THE DARDANELLES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 222, 7 June 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

GLORIOUS VICTORY BY AUSTRALASIA 1(8 . . #1 krithia captured FORWARD MOVEMENT COMMENCED IN GERMANY JUBILATIONS OVER FALL OF PRZEMYSL IN FLANDERS EXPECTED GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS

THE DARDANELLES. THE HEIGHTS OF KRITHIA. AUSTRALASIANS DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES, ;i- 10,000 TURKISH CASUALTIES. jui —ATHENS, June 5.' The Australasians particularly' distinguished themselves . in the fighting for 'the heights of Krithia. The' Turkish casualties were 10,000. The Turks obtained a twelve hours? - armistice to bury their dead. VICTORY FOR AUSTRALASIANS. END OF DESPERATE BATTLE. - - ATHENS, June 5. 5 The Turks on Monday vigorously attacked the . Australians on the heights of Krithia. A violent battle lasted 12 hours. After an Australian counterattack the Turks abandoned the sumi mit.• The Australasians* victory cbn- • Bolidated the Alliesu’ position on the Peninsula. .. * • FISHING BOAT! TORPEDOED. BY DISGUISED: SUBMARINE. ...» LONDON,, June P j The Aberdeen • fishing liner Strath-, bran mistook a submarine for a schooner, as It was. rigged up wtih sails. The Submarine, without warning, sank the f-Strathbran. The crew were 31 hours in an open boat, when picked up and brought to . JVick. . , - . • .

IN THE WEST. V V ; , ■ ■ - ni : r ' FRENCH SUCCESSES, r * GERMAN VIGOROUS ATTACKS. ■?.{ (Reed. 9.25 a.m.) - r , PARIS, June 6. A communique states tjhat on the ; night of the sth the Germans made a Violent effort to retake positions they Recently lost There was continuous bombardment in the Ablain-Neuville sector, especially at the refinery at Souchez, , ■ We replied energetically to the Germans fire and counter-attacks on the slopes east of Chapelle and de Lorette, and to incessant counter-attacks in the ' wood east of t,he Aix-Noulette and Souchez road. The German offensive was completely broken; , the French maintained all positions, inflicting heavy losses. They took several trenches and 30 prisoners. ‘ GERMANY'S POOD SUPPLIES. ' , AMSTERDAM, June 6. . .‘' Herr Delbrueck, in the Prussian Diet, said the food question might be regarded as solved; even considerable reserves had been carried over into the coming harvest. .. . The quantity of flour and potatoes will reach the normal peace consumption- . I v l GERMANY WILLING TO PAY t . INDEMNITY. •V'W* V.;;;. ; ' " - , WASHINGTON, June G. ML Geratd cables that Germany is willing to pay an indemnity for the .damage to the Gulflight. It is impossible to clear up the bombing of the •Cushing-. Aviators state that they only bombed one ship in. the vicinity of the North Hinder Lightship which was not flying a flag and'had no neutral mark-, logs, hut it is possible that she was the ■ Cushing, • ’: >• DURATION. OF THE WAR. • June 5. V German military .authqrpiqs estimate that the war Will last another year. ‘ '

ITALY AT WAR. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. The Might Commissioner reports as follows: „ . LONDON, June 5, 12.10 p.m. Rome reports that the Italians occupied Mattasong and Valmordia in Val Larsa. The Austrian forts at Lusern and SpitTfverle were silenced and the forts of Belvedere and Bosoverle are seriously ~ damaged ■ The enemy’s battery at Monte Croce. Carnico Pass was silenced. In the offensive against the spurs of Monf:e N|e;ro, noijthj-west of Olmink), we met with great difficulties, and fighting lasted the whole’of Thursday, constantly' fluctuating, hut the Italians firmly go,t possession of ,Monte NSro ’mmjnit’ and - slopes.’;. The. losses are not serious - .: •• , .. . The battle is continuing with fresh Italian troops in order to Again a decision on the rest of the front where bur forward movement continues. %; ' LONDON, June 5. -3.35 p.m. On Friday night three violent German counter-attacks were made against Souchez sugar refinery and trenches, both north and south; they were repulsed. with heavy enemy losses. The French carried a German posh tioa north-west of Cabaret Rouge, . ITALIAN PROGRESS. ’ ’’ "■ ' 1 MAKING SAFE. •... ] ' (Reed. 9.20 a.m.) ’ , ROMJjjl June 6-. Official: 1 A concentrating movement with great massed troops continues everywhere in perfect order. The advance continues along th® front from Stelvio to the sea; infantry are entrenching in powerful positions on the iConque(red\ fetrongty supported by artillery. ENEMY SHIPS. CONFISCATED BY ITALY. • _■■■* (Recd. 9.5 a.m.) ROMS, June 6.' The authorities'have confiscated 57 Austro-German steamers, totalling 216,770 tons_ ■ (

