Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 August 1916, Page 3

Late War News

I. Iteceivedi This Bay 10.45 p.m. I HIGH REPORTS. I •London, August 6. Tho i'reuch official report says that South of the Soinnie two small operations allowed us to progress in the Gorman trenches Southwest of Estrees. North of the Aisne an enemy surprise attack on our position ou the plateau Y'auclere was checked under the curtain of fire from the artiliory. On tlie riglit of the Meuse in course of combats we materially extended* the ground captured by us nortn-west of Tliiaumont Work. Wβ repulsed counter attacks in the same region, hi the region of Fleury and the sectors ol L'hapitre and Chenois artillei-y j fighting continues without infantry actione. .During Saturday andi Sunday our squadrons discharged 40 bombs in tlie region of ©ombles; 48 on the Noyau railway station; 30 at Stenay and Sedan ; 30 at Conflans; 60 at Metz and Sablons; and 50 on the military establishments at Robach, north of kVletz.

I (Au*tralia-Xevv Zealand Cable Service). DOMINION PARLIAMENTARIANS. EonSion, August 6. Tlie dominion members of Pariialiiont official visit lias ended. Various private conferences on Imperial problems wlere held with tnombera of the House of Commons this week. GERMANS REQUIRE WOOL. The Germans are endeavouring to obtain wool through neutrals, and tihe British Government lies warned manufacturers that it will not allow any largo consignments to leave England. GERMAN SAVAGJSRY IN RUSSIA. 'Mr. Stanley Waehburn wires from the Russian headquarters on the Stokhod that the enemy's losses have been extremely heavy, especially among the Austrians. Three new divisions, composed of many elements, have arrived. It is reported that one is from France. Prisoners report that the heavy guns from Kovel are being taken away. German aviators have inaugurated a campaign that only cen be regarded as pure murder: daily flying fc>w and pouring machine-gun fire into the panicstricken populace. To-day's toll of civilians is eleven killed and forty wounded. The latest bombs were filled with fragments of glass, which ki>ledi women and children. The English hospital suffered severely In this atrocious practice. (United Cable Service). THE AXZAOS TN FRANCE. Lord Northcliffe is visiting the Anzacs in France. In writing of hie observations he gives a description of General Birdwood's section, and goes 0:1 to say that Geueml Godley commands another portion of the line, containing Australians and New Zealanders. The trenches here are not like those at Pozieres: they axe made behind breastworks of sandbags very different from the Somme trenoliee, which are not unlike the deep excavations at Anzac. It is in General Godley's part of the line that the young Australasians are watching with interest the wonderful French cultivation of all kinds of crops. ROUMANIA AND THE ALLIES. The German press continues to warn the public against Roumenia. The Berliner Tageblatt states that tlie first trainload of ammunitions has arrived at Jassy from Archangel. M. liratiauo demanded ammunition as an indispensibie condition of Roumania's intervention. Other newspapers agree that Roumanian experts have been calculating the amount of munitions required. The Frankfurter Zeitung admits that the Rumanian Opposition and Government supporters expect an early intervention on the side of the Allies.

FURTHER D EMONSTII AT lON S I'TTiITHER DEPORTATIONS Amsterdam, Aug. 0. The Toiegraaf reports a further extensive slave mid in North France. Paris, August 6. The Figaro mentions that 150 etuden.s were savagely deported from Roubais.