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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-07-12, Page 7• WENT NEW RUSS DRIVE AGAINST HUN AT PINSK Second Effort of Revived' HAIN TIMES NOW FACE NEUTRALS Ally in a Few Days. ........INMII,41/1,•••••••••,•••,1•10100.=001, British Thrust in Belgium Advances Line, General Brushoff seems to have been arranging a surprise on the Russian front, judging from the reports from Petrograd to -day of violent fighting in progress in the Pinsk district. Apparently the Austro -German attention has been centred on the Galician district, where Brusiloff's offensive opened last Sun- day, and only last evening the German offieial report recorded the resumption of heavy attacks by the Russians. There had been no mention in any of the official statements recently of any especial activity anywhere along the Russian line, except in Galicia, and the seotors immediately adjacent on north and south. The report frOm Pinsk, 150 miles north of the Galician border, therefore has in it the element of surprise for the world, if not for the Germans. The city lies within a pronounced salient in the line, and the statement that fighting is occurring west of it may mean to the northwest, where the front trends along the Oginski Canal and the Jasiolda.River. Me infantry may not yet have been thrown into the fighting at Pinsk, the battle, apparently being one of the big guns. On the Franco-Belgian front the British have again made an- other forward thrust, slightly advancing their line east.of Wyts. chaete, in the Belgian district, where General Plumer blew the Ger- mans out of an extended salient east of the Messines ridge last month. With the French forces there have been only artillery fight. inf.); and trench raiding. • THE NEW RUSS DRIVE. ' he Russian front west. Petrograd Cable.—Violent fighting has began on tBoy EmpER0R of Pinsk. The city- of Pinsk is in flames, according to an announcement to -day by the semi-official. news 'agency. The Russian artillery, the announce- ment saye, is levelling 0,11 ObStaeleS. The Russians have captured the for- tified forest ot Slanlca, with all the Restored Chinese Empire enemy's aganized positions, and also Hill 388. They have penetrated the Had But Brief Life. village of Godov. • . The opening of the battle of Pinsk marks the second effort of the Rus - Mans after the long period of quiet which followed the revolution. The point selected for this attack is about 375 miles north of the sector in East Galicia along 'Which the Russians Made their first onslaught, resulting he the capture or about 18,000 men. in ten) days. Pinsk is at the middle of the Russo-Galieian battle line. There has been no heavy fighting in this region since the conclusion of tile great Austro -German drive which be- gan in the spring oE 1915. During the summer the Russians were driven out O f. western Galicia, Poland and most of the Baltic provinces, Pinsk was captured by the Germans, on Sept. 15, at the high tide of the Austro -German invasion, Subsequently the Russians held up the Germans on the Riga front, and since that time the heave, est actions have been fought on the northern end of the line or in Galicia. Pinsk had a population of about e0,000 before the war. it lies within the great marsh and swamp region of White Russia, about on a line east of Warsaw. HAS ABDICATED 13RITISH THRUST IN BELGIUM. London Cable.—The British made an attaek Iaet night in Belgium east of Wytehaete, The War Office an naunces that the British line was advanced slightly. The announcement followet "East of Wytchaete our line has again been slightly advanced. "The enemy.attempted to raid onr trenchee in the vicinity of Acheville, but was repe:Ged. eleewhere there were no evente of special importance." IIHE FRENCH FRONT. Paris Special Cable.—Heavy ai^til- lery fighting occurred laet night near Royerere and Pantheon, on the Aisne front, and in the region south of Mor- onvilliere, in the Champagne, necord- Mg to to -day' offitial announcement. The annoancernent follow: "There was pronounced activity of the artillery en the front between Le. Royere and Pantheon. and In the Champagne, in the region . eolith of Moronvilliere. A. surprise attatk by the Germane near Maseiges was re- pulsed. Elsewhere the night was calm, "I3etween ;Tulle 21 and 30 nineteee enemy airplanee and one captive bals loon were brought down by our avi- atom In addition to these, fourteen German ,machines, eeriottsly damaged, fell in the German lines. Our airmen aloe bernbarded effeetively in the game period the railway stations at Reehicourt and Avricourt, and enemy astonishments in the region of Bente, In the Suippes valley. Last night en. env av1atoes threw down eeverai bombs ilflar Eperaay. and in the teglon eouth or Nancy." 