Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 7, 1916, Winnipeg, Manitoba Only morning newspaper in Manitoba weather forecast Bat Mot Tuy my tartan 7 Munh Milan Bun t Moon july 1916 fourteen commander chief asserts glorious British Victory places foe losses at eighteen Many of them most important units of German fighting machine is minimum and other weather conditions militated against More Dej Cirive defeat of the Cruiser Fleet bore to Vic Admiral map illustrating naval Battle july be pleased to inform the lords Tommis ii hip admiralty that the German High seas Fleet was to att Iii on the 31st of to the Westward of Jutland off the coast of in Iti so words Vic Admiral sir John comr Nander in Hiff of the opens his report to the admiralty on Battle Over which there has been so much Hanic Cruiser gallantly led by Vic Admiral a Patty Ami Hylra Rahly supported by the ships of the fifth Battle under Rea Admiral fought the action a especially in regard the in a manner that was in keeping with the Best traditions of Impf Admiral Jellicoe maps and charts Many of the of the report lit made it states that the list of ships and com manding officers which took part in the action has been withheld publication for the in accordance with the usual Vinira jul Looe estimates the German losses at 1wo Battle dreadnought Type one of the deutschland which was link the Battle Cruiser admitted by the Ger mans one Battle Cruiser of the dreadnought Type one Battle to be so severely damaged that its return was doubtful Tive Light cruisers seen to one of them Luis silly a Init Reship Sis destroyers seen to sink three destroyers Iliani acid that it was doubtful if would be Able to reach and a submarine germans minimum commenting on Admiral says the conditions of under which i the Day action took place and the approach of enhanced the difficulty of giving an accurate report of the damage inflicted or the names of the ships sunk by Nur after a most careful examination of the Vii puce of All the who testified to seeing enemy vessels in rally and personal interviews with a Large number of is 1 am of the opinion that the list shown in the enclosure gives the minimum though it is possible it is not accurate As regards the particular class of especially those which sunk the night in addition to the vessels it is unquestionable that Many other ships were very seriously Rorn Narred by gunfire and torpedo 2reatest sea ficht the has Ever seen took place about 50 Miles West of the Denmark the Isle of a base and the naval bases at and Manitoba swept by torrential rain Forsht with the ral Hirv hat a Ope cd of be admired the conduct of on Hoard a disabled German i we Vijh passel Down the Brit Illino shortly after j a Cirr Havy which was return cd by Thornly left in the j lop Fin of the of nits and men beyond Battle cruisers bore j lighting fell to the i Bankit Isim says Admiral Jel the units of which were less heavily armoured thin their and he expresses appreciation of the handling of All few Winni Eggers or Shorter lists two local and one Western Man Are reported killed intense heat wave broken yesterday by severe electrical storm july were 179 the names on the three official casualty and commends admirals a sued comprised of an afternoon list of 33 9 one of 34 and a big Midnight list containing 112 Luli and Ami continues Admiral sir David Beatty unit a Coin showed his Tine qualities Al Gallant Nam determination ii jul Burreci i us situation at once in it the enemy Light then ins Battle tin Ulaj Praise for Engadine Ijar Attef report to two Winni Eggers were killed in one dead men tie Ului Admiral jul Liucc Lions in work which towed a Warrior to nulls during the night of he Speaks glowingly of control and Uriel which inv Vailini ii Ord the British our superiority Over the enemy i in this respect was very their becoming rapidly reduced under while outs was maintained Tho fortitude of the wounded was a boy of the first John travers of the Ches was mortally wounded Early in Tho he nevertheless remained listed from one dangerously ill and two while one Man from the Manitoba and Eastern Saskatchewan District was one dead from one who was previously reported now unofficially prisoner of War and six slight traces of Hail practically no damage to crops Farmer killed by lightning sweeping Down from Eastern Saskatchewan where it had raged the previous evening a terrific electric a storm hit which had been sweltering in intense heat for almost a yesterday doing practically Al Manitoba report a head storm of variable violence while Hai fell at several the Genera damage to Wasno the main havoc being wrought in the towns where roofs and wires were blown Farmer was killed at near Portage la Prairie ten soldiers were More or less seriously injured a Camp Hughes and several people received minor the meteorological Bureau at Johns College reported fall of inches of rain in Winnipeg during the two hours in which the storm held electric bolts struck three places in the but apart from breaking Down wires did no serious damage for the several Small fires which were started were soon put after 3 Oclock the sky Pul we standing alone at most until quietly awaiting orders the end of the action with the gun Crew dead or wounded All around his age was under 16 and a Hall i regret that he has since 1 recommend his Case for Spe Cial in Justice to his memory and As an acknowledgement of the Lush example set by Light cruisers engage extracts