Second Edition THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 July 1915, Page 3

Second Edition THE WAR

, — T Latest Cabies This Afternoon's War News. j_ELKO'tmc •ruLEiuui'ii - coi'vinuu'f i J'KK riluria .tS&;U4AUi>N : (Received This Day y.25 a.m.; DANGER TO TR ANS-ATLANU'IO SHIRRING. Washington, July 2 The Government is contemplatii the placing of Sayville wireless statu under American control. It is belie \ ed that the movements of British ai French trans-Atlantic shipping is not fied to the German Admiralty. The attack on the steamer Well disclosed that- someone in Cuba beto; the vessel sailed painted inside the ho an intimation that the W'elbury woul never reach-England. OUR LATEST \VAR CABLES. London, JuTv 2. Private 'Dwyer, aged ID years, lir been awarded the Victoria CToss tc having devoted his week's leave froi the front to recruiting iii London. II headed a march .through the city wit a hand, atal made a speech in Tral'a. gar Square. His recruiting effort iva highly successful. Amsterdam, July 2. German newspaper publish extensiv eulogies of the Kaiser, the occasioi being the 25th anniversary of tin agreement exchanging Heligoland. Tin papers emphasise his foresight in -ob tabling the island, without which tin present <Tevelopmen"fc of the Germai fleet would be imiposible. They sa;. Tiiat if the Kaiser had not taken Helioiaud the present war would have ueei: impossible. Rome, July 2. Five Alpine climbers volunteered io <Testr'oy the electricity works at Ton ale waterfalls which are supply RCva, Rovereto and neighbouring iorts. They crept down The steep rocks at Tonale Gorge on four consecutive niglTl. carrying mines and dynamite. They succeeded ill desstrovilliT the rent,rail r'nnrliwtnp

The Higli Commissioner reports as follows London, July 2nd 6.8 p.m.— . Attacks by German forces, preceded by a bombardment, were made in 111 violent manner aF two o'clock this morning. 011 "the line Ablain-Angres, north of the Bethune road. They were completely stopped. Two other attacks were repulsed. One in tlie Argonne was accompanied with ;i large bomb. This was thrown. It contained asphyxiating gas. The other,' at Bois Xe Pretre, 'was preceded by artillery fire. \ London, July 2. ] A submarine, by gunfire, sank the ] -1000-ton steamer Welbury off Castleton with 5400 ions ol sugar. Before the slii]j left Cuba someone painted inside the hold: "Your cargo for. England will -never get thefre. A trawler picked up the crew. Paris, July 2. A communique states that there ; a heavy bombardment at many points along the front, notably in the region of Woostan, the north" of Ypres, SoucJiez, Vernenil and north of the Aisne. Aji attack by the German Grenadiers along the AblaTn road failed completely. The struggle was continued in the Argonne with the greatest violence throughout the night, the Germans using asphyxiating gas. -in officer of the Mercantile Marine --- - 1 recently at Constantinople, states that the Turks were at first under the impression that the Allies had failed r t the Dardanelles, but it now was maniTest, slowly but surely, tliat they were gaining ground. His impression was that the Turks coulcl not hold out nmcii longer, and the foreigners assisting 11 the defence would have a terrible time il Constantinople (capitulated. The Turkish population at Gallipoli was -n the friendliest terms with the Allies because they paid in gold, whereas the , Germans paid in paper. The Allies are on {he point' of becoming masters of *uie Sea of iVlarmora. Sir liin Hamilton reports v ; that a de/termincd Turkish counter-attack 011 Aclii JBaba 011 June 29th was repulsed. The French captured a strong system » oi trenches on June 30th. The enemy's losses were considerable. A submarine fired seventeen shots at the Caucasian, breaking down the f'uunei and carrying the wheel out of the captain's hand. Hie crow took to the boats. The Inglemoore picked up some, but was itself torpedoed. One of the Caucasian's boats headed for France and since has not been seen. A submarine torpedoed and sank the 'barque Elsie Tower laden with timber fiorii Nova Scotia off Fastne't. The crew was landed at Crookhavon. The submarine then put up sails and two 'itluuimy funnels and sailed about. Berlin, July 2. HgLv, it is announced that General Von IMF Leipzig was killed at Usunkoepen through a revolver exploding while . sitting down to a meal. The general impression is that Von Leipzig was murtlered. HTs death is a great loss to German influence in Turkey where lie was extremely popular. ,