AUSTRIAN HOLOCAUST

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 157, 8 March 1915, Page 5

AUSTRIAN HOLOCAUST

ON TO CONSTANTINOPLE. TURKEY PREPARING FOR THE WORST. DARDANELLES BOMBARDMENT PROCEEDS. FINE WORK BY WARSHIP. P.'ew Association —Copyright. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 7. The Admiralty has issued Admiral Carden'st urther report in regard to th]3 Dardanelles. He says action was Impossible until the afternoon of the 3rd, when the Irresistible Albion, Triumph, and Prince George resumed the attack on Fort Dardanos and concealed |gun s in the neighbourhood. The weather was fine on this 14th, when mine-sweeping and bombarding within the Straits was continued steadily. Demolition parties, covered by marines, landed at Kum Kale and Seddul Bohr, and continued the clearance of the ground at the entrance to the Straits. Skirmishes occurred with the enemy, who were holding the villages in force. The casualties on the 14th totalled 19 killed, 25 wounded ,and three missing. The Queen Elizabeth on the 15th commenced the attack by indirect fire upon the defences at the Narrows.supported by howitzers from the Inflexible and Prince George. The latter's fire was confined to Forts Remilieh, Medjidieh Tabia, Hamadieh Tabia, and Namazeh. The Queen Elizabeth fird 29 rounds with satisactory results. A magazine was blown up at Medjidieh, which was an important fort with the best and heaviest guns. The other two forts were dafaged.

-., Though much fired upon by concealed guns the ships were not hit. The Sapphrie again fired upon the troops at .Adrarayti, destroying the military station at Tuzburna. I TURKS RETIRING FROM THE f% DARDANELLES BUCHAREST, March 6 The Turks and Germans, realising they are powerless to prevent the fleet penetrating th Dardanelles, are hastily disarming some forts and transporting the jgun s to the islands in the Sea of Marmera. The civic population, who are insufficiently fed, are murmuring against the Germans. Fifty German officers passed through Bucharest en route to Berlin. COLD COMFORT FOR TURKEY. AUSTRIA'S REPLY TO APPEAL j FOR HELP. LONDON, March 6 Bucharest reports that Turkey has Teceiv'ed small comfort from the interchange of telegrams from Berlin and Vienna. Austria, replying to the request for immediate naval help.admonished Turkey against despairing of final victory, and advised l her to transfer the capital to somewhere in Asia. GERMAN OFFICERS' FAMILIES. FLEEINC FROM CONSTANTINOPLE BUCHAREST, March 7. There increasing alarm in the German colcny at-Constantinople. Ger. man offiders are sending their families away. Many including von Sanser's wife, liiivo ivf rived at Bucharest. TURKS TO DEFEND CAPITAL. WASHINGTON, March 7. It is reported here that th? Turks propose to defend the capital vigorously, r •' -' ■ . ' ". i 'ft

A RAPTIIRF H IwlttU i iLSBI» i una I SMYRNA FORTS SLASHED THE QUEEN ELIZABETH WONDERFUL^JKECUTION CERMANS FLEE CONSTANTINOPLE OFFICERS FAMILIES LEAVING FURTHER ADVANCE IN DARDANELLES TURKS TAKING THEIR GUNS AWAY

THE QUEEN ELIZABETH. MOST EFFECTIVE CANNONADE. Press' Association —Copyright. (Reed. 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, March 7. Reuter's Athens correspondent states that the Queen Elizabeth, on the fifth, operated at Oulen Saros. The first'shot silenced the battery heights. The armament of "thle fort included some fourteen inchers. TURKISH TROOPS RECALLED FROM SINAI. LONDON, March 7. It is reported that tne Turks operting in the Sinai have been hurriedly recalled to Constantinople, entirely freeing Egypt. There is an unconfirmed rumour that the Sultan has left Constantinople. GERMAN OFFICERS FOR CONSTANTINOPLE. (Reed. 5.30 p.m.) AMSTERDAM March 7. A number of German officers have left the front in France for Constantinople, presumably to take command of the troops concentrating at Gallipoli. OCCUPATION OF CONSTANTINOPLE. A GERMAN STORY. (Reed. 5.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 7. The "Tageblatt" declares that England is hastening to occupy Constantinople in order to prevent Russia getting there. GERMANY SEES THE INEVITABLE

