LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5356, 14 February 1916, Page 5

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

RUSSIANS SMASHING THROUGH.

TERRIBLE AND DESPERATE.

VIOLENT IN BUKOVTNA

(Received i’ll is day at. 8,55 a.m.) London, This Day, Berlin messages via. Amsterdam

i state that fighting in Bukovina i ; again of the most violent descrip, i tion. Russian attacks on the Raranezi heights, near Czemowitz, were particularly terrible. Desperate hand-to hand fighting lasted foif hours. Mosi of the infantry fighting occurs ai night, the artillery prevailing in tin day time. To-day’s French wireless says there I is mucli Russian infantry activity on the Violhynian front and east of Galicia. Strong detachments attacked the Austrians’ lines in the Tamo. ' pol region. There is violent fighting on the Bessarabian frontier. A German official message merely remarks that advances by Russian patrols at several points on the front were repulsed. NEW PHASE IN BALKANSROUMANIA’S FFTIJRE POLICY. MOVEMENT IN BESSARABIA. (Received this day at 9.31) a.m.) London. This Day. In view of Roumanians future policy. which is daily causing increased activity, also of the German press, importance is attached to the news that the railway communication between Russia and Roumania is interrupted owing to troop movement in Bessarabia, where only troop trains are moving. The view is taken in some quarters in London that today's news mark the opening of a new phase of the Balkans campaign. ELUSIVE MON TEN E( iRI NS. TAKE TO THE MOUNTAINS. PURSUIT DIFFICULT. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) Rome, This Day. Von Koevess states that Great difficulty is being experienced in the pursuit of tlie Montenegrins in the mountains. Only one third of Montenegro has been occupied and only one-tenth of the rifles has been captured. The prisoners of war do not exceed four thousand.

UNITY OF THE ALLIES. CONFERENCE IN PARIS. (Received this flay at 9 a.m.) Rome, This Day. Political and military delegates will shortly meet in Paris with a view to perfecting the unity action. SKR VI AN R E FUGEES. ARRIVE AT NICE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) Paris, This Day. A hundred members of the Servian Parliament have arrived at Nice LOAN TO AUSTRO-HUNGARY. TWO HUNDRED MILLION MARKS. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) Copenhagen, This Day. The Deutsch bank, Disconto Geh sol Schaft Bluoh Rolders, have loaned Austro-Hungary two hundred million marks. THE ULTIMATE TRIUMPH. GREAT CHANCE THIS YEAR (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) Sydney, This Day. Mr Ashmead Bartlett expresses tin. shakeabl© belief in the ultimate triumph of the Allies in the Balkans. The threats of invading Egypt he regards as mere bluff. The Mesopotamian trouble will be settled in time. Our great chance will come this year on the western front. ANOTHER M.P. SOLDIER. Stratford, This Day. Mr J. H. Hine, the member dor Stratford, lias accepted an appointment as captain in the Sixteenth Reinforcements, and goes into camp at Featherston in March.