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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 August 1915, Page 3

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(.Received This Day o.uO a.in. J UISU.UAN STOTU DIMMED. London, Any, net 20. An uflicial denial is given to a statement published in the ueinian newspapers, professedly based on an extract [row an corporal s diary , , that General Charles L'ergiifcou, last August, told his inoii to give ihc Germans n-j miarlor. I'LIMUEtt -A'UIUCLTIIiS iIEI'UKTED i'eirograd. August 2<3. There is evidence ol turther atrocities. At Lipurka. where the Gonna us tailed to extract iiilornuiuon irom a dying Cussack they branded him with re'l Jiol irons, and liuaig another niau head downwards and killed him. 1 Tuo students at Jvalisch interposed between the liring party and their laihcr nlio refused to giw information. Hie lather's execution was postponed, and the students were court-martialled. AT THE DARDANELLES Athens, August '24. Two Allied cruisers pejiutrated the ■Dardanelles, on .Sunday and succesfclully buiubarded the batterie.s at Kathaiica. Desperate ligljuuy cuiitinuos ulonj; the sector from Krithia k> Antiurnu, Last week a British siibmanne sank lour huge sloops transporting troops li'uiii Lapsaki to Gallipoli. i'etroyraa, August 25 Kusaiaii torpedoei'ft a large coalladen sailer boiaul lur tlie llosphorus. A DESI'EiIATE SJJtIOGLE I Geneva. August -o. ■ lhe Aiiotvo-Uerniau lueses souih-west ; at .Brestlitovfek l'or the week were -'■jjUOU. The struggle was desperate • and the whole countryside wii» devas- ■ tated.

PROTEST I'ltOAl SWEDEN | Stockholm, August 20, (Sweden lias prutestoU to Germany against the shelling oi the steamer Goithlund and detaining the Cuxluivon which did nut carry contraband (ileueived Jhif? Day \).<io a.m.; l-'IIEMJH KJil'OIlT. Paris, August 25. A communique says tiiat a French airman bombarded Lorracli railway btatiou in Jiudeu. A connniiniqiie'lroin the Dardunelllos reports that" the Jiriti»»h left wing in the northern zone made fresh progress during the last lew days., and carried 800 metres of the enemy's trenches. Operations in the .southern zone wt-ro confined to artillery actions and patrol

encounters. A French company on the night of the 23rd successfully kui , - ■prised a Turkish listening post. A counter-attack was repulsed. Our aviation squadron, despite a violent fire from the enemy's batteries, successlii'lly "bombarded the Turkish landing place at Agbashiliman on the European coast northward of Nagara. One. of our aeroplanes sank a big Turkish transport at its moorings. (Received This Day 11.15 a.m.) . London, August 25. The Nobel Dynamite Trust carried a resolution of voluntary .liquidation, and sanctioning an arrangmenC for the taU of its Gorman _ .„

GERMANY'S FLEET. I Copenhagen, August 25. I It. is learned that Gownany possesses ! lilty-eigltt. yiibinarines. The JJaltic lleet consists of thirty vessels.. THE SUBMARINE VICTIMS. High personages, diplomatists and tho interned British seamen attended the funeral service of the submarine victims. The guard of honour was 100 J>a«ish sailors. There wore vast and sympathetic crowds present when the Vidar sailed. DETAINED 111* GEIkMANY. ■Rotterdam, Aug '25. Several) incapacitated lUritish. noncominissioned officers were removed' lroin a train bound .for Holland and detained by Germany on the grouiul* that their exchange is undesirable as they might be able to instruct recruits. AFFAIRS LN GREECE. Rome, August 25. General mobilisation in Greece is imminent. M. Venezelos is energetically preventing contraband trade/ in favour of Turkey and Germany and suppressing German corruption.