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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 September 1916, Page 3

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(Australia-New Zealand Cable Service.) (Received This I>ay p.m.) -VI'"t'"AIHiS l.\ GREECE. Loudon, Sept. 25. Seventeen thousand Cretans, on Sunday, entered Kane.r without opposite u and took possession of the public buildings and displaced the authorities. : 'J lie Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent say that there arc now 30,000 Cretan under arms in the island, and in complete posession. Only eleven men remain in the Royal Cretan bodyguard Amsterdam. Sept. 20. Germans alleged to be from liatavia are carrying contraband butter and R cheese. i t

Sonne six thousand soldi i< lis are guarding tho palace at Tatoi, where King Constantino remains. 'I RK BALKANS. Rumanians continue the struggle 011 Mount Calimann, and are advancing towards the Austrian trendies (southwest of Dornavatra. The Austrinns, taken in the rear, have been obliged to abandon the Carpathian pass-cis. The Rumanians repulsed the enemy almost as far as the old Rumanian frontier. The Bulgarian effort in the Dobrudja lias been broken. The arrival of Turkish reinto roe men t.s suggests that the enemy's reserves are exhausted. R lOT AT BROKEN H FLL. iSydiley, This T)av. At Broken Hill two men wore fini'd for ahusive language at an anti-eoii-serijition meeting. Tiie crmvl made a demonstration at the Coiirthoiw and rUislied the police station which they bombarded with stones. The police charged with drawn'batons and 'dispersed the rioters. Later the Courthouse was attacked. . _ THli OLRMAX UM'OKT OF TJIK RAID. i London, Sept. 25. A Herman official report says our naval airships bombed London and strategic places on the ITumber, at Sheffield and at Nottingham, causing heavy fires. The airships were heavily bombarded by guardships before they reached the English coast and were heavily bombarded during the raid. Two airships succumbed to the enemy fire over London, but the others returned undamaged. The Press Bureau comments that the account is full of the usual misstatements: no plae#> of military im portancp was damaged. '