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Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 October 1915, Page 3

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(Received This Day U.lO a.m.) . THREATENING VARNA. liomo, October 'i. The Tribuna states that two power:'nl Russian squadxons arc threatening v'arna. HOW THJfi GOLIATH u AS SUNK. Paris, October -1. A romantic story is circulated ot Uic binkjjjy, ul the Uoiiath which occurred ju tue sixth June. Fourteen destroyers, divided into parallel lines protected Liie battleship j the destroyers alternately steamed slowly up stream and then drilled bacii. 'iue night »vas very dark and the lookout on the Goliath, towards midnight, thought he noticed eight destroyers m one lino instead oi seven, aud then a torpedo struck the ship. It appears that a Turkish destroyer maimed by the Germans slipped into, tfo British lino of destroyers and awaited the moment to torpedo the Goliath at live hundred yards. (Received This Hay y.30 a.m.) 'HIGH 00'AQHS.SlQNEir.S REPORT. .London. October. 4. North c>r Arras our pvogiVFS continues at Givenchy and HL»TI9. The French occupied five cross roads. KigMing continues at Onennevieries ami Nouvron in the Champagne awl at Mosmill. At the later place the enemy was repulsed French aviators dropped forty large sheik at Snellen's station towards Metz. Other aviators bombarded junctions and stations behind the German front. THE GENERAL RULIS. The Press Bureau publishes a French official statement which points out that ' in order to allay uneasiness in Germany. tbe German headquarters have announ-

I cod nothing regaaxling the Allies' victories in Artois and ChampagrieTexcepl/ the rofroat of one division, and are silent α-ogardiug tho capturo of prisoners and 150 guns. A FRENCH REPORT. Paris, October 4. A communique states: —Northward of Arras our progress was continued oowards Givenchy Wood and Hill 119, wliore wo occupied t-lio crossroads. One. of our airship squadrons dropped forty largo calibre bombs or Sndlon's railway station at Metz, Avhik other aeroplanes canned on a bombardment of tho railway junctions and stations behind the German front.