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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1915, Page 3

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(Received This Day 8.115 a.m.) A DELUGE OF SHELLS. Paris, Sept. 28. The British and French before Satarday's advance poured an incessant deInge of high explosives on the enamy lines, and it is estimated that a million shells were thrown. FURTHER FIIENOU GAINS. Tans. Sept. 28. Official.—Further gams havc;_ boon made in the Artois region and in die Uhainpngnc despite desperate coitncerattacks GREAT BRITAIN AND BULGARIA. London, Sept. 28. Sir Edward Groy announces that in

the oveut of Bulgaria assuming an aggressive attituuo, ureal Britain will uv prepared to assist iter iriends in L-..e Balkans without reserve..

f Bulgaria's present Dondts to Germany arc financial as well as dynastic. Here again the ' lenient Entente Bowers stuod by and saw Bulgaria tied to Gorman pur<se : striugs. Before this thdy had allowed Turkey to become a, Uerman vassal (State- even while trusting Erance supplied the tunds, which were in time to be turned into ammunition against her. l'or we ma.st not forget Hi at Bulgaria tvime to the Entente Bowers asking l'or a loan alter her ter nble experiences during the .Balkan wars. When thoy refused she was allowed to go to Germany, and likewise allowed to make the usual hard bargain cxasted there., i51.1t EtDWAIU) GMI ANSWERS QUESTION. London, Sept. 28. Sir Edward Grey, questioned in the iiou.su of Commons, said that Bulgaria had taken up the positon of armed neutrality to dolend her rights and independent*, and had 110 aggressive intentions towards her neighbours. | Every effort had been mado through the American Ambassador to obtain a list of British prisoners taken at the Dardanelles, and Turkey iiats been warned that until this obligation its fulfilled Britain would not furnish similar information. Hitherto they ie | ceived only the names of submarine crews and 1-0 officers and men. "VICTOR. IV' The newspapers comment 011 tlio fact that the censor permits the word victory to be applied to the Champagne battle; the liret occasion since the battle of the Marne. Several trains of prisoner.', taken by the British have arri/-. Ed at Havre; all are glad that their lighting is over. AT THE iUGHT TIME. Renter's Athens correspondent savs that the news ol the Allied victory comes at the right moment, dispelling the last vestiges of pro-Germanium.