THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 May 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

L'UCUTKIO XKLBUIIArU—COiTKIUHi. ( I PCH ritKSS ASSOCIATION. 1 i- BATTLE OF VEiIDCN. 0 is Londlon, May a. i- A communique states: —Alter two .1 days' bombardiuient a strong Gerni.ui 1 force attacked between Hill i 404 and Alorthomnie, and in repeated ollorte u' pcntftrattfcd a co>ui;miiucaitid|n toenail _ east of Hill 301. Everywhere Iso tilie enemy was reputsod with neavy loss. , Tho Germans after an intense bom- . bardnueai-t unadlu coverall atjtacis D«v , twoe.li Haurhu.m.nt Woou and Doutu- | moivt Fort. The Genitalis gained a ! footing on the western part oil a length of five hundre.l metres in cne first Cine trench. All ceivbra.l a.nd eastern attacks were shattered!. Paris, May tf. General Petain hue been promoted to bo Couumander-in-Ghicf of tno French central armies from Soissons to • Verdun, inclusive. General Nivoile command® the spec- I

( ial army at Verdun. r.o Temps military corra-ponden Kays that the movements of the Ger man troops through Belgium. togethe wi' ili the enemy's aifTrial activity ove the British lines are probably connect od Tvith a German attempt to find an< pierce a less tenacious line than tha; of Verdun. IN MESOPOTAMIA. Feuograd, May 8.

A communique states:—We art gradually advancing oil Baghdad, cap tilling Turkish stores. W hen we captured Trebizoudi we -japtuied twenty large guns, sixty-three ammunition waggons, ordnance supplj (.nuiiis and other material of great importance. GERMANY MAKES CONCESSIONS TO THE UNITED STAiTES. Washington, May a. Officials are reticent as to tlio Government's intention, but declare that the essence of the Note is a concession applying the rules of cruiser t;irfore to submarines. They predict that President Wilson will accept the face value of the declaration, but that he will refuse to discuss with Germany any difference between America and Britain. Any further German breach will bo followed by a prompt severance oi relations.

ATTACK OX RT. HON. D. LLOYD GEORGE. London, May 8. Mr A. G. Gardiner, editor of the Daily I\ows. in a furfiier letter to Mr Lloyd George says:---"It is .much easier to say that your assassins speak poison gas than to meet accusations which you know are true. Your swift hut shallow mind has made you contemptuous of staißler and more trust-worthy minds. Self has hypnotised and persuaded you that you alone can save the nation. The charge was not that you had disagreed with Mr Asquith hut that you had agreements with Mr Asquith's declared enemies."