THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 February 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

Latest Cables

H'Kli I'HbUS ABBSHJIAUON.I I.IiUMAN KEMAND FOR COPPEiI. Amsterdam, Feb. 20. iiio police discovered lifty tons of copper concealed in a vessel at Rotterdam. Many persons have beeu buying up copper and sending it to uaturaiisetl Germans living ill Rotterdam. Sovoral have been arrested anu uiiiijli copper seized. OF A.N EXPLOSION. • Potrograd, F-ob. 25. Tho derailment of u. Geimau military train near Lavitch, exploded several trucks jof ammunition, Killing and mounding many soldiers. The Germans severely punished the villagers tor complicity and 300 villagers were taken at Lavitch and -iorvibly mutilated. a NEW ZEA LANDER'S PROMOTION London, Fe.b 25. After four moutlis with the Russian Army before Warsaw, Oolonel Herbert bare-lay, of South Canterbury, .Now Zealand, goes to the trout as major in tho Eoyal Army Medical Corps. A VESSEL SUNK. a is believed that the ship Western Coast was torpedoed. The captain states that a violent explosion took place amidships and raised a column ol water fifty .feet high- The vessel •ttiiijc m seven minutes. THE AMERICAN PROPOSAL. Great secrecy is being maintained respecting America's proposal to the belligerents, in order to avoid public discussion and embarrassing the negotiations. AUSTRIAN'S AND AVIATORS BUSY. Paris, Feb. 25. The Austrians have raised the Curie ana removed her to Paola. A coniiminique states that aviators have thrown sixty bombs on the enemy's railway stations and concentration* in the Champagne. STEAMERS TORPEDOED. London, Feb. 25. The steamer Western Ooast was blown up and sunk off Beachy HeadAll the crew were saved.

The Dcptford was struck abaft the engine-room. The lifoboat was launchtxi and tlio roll called. The carpenter was missing. The captain ordered it to pull back, but it was impossible owing to the heavy seas, and baling was necessary. Tlio crew were exhausted when picked up. SHELLED BY AN AEROPLANE. Capetown, Feb. 25. A German aeroplane shelled the camp at Garni). One shell dropped in the hospital lines wounding five. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. London, Feb. 25, 5.20 p.m. i J etrograd reports that in the Augustowo forest two Russian reigments which were surrounded and supposed to De lost broke through the enemy's lines and rejoined our troops. The battlo on the right bank of the Narew is extending and there are continuous German attacks along the whole front in the Hobr-Vistula region and - near Uobzanow. Fighting is becoming extremely severe in the Przasysz region. In the Carpathians desperate fighting took place east of Lupkow. Near Zavadka, the Russians captured three lines of trenches on the height of an almost sheer precipice; ffoe defending Germans were killed or made prisoners, youth of Tnchla, after a stuo'born fight the Russians carried the heights on the right hank of Rozanka.