GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 18 October 1917, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

+ "DON'T FORGET THE RAIDS." A Royal Fusilier, in a letter to his vicar at Kentish Town, says: "When our battalion went over the top they shouted, 'Don't forget the London air raids!' " BOMB IN A SCHOOL. A youth discharged from the Army as being under age, was fined 20s at Southampton for having a hand grenade in his possession. It was stated that he took so little care of it that his schoolboy brother carried it to school one day and caused a good deal of alarm there. THRICE TORPEDOED. The chief steward of a famous steamship line not long ago left a Scottish port, and on the homeward journey his vessel was torpedoed. He joined another ship, which was torpedoes when near the English coast. He was rescued by a passing ship, and two hours later, only eight miles away, this vessel also was sunk by a submarine. Once more he was saved, and, not the least daunted, sailed again from a British port. IT WAS SOUP. An old captain and his mate, feeling hungry, went into a restaurant and ordered dinner. The waiter placed a plate of thin, watery-look-ing liquid before each. "I say, young fellow, what's this stuff?" shouted the captain. "Soup, sir," replied the waiter. "Soup!" echoed the old sea dog. "Soup!" he repeated, turning to his mate. "Just think of that, Bill. Here you and me have been sailing on soup all our lives, and never knowed it till now." THE SOLDIER'S FAREWELL. Two "kilties" from the same town met in a rest camp "somewhere in France," and started exchanging confidences. "Whit like a send-off did yer wuman gie ye, Sandy, when ye left for France?" asked Jock, presently. Sandy lit a fresh cigarette before he replied frankly, "Says she: 'Noo, there's yer train, Jock; in ye get, an' see an' do yer duty. By Jingo, ma mannie, if I thoclit ye wud shirk it oot yonder I wud see ye was wounded afore ye gang off.' That's the send-off she gaed me, Jock." WARNING TO YOUNG WOMEN. In an address on "Women After the War ,"at the Hampstead Garden Suburb, Mrs Creighton counselled young women against imitating the habits of men. Above everything, women must not try to be sham men. In public and administrative work women could do well, and she thought a great deal of present-day difficulty was due to the fact that the higher posts in the Civil Service were closed to them. There had never been a greater scandal in Government offices than when women were put on a level with boys under 18 in regard to war bonus. AN UNREHEARSED TURN. An unrehearsed incident took place at the second house of a London suburban music-hall recently. Three young lieutenants continually interrupted a clever musical "turn" given by a tall flautist and a harpist with repeated shouts of "Why aren't you in the army?" They refused to desist when requested, so the exasperated flautist flung down his instrument and left the stage. Almost immediately he returned, and displayed a long row of medal ribbons, including that of the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross. He was an officer who had been invalided from the service owing to wounds. An official of the hall, also an invalided officer, gave the three lieutenants the alternative of making a public apology from the stage or being reported for disorderly conduct. They made the apology. GENERAL TOWNSHEND'S CLOTHES. General Townshend, who is interned in the island of Prinkips, is described by an American Consul who met him, says a Daily Mail telegram, as the best dressed man in Constantinople. . WHY ÜB3O WAS RELEASED. The Arbitration Court at The Hague decided to release the German submarine ÜB3O in consideration of the fact that she mistook the Dutch coastal light for the light buoy on the Schonwen Bank. The ÜB6 remains interned on the ground that her commander did not take enough pains to ascertain his position.