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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2612, 6 November 1915, Page 6

'A' Scotsman connected with one of the leading firms of herring exporters, who had just arrived home after a visit to Petrograd, gave to a London interviewer the following impressions of tho war feeling there"The Russian people view this war as:a,war of liberty. For 'many years' , the Germans have practically held the Russian trade in their own hands. In most of the business Offices in Russia German was tho language spoken; and there were many Germans whd lived the greater part of fTieTl- lives in Russia without being atle to speak the Russian language. So great is the hatred of the Germans that the Gorman language is not now allowed to bo spoken, and any violation of this is punishable by imprisonment. Is there any likelihood, therefore, that Russia would be willing to make a separate peace with. Germauy ?" Behind the Allied lines there is going on every day a systematic fight against thoso enemies of tho soldier who are far moro terriblo than the Gorman hosts —bacteria. With the object of preventing epidemics, a wonderful system of regular daily disinfection now prevails behind the battle lines, and war is waged against bacteria on a wholesale scale. Specially designed machines are used. The machine consists of .a steam lorry with two huge portable disinfectors on the van, which are able to disinfect the clothes of a battalion of men in 20 hours. The cleansing agency is tho steam, which is generated by tho lorry engine itself, and this plays upon_ the garments and articles placed inside tlio two liugo cylinders mounted on tho wagon. Besides these there are hundreds of other steam disinfectors of a two-wheel portable type, horse-drawn, and adapted to ordinary and hilly districts. These aro furnace-heated.

Tho State Savings Bank, in its annual ■report, states that the amount to the credit of depositors is £25,044,000, an increase of £1,662,000 for tho year.

The Italian Government is negotiating with the State Government for the purchase of 100,000_ tons of wheat, Italy providing tho ships.