Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 November 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Austrnla-New Zealand Cable Service) Received This Day 8.40 a.m. THE .VEST OF SPIES. Athens, Nov. 23. More than twenty persons, compromised in espionage, left with the enemy niiii.ister.-i, including (Baron Schenks the principal agent and Caro the director of the German school. HOLDING THE BELGIANS. Amsterdam, Nov. 23. Deported .Belgians refusing to work have been (sentenced to two months go oil. In Brussels the streets are Jined with machine guns to overawe the people. MOHT.y OF THE DOMINIONS. London. Nov. 23. The lit. Hon \V. P. Masseiy and S.r Joseph 'Ward visited a portion of the grand fleet including the battleship New Zealand. Sir Joseph Ward speaking at Glasgow insisted on the dominions' right to a voice in the peace terms andl in future treaties. The dominions were entitled in future to equal reepon-> j sibility for the empire and navy and it was thoir undeniable duty to pro- j vide n considerable portion of the cost. The party nko visited l the shipbuilding yards.

(Reuter's Service). NEW INFANTRY TACTICS. Received This Day, 9.10 a.m. N'tw infantry tactics whereby fewer men are employed and much more powerfully armed are described by Renter's correspondent at Franch headquart.trs. Hand grenades, rifle grenades, and machine gun rifles are largely displacing rifles and bayonets as the main weapon. The users of the new weapons are called "specialists." A demonstration showed that the hand grenadiers a»c trained in groups to combine like a football team and with them are interspersed: volttgiiers, namely men. armed reputation fashion, whose duty (it is to protect them at close quarters and clear the way for difficult moments. The methods make greater demands on tho intelligence and initiative of the men especially where waves of assault are necessary and' when speed and combination are

i essential. The demonstration showed that the attacking line was able to bring a terrific and. I'mpassable fire to bear and gave an equally convincing lesson of the ant of smothering places where enemy groups ''would I hold cut after the wings were driven j back. The values of the new tactl ica were proved by the fact that the | .French had fewer casualties in the iirtt four months of the Somme ofI ler.sive than in the few days of fighting in the Champagne last year, and fiuther there were more casualties in the advance en the south Somme than ' at the recapture of Forts Douamont and Thiaumont, andi well nea'r half I the number of prisoners. The new method is also being taught to the artillery men and engineers. THIS AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER. New York, No/ember 23. Frederick Palmer ft j'ouinal.st, c.\ prse:;es unstinted admllration for the the Australian Press Association, he >:ud he had seen soldiers throughout the world, but never anything like tlio Australians advancing to the attack. They impressed him as the ■finest soldiers and men of every battlefield. The worldi does not yet realise tae greatness of the feat of the capture -Cif Poaieres u.dge which is d'ue to the Australians' dash and tenacity. The Australians made a world known name at Oullipoli and a new and greater test awaited them dn France where they were pitted against Germany's best troops yet they entered the fight smilingly and with an unwavering confidence: the iresult the world knows. The Australians are a distinct- type; courageous and unfluehvng on -danger: dashing and with amazing initiative and resourcefulness. ~ While not underestimating the magnificent heroes at the front, he snvs- that the Australians' stand o:it for adaptability and general intelligence.