THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 February 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

— -4 (KMSU'ftUO TBL.IiOUAfU— COI'YKIGUT. J Ll'JhiU I'illiHS ASSOCIATION.J j iiiiz C'AAi.PAIG.A lxN lilE Wltcsi. Amsterdam, i/oij. 14. A .Gorman communique states; Aorin west oi Xaiiure we stormed, and e-.-ip-turcd Vud metres oi i''r<jucii positions. iNoar the rreneh iro-ntier u.& fhn we captured 400 metres 01 trem\hes. French counter-attack were repulsed. London, I'eb. 15. Sir Douglas tlaig leports that the enemy exploded .seven mines south ol La Bassee Canal. 11l a, heavy enemy bonubairdineiit -onill o£ l'osse eight mine explosion.-, were followed. b,v a small lnlantry attack. A lew Germans entered our I runt trenches -but were driven out. Paris, i'ebr ua ry 14. A communique states: — (south oi' Krise on .Sunday evening we occupied portions of German trenches and repulsed counter-attacks. AVe decimated a German, company during the enemy attack on tiuiulay. East oi Tahure and- .bommesy road we exploded thro«! mines under an advanced section where tile enemy had pushed his attack far towards our .supporting trenches where lie •completely I ailed. (Notwithstanding serious losses l.y explosions atld artillery fire the enemy maintained himself in these advanced sections. In Upper Altoce after a 'violent bombardment the enemy gained two hundred metres of trendies. A •coun-ter-attack restored most of the-ground. Artillery actions in this district have Ibeen very violent. We blew up -an ammmiition depot northward of Boesinghe. One curtail l of lire stopped the enemy's attempt to debouch at Terny road and on the right bank of the Aisne. I'he enemy eastward oi Seppoi.- -carried out (in intense bombarnient and advanced to trench dementis which were retaken. Four were evacuated because they were entirely wrecked. Our curtain ot tire caught enemy reinforcements advancing from the direction of Niedierlarg. 'EH Z EUUI ! FO li T OAI'TUK Wi> ■ f'etrogiad. i'.eb. io. A communique .stales: — \\ e captured one of the Lrzeroiun forts in Asia Minor.

AUSTRIAN OLA I* lis. An Austrian couiuiumqiic claims Our troops in Albania rescued the lowei Arson. The enemy retreated t<> tin southern banls. KUTi'jLAMAhA. Loudon., I'eb, 15. The War Ofike states t GcuoraK Aylmer and Towiiishend o" I'ebniary 13 reported that the weather had cleared and the situation was unci)allied. An aeroplane dropped two bomljs on Krteliimara without doing any clflinage. / "CALLED TP" MLON*.

Loudon, I*Vo. 14. The Army Council has it>* ; reci'uitintr committee at Birmingham that a very small percentage of attested men in the eallcd-up Derby groups hfive responded. The ('eiaulter.s must therefore be brought in coinpulsonly in order to secure ovevy available man for tlie field. I ... - I

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iIICH C0.M.M1.-6 lON Ell ,S KEI'OKT. London, l''eb. 1-1. In the Champagne the I'rench have recaptured a portion oi the sections occupied by the enemy on the 13th, on the l'oau from Tahuro to Sommepy.