AWAITING GERMAN BLOW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16897, 9 July 1918, Page 6

AWAITING GERMAN BLOW.

ALLIED STRENGTH GROWN.

MENACE STILL TO BE MET.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 1.-15 m.) LONDON, July'B.

Mr. Philip Gibbs states:— success of the Australians must not blind us to the truth about the general situation. The enemy is still holding a powerful army against the British. All preparations are complete for a violent offensive on a large scale. Good fortune has enabled us to strengthen our defences and build up our bayonet strength 1 , to that the peril is less than it was two months ago, but the menace is still there, whatever may bo the meaning of the delay.

APPEAL FOR PROTECTION.

NORTH. RUSSIAN PEOPLE.

GERMAN ADVANCE FEARED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed 1.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 8.

Official advices from Paris say that the population of the Murman and White Sea coasts have petitioned the British, French and American Consuls aj Archangel for protection against Germany and tho Bolsheviks.

RISING IN NEW GUINEA.

ARMED FORCE DESPATCHED

Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. (Reed. 1.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 8.

The natives in the Mambave division of Papua, closo to tlio, border of what was formerly German New Guinea, have given trouble for some time past. Efforts to quieten tho tribe having been unsuccessful, a further body of armed native constabulary has been despatched to tho sceno of the uprising.

SAID BY AMERICANS.

SUCCESS IN THE VOSGES.

(Received 1.45 a.m.) A. and, N-Z.-Reuter. LONDON, July 8. An 'American official report states:— We mado a successful raid in tho Vosges, when we killed or wounded a number of the enemy and took several prisoners.

FUTURE OF THE PACIFIC.

EXCLUSION OF GERMANY.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 1.80 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 8.

The resolution favouring an alliance for the exclusion of Germany from the Pacific, introduced into the Senate by Mr. Willard Saulsbury, is supported by the New York Herald, which says:— "Some, people fa this land shiver when the word 'alliance' is spoken,. but the majority of Americans believe in handling international affairs with sound senso. Unless the Pacific is to become the theatre of . future . wars, the Germans must be prevented from getting a foothold on its shores. Germany, re-established in the Pacific, would be a constant danger to Australasia." „

CONTROL OF TELEGRAPHS

AMEEICAN. REQUISITION.

i Australian and N.Z. Cable Asiociation, (Reed 1.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 8.

The House of Representatives has empowered the President to take over and operate all telegraph and telephone systems, from the first of this month.