THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 July 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

t Latest Cables This Afternoon's War News. IKLKUTKH) I'EIiKOUAI'U— UOPXUIUHT. J J PICK PIIKSB ABHOCaVUON-1 CASUALTY LIST. KILED IN ACTION. Wellington Battalion. I'rivato 3). McK. Dickson. Auckland Battalion. Private E. Bradbury. Wounded hand ami loot caused bf a fall of earth. Otago Battalion. - Corporal ,J. L. O'Brien. Previously reported wounded now reported missing.--Auckland Battalion: Private C. 'Porter. Otago Battalion.—Private C. Crocket!. Previously reoprted missing, now reported wounded.—Otago Battalion: Sergt. A. J. Rose. (Received This Bay B..'it) a.m.) ESPIONAGE. London. July ISO. The Press Bureau states that in addition to the five people already convicted of espionage. tTie authorities iecentlv arrested toil lalloged Gerni'ii) agents, of various nationalities, Ion;' of whom fully confessed. All will he tried, in camera, for attempting to collect and communicate to the enemy i"j formation regarding the fleet and the army. The efficiacy of the ruei-.mos taken by the authorities is pr.wl by th" fact that all tlie men were .wrested within three week of their tiin-> of reaching fliis country. TURKISH LOSSES. As a result of the action on .July 21 at Xasiriyeh on the Euphrates river the Turks retreated twenty-five miles. Their casualties are 23(H). whereof 11 ollicers and tint) are prisoners. Our casualties were 001 .including L'! 7 killed and missing. (Received This Bay S.-lo a.m.) ELECTROCUTED. New York, .July 3'.. Police-Lieutenant Pecker has; •;« jl .•led rocufed for the mur 1 t of Rosenthal in I!U2. He protend his inuofence to the last. A frenoh ccmiiM'Vr!'; Paris, July .'i; l A communique states that throughout the night the grenade and petard struggle from trench to trench took place at the Labyrinth. Fighting at Barrenkopf continued into the middle! o! the night with great liorceiiess. We repulsed a fresh German coimter-at-lack ami our curtains of fire inflicted heavy losses. ROU.MAN T lA T S ATTfLUI)E. London, July 30. Renter's Paris correspondent cables that negoiations for Rouiiiania'.s entry int<» the war on the side of the Allies are proceeding satisfactorily. A treaty has been prepared, and .awaits the signature of only one belligerent. 't provides that Roumania will intervene within two months of the conclusion of the treaty. Meanwhile the strict est examination of goods for Turkey sent through Rouniania is asked for. the Allies to lend expert Custom examiners. MUNITIONS. The Press Bureau now states thaithe Minister for Munitions lias fully established his scheme. Sir P. Girouard has resume,H the directorship Arms-trong-Whituorth's. STIUK ERS PROSECUTED. Thirty coppersmiths at I'Virlield shipyards are being prosecuted before the Munitions War Tribunal for striking over a dispute with the master plumbers. It is the Jirst prosecution under the Munitions Act in Scotland. A STEAMER SUNK. A submarine sunk the Young Percy. Her crew was saved. TR EASONO US G EN Till A L SENTENCED. Pretoria. July 30. The rebel General Muller has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for treason. ENTENTE COR. I>l ALE. Paris. July 30. Newspapers p»iy tribute to the efforts of the British military authority to preserve the good feeling of soldiers with the French peasantry. The British Army is careful not to harm property and assist the peasant fanners in their harvest by loats of troops and horses. STILL ON DRY LAND. Malta, July HO. Australian wounded, describing the situation at Gaba Tepe, stated that the Australians and New Zealand scdl are holding up fJ'urks, who i-ie .disinclined to renew the attempt to [throw us into the sea. The Turks tiow are acting on the delensivc. Supping continues unceasingly at Aohi Baba. wherein we invariably beat 'b - Turks. The whole ol Aclii Baba •bristles with guns which disappear as fast as they are fired. (Received This Day. IS4.JU) p.m.) RUSSIANS RETT RE. * - Berlin, July HO. A communique states that General Yon Woyrsch fo.rced the Vistula river at several points and the Russians evacuated the entire line of the Vis-tula-Bug. AUSTRIA'S PROPOSAL TO SI2RVIA Paris, July 30. The President ol the Serbian •Conn-

cil of Ministers states that Austria thrice sounded Serbia regarding a separate peace, offering the rectification of the Bosnian, Herzegovinian and Albanian frontiers, and access to the Adriatic Sea and certain economic advantages. Serbia declined all offers. The president added that Serbia, desires an agreement with Bulgaria an I twice made proposals without success. Serbia also was desirous ol au Italian Alliance and agrees 'to Italy's preeminence in the Adriatic Sea which they never disputed.