WAR NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 102, 2 January 1915, Page 3

WAR NEWS

! AERIAL BOMBARDMENTS AT | ; DUNKIRK FOUR GERMAN MACHINES ACTIVE. MANY CIVILIANS KILLED AND WOUNDED. RAIDERS ESCAPE WITHOUT DAMAGE. • Press Association —Copyright. (Reed. 9.45 p.m.) PARI Si Dec s . 31. , Four German aeroplanes dropped seventeen bombs on Dunkirk. Fifteen civilians were killed and twenty-two were wounded. The four aeroplanes it intervals of about ten minutes flew over Dunkirk and circled over the market, which was in full swing. A fifth machine hovered a distance away watching for any Allied machine. The airmen's objective was to damage military bulidings, but it failed. The bombs fell mostly in pairs, killing and wounding pedestrians in the streets. In the suburbs, buildings were damaged and windows were smashed in many directions. Portions of tramway tracks were blown up. Bombs fell on the fortifications, and also near the railway station and arsenal. Two fell on a jute factory. An old woman was mutilated and killed, and a child's arm was blown cff. ' Two bombs fell close together near the Town Hall, striking down persons within twenty yards. Another slightly damaged the kitchen of the military hospital. The anti-aeroplane fire failed to damage the machines, while the Allied aeroplanes were apparently busy elsewhere. VON DER GOLTZ INTERVIEWED. THE COLLABORATION OF THE UNSPEAKABLE.?. "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services. (Red. Dec. SI, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 31. The Berlin "Lokal Anzeiger" interviewed Field-Marshal von der Go?tz, who said that Turkey had deng her full share in collaboration with her Allies, and she could rest assured that she would receive a full sha.'j of the gams in the event of vlc*o.*y. The Field-Marshal addei that a successful attack upon Egypt would be a stab at England's Inn "t. He was Pleased with the Turkish soldiers, and said it may be expected that they will accomplish all that is ii any way possible. ROUMANIANS RISE IN REVOLT. (Reed. 9.40 p.m.) BUCHAREST, Dec. 31. The Roumanians, in the Abried Mountains in Transylvania, have risen \ against the Magyars, who have syste- • matically exposed Roumanians to the | severest Russian Are and also ill-treat-! ed the Roumanian population. MORE ACTS OF GERMAN SAVAGERY. (Reed. 11.30 n.m.) PETROGRAD, Dec. 31. Germans in the Lodz district shot three Roman Catholic priests for refusing to preach in favour of Polish submission to Germany Scores of children in. Russian Galicia have been sent to Russian monasteries and convents. Their parents have been executed or imprisoned by the enemy. Forty inhabitants of one Carpathian village were hanged. RUSSIANS' IMPETUOUS COUNTERATTACK. (Reed. 9.40 p.m.) PETROGRAD, Dec. 31. An offiicial jdommunique ;s>'y\';tl :—> "Assuming the offensive at Bolimow, the Germans, under heavy Russian fire, made an irruption into the village of Borgimo and the Russian trenches at Gumin. The Russians, in an impetuous counter-attack, killed all the enemy with the bayonet except a few score who were taken prisoner. "Machine guns inflicted enormous losses on the enemy. The Russians, after a stubborn struggle, captured the enemy's trenches southward of Possade near Inovlodz. The enemy captured an entrenched position at Bokhineter, but was subsequently routed.

"We are progressing victoriously in West Galicia. The Russians stormed and carried several fortified /v/orks eastward of Zakittchine, capturing forty-four officers, fifteen hundred men, and eight quick-firers. "The Russians, in a determined attack, dislodged the Airstrians from strong positions south-west of Tinkla. putting them to flight in a panic. "We had an important success south, ward of Disko, and also repelled sorties from Przemysl." FRENCH SUBMARINE'S EXPLOIT. AUSTRIAN BATTLESHIP TORPE- • DOED. (Reed. 11.10 p.m , ROME, Dec. 31. It is reported that a.French submarine penetrated Pola and torpedoed a battleship, which was holed but was able to reach the dock.

