GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 15 September 1915, Page 2

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

A FRENCH COMMUNIQUE. VIOLENT ARTILLERY DUEL. (Reed 12.20 p.m.) PARIS, S<>i>!-. IZ A cc-mnumiique states ttiat a Gfrman attack north of Souchez was easily repulsed. Mine duels south of the SjcmiO. before Fay, stubbornly .jonti.ni.es. There has been vficCent bombardment in the sectros of Ai-aancourt. Beauvrafens Plajteaiux, Qttmma and Denouvron. ANOTHER CEPPEUiM' RAID. EAST COAST AGAIN POM]- ED. LONDON, S'« pt 13. The Admiralty announce ■ :.tt the East Coast was again ''isitcJ by hostile air craft last flight and bombs were dropped AN EXTORTIONIST PUNIS-lED. FRENCH SHIPOWNER COtJRTMARTIALLED. PARIS, Sept 13. M. Damava, a well-known Havre shipowner, has been arrtested and eourtmartiallled for attempting to persuade an EJngllish shipping firm to increase, Ijy £6OOO eaclb, the skiing price of three vessels that are being sold to the French Minister of Marine.

PROHIBITION OBJECTfDNABLE. NOT DESERVED BY GERMANS. PARIS, Seit ' ■. A Frencli official wireless states there is agiitation in Germany over the recent order prohibiting the sale of alcohol. Firms interested have passed a resolution that Germans do not deserve this new privation, and demanding that title order be mitigated or re-' voked. » : \ i ! |[ A BRUSH IN INDIA. TROUBLE' WITH THE i'v4o H..VI.WIiS. CALCUTTA, Sept 13 retails of the Shabkadia fighting show that 10,00-0 Mohmands were raiding, looting, and burning villages, seizing the women and children. The climax was reached on the sth, when General Campbell attacked os a front of four miles. By clever atctics the enemy was drawn from their; trenches and driven to a common centre around Avhicjh the British formed a crescent like a Zulu limpi. General Caiop'ooU's big guns showered on them a storm of lyddite. The fight lasted six hours, in which the enemy lost 1300 in killed and wounded.

Most noticeable was the enemy's shooting, wihich was accurate, and their, movements showed disciplined formation while attacking. The enemy evacuated the vosition on the 6th.

SOVEREIGN EXPORT. FROM BANK OF ENGLAND. LONDON, Sept. 13. The Bank of England has set aside 2,390,000 sovereigns for export to the United States, and 50.000 to Switzerland. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. Th e High Commissioner reports, under, date London, September 14th, 8.30 p.m.: By arrangement between the .War Office and Miintetrjy of Munitions, it has been decided to send a seri'es of parties to thfe front representing workmen employed in making th e various munitions. Eight parties lhave been arranged, one member of the Parliamentary Munitions Committee being at'tached to each. Visits will cover four days. The object is to show workmen the imperative necessity of increasing and accelerating the manufacture of Avar munitions.