ALLIES' SUPREME CALL.
ANXIOUS EYES ON WEST FRONT.
Received December 4, 12.30 a.m. LONDON, November 2. Colonel Repinrton says them is a supreme call for the Allies' endurance. A critical military situation is complicated by economic troubles and a severe wintor. Food queues ere lengthening in Britain, France and Italy. Difficulties regarding fuel are becoming intensified. Public restlessness is marlied with occasional strikes. Though the British workers generally are maintaining a staunch war determination, attention is at present rivett'ed on Ausro-German divisions from Russia. It is variously estimated that the Germans are bringing twenty-five divisions to the West, leaving ninety to hold a thin line or occupy. Russian territory. Colonel : epington expects Vr.ai the force relieved is larger. He declares that the appearance of a mass of new and fresh Germans on the , west would be calamitous.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17154, 4 December 1917, Page 5
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