CABLE BREVITIES.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1917, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

(From Australian Files.)

GERMAN COMMERCE RAIDERS. NEW YORK, November 4. The “New York Sun’s” correspondent at Washington reports that the AdmiraltV has been reliably informed that Germany is able to send out speedy (iommerce-raiders to isup'ploment the operations of U-Boats in tho Atlantic. These raiders, it is stated, may sporadically venture as far as the Unitcrt States coast .

BIGGER, THAN “LIZZIE” Reuter’s correspondent in Paris states that the “Temps” naval expert, who has visited the British shipyards, reports that he saw in a Fairfield’s shipbuilding yard at Glasgow warships far bigger than the Queen Elizabeth.

QUEST OF 1 THE ENTENTE. LONDON November ti

The London correspondent of the New York “Tribune” says that the Entente is seeking for a directing genius capaible of grasping the whole situation. The biggest man now visible is General Smuts.

air-ratd damages. Mr Bonar Law stated in tfie House of Commons that the Government would compensate air-raid damage up to £sot) in cases where the person wa s left, penniless .

GERMAN PIANOS. Jinny English' pianoforte dealers are passing motions pledging themselves to refuse trade in German pianos. CABLES IN~AUSTRALIAN PAPERS Herr Maximilian Harden, editor oi the Berlin paper Zukunft, has been prohibited from delivering lectures in Berlin. Speaking in London, Viscount Cowdray, Chairman of the. Air Board, said that Britain was now producing at a great rate aeroplanes which rose to a height of four miles at a> speed double that of the fastest express train necessitating the use of oxygen for breathing.

A telegram from the Times correspondent) at ‘Amsterdam states, with reference to .the Austro-G orman offensive in Italy:— the Kaiser telegraphed to General Von Buelow; ‘Pouring rain and miry roads will not arrest your swift and victorious course. Forward with God. Teach our faithless ally what German strength and wrath can accomplish.’ ”

Details are published by the Amsterdam Telegraaf 'of the utilisation of the sand and gravel transported through Dutch waterways from Germany to Belgium. A cobble road from Middlbkerkc to Westende it says, was broken up and smoothed with sand and gravel. From Westende the German troops enter the trenches The Germans have broken up tram lines everywhere in Belgium to construct new light railways to the front, employing deported civilians in the transporting of material. Concrete is being manufactured between Bruges and Osten'd while the sand and gravel are used along the coast for the construction of aerodromes and coast defences.

The question of man-power has again sprung to the forefront in Great Britain The Times says“ For too long we have been fighting with inadequate forces and too scanty strategic reserves to meet such a crisis as has now arisen. The situation must be altered if the war is to he won.” The Westminister Gazette says: “The authorities have been swayed by a too easy optimism, have not appraised the conse quences of the Russian events and have assumed an unwarrantable of attrition among the German forces. The country must he reused to new efforts i n man power and new sacrifices and economies especially in the saving of tonnage for bringing the American army it(o ®n|rop'e. Tt is understood that plans before the Cabinet include the utmost combing out of men from industries women replacing them”