THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 April 1915, Page 2

THE WAR

(El.KCrUii; '"ICI,KGHAI , H--CriPTHIOHt ] I l'j£U l'K'_SS ,'SSOMATION.I A BRILLIANT SUCCESS. Paris, April 16. Official.-—A\e have hail brilliant success. "NVe captured the south-eastern spills of N-otre Dame de Loretto with the bayonet ami now bold the southeastern slopes to the borders of Ablain Saint Nazarre. MOIiE BOMBS DROPPED. A /eppelin this morning dropped » dozen bombs at Maldon and three In a Lowestoft lumber yard. causing n. luriou.s fire, also six bombs at S'outhwold. Ihe Zeppelin was accompanied by two aeroplanes. It was three hours over Norfolk, Suffolk and fWx, irnv°"ij'" f«rt.v miles .n h.mr, appaiTijtlv trying to find its w-iy in Lon.b.w It. crossed Harwich, but did not drop bombs and wa- n!t.: -.rdj. ; ,f Hnrnh.nn-nn-Crourb. wh.nv flVc i.ome:, wore dropped a; AWIUOII and Clncton. T.he bombs at Maldon were heard fifteen miles nwa.v. No loss of life is reported. I'IGHTIN'G IN MESOPOTAMIA. The Press Bureau states that 10.000 iovulars and 12,000 Kurds and Arabs concentrated at Na.k'hahdoh, under Sulieinan and Nescriali Hey and resumed the offensive in Mesopotamia. Ibey shelled Kurnhwad, and made a nlmi p attack on Shaida. forcing the British offensive. wherein 18 officers and .S(X) Turks were made prisoners, nn< 92 British and Tmlians wounded. RETURN REPORTED. •Berlin, April ir> Official. Ibe Tyne Zeppelin has returned safely.