GERMANY AND AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 202, 4 May 1915, Page 5

GERMANY AND AMERICA.

A VERY SERIOUS BREACH. (Reed 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, May 3. A Reuter message from Wasington says that the torpedoing of the Gulflight has created a stir in official circles. Th e gravity of the situation is everywhere admitted. The New York “World" declares that this is by far the most serious case, involving as it does the United States under the' war Germany must strictly be jheld accountable. SINKING OF THE RECRUIT. V> May 3. The submarine which sank: tliedey. st"oyerf,Recruit, crossed the Recruit’s bows and/- manoeuvred into position, The missile-crashed into the Recruit amidships and the Recruit slowly heeled. Her signals brought the Daisy, and the latter’s signals brought destroyers. GERMANS USE ETHER BOMBS. WELLINGTON, May 3, I The Prime Minister has received the following cablegram frim the High Commissioner:— LONDON, May ||,j Paris reports that the enemy on eral parts of the front used on Sunday various devices, including glass tubes, which, upon breaking, emitted ether bombs charged with inflammable mater- i ial. . Gas giving-off green smoke wreathed the enemy’s lines, but failed to reach those of the Allies. ’ . £, ' WILL ITALY JOIN? BROAD HINT FROM RUSSIA, (Times and Sydney Sun Special Cables) LONDON, May 3. A Petrograd message states that the rumour that an agreement between Italy and the Entente Powers has-been concluded is undoubtedly premature, but negotiations are progressing. Italy has been reminded that if she postpones her decision until the Russians descend on to the Hungarian plain, her support will be largely deprived of its value. l i ‘ cTHE DOMINION TROOPS.! - THEIR EFFECT ON GERMANY.

.LONDON, May 3. : ,’S Colonel Maud, Standard, declares that th&UliUrtitf* and? Ms*... brilli^conduct at the Dardanelles will probably exercise a great influence on the German General Staff, who have formed a very low estimate of their fighting value, but now the Canadia'ns and Australasians have shown their capability the Germans will at last form a serious conception of what the British* Empire,, in arms"means. ' *' * • ’ ■\?|dE-RE<|Ali> CONGRATULATIONS. M - c siNT -TQ. OUR BOYS. o; ; V v x * y isls v 3l&Cellency the Governor has forwarded the ifollowing cable- message f 5 the General 'Officer Commanding the New Zealand-r-troops at the Dardanelles,Secretary of State for the Coloniesv •' •'New ' Zealand'ds filled with . pride at what "(hen- troops have and desires* that ■ you will convey bo alp ranks her tri'bute' df''appreteiatiotr * of r their ‘"gallant • conduct: ’ New Zealand looks forward 'eagerly' to having fuller details' regarding the operations of her men!*’— Liverpool, ■

’ A: GERMAN REPORT.,. .**• < ■ RUSSIANS FRYING; - ' GERMANS IN HOT PURSUIT:" - AMSTERDAM, May 3. A- German communique state s that they have taken 1,780 Russian prisoners south3ftf. Mitau. 4, , After severe fighting *ln iMekV'Galicia; Hppgajpan, fpopti^jP^at Dunaiee, on the Vistula, e_d ijhe Russian front numerous points the. Russians back. v/h'Sre.^those escaping being hotly pursued. A

I NEW, ZEALANDER KILLED. LONDON, May 3. Captain;Henry Lines Walker (a New Zealander), of the Warwickshire.?, was killed in action, A GERMAN INVASION. ADVANCE ON RUSSIAN COAST. PETROGRAD, May S. Official: The Germans are occupying the Shavli district, and German patrols have appeared near Libau. German torpedoers visited the Gulf of Riga. GRAPHIC STORY OP BIG FIGHT. GERMANS USE POISONED SHELLS MANY ACTS OF GALLANTRY. LONDON, May 3. "Eye-Witness” says that when the Frenchmen were retiring before the gas-clouds the British positon was shelled with a high explosive for some hours. The Germans also fired poison shells for an- hour. The infantry, who rvcrc entrenched a hundred and twenty yards away, evidently expected this result, and looked over their parapet to see the effect. We poured a rapid rifle fire at them at intervals, A strong wind dissipated the fumes and we did not suffer seriously... The enemy did not attempt to advance.

