WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 24 August 1916, Page 2

WAR NEWS.

A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. LONDON, August 21. A German communique says. We repulsed attacks west cr High Wood and Maurepas, also infantry attacks from Ovillers to Posires. !We repulsed the Russian attempts to extend their front on the west bank of the Stokhod.

We took the Stepanski-Kreta heights in the Carpathians

We gained ridges south east of Flcr ina. The last of the Serbian positions was stormed. 1 GERMAN SHIPS COMMANDEERED. LISBON, August 21. German ships aggregating 83/ii»3 tons have been ceded to Britain. They are manned by 2300 Portuguese marines. England pays 900,000 escudos monthly for the use of the ships. FAMOUS AVIATOR KILLED, PARIS., August 21. Brindejang Manlinais, \v*\o made « series of remarkable flights :•.: European capitals in 1913, fell at Verdun and was killed. GERMANY AND PEACE STATEMENT BY MR. ASQUITH. LONDON August 21. In the House of Commons Sir W. : L'/les drew attention to the statement I by Herr Zimmerman, German UnderSecretary for Foreign Ai'airs, that Ge:many had often declared her readiness tc negotiate for peace, bu; Britain had pievented the Entente from responding. The Rt. Hen' H. H. Asquith sale that Germany had not yet shown any disposition tc agree to peace except on terms intolerable or humiliating to ,'some of the Allies. The suggestion tha: Britain was influencing the Entente was quite untrue. Ke added that uc peace terms had been suggested cfllcally. THE BALKAN ACTIVITY. ENEMY POLITICAL MOVE. TRIUMPH FOR SERBIANS. THE ENEMY 'S ADVANCE REVIEWED. REGARDED AS DESPAIRING ' EFFORT. LONDON. August 21. Mr Calvert, the "Times" special correspondent at Salonika, says:—The battle of Mo.og'lio was a signal Servian triumph. Four hundred dead Bulgars were counted. The extensive Bulgarian movement is attributed either to a despairing desire to galvanise the soldiers' morale, which -has been depressed by inaction and privations, or with a view to staving off Roumanian intervention by an appearance of strength, which is plainly fictitious. The occupation of Fiorina is not important. We firmly hold the dominating heights. The signs'cf increasing activity by tne Allies aggravated the Bulgarians depression. They are regarded as an en*emy at bay, and in a state of unbearable suspense. BRITISH SEAPLANES BOMB BULGARIANS. SALONIKA, August 22. British seaplanes successfully bombarded a column of Bulgarians east or Kavalla.