LATE WAR NEWS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VII, Issue 110, 4 May 1917, Page 6

LATE WAR NEWS

RUMANIA. RUSSIANS REPULSE ATTACKS. [“ admiralty pfb wireless press.”] (Received 4, 1.25 p.m.) London, May 3. A Russian, official message states: We repulsed an attack on a height ten miles south west of Gena, m Moldavia. BLACK SEA. HYDROPLANES RAID A DELTA TOWN. (“admiralty per wireless press.”] (Received 4, 1.25 p.m.) London, May 3. A Russian official message states : Russian hydroplane squadrons destructively bombed. Mahmudieh, on j the southern waters of the delta of the Danube. THE CAUCASUS. TURKISH ADVANCE CHECKED. (“admiralty per wireless press.”] (Received 4, 1.25 p.m.) London, May 3. A Russian official message states: lA the Caucasus we defeated Turkish attempts to advance south-west-ward of Gumishkhane. IN PALESTINE BRITISH ARTILLERY NEAR GAZA. London. May 3. Official: Our artillery in the neighbourhood of Gaza dispersed working parties and blew up an ammunition aepot. CENTRAL POWERS. SOCIALIST PRESIDENT OF COMMITTEE. (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OABLK ABBN.] (Received 4, 12.10 p.m.) Amsterdam, May 3. Herr Schiedman the German Socialist, has been appointed president of the Reichstag Constitution Com-1 mittee. DENMARK. A GERMAN APOLOGY. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASS’n] (Received 4, 12.10 p.m.) Copenhagen, May 3. Germany has apologised for the seizure of Danish men engaged in local traffib and has offered compensation. AUSTRALIA. NOTES FROM VARIOUS STATES (Received 4, 9.25 a.m.) The public debt of New South i Wales in 1916 was £2 9- per head, ! compared with £2 4'B in 1915. | A new company with a large capi- ! tai has been formed to establish ex-; tensive iron and steel manufactur-! ing works at Newcastle. I The Governor-General of Aus- i fralia inspected at Sydney a con- • tingent of Tahitians en route for the front.