HIS EFFORTS SANGUINARILY REPULSED.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 145, 22 June 1916, Page 5

HIS EFFORTS SANGUINARILY REPULSED.

BULGARIA WILL NOT HELP. RUSSIANS RAPIGLY ADVANGING. ALOHG THE SERETH VALLEY. A GREAT AUSTRIAN DISASTER. GERMENS BEATEN AT VERDUN. GREEK PREMIER HAS RESIGNED.

SWO BELLONS MASSACRED

BY TURKISH ORDERS Received this day at 9" 1 " p.m. PARIS, June 21. Henri Barby, of Erceroum, writes to the newspaper, Le Journal, that of 2h million of Armenians in Turkey in the beginning of 1915, two million were massacred by order of the Young Turk Government.

HINDENBURG'S FAILURE

HIS OFFENSIVE SMASHED NO HELP FROM BULGARIA Received this day at 8.45 a.m. PARIS, June 21. Hindenberg's attempt to continue an offensive southward of Smogon was sanguinarily repulsed. AMSTERDAM, June 21. Bulgaria refused Austria's appeal to send forces to Bukovina.

ALEXANDRA DAY.

ROSE SELLERS IN LONDON Fir Received this day at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, June 21. Fifteen thousand girls,' dressed in white, were selling roses on AlexandrifcDay including Australian and New Zfcaland ladies, in the chief West Etnd thoroughfares.

FRRST DUTCH AMBULANCE

GOING TO A BELLIGERENT. ..

.SENT TO PETROGRAD

Received this day at 9.15 a.m. . June 21,

T-he first Dutch ambulance sent to abe llegerant is now ready and will go via Bergen to Petrograd. It consists of Dr Rijleveld and four of the most efficient medical men in Holland and nineteen nurses.

BULGAR--GERMANS BOMBED

BY BRITISH AEROPLANES

GERMAN OFFICERS RECALLED

Received this day at 8,45 a.m. ATHENS, June 21. British laeroplantfs i 'bombed Ge^-

man-Bulgar concentrations at Guniult-

zlna, seriously damaging provision »nd munition depots. M. It is reported in Mytilene that German officers and non corns, entrusted with the defence of the coast of Asia Minor have been recalled.

BRILLANT RUSSIAN PROGRESS

CUTTING ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS

GETTING NEAR LEMBERG

Received this day at 10 a.m. PETROGRAD, June 21.

Kaledin is pressing westwards and Southward of Vladimir and Volynsk iot an attempt to cut the enemy's communication with Kovel. jWe are also progressing towards Lemberg between Valdimir, Volynsk and Sokla. This extension on Kaledin's front fs spreading eighty miles southwards and indicates a forthcoming junction •With the army operating from Brody towards Lemberg. The Austro-Germans drew reinforcements from, me Italian, French, Bal->

kan Pinsk and Barnovitcki fronts. -/ Mr Cocker Lampson, M.P., comimands an armoured car unit consisting of hundreds of officers and men, many of whom fought in Belgium, France, Gallipoli and in German Southwest Africa, including Australians and New Zealanders, who wintered ait Aileaahtlravfsk. Somq jaxe! engaged in special work in connection !wHfi jAustiro-Germ{aii whb are employed on the construction pi railways.

GREEK PREMIER RESIGNED

ZAIMIS SENT FOR

Received thi s day at 10 a.m. ATHENS, June 21... It is reported that Skuloudis has resigned and that M. Zaimis has been summoned.

THE MEXCAN WAR

FRANCE AND BRITAIN Received this day at 11.40 a.m. (WASHINGTON, June 21. It is believed that Germany is fomnting a Mexican war. Britain and France are bringing pressure to bear on Carranza to induce him to maintain peace. The feeling against Americans, however, is so keen that it is believed war is inevitable. Amefricirn mobilisation is proceeding slowly. Large numbeds of Mexicans are joining Carranza.

ITALY RETURNING

AUSTRIANS DRIVEN BACK Received this day at 10.50 a.m. ROME, June 21. A communique states that during a heavy storm alpiners captured a strong position south west of Monte Purche, at the head of the Posina Valley. Three enemy night attacks on Monte Magnaboschi; were reipulsjed with heavy losses. Our advance north of Frengera valley t continues, despite difficulties of terrain and the enemy's stubborn resistance.