THE SUCCESS AT HOOGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15998, 17 August 1915, Page 7

THE SUCCESS AT HOOGE

ENTANGLEMENTS SHATTERED. INTENSE FIGHTING IN EAST GERMANS HELD BEHIND WARSAW

Tic success achieved by the British at Hooge. east of

Ypa, on Monday, Angus, 9, is attributed to the magnificent co-operation of artillery and infantry. The British guns proved greatly superior to those of the enemy, and shattered the German entanglements and trenches, many Germans being buried in their dug-outs. The infantry, heartened by the success of the artillery, attacked with great spirit, putting , he Germans to flight With bombs and bayonets.

The Russian front from Koeno , he soutll , east of Po , an< , Is now almost in a straight line, though it still has a slight outward carve. The fortress of .Novo Georgievsk, north of Warsaw, is invested, but it is expected to make a strong resistance. It „ „ fflciaUy reported from Petrograd tha( Russians stopped the German advance in the Lakow region between Warsaw and the Bug . German attacks were also repulsed between the Narew and the Bag. The battle north Of the Nienien grows more intense. The Italians report farther progress in the Sexten Valley " gil£S "" ess "> Eas «»- Tyrol. An Austrian armoured tram wh.ch attempted to attack an Italian station in the \dige \ alley was repulsed. - a It is reported in PariS that the pourparlers between Turkey .Ud Bulgaria have broken down. Large Austro-GermSn forces ale been massed on the Servian and Roumanian frontiers.