The European War ENGAGEMENT RING LAW.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 673, 27 August 1917, Page 2

The European War

ENGAGEMENT RING LAW.

r, ♦ ■ •-.r. W ’ Shattering the German Macho/ if , .The J AT LENS AND VERDUN. wW leiioo c ? L ! the •Ihe 5 AND THE AUSTRIANS ON ITALIAN FRo^po 1 *' Means Salvation, for the Russian'H Alj*j AND HOBS OF HELL FOR THE RN Tr MY, \ AttSt German Army’s Morale Giving 0, lortni ue> s THEY CANNOT HOLD SUCH LONG LTN^S; v: [ S ft f Allies Superior in Every Resped! B ri EXCEPTING CHEMICAL DEVILRY, ; j iu’i

Bn Cable JFer Press LATEST WAR NEWS. (The cable news in this issue accredited to The Times has appeared in that journal,- but only where expressly, stated is such news the editorial opinion of The Times.] THE WESTERN CAMPAIGN. BRITISH FRONT. 'POSITIONS REGAINED!. , The High Commissioner reports: LONDON, yesterday. General Sir Douglas Haig reports We regained the trench at Gulllemonfc Farm, re-establishing ,our positions. Enemy counter-attacks wore unsuccessful. The Portuguese repulsed raiders south-east of Lavenge. VERDUN BATTLE. CAPTURE OF HILL 304. ENEMY WEAKENING. Australian and N.Zi Cable Assn, Received this day, 8.55 a.mt; PARIS, yesterday. The Matin, describing the capture of Hill 304, says: —“We have secured the last observation post surrounding Verdun, and now dominate the enemy from each side. A striking feature of the fighting is the large number of officers prisonered in proportion to the men. This reverses previous experience, and indicates that the German army’s moral is weakening,” GERMAN VETERANS WIPED OUT. HOW LONG CAN THE MACHINE HOLD?’ (Reuter's Telegrams). Received this day, 8.55 a.mj; PARIS, yesterday French headquarters correspondents state in connection with the capture of Hill 304, that the Brandenburg reserve division was practically wiped out. Sixtynine officers and 2794 men of its three regiments were prisonered, being well over a third of its entire bayonet strength. The prisoners include a whole divisional organisation, with cooks and cyclists, and even the band which was sent to the front line at Goosehill as fighting men.

Association Copyttyi. « he I ft; md_ S.t frw nat ger M aiit mij Ba, hej po 6c VIOLENT FRONTAL ATlAtt|jJ Australian and N.Z, Cable Received this day, 8,55 ROME, Yesteu .j Mr Gibbon says:— ' ® The Austrians are badly „ ganiscd by the violence of . frontal attack, and are trying ■ stave off a, paralysing blow Henna da Hill. ( j British guns assisted in the formidable lines on Scbt Costagnavizza, where nwchinefSH bristled every six yards. , B A whole page would be ir.-T n cient to catalogue the Italian t Selo was tenaciously conteS®p The Grenadiers, dropping v; - fl gue after the three days’ A-, - f bombed their way through \ 1 stone-heaps (formerly the hotiSsd|M Selo). The defenders were - Hungarians, who suffered cus slaughter. Corpses were - thickly in the streets, poisonin^|||| ' GERMAN PLOTTING, THE RED BONNET MVSTE?I } Australian and N.Z. Cable Asa Received tills day, 8.55 are PARIS, yes* - A surprising development to’curred ro the so-called :-r Rouge” affair. Almeryed#, late editor of the Bonnet - newspaper, recently arrested ® charge of possessing a secret ment, committed suicide < ly while in prison. Many officials have been cashiered <> sl | , > duced in rank for AH. Duval, manager el the who wa:s rested’ on the Swiss frontier, a charge ;of trading with has since been charged with ing treasonable relations with enemy. The police found 3 . c t c (,y)j promising cheque on Duval, y turned it to. him after pliotoj ing it. The police chief has ■ been dismissed. Libertc states that conferred in Switzerland wit notorious Austrian financier ' 3 'e: berg, whose operations ' vo! ' e , Lt !y responsible for the second ;. f kan war. NORWEGIAN SHIPS DAMAGE Australian and N.Z. Cable -k- 1 s _ Received this day, 8.55 a, 1 COPENHAGEN, German infernal machines || exploded aboard two Norwes ■ steamers. ' \m

LENS> THE ENGLISH “ WILL OF . IRON”. GERMANS VAINLY EXHAUST THEMSELVES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn* Received this day, 8.55 a.mi. ' PARIS, yesterday. A captured German’s letter to his father, written at Lens, says: I would rather go to hell than continue within this imprisoning circle of shells. Thirty-five of my company of a hundred have been casualties during the last hour. The faces of the others are the faces of the condemned awaiting death. The English have a will of iron, against which we are vainly exhausting ourselves." i 'CANADIANS! GO STILL FURTHER. ; Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn* Received this day, 8.56 a.m. LONDON* Yesterday. English Headquarters imports say that die Canadians with another irresistible: spurt, captured another important trench curving, round the centre and western outskirts of Lens, ajndf a second running oast atfnoss the Arms roach -1 - 1 J? 1 d fI *, \\ f . 1 v '. * f ! c . :

~ I RUSSIA. 1 ul '»OSCO ff CONFERENCE. >Lh md s ' z - C^:T‘ *i IP ■. i this day, S.s;> a.m. || Yes ter cl .ay. ■ f A r 'thS I MoJc 0 w Conferil I(ied ft ivivo decisive import. » cßnno .merely to acquaint 11 1 representatives with ™' vs on the fijitical situation. } If || AMERICA. 1 1 srlilEEi 10 lit: SEIIUO i-l» *i Si CaMe As? "- IL»j 1M am- ■ WASHINGTON,' yesterday. ■n, Govern nii'nt aiul «k' lK^laK« r,,1t0 ” srce[ "" ‘P 'tilion of a wj""* B*® 8 *® 10 X shipyards ■ peace talk, vBrJTISH SOCIALIST PARTY'S m . : demands. ■aslraiian and N.Z. Cabin Assn, -flf Drived this day, S.Oo a.ip. ;■ LONDON. Yesterday fln e British Socialist Party lias ■Li ,i shtomoul for submission ■ t iiiler.Allicd Socialist. Com ]io\t week, It calls uj.oa jK workers to bring S e tvar to 1,1 t'onclusion;, ■utilise the economic and I-'oli• ■EL situation to bring about a. Siidtioa from capitalism to co-op-f The statement demands flL e witbont annex a lion or iademSty, ami that ivj.aiMtioa bo made Hw a •common bind mulor interBalioiwl control, whereto all belliHats shall contribute. The restorHof Belgium is e-eiitial to peace, fly Alsace-Lorraine should deterHiaeits own Poland BL Armenia similarly ; while the Hltons should form a confoclera■L Turkey should have Alcsopoand Germany should regain Her rlonies. The manifesto op-■Ko-e; economic iateri-.-reace with trade, and declares hostil* H|v to tariff harriers. It favours a Hne of nations to determine disMpr.

■ Mr. Justice Shearman in LonRk on July 2nd held that when Kgirl broke of! a marriage engageHtent she must return the engagering. He was giving judgement in an action brought by HDriver Moss Jacobs, R.G.A., ■against Miss Fanny Davis, of ■pile End, to recover a diamond ■lcgagement ring which cost £56. ■ Hie lordship said he was satisBed that the girl broke off the Haarriage contract. Generally a Bring presented as an engagement Bing was no more than a ring preBpnted in consideration of a future ■marriage. The effect of it was Bbat if the lady repudiated the ■contract she must return the ring.