GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 25 October 1917, Page 4

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. , The Russian Embassy declares the I Germans cannot take Petrograd this j winter, and would never take it should ' the Russian soldiers offer the slightest defence. j | CONFERENCE OF ALLIES. j ; "WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. j ! Mr Maurice Low ,correspondent of j | the "London Post," wires the "Post" j ! that the Allied War Conference, iu I i which the United States participates, ! will be held in London on the earliest ' date possible. The confcrence unI doubtedly bears vitally on tho war's j future. Although the subject primarily quoted for discussion is finance, it no- ! cessarily follows that the entire plan ! of campaign will be discussed, and a ! complete understanding reached be- ; tween the financial and military chiefs, i The United States' viewpoint will be j co-ordinated with that of the Allies. I The United States Treasury officers ! feel that increased efficiency will folj low a clearer perspective, and that will j follow free and frank discussion. ] FIGHTING IN EAST AFRICA. j LONDON, Oct 21. j An. East African official message : says: Tho main enemy forces retreat- ! ing from Mbemkuru have readied Maj siwa. They abandoned the hospitals. I We occupied Ruponda and Lukeledimishion, and forced tho Germans towards ' Nzangao. We occupied Nyangao on Wednesday, but two Nigerian battalions became temporarily detached, and suffered heavily. We joined them on Thursday, and repulsed counter-at-tacks. Fighting is proceeding. NOVEL ADVERTISING. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. United States aviators *tre flying over the German lines dropping numerous Liberty Loan posters, bearing most influential pictorial and statistical data. CHASING JOHNNY TURK. LONDON, Oct. 21. A Mesopotamia official message says: After successful operations in the vicinity of Dcltawa and Kizibrobut, our columns began an enveloping movement on Friday, and drove the enemy across the Diala. The Turks destroyed the I bridge at Kizibrobat, and retreated to the southern hills of the Jebel Hamrin ridge. SOMEBODY BLUNDERED.

LONDON, Oct. 21. During the air raid Lieut. Solomon, of the Royal Flying Corps, was killed. He ascended front an air station in an eastern county. Something went wrong \vilh his machine, and he was dashed to the earth. Solomon was a New Zealander who served in Mesopotamia. The "Sunday Times" says Londoners and all Englishment arc chagrined that a fleet of Zeppelins was able to visit the capital and escape scot free. Somebody blundered; how otherwise 1 can it be explained? There was a ' strange shyness of searchlights and a ' consequent shyness of our vaunted bar- !' rage. A NOTE OF CONFIDENCE. LONDON, Oct. 21. Trafalgar Day was celebrated in the customary fashion. The wreaths laid on the Nelson monument included one from the Navy League in memory of the French fallen at Trafalgar. The Lord Chancellor, speaking at the Navy League luncheon, declared thai when we dictated terms of peace, the crews of German submarines, and those in high places who gave them orders, should be treated as pirates. The dawn was already beginning to appear, and wo might look forward at no distant date to a durable peace. The Japanese Ambassador said that Japan had loyally fulfilled her obligations, and was gradually extending her naval and military operations, and today was actively engaged in certain portions of the European theatres of war. GERMANY HAS BREAD. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 2.1. A Berlin message states the provisional total of the war loan is 625 millions sterling. The Reichstag Committee has been informed that further limitation of the bread ration is unnecessary, the grain supply for the whole year being assured.