THUNDEROF GUNS

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16922, 30 July 1915, Page 7

THUNDEROF GUNS

ECHOES THROUGH WARSAW

HEAVY ACTIONS NORTH AND SOUTH OF CITY

LIVELY FIGHTING AT SOUCHEZ.

APPALLING MASSACRES IN ARMENIA.

MR LLOYD GEORGE ON MUNITIONS CAMPAIGN.

THE WESTERN FRONT. PARIS, July 29. —Yesterday's communique reports that the Germans, north of Souchez, after a heavy bombardment, launched attacks at three different points. After a very lively fight the Cermans were driven out of the trenches, which they had suooeeded in penetrating, except at one point, where they hold twenty metres of a saphead. To-day's report stages that the French occupied two enemy blockhouses east of Llngekopf. There were no incidents of note on other parts of the line. THE FIGHT FOR WARSAW. PETROCRAD, July 29.—The thunder of guns In a heavy action In the vicinity of Piaseczno echoes through the streets of Warsaw, and the arrival of wounded has convinced the population that the situation Is critical, although the Russians occupy a strong line. Meanwhile tliere are good reports from the zone of battle immediately north of Warsaw, heavy German attacks being broken. The enemy's losses aro terrible. The Germans are making a heavy concentration south of Cholm, where for ten days their continuous efforts to advance have been prevented by the Russians. ENEMY'S GLAIMS. AMSTERDAM, July 28.—A Berlin communique claims that the Germans scattered the Russians between Mitau and the Niemen. On the Narew the Germans captured a village north of Serock. The Russians counter-attacked south of Nasfelsk, but failed and lost 2500 prisoners. The Germans stormed a village near Blonle, twenty-four kilometres vfest of the Warsaw forts. The position In the southeast Is unchanged. A Vienna official report states that the Russians made unsuccessful counter-attacks near Sokal and west of Ivangorod. RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. PETROCRAD, July 29. —A communique states that on Tuesday the Cermans succeeded in crossing the Narew near Novogorod, but were driven back across the river. On Monday the Russians assumed the offensive between and Vieprz and the Bug and captured two villages with 1500 prisoners. Furious attempts to break the Russian front In the direction of Crubleszow were repulsed with heavy losses. The Russians also successfully assumed the offensive south of Sokal, and on Tuesday attacked heights held by the enemy and took many prisoners. The enemy were reinforced and counter-attacked, and determined fighting continues. ITALIAN SUCCESSES. ROME, July 29. —An official report states that under cover of fog the Austrians made an unsuccessful attack in the Carnlo Alps. The Italians captured enemy trenches at Palpiccolo and made further notable progress on the Carso plateau. & FIGHTING AT CORIZIA. AMSTERDAM, July 29.—A Vienna official report states that the Italians failed in a second and more formidable attack on Gorizia. The Italians used seven army corps without regard to men or material In an attempt to break through. GERMAN-INSPIRED ATROCITIES. LONDON, July 29. —In the House of Lords the Marquis of Crewe confirmed the reports of appalling massacres in Armenia. He said that in May last the Foreign Office Informed the Ottoman Government that its agents were actually Implicated and would be held personally responsible, but since then the crimes had increased in number and atrocity. ' In some oases they were countenanced and encouraged by Cerman offioials. The presence of Cermans in Turkey had been an unmitigated curse to both Christians and Moslems. There was no immediate remedy. He could only emphatically promise punishment. STATEMENTS BY MINISTERS. LONDON, July 28. —In moving the adjournment of Parliament, Mr Asquith declined to make a lengthy detailed statement on the present situation or the future of the war. He paid a tribute to the work of Britain's Allies. Confidence In the Calllpoli operations was undiminished, and Britain's naval position was now far stronger than it was before the war. Serious as the submarine menace might appear for tho moment, It was not going to inflict a fatal or a substantial injury on British trade in food and raw materials, which were coming In as in times of peace. Mr Lloyd George made a statement on the output of munitions. He said that steps would ha-ie to be taken to create special factories to Increase the oomponent parts of shplls, also machinery and tools, of which hitherto there had been an alarming shortage. The new great programme arranged at the Boulogne Conference would considerably tax the engineering resources of the country for some months. In the course of a few weeks the output of shells would be doubled to enable the Allies to cleave a way to victory.