THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1915, Page 2

THE WAR

, KLKUIIiC T tLKGUAi'U--COPrUIOHt ! i fiiu pui.sa ..bSoi'-iJU'ioK i NEWS FROM RUSSIA. Petrograd, July 10. A munitions factory costing a milium sterling is opening in Moscow and the citizens are generously contributing. Official.—The enemy at Bolinoff attacked, using gases, but nowhere progressed. Our offensive at Lublin extended along the whole region from the mouth ol the l'odlipe to a stream south of Bykhava. The enemy continues to retreat .while trying to hold us. We have now prisonered over 15,000. MORE PRISONERS. Paris, July 10. Official.—The prisoners 'taken at Fontennelle on tlie Bth totalled 881, including 21, officers. Our bombarded the railway stations at Arnaville and Bay oil - ville, and the military lints at Norroy. Twenty-six bombs and 1000 darts were dropped. THE WEEK'S CASUALTIES. London, July 10. The casualties reported are 70 officers, whereof 32 are dead, 915 men, of whom 190 are dead. FROM BERLIN. Amsterdam, July 10. A German official message sayH:— A\ e captured between the Meuse and the Moselle since the Ith 1798, including 21 officers, three guns and 12 macjjine guns and 18 mine throwing howitzers. CASUALTIES. KILLED IN 1 ACTION. Auckland Battalion. Private A. Yeates. MISSING. Private G. Cm teller. Private E. Pfundt. WOUNDED. Auckland Battalion. Private H. V. Watson. Field Artillery. ' Sergt. C 4. L. Rohertson. DIED OF WOUNDS. Otago Battalion. Private A. Bennett. Auckland. Battalion.—Reported prisoner in Gulhane Hospital, Constantinople, wounded in arm, back and shoulder: Private T. H. Burgess. Auckland Mounted Rifles.—'Reported wounded: Trooper J. McPherson.