THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 June 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

Latest Cables This Afternoon's War News. [ULUUItIIL. I'BLiKGttAl'H — Col/i Ultiii I' ■ > |_i-Jl,ll I'Uiibo AoauCiAiloN-i A TURKISH MISSION CAUGHT. j communique states that a French destroyer captured between Cape Mat-apa-n and Crete ,a small Greek steamer with forged papers, and a number oi 'itukish officers aboard ; the officers were voyaging bo Tripoli, conveying Enver Pasha's present to the Senussi. tiERVIAJNiS ACTIVE. Athens, June "20. U is reported that the Servians .occupied Durnzsso. Essad i'asha fled towards Italy. •i-ilifi LOREITE-MJBUXTLLE FRONT .London, June 20. The Central Nous Agency's ■Dunkirk correspondent states that French offeiiSlVe at Lorette to JMeuville squeezed 150,000 Germans into a front 1 four aii3 a half miles, where they are being sacriiiced in a despairing effort to save the remnants of the defensive system. The French artillery; is wiping owl whole ranks oi the enemy, ana tlie heavy artillery mortars, grenades, aeiTa* torpedoes are being utilised m an almost continuous 'bombardment, automatically followed by bayonet cTia'rges winch tho Germans, are incapable oi resisting. A single mine shnTT had 250 German defenders whereof 200 were wiped out, and the rest taken prisoners. A stream near Souchez villag>' was Mocked -witli Gorman dead. Tin , German heavy artillery continues "ooniuarding. One shell struck the vu Tage of Marezui where 100 were billeteti; tno shell killed 89. Vu IMPRESS ROUMANIA AND BULGARIA. 'The Observer's LVtrograd correspondent states that the object f tlie T7em"erg attack is to impress Roumanui and Bulgaria. The German staff's opinion regarding (iallipoli is that it is a case of stalemate ; neither side is able use more men within the space- and tlfe <jn7y danger is if Rouinania and Bulgaria intervene.

liN GALICTA. Jt'etrograd, J line £s. Uilicial.—The battle or JLubackzow on tne 15th included a bnlfiunt and bold attack of cavalry upon German iin an try, wherein tne wnule 'Jlst German Regiment was annihdatod aJid dispersea. The attack produced a panic and temporarily stopped the German advance. The enemy's vanguards -at- ' temp ted to break through the doilies , Grodek Lake, but were rtjuu'lsociliie fighting continues. considerable enemy forces crossed tlie .Dniester below Libiow. All his attempts to advance beyond the steep uanks on the and 18th were repulsed. (.Received This Day i 0.15 a.m.; ITAL Y 'is CAxMI-AlG:n . llome, Juno 'M. Oiiicial. —Details oi the battle for the height on tlie left bank of the lsoiiiso, commancTTiig i'inva, which is at the bottom of the pass, shut in by steep wooded elopes with a swift and tleep river between, show that our troops with great courageous efforts, tnieu- a pontoon across at night and attacked at dawn on the 16th in the Tace of terrible ditficultie-s, including, deep networks of stout Jjar-bed wir, reiinoiced with iron bars and numerous 'hidden heavy guns. liie Italians after repeated attacks with the cold debouched in tne evening on the border oi tlie first position. All counterattacks were driven back. Wβ carried the heights on the 17th, but the enemy concentrated a violent artillery and machine gun fire and repeatedly sent fresh troops to the attack. Thcsj were decimated and finally repulsed with the bayonet. Our losses wore serious but the results important. OA" THE GALiLIPOuL I'E^xJSiSUIjA. Cairo, J une 20. Two Australians recently sent a message to the No. 2 xNew Zealand .oattery which was doing excellent work upon Colonel i'lugge's plateau: "Uα it mates. There ie no need i'or us to use our rifles while you fire like that."'

The nien arc so keen chat they do not desire to leave the trenches. Tile loth Battalion ol tin , Ihird Australian infantry were live weeks Jii tho trenches before they were relieved. The Australian war cry on the Peninsula is "Imshi Valla," Arabic words meaning "Be off; move on. before th • Triumph was .sunk she did excellent work in cutting oil' the Turkish roinr'orce meats coming up the gullies near Gaha Tope. Captain \\ allingforu is j. champion shot and Ins machine' gun was one of tho masters oi the force at Sari Bair. London. June 'I<J. 'A Renter'* gives detaDs or : the lighting :m front of Achibalm <>» June 4th. For an hour every British and l'Voneh gun on the i'eninsula poHired shell of various calibres upon tin , Turkish trenches, while the British battleships on the right <\\u\ the Freiioli on the left battered the Turkish ilaiiUs until tho u-liole, landscape was obliternted in a curtain ot smoke. A fower at Ki-ithia Avhich bad survived the previous bombardmont toppled over and the village was set on are. The -nfantry charge -beganl at noon, and fTi" first few trenches wvvo easily taken. The enemy being dazed by the avalanche of shell merely fired' a few shots upwards at the British who were sta-b-