An Important Visit.
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Ab cciation STOCKHOLM, April 5. M. Branting, leader of the Socialist Party is visiting Potrograd on any important political mission, and this has caused a sensation in German Socialist circles. JDined ForcesNEW YORK, April 5. The British and Russians have joined forecs in Mesopotamia. Further'Success. London, Apiil 5 French officail —Notwithstanding ■violent snow stof ms ind soaked earth we continued to threw back the enemy on the whole front between the Somme and the Oise, and pressed him beyond a very important dominating position, defined by the villages of Grugies, Urvillers and Hoy, which we brilliantly captured. North of La Poiie Farm the Germans overwhelmed by our irrestible attacks, precipitately abandoned three lines of trendies fornted by a barbed wire system, abandoning their wounded and important material, also three bomb throwers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1917, Page 1
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