LATE WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 201, 3 May 1915, Page 7

LATE WAR NEWS.

| FRENCH AVIATORS KILLED. PARIS, May 2.. Two French aviators, reconnoitringnear Chalons, fell, and were killed. RUSSIAN COLLIER TORPEDOED. LONDON, May 1.. The U 23 torpedoed the Russian collier Svorno oft* the Kerry coast.. She ■nank in twelve minutes. The crew was saved in the boats. TURKISH WAR LOAN. COPENHAGEN, May 1.. A message from Berlin says Djavid Bey has arranged for a Turkish war loan of fifty millions sterling. BRITISH COAL CRISIS. A STRIKE IMMINENT. LONDON, May 2. Negotiations in regard to the coal crisis have broken down. It is feared only immediate Government action will prevent a strike. The Miners' Conference unanimously rejected the employers' offer of an i immediate increase, and decided to 1 leave their claim for a 20 per cent, increase entirely to Sir G. Askwith's decision. SITUATION UNCHANGED. LONDON, May 1. Sir John French say's 1 the. .British situation if; unchanged. Activity lias been confined to artillery. - DUTCH PRIZE COURT AWARDS. "AMSTERDAM, May 2. ' The prize court at Hamburg awarded several Dutch companies indemnities for illo seizure and detention of trawlers. THE GERMANS TRAPPED. . ___ A BELGIAN RUSE. PARIS, May 2. I After penetrating the Belgian linos between Ypres and Lnngemark, the i Germans entrenched preparatory to fur- : ther advance. Meanwhile the Belgians j concentrated a grenadier battalion with many inaehine-guns, ii' strong 1 entrenchments in silence. In '-:'<;rr that | tire Germans might i-orffinontly advance in massed formation towards Tprcs'tlic Germans "we:> avowed to apgian whistle sounded', and ove'rv r-A\c\ and machine-gun was worker to its fullest capacity. The foremost 0. ■■/- man ranks were unable to escape owing to the pressure of the misses be- ! hind, and soon the ground was f;:rpcfed with German corpses. V thousand were killed and wounded tntf r-.--mamder broke an;' '■:•;!. •. :•<? ■■.■/.. a'..- J had few killed and '•■'<'■ v '.-•Kir-"!. i