THE WAR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 February 1915, Page 3

THE WAR.

* Lfcj.Kl ni.i IKl.lCvilUl'U- UU'VHIGUT J I l'*K IT-co 10K . J .NEW ZEALANDERS KILLED. SAD NEWS FROM iI.M.S. PHILOMEL. Wellington, Eob. 10. The naval authorities regret to announce the receipt oi a telegram from H.M.S. Philqfeiel, dated Bth, reportiiigtho following casualties:— William Staubury, able seaman, killed in action. "William Edward Knowles, seaman, died of wounds received m action. John Thomas Moreton, dangerously wounded. Arthur T. Lihoii, severely wounded. Arthur E.. J. Spiller, slightly woillKied. .Saijjtiiel Campbell, slightly wounded. Beyond the fact that the wound'jd are still on board H.M.S. Philomel there are no further details. Knowles' widow resides at Lyttellon and Moretou's niothui' at Christchurch. ZEPPELIN IX)ST IN THE NORTH SEA. Geneva. Feb. 10. It is reported from Froidorisohsafen that the newest Zeppelin, which hns been missing for four days fell into the North Sea off Denmark and was destroyed and the crew drowned. THE .SCARCITY <JF METAL. At a meeting of the metallurgists at • Dusseldorf, it was stated that fho lack of metals was .daily becoming more serious. It was suggested that -Jio bronze monuments of Royalties .-lftl others wherewith Germany abounds should bo melted. "A PEACEFUL PEOPLE." Amsterdam. Feb. 10. I)r Von. Leutze, Finance Minister, in submitting the Budget to the Prussian Diet, said :—- "Never Mere a peaceful people more outrageously attacked than the Germans. The fleet, however, lias taken good care to prevent England from attacking our coasts. The political economy of the country is thoroughly able to cope with the 'financial situation for a long time to come. England must not stai-ve us into a disgraceful peace." RULGARIA AND GERMANY. Paris, Feb. 10. There are indications that Bulgaria has entered into a financial arrangement with Germany whose action is intended to exercise a restraining influence on Roumania and Italy. Bulgarians have been ordered, if summoned, to report themselves fully J equipped with three days' provisions. The Temp warns Bulgaria of the danger of choosing tlic wrong path. J APPALLING CARNAGE. GREAT- HEAPS OF DEAD. „ Petrograd, Fob. 10. Throwing strategy to the Hinds General Von Hindenburg's massed attacks at Bziira resulted in appalling carnage in the first German onset from Skiernscriez. The enemy swarmed against the trenches along the railway and whole companies wore annihilated in die dash through the op^n. There wore six hours' hand to hand lighting at Gram inn in a heavy snowstorm. Whole battalions frequently charged one another simultaneously. When the Russians encountered the new German ruso, the so-called "lightning ambush." n number feigned death and fired at the hacks ot the Russh'is and huge masses or dead lay between the trenches. First the ' Germans charged, then the .Siberians drove them back and each charge added hundreds of victims. The scene at the wayside station of Bradnary was terrible. The opposing forces used fragments of railway metal shattered by a (.Russian mine and clubbed each other fiercely. The enemy were finally driven back in disorder. The second phrase of the battle was at Gumina, Six miles northward when Imfh sides reached a stalemate. "When the Germans were utilising tho railways, motor lorries and vehicles of all kinds, and rushed up an- army corps nud hurled it against the Russian trenches, half the assailants were shattered by the terrible Russian fire. Nevertheless they came, regiment after regiment, shouting "On to Warsaw." Some got within fifty yards after showing themselves, hut none beyond a hundred yards. At one point the Germans advanced twenty deep and only a hundred survived*, and these were olown to piees later by a Russian mine. It is estimated that 11.000 killed at Gumina in two days. Official.—Tbe Gorman Megan operations in Lfisbehrion region in East. Prussia. Wo repulsed and exterminated whole battalions. The Gormnnra Vis*. 10,000' in the. six davs' attacks at Borjimoff, Gumina and Voliashidlowski. Our offensive in tho Lnpkowp;is region continues. Sixty-nine German officers, 5200 <i\diers and eighteen machine gnus were captured. The Germans after crossing TukolVn Pass made twenty-two violent attacks on our position at TCozismaka heights. advancing in mass formation supported 1 by artillery fire. There were great losses all day. but towards evening the enemy were greatly reinforced. They captured our high positions and were only di.'.lodged after a dos-poralo fight, when their strength became

hausted by our counter-attack which was accompanied by unprccodentedly long bayonet fighting . . The mountain slopes are littered with dead German bodies. SOME FIERCE LIGHTING. Martin Donohoe, reporting from Bukovina, says tlic Aiistro-German attack on Dulla-Oskid-Beskid was fierce and continuous. The, isuffering on botli sides were intensified by the extreme cold. In the last days the battle was waged in a blinding snowstorm, lnuid to hand, but the Russians' bayonet work was superior, and the enemy though numerically superior, failed to penetrate the Russian linse.