THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 October 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

- —™ 0" "■' [KLKOXIUO TKLKUKAI'tt— COI'YUIUUY.) : I'JCK I'lUvtia ASfIJtUA'IJUK.I SIR JOLLN i'RJLNCH'S REPURT. .London, October -. Sir John I''rench reports; There were several German attacks on Wednesday north-west of llalliicli and severe lighting all day long. We luai-iUiued all portions oxceot tho extreme lel't, where the Germans gained 150 yards oi trench. We linnly consolidated our position. Hostile coun-ter-attacks are weakening.

The Germans fired a mine on Wednesday afternoon near iloogc,"gaining a tooting on our lront line southward of Menin road, but our counter-attacks on Thursday recovered all except a small portion of a trench. The situation of the British front on Friday was unchanged.

Our aircraft last week were active. There were seventeen air combats and only oho in which a British machine was worsted. AVc brought down "i Tan be inside our lines on Thursday. Our airmen attacked and damaged the main railway lines in fifteen places, partially wrecked live, probably six trains, and fired the locomotive sheds rvt. Valenciennes which caused considerable interference -with llYo railway organisation. London, Oetohor 3. Sir John French reports:—We delivered a ooimlor-nttack on Friday night and secured our objective, wTiTch was two German trenches southward* of a fasse, which the enemy recaptured <n the 20th. Thorn have been no other incidents on our front.

i<iie.\oh omilial lu-ipoirr. l'aris, October 3. Ollicial. —Onr heavy artillery eo-oper-atod with the -British fleet in the bombardment oi the German batteries -'it Wostcnde. Tho enemy in Artois direcfed a violent cajinoniidc on tin- whole oi our front from Neuvillo to the wrvxl.s nnrtii of Souchez. We replied I'liorgotically. An armed aeroplane in the Champagne hit a German captive balloon which burst into flanios. Sixty-five aeroplanes throw over f>oo shells on the railway stiiCion a! V'onziei's aviation ground and tho station at Clinlleraiige. Another nerial hoinliardment cut a moving train in two near Laon. A communique says: 6i\v positions wore violently bombarded eastward of Souchez. We appreciably progressed trench to trench on the heights of I jafolio. AVe won in the Champagne n considerable portion of the enemy's position forming a salient on the present linos northward of Mesnil. Our air squadrons threw many projectiles on the stations and railways at tho enemy's rear, notably at Ouignieoiirt and Anisfon'taino junction. KUSSrA'S PEI'ORT. ?etrofirac!. Oclobrr :i. Oflioial. -Tiic great German offensive towards tho eastward oi Svioiitx.iany is considered to have proved a complete failure. The enemy everywhere have been thrown back tow arils their fortified entrenchments on the position from Dvinsk to Vilna. The Russians have straightened their lino ..southward of Dvinsk to westward of Vilonka and completely held up the German offensive in the direction oi Pinpk-Kiga.

A communique says: -As a result ol a bayonet action wp captured ,i cemetery at the southern end oi J-.ake Narotch. llie enemy were driven back u considerable distance xroin the bt.iloiKa railway. liic engagement upou wie V ilia noith oi Muoigon doi-elopud into a tiluijborn biittlo, ana mere uw aJ&o a narui'oiight action sout-Ji-east oi Koike iu the 'middle ol the OtyJ , legion. 'Ike energetic operation ia»teu uveiny da}"o and nib uniiuisned. A» a result Uie iiussiaub wvested Uie initiative ill \WieiJui region lruin the enemy, decisively repulsed i-he Oerinun atiucii' and -iestroyod their J.he •icl-ioiib oh some days were oi giout intensity until tlie enemy being graiiually held Ji check mi iiiis oltensivo uas broken, and then no was liuaily repulsed, enormous loste being milicied. Jhe liubsian's well-contrived plans turned the doieusive into oilensive ana accomplished it with a ftkill and peiseveiiuice vviiicli testify to the highest gallantry ol tJie troops. A'CSTIIU-UJiILUA.N iIJiI'UHTtJ. Amsterdam, October 2. An Austrian communique suys:—in tno days in the region ol lvorniiu ' o took prisoner 2-IUO llussians. We repulsed strong Italian lorces on the soutliern slopes ol Monte iSe-ro with oevoro losses. A German communique says;-—The British ou Friday night tried to recapture ground taken, but failed with heavy and bloody losses. The .Freucsh attacks soutli-uest of Angros, eastwaid of Souohcz and north ol Iscufrolic- were repulsed. Our prisoners mcroiised to 100 olHcers and 3642 men. "We took 26 machine guns. The French attacking eastward of Auberivc penetrated 'it a single point. We- countoT-attackcd amf captured 70 and the remainder fell- We brought down an aeroplane and another tell at Soissons in flames. Hindenbiirg took 1100 prisoners near Smorgin and von Liusinsen 1300 on the KOrinin. We Uiok prisoner a further 1100 at other points." The Russians attempted to break through westward of Taniopol but failed, leaving 500 dead.