4 • is CLOSING DOWN ON HUN SPIES New York (able-Ordera have been received here from Waahington for he imm,ediate -arrest of all Clete 'man agente, financial and otherwise, 'suspected of ttetivities ,against this .ountry's interests, it was made known teeday by the Federal authoritlea. A number of allett enemies are ender •surveillanee here, it Was learned, as fare several Austre-ITungaglans who tare known to have been in the 'akin- ety of 'water fronts; recently. -ease eee---- • "Voting Man, do you favor profess- sional freedom Of epeech?" "Sure, let '0111 guy tenet they think without. thinking what they say,"----Catiforitla NUM, Monarchical Leader is Hem- med In. 'London, July S. — Iteuter's Pekin correepondent reports that the palace there 'wee bombarded by an aeroplane yesterday.' A Reuter despatch from Pekin also announces that Hanel). Tung, the young Emperor, has abdicated. The Forbidden ^City virtually is hembeed in on all sides and the Pe- kin-Kalgan railway, Chang Heunn only imam of escape northward, is in the hands of the re.publicans, who are holding •Nankow Pass. • The engagement at Lang Fang laet week, Reuter's correspondent at Pe- kin says, was not severe. and General Chang tileun'e forces retreated to Fengtai, several nines south of Pekin, on the Tien-Tein railway, without Waring much resistance. Deser- tionare Gaid to have depleted the army of General Chang Gann, and the republicans pressed after it rapid- ly, capturing the principal roads and railways entering the city from the southeast, southwest and north. The foreign diplomatic representa- thee in Pekin, amerding to a des- patch to the Exchange Telegraph Company , were expected to mediate between the opposing forces at the request of the Imperialists. About 250 American, Japanese and French colonial troops from Annam reached Peking Saturday to aid in the protection of the foreign resi- dents, They were delayed somewhat at Lang Fang, • but met with no 01/ - Donlon in their progreee to the city. Oman ' Tung, the eon of Prince Chun, for the emend tune, has abdi- eated the throne of China. He flint became giuperor December 2, 1908, under the regency of his father. On December 6, 1911, Prince Chun abdi- cated as regent and the youthful Em- peror abdicated the throne February 12, 1912, ead the Chinese republic was astabillened. Prom ehen until last ilunday, when he was restored to the throne by Gen. Chang Heun, mili- tary governor of Anhwei Province, he had. virtually been a. prieoner of Prese dent Yuan, ,Chi-Kal and Li Yuan Hung, Iesuan Tung was horn in 1904. He firet bore the title of Prince P.u.i and took the name of Hellen Tung when he was firet enthroned as Emperor in 1908. DUTCH POTATOES FOR DUTCHMEN Amsterdam Cable. ---The •Germaes Whose recent menaces tie Holland 1 have more than one directed atten- tion to ,are attempting to exploit the Amsterdam disturbances against the Entente. While the Duteb, who ate Inch enormous importance to potatoes, bad none, bitge consignments were be- ing sent to Germany by permiseion at the Duteh Government. As Z0011 tis somebody was killed Mitch potatoes for Dutchmen were forthcoming in abundance and the rioting ceased. That in a nutshell explains the trou- bles, but the German and pro -German Detelt papereenee -endeavoring to Del- eon Duteh opinion against England, alleging her to have been the ause of the riots. The Itheinische Westfae- Melte effusively assures Holland that she had better be on guard, and can count on Genriany'a sympathies paid eomplete protection in the rear. • • In Making eake, all dry ingretliente should be fated before they are nieftie tired. Danish Papers Protest .Against Course of U. S. Share Belgium's Pate, or Starve With Huns, Copenhagen Cable, --The Elkstra- bladet and the Government organ, Po - Mikan, comenting on the Proposals to limit the supplies to Scandinavia and Holland, complain that the Entente Powers, with America at the head, Jack appreciation. of the diffieult post - ion of small neutrals, and say propos- ed measures of the great powers fighting In the name of liberty, jus- tice and eivilizatain are calculated to crush these small states, whose sole desire is to maintain true neutrality toward both camps. Judging from 'these newspaper re, ports, the situation is regarded as des- perate. Neutrality, which tines and again has been recognized by previous: belligerents, no longer suffices, and with the entry of •the 'United States into the war, hostilities, the Politiken says, operated against the unfortunate small states, The paper gays Ameri- ca seems to lack the most elementary appreciation of Denmark's it says that articles from influ- ential American papers indicated the United States intends to force Den- mark either to join. Germany or starve, or join the entente and share the fate of Belgium. The American policy:, from the out- break of the war until the breach with Germany was never neutral, the paper continues, but English, and now has become American, that is to say, still more ruthless toward neutrals than was the English. All that Nor- way, Sweden, Denmark and Holland demand is the permission to remani neutral and avoid starvation. Even this modest desire seems in danger of becoming illusory. 