, 1916-02-26

for Bordeaux on Thursday Feb 24th, have re-
ceiyed anonymous letters calling attention TO
the ut w submarine policy announced by Ger
many and warning them not 10 embark, accord
ing to information received by officials of the
British Consulate here to. day. At the British
Consulate tonight it was said that similar
Letters TO others who had booked passage on
the "Espagne" had been forwarded to the
Consulate.
New York, Feby. 22nd-The London
correspondent of the New York "Herald"
cables this morning: [ am informed Tint
the organization of the air defence of
Britain is to be entrusted to Lord Derby,
whose recruiting campaign has added
more than one million men to the Army,
and that when he has coordinated the naval
and military air services the post OF Dlrec-
tor General of military aerOnautics will be
confer ell on General Sir David Henderson,
who is ali aviation expert, assisted by Brl-
eadier-General Treucheard who has had
much experience in aviation and is now
Aide de-Camp to the King. Lord Derby,
it is understood, is 10 be air Member Of the
Cabinet, and it is also understood that
Lord Robert Cecil is to be raised to Cabinet
rank and entrusted with the responsibility
for the rigid enforcement of the naval
blockade of Germany and A ustria.
Quebec, Feby. 21st-Sensational talk is
going about a fire that to-day completely
destroyed The 100000 BEAUFORT Church.
The city editor Of lie SoleiI, Quebec's lead
ing daily, admits this after noon that some
days ago he received an anonymous letter
from BEAUFORT saying that Pastor de Siel
of that Parish had been threatened by ano-
nymous letters presuma bly, coming from
sympathizers of Germans interned at the
BEAUFORT armOury,
London, Feby. 22rd-The Salonica COR
respondent Of the "Daily Mail", referring to
the effects of the capture of Erzerum, men
tions Il rumour, as yet uncOnfrmed, that the
American Ambassador to Turkey, Mr.. Henry
Morgenthau has been approached by Turkey
with u view to sounding Russia on the ones
ton of q separate peace. The Turks, accord
ing to this correspondent, are also reported
to be strengthening their defences OF
Chatalja and Adrianople while 100000 Bull
CARS have been Withdrawn from Serbia for
the Danube front of Roumania Tn cor
respondent says the tall of ErZ4rum will
have great effect on public opinion in the
Balkans. He adds that Greece seems to be
swinging III favour of the All es,who are daily
receiving reinforcements at Salouica and
strengthening their positions.
Paris, Feb. 22nd-.The text of the French
official statemeut given out this afternoon is
as follows: In the Artois district after the vlo-
lent bombardment previously reported to
have taken place yesterday during the
evening, the enemy delivered a strong at
tack against our positions at the forest of
Givenchy. They were successful i'll pene-
truting into our first line of trenches along
q front of about 800 metres and at several
places they gained lodgeme t in our COM
municating trenches. There followed q
counter-attack on our part aud as a result
the enemy bold now only a few positions
in this latter trenches. The German attack
ing force at this point consisted OF seven but
talious. They suffered heavy losses as
a result of our curtain of fire, and
from the activities of our infantry
and our machine-guns. To the southeast
OF Roclincourt the enemy caused the explo-
sion of q mine, but our troops occupied the
scruter. AT Brabant-Sur-M euse, between8the
forest of Hautet and Herbe forest, the Ger
mans gained a footing in some of our advan-
ced trenches. At certain points they pushed
on to our communicating trenches, but our
counter attacks drove them out from these
latter positions. We took about so prisoners.
To the east of Seppois two German attacks
were repulsed by us. There has been
considerable artillery activity along the
CO.