, well, the saintlier and fan varieties, haviieg a distinct advantage ill weather celiditiOnS aver the crop of last year,' should be of flitch better quality, The reporte considering teeder trulte ell Indicate good prospeets, end the prodoets st -the Mutant limit bell will be plentiful Ilas year. 'I'llete hail linen it herivy bloom of pears; peaelies have set well, and t flie vine - Sal* tire itt exerdient conetitions. • Sweet elterries may be ltbt, but steer chteriee peel -lase te be atieye the average. Some men lietf) 011 robbing Peter TM' lithe atter Peet': richt ha: - heel! 1,t111,1:0 rd. ROUMANIAN GRAIN. ww.0••••••Irrag•ww.m.•••••••••• BAD CASE OF HUN "NERVES" IS DEVELOPED Theories Upset by British, They Now Wonder Where Next Drive Hits. NO GUN SUPPORT And' the •German Airmen Are at Mercy of Brit, • ish Fliers., (Ily 11. T. Smalt'Staff Correepondent of the Associated Press), British Headquarters in France, says: BeCauee of the comparative quiet which reigns along the western front, German prisoners taken ,in nightly raide say they are being told anew that the Allied offensive is deft- oltely ended. However, they leave been told this so often now that they no renger believe what their officers say. From what officer prisoners say, there is palpable nervousness all along the German tine, as to where the British will strike next, These officers frank- ly saysthat they, an well as the higher command, thought the 13ritisb, having chosen the Arras batteefield. for the beginning of their offensive, Would have to continue the fight there, and that preparations necessary to a mod- ern offensive made it vietually Moos. sible to shift the front of attack, once It had beet selected. -There followed the attack On the Messines Ridge to upset this theory, however, So that now the Germans do not Itaow just wllat to expect, Prisoners from the ranks say they have been told that the British at- tacks on the Mensines Ridge -were wbolly repulsed, but that the truth is beginning to filter into the German army organization and rto be appre- ciated at home, despite the efforts of the German press to coneeal the Pact and the significance of the British victory. 'rbc Germaps are still resorting to tbe ,use of dunimy guns arid dummy gun flashes, both in an attempt to conceal their real gun positions and • to deceive the infantry as to the amount of the artillery support available. Many dummy guns were found during the German retreat • from the Somme, and now more are being discovered in the Messines- Wytschaete area. All the prisoners coutinue to dwell upon the feeling wnicle exists between the German • gunners and infantry- men. The gunners say the only ex- cuse they can Offer for lack of artil- lery support for the infantrymen is that they are not given a. suffialr cileetiit quantity of ammunition. shooting, bowever, is inaccurate, due to badly -worn or otherwise' defective weapone. They say that minor re- pairs to the guns are quickly made, tut that more important work, such as the re -lining of barrels or the fixing of badly -damaged guns, has become a matter of months. The British air tactics are continu. lug to have a most distressing effect all the German morale. This is • strikingly portrayed in a captured letter, written by a soldier stationed cpposite Ypres, to -his brotber In the German flying service. , "'We have a very bad position here," says the letter, "The English play with us, so to speak. They fire continually with their machine guns ,and artillery. Their airmen do what they like. Scarcely one of ours- is to be seen, and 1! there are seven of oars and the English bave five, oars bolt. There is never an air fight here, Pc - cause our airmen always bolt. Eng - Bele airmen are ever behind our lines. One day we had a nice bom- bardment. - "All the dugouts were blown in, al- though they had concreted head covers a metre thick. This was dee mainly to the Work of 'the. English airnaen." Spurred on apparently by the neces- sity of competing, with the British air- men, so as to impress tlee German troops, a little mote favorably, Several German aeroplanie flew gaite low over.the British lines east of Messines two days .agoand opened fire with machine guns. The experbnent was hardly a success, nowever. Three of the machines were shot down. Germany..Rushing Plans to, Harvest Crop.