General War News.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 20 October 1917, Page 4

General War News.

WORSE THAN AIR RAIDS; The Home Secretary stated in the House of Commons that the following nunibers of Londoners have been killed and injured in air raids and street accidents since the beginning of the war:— Raids. Accidents. Killed 366 2.412 Injured 1,092 70,863 THE ARMY DOG. In a certain headquarters bffice in Essex (says the Daily Express) there lives a fox-terrier which always knows when hostile air raiders are coming over. He is always ahead of the official warning, and runs around the rooms scratching at the doors and barking away for dear life. The only explanation is that he hears the hum and drone of the machines before human ears are sufficiently ituned iip to them. ;HTJN CHANCELLOR'S SALARY. Salaries paid to the German Chancellor and his staff are published by Voss's Gazette, which remarks on their modest dimensions."Michaelis get £1800 a year, together with'£32oo 1 a year expenses and residence rent free in the historic palace in the Wilhemstrass. The ViceChancellor, Dr = Helfferich, gets a mere £1000 a year, and a residence rent free. I WOUNDED" MAN'S SACRIFICE. ; The heroic'death of Second-Lieuten-ant Fredk. Yoiiens, of the Durham Light Infantry,' who ; before the war was a master of Saint Peter's school. Rochester, is *tn illustration of the self-sacrifice-and bravery shown by oar men in the war. He was in a dug-out having a wound dressed when the information came that the Germans "were attacking his company.' He rushed out, rallied a Lewis'gun team, and fired at the enemy. Twice he picked up bombs and threw them away. The last exploded hear him. The brave action savecL the lives of those "around, but ended his own. THE NAVY'S WAY. • A story, reminiscent of Drake finishing his game "of 'bowls before taking sail to defeat the Armada, was told at Portsmouth by Admiral Sir Stanley Colville,' commander-in-chief at that port. A submarine, he said, was proceeding'up the Dardanelles when the Captain noticed through the periscope that a floating mine had become attached to the rudder.'' He consulted w'ith the lieutenant, and" they agreed not to inform the crew, but to have breakfast and think what was the best to be done. After 20 minutes they had a plan for removing the mine, which succeeded.