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Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 October 1916, Page 3

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(Auetralia-New Zealand Oahlo Service.) (Received This Day 2 p.m.) THE BALKAN CAMPAIGN. London, October 13. The War Office reports that on the Struma front from Prosenik to Polova, patrols went forward east of the railway in armoured cars, and reconnoitred the Seres, Demirhissar andi Salonika roads. North of Dodgeli we raided trenches, driving out the enemy. MAUSER FACTORY BOMBED. A French communique states:— Forty Franco-British aeroplanes dropped 434.0 prcjectilcis on Mauser factories at Obendorf. SIR DOUGLAS HAIGH'S RE PORT. S'ir Douglas Haig reportsWe advanced on a front between Gueudecourt and Les Boeufs, northwest of Gueudecourt. CONST A NTINE AS PROPHET. The Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent states -that King Constantino yesterday toldi a high diplomatist who beseeched him to change his policy : 'T prefer to lose the throne rather than endanger Greece; I am convinced that withi 11 fifteen days Rumania no longer will exist, and if Greece joined in. she would share the fate of Serbia and Rumania." OCR ALtLIES SUCCESSFUL. The Daily Chronicle's Milan correspondent states that the net results of I a two days' gigantic hat-tie on the .Jul- : ian front is the complete smashing j through of the enemy's first line sys- j , torn, on an eight-kilometre front, to : a depth of from one to two kilometres. I Xot lew; that 24,000 adversaries were ' put lior.-. de combat, and 8000 taken prisoner, iniclud'ing three hafttalfons. which were almost intact.. The enemy now has niustoredi a!ll available reserves and gims and has threatened our sector with incessant, unsuccessful, dense-massed counter-attacks which entailed heavy losses. SUBMARINE SEEN. New York, October 13. Tlie .steamer Bovic. newly arrived at Boston, has reported an unidentified submarine three hundred miles east of New York. The course of the submarine is unstated. LIFE OF THE REICHSTAG. Correction: — Yesterday's cable should have readi that- the life of the Reichstag had been "prolonged" for three months.