, 1915-07-17
Censored at Jamaica.)

Censored at Jamaica.)
London, July 15th-The new German
operations in the West, led at one point by
the Grown Prince, were continued with I'M
remitting violence Oh Tuesday. The French
withstood the assault in most places, except
at Souchez, where the enemy added to his
gains on Monday. Never since the battle
of the Marine has fighting on the Western
front compared in intensity or losses with
the present. Asphyxiating shells on Tues
day played u prominent part in most violent
actions by the Germans all along the road
between Binarville and Vienne le Chateau,
au infantry assault being preceded by a
heavy cannonade, but the French prevented
any gains by the forces under the Crown
Prince ia this region. The French fortress
of Verdun is the objective Of one part Of the
German offensive, after the failure in the
forest of Argonne the Germans trying by
coDcentric attacks to capture the most Access
sible parts of the citadel and establish bat
teries for Smelling the city, but the French
regard the defenses rs adequate. Between
Fey en- Haye and the forest the French
have gained ground in this region, the oper-
atoms taking the form of hand grenade
fighting in tunnels. From "the Labyrinth
the Germans launched q particularly fierce
attack against the French, bat Paris reports
that the assault was repulsed and the enc
my's forces ~decimated.
According to q Berlin official state
ment the Germans have maintained their
gain of Monday at Souchez and have
advanced across the cemetery along q six
hundred yard front and captured the
Cabaret Rouge.
Thirty-ive French aeroplanes swept over
the railroad station serving the Calonue
trench region and the Apremont forest.
The wind was forty miles and hour, never
theless one hundred aud seventy-oue bombs
were dropped and several fires started. All
the airmen returned.
In the Eastern arena the operations are
entering on q new phase. The Russians,
having been successful in their counter
offensive against the Austrians in the region
OF Krasnik, have taken new positions in the
hills north of the town and are waiting
for the AustrO-G ermans to make q move,
which it is expected will not long be delayed,
Field Marshal Won Mackensen having had
time to receive reinforcements and supplies
for the next great effort to secure con-
troll of the dublin Cholm railway.
A Vienna official statement says that an
attack by the Italians has been repulsed.
In the House of Lords, Lord Lansdowne,
III moving the second reading of the Nation
al Register Bill, admitted that the Govern
ment had proved lacking in the crisis, through
detective organisation and not from any de-
fciency of patriotism or popular goodwill,
its failure in this respect leaving the com
munity without the guidance necessary to
assure that its members were applying
themselves most efficiently, "therefore,"
he declared eve have been convicted
as a nation of a prodigious ineficiency whose
recurrence the nation would not tolerate.
We left The civilians to themselves to work
at full speed, half speed, or not to
work, and also 10 sell THEN labour to whom
they pleased, and we now realize that this
was incompatible with the safety Of the EN-
pire. The Old $50 as you please" system
having broken down, the stream of equip