THE POPE’S DIPLOMACY. IN FAVOUR OF PEACE. WHITE BOOK ISSUED.' ; • (Reed. 9.5 a.m.) v .,. ROME, June 6. Cardinal Gasparri • is preparing a White Book, showing the Pope’s diplomatic action in favour of peace, and explaining the. cessation of English! and Dutch, and . special missions. It concluded by exposing the system of diplomatic presence exercised by the Austro-German empires upon tjhe Holy See. '■ ■ ; A -

KING CONSTANTINE. in' critical 1 qondition. (Reed. 9.5 am.) ' ROME . June 61 King Constantine’s condition is critical! His temperature is’ 104. - AUSTRIANS RETREATING. DESTRUCTION IN THEIR TRACK. AUSTRO-GERMANS DESERTING. ROME, J une 5. The Austrians in-Trentino are retiring towards-the Fiemrac Valley. They destroyed the magnificent mountain health- resort of San Martina, including G-orsaac. h,ptel3. Austrian soldiers of Italian nationality are daily deserting and asking to ho enrolled in tlie Italian army.

ITALIANS MEET SOLID DEFENCE... -ADVANCE BLOCKED AT MONTE NEGKO. ROME, June G. Official: Our defensive on the Isonzc River is beset with great difficulties in the nature of the ground and a formidable enemy. The entrenchments' are numerously manned and well-equipped with, machine-guns and artillery., After fluctuations in the action throughout Thursday and Friday the summits and slopes of Monte Negro remained in our possession. The advance is continuing on the rest of the front* HOLLAND PREPARING.. AMSTERDAM; June 6. , An important new Bill lias, been prepared extending the Dutclr■Landsturm to all hitherto exempted .from military service. GERMAN WATERPLANE DISASTER ROME; Jnue 5;. An Italian cruiser found a German waterplano lying in the sea off Brindisi. The aviators were apparently drowned. A FINANCIAL. CONFERENCE;. , PARIS, June

The Hon. R. McKenna and the Italian .Minister of* Finance conferred at Nice regarding financial arrangements. Mr. McKenna returns homewards tomorrow. IMPORTANT FRENCH SUCCESS. FRENCH MASTERS OP SOUCHEZ. ALSO HOLD TWO-THIRDS OF NEUYILLE. PARIS, .Tune 0. Official: During Friday night three violent counter-attacks on Souchez sugar refinery and the trenches to the north and south were repulsed with heavy enemy losses. The French are 'masters of all positions. ■ We also carried a German position north-west of Carbartrouge, south of Neuville. We have gained another -iSO yards north of the Labyrinth. The struggle continues in the centre af the Labyrinth without cessation. We located the German gun which was firing at .Verdun, We damaged its platform and blew up its ammunition store. . ' . A. ■’

GERMAN SUBMARINES BUS^r. CREW TIRED AT WHEN LAUNCHING BOAT. •• LONDON, June 6. ’■ The Wilson liner lona, and the Ashing vessel -Chrysoprase were submarined and sunk off the Orkneys. The crew landed. Eour of the lona’s crew were wounded by shrapnel, two being badly hurt. The crews 1 were fired at while the boats were being launched. The/Norwegian steamer Cubano was torpedoed. The crew landed at Lewis. The steamer Inkum was submarined and sunk off the'Lizard. The crew landed. ■ " ' ‘ The Peterhead drifter Enamay was torpedoed off the Shetlands. The crew landed. A Belgian trawler was" submarined in the Irish Channel. The crew landed at Milford Haven. A submarine in the North Sea ordered the crews of two Lowestoft trawlers to take to the boats and then blew up the trawlers with bombs. The crows landed. PARIS June ©. The French steamer Penfeld was submarined in the Channel, The crew landed at Brest. Three more Aberdeen trawlers were submarined, off the Orkneys. The I crews were landed.

