AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

TREMENDOUS ARTILLERY | BATTLE. , .aAGDJG ON THE SOMME, Beceivad Oct, 10, 5 " \> i Lo.'don, o:>i. 0. 'A German eommuniqi/e- «*utes: There Is artillery and patrol activity south of sfprea and Artois. There is a tremendous artillery battle raging on the Somme. The enemy, if possible, is increasing his efforts. We inflicted proportionately greater defeats, and have not lost the smallest section of a trench. The Anglo-French assaulted, regardless of losses, between Geudeour and Bouchavesnes, but they were repulsed every time. We destroyed cosniderable trenches by mines in the Argonne. During September we lost twenty aeroplanes, whilst the Anglo-French lost 120 We pushed forward to Babaludowa, the enemy retreating along the whole line of eastern Transylvania. We recaptured Foergzva* and 'l'oerzburg. German troops and Austro-Hungarian monitors sold possession of a Danube {sland, north-west of Svistov. We captured six guns east of the Moiuutif-Florina railway. The enemy has obtained r. foothold on {he left bank of the Cerna. HIDING GERMANY'S PLIGHT. DEIFICATION OF dIKDEXBUB.O. London, Oct. 9. "Hit. Cnrtin, an American journalist, who hai.»pent ten months in Germany examining the condition?, in nn article in che Daily Mail shows the laborious ' iystem by which the Government is hid- ' Jng from the world the real state of the jountry. The inner world of German/ low realises what real war is. The battle of the Somme. .-.lien tha )ffensive commenced, did not attr.i=S Huch attention. Even the highest miliary Quarters' regarded it as Britain's Inal bluff, tart soldiers on the Somme "i>w admit that Britain is learning tier Tisiness. The German losses were teiJlle, particularly those of the Prussian Jnafds. The deification of Hindenburg and the Jownfall of Eagland are still uppermost ii th# thoughts of Germans. Town*, ' »ofe», fashions, and even the war loan, ire named after Hindenburg, whose bust „ k fottn4ifljrew middle clis? homo. -