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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 July 1916, Page 3

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JN'EW TYPE OF VVAKStiiP. (United Service;. .London, July J}3. A special correspondent visited. t£e munition and shipbuilding centres lalso naval bases, taiid witnessed the construction of warships taiid merchantmen at double the rate previously regarded as possible; including warships of dimensions, speed laiul gun-power which must not be hinted at, besides a mysterious vessel hidden behind canvas screens. THE BIG BATTLE. The Times thinks that the coming week will bring definite developments of the Somine battle. BRITISH IX MANY. The British prisoners in Germany total 26,401. GERMAN LOSSES. it is estimated that Germany bar lost at least 15U submarines. ■SUBMARINED. (United Cable Service). London, July 23. The British isteamers Orangemoor and Karma were sunk in the Mediterranean. SENSATION A L PAMPHLETS. Amsterdam, July 23. Thousands of topics are circulated Gel many of « remarkable brochure entitled "People of Germany Awake!".by Hen Rosemier. ex-political editor of the Berliner -Morning Post. The pampfTlet says the quarrel arose with the chief editor, who declared that whoever doesn't help deceives the people and is a rascal. The pamphlet declares that the German losses are about one and a quarter million dead and three-qurn-tens of a million prisoners and missing: three million wounded, one million whereof are hopelessly mutilated. The sick elude computation, but are so enormous that Germany has ia bloody debit balance-sheet to-day. GERMANY'S PRTCTJ. The "Echo de Beige stales that posters are placarded on the barracks at Ghent stating that negotiations have been opened bevveen the United States and, Germany, who may eviacuate Belgium on payment to Germany of all indemnity oi two thousand millions sterling. RUSSIAN GENERAL HOPEFUL. General Russki, interviewed at Petrograd, when en route to Finland, convalescent, said the Allies were 'aiming at continuous pressure on a number ol different points. If they avoided the mistake of advancing too quickly the end would come sooner than expected. HIGH COMMISSIONERS REPORT. Lndoin, July 23. On the British front the battle has been resumed to-day i:\loug a front extending from Pozieres to Guillemont and reaching a stage of intense violence. In the neighbourhood of Pozieres, the Territorial and Australian troops, attacking from the south-west and south-east respectively, carried the German out works by assault shortly after midnight. Violent fighting is now taking place i-n. the village wheTe the Germans with a large number of machine guns are offering a diesperate resistance. On other parts of the front, the fighting is equally intense, and no definite progress can yet he reported. At one time this morning we had recaptured the whole of Lougueval. but the enemy once more regained the northern end of the village. Similarly tho outskirts "of Guillemont liiave already twice changed ftands.