-,,, .00••••••••••••=ammk• -Copenhagen Cable—The German authorities in Roumania have made every preparation for the most rapid harsesting of the grain. crop, In addi- tion to special -military detaehments, labor partiee have been enrolled from the native population, and all Rouman- ian prisoners of war have been assign- ed to the work. The harvestere will be paid, lecora- ing to the announcements in the Ger- man papers, higher wages than are castomary in peace times, in ewer to encourage zealous tforte Premiums are offered Roumanian landlords for speedy deliveries ot grain, ' FOUND MAMMOTH IN BRITISH LINES (Beetle T. Small, Staff Correspondent of the Aseociated Press.) With the 13ritisit Arinice in loranee. Cable. -Excavating In the vielnitY of the battere,c1 remnants of the Hin- denburg 11»e, lirItleli noldierti erruelt n strange Orel, xi Melt 'proved to be the tooth of 0 Pi aP1 Meth 'ilia' diallers ery es;.i....1 eecitstueut 11eirnop:•, v. hp ritlelto,I to tiil! lance regardless of the danger of drawing shell fire from the Germinal. The skel- eton of thie prelantorie luoneter nou hao been definitely located, and the gradual eepoeure of it Is preceeding, It wilt be a decided novelty in nate oral history reeearele thie • o mamMoth its the vele for •front or tee ..etia SURPRISED HUNS IN EAST AFRICA TRAFFIC IN GIRLS Cruger Nykitery in N. Y. Re. veal.* linge Business. A New York 'despatch: Seneittlegial allegations of a widespread trattie lit girls in Wire city resulted yesterday in Police Commissioner Woods ordering mesa insestigation tile charges. His action followed the aurioulleeMent tnat between 700 and 800 girls liave disappeared from their beinee 'lore duce Jen. 1. This was the•most important result thus far or the belated discovery by a woman lawyer and a private detective of the murder of Ruth Cruger, 18 -year- old high scnool student, montlis after the police had •ended a superfietal tioarch for her. BRITISH HOLD VANTAGE POINTS All Along the Franco-Bel- gian Front. No Hun Withdrawals From East Front. London cable: With the -recent captures in the alesstaes region the - British now hold all the vantage points along their line on the France - Belgian front. as a result of which Were leas been .aa enormous decrease in the number of Brhish casualties. So said Major-General le: B. Maur, ice, chief director ot military oper& thins at the War Office, in, his week- ly talk to -day. Wnen the Germans were stoped iii their drive on Calais early inthe war they established themselves on sueli dominating heights as those of the Somme aud of MesSines. "All tbese positions have now, been wrested from the Germans," contin- ued Gen. Maurice. "Our western front Is anproximatoly 130 kilometres (about 80 miles) long, and we are in the Ger- man trenches for thisentire length with the exception of 6, few sections which total about 25 kilometres." He contradicted reports that have been current that the Germans have drawn .large forces from the eastern front to take part in the fighting in France, •-"The fact is," he added, "that there has been no considerable movement ot• •Garman troops from the east' to the west. The :Germans have sent fresh units to the westeen front, but those were made up largely of men called to the colors reeently. The • Germans have been using the petiole • in the occupied territories to replace laborers at borne, .who are thus re- leased for the army." CANADIAN GUNS SILENCE FOES 'Enemy Still Nervous,. and Putting Up Barrage, New Drafts Are Winning High Praise. - (13y. Stewart Lyon, Canadian Press • .Correepoadent with the Cauadian Forces. . SENTIMENT IN RUSSIA 15 TURNING