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Taihape Daily Times, 6 December 1917, Page 4

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TAIHAPE SALE. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report having held their usual fortnightly sale at Taihape on Wednesday, sth instant, when a small yarding of both sheep and cattle - came to hand. There was a a fair attendance of buyers, but the demand for stock was somewhat easier. We quote as follows: Woolly Ewe Hoggets 35/, 4 th. Ewes (Shorn) with 100 cent woolly lambs at foot 37/6, Mixed ? Aged Ewes in wool 75 per cent, lambs 31. Dairy Heifers in profit £9 15s.

THE POSITION IN THE WEST. GENERAL PERSHING'S VIEW. Disloyal propaganda in tlie United . States, declaring that the Germans can* not be driven out of France, has been. greatly resented by the American' troops, according to a , correspondent of the Associated Press., He obtained , an interview with General Pershingon the subject. “German propaganda, working in America .through theagency of the pacificists would spread this idea among our people in order to weaken or initiative." said General Pershing. “Having lost its tactical advantage in the Ypres salient, which it enjoyed for more than two years, the German army continues to yield ground before the hammering British assaults. Everywhere on the western front, despite the larger number of German troops which the Russian sitUi ation has released, Germany is on the defensive and the allies on the offensive. America has the resources,', in men and material, once they are prepared to add the weight which must force a military decision against Ger>s_ many. -Our troops are imbued withi a spirit of aggressiveness, a spirit that means we are going to win this war, and that we have no idea of allowing ourselves to be influenced by pacificists or enemy propaganda. Neither have we any false notions that victory is going to be an easy matter. ’ But that only makes our determination stronger. Every man, from top to bottom, has entered this war imbued with the fighting spirit, which means, that the cause of the allies will be carried to a successful issue."