BATTLE AT HOOGE

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1915, Page 5

BATTLE AT HOOGE

UNPARALLELED FOR DARING. BULGARIA THREATENED CERMAM INTRIGUE IN AMERICA. ' / MESSAGE FROM GENERAL HAMILTON. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. THE DARDANELLES ] UNITED STATES.

THE RECENT FIGHTING. '.MESSAGE FROM GENERAL HAMILTON. ABSURD CENSORSHIP SOMEWHERE. By Telegraph.—Press Association Dunedin, Last Night. Hon. Jas. Allen received the following cablegram from .Sir lan Hamilton tonight:—"Warmest thanks for your telegram, which has keen communicated to the troops. The corps commander under whom the New Zealand troops are serving reports as follows, and I fully endorse all he says: "I cannot tell you how magnificently the whole of the New Zealand troop3—artillery, mounted rifles, infantry, and Maoris—have done in our recent very severe fighting. Trench after trohch and ridge after ridge were successfully taken !>v them, with a dash which prevented the Turks making any stand against them, over country as precipitous and difficult as that which we took on our landing. Among our fallen comrades the whole force deplores the loss of Colonel Malone and Colonel Bauchop, who had proved themselves first-class soldiers, and real leaders in the field.—(signed) lan Hamilton.

WHOLESALE INTRIGUE. A REVELATION" NOT UNLOCKED 10U. Received August 10, 11.40 p.m. New York, August 10. The World declares that it has obtained correspondence proving that leading German officials and GcnnanAmerican financiers are implicated in the attempt against the United States laws, and that Count Bethmann-Holl-weg participated. It is estimated that Germany spent two million dollars weekly for the propaganda. A Providence journal states that the Government possesses overwhelming evidence against the German embassy officials, and it includes a bag of documents belonging to a German secret service agent. The intrigues include passport frauds, Canadian dynamiting*, munition strikes, plots against British warships, attempts to poison horses and mules, and plots to involve the United State 3 with Mexico.

REPLY TO AUSTRIA. WILL STILL SUPPLY MUNITIONS TO ALLIES. Received August l(i, 11.40 p.m. Washington, August 10. A striking sentence in Mr Lansing's reply to the Austrian Government is that the United States deems it unnecessary to extend further, at the present time, consideration to the Austro-Hungarv Government's statement regarding the principles of international law and practice of nations. The national safety of the United State.s, and other nations without great military and naval establishments; the prevention of increased armies and navies; the adoption of peaceful methods for adjustment, of international differences, and, finally, neutrality itself, arc opposed to prohibition by a neutral nation of the exportation of arms and ammunition and other munitions of war to belligerents during a war. The United States has always desired peace, and lias therefore avoided the maintenance of menacing military and naval establishments. This policy might fatally embarrass her against wellequipped and powerful invaders if she were unable to purchase arms and ammunition from neutrals, and she cannot therefore deny the same rights to others.

IN THE EAST THE RUSSIAN RETREAT. OFFICIAL REPORT. Received August 10. 10.10 p.m. Pctrograd, August 10. The Russian front is from Kovno •through the Suwalki region, along Robr, across the Warsaw .ret logrn.d railway and the Bug. to fifty miles westward of Brest Lisoksto, and is now almost stra'ght, with a slight outward curve. Novo Georgievsk is invested, but h confident that it can give a good account of itself. Fighting in the direction of Jacorabstadst and Drinsk increased in intensity on Friday and Saturday. German attacks between the Narcw and the Hug were successfully repulsed. The enemy on Friday and Saturday strengthened his offensive against our position along the sdanil tz-l-ukow railway. We stopped the movement and captured six hundred ! Ainlro-Cernuns and some machine-guns, j The enemy bombarded the fortifications of Kovo with he'avy gans, ;and made I! u eerie.-, of partial attacks, j Against different sections of the fortress. , These, generally - peak'ng. were repulsed, On" advance guards enptured tivo lines of German trenches southward of the Dnnajcv.

