OFFICIAL NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2439, 19 April 1915, Page 6

OFFICIAL NEWS

• The High Commissioner reports:— London, April 16, 1.30 p.m. . The Germans unsuccessfully; attemptctl. to advance at Ossowiec, on .Wednesday. ... ■ - , ... : J In the direction of.'Mlawa,.,.'engagements between • advanced detachments turned in the .Russian, favour. On the left bank of the Bzura, the Russian ad-vanced-detachments o«;upied an estate in Kimocin, in the region of Sochaczew. In the Carpathians. Russians made 'slight 'progress' north , of- Nzsok :Pass; itook two hundred prisoners; Repulsed enemy' attacks heights "to-the south of - Tillage Yolosafe," and' ' hear '' Yaworow," South of ..London) April 16, 4 p.m. The British". says that German deserters report that the bread allowance is reduced ' to. quarter- of a loaf "daily. ' . The men. demurred to deserting because it would • involve the loss, of the land owned by them in South Germany..,. German soldiers 1 letters, are increasingly pessimistic.' The' German army discipline depends principally on fear, the men being in terror of the officers. - Army casualties: Officers killed, -2; Officers wounded, 5; men killed, 363; men wounded, 348; men, missing, .20. The' French artillery brought down on Thursday afternoon a German aeroplane. It fell. in. front of the English .lines,'. behind, the German -trenches, north of lYprcs.- . London, April'l7, 10.40 p.m. Army officers killed, 5; wounded, 12; men killed, 92; wounded, 152; missing. 30. Canadians killed, 13; wounded, 15. j : ' London, April 17, 2.50 pim. French airmen have boen very active. /They dropped' bombs on the ■ railway station at - Leopoldshohe, -use!! as a 'bomb factory, and- on-the- powder factory at Rothwell,' and the central electric station, - North .'Metz, supplying light and power to, the forts. Aviators returning, from Metz ..were chased by ■three German aircraft, and were forced to descend. _ Nothing worse happened, notwithstanding a, violent cannonade from the Metz forts. London, April 18, 1.5 a.m. A British aviator . brought down a German aviator in Belgium, near Bossinghe. A Frenoh dirigible bombarded the station at Friborg en Brisgau. The secretary of the Wednesday HalfHoliday Defence League in Wellington has received the following letter from the secretary of the Ohristchurch Thursday Half-Holiday Movement:—"l sincerely trust Wellington will bo success-' ful. in retaining the Wednesday lialfholiday for shops, both in the interests of the Tetailers themselves «Wid the chopping public. After two years' trial in Christcliurch, it is quite evident that the Saturday half-holiday is not the success that its promoters predicted, and a large number of our electors are bound to show their dissatisfaction ■when the poll is taken. The large shopkeopers are, of course, not so keenlv affected, but the meaium and small shops have been hit very hard and the majority of them are firmly convinced that'the adoption of Saturday is detrimental to the commercial progress of the City. The main grievance, of course, lies in the fact that fully half the shops are exempted from the compulsory clause, and almcst without exception take advantage by remaining open on Saturday. So the position develops into two late nights a week, one half remaining open on Friday and the other on Saturday, thoroughly disorganising the shopping public and utterly destroying the cohesion of the retail trade. My executive feels conrinced that if Saturday were an absolute closo day the public would quickly recognise all its inconveniences, and' soon ask for the return of the mid-week holiday and' Saturday trading." Woods' Great Poppermint Cure. Is.. 6d.* For Bronchial '.Coughs and .Colds,