AMERICAN SYMPATHY WITH ALLIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 6 October 1915, Page 5

AMERICAN SYMPATHY WITH ALLIES.

LONDON, October ! j Speaking at a banquet, Mr. Choate I declared that ninety millions of A men- | cans have the fullest sympathy for the j 'Allies in the contest for liberty, ■pi,— tice, and civilisation. Mr. Depcw said that the loan was an ideal celebration j of a century of Anglo-American peace.

A LOST SUBMARINE.

LONDON. Oct. 5. The Admiralty' has awarded £2OO to the officers and crew of the steamer Cottingham, which fouled and damaged a German submarine, enabling patrol boats to destroy if.

SPAIN’S ARMY.

LONDON, Oct. A Spanish gazette has called up sixty-four thousand recruits of the 1916 class, also snpemumerieg of the 1912 class. —Times and Sydney Sun Services.

KILLED IN ACTION.

LONDON. Oct. 5. Captain Clark, of the SeaWrth Highlanders, and aide-de-camp to the Governor of New Zealand in 1910, and Lieut. Leslie Sweet Scott, sou of the Governor of Fiji, have been killed in France. RE-ENTER KUROPATKIN. THE CZAR RELENTS. LONDON. October 4. The Czar has agreed to General Kuropatkin’s appointment to the Army after repeated applications to he granted the privilege of shedding 1 is bleed for his country.

j GERMAN OFFICIAL NEWS. j !

' I (Rec. 1.10 p.m.) | AMSTERDAM, Oct. A I A German communique states that 1 they repulsed English grenade attacks | north of Loos with heavy losses to the | enemy. ‘ \ /‘We recaptured portion of «, trench j held by the French, north-east of Gfv- I enchy. ' ■ - I “Our artillery at Champagne pro- | vented the French advance.- • } “General Hindenburg easily repulsed Russian attacks.’’

THE LOOS BATTLEFIELD.

AS MR. GIBBS SAW IT. ! (Rec. 1.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 5.

A vivid word picture of the Loos battlefield is given by Mr. Gibbs in the Chronicle. He writes: I went to-day to the centre of the great battlefield, where heavy fighting is still going on, and stood near the famous Loos redoubt. A lit tile distance away, looking grim and gaunt against the grey sky, rose, the tall, steep columns of mining works. I can hardly put into Avoids the picture of scenes through which f passed, and the dreadful aspect of the battlefields upon which the sun shone Avith splashes of light through stormy clouds, Avith the turmoil of war in the background. Thousands of men Avcro moving in a steady column forward and backward in the queer tangled way they do in battle.

SINKING OF THE ARABIC. COMPENSATION PROMISED. (Pec. 3.10 p.m.) _ WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. Mr s Lansing announced that Count Bernstorff had disavowed the sinking of the Arabic and had promised compensation for American lives lost.

RUSSIAN SQUADRON SAILS.

NEW YORK, October 5. A message- from Petrograd states that a fully equipped Russian squadron .left Odessa under sealed order?. Xt is presumed Russia is p cepe Err to attack Bulgaria by sea and land. The coastal waters are known to be mined.