VARIOUS BOMBARDMENTS.' PARIS, June 5. 4 1 _ ; The enemy, with a long-range gun, dropped a number of shells 1 on Verdun, but failed to hit their mark. We bombarded-, the southern front of an entrenched camp at Metz. Germans harmlessly fired projectiles Die. GERMAN AIR RAID. ON BRITISH COAST, . LONDON, June 5. On Friday night, hostile air ships visited the east and south-east coasts of England; bombs were dropped in various places. Little material, damage was done and the casualties >vere very few.

S.A. FROZEN MEAT. SUCCESSFUL SHIPMENT TO . LONDON, ! ■ (Reed. 2 p.m.) LONDON, June 5. Experimental shipments of South African frozen meat were readily disposed of in London during th e past fortnight at satisfactory prices.

ON TEK. RUSSIAN FRONT. GERMANS IN DISORDERLY RETREAT. The. Hi gin Commissioner reports as follows:, LONDON, June 5, 12.10 p.m. On the Lower San further Russian successes were, achieved. The Russians continued on Thursday to drive the enemy back in a disorderly retreat On the right bank of the San enemy attacks were continued along the valley of the. River Wisznia. Between. Przemysl and the Dneister in the region of Krukienice, the enemy were driven back with enormous, losses.. Between the rivers of Ti ; stiieca : and: Shryj, the Russians are hampering the enemy who fell back, to the Dneister Bridgehead. On Wednesday night an enemy -attempt, to rush entrenchments was repulsed and heaps of-bodies ■yere aban.-i doaed. In counter-attack t,he Russ> ians made 700 prisoners arid some ma ; . chin-e-guns. DIFFERENT METHODS’ EMPLOYED.

PETROGRAD, June 6; Th e Germans, earlier -in the-, Avar,, used vitriol, which squirted; into our trenches Later ■ they bombs containing concentrated-formalin, causing much eye trouble,, oven- large areas; then, the methods apparently being unsatisfactory-they/adopted: gas, but applied differently on? the; av extern front to the methods used on the Galician front.. They- ignite large quantities of straAv before- their trenches, into vt'hich objects resembling short lengths of- rope- ar© thrown, changing from, smoke- into flames. The enemy \ma next , observed trying to extinguish the flames with hoses, but the purpose failed and the enemy climbed- the trenches and ran for their lives,. The Rnsstan rifle fire meanwhile decimating the refugees. At other points the Germans threw tins, like biscuit- boxes, which burst on imIpact, emitting dense poisonous fumes.

the przemysl capture, A GERMAN REPORT. AMSTERDAM, Juha 5A German official report states,; After fighting we reached the villages of Przemysl. The booty has not yet been surveyed. • , ■ .: Von Marwitz stormed the heights on both sides of. Mystattvee Linsingen, and is about to cross the lower Stryi . north-east of. the town of Stryi'

GREAT REJOICINGS; IN BERLIN AND VIENNA A NOTEWORTHY RESULT. OP -CAPTURE. GERMANS CONCENTRATING ON BELGIAN FRONT. ’AMSTERDAM, June 5.. There were great rejoicings in Berlin and Viienna over the re-capture of Przemysl. It is noteworthy that the fall of the Przemysl fortress was promptly follow ed by tjhe strict closing of the Belgian frontier a step which usually pressages a great movement of German-troops, KAISER’S CONGRATULATIONS.

LONDON, June 5. The Cologne Gazette states that the Kaiser arrived at the Austrian headquarters on th 6 4th to congratulate the Archduke Frederiich on the re-capture of Przemysl. .

RUSSIANS PUSHING OFFENSIVE. AUSTRIANS FALL BACK. PETROGRAD, June. 6. Official. —T,he Russian offensive on the lower San has developed. We sue cessfully forced the 14th Austrian Army Corps'to fall back on fortified positions between Leng and the San. Fightig for thes e positions was continued on Friday when we took a thou- ■ sand prisoners. Large German reserves on the left hank at Leng made three furious attacks. All were repulsed. The enemy on the 3rd captured the village of Starzawa bn the' left bank of the Vistula. Our counter-attack dislodged the enemy ffrom the village, but he maintains himself bn the neighbouring heights. The enemy continued his attacks on the 3rd against our bridge-heads on the Dneister between Tysmenica and the Stryi-Mikolajew railway. The attacks were repulsed with bayonets and hand grenades,. Fighting continues.

