THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 May 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

nuscvaio TiXKoitAPU—corraiaax j , fHE I'll Mb ABBtillVilON. | THE AUSTRIAN ATTACK. Rome, My 1U Official: After three days most furious bombardment we evacuated Zugnaitorta which was in ruins. We evac- . uaihed simjiiiarly the line of Monto Naggio to Sagioraspio which is >n .ho Upper Asiioo. In the Sugans- Vailey the enemy was everywhere repulsed. Koine, May 2!. A communique states; The' attacks between the Adige and Serragnolo Valley nave been checked. The offensive between the latter und the upper Astiico, also on the Asiago pla&oau is still going on. An air raidi caused slight casuai •■•■ as ot Cividale and Mortuno. Amsterdam, May 20. An Austrian communique states; - Ou 1 attacks on t-he south Tyrolean frontiers continually gains ground. Our forces advancing between Astacli and I Lain Val>*y. drove the enemy back | along the entire Iront, capturing •wo armoured redoubts. Since the attack began we have taken' prisoner two thousand men, sixty gnus and fifty-one machine gum. Amsterdam, May 21. An Austrian communique states: — We entered Roncegno and captu. od Sesaoalto. We expelled the enemy from "uolsanto. Wince tho outset the prisoners taken are lio7 officers, 12,900 men andi 107 guns. London, May 19. The "Daily Telegraph's" Koine correspondent states ithat tho Austrian offensive extends from Monto Poriwest and Lake Garda to Cimadodici. ■The firont is forty-five miles wide amiis supported by thousands of guns and forty permanent forts. The principal points of attacke are the Ledro V kllev, Zugnatorta below Koverto and' tho frugana Valley. The battle in > in Austrian territory. The enemy idvaincea in masses. The battle began oi Monday and raged with fury til' Wednesday. Then it lessened. The Austrian dead are piled feet hitch-

RUSSIANS IN PERSIA.

Petrograd, May 21. A communique states:— We occupied/ Sakiz in Persia aud advanced to the village ot Wan. THE VERDUN OFFENSIVE. Paris, May ,l'J A communique states':— AVo (threw the enemy back in Attempting to penetrate a small salient at St. Hubert in the Argoiino. The Germans renewed a violent attack on Avocourt Wood and. westward of Hill 304 by means oi large forces 'belonging 'to two newly arrived <livitdons but it was frustrated. Nevertheless tlio enemy carried a small worK southward of HiH 287, Several attempts to extend progress there were stopped. An attempt to recapture the ion taken by the Frencli on Thursday in tho north-eastern slopes of Hill '04 failed. A French aeropiane brought down a German 'plane at St. Menehoiild. Pai •is, May 31. A communique states:— A coup de main enabled' ns to penetrate 'tlie enemy's lines north-west o. Ville Sur Toui'be. The occTlpanjte of tho trench were killed or taken prisoner. The German, alter an extremely violent bombardment launched a widespread attack along the whole Mort iHammo region and momentarily ntered our first line to th'e' eastward. They were driven out with heavy loss. After ft series of deadly and Fffiitless assaults to the westward- and on the northern slopes of Mort Homme ■£he Germans occupied some elements of an advanced troffleh. Some contingents- reached the Moond line but were caught by tho violent fire of our guns and retreated in disorder leaving numerous dead.

AIR .RAID C*N ENGLAND. 1

London. May 'l\< Official: Three seaplanes raided the east coast of Kent at 2 o'clock in the morning. One dropped a dozen bombs in the lisle of The not. There were no casualties. Other nlanes dropped 25 bombs in south eastern Kent. A soldier ras killed' and a woman and a Ream an injured. A public house was wrecked and several houses damaged.