THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 October 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

* IVLKDXUIC TKLKGIUI'U— UOl'£»soHi.l ■ I'Uil l'in.oo ae>M<C44 IItHV i tllE IRhU BARD MEN T Oi' DEDEAGATOH London, Uotobor SiS. Admiral do Roebuck directed tJio bombardment oi Dodcajiatch lor six hours bi thi! monitors, destroyers and some cruisers. The lirst shots hit the barlacks and the soldiers scurried outside where tho destroyers' lire harried tliem. Every building oi' military importance was razed. The railway was torn up and trucks containing mack powder were ignited. The church was tho only lofty building loft standing. MIENOH SUCCESSES. / Paris, October 28. A communique says:—We exploded south-caul' ol' Ncuville and St. Vausr mines wrecking trenches and entanglement. We occupied the craters and repulsed counter-attacks with heavy enemy lossesWe repulsed renewed attacks eastward of Rhoims, despite the enemy's extensive .use of poisonous £as SIR JO HA' I'llEN CIl'S 11EPOUT London. October 25. Sir John lucnoh reports: Since my last report the (situation 011 our lront has unchanged. There lias been mining activity on both sides witii unimportant results. The enemy's artillery was activo east of Ypros, and pouth of La Bassee Canal, and our reply was effective.

CKRMAN ATTACKS REPULSED Potrograd, October 28. A communique says:--We repulsed German attacks at fkskub also at Neuyelberg north-westward ot Jacobs tadt. British submarines sank lour German steamers in the Baltic. FROM THE EXEMY. Amsterdam, October '-'8. An Austrian communique says:--We captured the heights on the frontier village of Dobla and bayoneted the enemy out of the heights ot Topela. The Germans along the .Morava have taken ♦he heights southwards of Raca, ami are now advancing up the MJava. A detachment entered Brzapalauka. A German semi-official message declares that the Belgian Councillor and the American Embassy distorted the details of the Oavell case. New York, October 27. A .Berlin telegram to the New YorkWorld says the sinking nf the i'rinz Adalbert occurred in the daytime. She was steaming in heavy weather and two torpedoes struck her simultaneously and the cruiser was rent in twain by internal explosions of the magazines and boilers which followed immediately. She disappeared in a few minutes like a piece of iron. The number of those drowned is unknown. The Prince Adalbert' bad few devices against torpedoes. The survivors saw the trail of two torpedoes side by side, .and it is assumed U.nt the submarine was equipped with a new double torpedo tube system on the latest English models. The Berlin Admiralty are confronted with the practically impossible task <>• keeping submarines out of the Baltic.,