FROM OTHER SOURCES.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1918, Page 2

FROM OTHER SOURCES.

HEAVY RAIN HINDERS ENEMY. Reuter's Telegrams. LONDON, May 14Reuter'w British headquarters’ correspondent writing to-day, states; Heavy rain has fallen in the past twenty-four hours. It must have seriously impeded the German plans and preparations.. Tlie enemy are now confronted with the same conditions in Flanders as they experienced on the Somme battlefield, when our farmer offensive was heavily handicapped. We knowy definitely that he is in many places having a really had time, Thu* knowledge will enable our soldiers to bear their share of discomfort with cheerful equanimity. While our eomnmlocations everywhere are good and supplies are abundant and regular, the Germans have in some places to flounder across wide tacts of slush and brimming shell craters, GERMAN CAMPAIGN OF falsehood. MELBOURNE, Alay & The following American wireless message was received in Melbourne to-day from Honolulu:

“Trans-Pacific passengers arriving at San Francisco to-day state that their steamer picked up a German message in mid-ocean, claiming great victories in France, and describing Flanders as a J “huge British cemetery.” The passengers however, learned of the real situation, through United States radios, which were confirmed by the official despatches in the newspapers. They eagerly j read to-day’s despatches m the news-/ papers telling the success of the United State troops in their first participation in the great battle east of Amiens, , where many Germains wqjre slain, wounded, and captured in Land—to-liand fighting. PILING IN TROOPS. (Received This Day at 1.20 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, May 15. Reports from Liege state troops are arriving in the IV est from Roumania, including cavalry. FAILURE ADMITTED. (Received This Day at 9.30. a.m.) NEW YORK May 14. The “New York Times” Copenhagen correspondent says the “ Pohfken quotes a German politician, who admits that Germany’s Western offensive lias not been a success. Too many lives have been lost. General Hindenburg still professes his belief that the German Amy will- roach the Coast, but Hindenburg has been stopped.