THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 August 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

t I>■ ». itillUUMi , AIR RAID ON ENGLAND London, August 1 'Iho High Commissioner reports: — An attack by a number of enemy airships developed ou .Monday "tit midnight. Th« raiders wf.-re reported crossing the coast off the eastern and south-eastern counties. Bombs were dropped off the Thames Estuary. The attack is proceeding. Later. From later particulars it appeals that the mid; was dnrried out with a considerable number of airships. Tho raiders appear to have spent some time crossing over Lincolnshire. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex, Kent, and Huntingdon. Bombs were dropped indiscriminately over these localities, but there was no damage of military importance. At one spot our amti-aircralt guns were brought into action, and it is belioved wtih good effect. Full .details are not yet available. ERENOH REPORT. London, August 1 The High Commissioner 'report;. - Official."-North of tne Soniine . tt ■) Germans Continued itheir (attack on Henim Wood and Moneau Farm. A 1! attempts failed with serious 'uo'iiy losses. We are holding all the conquered positions on the right bank of the Meuse. Violent fighting continues in sectors Thiaumont Work and Fleury. There 'is no event of importance ou tho rest of the front. On Sunday night one of our air squadrons bombarded military factnrie- at Thianvillo station, at Cor.llans, and Aydunleroman, also encampment* ■n region of Etain. There wag no infantry lighting on the British front to-day and no important incident occurred. The Royal Flying Corps effected several raids and dropped seven tons of bombs on the enemy'B communications and billets. A train • was blown up and an ammunition depot fired, also a hostile aeroplane on the ground was destroyed. Many aerial combats toelc place and several enemy machin s were brought down in a damaged condition. Three of our machines are nvissing. THE FIGHT FOR KOVEL. Petrograd, Aug. 1. j .i communique states : —On the >Stokliud our advance continues. There is desperate fighting on the greater part of the front. The enemy is making every effort to retain hi# liue of defence, and is bringing troops in evea'y direction, even single battalions. Although the Germans are stubbornly resisting five and a half miles west , of the Stokhod on the road to Kovel, Russian balloon observers regard it as a rearguard action as the road to Kovol is thronged with retreating troops

HUKZ CANAL' 11 K.NAL'KI). London. July 3!. Tlio Daiiy Telegraph's correspondent iu Egypt says:—"The Turkish advance on tlio Suez Canal along tlio caravan loutc to El Arish and Ivantara lias readied a bridge ight miles from Roman i and three from the edge of tlio j vat hi Oasis. The enemy is estimated at 12,000 men, who are feeling their way cautioußly along a ten-mile front by niglit marches, hiding in the daytime in palm groves and shallow holes covered with paim leaves to escape aerial observation.