On the 24th the Germans used gas on several occasions, but they did not press forward quickly, a prisoner explaining that many of the German infantry wpre overcome by the fumes and could not advance. On the 26th the Germans, who "were massed at St. Julien, made several assaults with increasing fierceness, but reinforcements secured our positions.

Further east our lines were pierced near Broodseina, an a small body of tlip enemy occupied a portion of our {trenches. An Anglo-French counter;attack ' was made the same afternoon from S’teenstraate, to eastward of St. Julien, accompanied by fi violent bombardment. j This was evidently the turning-point of the' : battle, for it caused a definie check ththo enemy’s offensive and: relieved-; the - pressure. A certain amount. o|-,jgypuad -was regained. During the ,',attack ( :thei guns. on both sides, contracted . to?.® f comparatively narrow front poured out a great volume of fire. . The .infantry-on our right stormed the German* trenches' r close to St. Julien, and in the gained the southern outskirts of a village on the centre, and farther*West : "'a similar advance was six hundred kilomtres, though we could not maintain the gains at all points. Opposite St. Julien wfejfbft back 1 southward, the enemy making extensive use of gas and machine-guns. "i the ntime, the French .niiern^J, Our losses were heavy. buVnie"enemy’s were errible', their'close formation making an excellent" artillery target. There was a lull’after the lYth. , . ‘'•*-:*t**\ . >fc O-* the enemy being greatly after five days’ fighting. .There were many acts of gallantry. ; w _ A machinegun on our left in an angle the trenches continued in. action, .-.though dead bodies lay around* iU-; vThe sixth' man took his place—though his'vbrother was one/ of .the fallen -mem^The»GeVmans pressed on, but ■he' whited until they were only a few yh'fds away, and then poured in a stream"of ;'pjifletV’ The advance was broken and ftfby"rail'"back,’ leaving rows of dead, while the heroic guhne/ywas wounded. ! at Co«r.t.£?tl-£ost .us life. The aviator i\sl:<^tcd l-; .ab>ac arriving at Courtrai glided down to; 300 ft., and dropped"’a largo ’’BtSStTlEfi the railway' Junetidh." 1 'M nM"while he was a target fof Ti'undfcdhA-'f rifles and machine-guns. ■ a mb'-was severely wounjed in the thigh. He might ligwe saved ibis life'*by v‘‘& the enemy liufes, Sledded th save the .machnieftiiiftf for the British,, lines/ hit n?sfrally wounded, but he carried' on, llrfitPed : 4t , his own base, made his report, and died.,i,n- the hospital!"i /*■■, ;i: i (yhe. aviator-'refered -to iVasV/oor.house,,a New Zealander iudongin • Christchurch.) - • ■ i* ~— -r’— tw GHERMAN j- ... . ‘ ’ . ■■'■f -•- GASES FAlft • $ ■ •••: ■ o ’PA BIS, *: > I .Official: Mgoh&e-grfug stopped a (Mf*- ; man .attack ombhr’right. norfhwhtiJ '"oP ■Ypres. j; ■<{& AXi^, .••■‘Eighty Germans armed with wirecutters/ grenades and Browning automatic •'revolvers, attacked oar lines 'southward of Cha'fiffi&e^'fhe ! w&fbsty were shot down. The enemy in thV’ V ahlrlf and'in the phajftpagß«**6jn#oy ’*find bombs .'changed' veSfhe-Si gas. The gas overhung the ■■Criemy lsi! lines, but did not'-ieach'-ouTS.c-%. fi.. r We bombarded fife soatKerrt'froxft'-'if • the entronchedAjafep' - a<f Met^‘tfJ feetiveness of‘the shells ws-s.-n-otieeable on one of tSthc!Sfe&ri9SSsfi and the-adjsceiit ,v n/ r Ar