ANOTHER HALF MILLION WANTED

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 13, 15 January 1918, Page 5

ANOTHER HALF MILLION WANTED

BUTCHERY IN BLACK SEA FLEET THAW ON NEW ZEALAND FRONT

Britain has immediate need of an additional 420,000 men for the Arrriy, according to reports received via New York.

Russia's role as a fighting power is over, says Sir George Buchanan (British Ambassador to Petrograd), who has reached Stockholm on his way to London. There is no likelihood oi any change in Russia's external policy, and there is no power in Russia strong enough to oust the Bolsheviks.

Bolshevik sailors in the Black Sea fleet rose up against their officers and massacred over sixty of them. Fighting is still proceeding at the nava] station of Mikblieff, on the' Black Sea. It is believed that a revolution is imminent in Finland. Progress has been made in the Brest Litovsk Congress, a commission of delegates having been set up to consider territorial concessions and a commercial treaty.

The French military writer M. Marcel riutin believes that General Ludendorff s dream to impose peace before the ,, Americans get to work in France is to roll up both wings of the Anglo-French front under cover of a tremendous general offensive, and descend upon Paris from all sides through the defeated and demoralised Allied armies. A neutral who has just returned from Berlin believes that the Germans will attempt a triple offensive against Verdun, Calais and Italy, the Verdun blow being the chief. He believes that failure will lead to the collapse of the German war machine.