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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 300, 17 December 1917, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

.... . > ' An inter-Allied Council in war purchases bae been finally established. The Brtish line was further extended north-east of Jerusalem on Thursday. Mr. H. Holland will be the Labour candidate for Wellington North seat. The Court reserved decision in the Waikato Hospital Board election inquiry. The amount of advances to soldier settlers to • date for improvements and stock totals £153,773. The most urgent part of the problem. of victory 'is now the problem of tonnage, declares Mr. Lloyd George. German archives discovered in New Zealand will be sealed and handed over to the Public Trustee till after the war. An Allied Naval Council has been created to watch the general conduct of i naval, war and ensure co-ordinated effort. A naval petty officer named Sandal la was drowned in Wellington Harbour yesterday ac the result of a boat capsizing. ; Discussing- air reprisals the . British Premier said: "If the enemy so elect it will be an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." • ■& "■•"' An historical service in commemoration of the deeds of the gallant First Seven Divisions was held in London yesterday. The Bolshevik News Agency announces overwhelming pro-Maximalist majorities from-the Twelfth and Nfth Armies and from Finland.. The "Deutsche Zeitung" says that Lenin has ordered evacuation of territory east of the Riga front to within 125 miles of Petrograd. ' '' Germans assert that they will impose such peace conditions on Serbia and Rumania as will make them the economic vassals of Germany. ' '. ' .' • Mrs. Mary Ross, an Onehungf. resident, received a bad shaking by a fall froni a tram at Onehunga last night, and was sent to the hospital. The French Premier is retiring all generals whose bodily vigour is unequal to the. war strain, even if they have not reached.the age limit. ''.'"" The headmaster of the Gore School, Mr. Jonathan Golding, dropped dead in a. motor garage on Saturday afternoon. He had just driven from Gore to Invercargill.' French, authorities assert that the U-. boat crews are riot so enterprising as those which initiated the pirate campaign and that they are supplied with inferior munitions. The court martial to inquire into the escape of German prisoners from Motuihi will consist .of Colonels C. R. Macdonald (president), R; Neave, and R. W. Cumming. ' • In the first year Britain increased her . home food production 'by between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 tons, and is the only belligerent that has increased her food output during the war. A captured secret German order shows ' that the number of gun's'lost' in a month by a single German army, is" 870 field gape " • and 585 heavy-guns,-.-of which: 800 are knocked out by..tbe Allied artillery. Mr. Lloyd George expressed confidence , that .the. Allies; are making steady pro--1 grees but further !" drain in man power is necessary to carry. on until tbfe American army arrives. ' The Italians are fighting doggedly in the hope of keeping the Germans out of the Piave Plain until after the winter. Success in - this would mean that all the enemy's recent sacrifices were in vtfin., . : , . . - • ; - : ■ ' ■