LATEST WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 136, 12 June 1916, Page 5

LATEST WAR NEWS.

&UGE RUSSIAN CAPTURES. A LARGE ARMY TAKEN. OFFICERS AND MEN. OCXS AND MUNITIONS. (Reed. 2.15 p.m.). LONDON, June 11. The total Russian captures in the recent battle are: 1 General 1649 Officers 106,000 Men 124 Gun s ISO Machine guns Yesterday 35,000 prisoners were taken, 18,000 being taken in the one sector ot' Czrnikoff.

JOFFRE AND M. BRIAND IN LONDON. LONDON, June 10. General Joffr e drove through London and visited Richmond. M. Briand strolled through Hyde Park. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. SYDNEY, June 11. List 175 contains the following New Zealand names:— HI —Sergt. A. Marchant, Sapper L. A. Laineston, Private A. L. Lewis. Wounded —Private I. R. Hornsey. Killed in Action —Sappers S. Sproat, Lance-Corporal A. Ferguson, Returned to duty—Privates G. Logan. H. W. Bladin. D. Griggs. A GERMAN REPORT, LONDON, June 11. In a Berlin comunique it is merely stated that there is no change so far as the German troops are concerned. The Russians covered 25 miles to Lutsk in three days, through forests, marshands, and over battered defences. AN AUSTRIAN COMMUNIQUE. . 1 AMSTERDAM, June 11. iAn Austrians communique says: Extremely stubborn battles occurred * between Okno and Dobronoutz. Eight attacks were repulsed in one sector and fiv ein another. Strong Russian forces, after bitter i fighting, drove our trobp s to the west- | ern bank of the S try pa, ! ’ ;.We repulsed l numerous attacks north-west of TarnoppL _ Fighting occurred in the Lutsk region, west of the Styr. Russian attempts to cross near Kolki and north-west of Czartorysk 1 failed.

HUGE HAUL BY RUSSIANS. LEMBERG WITHIN 20 MILES RUSSI ANS STILL PUSHING ON GENEVA. June 11. The Austrians have evacuated Dubno. The Russian vanguard is within 20 miles of Lemberg. The Russians since the outset, have captured 91 guns. A TELEGRAPH INNOVATION. GIRLS AS OPERATORS A CLASS STARTED WELLINGTON. This day. The Telegraph Department made b start this morning at 1 raining girls as operators, with a class of thirty. As soon as they have fairly broken the ice classes will be opened in Auckland,Christchurch, and Dunedin.

Officers on f uric ugh are amazed at the German claim 3 of victory. They describe the attacks by the enemy destroyers as feeble in the extreme. They seemed not to are to persist in the attacks.. Firing was accurate at first, but directly the ships got hit they became wild. An officer states that the Germans lost two vessels of the Kaiser class, two battle cruisers, fcur cruisers and twenty- destroyers. Five German big ships were afire. The second salvo by a British vessel at SOOO yards disposed of ail the turrets cn the Lutr.cw except one. The Lut?ow then hurst into fames from the aft to the foremast. Bar Kitchener • 3 bachelor, ami rite heir to the earldom is Ins brother. Cffionc] Henry Kllintt Ghevallier Kitchener. who was born four years before his dV.'nf-h v> ■ , chener is n widower, and has no children. He entered the Army in Jsy-i, ami became lieutchnnt-eolonel in is:»2, and cokmel in IStffi. He served in the Harman campaign, being mentioned in despatches. and was chief transport officer o. me Manipur Field Force in 1893. He retired after tat campaign, and has since lived at Bourne Park, antorbury.