4 6 • SHOCKING USAGE Given Canadians hi "Black Hole of Germany." London Cable Says—Private Frank Cecil enacdonaici, of Montreal, wno escaped from Germany, gives a gra- phic picture ot Inc experiences working in the August Victoria mines, where, he says, one Canadian private Flanigan, erase killed. Tne minee are known to the ^prisonerse els the "Black - hole of Germany." "The barracks where the men sleep," says Macdon- ald, "le dirty and overcrowded. Eight hundred are in a sleeping room thirty yards by eix. When the Bret pris- onere reached there they refeeed to work. Knowing it was contrary to the usage of war, they were compelled to stand in the open air in bitter weath- er, clad only in their shirt and pants. Many fainted from the cold and ex• baustion. One man I met at Muenster, who had been forc'eci to 'carry bombs and ammunition behind the front Ger- man line. was covered with scare and bruiees from libelee inflicted by Ger- man 'soldiers-, The new parcel system is waking well." Macdonald tried tour time previously to escape. On one oecasicn, after a five days' tramp in a storm in which be lost himself. he found. himeeif back in Germany. On another occasion when 'captured he had to stand at attention in the snow and alms had seven ,clays in a dark cell. Once when working a blg steam .engine, Maecionald did 270 worth of damage with the hammer. He was put on trial and diemiesed for want of eve deuce. He and his chum in man of time euceesefelly escaped. They lived eight days on potatoes planted for Geed, AN UPHEAVAL IN REICHSTAG Signs Point to Move for Sweeping Reforms. Various Factions Unite Against Reactionaries. Berlin, July Se—Unless ali present indications fait., in' the course of the aext few days, the German Empire is on the eve of a. momentous If not his- • torical Parliamentary upheaval. De- velopments under the gilded dome of the Reichstag building in the last 48 hours point squarely to a significant realignment of various factions in favor of sWeeping electoral and Par- liamentary reforms, in spite of the present stubborn resistance of the re- ttetional Old Guard. ' Although the sessions of the main committee and the legislative com- mittee had been ot an exeentive na- ture, the press comments In this morning's papers permits the infer- enee that the dismission or subjects of Governmental pOlicy frequently retch- ed the boiling ;mint. 'pat they have bean of gravely signifieant import is indicated (nearly by the sudden (feels - ion to postpone the Saturday plenary session whieh was to have marked the opening of the general debate end the expected speech of Chaneellor von Bethmann-Hollvveg. The absence of the Chancellor front the seseions of the main and tonstitutional cornmit- tees in the last few days has caused general comment In Parliamentary cirelea as exceptional itt view of the conwidential character of the dime - stone. Vonday will mark the inauguration Of vital promises to be one of the most memorable parliamentary ties - stone lit the history of the Empire. Tile Chancellor wee, preeent yester- day when, the commitees convened at 9 o'elock. All the neichstag fae- tionit renteined in session in dirulaat groups until lete Friday night to decide what IMO or action eltould be taken. The Zeitung am Mittag saye that a deputation of tix rnembere front the Soeial-Demoeratic party in the itelelt- stag called on von Bethinann-Holl- welt late Priday for the purpose of bnpressing the gravity of the situa- tion on him. The delegates insisted that the Chancellor make an un- equivocal declaration Owe the Gov, Moment was prepared at any time to enter into peace negotiations on the basis of the status quo. Tim tie- Putation also demanded, immediate introduction of parliamentary and electoral reform, urging the .eppoint- ment or leading Reichstag deputies to secretarial and ministerial Posts. Representatives of the Progreseive. People's party and the National Liberals, also were in conference with the Chancellor. 4.4 ITALIAN' FRONT, Austrian Raiders Were Badly Repulsed. none, July 8,—Sunday's War Office re- port said: "In the Upper Val Tellina on Saturday night the enemy attempted to eapturo one of our advanced posts. He was driv- en off by artillery fire end a prompt counter-attacic; on the remainder of the front the artillery was more active, es- pecially in the Vodice, where the enemy suddenly concentrated his fire, to which We replied vigorously and effectivelY." Saturday's report said: "Reconnoitring parties Attempted to reach our lines in the Pasubio area, on the slopes of Plecolo-Lagasmoi and In the Vocillrfolmino district. On the Carso our reommaissance patrols were able to carry out, their work effectively in spite of the enemy artillery and patrols. Our artillery dispersed enemy columns march- ing toward Monte Seluccio and traffic In the Oalmaera valley; shelled workers and troops in the upper valleys of the Fella and Seeba.ch; silenced a violent enemy bombardment concentrated on the Vodice positions and kept under the enemy lines east of Pinto and west of Selo. "In Albania last night enemy aero- planes, which attempted to raid on A.vionit, were repulsed by our antl-alr. craft guns and had to leave without do- ing damage." 