WAR JOTTINGS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 745, 13 February 1915, Page 2

WAR JOTTINGS.

A Yorkshire textile authority estimates that 12,000 looms in that county are now turning out khaki at the rate of 250 miles of cloth per week. The Russian Government has now come to them with an order for 3,000,000 yards of the same material. Experiments are now being made by the authorities at the War Office and the Admiralty with a new device which promises to counteract in a large measure the ill-effects of heavy gun fire on the drum of the ear. A good many people pooh-pooh the statement that youths are in the firing line of the German Army, but the following obituary advertisement, taken from a Berlin paper, shows that the report is but too true: 'On the sth of November, before Pixmude, fell in the conflict for the Fatherland, my deeply beloved eldest son, our beloved brother, Hans Jurgen Schultze, aged 16 yearß." With so many men preparing to go to the front, the weird art of the tattooer is undergoing a tremendous revival, especially in viow of the expressed belief of many old soldiers—particularly those from India—that the process makes the subject more or less immune from fever.