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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 82, 6 April 1918, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Armenians have recaptured Erzeroum from the Turks. Work at the Runanga State coal mines will be resumed, on Monday. To-day is the first anniversary of the entry of America into the war. " Les _?ouveiles " states that the terror caused ia Germany by the Allied air raids is indescribable. The rain-soaked ground on the battlefront is seriously embarrassing the Germans in their movements. The prisoners taken on the Euphrates to April 2 number 5,214 Turks, including 208 officers and 18 Germans. Owing to a gap between the early and main crops of potatoes, there is a temporary shortage of them in Canterbury. The Germans on Thursday succeeded in capturing from the French three small villages in the vicinity of Moreuil, after suffering heavy losses. A motor 'bus full of passengers went over a bank on the way from Te Rapa to Hamilton. The 'bus was badly damaged, and several passengers were injured. The Germans have landed 40,000 men under General yon Sassuitz in South: iFJinland. The Rlussian revolutionaries are determined to continue the fighting. Important changes in the German High. Command are imminent. It is reported that Prince Leopold of Bavaria will command the forces operating against the French. The Press Bureau states that the German attacks on the British positions south of the Somme continue, the British _eating back many of them with' considerable loss. . A severe.storm, accompanied _y l.lin. of rain in eight hours, did much-damage in the Whakatane district on. Thursday, . night. A bridge in the Waimana Gorge was washed away. The British Shipping Controller has decided that the export of trotter from New Zealand to the United Kingdom shall cease. It is hoped that the restriction is only temporary. In the last air Taid on Coblentz 26 people were killed and hundreds injured.. In the last but one on Treves 60 were killed and hundreds injured. Enormous damage was done at both places. An elderly married man, John Paaske;' was found dead in his house at Wadestown, Wellington, yesterday. He returned recently from Christchurch, where he said he caught a severe cold. The best is always tbe cheapest. Buy your Horrockses calicoes, 12/6 dozen, and Horrockses flannelettes, 14/6 dozen, from Kelleway's, near the Barn.—(Ad.) Ladies! See latest Baden Powell models at the Manhattan Millinery Parlour, 28, Karangahape Road. — (A6_)| Strange happenings continue at Pearson's Boot Store, Karangahape Road, Newton.—(Ad.) ■ Kelleway's are selling silk ankle hose, all colours, 2/11' pair; latest ready-to-wears from 4/11; all-wool, 1/1; rib hose, 2/6 pair. Open every evening.—194, 195, 196,-Jervois Road.—(Ad.) Bread, cakes, biscuits, scones, etc., will be lighter and of better flavour if made with "Snowdrift" flour—its "different:"—(Ad.) ' : —^_——__»________■__■___«_———__»__»