LATE WAR NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VII, Issue 330, 29 November 1917, Page 6

LATE WAR NEWS.

WESTERN FRONT. THE GERMAN REPORT. “TANK AND INFANTRY ATTACK COLLAPSE.” [“ ADMIRALTY PER WIRELESS PRESS.”] (Received 29, 1.40 n.m.) London. Nov. 28. A Cermaii <. ffi.-v.'.J message states: — The Eng’isb trnks and infantry attacking west.v.vd m Bourlou collapsed. "VV e temp ‘i/aiily lost Hourlon and Fontaine but recaptured the villages and threw the enemy back into Bourlon AVood.

SERIOUS ENEMY LOSSES. (Received 29, 1.40 p.m.) London, Nov. 28. A French communique confirms the report that our artack on the 21st, south of AVuvincourt, cost the enemy very serious losses. ITALIAN FRONT. CONCENTRATED FIRE ON THE ENEMY. ON THE ASIAGO PLATEAU. ; AUSTRALIAV AND N.Z. CABLB ASS N(Received 29, 1.40 n.m.) London, Nov. 28. An Italian official message states : In co-operation with a bombardment of the heights our batteries concentrated their fire on enemy troops massed and moving on the Asiago plateau, in the Primolano basin, northward of Col Dell Berretta, and on the middle Piave.

RUSSIA. THE TARTAR REVOLT OF 1916. HALF A MILLION KILLED. .AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASS’N.j (Received 29, 1-40 p.ni.) London, Nov. 28. Mr. Phillips Price, war correspondent, reveals from Petrograd tha; the Kirghiz Tartars, near the Chinese frontier rebelled in the summer of 1916. when the Tsar’s Government, after the gradual confiscation of their lands for the past decade, called them to the colours for military service. Half a million Kirghiz were killed during the rebellion and a million fled to China.