THE WAR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 February 1915, Page 2

THE WAR.

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BOMBS DROPPED AT THREE BRITISH TOWNS. London, Feb. 22. German aeroplanes dropped three bombs at Braintree, one at and one at Coggeslxall, moping Har-wich-wards. From the present reports there are no casualties. The aeroplane appeared at Braintree from tho direction of London, proceeded to Colchester and dropped bombs close to a soldiers cottage near the barracks, which gave off dense fuimes. Fragments wrecked the kitchen and made a hole five feet fn diameter. Pices of the shrapnel were found 250 yards away. A COLLIER SI NK. A submarine torpedoed and .--auk the small coal-laden steamer Downshire off the Calf of Man (a small irila ud olf the Isle of Man) on Saturday evening. It gave the crew five minutes to leave. The Germans ordered the Downshire's .-•row aboard the submarine, and a ijomb was attached to the Downshire amidships, and she sank in a couple of minutes. The crew afterwards room barked in their own boats and landed at Dunbrum, a country town. AMERICAN STEAMER MINED. The American steamer Evelyn, oot-lon-laden, was mined and: sunk at :sorkum in the North Sea. The crew vere saved. Mr Bryan, American Secretary for State, has asked for particulars. .SUNK IX THE ATLANTIC. The steamers Potaro, Highland frae. Hemisphere and two sailers have >een sunk in tho Atlantic, presumably by the Karlsruhe. The crews numbering 192 were landed at Buenos | Vires, also forty-one passengers from I 'he Highland Brae. GROUND GAINED AND CAPTURED. Paris, Feb. 22. Official.—We won further ground in Champagne and captured machine guns and prisoners northward of Mestil. A USTRO-GERMAN CONCENTRATION. Petrograd, Feb. 2'2. Military critics estimate that the lustro-Germans concentrated tweity Army Corps in the Carpathians. Official.—The Russians after a desperate fight captured the heights south■astward of Tukhla. The enemy occupied Stanislavoff, in Southern Galicia. Collisions with the Turks occurred in t he Trails-Chorck region. TMPOIiTANT DEVELOPMENTS PENDING. Experts believe that German activity m East Prussia is a prelude to more important developments in Galicia, ''.here a decisive blow is preparing. ! hough the losses in Efest Prussia were heavy they bear 110 relation to the absurd stories published in Berlin, fireat pressure on the Tenth Army orps compelled a rapid turning movement exposing the flank of the following corps whereof only isolated remnants succeeded in escaping. The other corps of the Tenth. Army fell ''ack slowly, fighting valiantly and repulsing German' attacks and inflicting "leavy losses.