ANZACS HONOURED.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 19 July 1916, Page 5

ANZACS HONOURED.

LONDON, July 17. The Anzacs who partook in the review on the 14th, left Paris on Sunday. An immense crowd acclaimed the British and Colonial troops and fiung flowers at them.

GERMAN COUNTER ATTACKS. DEFEATED BY THE FRENCH L I (Received 8.50) , PARIS July 18 . \ A communique states: At nightfall , on Monday the enemy attacked our front, from Biaches to La Maisonette, i ..Despite repeated attempts, and at the icost of heavy losses, the enemy were ', unable to seize La Maisonette. Some fragments penetrated along the canal .into the eastern part of Biaches, where the struggle continues. Our fire foiled a coup de main at ' Hill 304, on the Meuse. ITALIAN OFFICIAL REPORT THE ADVANCE RESUMED. ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED. (Received 8.50) PARIS, July 18. An Italian official report states: We defeated enemy's attacks at Foppiano and Vallerea, notwithstanding vilgorous resistance of infantry We resumed our advance on the northern slopes of Pasubio There was lively fighting at Posina and Astico, where the enemy attempted to check our progress by fruitless counter attacks. HUGE BRITISH CAPTURES ON THE WEST FRONT. LONDON, July 17. On the British front heavy rain and mists again interfered with operations. Nothing important has occurred to-day. The total number of prisoners taken since July Ist is 189 officers and 10,779 men. Captured armament includes five 8 inch and three (5 inch howitzers, four 6 inch and five other heavy guns, 37 field guns, 30- trench howitzers, and o'6 machine guns, and many thousand rounds of gun ammunition. The above is exclusive of many guns not yet brought in, and numbers destroyed by our bombardment and iabandoned. The French front is comparatively calm. CASEMENT APPEAL FAILS. A FINAL APPEAL MADE. (Received July 18, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON July 18. There is a small attendance at tiie Casement trial. The dreary legal argument failed. The Court, though the judges appeared interested in Sullivan's delvings into old time records, came, to a decision in a few .minutes. Casement listened without: apparent emotion; he faintly smiled and waved •his hand to some women friends, who were present throughout the trial. He finally disappeared below the dock. It isi understood that Casement is appealing to the House of Lords, and a petition is being promoted in his favour, i NO INCREASE OF MONOPOLY. (Received July 19, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, July 18. The annual report of the General Federation of Trade Unions says: Any fiscal system which will secure wages sufficiently in excess of subsistence rates, permitting reasonable provision for illness and old age, will receive intelligent consideration. Let the State guarantee minimum wages based upon prices and human requirements. State control of production and imports may be considered, but .trade unionists will not tolerate attempts to increase the powers of exactions of monopolists. ANZACS HONOURED. i BY LONDON'S LORD MAYOR. (Received "9.35) j LONDON, July' 18. The Lord Mayor of London, while driving through Cheapside, saw four Anzacs alight from a coach. He went and conversed with them,, and took j them back with him to lunch at the Mansion House. . i A PERTINENT QUESTION. _____ ASKED BY GERMAN SOCIALISTS. (Received 9.10) BERNE, July 18. . ; A German Socialist manifesto, cir- ( jculated in Germany, entitled "Naval ( 'Bluff." If the. British fleet is vanquished why the blockade continues jand why doesn't the German fleet boni'bard the English coast and land an invading army'? The reason is, the naval victory is fiction A NAVAL CHASE. GERMAN TORPEDOERS HUNTED. (Received 9.10) , AMSTERDAM, July IS. j] Passengers arriving at Flushing saw I] a British squadron chasing German j f torpedoer.s towards th e Belgian coast. L _ u