Latent War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 June 1916, Page 2

Latent War News

(.ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.] [per press association. ) (Received This Day iO a.m.) A FRENCH E. Paris., May 31. A communique state* mat- there was tierce fighting throughout the day and night from Mort, Homme to the Mouse after a- bombardment-of unprecedented vie Vance for two days. The enemy repeated his concentric attacks by large forces of effectives against the trenches east of Mort Homme and aibout Cumieres, but everywhere we repulsed the [ enemy inflicting heavy losses, though south of Ootirettes Wood we avacuated oui' first line of trenches which the bombardment had levelled. The. German attacks south of Cumieres from both sides of the village at first rolled us back in the direction of Gha,tfamoiirt station, and then strong coun-ter-attacks dtrove the enemy back to the outskirts of the village. Some German detachments which crejfT- along the Mouse in the fog got near the station and were annihilated.' The 3nemy, after ail intense artillery preparatio, invaded our trendies east of Seppois, but a counter-attack drove them out.

THE THREATENED TRADE WAR. Zurich, May 111. Herr Huneken, director of the North German Lloyd Shipping Company, declares that Germany can complacently await the threatened trade war. Englishmen apparently have rorgotton that the late Mr J. Chamberlain's idea of a greater Britain in the imperial and economic sense was 1 rust rated owing to the opposition of the colonies which ieared the loss oi the German market. These condition hare not changecL to-day. To boycott German trade after the war merefy will drive all neutral to Germany, who naturally will offer them specially advantageous terms. Germany cannot be eliminated economically without bringing down the whole economic fabric of the world, burying toes and neutrals alike. ROOSEVELT'S \ | i<:ws. New lork. May 31. ' Mr Roosevelt, speaking at St. Louis, on preparedness for a campaign, denouncedi the 1 'livphomated' Americans as moral treason mongers. Mr Rous'.--' volt denied that lie was lor an EnglishAmerican alliance. ±io was a& unalterably opposed to an Engli-h-Ameri-can alliance as he was to n GermanAmerican alliance. The U'ni'e ' Rtat'v, nwst not become a polyglot- 'boardinghouse. ;