Second Edition THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 May 1915, Page 3

Second Edition THE WAR

, r ..'-V.C, '-'Mtest..- tables Afternoon's War - News.- ' " ' [tI.KUI'UK; IHLKUUAL'H—UOI'Ii'tUUiIT.J I'llKSa AHSUC'IA'iIUN. j (Received Tlji& Day 8.50 a.m.) .CHINA ACCEPTS ALL DEMANDS Loudon, May 'J. i - . .Official.—China has accepted all Japan's demands. NO GERMANS \\ ANTED. ' >' ■ ' :• • A meeting of members ol the London r Stock Exchange decided to forcibly relate admission to German members. OH GERMAN EMBLEMS. Washington, May 0. • At the opening of the Horse Show, visitors protested against girls selling ■the Kaiser's bloom and" the German national flower. Several trampled on the flowers and ejected the sellers. THE DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN. Athens, 3Tny f). The Deputy Governor of Tenedos telegraphs that the warships are concentrating on a single fort at Nagara. All the others have been destroyed. The Allies, after a fierce struggle, captured several heights dominating Kalid Bahr. It is reported that they captured Chibaba and are threatening the , •forts in the rear. A Turkish aeroplane bombarded the Allies' bivouac at Gfalliopoli and caused some damage. ' Athens. May 9. < It is rumoured that a Russian army ,< has entered on the Turkish side of the 1 BlAick Sea . ] It is stated that the Allied forces. I in a fierce struggle, captured import- j ant height® commanding Kalid Bahr. , and the Rattle continues furiously. The capture of the remaining heights is < expected to entail the surrender of the i Turks in the yicinity. Advices from i Dideogaiteh states tliat the forts at j Bulair are firing vigorously to oppose the infantry landed at Karachala. A < decisive engagement is proceeding. \ (Received This Day 10.10 a.m.) t THE FIGHT FOR IiTLL 60. ! i London. May !). j "Eyewitness' " report states that after severe fighting on the afternoon ( of the second, our line north of Ypres was re-established in the evening. There | were indications on Monday morning g of a renewal of the attack and our I c guns fired at considerable bodies* of the enemy inflicting heavy lo'sse.s. Fighting was renewed on Wednesday at several points round Ypres salient. £ and' clouds of gas forced us to evacuate ( the trenches on Hill 60, whereupon the Germans rushed the hill, and though temporarily cheeked by our artillery, the Germans gained an advantage in a the confused fighting. They followed s .up their success and forced their way v Id our supporting Rile in the direction of Zillebeke and took the trenches on v the north of the lull. A. British | counter-attack drove thorn and we t re-captured the trenches, except those on the crest and the north-east part ~ . of the hill. The British made another counter- c attack at midnight and regained the p whole of the position north-east of the hill, but again wore driven off bv gases. { At the same time two British counter- {j attacks to the north-east- failed. "Eye- . . witness", adds that the sight of com- . . rades crawling about in agony, moan- . ing. for water, and dying in their tracks like pojsoned vermin, aroused the' £ troops' feeling, and that it is to fre hoped the British Empire will not rest until full retribution has been exacte<J■ _ . COLLOGUING? Rome. April 3 The Kaiser has forwarded an autograph le'tter to the King -,f Ttaly. IN ARMENIA 4 Pelrograd. May 9. b Djemal Pasha, supported by Kurds, il is heseiging Van. s The Armenian insurgents' am muni- n tion is nearly exhausted. Many prominent Armenians have ibeen assas- 0 sinated. 5 The lives of American missionaries and their families are endangered. p Tliere have been wholesale massacres 3 elsewhere in Armenia. r ITALY'S PRTCPfft ATIOXS. " t 3 Copenhagen. May 9. t Advices from Berlin state that Italy p has summoned to the colours all the t infantry classes from and including n 1876. Many train loads of troops are proceeding to the north-oasterr. front. 1 ('Received This Day 9.40 a.m.) TURKISH TRANSPORTS STTNTK. g "May f*. ® Renter reports that tho Russians E

sank six transports in the Boephoruß. | Two of theeo wore sunk in the Mar- , mora. i AUSTMA's'aLAIM. .1— Amsterdam, May 8. | An Austrian official message states ! that they forced the Russians to evacuate all the territory south of the Carpathian ridge in the valleys of Ondatra and Laborez. Hungary is now clear of the inraders. LORD DBnirs"LETTER. ■London, May 9. Lord Derby, in a letter to the newspapers, says that within a few days Germany has committed two diabolical aotis ,only describable as murders: first. Iy, use of poisonous gases resulting in scores of painful and lingering deaths, and now the sinking of the Lusitania with the loss of many innocent lives. IJritnin no longer calls for men to fight an honourable foe, "hut to join in the purpose of hunting down and crushing oiicc and for all, a. ratse of cold-blooded murderers. Whether the men ; join the Regulars. Lord Kitchener's Army or the Territorials is- immaterial, all will be present when the day of reckoning conies, and bitter' revenge, is taken. ' THE EXODTTS. ' V Romo, May 9. The Austro-Gcrman exodus continues on a wholesale scale, including the Embassy staffs. The students at Florence hissed the departing trains and cried "Down with Austria and Germany!" ——i