BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 17 March 1915, Page 5

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

SCHOOL CHILDIREN HELPING

GERMANY.

BOMBARDMENT ©F WRES AND

SAINTE I/01,

((Received Mscpch 1.7,, 10.30 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, March 16. ' The German Government has circularised schools vbo <devote all their savings to the war loan: Berlin scholars have "been airged to raise 9,000,000 marks. ,

Humphries, <tff 35iew Zealand, was wounded at Neuve Chapelle.

PARIS, March 16

The Germans, smarting at Ru-! precht's defeat ;at 3feuve Chapelle, vic*~ j lently bombaraerd IFpres and Sainte Loi . on Sunday. The Wurtemburgcis,: strongly reinforced from Liege and' Ghent, advanced on Sainte Loi in! dense masses at 'nightfall, and threat-; ened to envelop ;the British, wh«J yielded groimfl under 'heavy fire, but' were reinforced duriijg the night an-» 3 retook the village and most of the, oisi-! side trenches ton "M"onday morning. '