12 CANADIANS ROUT 50 HUNS (By Stewart Lyon, Canadian Press Correspondent With the Canad- ian Forces.) Canadian Headquarters in France, July 8, —While chief activity during the past few days in this region of the western front has been carried ott by the artillery and aviators, the 'Canad- ian infantry have not been idle. The strip ot "No Man's Land" on the southern part of their ling continues to be lessened by 'Canadian enterprise. This is being done by sending out pa- trols to' establish outposts, toward which "saps" are then run out from our front-line trench. These outposts are afterwards connected with one an- other and thus become a new ad- vanced trench. In one of these outpost affairs last night 12 Canadians tackled a party of at least fifty of the enemy, and, after a skirmish, remained in possession of the disputed ground, with a prisoner of the Guards' Grenadier to their credit. The nse of gas shells on both sides Is steadily increasing, The Germans threw a lot of this kind of 'shells into Lievin Sunday morning, In retalia- tion our gunners put over even more than were dropped into our territory by the Germans. • • CHANG HSUN TO STAND AT PEKING Imperialist Leader to Make Fight There. Republicans Are Steadily - Gaining Strength. • Peking, -Tull 9.—General Chang elsun, head of the Imperialist forces, is provisioning the forbidden city, and strengthening its defences. This Judi - Oates that in the event his troops are defeated at Peng Tai, near Peking, the last stand will be made there. The thirteenth division, aecompanied by aTti.111,ery, is leaving Peking for Peng Ia HSUN LOST AT LANG FANG. Tien 'rein, July 8.—After a short engagement with the Republican forces at Lang Fang to -day, Imperial troops aer reported to have retreated toward Peking. The casualties in the fighting at Lang Fang are said to have been slight, and the extent of the Republiean advance is not known. ' Latest reparts from Peking, from which it is most difficult to obtain re- liable news, are to the effect that all is quiet lie the capital, but that a feeling of aprehensiOn prevails. Aceording to reports received by Chinese here, Liang Tun Yen, lelinieter • of Foreign Affairs in the new Ireper- • Jai Cabinet, and other imperialists, have sent a. telegram ta Hsu Sliih Chang, confessing that the coup to replace the Emperor on the throne was a ptre.emature, and asking Hsu to mja Than Chi Kai, leader of the Reines- * 4 • Ilan forces, now occupies the vice -re- gal yanten here, EMPRESS. . SEEKING PEACE London tale.—Accordingi to the Daily Express, a personal friend of the Empreas Zito, of Austria, has Inform- ed eartain members of the House of Commons that The Empress Is exert. ing herself strottely in the inteetale of peace. She Is credited with ewe floient Influence ever. Emperor Choke 'to Indtme him to try to withdraw front • the Austro-Hungarian alliance with •Germany, a* soon at Austrla-Hungery is enabled to take such aotior• e I,---- , ---.4 of, • Rethi—es this ear well equipped? Greene—Oh, yes, (lot everything on It?" 01, no! The moitgage le on the lionee."—eronkers Statesman. SHOT DOWN TEN FOE PLANES AFTER THE RAID ON LONDON Three Sunk in North Sea by R. N. A. S. Planes—Seven by Dunkirh Fliers. Demand For Reprisals Grows --Raid Victims, 37 Killed, 141 Injured. Loudon, July $. )3ritisli airmen brought dawn ten German aeroplanes 4ollowing a raid on London Saturday, as a result of which 37 were killed and 141 injured. One enemy machine downed by the Royal Flying Corps fell into the sea off the mouth of the Thames, three were brought down by pursuing machines from England. British airmen at Dunkirk watching for the returning raiders missed them owing to the fact that they returned over Dutch territory, but the Britieb drove down seven Other German me - chines, several of them in flames. , An Admiralty announeement reads "The enemy raiding squadron thee bombarded London to -day was thasee by Royal Naval Air Service inanities from this country and engaged torty miles out at sea off the east coast. Two enemy machines were observed to crash into the sea and the third enemy machine was seen to fall in flames off the month ot the Scieeldt, All our machines returned safely," - WORK OF DUNKIRK AVIATORS. The text of the announcement re- garding the 'achievement of the Dun- kirk aviators reads: "The vice -admiral at Dover has re- ports from Dunkirk that information was received that enemy aircraitwere attacking England. Five flightswere sent up to intercept them as they re-. • turned. The raiding enemy airereft, were not seen, but three enemy planes were encountered