Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 August 1916, Page 3

Late War News

——— (Australia-New Zealand Cable Service) i (Received This Day 8.50 a.m.) A QUESTION OF TIME. Now York. August T B. 1 he 'limes's Paris corerspondont says the result! of Wednesday's success brings Guillemont and Maurepas under the Allied tire from three sidles. The capture of the places is merely a question of time. TITK DANISM WEST fNIDTEN. Copenhagen, Aug. 18. It is believed that the United States is pressing the .Danish West Indies sale because America fears the islands might he ceded to other powers after the war. A high official says the United States action is decidedly pressing and it is believed that if the sale lie not ratified America will occupy St. Thomas Island. 'DFVASTATION AYD DF.SOL AT! . You Weigand. in the World, .says there i.s appalling devastation and desolation for miles behind the German line on the Somme. The Allies are not shelling the towns more than necessary. vet Hoye partially is in ruins. Pennine is burning and Baupaume a picture of destruction. Hundreds of inhabitants refuse to leave, and are living in the cellars. Many of tlie German bomb-proot shelters are thirty feet underground. TTe saw a .subterranean hospital below the officers' quarters.