WINTER CAMPAIGN FORECASTED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3976, 8 July 1915, Page 5

WINTER CAMPAIGN FORECASTED.

•‘LET THE TRUTH 810 TOLD.” FRENCH GENERAL'S MAXIMS. (Received July 8. 1.20 a.m.) ' PARIS, July 7. “Le Journal” says a General, doscribed as one of tho great chiefs of our Army, has addressed the following maximums to tho French people: “Lot tho truth he told. Time is on our side. Let us continue muni-tion-making and economise in men, a-ndi so have force when the enemy’s forces are used up.* “Let us prepare for a winter campaign.” WAR AND THE HARVEST. SECRET OF GERM AN OFFENSIVE HOLDINC ALL POSSIBLE CROPS. AGRICULTURE IN FRANCE. (Received July 8, 1.20 a.m.) PARIS, July 7.

The German offensive is prepared hr a renewed use of burning liquids, a fresh supply of gases and an increased shelling. They are even stipulating that the men shall attack by moans of drugs. Their immediate object is to hold as much land as possible for the harvesting, so as to make the war as far as possible self-supporting. There is the same reason for multiplying the fines on conquered towns and districts. Experts anticipate the maintenance of such an offensive as in the vicinity of the Souehez sugar refinery, as long as the beetroot, corn, and potatoes are’ ungatliered. ■French crop prospects are bettor! than expected, though some are storm-damaged. The Government has given the Territorials a fortnight's leave and gangs of soldiers are also assisting farmers, but the women of France are mainly responsible for keeping agriculture going.

Mr Harry M’Donald, youngest son of Mr Stuart M’Donald, a settler of Kakammea, kas invented a milkweighing machine which should prove invaluable to dairymen, states the "Nortn Otago Times.” The machine is intended to draw off and weigh automatically a. portion of milk from the milking machine pipe while the cow is being milked. In the model that is being used for purposes ol demonstration, a sixteenth of a 11), that is, loz of milk, is drawn off from each cow and deposited in a glass bottle with the number of pounds of milk given by each cow accurately indicated on the side. The extraction of the sample from each eow is gradual during tile whole process of milking. This the Government’s experts declare is one of the most valuable points about the machine, as it ensures an absolutely true and accurate sample of the milk being obtained, llio strippings from each cow are also automatically sampled in the same regulai and accurate way. An appeal for the continuance of frames during tho war was made bv Mr. T. W. lleese, the well-known cricketer, during an address at Christchurch tho other afternoon. "When tho war started,” said Mr. Reese, "many people immediately suggested that all games should be stopped. That was not done, and I tlunk rightly so. If some tilings must go to the wall, the games must be left. What should have' been done was to abolish luxury and extravagance, also drunkenness, gambling, and other evils which tend to degrade a man ruth or than uplift him. Games improve a man, and that is absolutely necessary during the present crisis. We should certainly continue our games, so that men, when they feel the call, can step off the playing field and J?o to Trontham fit and well, and be tho equal of the men wlm come m from the country and are used to roughing it.” Business Men,—mre you thinking of having a newkshofTVront put m, or ol bavin nr yourJ&rosejpt one kept/ smart and clean ? Jjf the Vacuum Cleaning CotlorjtfHces|j&poU'at thd difference in Acjjjffr BrosMi'iVmjflt cain# under our control iltJ|flion tmo lights are on. Isi<Rinol|Slh||yVery lait word in smartnes?Jr swT4rWVi\ do yours equally as well, if#* ll will only give us a trial—W. Hodgson, proprietor. ’Phone 722.