FURTHER WESTERN SUCCESSES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 168, 20 March 1915, Page 5

FURTHER WESTERN SUCCESSES.

ADVANCES AT SEVERAL POINTS. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Reed. 9.10 a.m.) PARIS,. March 19. A communique states; We captured and destroyed the enemy’s communications and trenches near Notre Dan>e de Lorette and towards the village of Ablain, killing or capturing the defenders. We progressed 150 metres af-, ter a violent %ht betwe'en Four de Paris and Bolante, also carried a salient point at Leseprages, eastward of the position held by the enemy since February and we repulsed three coun-ter-attacks. TURKISH KULTURE. • A HORRIFYING THREAT. AMSTERDAM, March 19. The Telegraaf’s Berlin correspondent states that when the bombardment of Smyrna began the Vali arrested two thousand French and British subjects and threatened to place them in front of the Allies’ guns if tlu ships did not cease firing. PRZEMSYZL STILL FIRINGTHOUSAND HEAVY SHELL DAILY. PETROG RAD,Mar. .19. Official. The guns at Przemysl continue , to fire a thousand heavy projectiles daily, hut with little effect. MURDEROUS WORK IN POLAND . VILLAGES CONTINUALLY CHANGE HANDS. PETROGRAD, Mar. 19. There is fierce fighting for the poses- 1 siou of villages on the right bank of I the Narew. They continually change i hands. There is murderous machinegun fighting in the daytime and desperate i bayonet charges by night. GERMAN INTRIGUE. ; ENDEAVOURS TO PERVERT PERSIA AND INDIA. LONDON, Mar. 19, The Press Bureau states that documentary evidence has reached the Government proving that German Consular officials intrigued to facilitate the invasion of Persia. Wassmuss, Consul at Shiraz, and recently at Cairo and Constantinople, was also in possession of thousands of copies of a violent inflammatory pamphlet in English, Urdu, Hindustani, Punjabi, and .Sikh, calling on the Indian army to kill their officers. Correspondence at the German Legation at Bushire shows that a large consignment of arms and ammuntiou reach ed Bushire secretly, and was taken upeountry by officers of the gendarmerie for Persian shiekhs at Raisole, who were desirous of attacking Bushire. The Legation promised to combine the Raisoli attack with a German movement, already secretly arranged, which was designed to win over all Persia. GERMANY’S SAD OUTLOOK. r LONDON, Mar. 19. The “Times” military correspondent says the population of Germany is a third larger than ours, and the German casualties are ten times more numberous. We read our casualty lists daily with set faces. What would we think if our casualties were proportionately as large as the enemy ’s, whose inmost thoughts, though bravely, concealed, must dwell on the unpalatable truth that, after unparalleled sacrifices of life, money and material, Germany has failed to establish predominance enabling her to aspire to a favourable peace.