from vice Admiral beat Tab report give the course of events before the Battle Fleet came on the scene of the at o clock in the afternoon the Galatia reported the presence of enemy Ai Oclock considerable smoke was to the this made it Clear that the enemy was to the northward and and that 11 would impossible for him to round reef without being brought to the course of the British ships was altered to Ine and subsequently North at killed in John Kin at 135 Machray Churchill Kin at 391 Stradbroke died of Kin at 215 Gor Don issues eagerly awaited report vice Admiral sir John ter1ic allies preparing for big assault British Advance at Threva and other Points new gains consolidated full reports wanted enemy recognizes seriousness o frenc1iv thrust but fails to Check it official statements russians Are cloudburst swept Over military Camp yesterday ten men staff officers lines suffered salvation army and tents july results of the staff conferences of the Alues in London in May and june Are becom ing More in the coordination of the Allied attacks on the teutonic forces and increasing evidence of tvs initiative passing from the Teutons to the allies at Al most All As French and British armies Are now engaged in reorganizing and preparing for the second phase of the Battle of the there is a comparative Lull on the Western further Progress july British official statement issued tonight Eaas a result of violent bomb we made further pro Ress at certain Points in the main Battle Low Clouds enter red with aeroplane but in the Baraume area one of our dropping to 300 successfully bombed a train from hich German reinforcements were in another a British heavy Battery secured direct ruts n a German Battery and a battalion in inflicting Many in other parts of our line the situation is later details of the raid made by the Royal Welsh Fusiliers How that three enemy mine shafts were and that sex luding 43 prisoners brought the enemy suffered about British Progress near London july thie Val on the Somme front we made a further slight Advance and captured a number of the War office announced South of la Bassee after of Gas and Moke we made some successful raids into the enemy s first line n one of these the Royal Welsh Fusiliers especially distinguished capturing forty a Trench mortar and a in another raid the Highland Light infantry successfully entered the enemy trenches West of a machine gun emplacement was Many germans were killed and some prisoners were there was no change of importance on the rest of our from French sources counterattacks Paris july counterattacks by the germans on the French lines on both Banks of the Somme were repulsed with heavy losses to the according to the official statement issued by the French War office the text of the state ment follows on both sides of the Somme the enemy endeavoured today to recapture the two ends of the line held by the North of the a series of German directed against our new lines North of the Village were successively shattered by our without the enemy being Able to obtain the least we took some South of the counterattacks launched from Santerre on our positions Between entrees and Belloy were stopped by our barrage and the enemy was unable to Debauch from his in this Region the germans suffered great losses two caught in a Trench Northwest of Berny by the in Flading fire of our were on the left Bank of the the activity of the artillery on both sides continues in the sector of on the Bank the River the enemy violently bombarded the i Wood and our emplacements at of a Salvo from our batteries exploded a German munitions a Toup of our aviators dropped a number of last night on the Railroad from Ham to fires broke out in the Railroad stations at Ham and the Railroad was damaged at several the belgian communication German artillery has shown Little activity on the front of the belgian army except in the Region of at this Point the continued Success of our destructive fire provoked an artillery which was terminated history in East make official admissions of serious be facts More prisoners Vienna says her forces were driven Back nearly five Miles West of Koi Omea the Teuton army under general Bothner has withdrawn in the Tarnopol sector cleared up again and the Sun was although the dangerously Alfred enlisted in on Kin in sapper Robert Kin at 1107 Burrows Edward Kin in killed Charless Marshall Tay Kin at died of Henry James k1n at Rev Boucly reported now unofficially prisoner of William Kin at atmosphere presaged further lightning at Brandon struck Ald Erman Bourkes House and wrecked the while the storm blew the Telephone poles Down for a mile and a half and caused havoc among the Shade no Hall was rented although crops were somewhat by ram and heavy to saris tvs mate Over an hour in which the storm raged after s Oclock the experimental farm re ported a rainfall of inches storm area storm the As far As Telephone queries could appears to have swept through the whole pro and raged with extraordinary and Western Camp july ceded by a blackening dust storm driven before a Gale a cloudburst struck Camp Hughes this blotting out the Camp in a vicious smother of wind and ten men were Worth of damage created and Over men battled their dissatisfaction is again being in our seventy six Cannon voiced the newspapers at the Inadequacy and vagueness of the British official the reticence or silence of sir Douglas Haigs communications Points is compared with the