THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 September 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

fXLKI.TKIU iKLKGUAI'tt—COPYEIBHT.) jl'Jtlt I'HKMS ASW)Ca*.IION.i AIRMEN'S TRAGIC ENiD. Paris, September 1. A party of Frenchmen were watching Germans shelling a British monoplane, which was falling in the German lines, when suddenly it 'rose and came down in the Frenoh lines. The frenchmen rushed up and found t-wo seemingly dead bodies under a shapeless mass. As the pilot was (being picked up he showed a sign ol life and Whispered: "I'm blind j bring the major; can give results of reconnaissances.' 1 The pilot narrated that alter had accomplished his mission shells began to buret at a height of 1500 metres, aipparently hilling the look-out and blinding the pilot. "Later he Tot go the levers, but heard the look-out give u •feeble cry "Rise quickly!" The pilot replied "Faff""Mind." The look-out, still feebler, cried "Rise; we are over the German lines, 1 ' Followiug the dying man's direction uW .pilot reached the Trench lines, hut his abrade was dead. .... jJAPAN AS AX ALLY. Baron Hayashi, Japanese Anibasbador to Rome, states that the public is not aware oi the extent that Japan, is co-operating with the Allies. When it is possible to tell the world of the facts the world .will be astonished at wliat_ Japan has done and will do. 'llie Russians are our nearest neighbours, he_adds, and therefore we are most useful to them. CASUALTY LIST. REPORTED WOUNDED. 2s.Z. Field Artillery. Captain Jory. REPORTED MISSING. Wellington -Mounted Rifles. Trooper T. G. Rail. Lance-Corporal H. Bland. Trooper T. Farrar. Trooper AY. Minchin. Trooper A. H. McMinn. Trooper 11. McCandlish. Trooper D. O'Connor. Trooper C. Peterson. Trooper \V. F. Powell. Trooper E. R. Sexton. Trooper M. H. Sweet. Corporal R. M. Williamson. REPORTED MISSING—BELIEVED TO BE KILLED. Auckland Mounted Rifles. Trooper R. P. Baillie. Trooper R. T. K. Best. Trooper A. D. Cook. Sergt. J. J. Douglas. Trooper S. Fletcher. Trooper C. W. Francis. Trooper A. T. Fryer. DIED OF WOUNDS. Canterbury Battalion. Private J. Scaulon. WOUNDED. Private W. Hart. Private A. C. Broom. 'Disembarked at Malta troin 'Hospital Ship Dunluce Cattle—Private L. L'. bimmousen. Admitted to Ist Australian General Hospital, Cairo—Private o. Reid. SLIGHTLY WOILVDED. Private F. Hall (gunshot wound). Corporal F. H. Merrie. KILLED L\ ACTION. Otago Battalion. Corporal R. Kelly. Private A. A. Buchanan. Private It. Oliver. MISSING. Otajjo Mounted Rifles. Trouper A. Cull'. REPORTED WOUNDED. Trooper D. Bailey. Admitted to Hospital Ship DeltaTrooper T. J. McCarthy (head). REPORTED WOUNDED—BELII'A'ED TO BE Kii .ED Auckland Mounted RiU<s Trooper C. B. Harriso i Trooper F. 11. Hayd > i. Trooper J. H. Metcalle. Sergt. E. McCarthy. Tivoper A. D. McLeotl. Trooper P. G. Palmer.. Trooper H. W. Pauls'in. Trooper it. A. Richmond. DIED OF WOUNDS. Canterbury Battalion Trooper S. D. Lewis. Private J. O'Connor. DIED OF PERITONITIS. Corporal G. S. Franklin. DIED OF WOUNDS. if ' N.Z. Field Engineers. Sapper P. W. Bramsweit. Otago Mounted Rifles. Trooper M. Campbell. Previously reported wounded and missing, now reported wounded— Canterbuy Battalion. Private C. Clemens (second time). Canterbury MountedTrooper 11. Humphreys (severe gunshot wound). DIED OF WOUNDS. Wellington Battalion. Private A. J. Tohill. WOUNDED. Private R. J. Brannigan. KILLED IN ACTION. Lance-Corporal 11. E. Richards. WOUNDED. Wellington Mounted. Trooper E. D. Evans. kvTrooper 0. J. Oliver. Battalion.

