Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 July 1916, Page 3

Late War News

r (Australia-New Zealand, Cable Service)(Received This Day 10 a.m.) BRITISH GAIN FURTHER GROUND London, Juiv i/. General Sir X>ougln,s iiaigh reports further important successes. 1 lie British have widened the gap in the German second line. We captured fifteen hundred yards oi trenches to the north-west of Bazentin le Petit, and also Water lot barm, east ot Tiongeval. THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES. Paris, July 17. The special correspondent of The Journal, in Armenia, gives detail of the horrible masacres at KTiarpoiit. The Turks arrested the Armenian intellectuals and bound and shot them in groups of fifty. The last batch revolted in tlhe evening before their massacre, and set fire to their prison, preferring to be burnt to death rather thait to be massacred. The Turkish authorities therefore summoned the pupils of the Control School. and French Armenian Colleges, and assembled them in square at night, where they were ma sac red. The dead and wounded were flung together into an inflammable ditcfi, which they bad been compelled to dig.

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. London, July li. On the British front further important successes have been gained. .Noi-h and west of Baaeutiu m> Petit Wjou we stormed and captured the second line of positions on a front "I 1500 yards. The large number of German dead in this sector bears evidence of the very heavy casualties whi :h the enemy has suffered since our advance. l£ast of Lougueval iia\ c still further widened the gap in the German second line by capturing the strongly defended positions of Waterlot Farm. On our left flank at Ovillers and La Boisclle, where theie has been continuous hand-to-hand fighting since Juiy 7th, we captured the remaining enemy strongholds w.th two officers and 124 Guardsmen who formed the remnants of the brave gar/ison. The whole village is now capsdied.