, 1915-10-27

has obtained further success
A Vienna official announcement says:
sAlong the whole Italian front fierce battles
are proceeding. III the Tyrol numerous
heavy attacks on our strong positions have
failed, and in the DoloIDites new Italian
attacks near The froutie. bridge south of
Schluderbach, have been stopped. The enc
my in this region is putting forth his utmost
efforts, but uowhere has he obtained the
slightest advance.
From the Russian front a Berlin official
statement reports: North east of Mitau we
have occupied the bank of the Dwina from
Borkowitz to Bersemueub, the booty
taken in the engagements in this district
being six machine-guns and 1925 prisoners.
On the Styr, in the region of CzartorYsk,
local engagements have DEVELOPED and part
of a German division fighting there was
forced by the numerical superiority Of the
enemy to retreat to a position further to the
rear, whereby q few cannon held in their
positions to the last moment we've lost. A
counter-Attack is proceeding.
A Russian official communiqu6 states:
'In the districts southeast of Barnnovitehi
our troops, after a dashing surprise attack,
captured the German positions near Ekimo-
vlchi, Odokhorschina and Nagornia, and we
made So German and Austrian officers aud
1852 men prisoners, and took il addition
ten quick-hrcrs and one gun. Our aero
planes threw dozens Of bombs in the ont
skirts of MItau, causing greaJ damage to the
railway and to the euemy's stores. In the
region of Paiakaneu, east of Olai, tile Ger
mans under cover OF smoke clouds made
fou1 uusuccessful attacks.
The House Of Commons has rejected by a
majority of 1855 votes the Freetraders' pro
posaI not to impose the new duties under
the Finance Bill upon Imports from the Over
sea Domlni0us.
Mr.. Asquith has left London for the conn-
try aud it is expected that he VIII attend
the House Of Commons on Tuesday next.
The "Daily Chronicle exposes what it
calls ga conspiracy to o%verturn the Gov
eminent, naming Lord Northclitfe as a Cab
met Nrecker upon the conscriptlon issue.
The paper declares that an alternative Gov
eminent, naming the principal Ministers,
would not mman Il majority, and that the
nation is more ready to accept consci ption
from the present Ministry. \ dissolution is
impossible without Mr.. Asquith's assent.
Lord Derby, with the assent of Mr.. AS
qu!th and Lord Kitchener, has sent a letter
to every eligible person, not engogeii in NUM-
tons work. asking each TO consider whether
he is a~ffording the support England pro-
missed to her Allies.
The correspondent Of the Exchange Tele-
graph Coy. at Copenhagen sta,es that Che
British have driven the German trawlers
from the North Sea and that fish is in con-
sequence dearer il Germany and Sweden.
There is intense anger in Germany and de-
nunciation Of the British violations of the
laws of war and scandinavian neutrality, and
tue German Press iucltes Sweden to siuk
the British submarines. The Germans ad-
NIT that six ships have been sunk and an
nOunce that the submarines Will be opposed
by Zeppelins.
A despatch from Stockholm states that a
German armed truwler wounded several meu
aboard the Swedish submarine "Hvalen",
which she mistook for a British vessel, and
that Sweden has instructed her Minister at
Berlin to protest.
The greatest indignation hes been caused
in England by the receipt of the details OF
the execution of Miss Edith Cavell, lately
head of the Nurses School at Brussels, on a
charge of espionage. The details have been
supplied by the United States Ministry to
Belgium, and disclose surprising deceit and
brutality by the Germans. There are ex-
pressious of grateful confidence that the
United States exhausted all the possibilities
of intervention The newSDaDers dOu0uncA