HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 209, 15 May 1915, Page 5

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT.

WEEK'S SUBMARINING. CONSTITUTES A RECORD. RUSSIANS RESUME OFFENSIVE IN EASTERN GADICIA. The High Commissioner reports, under date London, May 14th, 3.15 p.m.: Last night the French carried several German trenqhes south-west of Souchez, in spite of the difficult slippery nature of the ground- and main, tained all gains at Loos and Arras. In the Valley of the Aisne the French destroyed four German blockhouses and several trenches. Th e Admiralty announces that the loss last week of six merchant ships, of a gross tonnage of 47,564, out of 1427 sailings was tjhe biggest weekly tonnage loss during the wajr. Two British submarines penetrated the Straits, and are now operating in the Sea of Marmora. Gei-mans were thrown back in Eastern Galicia and the Russians have assumed the offensive, and in the Carpathians the enemy attacks were (repulsed.

CARENCY CAPTURED. BRILLIANT SUCCESS BY ALLIES. LONDON, May 13. The High Commissioner reports:'— • North of Arras the Allies had a brilliant success on Wednesday evening. On Wednesday and Thursday at Notre Dame de Lorette we mastered a fort and a church, sustaining a violent counter-attack from vast quadrilateral' trenches south of the church. In the morning we were entire masters of the position, and hrflicted extremely heavy losses on the enemy. The same night we took by assault the: whole village of Carency and a wood to the north. The garrison holding Carency had built a formidable . redoubt, and although much diminished by the preceding day's losses in killed, wounded, and prisoners, put up a desperate resistance, in a labyrinth of blockhouses and trenches, which was broken. By daybreak the Allies were.complete masters of the position. The Allies killed hundreds of. Germans with the bayonet, making 1,050 prisoners, including 30 officers. The Allies' attacks near the village of Neuville appreciably progressed, gaining hundreds of metres and capturing the Neuvilie-Givenchy railway. At Givenchy. itself the Allies carried house by house the whole of the soilage, occupying the southern portion on Wednesday morning and throwing the Germans into the north, which the Allies are now overwhelming. By wireless, the Germans admit these losses and the loss'of much material. FURTHER IMPORTANT RESULTS. I • LONDON, May 14. | The High Commissioner reports: —

North of Arras the Allies obtained further important "results. The. capture of Careney ; yielded many guns and munitions, which' it is as yet impossible to number completely. • In a forest the Allies found the bodies of three German eompaTiicK which had been annihilated by our artillery. The eremy bombarded Carer,ry -without- result. FARTHER ADVANCE BY FRENCH. - • . v PARIS May 14. Ofieiai: i v iom Oareiicy we advanced to Alblaiu and fst. N'ozaire, and hold nil except the eastern!outskirts, where the situs';]? ( , o* , 'MnreJ 1 .. We took A-CTB s , f"'---r"l l":.ridiV' le . '■"■<! imm<+uvi»/) »e?eatpt*n ?t. Nouvilli" r, ni! **M. Vaast.'/' . .. ALLIES CAPTURE BOIS PETRE. LONDON, May 11. The High Commissioner reports: The capture of a fresh line of German trenches at Bois le Petre has made the Allies masters of the last German defensive organisation which still resisted in that wood. The whole position is now in the hands of the Allies. BELGIANS REPULSE GERMANS. LONDON, May It. The Belgians on the right bank of the Yser repulsed the enemy, who lost several hundreds. DARDANELLES NAVAL LOSSES. The High Commissioner report?: LONDON, May 14. At the Dardanelles the naval men killed number ••..' wounded 61. BANNERS HAULED DOWN. *'■:.! 'ALIENS BEING'ARRESTED. MANY VOLUNTARILY SURRENDER .(Reed, fi.f.o a.m.) •-■ ' •-;: : - LONDON, May U. ■: Banners. Including the Crown Prince's. \vi:ro recf&Ve'd" to-dayi ..Orderji havg. been issued r or the arrest of enemy alien? M>*nv ;v.v roV•mtaril 1 ?' sur/reufV-'rio.s

AT THE MEDANELLES. THE ALLIES ADVANCING. CRUSHING TURKISH RESISTANCE j (Reed. 11.55 a.m.) j ATHENS, May 14. , The Allie s of the Gabakepe sector are continually; brushing the Turkish desperate resistance. SUBMARINE IN SEA OF MARMORA TENEDOS, May 14. Two British submarines passed the Dardanelles minefields and entered the j Sea of Marmora a fortnight ago. The I Turks claim to have captured them, but until a few days ago the submarines had it all their own way between Gallipoli and Constantinople, sinking vessels, providing themselves with fuel and provisions, and spreading panic amongst the Turkish shipping. NEW 2EALANDER WOUNDED. MEMBER OF MEDICAL CORPS. LONDON, May 14. Lieut. H. P. Wjhite, of the Medical Corps, a New has been wounded in Flanders.

