Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 10, 1916, Winnipeg, Manitoba V b Only morning newspaper in a Fott weather forecast mostly pair and yet May to 7 fun Moon British making steady Progress in hard fighting Juji cooperating with 4he French capture two Miles of trenches at Fla court also take Possession by storm of Village of Biache offensive still continues Merians attack violently British Iines but Are twice repulsed guns Are effective july French hav to the offensive South of returned the Sommi and have captured Over a distance of half Miles East of depth ranking trenches about two and and to from about two thirds of a mile to mile and a they also Cap tured by storm the Village of the French have thus resumed their cooperation with the Bho have been engaged in fierce official statements repulse two heavy Juty the British troops have made steady in the face of stubborn in the neighbourhood of on the Somme according to the official state ment from general Headquarters last two German counter attacks rear the Boise Des Trens were the text reads the hostile artillery was More Active artillery duels place in several the neighbourhood of which the incessant fighting Aas converted into a mass of ruined unrecognizable debris and Shell holes full of we again made steady Progress in the lace of stubborn in an to to some the losses of the past week the enemy this afternoon launched two violent counter attacks our new positions in and near trones Wood Boie Des As in the Case of his fruitless efforts both attacks completely broke Down under the effective fire of our on the rest of the front there was nothing of British still july the fighting Between the acre and Somme Rivers continued last although with less violence than Dur ing the preceding two the War office announced today that further Progress had been made by the British near Villers and that in another sector a group of defended buildings had been the statement follows last Between the acre and the the fighting was considerably less violent than during the last two we made further Progress in the neighbourhood of Villers and in another sector charged a group of defended the germans made no further attempts to their lost positions held by near we successfully sprang three further after heavy bombardment of a portion of the sector held by new a Strong hostile local attack succeeded in entering our trenches at one after Halfa hours fighting the enemy was rejected by the new leaving Many German dead in our there was no incident of importance on the rest of the i crosses Atlantic eludes British cruisers off coast and anchors at Baltimore commercial trip Only will attempt to return with Nickel and rubber cargo carries two guns British make important the neighbourhood of Ovil the statement from the British War they Hava 5nain made steady Progress in the of the German heavy guns have been bombarding All along the British front More actively than and the in two violent counter attacks have Marie a desperate Effort to retake the positions captured by the British saturday near the rents both attacks came under a severe and effective fire from the British the British As completely broke regarding these operations Ger Man while admitting the loss of ground in the hard court declares that both British am French attacks were repelled with very heavy losses at other the losses on All sides Are doubt less and Tholt the British Are paying the Price of their Forward movement is indicated by the Casu Alty lists of the inst four which report 628 British officers wounded or germans july the War office re Perl of today says the French and British Are continuing their attacks on the Somme the germans lost found hard court but repelled other inflicting heavy losses or the keeps Kaiser july the London newspapers print several despatches from Holland and Denmark indicating increasing Public anxiety in Germany on account of the Western and Eastern offensives of the the one English correspondent is travelling from front to conferring with his each advising against the july after a fierce storm ii a line of trenches and gained a footing in the Bois Des according to the British official statement issued last an appreciable Advance also made in the neighbourhood of the text the fighting today has been principally on our extreme right where further important successes were gained by our to the East of Bernaey after a fierce preliminary bom we stormed a line of trenches and gained Lodgment in a strongly defended Wood known As the Bois Des there we captured 150 prisoners and several machine the French on our right flank greatly assisted our Advance by the fire of their the enemy losses from the combined Anglo French bombardment were a Strong German counterattack in subsequently launched across the open these captured pm Ely broke Down under the fire of 18pounders and 75millimetre the enemy retired in in the neighbourhood of Villers Handt hand fighting continues among the ruins of the but we made an appreciable despite the Cloudy weather our aeroplanes and Kite balloons did some taking photographs and directing fire of the a Large explosion was caused in one of the enemy ammunition and bombs were dropped on his one of our although sustained a running fight of Twenty minutes with three hostile and afterwards landed safely in our own this few enemy machines were and these were far behind their july to worlds first submarine the German underwater liner Dautch anchored below Baltimore to after voyaging safely across the passing the Allied blockading squadrons and eluding enemy cruisers watching for her off the american coast she carries mail and a cargo of 750 tons of costly chemicals and and a mess age from emperor William to presi Dent and is to carry Back lome a cargo