readiness with which the French and russian com Manders give details of the operations and with the greatly increased latitude permitted to special correspondents on the West front since the beginning of the that the British authorities fully realize that their hard task is far from ended is indicated by the Stoa which Are being taken by the minis try for the cessation of holidays for munition workers during the expenditure of munitions the 1 tin in my was sighted i Force consisted of Little vice Admiral beat Ami third Lif Fht Cruiser without waiting forming a screen in Imp Battle Cruiser squad in tin Light cruisers engaged the my the Cruiser Squadron i Iii up at High taking Sta of the Battle at vice Admiral Beatty in fas Frt the Speed to 25 and line of the second Iri Tiser Squadron forming or the first with two destroyer flotillas Admiral Beatty turned slightly now at a Range of the fifth was then in Linurd in talc bearing Cruiser North Charles Jackson at Newton Man Kin Henry Maurier Kin at Thomas Kin at Este gunner Andrew pm at sapper Robert Henry Kin at Reginald Drake pm at Box vice Force in no the Only two heavy which escaped y heavy rainfall Are those of Birtle and Here is a synopsis of the storm damage in the various districts Northern a heavy electrical storm which commenced at 8 and con unused until 10 did a considerable amount of damage in Dauphin and a horse being killed by the lightning and a roof blown off by the terrific Hail which fell killed a number of chickens but did not Genously dam the after 10 Oclock it a fears up but toward evening Rhouds to Hati was reported at 8 Oclock list Ottawa july the 6 Oclock list ton Fht there Are Nepor Tod now officially prisoner of 76072 Peter 76143 Frederick 76013 Samuel 7a038 Samuel 76015 Thomas 7621 lamp continued Fin Page close and Lor the rest of the very slight rainfall of cuned at Birtle about 7 Oclock in the there was no Hail Rains which i started about caused a washout on the tracks about two Miles East of Minnedosa and held the westbound train up for More than seven although be raged for More than an and Only two were injured in the of the 188th has a fractured Pel while 152nd has a compound fracture of both Are doing numerous bad bruises were but nothing that a Day or so will not about 200 tents were All from a Clou darkened Dawn the sky grew Blacker and Blacker until about 8 Oclock lamps were needed in i office and orderly marquees through out whirling dust Clouds swept across the Cam area and about the rain it came Down in a wind rising angrily so that the falling torrents became a sweeping Wall of which penetrated the heavy Canvas of the tents or bore them Down with the very weight of its the Bell tents which House the Bat sturdily though Here and there gaps in the lines showed where one and then another had tha with Square frontage were crashed to the ground and flattened 150 suffering in this Way Only eighty were really even these May yet be staff untested by the the staff officers lines on a Ridge overlooking the Camp suffered bad the Square Field officers tents being blown Down and also the mess Only the generals hut stand ing up after the the salvation army opened but a week is a wreck the tents went to the ground the new women rest room was lifted bodily off its foundations As was the Post office and Many other the Field Hospital was a source o much anxiety to general Hughes and his staff during the and Ai on soon As it was possible to the shelter of the Headquarters office the commandant went Over to the hos Pital and made an there continued in Pendents at the and the nation that nothing must allowed to interfere with the main Enance of a full germans violent counterattacks by germans on almost the entire of he Advance in the Region show a change in the Stua Ion from the earlier Days of the mgl French in the be the germans concentrated heir forces against the a considering the it the French to the South As of mall both ends of French line have been under heavy but the according to he official have been Able o put them Down without the Ger mans making any gains meanwhile the French and British Are consolidating their and Are undoubtedly making preparations or a resumption of the great bom which preceded the first in Petrous while the situation in the Verdun Region remains comparatively quiet Here Are heavy bombardments on sides of the no and Are recorded by either French or the British official statement gives few merely remarking that As a result of violent bomb fighting we made further pro Gress at certain Points in the main Battle admit British july troops yesterday made an attack along a narrow front in the Aisne to the South of North West of the official statement the attack was not Success Ful and Cost the French serious Between the acre Brook and the River Ard in the Region North of the says today official fighting minor Progress made by British troops near it is was balanced by further to the july night was generally quiet and South of the Kiver says today statement of the War the text of the statement follows North of the Over Somme there were last night a Nambe of local germans too from us Woods situated one Kilometre 23 of a mile North of on troop gained another Wood situated on the northeastern Boundary o the same South of the Kiver Somme the night passed quietly along the major part of the a counterattack directed by the germans upon Belloy was easily the number of Cannon captured by French troops