, 1916-01-15

This is the first news of The exploit given TO
the public.
Paris, Jany. 11th.-The French Parlia-
ment assembled to-day. In opening his
spaech Baron de Mackau, who is the oldest
of the Deputies, said Goods hour has not
yet struck. The country's trials will con-
tinue but it accepts the trials with the couf-
dence and tenacity of the first days aud fol-
lows without hesitation the vigilant guard
ians of it's honour Gallieni, Joffre ard Sarrail.
1t looks tenderly towards the Army in which
all social conditions, workmen ia towns, coun-
try priests, sons Of the families Of France
both ancient and modern who have won by
science and lab0ur their titles to nobility,
are united in the same passionate enthu-
siasm and march in step toward glory and
supreme sacrifice worthy of the best
days of their country. They epgrnve afresh
the sacred name of France on the tablets Of
history" A similar stirring address was de-
livered in the Senate where the veteran Sena-
tor Latnppy who presided attributed Frances
state OF unpreparedness for a German inva-
sion to a long series of Ministerial c~atastro-
plies which, with every change of Ministry
had the effect Of interrupting the work of
national defence and neglectinP that supreme
work owing to "their being hypnoiized by q
too ardent desire TO cure the sufferings aud
i'll of humanity. If France had had at the
beginning of the war only half the armaments
she had at the present time he said, "the Ger
mans would never had entered France. The
Germans, he continued, "were out of breath
now and knowing that they were unable to
fight in the open field had hidden them
selves under ground in a way that in
troduced a new method of warfare.
However, French military genius had quickly
learned to initiate this, and it remained for
the country to maintain ''the sacred union
and resolve to conquer or die"
Petrograd, Jan. 12th-According to n
private message from Kiev the number Of
prisoners taken by the Russians in the last
three weeks fighting is much greater than
was supposed from the official reports. A
party of 1900 has just reached Kiev. 1t is
said there are 10000 more in the rear of
the fighting line, this number being exclu-
sive of the wounded whom the enemy are
abandoning wholesale. Prisoners declare
that the Austro-German have lost 100, 00O
wounded in Bukowina. Details of the
fighting for Khriask, north Of Czartorvsk,
indicate the stubborness of the opposition
which the Russians have TO overcome. Having
crossed he Styr and seized the village the
Russians began to entrench in the outskirts. +
Dense masses of the enemy appeared on
the heights a milo from the village and
though deluged with shrapnel slreamed
Town to the plain and vanished in a guIly
where they recovered their breath. AS
soon as they e. erged they were met
with a whitening fire from the Rus
sian machine-guns and rifles which swept
them off their feet in sheaves and sent the
remnants flying Lack to the gully. Further
attempts were made to advance AMI then a
Russian bayonet charge cleared the gully
and the Austro Germans gave up the attempt
to regain their lost position.
Paris, Jany. l2th.-A Rene despatch to
the journal" says it has been learned from
the Duke of Adragnn, brother Of the wife Of
Prince Won Buelow, that on account of En-
peror Williams illness the Prince has been
summoned suddenly to Berlin from Switzer-
land, where he has been staying for several
months.
Censored at Jam&ica.)
Rome, Jan. 18th Italian steamers, the
'Brindisi" and the "Citta di Palermo have
been sunk by mines in the Aariatic Sea. Huif
of the passengers on board The "Brindisi''
were lost. The crew were saved. Nearly
all on board the 'Citta di Palermo, which
was an armed vessel, were saved.
London, January 12th.-A French de-
tachment has been landed on the Greek
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