of Nickel and crude sorely needed by the German the deutschland mounted in her conning two Small of about three Inch no Tor Pedo tubes Are she is Cap Able of submerging in less than two on the surface of the water he submarine has a Speed of from two to three knots an hour More than the average merchant All the Crew Wear Marine changes made in British government july the appointment last we Elf of David Lloyd George As Secretary for official announcement was made to Day of several other changes in the Edwin Samuel Mon financial Secretary to the treas takes Lloyd Georges place As minister of Thomas Mckinnon Secretary of state for becomes Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster and financial Secretary to the Harold parliamentary under Secre tary for is made Secretary of state for in View of the very heavy responsibilities of the Treasury during the the announcement con Premier Asquith has invited Mckinnon Wood to return to his former Post of financial Asquith has invited lord Curzon to become a permanent Mem Ber of the War from French sources another correspondent wires that office Toni Fht the Crown Prince is being blamed for persisting in the exr Dun attack when his forces Are urgently needed on the military circles in Ger he Are discontented be cause of Austria to Complete the picture of Pessi capture Village of july French have carried German positions East of Al Auffart on a front of four Kilometres and to a depth of from to two they have also captured the Village of reduction of his forces for the Benefit j according to issued by the War the text of the communication follows North of the nothing of importance of the we took the offensive during the Day East of on a front of about four from the River to the North of on the whole line attacked our troops carried enemy positions to a depth of from one to two we carried by assault the Village of and have establish 1 our position on a line from this Village to he environments of in the course of these actions we took 500 on both sides of the Meuse there was spirited artillery notably in the sectors of Fleury and the Fumin the operations on the Somme from july 1 to resulted in the capture by us of More than among he important War material that we took we have counted up to Date 76 Cannon and several Hundred machine the belgian communication there were very Lively Artil 1 Ery duels in different sectors in the Region of in places the German batteries were reduced to we Success Lully resumed a destructive bombardment against the enemy works East of the germans made desperate efforts to silence our and provoked a struggle with which ended to our six Hundred More july situation on the Somme front is unchanged the War office announced on the Verdun front the Ger Nivans carried on heavy bombardments of the Fleury and dam Loup the statement follows on both sides of the Somme the night passed the total number of prisoners which we captured yesterday during the attack on hard court is of whom ten Are on the North of Verdun the enemy maintained a rather bombardment of the sectors of Fleury and the dam Loup West of the Forest of Premont the germans undertook two several English correspondents agree that the food situation in Germany is daily growing More the Frankfurther Zeitung is noted is quoted As saying that the great fight for Victory or defeat has Only weeks Advance three july v the Reuter Corre the following Dis British sends Patch from or in it i in British since in the trashed in Albert of Tref depth ail vane a hold the Frie ourt and in German 2a the Point of on shout Thip an i of across the at various venire lip cart our taken upward of la 51 machine guns 5 Large number of automatic rifles reach searchlights and Jiw military the in my is known to have suf for example third division of the prussian Rhrou Pitit up As reinforcements be Htun i p of 3f ii Lulli of Sav that the of the Rem have been with War worthy Foi t sunday casualties two weekend lists aggregate 175 three missing local men two one of whom fifteen Davs out from Bremerhaven previously listed As to the submarine reached j were reported killed on yesterday s safety Between the Virginia capes at ca8ualty one of whom had Oclock this three hours been previously reported were listed As dead from one who was previously reported missing was located As a prisoner of War and Loca Ioa As a h1 later the big submarine started up the Bay tinder her own Power with the German Marine Flag conveyed by the con oven a lne she was making More than 12 knots eight were reported wounded and could have docked in Baltimore among the men from Manitoba and but arrangements had been i Eastern including made for receiving her with formal j one who had been formerly reported ceremonies and her Captain i were reported one was listed As a prisoner of War and seven were reported killed in Roy Stokes Kin at enlisted in previously reported now killed in pop Thomas Henry Cook enlisted live ii ugh it guv Mia Xor Raan collector of nor in Winnipeg on december Folk Newport heard the j next of 319 Chalmers and started on his Trail aboard the was ordered to wait n the lower har he and his Crew of 29 men remained about his regarding the vessel As a subject to no unusual the skip whose name is said to be Cap Tain went up the Chesapeake without waiting to notify local Cus Toms and up Tarantine authorities of his collector in he was five hours away before important Points enemy destination of Contra band articles presumed until contrary shown completion of cruise will not protect blockade runner liable to seizure before end of next voyage striking Success of russian forces coast guard Cutter at last reports tonight the Cutter had not approached the and j died of Donald Macrea Kin in Scot it is understood that she merely