SEVERAL VESSELS ATTACKED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 12, 9 October 1917, Page 5

SEVERAL VESSELS ATTACKED

MSIEY OF THE WAIUNA • . AFTER THE GREAT ; battle HO# NEW ZEA LANDERS ; ■ FOUGHT •An official announcement from-Washington .state? that two .Gorman armed : raiders have been .operating in the Southern Pacific, and have been harrying island schooners. .One of- tho. raiders, the See,, -4.dl.er, is 6aid to have heen. stranded and abapdqned;-Uio crew- : pursuing their' depredations in »motor eloog. A warship.ii searching the .islands. Tie dispatoh also adds that the.'Wairuna (Union Steam Ship-Company).is amon* the victims of the Haiders: : On the great batUo fronts the' British operations •in the West are still the commanding future, o. fjnterest. Further details give, a.,. olearer'viw: of the part, taken by itho New Zealanders in the great battle. .' Th'o siaughtej-in the enemy's rarks was" simply dreadful, particiUarly in the Guards and Eeserve Divisions, which were surprised while massing forV Vare attack,ind terribly cut up. "The "decisiveness of the blow, its deadly accuracy, and the compliteness of. its culmination, spread .demoralisation in theV.enemy.'s ranks. The Qerman plpps. it"? stated, have been thrown out of gear, and on the tear approach "of writer' are faced, with the perilous-task of reorganising their whole plan of defence. There is no news of any moment from the. fther fronts. The prospect ■of coalition in Eu'ssia now seems brighter.