THE WAR

Levin Daily Chronicle, 9 August 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

(Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) THE BIG EIGHT. l'airis, August 8. M. Marcel Hutin states that the Germans have reorganized troops near the Inlanders front and have accumulated more heavy batteries. There is a prospect of renewed big fighting. Zurich, August 8. The Vossiscthe Zeitung says that Germany's fa.te is being decided in Flanders. An English 'base there would; enable the enemy air squadrons to annihilate the (German Industrial badin and drive Germany completely from the seas. "German industry would 'be completely at their mercy ; we must hold our positions between the sea and Lys or we lose the war." THE TOLL OF THE SEA. Christiania, August 8. Seven Norwegian fishing boats and ninety of the crews were lost in a storm off Greenland. SIR DOUGLAS HiAIG. (A-N.Z. and Reuter Service)

London, August 8. Sir Douglas ,Haig reports:— A successful 'raid was made yesternight, near Ijombaertzyde. The enemy's artillery is active eastward and northward of Ypres, particularly in the neighbourhood of Welllioeke, Ypres and Staden railway. (Received This Day 10.45 a.m.) CONCERNING PEACE. 'AustraL'ia-Ne*.~ Zealand Cable Service* Amsterdam, August 8. Seventy-eight professors at Bonn University signed a petition urging Germany never to make another peace offer, as England had answered recent ones by a challenge to retire behind the Rhine. i MERCENARIES. . (United Service). London, August 8. The 'British War Office has completed arrangements to enrol Jewish regiments, largely Russian Jews. It i» estimated 40,000 are available. They will be established in camps on the environs of London, where there will be a safeguarding of religious and racial observances. SLIM GERMANS. Amsterdam, August 8. Speaking at Augsburg, Herr Lebren'bach, the mover of the Reichstag peace resolution, on 20th July, admitted that the political leaders had concocted the resolution at .Herr Sclieidemann's suggestion in order to enable Socialists to reassure their constituents and to vote Wax Credits.

CANADIAN NEWS. (Reuter Service) Ottawa, August 8. The, Canadian Government's war expenditure ie averaging £170,000 per day. Canada also is l providing £5,000,000. monthly for purchase of munitions. July enlistments show a low mark: 4200. GRECIAN PARLIAMENT. Athens, Aug. 8. The first sitting of the Venizolififc Parliament has taken place. Venizelos, replying to a petition from deputies from the (Northern Epirus, for an administrative chamber, said the union of Epirus with the motherland in the near future was a foregone conclusion. STl&I/i; CHARGING BACKWARDS Pestrbgrad, August 8. Tli© Novoe V'remya states that the Russians have evacuated, the (towns of Kennatz, Podolsk lid 'Poskuroff. (Received This Day 11.5 a.m.) SECRET TUNNEL. I Rome!, August 8. The Government requisitioned the Aden Hotel, formerly German-owned, and discovered a secret tunnel to Villa 'Roses (CBuelow's residence before the war). It is 'believed that this tunnel enabled Buelow to confer with neutraOs who desired secrecy. POLAND DISTURBED. X/auzanno, August 8.. (Numerous riots have occuredS in Poland. The Germans, fearing an organized revolt, sent feck iGormjan women, including the wives of high offioialfi. SERBIA. Telegram). London, August 8. The Hit. Hon. (D. Llovd 'George, speaking at a Serbian Society luncheon, after paying tribute to Sorbin's part in war, said that Serbia, which had been covered with the dirt of Turkish barbarism, was about to be

cleansed. The first condition of peace would bel complete restoration without reservation. British honor was involved in seeing Serbia freed.

M. Passitch, in replying, said that

| Germany now spoke of honorable peace; such peace was only securabdo if tilio under Austro-!Genn|an ride were set free. If a unity of b'rbs, Croats and Slavines were achieved, if Czechs and Slavaks were united and independent, if the Polish-IRuth-eninn question were solved, then only would honorable peace bo secured. GERMAN RAIDERS. London, August 8. 'In the 'House' of Commons, Ml' Houston asked' for information as to the German raider "Walfindia" and others lately operating in the Atlantic, whereof nothing recently had been heard. The Hon. Mr McsNamara replied that the Admiralty was not without knowledge of the movements or fate of these vessels, but disclosure might bo valuable to the enemy. He especially emphasized the word "fate." LEGISLATIE CRISIS. , Ottawa, Aug. 8. Tho Upper House of Newfoundland rejected a bill for taxation of business profits for war. This rejection is pre- I cipitating a legislative crisis. ■FRENCH COMMUNIQUE. A.-N.Z. and Reuter Service. London, Aug. 8. A French communique reports that th 'i'e has been reciprocal artillerying throughout last night on most of the Aiisne front. Our fire 'repulsed tho enemy detachments, 'east of Vnuxaillon and west of California Plateau that woro attempting to approach our lines.