THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 December 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

lAuatral.a-New Zealand Cable Service) THIE WEST FRONT. London, Bee. 19. Sir Douglas Haig reports:— "VVe successfully entered trenches southward of Armentieres yesternight killing a number of Germans. Paris, Dec, 19. A Communique states: — South of the fioinme there is fairly lively reciprocal artillery activity in the 'La Maisonette sect or. On the ric;lit bank of the Mouse after a is'uiip fight we ejected tlve enemy front Chambrettes farm, the whole of which we re-occupied. IN HUMAN!A. A Russian communique states: — Wo captured a number of heights in the Carpathians and repulsed counter attacks there and in the regions of Filifeski and Disbatogu in Rumania. A German communique states Our air squadrons attacked the enemy recreating towards Braila with visible effect. Petrograd, Dec. '19. The Rumanians have definitely escaped the German pincers and fallen back upon the Trotus-Sereth 'line, shortening their front to about two hundred kilometres. The line commences at Dofbann and follows tho Sereth to the Danube at the sea. The Rumanian army is now reorganising and refitting in Bessarabia behind the Rusians, who are temporarily holding a line across Rumania to the sea. SUBMARINE WARFARE. London, Dec. 19. The "Daily Telegraph's" Amsterdam correspondent says that the German warship which the British submarine -torpedoed a few Weeks ago was either the Grosser Kurfurst m the Von der Tan. It is even possible both vessels were struck, as owing to the interval between the shots, the submarine captain might have mistaken a second vessel in the darkness far the first. Immediately afterwards the majority of the crews of both vessels had a long .spel 1 of shore leave. The Admiralty reports that an empty west-bound British horse transport and a Russian boat were submarined and sunk in the Mediterranean on December 14. Eleven of the crew and seventeen American multeteers were killed 1 . Amsterdam- Dec. 18. A Berlin communique reports the torpedoing of the French troopship Magellan (6000 tons), with a thousand men aboard. A Marseilles telegram says everyone was rescued.