TURKS AGAIN .WORSTED IN THE CAUCASUS. PETROGRAD, June 6. Official: In th e Caucasus we repulsed a Turkish attack, killing four hundred in the region of Meliazghert; also simultaneously an attack from Ayidjeraz Our cavalry penetrated to Ayldjeraz and sabred some hundreds of ; Kurds. ■

i NAVAL BRUSH AT ViIGA. I /' I PETRQGHLAD, June 6. I. Official: Om* fihipe exchangee shots' [ •with, a lanefe, German naval force 1 the. GisK of

THE GERMAN PLAN. (Reed 2 p.m.) PETROGRAD, Ju u%, ,6. . Correspondents point out that-jGer-many,hopes to re-transfer largeforces to Flanders if she is able to push the : Russians back sufficiently to render tilts .movement safe.

GERMAN ATROCITIES

PETROGRAD, June 5. ...Aa chaplain with the Russian army says.-; that on one occasion:.? German cavalry, on capturing a Russia ll company; took the men into an. open space, J where the whole regiment held a com- j petition in cutting down and butcher- ( ing them to the last man.-. German airmen bonded., children; gathered around a road ikon.'; Mangy! Aver© killed. •? The Austrians often vainly protested : ' against German barbarities. The chaplain adds: German patrols- j h\ Several villages- las*, the Prajtezk- ; district, took every hundredth inhabit 1 j ant and threatened io. shoot with* revolvers the inhabitants of houses-, un- ! less they delivered ail-the provisions-, j even to the last loaf.-- |

—— 7— —* ASPHYXIATING GAS BOMBS.

(RecJ;-2 -p.m*-) AMSTERDAM; June ft. German airsldps -. dropped’ asphyxiating .gas bombs-;-on the frontier., ■

TRENCH WARFARE DESCRIBES.

: SNIPERS AS ROBBERS. ? TENdE'DOSj, June 5. Night attacks on the Australian trenchoe- continue, but in daytime, apart from shrapnel, the enemy’s main activity-is confined to cleverly concealed snipers. The> Australian position is impregnable. They have dug themselves. in, much against their own inclination, but have resigned themselves to; trench .warfare. The enemy maintains at night time a constant but aim- , less fusilade, with the intention, prei sumably, to forestall any advance on our part. Parties of snipers crawl past the British and French lines and hide in trees or empty trenches, wheats they snipe at isolated officers and! rob them. Some "were caught with their pockets full of " English and. French money. . f.- -

AERIAL RAH) ON ENGLAND.

LITTLE DAMAGE DONE. VERY FEW CASUALTIES. S • LONDON. June 5. ,!. Offidid; Hostile airships last night visited the East and South-east Coasts of England. Bombs were dropped or. various places, but little material damage. was done and casualties were very few. ; The Admiralty states that the fatalities as a result of Monday night's air raid were one man, one woman, and four children. BOMBING THE CROWN PRINCE, AMSTERDAM, June 5. The German account of the aerial bombing of the Crown Prince's headquarters states that several were killed, but the attack was otherwise without result. MUNITIONS NEEDED. STARTLING STATEMENT BY ME. LLOYD GEORGE. MORE HELP MUST BE SECURED. BRITAIN'S WORKERS INSUFFICIENT.* LONDON, June 5. Mr. Lloyd George, addressing the employers' meeting said, if all the skilled engineers in the country y and who had enlisted were brought baclt and set about producing munitions, working to the utmost limits of human endurance, we would not have enough labour to produce all that would be asked for during the next few months. The men’s lives at the front depended on war material. There was no room for slackers. After mentioning ttic number of women employed in shell factories in France, Mr. Lloyd George said he hoped that any trade union regulations which prevented the same here would be suspended in war time.

MEN START TO SPEED UP. MR. LLOYD GEORGE’S APPEAL EFFECTIVE. LONDON, June C>. Brunner and Monds men are speed-ing-up the making: of munitions. They are starting work 105 minutes earlier daily. Many other workers and firms are warmly responding to Mr. Lloyd George’s appeals.