Second Edition THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 July 1915, Page 3

Second Edition THE WAR

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This Afternoon's War News. [kLKCTIUO TELKGUAi'U —COI'YItIGHT.J [ran I'KKsa assocaaiiqn-I AEROPLANE RAIDS. London July 20. Six aeroplanes bombarded tlie buildmgs, rails, and trains of the main and goods stations at Colmar. It its believed that much damage was done. l'our aeroplanes bombarded tho station of Charlemagne junction. lioiulon, July, 20. The Press Bureau states that a French air squadron on the morning ol the twentieth dropped eight 150 millimetre shells and three on the nineteenth on Colmar railway station. .None were dropped on the town the machines returned undamaged. Four aeroplanes dropped forty eight shells an Charlemaiige junction. COST OF WA'R The Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith in tho House of Commons moved a vote of credit of £150,000.000 to meet the war expend'tuie, making total of £1012, (iOOjOOO since the outbreak of the war. For the first .seventeen days of July the expenditure was £5-1.190,000. The expenditure during the current year to tlie seventeenth was roughly £301,000,000 whereof £241,693.000 was f or ' tne army and navy, -while loans to the Dominions and the Allies were roughly £M i,000.000. The balance iv;is expended Tood supplies and other purposes. Jt is estimated that the present vote Hill last to the end of August. The Rt. Hon. 11. Asquith intimated that Parliament will re-assemble in tlu middle of September. ITALY'S WAR LOANRome. July 20. Tlie isecoiid National War loan of one milliard lire, closed at 950.000,000 lire. Milan underwrote two hundred millions. Received This Day, 1.50 a.m.. A I'IUSNGH COMMUNIQUE. Paris July 20. ~ communique reports that the violent bombardment continues round Soiichez, Neiiville, and Sainias. Tliero ■was u lively cannonade in the Aisne valley and Soissons was bombarded. WARSHIPS MOVING. Copenhagen July 20. Several largo cruisers, torpedoer« and transport*; were observed trom Gothland steaming noth they are supposed to be German vessels. (Received This Day 10.20 a.m.) THE GERMAN HUMANITY LEAGUE ■ Amsterdam, July 20. The German Humanity League in a manifesto to its friends in Europe and America savs: ''No State coveted" our land or menaced German integrity. Our ships were welcomed on every ocean, and our citizens enjoyed the lullest civil rights throughout the

world ;our commerce was increasing yearly, and the German Hag respected everywhere; to-day it is the badge of infamy. To their last hours the Kaifcer, Admiral Von Tirpitz and Prince Von Hollweg will carry the brand of shame lor the unparalleled ruin they have brought and the misery whereinto tiiey have plunged the world by their barbarism 011 land and sea. We appeal to the democratic Saxons, Bavarians. Hanoverians and •Wurtembergers "to join those who realise tlie unspeakable crime of an unprovoked war, and persevere in demanding tlie evacuation of Brabant, Flanders and Luxembourg and the cessation of the bloody outrages in Alsace and Lorraino.

An Austrian official message states that after crossing the Volitza wo advanced on the enemy's position on tho heights and took prisoner 3000 men. The Austro-German sucocrscs on the 13th along the entire front has shaken the. enemy's resistance. He brought up all reinforcements within reach 'n the last few days, but was unable-to maintain the position and began to retreat, and on the night of tho 18th evacuated battlefield. The Italians vehemently attacked pt Gorizia along the entire border "of the plateau. There was obstinate hand-to-hand fighting all night long, and the enemy was repulsed after reaching our advance dtrenches. Fighting .was renewed this morning.

. THE GOLDEN SWOItDS. Home, July 20. Aboard the cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi were celebrated gold sworcls presented to Garibaldi by English and American friends.

MORE HELP FROM AFRICA. Pretoria, July 20. Tiie Union Oovornment is releasing a number of the garrison artillerymen •who worked the guns in the Daniaraland campaign in order to allow them i-j enrol in tlie Imperial forces. (Received This Day 9.-10 a.m.) OFFICIAL RUSSIAN NEWS. Petrograd, July 20.

Official.—The enemy column in the Riga-Shavli region reached the TukumDoblin front and advanced on the 18th southwards' towards .Hofzumbergc and Benini. The Cossacks rauled the enemy's rear north of Skiony, capturing ai important convoy. Wo continue to press the enemy in the Popeliano region. W T e repulsed attacks on out Shavli positions on the night of tlie 17th and dislodged the enemy from the last "trenches on tlie Trans-Niemon front which we won the loth. The enemy assumed the offensive on the Narew front, capturing a position on the right bank of the Pissa on the 17th. We repulsed attacks on the left Bank of the Skva, near Vym-Pehetchviak. Our troops west of Omulieff withdrew towards the Narev bridgeheads where tho fight i'esolved itself into an obstinate rearguard action. The enemy attacks on the Wilkolaz-Dykhava front in tho direction of Lublin were repulsed but the enemy captured tho Krasnostaf and Vieprz fords above. We repulsed many attacks on th right bank of the Vieprz, but the enemy established himself on the right bank of tho Volitaa and ive therefore withdrew to our second line. We repulsed four furious attacks on our front near Grabovice, and drove the enemy back on the 17th between tho Genichua and the Bug from all his trenches. Desperate fighting continues in the Sokal region and also along the Dniester. There were no serious engagements in other directions.

(Received This Day 12.30 p.m.) A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. Amsterdam, July 20. A German communique states that the English after exploding mines noar lioogo, attacked, but collapsed in front oi our position. The English occulied a crater formed by the explosion.

Tho Russians were repulsed at several points in Courland. 'We captured tho enemy's positions north of tile-confluence of rivers Skud, Skroda, and Pissa. We reached the Narev, northward of the mouth of the Skiva and occupied some the permanent ioi tifications of Ostralenka on the north west bank. Our troops, south of the Vistula advanced as far as Blonie and Grodzisk. In rearguard actions the Russians lost 560 prisoners and two machine guns. In the south-eastern theatre all the Russian counter attacks were repulsed and we took prisoner 5000. Our troops are closely pursuing tlie enemy. Our cavalry reached the Radom-lvangorod railway. MumwimM—a—aai