IN THE EAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1916, Page 5

IN THE EAST.

"REGARDLESS OF COST." FURIOUS ENEMY ASSAULTS. REPULSED WITH CRUSHING LOSSES ATTEMPT TO BREAK RUSSIAN FRONT. eceived Oct. 24, 5.30 p.m. Petrograd, Oct. 33. Over twenty battalions, including an Austrian division, were engaged in a furious assault 011 'Friday on the wooded Carpathians. The object in view was the securing, regardless of cost, the heights east of Kirlibaba. All the attacks were repulsed with crushing loss, one battalion being absolutely wiped out, while another had only 170 survivors out of SSO men. The Germans are ceaselessly attacking liystritza, where the "breaking of the Russian front would bring the enemy to the rear of Kimpolung and the 'whole of the Russian left flank.

The greatness of the stake explains the enemy's sacrifices.

ANGLO-FRENCH CONFERENCE

EASTERN FRONT PROGRAMME. RESOLUTION CONCERNING GREECE. Received Oct. 24, 10.30 p.m. Paris, Oct.' 24. It is reported that the Anglo-French conference on Friday decided on a collective Entente Powers' programme as to the Eastern front. They also discussed the Greek question, and adopted a resolution, which will develop progressively, whereby King Constantine must realise the Allies' unity of action and energy.

r NEMY REPULSED, London, October 23. A Russian communique states:—Vfa repelled attempts to cross the Boldurka, north of Brody.

IN THE AIR.

J ZEPPELIN DROPS BOMBS IN I HOLLAND. » Received Oct. 24, 0.30 p.m. Amsterdam, Oct. 23. A Zeppelin, while flying over Holland, dropped a bomb at Gorinchem. Dutch soldiers fired at the airship. SEAPLANES ATTACK EAST FRIESIANS. Received Oct. 24 , 6.35 p.m. Berlin, Oct. 23. Official: Enemy seaplanes yesterday attacked East Friesian ports and islands without result.

ON THE SEA.

6UBMARINE TOLL. London, October 23. Latest reports show that five Swedish, seven Norwegian and six British vessels were submarined and sunk during the week-end. SEVERAL VESSELS SUNK, Received Oct. 24, 5.30 p.m. London, Oct. 23. The following steamers have been sunk: —Norwegian: Rabbi, Resoy and Drafu." Greek: Aris and George M. Em'brecos. Dutch: Fortuna. Danish: Hebe, also a Danish schooner and Swedish "barquentine.

Twelve of the Embrecos' crew are missing, and it is fearal that sixteen of the Fortuna's men were drowned. The Donaldson liner Cabotia_ is believed'to have been sunk.

THE GERMAN LIE 'FACTORY. Received Oct. 21, 6.5 p.m. London, Oct. 23 The Admiralty jdenies the Berlin official statement that a British destroyer was bombed off Flanders.. A DEUTSCHLAND STORY. New York, October 23. Captain ICoenig, describing the Deutschlnnd's trip in a message to the New York American, says: Early in the morning I saw British destroyers anil ordered the engineer to submerge. The submarine dived so steep, it went down at an angle of 30 degrees, that it dug its bows in the mud at the bottom of the sea, and the bows were held fast while the stern was swinging violently back and forth. As the water was shallow I was afraid that the stern would become visible to the ships,-so the ait-tanks were quickly flooded, but the were so deep in the mud that the submarine only returned to the horizontal slowly. I had to do much manoeuvring before the bows were released and/ we continued the voyage.

TORPEDOED GERMAN CRUISER. Amsterdam, October 23. A semi-official Berlin report asserts that the small cruiser Munchen, who was torpedoed by a British submarine, returned to port slightly damaged.