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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 125, 27 May 1918, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Three men were fined £20, and one £25, for playing "tw.o:up" at Gisborna. Fire destroyed several business premises in Gore (Southland) on Sunday morning. '• . The annual conference of the Returned Soldiers' Association opened to-day, at Auckland. An absentee . from military camp named Richard Davis (24), was arrested yesterday. There were. 213 male and 14 female prisoners in Auckland gaol at the end of last week. Raiding and artillery fighting are the present features "of the. operations ou the Western front. .. . Fire at Whangarel on Saturday night destroyed the premises of Wm. Woods, boot and shoe dealer. The Central American Republic of Coeta Rica has declared war against Germany and Austria. A Maori was sentenced to a month's imprisonment at Te Awamutu for making a disloyal utterance. Mr. Lloyd George Btates that tho Nationalists were not involved in tho pro-German conspiracy in Ireland. Sir Douglas Haig reports a heavy enemy raid in the- neighbourhood of Bucquoy, nine miles north of Albert. The British Premier, in a speech at Edinburgh, painted an optimistic picture of Allied confidence on land and sea. The British Government lias decided to open immediate negotiations with Germany for an exchange of prisoners, Numerous arrests of Sinn Feinors are pending in the United States owing to their being implicated in the German plots. The Hed'az Arabs continue to harry the Turks, their exploit beini". the capture or a convoy of 300 camels attempting to enter Medina. . The Swedish Minister at' Tokyo has been expelled from Japan, together with 14 other ' ' Swedes,' for committing breaches of neutrality. The Cork packet' Inniscarra was sunk by a submarine, only five out of 42 on board being 6aved. Al4 American destroyer sank the submarine. A conference o.f Ukrainian peasants decided to organise an army to. defend thi. revolution and oppose the dictatorial Government and the Germans. W.hen ordered to France a German division at Dvinsk revolted, and as a, result 60 were shot, while over 1009 others are awaiting court-martial. Among the most revolting evidence of Sinn Fein concert with Germany is the proof published of their support of the atrocious submarine campaign against shipping. Thirteen German sailors were shot and two sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for attempted treason in connection with the British. naval raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend. An Italian professor has discovered a, new treatment of tuberculosis by saccharine solutions, which he declares arrests the' disease and restores the patient's organic force. Allied air superiority is being utilised to the full in strafing the enemy with ■bombs: About 20 tons of tombs v/ere dropped on German billets, factories, and railways on Thursday. A fairly, comprehensive statement lias been issued revealing the extent to which the Irish Sinn Feiners and their supporters were prepared to go to assist the enemies,of humanity. Washington has received advice that the Austrians have been inoculating Italian and Serbian prisoners with tuberculosis and other deadly diseases, and 1 then sending them to their homes. The fiendish bombing of hospital huts has caused a "wave of intense indignation throughout Britain, and voices have again been raised for the punishment of the Kaiser and his creatures for the outrages perpetrated. Mrs Russell is making a special display of smart millinery for the races. Queen Street, next Princess Theatre.— (Ad.; Mr. Frank Varley, oi Melbourne, lectures upon "Work Among Soldiers in Europe," Tabernacle, to-night.— (Ad.) "Snowdrift" flour, the flour that's difx. ferent, is the ideal "home" flour. Those who try it are surprised at the difference in their baking.-^(Ad.)