Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 October 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Australia-Ken- Zealand Cable Service.) (Recived This Day 8.55 a.m.) PARIS CONFERENCE AGREEMENT. New York, October 2(5. American officials have completed' a report on the Paris Conference agreement, which at -first was regarded as impracticable, but now is considered to be of such a nature that by its aid the Allies will dom'inate the world's raw materials, to the detriment of the United States. The Allies' plans, therefore, are regarded with alarm, and luitlier investigation has been ordered. FRENCH THOROUGHNESS. New York. October 2;>. The New York World's Paris correspondent states that the French advanced behind a flaming shield of shells. Thousands of shells weighing more than a ton each were raining on the armoured shelters at Douaumont. The French drove the Germans from vaults sixty feet deep. Flocks of aeroplanes spied out German secrete and told the gunners minutely what they were accomplishing as the troops advanced. The fire screen was made so effective and even that the line of projectiles exploded one hundred yards ahead of the advancing infantry; the fusee were lengthened at every step.

IX RUMANIA. Joseph Reinach says that Mackensen has succeeded in cutting off the Rumanians from the sea. but the blow is neither decisive nor irreparable. The! Russo-Rumanian Army is intact and

tenacious, and the capture of the Const anza-Cercnovoda railway is valuable lo the Germans only if they seize the Danube bridges and viaducts. Destruction of the bridges wouldi leave Mackensen confronted by an immense forest boidered by lakes and marshes. Reinach expects the Rumanians quickly to risiiiiio the offensive.

NEW /EAT,AND HONORED. London, October 26. Speaking at a banquet given in the Pilgrims' Club, the Right Hon. W. F. Massey, after outlining New Zealand's part in the war, explained the terms of Xow Zealand's compulsory military service scheme, and cf the Pensions Act. He concluded by giving his hearers a me'stgo from New Zealand : "Stand fast, men of Britain, for the glory cf tho flag a.nd the glory of humanity."

Sw Joseph Ward paid a tribute to the Navy's work, and said that but for tho Navy no empire would be wv extant. English, statesmen had lessons to learn from the war; whereof, lie would suggest- as a citizen of the empire, one was the necessity for an air fleet equal in efficiency to that of th- Uritish Navy. The dependencies overseas cuild share in the work of tr doing evhto's. The Jutland battle ha 1 proved that tho enemy with' air sli ps piovi'hdi superior eyes for their Navy to that of Great Britain. They mnsit rrcognise that air fighing had ennio to st'iv. Regarding after-war treatment of Germany, they must not show any sentimental stupidity towards a country which bad attempted to put us under; if lie had his way he would not allr-w their ships to pass th • Suez Opnal on terms equal to ours, nor give them coaling facilities ; wo should give preference to our Allies in this struggle.

Lord Charles Beresford complimented Mr. Mnssey on Now Zealand's thoroughly businesslike compulsion scheme, and agreed entirely with Sir Joseph Ward's views on the air fleet.