TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 156, 2 July 1917, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Ferdinand of Bulgaria is apprehensive of Greece's active hostility. His Excellency Lord Liverpool has been made a Privy Councillor. Lieut.-General Kir E. AUenby has been appointed to the Command in" Egypt. A proposal is before the House of .Representatives to increase the old ago pensions. A married woman named -Barbara UleMullan, aged 55, committed suicide in Dunedin yesterday. —The city recruiting station in Victoria Street i.s being moved to-day to a site in Kitchener street. The South African House of Assembly has voted a gift of £1,000,000 to thi Imperial Government. A single man. named David Stafford, (2S), was drowned in the Auckland Harbour on Saturday night. Xue French cruiser Kleber, of 7,700 tons, lias been sunk by a mine off Brest, with the loss of 38 lives. Spain i≤ definitely and rapidly taking a stand for tlic Entente. The'army ij strongly against the Hune. . The Germans are evacuating the Belgian coast as far as Ostend, fearing annihilation by the British bombardment. .Mr. Edmund Bell, who for many years followed the profession of an architect in Auckland, died yesterday at the a"c of 70. 'Hie Germans arc reported to have lost nearly 40 torpr-do-boats and submarines in the recent actions with the British naval forcps. 'J he whole German Press has suddenly been muzzled, and it is believed that some dramatic event is impending at the opening of the Reichstag next week. The Greek Ministers in the capitals nr the Central Powers have been recalled. M. Yenizelos declares that the place of Greece is beside "the democratic Powers."' A number of enemy attacks are reported from flic Aisne front. part=cular!y in the neighbourhood of Cerny. where the Germans were repulsed with heavy loss. ' A powerful German attack, made with special storming troops, has been repulsed by the French near Verdun, the artillery doing much to render it futile. There have been several encounters with large formations of enemy aircraft on the western front, ten German machines being brought down at the cost of one British. Five hundred troops, with machine pins, have been sent to keep order at the hast Clare by-election, which has been rendered necessary by the death of Major W. A. Redmond. A special meeting of the Hospital Board was held this morning to consider what steps should be taken to provide accommodation for the increase in the number of diphtheria patients. It is regarded as certain in Home that the Russians will undertake a great offensive from Biga to the Black Sea. Heavy artillery fighting is already reported south of the Pripet. ' Mr B. W. Rowllings, secretary to Messrs Campbell, Ehrenfried and Co., who is retiring through ill- health, after 26 years' service, -was presented with an illuminated address on Saturday evening. In a speech at Dundee Mr. Lloyd George derided the "rabbit tactics" "of the German army, and declared that the virtue of humility was being taught to tin- Germans with a fierce and relentiess lash. fSir Douglas Haig reports an advance of over a, mile on a front on four miles in the neighbourhood of Lens and the capture of a series of strongly organised trench systems. SLnse this further trenches have been taken in the same neighbourhood. The quarrel between the Russian Provisional Government and the extremists is said to be tending to strengthen the bonds between the Government and the great mass of the people, but there is stated to be much uneasiness over the attitude of l-'injand and the distant provinces.