(Reed. 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 7. Germany has asked the United State s to manage its diplomatic ajgairs in Constantinople in view of the threatened occupation by the Allies. (Reed. 7 p.m.) ATHENS, March 7. Mine-sweeping has been completed as far as Chanak. SMYRNA HEIGHTS SILENCED. GULF FORT BEING BOMBARDED. Renter's Athens correspondent states that Rear Admiral Pierse silenced the Smyrna Heights, and is now bombarding the forts at the entrance to the gulf. The cruiser Euryalus is Admiral Pierse's flagship. SMYRNA BOMBARDED. EAST INDIA FLEET REDUCES FORTS. LONDON .March 7. The Commander-in-Chief of the East 'lndia station, Vice-Admiral Pieras.has arrived with a squadron of battleships and cruisers off Smyrna. Methodical bombardment of Frot Yenickoli was carried out for two hours. Thirty-two hits were made, and considerable damage was done. Two heavy explosions were apparently from magazines. The fire was not returned. Bombardment at closer range has now begun. The reduction of the Smyrna defences is a necessary incident in the main operations. ATHENS March 7. The British have resumed the bombardment of the forts at Smyrna, vigorously shelling the batteries on Two Brothers Hill. THE DACIA. PARIS, March 7. The Dacia's crew are returning to America.

THE PRASNYSZ VICTORY. HOW THE RUSSIANS TURNED THE TABLES. GERMANS OUTMANOEUVRED. (United Pross Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, March 7. The Germans, in superior numbers, almost surrounded the Russians at Pras nysz. They enclosed them as with the blades of shears, with the handle at Lyekovo. The Russians turned the tables on Februory 24th, when they cap tured Krasnioltz, beat back the German, left to Schliar, and took Prasnysz. They enveloped the other flank westwards, preventing retreat towards Mlava. The remainer of the Germans are now falling back on Thorn. GERMAN ARMY CORPS BADLY.. SMASHED. PETROGRAD, March 7. The Russians on the 2Gtli and 27th forced two army corps to retire :o a neck seven miles wide between Dzeelin and Schliar. Of one army corps, mostly freshly trained, only a quarter escaped. BIG HAULS BY THE RUSSIANS. PETROGRAD, March 7. The Russians captured 153 officers, 18,522 men, five guns, 52 machine-guns, 519 horses, and many trains in the Stanislavoff region in ten days. The Russians captured 12 guns, "9 machine-guns, 122 caissons, and many trains at Prasnysz. SPRING COMES IN POLAND. PETROGRAD, March 0. The "Times" correspondent in Petrograd says that between the Niemen and the Vistula the snow has disappear ed and spring is now infull sway. The battle lines are moving irresistibly towards German soil, and the Kaiser's staunchest regiments cannot stem the tide. A VALUABLE CAPTURE. MASTERLY ENVELOPMENT MOVE MENT. LONDON, March 6. A French military expert at Warsaw states the Russian success at Prasnysz opens the Prussian frontier at the most vulnerable spot. Forced marches night and day through snow resulted in a masterly envelopment, from which the Germans were only able to extricate the remnants of three army corps with the greatest difficulty.—(Times-Syd-ney Sun Special Service.)

REIGN OF TERROR IN BUKOVINA. LONDON, March <5. The Chronicle's Novesilitza correspondent reports a reign of terror in Bukovina. Spies swarm the province denouncing innocents with Roumanian sympathies and extorting money by threats of denunciation. There have been wholsesale executions at Csern*, witz, Others than Austrians fled- fearing persecuton. WORLD'S GREATEST -MOUNTAIN BATTLE. LONDON, March 6. An observer in the Carpathiansstates that the most terrific mountain battle in the annals of the world is proceeding among the snowbound precipices and woods around Dukla. The snow is so deep that the dead who wore bayoneted remain standing.— (Times-Sydney Sun Special Service.) AN AUSTRIAN HOLOCAUST. ENORMOUS LOSSES. PETROGRAD, March 6. Details of the battle at Stanislavoff show that the Austrians at the outset had 20 big guns on heig'its commanding the Russian positions. After initial successes, the infantry advanced in four lines, each composing four regiments, with auxliary troops. When a hundred yards had been covered, a masked Russian battery opened against the artillery and the infantry. Arter the latter had been heavily shelled, the Cosacks galloped in, throwing the lines into confusion. The Cossacks then withdrew and the quick-firers took up the work, mowing down the Austrian front line and forcing the others to retreat. The Austrians thereafter vainly endeavoured to make a stand. Their losses were enormous. AUSTRIANS WEAKENING. PETROGRAD March 7. In the Carpathians the Austrian attacks are everywhere becoming more feeble.

GREEK CABINET RESIGNS. (Reed. 7 p.m.) ATHENS, March 7. The Cabinet has resigned, the King disapproving of its policy. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CONTINUES. DRIVING GERMANS AND AUSTRIANS. PETROGRAD March 7. Official: The enemy has been dislodged from the heights northward of Lomza. We are continuing the offensive in Eastern Galicia after expelling the Autsrians from fortified positions at Bistritza.

