The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-08
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LONDON, February g. Great Britain
is irhratiently waiting for an announce.
ment that another allied drive against
the Teotons on the Western front has
eommcnced The prolonged lombard
,ment of the entire German line from
the Belgian border to the snow covered
Vosges mountains, is taken here to
mean but one thing-anothef assault.
Just when or where that assault will
come remains Of course, a military
secret, and the reports from the firing
line give no hint of it even to the milf
tary experts who nave been follow ing
every move of the great armies in the
field.
Paris and Berlin are in accord re.
garding the fearfulness of the allied,
hombardment that runs a zone of ex.-
plosion continuous from the waters of
the channel near Newport, almost to
the famous, bloody field of Hartmanns-,
weilerkopf, where the German Land. !
strum and the French territorials have
been waging such prolonged and san
culinary struggle. ....
Infantry Landing o Hand
Nor are the great guns alone in their
work of destruction, for the French
official communique reports that ALI
along the hundred of miles of fighting
the infantry are joining in with hand
grenades and the more deadly grenade
hurled BY, Ipeans of catapults from the
sunken trenches
The heaviest fire is said to be in the
Argonne district, around the salient
which the German Crown Prince thrust
into the flank of General Joffre s army
IN the first mad rush of the TeutonicI
legions towards Paris. There, say the
official reports, the Gallo artillery has
increased its FIRE, as though it planne
to blow the invaders back 70 Metz byl
sheers conclusion Of the bursting shells
British Guns Busy
While the French are steadily
the pressure upon the
part of the German lines in front of
their trenches, the. British artillery,
stronger now than since the beginning
of the war, is joining the thunder of
its guns to that of their allies. The
war office here is silent, or touches
but lightly on this phase of the con
fict, as has been its custom since the
start of the strife, but from a multi
tude of sources, including the Paris and
Berlin statements, comes the informa-
ton that from the Somme to the Aisne
the British guns are busy. Violent"
is the word that the official statements
use in describing this section of the
fight.
In the other fields of the war the
warriors are also busy. Vienna reports
an air raid by Austrian aviators on the
Russian lines between Shumsk and Vol
hynia. These raids say the Austrians
have caused severe fires in those towns,
aud have done much damage to the SIav
munitiOn depots there. This Is how
ever, the only news from the Russian
or Galician front.
Advance In Albania
In Albania the Austrians are reported
as advancing still, and are said to have
taken the city of Kroia, twenty miles
notheast of Durazzo, bile three aero.
plane attacks have been made upon Dur
razzO and Avalona.
Dispatches from a neutral city, are
authority for the report that the Kaiser
for several days has been personally d.
recting the war on the western front
1t is also, said that he was present at
the conference of war at which the re
cent Zeppelin raid against England was
planned.