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(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.} (Roc. Julv 12, 2.10 p.m.) " LfO'N'DON'i July 11. Sir Douglas Haijj reports: Wo slightly improved our position east o£ Brctonneux> Hostile artillery is active astride the Somme. MAN-POWER. lAustralian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. July 12, 1.40 p.m.) ' LONIDON, July 11. (!eneral Maurice writes: —The cause of all our man-power troubles in 1918 was that we began too late. We adopted a n'umber of unisatisfactory expedients. whereof the- placing of 19 5 y<iur,' old youths in the trenches Avas the most unsatisfactorv o.f 'all. The Frenolt have not yet ''ailed up this class. The Germans have not put them in the trenches. America has fixed the ago at 21. On the other hand I 'France and Germany have long used older men. General Maurice urges the Government to immediately prepare 'the 1919 programme. • DEFEAT OF SUBMARINES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.l (Rec. Julv 12, 2.10 p.m.) . " LONDON, July 11. Admiral Jellicoe, speaking at Southampton, saidi that his prophecy that th.e subfrnarines would' be defeated by August was perhaps ungua.rded, buit, although ships were being sunt, they were building faster I'hap' sunk, while ■submarines were being sunk faster than built. That wai»- what, ; ho meant, 'when he said that submarines would be defeated. He bad -every.. con>fid;enice til the future. NEW SIBERIAN GOVERNMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. Julv" 12, 2.10 p.m. T'OKIO, July 11. A member, of the."'new. Siberian .Government interviewed. « : aid the, Goiverwnent aimed at the establishment of-a Russian Republic wit'h an .autonomous Siberia. It intended to repudiate the Brest : Litovsk' Treaty. Rehabilitate the army and fight the Germans. It would .acknowledge the .national debt, assuming responsibility for Siberia's snare.' 'i'.'"." (Rec. Julv 12, 2.10 p.m.), STOCK!HOK\r, July 11. ; Russian newspaper reports of the Soviet Congress of Ith July show that Mirbaeh was present, when, the Ukrainian delegate, in a violent- speech', I.lmtested against the Government's tolera- • tion of Mirbach. ' ■Social .Revolutionaries cheered, shouting. "Down with Brest iLitovsk : down with Miirbaeh," audi finally withdrew as a protest. . i , AEROPLANE WORKERS' STRIKE. fAustralian and N.Z CaTile Association.| (Rco. July 12, 2.10 p.m.) I IX)N:DOiN"v July 11. The Press Bureau reports : Tho Minister,of Munitions (Mi' Winston Churchill) conferred with the parties concerned •in."the strike at- the Alliance, Aeroplane Works, and decided that neither side 'was free from blame. The ■Government will forthwith take over control of the factory. . _ - - The workers decided to abide by the decision of an inquiry into the matters in dispute.'