Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, July 08, 1916

Issue date: Saturday, July 8, 1916
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 8, 1916, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free went through Wall of bobs shells War correspondent tells of the dauntless Advance of Britain new unionists will agree to Home Rule scheme by Philip with the Lirl Urh armies in july tins the Ger u to the of Thor positions at Tuii but repulsed with Oiler parts of the july meeting of unionists to consider the terms of the proposed Irish settlement was held today at 1he Carlton a Bonar Secretary for the pre the Meetin was also attended toy the Marquis of lord Robert Cecil who presented his resignation As a result of dissatisfaction with the governments attitude but subsequently reconsidered his a sir Edward Carson and other the Exchange company says i no Resolution was submitted to the the but that the situation was discussed and it was decided to await developments before taking decisive a meeting of the unionists was held this some of present opposed the Irish i i liars Fulle and Mon but it is understood the bin bombard party As a whole will accept batteries and i la hard i Hannauer t k la j or us Oak an import la of known As the i of la hoi to r the i and la look Over a wide area Edwards and the soot Grain capital pro Ione of the new straight front j Johns und the Kunou distributing Pital Stock Twenty thous of was bit Paul marked j i of broken j Iipp cured the ruins of shells were fall Chr nuke which lir Havy ing and the British thickly upon the Man to us no ground by the germans left of me Canada West coast Thi business inter ests behind this company arc not the provisional directors appearing in the notice being a num Ber of lawyers clerks in Battles of history Over this stretch of a few i in j in Jwj wide has Ben fought one of Hullum contempt charge and germans with a i a Vond the i Lirra Many thousands of British troops advanced upon the i spirit of Ordinary of they faced Kiellish but without trip was not one Man Jiromi reason Ana Ana u l Coria Hod at a Lime when conservative organizer for t Nad hastened its Advent by London financial peace policy expressed by of the is not july the prominent financial in his valedictory resigning the Editorship of the London after a tenure of nine says in my the financial fabric of Western Europe is in imminent and in few months it will no longer be to Dis Guise the bankrupt condition of Sev eral great As we have known and representative Are doomed through the exertions of the rights without which an English Man at any rate will hardly care to Are speedily to this Freedom and Independence must somehow be won Back for parliament and the Hirst has been an opponent of the restrictions enforced by the de Fence of the realm act and secret replying to the which states that he imparted to the economist a distressingly pacifist he says in Plain i am accused of being a the accusation is not distressing to i plead guilty to the it has been my principal object during the past year to prepare the Public mind for peace by separating passion and friction from reason and and if i could ii Fri to Oclock on the morning i gallon had been asked i that the circulation of the economist r i l Vic lir Ikhide left its trenches regarding the manner in which he has touched its height during the in a named line by in perfect a wan of the frauds in Road last few weeks May serve to is it on h was evident j and stated that it was first Cate feeling of our business tie germans expected the at called to his attention by a conver Hartley financial adviser us i Iurii a Hamilton had to fhe succeeds Hirst it is in Rietfors of the paper firsts editorial valor of the British barrage continued in but it the moment of the infantry attack German soldiers mood us on parallels in the very a cent this bombardment and area upon the advancing British with automatic their machine gun ners Alsip showed extreme to lev Loicl their Way Over the broken into no mans land and swept the British ranks with a scythe Many of thu British but the others went charging the machine guns with fixed hurl ing bombs at the men on the parallels and their Way into and across the German wave a Frei wave and those who later Brown would appear Ana Seth regiment of prussian collect it from the gallon in of which an entire battalion has sur and started a general we pause to interrogate did not fall Tuut on into the Ger mans first Riuo the second then on again to the third and Miracle even to the kind fourth line then1 were men when them went us far As they never Yunnu faced great on the right of these North country Hun were other bodies of troops from the the Anil Eastern with battalions of Iruh and scottish had la face a great when they went inward the German Tren not at u but at Parade i Indra a storm of the germans Quine Mout of their dug out and with machine guns and fought eve the Long Lush troops reached with limb a and then the troops went on to the second under a still by this time they were in an inferno of Shell tire and nothing was seen of them bythe artillery observers until at Lua some Rourke to went up very far in the Ger Man showing that some of the had got As far As the last