The European War.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 635, 10 July 1917, Page 1

The European War.

LAST NIGHT’S NEWS. Per Press Association—Copyright, THE WESTERN CAMPAIGN. BRITISH FRONT. Australian and N.Z... Cable Assn, and .Reuter, LONDON, yesterday. General Sir Douglas Haig reports There, is continued enemy aerial activity. Our pilots vestin',lav f !<•(} ufMi 11 y broke up large Hu-nri-(inns. We carried out. successtil! taids and bombed and machinegunned ’enemy aeroplanes, depots and (mops. We brought down six German machines .and ien were driven down. Eighi “I mir machines are missing. FRENCH FRONT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, Yesterday. A French communique states: We brillianliy carried ihr>v strong salients on the left hank uf l.lm Aleusc west of .Mon Homme, ami south of Hill AO-1. Cnnntera|t,acks on these gains were repulsed. RUSSIA. ENEMY'S DESPERATE EFFORTS. Australian and N.Z, Cable Assn, and Reuter. LONDON, Yesterday. (Admiralty, Per Wireless). ,A Russian official report states: In (he direction of Km ,-1, in ihe legion of Volapulskga, the enemy released gas. The enemy’s count-er-attacks ai Gradvo, and westward of Koniuchy failed. Dense attacks, supported by armoured cars, westward of Wymchka were repulsed. There is intense artillery encounters east, and south of Hr/.iv.any. Australian and N.Z, Cable Assn, LONDON. Yesterday. A wireless Gorman oll'idal re-j-vort says : Tn the eastern front Hie Russia* attacks .at Zborowo, Stanislau, and Upper ijystritza, valley Juried. THE AIR WAR. PAVING GERMANY IN HER OWN COIN, Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn, and Reuter. AMSTERDAM, yesterday. • News from Westphalia stales flint Hie French air raids were terribly destructive- and a 1 least fifty deaths are reponed, Krnpps suffered badly. Tib lessen a Cillery works and buildings were destroyed. and enormous military damage done, Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn, LONDON, Yesterday. A wireless German ollicial report says:— : Enemy aviators dropped one bun died incendiary bombs in Hie Westphalian industrial region, and on Mannheim. ‘ Lizwigshafin and Podalbin. No military damage was done. Australian and N.Z, Cable Assn, and Reuter. LONDON, Yesterday. The Admiralty reports:— Naval aeroplanes last; night raided Ghisfell-e-s aerodrome. Despite hostile formations and heavy attacks the raiders successfully bombed their objectives and all returned, ENEMY COUNTRIES. GRAVE CRISIS IN GERMANY. SECRET SESSION OF REICHSTAG. Australian and N.Z, liable Assn, BERNE, Yesterday, There is an acute' crisis in Germany. The Reichstag, convened in secret session, heatedly debated Germany’s waT .aims, all day on Saturday, the anti.annexa.tionists and ' the pan-Germans demanding the Government’s adherence to ‘heir rival policies. Hen’ Erzhergor, of the Centre Party, declared that fc he military situation was causing general uneasiness throughout tho country. All classes wereC demanding of the Government to tell the mi,Hi about, iho military situation and submarine prospects. ■ General -Von Stein and Admiral Capelle replied optimistically, the latter declaring that the. submarine campaign would paralyse Crept Britain. . :

I Herr Scheidemann demanded that, the Government slic&ld 1 make a

clear declaration that it would accept peace without annexation. Herr Westral demanded an equally clear insistence upon' annexations. Dr. You Belhmaim Hollweg replied and [he Reichstag adjourned until Monday,. Later all parties privately discussed the situation until late at night. The conference will he resumed on Sunday. „ Subsequently the Kaiser gave a prohmged. audience to DrVon Bothnia n Hollwegf Marshal Von llindf.nib;urg, Admiral Von Capelle, General Von Stein, and Dr, lleltfreich A HARDENING OF THE HEART. Australian and N.Z. (able Assn. AMSTERDAM, yesterday. Hr Von Beiliinau-llollweg declares that be bas rejected Hie idea, nf lying him so I i m ibe loriiuifa. of ’‘peace without- aiinexa lions and indemnities. GREECE Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn, ATHENS, yesterday. Eight generals, sixty-nine colonels, and- lifly-six lieutenant-colonels have been placed on Ihe retired list. THE BRITISH BLOCKADE. WILL NOW BECOME EFFECTIVE. Australian and N.Z, ; Cable Assn, W A SHIN GTON.j yc s t«rd ay, President Wilson lias issued the embargo proclamation, which bei nines effvM’live from Hie loth July and is designed to conserve the HaalsinlTs of the llniied States, and prevent food and oilier supplies reaching Germany through neutrals. The j l l oclailla|i* ai prohibits exportation io any part of rhe w.orld. iin Inding Allied cnimlries, except by licence of the Deparlmeni of Commerce. The articles affected include coal, petrol, and other oils, fuels, wheal and oilier grain, Hour, meals, [odder, and other leed meats, fat, steel, iron, fertiliser, amis and ammunition. The' law provides drastic penalties for violations, including forfeitures of vessels carrying the forbidden exports without being Hwnsed. JAPAN OFFERS SHIPPING TO AMERICA. 1 (Reuter’s Telegrams). VA NCOUVEB, yCotertlay. tl is stated in administrative chiles in Washington that Japan is prepared to furnish the United Stales with a half a million tons of shipping , for transports. The I lan is opposed in some quarters in Japan, if being I eared that HHs means the abandonment of Japanese shipping in Hie PaciJicw