WESTERN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 2 May 1917, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT.

ENEMY'S ATTACKS COMPLETELY

REPULSED

FINE WOEK BY BRITISH AIRMEN

LONDON, May 1

Sin Douglas Haig reports: The enemy's attack on our new positions between Monehy le Preux and the Scarp? river were completely repulsed. There has been hostile artillery activity on both banks of the Scarpe,, and o-reat aerial activity. Bombs were effectively dropped behind the enemy's lines, causing several fires and also a large explosion. Three trains were hit. The enemy fought hard to protect the points attacked. Twenty German aeroplanes were downed and fifteen of ours arc missing.

SUNSHINY SPRING,

COLD AND WET GIVE PLACE TO

WARMTH AND DUST,

GERMANS SUFFER APPALLING

CASUALTIES

LONDON, May 1. Mr Philip Gibbs says: bunshin

ring weather- has replaced the cold

~nd wet and the mud has become dust. Describing the Australians' fight at Lagnicourt, he says that in counterattacking they found many German

lug-outs and great stores of beer, cig: ! .:s a find for thirsty men. This "mopping up" battalion, as it is technically called, mopped up the beer and the fat . igars. With a bottle of beer in one hand a bayonet in the other they coniinued to hunt for- prisoners. Two hundred attempted to surrender under a white flag, but were shot down by their r,vn machine-gunners. The 'Australians inflicted appalling casualties. Thi-ee thousand Germans were caught behind Iheiv own entanglements. Five Australians found themselves cut off. They

'iid"in the. German lines and remained .'or five days foodless and waterless till they found a gap in the entanglements' and escaped.

FRENCH ADVANCE

LONDON, May 1

After violent artillery preparation in the Champagne, the French infantry in the afternoon attacked the lines on both sides of Mt. Cornillee and carried several miles of fortified trenches between Cornillee and south of Beine, to a depth ranging from 500 to 1000 metres. They also pushed forward their lines on the north and north eastern slopes of Highmount as far as the Nauroy-Moron.vjllers road. Violent artillery fire continues. GERMANY'S INTERNAL TROUBLES. 'WAR TO THE DEATH WITH THE KAISER." • - : - PETROGKAD, May 1. 'A' procession of 5000 maimed solLei's, who carried banners inscribed • ,Var to the death with the Kaiser 1 ' ...ii'actcd much attention.

WORKMEN'S FOOD CONCESSIONS

LONDON, May 1. The "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent says that as a result of the strikes, German workmen have received considerable food concessions in regard to meat and potatoes. A semi-official statement says that although foodstuffs are short, there is sufficient until the harvest. TROUBLE AFTER MAY DAY. LONDON, May 1. According to the Cologne Volks Zeitung, the German Socialist leaders announce that they will be unable to guarantee the maintenance of peace and order in Germany after May Day.

MILITARY FIRE ON CROWDS

ZURICH, May 1

Neutrals from Germany report further serious disorders, particularly in the Westphalian steel districts, owing to the dearness of food. The military fired at the crowds and many were wounded.

AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS

HUNGARY RIPE FOE REVOLUTION

LONDON, May 1

The "Morning Post's" Hungarian correspondent says the shadow of revolution hangs over the country. The overthrow of Czardom gave a fresh impulse to the Socialists, numbering probably a million, including anarchists. Their representatives held a secret conference in the middle of April and issued a manifesto greeting the Russian proleteriat, congratulating them on the overthrow of Czarism, and hoping for the overthrow of all other despotisms. Hitherto the leaders have given guarantees for the orderliness of the Socialists, but it is unbelievable that any sane man will give these guarantees now. The Hungarian army is as ready for revolution as for war.

GERMAN GUN SHORTAGE,

LONDON, April 30.

Router's headquarters correspondent states that the latest captured enemy documents urgently emphasise the necessity for strictly economising shells of all types and also urge that unworn guns should not be used against big targets not requiring very accurate shooting. That is a complete reversal of the state of things existing when the Huns were overrunning Europe entirely by virtue of the artillery preponderance.

WAR NOTES TORTURED BRITISH. PRISONERS TIED TO POSTS IIS! FREEZING WEATHER. THE HAGUE, March G. A Belgian sailor who has just, arrived at Flushing from the German prison camp at Osnatoruck, where he has spent two years, states that the camp commanders, acting under orders, punish with exceptional severity any British prisoners who arc caught attempting to escape.

Just before the Belgian left, three English prisoners made an unsuccessful dash for liberty. As a punishment they were forced to stay bare-footed for a fortnight, and every day were tied to posts and left for several hours in bitter weather.

Owing to the bad and scanty food there is terrible in tlie camp.

"LET THE OLD DIE FIRST."

Mr. TheGdoi'e Roosevelt believes that older men should be first to answer the call to arms. The editoi O;' the Venango "Daily Herald" recently published an article under the caption "Let the Old Die First." He sent a copy of the editorial to Mr. Roosevelt, and received the following reply:—

"My dear Ferguson,—Good for you. I entirely agree with you, the old should go where possible, and it is for the old to die, where that can be brought about in war, so as to save the young. Of course,- if a man has a wife and children dependent upon him he ought not to go to the war mi til there is such a demand as there was in the Civil War, but he should go if his wife and children are not depen-, dent upon him for their bread. If we now go to war with Germany I should a good deal rather be killed myself than have my two eldest boys, who are married, and have children, killed. And bitter though the choice would be, I would rather expose Them to battle than their two younger and unmarried brothers."