MONDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 2 September 1915, Page 3

MONDAY

Many Deeds of Bravery—New Zea^landers' Night March — Stirring . Charge by Irish—Russia's Orderly Retreat

Reuters correspondent at the Dardanelles describes the desperate fighting at Anzac early in August, when the New Zealand and Australian troops "obtained elbow room." He says that the night march by the colonial troops will live in the history of the campaign. There was a fierce bayonet, encounter near Suvla Bay, between a battalion of Irish troops and the Turks, the latter were utterly routed,

The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states it is not likely the Russians, will make an attempt to hold Vilna, which is not fortified. Obstinate fighting in the Jacobstadt region, south-east of Riga, is officially reported from Petrograd. Attempts by the enemy to take up the offensive in the Bielostok region were stopped.

' VJJhe Italians are drawing nearer to-: Trent from the east, and considerable progress on \%he western frontier of Trentino. It is stated in Washington that

Germany now proposes to modify —lj,er policy of attacking merchant ships in British waters, but that • Germany in return for this partial abandonment of her naval policy expects America to seek to induce Britain to modify her blockade of German ports.

Four German aeroplanes which attempted to attack Paris were driven off byl French airmen. One of the enemy machines, which was brought down, burst into flames, the occupants being incinerated.