The European War

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 676, 30 August 1917, Page 2

The European War

* , ;■ • ♦— — ' >[. Is Germany to Recover her Oolong A PRESSING QUESTION FOR BOTH SlDjg; ANXIETY in GERMANY—IS IT A,PEACE PORI^ Allies will Need to Occupy Useful NOT MERELY BAR GERMANS OUT, A BIG QUESTION ALLIED TO DEMOBILISE Russia Refuses Secret Peace 0| A MORAL DEFEAT FOR GERMANY. Vivid Account of Flanders Fight], By table fer Press Asioeiafion CopyrUh I S li

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. The High Commissioner report's; LONDON, Yesterday. A British official report states;— Southeast of Langemarck we cleared up a strong point, .which the enemy Judd immediately in I rout of our new line. FLANDERS BATTLE. VIVID DESCRIPTION OF RE-' • CENT BRITISH ATTACK. Australian and N.Z S Cable Assn, Received this day, 10.50 a.m. LONDON, Yesterday. A British correspondent gives a vivid description of the attack on the St Julien-Poelcappelle road. There was a driving rain storm', and the tanks: wallowed in Bogland, while the heavily-laden infantry wont ploughing- throng h the mud. The ..attackers’ task was the capture of a series ,of concrete strongholds. Each held a score of German machine-gunners. The tanks, in some cases got to within thirty yards, and fired point-blank*, until the strongholds surrendered. The night was wild and savage*, ipaklngj a continuance of the fighting practically impossible. 1

RUSSIA. TROUBLE WITH the Fffii fightino ix THE TOU'JS Australian and N.Z, Cable Received this day, 10.60« COPENHAGEN, Yesfe Numbers were ‘killed or w® in :i .’several hours' fight the Fin nisi] population of Sjj ijoiy and the Russian grtrrbi, LATEST GERMAN OUTRAg FUELLING FIELD 110SP1I.11 Australian and N.Z, : Cablelis Received tins day, 8.15 sj LONDON, Yestai Several additional instances, reported of Germans intenlias shelling hospitals id iho froaV the casualty stations. A i bourne doctor says:—‘l was $ ing our boys, when, the H® liberately shelled our statioa. shells dropped in our camp® four hours. One fell vested tween two wards, which irG only emptied five minutes t-v THE SUBMARINE WW ARGENTINE SECURE PROMISES. Australian and N.Z. Cable A* Received this day 10.505 i LONDON, A German Note to the M tine states that owing to strong desire to remain with the Argentine, agrees to modify the sul# blockade to the extent of $ tacking Argentine ships camonly foodstuffs. , The Argentine Govern®* 3 ■proves of the Note. PEACE TALK.

ITALY. GERMANS HAVE TROUBLES OF THEIR OWN, ' AUSTRIAN APPEALS UN- i ) AVAILING, Australian and N.Z, Cable Assn« Received this clay, 10,50 a.tp, - BERNE, Yesterday, Germany, replying; to an Austrian appeal for reinforcements, declares that she is unable to render ■> ;sistShe also refused to send aeroplanes, despite Italy’s marked superiority in the air, ] : ■

THE GERMAN COLO® ARGUMENTS WHICH A LONG WAR. ■ y Australian and N.Z. Receive*! this day. AMSTERDAM.

Hen* Beilin pubiishtfs articles in the Hainbiu? 01 ? blatt, insisting on the. ' necessity of recovering . ios intact, also rounds in Africa, and consider^. ,j ing those in the Pacific^fjg lin points out that the 3l itt po. schemes ara inadequ^, vide the raw materials j vital for Germany's ind^ countries producing cotton* jutai rubber, and' otltf r fi must be under Geiinv*