GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 2, 4 January 1916, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

ENEMY CONSULS

BUNDLED OUT OF SALONIKA

GREEK GOVERNMENT PROTESTS,

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SALONIKA, Janauarv 2

Enemy Consuls and their suites, numbering 51, have been sent on a steamer to an unknown destination. General Sarrail declares that he acted after full consideration and carried out an act of war. Greece, in addition ,to a protest, has asked for a return of the Consular archives. Some newspapers denounce the act as a violation of Greece’s sovereign rights. The Entente press ustify it as a reply to aeroplanes bombarding towns. The Allies continue to guard the Consulates.

HARD FIGHTING IN FRANCE,

FRENCH SUCCESSFUL IN MANY PLACES.

PARIS, January 1

Official: The bombardment of the enemy’s trenches at Bolsinghe was successful. On the North Aisne we demolished the German works.

The Meuse heights was the scene of effective cannonading against block-

houses. In the Vosges violent artillery attacks were successfully replied to. Near Dixmude the Belgian artillery was active.

At the Dardanelles front, heavy artillery’ bombarded the Asiatic side of the Straits, damaging enemy guns and destroying ammunition depots.

GERMAN ATTACK IN WEST,

PARTS. Januuary 3

A French official report states that a German attempt to capture an ob- ‘ seration post near Hill 193 with a hand grenade party failed completely. A MINOR INCIDENT. The High Commissioner reports: LONDON, January 1. Between the Oise and the Avre the enemy* artillery’ were silenced. A long-range gun shelled our material at Nancy. The damage was sligho. The gun was immediately silen«ed. CANADA’S ARMY INCREASED. OTTAWA, January I. The Government is authorising an increase in the Canadian army of half a million men. HONOURING THE CZAR. LONDON, January 1. The King has appointed the Czar a British Field-Marshal.

RUSSIANS SMASHING THROUGH, VIOLENT BATTLE RAGING IN GALICIA. THE AUSTRIAN LINES PIERCED.

PARTS, January 1

Le Temps states that a most violent battle is raging in Western Galicia, where' the Russians have succeeded in smashing the Austrian lines, and forcing Von Bothme’s retreat on certain sections of their front.

THE AUSTRIAN ACCOUNT,

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 1

Austinn accounts state that the Russians concentrated two hundred guns and three divisions on a front of time miles. They made a preliminary bombardmeno of 3(1 hours. The Austrians claim that they repulsed 22 as saults, mostly consisting of desperate hand-to-hand lighting.

THE GERMAN VERSION

BERLIN, January 1

Official: The Russians were repulsed in Eastern Galicia owing to an effective flanking movement.

AN AUSTRIAN CLAIM.

RUSSIANS REPULSED

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 2

An Austrian communique claims that they’ repulsed five attacks northeastward of Buczacz, the Russians abandoning hundreds of dead and wounded.

THE FIGHTING IN EGYPT.

ENEMY ROUGHLY HANDLED,

A DISORDERED AND HURRIED

RETREAT.

CAIRO, Januarv 1

Details of the fighting on C-hrisomas Day’ show that the enemy’s losses were greater than at first reported. We occupied an enemy position and camp westward of Mersmatu. The Senussi ed in hasty’ and disordered retreat, losing 400 killed and 82 prisoners. A considerable number of camels and sheep were captured and a quantity of ammunition and stores destroyed. We disabled an enemy’ gun. Their retirement was so hurried that Garraf Pasha, the commander, left in his office -his private papers. We had 10 men killed and four officers and 49 wounded. Another column of the 2Sth dispersed the Bo'douins under Sayed Harun south-east of Mersamatu and occupied the enemy’s camp and water supply.

BOOTY ABANDONED

CAIRO, January 2,

Official: Harun Pasha abandoned one month ’s supplies, four hundred sheep, ninety camels. The booty taken at Majid was 12,000 rounds of small arm ammunition, three hundred sheep and eighty-four camels.

BRITISH CASUALTIES. LONDON”, January 1. The British casualties for December were 884 officers and 13,684 men. compared with 6,907 in October and 40,437 in November.

BRITISH POSITIONS BOMBARDED.

THE WARSHIP SWIFTSURE DAMAGED.

LONDON, January 2

Turkish official. —Turkish batteries successfully bombarded the Allied position near Sedd el Bahr on the 30th. Aeroplanes bombarded the British warship Swiftsure, formerly the Constitution, bought from Chile in 1903. The damage is unknown. A GERMAN REPORT. ANAFARTA AND SUVLA BAY. LONDC/N, January 1. A German wireless message from a correspondent cf the ‘Lokal Anzieger’ visited the abandoned camps at Anafarta and the depots at Kemikliiiman. Everywhere were signs of a hurried retreat and there were many unburied dead soldiers, also enormous quantities of preserved meat, bacon, flour, rubber tyres. Suvla B'ay presented a wonderful picture. There were four stranded British transports. The depots were filled to the ceiling with stores. The Turks were counting the booty, and finding ammunition which had been thrown into the water.

GALLIPOLI.

SIR lAN HAMILTON SPEAKS, “IF!”

LONDON, January 1

Sir lan Hamilton says the time has not yet come when the Gallipoli expedition can be gauged by its military and moral value. We are too close, but the day will come when it will be seen in true perspective. When the historian reviews our work he will discover that the expedition produced a great and lasting impression for good upon the course of the war. Sir lan Hamilton, speaking with emotion, added, “Men, I believe and you believe that if we had munitions and men we would have won through to Constan-j tinople.” *, T 11|