THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 February 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

(BMUUTHJi riLiWß.U'a - IiOFiH - Li'«a ruuu AKaaciATioN. j FIOrHT IN THE ADRIATIC London, February I J. A brisk naval engagement is reported in Like Adiiuiic. f/rench and JJritish warships lorced four destroyers to flue towards Cattaro. Tiro T-Mimiraity describes the naval action in thu Adriatic on Fc!brua;7 j tith. A Uritish cruiser and a French ! torpedo boat wore covering the retreat of the Serbian army wlien ihey were Jii'od on by I'our enciuy destroyers, wUiicdi tied. The next days the Allied vessels were uitaeiked by submarines oil 1)u razzo. A torpedo missed the cruiser. The Milbmannes ivcre driven off. THE WEST FRONT. London, February 'J. A Geninan (ioiumunu|ue cikiiius : - We counter-attacked, and recovered a position lost .south 01 tii<* Somme. On Sunday our aerial squadron Oiwii'barded the railway buiicimgs at I'operinghe and a Britis.ll camp between I'operinghe and Dixmude IS MESOPOTAMIA Delhi, February 8. A communique sta-ics: —Genera.! Townshend is h..ld;ng Ku tela mm a as a point <>f strategical value. General Aylmer's operations are intended to support him there. No withdrawal is conifcemipSatedi. iNewspapers give prominence to a comnmunique under the heading "'Kiit to be held,'' and state that it is, clear that the British are firmly established m positions in Mesopotamia. It is evident that the torces are .set-tiling down to trench wart are until the weather improves.

KCSSIAX FLEET ACTIVE London, Eob. lb The High Commissioner leports: — .Petrograd reports state that Russian 'Black Sea ships bombarded Turkish iposit'Wtis on the Anatolian coast. A sciua-'lron «f Russian seaplanes bomibarded a steamer anonuied at ilung'uldaii RETIM3NOIII N Ci London, February 11.I 1 . Tlie economy c.a.titptifgn is proceeding apace. Mr Booth, chairman of t.'ue L'una.rd ■Shipping Company, sp: alviug at lAvenprol, urged individual thrift which would be secured by i uthJess taxation. He advocated a groat increase m the | income, super taxes and in iiidireoi j taxation and. nver.y unnecessary form of consumption. Voluntary effortmight help, but it i.-ould not «in tilt; war. Local an ukoritii s are rigorously cutting down rate.-, expicting reductions of Is in ibe C in most borniighs. i'ostal d*JiverLe.-! ha\ e iieeti ri'duced to two daily. There i»- a probability that the iniportation ol films will ne forbidden. There is const-ei nation m iae picture industry. Sjpeakcr.-> at a meeting ol the trade stated tlia.t if film importation was iorbiddien t-lle majority oi the pietuie theatres woti'ld closedown. LATE WAR NEWS. THE CAMPAIGN IN ALBANIA. London, Feb. 9. The High Commissioner reports:--The Serbians uiinoun.e that the Aust.rians troops axe continuing to advance on Dmazzo. On February Ist a mountain brigade oi Austrians in con-, junction with a nuinoer of Albanian 'bands came in contact with some Serbian troops acting as a rearguard. There was violent and*bloody fighting. iNext dny the enemy succeeded in pressing hack the .Serbs. The. latter, receiving reinforcements re-took in a night attack the positions lost, pntting the enemy to flight. The battlefield was covered rwitli the bodies ol the enemy. The Serbs took one hundre I ■prisoners, mostly Hungarians

London, I'elj. 'J. Artillery fighting is "active on the Artojs front from Hill l-ll> 10 the roa'J NeU'Vilie —La Folic. lestetday a-ftci noon the Germans explodn-d two heavily charged mines west oi Ixifolie ami ■were enabled to penetrate portion of tihe French firing trenches damaged by the explosion, also at certain points in the support trench. They wore compelled by a grt- v nado attack to abandon _tlr position in tue course ot tthe night. The combat continues. ((Received 'Phis Day o.fJ-'j a.tn.l GERMANY'S peace proposals TO BELGIUM. ■Rome, February &■ The Giornale D'ltalia says that Gornvany recently, proposed a separate peace with Belgium, based on the restoiation of the country as it was befor the war: King Albert's return to the throne; an indemnity by Germany for damages ; and a. treaty ot commerce ostensibly favourable to Belgium. but in reality favourable to Germany, inasmuch as that Antwerp and Oteteud would become German ports. King Albert and his government rejected the proposal declaring that negotiations wore impossible without the Allies or before Germany was conquered. One of the o-biot intermediaries "'as the (rei'inanopbilo Monsignor I'oreelli. the papal nuncio ftt Havre.

KEtRRS IN EXILE. fnris, Fell. l JEiehty thousand Serbian civilian.have' landed in France and thirty th"iis:i'id in Italy. UK!! MAN'S USING PRKXCTI GT T \S. The Matin's correspondent. visiting 1110 rxliiliition "f ■«:«!• trophies in Berlin l.oticcA the iit'scnop of French "«ovon-tv-iivps." He whs inronmed that these were sent to t<i bo transformed into defence guns against aviators.

; (Received This Day 10.50 a.m.) Mi UTAH.SERVJUE. London, Feb. | Tile .Minei.-,' Conference passed a re- , - . . ..ion that tlio conterenc.' w>. • J posed to the spirit of conscription, j and '••iermin-'d to exercise a -vigilant j scrutiny over any proposed extension |„f tlie M tlitary Service Act. The conj ii'iein'c recom.mendod diistricts to conj sider tJte re-~alution and forward de- | ci.-ioiiN within one TOontli. E;:vI'TIAN COTTON. Cairo, February 9 Tlie export oi cotton to fcywitaei land will tie jierniitu-d if consigned to the ;--u i-> Sovieiy'- and coiiis.licety's supervision and control : miWBWWMaWMMi '