GERMANS MADE APRIL FOOLS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 80, 3 April 1916, Page 5

GERMANS MADE APRIL FOOLS.

THREE AIR MONSTERS CAPTURED. MANY OF. THEIR GREW KILLED, r BED CROSS SHIP SUNK. SISTERS OF CHARITY DROWNED. | MR ASPTH FETED IN ROME. GREECE STILL HOLDS DANDLE TO THE KAISER. | . RED CROSS SHIP DELIBERATELY SUNK. SUBMARINED AT SIXTY YARDS DISTANCE. WHILE IN THE ACT OF ANCHORING. . SISTERS OF CHARITY AND OTHERS LOST. (Reed. 8.50 am.). i PETROGRAD, April 2. M. Golubeff, Red Cross official, says the Portugal was in the act of anchoring when a submarine fired two torpedoes at sixty yards, the second struck the engine room and she sank in less than a minute. Lifeboats from a trawler and a torpedo boat rescued eleven Sisters of Charity, two doctors, a priest, 125 Russian Naval Medical Corps, 13 of the French crew, the total aboard was 273. , The missing include Count Tatistcheff, a Rad Cross delegate, Bareness Meyendorff, 14 Sisters of Charity, 50 of the Russian Naval Medical Corps, and 29 of the French crew. There are a few wounded among the survivors. . The Portugal has a red cross on each side ,and flew a Red Cross flag. THE HOLOCAUST AT MALANCOURT. A TREMENDOUS PRICE FOR SMALL GAIN. TWO ATTACKS ALMOST WIPED OUT. K r ' ■; " THE THIRD OCCUPIES SMOKING RUINS. (Reed. 8.50 am.). PARIS, April 2. The. Petit Journal’s story of Malancourt, is. The Germans at 8 in the evening determined to seize the villa?e at whatever cost. They attacked xnost formidably with three brigades, one assaulting the frontal position, the others on the flanks. '■ At the moment they first debouched from their trenches and took shelter behind houses, they encountered such a sustained machine gun fire that they could not advance, and they flung themselves on the ground and rested for a few minutes. Then, goaded by their officers, they attempted, by short rushes, to reach the barricade? and ruins of the first houses which was. occupied. At each rush the assailants, conspicuous in the brilliant glare of searchlights, were subjected to a decimating fire, and only managed to reach the barricades at certain points. They were finally thrown back, leaving heaps of dead, and only a few remnants of the brigades regained their trenches. The flank attacks were not vigorous and they utterly failed.

The enemy, not discouraged, waited an hour then sent three fresh brigades. At 11 o'clock the officers forced the men to advance in one terrible rush, hut it was broken, and the three shattered columns withdrew. The defenders believed the attacks were ended, but at one o’clock the Germans aimed a grand attack on the left flank, where, after being hurl- . ed back repeatedly, they succeeded at enormous cost in breaking our defences. Then fresh Germans came up and took up grenade fighting among the village houses. The french troops were exhausted and' fell back foot by foot and house by house, and only abandoned the last houses at dawn, •quitting a mere heap of smoking ruins.