GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 230, 19 June 1915, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

ITALIANS SUCCESSFUL ALONG THE WHOLE FRONTIER. ROME, June 17. Official: Combats favourable to us continued along the whole frontier,not. ably at Carnia and the Isonzd. • • The Alpini at Montenero charged:and expelled the Austrians from positions northward of the , principal summit, making prisoners, of 315, including 14 officers. FINANCING COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS. ADVICE TO THE TREASURY. LONDON, June 17 The "Pall Mf.l Gajzfette" says It would b e better if the Treasury undertook to finance the actual pressing necessities of tha Colonial Governments, at no loss to itself until a general : rearrangement after the war. In any case the Treasury must keep a tight hand on new issues. Investors are inclined to criticise the continual pooling to these loans. Th e magnitude of. the New Sout,h Wales loan is sufficient to mark it out for a fiasco. ENGLISH AIRMEN BUSY. A ZEPPELIN SHED BOMBED, AMSTERDAM, June 18. Three Britsh airmen dropped three bombs on a Zeppelin shed at Grondradi south of Ghent. The damage is unknown. , ZEJPF!ELI;N RAID ON ENGLAND. LONDON, Jun e 17. Official: As a result of the Northeast Coast raid, sixteen were killed, including a policeman. Forty were in jured. In connection with the raid on the 7th inst., also on the North-east Coast, five men (Civilian) 13 women and six children were killed. A drapery, timber yard, and a terrace of small houses wer burned. THE RAID ON KARLSRUHE. BARRACKS AND MUNITIONS FACTORY DESTROYED. COPENHAGEN, June 17. It is reported that the Karlsruhe raid destroyed the barracks and munitions factory. FURTHER DETAILS OF DAMAGE AT KARLSRUHE. LONDON, June 17. A neutral from Karlsuhe says that 50 bombs were dropped,almost destroying the palace, which was the head- ' quarters of the local commander. Thre e officers.and two soldiers were killed. Over two hundred were killed elsewhere.

STEEL HELMETS FOR FRENCH INFANTRY. June 17. The French are equipping the infantry with light steel helmets, resembling antique men-at-arms' headpieces, as some protection against spent shell fragments and bullets. . WHAT GERMANS EXPECT. A neutral observer writes that the German publiic has been brought to believe that the annexation of Belgium and th e Congo will be the natural outcome of the war. THE GENTLE GERMAN. PEAROGRAD, June 17. Tfce Commission of Inquiry into German atrocities examined a Sergt.Major, who had a large slice cut from his back by a German officer-in an: attempt, to: get him to divulge information. TAXING WAR PROFITS. LONDON, June 17. Lord Montagu said the Government was devising a means to tax war profits.