THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 September 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

' (Aueiiaiia-New Zealand Cable Service.) | GMLYLLN CQU-NTMI-AITACKS. (Renter Telegram) Paris, Sept. 21. A communique states: North of the •Sunime the. Germans made a great effort to recover their losi positions. ■ The battle lasted from nine in the morning till nightfall. iSuceessive wavcn of the enemy's masses wire crushed by our machine-gun and artillery lire, and sometimes by the bayonet. Tho French retained the whole of their ground. The Germans attacked on a I run t oi five kilometres from Priez Kami to south of Abbe \\ ood Karm, attacking in masses, on each occasion proc. tied bv a furious cajinonade. 'I lie French magnificently rcsistcdi all assaults and irepuilsed the enemy by crossfire of machino-guiis and artillery. Everywhere we maintained our positions. The fighting was of the fiercest in die vicinity ot l'ricz Kami and in the region of Bouchavesues. Four wavcis of asnsult in front of Priez Kami were successfully broken by gun fire. Enemy masses were seen to disintegrate in disorder behind the ridige, leaving the ground covered with corpses. The Germans in the Bouchavesnes sector, after several sanguinary defeats succeeded in gaining a lodgment in the north-eastern part of the village, but were driven out with tin- bayonet by an irresistible counter-attack. The enemy's losses were everywhere of the greatest. MORE AI. .EX WANTED. (Times .Service.) London. Sept. 20. Colonel Repington writes:— "The end of October will bring slackened activity which will not be resum|ed 011 a grand scale till the spring of 1917. We must look ahead and settle the question ot the reserves available for spring operations, and not entertain illusions about German mail-power, which despite its losses and.' defeats, has still large reserves. The uue-alled-up IUI/-18 classes and other large accessions are available. Germany will call up all men between 10 and (iO before admitting defeat, hoping to wear us down. "'The Allies must place in 'the field every available able-bodied man. We have not yet sufficient men for a decisive decision and the annihilation of the enemy. '■Five million men of military age were available in Britain, sufficient to maintain a hundred divisions in the .field if exemptions had not seriously encroached!. We must drastically reform the service acts or' Germany will beat us We must organize our man power. Ireland will lie able to give us' 100.000 men. Compulsion is necessary to maintain the Irish divisions. Britain has no need to raise tho age until the younger classes -are exhausted. There are still three or four million men exempted or secure in civil occupations. One and three-fifths millions of men of military age are wearing badges. If forced to call up older men we must use them for home defence, relieving the younger men for the front." AI'iSTIMA'S REPORT. Vienna. .Sept. 30. An Austrian communique says:— South-eastward of Hatizeg the Kll- - were completely driven back. We recaptured Petroseiiy and ' the Gzurduk Pass. The enemy in the Carpathians continues the attack with great tenacity. He gained local advantages southward of Lntzina and Bvstrizec but was repulsed everywhere else. The defenders of the Carso highlands encountered, a four days' battle with twenty infantry brigades, a cavalry division and fifteen Hersaglani battalions. The enemy attacks along the Civaronmass Stream on the Sugana sector were repulsedi with heavy losses.