GERMAN FAILURES.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 6 April 1918, Page 3

GERMAN FAILURES.

IN BIG ATTACKS

[ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.J [I'BR PREUS ASSOCIATION .3 Received 11 a.m. this day. Lomlon, April 5. The Germans attacked the British on a wide front in the neighbourhood of Ditiancou rt. and made slight gains, but suffered heavy losses.

The Germans also fiercely attacked (lie French, their objective being' the Amiens-Clermont railway. The attacks failed.

THE NEW BATTLE

GERHANS SURPRISE THE

CRITICS

Received this day at 8.40 a.m. London, April 5.

The progress of the renewed German thrusts for Amiens on a twelve-mile front are awaited with confidence owing to the recent heavy Entente ireinforcements to the battle area.

The heaviest blow fell on the French who parried an attack by well over a hundred thousand men indicating that, the Germans still have a great striking force at their command.

Experts are surprised at the early resumption of the Kaiser battle in view of the difficulties of brin priii £f up heavy gvrns. It is generally agreed that the enemv is less advantageously si tun+pd than at the beginning of the first atlaclc.

An experiment of interest to pigraisers is being carried out at the Levin State farm. Young pigs are being fed on three different diets, as follows:—No. 1, clover and milk; No. 2, clover and wheat; No. 3, peas and water. The pigs are weighed every two weeks, and those in one pen were found to have gained 141bs in that time.

A correspondent signing himself "Aggregation," writes to the "Age" as follows:—"It is not possibly known that the Wellington Land Board has granted a selector on the now famous Tiraumea settlement permission to take up an additional 700 acres, making in all 1400 acres held by one mnn. The Land Board must also have known when permitting this aggregation that the selector's father is the owner of thousands of acres almost a stone's throw away."

A man who is able to climb the most mountainous country in Taranaki mustering sheep; who sleeps like a top, eats three or four big nteals a day, and is frosh as paint for his work every morning, looks like a good type of man to send to the front. But a medical board tells hLn that he "has a heart," and must stay at home. In spite of his strenuous mountain-climb-ing ho never knew lie had a heart before the medical board told him so.— "Argus."

The ".New Zealand Dairyman" draws special attention to the loss accruing from the Military Service Boards not exempting cheesemakers. The-"Dairyman's" travelling reporter says: The Military Service Boards have been Caking the first and second assistants wholesale, and the manager, too, in many cases,, and the result is now very apparent in the lack of good workmanship in the finished cheese. The finish of the cheese, he says, in many instances, is in a "shocking state." The managers are helpless. They have to pick up any straggling labour that comes along, ,and these men take no interest whatever in the work.

The folio-wing now regulation under the War Ecgulations is gazetted: — "When a bar-attendant is convicted of an offence against the War Regulations of the 21st day of August, 1916, relating to the sale of intoxicating liquor, and has not previously, -whether before or after tho date of this Order-in-Coun-cil, been convicted of an offence against the said regulations, the convicting magistrate inay in and by the conviction, if in his discretion he thinks fit so to do, order that the disqualification imposed by clause 8 of the said regulations shall not take effect, or that the period thereof shall be reduced to such a period as the magistrate thinks fit."

Says the Auckland '' Star'' editorially: —It is stated that American troops are being sent to France "to the fullest capacity of the transports," that "it will be impossible to speed up the transportation of troops unless more ships are made available," that "several divisions'' in America nre awaiting transports, and that tho American Government v ill increase the number of reinforccir.cr.ts by curtailing grain shipments and eliminating all non-es-sential freight. This bear.; on what wo said about shipping as a factor ii the part this country may bo called upon to play during the rest of the war. With iarge numbers of troops waiting only a week's steam from France, is tho British Government going to send precious tonnage across tho world to carry extra reinforcements from New Zealand?

The Rev. J. J. £ orth has received a remarkable letter from one of the men on the Roll of Honour of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church, Christchurch. It is in acknowledgment of- the receipt of a Christmas parcel from tho church. The writer says: —Your kind letter of October 3rd duly reached me. I have been unable to answer it before. It is winter here now, and you will forgive mo if the black clouds at times seem all blackness —still, there's a beacon light ahead, and I follow the gleam. Christmas Day I had an operation —my eighth. I was unconscious from 8 p.m. till 2 o'clock next morning. Never have I been r.;r.rer the gates of heaven. Mortification had set in. Yet for the second time since being here I have bocn literally drag- ' ged back to lif6 again, surely for some better purpose.. Eight of my wour.ds are nicely healed, but two remain a source of perpetual annoyance, and, of coursc, the smaslied-up leg is anything but- recognisable. I Jiave been on my back five months now in bed, still I have only one regret, and that is that I fear I shall never again join my beloved comrades in the fight for freedom and right. Not tlir.t I am in love with fighting, or long for another wintor on tho Somme, but where men are needed I want to b". If we can smile through suffering, anguish, and tears, you must. Keep the dear home folk smiling, that is all we need. God bless and keep you all. —Gratefully yours, W. V. Rule. P.S. —My nintD operation is to-morrow! Cheero.!