THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 July 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

Latest Cables This Afternoon's War News. [klkctuio teleghaph— copybiqhx.J [rjlll PttKSS ASSQOU'UON.I (itweived This Day yllO a.m.) THE WEST FiIONT. Paris, July 22. A communique estates that -violent lighting took place on Tuesday night and Wednesday on the Heights ol' Little Keichsncherkopf. Following our attack the Germans counter-attacked nine times, but two Chasseur battalions hold the enemy inflicting heavy losses on the Germans. Our aviators dropped twelve shells on Autry station north of Dinervillo. There lias been calm on our'front at the Dardanelles since the 13th. WAI! FINANCE.

Ottawa, July 22. Thw Canadian Government is liuuncing heavily in Xew York with ive object of lightening an adverse exchange situation. .Financing war pay monks ou the American market now is most favourable owing to the condition of the Jjritush Exchange. (Received This Day 9.5 a.m.) . ATROCITIES LN POLAND. Paris, July 22.

-M. Nadaud, 'correspondent of the Journal, says that in numerous Polish villages, the Germans conipelk-l Uie father* to watch their little daughters outraged by bands of thirty to torty •soldiers led by officers. Several -. ung girls escaped and drowned thenioelvoti , whereon the Germans burned many lionsos. Tliey thrashed and buried alive a priest who interfered. 'At several places •μ-oimdoil Russians wviv tortured, drenched with petrol, .shut in barns and buried alive. COWARDICE ASD HIGH TREASON The Matin states an Army order -wad loiind on a German lieutenant whoroin it was stated that the Emperor r'ran/, Joseph in overwhelmed with gnVi :md lifts ordered the 28th Regiment of the Royal Infantry to be erased from the list ol the army for an eternity for cowardice anil high troas'oH in the lave of the enemy, and those officers and hum: 'who remain will have to expiate this grievous fault with the blood of two battalions. This is the "Bohemian regiment that Bin-rendered to a Russian baUalio'i in Diikla Pass in April without using their anna.

A STORY EROM ZURICH. Zurich .July 21 It is reported that five noble Polish ladies in Vienna have been convicted of espionage and hanged by the neck. The judge who presided at the tria' was obliged to see the sentence carried out. and the spectacle wars to harrowing that he collapsed. (Received This J)av U. 15 a.m.) THE MATIN'S STATEMENT Park, July V 2. The .Matin makes the striking statement that the total killed in Europe number iiye millions and the wounded seven millions. GERMANY AND 11DU.MAX.IA. The Petit Parisien's liucharest correspondent states that tin* Gorman' Minister insisted on the- continuance of the trails it of Jiniuitions from Austria, to Turkey. The 'Minister of Foreign Affair.* said it μ-as impossible to give such authorisation. The German Minister replied: Wo shall pas* them through all the !-.nn\ a .. The Roumanian: If yom must pas.>. go through Servia, with whom you are already at war.

IN POLAND. Pctrograd, July 22. « The grouping of the Russian irooDS oji the Visutla "whereto the communiques refer, is understood to amount to' a withdrawal to the loft bank bottvuon the inflow of Bznra and ievsk. Only one of the outlying works to the north of Novogeorgiewk an "ar I has boon in action against tlio Gerniaiis marching on the Nurev. Prisoners of the Sixth Army Corps captured south of the Lublin-Cholm line, state that they saw" a huge coirinon grave at Rairarusska, -where 500U thousand prisoners wpre buried. They had been .shot in cold blood. The erinio indicates that Germany m fettling the pinch of strained means ot communication.

A GERMAN COMPLAINT. Geneva, July 22. The Germane complain that the Russian* are using the same methods tlioy used against Napoleon in 1812, and arc destroying all evacuated villages anil, crops during retreat. (Received This Daj 12.20 p.m.; A GBRMAN REPORT. Amsterdam, July 2i! A German communique claims that the Bavarians bloodily repulsed «ix enemy attacks on Ileichesaclferkoipf and captured a portion of the 'French -trenches. We brought down an eumy biplane- in Parroy wood. Three Gor r man airmen, in an aerial flight ove , , , the Muesnster ValleJty, forced threo adversaries to descend in the Thanu j Valley. Our advancing troops north- i, east of Shavli captured 5150 pneoM- •<! ers and five machine w guns. An uruptipn on Lower Dabissa rceulted in the attackers entering the/ clietrict n GyrnkiskzJ Gudsinny where; several, enemy positions were stormed. 'Hip Rueeians are retreatkig on the entire

front from Lake Rakiro to Nteinen. Wβ enlarged a hreach. in the Ltuss'an lince Koutli of Mariampsol-Koro road, and gained further ground to thj eastward, capturing four officers, 1200 men and four machine guns. The enemy on the Narev front have discontinued useless counter-attacks. Tl-c ltiieeians south of the Vistula have beo'i pressed back into an enlarged bridgehead position. On the Warsaw offensive Von Woyirschs's army, by a bold attack, frustrated the enemy's attempt to arrest the retreat. Before Ivangorod, our Silesian troops with the help of the AiiKbriaue, at noon stormed the great bridgehead positions uoar.Lagow and liugawawola. The enemy's entire front was thrown iHto the fortress, which now is dosely >\- vested. Yesterday the Anstrianis nortliw&st of Ivangorod captured 3000 pris onora and eleven machine guns. General Mackonsen reports that a battlo is proceeding botaveen x the Vistula and the 13 U£.

