GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 245, 6 July 1915, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

FURTHER PROGRESS CLAIMED. PARTS, July 3. A Berlin official message states that a French attack prepared by hand grenades and bombs, near Les Epargcs, faled. We lost the positions captured on Hilsen. Our pursuing troops north-west of the Dneister are advancing across the Mariampol-Narajow-Miastro line towards the Zlotalipa. district. We reached the Bug below Kazonka-. Strumilowa to below Krylow. We are progressing further north between the Bug and the Vistula. We captured Lubukow despite stubborn resistance. A Russian counter-attack south-west of Radom was repulsed. A FRENCH COMMUNIQUE. ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED. (Reed 12.10 p.m.) PARIS, July 4. A communique states; The Germans, in close formation, last nignt attacked our positions in the sunken road from Angres to Ahlain. They were dispersed and repulsed with heavy losses by our curtain fir© and machine-guns. Incessant gun and nifie fire was kept up all night from the Dinarville-Veinne-ia-Chapelle. Road to Four de Paris,' but only ylccalised infantry actions. The Germans, on the Lahaye Front, after violent bombardment, attempted to attack north of Regnevilie, but our

Ore did not allow the enemy to debouch. An enemy battalion before Ssy •eached our entanglements, but was •orced to fall back. A fre*h attack byhalf a battalion was similarly unsuccessful.

WOUNDED FRENCH GENERAL. rapid recovery expected. PARIS, July 3. General Zourand, French Commander-in-Chief at the Dardanelles, has three severe wounds, but, in view of his robust health, it is hoped his recovery will be rapid, SUNKEN GERMAN SUBMARINE. SUPPOSED TO BE U3O. CREW PROBABLY DEAD. AMSTERDAM, July 4. ! The submarine sunk at the mouth of j th e Ems is apparently U3O. Divers | ascertained shortly after the disaster 1 that the crew was still alive. It is | now believed that all have perished, j j Vessels have been sent to raise the 1 submarine. | _ | pjvE MORE STEAMERS SUNK. I “ LONDON, July 3. J The steamer Araijard, cotton-laden, \ from Galveston to Havre, was subma- | rined and sunk without warning. The , J crew landed at Plymouth. ! The steamer Gadsey, from Cape Brej ton to London, v.-as torpedoed. The | crew landed at Londonderry. j GERMANY AND AMERICA, J GERMANY’S REAL REPLY. j LONDON, July 3. The Times’ correspondent at Washington, in saying that the Armenian loss of American life is mostly coloured, says it is a sad blow to Washington. It is possible it indicates Germany’s real answer tc President Wilson’s protest rather than the reassuring platitudes emanating from Berlin that the Government is seriously concerned about and has shown solicitude in co}j leetiag coinpsrekenfiive details. It must | bo remembered that the Armenian was ' carrying- only contraband. It ta cer-f-aIK \ | that Gorawtay will adhere to her claim.; j to bo allowed to continue to »>Uaek such ‘ resaola. >er that, j , I Cie.rtjpnu- ] i ie hvi

Turkish transport sunk. LONDON, July 3. \ British submarine sank a steamer full of troops in the Sea of Marmora. LANDSTUEMER’S revolt. PARIS, July 4. -V Basle telegram states that a violent uprising has occurred between the Landwehr and Landsturmers fighting in Alsace. The old men with the Landsturm refuse to advance. Great numbers have been arrested. SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN. PRETORIA, July 4. Boliha had a successful engagement with the enemy in difficult thick bush country He captured Otavifonnin,with an excellent and abundant supply of water. Th e casualties were few. He afterwards occupied Otavi. A WASHINGTON SENSATIO.NSENATE WING OF CAPITOL BUILDING WRECKED. WASHINGTON, July 3. An explosion wrecked the Senate wing of the Capitol building. A letter received at a newspaper office on the previous' evening signed “R. Pearce, foretold th e outrage. None was injured. FRENCH AVIATOR’S EXPLOIT. ! ROME!, July 3>. Official: Lieut. Rouillot, a Frenchman, from a height of 50 feet, bombed the Austrian Ull in the Adriatic. Explosions occurred rear of the conn,lug tower, and it is believed the submarine was sunk. (Reed 3 p.m.) LONDON, July 3. The Caucassian’s missing boatful landed at Falmouth. The Kotka did not sink, and was salved. 1