was ordered out to keep tie strange Craft under surveillance As a neutrals pre Little was known Here to night about what happened during the epoch making cruise across the i Xone of the submarines previously reported now unofficially prisoner of Frank Munro Kin at 247 Marion previously reported now unofficially died of Frederick Edwin Mills taken Crew had and the agents of Val Cartier on september had received m6affre m4formeriy of the Kin the boat is consigned to Schu Macher local agents of the North German Lloyd line and her cargo to the Eastern forwarding a concern Saad to have been organized within the last few especially formerly at 365 Bannerman Simon Fraser Kin at Winni Fred Nixon Kin at West business of William Gibbons pm at the latter company to handle the water has a pier and warehouse in which Are stored the goods to be loaded on the deutschland for her return a Commerce the deutschland is a new com Merce built in Bremen and sent on a purely commercial according to Henry the senior member of the Schumacher she belongs to Ozean Ocean navigation and was launched at Kiel in the uni Der sea Hilken is about 315 longhand 30 the United states has vigorously pro Archibald Wilson Kin at with Winnipeg Alfred Ingram Kin in England John Scott Kin at 423 Dufferin Nicholson Kin in Winni Mcdonald Kin in continued on Page gift to Canada from motherland guards is badly this applying equally to tin the heavy Rains of the past two upended the opera our troops leave in fib Tinc and in Many be Neavy rams have thu re tin never Iholts substantial grains spirit of of men is y fully Are now play on Page Twok Ostile aeroplanes Over English coast fanes to tiny souths lie int i Aero topped bombs on the so far As is an official this Oro Midnight sunday i visited the of from 11011 available about no dam so an air s this med the raiding have been Surprise attacks against our positions at Croix St a detach ment which was Able to penetrate one of our trenches was expelled immediately by our the other detachment was Dis Persed before it was Able to reach our in the after a Lively the enemy yes Gerdav attacked one of our positions South of the pass of Sainte Steele receives tribute from women and children of the British Canadian associated july was a very pretty scene in the Palace gardens at Kensington yesterday afternoon when Princess Louise of Argyll presented on behalf of tha Canadian with a Silken Union Jack and Silver Given by women and children of the British Isles in acknowledgement of Canadas Good will and a guard of consisting of four officers and one Hundred men of other ranks from battalions stationed at shorn Cliffe were there were also detachments from continued Pace position critical accounts and look for a straight line toward but we germans must not believe that they will do in Germany we hear depends on that Francot Beinor prefers ship of i humiliation to another Winter Cam t i o Tho and whatever happens will july Frankfurter Surrey Der before the this in an editorial review of the is just As True As the talk about tuition according to an american j Germany drumming Blind and lame says at Home at feast thirty army All know that our position is j corps and i critical and we depend More than Yean i Ever on the superiority of our Leader recruits even i i important of now our is the i Williams a killed in Thomas Townsend Kin at Bel previously reported now filed in Harry Shaw Kin at Camp reported now unofficially prisoner of Claud o Arnold enlisted at Yorkton on december for Merly of the 2nd dragoons Kin in James Reid enlisted at bran Don on april Kin in Scot Sergt Anderson Kin at Lyn Arthur Cosford Kin at Cham Harry riches Kin in with Manitoba William Kinnear Kin at Charles Watt Kin at Parlia ment Morgan Kin at Vankleck with Manitoba Finlayson Kin at july accordance with the recent decision of the British government to discontinue the partial enforcement of the has reference to the conduct of naval an order i Council was in the Lon Don Gazette under All orders made under the declaration of Lon Don since the beginning of tie War Are the new order declares it is the intention of great Britain and her allies to exercise their belligerent rights sea in strict accordance with the Law of on account of the changed conditions of Commerce and the diversity of doubt May arise in cer Tain matters As to the rules which the allies might regard As in conformity with the Law of nations and it is ordered that the following pro visions be hostile destination required for the condemnation of con Traband articles shall be presumed to exist until the contrary is shown if the goods Are consigned to or for an enemy authority or agent of any enemy or to or for person in the territory belonging to or occupied by the or to or for a person who during the present hostilities has forwarded contraband goods to an enemy authority or agent of any enemy or to or for a person in territory belonging to or occupied by the or if the goods Are con signed to or if the ship papers do not show who is the real consignee of the principle of continuous voyage or intimate destination shall be f both in cases or contraband and Neutral vessel carrying contraband with papers indicating Neutral notwithstanding the destination shown on the proceeds to an enemy port shall be liable to capture and condemnation if she is encountered be fore the of her next vessel carrying Contra band shall be liable to capture and condemnation if the contraband reckoned either by weight or forms More than half the it is further ordered that nothing in the new regulations shall be deemed to affect the of March for further restrict ing the Commerce of the or any proclamations declaring articles 10 be contraband of War during the present nor shall the new regulations affect