TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 159, 5 July 1917, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

_ireei of tbe enemy planes which raided Harwich were brought to earth.

There has been a marked increase of German aerial activity ou the West front.

Fourteen enemy aircraft bombed liar- 1 wich, but were driven off before penetrating inland. Sir Herbert Becrbohm Tree, tha famous actor-manager, lias died suddenly at the age of 67. The Russian army is advancing on ai twenty-mile front, and the enemy is preparing to abandon Brzezany. The Russian Government has suggested a conference of the Allied Powers to reconsider the conditional terms of peace. The Austrian front has been definitely broken, and Brussiloff has warned his whole army to be prepared for an advance. Sir Joseph Ward suggests that a, special military medal or bar should be awarded to soldiers who took part in the Gallipoli expedition.

A woman named Jessie Armstrong (51) was arrested last night art Auckland on a charge of unlawfully using an instrument on a- ycung woman.

The high command on the northern Russian front is calling upon the troops for a general offensive in support of tho operations in the southern sector.

A Norwegian named Alfred Hagn lias been arrested in London, and will be tried by court-martial on charges of espionage on behalf of the enemy.

The final classification of tbe Second Division of military reservists has been gazetted, exemption being granted according to age and number of family.

The Chinese residents of Auckland have raised the sum of £116 S/, and Landed it over for div ; sion equally between the Red Cross ; id the Auckland Hospital funds.

Lord Hardinge, ex-Viceroy of India, has made a reply in the House of Lords to the Commission's criticisms of his share in the management of the Mcsopotamian campaign.

A German assault on the French lines near Avocourt Wood was completely broken by artillery fire, which destroyed the attacking waves before they could reach the front trench.

The Russian advance in Galicia i 3 being successfully continued, and a. further 6,300 prisoners have been captured. It is stated that General Brussiloff is making for Lemberg.

Armed anarchists attacked a prison at Petrograd, and released some prisoners. The conspirators, however, were surrounded by a body of Cossacks, and arrested without bloodshed.

The Prime Minister intimated in Parliament yesterday that he purposed asking a special committee to inquire f.nd report on alleged operations of the American meat trust in New Zealand. Constable Win. Sefton, late of Kaitaia, died in hospital at Auckland this week, after an operation for an internal complaint, and was accorded a police funeral yesterday, when the burial took place at Purewa cemetery. Scenes of great enthusiasm have been witnessed in Petrograd, following the announcement of the Galician advance, and a wave of patriotism has transformed the city, banishing the pessimism that was previously apparent. Eight firemen of a collier in Wellington were charged yesterday with having been parties to a seditious strike, the case arising out of delay in coaling aii overseas ship. The case for the defence will be heard next Monday. New German offensive tactics on the Aisne front are proving very wasteful of life. Artillery is used to destroy the French trenches, which the Germans are afterwards unable to hold against artillery fire and infantry counterattacks.