ENEMY COUNTRIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 9 October 1916, Page 5

ENEMY COUNTRIES.

GERMAN REPORT ON OPER r -

ATIONS.

A "SALE'OF GENERAL SUCCESS.

RENEWAL OF SUBMARINE WAR-

FARE DEMANDED

FOOD PROBLEM CONSIDERED

VERY SERIOUS

AUSTRIA CALLING UP MEDICAL

REJECTS

BERLIN, Oct. 7

A communique states: The great artillery battle at the Somme has spread to north ot the Auere. • Our curtain of fire i quickly suppressed enemy attacks. Bitter hand-to-iiand fighting took place south-west of Sailly, .also at Vermandovillers. where we broke a French attack.

' We sanguinarily repulsed attacks between Friezecourt ana Bouchavesnes.

Russian attacks on both sides of the ZlotaLipa continue. We gave up our advanced position at Tieczyszozow, but gained ground in {Transylvania. General Mackensen repulsed attacks between the Danube and the Black Sea.

West of Lutzk, the exhausted enemy is quiet. The enemy powerfully, but ineffectually, attacked Wysoeko, Dubie,*and Zarkow. ' Fighting was resumed astride the Zlota Lipa. The enemy was driven back where he penetrated. We are absolute masters. •

The Austro-Hungarians defeated the Roumanians in the Gvergeny sector, and recaptured a position astride the Magyards-Parajd road. We pressed back the enemy over the Homorod and Alt rivers and stormed Sinca, capturing hundreds of prisoners and twenty-eight field, guns v Vve are pursuing the enemy in the Geister forest.

The Roumanians have re-crossed the Danube; the remainder fled east, completely defeated. The Bulgarians evacuated the villages on the left bank of the Struma. '

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 6. The agitation in Germany for a return, to a drastic submarine policy is daily becoming stronger. Newspapers demand: that Germany should ignore America. The Chancellor's supporters are gradually dwindling. The newspapers openly demand that Admiral yon Tirpita:. should replace Herr yon Beth-mann-Hollweg:: as Chancellor. It is expected the Central Party will shortly join the Chancellor's antagonists.

Negotiations 'in the Reichstag , secret committee with all parties concerning submarine warfare are proceeding! AMSTERDAM, Oct. 7. The Neizse Naehriehten states that the German food problem during the winter will' Be. very terrible to solve. It is still hoped1 that there will not be starvation, generally speaking. " ' A paper at, Dresden published the latest portrait .of the Kaiser., depicting him as looking tired, aged, and almost an invalid. The publication was stopped and the* police are searching for copies, which are selling secretly at ten marks. tHen- Harden^ paper, the Zukunf t; has been suppressed.

Austro-Hungary is issuing a fifth war loan.

BERNE, Oct. 7. Semi-offiial:The Berlin, war loan subscriptions are estimated at five Hundred million- sferling. >

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 7

Count von 1 Dbon, captain of the Mbewe. \vlio< Has been commanding" a battalion of infantry in FVance,, Has been killed! •

BERNE, Oct. 7. Austro-Hungary is calling up fifteenclasses Hitherto exempt T-"om military service. Many thousands, formerly rejected as t'ot'aly unfit, have joined their regiments. Men between 45 and 50 Have been- drafted into auxiliary .services, but' Have been notified that sooner or later tfrey may nave to be employed on* active servicel at the front. All men not'actually crippled, up to 44 years of age; are to be sent to "the front. The exodus of middle-aged married men has caused" widespread gloom.