Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 August 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Aiisti alia-Xew Zealand Cable Service) Al' Jlill iWO YEAK.S 01'" U'AK. London, August -j. A mall authority, rehearsing the results of two years of war, sayo the A Ilia* occupy 1,U71,(JU0 square miles ol territory, against the Central Powers' occupation of 167,000 square miles. 1 lie initiative it in our hands, ou all traits, since the Verdun failure. Even in Mesopotamia we controir the felia t-el-Arab and the Irak province. German influence iu South Persia lias been eliminated; General Smuts is progressing; the Serbs are presenting a formlilable front to the Bulgarians; and there arc ample munitions for ourselves and our Allies. Five million and forty thousand Britons have vomntaiilj' enlisted., and the whole manhood now is in the service of tho nation. Th«se figure axe in addition to thoeo of the men of the dominions and India.

HAIt.ASSi.NG THE TURK. Athens, August 3. British warships bombarded for five hours Cape Moulambiui in Asia Minor. The village of My kali was fired. The Turks replied with gunfire. iancl a British oorps landed, repulsing the Turkish advance poets.

Britannio has been sunk. The vessel was unharmed. (Received This Day 10.5 a.m.) BIUTALX REQUIRES JJIU SHELLS. .Now York, August 3. Munition makers state that Great Britain now is making all smiall shells needled, but is placing orders in the United States for six, eight, nine and twelve inch shells. The new orders provide for deliveries in the middle of 1917. THE DEUnSCHLAND. The Xew York Times depnacates the tendency of those whose sympathies are with the Deutsehland to ask that tlio vessel be given a sporting chanco. It points out that the real object of the enterprise is to humiliate Britain and Franoe. | (Times Service). | SCARCITY IX GEIsUAXY. London, August 3. j The latest evidence -indicates that tlio Genu an harvest will not last till the spring. The ixipulation now is suffering and is awaitin gthe harvest.. Thousands of poor people in the largo cities are subsisting on potatoes and sugar. The greatest scarcity is in soap and hntlier and home necessities, hut it is believed that the country will he able to hold out economically for many months in resisting the blockade pressure; only a military ctefeat reducing it.

TWO BRITISH PRISONERS SHOT. Lord Newton, interrogated, said the American Embassy on the 2nd had notified flic Government that the .Germans had shot Patrick Moron, of the Second Connaughts and "William Devlin, of the Royal Minister Fusiliers. The prisoners wore at liimburg, and' it was asserted! that 'Motnan attackedl his guard on. the 28th May, and that the guiird killed him in self-defence. .The reason for Devlin's death has not yet been ascertained. "When Mr Gerard visited to inquire for particulars regarding Mo ran the authorities eoneealedi tlTe death of Devlin. Lord Newton added that it was significant that both men had refused to join Sir Roger Casement. The Foreign Office protested to the German Government for concealing particulars, particularly if the matter was connected with the men's refusal to join Casement. (United Cable Service). TTRKS TN AST A Ml NOT!. The Dmi'ly MaiVs Athens correspondout. fays that 350,000 Turks are on the A«ia Minor front. A Smyrna division revolted, 2000 dieserting.