IMPORTANT BRITISH CAPTURES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11647, 16 August 1916, Page 5

IMPORTANT BRITISH CAPTURES.

ENEMY DESPOILED OF SAINS. GERMAN TRENCHES RAIDED. .he High Commissioner reports:— London, August loth, 3 55 p.ra. Sir Douglas Haig states that as the result of local fighting north-west of Pozieres in two days we retook nearly the whole of the remainder of the trenches the enemy gained on Sunday. Last night also we forced an entry into the enemy trenches at Monquai Farm, bringing back eleven prisoners. Small enemy attempts to raid onr trenches were repulsed with losses. LAST NIGHT’S OPERATIONS. AUSTRIAN ATTACKS REPULSED. YESTERDAY’S BAG OF PRISONERS The High Commissioner reports:— London, August loth, 3.20.p.m. On the Italian front last night the Italians repulsed several counterattacks. Yesterday they captured several sections of enemy trenches and 141*.) prisoners. TEMPORARY GERMAN SUCCESS. PENETRATES FRENCH SALIENT. AGAIN DRIVEN OUT. BRILLIANT CAPTURE OF TRENCHES

Received August IG, noon. Paris, August 15. A French communique 'states that there is great artillery firing ou the Somme front. A German detachment, after heavy bombardment, penetrated a small salient of our lines north-west of Heaurgee and northward of the Aisne. Our 'counter-attack threw them out. Our Grenadiers brilliantly took three hundred metres of trenches to a depth of a hundred northwards ot Chapelle and Sainte Finei ABOUT THE KAISER. SUFFERS PROM SLEEPLESSNESS. “I AM NOT THE MAN. ” United Service. London, Aug. 14. The Daily News special correspondent at Berne says he talked with an eminent neutral who visited Berlin, where he was invited to toa by the Kaiserin. The Kaisar was was present. He did not appear to be worried. He suffered from sleeplessness. He goes at night for mctar drives. He talked freely and disclaimed the British theory that he is responsible for the war. “I am not the man,” he said,. “I acted in the best faith throughout and strove hard tor peace. ” Received August 16, 10 a.m. Amsterdam, August 15. The Daily News gives further details of the Kaiser’s interview with a neurtal. He siad it was curious bow the British theory tfiat I am responsible for the war seems to fascinate m yeuemies. 1 don’t envy the man who has the responsibility upon his conscience. History will clear me of the charge, although I don’t suppose history will hold me faultless. Every civilised man in Europe must share the responsibility, and the higher his position the larger responsibility. I strive hard for peace, even though wgr was inevitable, Why do neutrals talk of German militarylsm and never Russian despotism, F rench craving for revenge, and English butchery. The next generation will strike a jnster balance in apportioning the blame.

BOTHMER’S RETREAT. A POOR EXCUSE. Received Ang. 10, 11 a.m. Zurich, Aug. 15._ Austrian headquarters ..explain Bothmer’s retreat by saying it is owing to the front being held by troops of inferior quality. NEITHER FOR NOR AGAINST.

(Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) Sydney, August 16. In the Assembly Mr Black stated that instructions had been issued prohibiting the holding ot meetings for or against conscription HUDDAKT-P A RKER MAN AG ER KILLED. Australian ar.d N.Z. Cable Association. Advice has been received that Lieut. W. T. Appleton, Melbourne manager for Hnd'dart Parser and Co , iiad been killed in Franca. HIBERNIAN SOCIETY DEMAND. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Brisbane, August 16. The Hibernian Society Ijas cabled to Mr Asquith:—The Society, representing 60,000 members, in Australia and New Zealand, enters an emphatic protest against the treatment of Ireland and demand justice by the immediate operation of the Home Rule Act.