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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 March 1916, Page 3

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(Received Jiii« Day 8.4.0 a,, in J THJi BATTLE OP VEUDUIN. Paris, March 0. A review oi' the recent lighting «•- Verdun shows that the battle mitl continued on Saturday with undiminished intensity and the day closed with the 'position, unchnngetfi. The enemy's greatest efforts again were directed against the village ol Douauniont. where both sides are lighting desperately, neither side being able to occupy it indefinitely. 'Lite German attacks weieji ade with the utmost fury and every devilish expedient was used to break the French resistance, but nothing could overcome the stubborn endurance of the French troops. The number of French wounded was small, while the enemy's losses -n ore great. The French supply system was equal to all demands, and all the services, including the railway and motor transport, have been strongly reinforced. Thus the situation in the second phase of the German offensive was totally different from that a week ago, and they made not the slightest advance. A further difficulty now is the impos-

! is fco- torn up by tlio boniliaxdmen I that tlicy wtiinot scieutiiicaily organise I 'I.lie men taking pun 111 the hist at tacks were worn out and. llie Ires, croups taking pari wore demoralize) by tile sight of tiie mounds of Dermal corpse.-. ■ It it> estimated that yO,O(K .still mo cumbering the ground beior< the l'Vench lined. l'or these reason; the issue of the (Kittle still is awaitei. in I'aris without anxiety. Other re- , ports from eastern Jj'rauce estimate tiic Uermaii looses in lulled and wounded at 200.001). j UKKMAS h'IAiKT .MOVING. Home, March b. A wireless press message says that twenty Dreadnoughts have quitted Kiel. THE I<'ALL Ol'' HIT LIS. l'etiogiwl, .March o. OUieial details of the oaptui'e of Hitljs show tliat our troops attached tin; enemy entrenchments in a snowI fiiorin and. the liual charge was made jai three o'clock in the morning. The j lurks were driven out with the bayon&t f alter a desperate resistance. Our , troops did not lire a shot and next atj tacked the artillery. 1 hey captured | ine j><..siLl<j 11 alter stuboorn hand to liaud lighting in which all the detendr era were killed. The pursuit of the enemy followed immediately. He now have taken twenty Krupp guns ol the latest type and captured a large, amount of munitions in the depot at Bitlis. (Received Tin's Day 9.5U a.m.) DU. LIED .VECKT SI'EAIvS. Amsterdam, March ,'j. . Amid frequent interruptions and call* to order Dr. Liebneckt, in a sensation speech in the Diet, denounced the censorship. He declared that the newspapers were .forbidden to announce ihe impending release ol Rosa Luxemburg; the authorities tearing a demonstration in her favour. The newspapers -were prohibited from mentioning the trials in connection with the peace de>m 011,vt rations and food riots. Mie result was that the population u'its not invarc of the rast incrense ol such trials. A prominent Lubeek senator had been imprisoned for placing his Swedish copper mines at Russia's disposal. Capitalist treachery, in selling munitions to nuetrnls. had so increased that, tlie (rovemnient had been obliged to issue a warning that Oemum soldiers had been killed by gniis supplied by Ivrupps.

The situation in .vustna was worse than that in Germany. TLerp. there was a court martial regime of terror, (-hie of his Austrian comrades wis sentenced to (loath tor a speech in December, 1015, on the ground that, his le.marks were hostile to the State. Dr. Licbiieekt, referring to the atrocities in Belgium, said that the German army contained many criminals and already there were 0000 soldiers in the military prisons under the Prussian administration, and the; prisons under Hie .Minister of interior were largely populated by soldiers. The dearth of loodstulfs was one of the social causes of clime, and one of the results of the degeneration ol our whole kultur. Aftei mentioning the case of a person sentenced to death for writing a poem, which sentence wa.s commuted to live years' imprisonment, he denounced tlie military justice towards civilians. The police had opened a new department <it Berlin to deal with peace propagandists. He predicted a severe class war; an increase in political persecution. and reaction. Ihe cry from .be J prisons TPiKI penitentiaries soon would bee .in,. mo. e audible audi rouse man-!{i'--l '<■ ' '' e o.dy lioiy war which Socialists knew. M FSTIiIUN(J THi\ SERBS. Home, March 5 -.11 oer.is ol military age, at present are under orders to undergo a fier-'h medicud examination and proceed to Corfu.

A .NEW ZEALAND CARGO BOAT HELD. Amsterdam, March 6. Iho Prize Court at liamburg La-s postponed for three months consideration of the case of the Jvaillar, with u cargo ol* New //caland Irozen meat ■for Plymouth. AX UN CON, I'ili.UKD KEPOKT. Athens, ilarch 5. A signiicant, but unconfirmed, report states that the I'urKs are removing the mines from file Dardanelles. (.Received This Day y.lO a.m.') TUUKS AND IEACE. Paris, March 5. A semi-official message quotes the London Daily Telegraph and Corr;ere Delia Sera as stating that Talaat Bey on behalf of the Committee of Union aml Progress, twice lias taken the initiative with a view to peace negotiations. It is reported that two Turkish envoys have been sent to Switzerland for that- purpose.