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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1916
Page
5
The column notes bass season opens June 15 in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, June 16 in New York, and already in Connecticut, while celebrating clams, small mouth bass, and a thriving fishing tackle market.
German assaults on Fort Vaux and Damloup continue with extreme violence as bad weather delays operations. French forces repel German advances, burn liquids used in attacks, and maintain control of Vaux Fort while shelling and mine warfare intensify across the Verdun front with heavy Canadian and British casualties reported.
Berlin reports British attacks near Ypres failed under German artillery fire. French efforts near Prunay in Champagne also failed after gas preparation. Verdun operations saw success for our artillery. French infantry assaults west of the Haucourt Esnes road were repulsed. Fighting east of the Meuse between Caillette wood and Damloup continues violently. German reconnoitering detachments captured French, Belgian and British troops near Arras, Albert, and Altkirch. Aerial combats claimed three French aircraft.
London dispatch from British Headquarters details Canadian forces failing to hold trenches at Ypres after recapturing them from the Germans last Saturday. Severe German artillery bombardment drove Canadians from a mile front, depth up to 350 yards, with trenches demolished or filled with dead. The bombardment is described as the highest intensity yet on the western front.
Ottawa reports toll of Canadian forces from Ypres with about 700 rank and file names pending next of kin notices. Over a hundred officers killed or missing including Generals Victor Williams and Mercer, with nineteen enlisted men killed, forty three wounded and three ill in the latest casualty list.
A London cable reports heavy Canadian casualties at Sanctuary Wood near Ypres with over 200 officers killed or wounded. Canadian troops fell back under two hours of bombardment, then counterattacked at dawn led by Highlanders with piping, driving Germans from trenches and inflicting severe losses as artillery and bayonets repelled the assault.
A Hague dispatch says the Holland-America steamship Noordam arrived in Rotterdam May 28 from New York and was compelled by British authorities to leave its mail at Falmouth.
London reports June 5 that the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture will prohibit export of meat and cattle. Reuters dispatch from The Hague notes the embargo aims to curb shortages and control supply.
Rome says Austrian attacks in the Lagarina Valley and Posina sector were repulsed with heavy losses. Italian forces held Monte Cengio western slopes. Canaglia Valley line reinforced after enemy high casualties. Vienna reports 5000 Italians captured.
A Zurich dispatch reports that German Landsturm of 1917 living abroad are ordered to return immediately. The force includes trained men aged 39 to 45 and those aged 17 to 18 who have received basic military training.
American aviators report a June 1 raid on Bar-le-Duc by fourteen German fliers. Kiffin Rockwell, Norman Prince, Cowdin, Chapman and Hall led counterattack with French Captain. Prince, Cowdin and the Captain downed foes. French reinforcements arrived to end the engagement. Rockwell’s plane damaged.
During the assault the pilot forced to land in a shell pitted field wrecked his aircraft. An American Red Cross and ambulance squad aided in gathering the injured and treating them.
French officers report German assaults on Fort Vaux near Verdun reached new brutality as infantry advances collapsed under French fire. Civilians and soldiers alike witness carnage in the ravine at Damloup with repeated charges resulting in heavy German losses and relentless counterfire from French positions along the Meuse front.
French reporting from Ba toniki says Greek and Serbo frontier area near Lake Doiran endured violent bombardment. A Greek convoy crossing the Pataros region was fired upon by German and Bulgarian forces though white and Greek flags were displayed.
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