THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 September 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

0 , I KLUUTItiC XKLKUIIAI'U — OOl'YRIOXJl.) ji'iitl rujil»b ASfOIiIVUON.i < iiiUU COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. j Loudon, September 2(5 < There is increasing confidence as vo < ultimate succeeds. Oanstantinoplo re- j .ports tlie resignations ot the Shiek-ul- I 1 shun and Prefect lsmet Boy as protest ; against the continuation of the war I against tin; entente. Great import- i anco is attached to these resignations. At Artois wo maintained in the I course of the night tue positions cap- i tured yesterday, comprising the Oar- 1 leul plateau, Souehez cemetxux Tind I the last trenches that the enemy still t occupied in the last ot the fortified { positions in the "Labyrinth." In the Champagne obstinato fighting continaos on ttio whole front. The -French penetrated the German lines on a twenty-live Kilometre U'oat, the troops maintaining aJJ the positions conquered. The number of prisoners actually counted exceeds r2,000. Sill JOJiN h'RE.VOIi'S REPORT. ; ixindon, Sept. 20. I Sir John I'relTCii k despatch;, dated Sunday morning, says: ''We attacked the enemy south of La Ba.sseu Canal, and ea»t ol Uremiy-Vernulles on Satur- t day morning, and captured his trenches j oil a front ol over live miles, penetnu- | ing his lines in some places over -1000 yards. We captured the western outskirts of ilulluch, al.so the village of Loos, mining the works round it and liill 7U. Other attacks were made north of La Bai>seo Canal, which drew , strong enemy reserves towards these , points, where hard lighting occurred all day long with varying success. At , nightfall our troops norm of the canal | occupied the positions taken in _Uie ( morning. We made another attack , near lloogc on either bide ot the Menin , road. Jiy the attack o.u the north road we occupied BellewiiTd farm and , ridge, but the enemy re-took it. The attack on the cnnuii road gained us 600 yards. "We have consolidated the ound won. Up to the present wo ive taken 17U0 prisoners, eight guns id several machine guns. The "e---->rfc in l'riduy';; German communique , lat our attempted attack on Thurs- , ly south ol La Canal tailed untrue, us there was no attack a- j iinpted. London, .Sept. zl. Sir John I'reiich reports: —There was ivere lighting oil Sunday and deter- ( ined enemy counter-attacks. Wo )ld tiie ground gained including the hole ot Loos. Our aeroplanes bombarded and Jellied trains at jJoiiai and as a result le latter is full of troops. On Sunday night we retook the larries north-west ot ilulluch which e won and lost on Saturday. In tltu* i ghting we have drawn on the enemy s .•serves, thus enabling the Prench oil ir right to make iurther progress, he number of prisoners alter yestj'v iiy's lighting was '2001), and nine guns iui a considerable number of :naime guns were captured. Our tierolanes bombarded \ alencieiines stj.on. tRENCJi SUCCESSES. xaris, Sept. 27. A coimnuniuqe says: >> e occupied by lain force the whole village ol : Soulier and advanced eastward in L-ic irection of Givenchy. i'urther south e reached Lafolie and pushed north o Thelus taking prisoner 10U0 alter rossing almost the whole front. iJoween Anherive and Viltesurtourbe .'j he Champagne where a powerful network of trenches and forte had been sutblished and perfected by the enemy iiiring many months, we advanced norliward, compelling the Germans to ; uli iack between turee and four kilouetres. lighting continues on the /hole front. We reached Epine ■''* r llle Grande further east and hold ilaisonde, a Champagne farm. The iniMiiy sulferedt heavily from arti!' rv, ind in hand-to-hand fighting. TJi.< t) i.terial capturod ineludi.ft \>\ .(Aid i'lns. 16,000 unwounded >i's -!'«l 200 officers. Tlio pruso luria.; tr. last two days exceed 20 t)L/;> Af't» a spasm of firing the K u <•? puetciir->i and ihe bayonet got w, work n tli.> "e'lnau trenches, the first tine :or months. The Erenoh use-d pick n troops who fought liltfe demons and turned the Germans out m spite of /on Kalbech'e furious resistance. The enemy threw hundreds ol suffocating shells and aerial torpedoes. Tlio British attack against Prince Hupprecht's forces is proceeding to the left of Lens-La Bassee main road, and is directed towards the north of Leii6. An army service driver states that the British artillery crumpled the enemy's front trenches, but when the British reached them the Gormans advanced from the communication trenches, and there were sanguinary hand-to-hand fights in the now trenches. The British gained a footing in many sections on the enemy front. Princo Rupprccht's troops fought well. Many Bavarians were taken prisoner. THE RUSSIAN GAINS. Petrograd, Sept. 26. A communique says the position on the .Dvinsk front is quieter. attacks near Vileyka were repulsed. We carried with the bayonet the fortified village of Ostroff north-westward of Vileyka-Udvileyka and crushed the enemy's desperate resistance near Podlugie eastward of iNovognulok. We captured 600 machine guns atiJ two supply columns of artillery ainn»ua:t?on and .munitions. We captured ihe village of Podlugie further south and drove the Germans back across tiio Strumane. THE GERMAN VERSION. Amsterdam, Sept. 27. A German communique sayv—lhe

offensive prepared, lor nontlis progressed without bringing Le assailants appreciably never. 'llie iritish warships attempted without access to liadTiiss us. The enemy 111 Lipres sector suifered heavy losses and j lid not achieve success. The enemy outli-west ol' Lille succeeded in ropuls- j ug one of our divisions near Loos from ,11 advanced lino. iNaturully wo had onsiderablo losses in men anil .material f all kinds. Our counter-attacks are irogressing favourably. We volunanly evacuated the rums ol Souchess nd easily repulsed numerous other atacks with heavy enemy losses. A Gerian division between Rlioims and tlie irgonne, north oi I'erthes was obliged o evacuate its advanced positions hicli had been ruined by seventy ours' uninterrupted bombaa'dmont, reiving three kilometres; otherwise all nemy attacks to break through, failri