WONDERFUL ARTILLERY

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 29 July 1916, Page 5

WONDERFUL ARTILLERY

SCIENCE AND DAKING OF THE GUNNERS. MEANS SUCCESS IN BATTLE. "LIKE SOMAN CHARIOTEERS." LONDON, June 27. The following dispatch, from Mr Philip Gibbs has been published:—"Before the key of the position is*really captured a fight must be made for. the higher ground beyond the village of Pozieres. Advancing English regiments upon the left constitute a menace, and the line has been thrust forward by a series of posts joining up to the positions in the neighbourhood of the High Wood, where the enemy's Leavy bombardment checked progress. "There was a curious incident to the southward of the High Wood. Our troops noticed a body of kilted n, 1 .? 11 -; coming,'.and momentarily thought they were v weiir.ded men of a Scottish regiment returning. An officer with field glasses dicovered'Htnat the men were Germans dressed, kilts.* A "few shells'" dispersed them. "During the past few—days the increasing strength of the German artil,-, lery Has been noticeable, especially the heavy;guns which have..been firing a:t; range' wildly with a view . to, malsnj£tliiirigs uricomfortable for our rear, to our.-superiority in observation, : and" t the'complete failure, of German aircraft, tho enemy, is wasting much ammunition.. Our anti-air-craft guns have ""hardly fired a shell for weeks.'" "The I 'work' of our artillery has been a wonderful achievement. The success of this great battle is largely due to the science and daring of our gunners, and the labour of thousands of men in Britain sweating in soul and body making munitions. "

WATCHING THE DEUTSCHLAND

IN AMERICAN WATERS. BRITISH CRUISER CANARD DENIED. MYSTERIOUS SIGNAL. NEW YORK, July, 27 Sir Cecil Spring Rice, British Ambassador in the United States, says that the Admiral in command of the Atlantic Fleet denies that a British armiser entered Chesapeake Bay in pursuit, of the German submarine seutseh)land, as reported the other lay. The authorities are holding an invesigation as to why a vessel which pased the American wars&ip Louisiana ignalled that she was a British ruiser, -and also as to whether the hip had any sinister motive. A cable from New York this mornig states that the report that the xexnen, another submarine merchantian; had arrived in America, is not H _ mwm

I PRISONERS OF THE TURK.

TOTAL OP 9,000 HELD. MANY TOO ILLTO LEAVE BAGDAD. LONDON, July 27 Lord Robert Cecil, Under Secretary r Foreign Affairs, informed the j rose of Commons to-day tha t the ] aerican Constat Bagdad had tele-« aphed on that a thousand itish prisoners of war were still in > city, top ill or too weak to he ten to .the prison camps* Ifr R. Forater Secrey to thejWar Office, stated that the 70 men Including prisoners from KDardaaeMes campaign, and Indian l Egyptißf native troops.