RUSSIA CONFIDENT

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 240, 30 June 1915, Page 5

RUSSIA CONFIDENT

HO FURTHER IMGURSiOMS IN GALSOIA OR SOOTH RUSSIA VICTORIOUS ITALY FURTHER INVADES AUSTRIA A REGIMENT OF GIANTS HEAVY ARTILLERY DUELS ■ SN FRANCE AND FLANDERS

*"THE FIGHTING IN GALICIA.

RUSSIAN RE-ARRANGEMENTS. STOP. FURTHER INCURSIONS.' (Reed 9 a.m.K' .*'■ "Oteciall T[he Russian General Staff • states that satisfactory regrouping of -the forces ihas bejen carried out in Galicia, and they ar e now ready to ; oppose effectively any further incur- :- stfon In Galicia or in Southern Rus-j ■- sia.' ' '■/■ .'..<.

DUM-DUM BULLETS.

! ON RUSSO-GERMAN FRONT. ' (Reed 9 a.m.) PETROGRAD, June 28. After repeating th e denial to Germans' allegations that Russians are "~ usfing dum-dums, a Communique states that explosive bullets have been found on Austro-German prisoners, also in rthe enemy's macjhine-gun equipment, and these were immediately, fired at *fa the- enemy and none other. W ■ " A"' .

RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT.

.-■• ENEMY LOSES HEAVILY. BUT STILL ADVANCING. • wm - —■ r • ",_ ■', PETROGRAD, June 29. Official: In a stubborn battle in the "Ojaroll district on the left bank of ' the Vistula the enemy was everywhere repulsed, suffering great losses. Th enemy's attacks on the town of •-Cliniani were particularly desperate. During the counter-attacks we took prisoners belonging to all regiments of the Austrian Fourth Division. The-enemy's advance on Tomacheff, Belz, and Kamimuka continues. Before retreating to Onilalipia we repulsed a desperate attack by great .'German forces..;-.'

AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL REPORT.

THE RUSSIANS RETREATING. 1 "■» AMSTERDAM, June 29. An Austrian official report says: Halicz kin our possession. On the south- • crn bank of the Dneist«r, above Halicz, fetippß cleared the enemy. The Archduke 4|3Toseph Ferinand's troops stoTmed PlazoWj south-west of Naral, and pierced .'"hostile positions on a height to the north-west of Plazow. The Russians • are retreating to Naral.

BUSSIA'S NEW WAR MINISTER.

AN IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT. r LONDON, June 29. ~ Dr. Dillon says the change in the Russian "War Ministry is most important. Prolowanoff's appointment is welcomed by competent judges. He is regarded as Russia's greatest military administrator.

THE KAISER'S WISH.

WILL IT BE GRATIFIED? i \ gr. ■ -r— • |.f ' ' ■ (ReCd 1.55 p.m.) LONDON, June 28. '" The Bishop of Durham States, on Excellent authority, that the Kaiser ,■''■ pressed a desire to lay wast© Tyne- * side and Newcastle to the sea; and jfljtfded, "If I can do that I-shall not fought in vain."

' A RECRUITING MESSAGE.

A LONDON, June-28. llr in the course of. an .' :*©peal ; for' recruits,, said this is no ordinary war. The nation is threaten- > '■■ «4 as It has not been since Napoleon. • ■.^e-\s*WS^i^^.^'':-^*^ m and-lif*, And It *» the MUired, everywa*:* bimwelf tort*' the itrapito J

, ITALIAN GIANTS.

CLEAR AUSTRIAN TRENCHES- ' (Reed 9 a.m.) ' ROME, June 29. During an.attack on the Carso Heights by a regiment of Grenadiers, the tallest men in the army, under Major Mdhfredi, approached within 50 yards of the enemy's trenches and charged with fixed bayonets, crying "Savvia." The Austrians broke and fled. Shrapnel forced the Grenadiers to take shelter. The enemy re-advanced attempting .to retake the trenches, whent Monfledi, who is of great stature, seized a flag and shouted, "Grenuliers, remember a Sardinian Brigade never retreated." The Grenadiers Hung themselves wildly upon the Austrians, .exterminating them.. A shell carried off Monfledi's.leg and" be died.

WAR LOSSES.

A CONSERVATIVE. ESTIMATE. SIX MILLION MEN. . , (Reed 9 a.m.) LONDON, June 29. On a conservative estimate the losses of various belligerents to date total, six-million menand over five hun-. Jred ships, including dead, wounded and prisoners also 100 war vessels.

WOMEN WORKERS-

RELEASE RECRUITS. (Reed 9 a.m.) LONDON, Jun e 29. There is daily increase of ladies taking up work to release men for recruiting. Some Australian and New Zealand women are acting as porters in light physical work.

