LATE WAR NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 9 November 1916, Page 5

LATE WAR NEWS.

"' ■ » THE WAR IN" THE'WEST. FRENCH POSITIONS BOMBARDED. AERIAL BOMBS FOR THE ENEMY. Received November 9, 1.20 p.m. PARIS, Nov. 8. A communique states: . The enemy merely bombarded our new positions in the Ablaineourt Sugar Befinery sector in the night. Our aeroplanes dropped a ton of bombs on the aerodrome at Fraseat 1 y and on the military railway station at Chambley. » WITH THE BRITISH. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and .Reuter.) . • . ; Received November 9, l.! 20 p,m. LONDON, Nov, 8. ■General Sir Douglas Haig' reports*: The enemy heavily shelled. ius west of Beaumont-Hamel and unsuccessfully attempted to raid our trenches in. a storm. THE BALKANS. BULCAR ATTACKS REPULSED; BY SERBS WITH HEAVY LOSSES. Received Noevmher 9. 1.20 p.m.» PARIS, Nov. 8. A French communique states-*; ' Bulgarian attacks on the Serhiansv'on. a loop of the Corn a were repulsed wfith. heavy losses. ' Our aeroplane* bombed military camps north of Monastir. CREEK SECRET SERVICE RAip. SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES.' Received November 9; 1.25: P.m . :. LONDON, Nov. St The Athens correspondent V'of £he 'Daily Chronicle' writes: "It is official - i 'y stated that the search of SI. Kalaj masviostis' (the deputy of the Piraeus) bouse wn s made in the King's name. Further letters prove that h'e••'took ah. I active part in supplying German ,suh- ! marines, and it is believed that' h© arranged for coal supplies for the Cj-oehen and the Brcslau when they were fleeing in the Bosphorus. Other letters eomnromise representatives of the Central Powers in Greece." ~ „ . WITH~THE ENEMY., j "THE KAISER WEAK-KNEED.'* REVENTLOW ON AMERICA. \ Received November 9, 1.2.5 p.m. ' RERNE. !Nbv. 8. 1 A wireless message Sran Con nib Reventlow (the shining ]. ; ght of the German Navy and Pan-Germrnn Leagues, and a ferocious hater of England); at a Pan-German Conference in Berlin declared, "The Kaiser is weak-kneed and! we t must force him _ to take energetic action in dealinnr -with America otherwise. Sometimes the Kaiser thinks more of the Hohenzollern dynasty than the fortunes of Greater Germany." NEW ZEALAND & THE WAR. ROLL OF HONOR. HOSPITAL REPORT. WELLINGTON, Nov. 9. , The following report was issued t*>day:— Dangerously ill, but' Saxon, ,S., Rifleman. Removed' from dangerously ill list.Cushion,.E. .A., .Rifleman. Pronounced out of danger—Hives, J. 0.. Sergeant. Died of lobar pneumonia.—Brown, C, Rifleman. WOUNDED. ; • • ■. * Barker. E. C, Lance-Corporal;:Sa.pfe. ford, O. S., Second Lieutenant; Ra'cfiardson, H. D., Second! Lieutenant; Derrielc, S. H., Ijanee-'Corporal; Lane, T., Rifleman; Robertson, J. H.. Act-ing-Sergeant ; Scott, F., Corporal; Arnold, F., Rifleman. WOUNDED. ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL. McLoughlin. W. J.. Corporal; Hickman, W., Rifleman. ' ■ ''*