GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1916, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

NOTES FROM THE TIMES.

"THE ALLIES WILL WIN." Received March 20, .":.; p.m. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, March 25. M. Venizelos, in a letter to a friend in London, says: "I am absolutely convinced that the Allies will finally win. I hope that those governing us will learn wisdom, even at the last minute. Let us pray that they will not then be too late." THE MOVE IN RUSSIA. The Times' correspondent at Petrograd reports that the military authorities consider. Russia's movement was independently conceived rather than as a demonstration to distract, the enemy from the Western front. GERMAN DEFENCES CRUMBLE. The Daily Mail correspondent at Petrograd says that the Germans have reverted to their old trick. When they suffered a reverse they stressed the heavy Russian losses near Dvinsk. He has good grounds for stating that the Russian casualties were by no means heavy. The faljt that in many places the Russians drove the Germans out of the trenches and occupied strongly fortified points gives the best possible grounds for confidence in the future. All the art of the German engineers was devoted during the winter to make the front impregnable with wired defences, concrete parapifts, and armored blockhouses, ingeniously laid mines, reservoirs of poison gas, and numberless ma-chine-guns. Yet at the first determined onslaught the whole elaborate system of defence crumbled. . i