THE WAR

Levin Daily Chronicle, 3 July 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

vAustral.a-Xew Zealand Cable Service) (A.-N.Z. and Router Service) ltUiSolA AGAIN 1 FIGIH'IS GERMANY. London, July 1. A wireless German official message suites that the French failed to recapture ground lost at Oiemin de iDiamos, 011 the west bank of the Meuse. The'report continues: ".We repulsed three trendh attacks oil our iri,v trenches .Southward -of IBoiuvellel Farm, and stormed lines further eastward as far as Illyspissyrcate. Tlio Liu.vsian Government, yielding to 3£nten'to pressure, has sent part of the ■Russian army to :attack. fßlussian infantry attacks were mad'o on a front ol : thirty kilometres iu the Upper Strypa, as far as Narajowka. The Russians failed, with heavy losses. Nocturnal attacks astride of Brezany, near Zwyzyn, broke down. Artilleryiug extended northwards to the middle, of the StocMiod, and southwards to Stanislau. ;Eeuter's Telegram). tKXRIUBLE FATALITY. Vancouver, July 2. An electric observation car on the American side of Niagara Falls was derailed 011 Sunday. It rolled into the river, and twenty of its occupants were drowned. (United Service). "17" BOAT BASE DESTROYED. New -York, July 2. The Niew York World states that the officers of an American steamer lately arrived at an American port report that British patrol lor.s located a U boat base a fortnight ago. Tlie U boat suppliers were sihot, and oil and other supplies confiscated. It is believed that the movements of the allied sihips were reported to the U boats from a ibase in New York. ! TELE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN. | The iHerald's Washington corespondent says that at the termination of five months of unrestricted submarining, naval officers estimate the result as harming come far short of Germany's program of one million tons monthly. He declares that the total tonnage lost in the first year does not exceed four millions, while three millions were constructed in the same period. 1 (Received This Day 9.5. a.m.) ITALIAN POLITICS. The [Daily Chronicle's ißome correspondent says that supporters of Signor Giclitti, in the Chamber (on the ground of the Government's alleged shortcomings, especially in the sphere of economics) endeavored to secure a reconstitution of the Ministry under SigLior Orlando, at present Minister for tlvo Interior. Signor Sonnino's firm threat that in such a case !he would resign brought them to their senses and a vote of confidence in the ißoselli coalition was carried by 3GI to 63. Ml groups, except the Socialists and Neutralist Republicans realised that Signor Sonnino's disappearance at this juncturo would precipitate a national disaster; therefore they shrank with dramatic suddenness from the verge of an unsounded abyss. SOUTH AiFRJCAGNT (POLITIC^. Capetown, July 2. Hertzog, in a letter to the [Dutch press, hopes that the proposed Repulican Congress will be aibandtaned. An 011 Saturday afternoon a pleasant function took place is the iLevin Hotel when a presentation was made to Mr R. Carvosso from tlie McDonald family. Mr G. F. Phillips occupied the chair, and referred to the MdDonald's appreciation of the work Mr Carvosso had done for them, and handed him a gold wristlet watch as a token of their appreciation. Mr Carvosso, in responding, thanked the donors for their gift and spoke ,of the pleasant business relations he had had with the .Into J. R'- McDonald and the McDonald family. Mr Lindsay McD'onald, (Mr Bailey, ill- R. Tatana and Mr Martin Winiata also spoke in excellent terms of Mr Carvosso's sterling qualities in business circles and mentioned that it was with regret they had to wish liim au revoir.

abandonment, he says, would prove the Nationalists' respect for the feeling of the English-speaking South African and that suspicions regarding the honorable intentions of the is unfounded. GERMAN CASUALTIES. (Received This Bay 11.50 a.m.) London, July 2. The I>aily Chronicle's Amsterdam correspondent estimates the German casualties, appearing in the British newspapers, necessarily founded on German lists and states that these aire so inaccurate that recent efforts were made by members of t'ho Reichstag to elicit 'the truth. Fresh figures were given under the seal of secrecy, showing that over two million Germans have been •killed', and died of wounds and sickness and the permanently dis- j abled number upwards of three millions. The statistics do" not include the recent heavy fighting along the Hindonburg line.