THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 June 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

I Latest Cables This Afternoon's War News. [elkciiuo ieleu uach —cor £ UIGH'I .} [i'KU HHUau ABSOGU-HOK.i A submarine sank the .Russian barque Thomassi, by shell fire, forty miles south of Oldhear, Kinsale. Tlie crew after being six hours m the water landed at Queenstown. Pans, June 11. A com unique states that the French had successes in the Labyrinth. The enemy were driven hack and the French carried some enemy communication, trenches eastward of the labyrinth, near the high road from Arras to Lille. CUeceived This Day 8.55 a.m.) « AMERICA'S .NOTE. Washington, June 11. The Note is more friendly than anticipated. It reiterates lto previous demands and leaves room tor a friendly i reply. It has Jbecome known that - President Wilson is not opposed to . diplomatic discussion, but insists on a guarantee that American lives will not he jeopardised during negotiations. The State Department officials are at sharp [ issue with Mi- BryaVs interpretation i of it, and declare that there are no ; grouaids for suposing that tne Note will lead to wad - . That contingency only win arise if attacks are repeated. The -, consensus of newspaper opinions indi- . cato that within the velvet glove of conciliation is the iron Hand of purpose (Received This Day y.lO a.m.) Amsterdam, June 11. A Dutch fishing boat picked up eight survivors of the British ashing smacks Welfare and Laurina, sunk by a Zeppelin. The trawler Letty was mined or tor'"pedoed on the Dogger Bank. fier crew' perished. iiome, June 11. The Italian on entering Moafalcone discovered that their fleet's hombardment had demolished a liuge poisonous gas factory from which pipes already had been laid towards the trenches. A dirigible on the Bth June bomibed the torpedo works and submarine tory at Dunubius, the navy guard at Fiume and also bombed a factory near tiie town. Austrian torpedoers chased the dirigible. The crew, finding they could not ■ escape, ignited the dirigible and jumped into the sea. Petrograd, June 11. Official—"VVe drove back the enemy on Thursday to the right bank of the Dniester. Strong forces which had crossed to the left near oaira6nov and extended to Siwka, met the enemy and inflicted heavy losses. We captured 17 gunsj 59 machine guns, 188 officers and 6500 Auetro-German soldiers, including an entire company at the Prussian Guards. MISTAKEN AWntIANS. London June 11. Vienna reports state that an Austrian submarine torpedoed and sunk off iSan Giovanni Di Medua a British cruiser of the Liverpool clas,s which was accompanied hy six destroyers. The Press Bureau states that the ship which presumably us referred to is safe in harbour and not seriously ( damaged. 1 •