and destroy- ed and one enemy aeroplane driven down into tb.e sea. etiother -engine aeroplane was driven down. "The machines returned to replen- ish their petrol and left again 'imme- diately. Itt the course of this patrol one enemy aeroplane was brought down in flames, and another forced to land on the beach, damaged, neat 05- tend, their operations none of the raiding enemy aeroplanes was en- countered, and it is thought highly probable they returned near the Scheldt and over Dutch territory." THE LONDON CASUALTY LIST. Lord French reports that the, total casualties in Saturday's German air raid reported by the police up to the Present are: Killed—Metropolitan area, men, 27; women, 4; children, 3; total, 34; isle of Thanet, men, 1; women, 2; total, a; total killed, 37. Injured—inetropolitan area, men, 74; women, 27; children, 36; total, 189; Isle of Thema women, 1; chil- dren, 1; total, 2; total injured, 141. THE BERLIN VERSION. The German report says: "On the morning of July 7 one of our aviation squadrons attacked Lon- don. Al 11 o'clock in the morning bombs were dropped freely on docks, harbor works and warehouses in the Thames. Fires a.nd explosions were observes'. One British aeroplane was shot down over London. Our aero- planes all returned except one, whion was compelled to make a descent to the sea and could net be saved by our naval forces. "In aerial encounters at the front and by anti-aircraft fire, the enemy yesterday lost nine aeroplanes." DETAILS OF RAID. London, July 9. --The second de- scent upon London by a squadron of aeroplanes was made Saturday morn- ing between nine and ten o'clock, when the business section of the me- tropolis was most crowded. Although the German contingent was larger, more daring, mpre deliberate in its movements and descended much lower than on June 13, the number of killed and wounded was roughly, one-third the previous casualty list, The destruction of property may have been greater, but that is impossible toTehsetlinfautge bt of the Germane over London latsted twenty minutes. Brit ish airmen engaged' the enemy for several minutes aver the cease- and anti-aircraft gtins were firing briskly, dotting the sky with eheapnel puffs. but without success so far as -con cerned the destruction of any of the twenty or more matinee which eon- stituted the invading tome. The Admiralty was able to report tast night, however, that naval airmen. who followed them to sea, brought down three machines. • A British British squadron sent up from Ban - kirk to intercept the returning raiders eld not encoenter them because they had taken a more northerly route, but tile British airmen met and de- stroyed seven other German machines. HAZE FAVORS RAIDERS. The morning was one of haze, weather most favorable tor crossing che Channel at a height without being observed. On their previous trip, made in similar weather, the Germans kept high up in the mists, but yes- terday, when they neared their °Wee- tiveS, most of them cleSeended. Tbeir formation was like a flock of wild geese as they approached, and neither the 13ritish pasners nor the guns were able to scatter them until they spread out before letting loose the bombs, 'Hundreds of thousands of pentane on roofs, from windows and gathered in the streets heard the nolee of bat- tle. At first there were a. few minutes When the anteaircraft guns were anything sharply, and the machine glint; Were ,rattling aloft. Then Mum three or four Minutes, when the iteaVY eXpIosion of bombs. and the shattering of gleme Wag the dominnni sound; Dien a few Iniltlitea when the Artillery fire receded IMO the distahee, The Germans steered a COtirSe acroes London from northwest to southeast. • They dropped the lag OE their supply of boinbs on a section of worknienni dwellings and erossed the Thames. Seine obsereers say thiet giant aeroplane pilOted the squadron and that the bomb carriers were in the centre. flanked by Scouts for fight ing off the British Witten, TARE AM,A.ZING CHANCES. The low altitude end (flow pave at whieh the Germano troeeed London and the dare devil way they (tinned over their obieetivee hite eitueed great surpriee, When fret Oen they were eteering it steady couree for the northwest. evidently in the act of Taking a long sweeping curve, which would illtitnately bring their heads lit the direetion or home. They com- pleted the manoeuvre over the 'Minn% and as the British machines came into the picture the raidere quickened their pace, A fierce running fight emitted be- tween a etrong force of Britieli ma- chines and the raiders toward the mouth of the river. The nutchines flew fairly low, and the rattle of ma- chine guns wee dietinctly audible thieeoanviiltyli.e gronncl. None of the Ger- mane bad been brought clown when the combatants disappeared from view, but the Britielt equadron con- tinued the punnet and engaged them To -day's attack was Vainly direct, ed against the civilian population and bueinese and financial