Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 August 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Australia-New Zealand Cable Service) nU'i.ei' ■■(! Nt Levin. This Day. at 10.40 a.m.) iSNK.UV LOSSES OX THE RUSSIAN FRONT. (Times Service). London, August 8. .Mr Stanley Washburn, reviewing the tu months' offensive by Russia ie Russians have advanced «p----pros' ate.lv fifty-five miles at varioiif point,, and have taken prisoner thre< gone is. 7034 officers. 330,000 soldiers and iiave captured 504 guns, anc machine guns. The total enenij loss. . including dead, casualties, mc mif- :ig are 700,000. He cannot statf the Kussian losses, hut they are of nc mi'fiary significance. Russia coi:'ld v Tps are taught to prattle I In !he midst of life's greet battle j Drink Woods' Peppermint Cure. ! l ; rp you cough or cold, or wheezing Do you spend your timo' in sneezing i- t> tlu> tickling and the teasing With Woods' Peppermint Care.—

sustain double this summer's losses f-i Uv« yeuis without feaung a shortage oi men. i'jatdlA. (Iteuter Service). l J etrograd, August t : . The Anglo-Uufsstan Ministers have reached) an agreement regarding Persia covering financial and military fctors. fcNIiLLSH SOLDI liiiri GKAYi'.S. I'aiis, August S. Parhament passed a law assuring the liivnil.ib-.iity of the graves of the English soldier,, killed 111 France. (Received at i.enu 11.25 a.m., This Day. GERMANS UASI'CCESShT L ATTACKS. General Sir Douglas llaigh repot ts that the. Gernmtis after live fruitless attacks northward ami eastward ol i'ozieres, have not further attacked. We pushed torward in places east ot Troites Wood. Fighting near Guillom..nt continues. A YANKEE STORY. Ihe .New York Times prints a despatch from it London correspondent to the Providence Journal which runs: •'A War Office official informs me that there is good reason why the A!l - ed troops at Salonika ore no! taking part in the drive. Great Britain and France do not want to come into '-otillict wifh the Bulgarians because they consider it probable they may induct' Bulgaria to desert the Teutons and co-operate with Russia. The official Asserts that many Rnlgars have been withdrawn from the front lines and dismissed.. M. Sasaiieff has removed the last barrier to Roumanian desire !o join fhe Allies, and moreover tingreat mass of Rnlgars never favourer] the break with Russia. The Balkan Powers ini'e tremendously .influenced by the recent Teutonic defeats on all fronts. PAPER FROM COTTON CITALTT: Berlui reports a discoven whereby paper can be made from cotton-stalks. 'JTIE WESTERN i' RONT. Amsterd.ani, August French aviators bombed Moils mi!--day station and troop trains. .More wounded have traversed Tor the inst fortnight in July than in the previous year. A military tmin has been blcwn up near Liege, blocking al! German , trains to Belguim via the riglu hank of tho Meuse. SERBIAN SUCCESS. Ttollle, Aug. n. The Serbians drove out the Bulgarians from Presba, and occupied the town.