(Roceivocl This Day 12.40 p.m.) GREAT UiUTAJLN'S IUBSOUROES. London, July 22. A deputation of bankers and mer chnnts. waited on the lit. Hon. Moss"s A«quitli and MeKenna in rel'croacc io the subject of puJjlk: economy. lord St. Alwyn aaid the Government had not siiß'i. , Uie comnienc<!iiKmt of the war forced economj in mattci's under thoir own control, and ho urged that private economy bo enforced by an 'mmi'diiito increase of taxation. The Hon. Mr Asqiiith, in reply, said lie had - adeavoured to bring home to his fellow countrymen the importance ami urgency of economy. They 'wore lac-.i with a large and growing incrcise </i public and private expenditure; ■Uo the fact, that the war could not k; prosecuted suceetssfitlly without larjie e<'uiiomies. He agreed that the Goveiament had not gone nearly far ouou<ili in providing for the war out of taxation. He had been a long time convinced that the Income Tax ought to begin at the lowest scale and ite bag's ought to be. broadened. They miiit diminish the consumption of and maintain exports on an increased .scale; the more they did I'or tl;i. 3 the more would they contribute md ; - rectly to the country's resourcefi IV m ■which the nation must defray its yigJintic expenditure. He could not issenl to tho suggestion that the;v &ne Jd proceed by way ol' a piecemeal budget, which was dangerous. He thought ',* ii!ore desirable the question bho ild He dealt with, as a whole. There wou'd be no delay in submitting proposals to Parliament to complete. For the present year its ditty of obtaining from tho taxpayer an acle(juate arid equitable contribution to tho abnormal expenses. Ho was not ieseimisiic as to the conduct of the w\v or tho resources of tUta country.

PRAYERS FOR VICTORY. Petrograd, July 22. The Grand Duke Nicholas, -u voniioction with tin: intercessory .servics tl.rouixhout Russia has imsikml an Onlt;;' ot the Day to the troops in which :ic saya: "Inibiietl with tlif thought lli.i' the Czar ol' all the 'Uussias i« aiding Jou by his prayers, let us allow uratituile by fresh deed's, and carry in ourselves that faith which its an earne-i. sign of victory." AROUND THE J3OSPHORUS. Athens, July '2:>. Details of the exploit of britith t;uljiiiariia\s in the Sea of Alarniori sliow that four large lighters with ammunition wevo blown to pieces ami the crews perished. Anxiety is folt b, Constantinople for the safety 'A the ammunition works, lvhidi niv much exposed to aerial attacks. Efforts av being made tu provide auti-afcrait gtniK. Nine thousand troops recently were withdrawn from Smyrna lor tki Dardanelles and live thousand cases of cartridges and four waggons of unu powder were brought from Anit ■Minor

(Received This Day 1.50 p.m ; FIGHTING IX MESOPOTAMIA. Londun, July 21. The Press Bureau states that owing to rumours that hostikis tribes were i-i tho vicinity of Hushire. Major Ohpliant and Captain Hanking, assistant political officer, with a mixed patrol, on the 12th reconnoitred and fell into an ambush and both British office's were killed, also a Sepoy while two other were Tvounded. The tribesmen disappeared. The Turkish forces which threuteneJ Iftisraben were entrenching at. S'nkhefisbeyuh and Naisrivet on the Euphrates river, but our force, in upße oi: a determined resistance diove out the enemy, capturing tn}\'Qn Turkish, officers;, 85 regulars and some Arabs. Our casualties were 25 ki.Ue! and 45 wounded.

The Turks then retired to below •Naisrivet. Later they liiado several attempts to dislodge us but were easily repulsed. AVc launched an attack oh the 18fcli against the enemy's flank. On the 2-1 th the 'Punjabis encountered .?nexpeetoil resistance' an ilsnfferetl considerably. Tlie operations are progress-

TIiJS CANADIANS AT YPRi&S. Bii' Robert Uordern was .Sir John French's guest for two days. lie made a tour of the front and "nspected the Canadians. In an adjclivss ! o them lie «aid that as long as Canada ex istiH.l their conduct during the stormy days of Ypres n'oulcl be recorded in the country's history.