THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 March 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

B , , (KLKCTRIC TBLEORAI'H —COrTRIGHT.J [PElt PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Q GERMAN SEAPLANES MAKE ANt OTHER 11AID. " London, March 20. Two seapianes appeared off Dovei at 2 in the afternoon and dropped sis e bombs in the harbour. Thence ttiej " bombarded t/Jic town, one proceeding s and bombarding Deal. ® Two others appeared at llamsgwte 1 and bombarded the town. One went > to the north and a British aeroplane pursued it. Tiie other went towards 6 the west, where several of our aero--1 paaues are pursuing. Altogether 18 bombs were dropped, ' one fulling on the Canadian liosgitai J at Riamsgatc ana causing damage. Several houses wore damaged audi ar- ■ tisans' cottages wrecked. l'light-Oouimandcr Hone, in an aeroJ plane, pursued a German seaplane at J miles seaward aud after an - action lasting a quarter of an hour, forced the enemy to descend. lie iiit the Uer--1 nmn machine many times and killed s tiie observer. THE WEST FRONT. ' Amsterdam, Alarch I U. A German communique states :— -North-east of Vermilles, after artil- , h-ry preparation we recaptured smai/f British gains madse during the fighting on March 2nd. The majority of the British were buried in their flattened trenches. We captured 30 survivors. A British counter-attack failed. Heavy British artillery bombarded .urns. , On the right bank of the Mouse artilieiy activity lias temporarily increas- . cd with considerable violence and hand to hand fighting haa develoi>ed in sevt eral pi&ees southward* of Fort Douaumont and westward of V aitx. We drove out the French from positions at Ohiavalle, north-east of HayonviJlers. After destroying the French ting-outs we returned to our positions. Our aeroplanes bombarded the railway .buildings at Clermont on the Verdun >ine and Epinal line on the Lurevesoul line. The Allied attack on Metz wo untied three civilians. We shot «Jjpwn four French aeroplanes in an air battle while raiding Mulhausen and Habshedi Twenty civilians were killed. Sill DOUGLAS HAIG'tS REPORT. London, March 20. >Sir Douglas Haig reportsilie enemy, after exploding mines, recaptured three craters of Hohenzoilern Redoubt. 'Ihcre lias been many air combats. We brought down two enemy machines. FRENCH DESTROYER StINK. Paris, March 20. Official. —An enemy submarine sanK the French destroyer Renaubin in tlie Adriatic. The commander and forty-six men are missing. Thirty-six men were saved. GERMAN SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN. Amsterdam, March 20. It is reported that three of the largest submarines, each carrying a crow of 120 men, were completed ait Antwerp for immediate service oil the Belgium coast. Germany reports tjja-t nineteen enemy ships have been sunk between •March 1 and 18, of a tonnage o. j 10,000. 51