THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 March 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

IKLKCTIIIC ■liXbt.UAl'U -COI'KUiOHI.J Ll'Klt I'KKBS ASSOCIATION, j THE GdIEA'J. STR.UGGLE EN EUANUE. i'ai'is, Maid SJ A communique sta.te.s: — This eiic.:.,y attempted fresh progress west ol the Mouse under co.er of an intense bombarument. A strong attack on Bothincoui'L was repulsed. 'Mountcr-at-tacking we drove out tiie enemy irom the greater part ol Boideaux Wood, ilo now only occupies the eastern e\~ ti euuty. A violent Gorman bombardment oi Douaumoin and enemy attacks east oi that position failed. The enemy have re-occupied Hardau.uout ledoubt. Sixteen oi our aeroplanes dropped l'Jl bombs oil the Motz-.&a.bloh* station wneio there were several trains, the piojeotiles found their mark. .fifteen mac.lines returned. it is somi-ofliciaily stated that though the Germans made sonic gam oil both wings, tiie general ±< rench defences are unaffected. i'orges fs becoming untenable owing to Hoods. The detenders were able to indict heavy lieuvy losses' in tue withdrawal, exactly what the Freitcn coniinundicrs desired. The Gorman gains on the dopes oi Goose Hill were not worth sacrifices made. A joature of the battle is the enormous quantities oi German heavy artillery and huge mobile guns, while fiekl ur til. cry is merely necessary. ilie i'renoli losses on Hill 2do, notwithstanding the inferno of shot ana shell, were very light, while the German division storming and capturing it were decimated. i'ive UeiTinan generals have been kilted in the Verdun district. included in the number its General Lotterer, commander ol a division ol artillery, and General von Graf, a Bavarian. 'ihe Germans are now massing on oiery sector of the attack, and are bunging up reserves. 'ihe i'inies correspondent iu Paris _suys that as a result of violent attacks the Germans have practically driven out tho Trench from the railway salient opposite Sainogneux anu li«.ve . brought their lino more into relation with the position on the ea;>. uauk of the Mouse. A high Paris military oilieisil predicts the extension oi ttie Verdun battlefield, cuiiinating ou ihursday ami, i'riday. General I'utain, the defender of Verdun, is entirely calm and i-.i:

dent. The Paris press anxiously points out that Urn essential Verdun railways are threatened by the German attack vest of the Meuso. Tin.- lighting on Hill '2130 is oven more obstinate that Dauaumont. Tile Germans were repulsM twenty times with heavy louses before the slopes wore wion oy reinforcements which hud just arrived iroin Serbia. GEItMAN RJSPORT. t/ondon. March b. A German wireless states: — \Y« stormed enemy positions on tho ieit bank ol the Meuse, 011 both sides o. i'"orjieis brook below Bethincourt, over a width of four miles. We occupied tho villages of Foi'ges and Kegenville, also the heights of Cornea ux and. L'uinieres woods. A great part 01 tho occupants of the captured positions perished. We took prisoner D 8 omcers and 3277 men. We have driven out tlie Kron • : lorn the last houses at l'losnes. RU&3J.AN COM M UNIQUE. Potrograd, .Mar A comtnuuhpie states. • -Our troop-, on the const of the Black Sea are prt&iug the Turks closely. We captured Rigeh and occupied Seneh, tiMy versts north of Kermanshah. It is unofficially statedi that Armenians were at Jfirzerouni prior to it,- capture. TJie Russians lound only sixteen alive. The police in Erzeroum a lew days before the capture drove out an the Armenians to the westward, whore j the Kurds, forewarned, massacred i thuun. , * I