THE WAR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13701, 3 June 1915, Page 3

THE WAR.

THE FIGHT FOR PRZEMYSL. GERMANS GAIN A FOOTING, BUT ARE EXPELLED. / _, \ RUSSIANS TAKE MANY THOUSAND PRISONERS. FRENCH OFFENSIVE PROCEEDS WITH GLOWING SUCCESS. BIG BATTLE LOOMING BETWEEN ITALIANS AND AUSTRIANS. WARSHIP ROUTS TURKS ATTACKING ALLIES. (Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Gopyrlgbt.)

LONDON, Jime 2: The Batavia has been released. The tramway strike has terminated. Lieutenant R. Gray, of the New Zealand Field Artillery, has been wounded m Prance. ' To-day's Canadian casualty list shows 256 dead, 229 wounded, atid 560 missing. ..«.■■• Fifteen heads of the Oxford colleges are. in favor of inn.iver.sal service. Cambridge has formulated a- scheme fox enrolling students unable to join the colors, to assist m chemical and-indus-trial work. There has been immense destruction of cotton by fires at Manchester, believed to be due to incendiarism. , The Government will introduce a. Bill on Thursday, making the re-election of Ministers unnecessary during the war, to enable the new Ministers to take their seats next week. The Prize Courts at Hamburg have declared the Zaanstroom a. lawful prize. Upwards of half the cargo was contraband. South African reports state that soldiers everywhere are eager for foreign service, au< i f| *' e -pressing the Government to despatch them to E<urope. English insurance offices have already paid £100.000 for 350 of the Lusitania victimß, and many more claims are expected. , , General Moussy, who ha-s beeu killed m action, commanded. 1 the brigade in>serted m the- British lino at Ypres m the critical days of October. He led' a. miscellaneous: force of cooks and gunners, who fought like heroes. Toronto denies that there were Canadian, soldiers aboard the Lusitania.