, 1915-07-10

on our left contributed 10 the success of this
enterprise with the fire of their guns and
trench mortars."
General Sir Ian Hamilton first full report
on the operations in the Dardanelles gives
details up to a month ago. He warmly
praises the gallantry of the French and Bri-
fish troops under almost insurmountable
difficulties aud declares that he knows of no
fner feat of arms than the storming of the
trenches from open bouts on April 25th,
while machine guns were focusing u deadly
fire upon the wire entanglements which the
heroic wire-cntteIs shipped away like The
pruning Of a vineyard, under u hellish fire.
He pays a warm tribute to the Navy, which
was father anil mother to the Army, tue
warships, mine sweepers aud picket boats not
giving a thought to themselves, but ri-king
everything to give their soldier comrades %
fair run in at the enemy.
The Russians have checked the Austro-
Germans ut almost every point; nevertheless
an Austrian official bulletin claims that pro-
gress is being made in a critical sector
northeast of Krasnik and further east along
the river Vieprz, in the neighbourhood OF
T%arnogrod, and according to another Aus
trian official despatch the Russians are re-
firing beyond Tarnogrod along the Vieprz.
A Russian official communicate states tnat'
the Austrian offensive east Of KrasDik has
been stopped by an attack on their fink,
resulting in heavy losses to the enemy, and
that desperate fighting is proceeding in this
territory.
A German official despatch reports gains
on the northern Polish front and the leaving
OF the south-eastern conflict to the Austti-
ans, who emphasize the advance on the
centre, between the Bug and the VIstula,
made by them.
According to unofficial reports, the Ger
mans are planning Il new Offensive in the
West, to duplicate their GaliciHn tactics aud
to break through to Calais at all costs.
These reports come almost simultaneously
from Zurich, Brussels, Paris aud Amster-
dam, aud the London papers give them pro-
minence. According to Zurich, ten German
corps, recently recuperating in the interior
OF Germany from the Galician campaign, are
now moving westward.
In the Italo-Austrian campaign the fight
ing ia the Coritz district developed into 81
general battle when an attack was made by
the Third Italian Army. which advanced
under the protection Of a fierce artillery fire,
but according to an Austrian fioial bulletin
the attack was completely repulsed. Italian
sirmen have dropped bombs on a factory at
Trieste.
1t is announced that under the Defence
u bu0 Ont AOC 0NNOAo HAOh ASS N"AS0
over the control of the sale Of liquors in
many districts where war material is made,
loaded, uuloaded. or otherwise dealt With,
including Bristol, Monmouth and surround
Ing towns, Newhaven, southampton, Now
port, Cardiff, Barry, Barrow-in-Furness,
Liverpool and most of the munition centres
of Yorkshire.
In the House of Lords, Lord Middleton
called attention to the growth OF the civil
expenditure and moved that, considering
the necessary expenditure on the war, in the
opinion of the House it WAS incumbent
GU the Government to take immediate
steps to reduce the civil expenditure. he
said that assuming peace conditions from
March S1st 1916, the national debt would be
1898 20 900 pounds, and that If taxation
continued as now there would be a deficit
eof fourteen million pounds in the annual
interest alone. Lords Lansdowne and
Haldane assented, and Lord Loreburn said
that il wisdom did not come to the councils
of Europe they were going straight to
European bankruptcy in a comparatively
short time. England, he declared, was more
likely to endure than other countries, the
resolution of the people being as strong, or
9 ronger perhaps than when the war began,
but that nevertheless when one considered
a. ~.1L-1 81 ooO1a~al that c;o;