WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 31 October 1916, Page 3

WAR NEWS.

THE SOMME BATTLE. ONE OF THE BITTEREST EPISODES AN EXAMPLE OF TRAGIC HEROISM LONDON, Oct 28. Mr Percival Gibbon says: The hand-to-hand fighting in the gun pits of I Hazy trench on Thursday was one of j the bitterest episodes of the Somme action. The attack was undertaken in j weather conditions which only tragic | heroism made possible, for the advance ! British units went to the trenches in the previous night in soaking rain, with seven degrees of frost before morning. Later the rain melted the county to a loathy yellow paste. Th e barrage advanced ahead of the attackers. They were only half way out of their quagmire of trench when they saw a GerI man officer recalling the defenders I from the parapets. When our men | floundered through the mud every GerJ man was firing his rifle. We took the German position by crawling and tumbling forward somehow until the trench was captured. The defenders were Bavarians, who captured Vaux face after a magnificent French defence, so were worthy foes, but no match for British bayonets. Dead Germans now lie thick on the ground. But for the miserable weather the British would have been before the great trench system guarding Letransloy. | SWEDEN'S SYMPATHY. j ENTIRELY WITH NORWAY. IN SUBMARINE MENACE. LONDON, Oct >*). The “Times ” correspondent at Stockholm says Swedish public opinion fully sympathises with Norway, whose anti-submarine measures are identical with those of Sweden. Inc Swedish newspapers, without exception, unequivocally roudenr Germany’s attitude regarding the new ruthless submarining policy of Ihe Germans. ROD MAN I A’S PRISONERS, 20,000 FOR THE CAMPAIGN. GERMANS IN SORRY PLIGHT. LONDON, Oct 20. The Roumanians have taken 20,000 prisoners during the campaign. The Germans especially are dejected. They are mostly young lads and men over 50. hey are ill-clothed, hungary, and in bad hygienic condition. All the Austrians taken prisoner belong rode tachments from the Isonzo front. “Worth five times its price” is what everyone says who tries NAZOL for colds, catarrh, sore throat and hay fever. NAZOL quickly gives relief. 60 doses cost 1/6. 1