LATE WAR NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 211, 18 May 1915, Page 7

LATE WAR NEWS

AMERICA'S NOTE. STRAIGHT TO THE POINT. LONDON, May 16. The "Pall Mall Gazette" says the American public realise they cannot without dishonour remain neutral between civilisation and its enemies. President Wilsoon has so framed hi s Not.e that Germany must declare herself, must denounce Bernstorff's advertised threat in regard to the Lusitania, or admit she wilfully employs foulest weapons. "WHIPS OF SCORPIONS." NEW YORK, May 16. The " Herald " describes President Wilson's Note as "whips of scorpions." Tihe most significant words are the plain declaration of an expression of regret. Tlie offer of reparation will not satisfy if submarine warfare on commerce continues. Germany must squarely back down and cease murdering neutrals. If another American ship is torpedoed the Atlantic fleet must start for th e war zone.

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. . KILLED IN ACTION. AUCKLAND BATTALION. Lieutenant T. G. N. Screatch Lieutenant N. Steadman ' Second-Lieutenant H. Morgan Second-Lieutenant D. B. Carpenter CANTERBURY BATTALION. Lieutenant A. E. Forsythe WELLINGTON BATTALION. Captain A. Frandi Lieutenant G. B. Stuart Menteath, DIED OP WOUNDS. OTAGO BATTALION. Private S. S. McNeil Private H. H. Kerr WELLINGTON BATTALION. Private E. J. Fryday Sergeant W. A. Gunn Private John O'Keefe Private J. IT. Pickard DANGEROUS LIST. CANTERBURY BATTALION. Captain K. M. Gresson, progressing favourably i OTAGO BATTALION. Captain G. L. Smith Lieutenant T. H. Nisbet Lieutenant R. P. Jones WOUNDED. CANTERBURY BATTALION. Lieutenant-Colonel W. R. Pearless Captain-Chaplain T. F. Taylor Lieutenant A. D. Stitt OTAGO BATTALION. Captain W. Fleming (not seriously) Lieutenant (late Sergeant) W. K. Dougall WELLINGTON BATTALION. Privates R. Ashworth J. Beaver H. W. Bennett Private W. R. Beresford Private M. H. Boyd Private G. A. Bowker Private H. K. Brooke Taylor Private W, Brough Corporal J. Claffey Sergeant T. R. ClancyPrivate P. H. Clee Private J. Deacon Sergeant C. N. Devery Corporal E. H. T. Dunn Private W. Elliott Private A. E. Emson Private S. W. Golding Private H. A. W. Gray Lance-Corporal J. Griffiths Private H. V. Harrison , Lance-Corporal E. D. Harvey Private James Holleran Private James Horton Private G. Knight Private J. Knowlea Private H. Lyons Private J. E. McGilligan Private W. J. Mcintosh Private James McKenzie Private A. Millard Private T. J. Morgan Private J. B. MeNicol Private H. Pederson. ' ..#" Private W. Pwttifloa :jW- ':• ;

Corporal E. Rea Private A. E. Prentice Private W. Eedmayne Private J. J. Boss Private G. Ross Private G. H. Scriwjgeour Private J. E. Sewell Private P. Jewell Private E. Slow Private J. S. Smith Corporal W. T. Spratt Private F. A. Steele Private. A. D. Sutton Private F. R. Swindlehurst Private W. W. Tindale Private E. Webster Private R. T. Wells Private D. R. Wilson Private R. F. Wright BRITISH ATTACK ON AUBERN. NEUVE CHAPELLE ON A GREATER SCALE. GALLANT, BUT FUTILE. LONDON, May 16. The "Daily Mail" publishes a spectator's account of the fight at Aubern on Sunday. It was Neuve Chapelle on a greater scale. There was a long, unbroken uproar of artillery. The German lines were hidden by drifting clouds of white, black and greenish yellow puffs of smoke. The Germans were forced by the hasty advance taken to open many places to order to ;reinforce the front lines. A whirlwind of shells met them. A bombardment of three quarters of an hour crumpled th e front parapet at various points, but the barricades were stoutly built. The British infantry's advance wa s the signal for a murderous rifle and machine gun fire. It rent and battered the British lines, which soon became a s.eries of disjointed links in a chain whose I'emnants jpus|He!d .onward in the teeth of death. Men fell in clusters the dead lying crumpled, and the wounded staggering back to shelter. .Some of the British reached the foot. 'of the parapet, and were driven back, but the attack had beer checked. The guns on both sides fired furiously till late in the afternoon, when the British [launched another attack. Infantry again fell in struggling heaps, but swarmed over the parapet nnd captured the section of a trench, but the German line on eithev side wag strong and nubrcken, Apparently the prize was considered not worth the cost of sending reinforcements, which would be swept, by a tempest of fire, and the lir.e was ordered to retire. The British dismayed at th e rjrder, leapt over the parapet and doubled towards the British trench, some fast, some slow and reluctant, carrving ths wounded amid a shower of bullets and bombs. The narrator points out that tho sacrifice was net. wasted, fev th. 3 p:unn turned on the British weakened the German defence against the French, who wcv? enabled to break the line a few miles away.