THE WAR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 June 1915, Page 2

THE WAR.

IUiXCIBIO TCLIGBAFH —COFTKIOBI 1 I FMB PBBW ASSOPUtXION.) FRENCH REPORT. Paris, June 26. Official.—There have 'been minor infantry engagements north of Arras. The state of the ground and recent storms rendered the advance almost impracticable at certain points. Fighting continues in Champagne and Argonne to our advantage. British aviators ibomb'arded and blew up an important ammunition store and ammunition train near Roulers. Jfifty Germans were killed. Official.—The Germans eastward of Colonne delivered an attack but were roputeed except where they penetrated a portion of a trench held by two eoldiere. RUSSIA'S REPORT. Petrograd, June 27. Tho enemy assumed the offensive near Prasnyuz. iin'lyi <i«>perate battle which ■developed into-bayonet lighting continues, f • Our .":. 'hilated a eneinj battalkiii wbid ■ ~..,- i-ltutiv approached the entsiife, ■■:■!• nr. northwest of Zavikhost, on the i-siu . ik vt th* Vistula. (During our counter-attack- supported by an anuoiwcd train in the direction or Zolirieff-Lemberg we captured 30 officers, 2000 men and 13 machine guns, We continue to repulse desperate at>acks by gdeat Auetro-German forces betueen Khodoroff and fialicz. Wo took iirisoner 100. We progressed on the Dniester-" - Pruth' front. AUSTRO-GERMAN REPORTS. Amsterdam, June 27. iA Berlin official repor't says:—The Wurtembiurg. regiments stormed the Russian positions in Oglenda district, northward of Prasnysa and held them against repeated counter attacks. They captured 636 prisoners and four machine guns." Von Linsengen eince the 23rd has taken 3000 prisoners. His attack on the northern bank of tho Dniester is pdoceeding. Between the Dniester and: the Pruth Genera Pflanzer against repulsed far superior Russian forces. The enemy broke through one (point, advancing several lines at night time. Reinforcements arrived and after a severe battle fhe enemy was ejected. iWe repulsed the Russian's counterattack on the north bank of the Dniester between flJaUcz and Zurana. Our attack is progressing. We captured ■Chodoron, north of Zurano. The hand 'to hand fighting north of Souchez and iNeu<ville for positions the French captured has concluded, and the enemy were ejected on Friday night. They sent reinforcements, but were repulsed. The Italians at Gorizia were repulsed. HUibY'S REPORT. • ' Rome, ..June 26. The investment of Gorizia is proceeding. The Austrians are strengthening their works in the Tyrol. Our advance in the Trentino continues. CASUALTIES. DIED OF WOUNDS. Auckland Battalion. Sapper Bert Hunt (attached to En- " gineers). Auckland Mounted. Trooper William John Birdsall. REPORTED DANGEROUSLY ILL AT MAI/DA. N.Z. Medical Corps. Lanoe-Corporal William James Sloan. Auckland Battalion. Pdivate E. H. Johnston. REPORTED WOUNDED. Otago Mounted. Trooper George MeCorkindale. Auckland Battalion. Private H. Carter. Private C. Barnes. Private Tawa Totara. Private H. Cartiwright. Lance-Corporal L. H. Morgan. Private J. Wilson. Private A. MoKinnon. Private D. C. Simpson. Private Mark Suite. Private Sydney Ward. - ■■ Private E. D. Whitburn. BOMBS ON ARRAS. Paris, June 27 One hundred incendiary and asphyxiating bombs were dropped on Arras, and several fires started. A gendearine and nun were kille and many injured. GERMAN REPBdSALS. An official message from Berlin etates that th«> tcv*ns oi Valenciennes and Bou'baix iveru fined 150,000 fcrangpeach as a reprisal for tho FreiK& T?ft.nbardniejit of the German Cbnwjilalee in tb.<> opeu U>tfns ol Alexaadrettti and Haiffa, and the damage done to German ami Turkit-h property. SIEGE AM) TRENOH WAIR. Rome, June 2?. Reinforcements from Firance and Qβlicia have brought Austria's army against Italy up to the desired effic. iency. Austria also has completed fortifications for defence. Operations at Laverone and Folgaria on the high Malyborghetto plateau ,and the Predil Pass, Tolmino and Gorizia, hare aesum ed the character of a eiege war. On the remainder of the front the conflict has been transformed into a trenoh war.