THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 September 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

[kIKUTUIC TELKGIUAI'U— COI'YUJQHT.I , t'XK I'UlißtJ AHM'UAIiiuN. J RUSSIA'S OFFICIAL REPORT. Petrugrad, b'e-pt. 10'. A cumnniniqite says:—We dislodg d UK , enemy from iwo villages northeastward of Svientziany. Wo drove the enemy back at Vilia lords near tho railway. The enemy alter his" repulse on the fiont south of the l'ripot-has been stubbornly counter-attacking with large forces. Wo captured north-eastward of Dubvo 57 'officers and 21)53 men. Later the enemy, counter-attacking, threw back our troops. There was desperate lighting on the .Strypa westward of Trembovla where wo captured 1500 men. JL'aris, tSept. id. Official.—A w ireless mescsugo states that General Polivaiiolf is satisiied with the improved supply ol munitions and the enormous increase during the past fortnight has been tully maintained. •SIR JOHN FRENCH'S REPORT. London, Sept. Jli. •Sir Johu French reports that the t\luation is unchanged. There weio twenty-one air .'igiti during the week over the Gorman lin.ix, and in eleven cases the German aeroplanes were downed. Our artillery, assisted by aeroplane direction, bombarded on the 10th two observation balloons eastward of \pres. One buitst and thu second was deflated and removed. CAUSE OF RUSSIA'S DEFEAT. London. Sept. 15. The Evening News gives prominence to the fact that the Russian retreat in, the Carpathians Avas due to the i'act that half the smokeless powder and high explosives required by the army was manufactured at Ochta, the Russian Woolwich. German secret service men bribed the workers who blew up a series of nitrating tanks at Ochta. Petrograd wa* shaken, and thousands of workmen, and nearly all the plant! were destroyed. The Russian artillery: was crippled which made it impossible to counter Mackeiisen. .13ritain and Frauce had given up the thought of a spring offensive to send reserves of shells and explosives to Russia.