LATEST WAR NEWS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 299, 22 January 1915, Page 10

LATEST WAR NEWS.

RUSSIANS MAKE A MOVE. kw OFFENSIVE COMMENCED. ARREST IN MID-OCEAN. GERMAN COUNT TAKKN TO GIBRALTAR. By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright. (Received January 22, 1.15 p.in.) PETROGRAD, January 21. A communique states: — The Russians are taking the offensive. The enemy has evacuated Skempe. The/enemy's attack at Kirlibaba has l>een repulsed «nd 150 prisoners taken. ROME, January 21. The newspaper '' Stampa'' states chat a British cruiser removed Count von Keller, a German officer of high rank from a liner, and conveyed him to Gibraltar. Count von Keller had been sent on a Secret mission to the United States. THE ZEPPELIN RAID. CONFLICTING EVIDENCE. CONSTABLE SAW AEROPLANE. (Received January 22, 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, January 21. At the inquest on the Yarmouth victims of the Zeppelin raid, a constable, in his evidence, stated that he saw an aircraft about 150 feet away. He was sure it was an aeroplane, and it appeared to follow the direction of the street lights. He took it for a British machine until it dropped a bomb. DEADLIER THAN LEAD. ASIATIC CHOLERA. THE TROOPS AFFECTED. (Received January 22, 1.50 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, January 21. An official statement from Vienna says that a soldier from the northern front is suffering from Asiatic cholera. r CHANGE O~F~MINISTERS. * WAR MINISTER RESIGNS. GERMANY'S TROUBLES. (Received January 22, 1.50 p.m.)AMSTERDAM, January 21. An official statement from Berlin announces that General von Falkenhayn Las resigned the portfolio of War Minister, and Herr von Hohentorn has succeeded him. BACK FROM EGYPT. INVALIDS AND DEFAULTERS. Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 22. The troopship Athenic arrived this morning. She left Alexandria on December 17, and came direct. She brings fifty-eight non-commissioned officers and

jrion from all parts of the force, a portion being invalided, some defaulters, and some refused to be inoculated against typhoid. THE MEN RETURNED. Tlie following men returned by the Athenic: —Sergt. Nevill; Corporal Eddy; Lance-Corporal Choldj-roft; Gunners' Pearson, Minsh-all, Barman, Shore, Fraser, McDonald, Mazer, Maler, and y Finney; Drivers Thompson and Muller; ;Troopers Bowler, Donaldson, Knight, and Baxter; Privates Bartlett, Parkes, Keid, Abbott, Woodcock, Foster, Pilkinson, O'Hara, Graham, Ward, Smith, Cruiekshank, Carter (2), Gill, Toogood, Kooney, Stokes, James, Lippiatt, Hulrne, Manning, Forbes, Harris, Howat, Brennan, Holford, Holland, Wallace, Chidley, Wylces, Oldham, Scoullar, Austin, Gray, Abel, Heberley, Henderson, and Fleetwood;