WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 201, 23 September 1916, Page 2

WAR NEWS.

BURSTING OF A DAM. A DISASTROUS OCCURENCE. AMSTERDAM,, Sept. 20. The bursting of adam in Bohemia liberated a million cubic metres of water, which killed 250, including many children . Many houses and buildings collapsed. FRENCH MEAT SUPPLY. CIVILIAN CONSUMPTION TO BE REDUCED. PARIS, Sept. 22. Owing to Army requirements, civilians have been requested to reduce their meat consumption, and to replace it with fish and other substitutes. AN AUSTRIAN COMMUNIQUE. LONDON, Sept. 21. A Vienna communique says: Southeastward of Hatizeg the Roumanians wore completely driven back. Wo recaptured Petroseny and Squrduk Pass. The enemy in the Carpathians ■continues to attack with great tenacity. They gained local advantages southward of Lutzina and Bystrizee, but were repulsed everywhere else. The defenders on the Carso highlands encountered, during a four days’ battle, twenty infantry brigades, a .cavalry division, and fifteen Bersagiieri battalions. The enemy’s attacks on the Bivarou and Mass streams in the Sugana sector wore repulsed with heavy losses. KAVALLA’S TRAGIC STATE. BELGARS HARASSING GREEKS. LONDON, Sept, 12. A wireless from Paris states that the position at Kavalla is tragic. The Bulgars have proclaimed a state of : siege, and enforce stringent measures against the Greek inhabitants still there, numbering a thousand. They imust be indoors at 7 p.m., and nobody is allowed to leave the town. There is a great shortage of food. Warships and seaplanes daily attack concentrations of troops. GERMANY WATCHING HOLLAND. TROOPS HURRIED TO THE FRONTIER. EXPECTED ATTACK BY BRITISH. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 21. The “Telegraaf” states that the Ger mans hurried troops and artillery to the Dutch frontier last week, being apprehensive of a British attack across the Scheldt. LORD DERBY’S VIEWS. WAR WILL LAST OVER WINTER. ALLIED VICTORY CERTAIN. NEW YORK,’ Sept. 21. Lord Derby, interviewed by American correspondents, said he did not agree that the war would end in six months. He believed it would last over the winter. He considered there were vorv few slackrs now in England. After a visit to the front he felt even •greater certainty of victory.