THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 March 1915, Page 2

THE WAR

IGI.KI.IIUU "'■UiKUllAl'UCOl'VttlOH t j I I'HH fltLSb ) BOjiiiS DROPPED i.\ PARKS i'ans, March l'J. A Taube dropped eleven bombs and killed a woman, three children and two soldiers and two others, and wounded seven children and thirteen others. A Zeppelin bombarded Calais and killed seven employees at the railway station, but caused little damage tu property. MARKED GAINS OBTAINED. We obtained marked gains northeast ol Mesuil, ilartniauns and Willerkopl, wiiore the enemy's losses wore very high, ami their trenches were lull oi dead. THE DARDANELLES. .London, March 18. The Daily .Mail's correspondent says the must dangerous triage of the forcing ol the Dardanelles is commencing. There is a lull in the operations at .Smyrna, and tlio Turks are repairing the torts and batteriew. There are -K),()00 Turks oil Gallipoli Peninsula. 30,000 in Turkey in Europe and 110.000 at the Dardanelles. A STEAMER TORPEDOED. The steamer Glen Artney from Bangkok to .London with a cargo ol' rice was torpedoed in the Channel and sank in ball' an hour. A destroyer landed the crew at Newhaven. An apprentice was drowned. ENORMOUS GERMAN LOSSES. Petrograd, March l'J Official The guns at Przenivsl continue to fire a thousand heavy projectiles daily with little effect. There is fierce fighting for the possession of the villages on the right bank of the Nare«'. which continually change hands There is murderous machine gun fighting in the daytime and desperate bavonetting at night. The German losses in tlio Pilitza region since the sth wero • 25,000.