War News.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4627, 10 May 1915, Page 4

War News.

Roosevelt’s Views.

Paris, May 7

Ex-President Roosevelt said : If I had been President, I would have protested against the violation of Belgium, and would have asked the United States to take her place with the Allies. Perhaps that would have prevented war, even when the Germans were before Leige, as they would have had time to reflect.”

Lo.vnox, May 7

The Russian Embassy denies the enemy’s victory in Western Galicia.

The Austro-Germans continue to concentrate on the right bank of the Dunajetz. Their main efforts are in the direction of Biecz and Jaslo. Our troops were severely tried, owing to the superiority of the enemy’s heavy artillery, but the enemy suffered severely from our shrapnel and rifle tire. The Press Bureau says that, in view of evidence, that much mischief, especially in the northern* yards, has been due to cheap tiery spirits. Government, after consulting the spirit trade, proposes to abandon the taxing proposals and substitute prohibition of spirits under three years’ old. London, May 9.

Sir John French reports fighting south-east of Ypres on Friday with no material change. We recaptured a trench lost on Thursday. The enemy on Saturday morning after a heavy bombardment started a violent attack on the trenches on the front between Yyres-Poelcapelle and Yyres-Menin roads. The lighting continues and counter attacks are in progress.

Paris, May 9

Official.—-We captured a strong German work westward and our lines progressed nearly a kilometre on the right bank of the Fecht along a 1500 metre front towards Metzeral.

Ro-MK, May 9

Austrian troops are massing on the frontier and trainloads of artillery are constantly arriving. The roads leading to the frontier have been barred with tree tranks and a thousand Russian prisoners are engaged digging trenches. Pntrookad, May 9.

Official.—German cruisers and torpedoers engaged in bombardment of Libau on Friday. A mine sank a German torpedoer. There was obstinate fighting between the Vistula and the Carpathians. The enemy's attacks were mostly frontal and unsuccessful. They show sigDS of while our counter attacks were more frequent. Colossal Losses and no Gain, Pakls, May 7. The official statement of the fortnight's operations declared that the German offensive in the western theatre which was intended to impress neutrals has completely broken. The enemy endured sanguinary losses. Their three new divisions at Les Eparges were literally decimated. Their losses in Belgium, the Meuse, the Woevre and the Vosges exceed 35,000, and they nowhere captured important positions. Hill 60 Almost Re-won. London, May 7. Field Marshal Sir John French reports the re-capture by the British of more of the lost trenches on Hill 60 on Wednesday evening. Fighting is still continuing in that locs l.ity. The French Embassy, in a communique, says the German attack on Bagatelle completely failed. There are violent artillery duels northwards of Ypres and in the neighbour of Vanquois (Argonue). Awful Torture. London, May 7. A correspondent who visited the gas victims found the patients propped up. He says hundreds died in the < reuches, and half of those reaching the hospital succumb. Without doul.t it is the most awful form pf scientific torture yet conceived. India's Wheat. London, May 6. Lord Crewe, in the House of Lords, said India had sowed '*" million acres of wheat in «xoess of the previous year. He hoped the exportable aurplus of at least two million tons would be sufficient to prevent anything like a panic in Britain.

Further Victims. Lonuon, May 7. A submarine sank the steamer Candidate iu the Irish Sea without warning. One boat was swamped and the Germans did not offer to help, but all were saved. The steamer Centurion, bound for Durban, was torpedoed thirty miles off Tuskar south-east Ireland. The crew of forty-five landed at Wexford.