, 1916-07-15

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The Hague, July 13th.-A Bill providing
for an extraordinary war credit of rs, 200, 900
forms was submitted to-day to the Second
. Chamber.
Petrograd, July 13th.-Important success
ses for the Russians in the Caucasus are an
nounced in the Official communication issued
BY the War Office tonight. The text of the
statement is as follows. After hand to hand
combats the Turks were driven from heights
east of Baiburt and are now retreating. Our
offensive west of Mamkhatun continues
successfully. After a violent night battle we
occupied q series of heights southwest of
Mamakhatun. The Turks attempted to take
the offensive but were thrown back, Press
ing closely upon the enemy we took the villa
ges of Djetiae and Almali.
Amsterdam, j ulyI13th.-The Socialist news
paper Tribune asserts that SIS, 900 workmen
employed in munitions factories and e%lectri-
cal works in Berlin and in an aerodrome at
Jonannisthal have gone on. strike as a pro-
test against the prison sentence i'm
posed on DR.. Karl Liebkpecht, the Socialist
leader, for participation in the May Day
demonstration at Berlin.
London July 13th.-The British expedition
in Mesopotamia is still at Sannayat about
fifteen miles below Kut-el-Amara on the Figris
according to an Official statement issued to-
day. The statement says: The British forces
have been subjected to an ineffective artil-
lery attack.
Washington, July 13tb.--An Admiralty
cablegram to the British Embassy here says
that positive proof has been found that two
great German dreadnoughts, the "Kaiser"
aud the "Kron Prinz", $4,000 tons, were
sunk by torpedoes during the battle off Jut-
land, and that they now have been added
to the Official British list of German ships
destroyed.
~ London, July 18th. Lord Newton, ex-
planning in the House of Lords to-day how
10000 German prisoners of War are being
occupied in timber camps and quarries, in
making roads and other duties, and how
Others had been sent to France to be an
ployed in accordance with the provisions OF
the Hague Convention, aud that as q reprisal
Germany had sent some British prisoners
into Russian territory where they were badly
trea ted. He said that Officials of the Amer
lean Embassy in Berlin had been barred from
visiting their camps. Lord Newton also COM
mented on the esprit of stupidity and ignor-
ance fos tered by a certain section of thePress."
All atte mps to employ the more than 10000
interned aliens in Great Britain had proved
hopeless, he declared. Lord Newton said
he had tried to induce the Government. to
employ some of these men, but was immedi-
ately threatened with O strike with some
thing like los, 900 men. Unless a more in
telligent spirit prevailed, Lord Newton
asserted, the end of the War would find
Great Britain with Thousands of these aliens
still behind ~barbedwire, demoralized and
broken in health, and constituting q serious
problem after peace.
London, July 13th.-Viscount Mersey,
arbitrator in the case of the cargo of the
American steamship "Wilhelmina" which was
seized and placed in the Prize Court on Feby.
11th., 1915, to-day awarded 478.4O0 to the
w. L. Green Commission Co., of st. Louis,
owners of the cargo. The Green Go. asked for
486,161, while the British Government
offered 933, 142 as compensation. Interest
at the rate of so also will be paid from
Sept. 18th. 1915 to the date of payment Of
the award.
Toxic, July 13th.-Despatches stating that
Japan has authorized the construction of four
super -dreadnoughts are untrue and mislead-
ing. According to Press reports which are
contradictory the navy has submitted to the
Finance Department a repletion programme to
be introduced in the Japanese Diet involving
the expenditure Of about ESQ, 100000 you in
seven years. This programme calls for the
construction of three super-dreadnoughts, two
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