THE WAR Latest Cables

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 May 1915, Page 3

THE WAR Latest Cables

This Afternoon's War News. i.Ul.l'-fiuii, ir,;..,W.»i'ii UOI'IUIIUUT.J i 1... IKi.L3.-j J (kui-.Jai liiii Day UAU a.m.; ,;,,. liuiAUl GALNfci. Palis, -May US. A cominunupie sum'.- that there was obstinate j.giitiiig sout'nward of Notre .Daino l)e i.niviic, and violent counterattacks liuuugiioui, uiu night. We repulsed the enemy with extremely heavy looses. Wo carried by assault the entire village ol' Uuoiiey, and the, wood northward of I'iill V2o. The garrison in tho village and wood comprised two infantry battalions, a battalion of 15avarian Chasseurs and :,i\ con.panics of ! pioneers, each :Jl)0 strong. There had transformed the locality iuto_ a formidable redoubt and offered a desperate resistance. One hundred were bayoneted and. lO'iO taken prisoner, including 30 officers and the colonel and major of the Chasseurs. We won hundreds of metres of ground northward of Neuville. and sei/.ed the road leading to Givonchy. ISesides the southern end we carried the centre of Neuville and the Germans were thrown back on the northern end which we now outflank. 1 (Received This Day U a.m.) ALIEN ENEMIES. London, May 13. The lU, Mon. H. H. Aaquith said that the Government proposed that all adult alien enemies (males), for their own and Great Britain's .safety, should lie segregated and interned. All those over military age will be repatriated, and women an dchihlren in suitable cases also will be repatriated. Though some might remain. An advisory board to consider exemptions would be established, rie added lhat already 1900 wei-e interned and 10.000 not yet interned. (Received This Day 'J. lO a.m.) uia'-Liv AAjj l/iJLijAU-E. .London, jiay l>i. i Here we.-'o amazing scenes of wreckage and pillage, in London..., Every Ueinian ami Austrian csliop r between iiackiiuy and Islington was smashed. lucre is au insistent movement to compel naturalised iSrilisii subjects of Gorman extraction to avow their loyalty, and many .are responding including Ernest and Felix .Schuster, E. F. Schioif, Carl Aleyor, Felix Simon. ,NOX KILLED. IJ.-A. Lioyd. iiie international footUαh player was not killed. KS EAt 1 EXPELLED. Petrograd, May 13. Oiiiciai.--The enemy was expelled from the whole Iclt bank of the Dniester and ejected from Ivalestyuiki. THE FRENCH VlClXJlll. Paris, iUa.y 13. '.iliicial.- L'-vory house in Neuville was found to be loupiioie.it and every cellor iranfornied into a covered trench. The village was complexed house by house and tho Germane surrendered in batcues. Further llurth tiie Frencli, emerging from tho lSerLhonville wood, dashcil through amid a storm oi shot, travel sod the enemy's trenches alid dragged .sections oi the Germans out of their underground hurts. They then .-caled tho entrenched slopes and seized the cre.it dominating the plain. Many l'"roiich officers fell; ol lour battalion commanders only one was left. Four* kilometres uere covered in ninety minutes. .No .such .success previously was achieved in this siege warfare, either by the Germans or the French. TURKS MOVING BACK.. Athens, May 13. The Turkish Headquarters Staff at Gallipuli has been transferred to Rodosto. GENERAL BOTHA'S SUCCESS. Capetown, May 13. General IJotha has hoisted tho Union Jack at Windhoek. There was no resistance. He found 3000 Europeans and I - . , ,000 native* at Windhoek, and describes the result as practically the complete possession of German South-West Africa. KIOTS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Johannesburg, May 13. Serious anti-German riots hare broken out, and the premises of wholesale German and Austrian butchers, beer f<aloon.s, and merchant firms have been wrecked and tired. The German l.i' derkrauz Club was burned. Sir George Alba's officers were- raided and the furniture fired. (iundelfinger's premises were burned. Tho total loss by riots and lire* is £250,000. AN AUSTRIAN" DEFEAT. Petrograd. May 13. Official.---On the Bukowina frontier !M l lie right bank of the Dniester, the t'ovsa.ck.s 'at Traseslad dislodged the Aiistrians from three lines of trenches, capturing "2000 prisoners, a battery of quick-firers and a string ol caissons. 11 rg ii • coy nitssionf.ij's REPORT. London. May 13. 8.30 p.m. Army casualties: Officers killed VI. wounded 37: men killed U(>, wounded ■ill. missing 4. Til the Dardanelles: Naval officers killed 2. wounded 2. The Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith has announced that all adult male hostile non-naturalised aliens are to be interned, or if over military age. repatriated. I An advisory body will be established to deal "with applications tor exemption. Naturalised aliens are to bo permitted liberty in exceptional eases only—if tho advisory body deems this course ad--1 visable.