ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13659, 30 August 1916, Page 3

ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE.

. THE PRICE OF FAILURE, GERMAN GENERALS RETIRED. ("Renter's Tplegrams.") Received August 29,11,40 p.m, ROTTERDAM, August 2f), The German Army Gazette announces that Generals von Lugeky and von Horn have retired on pensions. Both were recently on the Somme. 'Fifteen generals have retired on pensions since the Sommc offensive commenced.

GERMANS FAKING REPORTS. LOCAL AND NEUTRAL CONSUMPTION. (Australian and N.Z, Cablo Association.) Received August 29, 9.50 p.m. • LONDON, August 29. The military authorities point to the remarkable German concoctions for local and neutral consumption regarding the progress on the West front, They instance the Australian and English advance at Pozieres on the 4th .and push further on the 9th. The German report-did not mention the.former advance. Regarding'the second advance they reported that the imaginary British attacks had been repulsed, Weeks later the Germans referred casually to the lost places in Allied possession, pretending that they were never held and lost bv the Germans.

HEAVY ARTILLERY EXCHANGES. AEBOPLANES lost in storm. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association-.) Received August 29, 8.45 p.m. LONDON, ingus't-2D;-General Sir-Douglas Haig reports: During mutual heavy, artillerylng a heavy storm . overtook eight ' British aeroplanes. Five have not returned. ENEMY'S TERBIBLE SUFFERINGS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received August 29, 9.50 p.m. . LONDON, August 29. A letter from a German in the Thirteenth Army Corps, picked up on the Somme, states: The whole' corps is suffering with dysentery, the result of eight days and nights' fighting without hot food and parched thirst during Hie daytime, The whole battlefield is full of dead. We were ordered'not to take prisoners, but to despatch them all with the bayonet. The writer adds: That would not be so bad, but the English also take prisoners. What then? The Hamburger Naclirachten's account of the British offensive insists on the terrible results of sulphurous gas shells which America supplies in enormous quantities, The British artillery (loos not know the meaning of economy in ammunition.

"ALL FAILED." GERMAN REPORTS FROM THE soma. (Australian ami K.Z, Cable Association,} LONDON, August 28, A German communique says: The English attacks at Thiepval, Mouquet Farm, Delville Wood, and Givenehy A and the French storming attacks at. Maurepas and Clery all failed. ANGLO-FRENCH CASUALTIES. AN AMERICAN GUESS- . .... (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW.YORK, August 28, Mr J, M. Deck, ex-Assistant American Attorney-General, who has returned from England, says that in one week of the Soinme offensive, the AngloFrench casualties totalled forty thousand THE ATTACK ON VERDUN. GERMAN ATTEMPTS FAIL. . . (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.} • LONDON, August 28. A French communique says: Our Grenadiers easily repulsed many German attempts against positions before Flcivry.