, 1915-01-13
ST. CROIX STATION
(Continued from 18th paqe.)

munique issued yesterday afternoon says:
From the sea to the Disc there have been
artillery duels. On the Aisne, in the region
of SCISSORS, the enemy despite many attacks
has not been able to recapture the trenches
he lost, and has again bombarded SCISSORS.
In the country from Rheims to the Argonne
our artillery shelled the German trenches
very effectively at several points, driving
away bodies of sappers.
The positions gained at Perthes and
around that village have been organized and
a coanter-attack by the enemy west of Per-
thes has been repulsed. In the neighbour
hood of La Ferte de Beauseiour we have
made two fold progress by gaining ground
10 the west and taking possession of a field
fort north thereof. In the Argonne the enc
nay bombarded the region of Four de Paris
and we replied and destroyed a German
bIockhouse. On the heights of the Meuse,
in the forest of Apremont, an attack by the
enemy was checked by our artillery. In the
Vosges, northwest of Wattweiler, in the re-
gion of Thanh, we repulsed an attack"
A Petrograd stmi-oficial statement says
that an the naval engagement on Wednesday
an the Black Sea, between the Russian and
Turkish warsAips, the Turkish cruisers
@sBresl&u' and s'Hamldiyeh' were badly
damaged.
Dispatches from Baenos Aires state that
the German warship sunk of the coast Of
Brazil by a British cruiser according to the
first reports was she "Von der Tam, while
later reports say it was the karlsruhe" but
her identity is still doubtful.
LORD Roseherry speaking at Edinburgh,
said: "Great Britain is fighting with her back
to the wall. She cannot give way without
being permanently subjected and she cannot
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man. Germany also has her back TO the wall and
sheknows that if she is beaten in this war, she
is beaten down for ever. Therefore if sufficient
recruits are not to be obtained for the Bri-
fish army under the voluntary system, there
should soon be some system of compulsory
enlistment"
As q result Of the recent speech by Lord
Haldane, Lloyds has quoted twenty per cent
to pay total loss if compulsory military SER
vice should become law in Great Britain dur
ing the next six months.
The WESTMINSTER Gazette" says that
there has been no effort in voluntary recruit
ing, not even that OF the United States IN it's
civil war, which approximates to that which
we are now witnessing in this country. There
has been no moment, since the beginning
of the war. at which the preparation of new
armies has been held up by lack of numbers,
but there have been many moments at which
the numbers of those Offering themselves
has gone beyond the power to ab-
eorb them. Having regard to the pro
portion of men OF military age now
enrolled, to the numbers still presenting
themselves and to the waiting lists prepared
by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee,
there is no reason to suppose that failure III
numbers will be a difficulty for the Govern
ment.
Dispatches from Berlin state that the
Prussian Military State has issued q notice
that, in view Of the seriousness of the times,
the greater public festivities, such as dinners,
theatricalg and dances should be postponed
on the occasion of the Kaiser's birthday, but
on the other hand celebrations of appropri-
ate significance are contemplated for all
creeds.
The COLOGNE Gazette" says that the
Germans resident in Vienna are arrang-
ing to post one million post cards,
bearing his portrait. to the Kaiser on his
birthday, as a millionfold greeting; but the
paper deprecates the idea and hopes that
the proposers will abandon it,
The British shipping industry is expert
encing the greatest boom ever known, In
the River Plata market the recor drate of sixty
two shilllngs and six pence per ton has been
paid for prompt tonnage for a cargo Of oats,
while ffty-two shillings and six pence has
been paid on heavy grain. Towards the end
of July the rates for the River Plata were
merely nominal and tonnage was compelled
60 seek employment in the United States
ports. The Value OF a million tons of British
shipping has risen fully thirty per cent with
in the past four months. while freights have
risen three to four hundred per cent, and
new tramps which are being built in fran
tic haste have been booked as far ahead
as 1916. Certain British steamships from
South American to European ports, which
were barely covering expenses in August,
are now clearing seven thousand pounds,