MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1918, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] WAR PRISONERS. LONDON, October 21. ]u the House of Commons, Mr 110p 0 said that British war prisoners were as follows: —In Germany 5362 officers; 142,987 men. In Austria, 5362 officers', 242 men. In Turkey, 430 officers; 237.1 men. Indians in Turkey 117 officers; 6859 men . AERIAL CAVALRY. PARIS, October 21 . Aeroplanes are playing the role o cavalry in liarrassing the enemy retreat. Sometimes three hundred massed pianes attack the halting columns. The famous squadron “The Storks downed twenty-six Germans in three weeks. M ORE ~ INTIE M ANIT Y. BRUTES AND BULLIES. LONDON, October 21.

Mr Robinson, describing the German greed and devastation in tbo occupied districts, says the Belgian populace suffered incredibly, and they loathe the German as a brute and a bully.

Some of their petty fines were grotesque. \ll articles had to he marked in the shops. If a tag fell off, tho first German passing imposed a fine of forty marks. If a dog followed its master to an open door, a fine was imposed, because dogs were not allowed in the streets! “I saw at Bruges,” he writes, ‘‘the citizens rescuing their valuable glassware from the canal— the only place which the Germans had failed to scour nnd pillage. Even bits were chipped off famous monuments as souvenirs. Bruges otherwise is undamaged.” The Ostend sea front is smashed, especially the German emplacements, showing the excellence of our naval marksmanship. Squads of Gorman engineers wrecked the workshops of the great Com--1 pagnie Brugeoise, valued al a million sterling.