I BERLIN COMMUNIQUE.

■'-." ■ • FRENCH AEROPLANES DOWNED. (Reed 1.55 p.m.) BERLIN, June 28. A communique states that the Germans shot down two French aeroplanes and forced two others to land in Swiss territory. Von Linsengen has occupied Halicz, crossed on the Dneister. After five days' heavy fighting we approached Bug in the sector north of Lemberg.

ARMAMENT FIRMS.

! THEIR ANNUAL PROFITS. (Reed 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Jun e 29. Kynock, Limited, the great Birmingham munition manufacturers, have paid a dividend of 20 per Cent. Mr Arthur Chamberlain, presiding at y the meeting, said they they had placed at the Government's disposal, the whole ot.their trade secrets without remuneration. There had been much criticism of th e War Office, but it came from people without business training. There had been some mistakes, but the War Office's work on the whole had been done splendidly. Supply of drink should b e drastically curtailed, but a limitation of profits would result in reduction, not increase of output. John Brown and Company, Limited, made a profit of 12i per cent. Mr Abercronway, presiding at the meeting, said if munitions were short it was not the fault of armament firms. The Governiaent had never encouraged them to dolnore, and. they sometimes found tti'emseiveS: in advance; of the Government's demands. A foolish agi- . rt&w to armament firms' profile* • ■ U ■iiirl-aciis was to be espropria*- - ed, it uroald be fofcnd costlier. ,-,_ •

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S SBPOST.

OPERATIONS IN FRANCE. LONDON, June 29. In the Argonue there has been incessant fighting around Bagatelle, with hand bombs and grenades. In the Vcsges German attacks-mo-mentarily made us lose our advanced posts' on the slopes east of Metzeral, but an immediate counter-attack regained part of the ground lost.

FRENCH PROGRESS REPORT.

(Reed 11.40 ajn.) PARIS, June 29. A communique states: Our infantryprogressed on the sunken road from Angres to Ablain. There is incessant fighting at Bagatelle, wherein air torpedoes and grenades ar e prominent.

"HELL OF DEATH-"

——— A DELUGE OF BLOOD AN AWFUL PICTURE. (Reed 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 29. 8 Wiegand, in a message to the New York "World," from the headquarters of Prince Rupprecht's army,near Souchez, says Germany's wall of iron and blood .between Arras and Ypres has bent slightly, but has not broken, not been cracked under Joffre's terrific battering ram-lik e attacks. Joffre's offensive is rapidly waning. It led to a deluge of blood, and little else. To-day I looked into the. veritable "hell of death," as the Germans call the stretch of three or four miles between Neuville and the Lofette Heights. Nowhere else-has there been.such a merciless combat, such.bloodshed to the square yard. Princ o Rupprecht and General Luchow are engaged in the greatest defensive struggle of the war —holding, back the French and English while matters ar e baing settled with the Russians. The General remarked that there are perhaps 10,000 unburied or partly buried dead between the Lorette Heights and Neuv,ille, and the Labyrinth is still pestilential. Our hose has thrown creosote and quicklime on .the nearest trenches, and both sides have reached, an unspoken l agreement to bury thos e nearest at night time. V7oTds fail to portray the sight, day or night—white eyes staring out of faces burned.coal-blackby the sun, piles of bodies being at some places; As the lays and weeks pass, they shrivel and shrink, .until Jhsy resemble little heaps I ?f old .clothes.... The silent heaps are more waird, in ,th e moonlight t,aan in the daylight. The General added: I wish those causing the war with indiUerence could be put in this hell for a little while. ~ , ■

J FRENCH GENERAL SNIPED."

INDISCREET CURIOSITY. (Reed 1.55 p.m.) PARIS, June 28. General Ganeval, commanding the Second French Brigade at Gallipoli, in watching the effect of fire, exposed his head ahove the trench, and was immediately sniped. Sir lan Hamilton attended his funeral at Seddul Bahr.

" TRENCH PRESS TRIBUTE.

TO GREAT BRITAIN. ■'-.■■' PARIS, June 29..--The Temps, in an article, says that if the British land support is limited we must nt forget that Britain's heaviest task is at sea.. It is vitally necessary to maintain maritime supremacy. The Temps emphasises the enormous industrial effort entailed to keep up the British fleet. All contributed to the assisance of her industrial and financial resources while her military support had surpassed all forecasts.

FRENCH REPRISALS.

NO INFORMATION SUPPLIED. (Reed 9 a.m.) PARIS, June 29. The "Le Matin" states: As Germany maintains her refusal" to supply the names of persons detained in occupied Belgian and French territory, France has decided to refuse information concerning German prisoners and wounded, and to disallow them to correspond.

BRITISH SUBMARINE ACTIVITY.

