THE WAR.

Western Star, 17 July 1917, Page 3

THE WAR.

ACTIVITY OF CROWN PRINCE. LONDON, July 12. The “ Berliner Tageblatt ” states, that Monday’s Grown Council lasted three hours. The Kaiser, who presided, asked all present to give their opinions on the Prussian suffrage. Dr von Bethmaun-Hollweg advocated immediate reform. His speech created a. deep impression. After the Council the Kaiser and Ministers remained at Hollweg’s palace till after midnight. Berne messages express astonishment at the activity of the Crown Prince. He successively received leaders of all parties in the Reichstag, except the. minority Socialists and discussed the situation. This is the more remarkable as the Kaiser hitherto lias jealously excluded the Crown Prince from all politics. There are some rumours of the Kaiser’s pending abdication.

PRUSSIAN FRANCHISE REFORM

AMSTERDAM, July 13

The Kaiser has made an important concession to the democratic agitation, and has ordered that an equal Franchise Bill shall be submitted in the Prussian Diet in time to enable the next elections to be held in accordance with the new franchise, thus modifying his previous decision that reforms should only operate after the war.

THE I.WAV. IN AMERICA. '

There were unprecedented scenes in Arizona'. Eleven hundred troublesome I.W.W. agitators were bundled into cattle trucks, and deported to Mexico. The men, mostly strangers, fomented labour troubles and terrorised the workers for weeks, culminating in Sheriff Wheeler calling a midnight meeting of citizens, when he enrolled 2000 deputies and distributed revolvers, with orders not to shoot except, in self-defence. .At dawn the deputies swept the town, searched the houses, and rounded up the strangers in a park enclosure, where they were kept till entrained. Shots were frequently exchanged and two of the. I.W.W. were fatally shot. This is the beginning of a campaign to clear the country of German-inspired plots. I.W.W. terrorisation' is rampant in many Western States and the situation is most critical.

RUSSIANS IN PURSUIT,

PETROGRAD, July 14

Official:—The Russians are pursuing the enemy’s right, which isi retiring towards the Carpathians. The route to Lemberg and Stryja is open. One Austrian corps lost its entire artillery.

ENEMY PA NIC STRICKEN

LONDON, July 14

The Morning Post’s Betrograd correspondent states that General Korniloff’s cavalry continue to push forward with irresistible dash. The infantry are moving by forced marches on Lemberg, the remnants of the enemy opposed to Korniloff fleeing panic-stricken. The opportunity is an ideal one for ■ cavalry,. in which Russia is particularly strong. The Austrian corps at Brzezany was also beaten to rags, and the remnants were eSitirely withdrawn, being replaced by German divisions hastily brought from other fronts. These are temporarily holding up the Russian attack in this sector, tno ugh their losses are enormous. Between Ist and 7th July in the Brzezany sector 30,000 Germans have boon killed, or wounded, apart from 18,000 taken prisoner. General Korni--1 off’s sweeping successes to the southward have already turned the Brzezany' defences, and Hie Germans are reduced to attacking in solid formation, hence their heavy losses.

AUSTRIAN COMMANDER. DIS- ■ PLACED. i PARIS, July 15. M. Marcel Hutin, iu the Echo de Paris, states that Hiudeuburg and Ludeudorff have relieved von Ernroli, the Austrian commander. THE NIEUPORT ATTACK. LONDON, July 11. The United Press Headquarters’ correspondent states that nothing during the war surpassed the fury of the fighting among the sand dunes. The British, taken at a tremendous dis- | advantage, fought to the last man, I scarcely any survivors coming out unwounded. These escaped by swim—| niimr the Yser. The German bombardment began at six o’clock in thei morning upon our front line, then lifted, deluging our support trenches I and reserve positions all day. The | bring, readied the greatest intensity j at three o’clock in the afternoon. Droves of German aeroplanes came over, Hying low, firing machine guns and directed their artillery. Already j the, British had suffereed heavily, but the remainder stuck to their posts, ! awaiting the attack. The battlefield became' a maelstrom of smoke, steel, and living sand. The Germans barraged our front line in the evening, while the marines charged. Hardly a. British machine gun was workable, being choked with sand. Then ensued the bloodiest hand to hand battle, with revolvers, bayonets, and dubbed rifles, until practically none survived of the British lads. One heroic wounded man swam hack across the Yser with a rope, enabling wounded, men who could not swim to pull themselves across. Our reserves counters . attacked southward of Lombaertzyde, retaking a section of the trenches., i PANIC IN GALICIA. LONDON, July 15. The “ Daily Telegraph’s ” cor res-

pendent at Rome says Austrian reports are to the effect that the population of Galicia is iui a. state of panic, and that thousands of families are fleeing to the interior. Vienna and Budapest are crowded with refugees. Divisions of Cossacks are ravaging the country, and Dolma- arid Stryj are deserted.

DUAL MONARCHY MENACED,

AMSTERDAM, July 15

Violent scenes occurred in the Hungarian Parliament, deputies declaring that the Russian advance gravely menaced the dual monarchy. IMPROVEMENT IN RUSSIA. The progress of the offensive is favourably influencing the political situation. The leaders of the bulk of the Socialists are disappointed at the German Socialists not supporting their peace terms, and now advocate ai continuation of the offensive. ANOTHER 1600 PRISONERS. LONDON, July 16. Wireless Russian official: We repulsed several attacks south-westwards of Kalusz, and took prisoner 600. As tire result of a series of ■ stubborn attacks in the region of Lodsdany we drove out the Austrians from their positions and took over- 1000 prisoners; also capturing a number of guns. The enemy is attacking on the Lomnica river at the crossing near Perehinsk, in an effort to throw us back to the right bank of the Lomnica. Rains, are causing the Lomnica and the Dniester to inundate the surrounding country.

CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE TURKS

LONDON, July 1(5

Russian official; In the direction of Van we drove back the- enemy to the Arish Darasi river, and dislodged the Turks iu the region northward of Jcrdesk and the heights south -of Van. We submarined two- schooners in. the Borphonis.

GREEK KING’S MESSAGE

PARIS, July 15

The King of Greece, in a message to M. Poincaire, appreciatively refers to France’s heroic struggle for the triumph of right, justice, and liberty, in .which Greece is happy to be able henceforth to participate.