ZEPPELIN LOST IN BELGIUM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16480, 5 March 1917, Page 5

ZEPPELIN LOST IN BELGIUM

REPORTED CAPTURE OF SUBMARINES

REQUISITION OF AUSTRALIAN SKIPPING

The British have made further progress on the Ancre front, particularly north of Warlencourt'Eaucourt and northwest of Puisieux. Counterattacks on advanced British positions were repulsed. The British line has reached AchieMe-Petit, four miles north-west of Bapaume. The German trenches are in bad condition, and were apparently intended for only tempo* ran' occupation. German newspapers state that the Ancre withdrawal is a strategical movement which will confer great

advantages. The Turkish army which was driven from Kut=el«Amara is still in confused retreat, half»way to Bagdad. The British hare captured 7000 prisoners since December.

Belgian reports state that during speed trials at Ghent a new Zeppelin exploded, and the crew were incinerated.

An American correspondent who claims to have informa= lion from the British Admiralty states that during the first fortnight of February the British captured 25 submarines. Two American seamen have been lost with a torpedoed British steamer. The Director of Civilian Service in Britain is calling for 600,000 volunteers for civilian service. So far there are 100,000. The British Minister in Charge of Shipping Control announces that he will requisition all vessels in the Australian trade, interfering as little as possible with existing arrange* ments, and allowing the owners to run the vessels for the Government.