MESOPOTAMIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1917, Page 5

MESOPOTAMIA.

POSITIONS CONSOLIDATED. A NEW FRONT LIXE SECURED. A & N.Z. Cablo Association and Router. Si Kccuivt.il Fob. 11, 11.40 p.m. London, Fell. 10. Mesopotamia ollicia!: The positions gained on the 2nd have been consolidates. Our artillery several times', bombarded the liquorice, factory, which was strongly bold. Wo secured am! consolidated a portion of a new front line west of the faciery. and further westward secured and consolidated trendies on a fronla".' • of 1200 yards. AT7STRO-GERMANY. a SIGNS OF FAMINE. STORKS, AXiU WAREHOUSES RAIDED. SERIOUS DISTURBANCES' FEARED. Tillies Service. , Received Feb. 11, 8.20 p.m. Amsterdam, February 10. The whole of the notice have been mobilised. Owing to attempts to plunder stores, soldiers have been posted outside warehouses. Further serious disturbances are feared owing to general hunger. AUTONOMY FOR FLEMISH' PEOPLE. .Renter Service. Amsterdam, Feb; P.. Gorman papers state that the Council formed at Brussels is for the purpose of considering steps for introducing and giving full autonomy to the Flemish people. DEATH OF ADMIRAL HANS. Times Service. London, Feb. 9. Admiral Hans, the Admiralissiuio of the Austro-Hungarian fleet, is dead. FAMINE IN ALSACE. Received February 0, 6.55 p.m. Berne, Feb. 8. The. population of Alsace is hungerstricken, all the foodstuffs having been removed into the interior of Germany. FOSTERING HATRED. Rotterdam, Feb. 8. The newspapers publish an ollicially syndicated anonymous article by a leading Socialist stating that the sight of troops of German children S°' n S to school is sufficient to show what Germany is suffering. Tho children are irreparably injured and condemned to frailty and' tuberculosis by the English blockade. HUNGRY MOB" CHARGED BY (TROOPS. Amsterdam, Gebruary 7. The newspaper Les Nouvelle "states that troops at Aix la Chapelle on January 23 charged a mob of 1200 in a hunger demonstration, many of whom were injured. AEROPLANE LOSSES. '■*■ London, February 9. A German official message states:— "We repulsed an English attack near Serre. Wo lost ground near Bailiescourt. The English attacked north of St. Pierre-Avaast Wood, and retained a small front. During January we lost 34 machines, while the English, French, and Russians lost 55." CANADA WAR VOTE PASSED. Ottawa, February 7. A vote of £100,000,1100 war appropriation has passed tho House of Commons, which has adjourned until the middle of April in ordei to allow Mr. Borden to attend the Imperial Conference. ITALY AUSTRIAN'S CLAIM A SUCCESS. Admiralty, per Wireless Press. Received Feb. 11, 11.40 p.m. London, Feb. 10. An Austrian official report claims that in the region of (iorizia the Austrians guir.ed a footing in several trenches, anil inflicted severe losses, taking 665 prisoners.