SECOND EDITION. MORE THAN MONDAYISH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1234, 1 May 1918, Page 5

SECOND EDITION. MORE THAN MONDAYISH.

A BAD DAY FOR lIIXDENBURG. Received May 1, 2.10 p.m. LONDON, April 30, 4.30 p.m. The United Press correspondent state* that yesterday was one of Hindenburgs worst days since the commencement of the '.illen.sivi , the French with magnificent dash recovering the whole of Lucre and the Loere Hospice eastward of Mont Rouge, putting the enemy into a nasty pocket at the cross roads, know'm as Hyde Park corner. It is doubtful if the Germans still hold the cross roads. \on Marschull’s attempt against ifio Belgians, astride the Vpre.s-Staden railway yesterday pushed in some outposts, but vya-t ti;waited on the main line in the vicinity of the canal. The British twenty-fifth, forty-ninth amf jwenty-first divisions, further south, r> puh'd ten attacks, tin' twenty-fifth alone .-mashing tlnee by 10 o’clock and four by noon. 'I he French stopped approximately ttic .-.amt* number. AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE DELAYED. WEATHER RENDERS ROADS JM PASSABLE. Received .May 1, 2.40 pan. WASHINGTON, April 30. An official message from Rome states that adverse weather delayed the threatened Austrian offensive against Italy, ihe roads in Trentino are impassable owing in heavy snow, and the Riave and other rivers are flooded.

PRESIDENT WILSON’S POWERS-. AUSTRIA’S WORST FAMINE. Rci i-ivi d Mav 1. 2.40 p.m WASHINGTON. April 30. The Senate Jia.s passed the Overman Bill, introduced on February 7th. giving the president full powers to create a. War Council and co-ordinate and re-‘organise the various State Department.'. According to official advices from Berne, tiu- Austrian Government is upiiealing for the. conservation of.food, as the, country is farina the worst famine since the war began. MORAL OFFENSIVE. ATTEMPT TO SOW DISSENT lON. LONDON, April 20. Some time before the German olfenkivo started several of us were told by the authorities that a German attack was expected about: tin date when it actually started, that it would consist of at least tlnee drives, —a heavy one at t'ambrai. a hssei one at. Armentieres, and a third great attack at a. certain other point. The object of the Germans was then deli-

nitely stated to be to pin down the British Army by heavy blows, in order to render ifc unable to help the French, and thus split tho British ami the French peoples and govern-mcni-s. It was also plainly stated that the Germans hoped more from the moral spirit; than from the physical. The Germans, of coins.', arc trying every means they can think of to create such a. split at me present moment. After easting two-thiros' of hi.- whole* strength against the British he is proclaiming to tin French, through his wireless, and by war correspondents, that the British are unable to fight, that they are losing French territory, ami so. forth. .Meanwhile, a deliberate part of this plan consists of bombarding Paris, with a longrange gun, and a creation of all possible disturbance and anxiety amongst the French inhabitants along the whole front This policy docs not leave a stone unturned in order to create dissention with the simple view of defeating us. as they defeated the Russians, and as part of it tho Gorman is now again trying to sow dissention between Britain and the Dominions.

A German war correspondent has been instructed to proclaim that Britain, as tisuaJ, is placing colonial troops in the hardest and most ciitiicuit positions. Of course this ponderous sympathy is handed out to us with the sole object of delivering us a crashing blow on tin head if we fell into the trap, but it is worth while stating frankly what the truth is as to the employment of Dominion troops during the present battle. Su far from placing the Dominioii troops pi r£ie most dangerous parts of the line, llaig, though he know where the attacks wt re coming, had only Kitglish, Scottish, and Irish troops there. One is inclined to believe that this was done deliberately from a sort of pride, for tile same reason which caused only troops .an ih( British Isles to he employed in the opening Mages of the battles on the Somme and at Ypn-. Xo Australian, Canadian. or New Zealand troops were involved in i,hat first tremendous bombardment and

massed assault. (In tin sixth day of the battle the Australian divisions began to be thrown in as an important pan ' of tho British reserves in tho southern battle also, since when they bad shown, especially at Albert and \ ille.'sBretormeux, that they are such stuff as can do what the 3rd British Division and the 56th Division at Arras, the 55th Division at C.ivenchv, and the 9rh Division did beyond IVrontte'. and were a second time throvvn into ii drspnaie counter-attack on the o*ci

batik field of Mesdnos. Tl„ Australian noons far prefer to, be eh ,d. as tiny an - classed. Mill divisions width madt three glorious stands than ;„ c „pi double t dg. d c - «mn!mu-ms which tlie German throws them with a view to then own niin.