THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 April 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

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This Afternoon's War lNeWss. fcll.l lilii; ibUMattAl'tt cor*ttlUUT- j I'Ubiin Atiai.CAAliCiN. | HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. London, April 22., ■On Tuesday night the Russians repulsed an Austrian attack near Gortice in Western Galicia. On Monday the enemy's attacks in the Carpathians 011 .several positions were abortive. The enemy's attempt to regain the i'olen height were particularly stubborn, and his losses very great. The first batch oi prisoners have arrived here. A number of German aeroplanes dropped one hundred bombs on Bialystok 011 Tuesday, killing and wounding some civilians. On the same niglit a Zeppelin bombarded Cicchanow in North Poland, but did 110 damage. The Russians successfully bombarded Soldan (East Prussia) railway station. (Received This Day u.30 a.m.) GERMAN PROPERTY IN BRITAIN London, April 22. Mr J. M. Roberson. Under-Secro-tary to the Board of Trade, in the House of Commons, said that German property in Great Britain was worth G34,000,000. and would remain available for future disposal as seemed proper. COALMIXERS' CONFERENCE. The Miners' Conference passed a resolution asking -the Government to summons a national conference. The Rt. Hon. W. Rimiciman. met the coalowners at Whitehold to-day.

SUBMARINE AND THAW LEI?

A Gorman submarine -shelled the trawler Envoy off the East Coast on Wednesday. The crew took to the boats and it was again shelled. They were picked up by another trawler after two hour.s. The crew were uninjured, but the Envoy's fate is unknown. MOTOR MACHINE GUNS. Berlin. April 22. A wireless message states that twenty thousand English and French troops have landed at Enow. There is a heavy cannonade between the Turkish batteries and the Allies' warships. (Enos is in Turkish territory on the Aegean Sea near the mouth of the Ergine river, tiie boundary between Bulgaria and Turkey). (Received This Day 8.55 -a.in.) IN POLAND AND THE CARPATHIANS. Petrograd" April 22. It is stated semi-officially that the new Russian artillery if- proving remarkably efficient—outranging the German artillery. Reprisals have also been threatened if German aviators continue to bombard undefended towns.

Many of the prisoners taken at Pol in in the Carpathians were drunk. Paris. April 22. The Petit Journal states that a French pilot and observer successfully bombarded a corner of the Belgian coast, where there were nearly one hundred aircraft guns. They rose to a height of 1000 feet 111 a storm of shot and shell. On the return .journey a shot smashed the axle of the fornt wheels and passed through the car, cutting off the pilot's foot. The explosion of a shell nearly overturned the machine, the compass droppitig out. 'The.pilot refused the observer's assistance: he navigated the 15 miles and landed nafelv in the French lines on one p.'. ir of wheels. He crawled out through the hole made by the shell. Lflter he fainted. Both men have been decorated. BRITISH St'BMAR L\ES ACTIVES. Berlin, April 22. Official.-- British submarines have been observed repeatedly in the Heligoland Bight. The German forces attacked and sank Tine submarine, anc probably others. (Received This "Day 2 p.m.) TREATMENT OF i'IiISOXFUS. London. April 22. Replying to Lord Charles Beresfiird, the Hon. Neil Primrose said that Britain had informed the United States that she was Hilling to allow a German to inspect the treatment of German submarine officers and men taken prisoners if similar facilities were granted to a British representative.