GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 230, 21 June 1915, Page 2

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

m 4m =EXTREMELY Vnt’EN SE; Fl.GH fl t^G. k'P • \u \ ipy —• A — A? ■ j : yp VIOLENT CONTINUES ||H ; iiNORTH <M ArtfcASJi' W*.* iMit .Ki-i i HOLDING ALE GROUND GAINED. HEAVY LOSSESJON3OTIJ SIDE§. 1 A . a' >. p* '-4 e ny- k A PARIS, June 19. Official: The fight northward of Arras is ext.remgjy desperate infantry actions, A violent artillery 'dueLAohtihu A A-W e made imp'or|ant progress/ which has almost all ~Beeiii'-main{yited-^Bpitej.;^e7eaem^§^ {furious counter-attacks. w ’ _ - - ~ .

; nWe captured ciseveral Hines; of trsni hhes oW bbttUsid&s of §ouehez Toad.y'The Germans still hold, at Buval bottom, hut are almost surmanded. ! „ 3 -. Th- e Gormans/liad eleven divisions - suffered hig;h losses! AVa ,experienced serious losses. We made’ prisoners upwards of six hundred, including. 2G officers. Our air squadron effectively’ bombed- the;enemy reserves .at--Givenchy and Lav'pllo Wood, dispersing ;masseg*of in progress :;of .formation. •) - ;vi „J.The enemy’s grave defeat at Guejme-. - -vieres-is " confirmed by the great; humrher of corpses in front of our tren- „ .ches, : , .. Incendiary shells.,were drppped„intp Rheims.-

BRITISHERS’ IRRESISTIBLE DASH LONDON, June 19- ' ‘ Reuter •sjatefi that in the British offensive at Hooge and Festubert tha men flung themselves forward with irresistible dashtan’d either shot or bayoneted th£ opposing Germans. After a, lull of some hours .‘the- engagement was resumed on the 16th, afid 'mere Substantial; progress was made at Hooge. A German-counter--attack from the -north of Belleward Lake and the town bridge, under our fir L , retreated,, leaving many "dead;.y.C)ur casualties'ware ligHt. . , V, - ■> ■ :■ -v- •'*>. T V v T: A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. ' ; ■ ■■—« —r" ■ z -1 .*■ v -'■% ■ -AERIAL RAID ON “FORTIFIED’’ -'U : town./' : ■: -\TCTORIES CLAIMED ON ALL FRONT?. BERLIN,. June IS: ; 1 Official: A naval airship from the 9th to,; the 15th;; raided . the north-east ; ,pf England. It bombed a fortified .place ijGh the coast,-causing fires and the de:ktructidn‘;of, industrial establishments, Including smelting furnaces. The air. ship w.as heayiry fired! upon, but unharmed, i u v/, ! ...... s ]\ « ’ We silenced a coast batter^■? ]j i The- English,, and French continued attempts to break'our lines oh: Wed-, uesday. We recaptured the greater part of trenches ..lost north • of Lake. Bellewarde. The Westphalians and Saxons overpowered the English north of La Bassee canal,, after a-hand to hand fight. / "'The - 'French' south of Solchez succeeded in penetrating our- positions, oyerfa width! of six hundred yards and obtained a foothold. Fighting is proceeding. . f -JdZ-l ~'Attacks elsewhere weje. ..repulsed, with sanguinary losses. They were'conducted at a great expenditure of amnuk, nition, regardless oi.losses', " and' again tCrihipated in thfe defeat of the French. 4hd British, r- i’dur victorious hand-to-hapd fights.#urnish fresh proofs of the; briery imperturbable endurance * of paratroops 5 Geueifal Mackensen forred the Russians to abandon their positions and retreat on Tarnoglad. ; The /situation ■south-east -of-the-Divelster marches is unchanged. T:/-w

i. • .* fr ; : i- (!■- 1 BIOT* AT MAXINES. .GEBMAN-S UEBi.QN ; POPULATION. ;. v7OO PEOPLE -KILLED. LONDON, Juno 17. TJrff 'CNnTr’ar’NßW’ Amsterdam correspondent says a traveller from 'Gihetit declares that some women at Maliiies cotfiraenccd rioting on -Tues-* day. Almost the entire population par-" ticipated/ The ’'Getmans,;' |rred [eind;sr_, criminately,” quite TOO being killed. Alalines is now isolated by electrified wires. ” on: national' “2 SERVICE. ■' ' ' 5 “ ; ' | LONDON/' Juno Tgr" Lord': Mil ner. addressing Alia'Nat ion-:, -al Service the oppos-'tiou to. the nation-1 Service movement was Jneglible, o-nfi emanated from :;pe,opj6' •■who claihqpd’ ajgaihst the war. It was, the desire of the na;tion/tNTaagNAlghlifrg ■ with . halt/ v its, strength and to use,Jits whole stpongth., ! a|. equal service/ ihstead"‘ofTtperpreseft haphazard mechqdSj'. wpuld |nyplve cSjly the slightest actual compulsion. & .In Si ' .-3 A . .M «iXj| —-— ■•L ; N'OBWE<Tt'AN • steamer sunk* - „. AMSTEBI)AM, June IS. A German' erniter sank AhefNorwq.S-d jaw steamer Ova hit oiT Chri*tiaaslc3.

MINES IN ARCTIC OCEAN. r ~ LONDON, June. 18.. The Swedish Consul at warned the Government that A® At ®| tie Ocean has been sown with-fimihes? I by the Germans, to hinder munitions' reaching Russia.