(Reed 1.55 p.m.) ATHENS, June 2s. A British submarine has caused fresh damage to Turkish shipping in the Sea of Marmora. It forced the Turkish Fleet, to refuge in the Golden Horn and Bosphorous. French artillery did splendid work in preparing for fresh infantry attack.

OVERSEAS CONFERENCE.

UiIGEO BY THE THUNDERER. ' (Reed 9 a.'tn.) ' /' \"\' LONDON, June 29. , The Times is again urging the Goyr to hold an Overseas. Confe-

TEN .-VICTORIA CROSSES.

THE HEROES AND THEIR . I EXPLOITS. | (Reed 12.15 p.m.) I LONDON, June 29. | Ten Victoria Crosses have been awar i ded. | Lieutenant Smyth, of the Indian Army at Richebourgh, en May 18th, | with ten volunteers, carried 98 bombs within 20 yards of the enemy, after two parties had failed. Finally, Smyth anld two others, eight (having been killed or wounded, swam the stream exposed to howitzer, shrapnel, machine gun. and rifle fire. Jemadar Mir, for dash with which he assisted to rescue eight British and Indian officers. Lance-Corporal Angas of t<h G Eight Territorial Highland Light Infantry, who sustained forty wounds while res-j cuing a wounded officer. j Sergeant-Major Barter, Welsh FusiHers, who, when the first line of Ger- ■ man trenches were captured at Festubert on the 10th May, called for volun- j teers, eight responded, and Barter attacked the German position with ' bombs, capturing tfiree officers, 102 men and 500 yards of trenches. Bar-1 ter subsequently discvered and cut eleven of the enemy's mine leads. Lance-Corporal Finday, Second Black Watch, led. twelve bombers on May 9 at Ruedubois. Finally he ordered two survivors, to crawl back while he himself carried a wounded man safely over a hundred yards of fire-swept ground. Private Lynn, Second Lancashire Fusiliers, who when almost overcome with gas at Ypres, on May 2, handled a machine gun to such effect that he rallied his comrades. Lynn died from gas the following day. Corporal Ripley, First-Black Watch, was the first to. reach the enemy'sparapets on May 9th, at Ruedubois, from thence h e directed men to gaps in the German entanglements, finally he established a firing position and held it until all his men had fallen and he was badly wounded in the head. Cpr.'Wa.l Sharps, Second* jL/incoln:nhires, was the first to reach the German trenches on. May 9, at Rougesbanks. H e used bombs with such determination that he himself cleared 50 yards of trenches. Later four others joined him and they captured a further 250 yards. •■*• ' Corporal Upton, Ist Sherwoods, for conspicuous gallantry, and rescuing wounded in the same fight. ■ Private Warner, Ist Bsdfordshires, ■after his trench on Hill 60 was vacated on Ma3 r Ist owing to gas, Warner reentered Single handed and prevented the enemy taking possession. Reinforcements were unable to reach Warner, owing to gas, and he then came back and brought up more men until he was completely exhausted.- The trench was held throughout the attack. Warner died soon after from gas poisoning. Major McQuaig and Major G. B. Wright of the Canadians, have received distinguished Service Orders for gallantry at Ypres in April. .

LABOUR MOBILISATION.

LONDON, June 29. Mr Long, in the House of Commons, briefly outlined the scheme for compulsory local registration of men and women between the ages of 15 and 65. Particulars were asked as to whether •it i'.no.luded what and 1 , whether any special form of labour the persons were willing to volunteer, for, apart from that wherein they were at present engaged. A local Government Board is to control the registration and there will be penalties for non-compliance. The object of the act is not to coerce labour, but to secure complete, general, and satisfactory organisation. The Government believes the resourses of the country ar e sufficient if mobilised. Mr Mcßride has joined the Executive of the National Committee for the : Relief of Belgium, as the representative of self-governing dominions. The Preudcntial Insurance Company has applied for three million of the war loan.

THE AMERICAN NOTE.

SHIPS' POSITIONS NOTIFIED. TO PREVENT MISTAKES. BY GERMAN SUBMARINES. WASHINGTON, June 29. Th c United States has agreed to notify the German Admiralty, through their Ambassador, Mr Gerard, the position of American vessels in the Atlantic, in order to enable German submarine commanders to refrain from torpedoing them. North and South poles have been discovered, but never yet the cough or cold that could defy "NAZOL" No quicker or cheaper specific for influenza and bronchitis. Sold everywhere in 1/6 bottles. ... : i Home Defence requires more thsui battleships., Every household needs "NAZOI^ ? t» protect it against coughs a>ad colds, influenza, and "bronchitis. "NAZOL" is a boon to eld. and young. Co*dos#B Ut 1/6.