Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 July 1916, Page 3

Late War News

ADMIRAL BOSAIVQUET'S SON KILLED. London, July 7. Admiral Bosanquet's Bon has been killed at the front. _ RUSSIA'S OPERATIONS. Petrograd, July 7.

Since the outset of General Brussilofl's attack, the AustroGerman losses have totalled 550,000, including 235.000 prisoners. The Russians also took 250 cannon and 700 machine guns. Russia has re.a considerable area of her own soil, with larger tracts of enemy country, which she was compelled to ahandion in 1915. The cutting of the Stanislou railway has enormously impeded the enemy's operations. In Galicia there is « great, panic, and many of thS inhabitants have taken refuge in Buda Prst. The Germans are still reinforcing the front, towards Vladimir-Volsynki, but mre unable to pierce General Kaledin's front, and a-e sustaining great losses. General Evcrt's operations are progressing and lie has many prisoners. .SWFjDES NE W COMMERCIAL LAW. Copenhagen, July 7. Hie Dagen.suigheter says that Great Britain accepts the guarantees of the now Swedish commercial law concerning re-exports, hence looal ftierchants will receive large deliveries of goods previously held up. (Received This Bay. 8.30 a.m.) UNIONISTS AVII.L AWAIT DEVELOPMENTS London, July 7. Ono hundred and twenty Unionists, with the Rt. Hon. A. Bonar Law pre-

siding, discussed the Home Rule quetstioa. It was decided to await development. A STEAAU2R BUS k 'Hie steamer Gannet (unarmed) has been torpedoed And sunk and the steamer Lestrie captured and taken to Zeebrugge. GERMANS TRIPLE REVERSE. . Home, July 7. Advices from Petrogradi state that owing the triple reverse at Riga, Kolki and Baranovitch, the Germans have (begun to remove their whole front westward BRITISH CAPTURE MORE PRISONERS. New York, July 7. I iSir Douglas Haig reports that the .British liave captured 1000 yards of trenches after severe fighting east of La Boiselle. There were heavy casualitiefl.