TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 51, 28 February 1918, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Wellington North by-election poll to* day. The " Times " predicts immediate and drastic Japanese action in Russia. The Brazilian Government is arranging to supply millions of tons of timber to the Allies. A Constantinople message states that the Turks have entered Trebizond, on. the Black Sea. Germany has definitely refused Russia an armistice, and the advance on Petrograd continues. A Sinn Fein mot) stoned American bluejackets in Cork. County Clare has been placed under martial law. The Executive Council has decided that the death sentence on Eggers, the Bunanga murderer, shall be carried out. The French preparations for the German offensive are stated to he on a large scale, and the spirit of the troops is excellent. Air. G. N. Barnes has appealed to the workers to speed up shipbuilding, which he says is getting far behind the estimates. The military escapee, George CafTery, agailn got away from custody yesterday afternoon, when the military police took him to see his mother at Ponsonby. Fierce fighting continues between the Russians and Germans at Pskoff, which has changed hands several times. Both, sides are hurrying up reinforcementsMr. Bonar Law, in a speech, said the war loan record was excellent, and there was for discouragement. Germany could not break the Allies' lines. It appears thfet the raider .Wolf landed most of the Matunga's cargo on an uninhabited Dutch island, took the Test, and sunk the Matunga by means of a bomb. The Igotz Mendi, tender to the German raider Wolf, has been stranded on the Danish coast, with over .300 prisoners aboard. Some of the latter have been interned Lenin and Trotzky are complaining to Germany of the renewal of hostilities, and ask whether any reply will be made to the Russians' offer to accept .the proposed peace terms. Captain Hall-Thompson says that the mines found in Cook Strait were of a distinct German type, and could not have been made in New Zealand or laid by a neutral vessel. The Spanish elections 'have resulted most surprisingly in the return of Liberals and Conservatives in an overwhelming majority, the Socialists and Republicans almost disappearing. It was stated at the annual meeting of the Press- Association yesterday that arrangement' had been made to improve the delivery of Press cable messages in the Dominion and eliminate delays. The Compensation Court awarded the Auckland University College Council £17.022 for land and buildings taken in the scheme for construction of the new city outlet, together with incidental ■outlay in getting temporary premises. ' .".Almost.Gone.—The rush reaches the- > climax for the balance of that suburban boot stock at Pearson's, of -Karangauape Road, Newton.—(Ad.) Friday Shoppers.—See special one-day , offer, page 7. Open specially till 9 p.m. . Boh't -miss this.— Strand Arcade. —(Ad.) Boys' and girls' school boots. —Special , reductions during sale.—Adams' Boot . sale, now on, opp. Y.Af.CA.—(Ad.)--