some got to sonic of the infantry went As far As Pendant Southeast of the messages come through from urgent messages calling for help for gods Sake Send us Ilist the German gunfire was so violent and so deep in its barrage that nothing could pass through it Ami it was impossible 1o Send up re Lief to Tho men who had gone too far in their keen desire to break the Ger Man South of Beaumo Thamel were Sconio Ottar whose and Vance upon thie Val and Lluy fought with extraordinary Reso Lituin and it was they shunted no As their Battle and these hard men forced their Way Forward Over to Riund naked by every kind of shot and the German trenches could no resist their and they it Ermeri their Way killing Diany humans who resisted in thie Val where he Trees icon slashed with they collected their formed into investigation of the work supposedly done by contract by the after his suspicions had been con he he the progressive and final estimates on cer Tain alleged with the can celled cheques these Docu ments were the three then three questions were put to to which he refused to return where did you get the progressive and final by whom were the cheques and progressive and final estimates delivered to you from which of the departments did the and final Esti mates shortly before the Wetmore com Mission adjourned this afternoon chairman Wetmore ordered to produce gallon before the commission next july at 10 on a charge of contempt of court Bigelow said he would be glad to do so if Given a summons of Twenty four 4 Mackenzie was asked to up an appointment containing the charges no papers were served on the witness Bigelow will go into the matter and attempt to prove the the Rich Mission that the questions which gallon refused to ans is were not pertinent to its to ascertain How and when the first frauds were at the beginning of the session p Mackenzie resumed his Examina Tion of and stood the of several German then they charged Ami Hung Down the Ger Man ranks taking More than Western companies flew Winnipeg concerns incorporated at july compan ies which his been incorporated week by Chr Secretary of state in Luile to Thunder Hay Termini in Kuva tur Winnipeg capital of million provisional Clar enor Siuw and Kathleen r Arm land com capital provisional Spencer und and Saskatoon land capita provisional prussian guard division unable chec Advance continued from rage when the French line forms Between and the attack was made by two Resi Nientsu in massed formation they struggled heroically through thu in Fernal curtain fire of the French which Core raps in their they even made some Way Forward in the face of a Hail of bul lets from machine As soon they came within striking the frenchmen sprang from the trenches and scattered the Rem Nant of the brigade with the conditions at july French official describing conditions in the Village of Fri Couit after it had been taken by the British in the recent Advance North of the like pre nud a spectre in which were in a state of such Complete Dis order As to show the Power of the new British heavy very Ture Are behind a demolished parapet a German Grena Dier still holds a grenade clutched in his dead further along is a group of three German torn to pieces by and then Hal covered by Fulling in every Corner Anil in the holes made by the shells Are dead and still More the air is heavy and affected with the odor of the Ovule continues not far off and grenade fish tip is going we plainly hear the repeated explosions of these German shells keep falling without cessation on the Western end of the prussian Back of the firing line we come across a Kroup of prisoners from the magic baking to that cantata Alum and which All company limited i put the following questions to them where were you before coming Herer in the facing to How did you come North by train two Days Why did you surrender so quickly we were without and the artillery Tore our ranks to we Felt ourselves to be in such a Complete state of inferiority that nothing remained but to then made a Hasty decision and raised the White did your commanders Tell you of this offensive when we started we believed we were going to it was Only when we were on the Way that we Learned we were to fight against the Are you satisfied to fee out of the conflict the answer was Given enthusiastically in the Kitchener describing the character of the new Kitchener army which took pan in the a observer gives the following statement by a British officer three quarters of my battalions Are of the recently formed Only one of my battalions belongs to the old and yet when the test of Battle came my new Bat stallions could not be distinguished from the they manoeuvred with the same and they moved with the expert nest of this homogeneity of the old and new pleased me chiefs of other brigades had same the germans had thought that this new army was a lot of Amateur sol but they found themselves de cattle condemned Many interesting Dic cuned by livestock july Saskatchewan livestock commission was in session Here this in the afternoon visited the Swift can Adian packing and this eve Ning had a conference with the do minion government Ross and at the morning session much interesting data was Given by Harris in connection with livestock credits by Banks