ON THE RUSSIAN FRONTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11581, 23 May 1916, Page 5

ON THE RUSSIAN FRONTS.

ENEMY TRIES THE OFFENSIVE. REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSSES. Petrogvad, May 22. A communique says: The enemy’s attempt to take the offensive north of Lake Ilzon, in the JLllukst region, was repulsed with heaiy losses. THE SLAUGHTER OF ARMENIANS. TALES OF TREBXZOND AND ERZEROUM. SENT AWAY FOR BUTCHERY, Bucharest, May 22. The Russian entry of Trebizoud has thrown light on the fate of Armenians. Three thousand leading families were ordered to procure wagons to carry their goods. Four days later the wagons were brought back, the occupants having been plundered and massacred. Other groups followed. Thus 10,000 of the Armenian population were exterminated. Practically the same programme was carried out at Erzeroum, where tbe population was estimated at 35,000.

RAIDERS OYER KENT. ATTACK ON A HOSPITAL. London, May 21. A raider’s bomb exploded within ten yards of a hospital in Kent- All the windows were smashed, but the patients were uninjured. PORT SAID BOMBED. Cairo, May 21. Two enemy aeroplanes dropped sixteen bombs on Port Said on Sunday morning. They were mostly directed against the Arabs’ quarters. They Killed two civilians and wounded thirteen civilians and live soldiers. The airmen used searchlights when dropping the bombs Antiaircraft guns quickly drove off the raiders.

FEEDING THE ENEMY. ROU MAN IA N EXPORT ATI ON OF CORN, Bucharest, May 22. Three thousand tons of cereals are being exported to Germany and Austria. SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION COMMISSION. DS WET’S TREASON. Capetown, May 22. Prinsloo, a former Boer general, giving evidence before the Rebellion Commission, said be met Christian De Wet and Hertzog on his farm in the Harrismitb district. He endeavoured to dissuade DeWet from rising against the Government. De Wet replied that the Government was weak, England had already been overcome by Germany and tbe time was ripe to hoist tbe Vierkleur.