AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

AN OFFICIAL REPORT. MANY SUCCESSES CLAIMED. Bawifcd July 24. 7.10 p.m. London, July 23. Wireless German official: There baa mm a tattle >ll night in Flanders. Air •qnadrom* unsuccessfully attacked our tailcons, and we brought down eight •■Bftaiiea. The enemy vigorously atUctod between Avion and Meri'court. We equalised the enemy"- success. We attacked the northern slope of Winterdeg and carried several linea of Menches OW a front of a kilometre. Our air bombed Harwich with visibly fD9d effect. All returned.

There was a Russian attack aonth■JMt of Dvinsak. A Russian attack at jErvo penetrated our positions, but a muter-attack rfreve them out, except ai two points. Onr counter-attack southward of Sereth developed, and the Ruaafeva retreated into the Carpathians. We OMQkied the height* immediately westWt of Tarnopol, and crossed tbv. RohatyMptnow railway, aad hare bcgim a forward movement astride the Dneiatcr. Tka Russian* strongly muted southWj of die railway. Russian activity kaa increased along the ridge of the Xkl)ttliiaJU aa far aa Putin. lively "fee In the Lower Sereth indieates impM&sg battle*.

A NEW DEPARTURE. fABER MEETS SOCIALISTS. Received Jnly &4, 6.5 p.m. Zurich, July 23. Iky the first oacsai»n since the estabIklfMßt of the Empire, the Kaiser met the ®oci*Bit leaders at an informal confcpMtt, wheh he told them that the Mfeauinea were succeeding beyond all MMtteticui to rain and destructfaa to Britain.

JMfRV.ARP. OF BBEAD RATIOKS. B—ffid July 2». p.m. Berlin, July 24. OSWaI: Bread rations are to be intoMHd by a pound weekly from next MORE fOftnOAL SCHEMING Paris, July S3. ffp Xw Zurich Naehrichten stain Fw-flwiSM* »n Berlin are uitignaßt at the Kaiser's granting the iwtiafe to ■Prussia, declaring that it iriß wtaaiM the fwdatiow «f tbe State nd head it over utterly to d* JMOMQf7fea Petit IPariaien reports that, aeMCdhg to German dispatches from ZurU, Bert Zimmerman has definitely re■teaad, bat Betr BeUerich remain Vi«caCanDar vShnt portfolio.