THE WAR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 January 1915, Page 2

THE WAR.

Lemscibio xklbgbafh—COPT eight) ' I.PJfR ritliaa ASSOCIATION.! SNOWiSTOiIMS DECAY OPERATIONS. Paris, Jan. 19. Official—We evacuated Laboiselle, owing to an expulsion in the ammunition stoie igniting the village. Later we counter-attacked and re-occupied the village. ' ■llie enemy bombarded the St. Paul Cathedral. ' Ue brought down and captured two aeroplanes at Bar-le-JDuc and made prisoner lour aviators. SC LOESSES OONSOLIDATED .breach "iive-wime.is" nays: •"iinte uhe oth th<* Allies have consolidated tueir beyjnd tho Yser, between Saint Georges aiid the sea.' 'flu v constructed bridge over the "s ™r to assure ouiiuuunicaliuns. Hie Zouaves on the 17th captured a > lul:ock west of Loinhaertzydo and beat oil' counter-attacks by tKe 1 Germans who have since abandoned the attempt to dispute our possession, of ~ t.'n bndgo head. Though the Yser the German offensives in Oc-t-obei and November it did not stop Qn t| ie 15t/h the Allies gave the. ' '''' ; useful assistance at La Baseee, where :hey were giving the eneuiy no peace. | t-ho lighting at La Boiselle on iiie G"; mans asked for an armistice to P'cli ii.p their wounded. This the Allies in used and established themselves ~ in another trench south' of Laboiselle. I lie !• rench line in Perthes district s now two kilometres north of the position \ji '_upied on the 2lst December. ! ao siege war continues at Bois ie * fVetre where we are progressing continually . AkeeKent results have been oonsolider Alsace. During fierce fitting on the sth at Cernay the Ger- 1 majns captured a trench. Our rifles wore choked with mud and it was impusssbje to fire them. We recaptured it on the 7th and are now progressing further east. Iho German reinforcements have been unable to stop our progress towards Altkirch. Snow drifts are causing enormous difficulty but the Chasseurs and the Alpines are display- i ing magnificent bravery. ' THE GALLANT GORDONS. ,

Loudon, Jan. 17. Sergeant-Major Hands, a Gordon , Highlander, iiii a letter, narrates how . the Gordons were ordered to storm a trench, which was loop-Loled and fitted with barbed-wire entanglements, while the Royal Scouts seized a wood. After a hellish fire from 270 British guns l'or 45 minuteis, the Gordons charged through a hail of machine-gun and rifle lire. The men dropped in heaps but the tartans kept up the bloody struggle and won the front German trenches. When the Gordons mustered in a dip within twenty yards of the main German position it was found that 55 per cent had fallen. Hie Gordons retreated carrying the N Hounded, hut Field-Marfmal French, who, with two generals, witnessed the j storming, said: "The Gordons had made history, and liad accomplished more than was expected." A BRILLIANT MEAT. London, Jan. 18. i An officer returned from the Galician front states that Russians hold all the important passes. He records a brilliant feat by a Caucasian regiment, which, holding on to the tails of mountain ponies in the 1 •' > night lime, scaled an apparently impassable -summit, and getting to the rear surprised and secured the surrender of a Houved battalion. TURKS FROZEN TO DEATH. % Potrograd, Jan. 1 9. In one wood at Kajauagen the Rus- J Maiis found !>OO Turks frozen to death, their icy hands grasping their rifles. Ihe temperature was thirteen degrees below zero. Those alive actually attempted to fight, buit were quickly „ taken prisoner. ANOTHER TURKISH ROUT. Official—The pursuit of the Turks, ;W from Karauagan continues. 'The two days' battle at Jenihos ended in the defeat of the Turkish Division which lost heavily and fled precipitately, abandoning baggage and ~ many prisoners. A FORTNIGHT'S £BAG." In the last frotnight m December . \ DoitrefT oaptured 311 Austrian officers, 22,269 soldiers and 52 guns. GERMAN INFLUENCE. Amsterdam, Jan. 19. Count Burian has accepted the Kaiser's invitation to visit him at his headquarters: The German newspapers note with pleasure that Count Burian mitted at the Cutset to the direction of Austria's foreign policy. C 1