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Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 February 1916, Page 3

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(U'jceivedi i'liis Day 'J a.m.) I , Ai'EH--MAKiMi MA J EHIALS. London, Feb. li. Tile imports ol paper-making materbe cut down by -one-third. KUBS-TA'S VICTORY „ Tho l*«ily Mail Buys tin- brilliant 10at- ot the capture ol is the tirst victory of the Kutente in 1916.

SOLDIERS .BEl''oltE CIVILIANS. . Tlie Daily Telegraph and 'Chronidle declare that the needs of the fighting services in the matter of aeroplanes must come first. They deprecate the civilian olamour as weakening milit&ry effort. The Daily Mail, while doubting that all sources of supply can be property utilised, says that if the civilian claims mean the withdrawal of machines and aircraft guns from the front, .then the civilians must go undefended. A GENERAL GERMAN OFFENSIVE. Paris, Feb. 17. I The Bulk of military opinion ie inj clined to believe that the German ac- [ tirity in the "West toreshadows a general offensive. In nearly every case the attacks were tmade at salients to

Lest tile allied lines. .Pracucail. all ijio ene.ny achieved was t'ue oocup..uon | ul a lew ciiucia prepar, u at inuutte , expense of explosives nui.l lauuar. j AN OTHER /.JM-JL'EU'N LOST. Amsterdam, Eeo. 17A storm in Belgium carried a Zeppelin adrift. lb landed *it Venalo, was wrecked and interned. GENERAL TROUB LES. Capetown, February 17. General JBolua declined Labour s suggestion to raise tiie Egyptian eontiiigent's pay to tlie level of the Last Alrican contingent*. Tie threatened to resign if a division was lurced on i acial lines. Sir Thomas Smartt, while disitliiu.i the* decision, declined to precipitate a crisis and moved the previous question. (Received This Day 11 a.m.j A UOl'JiLa-L AIGURY. Sydney, Tins JDay. Mr Aslimead IJartlett considers thai the importance oX tlie capture of Ersseroum cannot be overestimated, as it tormed a" vital turning point lor the Russian advances. There even is a probability now, though lhe season is at *,1 later is,age than was hoped tor, to iind tlie Allied Armies en route to t on-' stantinoplc.