SARRAIL ATTACKS

Evening Star, Issue 16409, 27 April 1917, Page 3

SARRAIL ATTACKS

WEST OF LAKE DO!RAN. PARTIAL BRITISH SUCCESS, Australian end N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter. LONDON, April 25. A British official message from Salonika states : After a- three days' bombardment we attacked last night on a two and a-Tialf mile front between the southern end of Doiran Lake and a point north-west of Doldzeli. We advanced northward of Doldzeli for 500 yards on a mile front. We repelled four counter-attacks, and consolidated our position. We penetrated- the enemy’s trenches further eastward, but were unable to retain the ground. Fighting continues.

POSSIBLE FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS. NEW YORK, April 36. Tile ‘New York World’s’ Paris correspondent states that despatches indicate that a decision is likely to be taken regarding Salonika. There are veiled hints of a possible reinforcement of the armies of Trance by veterans. THE GREEK INCUBUS. LONDON, April 26. The ‘ Morning Post’s' Rome correspondent says that the Entente Powers are in unanimous agreement regarding Greece. Important events are expected. UP THE TIGRIS. BRITISH SUCCESSES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Renter, LONDON, April 25. An official message from Mesopotamia etates: Besides the rolling-stock cabled our captures at Tstabulat include 20 officers and 667 men, one big gun, 14 Krupps, and a great quantity of ammunition. General Maude, after a night march, attacked a Turkish division on the west bank of the Shat-el-Adhaim {oast of the Tigris), compelling it to fall back for 10 miles to the north. GERMAN DETERMINATION. Renter's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, April 26. In reference to the urgent demand that the German Government should declare their war-aims, itissemi-officially announced at Berlin that the Government nave nothing to add to their previous communications. They will continue their policy undeterred by pressure. WILL AUSTRIA QUIT? NEW YORK, April 26. I.he ‘New York TiniesV London correspondent learns from a specially wellinformed source that there is ground for believing that Austria is seeking an opportunity of quitting the Central Powers. It stated that the Russian revolution and America’s entrance into the war have convinced Austria that victory is imEosaihla.

DOINGS IN PARLIAMENT. LONDON, April 25. In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil (Foreign Under-Secretary) denied that America had entered into a formal alliance with Britain. Mr Bonar Law announced that the'imperial War Cabinet yesterday discussed the resolutions of the committee presided over, by Lord Balfour of Burleigh. He would make a statement in the House of Commons on Fidday. Mr Law further ' said that the Government could not adopt the ‘Daily Mail’s’ suggestion to threaten to take reprisals on Cologne Cathedral if Lnon Cathedral suffered under German hands. The Com Production Bill was read a second time by 288 votes to 27. . The Labor party intend to move an amendment in committee to increase the minimum wage of agricultural workers to 30s per week. SWEDEN FEELS/THE PINCH. COPENHAGEN, April 25. Strikes and hunger demonstrations continue in many Swedish towns. The military participated in several. • ARGENTINE UNREST. BUENOS AYRES, April 25. Conflicts between peace demonstrations and the war party necessitated police interference. NATIONAL APPLE SHOW: SOLDIERS’ STALL. The immense amount of work accomplished by the Otago Women’s Patriotic Association has not caused their energies to flag, and the members are ever on the alert for now avenues of patriotic work. A national apple show is to be held in the Brydone Hall, Dunedin, next week, and the Women’s Association have decided to provide a soldiers’ stall at the show. A soldiers’ stall committee, with Mrs P. B. Sargood as convener, has been set up, and arrangements are now being made for equipping the stall. Donations of all kinds of produce are asked for, including homemade bread and scones, cakes, pickles, jams, etc. These will be received at the Early Settlers’ Hall (not the Brydone Hall) on Monday and every day till Friday, when the show closes. It is confidently hoped, for the sake of our boys at the front, that the appeal will meet'with that generous response which is so characteristic of this town and province. MEMORIAL AT FEATHERSTON. It is proposed to erect a memorial stone in the Featherston Military Cemetery in remembrance of the soldiers buried there. The names of the men will he recorded on the stone, and provision will he mode for additional names which may need to be recorded. “ M.S.” has sent us 10s for the Belgian fund. At a meeting of the Wellington centre of the New Zealand branch, of the British Red Cross, Surgeon-general Henderson stated that it was important that people sending Red Cross money to England should send it to the New Zealand Red Cross Commissioner, London. Gifts should be addressed Now Zealand Gift Stores Depot, Southampton.