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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 April 1916, Page 3

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(Reci'ivpd This Dn.v y.40 a.m.) J TITf! RETIREMENT OF GENERAL JVAA'JFF. London. April 5. .Experts point out tuat General iva.i: ff w..i> a great artillerist audi naLi.oiiijtH: an. His piuns left nothing to chance. Geneal brousiloif, a g.iier.ii ui cavalry, succeeds liim. BTEAMERS SUNK. Tlie remainder of the lienrain's crew have 'Handed. They were three days and nights in open boats in the intense cold and were exhausted. The steamer JLSendew has been siuiK. The firemen were lost, but the rest of the crew were landied. The Spanish steamer Vigo was sunk ill the Bay of Biscay. The crew were picked up.' The Norwegian steamer. Arena has been torpedoed in the North Sea.

"MORE FRIGHTFUL SURPRISES. Amsterdam, April 3. The, Cologne Gazette says that the Zeppelins that go to England are more and more frequently armed with increasingly terrible weapons, and the English, who could have prevented the awful war, will begin, before it is terminated, to learn from the air raids that the war will bring to them even more Frightful surprises. THE GERMAN A.'l I AC'KS AT VERDUN. Paa-is, April 5. A semi-official report, describing the attack preceding the flight of the Gerihan remnant to Chauflour wood, says the enemy's object, was to turn our position on the Douaumont plateau. The majority of the attackers were annihilated betore reaching our lines. It is noteworthy that t.lie German troops were of inferior quality and advanced shoulder to shoulder in the foremost ranks and were sacrificed to facilitate the advance of the second masses which were composed of better fighters. These brutal audi futile tactics show a disregard for human life, contrasting with the French methods of sparing its men. The enemy's losses were never so terrible as during the recent repulses at Avocourt, Douaumont and Yaux.