PROGRESS OF THE WAR

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7709, 18 April 1916, Page 1

PROGRESS OF THE WAR

SUMMARISED CABLES. MARKED ITALIAN OFFENSIVE. TURKS AND RUSSIANS. ACUTE POSITION IN GREECE. The .“Daily Telegraph’s” Rome correspondent says that the Italian offensive, simultaneous with the German attacks upon Verdun, resulted in an extension of the Italian lines for several kilometres in southern and eastern Trentino. Upon the Isonzo Carso front 30 villages and many fortified hills in the Ledro, Daone, Adige and Sugana valleys passed into Italian possession. Eight Austrian forts at Lake Garda are now being besieged. Tolmino is under Italian fire on three sides. The Austrians have been reinforced, but chiefly with youngsters and territorials. Prisoners state that Austria would have attacked, but the Italians forestalled them. General Sir Percy Lake reports that on Friday a heavy gale blew all day. On Saturday the British made a gradual but steady progress on the right bank of the river. The enemy’s advanced lines were driven in and the space occupied. The enemy left many dead and a considerable number of prisoners in the captured trenches. A Russian communique states:— The Turks for six days attacked our centre west of Erzeroum. All attacks were repulsed with heavy enemy losses. The Turks are everywhere falling back in disorder, energetically pursued. Sir F. G. H. Elliott (British Ambassador in Greece) has emphasised that the transport of Servians across Greece was due exclusively to the German submarine danger. The sovereign rights of Greece were in nowise prejudiced. The “Daily Chronicle’s” correspondent at New York says that the Cabinet has approved President Wilson’s submarine policy. A Note will be sent to Germany ■ reiterating the demands for humane and legal conduct in submarine warfare, and intimating that a further offence against American lives will be followed by the severance of diplomatic relations. The correspondent adds that this is America’s last word. The Greek situation is apparently becoming acute. The newspapers talk of resistance should the Servians use Greek railways by way of Patras. Rome reports that a near relative of the Kaiser was wounded and three generals were killed at Verdun. A new plot against Enver Pasha’s life has recently been discovered by the Germans. Twenty Turks were arrested and executed. A Turkish communique says:— Two aeroplanes, ascending at the Dardanelles on Friday night, flew over Constantinople at a considerable heighft and dropped incendiary bombs on two villages, doing no harm. Our guns drove them off.