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Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 August 1915, Page 3

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Uieceivt'd This Day 0.-ll) a.m.)

TUHKISH UATILESHII , SUNK.

Constantinople, Aug. 8

Official.—The battleship Jiheyr-od-diu Darbarossa, dVOI tons, six 11-inch guns (formerly the Jiurfurst Uriedrich Nilhulm) was sunk by au Allied submarine Thu majority of the crew was saved.

Itecttived This Day, JLU.33 a.m

XATIO.NAL 11EG1;STUAT1OX

London, August \)

Twenty seven million registration forms have keen went out in .England, Scotland and Wales to people between liiteen and sixtylive years of aye. Hit. twenty thousand known accusations are expressed in live hundred definitions, ■which are coded into forty six divisions ior men, and thirty lor women.

THE GJiKMAXfci IX UIiJSSIA

Petrograd, August \l

The newspapers assume that the Germans are altering then , plans on tiie eastern front and now are aiming at Oss'uivice. They declare tnat tlio neniy's operation towards lliga entiiely failed. The Novoe Vromya states that the Germans were thrown back at Mitau which explains their siKldon attack on Koouo on the Ualtic. The papers imply that jfitau is now again in pobbession of the Kufieiaiis.

A I'IIMOH COMAL UNIQUE. Pans, August 9. A communique status tiiat u Uoriuuu attack north-west of fcjouehez station was repulsed. Tho enemy after exploding u mine, violently bombai'dod eur positions eastward of the LiUe road iu the N'euvillo distiicfc, and attempted to leave their trenches. They immediately were stoppd by our" in fantry and artillery. Xne enemy attacked our advanced posts and trenches at- Viemie la Chateau on the liiuarville road iu the Argonne, with grenades and bombs, hut were driven , * uactc A fresh night attack ou our position at Lingekopf completely Tailed ana piti , curtain of tire infik-tud considerable losses.

(Received This Day 10.45 a.m.) GERMAN ALLEGATIONS I>EN IED. London, August y. A French Embassy communique says that in the Argonne the enemy's activity is incessant. All German attacks Be kind to your mother, lor when you were email, • j She kissed and caressed you if you had a fan. She nursed you in sickness and laughed at your joy, For she was your mother aiuT you her dear hoy. No friends could be kinder, no friends ; could be truer Than mother—and Woods' Great l'eppermint Core.

have been repulsed with heavy Josses. A part of our loss took place in an advanced treuch. Tho number <.t prisoners claimed •by the Germans is. double the truthful nuonbe-r. In LoriraiiiG no French reconnaissance was repulsed, but we t repuised the Germans Tho confused and embarrassed language of the German communiques ill conceals tho persistans of their reverses in the Yosges mountains whore we captured important nagee atLingekopf and Barronkopf and threw back numerous attacks. No i< α-ench aeroplane lias been shot down by the Herman artillery.

A STATE .FOR PIUNCE JOACHIM. Homo, August 'J. Rofugees from Lithuania eta to that the Germans are distributing pamphlet in Kovuo district announcing the reunion of .Russian and Prussian Lithuania as an independent •kingdom under th>: Kaiser's son Prince Joachkn, whose portrait adorns the pamphlet. A ROYAL LOOfJSU. Potrograd, Aug. U , An eye-witness lias given sworn evidence of I'riuce Joachim's presence at the sacking of a big estate at Suwalki. His share of the loot included a troi':a team. The witness's father »vas killed at Ivalish; his sister was tortured au<i succumbed and another was abducted. latA-NCE GETTING IT UAOli.

Pans, August U

A seniMjiticial report states that a French column is operating with groat success in the Southern and Eastern CamwooiKs. Tho part of the Congo ceded to Germany in 11/ ii, eoon will be entirely re-occupied by us.

CASUALTY LIST.

SLIGHTLY WOuiSDED

Wellington Mounted. Trooper T. V. Potei-s. Trooper S. Smithers. Eield Company Engineers, Sapper W. J. Baker.

Army Service Corps. Driver A. A. Elliott. Driver D. R, McUougall.