THRILLING RESUCUE BY TORPEDO BOAT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11107, 27 December 1916, Page 5

THRILLING RESUCUE BY TORPEDO BOAT.

The German is a great hand at bluff. We hear now again of an enormous number of submarines being got ready for a raid on our shipping armed with knives to cut nets. But Germany does not keep back any submarines from preying on shipping. We may be quite sure t a as fast as they are built and manned they are sent out and as fast as they are sent out they are captured or sunk. There can be no doubt that Germany is in a most desperate hurry for peace. We have not heard that any of the Entente Powers has replied to President Wilson’s Note. But Germany has, |and suggests an immediate conference of belligerents. Not nest month nor next year, but DOW The little engagement of the Egyptian forces with the Turks at Maghdeafcah could not have been more successful than it |was The whole of the Turkish force, which consisted of about two thousand men, by death, wounds and prisoners has ceased to exist. In Mesopotamia it would appear that the British advance has actually commenced in earnest. Evidently there has been a great stiffening of the Army there, while the Turks have probably drafted troops to other qnarters during the holiday siuce the capture of Kut and are consequently unable to stem the new assault. A German “of high social status” has been breathing vengeance and slaughter against England again. Everybody is always doing it in G A German semi-official report states that the Somme battle is ended. If so it has ended very abruptly after the last great French success. But the Germans Have not consulted the British and French commanders as to when their offensive will etui and should do so before coming to any conclusion on the matter.