THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 August 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

[tLKUIUHJ I'ELKCUUL'II -COI'VKIOHT.j (Australia-New Zealand Cable Service). THE FRONT J.N L'HANOE. a " Loudon. Aug. Sir Douglas Haig reports : —We gained a further hundred yards of trenches between Martinpuieh aud Bazen tin. * We carried out a successful enterprise on the enemy's lines southward 1 of Guillemont. Paris. August-. — A communique states:—There is an 1 .irtillery duel on lioth hanks of the 1 Somme and at Fleury. A surprise: attack northward of Maurepas y 1 us some prisoners. ROl'NI) SALONIKA. j London, Aug. -j.. | Tlii' War Office states that the sitita- j liui) on the Doiran front is unchanged. i We destroyed tin; railway bridges at Angista station on the Strumm front on August 20. Our mounted men jointly with thw French successfully located the enemy at Seres on the Savajek front. Our artillery stopped the advance of the enemy skirmishers towards Ivopriva bridge. We also dispersed workinn parties entrenching opposite KamlU'jnn and Kaovodurma. GERMANY'S OFFICIAL .REPORT London, August A German coittmuni<|ue statos:--Re-peated liritish 'attacks oil the (salient between Thiepva'l and Pozieres were re- ■ pulsed. We lest a projecting angle ' after bitter fighting. At Guillemont the enemy temporarily penetrated our position. We recaptured lost trenches at F.strees and Sozecourt. Our cavalry repulsed the enemy on the Stokhod. The Russians penetrated our trenches at Peenaki and Zw.vdynall. Serbian pesition.s at Malka and .xlzeplauina were taken. e drove tln? French across the Struma between l!utkova and Tahiuos. We captured Gulinica and Inglanina ridge. Til E EXPLOSION ON THE YOR KSHIR E. London. August 'M. I Official.-- The Yorkshire explosion originated outside one of the smaller maigazincs. The warning was suffieient. to enable the majority of the men and every woman to escape. A small magazine exploded, other.s tollowed at short intervals until the largest magazine went up causing the uulk of the damage. The munition works were praetiealy demolished and other, places burned. A quantity of rolling stock at railway sidings were destroyed. The bursting of a tire engine killed a number of firemen. Twenty bodies have been recovorod.

THE ZEPPJOLIN It A IDS.

11l the House of Commons Mr J. L. liaird. representing the Air Board, mentioned officially tlnit wren Zeppe- ' lins liacl been destroyed and five others- < nre believed to have been disabled ir- l remediably. The Allies had altogeth- 1 er accounted for -io Zeppelins. Since ' the bogginnitig of the war there had ' been 34 air raids on England. Ten ' had been without casualties. The total { number of killed were 3U4 civilians and ' o() soldiers. ,