AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

WHAT "WE" DID. FRENCH SUCCESS ADMITTED. Received July 10, 3.30 p.m. London. July 18. A wireless German oflicial report states: Tliere lias bee; 'ively artillerying on the coast from the Yser to tlie Lys. la Bassee Canal. Loos, Lens, and on loth banks of the Scarpe. We rrptii<ed Ei'L'l!-h advances between Hollebe!:e and Warneton. We drov<- h;nlc an English attack o:i the Arr.is-t'ambrai road, except at a narrow point westward of 'Jois iV Euvert. The French ftttai-ked on a five kilometre front ilietween Avocourt uood .ind wo;.ward of Mort Homme. After hitter fignting they pcnetra te<l the south-eastern corner of Malan'ourt wood, astride the Malan-cotirt-Esnes road. There has been increased fi.ditinjj at Riffa. southward of Dunuberg and Smorpon, and strong artillerying at L.-zezany. We captured the Carpathian heights eastward of the Lomiiica, repujsed counter-attack*, and forced hack the Russians on the Lomnica line. Artillery - inp is more active at the Susita valley and along the Putna and Sereth. MUNITION" FACTORY BLOWN UP. Times Service. Received July ]«.», R.-!0 p.m. Am-terdaui, July 18. Ry a gre;\t e\plo.si..n. a munition factory in the neighborhood of Stuttgart was destroyed, and all tin- windows in the surrounding villages were shattered. NEW CHANCELLOR A STOP-GAP. New York, July 13. The World's London correspondent says the appointment of Dr. Michaelis i; regarded as merely a stopgap till the psyrhoiogieal moment arrives when Lndendorn* may become military dictator. It is believed that Ludcndorff will eventually command the State and the army, and be a ruthless champion of autocracy.