PEACE TALK

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 236, 28 June 1915, Page 5

PEACE TALK

jfiHfflsllA CLAIMS ADVANTAGE

ISTRO-GERMANS IN TROUBLE. GLiORIOUS REVERSES PROB- ; ABLE. __ ' 3SIAN FRONT NOT BROKEN. (Reed. 9.35 a.m.) PETRTGRAD, June 27. [ring the eight weeks of their treious onslaughts, Austro-Germans failed to conquer the Russians' alicia. e Russians have only temporarily atod. They have inflicted astbhnd. osses on their assailants, and their casualties are comparatively inficant. ; ickenssn-and Linsingen were outrailed, inasmuch as the . Russian es are still unbroken and hold tojr their line outside the enemy's, iwhile the Germans on the left of the Dneister were defeated, Senhan leaders in this region are tient at the -success of the Russcold calculated strategy.:' When were expelled from the villages on river bank, they worked hard to v pontoons across the ■ rivmv but lussians devastating artillery: fire led them'to regain complete centre are indications that the Ger- [ Employed, on the Dneister, unless Sickly extricate themselves, aro r to encounter a series of inglorireverses. e Germans have begun a violent ery outbreak at on iovno front. c Russians have recovered groundat Orjitz and captured five xna-3-guns. RUSSIAN AIRMEN. BOMB GERMAN TOWNS. (Eecd 8.30 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, June 27. e “Lokal Anaeiger” states that iart airmen bombed Plock, one ian being killed and six wounded.

AUSTRIANS CLAIM VICTORY. ' BIG STRUGGLE IN GALICIA. AMSTERDAM, June 27. .'An Austrian official, report says:— Between the Dneister arid the Truth, Pelanzar again repulsed four superior Russian forces. - The .enemy broke through ..at : one point, advancing through several lines. At night-time xeinfofcements arrived, and after a severe battle-the enemy was ejected and several hundreds taken prisoners. The enemy's repeated attacks on the same front wre, repulsed with heavy losses. . The ..th Honved Hussars and the Crotian Landwehr especially distinguished themselves^. The Allies' troops on the heights to the north-east stormed several vilalgea,and,repulsed counter-at-taeks. Fighting is developing on the line of Zawichost-Seinnelizia in Russian Poland; The Austrian official report states:rr> - "We repulsed a Russian counter-attack on the north bank-of the JDneister be-. tween Halier and Zurawno.. Our attack is progressing. We captured Cho . doron, north of Zurawno. - -_ - ■ "-•■■'-•■■ (Reed. 9.35a.m.) I . ; Jttn>^rg *. i&fo&wed at-; going towards

MJBfRD-OERB/IAH MINISTERS CONFER _ RUSSIA CONFIDENT ' OF SUCCESS IN GALICIA A gebmanlrmy order WARSAW TO BE TAKEN SIGNIFiGANT ACTION IN BULGARIA ITALIAN CAMPAIGN

RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. GERMANS ’, OFFENSIVE FAILS. RUSSIANS YIELD AT. ONE POINT. ; PETROGRAD, June 26. Official: The Germans’ attempted offensive in the middle NiCmcn, Omuleff, and Orgiti valleys and on the Vistula, south of the Pilitza, were all repulsed except at Orgitz, where we yielded. The Germans suffered great losses south of the Pilitza. Wc drove the enemy across- the Dneister, near Jpzary. The units remaining bn our side took prisoners oh Wednesday the remnants, of. the" forces which crossed near Marinoffstany, Nevcrthe-' less, the Germans the same evening • tempted to. rc-ross near Bnkatehcrus. Fighting continues. We. continue to repulse desperate attars by great Austrp-German forces between Khod.oroff and.Hallz. There we took prisoner a thousand. We progressed, on the DncisterPruth front.. ~

■•'■". "_ ■-,■'■ ■ —■•■■%-. —T-1&:. . I. I ■M) S I*IGHTING AT PRZASNYSZ. ~ .IMPORTANT CAPTURES, June 27: ; Official: The enemy 1 V attempted offensive at Ormulefr cost him many lu killed and prisoners. t .-.;.■ The 1 ' enemy assumed the offensive near Prazasnysz, and a desperate battle which has developed into bayonet 'fighting, continues, xir cross-fire annhilated an enemy battalion which imprudently approached "the entanglements north-westward of Zavikkost on the left bank of the Vistula. During our counter-attacks, supported by an armoured train in the direction of Zolkieff and Lemberg, we captured 30 officers and 2,000 men, and 13 machine-guns. ASPHYXIATING GAS. A GERMAN APOLOGY, : CASE OF SOUR GRAPES;" AMSTERDAM, June 27. The Cologne "Gazette," in a semiofficial article in defence of asphyxiating gasses, says the basic idea of the Hague agreement was. a prevention, of unnecessary cruelty and unnecessary killing when milder methods for putting, men out of action' we're possible. It always has been permissible to compel evacuation of positions by flooding Those who are now complaining had no indignant surprise when water was used as a weapon against us in Flanders, and they were not entitled to be indignant when We employ the air to carry stupefying gasses. The Hague Convention desired to prevent wholesale. destruction of hu_man life without a chance to escape, which, would occur if poisonous gas shells were rained down upon a defenceless enemy, who did not see them coming, and were irremediably exposed thereto. Changed forms -of warfare make new methods continually cessary and since the war we must draw conclusions from the conditions of trench warfare,, that enemy's outcry is only due to their incapacity to emulate the results, of German sci r ence.;«-v/ ; *< " '" DOUAI BQMBEp; " '//_ RAILWAY STATION I)AMAG&&^ : PARIS, JttßQ 27*.." ..-Tfco afootr and Aflgres. ""'-'* '• - - 6w-i : aTiator»,-on the 25th, dropped shells e*L Dtoaai railway station, which