, 1915-06-05
Censored at jamaica.

and knew nothing until reading about them
subsequently. The riots following the raids
were chiefly confined to SboreditcL, Hoxlon
and Pimlico Walk. A few arrests have
been nude.
A German oficinl statement says: GAS
a reprisai for the bombardment of the open
town of gshafen we threw numerous
bOuIbs on Monday night on the whnrVes and
aud docks of London. The enemy airmen
GA the same night bombarded Osteud dam
aging some houses, aud without causing any
Other injury.
The "Daily News commenting on the
Berlin statement says 'fIhi5 is impudent
and false. The British air raids always
have a specific military objective. Ger
mnDy's raid on London was not retnllatory,
but the elimination of a deliberate cam
paign long intended and undoubtedly the
precursor of more serious raids"
An official despatch from Cairo states
That Turkish prisoners, who recently arrived
in Egypt, say thai the Ottoman losses on
the GaIlipoli Peninsula have been terribly
heavy. The Twentieth regiment was almost
unniAiiated, the colonel being the only off
Ger escaping death OF capture, and almost
equally severe were the losses in the FIT
teonth and Fifty-sixth regiments. The gaps
among the officers are being filed by naval
officers and cadets from the military school,
while men from every military class, namely,
Redif and Mustahfz, are now found IN the
same INIT. An Arab officer said II was made
a prisoner q fortnight ago. We then had
lost o minimum of forty thousand men IL
killed and wounded.
A Russian official communicate states:
The Teutonic Allies opened on Sunday Il
violent fire and delivered q series OF attacks
against our front west and northwest OF
Permysl, from number seven to number
eleven along the line of forts. On Sunday
night they succeeded in approaching 10
within two hundred PAGES of some of these
sectors, attacked and even broke into the
precincts OF fort seven, around which surg
ed an obstinate fight until 2 o'clock in the
afternoon on Monday, when they were re-
pulsed with enormous losses, and the rem
lant of those who entered fort seven NUM-
bering % officers and 900 men were taken
prisoners. Above the Dniester the enemy,
mainly Germans, threw their reserves into a
battle in the region close to the Stry, but
the result of fighting is unknown. On the
river Svl tEa our troops have continued their
success. The prisoners taken here counted
between Friday and Sunday while en- route
to the rear, numbered 238 officers and 10,442
mem.
An Austrian official statement says "On
bAC RAOLb II L iLCu1So d t6O
stormed three defences of The girdle OF forts,
capturing l,400 prisoners and % heavy guns.
South of the Dniester the Allied troops pene-
trated the Russian defensive position and
defeated them, conquering Sty, aud the
Russians are retreating towards the Dnlester.
We captured So officers, over 5000 men,
s cannon and l5 machine guns.
The French are still forcing the Germans
back around Souchez and Melville north of
Arras. La a series of hand to hand fighting
the sugar refinery at SoucheE was captured,
lost md retaken, and is now in French hands,
according TO an official despatch from Paris.
The Germans southeast of MELVILLE are be-
ing slowly forced from one trench to anoth.
er. The Germans claim to have recaptured
lii the forest of LIE Pr6tre the trenches lost
on Sunday, which the French confirm. Both
communiques agree that the loss of life on
the Arras front has been heavy.
Advices from Rome state that with thirty
Seven villages captured in he Ampezzo valley
the Italians now threaten the Austrian city of
hoVeledo, thirteen miles from Trent, and they
nave occupied the important heights of Zngna,
winch dominate Roveredo six miles away.
Reallzlng the danger, the Austrians ordered
the Judges of courts and other persons be-
longing to institutions considered useless,
10 be transferred to Mezolombardo, ten