RUSSIA STILL RESISTING. GKRMAX REPORT. Received Ar.pir.t lii. S.JO p.m. Amsterdam. August 10. Ociic-ra! von Ru'o'v. in the Kinsisdikv district. py.slicd back tlio l\u-.-ians to the prhonpring 2"'>o. Tn tiro south, from Kovno. we repuEed the enemy and prisonered 1000. Our troops aie tlrawirtfj nearer (tie fortress. Tiie Ri!-;i?n. lutwocn tlic Xaiew and the I-ill continued a stubborn resistance. We farced t!ie Xuvzok crossing on Saturday night. and General von Schultz on Saturday prisonered 1 OHO, and General von fialiwitz captured 3.).i0, including fourteen officers. and ten mai'iiine-pruns. The ling around X"ov» Geor<rievsk is no narrower, but we gained on all the fronts. The enemy apra'n tenaciously resisted Prince Leopold's advance. We p'ersod the enemy's positions northwards of f.o-i c and Miedzyrzeczs, the enemy retreating to Wavrsch. Between August Bth and 14th we took prisoner four thousand, including 22 officers, and nine ma-chine-guns. The Russians on the line from Rozanka, northward of Vlodava. to south-westward of Slawatycze and Miodzyrzeczs, ajra'n attempted resistance, but under pressure of our speedy attack they continue to retrep*

tAGERNESS IN THE BALKANS.

THE K£Y OK THE SITUATION. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, August 15. •me 'l imes correspondent in Paris 3*js ifle news of further successes in xue uaruanehes Ls awaited with great eagerness. It is felt that the Balkan negotiations will be without result unless the Allies demonstrate by. more \ijjyr ill reinforce.iients and action not oiuy their determination to force the Dardanelles, but the certainty of success. Various reports indicate that the Germans share this view." They are concentrating troops and stores in the 'iemejssvitr, Neusatz, a nil Orsova region, presumably with the object of an otlena.ve against Serbia, in the hope of itrriving to the aid of the Turks before their resistance at the Dardanelles is overcome. In the circumstances it is frit here that arguments supplied by the Allies' troops in the Dardanelles are weightier in Bulgaria than those ol the Chnncel'oriea.

REVOLUTION PREDICTED. INCREASED TURKISH BITTERNESS. Athens, August 10. A quarrell between Turco-German sta'l jfficers at Gallipoli resulted in an outbreak against the German*. Forty-nine Turkish officers were aiTested and taken in chains to Constantinople and gaoled. This has increased the indignation against the Germans throughout the whole .army. Greek refugees predict a fwilullon, . Hl-I LANDING OF TROOPS. Received August 10. '■> p.m. London. August 10. I. Ijanesep Ficmh evl.llni-ter of Marino, puc ahi.s the necessity for the Aires .li-embarhlng troop- at the farther end i;i the Gulf of Saros. in order to tl. »e|op an attack on the mainland. TURKISH REPORT. IV? '.vc 1 A 'gust lii. ft'.ls p.m. IVii-taulinople, August ]•">. ' Offlcia'.—!>iir :: .unlet-attack lvpuls d an attack against the right wlni;- norlhv.arl of Arlbu:n:i, and the aitiller/ i-..m;.e1!«-d an infantry ' attalina <Ol AnaLirta [dain to retire in the direction of i'enii Klilimnn. C'lir artillery on the 1.-ff win..' of Si.ldol l'.ahr also d-stroyed r '-.limb-throwing installation. Ilustile y.'rme"! lorri'.el Ariburnu, wounding title soldiers.

iOUTH AFRICA. BOER-BRITISH UNITY. THE EXPANSION' UK 801 TH AFRICA. ..ecehed Atigiw-t IU, 9.3.) p.m. Johannesburg, August 18. General Smuts, addressing the South African l'arty, denounced a two stream policy whereof the Transvaal has had an Experience so hitter, pr'or to the Boer war. Me contrasted it with the success of Boer and Briton, through unity, in South-West Africa, emphasising "tho actual prospects of the Union doubling itself, if it continued. The road of the Union's northern boundary would not be where it is, and they could beqircath to their children a huge country •wherein to develop a ty.pe for tliemgelveg, and form a pecple destined to be Sn time a civilising agency.