PALESTINE.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1918, Page 3

PALESTINE.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.J A SUCCESSFUL ADVANCE. LONDON, June 2. Palestine Official—We advanced our line a maximum depth of 12 miles on a front of 4J miles in the coastal area, south, south-west of Tabsar, capturing 2 posts and repulsing several counter attacks, with considerable enemy losses. Arabs renewed attacks at Hcdwaz rail way north of Maan prisonering 125 and effecting important demolitions.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

CALLED TO THE COLOURS. LONDON, May 31. . A Press Bureau message reports that tho Ministry of National Service has authorised the enlistment of 25,000 hitherto exempted men under thirtyone engaged in British agriculture and certain Allied occupations. These must join at the end of June, whereafter there will be no further recruitment of exempted agriculturalists unless compelled by developments of the military situation.

IN THE PACIFIC. (Received This Day at 12.25. t>.i" ■ LONDON, June 3. The Pall Mall Gazette expects that America will heed Australia’s claim to the Australian Pacific Monroe doctrine. Australia is the rallying point of the Pacific free communities. There has always been a neutral reservation respecting Germany’s Pacific colonies in discussions of the fate of her oversea possessions and it has been felt that Germany’s ejection from the Pacific, is irrevocable, because Australian opinion won’t allow the German menace to revive.

GERMAN UNEASINESS. - (Received This Dav at 12.25. p.m.) PARIS, June 3rd. The “Berliner Tageblatt’s” Vienna correspondent says there is extreme urn easiness ,in German political circles over the constant mutinies among Slav, troops behind the lines, whose victims are nearly always German officers. The mutineers entrench themselves in towns or neighbouring hills, nnd are only overcome after pitched bat. ties. The ring-leaders are mostly prisoners who have returned from Russia. •

SINKING FISHING .BOATS, f “REUTER’s” TELEGRAM.] (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) LONDON, June S. A submarine on Thursday night attacked: an' Irish fishing fleet, off the coast of County Down, and sank twelve out of forty boats, before she was interrupted

BOMBING HOSPITALS. [LONDON TIMES SERVICE COPYRIGHT] (Received tiffs day at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 3. Mr Robinson reports that Germans on Saturday bombed further hospitals, including one containing 1,600 patients. FINNISH MONARCHY. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) STOCKHOLM, June 3.

It is aserted that a Finnish-German Convention exists, whereby Finland engages to establish a Monarchy under German dynasty, and to permit Germany to use Aaland islnnls, or a plac* on the opposite coast- as a naval has*, and to use a Finnish harbour in the \retie as n Commercial port-. Finland undertakes efficient measures to combat anarchists. Germany is to maintain troops in Finland, till the conditions are fulfilled.

AUSTRIAN SOCIALIST IDEALS. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.nO AMSTERDAM, June 3. A telegram from Vienna states n representative conference of Austro-Hun-garian socialists demanded the immediate convocation of the Reiehstrath, to consider the Brest Litovsk and Bucharest treaties, which the conference declared were a violation of the principles of peace by understanding. It was resolved to request the Central Governments to offer a general peace on the basis of the establishment of a League of nations, with general disarmament, international arbitration courts; the ic—munication of annexations and granting ofi full self-dete'rmiation to border peoples torn from Russia.