LATE WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 205, 10 May 1915, Page 3

LATE WAR NEWS.

OFFICIAL REPORT. CONSTANTINOPLE BOMBED. VARIOUS ATTACKS REPULSED. LONDON, May 7. In th e House of Commons Mr Asquith gave details of the landing of troops on April 25th in face of much opposition from artillery and infantry. Debarkation commenced at 3 a.m. and proceeded the whole day in face of fir e from snipar s Colonial losses were heavy, but by sunrise they had established themselves on the cliffs and heights, capturing Turkisjh trenches, and repulsing counter-attacks. The landing was supported by the fleet, which shelled Turkish positions and forest. Russians dropped bombs on Constantinople, doing considerable damage. North of Ypres the Allies repulsed a night attack. South of Ypres, the Germans attacked trneches on Hill 60, using asphyxiating gas. The British counter-attacked and recaptured the position. Petrograd reports a naval action in the Baltic The result is not known. CHINA AND JAPAN. UNPARALLELED DEMANDS. MORE STRINGENT THAN AUSTRIA LONDON, May 7. The “Daily News,” in a leading article’ says it i s not easy to And a parallel for such demands .by one powet to another as Japan has made upon Cjhina. In many respects Japan’s demands are more stringent than Austria’s were on Servia which led to the European war China had done nothing ot merit such a penalty, and has offered no menace. She wanted only to enjoy her own liberties in her own way. If China had been a military jsfhe would! jhavje been thus challenged. She has neither the will nor the power to take an irroconciliable cours e against her powerful neighbour. It would be grotesque to suggest that she was responsible for the crisis, which will be tho last and most bitter tragedy of this war if one of its consequences is that an unoffending nation whose independence and integrity the Anglo-Japan-ese Alliance guaranteed/, should} h© despoiled by one of th s signatories to the Alliance. DETERMINED TO REACH CALAIS. AMBTERP ' M, V--- fl There is great concentration of Germans --it Roulers, Conrtiai, arm L’llo I foreshadowing v determined ' cTo A U i re.idi Olais. Fifrocn-iJich. guns 1m v< been mounted a few miles north of Nieuport.