the Validity of any thing done under the orders noun cil now any cause or proceedings commenced in prize court before tie making of the new order if the court thinks it be heard and decided under the orders so far As they were in Force when such cause of proceedings was be gun or would have been applicable in Euch cause or proceedings was be order had not been the order is cited As maritime rights views of july of the unofficial text of the new Brit ish order Council at the state de sunday afternoon list Delatin is just West of Tolomea and is an important position As it commands the railway Over which von Bothmer obtained Hia sup new ones on enemy Aerial mines of unheard of calibre destroy in few minutes the work of trenches completely levelled says Berlin Tion of observation july eyewitness account of the Anglo French offensive is Given in despatches from one of the editors of Tho Zeitung am whose company was stationed in the trenches near the Somme the lieutenant was wounded during the preparatory but wits there Long enough to witness the almost indescribable destruction in the front line trenches by Tho a he says the massively built positions had been regarded As virtually indestructible and but the event proved that the pro Gress in the development of offensive tactics since the september offensive had not been right the beginning of the artillery says the Lieut the enemy showed the Ger mans a new thing in the destruction of observation an aviator swooped Down on one of these and shot from a burst of name marking tas end of the bal air torpedoes death the second Days june brought another Surprise in the shape of Aerial mines of unheard which were thrown in in credible the explosion of the first air torpedo shattered to its tremendous detonation the win Dows of the Bombproof and threw up a massive pillar of Black Earth perhaps a Hundred this show ered the whole neighbourhood with bricks and this was a regular Vesuvius the destructive effects of this uninterrupted throwing of the heaviest mines almost immediately vis Ible the entrances to two bomb proofs were buried and the inmates had to be a few minutes later an orderly sent with a to the left of reporting that the Delatin Falls to russian arms Bothmer Cut off taking of tills important railway Junction cuts Tho enemy from his supplies Brusiloff makes surprising advances on both sides of Kovei railway foe in disorder Only a matter of a few Days before Kovei is according to experts july Rautert Del pact from Petrograd Saya that russians Havo crossed Tho St Khod River at which is approximately half Way Between Tho railways run Ning to Kovei from Sarny and Rov the despatch adds that Inas much As Tho aus Troderman forces defending Kovei Are chiefly concentrated along the lines the russian in the Centre threatens both july Eastern front continues to overshadow the Western from the spectacular the russian forces going from Success to not Only let Crit in the where his army has now occupied the Railroad Junction at West of thus cutting off von Bothmer from his but in the is making surprising advances on both sides of the Kovei towards the St Khod tonight russian communication reports the enemy forces in this re Gion retiring in great and adds that the russians have occupied which is about 24 Miles to the East of while apparently the russians Are already across the St Khod somewhere in the Region of German Possession of Baranovich and Kovei is absolutely essential if she is to retain her hold Over the invaded parts of Poland and but it is considered certain that it is Only a matter of a few Days before the russians will be in Possession of which would compel von Lin singers retirement from the Lutsk German official and unofficial despatches reflect anxiety Over Tho russian Advance As being greater than Over the Anglo French Offen which the German military critics contend will not interfere with apartment saturday failed to reveal i Trench had been completely Uii marked departure from the line of procedure followed since the be ginning of the War by the entente allies in dealing with Neutral com there is apparently no such wide Extension of the existing Block Ade As has been Many of the present practices against which going to saw As far As the Eye could see Crater after six feet the Earth Between being torn in a High chaos of Trench timbers and wire the work of Day and night for nine says the destroyed in a few and is propelled by two great Delsel j report after report arrived of bomb Oil she is As if not larger than any of the German naval submarines and carries 750 tons dead continued on Page criticizes Border says Premier is spineless and history of government one of graft and casualties july following list wa3 issued at noon sunday killed in ambulance the j a44266 Ensign Foru founding Hospital and Church lads j 453s61 Norman before presenting the colors 417205 Tom her Royal highness inspected the of 659651 4603ss Roy 59344 Ralph 09344 Itai the colors having been Jaa there was a Short consecration 12is7 ice after which the children Sang 48ssi the Maple in the course of 455323 a Short address the Princess said i Waltons Steele and j continued on Page t a f it nor inn to i have been deputed to ask you to receive Flag on behalf of the officers and men of As a gift from the women and children of the British the gift from the Mother country is Token of the High admiration and enthusiastic appreciation of the eager readiness with which they have come Forward to take their share in the cause of the the shield is to record the great deeds which Canada will in scribe As her part in the common Effort of the whole Empire towards the july a report has been attainment of ultimate to the militia department f Ron log office officially an the immense Ine upon our