THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 July 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

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(Australia and ;\'eiv Zealand CAibie

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.SIR DOUGLAS iIA.IG'S REPORT

Loudon, July 7. .Sir Douglas Haig ireportsAfter violent bomb lighting wo progressed at certain points in the main battle aaea. 'I lie weather has interfered! with aeroplane work, but in iiaupame area one machine dropped to an altitude of 300 Feet and successfully bombed a train from which German reinforcements wero alighting. The Welsh Fusiliers, in a raid, destroyed three miuo shafts inflicting 150 casualties. THE FRENCH REPORT. A communique states:—Enemy eoun-ter-attacks north of Hiam. and between Estrees, Belloy, and Psauterro were checked) by our Barrages of fire with great losses. Two companies were annihilated in tbe latter region. Paris, July i. Thery is artillery activity on both side of the Meuse. Our batteries 'blew up a munition depot north of La MorvilV.'. An aviator bombed tho Hivme-Nesle railway and damaged it in several places. THE GJSR3IAN .STORY.

Berlin, July 7. A German communique states:—Artillery activity from the coast to Ancre brook has increased in strength, and and lighting was continued! from Ancre brook to the Somme. The* minor progress of the English at Thiepvnl has !been balanced by counter-attacks. We evacuated the small village of Ham in the Somme valtley. We repulsed counter-attacks in the wood south-west of Vaux and Damloup fun. The French captured Belloy on Santerre. Fighting is at a standstill round Estreee. Further parttt'al Russian attacks south-west, of Riga were elsewhere repulsed. RUSSIA'S ADYA\C K. Petrogradi, July ',7. . An offensive has been begun by General Evert's armies in the centre of a •front which roughly extends from position . facing Baranovitch to the east of Vilna. AH the troops are determined to .drive the foe beyond the Niemen.

The Russians opened a hurricane of fire on the German trenches at midnight. The German gunners are strangely silent. The Russians have monopolised the gunnery work. The horizon from Smorgon to Krevo is almost continuously illumma'tecT by exploding shells and the din is indescribable. Under curtains of fire the enemy's first trenches have been reached audi the defences demolished. Many thousands of prisoners have been taken. The Germans are feverishly trying, but unsuccessfully, to stop the breach before Xmzk. A Russian communique states:— We routed the enemy on the right bank of the Dniester, capturing a fortified position westward of Ilssandopivinttchon. i We alpo captured Mikulitchen on the TVlatyn-Kolomea railway. ' Amsterdam, July 6. Advices from Germany state that the chief Russian «ttaek« are "northward of the Pripet, ib'etween Servech nnd Sgara. and north-westward of Kolomea. An Austrian communique states: — The enemy penetrated our positions at Sadzawakia. We now occupy a position six kilometres to the west. We maintained our position southwest and north-west of Kolomea and recaptured the line of the Koropeicbroc. south-wast of Buczacz. There has been' d.esperate fighting on the bend of the Styr north of Kolki, with varying results.