, 1915-05-08
ST. CROIX STATION.
Censored at Jamaica.)

LODQOu, May lID.-a L E0uCu Ol1Cldf Dul~
letiu states South of Ypres the Germaus
on Wednesday near ZwarteIen attacked the
British trenches on Hill so, delivering q
very violent assault, during which they again
used asphyxiating gases which made them
masters in the beginning of this portion,
but our Allies subsequently delivered a coun-
ter. attack and recaptured the portion of the
trenches previously lost.
In the House of Commons, Mr.. AsqRith,
reviewing the operations at the Dardanelles
from April twenty-frst, when twenty nine
thousand troops were landed, up TO last
Sunday, said that the positions had every
where been consolidated, and that in the
succe 3sfuI performance of the difficult oper-
alton of landing on an open beach in the
face Of determined oppo2ition, the troops had
displayed unsurpassed courage and skill, and
the operations we're now being pressed for
ward under highly satisfactory conditions.
A Vienna official despatch announces:
The Teuton allies are advancing success
fully along the entire front in West Cali
ciu, aud the troops of the enemy who
are still intact are attempting, by
taking favourable defensive positions to
cover their husty retreat, Strong Russian
forces in he Beskid region are seriously
menaced by n flank attack by our victorious
armies and already we have forced the
fighting in the regions of Jaslo and Dukia,
where IN engagement which is now pro-
crossing will complete the destruction of
the third Russian army. The number of
prisoners iii ur hands has been increased
to over fifty thousand. In the Oruwa
valley a strong Russian attack on the
hill OF O5try VAS repulsed with great slaugh-
-rrref+At en- any,.
The Russian Embassy at Washington
l :..,,.l +}a FOllOvrioY ctoEaroopF bocnI
upon all vices from the Russian Foreign
Office: The reports from Berlin and Vienna
referring to an alleged important victory
gained over our troops in Western Galicia
are entirely contradictory to the facts, the
encounters in that part of Galicia as having
absolutely not been such as to warrant the
claims even of partial success by our enc
mics.
Other independent advices suggest that
the desperate Austro-G German offensive and
The exaggerated reports are due to the de-
sire to deter Italy from adhering to the Tri-
pie Entente, the negotiations being now in o
most critical stage,
In the House of Commons, Mr.. Asquith,
answering a question by Lord Robert Cecil
regarding German reprisals upon British pri.
soners said "When the proper time arrives
reparation will be exacted of whoever is
shown to have violated the usages of civiliz-
ed warfare, and a careful record is being
kept Of evidence for proper punishment. The
duty of this country is to preserve q clean
record"
Mr.. Gerard, the United States Ambassa-
dor at Berlin, reports that he has personally
visited each of the 80 officers and that each
officer is in a clean cell, and is allowed baths,
books and packages, and is also permitted to
smoke. An hour is allowed for exercise in
the morning and another in the evening in
the prison yard and during this exercise they
talk together. The food is good and there
was no complaint except at being under
arrest. 1.-THE German Government" he
adds, "will follow exactly the treatment