GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 226, 15 June 1915, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

ITALIANS MAKE ANOTHER CAPTURE. ROME, June 12. We captured Porto Rosega and a canal connecting Monfalcone including ship yards. Th t , retreating Austrians blew up most of the ships. FINE MANOEUVRING BY ALPINI. TOO PAST FOR AUSTRIANS. ROME. June 13. A communique reports that prisoners state that the Sixth Austrian Battalion with quick-firers endeavoured to take us in the rear at Montenero. They were again frustrated, owing to the stout resistance and rapid manoeuvring of the Bersaglierii and Alpini. INCIDENT SHOWS GERMAN WAR PREPARATIONS. ROME, June 1(2. The Bayern’s guns and aeroplanes were hidden. LONDON, June 12. According to some correspondents the Bayern left Hamburg twenty-five days before Austria’s declaration of war, .: • V ■fi C*. v.; a -ir-v; A USEFUL VESSEL. ROME, June 12. Semi-official: The ship Liverpool (referred to on another page) was of the false bottom class. She co-operated with Raiian destroyers successfully in operations in the Gulf of Drino, in the Adriatic. She returned with them to the Italian base at a sp'sed of seventeen knots. AN INTERNED STEAMER’S CARGO. GUNS AND AEROPLANES DISCOVERED. ROME, June 12. Th e liner Bayern, which left Hamburg on July 24th for the Far East was interned at Naples in August. The cargo was landed this week, the authorities confiscating a number of guns, machine-guns and aeorplanes not declared in th e bill of lading. DESTROYER LOSSES. LONDON, June 12. The “Times’ ” naval correspondent, referring to th e sinking of the destroyers, says these are, the first to go though there have been about a hundred in use. It is a matter for surprise that there have been no greater losses. Despite the energy of submarines they have only destroyed eleven British warships, on an average of one monthly. RUSSIAN DESTROYER SUNK. LONDON, June 13. An Amsterdam telegram from Constantinople states that (hiring the fighting on the night of the 11th in the Black Sea the cruiser Middli sank ■ v large Russian ApsL’cycT ,?hd. i‘cturned- to ." . ./