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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1915
Page
3
London residents are urged to store water and sand to fight fires and close doors and windows to limit gas exposure during Zeppelin raids. Citizens are advised to improvised respirators, with no sure antidote known for poison.
Swiss dispatch reports Allied bombing of Karlsruhe with twenty dead and forty injured. bombs hit Kaiserplatz Post Office Waldstrasse and multiple buildings including hotels churches and a synagogue. extensive damage and panic across the city with unexploded ordnance later attracting emergency response.
London police reject total blackout as unsafe and counterproductive. The Admiralty backs reduced lighting to aid observers, warning that extinguishing street lights would hinder fire, ambulance and police movements and risk greater casualties than enemy air raids.
A delegation from the Women s International Congress in The Hague presented a memorandum of a resolution to Russian Foreign Minister Sergius Sazanoff in Petrograd. Members include Miss Julie Grace Wales Mrs Rozika Schwimmer Mrs Raymond Ramondt Miss Chrystal Macmillan and Miss Emily Balch, who expect the minister to study the document.
British critics compare Grand Duke Nicholas II’s shifting Galicia front to the Marne retreat as Austro German forces push toward Lemberg. Observers foresee a possible decisive battle near Grodek with Russians potentially drawing German focus away from the center and delaying Lemberg’s fall.
Telegraphic dispatch reports a German push along the Kuwka River and in Galicia and Bukowina. Soviet and German lines clash from Sieniawa to Tarnograd as Mackensen pursues. Russians retreat near Niemerow and Jaworow while villages fall to Austro German forces. Casualties and prisoners noted as fronts shift across Poland and Galicia while Vienna and Petrograd confirm ongoing struggles and shifting positions.
Rear guards retreat along the entire front as Allied armies press northeast and east. North of Sieniawa troops push across Cieplice and Cenkow, repelling Russian forces and driving them back beyond the frontier with heavy losses. Eastward the Allies seize Niemirow after fierce fighting and move toward Jaworow. On the Lemberg Road near Wolczuchy they repulse rear guards and storm Grodek at night. South of Grodek the Wereszyca area is cleared, while the Dniester front remains largely unchanged.
London reports Professor Bernard Pares quotes a British observer on Austro German army reforms. He cites improved Austrian food supply and increased German personnel on the Austrian front. Pares notes earlier Austrian artillery lacked accuracy, while German artillery showed clearer range finding and initiative. He warns Germany risks more on the eastern front and forecasts Austrian depletion leads to Germany's defeat through Austria.
The American Locomotive Company received an order for twenty locomotives for the Belgian State Railways valued around 500000 dollars at 25000 each. The exact recipient agency and intended use were not disclosed. Officials said the engines would belong to the Belgian government once delivered and hinted possible Allied or military motives but provided no specifications.
Cardinal Mercier reports in a Corriere d Italia letter that Pope Pius X could not tolerate injustice to Belgium and Pope Benedict XV generously aided Belgium with funds comforting letters and a pontifical blessing. The note rejects claims that the popes favored enemies financially or morally.
Miss Laya Machat of Brooklyn returned from two years in Italy where she studied and sang opera. She said Italians are friendly to Americans and optimistic about war ending with Trieste returning to Italy. She volunteered for the Italian Red Cross in Rome but was refused due to her American citizenship. she plans to try again in the fall.
The Russian President and Duma members sent a telegram to the French Chamber of Deputies via a new wireless station in Russia expressing confidence in an Allied victory. President Deschanel thanked them in return.
Constantinople reports Allied forces on the Gallipoli peninsula are in danger as heavy Turkish batteries guard Ali Burnu and Sedd el Bahr. The English landings struggle. German submersibles disrupt communications and transports. Fear and panic spread through Constantinople and Marmora as ships sail under heavy guard.
London dispatch reports Lieutenant Herbert Asquith, son of the British prime minister, was slightly wounded on the field of battle. He was wounded during active fighting and is stated to be in stable condition.
Athens reports a British submarine torpedoed and sank three Turkish transports loaded with troops in the Dardanelles above Nagara, with most troops and crew said drowned. Turkish trenches at the Dardanelles repulsed as official statements cite heavy enemy losses at Ari Burnu and bombardment of transports at Sedd-el-Bahr.
The Turnwell, 4204 tons, fled a German submarine after bombs exploded in her hold. Bombs failed to sink her as the sub pursued the nearby 234 ton Trafford before sinking it. The Turnwell reached Milford Haven after pumping and repairs, rescuing Trafford crew members.
A London report says there is no foundation for rumors of a surge in illegitimate births around troop stations after inquiries in sixty two towns. The committee led by the Archbishop of Canterbury found no confirmation and local government returns supported this conclusion. Mrs Erminelin e Pankhurst announced the Woman's Social and Political Union will care for war babies and establish a home for them.
In the House of Commons Premier Asquith said Reginald McKenna would introduce another loan bill on Monday. Unofficial reports suggest the vote may reach about £350,000,000. The proposal reflects continued war financing needs.
The Canadian Pacific liner Montfort reported an attack by a submarine one day from Avonmouth, England. The armed steamer Demara intervened and shelled the submarine, forcing it to dive. The Montfort suffered engine damage and took 17 days to reach Montreal, longer than the usual ten days.
The oil tank steamer Desabla, 6000 gross tons, chartered to the British government, was torpedoed off the Firth of Tay Scotland on June 1. The fate of the crew remains unreported in the cable from Andrew Weir to Robert Mitchell.
A Glasgow firm sent eight skilled workers to Flanders to view front conditions. They report British soldiers and officers urged more shells and say the trip will spur a large increase in their factory output. The workers return as war missionaries determined to mobilize peers for top speed production.
The scheme is one of the least remarkable in labor legislation. It will give a measure of official countenance to trade unions such as they never enjoyed before. In effect they will gain power not enjoyed in Britain since the heyday of medieval guilds. The trade union leaders will almost certainly embark upon the scheme willingly and do their utmost to make it a success, knowing the only possible alternative is State compulsion.
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