THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 August 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

1 it 1 'IKLKUKAk il—Uui I'ltlUUT.j (Australia and .New Zealand Cable Scroll? lK»U(i'l/A« -HAIG'iS KIKI'ORT .Sir Douglas Haig reports : --.N'orthwestwatd n( liazentin we captured .00 yards of trenches. The enemy made ■most determined counter-attacks in larjie torce.s oil a broad front last night. Six times the (iermaxi infantry advaneed and wit.ln.lnw after tlie heaviest losses had. heen inflicted. I lie enemy in .no ease succeeded in entering our lines. The enemy eouter-attaeked today from 'Martinpuich and was repulsed. As r.lie result of fijzhtiiiii; yeslerday in conjunction with the French towards .Maurepas wo pushed our line forward westward and; nouth-east of (Jiiilloniont. Westward ol the liiph wood we eaptyr- I ed Mft'f) yards of ttench. •!()() yards in advanee of the previous line. Kast of Moiupiet Farm our machinefj;iuis nipped a German attack in the bud. TT-f K GFTOLVNT I r.ondon. August 1". I A. German eomnuiniqiie states: After strong Kiifflisli • attacks at Ovffler.s and T'oy/.eres and, to tlie west of the FoiirneaUN Wood were repulsed, the French, who attacked between GnilleM)nilt and tile Kninnin. were al.so re-

pulsed. Portions of the enemies' for cos penetrated our lines west of Four no nix and south of Maurepas. Inn worn driven out with heavy losses Tlio .('"r" ■11 c-11 obtained a foothold in oui first Tine for ."00 yardis at Rolloy-en-S;i n terre. An enemy attark at <" r lia|i('tro Worn was suppressed. ITAI.V'iS OFFFXSIYF. I • London. August 18. I An ftalian official message says: Wo repulsed an attack on the (.'arun and shelled the railway stations at Santa T.ncia and Tolmino. where movements of trains were reported. Our aeroplanes bo'inibarcled T?einonburg railway station, on the GoriziaTrieste line, with good results. Hostile .seaplanes bombedi the V'en-ice-Grado lagoon. The damage was slight. Rome. Aug. 18. Official : Ttnlv ha.s issued a decree l forbidding Italians to trade with tbe subjects of enemy .states or their ;illie.s and person's or bodies established in territory belonging to or oceupied bv them. A second, decree places under Government control' 'Hid liable to snrpiestration. or liquidation if necessary anv eommereial undertakm'.: in belonging or controlled by subjects of enemy states or their allies. . NT> OPTA.YGF T.V TTfR FAST.

Pet I'o.trra d. Ai m\ 18 A foiiiinunif|no states:There .are Tin rha Hires (i;i the Ruro--1 ><-nii mid Caucasian lYonf.s. afsttuax r,o-sT;s. Geneva. Aug. 17. The Austrian .Red estimates the Austrian losses in General Bnisiioff's nfFeiusive at <507,71'). whereof 71!.000 lvprc killed ;nid 300,000 are missing. ITlie Austrian losses now exeeod a million.