CANADIANS AT THE FRONT. Press Association —Copyright. (Reed. 9.45 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 31. News has been received thai Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry have arrived at the front. WAR RISKS ON CARGOES. (Reed. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 31. . The Government rate for war risks on cargoes has been raduced to a guinea. THE TURKS. REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSSES. (Reed. 11.30 p.m.) PETROGRAD, Dec. 31. An official communique states:--"During the} fighting in the Sari!- j Kamysh district, a strong force of ! Turks was repulsed with heavy losses, j We captured many guns and quick- j firers. "The Turks were reinforced and readvanced. The Russians were also reinforced, and the battle continued for a day and a night with varying fortunes, till the Turks retired in disorder." THE UNITED EMPIRE. BRITONS IN WAR PREPARE FOR PEACE. OVERCOME DEFECTS OF ORGANI- . SATION. (Reed. 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 31. The " Times," referring to the Rt. j Hon. Andrew Fisher's visit to New Zealand and the Dominion's magnificent response to Briton's call, declares fhat the moral of the last five months is "that the spirit of our peoples has overridden the defects of our organisation.'' The paper adds: "Although the need of a solution of Imperial problems is momentarily obscured, it will emerge when the stress of war is relaxed more imperative than ever. I There is no reason why the Imperial Conference should not meet in 1915. It would thus set the seal of unity on an Empire which has already so remarkably demonstrated to the world that the British people in the midst of war can prepare themselves for new works in peace." AN UNHAPPY GALA. BERLINERS WEEP INSTEAD OF CHEER. ' (Reed. 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 31. During the early months of the war, the Berlin theatres were open as usual. The civil and military functionaries were instructed to attend regularly to impress the -people with the idea that all was going well, but the casualty lists bred scepticism. A gala night at the Opera Royal was arranged during the Kaiser's visit. In the opening scene of "Lohen. grin," instead of cheers a storm of hysterical laughter and weeping swept the house. The Kaiser thereupon quitted his box and the performance ended. The royal theatres were closed next day and are now used as hospitals. APPEAL FOR MEN. BY ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. (Reed. 11.20 p.m.) LONDON, Dee. 31. The Archbishop of Canterbury addressed a New Year letter to the clergy and laity. He says:. "The well-being, nay the very life, of the Empire may depend on the response to the call for men. No household is acting worthily if timidity and self-love keep back those who arc able loyally to bear a man's part in the great Empire on behalf of the land we love. It wil lbe our task, if God grant us insight and power, to raise hereafter, even out of the agonies and the terror of war, some- ' (thing better and holier than rnpn has ■ yet seen for the fellowship of nat'ons." BATTLE OF MARNE. HOW THE CROWN PRINCE WAS FORCED BACK. I AN UNPRECEDENTED MAN. . OEUVRE. i -'.''■ (Reed. 9.45 p.m.) PARIS, Dec. 31. [ [ The newspapers publish a telegram [ 'sent by General Foch to General Jofi ire en September 9th, when the battle ( of the Marne seemed to oe turning in favour of the Germans. The telegram stated: "My Right Wing is being - smashed, and my Left Wing crushed i in. Nevertheless, we are hammering , with the Centre." General Foch's manoeuvring, which is probably unprecedented in military . history, was so successful that the Crown Prince's Centre wa-* compelled to retire, obliging both his wing 3 to . do the same. NAVAL BLOCKADE. LONDON, Dec 31, The "Standard's" Copenhagen correspondent states that the Fredeiik - VIII. has arrived at Copenhagen from 1 New York with five German naval ofll--3 cers. She passel unnoticed the British blockade in the North Sea, »

NEW TERROR FOR GERMANS. NIGHTLY VISITS FROM MOORISH TRIBESMEN. Press Association —Copyright. (Reed. 9.45 p.m.) PARIS, Deo. 31. There are] sepyral squadrons of Moorish tribesmen and Algerian tiral leurs at Nieuport. The former are experts at creeping nightly to the German trenches and gagging and taking sentries prisoner. ' ALIENS ON EAST COAST. ORDERED INLAND. (Reed. 11.80 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 51. All aliens of the East Coast of Scotland have been ordered thirty miles inland. [N BELGIUM. BOWS AND ARROWS SEIZED. (Reed. 11.30 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, Dec. 31. The Germans have seized bows and ' arrows in Belgium owing to a discovery that arrows were used to shoot, letters across the Dutch frontier. MARITZ RE-APPEARS. ! running fight with loyalist force; I - (Reed. 9.50 p.m.) PRETORIA, Dec. 31. j Maritz, with eight hundred rebels i at Schuitdrift, attacked 480 Loyalists. I Ninety of the latter were taken prii soner. ! A later message states that Maritz, |on December 22nd„ with four field ! guns and four maxims, forced the i Loyalists, after a vigorous resistance, to retire for a few miles. A running j fight followed. The rebels' attempt to ; outflank the Loyalists was frustrated, ! and the rebels at sundown retired to ; Schuitdrift. j The Loyalists lost one killed, two wounded, a maxim and twenty-six wagons.