Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 August 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Australia-New Zealand Cable Service)

(Received This Day 8.53 a.m.)

BELGIAN'S REPULSE GKICM ' >

'A Belgian communique reports that tha Germans attempted to cross the wiul near Hetsa.s. They were repulsed mth heavy losses. THE FIRiEINDH l-'IbBET. Paris, August 'li.

Fire new French dreaduough halt e ships liavo been completed since tlio commencement of the war and now lonn a powerful homogeneous fleet. GERMAN SEMI-OFFICIAL SIOtN. A senri-offici'al note state* the Gorman newspaper are attempting to reassure the public regaling the KranooBrilish offensive. They say th'at Fianci and Britain have used against ns everything they possesses in the wa? ol men guns and ammunition, ani onfr result is. after a fighting forty, pight days in which they endured tin heaviest sacrifices. the bonding in o OUT tine, Welling most pronoun ced point half a centimetre on flie map 'lire woret that could happen to us i tfiat we might he obliged. as on i Mame, to abandon a portion ol 111 conquered territory in order to rtrtngli tan our front, and enable us to offerv powtions two centimetres eastward, th resistance we are mainlining o

the So in me. The end'of this is the lirwt German semi-official admissio not the possibility of tile abandonment of the present lines. (Received This IXiy 10..10 a.m.) AT LAST. Now York. August 2/. A Hoi'H 11 wireless message states that Italy has declared ivar 011 Germany from. Mom Pay (to-day). AGREEMENT WITH OUTCiI FLS'HEBS. Amsterdam, August 27. Britain and the Tmuidon shipowners have agreed that Britain purchase fish in the open market at A imiiden when the prices exceed the maximum fixed by -Britain for certain kinds of fish. The Dutch shipowners will refund the difference. GMNIRRAL STRIKE ADVOCATE ARRESTED. . u i Hoffman, a Socialist member of the Prussian Landtag, has been arrested •for distributing circulars urging all workers in the empire to declare'a geneUal strike. A GERMAN DENIAL. A German communique denies that a submarine was destroyed on the lfl'th instant. BfIITISFf MEHCH A'NTNt AX TO FIGHT. A German Government wireless message asserts that Great Britain has informed the Netherlands that aTT sinned ! British merchantmen have been ordered to use their arms against all enemy vessels except those in nen-tr'al waters, which will be respected. GERMAN FINANCE. Copenhagen, August 27. German depositors of foreign, and even Danish .securities, have received from Berlin, Government orders to convert their holdings into new "War l,oan script. SMUGGLING. -New York, August 27. Further investigations into smuggling through the mails via Copenhagen lias disclosed til si t the -same agent has been smuggling men from America to Germany. The Allies' agents .at Pittsburg have ordered several thousand tons of steel supports for the trenches in the west ■front. GERMAN MEASURES IN BELGTUM Huysrnans. an expert munition maker. who escaped from Belgium, has arrived in the United States. .He says the Germans have mined the whole country. including the towns and citie.-. The bombs everywhere are electrically controlled. A German officer boasted that, if forced to retire from Belgium they would not Irnve anything standing. If the "Belgians refuse ammunition work their wives and daughters are deported to Germany.

OATtT)TN"AT, METCOTER'S PRET>TOTION. The Nm York Times has publisher! a translated report of the recent defiant speech made by Cardinal Mereier. in Brussels. Heedless of German listeners, he glorified the deeds of the Allies, find predicted a speed*l-deliver-ance of Belarium. 'nnd that Kiifg Albert soon woul£ reign again at the capital. He regretted that it wan impossible to clasp the nation's heroes in his arms.