AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 5 September 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

PRESIDENT WILSON’S MESSAGE TO DEPARTING AMERICAN TROOFS Received 10.0 NEW YORK, September 4 President Wilson sent the following message to the New York quota of drafted troops. “My thoughts will follow you across the sea with confidence and with genuine envy. I would like to be with you in the field trench where the real and final battle will be fought.” TROUBLES IN PORTUGAL . MUTINIES ON WARSHIPS Received 10.0 MADRID, September 4. There are troubles in Portugal. Mutinies on some warships are reported and many arrests have been made; trams have stopped running. A MACEDONIAN OFFENSIVE. TO KEEP BULGARIANS BUSY. Received 10.35. PARIS, September 4. The Petit Parisienne states that the Allies have initiated an energetic offensive in Macedonia with a view topreventing Bulgarians reinforcing the Austrians on the Roumanian front. This plan will also relieve the Allies in Moldavia. AUSTRO-BUGLARS DISAGREE. . Received 10.35. a.m. BERNE, September 4. The Bulgarians have refused to send reinforcements t)0 Austria, Relations being strained. Disagreements arose concerning Serbia, Avherc there has been open conflicts between AustroBulgarian troops. A SERVIAN APPEAL PEOPLE’S CONDITION DEPLOR-' ABLE Received 9.25 * LONDON, September 4. The Press Bureau announces that the Servian Press Bureau has published an appeal to all the Allies to help the unfortunate Servian population. The internal conditions are deplorable; the enemy has removed the whole of the harvest; inhabitants have only one loaf weekly. Children are dying in thousands for lack of milk. About 80,000 interned Servian prisoners have perished in Austro-Hungary.

BLEEDING .GERMANY. LONDON, Sept. 4. French headquarters correspondent reports that . since the beginning of the battle of ten German divisions have been withdrawn on account of losses. The enemy have now seven divisions on both banks of the Meuse. Therefore seventeen divisions are in process of exhaustion by the operations begun on on August 20th. Since the beginning of August the enemy have been obliged to withdraw 30 divisions facing the Allied army in Belgium. The enemy had altogether 42 divisions in the Flanders battle. Therefore in a single month the Allies put 40 German divisons out of action, and at present 19 others are being reduced by the same methods.