THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 July 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

I • IBLtfOXKIO rELKfJKAPE—COJPYIUGHT. j (Australia and Aew Zealand Cable Service;. THE .BATTLE IN i'JIA.NCE. Paris, July 10. A communique states.---ihere is great activity among i'rench and Ruasian patrols on tlie Champagne Iront and ji lively bombardment, at Clinttan court. We carried some trench elements at j.nll 304 and followed up tiie progress west of Eleury. We brought dowu two aeroplane* oil the Somine. Paris, July 10. Our lluhftian Allies, 'received theiir baptism of lire on the Krench iront ou Saturday. After [''reivch artillery preparatiou, Kussiau companies entered ocernian trencher and secured pri.sonens. Paris, July 17. Fifteen hundred German dead bore witness to the heroic struggle for Bnzentin ie Petit. The English were irresistlble. The Germans, realizing once more that they were beaten, ordered up | the Prussian' Guard, but the British in. I flicted cruel loss on the ivaisorV picked i troops. Tiie British routed the Germans and took Longueviale in twenty-Four min- | utes. Tilio South Afrioanfi took Belville tv'ood. THE HUSSIA.N rli'.NT. London, "Juity 10. An Austrian communique status: We repulsed Russian attacks near Luezci|liov. in Bukovina. Violent fighting i.s in progress south-west ot I.uzk. Italian attacks at ToltVino broke down. London. July 17. A Russian communique states:—On the riglit flank of the Riga position* we advanced in the region westward of Kemmern. - A Russian communique states ■ O-.ie of our torpedo boats destroyed 20 sailing vessels in the Black Sea. I'etrosjrad, July 1 : Official.—Tn the Caucasus we penetrated to the town of H:\itmrt. The Turks hastily retreated westward, destroying; their stores.