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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 November 1916, Page 3

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(Received This Day, 2 p.m.) j (.Australia-New Zealand Cable (Service) i T'ilE FALL OF ~MONASTIR. j London, iNovember 21. | When the Allies entered Monastdr the inhabitants flung wreaths of flow- (.• ; round the hooks of the horses of the French cavalry and hung garlandis on the Russian infantrymen. Th© enemy during the night, set fire to the ba;racks. The first a.t of the Allies was to extinguish the fires and arrest the spi.s hfldllen in the houses. The battlefield was covered wrtli en- ' emy dead and shattered gur.e. It s , cstiiiKuel tint the Allies.' artillery fir- : ed one million projectiles of all cali- 1 bivs in destroying the enemy's defen- ( ces. As the Gem aes and Buigars re- 1 treated they set fire to the villages. J Thedir new line of defence was prepared over a month ago and is a I re! u'ar line of double trencher with ! wire entanglements. The enemy - ' still holding oil firmly to tlie irear- j guard p.rl'tiion in the 10.,p, and i the Buigars on Sunday held the first j line two and a halt' miles from -Moil- ! astir. I

TH'E EaMINIONS AND IMPERIAL AFFAIRS. (Times Service). iLundon, 'Nov. 21. I hi- Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey. in his speech, at Ednburgh, added that if the dominions previously hat' a v.ii e 'Jn Imperial affairs we wo.ild not have been caught in the state of military unpreparediiess as in 1914. j&MPEROiR OF AUSTRIA. (Reuter's Service). A bulletin from Vienna states the | Emperor also is uffering from lung inflammation ; his temperature is ICOdcg. Nevertheless he is n; t mi bed. GREEK "STEAMER SUNK. Athens, Nov. 21. The Greek istewmer Spasais has been sunk by a submarine not far from the scene of the sinking ol the Ageleki. One of the crew was drowned and it is feared that there were more victims. A GERMAN REVIEW. Amsterdam,. Nov. 21. A German .semiloffici al 'review of the fighting on the various fronts, declares that it is improbable that the British will much longer per>ist in their present methods of attack on the Ancre because Kt demands overgreat efforts. The success at. Beaumonthamel puts the British in a difficult position because the German aitilley lis einbled, to to use the Serre lieghts. The French met with no better success and the Anglo-French offensive has failed. The invasion of Rumania is of greater important e even than that ot the Pobrudja. General iSarraii's success at Monaster, is relatively unimportant.

CONSCRIPTING T;HE SERBS. A wireless message from Berne saye the' Bulgarians aire conscripting the Serbs in the same mnnner as the Germans are conscripting the Poles. The Government .is protesting to neutrals. RECRUITING IX POLAND. The Archbishops of Warsaw and Cracow lias denounced the recruiting in ['(bind, and the priests generally proiich opposition from the pulpits. POLISH NATIOXAL COUNCIL. Copenhagen, Nov. 21. The Frankfurter Zeitimg, states that a Warsaw Polish National Council has been formed representing all parties for the organization of the new kingdom.