WAR NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 101, 31 December 1914, Page 7

WAR NEWS

BRITISH AIEI'I-sl>i ''& DAliiNCv. ATTACK GERMANS IN THEIR | • HAVEN. ! BOMBING THE GERMAN WARi Official. —Seven seaplanes attacked 'the German warships at. Cuxhaven on j Friday. The damage 'Tens by fnem I bombs' cannot be estimated. FUjjht [Commander Hewiitt Is missing. | ' (Cuxhaven is a German (qwd on the Elbe's south bank, at its mcutli in t.hs Gen Amu Ocean, 72 miles riarth-.Avo.st of a mbtirg.). The Admiralty announce that a ■-->•• submarines were escorting the seaAmes iii the Cuxhaven raid. They •-•-cHed the German auu übmarines attacking from Heligoland. /he Undsunted's and the mm put the Zeppelins to flight. They ! e"0 three hours . ofl: Cuxhaven and .--ere unmolested by any-su'.'face vesGaiciah—The seaplane attack ocenrUd at daylight in Sehillig 'loads, close ; Cuxhaven, starting near Heligoland, iuvce the Germans attacked the Arenma and the Undaunted-, with two epneliris .Tour seaplanes, and several bmarines. The Britishers were idjged to await the British seaplanes, hich returned and engaged the Cor : sah aircraft and submarines, ensi'y riving off the Zeppelins and avoiding le submarines by swift manoeuvring, ut the seaplanes dropped bombs near '. British ship, not bitting it. Out of. ■even airmen the British ships picked P three and sank the machines a? I-fowTett's machine was sighted •-•-kid eiAhr .miles from Heligoland, THE GERMAN ACCOUNT. ■ DENTAL CF DAMAGE. \ AMSTERDAM, Dec. 2D, An official message from Berlin vays:—-Hydro-aeroplanes attacked cur estuaries and attempted .o bomb sen; ll j anchored ships and the gasometer at GuxHayen, but net hitting them ciisjm.mearec] westward. The German airBritish dsstvoyers and a convoy Yesma Ail outbreak cf fire was observed •in (he latter. The mist prevented farther engagements. '< MORE iT: TiVL ACTIVITY. ZE?rEr..-T.N SHED AF PACKED. . AMSTERDAM, Dec. 29. An official me/jsage crom Berlin talcs that hostile airmen result!essiy >;;mba,l a new Kepneiin shed in a r:.-.lhj unspecified.. UNSUCCESSFUL ATTACKS. A BITTER STRUGGLE. BOTH, SIDES LOSE HEAVILY. PARIS, Dec. 30. Official.—Reports are made of unsuccessful German heavy artillery and infantry attacks at Taboisselle. . There has been consolidation of the 1 reach positions en the newly-occu-[ed ground along the front. LONDON, Dec. 30. The "Daily Chronicle's" correspen3Pt at Festubert, between Richebourg id Lavoue Givenchy, states that the test fighting there was from 18th to Ist December, with a temporary Brith set-back.. We then recaptured lost •ound. The British casualties were ■cssly exaggerated. The "Eye-witness" at headquarters ates that a sort cf armistice was inrmally arranged to enable both sides ) bury their dead. SCHEENiNG COWARDS. MISUSE OF WHITE Eh AG The Belgian Commission's seventh ■ detail:: numerous instances of Avmaus screening attacking columns villi Belgian men, women and eki 1 - dren, many cf whom were killed or wounded by Belgian bullets, though the Belgians in most oases refrained L*rcm firing. PARIS, Dec. 30. r f]ae Warwick:: eires, making a desLko trenches in Flanders only to !ind I them vacated pad mined. Toe mm-m J exploded, killing and hijining sevcraa I Elsewhere the Germans quilted a l.'rench and hoisted a while flag. The | mens dropped en their faces, where |-..,-.;, .-, withering fire from their.cammcle? in the suupcriing tronchCA].Vveel havoc with the Northampton's, but no white dagger was',allowed to return.