THE WAR

Levin Daily Chronicle, 5 July 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

(Austral.a-New Zealand Cable Service) (Received This Day 11 a.m.). RUSSIAN ACTIVITY. (Reuter Service) 'Petrograd, July 3. Tho enemy is reported to bo evacuating Brezezany, which is invested on three sides. Units of four Russian armies are co-operating ifi tho 'Ga!ician advance, covering a front of twenty miles. ENLISTING FOREIGNERS London, July 4: Tho House of I/ords has read a second time a 'bill providing for application of the agreement between tihe Allied Powers for mutual enlistment of subjects resident in each others' countries. NORWAY'S SHIPPING Rental- is informed tlli.at Norwegian shipping losses during June totalled forty-three vessels of a tonnage of 60,0C0. Twenty-six lives were lost. GERMANY'S HOME TROUBLES I Amsterdam, July 3. There is a recrudesence of potato riots, and the later riots are more serious. !Cr!owidJ3 Tjootied barges and trucks. (Street ibattles occurred with the police and soldiers. The crowds werei deifijant.. [Women with bared breasts, dared the soldiers to shoot. Eventually the soldiers fired, killing one and wounding many. Received This Day 11.45 a.m. LEMBERG ENDANGERED. Amsterdam, July 4. A message published in the Oolonge Volks Zeitung, from Berlin, states that General Brusiloff's vigorous onslaught in Galicia has caused great alarm. Battles on the eastern front are described as fiercer than any fought hitherto. General Boehm and his army are seriously menaced. The Russian attack generally is regarded in military circles as part of a greatplan to clear the way for a recapture of Lemiberg.

RUSSIA'S BIiG EETFOtR/T. Tho Cologne Gazette says that fully 200,000 (Russians are participating in the Galician ibattles. Advices from Vienna state that Generals Von (Hindenburg and Ludendorff discussed the new situation, and now are conferring with General Stonarz at tihe Austrian headquarters. ' German troops in training sub BevelOw, and 1 until now destined to fight in Flanders are being rushed to ; Galicia. Austrian war correspondents state that tihe ißussians after three days' violent fighting maintain the stuibborness of offensive fighting and the same funyi as ibefore the revolution. Russians are concentrated in twenty divisions on a front of fifty kilmetres, and are malking inoessant and successive massed attacks. AMERICAN* COMMISSION WIEfLOOMED. Petrograd, July 4. 'Crowds are cheering in the streets when tho American Commission goes by. The Commission is delighted at the re-awakening of patriotic sentiment among the people. Cossacks are making speeches in factories, urging tihe workmen to realise that this is Russia,' s supreme effort. AN AUSTRIAN REVERSE. Petrograd, July 4. The Austrian line is definitely broken, and the advance continues. General Brussiloff has ordered the entire army to be prepared. AIRDRAFT BOMB HARWICH. London, July 4. (Fourteen aircraft have ib'ombed Harwich. AN OFFICIAL REPORT. A.-N.Z. and Router Service. London, July 4. Oonsideraible reciprocal artilleryang has taken plaoe in the region of Ypres. There was an enemy raid south-eastward of Laventie. Hostile aerial activity (has markedly increased. Our .aeroplanes participated in successful artillenying and Ibomlbing raids. ERENDBC COMMUNIQUE. A French communique states that there has been considerable artillery activity north of St. Quentin, left of the iMeuse towards Hill 304, and in the Champagne, in the Mont (Millett and Mouttetin sectors. BRITAIN'S FOOD PROBLEM. I»ord IRihondda. has abolished the potato restrictions on restaurants. THE 'RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE A wireless German official message runs:—There ihas been lively artillerying between Stockhod and Narajovka. New strong Russian attacks at Brzeaany failed heavily.

ARGENTINE STEAMER. SUNIK. Londorij July 4. A German submarine sank the Argentine steamer Toro by gunfire, on June 22nd, in the Atlantic and 1 outside of the war zone. The submarine commander examined the Toro's papers and found dhe was carrying wool for Switzerland; nevertheless, lie persisted in sinking her. The crew was saved. "ROLAND FOR AX OLIVER." {Rome, July 4. Official: Aviators dropped leaflets in Trieste announcing that they would bomb Trieste whenever the Austrians attack Venice. H'INIDIENSBiEIRG'S VIEWS ON THE WAfR. Amsterdam, July 4. German newspapers report Von Hindenberg as having said: "We have won the war if we hold our own ajgainst all attacks until the submarines ha.ve completed their destructive mission. Already greater inroads have \ been made on the enemy's vitals than we expected l ; ultimately we will compel our enemies to sue for peace." He adds that returns from Austria firmly convince the Central Alliance will remain unshaken until the final triumph. CHINESE XJNIREST. Shanghai, July 5. (Leaders in the southern provinces !have issued a manifesto refusing to recognise the monarchy. SIE, DOUGLAS HAIG. Sir Douglas Haig reports considerable reciprocal artillerying at numerous points. BRITISH BOMB BRUGES. The Admiralty reports that on the night of Juliyi 2nd-3rd raids were carried out on Bruges docks, and several tons of bombs were drpped.