, 1915-07-10

NANs
Carnia, artillery attacks have been made by
the Italians, supported by infantry charge.
The Austrians, supported by heavy artillery
fire, attempted to re-take the trenches on
the northern slope of VLgrande, but we've
repulsed. They also made repeated counter
attacks against several lines on the Carso
plateau with machine guns and artillery, but
failed to drive their way through and re-
tired utter losing 300 men, guns and mu-
nitions.
General Sir Tan Hamilton reports: con
Friday, after a very violent commandment
OF our advanced position by heavy explo-
sives and shrapnel, the euemy's infantry nd.
vanced, but was driven back to his main
lines in a nullah one mile from our front,
the accurate shooting OF the destroyer
scorpion" and our rife aud machine gun.
3 fire being chiefly instrumt ntnl in turning the
enemy at this time. In the evening the
Turkish artillery the bonn
bardment, under cover Of which two batta-
lions emerged from a nullah to the north
west, towards our most advanced trenches,
and began to march across open ground in
two regular lines, o very accurate fire by the
Tenth battery of the Royal Field Artillery
causing great execution among the at
tackers. The Ghurka supports then ad-
vNnced, there being insufficient room ia
VIC I0uCu6SJ Huu tOOh uP q PO6I-
ton behind some excavated earth, from
which they poured a deadly fire on the ad-
vancing lines. The Turkish officers were
seen endeavouring to get their men forward,
but they would not face our fire and retrent-
ed i'll disorder, suffering heavy casualties.
The ground before our trenches In every
direction was strewn with the Turkish dead,
and patrols sent out during the night re-
ported that the valleys and nullnhs were
full of the enemy's dead. 1t is impossible
to doubt that the enemy's losses were very
heavy, and after checking and counter
checking the reports from all sources, l put
their total casualties between June 28ih and
July 2nd at $3.50 killed and $4,000 wounded.
The number killed is approximately correct
while the estimate of the number wounded is
based partly on the knowledge of the num-
Der already arrived ut Constantinople and
ON our experience regarding the proportion
of wounded to killed in previous en-, age
ments. Since June twenty-ninth the to;al
amount Of Turkish arms and ammunition
collected is SIG rifles, fifty one bayonets, two
hundred sets of equipment, 126,4OO rounds
of ammunition and one hundred bombs. [
send the following extract from Turkish
divisional orders which have fallen into our
hands: "Nothing causes us more sorrow, or
increases the courage of the enemy more,
or encourages him to attack more vl9Or-
ously, causing us great losses, than los
ing these trenches, and henceforth we
will hold responsible all officers who did
not shoot with their own r~evolvers all pri-
Yates who try to escape from the trenches
on any pretext." The following Note was
appended by the commander of the first
battalion, after stating that the contents of
the order would be communicated to the
officers, II promise to carry the orders till
my last drop of blood has been shed"
The Admiralty announces, relative to 10
report from Berlin of an air raid on Harwich,
that the incident otherwise was hardly worth
recording. On Saturday forenoon % German
seaplane and aeroplane appeared off Harwich,
flying very high. Our aircraft immediately
started in pursuit and drove off the hostile
aircraft. which dropped their bombs into he
sea and escaped, still flying at a great height.
Advices from Queenstown state that the
British steamship "Anglo-Californian" has
arrived there riddled with shells from a Ger
man submarine. Nine persons were killed
on the decks, including Captain F~arslow, and
eight were wounded below, the four hour
fight terminating when British destroyers
came to the rescue. The submarine when
within range opened fire Oh the "Anglo-Ouli-
foro.onO emo shot dnotroviDU Tho xU;ra1oce