NEARLY ALL FORTS QUIET. (Reed. 12.45 a.m.) " ATHENS, May 14. Kilih Bahr and Souander.e are the only European forts replying.' Aren Kioi and other forts on the Asiatic side of tjhe Straits are also firing. Movable howitzer battories shielded b)y thick pinewoods en th e Asiatic shore are still troublesome. SPION KOP.

TURKS' RESISTING DESPERATELY POSITIONS ALMOST IMPREGNA- .;.'•-■ BLE. ALLIES. GAINING GROUND. LARGE REINFORCEMENTS -LANDfING (Reed. 9.45 p.m.) ATHENS, May 14. The fighting at Gallipot has been indecisive, but the Allies have achieved !a number of minor successes, the French "seventy-fives" inflicting enormous loss:; ,A severe struggle continues between the towns of Gallipoli and Maidos.Thc Turks, reinforced, are resisting desperately. The fortified. -heights of Achibaba resemble Spion Kop for impregnability. The Turkish army i s penned h)ere surrounded by the British on the west, the French on the south, and the Australians on the east and north. The Allies are continually gaining ground, forcing the Turks back on their main positions. Th{e Alices are tyaifcg* continually reinforced by troopships from Egypt Fra:4.cq, the reinforcempnt/s \acludiing .FJre-nch;, . Bjritisb;-, Sikhs,. Gurkhas and Senegalese. The landing of;the reinfox-cements i s readily- effected. ■ ' NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. WELLINGTON, This Day, The following casualties have occurred at the fighting at the Dardanelles ill the New Zealand Expeditionary Fori'-er-r DIED OP WOUNDS. AIJC K!. AND B ATTALION. ii i»ate i. Guy. r< : iV.vite W. ". Hvffc:..:i, Lijuiei: i' -•.!.' r.:ir,K.: :' :.- •• : r•-. ir.v.rr' ... 4ev}V..>a»t B. B. Wood. : OTAWO BATTALION. Private ... \V. D, Pldd.es; Private. Y. Uardinor. \V i; I ,LI N (■! TON BATTALION. Private J. 11. Smith, died of apj.v. dicitis. - j: .-.'■--.•■ OTAGO BATTALION. Private A. J. Dyer. ;••■■ ENGINEERS. Sapper E. 0. Ruddock. DANGEROUSLY ILL. A. I'C'KL A Xl j BATTALION. Private W. S. Fuller, Private A. Mcludoe, Private !"».' MacPherson, Private F. Underwood, Lieutenant J. W. Pcake. Lieutenant H. H. S. Westmacott. . OTAGO BATTALION. Private I!. Bi'sifthwaite,,Private R. J. McCall. WELLINGTON - BATTALION. Private E.'J. Pry day. •"■•'••'. . . WOUNDED. ■' AUC.K! L\ X i > B A.TT A LIQN. Major T. H. Dawson, Lieutenant J. R. Bodley, Lieutenant' .T. B. Macfarlaiie, Private \V. .1. Bintkiville, Private R. T. Basin-. Private W, 8. Bickerton. Private B. A. Do 3'rfe*, Private C. J. Hally, Private L. -0. .IT.UI, Choral R. V. Hollis, Privtite C: !). .fv'vvip. Private W.J. Lister,. Private W. Minn;,,]], Private L. W.. jWiIS'R. Private .1. son, Serg.eant-ilo.ior AVlßbßeitsoii," Pri-vate-A. E. Robinson, Priv"ui(rp."'.sinp. Private Jo 1 !*- .-'i; irh. Privuti' a. .'!. fatherland. !'r-\ • W ['. '!.;. -A, v.. ..,•■;:.

F. Wilson. I'riv;vtv-'7\-P;'l>^lfT.tf ( rr- '• gciously), Private -•■■ fi 'Lovr/jyi, Private, G. F. Adams. Private H. Pieksfon, Private C..F. Bickerton. Private C. P. Billing, W. Cronin, Private A. E. 'Eagleton, Private F. D. En; wrigbt, Private A. GauLt, Private H, L. Private T. « r ones, Private A. E. St. G. Long, p*Lv'at» k. W. Moddon, Private D. McLean* Private 11. W. Pain, Private T. 8. Patterson, Private W. Robertson, Private G. IT - Rotliery, Private G. E. Speedily, Corporal W. B. Del Willis, Private K. McLean. CAOTERB UE Y B ATT A LION. Captain K. M. Gresson, Lance-Cor* poral G. 11. Terens, Private W. Grey, Corporal M. S. Hamber, Private W. & Hasell, Private .H. Hirsz, Private E. E: Johnstone, Lance-Corporal E. W. Malt laseh, Private G. G. Menzies, Private C, McPherson, Private J. Olds, Private . T , R. Patterson, Private H. E. Sapsford, Private F. Scott, Sergeant R. H. WiW, Private H. E. Wratt. OTAGO BATTALION. Private J. Adams, Private R. Apple* grath, Private P. G. Batters, Privatfc E. B. Begett, Private A. Bigwood, Private J. N. Carnegie, Private T. R.■ Car?-, son, Private T. A. Crabbe. Private .Te Cumming, Private A. Dicker,, .Private.

