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Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 October 1915, Page 3

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(..Received Tiiio Day 8.30 a.m.; HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. London, October u. 'Hit , bombardment on the whole western Iron Lis particularly violent. In tlio region of Artois and south oi G'n;■■ eiichy progress was made by Uio use ol grenades. TWO STEAMERS SUNK. Tlio steamer Sailor i'rince lias been sunk. An unknown number ol survivors have been picked up. The steame; , Haydon also has beonsuuk.' The crow is reported to have been saved. M. VENEZELOS RESIGNS. Athens, October (i. The King informed -u. \ouozelos that ho was unable to pursue the policy to the end and M. Veneze)ot> thereupon resigned. New lork, Oct. (i. Router's London correspondent atatos that King Constantino has accepted Liie resignation oi M. Venezelos's Cabinet, and that itouuuuiia is despatching troops to the .Bulgarian Irontier, and taking other extraordinary military measures. GERMANS liV BULGARIA'S it jfci .reported thai* More are 31)00 German ollicors in the Bulgarian army. TROOPS i'OR SERVIA. The population of Salonika guv© <ui ovation to. the Allied troops. Tlio lat' ter have started towards Servia. . IiAKOxN SOHENC*. LEAVES GREECE. Uaron Sclienck, the German propagandist in Greece, hurriedly quitted Athens, making towards Sofia.

HUSSLUN I'OtimOiN GOOJ>. i'etrojiiad, October t>. liie newspaper announce that Wio itiibbiau armies now have ""enormous quantities of munitions und the strategic position is completely changed. A communique states that the .Russians occupied t«ue Geriuan trenches near i'Viedrichstadt, and captured a number of villages in the Lake region, east.ward of Vilna, also southward ol Pripet, alter sta-euuoue fighting. BULGAIUA IiEJJiCTS ULTIMATUM. Heuter adds that according to i'etrograd press advices Bulgaria hae rejected the Euseiau demand; and has Kent an ultimatum to Servia concerning Macedonia. THE ARABIC CASE. Washington, Oct. 6. The Arabic question now is settled un the basis of Gerniaiiv apologising and paying compensatdoii tor American lives. AMBIUCA AiNiD GREAT BillTAIN". The United States Administration is preparing to negotiate wiih Great Britain over the alleged interference with American trade by the latter. A new Note is being prepared contending that the British Government must show that the goods of neutral destination, destoyed or seized, are intended far Gerimany. It also contends that the assumption that all loodsfoiffs going to Germany are intended for "army purposes ie not justified.

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Chronicle Office ,3 u.m. MTALIATIGX SUGGMim London, October o". A ooinniittee of the Australian and New Zealand Merchants , Association resolved that as German bubiiiaa'ine activity has inflicted considerable losses ou the Uritish hero iunl in the iDoiniuions, the couinii'tt'eo suggests that tho J3rifcish and Dominion Governments should levy, inmnediately after the war, special port duties, in addition to tlie customary port rates on Gorman and Austrian vessels entering ports of the Fjinpiro. x>l VKN'EZELOS'S WtiSIGNATiON. Athens, October o. The .liing has accepted the Cabinet's resignation. M. Venezelos, interviewed, suid that after his clear declaration in the Chamber on the Cabinet , *, ipoltiqy, wlnicn was otiieruise well-kuawn to the King, tho latter informed him that hirther cooperation between them Jiad been .'"ondored impossible. JJ.e believes tho King favours a Coalition Cabinet. ! London. October 0. The fall of the Venezelos Cabinet came as a bombshell m diplomatic (iiiurt-ers in London, and also surprised Berlin. BULGARIAN jI'OKTS CLOSED. Tlie Paris Matin says all Bulgarian ports on the Danube arc close, even io .Roumanian, steainerti. ANOTHER ALLIED ATTACK. Amsterdam, October u. Maastricht repurU that uninterrupLeU cannonading is aiidiote, resembling that preceding tho last Allied attack. A German communique says Miai after a violent bombardment the nemy in the Clianipagne attempted lo renew the oifensivo, but our artillery cliecived the movement, inflicting sovero Toiitie.s. lJussian attacks on a large tscalc , between J>risjviaty and Lake Krew.> were repulsed. The enemy was temporarily successful at Kosjany and south j of Uishuiev Lakes, out our counterattacks inflicted heavy fusses.

THE STEAMER .UAVERLCK. San Oct. 0. Reports arriving from the DuLeli Ea.si Indies indicate tluil the. niysteno.is steamer. Maverick, was apprelionded there by the agency of 3)uUJi warships. She -was found to bo laden- with gun*, ammunition, sections of a submarine, and rifles, apparently intended for Gorniiin aggression in tin* Pacific 'Hie Maverick departed iroin San I'edro. California, in April, clearing as usual. Apparently her cargo uas not iii«pecteil It i«'tlu)iiglit that tho Germans in the United States planneJ tu cstnblisli n Pacific suhniarine base to operate against Rtissian or Australian steamers.