j KILLED IN ACTION. Trooper W. C. lliley. WOUNDED. Sergt. J. E. Wilson. DIED OF WOUNDS. Auckland .Mounted Rifles. Sergt W. C. Kearney. Wellington -Mounted. Trooper E. B. Burr. Wellington Battalion. Private F. W. Grimmer. Admitted to No. 17, General Hospi, tal, Alexandria.— WOUNDED. Canterbury Battalion. Private J. N'. McDonnell. Private J. J. Jolly. Corporal R. L. Wilson. Private C. Dally. Auckland Battalion. Private T. Whittle. Admitted to No. 17 ueneral Hospital, AlexandriaWellington Battalion. Sergt. C. N. Devcry (gunshot wound) DIED OF DYSENTRY. Private E. W. Yickers. DIED OF WOUNDS. Wellington Miouiited Rifles. Trooper H. Y. Gripp. DIED OF DYSENTRY. Otago Battalion. Private A. Miles. DANGEROUSLY ILL. Auckland Mounted RiHes. Corporal T. W. Phillips. KILLED IN ACTION. Auckland Mounted Rifles. Trooper F. S. Redfern. Trooper T. E. Catelipole. Trooper J. H. Bird. WOUNDED. Q.M.S. A. J. Redlern. Trooper E. J. Laud. Trooper J. Patterson. SLIGHTLY WOUNDED. Maori Contingent. Disembarked at Malta lrom hospital ship ltonus— Corporal R. Waipara. Private 'J'. Peneameuo. Private W. Kaaka. IN THE DARDANELLES. London, Sept. 2. General Sir lan Hamilton reports that further lighting on the 27th and 2bth on the northern section of the line resulted in the - capture ol an important position commanding Bikuk and Annfarta Valley to the east and north and appreciable gain of the ground occupied by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The lighting was •severe and almost entirely hand to hand. Wc captured three Turkish machine guns, three trench mortars and a large quantity ol smaller arms and ammunition.

IMPORTANT CABINET MEETING'. London, Sept. 2. Importance is attached to a hurried-ly-called Cabinet meeting, which was attended by Lord Kitchener and all the leading members. Rumour portends that something will happen on the western front before long. Soldiers are becoming scarce in London. Hundreds of thousands daily for tho past few months have been moving olf somewhere. It is known that tho British front in Franco has been lengthened, but to what extent"is unknown. A RUSSIAN COMMUNIQUE. Potrograd, Sept. - A communique says: We captured four guns on the right of Vilna. Tho enemy occupied Orray and desperate fighting continues. A Russian regiment surrounded by the enemy broke through annihilating a German battalion. We repulsed a series ol vigorous repeated German attacks westward of Grodno. We are holding the enemy in Ldizk region and Galieia while withdrawing to a less extended iront and inflicting heavy losses. The total Austro-Germans taken prisoner number 7000 with officers. The enemy's most stubborn attacks in Itadzichkhoff, Bolotcneff, Zborov, and Bourkanov districts were everywhere repulsed with enormous losses. The lighting iii the districts of Bourkanov and Boutchatch was remarkably fierce. "We repulsed numerous attacks with fire and bayonet. The enemy at sonic points were unable to stand hand-to-hand fighting and retreated to tho trenches leaving prisoners. ENEMY AVIATOR'S WORK. Paris, Sept. 2. A communique says:—An enemy aviator 'bombarded Luneville. There were some civilian victims. PEGOUD'S DEATH. Official.—Pegoud died a glorious death during a plucky fight over Petit Ordix. Alone he daringly attacked a German machine, emptying several belts of machine gun ammunition. A bullet killed him instantaneously, and his machine fell in our lines. The soldiers watched the light with growing anxiety, while occasionally when the position of the aeroplanes allowed, tho German and French guns were joining in the duel, and sent Shrapnel bursting round the combatants. Sud- j

denly there was a shout of rage trom the French trenches. Fegoud's machine dipped, and then lell headlong. His body was extricated ironi the debris.