WAR NEWS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 7 June 1917, Page 3

WAR NEWS.

\ MONDAY. 'iujsian duns at Work — Troops for Front—Allies Capture er 75,000 Prisoners. 3'rman and Russian comIques mention aerial and J^^^^Xery activity on the Russian The Russians claim the in the exchanges. from the Fetrograd ! have left for the front. The French hare repulsed atto the north of the Aisne and in the Verdun sector. " They' * have regained all the trenches j lost a few days ago on High Mount, in the Champagne. Italians have mad further I in the southern sector Carsa Plateau, and have : »vily repulsed Austrian atto the north of Gorz. The ( : Austrian losses in three weeks are estimated at 300,000. -~ In eight weeks the allies have i#t captured over 75,000 prisoners, equivalent to the bayonet strengtn of nine enemy divisions as now constituted. The Germans are losing at the rate of over a regiment a day.

TUESDAY British Bombardment —Hindenburg Line Pounded —Infantry engaged near Souchez — French Repulse Massed Attacks. Massed guns all along the British front from Ypres to St. Quentin are ploughing up and beating down the defences of the Hindenburg line, which is described as broken from Bullecourt as far as the Ypress alient. Shells are falling over a belt of country ten miles deep, burying' German dug-outs, destroying railheads, and blowing up ammunition dumps. On the French front the activity has centred on the two important plateaux noi-th of the Aisne, Vauelerc and Californie. The Germans attacked in dense waves, sometimes shoulder to shoulder, but despite heavy sacrifices were everywhere repulsed. The American General Staff proposes to send 125,000 men to France by October. A French submarine torpedoed and sunk an Austrian submarine, which was leaving Cattaro, an Austrian port in the Adriatic.

WEDNESDAY German Attacks Fail—French take Heavy Toll—Canadians dash at Souchez—Liveliness on Eastern Front — Brussiloff to Command Russians. The recent German attacks on the French positions on Vauclerc and Calif or nic Plateaux, north of the Aisne, and Moronvillers heights, in the Champagne, have been extraordinarily desperate. Picked troops have been sent forward in deep ranks on which the French guns have played pitilessly. The enemy has lost thousands ot killed and wounded, but the French retain all these important observation posts. British airmen effectively bombed the docks and canals in Bruges, Belgium. The Russians have been successful in two small attacks, penetrating the entanglements in the Kovel region, and capturing trenches in the Carpathians. The Commander-in-chief of the Russian armies, General Alexieff has resigned, and General Brussiloff, who conducted the brilliant offensive last year, succeeds him. ' The first selective draft in the United States under the Con-, scription Bill will consist of ; 625,000 men.

jt ~. THURSDAY in France — Sound HeSrJTln London—Warships Attack Ostend —Hostile Aeroplanes over Essex—Two Raiders brought Down. British guns in the Northern sector of the western front continue a bombardment of unparalleled intensity. The guns have been heard in London, 150 miles distant. A British squadron heayily bombarded the naval base and workshops at Ostend, and seaplanes attacked Zeebrugge and Bruges. The bombardment is described as the most formidable of the war. British, light cruisers and destroyers engaged six German destroyers at long range. In a running fight one German destroyer was sunk and another damaged. There were no British casualties.

Sixteen enemy aeroplanes dropped bombs on small towns in Essex, and attacked a naval es^ tablishmenfc in the Medway. Two were brought down. Two person killed and 29 wounded.