THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 July 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

I.EL«C(JVIUC TELKOitACU -COJ.-XIUGHT.J (Australia-New Zealand Cable Service). DARDANELLES COMMISSION. MR MASSEY TO REPRESENT NEW ZEALAND. London, July 21. It is expected that the opening of the Dardanelles Commission will be postponed .sufficiently to poini.it of the arrival of the Aiif>trailian delegates. It is considered that the enquiry will otherwise be unsatisfactory from the Dominion's viewpoint, inasmuch 'as it possibly will not deal with detailed operations. Senator IVaree and Mr Massoy will represent Australia and Now Zealand respectively. SUPPLYING GERMANY. The Foreign Office announce* that inquiries have disclosed that the Dutch fishing fleet is supplying the Germans ■with about 00 per cent of the herrings i sold in Germany. Consequently « [ number of fishing boats have been i pi.icedi in the Prize Court and others | ' have been detained. ISRESLAU CHASED BY I! L'SS lAX SQUADRON. Amsterdam, July 21. A Turkish communique states The cruiser Midillieli, formerly the Hreslau, encountered south of Sebastopol a strong enemy ,s(|Uadron, including n new Dreadnought of the Empress Maria class and four destroyers. After four hours' fighting the Midiillieh evaded the efforts of her pursuers and returned undamaged. A Turkish monitor attacked two enemy monitors on the Euphrates, setting one on fire. RL'SKIAN' ADVANCE CONTINUES. Petrograd. July '24. In flic Caucasus our advance continues. We captured enemy lines at Durum on the Durasi river east of the Erzinjan route. BRITAIN'S HUGE BILL. In the House of Commons, Mr Asquith moved a war crediit vote of £J00,000,000. Britain lvas expended from April Ist to July '22nd f. 1 *.>5,000,000. BIG GUN PROBLEM. London, July 24. Mr LVoyd George, replying to Mr Churchill, said the steel helmets were being manufactured at a prodigious -rate. Already they had saved thousands of lives. The arsenal* were turning o«t in a single month more guns than the whole British army possessed at the beginning of the war. The success wherewith the British manufacturer had risen to the problem of the big gun was a triumph of engineering. They wanted still considerably more' heavy guns and shells.