, 1915-07-10

at the latest report Arras was on fire and the
cathedral is reported to have been destroyed.
Fighting of the hardest description at close
range ia taking place in the Woevre region,
where the Crown Prince is pushing the often
siye vigorously to regain the ground lost to
the French in April, and has captured some
trenches on the tip of the ST. Mihiel salient.
The French say that elsewhere the Germas
attacks broke down and they fell back after
paying a heavy toll in casualties.
Berlin announces that the Germans recap
tured on Wednesday the trenches taken from
them by the British on Tuesday.
The Italians have made many desperate
attacks along the Isonzo front and have been
forced to meet counter-attacks in force, both
sides suffering great losses.
It is officially announced in Rome that
during q reconnaissance III force ID the upper
Adriatic the Italian armOured cruiser Canal
ii" was torpedoed at dawn on Wednesday
morning by an Austrian submarine. She
soon listed heavily and her commander, before
giving orders for the crew to jump overheard
cried ''long live the King" "long live Italy"
the entire crew drawn up along her stem
echoing the shouts and giving o remarkable
exhibition of courage and discipline. The
commander was the last to leave the ship,
slipping overheard shortly before the canal
Fl" sank. Nearly all the officers and crew
were saved.
The Bank OF Englaud's reserve ratio is
now 17R.
A Board of Trade report states that the
imports for June increased over those OF
1914 by 817,835, BAT, while the exports de-
creased by 1868, 976. The increases in
imports were mostly i'll food, cotton and raw
materials, the decreases in exports being in
manufactured noocklv oOtfon faxtilao This
signifies that the submarine blockade has
been ineffective, as further appears from o
speech delivered by MIR. Norman Hall, Secre-
tary to the Liverpool Steamship Owners
Association, in which he stated that in each
one thousand arrivals at and departures from
Liverpool, 998 completed their voyages I'M
lnoiested, and that only 20 vessels were sunk
in 20 900 sailings.
Mr.. Lloyd George h0s informed the House
of Commons that steps have been taken to
prevent the expectation of lead, spelter, an
timoLy, nick!e and other metals useful in the
manufacture OF munitions.
The House of Commons has rejected an
amendment including women in the Nation
al Registration Bill, although petitions were
presented from al! portions OF the United
Kingdom.
Mr.. McKenns, Chancellor Of the Exche-
NuoA1 III duhW0k ~ ii QuSbI4Ou SAlA Ii 0ON~
ernment cannot undertake to compensate
for losses at sea owing to the action OF the
enemy, that is. compensation for the loss
of the "Lusitania" will not be made.
A French official report, covering the
action in the Dardanelles on the fourth
instant, describes it as the most important
since May, adding, "their purpose was to
drive US into the sea, but decimated by
artillery fire and moved downed by our rifles
and machine guns. most of our assailants
did not leave the battlefield and mono sue
ceeded in reaching our trenches.
New York, July 0th-The British steamer
''Miunehaha" has reported by wireless to
her Agents, the Atlantic Transport Line, TINT
a fire occurred on board, caused by an
explosion, but is now under control by suf-
location and steam. Owing however to
there being much smoke in her hold, the
Captain deemed it expedient to make for
Halifax, where he is due to-day.
The foregoing incident is according to
Hollis warning IN his letter to his wife
that a steamer leaving New York for Liv-
erpool should sink on the seventh, but
there is no other reason to suppose
that he is responsible. The "Minne-
haha' carries a crew Of one hundred
and fifty eight, but no passengers.
and sailed secretly because her cargo con-