buildings, There is no question that the Ger mane knew where they were and it W ws not a matter of scattering ex- pleelvee ,blindly from a greet height. How It liappened that more persons were not killed le hard to explain. Thonsancle were in the atreets in the area ^bombed, but probably a much larger proportion took ehelter in the soorlillui'lbeni113dinge, taught by the lesson 'rhe veer storey of one building where several hundrecl men and gin; were employed was partly wrecked. First reports were to the effect that great lo ss3 of life had occurred in this building, but it later developed that e was even injured, as all the workers had been quickly marshalled into the ba.sement when the gun fire no "gan. The upper part of a solid office building was auelled. Large con- csrtiente,biLeir no egethrown about the et building euf- fered any injury, as refuge was early sought in the basement. HOSPITAL TS ATTACKED. Among the placee attacked wae one of the moet extensive metropole tan hcepitale on which the Red Cross flag was flying conepictiously and the location of which meet have been known. Early rumors were abroad that the ithepital had been badly damaged, bub investigation showed that it had estaped entirely, although several bombs fell close to it. In one bullcling several prominent bueinees men had gathered fora con- ference. Above their heads was only plate glass. A. boneb exploded in the building, but did not even break the glass. Not one of the men was hurt. The day's experience showed that persons in solidly constructed build- ings are comparatively safe, but the window sof these buildinge today were crowded -with young clerks de• termined not to milesthe spectacle at whatever cost, A bomb fell in the centre ot etie well-known street and the explosion shattered the windows for a cljetance of several hundred feet on both sidee. Sky gazers in that section were eut badly by flying glass. The fate of the humble ;clwellers In workmen's houses was different. They had no chance for their lives. The sight now familiar to London, of distracted,• sobbing mothers, dashing about the ruins of tenement houses, fearing to find. and sometimes find- ing, the mangled bodies of their chil- dren, was the most moving incident of the German "victory." A thor- ough investigation of the results of the battle by staff correspondents of the Associated Press showed that no military or munitions or supply estab- lishment was touched. Apparently none was sought, since the Germans undoubtedly well knew their loca- tions. STREETS ARE JAMMED. Five minutes after the explosions ceased the streets of the district at- tacked were jammed with masses af humanity. Fire enginea, ambulances, Patrol wagons, mutors with nurses and phy•sicians seemed to spring from the earth.. The police were every- where. Hundreds of special civilian constables were running to their sta- tions, tying on their armbands as they ran. Almost imemdiately waves a sight- seers from the west end swept down and seemed to come in droves throughout the clay. That section of the temn which is even more deserted than lower Broadway or Wall street on a Saturday night was crowded with tens 'of thousands of curious London residents for hours. Anger and determination seamed ,to be the dominating sentiments of the populace. • One certain reeint of the raid will be an increased deneand for reprisals upon Gernian cities. Sev- eral members. of Parliament already have announced their Purpose to raise the question as scion as the House of CoMmons meets. The sentiment reeently voiced nsost strongly by the Arelthishop of Canter- bury and seconded by perhaps the majority of substantial leaders of public opinion, that the British ehould not descend to the level of tete Ger- mans, is not popular with the nacteses and the suggestion that the slaughter Of nitgliSh civilians 'should Mese if each Visitation was quickie followed by a similar stroke against some Ger. Man city commands strong support among these who have looked upon the • bodies of their slain alul mangled countrymen, REPRISALS DEMANDED, London, July 8.—An intensified de - Mend for reprisals has followed the air raids of yesterday. All the Sunday newspapers delete the people • of London are furious at the inadeeptacy or the city's defences as it was reveal. ed yesterday. The Sunday Timea.says the crying need of 1917 is for aeroplattes as it Was for shells in 1915, and declares the Government must be eompelled to realize that the aeroplane will be the ultimate and deekling factor of the weir. It inSiStg that thousands met be built with the help of America to carry the war Into enemy teritory. tArtn tinivelftTtrnineelxvort seys In an erticie "There is it huge output to be bad from America if our ally will agree to accept ready-made designs front Europe and not bullet upon Wnlailltt to do her own experimenting." Lloyd's Nown, aleo demanding greater aeroplane production. sari: "The raiders yesterday mune