THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 September 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

— fKUtU'i'UU; TKLICUKAI'tt— COl'l* tUGHT.] ; t'jilll VU&ma AaCOCiA llUft-i CASUALTY LIST. DIED 01-' WOUNDS. Auckland Mounted Ritles. Trooper J. E. Scott. Wellington Mounted. Trouper J. W. B. Harvey. Gun tor bury Mounted. Trooper J. Gynes. Divisional Engineers. Corporal JD. Mauson. Otago Battalion. Private W. N. Maason. SLIGHTLY WOUNDED. Auckland Mounted. Troopor H. 11. i\". Ackloin, Strgt. A. S. Blackie. Trooper A. F. Horcus. Trooper J. S. Patterson. Troopor A. Vanstene. W. J. Hollis. Wellington MountedTrooper L. J, Lynch. Lance-Corporal W. SiieehanTrooper N. E. Wood. Canterbury Mounted. Trooper S. Hall. Sergt. R. P. Harper. Trooper P. Palmer. Otago 'Mounted. Trooper 0. Carlow. Now Zealand Field Artillery. Q.M.S. J. A. Forsythc. Following slightly wounded disembarked at Malta.— - Auckland Battalion. Private 1?. Healey. Canterbury Battalion, Private A. Wroßlfski. Divisional Engineers. Sapper W. Turner. WOUNDED. Auckland Mounted. Trooper J. Williamson. Canterbury Battalion. Private W. Downes (second time). Private 0. Hansen. Private W. J. Kerr. DIED OF WOUNDS. Canterbury Mounted. Trooper V. A. O'Keefe. Sergt. F. Fail-weather. Trooper 11. l'idgeon Trooper F. J. Conway DIED OF PARA TYPHOID. Corporal C. W. Saunders. WOUNDED. Corporal R. McG. Young. PRISONERS 01-' AYAH. NAMES OF NEW ZEAI.ANDERS. Wellington. Sopt. 17. Following previously reported missing now reported prisoners of war in Constantinople.--Wellington Battalion. Private T. G. Ashman. Private J. Bussell. Private R. Davie Corporal F. J. Earlcs. Private T. Gaffney. Private B. Greig. Sergt. G. McAnemv. Private G. .F. Monk. ; Privato L. A. Porter. Lance-Corporal F. L. Sheppard. Corporal A. J. Shoebridge. Private W. R. Surgenor. Private J. P. Coulter. Private G. Gunn. Auckland Mounted. Trooper R. Gowland. Auckland Battalion Trooper E. Keightley.

SEVERE CANNONADING. Paris, Sept. 17. A coin m unit] no says:—There lias boon severe cannonading along he whole front, and bomb and trench mortar fighting in the Argonue. DESPERATE FIGHTING. Petd'ograd, Sept. 17. A communique says;—We repulsed repeated attacks south-wost of Dvinsk. l'lie enemy north-eastward of Vilua crowed to the left bank of the ViJna, aud wo are falling back in Piiisk region under pressure. Desperate lighting continues on. the Strypa, -westward of Tarnopoi-Trem-bovla line, the enemy clinging to tlx© passages of the river. THjE TURKS' REPORT. Constantinople, Sept. 17. A communique says: Our troops near Anaiarta on Tuesday night isurprisod and dispersed the enemy. We bombarded and prevented the enemy from trench digging at Seddul Bahr, our artillery silencing two batteries. The Straits batteries successfully bombarded troops at Cape Belles and Tekkeneurnu, silencing a battery at HissarJik. Latest Cables (Received This Day 'J. 15 a.m.) SPY EXECUTED. London, Sept. 17. The Press Bureau states that si prisoner charged with espionage on the 20th was shot to-iTay. GERMAN SOLDIER'S LETITEII. A letter has been found on a Gorman soldier who was killed in Poland. It states 'that the losses sustained by

the Germans wore frighful; the dead before Warsaw could b© counted *n thousands. "Wo endured one winter campaign in Russia, but never again. We were told that we would not Jiave to go beyond Warsaw, but the pursuit continues and the morale of the men is not very good. Owing to the great loises, deserters and gaol-birds have been put to 'work in the poison gas reserve, which is very dangerous, if they refuse their brains are blown out. The Bavarians seldom tako prisoners; instead they stab tftew to death."

GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. Berlin, Sept. 17. A communique states that von Hindenburg occupied Vidzy early this morning after severe house-to-house fighting. The attack is proceeding north of Vilna. Received This Day. 11. a.m. THE HESPERIAN. 'Washington Sept 17. Mr Lansing has received Germany'.? Note denying responsibility for U'o J sinking of the Hesperian. GERMAN DEFEAT. Petrograd, Sept 17. Russian forces completely encircled the third and fourth German division. The latter fought Tike lions, and preferred death to surrender. An officer of the Guards, though suspended on the points of Russian bayonets, continued tiring his revolver until he expired.. A GERMAN ACCOUNT. Amsterdam. Sept. 17. An Austrian communique states: — We took prisoner 1900 :110:1 southward of Zokvcssa. The Hussians advanced on the western bank of the Ikva, near Novoporjijow, but were driven to the last bank. They suffered heavily from our artillery's flanking tire. ■SOUTH AFRICAN HELP. Capetown. Sept .17. At the Motherland's request, the Union Government, is raising a Central African Imperial Service contingent. DE WET. A congress of the Cape division of the Nationalists' party (has nnanirr usly requested the Government to reler.ee Do Wet and other politiul prisoners for the sake of the country's peace and qi.'et.