THE FLANDERS CAMPAIN

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4000, 5 August 1915, Page 5

THE FLANDERS CAMPAIN

j HEAVY BATTLE REPORTED. ' LONG STREAMS OF GERMAN WOUNDED. THUNDER OF GUNS AUDIBLE. HUNS AGAIN USE FLAMEPROJECTORS. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 3. The “Telegraaf” states that there is nows from Courtrai of heavy fighting on tiic Ypres front. The thunder °f. heavy guns and detonation of mines .has been audible for hours. A long stream of wounded is passing from Kooge to C-ourtrai. A French communique states: Lively night fighting with grenades and petards occurred near Souchez. Violent artillery engagements occurred in the Aisno Valley. Soissons was bombarded. Several German night attacks occurred at Hill 213 in the Marne-Therese-Sainfc Hubert sector. The enemy were unable to debouch. We repulsed yesterdav several attacks against Lingo and Barrenkoff. British wounded give details of the tight at Hooge. The enemy attacked a little before dawn and were thrown back. They thrice advanced again and after an intense fight managed to obtain a somewhat insecure footing in two of our first line of trenches. Ere long a number of territorial regiments chased the Germans out of the position at the bayonet point. Then the Germans used flame projectors. About 40 per cent of the wounded arc suffering from burns. The percentage of deaths was exceedingly small. IN THE ARGON ME. CROWN PRINCE'S ABORTIVE EFFORTS. (Received Aug. 5. 12.5 a.m.) PARIS., Aug. 4. The Crown Prince has resumed his effort to reach the Verdun-Chalons railway, both in the Argonne and on the heights of tho Meuse and on the Woevre plain. Nothing has been accomplished, despite a prodigal use or asphyxiating gas and burning liquids. THE BUPER»ZEPPELINS. GERMAN IMPROVEMENTS DESCRIBED, SCARED OUT OF BELGIUM BY WARNEFORD. i (Received Aug. 4, 9 p.m.) PARIS, Aug. 4. | Since Warnefordbs feat, Zeppelins ' have been withdrawn from Belgium, j and experiments are being carried on i to secure a higher flight and greater ! speed. As a result, extra motors j have been added, increasing the speed ; twenty-five per centum. An apparatus : has also been installed distributing a ; Hertzian wave enabling the operators : to control the direction of aerial torpedoes to a distance of two miles. ! The number of machine-guns on top of the dirigibles has been augmented, ! Experiments failed to add armor to : | the top. Tho Germans have so increased the interior compartments in : order that each -broach will cause less j less. It is expected that raids will re- ! commence whoa the present rain and thunderstorms end. THE METAL PROBLEM. HOME GOVERNMENTS CLEAR | DUTY. LONDON, August 3. The “'Evening Standard” says: “It j is useless for Australia to abrogate the spelter con t racts w ith Germans if the contracts can be enforced here. : It is the Home Government’s clear duty to impound all metals, purchase them at a reasonable price, and sweep aside contracts binding us to the enemy.” j The Australasian Chamber of Commerce lias appointed a committee to report on spelter. 1N T 1 mIO ATI M 0 R9UMA Nf A | I INDIGNATION AGAINST GEE- j MANY. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) 1 LONDON August 3. Tho efforts of the German press to . intimidate Roumania have provoked general indignation at Bucharest, j Ministerial papers assert that Ron- : mania- will follow its own lino of policy, confident- in her national future. AUSTRALIA’S SICK AND ! WOUNDED. inquiry* into alleged mis-! MAN AC EMENT ON SHIP-BOARD, j (Received Aug. -.1 10.40 p.m.) ■ MELBOURNE, Aug. 4. J An inquiry into alleged mismanage- - men! in conneotion with wounded and rick soldiers who returned by the : steamer Kyarra, resulted in the- issue j of instructions ensuring proper treat- j meat in future. 'Two suspended \ officers were reinstated. GENERAL ITEM'S. PRESENTATION OF COLORS. j LONDON August 3. His Majesty the King at Buckingham Palaco presented colors to the j new'ly-formeci Welsh Guards. The • Queen and many royalties and Lord i Kitchener wore present. Tho .cere- j mony was witnessed by a lnige crowd in the vicinity of the palace, who ova- i tioned tho Guards. A Belgian Grey Book contains a j letter from Baron Royers, then Bel- i gian Minister at Berlin) proving that ! four months before the war Herr Von j Jagow proposed the partition of Bel- ! gian Congo and suppression of Belgium in tho list of independent j nations. A German deserter states that tho Belgian village of Lattice was razed to the ground because it was alleged brae Tireurs Icilled a captain. The facts were that a German private shot a captain from a window out of revenge. Enver Pasha is conferring with the Bulgarian officers at Adrianople. Turkey is obtaining large quantities of corn from Bulgaria. Austro-Hungary is arranging for the exchange of prisoners with Russia via Sweden." Tho Russian Duma has resolved that legal proceedings shall be taken without delay against all responsible for a shortage of shells and other army needs, irrespective of rank. The resolution indicates a- determination to prosecute the late War Minister. Lord Desborough’s second • son, Gerald, has been killed in Flanders leading a charge upon machine-guns. His brother's death was reported on .May .28. •