THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 July 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

Latest Cables This Afternoon's War News. [bLKC'CUIU TKLKUUAI'H — UOI'XBIIiUX } u k-nn vnitia assoimaiion. I . • (Kece'ived This Dixy y.oO a.m.) EYEWITNESS'S' REI'OHT. Lyndon, July 7. "Eyewitness" states that the ope atious during the five (.lays to the 2u< were mainly confined to niliimg au counter-mining, wherein we Ueetroj ed i>ortions of the enemy's trenche At Cuinchy, Aeuvechapelle and 1 Uii&soe there were numerous patri skii'inishes and suipiug continue steadily. Our shells exploded a poi: onous gas cylinder near Hill GO a< iJiyxiating sixty Germans. In som sections oi' the eiieiny's Iro.nt a nun: ber of men cai/y reservoirs of oxyge for reviving soldiers suffering froJi; gas. The Germans are adopting sever measures to force the inhabitants o occupied territory to manufacture wa material. Proprietors are fined am managers and workers imprisoned Some strikers were kept in the fac tories -without food until 'they sub niitted. Whenever a strike occim inhabitants are ordered indoors a" 7 o'clock and lights out at 7.30. CASUALTIES. Casualties announced to-day total 2!: oflk-eris 1400 men. HACK TO ITALY. Rome, July 7. fc!ix thousand Italians captured in Galicia have been sent back bo Italy. COUNCIL OF WAR, The Archduke Eugene presided at a War Council at Innsbruck where the German and Austrian Generals bitterly debated the situation. Three Austrian

generals on the Italian frontier hav< biion relieved of command. AN AUSTRIAN TRICK. A communique states that one ol the commonest Austrian tricks on tin Isonzo is lor parties of men" to advance from their positions, and raise their hands, and then suddenly fall on their faces and uuuiask dense line* of sharpshooters. THE DUTY OF SOCIALISTS. Amsterdam, July 7. Jhe Yorwaertz disavows the "stop the war" movement among a Socialist minority. It says Italy's aggression makes it the duty oi Socialists to stand shoulder to shoulder with the rest oi the natiou. SOUTH AFRICA'S OFFER AOCEP'im

Pretoria, July 7. Official.—The Imperial Government lias accepted the Uniou'ts oiler of some heavy batteries aud an Imperial contingent. (Received This Day ( J.oo a.m.) BRITAIN'S TRADE. ■London, July 7. The imports increased by £17,8313,-1.1-1 and the exports decreased by £ti,o'3 ( J,-iOB ; re-exporta increased ' by I'oUO/JOu. IN SOIT.H AFRICA. A Rhodcsiaii trouper's letter states that the Germans planted mines all over the desert, and a German newspaper declared that General Botha's road to "Windhoek would be a sea of blood. Actually the iniues killed 61 Germans aud wounded live British. G-OOD ADVICE. The Westminster Gazette deprecates the seeking of scapegoat* for the Dardanelles. It states that the operations would not have been undertaken! unless a good many people shared the responsibility. It was for the public to give all support to the Government in giving all possible aid to our gallant troops, and not waste time in recrimination. S AFEG I" ARD ING VENICE. Rome July 7. A squadron of hydroplanes manned my French naval airmen under the conmuid of Lieutenant Conneau has been stationed at Venice to protect the city, and also lor reconnoitering the Austrian fleet's movements. The Government i« hastening the construction of numerous hydroplanes. The captain and engineer of the German steamer Lemos, interned at Venice, have been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for spying and at night signaling information to the Austrian fleet. (Received Tlii6 Day 12.15 p ru.) A FRENCH COMMUNIQUE. Paris, July 7. A French communique states that there was a night-long bombardment north of Arras. We repulsed two feeble Gorman attacks at gouchez and our lire stopped fresh evening attacks at Souvaux. The Germans, after a most, violent bombardment south-east of St. Mihiel, took the offensive on a wide frout7 but only at one point did they penetrate our first line of trenches. .For seven hundred metres elsewhere they (were repulsed with heavy loses. At Bois. iLe Pretre we checked an attack preceded by burning liquid. At the Dardanelles the Turkish general attack on Monday was the most important yet made. At 4 a.m. it

i ■ .' ( openekl with extremely heavy artillery ' fire aigainst our first line. The Turks ■ attempted eeveral infantry attacks, I none) of which reached our -frenches. ! Our artillery decimated Ihem and rifle fire and machine gums mowed down ffiie rest. Turks were strewn all over the field. .The Turkish Asiatic ti&tfeffes continuously too-operated j aleo aeroplanes were bombarding our lines, and Turkish battleship wae firing while cruising between Maidoe attd Chanak. Fifteen Allied aeroplanes at nightfall bombarded -the areodrome at Ohanak, hitting the.principal shed.