up Toth present time reaches we also have taken several a Indre machine there have been no infantry engagements on Eithe Bank of the the germans bombarded our second lines a and there have been spirited duels of artillery in the sector of Fleury and at the flu min the germans delivered a Feroco Loiis attack upon the Cathedra of Verdun last endeavouring systematically to reach Thi building with Large calibre one of our Long Range pieces of artillery was successful dispersing a Convoy of the enemy in the direction of he Decour to the of it rated july defeat Fop the in which they were driven ack nearly five Miles on the Dela Yoko Idomea is officially admitted in tha statement issued by austrian War office the text if the statement follows near the enemy with Superior forces was successfully penetrating our we now occupy a line extending about five Miles to tha where we repulsed All Southwest and Northwest of Koi Omea we maintained our positions against All enemy South of after heavy fighting at Koropita we re captured our there was Des Perate fighting yesterday at the Bend of the River North of with varying july War announced the capture yesterday of More than of whom were taken on Dniester the official communication from general Headquarters issued today reads South of Pinsk marshes we had important new successes yester Day the Region of Kostiou Kovka we captured an entire enemy Battery and took prisoner 22 officers and 350 of on the Styr North of we ves Teurlay captured two three machine guns and North of Stergou Zatine we captured enemy trenches and took More than 300 prisoners and one machine Between the Styr and tha West of Sokul and Tho enemy launched some Vul counter attacks under the perfection Otar after intense artillery preparations we took an energetic offensive West of the lower strip and on the right Bank of the Dniester the enemy was Defeated and our troops Are approaching the Polce and Sou Podolek tributaries of the we took her yesterday nearly prisoners and u machine we lost the Brave killed its action the course of an at Nek on tha Village of the received our troops with liquid owing to their conduct we put Allutto brain markets review another Day of watching the other and prices at the close were fractionally the volume of j v Trade was exceptionally Small for a in near on of detachments Penni u three markets Ami bad German which was Fonnet Tobe full of wire there ittle scalping and the time la too late for much spreading to he in Busy three British fishing boats sunk in North july there has been a revival German submarine activity during the last few three British fishing boats have been sunk in the North All the Crews were allowed to leave the boats except in the Case of one Russ Jap Fisherman on Widen skipper was july has come to Washington that Russia and negotiated Al Liance with the object of maintaining a lasting and constant peace in the far the informant refrained is tails beyond suggesting that an Al Liance of that character would undoubtedly increase the Freedom of in China and increase its pro killed and two of the Crew wounded by it is officially announced that a British mine sweeper was hit and damaged by a torpedo in Tho North a report from Christiania says that a German submarine attacked the norwegian Steamer Petronelle Oft Ocean Steamer arrived at from Oleuir Amsterdam new York Rotterdam corinthian United states Tore Bergens Ford new York Calabria Gibraltar new continued an Page Lemon Montreal Portugal Flag to Fly tomorrow tomorrow being the Bot Lidyof Manuel president of Portu who was and elected the chief Mains Tracy of the portuguese Republic ust the Flag of consisting of two perpendicular one the other with a Crown and will Fly from the Courtesy Flagstaff of free press until Atholl july my manager of Khe local Bank of received a Cable today that Bis Atholl was killed in action at he enlisted at Winnipeg As a private in the fifth weather report from the met euro logical Observatory at Johns College last a temperature at 7 maximum for the preyed the 12 barometer wind at per Canadian meteorological be Rolce weather observations at Oclock last july port fair Cloudy Clear Clear Prince fair Swift 76 Clear med Llna fair fair talk the weather has been moderately warm in West Woltil Howera and Thunder storms in Many minimum and mar mum temperatures 4870 4470 Kam 4876 4368 Medicine 5686 Prince Al 8474 5t76 5877 wlnnfpeg6278 port 58 36 Parry 5882 5235 5384 6078 Mont 5834 5286 50 68 dulled the opening was fairly Strong on Liverpool but Tho Advance soon disappeared and wheat kept working lower till a Little a port buying this steadied the Price of july around and stayed the bearish feeling of the pit reports that the Winter crop will not turn out As Well As expected to at least two states Little effect on our though markets firmed towards tha Southern buyers Are said to be in the Cash Market and Takin some of the old away ahead of Tho usual for the present the weather is almost Ideal and Unhul these reports Are the sentiment seems to be committed to the today the government re port will be Given out at the close of the but the Trade seems pretty Well prepared for though the flax Trade in the local pit has been very prices been slowly advancing for a Day of two and that Grain seems form at the the explanation Given is that a lot the Nehr was in la on old land and big crop is not also the beginning of movement eastwards is expected to liven matters ;