AUSTRO-GERMANS COLLAPSING

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 2 August 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANS COLLAPSING

KOVEL, LEMBERG, PRZMYSL 'THE HUNS WILL ABANDON FEAR OF BEING SURROUNDED RUSSIANS RAPIDLY ADVANCING AUSTRIANS FLEE IN TERROR A SMASHING BLOW FALLING

THE ZEPPELIN RAID.

1 GREAT NUMBER OF AIRSHIPS. | CRUISE OVER MANY COUNTIES. NO MILITARY DAMAGE. Received August 2, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, August 1. Prom later particulars it appears the Zeppelin raid was carried out with a considerable number of airships. The raiders appear to have spent some time cruising over Liocolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex, Kent, and Huntingdon. Bombs were dropped indiscriminately over these localities, but with no military importance. On one spot our anti-aircraft guns w r ere | brought into action, and it is believed ] 'with good effect. Full details are not I yet available. J

GERMAN FOOD RIOTS

ALMOST A REVOLUTION. SHORTAGE OF POTATOES. LONDON, July 31. Letters from home found on German prisoners describe riots in Berlin, Breslau; Minden, and Kiel, the troops suppressing them. One states that there was almost a revolution on account of the shortage of potatoes . I OFFICIAL REPORTS. ON BRITISH FRONT. GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED. ON THE FRENCH FRONT. (Received 9.30) LONDON, August i. Sir Douglas Haigi reports no change in the general situation to-day. Northwards of Basentin le Petit a hostile attack was successfully repulsed. Heavy artillery fire was mutual during the night. Elsewhere nothing of note has been received. A French official report states that north of the Somme the enemy did not renew attempts. North of Avre, after violent bombardment the Germans attacked in the region of Lisons, and their two surprises failed under our fire. On the right of the Meuse artillery fire was violent during the night. In the region of Thiamont work there was a bombardment of heavy shells at Fumin Wood, Lalafee. West of the Pontamousson sector, near Fleury, three enemy mine chambers were exploded and we occupied the creaters. EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN. CENTRAL RAILWAY CUT. VAN DER VENTER’S PROGRESS. LONDON, July 31. It is officially stated that Colonel Van der Venter, advancing from the KondoaTrangi position,-, has occupied Dodomo, on the Dar-es-Salaam-Ujiji railway. KEEPING HIS MEN FIT. EXERCISE AND SLEEP. GERMANY IS BEATEN. ADMITTED BY GERMAN OFFICERS (Received 9.25) NEW YORK, August 1. Frederick Palmer, writing from the West front, describes General Haig as keeping up exercise of the men and insisting on plenty of sleep, consequently they are as-afresh as when the war began. General Haig, m an interview, said the tide turned only on the question oi time, when we would have a decisive victory. Events proved that man for British were superior to the Gennihns. Captured officers admit that Germany is beaten.

DUTCH LINER SUNK. .MINED IN NORTH SEA. CREW AND PASSENGERS SAFE. LONDON, July 31. The Flushing mail boat Wilhelmina struck a mine and sank. Her passengers and crew were rescued, but some of them wore injured. ON THE EAST FRONT. GERMANS CANNOT HOLD OUT. AGAINST RUSSIA’S TRIPLE ONSLAUGHT. (Received 9.25) PETROGRAD, August 1. An American correspondent says the opinion in Petrograd i s that despite the Austro-German s’ stubborn resistance they will be unable much longer to successfully oppose all the three Russian lines of advance upon Kovel, Vladimir, Volynski and Lemberg. They will probably be competed to sacrifice one in order to stiffen the others.

EAST COAST AIR RAID.

PREVIOUS NEWS EXAGGERATED. AIRSHIPS SEEM TO DROP. DISAPPEARED IN THE MIST. Received August 2, 10.25 a.m. v LONDON, August 1. Between 10 o’clock and midnight several airships attacked the eastern and south-eastern counties. Owing to their great height and mists, the number was uncertain; at least six were counted. There was probably a seventh, which did not drop bombs. The number of bombs was greatly exaggerated. Because they fell in thinly-inhabited districts they wore heard great distances. Sixty bombs were found. Other aircraft guns engaged the raiders, and they were seen to drop to a low altitude. They disappeared in the mit..

MILK FOR GERMAN BABIES.

WASHINGTON, July 31. Mr Taylor, of the American Embassy in Berlin, after an investigation, denies the German stories of a shortage of milk for babies in Germany, CONVOYED BY ’PLANES. NEW SYSTEM IN BALTIC. EVADING THE SUBMARINES. COPENHAGEN, uly 31. The Germans are employing new methods in the Baltic, where merchant men convoyed by aeroplanes are sailing in long columns, the last ship being a disguised auxiliary cruiser, the Germans discovering that submarines always attack the hindermost ship. A few days ago such a cruiser sank a submarine by gunfire, but a few minutes later another submarine, which witnessed the disaster, attacked and sank the cruiser, whose crew were res cued. MEAT FOR THE ARMY. NEW ZEALAND’S BIG CHEQUE. OVER A MILLION FOR A MONTH. WELLINGTON, This day. The Imperial Supplies Department made payments on behalf of the imperial Government during July of £l, 015,789 for meat, being a record for any month. The total payments since March, 1915 amount to £11,203,364, for shipments aggregating 878,517 quarters of beef, 3,673,243 are 1,750,000 601 b carcases of feat in store in the Dominion to date. The Department’s shipments of cheese amount to 13,804 tons, costing £916,687.

MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION

NEW YORK. July 31. As an outcome of the explosion, two railway warehouse officials have been arrested and charged with manslaughter. The floating boxe« of explosives are a menace to shipping. TRADE DISCRIMINATION. HINT FROM THE U.S.A. WASHINGTON, July 31. It is generally believed that the United States’ protest against the blockade “black list” was intended to convoy to Gre n t Britain the United States’ disapproval of any trade discrimination such as that laid down at the Paris Conference. IRELAND’S GOVERNMENT. NEW CHIEF SECRETARY MR H. C. DUKE APPOINTED. THE UNIONIST ATTITUDE. CRITICISED BY MR DILLON. LONDON; July 31. In the House of Commons to-day Mr John Dillon urged the Government to immediate disclose the plans for the future government of Ireland. He entered into negotiations with Mr Lloyd George unwillingly, for he knew' the opportunity which they would give the various factions which were assailing the power of the Nationalist leaders. Mr Asquith on July 10th. after Mr Lloyd George had completed the negotiations and accepted written forms of settlement, announced that Cabinet would submit them for Parliament’s acceptance. A week later the Unionists in the Cabinet went to> the Premier and announced that they resolutely and finally declined to accept the condition which would retain the full numbers at Westminster as at present, the government of Ireland was an unlimited military tyranny. Mr Asquith followed and announced that the Rt Hon H. C. Duke, K.C., Unionist member for Exeter, was the new Chief Secretary for Ireland. He would hold a seat in Cabinet, but would spend the bulk of his time in Ireland. Mr H. E. Duke was formerly a journalist in the west of England, and success in jury cases. He was elected M .P. for Plymouth in 1900,. holding the seat until 1906. In 1910 he won the Exeter seat, and has held it ever since. He has acted as recorder of Devonport since 1900, and as treasurer of Gray’s Inn since 1908. Mr Asquith informed the House of Commons to-day .that Sir John Simon, ex-Home Secretary, would hold an inquiry into , the death of Sheehy Skeffington, who was shot without trial in the early stages of the Dublin revolt. CANNOT STOP THE RUSSIANS. TRYING TO DELAY THEM. / AN IMPORTANT GERMAN ADMISSION. (Received 11.50) A German communique states the Austrians are blowing up Bug bridges to ut:ay the Russian advance on Lemberg. Railway traffic between Lemberg and Tarnapal is interrupted; engines and rolling stock have been transferred to 1 Cracow. The population is evacuating the suburbs of Przerasyl and Yaranslav, and fugitives from Galicia are flock in!g, to Cracow. The “Deutsche Tages Zietung” states that everything is ready for the possible evacuation of Lemberg, but there is no immediate need for apprehension. Reventlow, in an address at Munich, said: “Let us not deceive ourselves because England to-day is unbroken, and the talked of financial collapse of Britain will not happen. Germany must wage an unscrupulous war with every possible means.” He added, “America equally with England is determined to destroy German interest in trade. THE KAISER’S MESSAGE. ON THE WAR ANNIVERSARY, (Received 11.15) AMSTERDAM, August 1. A German official message says it is quite intelligible that the British Government seeks to excuse Captain Fryatt, bcause it was responsible for the The Kaiser’s war anniversary mesinstructions issued to shipmasters, sages to the army and navy say the second year is one of glory. Their enemies had been reinforced by foreign assistance, pressed 'into their service from all parts of the world, but they had failed to rob you of the fruits on that glorious day at Skagerack of former victores. Our young navy dealt a heavy blow to the British Armada. Our enemies hope to overawe us with munitions, but they will fail as they failed to starve us. They are responsible for further bloodshed; we have difficult days still ahead of us, for our enemies strength is not yet broken, but I am always convinced that , Germany is invincible.

AUSTRO-GERMAN ROUT. IMPORTANT TOWNS ABANDONED. FEAR OF RUSSIAN ENCIRCLEMENT. GREAT A USTRO-GERMAN CONTROVERSY. EACH BLAMES THE OTHER. Received August 2, .11.50 a.m. LONDON, August 3. The Austro-German rout is multiplying. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Rome correspondent telegraphs that the Austro-German staffs resolved not to defend any towns, in order to avoid tli.j Russians surrounding them. This decision! includes Kovel, Stanislau, and Lemberg. The Russians have already reached positions south, west, and north of Kovel. There is evidence of Austrian demoralisation. After the battle on the 28th the Austrians, in panic, abandoned fifty kilometres of front west of Luck, Later, seeing the Russians pause in their advance, the Austrians retraced their steps and re-oc-cupied ten kilometres of the abandoned territory. At Petrograd prioners state that a fierce controversy lis raging between Austrian and German generals with reference to responsibility for disasters. Mackensen’s staff accuse Archduke Ferdinand, and the Austrians retort that the Germans advised reinforcing the Italian front; they recommended Austrians to mass heavy guns in wrong places in Galicia and Bukovina. A Russian communique states—We forced the enemy back at the bend on the Stokhod, and reached westward of the Velicki-Kuchary line. We repulsed counter attacks at Kovel and Luck. We attacked in the region of Tchekhuv, Dubenka, south-eastward of Monasterish, and crossed the marshy river of Koropetz waist deep, bridges being destroyed. We reached the west bank, where we re-organised, and prisoncred over 1000 Austro-Germans, and we are still pursuing in the direction of Mossul.