Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 September 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Australia-New Zealand Cable Service.) (Received This J)ay S.oo a.m.) THE AVAR IX THE All!. London, Sept. -I. According to the Anglo-F'rench nnd German communiques '189 aeroplanes were brought down ill August, including 121 German machines whereof the British accounted for 33. ZEI'I'IOLJiN REROUTED MUI'T--ING. Alt innkeeper has reported that ;i Zeppelin was seen off an East Coast port drifting seawards perpendicularly. AN DISCOVERY. ) Paris, Sept. -1. A young artilleryman digging «• sliel- ] tcr on the I'ieardy front unearthed an J iron box. Inside lie found securities for a million francs, nnd a will enclosed which bequeathed one hundred thousand francs 'to the discovered and the balance to named 'beneficiary. GERMANS WATCHING TIIK BALKANS. New York. .Sept. -I. It is significant that tlu> Gorman censor allowed the Merlin correspondent of the New York Times to make unqualified Admissions of the progress of the Allies. The correspondent savs that although Germany got over the aflack of nerves following Rumania's entry

intj fcuc war, Uio greater -Ikiikan situation is ot alii .-rUing interest in' Bor"n. The llitssi.ui offensive on the southeast fhas 'been lesmued for the obvio. is i-uiyo.se of hlccking the move-in-lit of the A usu'o-Ooniiian reserves. It is admitted that the Allies' nibve here is growing in intensity. The two Bumaahn armies that hare broken into Hungary continue to gain ground, toward* the Man» line, and are meeting pract'.eally with no resistance iat the point where the Gycrgvo rangy .joins the Carpathian's, but.the Russian and, Rumanian armies- have functioned there. .