ROUMANIAN OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue 13047, 9 January 1917, Page 4

ROUMANIAN OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE.

iTimes Service.) Received January 9. sit 0.30 p.m. Loudon. January 8. Boiichier. writing from Jassy, says thai ihr Government and the military officials believe that Germany aims at tin- occupation of tin? whole of Rou-maui.-i. Tin' offensive is continued without relaxation, new troops being brought up to the attack day and night, despite the inclemency of the season. Germany evidently intends to initiate a new Kins and a new Government in the occupied realm. Man-el Hutin. in the Echo de Paris, says the "Russian offensive on the Seretli is' important. Ludendorlf calls it an extricating offensive, lmt the Austrian. .Marshal Holer, admits that it is on a greai scale. (High Commissioner's' Report.) London. Sth. January, 5.15 p.m.

A German official report- says: Focsaiii has been captured and 3910 prisoners taken.

KEEP THE FACTORIES GOING.

APPEAL TO WORKERS. (Australian and NIZ. Cable Assn,) Received January 9, at 11.40 a.m. London, January 8}lr Hodge, Minister for Labor, has circularised the trade miinrs, pointing out the gravity of the national'situation, and the danger to the Allied cause it strikes occur. He explains that therefor the Ministry of Labor has-in-augurated a. policy of impartial investigation with a view to deciding equitably conflicting claims. He says it -is impossible to investigate and concilate successfully after a cessation of work, and therefore earnestly appeals to" leaders, workmen, and employers to consult the Ministry before a crisis is. reached.

THE CERMAN EFFORT,

MAXIMUM INTENSITY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January 9, at 10.40 a.m. Amsterdam, January. 9. German travellers state tliat all 18year boys called up in November have "been drafted to the western front. They were informed that the Germans wotild attempt a great offensive early in, the spring. Even younger boys are employee! in munition factories, which are working with the maximum intensity. They are told that they must give the western armies more ammuntion than the English can supply to the Allies.

THE POLISH ARMY

(Australian and N.. Cable Assn.) Received January 9, at 9.20 a.m. Amsterdam, January 8.

The Frankfurter Zeitu'ng states that the response to the call for volunteers to serve in the Polish army was! negligible.

EXPLOITING THE PEACE NOTE

WALL STREET TRANSACTIONS./

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.)

Received January 9, at 10.15. a.m. Washington, January 8. Mr Tumulty, testifying' before the Congressional Committee, denied that anybody amongst the Executive officershad a knowledge, of the President's Note until it was published. The President wrote the Note on his private typewriter, and it was confidential between the President and Mr Lansing.

Received January 9, at 0.40 p.m. Nmv York, " January 8. Mr Lansing in his evidence denied any knowledge of the leakage. T. W. Lawson. author of ''Frenzied Finance," gave evidence that a Congressman informed him' that a- member of the Cabinet speculated on Wall street -on advance' information of the Note, hut he refused to give the name.

AT ZEEBRUGGE

(Australian and N.Z.. Cable Assn.) Received. January 9, at 8.40 a.m. ; Amsterdam. January 8. The Echo de Beige asserts that despite bombardments the Zeebrugge harbor works arc intact and a great number of submarines and torpedbc-rs-arc practically undamaged.

BRITISH PUSH INTO PALESTINE

(Reuters Telegrams.) Received January 9. at 8.40 a.m. "Washington, January 8. An official in close touch with the British Legation says that Palestine may be the next important theatre of war. The British Suez army is preparing to drive through Palestine to join the Russians from the Caucasus. The British are now further cast of Suez than ever before, while the Russians), have reinforced their Tigris army and arc pushing up the valley.

BELGIAN DEPORTATIONS

(The Times. "Service.) Received January 9. at 9.20 a.m. Paris, January 8. As a public protest against the Belgian deportations, Maurice Maeterlinck has rebuked the neutrals for their apathy. He declared in a passionate; apostrophe: '"'You who bear the name of neutrals are alone able to hinder and punish the crimes we. are powerless to prevent. Between these criminals and' humanity the gulf is uncrossablc till after long years of penitence, suffering and humiliation."

TO PARALYSE TRADE.

THE ECONOMIC WAR. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January 9, at 11.15 a.m. Amsterdam. January 9. Captain Persius. writing in the Tage.blatt. realises the difficulty of accomplishing England's economic defeat. The war has become a race for economic supremacy, and a- s"frugglc for the paralysis of the enemy.

WOMEN MUNITION WORKERS

(Australian and N.. Cable Assn.) Received January- 9. at 9.55 a.m. London, January 8. New munitions contracts stipulate that factories supplying 4Hn. shells and under must employ 90 -per cent, of women, and 80 per cent, of women must be employed' by contractors for tha largest shells.

SHORTAGE OF LABOR AT HOME

: (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assii.) ■ Received January 9. at 9.55 a.m. I London, January S. Owing to interment difficulties resulting from the scarcity of coffin-makers, the undertakers are appro-iclu> n -MiNeville .Chamberlain for assi*"" "om the. State. Some coffins- - bout Msk There is at grave-iioigers - :i t. „soy' fj.-n* coy-'- ' \or.