RUSSIAN FORTRESS CAPTURED. GERMANS TAKE GRODNO AFTER THREE DAYS' ATTACK. OSOWIEC HOLDING OUT. Press Association —CopyrigM. Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 7. A Petrograd semi-official despatch states that the Germans nave captured Grodno after a ceaseless three days' attack. The fortress of Osowiec is successfully withstanding the siege. GERMAN SUBMARINES. SEVEN LOST IN TWO WEEKS. (Reed. 8.30 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, March 7. The Weekly Tageblatt admits that according to news from neutral countries more than seven German submarines have been sunk since February 18th. SCANDINAVIAN RESENTMENT. (Reed. 8.30 a.m.) * COPENHAGEN, March 7. Scandinavian shipping companies refuse to carry German goods in the direction of America.

BERLIN FOOD ALLOWANCE. (Reed. 8.30 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, March 7. Advices from Berlin statle that the individual allowance of flour has already been reduced from two thousand to 1400 grammes. A PRIEST SHOT. CHURCHES DAMAGED OR DEMOLISHED. (Reed. 8.55 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, March 7. Evrey church in the Dixmude district has bean damaged, and forty demolished. Abbe Demen, of Essen, was shot in a churchyard l by the Burgomaster of Handzoemeshot, GERMAN REGRETS. • THE ASTURIAS INCIDENT. (Reed. 8.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON March 7. The German Embassy, in a statement, regrets the attempt to torpedo the Asturias. It was mistaken for a transport. BATHTUBS WANTED. IN THE TRENCHES. (Reed. 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, March 7. Bath tubs needlad in the trenches has led to the opening of public scriptions, also for sterilising soldiers' clothing.

BIBLE DISTRIBUTION. AMONG THE GERMANS. (Reed. 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, March 7. It wa s stated at the Bible Societies' Birthday meleting that three hundred thousand copies of t'he German version had been distributed in Germany since the commencement of the war. A SATISFACTORY REPORT. (Reed. 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, March 7. A communique states: We progressed at De Lorette, the German losses were considerable, We also progressed at Perthes and Beauslsjour. We carried two hilltops at West Munetter in the Vosge s and captured Imburg on Pecht, south-east of also two hills north of South Imburg. We repulsed German counterattacks at Hartmanns with heavy losses. AUSTRO-GERMAN RETREAT. DESERTERS IN HUNDREDS CAPTURED. (Reed. 8.30 a.m.) ROME, March 7. The Austro-Hungarian army at Bukovina., undlar two German generals, is in full retreat. The men are deserting and being taken prisoner in hundreds.

ATTEMPT TO SINK HOSPITAL SHIP. GERMANY IS SORRY. A LYING EXCUSE. (Reed. 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON March 7. Count Von Bernstorff has issued an explonation of the attack on the hos* pital ship Asturias, The German Gov' .eminent is sorry to admit the attack, but as the distinctive marks showing the ship's character were not illuminated the submarine's captain mistook her for a transport. The moment the vessel was recognised the attacks ceased. (The British Admiralty in recording the outrage, stated that there could be no excuse for the submarine's action, in th e manner Count Bernstorff attempts to explain.)

THE BLOCKADE, UNITED STATES' REPLY. LONDON, March 5. New York reports that the Allies' interdiction resulted in American under writers refusing to accept a risk on cargoes to Germany and Austria except under the proviso that it be free from British capture. Berlin reports that Count Reventlow, in an article in the Duetehe TageZeitung, expresses strong displeasure at Germany's reply to the United -States blockade Note. Ho declares that according to this reply a submarine would let ■ a merchantman pass under the Englsh dag with courteous looks or perhaps a salute to the flag. To proceed according to international rules would mean abandoning the search and possible capture of \ieutral ships or the capture of hostile ships. Such a course for German submarines was out of the question. England promised to stop the use of false flags; promise. German}'', in any case, would be the loser. Die Post says the fact, that the United States' allege! proposals were based on upright friendliness and submitted in the interests of humanity is enough to make one suspicous from the start,

GERMANY'S TOLL IN MEN. PARIS, March G. The official estimates put the minimum German losses, including sick and prisoners, at three million.s ' ANOTHER ESTIMATE. PARIS, March 6. Another official estimate places the German losses as at least three millions, excluding sick. The calculation is based on the fact that ten regiments lost 36,281 officers and men in five months. HINDENBURG'S LOSSES. LONDON, March 6. It is estimated that General von Hindenburg has lost over a quarter of a million during the last month. Nearly 30,000 were killed at Prasnysz. THE SUNKEN GNEISENAU. LONDON, March 6. The Gneisenau still blocks the Scheldt. The Germans made repeated efforts to raise her but failed. They requested Holland for appliances, but this was refused. (On the evacuation of Antwerp, the German steamer Gneisenau was one of the many ships sunk in the harbour.)