, 1915-06-16
ST. CROIX STATION.
fCensored at Jamaica.)

III Lu6 u w IAb III Ii oAh
day they launched a fresh drive against
the Russians, indicating a halt in the Rus
sian offensive which seemed likely last week
to accomplish much. On the Baltic front
the fortunes of war are about equal, each
side at various times holding the advantage.
In Galicia the Germans have been checked
in their effort to reach Lemberg from the
south, but they have started an attack on the
Russians on the river San north of PrzomsyI.
The Austro-German attack on the Dniester
in Southeast Galicia has proved favourable
in its results, and a Russian official ommun
Que admits that the enemy has crossed the
river at several points. The movement III
the south east resembles Shat which failed
further up the Dniester at ZuraWDa, but on
a wider scale. The Austro- German right
wing is only twenty miles from the Rumanian
frontier and their left wing reaches as far as
Halicz, where many attacks have been de-
liyerea against a bridgehead. The centre
of the operations is Kolomea, whence the
main attacks which carried the Austro-Ger-
mans across the Dniester in several places
are being launched. simultaneously the
Germans are proceeding with their attack on
the Russian centre on the River Rawka, west
of Warsaw. successfully, according to their
report.
In the Western zone there have been artil-
lery engagements from the sea to the Woevre
region and even beyond that district, and
here and there infantry fighting has occurred,
the French attempting to force the Germans
from their strongly entrenched positions and
the Germans trying to recover lost ground.
A big German offensive, predicted several
days ago, has not materlalzed, but is stu
expected.
Dispatches from Rome state that the TIA
W.. Lo1o honr1O 70 oftoOE ExOrif1 which 10
among the Austrians most strongly fortified
frontier positions. The Italians have cut
communications north and south of Goritz,
which is now dependent entirely on a diff
cult mountain road eastward. An Italian
airship has made a successful raid on the
Austrian arsenal at Pola, by which it claimed
that the arsenal was almost destroyed aud
several w~arships damaged. The Austrians
are reported to have brought up $4,000
troops snd "a batteries along the Isonzo
river.
On Sunday submarines sank the British
ship "Crown of India" and the Norwegian
barque "Bellglade", and the trawler ply
mouth was OUTRAGED and sunk by a sub
marine.
England has seized the Standard Oil
tanker "PIaturia' for the third time in this
war.
AdviceS tf0m perm slate LAaI the Ofu6F
of Merit has been conferred upon Captain
Horsin, the commander of the submarine
which sank the "Lusitania.'
The division among the German newspa-
pers regarding the United States Note is
increasing. The Socialists paper "Vorwarts"
quotes its New York correspondent as stat
ING that niue-tenths of Americans support
President Wilson, and that the United
States is prepared for a rupture of relations
and would begin by selling German property
in the United States. especially steamships,
and it warns Germany against false reports
of the American position. Herr Maximilliau
Harden, the we'll known editor and writer,
declared that the sinking of the "Lusit"nia'
was a political mistake, and that Germans
are wrong in resenting Americans sale of
munitions. He also considers that the man
ner of the German submarine warfare costs
Germany more. morally and politically, than