THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 December 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

i -— Latest Cables I JSUSiA'iiUJ IbIiKUUAI'U — i'PKll PKESB ABBOCJAHONI Received This Day. 8.55 a.m. FURTHER DETAILS 01- THE BRITISH REVERSE IN MESOiHJTANIA. "London. Doc o. OHicial: Our total casualties in tlie actions at Ctcsiphon numbered 4,0ti7, including 133 officers. General Townslieiul reports that lie fought a regard action on the night of November 13 th against greatly superior Turkish tor • cefi, wherein our casualties number*:! 150. Two river beats were disabled with shell lire, and were "abondoned, but the guns and engines first "were rendered unsless. The retirement was carried oit( in perfect order. latest reports are to the effect that General Townshend is within a fey miles' of Kutelmara, whereon ho was retiring. FINANCE. With a view to meeting - Government's desire ioF a realisation of American securties towards the fsgularisat,ion of exchange, Carnegie and the trustees ol] tjhe University of Scotr land and the Dti niter inline trustees are selling five million sterling's worth ot Steel Corporation bonds and investing in War Loan securities. CENSORSHIP. 'Hie Observer states that M Skonloudis lias informed a- correspondent" that telegrams must be censored by Jean Larren. The latter proves to be Baron von Sclien's tod, and/ the Turkish legation says tTi'e niajter will brought to the notice of the Allied Legations at Paris.

V.C. AND L. H. AWARDS. .British sub-Lieutenant Viney anci French Lieutenant Desincay describe the destruction of a cabled twenty 29th November). An airship, while cruising at a height of ten /thousand feet, sighted fwo submarines, five miles from the coast. The sea was shallow, and the vessel® were unable to dive. One hurried off. After a zig-zag flight the aviators descended to 650 feet and attacked the other, which less-readily answered the helm. 'Hie first bomb effectually damaged her deck, the second bomb broke her in halves and she sank. An ever-widen-ing sheet of oil and water told all the aviators wanted fo know. Viney gets the Victoria Cross and Desincay tho Legion of Honour,

GREEKS EQUIPPING AMBULANCES FOE BRITISH TROOPS IN BALKANS. The "Greek community m London, in order to express pro-Entente sympathies are equipping ambulances for the use of British troops in the Balkans. Six thousand pounds sterling has been subscribed. ART TREASURES FOR CANNONSHOT. The bronze statues in the Capuchin Church at Innsbruck are to be used for cannon, including a fine statue oi the English King Arthur. FARMERS HELP FARMERS. British tanners have sent the ruine.t French iannuls nead of poultry. ' A L'STRIANS DISCONTENTED. Renter reports from Zurich that each successive levy in Austria is causing deplession. Many desperate efforts are being made to avoid serving especially by men in the 44 to 50 class. O! those leaving their homes next Monday, the great majority have pruvio isly been rejected as unfit; some as many a four times. Many produced medical certificates proving that service was likely to be dangerous to their health, but they~~were informed that until the War Office notifies the doctore the doctors were not called on to express any opinion as to miltary fitness. There is much dissatisfaction m Austria, especially in Bohemia and the Italian hoarder districts because the Hungarians were not called up until much later.

HOUMANIA COMMANDEERING ALL VESSELS IN ROUMANIAN WATERS. Bucharest, Dec. 5, - OSciul. —The military authorities from Monday are commandeering all steamers and other craft in Roumanian waters belonging to foreigners. xM. Bratiano in tlie Senate refused explanation of the Government's policy. THE DIVISION OF SERBIA. New York. iV •. •• A Berlin message states that M. Radoslavoff in an interview with the Berliner Tagebl&ttj says that the Bulgarian Government intends to annex all the regions carrying a. Bulgaria population. Austro-Hungary would take measure to ensure Her freedom from Serbian intrigue." The fate of the rest of Serbia' could not be foretold. The war developments, he adds, have not impaired the relatione existing between Greece and Bulgaria.

WORKERS' {DEMONSTRATION • IN BERLIN SUPPRESSED. A Borne message reports a demonstration by Berlin workers in couaequence of the scarcity of food. It was broken up by tlio military. The soldiers fired on the crowd, and it is estimated that 200 were killed and hundreds wounded. STEAMER DAMAGED AND RETURNING TO FORT. The liner Minnesota is returning to •San Francisco damaged. Three men have been arrested on a charge of causing an explosion in the engine room. Owing to her slownes sin nut king port shipping circles believe that the damage s serious. POSITION IN SOUTHERN BALKANS. Paris, Dec. f>. Tlie Journal's Salon ilea, correspondent states that despite reliable reports of disaffection at Sofia, it would he tin, wise if the Allies founded hopes thereon They are becoming exposed to the danger of being stuck fast by trench-war, the issue whereof- it is impossible to forasee, unless the Russians already have penetrated info Bulgaria. The Greek press is daily becoming more hitter, and alreacly are circulating reports that 200,000 Germans have arrived on the Greek frontier. Events must soon come to a. head. Tlie Allies should profit % their liberty of movement while there is vet timo as already the Bulgarian concentrations are of a disturbing character.

ALLIES MUST ACT VIGOROUSLY. The Echo de Paris says that it is an incontestible ifaot that the Germans are marching into Bulgaria and have sent munitions and supplies ahead. "We may expect important German and Bulgarian forces soon to begin an enveloping movement against the Cernn and Sfrumitza front. The enemy, with Greek complicity won't hesitate to use Greek territory to the east of tln> Allies' positions in order to cut the Salonika railway. The time for prudence with Greece has gone, ami we must act vigorously il we are.going to preserve our troops their liborty of movement."