BRITISH TRANSPORT TORPEDOED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16570, 20 June 1917, Page 7

BRITISH TRANSPORT TORPEDOED

J loss OF SIXTY-THREE LIVES |FAVOURABLE EVENTS IN RUSSIA Sift fe, I GERMAN HARVEST PROSPECTS POOR II The French have captured a system o! trenches forming a fe ;4 ; salient in the Champagne on a front of 500 yards. The ; Germans made a strong local attack on the positions which the British captured near Mom;hy<ie>Preux, east of Arras, Itl'v: a few days ago. The attack g lined a few advanced posts, Jj| but the British held the principal line of their gains. The fg: Germans continue to bombard Uheims, throwing over 2000 If!'; . shells into the town in one day. ||!. The British transport Cameronlan, formerly a Leyland Jfl|)' steamer, of 5861 tons, was torpedoed with the loss of 63 '00% '■ lives, including 52 military casualties. Pp# A Danish newspaper states that the German harvest ||§> cannot be good and may be very bad. There has been a JpT „• long drought, and it is stated that the harvest will be Ifeir nearly destroyed unless rain falls soon. |||r The internal crisis in Russia appears to be coming to life- a head. The serious financial and economic condition of the ||& country is tending to consolidate the forces of law and order, life The Government is taking more vigorous action against the PP' German propaganda and to enforce discipline in the army. ■r A secret ballot of workmen and Social Democrats was in ipl favour of a war policy and an advance. A new national |||l! . convention of workmen and soldiers is meeting in the capital, fife • and the old Council is losing in authority. [favour of a war policy and an advance. A new national 111 . convention of workmen and soldiers is meeting in the capital, P| and the old Council is losing in authority. Mr. Bonar Law states that the British Government has imS a perfectly open mind on the question of air reprisals, and Sp will take steps to prevent raids like those of recent dates.