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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 January 1916, Page 3

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liiis Day '■J.o a.ui-/' LiELuiA.Nb -V I i iv iv i'.i > l- N AI I Kit A. London, January io. -A Uermaii Jiasl Alncaii luroo, euiwistuij> ol lot) I'.urupcaii.s, t>OU uafcivo regulars, and many naiive irregular iroups armed with hotcitkisa, maxim aiul tici.. guus at lacked Liie Lolguaii garrison .u Luvinida. Alter a desperate light, lasting UJ hours, tire Belgians, with a •eousiideirably weaker iorco, repulsed, ihcir assailants who suiiored heavily. The Belgians lust UO killed and -10 wounded. SWEDEN \S .NJiUXUA LIT V.

Stockholm, Jkiu. '8. • The King, at the opening ol the Riksdag. urged an augmentation oi the do fence lorce in order to maintain the.r neutrality. The Government more than once had been obliged to intervene against attempts to put tlie.u under the control of another Power. jSKLGIAN PRIESTS SENTENGKL TO DEATH. Rome, January. 18. Cardinal Mercer has presented, tb ■ Pope with The depositions concerning 137 Belgian priests who were condemned to death. THE BLOCKADE Of GERMANY. .New VorK, Jan. IS The Evening I'osfc says that Mi' \V. Page, the American Ambassador England, lias informed President Wi! son that more stringent rules are abo-u to be applied in the blockade of Germany. (Received This Day 10..X) a.m.J ALLiiss' successes.

London, Jan. IS. The 'fitness correspondent at L'etr.jgra<L -says there is heavy lighting on liie Strypa-C'zernoviiz front, and a heavy concentration ol lierinan troops in Oalicia mud Bukovina. Unofficial repo.ts from South Poliece state that a large suet or has been cleared of Austria us and Germans, and several miles ol eneniv trenches are in Russian nanus The Ausuo-Gernunn iront was pierced in many .sectors and the advance con

I ...mca. iiiu German josses by casuali u(_.s .ma b.uuiiuoo ale eiionnous. Pllisk i,a.-. >.ecii evacuated. ine enemy tooK | iioin Li.ysii, paiuc-striciie'i, i.naei' a sneiiiug, discarding I men, cat triages and upper garments, j jley nou are liurrieaiy bringing up n. avy guns aud, reserves lrom kotttitl'Otl. i Lh.lj L\ G GEIIMAN x ■ iioiidoii, Jan. 16. .Llie AU.tning Post, s \\asuington cor- • k.spoilt a. in. cut tes that Lite latest statistics prove hoiv tuc biockacte oi Gerniiuiiy lias; tJceu iucllecLive litrougli tailure oi ino JtfritisJi l* oreign Otiice to grasp tlio .-.ii uitLioii. American exports ol wheat sent to Gel many in the nrst tell mourns o' IUI.I id tailed 15,000 bushels, compared with 1 "2,OUt),0110 bushels in the corresponding period oi 1013, but tile exporL to the Netherlands and Scaa Uliavia lose from if/,000,000 in 1913 to 00,000,000 in 1014. Germany in Iflo took 0,000,000 bushels of maize dn-ect, counjared with I<J.ODO,OOO in "1915, bat the neutrals' importation increased from 1-1,850,000 to 28,950,000. There were simiJary marked increases in bacon and other gootls. Germany's cotton imports were 1,700,000 bales in 1913, against 174,000 bales in 1915, b 'i neutrals rose l'rom 53,000 to 1,110,000.