OVER 10,000 PRISONERS TAKEN

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 3 July 1917, Page 5

OVER 10,000 PRISONERS TAKEN

Received 10.45. LONDON, July 2. A later despatch states the Russians have captured 10.173 prisoners. THE GERMAN STORY. Received 11.40. LONDON, July 2. German official: Russian attacks near Konijucky, also between Vlota Lipa and Narajova, occasioned fresh engagements. AUSTRIAN .REPORT. LONDON, July 2. A wireless Austrian official message says: In Eastern Galicia the artillery fire increased yesterday to the greatest violence. We repulsed strong infantry attacks in the neighbourhood of Brzezany. [Strong enemy attacks westward of Zalosce also broke down.

SOLDIERS' .CONFERENCE. PETROGRAD, July 2. The Pan-Russian Soldiers' Congress passed resolutions that the Provisional Government should promulgate laws assuring the various Russian nationalities of the right to dispose of the polh tical future, and proclaiming equal rights to all tongues simultaneously while retaining the Russian language officially, } BRITISH FOOD PROBLEM ! THE GUARDIAN OF THE POOR CONSUMER. NEW FOOD CONTROLLER'S STATEMENT. TO DEFEAT THE TRUSTS. Received 11.40. LONDON, July 2. Lord Rhondda, in a speech at Cardiff, described his position as guardian of the consumer, particulars- the poor consumer. He is sanguine of securing a substantial reduction in necessaries. He was going to shelve political economy for this purpose. He hoped that he and Mr. Hoover in the United States would be able to defeat the operations of the trusts.

IN CANADA CANADA'S JUBILEE. Eeceived 114.0 a.m. LONDON, July 2. The King and Queen Alexandra, and other Royalties, Lloyd George and his colleagues attended a service in the Abbey to-day, celebrating Canada's jubilee. Preliminary crowded services were held yesterday in St. Columba's Church, Scotland and Wstminster Abbey.