THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

IKUOXttIC tBLEQUAPU —COPYBIGHT.j [FIR PRBM ASSOCIATION.] (A»bti';«lia wild Nc.v Zealand Cubie Service;. T.tIJS RUtfSIAN A HACK. Petrograd, July 10. A Communique states: —We had turtiier success west of Kimpolung. i.ietweeu June 23 and July 7 General Letchtuky has captured 671 officers, 30,875 men and 10 guns. An enemy submarine m the Black Sea sank a Russian hospital ship without warning, Seven people wero drowned. The Russians inflicted a severe defeat on the Turks wetft of Ertseroum, capturing many prisoners and vast quantities of supplies. „ London, July 0. A German communique -states: — ./Repeated strong Russian attacks against Prince Leopold's armies broke down with the heaviest losses. Attacks on several points against von Linsingen were unsuccessful. THE WEST FRONT. Pans, July D. A communique states:—The French attacked on a front of four east of Fiaucourt and! carried German position on the whole line to a depth of two kilometres. , Hie French captured the village ot Beaches and established their position therefrom to the outskirts of Baileux. Paris, July 10. A communique states There are violent artillery duels on both sides of the 'Mouse also on tho Belgian' front at Dixmude where the German batteries were silenced. London, July 9. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—Again we steadily progressed ait Ovillers in face of stubborn opposition. The enemy's two furious counter-attacks at Trous Woodl in an endeavour to retrieve last week's losses, were completely broken. : A Saxon divisiou retook Oontalmaiflon We are holding the cemetery and the confines of the village. The enemy paid an .awful price for his Buocess. There were only thirty survivors of 'the second battalion of the Second Guards, while the third battalion of the Second, and the tenth battalion ot the Ninth, lost 50 per cent. The Guards left 3000 dead and several thousand wounded. A Gfeirman ieommuaiiq(ue states .— Anglo-French attacks northward of the Somme were repulsed, with sanguinary i losses. On .the Ovillers-Mameta "Wood front afco on both sides of Hardiecourt, the enemjy, stormed Trones Wood Bix times,. but penetrated Hardecourt village. The French have* increased their artillery activity south of the Somme. A local advance failed. On the remainder of the front there are violent artillery battles. There have been enemy gas attacks and patrol fighting. THE GERMAN SUBMARINE. New lork, July 9. The submarine was chasedi for twenty miles off tlhe coast by British and French cruisers, delaying her arrival for four days. She carries a cai'go of valuable dyeetuffs. Reports differ as to whether the suh marine was armod. Pilot Cook savs that 6he was unarmed and rated as a merchantman with a merchant crew. She is about 300 feet in length and .W feet abeam. She is diriven by two Diesel engines end can submerge n two minutes. Kairig (the captain) ■told Cook that thera was no trouble on the trip, which' was uneventful. When vessels were sighted she submerged «? Gairig was careful not to be seen, fearing wireless report®. » The submarine is named: the Deutschland and she displaces 1000 tons. She left a German port on Juno 23rd and wn« four days, overdue owing to bad weather. Most .of tha voyage she made on tho surface. She travelled 4180 miles, whereof 1800 miles were made under water. She was attacked by Foreign warships 600 miles off Virginia Cape and forced back on ber course 200 miles. A tug bad been waiting for her for eleven days. The submarine eluded two foreign warships whioh had been on the look-out for a ■week". She has. an under-water speed of twelve knots.