THE WAR OUTLOOK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 156, 2 July 1917, Page 6

THE WAR OUTLOOK.

FAILURE OF SUBMARINES. I THEY CANNOT STARVE TJS. LONDON. Juno 20. When receiving the freoilom of ■ Olaegow Mr. Lloyd George said that; alter carefully reckoning tlie possibilities. ■ the Government hail come to the eom-lu- ! eion. upon the boat advice, that the submarines cannot starve us. nor drive oar armies out of th<' fields abroad. Our losses in May and .lime, although heavy, were 100,000* tone beneath the Admiralty forecast. Arrangemonte hsui been made for frustrating and destroying subniariiifs. and he ha.i no hesitation in paying that if we all do our part submarine* will be ac great a failure as Zeppelins. "You may he driven to eat | less wheat and more barley and oaUs." he I added. "We are running the war on our .stock of energy drawn from that fowl.' Alluding to -Mesopotamia, he (-aid: "What happened in Mesopotamia niuet be left to the Pea-ec Congress. Jt eonld never be restored by the blasting tyranny of the Turk. The same observation applied to Armenia." Regarding the fate of the Herman colonies, lie said: "Their people's desires and wishes must be the dominant fai'tor. The untutored peoples of the world ■would prtfbably want rentier hands than (lermanß to rule over them. Is then , any desire by Germany to settle on those essential ternw? The Austrian Premier repudiated the principle that nations must control their own destinies, but unless this principle is effected, not only will them be 1:0 peaeo. but. if we had pence, them would be no guarantee of a continuance. IVaee framed on an equitable basis would not be broken by the | nations' abiding peace, but guaranteed by the destruction of JYussian military power."'—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) FIERCE GERMAN ATTACK. ON THE FRENCH FRONT. LONDON", June 20. A French communique states: "The p.nemy were active last night on the Aisne front" following up «■ violent bombardment by the liveliest attacks in the region of Corny, south-east of (or.liny and northeast, of Rheims. All their attempts to shatter our positions failed. Th" struggle was particularly lively in the region of Corny, where the enemy ati tacked several times at two different 1 points. They pained a footing in our I lirst line north-east of Corny, but an energetic counter-attack drove them out. 1 Then: wan an intense artillery duel on j the left bank of the Meuae in the region of Avocourt, and at the foot of Hill 304. j After a. violent bombardment the GerniailS lust night powerfully attacked with special storming troops on a front j of two kilometres west of 30-4. Our j lire .lieorganieed -the which brvured a footing at some points in our lirst line. Another enemy attempt east of Hill 304 this morning 'was completely repulsed.— (A. ami N.Z. ami Renter.) FATHER CROTTTS APPEAL GERMAN PLAN FAIXS. LONDON', .Tune 2:'. Professor Delmer. i:i all article in the '•Times," gives interesting details of the German propaganda to enlist foreigners. This was not practised at the beginning lot the war, hui wsik widely adopted when the war uas not finished at I'hrisUna*. Kill, as had been expected. Literature and lecturera were H ent to t!ie British. Fremdi. ami Russian and every devious method adopted to seduce prisoners into naturalisation and Held (grey. There was little succe.-w. Particu hir" attention was devoted to the Irish prisoner?, whom it in.< believed were. lloger (.tonement was the principal tool, but the liermnns even asked a priest. Father C'rottv. to (speak to wuverers at Linubnrjr. "Faith. J I will!" replied the priest. There was 11 dramatic M-cnc —the Irish soldiers in the rough camp chapel, the veatmented priest at the :iltar. and a uniformed Herman officer standing by like MephiMo waiting for the prie<t to urge the men to betray their honour. -Men of (Jalway, Clare, and Connaught, the Herman I'jnporor wants you to light on lii-s side. I've been a.*ked" to iurge you to do this, but I've not been ji-ent to tiilk the polities of. or be a projcurer to. any king or kaiser, but to tell you, in the name of G<nl and llolv Ohiireh. what is (rood and rifrht. A.s ii priest of (rod I tell you to kee,p the (Kith you have taken to Iμ- loyal U> your King."' The <;ernmn ollioer" looked oti helplese. not daring to interrupt a prinst in hU holy odir-e. Hut the Irish prisoners were Kuhdeqiiently subjocted I to every indignity and privation. DISHONOURABLE WOUNDS. WHIPPING FRITZ TO BATTLE. LONDON, -Tune 22. "'l.c Matins" correspondent at British Headquarters slates that a number of German corpses werr fo<uid at ]\l'**inee bearing dishonourable wounds. Prisoners explained that mar.hine-gune %vere repeatedly used to whip up the waning epiritfi of the German parties. Fourteen (German divisions were e.ngage.d, and nine of them took )>art in the counter-attacks. Four completely exhausted. They were precipitately withdrawn, and replaced with freah troops recently brought from the Russia front. OVER BIRDWOOD'S HEAD. ELEVATION OF JUNIORS. LONDON, June 24. The general Australian disappointment eoiieeniing the War Office's consistent overlooking of Ceneral Birdvood'.•H'rviivs has broken out in the form of comments in ''TruUi.' , The journal states that the pro-motion of juniors, including Ceneral Allenby, over General Hirdwood'.s head oilcndti jiubltc o]»aion, *w[je<."sally its tJencral Birdwood's respoitsibilitios are groat and wide, because Australians arc lighting in General (rough's ti-ml General Plumer'a armies as well as in Palestine. BILLIARDIST INMAN TX>N T T)ON, June 23. Melbourne larnspi, bilTiard champion of the world, has appealed against military servite. The chairman of the Board, in adjourning the, case for further mediral evidence as to Ininan's physical litness, said. " IVin't talk to mo oi international champions."