THE WAR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 May 1915, Page 2

THE WAR.

» . Ki.EtMh»c "liLKUiui'B-cuririutißr | ! I'tfll l'ltLSB .'.BSO(-iiTK;N 1 Sill JOHN FRENCH'S REPORT. I .ondon, May 9. General French reports on the 9th: The enemy last uiglit made attacks east of Ypres which continued to-day. All were repulsed with heavy loss, and the British line has been perfectly established. The British Firet Army attacked the enemy on the 9th between Uoisfraeiuer and Festubert and gained ground south-east towards Frouiolles This lighting continues. The airmen Nuccossl'itily attacked St. Andre Junction, north ot Lille, aiul the Canal bridge is down. They also bombarded Fourtics, Herlies, Armquillets and La Bassce. i FRENCH MAKE GOOD ADVANCE. Paris, May 10. Official.—We made considerable progress towards Loos. We advanced along a front seven kilometres south of Clarency. We captured two' and sometimes throe lilies of German t roil cites, very solidly fortified. We advanced at certain points four kilometres and took prisoner 2000 and captured six guns. A German attack at Nieuport was repulsed with importnut losses. The asphyxiating gases gave the Germans an initial advantage at Hill f)0. The Britishers were blinded and suffocated, but they held on as long as possible. Even with respirators the position was intolerable. THE DARDANELLES. ' London, May 10. The Turkis.li press admit that the Gallipoli lighting was of the ions description. A correspondent estimates that there were 3000 prisoners in addition to losses. Tin; enemy is strongly entrenched commanding heights at the west'in extremity of the Peninsula. "ICyowitness" says that in the re•ent lighting tlie heaviest losses were home iby the Australians and New /lealamlers, whose one tan It was their comjdete disdain of cover. Their 'iraverv and dasli was amazing. In iomo cases the men after rushing the 'irst Turkish trenches in ten minutes ■ barged ahead despite the appeals of ' heir officers, penetrating several miles mland and suffering heavily when the I'urkish reinforcements compelled them io retreat. Some troops pay the warmest tributes to the Australians. Malta, May 9. The Australian, New Zealand and British wounded have arrived from the Dardanelles. (Received This Day S.J.j a.m.) A ZEPPELIN KAIL).

London, May 10 A Zeppelin flew over the Marine Pin . ado at Southend. A bomb missed the gasworks, hut wrecked a house in York, road, injuring a soldier who was asleep. Several explosions shattered the windows within half a mile. A bomb missed St. .Krkenwald's Ohurch on a conspicuous hill-top. and another fired the buildings at a builder's yard near St. Erkenwald's Another Domb wrecked a house at Prittlewell and Mrs Whitewell was killed in leaping from ilie window. Her husband was injured severely. A dozen outbreak* of lire occurred at Westeliff. Attempt's lo drop bombs on the gasworks at I.eight failed. Bombs were dropped all round Queen Mary's Hospital and also at C-anvey Island. The Zeppelin dropped upwards of eighty bombs and fled seawards when sighted by an aeroplane at Sheerness.