at their 'Menne and bombed at their leisure. The f111;ht over London Wits SO slow that it looked like it parade They seemed to despiae the import- ance or our defences." The observer assertthat most of tile .eneelY machines were cempara- tively slow biplanes and that the fast British machines made rings aronnd them. It Is 'held that the tow altituee, maintained by the Ger mane showed their contempt for the city's defences. The Weekly Despatch contends that the people are in the ugliest temper and no longer in it =ea to (=lure official obstiztancy. Reynoldes newspaper suggests it would have been well if members 01 the War Cabinet and the Government had gone among the people and he -so then' comments on the city's defences. "TIN man wit° would attempt to justify yesterday's defensive opera- tions by the requirements of the army in France could rejoice if the crowds left him unflayed," the newspaper de- clares. "Among streets crowds, as well as in the clubs, the feeling is one of un- animous bitterness. 11 there was military damage it Was but a modi- cum. The man in tho streets wants a policy of reprisals, on Rhenish towns put into effect. iinmediately," Kennedy ,Tones, Director of Food Economy, speaking- at Muswell Hill. suburb of London, said there must be no more shilly-shallying with the question of reprisals and disquieting reports that Lord French is hamper- ed in the discharge of his duties by other aepartments must be disposed once and for all. • 4" • OUR LOSS LIGHT PAST FORTNIGHT Avion Pithead, Before Can- adians, is Blown Up., Evidence of Weakened Foe Morale Grows. (By Stewart Lyon, Canadian Prees 'Clorrespondent with the Cana- dian Forces.) 'Canadian Headquarters sin France Cable.—Fosse '5, the pithead wbich overlooked our outposts in Avion, dis- appeared yesteeday in a cloud of dus, and fire. It had been for some time a mark for our heavy artillery, but whether the destruction was caused bs our shells or by the Germans them- selves is not known. 11 they antice pated a further immediate advance o our men they may have blown up tin 'mining works themselves, for it it their policy to leave behind them noth- ing that would aid in speedy resew tion of milling operations in this im portant coal area. I understand that our casualties nave been very light during the past two weeks, and exceptionally so le the killed and missing classes. ,Much evidence ot the lowering oi German morale continues to be dis covered in captured trenches and raid ed houses. A. remarkable letter Wak found recently which had been written to a Bavarian at the front three week: ago. The letter said In part: • "One can well understand that yet: are eick of this horrible business. I believe that the climax has been reach- ed, for now one hears nothing but complaints. The German Social - Democrats have announced that if c single snot is fired in August revolu- tion wil lfollow. The situation is nc longer- weed. They are on the trach of the German.Kaiser, too, and if 11 lasts much longer it will be thc end of Prussia, for the Prussians ane the •English are the masters. These two alone are carrying on the war. The .others are, merely in their hands.' If much of that sort of stuff is reaching Prince Repprecht's men, the decline in fighting spirit of the Ba- varians is removed from the realm of a matter for wonder. • IL S. PAS POWER TO SQUEEZE HUNS Big Opportunuity to Tight en Blockade, Says Cecil. Neutrals Sell Own Products • to. Teutons. London Cable.—"The United States has an enormous power in its hands to -day in its control of exports to European neutrals," said Lord Robert Cecil, the Minister of Blockade, In a talk on this subjeet this afternoon. "I do not like to express any opin- ion as to the policy which Would guide it in the exercise of this power," eon - tinned Lord Robert. "That is the United States' business, not ours. However, we have had three years of intensive experience in blockade, and everything we have learned during that time is at the disposal of the United States. "The United States has the power of making any bargain, guy stipule-, tion it thinks proper with these neu- trals, and this is a very. Important weapon against Germany. The food- stuffs uthich Germany obtains from Holland and -Denmark atone must be meantired in hundreds of thousand.% of tons, while the mineral arta fish exports of the Senealittavian na.tione tthw of vital importance to Germany." Ttt reply to a question as to whether the neighboring neuttatla *were 8Li11 shippittg any musiderable quantity of Imported goods int° Germany, Lord Robert said: "%malting generally, and aside front the petty smuggling whieh will always exist, the neutrals have not told any appreciable quantity of imported goods in Germany. Their trade eon- siste almost entirely of their own products. Moreover, they have not even repitteed Mich exports with Im- ported goods, extent indirectly. Cer- tainly, they have imported fodder end sold pigs, but it is aiffieult to streteh the doctrine of any destination to eov- er this point," RIT ISH OPEN A NEW DRIVE AGAINST HUNS Air Battle Opens the Strug- gle On the Lens -to. Ypres Front. HUN FLIERS LOST Halg's Men, Tald.ng Heavy Toll of Victims, Got Photographs. London, ;July 8.