THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 February 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

1 (.ELttOTRIU XBH.fc.ij ItAPIi —COITRIGHT. j Li-mi PHKSB ASSOCIATION.j THE COST OF WAR. London, February 21. In the House of Commons Mr Asquith introduced a vote of £130,000,1)00 He said: "1 will conhno myself to the financial aspect. There will Ibe two votes, one supplementary expiring this year and the other for the new year. This vote of credit will raise the total for 1915->lO to £1,420,000,000 and the total since the outbreak of the war to £1,(82,000,000. The total issued out of votes of credit since last April is £1,198,000,000, making a total daily expenditure from April Ist to July 17th of £2,800,000 therefrom to September of CI),'KX),OOO, from September to -November of £4,350,000 and from November to February 19 of £4,400,000. Tne army, navy and munitions expenditure from April to February 19th was £834,000,000. Our loans to the Allies to diate amount to £168,000,000. IN THE WEST. . Pans, Feb. 22. An official -message states:—A heavy German attack south or the SomnieLisons sector on a iront of seven kilometres, preceded by a heavy bombardment and successive emissions of asphyxiating gas, was ibeaten back everywhere. French guns brought down a Zep--pelin in Flandel's near .Brabant Le l{oi. < London, February 22. A bombardment is general especiallyill tile region of Verdun. At Tagsdorf, east of Altkirch, a 1' rencli aeroplane attacked a Fokker which fell. At Epinal an Albatross was brought down by our artillery. | In the legion ot JBures, north-east of the forest of Aproy a German machine was smashed by two of ours.

A squadron of seven French machines fought four enemy aeroplanes at Vigneiilles. Two of the latter were 'brought down and two Hod. Enemy aeroplanes Bombarded Fismes, Uarleduc, and Revigny. At the latter place an enemy squadron of fifteen machines was attacked by our squadron. The fight resulted ill one of the enemy being brought down at Givny and a second being Turced to descend. One of the squadrons of seventeen machines dropped sixty-six bombs in the aviation field <it HaJbsheim and tlie goods station at Mnlhouse. Twenty-eight aeroplanes bombardedi enemy munition works at Peigny enr Moselle. <All the machines returned safely. A Zeppelin {between St. Emenehould was 'brought down oy an armoured motor car. It fell in flames in the neighbourhood of Brabant Le Roi. Twenty-six British aeroplanes carried out an attack on depots at Don yesterday. Extreme damage is believed: to haive been done to stores and the railway. All the machines returned in - safety. Our artillery actively bombarded hostile trenches to tlie north of the YipresOomines Canal and north of Hullueh, large explosions resulting from ffenvy howitzer fire against the gun' positions in the Riadinghem area. IN ARMENIA. Petrogradi, Feb. 2'l. Latest messages show that Armenia is practically in Itussian hands, z Tlie Grand Duke Nicholas's forces in the north have cut oft Turkish supplies from Trebizond. -B | asta<n Ptosha's army corps \vh ic 11 was formerly in the Ottoman loft is now in extreme ganger without supplies, .and is far from its base with the ■Russians across the line of retreat.

IN MESOPOTAMIA. London, February 21. An official report from Mesopotamia states that hostile aeroplanes on the 17th and 19th bombarded the Brit'sb camp at Ivutelamara without doing damage. The sanation is unchanged. The despatch of reinforcements t > General Aylmer is proceeding satisfactorily.