THE WAR

Levin Daily Chronicle, 8 May 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

4 (Australia-New Zealand Cable Service)

(Received This Day 9.10 a.m.) THE STRUGGLE FOR BULLECOURT. London, May 7. A correspondent at Headquarters states that the British at 3.45 in the morning delivered another attack against Btillecourt, progressing especially on the right flank. The Australians I arc pi.vceJlhe Gesnian line nppr ximntely a mile deep eastward of'tin vil a7e an 1 northward oi." the town of U mcnur';: tbxw the to vn ihemmed in to the west, east and eoutih. THE WEST FRONT. Paris, March 7. Marcel Tliutin states (that Saturday and Sunday's attack marks the iciomp[lete iand| irremediable mi--i "imiiigc r.f tl.e Germans' design »i': I'm"* V'oFeir counter-at .aoi-s t *.!y ended in' fresh massacres. -General I.U'Ui. cwjrff thornii.irhly ern.wras-ed the endeavors to reassure the iGerman people by lies and verbal subterfuges.

TROUBLE IN THE REICHSTAG. Amsterdam, May 7. Henr Ooilin, in the Reichstag, "vigorously attacked' the Government for compelling soldiers to subscribe- to the War iLoan and protested against Gdrmanys methods of warfare', inelud'iri|g ' submarines and alii' raids o;n London, which could' not cldfiniitely be regarded as a fortified town. 'He said that improved food coiidi'iiio.nis were impossible during the war period and the people were hungering for political equality. The Speaker called Herr 'Cohen to order when he declared that the Government were responsible for the war.

SIR DOUGLAS BAiIG'S RE- . PORT. A.-N.Z. and Reuter Service.) London, iMay 7. Sir Douglas Hiaig reports: We improved our positions in the course of sharp fighting in the morning on the Hindenburg line 'eastward! of ißullecourt. . We progressed westwards taking prisoners. We drove off duiring the night" bomb attacks southward of Oppy. AIR RAID ON LONDON. London, May 7. The Press Bureau states that early this morning 'hostile aeroplanes droppeel four bombs in the outskirts northeast of London. One man was killed and a man and woman injured. Slight damage was done, to buildings.

PRAYERS FOR PEACE. IRomeJ May 6. The Pop© has ordered special peaco prayers throughout the Catholic world from June 1.