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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1918, Page 1

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A Zeppelin . raid is in progress over Yorkshire. A draft of 200 men will leave far the CI camp to-night. America is to draft another 800,000 men to the colours. A violent artillery duel is in progress in the Champagne and the Woevre. Dutch vessels on the Rhine are beine recalled, leet they .he seized by the Germans. Three transports, carrying 2301 invalid Boldiers and nurses, are expected at Auckland to-morrow. . The air raid on London on March 7 killed 9 men, 8 women, and 3 children, V and injured 43 people. ■:' The military authorities in Ireland have been given extended powers ot arrest in order to quell disturbances. It is thought that if the Otira tunnel strike is not coon settled many of the men will take employment elsewhere. It was stated that the Wairuna was captured off the Kermadecs, where the raider was lying close inshore refitting. The Taider Wolf worked the Wairuna for sixteen days, taking from her 1200 tons of coal and provisions and 42 sheep. Incendiarism is suspected in connection with 'the -destruction by fire of a Methodist church at Manakau, Wellington. The Japanese Premier stated in the Diet that no decision had yet been reached regarding the dispatch of troopa to Siberia. Three men, named Rowan, McGrael, and Egan, have 'been committed for trial on charges of assaulting two clergymen at Feilding. John Robertson has been committed for trial oh a charge of murdering Peter Larsen in a bush camp at Karioi on February 24: The Defence Department has declined to part with a portion of the fort reserve at Narrow Neck as a site for an open-air school. A panic at the entrance to a raid shelter on the underground railway in Paris on Monday night Tesulted in C 6 people being suffocated, and trampled to death. . A Military Revolutionary Committee has been formed in-Petrograd, "with M*. Trotzky as President. Anathema against the Bolsheviks iwas' read in all thechurches. The official correspondent in Palestine states that stern fighting in mountainom country between Jerusalem and Nablue has given Sir Edmund Allenby's army; another splendid victory.