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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2329, 10 December 1914, Page 5

The Russo-Turkish: war cost Russia£ls3,6Bo.ooo, and she bad-.two., years fighting for her money. In'tboojddaya; the income tax was looked -upon ijrEngland as a war tax. Tho maximum income tax levied during tho Crimean .war-was Is. 4d. in the &, and the highest levy; made by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach during tho Boer war. was Is. 2d. in the £. , The banns for a soldier's wedding at a ■' Durham seaport bad been read a- second time when the man was suddenly ordered to tho front. The clergyman was urged to stretch n point and marry the pair, but expert ecclesiastical opinion decreed that it would not be a legal marriage, and the soldier had-to speed away, leaving tho unwed bride sor-' rowing. The invaliding of numbers of British' troops because of bad feet, and the reports of dysentery among the Austrians, as a reminder that disease:threatens.an. army even more than rifle or cannon. In 1870-1 tho German Army was particularly favourably situated, yet 400,000 men went into hospital because of sickness, as against only 100,000 because of wounds, »• .: . ' '■*- ■•- "»'«-• M. Paul Levivier, aged 17 years 27,' days; is tho youngest French voluryteer. Ho has been attached to tho 26th Hegiment of Chasseurs at,. Vin-. ceivnes. Ton volunteers'between-the ages of 17 and 18 are now at the front.. The oldest volunteer is Lieutenant-Col-; onel Royal, aged who has'rejoined' as a private. . "Are we downhearted? No " has becomo one of the war cries of Tonimyr Atkins in Francey and it. has such' a; wholly British sound in the French ear that it has been translated and enthu- : siastically"adopted by. the soldiers of tho Republic The French' tendering is, "Est-ce quo nous avons-le coeur briso? Nonl" It is said-that the French! soldier's full-lunged "Non!" is quite as effective as Tommy's tremendous "Ndl""\Vo have reason to bolievo that tha British Government have placed or are about to place ordors for something like 1,000,000 pairs of boots for regulars, for Lord Kitchener's now army, ' and for Territorials," writes a Loioestor firm of boot manufacturers. "In addition, we understand.that the Freiioh Army have placed or are about to place orders for 2,000,000 paire. Wo'■ also hoar of the Belgian Army ordering 500,000 pairs, and of Servia&.ftnd Greljk inquiries.''-