and commission men in the United the views of Many previous the subject of insurance against procuring of livestock in Justice of charge for car and need of More elastic credit was the condemnation of cattle was referred to by of the Swift Canadian last said Over 40 per hogs were condemned for there is More condemnation of cows now than while cattle on the Range seem of Rutherford stated that Between 13 and 14 per of scottish cattle were compared with to per Canadian cattle last bulls have which is prevalent in the country and they Are thrown from Rig m official statements continued from Page North of Souville and in the Region of la the usual Cann Nading is in Progress on the rest of the the belgian communication in the course of the morning a rather heavy artillery Battle took place in the Region of nieuport and East of we have with our bombardment of the German positions at dried Reehten and Steen toward the close of the Day Lively fighting with bombs broke out toward Steenstra Ete and desperate attack july prevailed last night on both sides of the Somme says today War office the artillery of both sides was Active on the left and Banks of the especially on the theaumont earthworks and in the Fleury and Chenois a Small German attack on the French trenches at the Lepretre Woods the text of the statement follows on the left Bank of the River mouse there was an intermittent bombardment last while on the right Bank the artillery fighting became violent near the theaumont work and in the sectors of Fleury and at the Lepretre Wood the enemy yesterday delivered a Small attack upon one of our but they were driven out of the position where they succeeded in gaining in this same sector a Surprise attack by us was successful along a front of 200 our grenade throwers cleaned out the enemy trenches and took some German aeroplanes yesterday threw Down several bombs on the open town of seven persons were killed and three were with the exception of one All the victims were either women or this was an act of reprisal for our Aerial activity on july when one of the big air squadrons threw Down bombs Between hem and on the return trip there were a number of engagements with German in which our escorting aeroplanes took two German machines were brought aged woman seriously injured when horse Mary King trans was injured in runaway Acci Dent on Higgins Avenue at last she was Riding in a Rig with Nicholas 195 Melrose ave going and when near Grace Street the horse took fright and Jub was thrown from her and in falling the horse kicked she was taken to the general hos where it was found that she had sustained fracture of the left Tibia injury to both and probable fracture of the right the Rig was but Clarke escaped serious Jub is in her Seventieth Montreal Rector july according to a Cable received from the British War office today by relatives Bertram George Young est son of the Arthur Rector of the Church of John the was killed in action on the Western front on july he was Captain in the 1st Royal Inu Skilling capt French was a Stu Dent at Oxford University when he in the Imperial forces Early la the men Are prisoners 415996 Guy 405173 mounted killed in 482088 new 110567 Lewis continued from Page report it wounded of killed in 117394 John 107485 Killil in 503460 sapper 503146 Lance corp eng 45313 acting Lance John 21626 sapper Knox 45162 sapper 45033 set Kenneth wounded 436727 Driver James 91172 Bombardier 33105 Thomas 151112 sapper Midnight list july Midnight the Fol lowing list of 109 names was issued killed in flt Herbert halos 451916 James 69100 62sos5 431957 Arthur 453042 412475 444130 Lifford 436529 a14390 415081 66192 13871s 10132 died of 452443 440294 4s7493 John 161384 Edward 467662 f or sorted now officially killed in 23522 prisoner of 76171 759s6 Walter previously reported sow 432899 Wells seriously 435372 70175 6360 16s47 425078 Bosman 70208 148122 67961 100524 John red 163416 s6th 166632 Peter 2452s Francis 432644 Frank Edmon 426155 436805 432956 Lac la 23260 me 127126 101678 447367 West 427415 486619 Severn 432962 Robert 451420 418787 Vincent 412393 477514 Edgar 25740 418880 Albert 442738 John Storn Karl new a40158 John 628179 Armstrong 4s3070 David 460719 Thomas 445 Newton 448015 Francois 154242 452981 to Bart 477111 John 441628 Alfred 35 Mason 487459 413011 79023 James 475047 447368 Val 138693 59950 414220 154459 South 112249 Lawrence reported now in of str fully trimmer of 111095 111107 previously reported missing Alsrow unofficially prisoner of War und Lionel 113331 Percy 113375 Henry 111506 Youngs Cove admitted to 108522 Walter 109236 Hamil 551 commercial building 159563 wounded 447056 Thomas medical 756 South Tau Way 610 416478 Francis 429579 North 445212 430705 61289 mounted previously reported missing info facially prisoner of 106396 unofficially prisoner of War and wounded 109706 Edward 113560 John 204 Colony 113415 Joseph Munro seriously 522710 died of 455000 Pickering 7026 previously reported missing now Nof tibial by lulled in Arthur Mont Tion prisoners taken on july 4 and s West of lower strip were 270 officers and the follow ing Booty has been registered up to the present 29 machine 3 mine and More than Northwest of Ern Bukovina the enemy undertook an energetic offensive