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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 August 1916, Page 3

STOP PRESS NEWS

(Australia-New Zeaiaud Oabl© Service) litis l>ij 2 p.m.) GEIOIA.N VEIISIO.N Of THE AIK 11ALD. Loudon, August 10. A German wireless message scutes that several airship squadrons bombed with the largest explosive** and incendiary bombs, English naval base» and industrial establishments <of military importance in the coastal counties lrom .Northumberland to Aorfolk. Jt wao a clear night, and the results | everywhere were observed. There were powerlul explosions at the ironworks and benzine factories in -Middlesborough, and large iires at the harbour establishments ol Hull and Hartlepool. There also were explosions in the Tyue shipyards a.nd iires in the industri'a le.sta.blishnients at Whitby. Hie Press bureau comments that this is the usual perversion of the truth. .Sili DOUG LAS HAIG'S HEPORT. Sir Uougla.s Haig reports that the night was quiet except lor heavy Gorman shelling south-east of T'rones Wood. We gained all local objectives north-west ol Pozte-res where we now are consolidating. I: AIL WAY.VI EN WAM .VLOIIE WAGES.

11l consequence ul the IU. lion. 11. H, Asquith declining to receive a deputation from the -National Union ol l'a.lwaviiieii regarding tooci control the union's executive has resolved to request the railway companies to advance [he wages 10s per week, and place the responsibility on the Government for inaction regarding foor prices. IIALI Gil EM' AKtSEA AI, HE.STPOi El).

Amsterdam, August. 10. '1 lit? aisenal at Giieiti was half destroyed in ihe recent :air raid. J'hu workmen took panic. There were eighty German casualties. OUTPUT OF MUXTITOXS. Paris, Angiiist 10. The i'reuch output of machine guns iis 135 tinie.s jireater • than in 191-1: riflcis, 300 times; "seventy-fives, r ' '27 times; shells, 28 times; and powder l(j times. RO VA L WAX DE R ERS. Tlie Queen of -Montenegro and the Princetss have arrived and will reside in Paris. A IH'I.GATMAX PKKOA UTJOX. Tm«» Hnl'_t;iri;i njs are .sending Ooares ■ ■■> t ,e neiitial zone on the Roumanian I J'i >: 11 i< r in older io pi event a lecurivnce <M ciashe.i with the border pa lJ'ols. GERMAX TRADK COMMISSIONERS. Gi'inany i.as appoiute three Coniihoi cial commissioners to Asia Minor. The real purpose is to accelerate the (.• rmniiizatiou ut 'I'm key and bleed her eom mci cially.