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••- * -' OM THE WESTERN FRONT.' GERMANY'S GREAT EFFORTS. 100,000 HOKS~D~E COMBAT. ("Renter's Telegrams.) Received April B, 2.25 p.m. LONDON, April 17. A semi-official message from Tari? states.:— The Germans hare massed at leasl 20' divisions and all available' batteries; on tlie Soissons-Rheims front. Our advance, reached a depth of from . three to four kilometres. Altogether the Allies have placed hors de combat 100,000 Germans in eight days. . ftRmSH~NEW.B. • THE PARLIAMENT BJLL. PASSES SECOND READING. Received April,lS, 2.40-p.m. LONDON., April 17. In the House 1 of .Commons Air John : Dillon, on behalf of the ■Nationalists, moved the rejection of the Parliament Bill (to extend the life of Parliament): Rt. Boh. A. Bonar Law, .replying, said he hoped to be able to announce the Government's- intentions regarding Home Rule next week. The Bill passed its second reading by. 286 votes to 52. ; _
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Mataura Ensign, 18 April 1917, Page 2
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