, 1916-07-15

lie tfeAEeN as Il WaIStlp IeSdANlUHS u "h9
ruling Tie United States Government may
make. Ii the Deutschland" is destroyed by
a British warship the State Department will
make no enquiries. These facts were made
plain at the British Embassy and at the
State Department to-day.
Paris, July 12th-AccOrding to a despatch
to the journal from the Italian front the Aus
trians appear to have evacuated Tolnino on
the Isonzo front.
B~erlin,J nly u 1.-Two German aeropIanes
made an attack on the Channel port OF Gaia
is on Monday night, it was announced OH
cially TO day. They dropped bombs on the
port and on army ~encampmenls.
London, July 10 h-As an immediate
result of the great North Sea battle nearly
200 British merchantmen have been released
from Baltic ports, according to the Morning
Papers. These ships have been lying idle
in PetrogIad, Kloustadt and other Baltic
barbours since the outbreak Of the War. They
have pushed through the Cattegat without
interference from German warsbips and
arrived safely in British ports.
Paris, July 12th-The Germans delivered
two attacks last night on q French posi-
ton in the neighbourhood of Dead Mans
Hill on the Verdun front. The War Office
announcement of to-day says that both these
assaults fuiled breaking own under the
Er6nCQ IRE. LlSG OF me M6u z, Tile HieuCu
retook part of the ground won yesterday by
the Germans. In the operations east OF the
Meuse the French took 80 prisoners of whom
one is an Officer. The French conducted
successful raids in the Champagne and i'll
Lorraine.
London, July 11th-The Germans, hasti-
Iy reinforced, delivered strong attacks
against the British on the Sonlme front last
night They gained gr und III Mametz aud
Trones woods. All other German attacks
were beaten off. Between the main bat
tleield and the sea we have been active
Iy engaged in bombnrding the enemy's
positions raiding his front lines. South east
of Loos a party OF RoyaI Irish Flu miners
penetrated the %eneny's trenches ut Il point
where they were strongly held, and renamed
there for twenty minutes, during Which time
heavy fighting took place in the trenches.
Many Germans were killed. Our casualties
we're slight. Several combats in the air took
place on July 10'h., rs a result Of which we
destroyed one German machine while one of
our machines was brought down by the enc
my's g%un-ire.
London, July ~12th.-Special dispatches
from Petrograd reflect the feeling that Pinsk
is likely soon to fall before General Brus-
iloff's advance. The "Daily News Petro-
grad Correspondent says @:The situation at
Pinsk ls extremely complicated FOR the Ger
mans. Pinsk is now the extreme point of
the German promontory running into Rus
sian territory. Owing to the wide sweep of
the Russian advance from the Lutsk salient
in the past few days, any attempt by the
Germans to hold up The Russians by an at
tuck on the flank, must now be made north
of the Pnsk marshes.
Rome, July 1lth.-An Italian naval unit
this morning successfully attacked the Aus
trian hydro base at Parenzo in Istria. 1t
silenced the new and strong shore batteries
and put to flight four Austrian vessels from
Trieste.
Amsterdam, July 11th.-A tornado on
Monday wrecked Josephstadt, a suburb of
Vienna, says the Vienna "Neustadt," accord
ing to a telegram received here Ihirty-one
persons were killed aud more than a hundred
were injured seriously.
London, July 11th.-The very general
approval which is expressed in regard to Mr..
Asquith's Home Rule Statement is another
indication of the extent to which the ex-
terual struggle has obliterated internal strife.
With certain reservations, the Londnn Press
acquiesces in the main argument that this is
an opportune moment to remove the peril of
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