LATE WAR NEWS..

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 215, 27 May 1915, Page 7

LATE WAR NEWS..

ITALY'S FIRST BLOW. ENEMY COUNTRY INVADED. IMPORTANT POSITIONS OCCUPIED. ENEMY BURNING BRIDGES. IN THEIR FLIGHT. ( ROME, May 25. Official: Italians advanced into enemy territory in the Friuli frontier district. Resistance was feeble. They occupied the Cuporetta Heights, between Indrio and Issongo. Th e enemy is retreating destroying bridges and burning bouses. IN GALICIA. • GERMANS BEATEN OFF. RUSSIANS ON THE OFFENSIVE. LARGE CAPTURES MADE. LONDON, May 25, 1.50 p.m. ' In the Shavli region the Russians occupy a wide front on the line of the rivers Visdava, Venta, Dubissa and Siuf. In Galicia the enemy.forced by coun-ter-attacks, passed gradually to tbe defensive along almost the whole front, except in sectors near Vartihol, Podvo]ine and Gussakuvi, where, on Saturday, the enemy unsuccessfully attempted an attack. The Russian offensive, which opened on Saturday, being pursued along the left bank of the Dneister, developed on Sunday, with great success, notwithstanding; counter-attacks. The Riussiarfc captured, after fight?., old villages of Eourchitze, villages Q.f JcQfc.fr hnikhuff, and Holobove .and part of the yiiiagei of Obstruvc. In the course of the day they took 2,200 prisoners, 40 officers, dozens of machine-guns and a great quantiity of war material. In the trans-Dneister region there was a lull except between Achetchva and Loninitaa, where th e enemy, during the night of Sunday, made a fruitless attempt to attack.

GERMAN DIPLOMACY. STRAINING BVEDY NERVE. TO KEEP ROUMANIA NEUTRAL. MILITARY MISSION INVITED. AMSTERDAM, May 25. German diplomacy is straining every nerve to keep Roumania neutral. There are unconfirmed rumours that a new German loan to Roumania has been arranged. The Kaiser has invited the Roumanian Government to send a military mission to the Imperial Headcjuairters. , , A CONSTANTINOPLE REPORT. RUSSIAN WAR SHIP SUNK. AMSTERDAM, May 25, An official Constantinople message says a Turkish submariiifa sank a Russian armoured ship in the Black Sea. ■:'"■ COTTON CARGO ARRANGEMENTS. WASHINGTON], May 25, Mr Spring Rice, in order to clear up misunderstanding, has formally notified the State Department that unofficial arrarhements cotton cargoes in no way involved the United States. THE RAILWAY CATASTROPHE. THE SIGNALMAN'S EVIDENCE. LONDON, May 25. At the Gretna Green enquiry. Mecham, signalman at Quintin's Hill, testified that he shunted the local train to the up main line, and told Tinsley (another signalman), who later relieved him, that the train had been shunted. Tinsley testified, and in his evidence admitted that he forgoi all about the local train when he gave the signal to the troc:3 traia, ■•.;'<