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Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 March 1916, Page 3

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(Received This Day 9.10 a.m.; I''WITHER DETAIL'S O.F THE ZEPPELIN RAID. . London, March 6. The High Commissioner reports:— The number oi Zeppelins taking pnrt in last niglffi's raidi is believed to tie three. The airships apparently ivere uncertain of their whereabouts, nnd the area visited included Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Rutland, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Essex, 111 d Kent. A bo i i t forty bornTis were dropped, and. three men, four women, and five children wore killed, and thirty-three injured. Two terraces ot houses were destroyed, also some buildings di,imaged. (Received. This 19ay 8.40 a.m.) GERMAN CAPTIVE BALLOON A A CAPTIVK Pans, M'aroh 6. A German captive Balloon broke from its moorings owing to our fire, and flew over Dunkirk very low. Our ged it down and captured the two obge dit down and captured the two observers. HEAVY FIGHTING IN MESOPOTAMIA. Amsterdam, March 6. A telegram from Constantinople

j oiatcs tiiat- there jiu-b been heavy ugiitj .ng lk t.vcon General Ayiuier am* tiic iui'ks near u.e Nassi rivi_i since wie -ist i.ebruuiy- Large iiutisn iemlurceuituts iiavu urnvoa. AUSiIUAN SUGAR CARDS. lhe Austrian uuvii'iiii;ciiL is issuing sugar cards and everybody's supply in limited to a kilogram and a quarter monthly. A POLICE AI bIiAJNGiiA I. Shanghai, Mtu'ch 0. ilie police in tile J?ronch concession discovered at the bottom of a well uu German premises eight cases ol HotehKibs slielis suitable for arming merciiontmeii. GERMA-N 1 AiNJD PORT L'GAL. Iji:auuu ; Ala ieh 'j. Thy newspaper Capital stales t-iiat a diplomatic rupture between Germany and Portugal is inveitable. (Received in i .Day ii ii.ni.) AROLWD VjvKDLIS.

Paris, March 0. The "Petit" Parisian states that the Germans are held up on a formidable line, consisting ol three lines ol" trenches covering Verdun. The 'whole of the Trench positions form practically a leotangi) about seven .kilometres across liie Germans, in the beginning oi tho week", attempted to drive in our centre at Hois d'Huudremont and iiouduuiout. "On Friday ihey beineved we had stripped our wings to reinforce our ceintie, and they attempted a violent attack on V Ijiieur troops were cau'gut by a racing lire Horn guns oi air calibres atio" they left piles oi dead. - Our curtain nre prevented reinforcements irom coming up.. Hie German high command ordered them to go loruard all the same and regiment otter regiment was sent to death. Some lost forty and I others sixty per cent of their effectives /before reaching our entanglements.. where the remnauts were mowed down Iby machine gun and ritle Ere. The Germans did not succeed in gaining a. foot of ground, and' the Trench right wing is hek.l firm. The enemy have resunied attacks on the, centre at Hutin. » 'file Echo de Palis .says that ttte paemv's efforts at Verdun are weakening, but probably they will attempt a further advance after reorgnnffcation of their forces at t-lio positionst'botween Talouhill 'and Douamnont fort. One thing is clear: "we hold the enemy in check.