FROM OTHER SOURCES.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1918, Page 3

FROM OTHER SOURCES.

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BRAZILIAN TROOPS

WASHINGTON August 7

The “New York Times’’ correspondent commenting on the cable received frpm Rome saying that the Brazilian Minister at Rome was going to France to greet the Brazilian troops which had arrived on the West Front, says that the report is unconfirmed hv the Brazilian Embassy, where it is believed that the report *is erroneous. The Embassy lias no knowledge of the transportation of Brazilian troops lo France. It is possible that the report refers to Brazilian sailors of a Brazilian warship which has been co-operating with the jAUifed and America# Navies. There have been reports of Brazilian troops preparing to go to Palestine to relieu* British troops for the West Front.

ESTIMATES OF GERMAN LOSSES. (Received This Dev at 1016. h.-A./ , NEW YORK, August 8. Colonel Ropington estimates.there has been one million German casualties this year up to the end of July. This,is greater than the combined Franeo-Rritish losses.

GERMAN MURDER TRAPS. HASTY EVACUATION. (United Service Telegrams.) (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.l LONDON, August 8. Raymond Carroll, a correspondent with tho Americans describes the murder traps found in the evacuated territory. Bulbs and bladders wore found in loaves of bread. When touched those exploded.

A captain was approaching an Hotel when a German officer walked out and 'offlfjred to surrender. The American fcoveral lum with a revolver and jumped aside barely in time to escape a rain of bullets from a machine gun hidden in the. cellar of an abandoned hospital. The enemy left rolls of crepe paper which have taken the place of cloth dressing. There are also remains of some burned harness and motor cars * fitted with iron tyres. The flames from burning ammunition dumps of the Germans was so bright that it was almost possifile to read a newspaper. The whole horizon at night was a succession of gigantic red patches with an occasional roars of exploding ammunition. Millions of dollars worth of supplies were destroyed.

O-ENiPAI- MaNGIN’S peaise. (Received This Day at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON, August 8. The “Daily Chronicle's’’ correspondent on the. French front states that General Mangin, in an order of the day thanking the Americans for their splendid adhievement, says: “You have , proved yourselves worthy sons of a Great Country. Ninety one cannon 7,200 prisoners and immense booty were taken and over six miles of territory reconquered, and you share in the trophies of this victory; also you acquired superiority over barbarity.” RECOGNISING AMERICAN HELP. ZURICH, August 8. The Austrian newspapers despondently refer to the prominent part of American troops in General Foeh’s offensive land predict the Americans will be similarly prominent on the Italian front. They aslt how the German General Staff proposes to meet the enormous addition of the Americans to the Allies strength.