GREEK GOVERNMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 1 September 1916, Page 3

GREEK GOVERNMENT.

NEW PREMIER APPOINTED. ATHENS, August 30. Moschopoulos hopes his appointment will lead to improved relations between Greece and th e Entente. He declared his sympathies are with the Allies. WAR COUNCIL AT VIENNA. BULGAR FERDINAND PRESENT. TO CONSIDER ROUMANIA. ZURICH, August 30. A war council has been summoned at Vienna to consider Roumania's entry; King Ferdinand will attend. BRITISH CAPTURES ON THE SOMME. OVER 15,000 MEN. LONDON August 30 Sir Douglas Haig, since July Ist, has taken prisoners 2(56 officers and 15,203 men, and captured 86 guns and 160 machine guns. Mr Philip Gibbs, in the Chronicle, gives a dramatic story of the repulse of th e Prussian Guards at Thiepval. The Wiltshires and Worcestcrs discovered the Prussians gathering for an attack. It was necessary to send runners to warn th e commanders. Several tried, but all died. Finally one, by sheer luck, lost his direction and staggered amid smoke and shell-craters and found himself on the edge of the German trenches, which were crowded with Prussians, with fixed bayonets. He turned back, survived the German barrage, reached the rear lines unscathed, and delivered his message. Heavy batteries, in an officers ' words, were smashing the German lines in three shakes. Th e Prussians were caught in th c storm of shell and the trench was filled with mangled bodies. The; counter.-attacks after this had no possible chance.

It is noteworthy that the German communiques on the 27th and 28th pretend that violent Francoßritish attacks wer e mad? and repulsed north of the Somme. It is authoritatively stated that there have been, no operations on

the Somme front during the past three days, except details, all of which have succeeded. It is evident that the German general staff is anxious to sustain the morale of the people by recounting imaginary victories, also to explain why they are unable to aid their allies

Beuter's special representative visited the flying centtes. He states that he fund absolute evidence that w e are now top dog of the world for the output of pilots for fighting and bombing. The latest British aeroplane is so deadly that th e Fokkers flee whenever one is signalled.