TO GOVERNMENT Situation Steadily Improving-, and Animosity to TroubleiMakers Growing. Ileputies7 Congress Admits Ned of Educated' Classes—Cossacks for Government. Petrograd cable -;-.411 spite Of the disorders at Sebastopol, and anarchist threats here, there are indications sit , a marked improvemeut in the sitea. tion, with a growing support or the Government, and a growing au-tines- ity against the forces which make for alsintegration in the army, The resolution, passed on rinIrsday by the Pan-Ruesian congress of Ceun. ells of Deputies is regard de as a, sig- nal defeat for the extremists and pacifists, the motion supporting the , provisional Government being passed • by a majority of more than four to one. A. further significant resolution ad- mits that tile transfer of all power to the democettcy would weaken the revolution. This is the 'democracy's own admissioa that it needs the knowl- edge and experience of educated classes, "Ely declaring. for the speedy at- tainment of a- general ,peace," and at the same time for "an increase in the fighting capacity of the army," .Canadian Headquarters in France, says: The enemy is "still veryner- vous along the Western front. The , slightest sign of an abnormal move- ment on the Dart of the British or Canadiantroops, bringdo.Wit what the official report characterizes as "hurricane barrage;" the • enemy de- pending chiefly on his guns for the holding of the •Ifee. To counteract this, our heave artillery is taking on daily for tiestraction several of the enemy's --eres'sive -batteries. Enemy guns., large and Mall, are ranged albng the Canadian front and -in the rear. Some are over six miles behind the enemy trenches and the duty of the avia.ne.- sent out to check up the • nilconsdilitlicoenur eo .f tIlit se pGeerri lmsaenembgatttoer tees at added attraction; for there Is no lack or candidates for admission to the ranks tidrrO.fattstetfsrnt. the' Canadian de.. pow in England: to tualco .good the Wastage in the corps are of ,good adality. 1 hear nothing but praise for. the new men: . London cable: An official cons municatiou relating to operatiots in Ent Africa wee made public to -night, *lee readin• g.: eon Rind 1,0 operations were begun by our forces at- Lindi (a port of Ger- man East Atrica) -With the object of clearing the enemy hose the shores of the estuary at the Lukelea River. Aid- ed by the fire of the warships it sur- prise landing was effected in "ids:vi- cinity ot IVIrwelca in the estuary, anti' a Germau detachment, which for some UM past had ocupied the place and Mounted it nasal gun there, was driven towards Mamma (eltuil?), 23 miles to the southwest. "On June 12 our petrels from the d1. rectlon of Kilwa destroped cia Minn' food etipply depot at ITtigeri." 4 o - SOCI ALIST Oil It CIL RUSS T.,eader Sends Direct Call to Budapeet. Copenhagen Cable. ----.A. 13udapest despatch says that . the Hungariar Socialists have received a telegram from N. C. Telteielse. the Russian Socialist 'leader, illillenheing the eon - vocal -lieu hy the. Petrograd Cennell of wierepenee mid Soldiers' DeleSates an interentinesi ennierence et es lieleholm front June es 10 joie Thin Pi the Met chronicled direct tem- niunication bet ween the belligerents. Stoekbolonstone delegatioe tenni the Gernien Serialiet majority 'tarty eel writtee to the Petrograd Council et Werlonen's and Soldiers' I ) .Ct3htti cAllreeel no II e 'Pea (1 ese to Perfieleeie in the luiernalionvi ems l'Ihneeed ne rite euttneri. lir es -4 the congress tacitly repudiated the Programme of a separate 1peace. Equally Imporhtut was the unanimous vote of the Peasants' Congress, re. presenting 1'30,000,000 people, approv- ing the expelsion of the German paci- fist agent, Robert Grimm, and inviting volunteerte to enter the army and strengthen it by their example. Speeclies of similar tenor in the Cossack neingress was still more erne phatfc, so Much so that the extremist anarhcist organs to -day speak at the "resurrection of the Nagalka," the