The Independent . ricanfiremen killed on British steamerManchester Miller. British coastraided by sixteen airplanes. June 6—Austrians claim 10,000 Ital-ian prisoners taken on the Carso inthree days. Chinese provinces favor-ing war are in rebellion. June 7—British explode mines southof Ypres and storm WytschaeteRidge. Kronstadt republic yields toProvisional Government. June 8—Austrian officers enter Rus-sian lines with peace Pershing arrives in Eng-land. June 9—President Wilsons note toRussia published. June 10—Seamens Union seize andimprison Labor delegates to Petro-grad Conf
The Independent . ricanfiremen killed on British steamerManchester Miller. British coastraided by sixteen airplanes. June 6—Austrians claim 10,000 Ital-ian prisoners taken on the Carso inthree days. Chinese provinces favor-ing war are in rebellion. June 7—British explode mines southof Ypres and storm WytschaeteRidge. Kronstadt republic yields toProvisional Government. June 8—Austrian officers enter Rus-sian lines with peace Pershing arrives in Eng-land. June 9—President Wilsons note toRussia published. June 10—Seamens Union seize andimprison Labor delegates to Petro-grad Conference. over a million pounds of high explo-sives had been placed. These mineswere exploded simultaneously at tenminutes after three in the morning,and the crest of the hills was blowninto the air with a noise so loud thatLloyd George, listening in his Londonhome, 130 miles away, was able tohear it. The British troops were alreadymarching forward, and the aeroplaneswere on the wing to guide the artillery. which formed a curtain of fire in frontof the advancing soldiers. The firsttrenches were taken in a few minutes,and by six oclock in the morning theentire ridge for a distance of ninemiles was in the hands of the night they had reached the baseline of the salient where, as they hadplanned, they halted and entrenchedthemselves. The Germans deliveredcounter-attacks on the following daysbut without regaining the ground. Oversix thousand German prisoners weretaken. The British loss was 10,000. The honor of this victory falls chieflyto the Anzacs and the Irish. TheAustralians and New Zealandersshowed the same dash and daring asthey had displayed at Gallipoli, andthe Nationalists and Ulstermen chargedside by side up Wytschaete William Redmond, brother ofJohn Redmond, the Nationalist leader,was carried to the rear, mortallywounded, in an Ulster ambulance. Thisbrilliant achievement of the unitedIrish forces is likely to aid the rivalparties to come
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