WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 17 August 1916, Page 3

WAR NEWS.

GERMAN END IN AFRICA. NOT VERY FAR DISTANT. DURBAN, August 15. General Botha has returned from East Africa Interviewed, he said th e remaining German forces are being kralled; only one end is possible, and that is not far distant. Smutz’s progress was phenomenal, RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. ADVANCING ON THE STRYPA. LONDON, August 15. A Russian communique state: —We continue to advance on the Upper Strypa. In our offensive at Akkiz we captured a strong Turkish position, and cavalry are pursuing the Turks to the southward. Two of our hydroplanes successfully bomber an aerodrome on Lake Acorn, Courland, and returned safely, AUSTRIAN LOSSES TOTAL 200.C00. SINCE THE FOURTH OF AUGUST. LOND )N, August 15. A Paris communique states there i.» great artillery acLcu on the Somme front. ■*. A German detachment, after heavy bombardment, penetrated a small salient of our lines northwest of Leaurge. and northward of the Aisne. Our counter attack threw them out.

Our Grenadiers brilliantly took 300 meres of trenches to a depth of 100 metres of trenches to a depth of 100 Fine.) A Rome wireless estimates that the Austrian losses s lice the fourru on me Italian front are 25,000 killed, 10,000 wounded and pusonered. The total, including losses on the east front arc probably c\°r 200,000. GERMAN BOYS CALLED UP. ■AMSTERDAM, August 15. Germans of the 1919 class, born :n 1593, are ordered to enrol.

KILLED IN ACTION. SYDNEY August 15. Major Frank Coen has been killed in France. He managed the first. University Rugby teams which visited New Zealand. THE WHEAT MARKET. ' CHICAGO INFLUENCES AT WORK. LONDON August 14. The “Daily Telegraph” declares that Chicago influences hare been large irresponsible for a rise in wheat on the English markets during the past few days. Some Mark Lane factors declare that the movement is the result of a German-American conspiracy to force prices. If we could increase the freigntage from the Argentine and Australia it would counteract American gam'ol ing.