Coseacie whip formerly used for sues. j pressing disturbaaces. A representa- tive of the Amur .0ossacks declared that 8,000,000 Cossacks were ready to fight in support of the revolution. A representative of tile Kuban Cossacks dodveedrWs "e hall stippert the provisional G meut if necessary with rifles, d raanineS,NroraferiS!e'e. formerly delegate ydtehleiotecaftrioomn toile? Utliko. famous Saporoo Cossacks, declarecle that his 'countrymen would fight side by side- with the Cossacks until Ger many was bitteninto dust.. HALF KUT MEN TURK'S VICTIMS . . Died as Prisoners After • Being Captured. s\<', cos that a large IneMber af13ritieli ari Indfall prisoners taken: by the IA, Mesopotaftila Incas) succumb... o ill-treatnient or 'leek Of proper. nu ical attention, resident or Taurus," says tha espontlett, "testified that. in -Hie camp there itiore thanhalf of' IP Men captured at Kut-01-Artittrit aro• u :dead, It is noteevorthr that the '1 lie wintid not allow a•SeVige ;sien to vieit. thia mine, 100 ef the same -Me. hirty-seven .1.1eititeh prisoners were st,, -to a lioctielted - tinder European lagentent, but seen' after their are 1. the European doctors. and MUM- tS were driven away, and It fort - taloa cable saeisi Ttfe . eerrcszioiu- of Repter'e Limited in Cairo s4s earnn froitt the motet reliable VON BULOW'S ROSY DREAM OF AM INDNI4ITY FOR GERMANY Ex -Chancellor Sees His Country Victorious and Repaid This Year, ne ri. 'n(glt.later.S. of the prisoners died of ' sheer' neteleet. •delfty peisenees wet(.•aptnreti nr- nl The nominal in liteinee. entail iiiiliy :Owl owittg to weakness from tlt1tt'1t(ory eta starvation." Paris Cable. ----The Zurich corres- pondent of the Petit Parisien quotee Prince von Bulow, former German Chancellor, as saying, in reels to birthday grectinge from the city tit Bromberg, Prussia, that he hoped this year would brtng .to the German. peo- ple the longed -for peace, a peace with compensations for their sufferings ancl saeritices, • • and an indemnity which would permit Germany immediately , to resume the position slie occupied before the war. This is the first time Petite() von Below has expressed him - off ou the subject of Germauy's.War aims. Since Italy's entrance into the war, Prince von Bulow, who at that time was Gernian Ambassador at Rome, has been living in retirement in Swit- zerland. it has been stated repeated- ly that his presence in Switzerland was connectea with German peace ef- forts which he was supposed to be furthering, but according to other Tee ports he is not in the good graces of - the German Cloveniment. TORRID DROUTH IN GERMANY SHOWS NO SIGN OF BREAKING ITALY SAVED DAY TO fRANCE Marconi Tekla Countr?s Decision Released 1,000,000 Men to Check Huns. - + Fruit and Early -Vegetables Spoiled, --Extra Plantings . • lisel.ess to Aid. , Slew York:: 'Cables -Sone -dorm Wil - ham Marcenisa, memher, of the-Italie:al' war mission to. the United' • States, Which is headed b the 'Prince- of* Udine, speaking it night at a dia. nei, given by Mayor Mitchel in honor 'his mission, declared that his country's prompt refusal' to join Ger' many in a war of aggression was the decisive factor whieh enabled Frauee to stem the tide of invasion. "Germany did not expect us to join ia a savage attack on thelillerties of Europe," said Mr. Marconi. "She did not, even care whether we eventually agreed to remain neutral. Her game wale it much deeper and more treach- erehs one. She wanted us to leave France, our great Latin sister. in &MIA as to our intentions. "�n August 2, 3914, three daYs'llie fore Englandesieclared .war against, Germany, at it eounell of elinieters held ht Rome, Italy decided formally' It) declare her neutrality, News was Mitt ed 1 ately!. coin mu n Wet ed. through our charge"d'affaires in Paris %vile went to sole M, \Telma. UM French Foreign Minister, in the middle ot the eight. "M. Viviani, on swing Inns grew pale and drew back. for he was ale meet convinced that nothing but Italy's - decieion to join Germane - would have brought the Italian charge d'affairies there at that boor. "Theseeteuisiot of feeling when M. Viviani read,. the telegram was such that he could not hide his emotion. Within half an hour orderselued gone forth for the inobilleation in the north nearly 1,000,000 men, which Vrance 'Would bad -10410 keep on hdr south. ern antt- • eattflels front to Attard against a possible attack from i"rhat million men helped to stem the- aavauclUe tido of Geri -mute, to win the•battle Of the Marne and to- save, France. Had there been the slighteet wavering on the part of Italy Featice wonld not have dared to withdraw a single male from Ma Dalian frontier, and the history of the, world might have been 'different- • "Gentlemen, is there any man. who (sin think, In view of what X bare Net toki you,. that Italy's 'conduct was not it decisive factor in the war?" CATASTROPHE - IN AUSTHA „ :4,0, lessee; ('0 1 n 1,0110. Demme tiPrtt killiid or injured ,or IWO missing lit consequence of an (3:01a;ltni itt munetiens . factories at Moe .'n,,fee according to, cur anuotince. ment made In the lower Home ter the Ausu etlar:14:11:11,:ivt cbthe Miuletesr fneee FM•aklorl lu a de ' . PrVa'an Gentlentane from the emu. trYee.-011, it little Iatilly anti -some to ta e. Brfsk Waiter (shouting up the tti ree eilittal-One lamb. Mee potatel We . atis Gentleman Waiter, waiter.. P. 1Prtle. leee heeds Drente. tied- flea if lift40 Mote Perste-- tit VI.. .. 014.4 itlop.enbagea Cable,- The period or intense heat continues, according • to reports from Berlin, over the great- er part of Germany, the only excep- tion..betog'in the -western part of the country. The droutb. in Denmark has been. broken by heavy and pro- longed rains. Berlin, on Wednesday, experiencea heat exceeded only three times in seventy years, and then in mid-July. Very little ramn. has fallen theoughout Germany, and, the Berlin Tageblatt is informed„ there appears to be slight prospect of is, -change. Extension of forest firee. is reported in various parts of Germany, owing to the con- tinued droutis, and soldiers have been called in to 'assiee in checking them. According to an authoritative state- ment in the Lokal A.nzeiger, of Ber- lin, the protracted heat and dry weather, following the late cold spring, have had it most unfavorable effect on the yield of fruit, and partie cularly of early vegetables, which thie Year are of especial importance, ow- ing to the disappearance of potatoes. Notwithstanding the planting • of it double acreage of vegetables, com- pared with peace times, the yield es disappointing. Extra plantings pro- tably wilt tot result in any increase :n the total production. $3,035,226,850 WAS SUBSCRIBED Enormous Success Attained by Liberty Loan. Over 52 Per Cent. Above the Sum Set. Washington Report. --Liberty loan subecriptions , totalled $3,135,226,850, an over -subscription of nearly 52 pee cent. The final tabulation Was offi- cially announced .10-nig.e1t, showing [that mare than four million persons bouglit bonds. Ninety-three pet cent. of subecriptione or 3,060,000 persone more for same varying from 150 to $10 000 while 21 subscribers applied Tor allotments of $5,000,000 each or more. The New York Federal Reser% e Dietriet led the net with it total of $1,186,788,400, or more time throe times the amount subscribed Itt the next district, Chicago, $357,105,050. CONSTANTINE'S TOOLS GONE, A theme Cable. ---The deportation , front Pinwale of a large ember of (1 !('t1(4, iselielipe Heinetricres Gentler - e: former eliiiieler of lustier. mei •'t eimaniniee times lit the yeitinie teila lei , Gen, houistiiiiele mad tea, Met. * lees, v no a Iliteige-il 1-,V 11 ittrge eroted o' :49.'0 lions With the ceeteuthei of office.rs who !Iti.....n 11(vot tratv4re'red to Pelopoult- . l',., It; lit.rMAM4 are now under sue- ..--- 1..nee. ona muet remain in their 1 loeses. Shin.b 0 :litiene tlaste pereos 1 :ue, feree-p iheenieve brasimMle, elite-lc:ell azil Lei else... var