General War News.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 7 March 1918, Page 1

General War News.

250,000 SHEIIIIS A DAY. Sir L. \Vor(liin<jion Evans, M.P., ParliaiiK uttiry Heeretary of tlie Ministry of iCuni Lions ut Colulicstei', mentioned that in one wci-lc recently we sent into the German lines well over a quarter of a million shells, weighing 10,000 tens, a day. SPY MONEY LOST. It is interesting to icarn that some £600,000 entrusted to a German Imperial Privy Councillor for payment of spies and other propagandists in America was lost by that gentleman in speculation in New York and Chicago. DOCKS' ARMED GUARDS. The protection of the docks and warehouses of New York's water fronts has been entrusted to the United States Army, whose sentinels will henceforth stand guard, with orders to shoot any unauthorised person, either alien or American, who seek to enter tho barred zones. They w T ill wear blue uniforms, and the public is warned to lieed instantly their 'riiallenge. KAISER AND THE EX-TSAR. A rumour is current in Copenhagen that the Kaiser has found a way of communicating with tho ex-Tsar in his Siberian retreat. It would not be altogether unexpected if the kaleidoscope of events should turn in the direction of an attempt to restore the Emperor. This is the belief in certain circles usually well informed. SMOKE AS TEST FOR GAS. Smokers can claim one. use for their favourite vice. According to the Chicago Daily News, tho man in the trenches who lias a . cigarette in his month detects the presence of the new German gas just a few seconds before his virtuous friend who shuns the weed. He has time to put oii| his gas mask, while his comrade drops unconscious with the poison. ■fcorah Haligan and Ethel Davis, typists at Aldershot headquarters, having overstayed their leave in London, were 011 their return handed on by tho Women's Army Auxiliary Corps authorities to. the civil police for neglect of public duty. They spent two nights in the cells and were fined one guinea each- by iVldershot magistrates.