OFFENSIVE CONTINUOUSLY SUCCESSFUL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11696, 16 October 1916, Page 5

OFFENSIVE CONTINUOUSLY SUCCESSFUL.

The Kaiser has again found bis tongue anil has varied his story slightly this time. There is the same old gag about the justice of the German cause, end the r'efereme io the German Gott. But this time he tries to reassure his shaken soldiers by telling them that any one of them is equal to s.x of the enemy. Was it six or seven partridges that lie was equal to The Kaiser is represented as being mortally afraid that he will he deported, like Napoleon, if Germany is beaten. German officialsjpretend to have discovered that their in their slave raid and deportation of the population from Lille were internationally legal. If that be so the deportation of the population from Lille were internationally legal. It that be so the deportation of the Kaiser to a bourne more distant than anv on earth will quite comply with international law. ” The fact that the U 53, which has sunk a few ships off the American coast, is on the way home demonstrates the futility of the German menace in American waters. It seems as though they had very few left after his selection, and they utilise the few in surprise tactics.

American navy men believe that Britain is building 40,000 ton monsters with guns of larger calibre than 16 ruches. The belief gains some verification from the report of a visit of Dominion [pressmen to British naval bases, which mentions a monster which is to put all others in the shade. We have been quite proud of the Queen Elizabeth, of 27,500 tons, but she is going to be reduced to a mere pocket edition of things building at present. « British and French are still keeping step in their offensive on the French front. The new names of places which come into view day after day dies: the grim earnestness of the move forward. To-day is the first rime we nave had to identify le Translovy.

Evidently Roamauia is to be delivered from the fear of the frightful Hua, for Russians and French troops are gathering to her aid to keep her soil inviolate. Evidently, too. the Roumanian troops are fighting with more assurance andlgotting back some of what they lest a few days