LATREST WAR NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1917, Page 4

LATREST WAR NEWS.

AMERICA’S MESSAGE

["AUSTRALIAN & X'.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

(Received This Day at' 9.50. a.m.) 1 , WASHINGTON, June- 4. Mr. Wilson’s message detailing America’s war aims has been presented to the Provisional Government at Pctrograd. It is officially learned that the publication of the message has been temporarily witli-held.

'BULLICOURT STEP G GLES

GERMANS FOILED

(Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) LONDON, June 4.

«A corresp-iment at headquarters states the Germans, resentful at their defeat at Bullecourt, are pouring heavy weight metal into the ruined village, and ferociously bombarding the position which the Australians captured on the 14 indpnhurg line.

(Kast of J3ulleeiurt the guns of all calibres were -busy, all night long m Saturday and on Sunday, hut they faiiled ito shake our hold at any point.

The presence of our troops on the Hindariiburg line in such close proximiiity to the important Queant Switch Junction -is giving the enemy much concern.

Continuous raids have forced rni* Germans to attempt counter attacks. In a number of cases the British, and German raiding parties,stealing oraf at night time, met unexpectedly in No Plan’s band, and had desperate silurf hand-in-hand encounters. • The Germans were usually routeu, leaving dead and prisoners.

ARTILKRY-. A CTIV F. FURY OF HEAVY GUNS.\ LONDON,' June 4. zMr.~Philip Gibbs reports on Sunday afternoon"tbere was enormous shell-lire on various sectors ol tip* I root, the massed guns of both sides bursting into a fury of .high explosives particularly about. Bullecourt and the broken Ilindeinburg line, along Cojinl Valiev, as fab as Yores salient. While the bombardment was proceeding -there was littlcT infantry lighting, except body snatching raids and machine gun grabbing. Prisoners brought in small batches make up big numbd#. For the month the bag has mostly men of broken, nerve, who speak with horrors of our bombardment, which extended II mile'; deep, to the German billets and their railroads, and have blown up'their ammunition dumps and buried many Germans in dugouts'.

THE KAISER'S SPEECH (Reuter’s Telegrams.! LONDON, June 1. Headquarters corespondents amplifying the Kaiser’s speech at Arras says he told the soldiers -they must bate i -British aslieartilv, as their capacity for righteous wrath permitted. No pri oners must he taken or shown mercy m •Hie future. <* Subsequently be contradictorily informed them all prisoners must he treated with the utmost severity am lie forbade any fraternisation whatever. A RUSSIAN TRAITOR. PETROGRAD, June 1. The Minuter cf Justice l.a ; compiet t!kv iriciiction’ of Sukamlinoff, Minister of War in 1914. He charges him with tjie lesponsib'ilityfor the shortage’ of mU-.itic.as and -the communication of information 'to Austro-German spies. A PEACE . OFFER.' MAXIM GORKY’S REPLY.. A PETROGRAD, June 1 Maxm Gorky received a latter from (Aizoff, Minister ot Berlin proposng an armistice oil the Eastern Front pending .negotiations for a-separ-ate peace between Germany and Russia so,vs Germany doey hot contemplate an offemiivof against Russia, if the latter remains quiescent. He offers to meet Gorky in Sweden. Gorky in-publishing the. letter describes it as insolent. s and) stupid. He says lie has no intention of replying. x STRIKE AT BAKU. TITLES, June 1. There is an alarming condition Baku, owing to strikes on the oil field. v UNCERTAIN RUSSIA. J (Received This Day\ at 9.50.~a.m.) PETROGRAD; June 4. It iis reported that sailors from Kronstad have revolted and are about to attack Pctrograd. The sailors are not attacking Pctrograd, but are threatening armed demonstrations. Fires. believed to be incendiary, destroyed three million bushels of wheat m Minsk region and SaratofF grain elcvatore.