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Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 August 1915, Page 3

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Chronicle Oflice M u.m. M. VEN IZELOtS PREMIER, Athens, August 'S2. A perloct understanding exists between the King and M. Venizelos. ihe former congratulated the new Premier. 'Ihe Cabinet will be sworn in on Mon-

day. WHAT ESCAPEES REPORT. Paris, August 22. Some Italians who were forcibly employed in a powder factory in tho Grand Duchy of Baden, escaped. They 10_„port that the Germans are lacking 11 cotton, and are using wood manufactured in cellulose nitrate. OEEICIAL NEWS EROM TRANCE. A communique states that a feeble German attack north of Souchez was easily and rapidly cheeked. There was a continuous combat with bombs in the Labyrinth. The Germans were completely repulsed, leaving one hundred dead, alter an a'ttacK on'our positions on the crest ol Sondernach. PERSIAN BRIGANDS. Petrograd, Auginst 22. Persian brigands attacked the gendarmes of Kasvin. Thirteen gendarmes were killed and twenty-two wounded. DANISH OEEER ACCK?TKD. Copenhagen, August 22. The oiler of a Danish vessel to bring the dead of the submarine's crew to Britain has been accepted. THE COMMON ARSENAL. Paris, August 22. M. Charles Humbert, in an article in the Journal, pays a tribute to Great Britain's immense work 111 the present war. He points out that her abundance ot collieries, workshops, arsenals and other man tid'act tires nave made nor the great purveyor to an tho Allied armies. i

JMO THE HEART OF RUSSIA. i'otrograd, Any. L'li. Aeroplanes iroquent-ly are dropping bombs over Brostlitovsk. The whole ol tho Gruduo-BielostoK-'JJrolli tuvsk railway still is in our possession. .Linmeiifce stores ol provisions, precious monuments, such as Anokolsky's statue ol Catherine the Second, have been conveyed Lo the interior. Hundreds ol trucks wero required to transport the municipal property. All copper amclws have beejn secured. There are cudloas processions oj. roiugoes irum lvovno district (streaming along thu V'ilkomir road. Tiie Bourse Gazette states that Gorman advance detachments have appeared towards Svintzranz oil the YilnaRetrograd railway. The Russians vigorously drove them oh, and afco were successful in an important engagement near -Mituiu. • London, August Tl. lhe King and Queen, with JL'nnceso Mary, attended a unique garrison service at Aldershot. Every regiment ill quarters at Aiuershot was represented. They .jsubsequentiy wa-tcued a march past troni the Church gate ami spent the afternoon witn Lord Kitchener. A conference of Catholic bishops at Fuida telegraphed to the Kaiser their thaiikq lor tho ipoweniu protection wherewith tho Supreme uar Lord and his glorious army hau guardcU the homes .and altars of the Fatherland against the host of enemies. They prayed God to blcos him «wd the l'rince and his people, and hoped He would speedily grant an honourable peace. The Kaiser replied: "God so far lias graciously hoard our prayers, and 1 confidently hope he will after the (struggle and victory is ended, cause ail honourable ancl benelicient peace to arise from this bloody seed,"