WAR NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 7 February 1918, Page 6

WAR NEWS

AMERICAN TROOP* IN FUAXLE. (Australian-X.Z. Cable Association.) MEW YORK, Tuesday. Ah ;iunouncemeu( has been pfrmitti'il thai the American troops oil the French front arc operating northwest of Toul, near St, Mihiel. M. TROTSKY. (Aus f ralian-N.Z. Cab Jo Association.! AGISTER DAM, Tuesday. Practically the whole of the German newspapern arc gravely dissastisfied with the developments at Brest Litovsk and dcclai'e thai, it is useless to continue such a comedy. Trotsky, they contend, i> fooling (he Central Powers, and ought to forthwith be brought to his senses. AN L l>'flAi ATUM. I. Qui ted Service.; C'OPEi f A XGEN, Tuesday. It is reported iliac Germany intends to send the Bolsheviks an ultimatum insisting on the accpetar.ec ol' her conditions. JULIAN TERRORISM. LONDON, Tuesday. Rumanian official : We have already broken up the Russian front in Moldavia. Rumania protests Rtissiiu! terrorism and the wholesale arn sx.; v .prominent Rumanians, especially iiOdessa. " NORTH FINLAND. LOXJ)ON, Tuesday. A Haparanda message states that the situation in North Finland is critical. A decisive fight is expected momentarily nt (Jlcaljorg.

KRYLIiNKO CAPTURED

.3M>i\iDoN Tuesday. It is reported that the Poles ha-ve : captured Mohilev, .and have- taken Kryleiiko, t-he Russian Commander-in-Chief, prisoners. U-BOAT TOLLS. (Axistralian-N.Z. Cable Association.) , LONDON", Tuesday. Mr Bonar Law states that the Üboat murders of women and children totalled 14,000. NORWEGIAN LOSSES. (Renter's Telegrams.) n , „ _ LONDON, Tuesday. J weJve Norwegian vessels vvere sunk in January, and oi-llt sailors tuned. ALLIED DIPLOMACY". Australian—N.Z. Cable Association ) LONDON. Tuesday. Hie "Daily News" expresses misgivings at the meagreness of the report of the Allied War Council. the paper says: Resourceful Allied diplomacy would have seized the opportunity provided by the unrest in Germany for making an open demonstration of sympathy 'with the Russian democracy and assisting the proposed International Socialist Conference.

I COMMUNAL KITCHENS. LONDON, Tuesday. The Food Ministry announces vhs early establishment of a country-wide system of communal kitchens, owned and managed by the local authorities. The Government is providing -J.'i per cent of the initial outlay, and gauranteeing 25 per cent of the initial working expenses. Tho kite-hens are for the use of all classes. REPRISALS THREATENED. (Anstral'ari-N.Z. ftohl® As^nriiUion'.i LONDON, Tuesday. The Foreign Office has informed Germany through Holland that unless the airmen, Woolley and Scholtz, are released from servitude immediately, and givesi proper treatment. reprisals will be taken. ZEE BRUGGE BOMBED. LONDON, Tuesday. Allied airmen bombed Zeehruggo on Sunday, and also, for three hours on Monday morning. Many air tights occurred. Bombs caused three important, fires i:i German munition stores iu the Bruges harbour. EXOTX FERS' DEADLOCK. : A i.-stralian-N.Z C»h !e Association.) LONDON, Tuesday. ft is expected that M" Tloyd G'.org ' will e'ldervour In intervene a-id mediate m .the engineer*' deadlock. CONTROL OF SHIPPING. Australian—N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Tuesday. The annual report of the Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association criticises tlie Government control of shipping, which has involved disastrous delays and a substantia] fall in imports. The report suggests that the 1o?r of carrying power is considerably in excess of the actual shipping losses