FIGHTING IN FUNDERS

Waikato Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 1941, 9 August 1917, Page 5

FIGHTING IN FUNDERS

THE DECIDING THEATRE

ENEMY RE-ORGANISING TROOPS

RUSSIAN SUCCESS NEAR DNIESTER - J FIRST OF BRITISH STANDARDISED SHIPS FIN ISHED

FATE OF THE GERMANS. TO BE DECIDED IN FLANDERS. ENEMY PAPER’S IDEA. (A. and N.Z. Association.) (Received 10.9 a.m.) ZURICH. August 8, The ‘‘Vossische Zeitung” says that Germany’s fate is being decided in Flanders. '‘An English base there would enable enemy air squadrons to annihilate our industrial bases, and drive Germany completely from the seas. Gorman industry would then be completely at their mercy. We must hold our positions between the sea and Lys or we lose the war.” — j GERMANS IN FLANDERS. ACCUMULATING BATTERIES. Prospect of heavy fighting. (A. and N.Z. Association). (Received 10.9 a.m.'' PARIS, August 8. M. Marcel Hutin states that the Ger- | mans have reorganised their troops at the roar of the Flanders front, and ha\\c accumulated more heavy batteries with the prospect of renewed heavy fighting. SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAID. ENEMY ARTILLERY ACTIVE. STRUGGLE ROUND. YPRES. (A. and N.Z. and Reuter.) (Received 10.0 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. Sir Douglas .Haig reports that a successful raid was made yesterday night near Lombaertzyde. The enemy’s artillery has been active eastward and northward of Ypres, pa.rticnlarly in the neighbourhood of the Westhock-Ypres-Stadcre railway. . BRITAIN’S CHALLENGE. ‘‘RETIRE BEHIND THE RHINE.” . Answer to peace offers. (A. and N.Z., Association). . (Received 10.25 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, August 8. Seventy-eight professors ef the Bonn University have signed a petition, urging Germany never to make another peace offer as England had answered the recent ones by a challenge to retire behind the Rhine. FRENCH STEAMER LOST. TORPEDOED IN MEDITERRANEAN. COMMANDER TAKEN PRISONER. (A. and N.Z. Association) AMSTERDAM, August 7. An Austrian submarine torpedoed the steamer Berthil while revictualling French warships in the Mediterranean. Twenty-five were drowned. The Commander was taken prisoner. JEWISH REGIMENTS. BEING ENROLLED IN BRITAIN. FORTY THOUSAND AVAILABLE. (By Cable —United Service—Copyright) (Received 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. The War Office has -completed arrangements to enrol Jewish regiments, composed largely of Russian Jews. It is estimated that forty thousand will be available. Camps will be established in the environs of Loudon, safeguarding religious and racial observances. STANDARDISED SHIPS. FIRST READY THIS MONTH. SPEED NOT DISCLOSED. ; ‘ LONDON, August 7. In the House of - Commons Sir L. Cluozza Money stated that the first standardised ships would be completed this month. Their deadweight capacity was 8,000 tons. It was not desirable to give their speed.

RUSSIAN SUCCESS. ENEMY THROWN BACK. FIGHTING SOUTH OF DNIESTER. (A. and N.Z, Association). PETROGRAD, .August 7. It is reported that the enemy has been thrown back from Chotin, south of the Dniester, on a front of fifteen versts. SOUTH-WEST OF BRODY. ' ENEMY GATHERING HARVEST. (Admiralty, per Wireless Press). LONDON, August 7. A Russian official message reports: Intense enemy artillery fire is being maintained south-west of Brody. The enemy is gathering the harvest. In the Seroth and Suczany Valleys of Moldavia the enemy continues .his pressure, occupying Vaskovoy, Satulmary, Bula Gilt, and also the heights northward of Kimpolung. We beat olf several attacks in this region, forcing the enemy to retire in disorder. We repulsed attacks westward of Ozcdiu. We retired a few versts in the region of the Bystritza River, owing to the voluntary retirement of . two regiments. The enemy took the offensive in the direction of Focsaui, in Rumania, and pressed us across the Tyrladesus River. RUSSIAN SETBACK. THREE TOWNS EVACUATED. (A. and N.Z. Association) (Received 10.25 a.m.) PETROGRAD, August 8. The ‘‘Nove Vromcga” states that the Russians have evacuated Kemenetz, Podolsk, and Proskurolf. CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRACY, MICHAELIS ’ APPOINTMENTS. (A. and N.Z. Association) LONDON, August 7. The whole of the German Press is atacking Dr. Miehaelis’ Ministerial appointments. Liberal and Social Democrats papers regard the appointments as a challenge to Parliamentary Government, and accuse Miehaelis of cowardice in deferring action until the Retchstag adjourned. Pan-Germans are angry, believing that Herr Juhlman, one of the new appointments, favours a rapprochement with England. UNITED GREECE. EPIRUS WITH MOTHERLAND. (A. and N.Z. Association). (Received 10.25 a.m.) ATHENS, August 8. At the first sitting of M. Venizelos’ Parliament, M. Vcnizelos, replying to a petition from deputies of Northern Epirus for an administrative Chamber, said that the union of Epirus with the Motherland in the near future was a foregone conclusion; CANADA’S EXPENDITURE. FIVE MILLIONS A MONTH. (By Cable—Reuter—Copyright) (Received 10.9 a.rn.) OTTAWA, August 8, The Canadian Government’s war expenditure is averaging £170,000 daily. Canada is also providing five millions monthly for the purchase of munitions. The July enlistments show a low mark, the total being only 4,200. RESTRICTIONS ON SPORT. RACING DAYS CUT IN HALF. v (A. and N.Z. Association). MELBOURNE, August 8. > Senator Pearce, referring to the restrictions on sport, and the curtailment of racing, says that Iho proposals provide for a general reduction compared with the pre-war fixtures, on a basis of the number of meetings to be held being ■fixed on the number held before the war in each State. Racing would be rcI strictcd in New South Wales by at least 50 per cent. Boxing will also be limited.