WAR NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 16 December 1915, Page 3

WAR NEWS.

RUSSIAN FRONT. GERMANS SACRIFICE 4DVANiCED POSITIONS. (Received Wednesday, 11 a.in.) PETROGRAD, Tuesday. Tho Germans have decided to '.viator near Dvinsk with a certain degree of comfort, inasmuch as ihey sacrificed without fighting their advanced positions for more convenienttrenches. A great number of blockhouses fitted with winter comforts are being erected near the German armies. THE GALLIPOLI BATTLEFIELD. BLOODIEST AND MOST TERRIBLE IN HISTORY. (Received Wednesday, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. Mr Sheppard, the American war correspondent, states that Gallipoli is the bloodiest anj most terrible battlefield in history. It will v;o clown to the ages as a nniiio Df "norror, The itirks are devilish fighters, he says, but aro always gentlemen. KAISER AND POPE. PROMISE TO RESTORE TEMPORAL POWER. (Received Wednesday, 8.10 a.mj AMSTERDAM, Tuesday. The German Humanity League asserts that the Kaiser categorically promised that the Pent- s temporal power shall- be restored, and "ha!, a Papal State shall be created in Palestine. With the Sultan's consent the Kaiser wmild cede to'the Pope Jerusalem and tho holy places .it Jaffa.

AUSTRAIiiA'S EFFORT. (Received Wednesday, 10.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Wednesday. The Defence Department states that the Australian manufacturers are able to turn out a full infantry equipment. Tho Department has designed and produced a purely Australian equipment. ,Fifteen ; linnsand sets have .been issued, and aro so satisfactory that a further 100,COO have been ordered; Twenty-lire per cent of the rifles for the expeditionary forces were manufactured at Lithgow. The 'manufacture of machine guns will shortly bo undertaken. 'Since the war commenced, 31,627 horses have he:en obtained. Twenty-oiftlit thousand horses purchased cost £560,968, the remaining 2639 bring donated. Twenty-four thousand two hundred and seventy horses were sent with the forces. Two thousand five hundred vehicles, 10,000 sets of harness, and 15,000 sets of saddlery were also provided. JSXTENSION OF PAIUJ-AMEXT. (Received Wednesday, R.lO ii.nt.j LONDON, Tuesday. Sixty Unionist menubers of the House of Commons met. and objected to tho proposal to extend Parliament for another year., on ti;o ground that it was over They condemned the Preservation of Plural Votin;.;; Bill. STIFF MEDICAL EXAMINATION (Received Wednesday, ( J a.h.) MELBOUrtN E, Wednesday. Tho military authorities, in addition to stiffening the tests, purpose monthly medical examinations in the camps in order that ihcre shall be few men returned from E;.-;ypt as unfit.