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NOTES FROM THE TIMES. QUESTIONS IX PARLIAMENT. Times ani Sydney Sua Service*, London, March 2. In the House of Commons, Sir A. B. Markham asked whether there were 117 generals now in Egypt, Mr. Tennant replied that very large forces were in Egypt, and it was conceivable that 117 generals were necessary. Mr. Tennant, in reply to a question, said that 835 officers and 521 civilians arc awaiting admission to the Flying Corps. A SOULLESS ENEMY. Amsterdam reports state that the Germans clear the battlefields with a masterly, thorough, and soulless efficiency, heaping the dead in cattle trucks and sending them to blast furnaces in northerly and easterly directions. - THE WOEVRE ATTACK. General Verrauxin,' who was at Woevre, says that probably Verdun is only a diversion, but we have not weakened the line elsewhere. The offensive at Woevre was unimportant, as ' the enemy was unlikely to attempt large movements in these soaked marshes. GERMAN RATE OF EXCHANGE. London, March 2. Despite the German claims of success at Verdun the rate of exheange for the mark continues to decline.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1916, Page 5
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