THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 October 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

1 j [ KIiKOIIUO JLKJUKGKAI'H — COi'XUJGIIT.) - j .fi.ll I'itiitia AtipOUU.IJOK.I a 1 SEUViANS REPULSE ATTACKS. Nish, ■October 12. ? A communique says:—lVc repulsed } 1 1' our attacks in tiie Zabrogio-Obrenovatz j sector with great enemy losses. During the Belgrade lighting we . sank ail enemy gunboat and badly <lamt i aged another which was beached near ( jSemlin. All attacks tin our positions , ; at Dlina before .uadovintzi were repuljsod with heavy losses. Considerable lorces are operating at Obrenovatz, where an entire enemy regiment was annihilated with the bayonet, after the Soruiau artTTlery had do- ' stroyed a bridge oi boats. 1 he'main enemy lorces were engaged at lioJgrade. me inhabitants wore taken by surprise and hurriedly lied. ' xJio enemy's artillery swept the roads I leading out of the city and many civil- ! laus, mostly women and children, perlished. Refugees speak of 'the liell ui lire and the ternole sulferiiigs of the inhabitants. BULGARIA IiKGJ.Nsi ATi. ~,. xjoudon,* -October 12. J 'liiQ Times Athene correspondent sa-ys the Bulgarians at noon yeisterday uegan tiie attack on Serbia ai uarihoghey towards lvuiazohvatz, HO miles north-east of Nish. SIR JOHN I'RENCiIS REPORT. London, October 12. Sir John I'rencii on the il'tli reports: i , urliier intormatiou snows t-liat tiio German attack on our Uont south oi La Bassee L'anul on the Bth was madu in great strongtli. '.Ilie main ellorl j was directed at a chalk pit north of Hill ! i\), and between HullucJi and Hoheii- ■ zollern Redoubt. la me ciiaik pu aitack tiiey assembled uchind the woods 300 to uliU yards oil our trenches. Their attack was mowed down by combined ' riilo, machine gun ami artillery nre. 'none getting within -iO yards ol our I trenches. r/urther north, between ilulI Inch and tlio quarries the attack was j similarly beaten olt with licavy eueiny j losses. Here our troops, following up j the enemy, secured a liennan trench I west oi St. Elio. The enemy • only 'succeeded in penetrating our front line I at one point on tne southern conunimiI cation trench at laohouzollern Redoubt, which is still in our hands, nut j tie waii promptly driven out by bombers. '. Our reserves were not required on any ■ part of the front. It is certain that 'we inflicted severe reverses on the enemy, and our casualties were even le« : than the Jiiv>t low estimate. I The Uenimn report on the Dth tliat ■ a Jiritish attack liurth-catit ot' Vermelleti ■ failed with great loss was entirely uilso 1 us no attacks weiX' made. I There were eleven lights in the air ■ yesterday, wherein our airmen were 'siiccssiul in nine. Uiie liostile aero--1 plane wab driven tu ground in the eii- : einy'is lines, and was almost certainly destroyed. To-day another enemy ni;i- ---! chine was brouglit down in our lines. ' We lost one aeroplane. i _

MARKED I'ilOGKiu-.-S MADE. i'aris. October L'l. A cuinnuiniqiie says :■-- \\ e made very i maikcd progress in tne wood westward : of oouchcii and eastward oi' souchezAugrea road, in the valley oi the uii- | ciiez and eastward ol the redoubt in (jtveiichy wood, also on the hights lo wards La folic j We made fresh progress in the Chami pagne, north-Westward oi failure, cap- ! luring, after a vigorous attack, the j I whole German work south-eastwards m the villages on the edge ol Goutte ravine. I j RUSSIA'S REi= OUT. Petwgrad, October 12. j A communique says:-Our aeroplanes bombarded several villages south-west l r riodrichsUidt. There was furious successful fighting at many points at iJvinsk. Wα put i the Germans at Garbuuovka to night ■■ and expelled them from their trenches j near Lautze-ssei somth-west of Dviufck j We are pursuing tnein. j no occupied a line from the southeastern end of Lake .VLcdiuuekge t<> i>an- j tzessui. i j Our artillery murderously assailed j i the enemy advancing near Ivovcl railway towards the 6tyr. An obstinate battle towards Kolki ended in our occupying the third line oi' trenches iaioM xiiiii jus '!;.uy x»orlin, Of toiler 11. A communiyue states igl/urther battles developed in the Urinu region. The crossing of the Danube Ims been comI pluted between Shabatz and Gradiste. The Austro-Genuaus captured the heights between aarKovo and Mirijevo, south of JJelgrade, and stormed the Anatem position near Ham. Altogether the Germans took prisoner 1556 and captured seventeen guns. Amsterdam, October 12. Turkish communiques during the last few days speak only ol minor fighting at the Dardanelles. An Austrian communique says:—The lUissian offensive slackened considerably after Ave dislodged the Serbians southeast and south-west of Belgrade. Nine naval guns twenty-sis field guns, a large quantity of material and 000 prisoners wcro captured in Jielgrade.