LATEST WAR NEWS.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13930, 12 July 1917, Page 6

LATEST WAR NEWS.

SERIOUS OUTLOOK IN GERMANY, MASSES VERY RESTIVE. RUSSIANS. GREAT OFFENSIVE. HELPED BY POWERFUL ' 1 ARTILLERY. 1 FURTHER BRILLIANT SUCCESSES.

(Per Cable—jftoss Association—Copyright.)' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)' Received July 12, 12.10 a.m, ' AMSTERDAM. July 11. The Vossii-ho 's correspondent in Galicia, describing the'latest'lighting, says: The Russian heavy 'artillery ' has been tremendously reinforced by British and French artillery and artillery-men, One heavy gun near Brze/an'y is of forty-five ccntimentrcs calibre. ' LONDON, July 11. Sir Douglas Haig reports: We entered the trenches in the neighbourhood of Nieuport, and indicted 'casualties'.' We drove off raiding parties south-eastward of Uabrincourt, eastward.of Monchy-le-Preux. The enemy's artillery lS'inosfc active along the coast, reaching a great intensity in the evening. We are vigorously replying. The weather proyentoili aerial operations, Received July 12, 1.2J a.m. . LONDON, July 11. In the House of Lords, the Eatl of Derby said that owing to the brutal submarine policy of 'sinking' hospital ships, it had become necessary to shift the military hospitals at Malta to Salonika. Seven other general hospitals had been sent from Britain, since the policy of torpedoing hospital ships had -,\ been instituted. There was also a convalescent camp at Corfu.

Received July 12, 12.20 a.m. ' LONDON, July 11. German' telegrams show that the rencwal of disorder in the industrial centres is causing great anxiety in official circles, The working classes aro over the distribution of the food'stocks, particularly the reports that the wealthy arc hoarding food, The riots iu tho great Rhinelnud industrial towns are/ unusually serious, Received July 12, 12.30 a.m. ' i TETROGRAD, July 11. ; General Korniloff's cavalry, with Cossacks, are following up General' Kirbach's retiring army, Southwards of Halicz he forced the river Lukovitza, running parallel with the river Lukva. The wcsicrn bank of the Lukva dominates the wooded eastern bank, but ifc is considered unlikely that the. do*

moralised enemy will lie able to concentrate sufficient troops to prevent tho Russians passing the river. Thd coui tinuaiii'C of the advance in the tliroetion of Dovina, in co-operation with, the Seventh, and Eleventh Armies to the northward of Halicz, with tho Eighth southwards, hitherto has been like clockwork. The Fetch,.in a, military points out that the. success. .off thd Eighth Army separates General. Bothmer's German army from,. General Kirbaeh's Third Austrian army r which the. Russians, are,in contact with be« ■ twecn Haliezand Sranislau., , ~. ' The writer •iinlioipa| ; es__thp-pvacuai tion. of Halicz, which is'not a:fortress, but only a strong bridgehead protect- '•"' in? General Bothnier's positions from , the. oast and south-east, v '