staff in West is Ter vector Tju i but Exchange of the third is now or Elerath quotes Maximilian Harj a prisoner in he German As i of to the writing our enemies Are after wounded in the fighting of june 2 50 Are but the wound was not in i Hugh of staff office be a prisoner with Faith i entrust that Flag to you from the women and children for whom the future is being Steele returned thanks on be half of the among those present were sir Alexander j Earl of sir George j and agent general for various j British ships pass out of Baltic sea safely july an immedi ate result of the great North sea nearly two Hundred British have been released from Baltic according to the morning these ships have lying Idle in Kronstadt and other Baltic harbours since the outbreak of the they have passed through the Kattegat with out interference from German War ships and arrived safely in British the operations against major Morhat and other july the celebrated counsel who represented the opposition be fore the recent Meredith Duff com Mission in its investigation of the it Al Shell committee took the political platform for the first Tirao in his career at the Liberal picnic at Markham on he scorch singly arraigned the Borden govern he declared Premier Borden to be utterly spineless and unable to act in the interests of his country at a time when its destiny required Strong leadership the history of bordens govern ment during the said John can be written in three words corruption and the trouble was that the govern ment utterly self centred and three is Domin ated there is sir Thomas who says i know it sir Robert who says i am that one Man who must keep quiet and get into no trouble because i have no and sir Sam who says i am the whole thing the rest dont count i Johnston declared that his experience at Ottawa had disgusted him with the whole not a member of that government except sir George said had done his part in encouraging the do minion to Render its utmost assist Ance to great Britain in the present great proofs demolished by Aerial Torpe burying the the trenches became rapidly levelled communication Between the sections was extremely the third lines were so heavily shelled that it was impossible to traverse an orderly sent to a Captain was hours under on the left flank Tho company Trench was so obliterated that it was difficult to Trace the Only Means of Progress was to dash from Crater to fully exposed to the enemy fire while crossing the intervening hear Rived after a period of intense danger and found the left platoon of the company in the same condition As the right a number of men were still buried in the demolished their comrades worked for hours extricating during this work an intrepid bal Talion surgeon arrived with an Oveen apparatus and stood for hours under a heavy artillery fire minister ing to the half buried and attempting to revive those asphyxiated great Range of the bombardment continued with out Aerial torpedoes being hurled from ranges such As was never before known for mine throw ers and the French artillery pounded every Yard of ground with an intense How Rome reinforcements were that quite As much to assist in digging out those buried As to contribute to Gernigin critics express Surprise at the extent and persistence of the russian offensive find the endless resources o it is reported from Rome that at a recent Council of German Ami austrian von Hindenburg declared that it would be impossible to attempt a new offensive on a Large scale without reinforcements of it least a Quarter of a million the romanian according to a Berne has declined an invitation from the Ger Man and austrian governments u participate in a conference of the Danube the associated press correspondent at Petrograd says a Surprise attack delivered along the Sarny Kovel while the Austro germans were engaged in defending the Rov no Kovel netted a Clear Advance to the russians of fifteen offi Cial russian dispatches say that on the lower St Khod the teutonic forces Are retiring in Groat the austrians have not Only been successful in resisting the russian Advance in Southern which Crown land the russians hoped soon to Clear of their but undertaking an have succeeded in forcing their Way across the Moldava the austrians also have been very Active against the italians along the Sonzo the a e leading them to positions among the demoralized trenches when it arid hta orderly were wounded by t infantry British losses for july 9the lists of casual ties among British officers issued in the past four Days apparently com posed almost altogether of losses suf in the past weeks a total of 94 504 wounded and 30 missing a Small proportion of these prob ably refer to other while some of the casualties were possibly included in the lists earlier than it is impossible from the thus far to judge of the casualties in the i russian official july by tha russians Are announced in Tho War office statement of in Southern Galicia the railway town of continued on past lege is a at 7 Max weather the weather report from tha Observatory at terms rot saturday temperature mum for Thi riveted in 12 615 Haro Southeast wind at 5 per temperature it 7 maximum for preceding 12 a Alt wind at 11 Miles per sunday temperature at 7 maximum for the peered link 12 South Oast wind at 18 Miles port a Loury fair Cloudy fair Prince fair so mfr fair ruin in Leary fair Cloudy rain occurred in Many Paron of Albertt and Saskatchewan Durini saturday no rat while today the weather in the weit been fair and minimum and maximum temperatures Victoria 5266 5674 Cai Cary Medicine 6086 Edmon ton fio76 6632 a 81 win 668o 63 Venn Lee 6286 Parr 82 527c 6379 6276 t876 5274 5280 Ocean Steamer arrived at Stockholm Liverpool carpathia from York 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