BIG BATTLES IMPENDING

Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1917, Page 5

BIG BATTLES IMPENDING

ON WESTERN FRONT % GREATEST EVENT SINCE THE MARNE GERMAN ARMY IN MEXICO PLOT TO WIN MEXICO AND FICHT AMERICA

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ENTHUSIASTIC ARMY DEPUTATION. POONTRY CAK RELY. ON ITS DEFENDERS. SPPIGST FOE TO BE CONQUERED. Received jwarch 27, 5.5 p.m. < Petrograd, Match 2®. An excellent sign o& the times is tlie arrival of enthusiastic deputations with mMßaget from the trenches, assuring the country' that it can rely on, its defender*. One message said:—"The new r, most not Be stamped with treachYou have defeated the internal jmemy. Let us conquer the foreign foe." [A portion of the above message is giitted. owing to its being to mutilated transmission as to be unintelligible.] SETTLING DOWN PROCESS. Paris, March 26. The Petrograd correspondent of Le Petit Patisien had an interview with M. Keren ski, who skid the situation was still serious, but has passed the crisis. Women's suffrage would not be introduced for the election of the Constituent Asttmbly, owing to insufficiency of time to effect the reform.' Petrograd,. March 26. The Government appointed decommission to inquire into the offences of former Miniiiers and civil and military officials. A movement has been begun by the Russian Church leaders and a committee of liberal priests to organise reforms. Barnabas, an ignorant gardener, , Who was appointed Bishop of Tobolski Rasputin, has already been deposed. JBANSFER OF CIVIL AND* MILITARY POWER. Rome, March 26. , Adviaes from Petrograd state that the transfer of executive powers and military commands proceeds without consist. No member of the Imperial family jrill hold a position in the army or civil Idministration. JJERMAN ATTACKS DISPERSED. ■ ; London, March 26. 'A Rnssian official message states:— 'A German advance in the region of JPost&vy, following four gas waves, was , thrown back. Germans, dressed in white ' overalls, attacked eastward of Baranovitch but were dispersed. We occupied fortifications at Kalaichanin, in the direction of Kanykin. The Turks are maintaining themselves on heights near Afiattaga. PURSUIT OF THE TURKS. [ London, March ?fX Russian communique states .i the Russians pursuing the Turks have ' Entered the vilayet of Mosul. j [Mosul is more than 200 miles further fp the Tigris than Bagdad. The vilaet has an area of 35)000 square miles.] GREECE. A USELESS PROTEST. j Athens, March 28. The Gjreek Government has protested Against the Italian occupation of the ya&xiina district. THE SUBMARINE J CAMPAIGN. I , w ! THE HEALDTON'S END. Washington, March 26. Consul JCrogh, at Rotterdam, -reports that the Healdton was following the ' Gentian safety lane when she was torpedoed. Some of the crew were burned to death in'the vessel. Others were frozen to death through being exposed for jhours ip Weather below zero.

THE BARROW STRIKE CONTINUES. STATEMENT BY MR. BONAR LAW Reuter Service. Received March 27, 8.55 p.m. London, March 26. According to a statement made by Mr. Bonar law in the House of Commons, the strike at Barrow is not over <. but the offer still remains open. He added that the Government viewed the interruption of the production of munitions with the utmost gravity. A stoppage of work, when other methods of settlement were open, could not be too strongly deprecated. GIFT AERQPLANES. OVERSEAS CONTRIBUTIONS. i Reuter Service. Received March 27. 5.20 p.m. London, March 26. British subjects in the IJljtch East Indies have sent £3815 to the Overseas Club towards the purchase of two aeroplanes. Overseas residents have now paid for 95 units of the Imperial aircraft flotilla formed by the Overseas Club. INVASION RUMORS DISPELLED. London, March 26. The invasion rumors current in London and the provinces for the past 48 hours were dispelled by Mr. Bonar Law in a statement in the House of Commons, in which he said that he was unable to find any foundation for them. WAR PRISONERS IN BRITAIN. London, March 28. In the House of Commons, Mr. Hope said that the war .prisoners in Britsh bands were 55,397 Germans, 16 Austrans, 783 Bulgarans, and 15,612 Turks. He believed that Germany held 32,500 Britisji prisoners. , * ARMY EXPENDITURE. London, Maroh 20. The immense military effort by Great Britain is strikingly illustrated *n the Army Appropriation Account for 1016, that the total net expenditure on the army was £5i48,187,548. This amount' includes: Pay, £98,157,156; supplies and clothing, £212,966,815; quartering, transport, and remounts, £96,373,107, of which the sea transport of troops cost £30,687,382, and £5,570,320 was credited to the Indian Government for the ordinary expenses of the Indian Expeditionary Forces. BELGIUM. COUNTRY DIVIDED. UNTIL THE ALLIES ARRIVE " Eeceived March 28,' 1 a.Si Amsterdam, March 27. Following a Flemish deputation, the Governor-General of Belgium has issued an order dividing the country into two administrative sections, separating Flanders from Waloon. The French-speaking part of the new frontier runs south of Ypres. to north of Liege. The order makes Brussels the capital of the Flemish part and Namur the capital of the Waloon. Other details are withheld. The official newspaper claims the order realises the long-harbored wish of the Flemish people to have a Flemish university at Ghent. Flanders Will have its own administration with the Flemish official language. The vacant professorships in the Ghent University are being filled by pro-German neutrals.