THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 October 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

fKLWJTIUO TEUSGKAI'U—COPYKiUHT. I h'Jilt I'Uliiia ASSOUIVIJON-1 (Per Press Association—Extraordinary), BULGARIAN REPLY UNSATISFACTORY. (Received Yesterday 3.50 p.m.) Petrograd, Oct. (i. BULGARIA'S REPLi IS UN.SATISEACTORY, AND RELAITONS IIAYIi BEEN BROKEN OEE. Ijondon, October i. There are only heavily censored messages from the Haitian capitals containing the barest facts, A .Soiia telegram states Unit the city is calm. lvTng Eerdinand and Dr Radslavoff to the very moment of disembarkation of; the. Allies at Salonika were convinced that tho Entente Powers would not- pass beyond Hie limits of diplomatic action. Numerous Bulgarian officers are ottering their 'which King Ferdinand refuses to accept and be will issue a proclamation that in the event of war. officers resigning will be considered traitors. BO UMAX! A ACTIVE. London. October 7. Roumanian troops have been sent to the Bulgarian frontier where Giurgevo on the .Danube, the terminus ol the Roumanian railway to Turkey, is being feverishly fortified. THE AUSTRIAN .STORY. Vienna, October 1. Concentration on the Serbian frontier has been completed. German officers are in Kupreine command. Sixty thousand Austria it,s have been detached to attack Klenak. Maekensen's army has been able to leave the I'ripet marshes and retire west. The Brestlitovsk portion of the army has gone to Serb in. THE ATTACK IN THE OIIAMC l'ais. October 7. La-hure, the centre iseclion of the German line, is "now being attacked ot which it is the key. Lahure in only one and a hall' miles from the German supply railway running parallel with the Champagne front.

A communique says: - Our action : n tlie Champagne secured Frosli results. Tlio infantry. after thorough artillery preparation, • assaulted and carried tin l village of Lahore, oil the summit of tlie height of Lahore. .1J92 feet, halfway between Souain and Ceruay. We also progressed in the vicinity of Navari farm. between Souain and Soninu'py, and took prisoner already over a thousand. There were only .severe artillery duels elsewhere. Amsterdam. October 7. There is excitement in Germany over the eoinnieneement oi another big French offensive in the Champagne, whieh is announced in to-night's German communique. 'TOE RUSSIAN FRONT. I'otrograd, October 7. Feeling is much more optimistic, til ■Stall quarters tlie belief is growing that the bottom has fallen out oT llindeuburg's scheme to smash tlie Russian armies. The natural obstacles U> the German advance have enormously increased. The exceptionally heavy rains arc flooding the rivers. Only on the T)vinsk front are the Germans shoAving their old tenacity and energy. Here von Ruelow mounted 8-inch guns, but T)vinsk, though only protected by earthworks, is holding ont. Tlie Russians north and si uth •. f Dvinsk continue to capture village after village 'with serious German losses.