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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16412, 4 January 1919, Page 10

An English MJP. tells this story, , After a grand review of German troops at Potsdam the Kaiser called out,- to the officer commanding the Prussian. Guard, in a voice loud enough fo DOi' heard by all the distinguished guests - who. were grouped in front of the Palace: "Pick me, out a hundred men from the Prussian Guard I" Then, . taking the arm of King Edward VTL, who was there, he said, "Come with me." He escorted King Edward very deliberately round the Hundred men. i and then said, banteringly, "Well, do you think you could find hundred men in England to beat them?" "I do not know eo much about that, promptly replied King Edward, "but I j could oasDy find fifty who would try. i With the exception of the description of the soldier, the following letter is an exact copy of one< —andjwily one amoDg many hundreds of the kind —receive hy a big military record office in London: "Can you tell me whether my husband, No. 027309 Private Samson Blank, Shropshire Regiment, who waa said to be killed in June, 1916, is still alive, as I heard a rumour he is? If so, it wiu be very awkward, as I have married again, and I will not know whether I • am married or not. If he is-alive, am I entitled: to the separation allowance again?" It has been one of Germany's boasts that no country could compete with her in the production of potash, and that the world would have to depend upon her for supplies of' it. It one of the economic weapons on_ which • she relied to regain her place in_ cnr commercial markets. She will, it is understood, suffer another disappointment. British and American chemists have destroyed the German munopoly by their discovery that potash can 'be obtained by utilising the waste from ' cement plants and iron foundries, and - from other sources. Steps wili ni be taken to exclude German pota* ■ from Allied markets.