—Tlee new offensive looked for on the British front may be said to have begun with an engagement of Saturday and to -day,, Before opening with his guns Field Marshal Haig followed his usual course Of photographing alpheixnagettlhyw o ell:Taint wasy'Slg1 Meiotinl to On in the German rear. To do this it was necessary to send a fleet of aero- planes, for all the German air ma- chines would be sure to attack, and nothing less than superior forces could repel them. So the photograph- Inugg aetoiiaaeroplanes)neo. were protected by fignt- '1 he object ot this battle was, on the eritIsh side, to photoaraph the en- emy's position, on the •German side to prevent it; therefore, no matter which side had the greater minmer of casealties, victory was wIlltehtrhy13v e ,a rlts-t ish if they succeeded in doing what they were sent to do. with the Ger- mans if they were not permitted, The tirinsts .came back to their lines with the photographs, and to theirs. They lost 13 macbines, but the Ger, mane lost nearly three times that number. The official report from British Headquarters in. France Saturday piglet read. "There was much aerial fighting yesterday, chiefly un the trout be- tween Lens and Ypres. In this area enemy machines were encountered in large numbers; tine formation was composed of ad many as 30, Despite tbis and the pronounced activity on the enemy's part: we bombed his aerodromes during the day, causing damage, and carried but successful ar- tillery work and photography. "rhe activity was continued by bombing during ethe night, in which the enemy showed more enterprise than ht had hitherto done. He drOP- *steiedde.144 bombs on our side of the line, our bombing machines dropping nearly three times that number on his "In this fighting during the day and night eight hostile machines were bronght down; six others were driven down out of control, Flee of our ma- chines are missing." Friday night's report read: "Yesterday the enemy again 'dis- played the greatest activity in , air fighting, which continued througbout the day. Hostile aircraft 'worked in large formations, which were fro- ' intently broken up by our pilots. "Our airmen carried out a number or successful raids, In'the course (it which the enemy's aerodromes, de- pots and troops were attacked with_ bombs and' inachoine-gun fire, ma considerable damage caused. Six en- emy machines were brought down in ' combats and ten more were driven down out • of control. Eight of 'mit machines are missing."' Sunday's War Office report read: , "After a heavy bombardment the enemy attempted to raid our trenches east of Loos, but was driven off with los • "Except for 'artillery aetivity on both sideat several points along the front. there is nothing 'furthertp re- port." SEIZE GERMANS AS A REPRISAL Waehington, July 8. —It was inti- mated yesterday that the United Statce Government and the Entente alike might find it necessary to adopt retaliatory eneaeures againet Germany if that Government did not return to Belgium about twenty proinchent eubjecte of that country recently seiz- ed in reprisal for what Germany al - lute wee inhuman treatment of Ger- man 'civilian prieoners taken ,by Bel- gium Ili German Beet Africa. That such reprisals may be found necessary was hinted strongly yesterday after - mica after the State Department had announced that the Belgian Minister had called the attention of tide Gov - eminent to the deportation of them Belgians It was aid at the State Department yesterday that it might become neees- eery for the IfInte.nte alike and the United States .to adopt retaliatory meaeuree unless Germany releated the prieoners. There are Many promi- nent Germans in thio country and in entente touhtries, and It Would be an may matter to adopt retallatOry mea- ccures by which an equal number at there Germane could be interned. • SPANISH CRISIS. Cabinet Refuses to Summon Parliament. Madrid, Stay 9„—The Government reeterday deeided that the preeent time Wad inopportune to tiummon Par- liament. The (lunation was concidered at a Cableet meeting, after a request had been received from a number of Catalonian Senatore and Derma% asking that the Legielative Aeserobly beconvoked. They declared that if the Government did not immediately ante - mon Parliament they would ettll upon the members thereof to meet in Bar- celona, July 19. The Goverrnatent de- cided yesterday that if the Deputiee and Senators held the proposd extra- ordinary meeting at Barcelona. it Would be eonsidered a eeditione net, liable to puniehineet nutter the Spare. Ish penal eotle. " . . It's all right to make ltay whibe the suit llines, but bave you totieed the Weather Bureatt's report of deticieney Of eimshine? '