H. H. Dodds, Private A. J. Gill. -Private A. G. Girvana, Private A. Goodift, Private L. P. Hoff, Private C. Hovsartb, Corporal A. G. Inkster, Private C. L„ Jampen, Private H. Laws, Private J. Pagan, Corporal A. H. Piper,, Private W. P. Quested, Sergeant-Ma jor D. P, Pryde, Private A. Robertson* Lanco Corporal M. Eoderique. Private A. H. Russel, Private A. Ryan. Private D« Spurrier, Private H. Steere, Private T?, W. Ward, Private H. P. Wilson. Privates C. Parker, G. Cameron. W* T.' Carruthers, G. Edwards, Lance-Cor-! poral W. Hamilton, Privates W. Jone§ a T. ST. MeFarland, W. N: Manses, Lance-Corporal W. G. Mathewson. Privates W. P. Morrin, W. ,T. O'Sullivan, JJ. L. Porter, E. Robertson, W. H. Vernon, G. A. Vincent, J. M. White.

WELLINGTON BATTALION. Major E. H. Saunders, Lieutenant H. E. McKinnon. Private 1?. ,T. D(>niir. Private J. Lattimer, Private H. Private G. L. Noble. .Private F, J* Price. Privates E. H. Alabaster, D. K. Armstrong, ...'Laiie.c-Corp.oral A. i)i Burnes, Private C. H. Canton, Lan.£«« Corporal J". Tk Coadington, Privates.l\ R. jDelisle, K. R, V. Hnrte, B. Hay. ward, A. J. "Hill, P. J. Hi.ll, C..R. L<?<?, S. J. H. Lowry, F. 0. McCoy, W. B". Mansfield, G. W. May,. C. Mitchell, B. J. Morgan, 0. Paaske, H. •A. Phiiiipf. T. E. Reynolds, Corporal C. R. Rcs&t-I!, Private A. J. Toohill. THE ITALIAN CRISIS. IF ITALY HAD DECLARED .WAT.*. LONDON. May H. Copenhagen report;; that .the K:-.';>-returning from Galicia," confer- i with-Baron Burian. Simultaneous"-/, the Austrian Emperor held ;nn"Extra- :- dinary Council of Ministers. The < .• ect of the Kaiser's eottfenmee wrii- •'•. decide the army dispositions in i •■•. event of Italy refusing Austria's f)-<J' offer, with which a courier Was hu r ; ing to Borne. PARLIAMENT TO DECIDE;*'. . BERLIN PAPERS PLEASED. ROMi-;. May 1 . . The Cabinet'was in i\ .-v;>ar -if 1 ■ ■■■■■ ing the final decision to Parliam- :.-:. which meets, on the 20tb... The King-is desiroi'is that ment's decision should .lK v --;uiauJm?:ii: j Troop's are guarding Sigr.or Giojitri '-. house; ~_._'. ... . ■'"";' BERLIN, M.;y 11 Newspapers express satisfaction ■•■• Signor; Giolitti's attitude, and be*.'<iv.i* the Italian storm will now pass over. EXCITEMENT . JN TH K ■ fcT-RESTe ROME, May,l4 :'■. Troops have, been ■-••.-a lieu out, o\vi-.- ; to the increasing, .excitement. Crowd': are parading the streets threatening, the neutralists, parlcularly Giolitf Those in favour of war include tin Democrats, Radical and Reform 'Socialists, Republican Nationalists, and suV' porters of the Cabinet. The neutralists include Catholics and Conscrvrtists, and supporters of Giolitti. Tfc' latter's open declaration that wr - should be avoided, as Italy will obtai" adequate concession;-; from"'"Austria, brought internal conflict to a head. A large majority of the Italian pev" pie condemn Giiolitti's mercenary attitude, and believe that war is necefc sary, whatever territorial satisf actio". be given. It is believed that Italy, must do her share in re-establishing law and justice to humanity an crushing (German militarism, which i£ a J peril to civilisation.