which we re on the Dina front in the Region of Dvinsk and Down to the Region of Violet artillery occurred it several Points Southwest of Lake we captured the germans part of their first violent counterattacks do the germans Are East of Baranovich the enemy undertook several these three Points Are in the Region to the West of there has been violent fighting for several the germans having thrown in heavy reinforcements Check the russian Advance toward the important strategic position of the Manevitch station is 14 Miles West of on the railway line Between Sarny and to Komorow and Grady Are South West of a German retirement in this Region was announced in Berlin retirement july retirement of von bothers army West Ward from Between the strip and Zlota Lipa Rivers has with the occupation by the russians of the East Bank of the kor Opice which parallels the strip 12 Miles to the and a further Advance by Brusiloff Between the Dniester ind the von bothers Posi Tion became according to the military critic of the bourse von Bethman is hurriedly moving his rooms in the direction of the important Railroad Centre 60 Miles South of col Shum sky believes that the German Gen eral proposes to make a stand on a line from Stanishic to military his ability to maintain this in View of the presence of let Nitzky s army South of these in the Vicinity of Nadworny and Trismen it is will renew his pounding of von bothers right in the Region of Baranovich no changes of importance have occur but the fighting has been marked by the fierce counterattacks on the part of the which resulted in heavy losses for commenting on the Battle of the Kolski Czartorysky where pm russians yesterday captured Shumsky says this is the first time that a Large Force of germans has been put to he As one reason for this the fact that the germans have been driven to employ Young and unseasoned troops and the Large percentage of germans among the last Batch of out of a total of worthy of the russian soldiers have dubbed the austrians Noble due to the fact that they have surrendered in such Large num admits salient abandoned july salient of the German line in projecting towards has been abandoned under Superior pressure by the russians and a new line of defence it was announced today by the War the text of the army statement on operations in the East Ern War theatre is army group of general von Lin Singen a Corner of out lines pro truding towards Czartorysky has been abandoned on of pressure of its sides near Kosth to a and West of Kolski and a line of defence italian official italian is being strongly and it Var ious sectors further Progress has been the official account of these operations from the today follows the adige and the antics there is intense activity on the part of the1 particularly the enemy batteries Are Bombini the slopes of Sifonte North of the Posina the enemy still our attacks on Dilonte whits our artillery continues to make pro Gress along Rio Freddo and at Loo on the Sette com uru plateau renewed the attack with the support of our artillery on the strongly fortified line of the from Home inter rotto to Monte we captured two important Points of the enemy defences near Zebio and Malza taking 359 officers and three machine violent attacks against we just driven backs Ltd heavy Campello Valley continued a Fodge hostile detachments from East of the Itaro and took Slos on the remainder this front the artillery was in the Monfalcone sector the enemy attempted to deliver Twat against our new positions East of but was driven Back attic Point the leavin about prisoner sin our ladies White Wash special values from up to for made of excellent Quality Bedford crash and All Are splendid in design and finished with All the newest ideas of inserted and patek Yoke effects and Button lengths 36 to waistbands 23 to special reduction Lovely voile and Marquisette in a charming variety of styles and Ali the latest Floral also stripes Andi such As combined made very Dainty and pretty in wide frilly 1 f prices ranging from to or of War it Rosarlo Montreal seriously 150652 Edward a 40sr s 406578 Capo Breton is Moused previously reported of 100901 i 108291 Horn Alta missing Nof facially a Zsoner of War and wounded prevail Hubbs previously reported missing of 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the Manitoba 150030 426306 44173 a40110 Harry 420151 James 401707 pre Edrick Edwards 424702 Ernest 446s70 Owen 427510 1249 David 57208 David 133248 Mark 434s27 Stanley 79211 436378 Robert Molloy 43s032 23568 53612 16335 Charles 71736 153315 James hurling troops against foe on 300 mile front continued from Page occupied the villages of Komarow and according to the latest reports our cavalry carried the railway Sta Tion at and in the course of the Pursuit captured another Bat Tery of four Cannon and three of heavy of the River St Khod and in the Region of the lower Lipa there have been artillery according to the latest the Atlantic coast Back new and All Atlantic new a Fri awl it for Obb of Fate on Dagy to sit Miniha Railroad to Wott Flatt Tat All May be taking in Niagara new Atlantic Washington and intermediate suggestions As to Desiraye with mfg Mutiara regarding fares and gladly foe tickets and Capo for Duluth i n in Fin i ;