TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 169, 17 July 1916, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

In twenty-four hours the British took 2,000 prisoners. S.s. Westralia, from the south, leaves for Sydney this afternoon. The fortifying of Transylvania is being' T hurried on by the Hungarians. A. transport arrived at Dunedin yesterday with 132 invalided soldiers. The total number of prisoners now in ■ the hands of the British is 10,000. [ The German third line has been pene- : trated at Faurex Wood by the British. ■ Rumania's King has been conferring i With the representatives of the Entente l Powers. 1 An American collier, which was on the ; way to Domingo, broke in halves, and some of the crew were lost. , So effective have been the methods of the Arabs who are in revolt that there ; is not a trace of a Turk in Mecca. A fleet of very fast battle-cruisers for j the reconstructed American Xavy is adi vocated by Rear-Admiral Peary. L It is said that the Kaiser is huniyiiig from one front to another, the Boyal i train being continually on the move. The locale of the present British attack j in Prance is described by the French as the pivot of the German battle-front. The return football match Grammar ; School v. King's College on Saturdar j was won by the former by 9 points to 8. British cavalry has been in action to I the northward of Bazentin l c Grand, this being the first time they have Wn used ; since 1914. . . A torrential downpour of rain In the ; .North Auckland country on Saturday . was followed by extensive floods in the : Ivaihu Valley. — There is said to be no chance of a I repetition this year of the mishaps which ' ' marked the British advances at Looa and Neuve Chapelle. : The Deutschland, tho German submarine that, went across the Atlantic, . has been pronounced a sivrchantman by ; the U.S.A. authorities. ; Very extensive'damage was cansed by •an outbreak of fire at Government House, Auckland, on Saturday night, the loss oemg estimated at £4,000. So many members of Parliament have suffered recently from influenza that the [ authorities had the parliamentary - 1 chamber fumigated on Saturday. . At one point the British have forced i the enemy back to his third system of defence, more than four miles to the rear of his original front trenches at Fncourt and Mametz. As the British advance continues it will be more difficult for the Germans to prepare tire underground emplacements " tor machine guns, which have been so useful in covering the German retreat. dZ? n c£-Y\ AUen J 42 >> a labourer, died at Chriatchurch on Saturday afternoon, having been taken to the hospital suffering from injuries resulting on his .having been knocked down by a blow from a - soldier. Children and infante are fond oi Bycrofts ideal milk arrowroot biecuite and thrive on them. Scores of testi--momals. Ask for Bycroft's; all grocera. ' (Aα.)