GERMAN EXCITEMENT OVER NORWAY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11698, 18 October 1916, Page 5

GERMAN EXCITEMENT OVER NORWAY.

Tiie fountains of war news appear to have nearly dried np, possibly because there are neither great successes nor [disasters to chronicle. There is a very intei’esting statement of the results of the three months’ offensive in France and the assurance that we;,have now a dominating position which we are not likely to'lose. It gives us the observation and the Germans become the uncomfortably observed. According to Major Redmond Providence changed the wind against the Germans at a very opportune time. And why not? They had turned on a particularly deadly type of gas and were following it when it returned to meet ttiem. Another story nas a pathetic side to it. A|tank, out of hand, made for the German lines, and the British were obliged to blow it and its crew to bits to prevent it falling into the hands of the Germans and its secret 3 revealed.

The pressure on Greece by the Allied Powers shows no sign of slackening. It is stated that a thousand French and Italians have occupied tne Piraeus port and Athens. A later cable conveys the information that 150 allied seamen, with machine guns, have taken npa position in the centre of Athens and that Admiral Du Fournet has delivered a fresh Note of a grave character to the Greek Government. Evidently Greece is going to be thoroughly brought to heel.

There is little more in regard to the Roumanian situation except that it is'thought to have improved. There are evidently tremendous combats going on on the Russian front, though with no decisive result except that the Russians appsar to be beating bacE all endeavours of the Huns to regain lost ground.