A DIVERSION WANTED.

Otago Witness, Issue 3250, 28 June 1916, Page 17

A DIVERSION WANTED.

LONDON, June 26. The Daily Chronicle says that unless the slow, steady German advance on Verdun is interrupted it must end in the fall of the town. The French com. manders value the ground solely as a means of bleeding the enemy. The Germans rely on the superiority of their heavy guns to neutralise the loss suffered in their infantry attacks. We cannot accurately determine which way the balance, is inclined in the last chapters of this bloody rivalry. We should all like to see some diversion which will ease the growing strain of this gruesome contest upon France. The newspapers are giving prorain« ence to the Berlin and Sir Douglas Haig's communiques reporting on th<i heavy nightlong bombardments of the British front. KARLSRUHE AIR RAID. BERNE, June 25. During the recent air raid French bombs killed 100 and wounded 200 persons at a circus at Karlsruhe. The air raid on Karlsruhe caused a panic in the town. Travellers state that the populace were holiday-making. Many wero attending Hcrr Hagenbock's menagerie, and the bombs intended for the railway must have accidentally fallen among the spectators at the circus, killing 120. The German press is indignant at this reprisal of the attacks on French towns.