THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 August 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

| (.KLECXitIC TELIiGKAPH —COI'YKIOiIT.J i (Au.stcalia-.Nevv Zealand Cable Service,). T.HIE WJifcJT FHO.M. Paris, Aug. 24. A commuuique states As tiie result of a. brilliant attack on positions between floury and ! 1 liiaiimont we materially progressed. London, Aug. it. Sir Douglas Raig reports :— Our heavy gunn were very effective and silenced the enemy's artillery in three areas. In aircraft lighting four hostile machines were destroyed and many damaged. The "Daily Mail's'' l'aris correspondent says:— "There have been three ■day.s' des-

perate lighting in the northern part of Gullieuiont. The enemy is delending the position with the courage ol despair, hut our moil, attacking with invincible obstinacy. have gained ground. A British patrol lias made its 3vay into Martinpuieh village, which is at our mercy."

THE EAST FRONT. Petrograd, August 2.3. A communique states: — The position is unehnngPtfcl.ondon, August 24. A Vienna communique says: Russian attacks near Zabie were repulsed. The enemy's activity lias increased in the VaUma region. WJuSTFALKX TOR PICHOIvD. Amsterdam. August: 21.

A semi-official Berlin message admits that the battleship Westfalen. which is of the Nassau class. was hit by a torpedo mi August 19th. but .says that tile ship is repairable. .She remained ca[):ible of manoeuvring. and a second torpedo fired at her missed her.

SWKIDJSN AND I?RITA IN. London, August Anglo-Swedish correspondence ha.* been published relating to Sweden detaining British parcel mails to .Russia as a reprisal against the British action in searching Swedish parcel mails. 'lor contraband. It shows that.Sweden announced the reprisal measure on i-uh December last. Viscount Grey requested that the mails be immediately

released, adding that the British Government would welcome an explanation of the detention. .Sweden replied .justifying her action by the so-called British violation of binding treaties and the law of nations. Viscount Grey replied that su-ch a grave charge was uiiusunl in diplomatic documents, and must be repudiated in 'the strongest' manner. British action had been scrupulously correct, whereas Sweden .s was wholly and avowedly illegal, constituting a direct challenge to British national sovereignty. A BIG ZEI'PELTN. (Times' .Service.; London, August 2U. The Right. Hon. E .S. Montague states that he lias been informed of a new Zeppelin with a content of two million cubic feet. Its length is 780 feet, ami its beam 80 feet. Its maximum speed is 05 .miles an hour, and its radius when loaded is 30f)0 miles. The airship's carrying capacity is five tons, and it is capable of ascending to 1700 feet. It has a complement of So men.