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Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 August 1915, Page 3

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(Received This Day V.'Ao a.m.) A FREAC'ii ILLUIUIMQUE Paris, August 2U

A coinmiMiiqiie states that a. vio'eitt Jiiuul-to-haiul tight took place at .Marie Therese lor the possession of the mine craters; ivu remain tile masters. We intensely bombarded the Herman trenches. Our aeroplane* bombarded tiie railway station and encampment at Grandwere, and the encampments at Monchautin and Lasceii. ON THJi DAMJJUJfi. Nioh, August '2 [ J. Official.— We stopped the enemy's o[>erations on the island oi MalafrtraLcheva in the Danube, and also at Josilthinabarra, opposite Skola. AEKOI'LANE BOMBARDMENT. Amsterdam, August 2'J. The Allies' aeroplanes bombarded the Herman liners at ijixscliuote, with one hundred bombs, and killed and "wounded many occupants oi Hie i'rout trenches. THE HECIIITLING QUESTION London, August 2iJ. A Cabinet Committee, consisting ol Lord Selboiiriie, Lord Crowe, the lit. Hon. W. Ohurehili, the lit. Hon. A. Chamberlain, Lord Curzoii and Mr A. Henderson, is inquiring into the expediency oi introducing a quota, system similar to that in Alrica, whereunder each locality will be asked to furnish a number of recruits voluntarily, and unless forthcoming, the Government ■will be empowered to take the men required. The .South African Government found that it was not necessary to use the power. The Melbourne Committee is dealing with the matter hi ah administrative manner free from all political and personal questions. The indications are that ihe chief difficulty is not to get (soldiers, but to enlist the men wfio can best be spared from callings whore older men and women might filL-their places.