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Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 73, 17 September 1917, Page 3

Mr McClure, correspondent of the Times, describing the fighting round Gorizia, says: The enemy losses are appalling. The capture of 122 officers during the past two days reveals the extent of the Italian successes. Under the Austrian system the majority of the officers do not participate in the fighting, but remain in caverns and "funk-holes" at the rear, where they are now being dug, out in batches after the line is broken. In the C'arso fighting the Austrians were repeatedly broken, suffering the bloodiest losses. The trendies were filled with long swathes of dead. The Grey-mouth Star states that a local electrician has designed a carburettor to operate motor-car engines on common kerosene in place of petrol. He has been at work on the idea for four years, and- the tests have been so satisfactory that he has decided to give a demonstration. The great advantage claimed is that it is always ready to start, no primary heating apparatus being required. The idea is being protected by letters patent. The strength of the rival parties in Russia is obscure. There is a prevalent belief in London that a rigid censorship is hiding the most momentous and gravest events. Jt is believed that General Korniloff's challenge of M. Kerensky's authority is backed by the Kaledin, Cossack, cadet and monarchist parties. Korniloff's hold upon the other troops is an unknown quantity. Korniloff is not expected -to accept a compromise, believing that after the failure of his Moscow warnings a most stringent dictatorship is the only hope of stopping the rot and restoring Russia as a military afly. A Dannevirke resident has received a copy of the Strand- News and Gloucester County Advertiser containing a report of a police court case in which two small "boys were summoned' for wasting one pound of bread made of Mieaten meal. Evidence was given that the bread was found in a shed, and a policeman said Ihat the boys made a statement to the effect that their parents would' not give them any dinner, and they had taken some bread and margarine. It was evident that they had hidden what they did not want at the time. The boys were fined 5s each. The incident shows how seriously the matter of food is regarded in England. The Corriere deJla Sera publishes an inspired appeal to the Allies' to allow the intervention of the Japanese army. It says it is incredible that the Entente Powers should postpone supreme battles in order to allow the United States to transform a commercial population into soldiers, whereas the Entente Powers have for three years refused to use Japanese. The same ships which convey the Americans to Europe might transport the Japanese, but a speedier victory would be won and innumerable ;lives would be saved. Not a single responsible allied statesman lias had the insight to urge a straightforward bid for Japan's intervention. At a poultry «alc held in Hawkcs Bay recently over !>OO, birds wcro sold by auction, the average realised being 10s 6d a head l —surely a record average for such a large bunch of birds* I