Men for the Navy

Waikato Times, Volume 84, Issue 13210, 28 June 1915, Page 6

Men for the Navy

50,000 MOPE REQUIRED. Received June 27, 3.50 p.m. LONDON, June 26. The Supplementary Estimates, which have been issued, state that an additional 50,000 men are required for the navy, making the personnel 300,000. DOUAI STATION BOMBED. MINOR GERMAN SUCCESS. Received June 28, 10.20 a.m. PARIS, June 27. The Germans regained a footing along 200 metres of the front in a sunken road between Ablain and Angres. Our aviators on June 25- dropped shells on tiie Douai railway station, which was apparently seriously damaged. IN BOTH THEATRES. GERMANS REPORT PROGRESS. Received June 28, 10.20 a.m. BERLIN, Juno 27. A communique states that wo blew up an ammunition depot at Arras. We stormed a Russian height on the north bank of the Dniester between Haacescz and Chorodow. We pursued the enemy and reached Hrohnraw, midway between Zurawano and Kohatyn. The Hanoverians captured a hostile position north-west of Rawarusska, taking 3300 prisoners. GERMAN PREPARATIONS. AN AMERICAN'S STATEMENT. Received Juno 28, 10.25 a.m. LONDON, June 27. Mr McCormick, a son of a former American Ambassador at Potrograd, who was recently with the Grand Duke for two months at the front, says the Germans in their years of preparation, besides creating a network of military railways, had caused farmers to construct buildings to serve for defences throughout East Prussia. The farmhouses all occupy strategic points, and are invariably built with heavy walls and small windows towards Russia. Many are connected by secret telephones. The Russians at the outset of the war were surprised to find their first shots strike well-concealed batteries in entrenchements. Nothing, he says, is to lie compared with the improvement of the Russian army, as the war, which is enormously popular, proceeds. M. DERNBERG. ARRIVAL AT BERGEN. WELL TREATED BY THE BRITISH. Received June 27, 3.50 p.m. AMSTERDAM, June 26. Heir Dcrnl>erg has arrived at Bergen. He denies that he was molested, and states that the British treated him with every courtesy. A COOL RECEPTION. FAILURE OF MISSION IMPLIED. Received Juno 28, 9.35 a.m. COPENHAGEN, June 27. Horr Donburg interviewed at Christiana, said he gladly admitted that he had been splendidly treated in British waters. He added, smilingly: "They can be gentlemen over there." Hen- Denburg's return is commented upon by the German press somewhat coolly, implying that his mission is regarded as having failed.