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Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 August 1915, Page 3

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(Received This Day 0.5 a.m.) FRENCH OFFICIAL NEWS. Pans, August 11. A communique states that a German attempt to attack Souchez with petards was repulsed. Our positions in the Argoune were bombarded violently, RUSSIAN PREOA UiTIONS. Petrograd, August 11. The Government departments at Kovno have b\en transferred to liobrinsk, and various* factories are being removed to other towns. THE DEMAND FOR AMMUNITION. Amsterdam, August 11. Twice lately all the ammunition for the guards on the DutchJJclgiau frontier lias been for the fighting front, and their rifles "taken and older pattejps substituted. Many men, rendered useless for the front line by wounds received m early fighting, now are acting as guards on the frontier. (Received This Day. 9.40 a.m.) . THE ZINC SUPPLY. London, August 11. < A city group, headed by Richard Tilben Smith, has purchased the Uer-j

man Combine's Swansea Vale zinc smolfring works, it is intended to increase tho output of spelter from 0000 to 20,000 tons per annum. The plant is a facsimile of those in Gerniany. City people consider this an advantage over the Zinc Corporation and Broken Hill companies.

A STOIIY FROM SOFIA.

Sofia, August 11

Since Yussufs return 'from tho Dardanelles the Turks are increasingly depressed. Outside the of Union and Progress and its immediate friends, there are 'many signs that Turkey is tiring of the campaign. There is increasing enmity towards the Germans, and there is a possibility that the resistance at Gallipoli will soou end.

SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF

OHOLEIIA

Paift, August 11

Dr Petrovitch, of the Servian Army, has reported to the Academy of Sciences, that under his treatmejnt- of cholera by -serums according to the Dunbar method, only two deaths look place out of 1153 slight cases. Out o l ' iiiiicty moderate attacks none were

:''.'.al and out of 157 serious cases thero were only seven deaths; thus the percentage was 1.00 compared with U. 4, the average in the cases which were not treated by this system. ROXER INJURED, Carpentier * (the French boxer) had his ankle broken and the hone immediately under the eyebrow fractured.