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Taranaki Daily News, 26 March 1917, Page 5

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A PAGE OF GLORY. KAISER'S BLUFF ON WESTERN DEFEATS. MESSAGE TO HIXDENBCRG. A. & N.2. Cable Association and Reuter. Received March 25, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, March 24. German Official.—The Kaiser has sent a letter to the King of Bavaria, in which ' lie says:—"Wo owe the brilliant carrying out of our great army movement on the Western front, firstly, to the successful action of your son, Prince Rupprecht, whose performance deserves the highest appreciation. Historically, it ■will be a page of glory, and it is my extraordinary joy to inform you thereof." Berlin, March 24. Official.—(The Kaiser, in a message to Fie'd Marshal von Hindenbiirg, says:— "The movementsat the front in France are most important for the genera! situation on our Western front. Yon and General Ludendorf decided on the measure) thui creating a new base for further warfare." THE FOOD SHORTAGE BITTER DEBATE IX REICHSTAG. WORKERS COLLAPSING FROM HUXGER, Received March 25, 11.50 p.m. Amsterdam, March 25. A bitter debate took place in the Reichstag on the food question. Herr Kunert denounced the Ka.*ser and Herr H'ollweg as the originators of the war, and declared he would be delighted if the same progress was made in Germany «s hid lately been made in Russia. Herr Koch complained of the terrible underfeeding of jthe population. HerrDittman declared that the Government was well aware the workmen were collapsing from hunger. CGRMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. SUCCESSES CLAIMED. Admiralty, per Wireless Press, i Received March 25, 5.5 p.m. London, March 24. A German official report, states:—On both aides of the Somme and Oise the ' enemy is feeling his way forward hesitatingly, frequently entrenching, and being seriously hampered by our measurc3. We repulsed the French westward of ' Lafere, on the Ailette plain, Neuvillc, and Marginal. , We stormed and took Russian positions between the Solyomtar and Czobemos valleys. ' THE FOOD OUTLOOK. ' Borne. March 23. Herr Helffrich, German Minister of Finance, privately told Ministerialists that the 1917 harvest would be very bad, but she war would be decided before August. Amsterdam, March 23. i Owing to a recent statement in the Prussian Diet that grain stacks are less than generally believed, it is announced that the Prussian bread ration will be reduced from April 15 by 25 per cent, GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. London, March 23. , 'A German official dispatch states: We drove back the French, who had crossed the Somme and the Crozat Canal, with sanguinary losses. We repulsed strong French attacks west and south of Mnrgival. Our airships bombed successfully English establishments near Kudros.