THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 July 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

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This Afternoon's War News. [BLKOVUIC TKLKGHAPU—COI'YBIOHX.j [I'BH I'ttESß ASBOCUUON.I Received This Day 8.50 a.m. ■SUCCESS L\ AFRICA. Loudou, June 10. Official.—The Allies occupied Ngaun dere, an important town in the Cen tral Cauiorooiis. They suffered sligh loth. FWEiNOH OFFICOL NiEW-S. Paris, July 1(5. The French trawler N'ieuport was mined oil' Calais, and all the crew drowned.

A communique states that regarding the alleged German success in the Argonne (cabled on 14 th) it was really a failure. A break in our front occurred owing to the Germans using a great quantity of asphyxiating gas which overwhelmed our line at certain points, but we forced them bacK and recaptured Hill 280. Tt is untrue that our field guns were captured or put out of action. The German losses were considerable. A communique, states that the Germans in Lorraine attacked on a front along three "kilometres and the positions they lost at Leintrey. Simultaneously they bombarded our whole trout line from the forest of Chempenoux to Vezouse, and malting isolated infantry attacks everywhere which were repulsed. A body of attackers advanced to our barbed-wire entanglements south-west of the forest of I'arroy, but -were dispersed, with heavy loss. ASIATIC CHOLERA. Vienna, July 1(5. Official.—There have been 809 , cases of Asiatic cholera notified ivp to the I"2i\\. There is an alarming spread, chiefly in Salicia, where there are many prisoners of war, though the great majority of cases are among the civil population. The authorities fear its spread into the interior of Austria, where many sporadic cases have occurred. HILL 60. London. July 15. Replying to Mr 'MeXeill, the Hon. Mr Tenuant said the Government was not aware of the position on Hill (30 nutil iSir John French's dispatch tt'iwi received. Siir John French had his reasons for not reporting earlier. The fact seemed to be that since the •">th .May neither .side had held the liilt. and therefore the public -was not misled. The hill practically Had disappeared. IX CONSTANTINOPLE. London, July 10. The Daily Chronicle's Athens' correspondent .says that M. Ledoux, late secretary to the French Embassy, who was recently expelled from Constantinople, regards the situation there as critical. Many of the t>ld Turks Party have been murdered and thrown into the Bosphorus. The Germans do not conceal Germany's intention to make Turkey a protectorate of Germany. The Allies' subjects are interned in the interior of Asia Minor. GERMAN EFFORT TO REACH WARSAW. Ainsterdau 10. The Kait>er is going to Poland for Potrograd, July 10. Petragrad, July 10

The Gorman advance on Prasnysz is organically connected with the southern operations. General \'<m iHindenburg is now rushing columns along tile

northern tributaries ot the iSarew where it is estimated that five German Army Corps are attacking together with two and a halt corps ot cavalry based on -Vllaiva. The objective is Movo Gt'orgieVisK while Mackensen is aiming at at Brest Litovsk. The Russians are now on their inner lines, and havo an advantage in that their railways can throw troops i'rom one part of the front to another. Von liindeuberg has a railway which might give success at the first stage but Von .Uackensen i.s hampered by badly roaded country. Kussian soldiers stato that the Gorman soldiers are a rag-tag, bob-tail lot compared with sturdy fighters sacrificed in the first sis months. Their ages vary from sixteen to over fifty.

An officer 'writes that two 'Russian regiments in the recent retreat fell on a body of_ Germans with their bayonets and simply hacked 10,000 to pieces.