GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED.

Otago Witness, Issue 3216, 3 November 1915, Page 20

GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED.

ENORMOUS ENEMY LOSSES PETROGRAD, October 23. A communique states: The enemy north=east of Garbunowke occupied some of our trenches, but a counter* attack dislodged them. During a furious attack, undertaken under a threat of being fired upon by their own artillery, the Germans suffered treraen= dous losses. The enemy, in attempting to advance eastward on the left bank

of the Styr, were driven back with heavy losses. Three enemy attacks west of Chartoysk were repulsed. SUBMARINES IN THE BALTIC. LONDON, October 28. The Berlingscke Tidende states that the British and Russian submarines in the Baltic are extending their operations northwards to an area near Skaerguarden and Lulea, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, with the object of cutting off the enormously increased Swedish ore exports to Germany. German vessels at Lulea have been ordered to remain in port. COUNTER-ATTACKS AT LOOS. TEN THOUSAND GERMAN DEAD. PARIS, October 29. Correspondents state that in the effort to recapture Loos, Prince Rupprecht hurled 23 battalions to the assault on October 8, and all were decimated. In front of the British and French trenches the German dead are estimated at 10,000 A communique states : Prolonged and intense artillery actions have taken place on the Letsas-Tremstraae front, and also at Bois-en-Bache and in the region of Rochvincourt. ALLEGED PEA.CE PROPOSALS. NO OFFICIAL KNOWLEDGE. WASHINGTON, October 28. Mr Gerard, American Ambassador at Berlin, has conferred with the Kaiser, presumably regarding peace proposals. Neither President Wilson nor the State Department knows anything of peace overtures, and Mr Wilson will not take action unless a direct appeal is made to him. In the House of Commons Mr Lloyd George said emphatically: “No negotiations whatever have been or are being carried on between London and Berlin with a vieu' to an early peace. Mr Asquith’s words at the Guildhall still hold good.—(Cheers.) We shall not think of entering into any peace negotiations except in accordance with the agreement with our allies.” Sir John Simon said that no woman had been executed in Britain for espionage. Ten men had already been sentenced to death,