ALLIED VICTORIES.
6D,0G0 PRISONERS ON MARNE AND SOMME, AN APPEAL FOR MORE COAL
Received August 13, 9 a.m. Londou, August 11. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Newport, said that the Allied victories on the Marne and Somme bad resulted in the capture of nearly sixty thousand prisoners and nine hundred gnus One of the greatest factors of these victories has been the combined command He specially appealed to the minors to produce more coal, which was one of the greatest munitions of war. He also urged the coalminers and shippers to hasten the dispatch of coal lor Prance and Italv.
MILITARY AMATEUR
ATHLETICS,
The Amateur Athletic Association is holding championships for all services on the 7th of September. The Navy, Army,'Air Force, American and Ooloai*! teams have entered and are holding preliminary com-* petitions. GERMANY’S SUBMARINE LOSSES. In connection with Mr Lloyd George s recent statement, that 150 submarines had been sank, Germany had twenty-eight at the out break of the war and had built fifty smaller ones and 280 large submarines in the war period.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11613, 12 August 1918, Page 5
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176ALLIED VICTORIES. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11613, 12 August 1918, Page 5
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