THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 January 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

Austral.a-.\ew ZeaJaud Gable Service) (Recedrod This Da J' 9.20 a.m.) BETTER NEWS FROM RUMANIA. Petrograd, amuairy 19. Telegrams from Rumania indicato that the situation is steadily improving. The Austro-G crman offensive lias been arrested, and the Russo-Ru-maniains are developing a vigorous counter-attack, which is driving the enemy back several kilometres on almost the ivlicle front, and removing the menace from Galatz. Heavy ra.ims and floods are rendering trenchfighting impossible and transforming the operations into a war manoeuvre. The numerical proportion of the forces litis changed in favor of the RussoRumaniians. DOMINIONS COMMISSION London, January 19 1 . The Dominions Commission will recommend co-ordinated dredging and other improvements in imperial harbors, ensuring .uniform anchorage and wharfage accommodation. ANOTHER INVASION [FEARED. The Swiss 1 press state that German concent/rations are rapidly continuing near Basle, and the Swiss Army Staff fear that an invasion is intended. THE GERMAN RAIDER. New January 19. The New York Times's "Washington correspondent learns that there now is more than one German-- raider in the Atlantic owing to the transfer of guns and prize crews to captured vessels. The correspondent believes the Azoiras are pivot of operations, but re- ] ports from Rio Janiero differ. Some believe that the raider is the Moewe; others saiyt she is a heavily-armed yacht. Several victims have sent the S.O.S. signal, but the raider's speed has enabled her to overtake them. The Amerioan Consul at Pernambuco •reports that no American ship hias been stink. Anxiety is felt for other ships in the 'raider's path. Allied cruisers are scouring the ocean and forming a cordon. GERMANS AGGRESSIVE.

(A.-N.Z. and Renter Service) London January 19. A wireless -Russian official mesage | states that the enemy took up the | offensive in the region of Zborov. Part of a detachment entered the Russian trenches, but was promptly driven out. The -enemy bombarded the Okna and Bardaneshti Valleys and Trotut; and Oituz. (Received This (Day, ,9.50 a.m.) THE GERMAN -RAIDER-. Rio Janiero, January 19. According ta reliable information the Yiarrowdale -has arrived at- Vicenti (Cape Verde Island) with the crews of eight ships sunk ,l>y the German raider. SODDTER-S' GRAVES. •London, January 19. Presiding at the Soldiers' Graves' Committee, the Princs of Wales stated that 150,000 graves were registered in France and Belgium. Sixty out of four hundred burial grounds were beautifully laid out, under advice from' the directors of Kew Gardens. We also were earing for the French cemeteries in the line taken over. Experience 'gainod in France and Belgium. was being applied elsewhere. He welcomed the first attendance of the Dominions and Indian committee. The marking and caring for the Dominion and Indian soldiers' graves was under -consideration by Great Britain. THE BEECIHAM ESTATE. Sir Joseph Beecham's estate has been proved at one million pounds sterling. His' American business is bequeathed to his son Henry: the St. Helens business will be floated into a private company, the bulk of tho shares whereof he has bequeathed to his children. HORRORS IN SYRIA. Rome, January 19Officia.l.— Informa-ttioni jsitiates itiiat 110.000 people have died of hunger in Syria. Hundreds are' exhausted, and inhabitants everywhere are 'being picked up in the streets. The conditions are indescribable. People are eating earth and filth. Tho apcstolic delegate to Constantinople and 'General Townshend have been removed: to fresh places of internment, as a precaution. Unofficial message say that the act is in 'revenge for 'Great Britain's participation in the decision to expel Turkey from Europe.

.THE ATLANTIC RAIDER. New York, Jan. 19. A despatch from Buenos Ayres says that tlio log of the Radnorshire showsPink; he's served Levin in seasons hot that the Germans .gave tho crew eight minutes in whidh to leave the vessel. The boarding party was accompanied by a cinema operator, who took pictures. On leaving the ship the raider's captain told th e Radnorshire's captain that he had been ordered to spare all passengers and vessels not; carrying big cargoes. The Radnorshire's men were kept in an ill ventilated compartment, cramped and stuffy, with Hindus, for five days, days, when then were transferred to the Hudson Main, which was sent to 'Peniiambuco with scarcely enough water and sea biscuits- on which to complete the voyage.