ECONOMISING MAN-POWER.
DEFENCE OF FIRST UXF.Fj TOE NEW REGENT OF POLAND Pans. -Tun. 21. Tim Pctrograd correspondent of Hi? Ttmps states that the Germans arc tcsortinsr to ingenious methods of reducing tlio troops holdinsr the front lines. Ihe trenches are no longer continuou?.. tut there are powerful redoubts, fort* f!id blockhouses thickly encircled with wire constructed at intervals. Between llie trenches the. wire is bo thick thp.t it resists ordinary clippers. These meaj si.res dispense with supporting reserves nearer tlmn two miles from the front. The Journal says (list repatriated officers state that Germany's stock of wolfram is exhausted and that a priye of 100,000 marks (£.VWr was offers to the provider of a substitute. fWolfram or tungsten is a rare metal v;hich is used as an alloy with steel or nickel in armor plates and shells.] The Zurich eorvcMiondeiit of tlio fi.-ho de Paris statis that Prince Adnm Tzartoryski has arrived in Warsaw to assume (he Regency of Poland.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 January 1917, Page 5
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160ECONOMISING MAN-POWER. Taranaki Daily News, 23 January 1917, Page 5
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