GERMANY

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144712, 22 June 1915, Page 3

GERMANY

GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. GREAT SUCCESSES CLAIMED, (Received Juno 22, 8.5 a.m.) BERLIN, June 21. A communique states that north of the La Basso Canal and north of Arras we repulsed, with great loss, several partial attacks. General Mackensen’s armies captured the Grodck positions. German troops on Saturday, with an Austrian army corps under Field-Marshal von Arz, attacked strongly fortified lines extending 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Janow, to the south-west of Rawaruska. They stormed the trenches in the afternoon and drove the Russians behind the great road running between Zolkiew, north of Lemberg, aud Rawaruska. Under the .pressure of this defeat the enemy on Saturday night evacuated the adjoining position between Grodek and the Dniester marshes, where ho was heavily pressed by the Austro-Hungarians between the marshes and north of Stry.

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ABSURD GERMAN STATEMENT. LONDON, June 21. A German naval officer assorts that Germany has built two battleships of 26,000 tons, with a specd_ of 25 knots and carrying loin, guns, since August; besides 48 submarines, including twelve of 800 tons, with a speed of 15 knots submerged and 20 knots on the surface. A Berlin professor advocates the exclusion of foreigners from the universities. Ho says reprisals would bo harmless, because foreign countries do not possess anything good for Germans. The Rhodes scholarship is of no value except to enable a Gorman student to get shot and to spend a large income. ROTTERDAM, June 21. It is understood Germany is calling out a further four thousand young men. They aro first-class material and are mostly railway workers.